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Chapter 5

Lu Ling wandered to the office area of ​​the first team on the second floor, and tapped the screen of the desk with his fingers.
"How's the surveillance video going?"

Zhao Zifeng showed half of his head from behind the computer screen.
"Boss, I have monitored the inside and outside of the hotel and the parking lot of the TV station twice in the past week, and I haven't found any recurring suspicious movements.
The two suspicious persons provided by the witnesses did appear in the hotel surveillance screen.
However, after comparing the frontal photos of the two people in the information database, no relevant criminal records were found, so the true identities of the two people are still unclear for the time being.
I have already sent the photo to the household registration police station in this city, and it may take a while before I can reply."

Zhao Yue raised her hand.
"The background investigation of the interpersonal and social relations of the parents of the two children did not find anything suspicious.
Zhang Lan is a single-parent family. Her mother suffered from congenital heart disease and died shortly after insisting on giving birth to her.
Her father is a senior programmer who works for Chaoyang Technology, the largest technology company in our city.
He works [-] to [-] and hasn't been looking for anyone since his wife died.
The social relationship is very simple. Colleagues said that he usually lives a regular life. As long as he does not work overtime, he will go home to accompany his children.
Liu Ruotong's parents are both doctors, and her mother owns a private clinic with mediocre performance and no record of illegal operations.
My father is currently abroad and has not been back to China for three years.
The relationship between the husband and wife existed in name only, but they did not receive the divorce certificate.
Liu Ruotong's mother is usually busy with work most of the time, and the child is basically taken care of by the nanny at home, and there is no feud.
Oh yes, the nanny is a distant relative of her family. I checked and found that she is a cousin from Sanfu, her family background is considered clean, and the rest of the family has no bad habits.
The daily income of the two families has also been received. Although they are considered well-off families, the turnover of Liu Ruotong's mother's private clinic will be higher.
But it’s really not the kind of rich man who can be threatened with huge amounts of cash.”

Zhao Yue said a long paragraph in one breath, took a breath, and then continued.
"These two children, apart from being shortlisted from the same school, can't find any common characteristics in terms of family relationship, appearance, dressing style and displayed personality."

Liu Wei also nodded and continued to report.
"I also did a basic investigation on the school teachers and the person in charge of the competition on the radio station.
At present, there are only four relevant personnel who can directly contact the children and know the daily movements of the children.
Wei Shuhua, the leading teacher responsible for all activities of the children.
The person in charge of the hotel on duty these days, lobby manager Zheng Kai.
There is nothing suspicious about these two people at present.
Especially Zheng Kai, the management system of their hotel is departmental rotation, and the middle and low-level management will basically change positions every half a month.
He is in charge of the lobby reception and business rooms this time, because the manager who was supposed to be on duty went to other places to study and temporarily transferred him here.
The other two people, one is the school bus driver Liu Ping who is responsible for picking up and dropping off the children this time.
The other one is Ji Ou, the person in charge of making the stage set and make-up for the children for this event, and also the contact person of the radio station.
Liu Ping is the school bus driver of the No. [-] Primary School where Liu Ruotong works. He has been working in the school for more than six years. During this period, he has not made any mistakes. He has always been conscientious and has a good reputation.
The children like him very much, and the relationship with their parents and school teachers is also good.
This time, the school also sent him over to cooperate with this event and be responsible for the daily pick-up and drop-off of the children.
Ji Ou is an intern who just came to the radio station for an internship. He just graduated from the University of Journalism and Communication, and the school gave him a local hukou before graduation. He doesn't have too many complicated social relationships, let alone have any connection with the children of the school."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Yue raised her head and took a big sip of water.
"Boss, I still think that if it's a kidnapping, the kidnappers don't need to pick two children from ordinary families to blackmail.
And almost 24 hours have passed, and we have not received any related extortion calls.
According to the hotel, the radio station and the vehicle driving recorder, the teacher Wei Shuhua and the driver Liu Ping checked the names of the children one by one before departure at the hotel and after getting off at the parking lot of the TV station.
It can also be seen from the surveillance video on the road that the distance of less than ten kilometers was only driven for about 10 minutes. Except for waiting for traffic lights, there was no midway stop.
No one got out of the car during the traffic lights.
The child only moved for less than 8 minutes after arriving at the station parking lot for roll call and entering the station hall.
Most of the time, the teacher is organizing the children's clothes and checking their belongings.
But as soon as they entered the gate, the two children just disappeared out of thin air.
Surveillance did not capture any images of children being taken away.
I can't imagine any possible means of committing a crime."

Liu Wei on the side scratched his scalp angrily.
"Is it possible that Wei Shuhua and Liu Ping lied, when they did the roll call, they were actually not fully staffed?"

Zhao Zifeng shook his head.
"From the monitoring, we can clearly see that the children are being called.
Especially after getting off at the radio station parking lot, the location where Wei Shuhua and Liu Ping called the children was right in front of the bus where the dash cam could capture it.
I counted them, and there are quite a few of them.”

Zhao Zifeng projected several screenshots of the video onto the projection screen.
"Look here."

He pointed to the first surveillance screen.
"Everyone was in front of the vehicle during the roll call.
21 children and two adults."

Then he circled the second screenshot.
"After the roll call, lead the team from the front of the bus to the gate of the radio station. When we went around the side of the bus, there was a blind spot for monitoring. The bus blocked the camera at the gate of the radio station.
But after walking this distance, the children reappeared on the surveillance screen, still 21 children and two adults, no more and no less.
The third screenshot is a surveillance screenshot of the lobby on the first floor of the radio station. The moment after entering through the turnstile, and looking at the surveillance screen, the two children have disappeared.
Inside the door, outside the door, they disappeared out of thin air in an instant.
It gave me goosebumps, it's so weird, I've never seen this before.
I also re-examined the revolving door at the scene, unless the criminal has magic."

Zhao Zifeng looked at Lu Lingyou who was standing on the other side.
"Boss, if we keep getting no calls from the so-called kidnappers, does it mean that our current judgment may be in the wrong direction.
Do you want to investigate related child missing and trafficking cases in recent years?
See if there are similar modus operandi.
Just in case, I mean just in case.
In case this disappearance case deviates from the direction of kidnapping, we should have some other preparations."

Lu Lingyou shook his head.
"no"

Zhao Zifeng was taken aback for a moment, not understanding what Lu Lingyou meant.
Fang Anhua stepped down from upstairs at this time.
"What your boss means is that there is no such case of abduction and trafficking."

Zhao Yue and the others all opened their mouths wide, looking at Fang Anhua and then at Lu Lingyou in disbelief.
Fang Anhua patiently explained.
"About the nearly 30 years of child abduction cases in this province, your boss can memorize them backwards."

Several people were once again speechless in surprise.
You must know that the case file of child abduction and trafficking in this city for nearly 30 years is unimaginably huge and complicated, let alone the whole province.
They had also been exposed to a child abduction case before. At that time, just searching and investigating similar cases in the system for the past five years had exhausted the whole team physically and mentally.
Lu Lingyou is familiar with child abduction cases in the province for nearly 30 years, so what kind of case did he investigate at that time?
Lu Lingyou glared at Fang Anhua angrily.
"Aren't you always in a meeting, why don't you go?"

Fang Anhua raised his nose and went downstairs without looking back.
Zhao Yue wanted to ask more questions, but was interrupted by Lu Lingyou.
"I said that the possibility of abduction in this missing child case is very high, mainly due to several reasons.
First, in ordinary child abduction cases, the modus operandi is usually very random. Criminals will choose to use inducements to attract children when the children are alone, or directly and quickly control the children for transfer.
The place where the child disappeared and the method of committing the crime are not common means of trafficking.
This is much higher than the manpower, material resources and time costs required to randomly abduct one or two children.
Behind the high cost of committing crimes, there must be more than just the stolen money of abducting and selling children.
Second, when the police rushed to the scene of the radio station, all of you went to the scene with me, do you feel that something is wrong?"

Zhao Zifeng and Liu Wei both scratched their scalps and shook their heads.
After a pause of five or six seconds, Zhao Yue suddenly let out an ah.
"what.
reporter!
Boss, I know, he's a reporter."

Zhao Zifeng and Liu Wei looked over suspiciously, then listened to Zhao Yue's explanation.
"We arrived at the scene as soon as we received the alarm call, but at that time the whole venue was already full of media reporters.
Because it was at the entrance of the TV station, I thought it was reasonable for the reporter to arrive quickly, so I didn't think much about it.
But now that I think about it, the media that reported the missing children in the first place were not only the reporters from the local radio station at that time.
Most of the public opinion guides on the Internet are self-media and some unofficial accounts.
How did these people get the news first-hand and quickly steer the wind online.
It's like knowing the news in advance, which is not normal."

(End of this chapter)