It was still those familiar faces. In the two days just after returning from Wangnan Village, I had nightmares every night about being chased by these people.

They said they would capture her, transplant into her a uterus taken from a woman who died in childbirth, and have her give birth to a litter of sons.

She always woke up from her dreams shouting "Help", "No", "Run".

It was only in these few days that I slowly recovered.

Song Siwen and Shu Xiu also had the same doubts, but they knew that the police had their own rules and procedures for handling cases, so they did not ask too many questions. Instead, they answered whatever Ji Lu asked.

However, the questions Ji Lu asked were somewhat different from before.

After asking the questions, they each signed their names. Ji Lu asked his colleagues to deliver the documents and then returned to the office with them.

"So Erzhu's house is the transit point for human traffickers?" Shu Xiu asked, and suddenly seemed to remember something, "Could it be the house where Xiaomi is?"

Ji Lu nodded: "After Xiaomi woke up, we took her statement again. She said she had no idea she was locked in the basement. She thought it was a dark room because the noise coming and going was very noisy."

This testimony made Ji Lu and her colleagues feel very strange because they only found Xiaomi in that basement.

For this purpose, they specially chose a daytime to return to Wangnan Village for investigation.

After a long search, several people discovered that the independent building had two basement floors. Like many large shopping malls, there was an underground parking lot below the basement floor where people could shop.

Xiaomi was imprisoned in the "first underground floor", while the "second underground floor" was a tunnel used for transporting and transferring people.

The reason why Ji Lu and the others didn't find it the first time was that the place where the two underground floors were originally connected had been completely blocked off. It must have not been used for a long time, so it was ignored.

If it weren't for Xiaomi's testimony, they wouldn't have knocked on the bricks one by one, and they wouldn't have been able to find the hollow layer.

After chiseling open the hollow layer, they followed the tunnel and arrived at the place where they had found Zhuang Yao and the others before.

But there are still a few questions here, which prevent Ji Lu from quickly identifying the suspect——

If Erzhu’s family is the person in charge of the Wangnan Village transfer station, then is this family a buyer or a seller?

But if they were the sellers, why did their son need to find a wife and "buy" her from the people at the Ai Min Hotel?

Moreover, if they had the same level of authority as the people at the Ai Min Hotel, why weren't they transferred to Wangnan Village when the Ai Min Hotel was investigated and the population was transferred?

Also, why was the passage between the first and second underground floors of Erzhu’s house closed?

From the on-site investigation, the connection between the two floors can increase the number of exits and passages, which can not only improve the transportation efficiency, but also achieve the effect of "a cunning rabbit has three burrows"...

If the two layers were not connected, then the cost might have to be taken into consideration, but since they have already been connected and no other tunnels have been dug since then, it means that they have also realized the benefits of connectivity, so why seal it off?

It looks like it has been abandoned for more than ten years.

……

Ji Lu knew very well that any ambiguity in the investigation process might cause the suspect to change his confession at the last minute, which might lead to the suspect not being convicted in court.

Letting the tiger go back into the mountains would cause endless troubles, so she must be extremely careful.

After listening to her, Jiang Baige roughly understood what she meant, but she still didn't understand why she called them over.

"Could it be that someone here had plastic surgery? Or... a human skin mask?"

"I heard from Zhuang Yao that you are a novelist..." Ji Lu laughed, "Your brain circuit is indeed different from that of ordinary people."

Jiang Baige touched the back of his head embarrassedly.

Ji Lu patted her shoulder and said, "Today I came here not only to identify people, but also to add some new questions... Because the direction of the investigation has changed, many things will change accordingly. I'm sorry to bother you making an extra trip."

"I didn't expect our sister Ji to be so polite now." Shu Xiu teased, "It seems that she has grown up in the past six months."

"Poor." Ji Lu rolled his eyes at Shu Xiu and pinched her a few times. "How is your recovery? Have you eaten well? Will you have any problems with the physical fitness test next month?"

Shu Xiu raised her little head proudly: "Of course! You still don't believe me?"

"By the way, is your mother feeling better? When this case is over, I'll go with you to the nursing home to see her."

Speaking of her mother, Shu Xiu's face darkened. In her second year of work, her mother's health became worse and worse, but the nature of her job made it impossible for her to take care of her, so she had to send her mother to a nursing home.

There is no good sanatorium in the county, so he can only be sent to the city. When it is busy, he can only go once a month.

Because of this, her mother did not get the news immediately after she disappeared - otherwise it would be another huge blow to her health. And Ji Lu became the one who replaced Shu Xiu to accompany her mother in the nursing home.

After her body had almost recovered, Shu Xiu went to see her mother first.

Her mother looked well and kept talking to her endlessly, but for the first time she didn't feel she was nagging, but felt friendly.

This also gave her a new idea...

"Thank you for taking care of my mother for so long. Thank you so much."

"You said this to me...you said you are not shy."

At the beginning, Ji Lu also took Shu Xiu's mother's situation into consideration, so she was the one who handled the missing person report.

"But after this period of lurking, I was quite touched when I saw Auntie An looking for her daughter... I think after this period of time is over, I might take my mother to live with me and take care of her."

"Okay, then let's consider this matter again after I finish this big case and you are successfully reinstated."

As they were talking, they had already walked out the door. Ji Lu asked Jiang Baige and the others, "By the way, the New Year is coming soon. Isn't it time for you to go home too?"

"You know what? Our parents have come over to ask for help."

Jiang Baige stuck out her tongue.

"Then you can go back after we resolve the matter in Wangnan Village... If there are other places involved, they won't have much to do with you, so there's no need to delay you."

Ji Lu knew very well that they stayed here to help the police because Jiang Baige and the others were kind, had a sense of justice, and loved their friends, not because they had to help here.

She looked at Song Siwen again: "How is it, have you interviewed all the police officers I introduced to you last time?"

"Well, that's a huge help! Thank you, Sister Ji!"

After that, Song Siwen asked again in a low voice: "Sister, you just said that this case may be concluded before the New Year. Does this mean that I can also mention this case in my Women's Day interview?"

"Of course..." she immediately added, "I will definitely let you see the manuscript first after it is written!" She looked very humble and nervous.

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