Punishment Whisk

Driving all the way back to the city bureau quickly, the three of them were all silent.

Ye Qi's idea of ​​starting from 3 refers to using the current time as the starting point, looking back at all the missing children cases that occurred in the near future, in order to find the 3 children that may exist in the robber's formula.

But what kind of group their investigation will target, and how long the case will go back, are still unknown for the time being.Although this method is to find a needle in a haystack, it is also the only way.

The tedious and complicated work without knowing whether it will have any results has just begun.

Fang Zhongci set the time limit within three months, and began to ask everyone in the team to extract relevant cases from the missing child information platform, and then combined with the materials submitted by the sub-bureau to investigate one by one.

The entire criminal investigation team was very busy, and the whole floor was filled with a mixture of aromas from various instant noodles.

The overtime efforts were finally not in vain. After excluding missing cases of children over ten years old and closed cases, they finally locked five cases.

As the time passed, Fang Zhongci dismissed the group from work, leaving only the five core members.

Gu Mingyu glanced at his phone silently, sent a message to Jiang Ke, and then continued to look at the case in hand.

Five cases, two each, cross-checked.People who look at the same two cases communicate with each other, looking for a collision of ideas, and can save as much time as possible.

Time seemed to be accelerating, and the smell of instant noodles in the office was finally overtaken by the smell of coffee.The coffee cans were piled crookedly in front of the file, only Fang Zhongci still had a stack of colorful candy wrappers in front of him.

Fang Zhongci glanced at Ye Qi, and opened another candy.

Ye Qi couldn't help turning his head because he heard the continuous noises: "No matter how good your teeth are, you can't stop you from eating sweets like this."

Fang Zhong resigned: "Coffee can only lift my spirits, but it can't control my irritability."

He leaned his body towards Ye Qi's ear, and whispered softly: "This candy tastes like your mouth, and it can be regarded as completing the task of comforting me for you. You should thank it, not blame it."

As he spoke, Fang Zhongci stuffed the freshly picked candy into his mouth, and deliberately pushed it with the tip of his tongue.After these words, the sound of the churning of sugar cubes and teeth began to become ambiguous.

Ye Qi avoided the source of the voice for a moment, but his eyes accidentally hit Fang Zhongci's file.On that page, the four big characters "Both parents died" pierced Ye Qi's eye sockets, pulling him back from the brink of unconsciousness.

He turned his head sharply, and said to everyone: "How many missing children in your case have both parents died, or the only relative died suddenly?"

Several people raised their heads almost at the same time, and said in unison: "Yes."

Coincidentally, each of them has a case in which the only surviving relative of the missing child died.

After excluding the same cases, Ye Qi discovered that the missing children in three of the five cases were like this.

Fang Zhongci was taken aback, and suddenly remembered a past recorded in Deputy Team Gao's diary.

When Deputy Gao visited the Shuguang Orphanage many years ago, he also found that the orphanage had received many children who had become orphans due to the sudden death of their parents or relatives.

Coupled with Ye Qi's conclusion that the robbery of the school bus was the result of the robbers needing many children, Fang Zhongci's heartbeat couldn't help but stagnate.

Could it be that their intuition at the time was correct, that the robbery of the school bus was really related to the Shuguang Orphanage and XT?

Suppressing countless doubts and shocks, Fang Zhongci stood up from his seat: "Immediately contact the persons in charge of these three cases separately, and find out as soon as possible what happened to the relatives of these children who passed away?"

As soon as the task was announced, several people picked up their clothes and prepared to go.

As soon as they turned their heads, everyone saw Jiang Ke standing at the door with supper.

Without saying a word, Jiang Ke handed out the night snack to everyone, and directly joined the action.

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Fang Zhongci and Ye Qi went to the Yanhua District Bureau.

After Chen Hongyi was brought to justice, Yanhua District experienced a lot of washing, and it has just settled down not long ago.

Coincidentally, one of the managers of the abduction case they came to investigate was an acquaintance——Zhang Song.

It has been a few months since Zhang Song reported Chen Hongyi with his real name. Because of the meritorious deeds in reporting, Zhang Song was credited with one credit. He has flourished at a young age, and his energy and motivation are much higher than before.

When he saw Ye Qi and Fang Zhongci, Zhang Song immediately bowed to them.

Because the complicated affairs in Yanhua District have just come to an end, Zhang Song has never taken time to thank Fang Zhongci for the matter at that time.So when I saw Fang Zhongci again, I couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

Seeing Zhang Song's reaction, the old detective who was investigating the case also probably knew what was going on.

With the previous understanding of the case file and the great assistance of the two, Fang Zhongci and Ye Qi quickly had a clear judgment on the whole case.

In addition, they came with a target, and they quickly found in the case several surveillance videos of the dead robber and the missing child in the same frame.

After closing the file, Fang Zhongci raised his head and asked, "Have you tried to use the case of the accidental death of this child's parents as a breakthrough?"

The old criminal policeman touched the back of his hand: "It was because I thought it was too a coincidence, so I went to inquire and investigate. But the result of the investigation of his parents' case was an accident. There was no problem with natural gas leakage and static sparks."

The old detective then took out a copy of the accident report from his drawer and handed it to Fang Zhongci.

Fang Zhongci glanced briefly, and sighed inaudibly.He returned the report to the old detective, discussed a few more words, and left with Ye Qi.

Fang Zhongci left in a hurry, because his next goal was very clear, which was to go around the so-called accident scene.

Fortunately, the accident happened within half a month, and the scene was still intact.

The site of the explosion was the top floor, with a small attic above it.

The two started to check from the lower floor.

But here is the scene of the fire, and it is still difficult to find evidence.

In the silence, a slight sound suddenly appeared above Fang Zhongci's head.

Fang Zhongci looked at Ye Qi, obviously, he heard it too.

He pointed upwards, signaling to go up and have a look.

So the two tacitly took out the gun, put their footsteps at their lightest, and walked up carefully.

But the voice in the attic has completely disappeared, as if it had never been there.

When Fang Zhongci took the last step on the stairs, he tapped the switch of the attic with a "snap", but there was no one in the field of vision of the two of them.

He never believed that he and Ye Qi were hallucinating at the same time. After careful inspection, he found that there were two hidden doors in the attic.

The eyes of the two met, and both feet fell at the same time.

The door was quickly kicked open, and when no one was found, he quickly raised his gun and turned around to the door.Ye Qi didn't have time to confirm it yet, Fang Zhongci already had a situation.Fang Zhongci pointed his gun at the person behind the door with a stern voice: "Come out!"

Ye Qi turned out of the cubicle and looked at the person Fang Zhongci found.

The man raised his hands and walked from the shadows to the light.

The man was wearing a gray and white coat, and a black plaid scarf blocked half of his face.

Ye Qi raised his hand and pulled his scarf, and a face of a man in his 30s appeared in front of them.

And even with the scarf half-hidden, the shocking scar on his right neck is still very conspicuous.

"Name, why is it here?" Fang Zhongci asked.

The man subconsciously pushed his black-rimmed glasses, only to realize that he is not suitable for this move now.He returned his hands to the way they were raised: "I..."

He was about to speak, but his expression suddenly became tense: "Who are you? The police?"

Ye Qi took out his ID from his inner pocket, and was about to show it to him, when there was another sound from the door behind him.

Ye Qi turned the gun sharply, only to find a child about teens running out of the room.He quickly deflected the gun, but remained vigilant.

The child jumped at the man and yelled daddy.

The man lowered his head and frowned slightly: "Didn't I tell you not to come out? Why are you disobedient?"

The boy was buried in the man's arms: "It's too dark inside, I don't want to be alone."

There was a trace of worry in the man's eyes, he raised his head and continued to say to Ye Qi: "Can I check your ID carefully?"

Ye Qi handed over the certificate he kept in his palm, and the other party really began to identify it carefully.

"Ye Qi." The man read Ye Qi's name, then turned his head to look at Fang Zhongci who was still pointing his gun at him, "So you are Fang Zhongci?"

It seemed that the two of them had become more vigilant, and the man immediately explained: "I know a little about the deeds of the two police officers from the news reports. My name is Han You, and this is my... child named Xiao Ke. "

Ye Qi licked his lips with a complex expression.

Seemingly aware of what Ye Qi was going to ask, Han You rushed before Ye Qi could speak: "Let's talk about the child later, can I get my ID card first?"

Looking at the child in his arms, Fang Zhongci slowly put away the gun and nodded.

After the documents were checked, Han You offered to speak in another place.

So the three of them went back to the city bureau together.

The child was placed in the reception room first, and a policewoman on duty was accompanying him.

Han You sat in the interrogation room.

Han You pushed his glasses indifferently: "You didn't have time to ask the question just now, I can answer you first. Xiao Ke, he is not my biological son, he is the child I adopted 5 years ago."

Hearing the term Shuguang Orphanage again at this time, Fang Zhongci couldn't help but feel numb in his heart.

Seeing Fang Zhongci's silence, Ye Qi asked the first question: "Why are you at the scene of the fire today, and you brought a child with you?"

Han You folded his hands: "If it wasn't you who brought me to the police station today, I wouldn't have said a word. But if it was you, I believe you will help us."

Ye Qi was puzzled.

Han You continued: "Five years ago, both of Xiao Ke's parents died in a cliff accident, and he was sent to the Shuguang Orphanage."

Those words were like a gust of violent cold air, instantly dropping the air in the inquiry room to freezing point.

"We still don't believe that Xiao Ke's parents died in an accident. We even think that this matter has something to do with the orphanage. For this matter, we have investigated it for 5 years. To be precise, we have investigated it with him for 5 years, and myself, It has been investigated for 21 years. Because I was also a child who was sent to an orphanage after the death of both parents.”

At this time, Gu Mingyu came back from outside, and after sending Jiang Ke back, he began to look for Fang Zhongci to report.After turning around, he realized that the person was in the interrogation room.

He happened to also want to know what Fang Zhongci had found, so he walked into the monitoring room and picked up a pair of extra earphones.

Fang Zhongci's voice came from inside: "Han You, can you be responsible for your own words?"

Hearing this name, Gu Mingyu's heart skipped a beat.

He suddenly raised his head and approached the one-way glass, looking at the people in the interrogation room.

In the orphanage more than 20 years ago, he witnessed his playmate Han You committing suicide because he was rejected for adoption.

Over the years, this name has appeared countless times in his dreams, making him burst into tears several times.

The man's appearance was completely unrecognizable, but when he saw the exact same location of the knife wound on Han You's neck as before, Gu Mingyu took a few steps back in horror.

It's really him!