Yancheng Special Office

The time displayed on the monitor was 0:12 at night, and the corridor was completely dark.

The infrastructure of this nursing home is not very good, and the style is a bit like a hospital ward in the 80s.There are three to four beds in the room, and the room where the missing old man lives is just at the end of the corridor.

As the time on the monitor continued to move, a hunchbacked figure appeared at the bottom of the screen.Wearing a set of dark clothes and carrying a backpack, he walked out of the gate of the nursing home along the corridor.

Maybe it was because of the old man's short stature, or maybe her footsteps were too light, she passed the guard majestically, and got out through the gap in the iron gate without anyone noticing.

And the second video of her disappearing on the highway was included in the attachment when the case was handed over to the Zhuyan office, and Qi Jun had already sent it to Su Jian's phone in advance.

Su Jian asked: "Are you sure she just took some cash along with her when she left, and didn't have any other valuables? Also, is there anything missing from her carry-on luggage?"

"No, she doesn't have much luggage, so she packed it all in this one bag. She didn't have a lot of cash along the way—now that electronic payments are done outside, not many people bring cash." Dean Li said with a look of embarrassment: " The main reason is that she still has such a good person and good deeds. If she left by herself, it would be fine. She disappeared under the surveillance for no apparent reason. It sounds very mysterious. When the leader returns to visit and express condolences, I really can’t say it..."

After watching the surveillance, Su Jian leaned back on the sofa, "Okay, I know the general situation of the case. Don't worry, I'll take care of the rest. If you have any questions, just cooperate as much as you can."

Dean Li agreed as soon as he heard it, and then nodded and bowed all the way to send Su Jian and Qi Jun out of the gate of the nursing home.

Watching Dean Li go away, Qi Jun said quietly: "I don't think this person is a good person."

"I'm just in a hurry to get rid of the blame. This kind of service object who is forced to come in, can't scrape a little oil from his body, and he is worried on the surface when he gets lost, and he doesn't know what to do in his heart. There just happens to be a vacant bed." Su Jian said to Li just now. He took out the cigarette given by the dean and lit it, "...the cigarette is a good one."

Qi Jun opened the passenger door of Su Jian's jeep on his own, leaving Su Jian alone under the car to mutter, "Where are we going next?"

Su Jian frowned, "You're not driving, why are you sitting in my car?"

Qi Jun put his feet under the front windshield, with an attitude of not leaving, "I travel green and save fuel."

"If you say you're not picky, you're just as virtuous as that bad guy Bai Yan."

Qi Jun was expressionless, "...you are not allowed to scold my master."

"I am the master, recognize the reality." Su Jian gritted his teeth with hatred, he stubbed out the cigarette butt, sat in the driver's seat, made a sharp turn in the open space in the front yard of the nursing home, and drove out of the gate.

In the evening, several people in the office were temporarily called to work overtime by phone—although they almost skipped work during the day.

The leader's expression was very stinky, and the rest of the people kept silent, for fear of encountering this bad luck.

Su Jian put the files on the table, briefly introduced the case, then turned on the projector and played the surveillance videos of the nursing home and the highway.

"That's the situation. If you have any clues, you can start to speak."

Pei Mengfei has been listening seriously, this non-staff employee is always more reliable than any other staff, Su Jian is very satisfied, at least in terms of work attitude. "Haven't we encountered this kind of situation before, the victim was captured by some kind of monster in an instant, so fast that the surveillance camera couldn't capture the picture."

Qi Jun said: "It's an ordinary person walking on the road and encountering an accident. There is an essential difference from Gao Guiping, an old man who slipped to the highway with luggage in the middle of the night. This is too unusual. I still maintain my point of view, she It's a demon in disguise."

Su Jian gave a "hmm" and looked back at Jin Yi: "Chu Ma Xian, what do you think?"

Jin Yi clasped her arms across her chest, her face darkened: "I'm more inclined to the deputy's theory, but you have to find evidence. For example, find out where she reappeared after she disappeared through face recognition."

"Identification and tracking requires surveillance to capture at least one full face. Didn't the dean say that the old man lived in a bridge hole before? We can call the road surveillance near the bridge hole to find her." Luo Ye clattered on the keyboard for a while, and then Stopped, looked up in embarrassment, "Oops, I forgot that I don't have access to the city's large database."

Su Jian suddenly remembered something, leaned over with a sly smile and said, "I know someone has it."

He found a person from social software, signed "Salamosa", that was Luo Wenxiu's colleague in the criminal investigation department.

When we parted ways in the library last time, Yu Yu, a super fan, had the cheek to ask for Su Jian's contact information, and revealed that his rank allowed him to help call for monitoring through legitimate channels.

Not long after Su Jian's message was sent, Yu Yu responded with a "wait for me to get it for you right away", and within half an hour, a packed folder was sent—— Several short videos cut from surveillance cameras.

"Tsk tsk, how much is the hue really worth?" Qi Jun said angrily, "There is a support club here."

"What do you know, I call it the rational use of network resources." Su Jian posted the videos on the projector, and opened them one by one to play.

"Why don't you ask Luo Wenxiu directly, but also ask his colleagues in a roundabout way?" Pei Mengfei asked: "Isn't he also from the Criminal Investigation Department, and such things as surveillance should be able to be done."

"I'm on vacation, so it's inconvenient to disturb me."

Su Jian's words were straightforward, and Pei Mengfei's hair stood on end: "I've only known you for a few days, why did you get 'other' up, when did you have the awareness of not disturbing us on vacation?"

Su Jian immediately ruthlessly cut off his unreasonable thoughts about vacation. "You temporary worker, give up your mind."

In the videos sent by Yu Yu, the first few are pictures of the old man's daily travels taken from multiple angles at the intersection near the bridge hole.The last video is at the exit of a highway, the old man crosses the fence all the way out of the highway.The monitoring background is surrounded by mountains, villages are dotted with squares, and there are few people around.

The time was the morning of the next day when the old man went missing.

The meeting room fell into a brief silence until Pei Mengfei quietly said, "Where is this? There are not so many mountains near Yancheng, and the nearest mountain is at least a hundred kilometers away in the Dongting area. Normal old people should...not be able to?" "

Su Jian sent a message to Yu Yu: "Can you know where the last expressway exit is?"

After a while, Yu Yu sent a positioning, showing that the video location was at the intersection of Dongting Lake Mountain, more than 300 kilometers southwest of Yancheng.

"Normal people can't!" Qi Jun said: "Look at what I said, there must be demons when things go wrong."

Su Jian gave him a disgusted look, "Maybe he got a ride halfway, why get so excited."

As I was talking here, a timely news popped up in the lower right corner of the computer: "Due to the overnight heavy rain, a small-scale landslide occurred in Dongting this morning, and an unknown cave was exposed at the collapsed site. The relevant departments are investigating."

At this time, Luo Ye had already locked the location of the map, and read: "Pingyuan Township, Xixian County, this is it. There are a few villages around, which don't seem to have a large population. If the old man's destination is here, let the local police station go home It won't take too long to knock on doors and ask."

Jin Yi asked: "Is the village far from the landslide that was mentioned in the news just now?"

Luo Ye: "Not far, there is probably a mountain in the middle."

Jin Yi frowned slightly, and murmured: "...is there such a coincidence?"

The discussion here was in full swing, but Su Jian was chatting happily with her mobile phone on the side.Finally got up to answer the phone, and hung up the phone in the midst of "Hmm... oh... what a coincidence? I'll treat you to dinner later... Hey, you're welcome, we'll be a family from now on..." and then immediately decided to let Luo Ye bought a train ticket and booked a hotel, and went on a group business trip to Dongting to handle the case.

Qi Jun was inexplicable: "It's just a group business trip, and it's not an urgent case. Can the reimbursement of large expenses be approved? Who did you call just now?"

"If I can't get it approved, I'll ask Vice Minister Bai to sign it in person, so you'll know that I won't be paid for the whole job?" Su Jian said to Luo Ye, "If you buy a train ticket at [-]:[-] tomorrow evening, there will be a sleeper car." .”

Luo Ye shrank in the corner and dared not speak, "...Oh."

On the day of departure, five big men crammed into the waiting room with bags on their backs.Just in time for the May Day holiday, the waiting room was overcrowded.

This group of men is usually used to idle clouds and wild cranes, and the office is also in the wilderness where wild cats don't shit, so they can't adapt to this crowded and noisy environment.

Everyone couldn't understand why Su Jian suddenly wanted to take the train to Dongting, which was clearly within half a day by car.

Until they were on the adjacent bunk in the carriage, they were very "accidental" to see Luo Wenxiu who was plugging in earphones, eating instant noodles, and preparing to go on a trip.

Seeing them, Luo Wenxiu was stunned.I couldn't tell whether it was surprise or fright in those eyes, but it was very beautiful anyway.

Pei Mengfei was unexpected and reasonable about this result, and greeted Luo Wenxiu expressionlessly: "Hey, it's a coincidence to go out and play alone."

Gold Wing followed closely: "What a coincidence, what a coincidence."

Qi Jun: "...What did I say, there must be something abnormal..."

"There's a fart—yo, isn't this our good colleague? Why are you here too?" Su Jian was full of joy, her surprised expression pretending to be really ignorant of the situation.I don't know which traitor revealed Luo Wenxiu's itinerary plan to him in advance.

Fortunately, Luo Wenxiu was not stupid, so he lowered his head and cursed after thinking about it: "Stinky salamander!"

"Hey, meeting is fate." Su Jian gave Luo Ye a wink, but the latter dared not speak up, so he obediently gave Su Jian the lower berth closest to Luo Wenxiu. "This train passes through Dongting, Zhangjiajie, Xi'an, which station do you get off at?"

"... Dongting."

Su Jian patted her thigh, "Dongting is great! We are going to Dongting just now, why don't we go together? I count your travel at public expense, not leave, how about paying overtime wages as usual?"

Luo Wenxiu suddenly felt that the instant noodles in his hand were no longer fragrant, "It's not good... what are you doing in Dongting?"

Qi Jun interjected, "A suspect went to the Dongting area to handle the case."

"The suspect is going to Dongting? There are tourist attractions in the mountains, what are you doing there?" Luo Wenxiu suddenly remembered the weasels in the bar bombing, "It's... a demon again?"

"Smart, but we haven't got any evidence yet. We have already contacted the local police, and they will investigate the city-wide surveillance before we arrive, and strictly check the people entering and leaving the township."

Luo Wenxiu swallowed, ate the instant noodles in a hurry, and then quietly nestled into the corner of the bed with his backpack in his arms.

He figured that he hadn't formally agreed to Su Jian's return to the team, and when the train arrived at the station, he would find a chance to slip away, so it shouldn't be counted as skipping work.

However, he found that he was unlucky enough to drink cold water and his teeth were stuck between his teeth. In the middle of the night, all the sleeping people were awakened by the noisy sound beside the train, and the train stopped.