Thorns

"The population information can't be checked, and some children are missing." Mu Zhiyuan's words made the already dull office even more cloudy.

"What's going on?" Gu Mengping, who just came back from Wu Haina, heard the news, and the expression on his face became quite ugly.

"Dozens of children are lost in the census every year." Mu Zhiyuan didn't expect such a result, but he checked it three times, and still found that these registration records were abnormal.

"Could it be an unregistered adoption?" This kind of thing is not impossible. After all such illegal things have been done, there is nothing that the leadership of this orphanage dare not do.

"It's possible, but I think the number of dozens of children is still a bit large. I think that since the orphanage is so large and has a large amount of funds in circulation, it is impossible to take such a big risk." Mu Zhiyuan said.

"What did Chen Guangyi say?" Gu Mengping asked.

"They have confessed the facts of previous crimes, but they don't know about the missing children," Mu Zhiyuan said.

Chen Guangyi and the others did not lie. The person who interrogated was Mu Fan. Mu Fan was not that outstanding in other skills, but he was still good at interrogation. They still believed in the results of the audit.

"How about the interrogation of the teachers brought back?" Gu Mengping asked again.

"There is no effective answer, either you just refuse to speak, or if you do, you say you don't know anything." On this point, even Mu Fan is a little powerless, he can't take care of so many people.

There are nearly 30 orphanage staff members who have been arrested, and there are still five people who need to be interrogated. With so many people to deal with, Mu Fan can't do it alone.

"But you don't have to worry. I've already handed over this case to Zhou Yi and the others. You should rest for a while, and then continue to deal with the murder case after rest." Mu Zhiyuan patted him on the shoulder and said.

It has been three days since the murder case happened, and they hardly had any rest during these three days, especially Gu Mengping and Si Qingyang. Mu Zhiyuan knew that Gu Mengping was the one to solve the case. People who won't stop, but this case is more important than previous cases. Up to now, there is not much information about the murderer. I don't know how long the remaining battle will be fought. He can also see Gu Mengping's exhausted state .

"Well." Although Gu Mengping has many doubts that have not been solved, he is not a god. Instead of entrusting these cases to him, it is better to concentrate on solving this serial murder case first. Many doubts have also been solved.

Gu Mengping walked into another office to rest for a while. There were no other police officers in the office. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a four or five-year-old child obediently sitting next to the desk and eating with small bites. Zhou Yi, who was watching him, was also sent to do interrogation due to lack of manpower.

Sensing someone at the door, the child turned his head and stared at Gu Mengping with a pair of clear eyes. His eyes met, not as strange as yesterday. The child smiled at him with puffed cheeks.

At that moment, Gu Mengping's heart turned out to be indescribably soft.

Different from yesterday's apathy and fear, today's eyes are what a child should really have.

"Uncle." The child said to Gu Mengping after swallowing the food in his mouth.

"Xuanxuan, are you full?" Gu Mengping walked to the water dispenser and poured a glass of water for the child.

"Yeah." Nodding, she grabbed the cup with her small hand and drank less than half of it in one go.

After playing with Xuanxuan for a while, Gu Mengping took out the tablet and asked him to watch cartoons beside him, and then he took out all the files about the case and looked through them carefully.

He felt that some clues must have been missed. The murderer had already left traces on him, why there was still nothing missing. What made him even more puzzled was that after three days, they found more and more things, but The identity of the murderer has always been a mystery, but at this moment, he can do nothing but look through the materials over and over again. This time, he seems a little powerless. Reasoning is indeed his strong point, but he can't find anything. What is the use of the thread's fantasies.Inferences need to be supported by evidence.

When Si Qingyang came in from the outside, what he saw was the warm scene in front of him. Under the light, one big and one small, both of them were sitting in the same posture, sitting at the edge of the table seriously, reading the materials alone Watching cartoons, this scene turned out to be indescribably harmonious.

I didn't expect Gu Mengping to get along with the child so harmoniously, but...

The moment Xuanxuan found Si Qingyang, he turned his head and looked at him. It was just a glance. The moment he looked at his boss Qingyang, the child withdrew his gaze and stared at the tablet in front of him. His eyes were fixed on the screen, but That ass is still a little fidgety.

This child is a little afraid of him, and his mood is a little complicated.

"What did you go out for?" Looking at the person near the table, Gu Mengping asked.

"I didn't do anything, I just explained some things about the website." Si Qingyang said.

This case is not simple, not only the server of the website is abroad, but also the content of the website is more than that, there seems to be some other things hidden in some pages that have not been cracked, but they have not found the entrance, and they can vaguely find the source from the source. The code sees something, but it is still in the cracking stage.

"Take a rest, there is no progress now." Gu Mengping knew that Si Qingyang had less rest than him these days. Although he seemed to be in good spirits, he didn't care about his man.

"Yeah." Si Qingyang went to the side of the sofa and lay down. The sofa was not long enough. His feet fell to the ground and he was half lying down.

Gu Mengping glanced at him sideways, but now he is much more casual. He seems to remember that when he first met Si Qingyang, sleeping on the sofa was like standing in a military posture, honest and tense, but now it has changed Not a lot.

He retracted his gaze, and when he turned around, he saw Xuan Xuan staring at the document in his hand. The child's eyes were fixed on a photo in his hand. Different from the yellowed black and white photo before, this photo was already in color That's right, there are faint smiles on the faces of the children inside. This is a group of children who left the orphanage ten years ago. According to the registration, several of them were later admitted to key high schools.

"Uncle." Xuanxuan called out.

"Huh?" Gu Mengping responded.

"Uncle." Xuanxuan leaned closer, pointed at the photo and called again.

But this time, Gu Mengping discovered something unusual, and it wasn't him that Xuanxuan called.

Gu Mengping glanced sideways at the person under Xuanxuan's fingertips. He was a teenager in his teens and looked very calm.

"Xuanxuan met him?" Gu Mengping asked tentatively.

"En." Xuanxuan nodded.

"When did Xuanxuan meet this uncle?" Gu Mengping asked.

Xuanxuan thought for a while, stretched out his hand to compare, first stretched out five fingers, counted, then blocked one of them with his left hand, and then said: "It's been four days, uncle hasn't given us Send candy."

Xuanxuan was a little annoyed after counting, and seemed to be looking forward to it.

Gu Mengping asked some more questions. Although it was difficult to get news from Xuanxuan, who was less than five years old, Gu Mengping still learned intermittently that the person Xuanxuan was referring to had often given them candies recently. After Xuanxuan's description, Gu Mengping gradually formed a picture of the person he was talking about in his mind.

He vaguely felt that he had found a new breakthrough.

Si Qingyang was not asleep either, the moment he opened his eyes, Gu Mengping stuffed the child into his arms, and left in a hurry.

Leaving the two of them staring at each other, Si Qingyang didn't know how to take care of the children, and seemed a little at a loss. Xuanxuan also felt that this uncle was difficult to get along with, so he looked back at each other, lowered his head and played with his fingers, I'm actually panicking...

Gu Mengping got this photo and ran out. This photo has been around for ten years. If Xuanxuan said that he has seen the person in the photo, it means that this person’s face has not changed much in the past ten years. It is true that there will be some changes in the appearance of growth, but Gu Mengping still feels that this clue cannot be lost.

It is also written in the file that several of these children have entered the key high school, including the person Xuan Xuan pointed out. Gu Mengping quickly came to the key high school that was registered in the file back then. The teaching building has been rebuilt, but many The former teacher did not leave.It was very late at this point, but many teachers lived in the public housing inside the school. Unsurprisingly, Gu Mengping quickly found the person in charge of the school. She was an old lady in her 50s. going to retire.

As soon as Gu Mengping took out the photos, the old lady was very impressed. She took out a thick photo album, which contained group photos of all previous graduates. By comparing the photos of school graduates, Gu Mengping quickly found out this people.

Knowing that the child graduated from Class [-] of the third year of high school, the old lady took Gu Mengping to check the portfolio of previous years.

"Fu Jiu, yes, I remember that name, that's him." The old lady found one of the files and put it in front of Gu Mengping. Along with the file was a shy student photo. He didn't smile, but he was a little more popular than the people in the photo in Gu Mengping's hand.

This is the good-looking uncle that Xuanxuan was talking about. Gu Mengping couldn't help feeling a little puffed up in his heart. He felt that he was one step closer to the truth.

Fu Jiu?old nine?Will there be any relationship between these two?Gu Mengping continued to look down the file. From some teachers' comments, Gu Mengping found that Fu Jiu was a very obedient and diligent child. He was a little shy at first, but after a long time, he got along with everyone. He was a top student in the eyes of the teacher. .

"Study abroad?" Looking at the information registered in the file, Gu Mengping frowned tightly.