According to CC, they found the room, but it was already the place where they were held. They also found that the fight in the room was related to the dead assistant, but there was no clue about where the hostage is now being held.

Reese and Shaw seemed to be staying near the playground to investigate, while Colin went back to the laboratory. No one knew Randall's whereabouts, and Yu Xixi didn't even know what this guy was trying to do.

"What are you looking at?" Hotch handed Yu Xi a cup of coffee from behind. Although staying up late is already a common thing for them, sometimes they need something refreshing.

"Thank you." After taking a sip, Yu Xixi still couldn't adapt to the bitterness of the clear coffee, and frowned, "I didn't see anything, I was just wondering where the suspect would take the hostages." The first hiding place It was arranged in advance. Will the suspect have a second plan?Or is it prudent to take the person away first and then find the hiding place?

She doesn't know which one is more powerful in finding people; but one thing is worth noting; it is obviously very inappropriate to take some coerced people without transportation; but they have not found the suspect's vehicle so far.

"Hey, beauty, I'm here to tell you the good news." Esposito ran in hastily, hooked her shoulder after seeing Yu Xixi, and shook the document in his hand, expressing that he had made an important discovery.

"What good news?" Putting down the coffee, Yu Yu raised his eyebrows slightly; judging by Esposito's expression, it should be very good news, right?

"The suspect's vehicle was found; moreover, it was the car that he himself reported missing a month ago." Esposito directly threw the document to Yu Yuxi, asking him to catch his breath before drinking some water. He was dying of thirst.

Reported lost vehicle?Yan Yu hurriedly opened the file and began to read it quickly; the suspect reported the loss of the car a month ago, but what is even more noticeable is that the car was purchased only a month and a half ago; The time ago happened to be shortly after the court decision.

That is, after losing Case, they started planning the kidnapping plan?So at that time, there was a superficial cooperation with the execution after the judgment, and there was no further appeal. Did you already make up your mind to use "unusual" ways to get those things back?

But... the money is easy to talk about, and you can still get a lot of money in 24 hours, but the messy things like bonds, stocks, and company technology assets were completed after a court decision that took about a month to complete, and now they are only given 24 hours... No Are you kidding them?

"Hotch, will the suspect tear up the ticket?" Yu Xi asked Hotch worriedly. After all, she was "at ease" before because as long as the suspect asked, and they didn't provoke the suspect too much, at least it would be guaranteed after a little time. Regarding the safety of the hostages, although I felt that the suspect’s request could not be fulfilled within 24 hours, but at that time she just wanted to delay the time; now...she had to start thinking about another possibility; the suspect was playing tricks on them from the very beginning .

"From the current indications, the suspect still wants what he thinks belongs to him, not the life of the hostage; and he has not called to urge him for such a long time, which also shows that this person is not as eager as a normal kidnapper; even if Something may have happened in the middle, but he still feels that everything is still under his control, and the hostages should be relatively safe now." Hotch was not trying to comfort Yu Xi, but he found that this suspect is still somewhat different from ordinary kidnappers Yes, he didn't seem to care about the police search, and he didn't use the hostages to make more threats; he was just waiting for someone to fulfill his request.

"I hope so..." Yu Xixi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you think it is possible for him to bring CC with him? Use the car that was reported as lost? A movable space is always more difficult to find than a fixed location." Bar?"

"Where did you find the vehicle?" Hotch didn't answer Yu Xi's question, but instead asked Esposito, and he returned to the front of the map.

"After leaving the hotel, the first time this car appeared was at a grocery store about two streets outside the hotel. The grocery store was facing a bank, and the vehicle information was captured by the bank's surveillance. "Esposito quickly put down the food in his hand and stood in front of the map, and circled a location.

"Wait... It's impossible to check the bank's monitoring casually, right? How did you track it down there?" Although she is not very good at following the rules, if someone uses some things related to her "Shortcuts" are not very good, and it is easy for others to catch the handle at some point.

"Don't worry, it's definitely a formal channel." Esposito gave Yu Yuxi a "reassuring" look. They are not her who can "do whatever it takes" to solve the case. over there."

"Has this car appeared in the hotel?" Yu Xi didn't study the hotel's surveillance with everyone, but they didn't say that this car was found in the hotel's surveillance before, or did she miss someone else's mention in the process? if?

"You'd never know when the car left the hotel."

"When?" C. The approximate time when C "lost contact" was the night before, and when Chuck and the others couldn't get in touch with her, she was probably controlled by someone, and it took about 6-7 hours for them to go to the hotel to find someone; generally speaking, The kidnappers will leave the scene of the crime quickly after kidnapping someone, right?

"Just half an hour before you guys got to the hotel."

"..." Yu Xixi was suddenly speechless, what should the suspect say about him?

"But you can always see that the surveillance at that time was better than the suspect." If you delay leaving for such a long time, you can say that the place where the first scene can be traced is called Gao Ming, but if you are traced in the end, then Nothing can be explained.

"Because he didn't drive the car into the hotel's parking garage a long time in advance." Esposito smiled triumphantly, "We checked all the vehicles that entered the hotel within a certain time range and found this suspicious vehicle; If you park the car in the garage one day or four or five hours in advance, it may not be so easy to dig out."

Is this what others have said?

"Because this car has been reported as lost, but it still shows up in a high-end hotel, it has to be suspected. According to the license plate, it is found that this car rarely appears in the monitoring of the road section. There is no other way but to speculate on the route to investigate other places. monitoring; I didn’t expect to find something.”

"I guess that guy investigated the monitoring of the road section in advance, but he didn't investigate the monitoring of the doors of banks and shops on the street." Esposito curled his lips, "This proves that although this guy's style is cautious, his methods are still not meticulous enough. .”

"That's good..." Yu Yuxi murmured softly, if the suspect is meticulous and can avoid everything, how can they continue to investigate?Only in this way can they find the hostages and rescue them as soon as possible.

"Where was the last time the vehicle you found so far appeared?" Hotch tapped on the map with a pen, as if something caught his attention.

"The last time the vehicle found was in a supermarket was about six hours ago." Speaking of which, Esposito can only sigh. Although there are flaws, they are still very few.

"Is it the one here?"

"Correct."

"Did you find anything?" Yu Xi also moved to the front of the map, and several locations were marked with red markers. It seemed that she couldn't find anything wrong with it. Geographical profiling has always been done well. The one with the most is Reid.

"Going to the supermarket is supposed to prepare food and water, but it's a bit strange to park at the grocery store." Although Hotch was talking about this question, the pen in his hand drew lines between several places, but only a few The messy lines seem to have no connection with each other.

"I'm going to investigate that grocery store." Esposito grabbed the unfinished food and clothes on the table and ran out in a hurry.

"Is there any connection between these places?" Yu Xi looked at the map for a long time, but he could only turn his eyes back to Hotch. The connection of those places on the map seemed to be a geometric figure that he didn't know what it was.

"Among these locations, the suspect was not expected to be captured by surveillance cameras. In other locations, such as the supermarket, he knew there were surveillance cameras. Was he too confident to go there or was there some reason?" If it's just food and water, you can buy them in some small convenience stores, and it's safer.

"Hotch, when he went to the supermarket, it had been nearly 10 hours since the kidnapping. At that time, did he go there alone or with the hostages?" Yan Xi also couldn't figure out what the suspect was doing there at such a risk. Is it trying to cover up something else?

About ten hours have passed since the kidnapping time they calculated. The exact time at that time is...

"His plan was just to kidnap CC, not murder!" Wasn't that time very close to the time when the assistant was killed?Although she didn't examine the body or read the autopsy report, she still remembered the time of death that her teacher said!

"Do you remember where the dead man was found?"

"An abandoned pier." Yu Xi looked at Hotch strangely, he would not forget this; so, what do you want to express?

Hotch didn't answer Yu Xixi's question right away, but drew a straight line on the map; one end is the pier, the other end is the playground, and it is not far from the pier to the supermarket that was photographed by surveillance; but the playground The road section from the location to the pier is basically not monitored.

But... this is just the suspect trying to cover up the fact that he killed and dumped the body, there is no more use for it, right?

"Although it is an abandoned wharf, there are occasional private yachts and other temporary docks, as well as some small warehouses that have not been completely demolished."

"You mean, there might be a second choice for the suspect to hide the hostages there? And it might be the place where the suspect is going to flee?" If the suspect can get a boat, it would be a good idea to escape by sea; Rescue at sea is not an advantage for them - he should have investigated in advance, Claire Cecillia has been a landlubber from birth to now!

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