Special case investigation team V

After the meal, Cheng Jin and the others decided to check in at the hotel, put away their luggage, and then go to the Public Security Bureau.

The hotel they booked was not far from the bar where Chang Jia, one of the missing persons, had worked.

On the way back to the hotel, Bu Huan drove past the bar. Of course, it was still too early and the bar hadn’t opened yet. It looked nothing special from the outside, just an iron gate with colorful graffiti on the wall next to it. There is also a signboard with a light tube, which says in English: freshlife.

Xiaoan said: "This bar is very famous in Wanlin. If you read it online, people usually call it by its Chinese name: New Life."

What Cheng Jin cared about was: "Is the owner of this bar the same as before?"

Chang Jia disappeared three years ago.

In three years, many things may have changed.

You Duo said: "The legal person on the business license is still the same as before." As for whether the bar is opened by one person or a joint operation of several people, and whether the partnership members have changed, I don't know.

Cheng Jin nodded.

Ye Lai said: "Boss, should we talk to the boss directly? Or go to the bar first at night?"

"Go and see what kind of place it is."

"What kind of place is a gay bar? It's not like we haven't been there before, so that's it." Bu Huan said.

They've been there before, and compared to other bars, gay bars are more open, or quite open.

"See if there are any old employees or old customers who know Chang Jia."

"Oh."

In the afternoon, they came to the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

The Public Security Bureau has already prepared all the materials they asked for - the case files of the other four people except Lu Ruiyang.Lu Ruiyang's case file is in his hometown, and the scanned copy was sent to them yesterday.

Cheng Jin looked through it briefly, but found no valuable clues—this is normal, if there were, then the Public Security Bureau would have solved the case long ago.

The person who sent the information to them was Huang Zhe, a director. He asked, "Cheng Zu, is there any connection between these disappearances?"

"Not sure yet. But some people do think there's some kind of connection." Something that would make someone send a picture of a missing person to their office on purpose.

Huang Zhe said: "I have read these materials, and I thought that the two ladies looked alike before."

"Is it similar?" Cheng Jin pulled out Xue Chen and Cao Huanhuan's files, and compared their photos together.

It looks similar, but this is the kind of beautiful girl of the same type. They chose similar hairstyles and put on the same makeup. picture.

Huang Zhe said, "When they laugh, there is a small dimple near the corner of the left mouth."

oh?Cheng Jin really didn't pay special attention to this.

Find two photos of them smiling, indeed, there is a dimple at the corner of the left mouth.This feature makes them very similar when they smile. If they say they have five similarities when they don't smile, then they have almost eight similarities when they smile.

Cheng Jin whispered: "...why?"

Han Bin thought he was talking about the dimple, "It's a product of overlapping muscles, and it's a normal phenomenon."

Xiaoan added: "That's called Liwo."

Cheng Jin quickly found the photos of Mu Da and Chang Jia, but the two men didn't have a smile.

Seeing his movements, Xiao An immediately said: "Lu Ruiyang seems to have one." She took out her tablet computer and found a photo of Lu Ruiyang smiling. The boy smiled a little badly, and there was indeed a small pear nest near the corner of his mouth.

Bu Huan rubbed his chin, "Then the question is, why didn't Mu Da and Chang Jia have one?"

Xiao An was also very anxious, "Yes, if these five people are related, then they must have the same similarities."

You Duo said: "Could it be possible that these five people should be divided into two groups, with those with pear nests in one group and those without pear nests in the other group. Or in three groups, in the form of 5, 3, 1..."

Huang Zhe's eyes lit up, and he hesitated to speak beside him.

Cheng Jin smiled at him and said, "What did you think of?"

Huang Zhe pointed to the photos of Mu Da and Chang Jia and said, "I think they are also very similar - their noses are very similar."

"..." Everyone was taken aback.Damn, just stare at the mouth.

Looking closely at the noses of the two, they are indeed similar. Neither of them has the obvious aquiline nose, only a little hook, and the bridge of the nose is quite high.

So, the correlation between these 5 people is: does someone like the mouth of some of them and the nose of others?Who do they look like?

Cheng Jin smiled at Huang Zhe: "Thank you, you have been of great help."

Huang Zhe said with a smile: "You're welcome, as long as you can help me."

Cheng Jin chatted with Huang Zhe for a while, and asked for his mobile phone number before leaving.

It made Yang Simi stare at Huang Zhe for a few seconds.

Huang Zhe felt terrified when he saw it, but he couldn't think of the crux of the matter at all.

Bu Huan and the others complained in private chats later. If he hadn't become the director, Cheng Jin might have poached him...

In the afternoon, Cheng Jin and the others went to Chang Jia's house—his parents' house. They were from Yaoyuan County under the jurisdiction of Wanlin City. They were not far from the city, and it took an hour or two to drive there.

Chang Jia has an elder brother and a younger brother, and he is the second child who receives the least attention.

My younger brother is working outside the home.

My elder brother got married and started a business in Yaoyuan County, and his parents live with him.But none of them wanted to talk more about Chang Jia, so it was my sister-in-law who chatted with them for a while.

My sister-in-law is a straightforward woman, and she said: Anyway, Jia has been gone for several years, so why don't you talk about it now?Just say it all out, maybe it will be useful to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor?

She said in a somewhat complicated tone, our family, Chang Jia, likes men - but Cheng Jin and the others know this.

Chang Jia told his family about his sexuality problem half a year before his disappearance, and made a big fuss. Anyway, it is impossible for the family to agree to such a thing.

After that, Chang Jia had less contact with his family, and everyone hated each other, so it was good for everyone not to meet or talk.

So when Chang Jia just disappeared, the family didn’t find him at all. Chang Jia’s classmate said he couldn’t be contacted and came to his house to inquire about the situation. Only then did the family find that he was missing. At this time, the last time Chang Jia appeared in front of people has passed. It's been more than three months.

Chang Jia’s classmates told Chang Jia’s family a rumor among acquaintances: Chang Jia may have been taken care of by a rich woman—they didn’t know that Chang Jia was gay—because some of the clothes and accessories on his body were obviously not affordable for him.

Chang Jia's family knew that she couldn't be a rich woman, so they didn't take such rumors seriously.

Cheng Jin asked Chang Jia's family for classmate Chang Jia's phone number, and it happened that they still had it, which saved Cheng Jin and the others a little trouble.

Chang Jia's classmate was working in Wanlin City. After Cheng Jin and the others returned to the city, it was almost seven o'clock, and it happened that the office workers were almost off work, so they asked that classmate out to meet.

When asked about the rich woman, the classmate said this:

He and Chang Jia have a good relationship, and occasionally eat together—not just the two of them alone, but also two other friends.For a while, he found some valuables on Chang Jia's body - brand-name clothes, shoes, wallets, necklaces, etc., so he joked about whether he was taken care of by a rich woman, and Chang Jia didn't say much about it.The classmates were also joking, and passed it by saying it.

Later, Chang Jia disappeared, and the classmates remembered this again, and told Chang Jia's family about it.

After chatting with classmate Chang Jia, Cheng Jin and the others went to eat. This time, they chose a non-special restaurant, and they couldn't afford to eat special restaurants.

During the meal, everyone chatted about their case as usual.

"Is Chang Jia's disappearance really related to a rich man?"

"It's very likely. This is a man who likes pear nests, hooked noses, beautiful women, handsome men who are handsome, bisexual, may be SM lovers, may have necrophilia, and is very rich." Summary After finishing, Xiao An smiled brightly, "Have I said everything?"

Han Bin said: "He likes young ones." The youngest Lu Ruiyang was 18 years old at the time, and the oldest Xue Chen was 24 years old when he disappeared.

"Let me tell you one." Bu Huan said with a smile, "He is probably from Wanlin."

"Does it need you to say?" Everyone has guessed.

You Duo said: "He probably went to the bar where Chang Jia worked."

Well, probably.

Cheng Jindao: "What was Chang Jia's reason for resigning?"

"I want to change the environment." Ye Lai said.

This is a good reason, missing, everyone just thought he went somewhere else.

Cheng Jin said again: "The person this 'rich man' likes has obvious characteristics, but the gender is not fixed. Suppose he has an unforgettable first love or something—just a hypothesis, should the gender of his first love be male or female?" female?"

Bu Huan said cleverly, "Bisexual?"

"..." No one paid attention to him.

Xiao An used his imagination: "What if he likes twins?"

You Duo expanded on her basis: "Or brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters."

"It may also be people who are not related by blood." Yang Simi became interested, "It doesn't have to be one-on-one, multilateral love is also a relationship model, triangle love, four-corner love, five-corner love, there can be more."

Xiao An said: "This is love that is not exclusive."

Ye Lai: "..." Never heard of it before!

Bu Huan sighed: "It's really avant-garde, it's too good at playing."

Xiao An blinked, "Actually, it's retro. Humans were like this in the primitive tribe period."

You Duo said: "Theoretically one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many are all just a matter of personal preference."

Ye Lai said: "The latter two items are illegal in China."

"Well, there is the crime of gathering a crowd to commit adultery. Most people should think it is immoral now." You Duo said, "But people's thinking may change in the future. Human thinking has always been changing."

Bu Huan smiled, "I can understand, after all, human beings love freedom by nature."

Cheng Jin was very helpless, why did he suddenly discuss these things, he knocked on the table, "Don't talk too far..."

Bu Huan said with a smile: "Don't worry, boss, first express your opinion: do you agree or disagree, or 'it's none of my business'?"

"By the law."

"Hey, you're too cunning. And the law may not be right."

Cheng Jin thought for a while, "If the law is wrong or lagging behind, then slowly correct it. To maintain order, there must be rules. If most people think that the rules are outdated, then everyone will naturally use various methods to change or even overturn them. Old rules make new rules."

"What if you drive the car in reverse?" Han Bin interrupted suddenly.

Cheng Jin said: "In the general direction, human beings are moving forward, although there are occasional detours. Okay, the more we talk, the farther we go, let's not talk about it..."

Bu Huan said with a smile, "We were just talking about the concept of love, and you expanded the topic further."

Cheng Jin defended: "I call it looking at the essence through appearances."

Everyone laughed.

Yang Simi put his arms around Cheng Jin's neck and kissed him on the cheek. —Probably for consolation.

"..."

Cheng Jin was so tormented by them that he lost his temper at all. He sighed inwardly, and then looked at Yang Simi seriously, "The multilateral relationship we mentioned before, if it is one-to-many, then we may be looking for one person , he caused the disappearance of 5 people, if it is many-to-many, it may be a few people—that is, a small group? Didn’t you tend to think it was one person before, and now you have changed your mind?”

"Perhaps." Yang Simi frowned, "You don't have enough clues, so I can be 'right' no matter what I say."

"..."

Cheng Jin could only say, "Let's see if there are any new clues tonight."

Yang Simi kissed him again.

"..."

That bar has a show at ten o'clock in the evening, and it may be very lively at that time - the kind of excitement that can't talk well, so Cheng Jin and the others decided to go early, with fewer people, so that they can chat more easily.

After nine o'clock, when they entered the bar, they found that some people were already there.

This time they didn't make a fuss about their outfits, and came here in ordinary casual clothes. However, because of their eye-catching appearance, they still attracted a lot of attention when they entered.

People saw that they came in a group, probably a gathering of friends, but no one came to bother them.

Ye Lai and the others went to the seats, while Cheng Jin and Yang Simi went to the bar. After sitting down, Cheng Jin ordered two glasses of wine.

The gray-haired bartender looked at them, "Are you a couple?"

Yang Simi gave a cold "hmm".

Cheng Jin smiled and said, "Yes. We passed by Wanlin and heard people talking about it before, so come and sit down."

The bartender smiled and said, "Oh, I just came to Wanlin, no wonder I haven't seen you before."

"How are you sure you haven't seen us before? You've been working here for a long time?"

"It's been more than four years. As long as I have seen a couple like you, I will never forget it."

This kind of compliment made Cheng Jin a little embarrassed, but he didn't show it, and said with a smile: "Four years is a long time, are there many people who have stayed here for so long like you?"

"No more, either go to another city, or do something else."

Cheng Jin looked around, and the waiters were all young and fresh faces, "It seems that your staff turnover is very fast."

"Yes."

"A person I know also worked with you. I remember his name is Chang Jia."

"Are you looking for him?" The bartender's smile became colder.At that time, because of Chang Jia, the police came to the bar several times, which was very troublesome. It was not a pleasant memory for him.

Well, it seems that the relationship between this bartender and Chang Jia is not good.Cheng Jin said: "No, I'm not familiar with him. I've met him a few times. He told us about your store."

"He's long gone with us."

"Yes, I heard that he disappeared," Cheng Jin said with a smile. "Some say he was adopted by someone, and others say he eloped with someone."

Yang Simi said: "It may also be dead."

"..." Cheng Jin squeezed Yang Simi's hand, and smiled apologetically at the bartender.

The bartender relaxed a bit. The two people in front of him should be really unfamiliar with Chang Jia, and they didn't come here specially to find trouble.

The first glass of wine was mixed, the color was good, and the layers were very beautiful. Yang Simi took a sip from the glass, then kissed Cheng Jin, and fed him the wine.

Cheng Jin coughed a few times due to choking, and Yang Simi patted his back for him.

The bartender watched and smiled.

After Cheng Jin finished coughing, he continued to talk to the bartender, "Are you familiar with Chang Jia?"

Probably because he completely relaxed after laughing, the bartender said, "It's average."

Yang Simi said: "Is he being taken care of?"

"Maybe, he has always wanted to hook up with rich people. He is very good at pretending, but some people just like to follow him."

Yang Simi said: "Pretend to be pure."

"Yes!" The bartender gave him a sympathetic look, "Did he try to interfere with you before?" In his opinion, this is the most reasonable explanation for Yang Simi's "hating" Chang Jia.

Yang Simi embraced Cheng Jin and said to the bartender, "You also think he likes my boyfriend?"

Cheng Jin remained silent.

The bartender looked at Cheng Jin and nodded, "I think so."

Cheng Jin was curious, "Which type am I?"

"Successful people with a bit of panache."

"..." Cheng Jin continued to be curious, "How did you find out?"

The bartender pushed over his second glass of wine, Yang Simi took it up and drank it again, and kissed Cheng Jin again, Cheng Jin was prepared this time and didn't cough.

The bartender smiled and said, "Yes, very stable. Unlike some people who just bluff when they encounter something."

"..." Cheng Jin was very helpless. Could he not let Yang Si find a relative? The consequences would be very serious.

Yang Simi said: "Is that rich man that Chang Jia fished very much like my boyfriend?"

The bartender recalled, "It's hard to say, I haven't seen it..."

Yang Simi looked at him with a half-smile.

"I saw it once, and that person came to pick him up," the bartender didn't know why he couldn't help changing his words, and was coaxed by others? "The man didn't even get out of the car, he just said 'come here', and Chang Jia ran over like an obedient puppy."

"What does that person look like?" Yang Simi looked around the bar, "He's here?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen what he looks like."

"You can't guess without seeing anyone? I can't see that you are so tight-lipped."

The bartender smiled wryly, "That person shouldn't come to the bar often, and Chang Jia didn't treat anyone in the bar like he did to that person."

Yang Simi didn't say he believed it or didn't believe it, but he ignored him and leaned lazily on Cheng Jin.

Seeing that there were more and more people in the bar, Cheng Jin pulled Yang Simi away from the bar and sat with Ye Lai and the others.

Other customers at the bar asked the bartender, "Do you know those two?"

The bartender shook his head, "Like it? Don't think about it, how can people like them be with ordinary people."

"That's right, she looks good, and looks like she's doing well, and she's not on the same level as us."