Criminal Psychology

Just when there were some not-so-serious disputes in the chairman's office of Hongjing Expressway, something also happened in a mountain range southwest of Hongjing Expressway.

Qiongshan is in the southwest of Hongjing. It is nearly [-] meters above sea level and surrounded by clouds and fog all year round.

When the sun turns to rain, the scenery here is the best. The wet water vapor condenses on the rock wall, rubs against the moss, and finally merges into a gurgling stream along the thin cracks.

Beside the small stream in the valley is the campsite of Qiongshan Scenic Area. From a distance, the whole campsite is colorful. There are countless camping tents and countless people who are setting up tents.

What's more, among those people, there are many children.

Cao Qianzhi is an ordinary elementary school teacher in Fengjing School. Today is the day for the group spring outing of the first graders of Fengjing School, and the place is set at Qiongshan in the southwest of Hongjing.

He stood at the edge of the camp and watched the staff pretending to be mountain people lead a goat for the children. The children seemed to have never seen a moving goat, and they all surrounded the goat, pointing and poking, looking extremely excited.

Cao Qianzhi moved his eyes from the goats to the water, and some children were watching the fish by the stream. They huddled together and seemed to be discussing how to catch the fish. As a teacher, he didn't go over to stop him, because the stream was very dark. Qian, it was a specially created artificial landscape, and he also believed that his children would not wet their shoes and socks in the still cold early spring.

So everything looks peaceful and harmonious.

But the uneasiness in Cao Qianzhi's heart became more and more serious.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps in the distance, and Cao Qianzhi hurriedly followed the sound.

The dean and another teacher who was leading the team with him were running towards him quickly. Both of them looked serious and shook their heads at him.

"Have you made contact yet?" Although he knew the answer, he still asked subconsciously.

"No, Master Xu can't get through on the phone, and Teacher An's phone is also turned off. The car should have arrived half an hour ago!" the dean whispered.

Cao Qianzhi looked at his watch. It was a long time since the scheduled meeting time.

Today's school spring outing, the school rented 6 buses to send the children to Qiongshan.They gathered at the gate of the school early in the morning. It took about 4 hours from the school to the Qiongshan drive. On the way, they spent a lot of time because of the high-speed traffic jam, and because of the traffic jam, the order of the vehicles was completely disrupted. , so several cars arrived at the Qiongshan meeting point one after another after ten minutes apart.

If this is the case, it is just a small matter that delays the itinerary, but after the 5 buses arrived at the meeting point, the last bus numbered 3 did not arrive for a long time.On the bus were 26 students from Class [-], Grade [-] and two leading teachers.

They always thought that car No. 3 was left behind because of a traffic jam. They tried to contact the driver and the two teachers before, but the mobile phone could not be connected.

At first they thought it was because of the poor signal in the mountains, but just now, the teaching director and another teacher went to the scenic area management center to try to call the teacher's mobile phone, and the mechanical and cold female voice was still on the other end of the phone, and they realized that , No. 3 car is very likely to have an accident.

"Even if there is a car accident, the phone won't be disconnected!" The female teacher on the side said worriedly.

"Then did you call the highway?" Cao Qianzhi continued to ask.

"I did. They said they were looking for it, but they haven't found it yet."

"Let's call the police." Cao Qianzhi was silent for a moment, and finally said.

……

In the chairman's office of Hongjing Expressway, three phones rang almost at the same time.

Xing Conglian took half a step back from his desk and took out his cell phone; the chairman heaved a sigh of relief, and picked up the landline impatiently; Liu Xing heard the phone ringing in the assistant's office, got up and ran out.

After a while, Xing Conglian looked at Lin Chen; the chairman looked stiff; Liu Xing rushed back to the room.

On the other end of the phone is the worst news.

"The City Bureau just received a report that a tourist bus belonging to Fengjing School disappeared on the highway." Xing Conglian pressed the microphone and said to Lin Chen.

"How could it be missing? The highway exits are monitored!" Yang Dianfeng exclaimed ahead of Lin Chen.

Xing Conglian frowned, only to see Lin Chen pursed his thin lips, sitting upright on the sofa, and didn't speak.

He was still answering the phone and didn't have time to answer Yang Dianfeng's question. After a while, he suddenly raised his head, held down the phone with one hand, pointed to the phone with the other finger, and ticked Chao Dynasty again.

Wang Chao quickly realized that he took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket and was about to hand it to Xing Conglian, but Xing Conglian signaled to give Lin Chen the mobile phone.

"The school teacher will call in soon, you answer it." He said to the phone, and reported a series of numbers to the other end of the phone.

Soon, Dynasty's cell phone rang.

Qiongshan Scenic Area, campsite.

Cao Qianzhi's palms were sweating, and the female teacher who was traveling with him was already in tears. Various horror scenes kept appearing in his mind, which made him even more flustered.

The moment the phone was connected, he couldn't help shouting to the person who answered the phone: "Have you found the car yet? It's not like something really happened. What should we do!"

After he finished speaking, there was silence on the other end of the phone for about three seconds before a voice came.

It was a calm and peaceful male voice, like the flowing water of the stream or the breeze in the mountains, slowly pouring into his ears.

"Hello, I understand your anxiety right now, but it requires you to calm down, take a deep breath with me, and then answer the next question."

Of course Cao Qianzhi knew what deep breathing was, but the matter was so urgent, there was no time to take deep breathing!He thought this way, but his body could not help but follow the calm instructions on the phone, and began to inhale deeply, then exhale.

"What time does the bus leave from the school?"

"6:30 minutes."

"Okay, now I need to recall carefully, when was the last time you saw that school bus."

The voice was still calm and gentle, but this question made Cao Qianzhi panic again: "I don't remember!" His mind was in chaos, so he blurted out subconsciously, "Every car is the same, I can't tell the difference!"

On the other end of the phone, the young man holding the mobile phone seemed to have expected this. He put down his pen, turned the white paper in front of him, and faced the person opposite.

Opposite him was a young man wearing a peaked cap backwards. The young man glanced at the white paper, which said "car, recent photos, call out". He nodded and began typing on the keyboard.

The voice on the other end of the phone disappeared for a few seconds, and Cao Qianzhi even felt that the wind in the mountains was getting colder. He said hello to the phone twice, and the voice on the other end came back immediately.

"Hi, I'm here."

The words as clear as water flowed out again, Cao Qianzhi relaxed a little, and then he heard the man say: "Maybe you don't know, but in fact, human memory will not completely fade with the passage of time. A set of implicit memory system, what you think you have forgotten or did not remember, in fact, our brains have saved it in another form, so I need you to calm down and recall something, and at the same time I need you to remember It’s very important that we do our best to help us set the deadline.”

……

The same clear voice like running water also rang in Wang Chao's ears, but Wang Chao obviously didn't have the chance to close his eyes, he was very nervous.

After hearing what Lin Chen said, he quickly connected to the Sky Eye system and called up the photo of the spring outing team gathering at the gate of Fengjing School at around 6:20.

Six buses were lined up on the road. The body was pure white, with colorful clouds spray-painted on it, and the words "Hongjing Foreign Affairs Vehicle Management Co., Ltd." could be vaguely discerned.

Looking from the outside of several buses, there was no difference. Wang Chao looked up anxiously, but the person on the opposite side was gone. When he looked to the right again, Lin Chen was standing beside him at some point.

On the screen, a white and delicate finger slid across and stopped on the body of the third bus.

"enlarge."

Wang Chao followed his words and zoomed in on the picture. The word "foreign affairs" on the car body became bigger and bigger, and the rest of the words became more blurred.

"here."

He tapped a spot above the rear wheel with his finger, and then quickly pulled it away.

Wang Chao took a closer look, and at the rear of the car, where the huge blue colorful clouds should have been spray-painted, there seemed to be a piece missing, which looked very incomplete.It is very likely that the number three car just came out of the garage, and the missing piece has just been repaired, so the spray painting was removed.

He subconsciously looked at Lin Chen, who had already walked to the window, and slowed down his speech again: "There is a blue cloud above the rear wheel of car No. [-], but half of that cloud is missing, although you won't notice This, but your brain will definitely record it as it is. So, I need you to close your eyes now, and then start to recall..."

"It was on a busy highway, there were a lot of cars around, and there were children's laughter in the car. Because it was a bit noisy, and because you got up early, you would feel sleepy. When you were distracted, you would look out the window and see the scenery outside the window. It is very beautiful, there are reeds all over the sky, and you see cars passing by from time to time. Suddenly, you see a car, that car is very strange, the pattern on the wheel behind him seems to be missing a piece, you may only have more Watched it for 0.1 seconds, but it was really weird, so you remembered that scene..."

Following the soft voice, Cao Qianzhi seemed to have really returned to the noisy bus. When he looked out the window, there happened to be a bus passing by.

"I remembered!" He suddenly raised his voice, "There is such a car, but I don't know when it was!"

"Please try hard to see, in that picture, is there any landmark building, or a green road sign, it will stand on the side of the road, very conspicuous..."

"No, no, there are reeds all around." Cao Qianzhi frowned, as if desperately trying to grasp the flashing image, "Wait a minute, I remember!" A child told me to go to the toilet, and then The driver said that we will arrive at the Plum Village rest stop soon! "Cao Qianzhi opened his eyes suddenly.

Lin Chen quickly returned to his desk, picked up a pen, and wrote the word "Meicun" on the paper.

"You or the teacher next to you, do you remember what time it is to arrive at the rest stop in Plum Village?"

"Wait a minute, let me ask."

In front of the computer, Wang Chao had already called up the full map of Hongjing Expressway. While looking at the map, he calculated on paper: "The Meicun service station is about 130 kilometers from Hongjing to Qiongshan. The traffic jam happened after 7:00. They If we leave at 6:30, including the variable traffic jam time, we will arrive at the Meicun service station at around 8:30."

Just as Wang Chao put down his pen, an eager male voice came from the phone: "Our director said that the time to enter the Meicun service station is 8:30! I really can't think of anything else!"

The male teacher over there sounded very apologetic.

"Already very good, thank you very much, you have been very helpful."

Seeing Lin Chen hang up the phone, Wang Chao heaved a sigh of relief, and felt strange again: "How do you know that the No. [-] car will be different!"

"I don't know." Lin Chen picked up the calculation paper of the tech house, and said, "But at that time, we can only hope for luck."

"What if you're unlucky?"

"If you are not lucky, just keep trying your luck."