Criminal Investigation: Forbidden Rose

"Wait!" Xia Yi quickly chased him out of the room, clutching a set of scarves and gloves.

Shao Lin left in a hurry after receiving the news, so he put on a coat and didn't bring anything with him.

Xia Yi grabbed the person and put a scarf around Shao Lin.He touched Shao Lin's hand and frowned: "It's so cold, I don't wear gloves."

Shao Lin was still immersed in thinking about Shao Yuan, his face was a little pale.He repeated in a low voice: "I haven't looked for Shao Yuan, why did he say that I told him to go out?"

It's okay if it's just a child playing around and making up excuses, but if Shao Yuan really thinks that his brother told him to go out, then there will be a big problem.However, it's hard for Shao Lin to imagine—unless someone who looks exactly like him is parachuted into the school, and Shao Yuan is not stupid, how could he leave with him without hesitation?

When Shao Lin thought of the promise he had made to Shao Haifeng a few days ago that he would take good care of his younger brother, he suffocated for a while.It's already ten o'clock in the evening, and the low temperature outside is nearly minus ten degrees, where can Shao Yuan go? !

"I'll go with you." Xia Yi squeezed his fingertips, "Don't scare yourself, don't worry, ah?"

Originally, today was Xia Yi's last day on duty a few years ago, but who knew that he had just been paralyzed on the sofa at home for 15 minutes, and the police were called out in a hurry.

When I arrived at Yanda, I saw the young head teacher fidgeting.Even if she loses her students, she can't escape the responsibility, and now she is in a hurry: "You are here. I also asked around among my classmates, and no one has seen her since noon!"

Shao Lin directly asked the question he was most concerned about: "At that time, when he said that I would take him away, was there someone to pick him up?"

The class teacher shook his head: "I didn't see anyone coming to pick me up."

"At that time, Shao Yuan came to me and said that he would not attend the self-study class in the afternoon, and my brother would take him to the city to buy new year's goods." The class teacher looked annoyed, "I wanted to persuade the child to study, but—" She paused, and said to Shao Lin With a wink, he lowered his voice: "There are more than 50 students, and only the top ten are selected in the end. It's not that Shao Yuan's grades are not good enough, but in the first test, he got the bottom of the test. I think so, for For this kind of kid, the experience of coming to a big city for training is more important than the result of the selection. That's why I let him go!"

Those who can participate in this selection class are all the top students in their respective schools, and there is no need for teachers to keep an eye on them all the time.Who would have thought that such an inadvertent negligence would lead to a big mistake.

"Mr. Fang, where was the last time you saw Shao Yuan? And when?"

"The third canteen in the West District. He told me at noon, around 12:30."

"Okay, Shao Lin, go and ask his classmate." Xia Yi patted Shao Lin on the shoulder, and took out his police officer's card, "I'll go and adjust the surveillance video right now."

The children in the "Flying Boys" Cup Mathematical Olympiad training camp come from all over the world, and they are all mathematical elites from various provinces.Everyone is not familiar with each other, so they naturally group together according to the region.As Shao Lin expected, the two men and two women called by the head teacher were all students from Yanquan City.The five of them came from Yan'an in the same long-distance class. When Shao Lin went to pick up Shao Yuan, they had seen each other from afar.

However, all four of them said that they did not know Shao Yuan's whereabouts.

"During lunch today, will you sit with Shao Yuan?"

Shao Lin knew that the three canteens had a rectangular table that could seat six people, and students with good relationships would usually sit together.But the four children glanced at each other and shook their heads one after another.

When the head teacher heard this, he frowned and said, don't you usually sit together?

Shao Lin instinctively felt that something was wrong.

He confirmed with the children again: "Shao Yuan usually sits with you for lunch, but not at noon today?"

The little girl with a mushroom head and a round face said timidly, "It's not today either. I haven't sat with us since yesterday."

Shao Lin frowned slightly: "Did you quarrel?"

Beside Mushroom Head, another girl with a high ponytail quickly denied it: "No." After she finished speaking, the three students around her began to shake their heads.

Shao Lin looked at her calmly: "Really?"

The girl with the high ponytail is called Chen Lingling, and she is from the same junior high school as Shao Yuan, so she should be the one she knows best.The little girl is tall, fair and clean, looks like a starlet, and looks far more mature than children of the same age.

"Really, there was no quarrel. He wants to sit with someone else." Chen Lingling blinked innocently, "Is it okay to make more friends?"

"Then who is Shao Yuan sitting with at noon?"

Chen Lingling seemed to be choked, and finally said that it seemed that every day was different.

Shao Lin sighed lightly: "Why do you have conflicts?"

Chen Lingling: "..."

"Indeed, there is no conflict." Another boy said, "Maybe a few days ago..." He glanced around, and his eyes fell on Chen Lingling for a long time. Seeing that no one spoke, he continued: "Tong Tong that matter."

This boy is white and thin, and he is still Shao Yuan's roommate.Probably due to late development of the body, the boy looks like a bean sprout, but he wears a pair of thick myopia glasses, two small round lenses, tied with a red ribbon at the back of the neck, and his classmates call him "little boy". Glasses".

Shao Lin was puzzled, and tilted his head slightly: "What?"

"Tongtong, that ghost story."

Nine of the ten universities in China have their own "haunted" legends.Yan'an University has a long history, and it is no exception. There are even many versions of ghost stories, such as the human specimen that suddenly opened its eyes in the anatomy classroom, the girl in red who committed suicide in the chemistry building, etc. But what these children said was in Xishan The missing child "Tongtong".

On the westernmost side of Yan'an University, there is a large iron gate that is not marked on the map.Going out from that door, there is a path that leads directly up the mountain to Xiaoqiu Peak, which is a favorite exercise route for many Yanda students.Beyond Xiaoqiu Peak, it borders on the "Ten Miles and Eighteen Peaks" of Xishan Mountain.In the early years, this was just a few connected peaks. Except for the local villagers, no one went there. But in recent years, hiking has become popular, and more donkey friends are walking, and it has been officially built into a scenic spot.

Many years ago, a child disappeared suddenly while playing in Xiaoqiufeng—the kind where no one was seen when he was born, and no corpse was seen when he died—and he has not been found until now, and it has become an unsolved case.It is said that after the son disappeared, the mother of the child suffered from a mental disorder. Every evening, she would shout the child's baby name "Tongtong" near Xiaoqiu Peak. The voice was hoarse and weeping, very scary.

College students came in one class after another, and this story became more and more mysterious, until at the end, some boring student changed the story of "Tong Tong" to A game of courage——

In the shady place at the foot of Xiaoqiufeng Mountain, there is a pile of graves from the period of the Republic of China. Most of the tombstones are broken, and only small hills remain.It is said that when the sun sets, go to the graveyard, point your toes to the west, and shout "Tongtong" three times.If Tongtong thinks you are a smart person, he will give you clues to find him through dreams.

As a result, for a long time, there has been an endless stream of curious students at the foot of Xiaoqiufeng Mountain, and there have been many rumors of "I saw Tongtong", all of which cannot be studied.

These five kids from Salt Spring are no exception.

On the third day of coming to Yanda, after class in the afternoon, they played "Truth or Dare" together.At that time, Shao Yuan chose "True Words", and Mogutou asked him if he had a crush on Chen Lingling.Shao Yuan cheated at the time, and changed his words and said that he chose "big adventure".

A group of people encouraged him to call "Tongtong".

At that time, it was already very dark, and when they reached the grave, the two girls were terrified, and said tremblingly that we should go back, but Shao Yuan quit, and wanted to show his masculinity at this time , bit the bullet and howled "Tongtong" three times at the grave.After howling, everyone only felt that the wind was blowing, and hurried back the same way.

"As a result, that night," Xiao Glasses said, "Shao Yuan said that Tong Tong came to look for him."

Shao Lin's professional smile almost froze: "..."

"Really? I also think he is lying." Little Glasses pushed his own glasses, and said very seriously, "Ghost stories are just trying to create a scary atmosphere, but after all, there are no ghosts in the world."

"I think he said this for the sake of grandstanding. He also said that maybe Tongtong 'selected' him because he was smarter than us. Shao Yuan kept talking about this, and we felt a little bored." Little Glasses didn't He pursed his lips in a dull manner, "The quarrel was really not a quarrel, but Shao Yuan saw that we didn't believe him, so he sulked himself. Then he won't sit with us."

After Shao Lin heard the story, he didn't know where the trough should come from, but he still asked patiently: "Then why did Shao Yuan think that Tong Tong came to him? Does he have any basis?"

"It was the night when we went to Houshan, it was past eleven o'clock in the evening, and the lights in the dormitory were already turned off. Anyway, I was asleep at the time." Xiao Glass said, "Then Shao Yuan said that he suddenly felt cold on his hands. , It seemed that water was dripping from the sky, waking him up. Shao Yuan’s bed was next to the window, and he saw that it was water on the window. He opened the curtains and said that there was a The child's 'handprint' is dripping. He also emphasized that it is a child's handprint, so the overall size is much smaller than ours."

Shao Lin: "..." Well, the more you talk about it, the more mysterious it becomes.

"Then he opened the window directly, oh my mother, when the cold wind blows, I was woken up by the wind! I asked him what he was doing, he turned on the light of his mobile phone, was looking out of the window, and called me Go and have a look."

Shao Lin frowned: "Did you see the fingerprints too?"

"I don't have it! We have heating indoors, and it's several degrees below zero outside, so the water vapor condenses on the indoor windows and a layer of frost has formed. At that time, the windows had been blurred by him, and Shao Yuan insisted on saying, that The fingerprints were pressed from our room, because he wiped the fingerprints away with his hand."

"What about outside the window?"

Little Glasses replied: "There is nothing outside the window either. Neither of us saw anything."

"That's right, our dormitory is directly facing the lawn." Little Glasses explained, "It snowed a little that night, and there was such a thin layer on the grass, that is, if someone came over and pressed a Handprints, then he will definitely leave footprints. I mean, there was nothing on the snow at the time, it was very clean, and no one had stepped on it at all."

"So, I think he's just talking nonsense, or he might have woken up from a nightmare." Little Glasses pouted and concluded, "Obviously I'm just a little bit brave, but I still insist on pretending to be a hero in front of Chen Lingling." .”

Shao Lin: "..."

Shao Lin asked several students in the class, and a few other boys said something similar to the little glasses-Shao Yuan did spread the story of the "small handprint" that appeared out of thin air on the window with his classmates.It's just that everyone came to participate in the math competition, and no one took his ghost story seriously, and even directly labeled Shao Yuan as a fool at the end of the crane.

At the same time, Xia Yi also made progress.

Yan'an University is also on winter vacation, and there are a lot fewer students on campus.In addition, it is relatively convenient to find someone by monitoring in winter - down jackets are generally more eye-catching, and people generally don't change them often.Soon, Xia Yi recognized Shao Yuan's "hip-hop style" printed down jacket with white, red and blue splashes of ink in the surveillance at the entrance of the cafeteria.

At around one o'clock in the afternoon, I saw Shao Yuan coming out of the No. [-] canteen with his schoolbag on his back and walking towards Qingying Building.This direction is opposite to the school gate and the parking lot. It doesn't seem like you are going to meet anyone.Soon, Xia Yi caught Shao Yuan again at the entrance of Yan University's main library according to the monitoring.

After Shao Yuan claimed that "my brother asked him to buy new year's goods", the first stop was the main picture.

"Strange." The homeroom teacher frowned when he heard this, "There is a self-study classroom on the first floor of the teaching building where our training camp is held. Moreover, his card is a temporary pass, which can only be used to open the access control, and cannot borrow books. .”

Shao Yuan lied and skipped the self-study class, so naturally he didn't go to the library to review.

Xia Yi added: "According to Shao Yuan's access control card records, he has been going to the main map for self-study in the past few nights."

"I guess..." Shao Lin said, "The matter of going to the main map started on the fourth day of the training camp?"

Xia Yi glanced at him and said yes.

Shao Lin held his forehead with his palm, stroked his own bangs upwards, and muttered in a low voice: "Could it be that he is looking for clues to Tongtong..."

Sure enough, according to the camera, Shao Yuan stayed in the library until around 03:30, and then continued to walk west.The last time the boy was photographed by Yan'an University's camera was near the big iron gate leading to the back mountain.

Xiaoqiufeng.

Shao Lin's heart ached again.

Although minus eight degrees and one hour and a half should not freeze people to death, Xiaoqiu Peak is not a dangerous peak, there is no cliff that is easy to fall off, but it is night after all, there is ice and snow on the ground, Shao Yuan Still alone... But if it's just ordinary trouble, why doesn't he call for help?Or was he in bigger trouble?

"I've already notified the school security," Xia Yi said after hanging up the phone, "All staff are dispatched to search the mountain. If there are not enough manpower, please notify the local fire department."

Shao Lin nodded helplessly, and joined the search and rescue team with Xia Yi, searching the mountains overnight.

Xiaoqiu Peak does not occupy a large area, and it only takes seven or eight minutes for someone as agile as Xia Yi to run from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.But it was such a small place. Until the sun rose the next day, the guards searched up and down with search and rescue dogs, but found no suspicious signs.

According to Tongtong's story, it is still——

I didn't see people when I was born, and I didn't see a corpse when I died.

Ever since Shao Yuan entered the Xiaoqiufeng mountain area, it seemed that the world had evaporated. He didn't even find any suspicious footprints or crushed vegetation on the snow.The guards discussed whether to expand the search area and extend it to the Xishan Scenic Area.But if Shao Yuan went deep into the mountains, the area would be too large, and he would not be able to search without a direction for a while.

The people in the detachment were also called by Xia Yi.

Wrapped in a down jacket, Yan Jingjing shivered in the cold morning wind: "Team leader, I'm applying to bring back your consecrated prayer beads. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I heard this case, and I think it's not quite right——Shao ​​Yuan can win the Olympiad, then He is definitely not a fool. Since he is so determined to find Tongtong, he must have some substantial evidence!"

"So I think, he must have really seen that child's handprint!" Yan Jingjing wailed, "Team leader! Let's get the prayer beads! There's still time!"

Xia Yi scolded: "How many times have I told you! We are glorious gc members and staunch materialists!"

"A staunch materialist, what are you doing with those 99999 yuan of prayer beads!!!"

The snow boots "clicked" and pressed against a dead branch. He turned his head and said softly, with a trace of boredom in his tone: "Where is the ghost in this world? Only the human heart."

Shao Lin searched the mountain all night, and now his eyes were bloodshot: "I didn't have time to waste my words with those little brats, but don't talk about that handprint. That handprint is on the upper floor of Shaoyuan's dormitory——Chen Lingling's window Got it off."

Xia Yi said "ah" in surprise: "How do you know? How did they do it?"