Criminal Investigation: Forbidden Rose

Shao Lin was thinking in his heart—the way of triggering the deck pressure rod means that the kidnappers were lucky—if the police didn’t bring people up, then this ship might be recycled in the future, and if the police found it, Then blast the sunken ship directly.

The kidnappers did not flee directly by boat, indicating that there were very important clues on board, and they could not bear the possibility of the entire boat being discovered by the police.After all, salvaging a sunken ship requires a lot of manpower and material resources, not to mention that the evidence is likely to be destroyed, but the salvage itself takes a lot of time and can give criminal gangs enough time to prepare.

But how did they find out?

Whether it's installing a plunger bomb or taking a child on an escape boat, it takes time to prepare.The instant noodles on the boat were half eaten, and the soup was still warm. It is very likely that the kidnappers received the news suddenly at noon, and they started these arrangements.

In other words, the time when the kidnappers got the news was almost two hours ago, when the dumb boat had just set off.However, the team leader confirmed that there was no surveillance on the ship, and the mute did not report anything. In order to prevent the other party from noticing, the mute and the plainclothes team leader left in a low-key manner, and the helicopter took off directly from the coast guard base. Half an hour later, according to the GPS positioning Far tailgating, it seems that there is no possibility of being discovered by passers-by.

In this place at sea, Shao Lin's own mobile phone has no signal, and everything depends on the satellite phone.Whoever tipped it off, that person should have a direct connection to the kidnapper's ship...

Perhaps, someone on land has been monitoring the mute's movements?

By the way, Shao Lin suddenly remembered that the mute left at two o'clock in the morning on February 2th, but the port records showed that he left at nine o'clock in the morning on February 29th.During the interrogation, the police also asked this question, but the mute replied that he clearly scanned the QR code when he left Hong Kong and did not change the time.Later, the police asked the local port, saying that it was possible that the system was broken and they did not sweep in at night. When the staff went to work the next day, they confirmed that the ship had left the port and added "departure", but they left in a hurry. The jury is still out.

Could it be that there are some of them among the staff at the port?

Shao Lin's brain was spinning fast. Although he couldn't draw any conclusions, Xia Yi stuffed a telescope into his hand.

Perhaps because of the small size of the lifeboat, the team leader used sonar to search for nearby ships, but found nothing.The helicopter can only use the place where the ship sank as the origin, with a radius of 1 mile, start an "O" rotation, and slowly expand the field of view.

The weather that day was very good, the sky was blue and cloudless, no matter which direction you looked out, there was an endless sea...

"The kidnappers took the satellite phone and there is a good chance they will be in touch with their accomplices."

"The speed of the escape boat is limited, and it is estimated that it will not be able to escape far. The main thing is to confirm the direction."

After all, the speed of the helicopter is faster than the escape boat. After 15 minutes, Xia Yi found the target: "To the southeast, about 600 meters, there is a small boat. There is a man at the bow, and no children have been found yet."

It is impossible for a small yacht to drive to such a place by itself.

The pilot quickly turned around and headed towards the escape boat at full speed.Soon, the man on board spotted the helicopter coming towards him, without saying a word, he just dropped the escape boat, jumped into the water and ran away.

Xia Yi cursed angrily: "Fuck, this is life-threatening!"

The mute told the police that children like them, who grew up in the wind and waves and grew up in the sea, can dive for more than ten minutes at a time. Even without tools, they can survive in the sea for a whole day.

When the police arrived at the sky above the escape boat, Xia Yi suddenly found a head popping up far, far away.However, just as he captured the black head with the scope, he dived down and disappeared in an instant like a whale wagging its tail.

In that direction, he was still heading out to sea.

"Damn it, there must be something wrong with that man, but where's the kid?"

Shao Lin said calmly: "Let's go down and have a look first."

There are no seats on the escape boat, but the stern is covered with a thick layer of silver sunshade fabric, which reflects light in the sun and is particularly dazzling.Xiao Huang jumped down, lifted the sunshade, and took a breath of air—oh boy, there are three comatose children lying inside!

Not one, but three, and they're all alive!

The team immediately split into two groups—the coast guard helicopter continued to search for the man who jumped into the sea, while the others carried the children onto the dumb boat, and at the same time contacted the shore medical team and psychological counselors...

Three children, two girls and one boy.The two girls were about eleven or twelve years old, and the other boy was a little younger, maybe seven or eight years old.All three children had their hands and feet bound, were filthy, and had oily hair that looked like they hadn't bathed in a month.One of them, the team leader recognized Xu Yunfei at a glance!

The little girl was pale, so thin that her cheeks were sunken. Although she wasn't wearing the bright yellow down jacket, the sweater inside matched her mother's description.

As for where the other two children came from, the police have no clues for the time being.

On the boat, the mute seemed to be particularly interested in the little boy. He looked around and took a closer look. When the fishing boat started to return, the mute suddenly clapped his hands and cried out "ahhh".Xia Yi gave him a strange look, and the team leader asked him what was wrong, but the mute didn't answer, just clapped his hands to the rhythm, and yelled "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh An old boat song.

He turned his head to look at the vast sea, his eyes suddenly filled with tears.

At that moment, Shao Lin's heart seemed to be caught by something, and he shared his feelings with others inexplicably.

He murmured in a low voice: "When you were a child, it was the same way... you were taken to sea."

The dumb Yangtian yelled loudly: "Ahh——"

……

Although there was a bit of an accident in this operation, the boat that kidnapped the children exploded and sank into the sea, but the three children were rescued in one breath, which can be described as "returning with a full load."

When the helicopter drove back to Salt Spring, all three children woke up in a daze.

When Xu Yunfei's parents saw the child, they screamed and rushed over, hugging each other in the corridor and crying loudly.However, this is a big case, and the police still have a lot of records to do, and the child cannot go home with his parents for the time being.

The hospital arranged a unified physical examination. Except for a little dehydration, malnutrition, and strangle marks on their wrists and ankles, the three of them did not suffer any external injuries.Afterwards, everyone ate some meals and drank a cup of hot chocolate. Accompanied by a child psychologist, they entered a room and had a private conversation with the police.

Xu Yunfei's identity has been confirmed, and the little boy has also declared his family name - he comes from a remote county in the northernmost part of China.Xia Yi blindly estimated that it would take more than an hour to fly from that corner to Yanquan.

The little boy is only seven years old this year, and his family runs a shop.At that time, he was playing alone in front of the store during the winter vacation, when a flower ball suddenly rolled over outside.I saw a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses beckoning to him, and asked him if he could help take the ball over, and he hurried away.However, when he approached with the ball, he was dragged into the cargo compartment of a car.When he woke up again, he was already on the boat. He floated unsteadily on the water for four or five days, and he didn't remember how many times he made a stopover. He only got on the boat three days ago.When he arrived, the two little girls were already there.

He said that the two young ladies took good care of him.

The Yanquan police searched and found that such a thing really happened, so they quickly contacted the boy's parents, who flew over overnight.

Xu Yunfei was very cooperative with the little boy, and the police answered whatever they asked, and he would talk about many things he observed on the boat like "a child complaining to an adult".Only the other little girl was still in a bad state.

The girl said that her name was Zhang Shengnan, and she was from a small town in the countryside near Yan'an.When Xia Yi heard it, he patted his thigh: "Coincidentally, this is still half a fellow!"

"But why can't I find this information." Xiao Huang scratched his head in distress, "I can't find the name Zhang Shengnan in the information database of lost children across the country. Didn't you call the police when your daughter was lost?"

Xia Yi knew the village the little girl was talking about, and directly contacted the local police station through the internal relationship of the Yan'an City Bureau.

When I asked this question, there was indeed a child named "Zhang Shengnan" in their files, but, for some special reasons, this matter had never been officially entered into the National Missing Children Database.Because no one reported Zhang Shengnan's disappearance, it was the police who discovered it...

This matter is also very mysterious.A month and a half ago, there was a car accident in the village. Zhang Shengnan's family -- his parents and elder brother were in the car -- collided with a large truck at a bend in a narrow road.The tonnage of the truck was huge, and none of the family of three survived.Afterwards, the traffic police mobilized the surveillance video and found that Zhang’s car violated the traffic rules first. Afterwards, the police found a large amount of cash and a small bag of white powder in the vehicle. After an autopsy, it was found that Zhang Shengnan’s father was driving with drugs, so it had nothing to do with the truck driver.

When the police tried to contact Zhang Shengnan's family, they found out that the family of four only had a 12-year-old daughter left.However, the police went to the house rented by Zhang's family, but did not find the girl.They asked the neighbors, and they said they hadn't seen each other for many days. Finally, the police tracked down Zhang Shengnan's school and heard from the class teacher that the child had lupus erythematosus, and the parents had taken sick leave for the child a week ago.

In Zhang Shengnan's home, the police found a lupus diagnosis medical record from a local hospital. However, they went to the hospital to inquire and found out that the medical record was forged!Only then did the police realize the seriousness of the matter—the youngest daughter of the family, Zhang Shengnan, seemed to be missing.

No one knows where Zhang Shengnan went, but her parents are clearly suspected.It's a pity that the family died in a car accident because their father smoked D, and there was no question about it.The local police also believe that the Zhang family is not only good at gambling, but may be involved in drug trafficking.Otherwise, the family has no house, only a second-hand car, and owes debts everywhere, making relatives run away. How could there be [-] cash hidden in the car?

After hearing the twists and turns of the story behind this, Xia Yi sighed.

Zhang Shengnan seemed reluctant to confess to the police, and when he asked her how she got on the boat, he wiped his tears and shook his head.On the contrary, the police heard some clues from the mouths of Xu Yunfei and the little boy.

At the very beginning, when the little boy hadn't boarded the boat, Xu Yunfei and Zhang Shengnan hit it off. In such a harsh environment, they became friends in need almost instantly.On the first night on the boat, Xu Yunfei tossed and turned unable to sleep, sobbing all the time, but Zhang Shengnan didn't think she was noisy, but kindly comforted her.

Xu Yunfei asked her: "Aren't you afraid?"

She was very impressed by Zhang Shengnan's answer at that time.The dark cabin was bumping up and down, and she only heard Zhang Shengnan calmly say that the sea doesn’t seem so bad, there is food every day, there is no need to do housework, and no adult will beat her or force her to do something, so it seems like Nothing bad either.

Xu Yunfei said that she missed her parents, but Zhang Shengnan sneered and said that she didn't think about it at all.

The second thing is what the little boy told the police.He told the team leader that Zhang Shengnan was very surprised when he saw him, and asked, "You are a boy, are your parents willing to sell you?"

One sentence made him stupid.

Now, based on the background that Xia Yi found from Yan'an, it seems that one thing can be concluded - Zhang Shengnan's parents directly sold their daughter to traffickers in exchange for money to take drugs and pay off debts, leaving the boy at home.But the way of heaven is reincarnation. After the family got the money, they all died in a car accident.

The child psychologist also specially reminded the police: Zhang Shengnan's mental state is very unhealthy.Moreover, she believed that Zhang Shengnan had the experience of being sexually assaulted.Because during the hospital examination, the doctor wanted her to take off her clothes, so she screamed and refused to cooperate.Later, the doctor asked her if she had any wounds on her body, and she said no, which is to respect the meaning of the little girl.

Xu Yunfei was the most talkative of the three children, and told the police many details about the boat.For example, they were guarded by a very dark man.The man didn't talk to them, he just took care of the food and didn't let them run away, and he never beat or scolded them, but she didn't know his name.Shao Lin thought to himself, this should be the mute colleague, the "housekeeper" who took everyone on the escape boat and then jumped into the sea.

Although the little girl is not very old, she has been paying attention to the movements on the boat.She said that she overheard the "uncle housekeeper" arguing with someone on the phone two or three times. The content was probably that he thought that the child could no longer stay on his boat and should be sent away.However, it is not known what is wrong with the docking party, and a boatload of children has not acted for a long time.

He also kept emphasizing with the other party: "The one who died has been made up."

But Xu Yunfei didn't know who died.

With the transcript up to this point, the police probably figured out the criminal gang's modus operandi——

They collect children from human traffickers all over the country, concentrate on a waterway, and send them overseas by means of ocean-going fishing boats.This sunken ship happened to be their transit point.Coincidentally, this time a little girl died on the transport road, that is, the one in the suitcase, and Xu Yunfei became her substitute nearby.However, all three children said they had not seen the girl in the suitcase, and it is very likely that she died before they boarded the boat.

It is not that simple to transport a few children out by sea.Even if the customs of neighboring countries are not strict, there are still many places on a route that need to be checked.Perhaps the other party's route has been strictly investigated recently, so the children on their ship have been put on hold for the time being.

If the police hadn't discovered it in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable.However, how many children have passed this route and gone to a place where they can never return?If this route cannot be uprooted, how many children will be on this route soon?

Just thinking about it, Shao Lin felt shuddering.

However, in this incident, the police also discovered a very bizarre thing, that is, the way Xu Yunfei was kidnapped.

She was neither sold by her parents nor cheated.

Xu Yunfei said that she walked into the haunted house in Ocean Park.It was the third room, and it was very dark at the time, and there was a curtain hanging in one place, on which was written "pass through here" in "blood".But as soon as she opened the curtain, someone strangled her neck from one side and knocked her out, and then she fell unconscious.The first time she woke up, she was locked in a dark room, but the medicine made her drowsy, and when she woke up again, she was already at sea...

"In this way, the kidnappers are probably still in Yanquan City." The team leader squeezed his chin with his thumb and index finger, and slowly analyzed, "Xu Yunfei disappeared on the afternoon of February 2, but he went to the hospital in the early morning of February 27." Mute’s boat, so that dark room should be where the Salt Spring kidnappers are.”

"That's not right." Shao Lin suddenly frowned, "Did I remember wrongly? When replaying the video of the park, there was a camera that captured Xu Yunfei leaving the haunted house. How did she say that she was kidnapped in the haunted house? of?"

"Fuck, is this a ghost?" Xiao Huang slapped the table and quickly retrieved the video from the park.However, when Xiao Huang exported it and read it again, I really saw the little girl dressed up by Xu Yunfei, wearing a bright yellow down jacket, walking out from the exit 8 minutes after Xu Yunfei entered the haunted house...

The boys sat in front of the monitor, zoomed in on the pixels, watched it several times, and looked at each other.

"It's a pity, there are only two surveillance cameras inside the haunted house, and nothing happened to her at all."

Xiao Huang stammered: "She, did she have her head smashed by the kidnappers, and she forgot things?"

"Can you still remember the adrenaline rush of being kidnapped?" Shao Lin frowned, "If what Xu Yunfei said is true, there is only one explanation - the little girl who ran out was not Xu Yunfei ah?"

The police watched the video several times before and after, and determined a few points: First, within 15 minutes, the number of little girls who entered the haunted house was equal to the number of little girls who came out.Second, among the little girls who went in, only Xu Yunfei was wearing a bright yellow down jacket.

Shao Lin thought for a while and said with certainty: "That should mean that there was a little girl hiding in the haunted house long ago. After Xu Yunfei was knocked out, she put on Xu Yunfei's coat and ran away again. go out?"

"Absolutely, who is that little girl? Could it be the kidnapper's daughter?!"

Xiao Huang's brain hole has already turned to Mars: "Or, the kidnappers caught him before, the Stockholm patient?!"

"No, how could a little girl appear out of nowhere as a substitute. How did this little girl get into the haunted house in the first place?"

"You might as well ask how Xu Yunfei got out! The camera didn't even catch her coming out!"

Everyone expanded the monitoring time, and Shao Lin suddenly discovered that there were a large number of black prop boxes in the haunted house, which were more than enough to hold a little girl.At the end of the day, all the lights in the haunted house are turned on, the cleaning begins to clean, and the staff pushes in and out of the prop box...

It is very likely that the two little girls entered and exited from the item box!

This case is not difficult to investigate, because the person who can enter and leave the haunted house smoothly and has the authority to move the item box must be an employee of the park.

"Go, go and thoroughly investigate the staff who entered and exited the haunted house that day." The team leader was furious, "It's not easy for us to investigate at sea. A mere Ocean Park can't catch a kidnapper?!"