Chapter 37 Humbert Humbert IV

Chapter 37 Humbert Humbert IV

Lang Qiao hadn't finished making a fuss, and was planning to pursue the victory. He and his colleagues continued to surround and suppress Luo Wenzhou. Unexpectedly, when he looked into the picture, he caught the eye of the portrait that had fallen on the ground, and she was so frightened that the feeling of drunkenness flew out of her pores.

There are technicians in the public security system who specialize in simulated portraits, and many of them are experts. In comparison, the painting skills of this portrait are really at the beginner level. But it is very strange, the verve of the person in the painting is unexpectedly vivid, and the face seems to have been repeated countless times in the painter's mind.

Lang Qiao: "What is this?"

Tao Ran was kicked over by Luo Wenzhou. He woke up a little and realized that he had said something wrong. He leaned on the sofa and stood up, went out to wash his face, and came back to clean up the things on the ground with Luo Wenzhou: "It's the Lotus Mountain thing. Right? The old man has been talking about it all his life."

"Lianhua Mountain" is not a mountain, but a place name in the northern suburbs of Yancheng. In the early years, it belonged to the county seat under the jurisdiction of Yancheng. It was included in Yancheng more than ten years ago and became a development zone.

On that page of the notebook, in addition to the expressive portrait, there were also a few old photos that were too large, and were pasted between the pages with transparent tape. After a long time, they fell off when touched.

Some of them are life photos with blurry pictures, as well as photo studio works with strong characteristics of the times - they are all background fabrics of Dutch windmills, with exaggerated lighting, and the smiles of the girls on them are a little stiff, like posed shots with too long exposure time.

There are six photos in total.

It's strange to say old photos. All the photographic papers have been put on for decades, and they are all the same faded color, and the same panache. If the person in the photo is happy, then the pandemonium of the old traces will have a long aftertaste. The years are quiet, but if the person in the photo is unexpectedly later, when others look back at his voice and appearance at that time, they can always see a bit of a strange and gloomy atmosphere, as if the owner's resentment and unwillingness are attached to the static picture. , something is revealed in the dark.

"Is it Mr. Yang?" Lang Qiao asked, "How could he care about the development zone?"

"At that time, the city bureau had a policy that anyone under the age of thirty-five had to go to the grassroots to exercise—either to the police station or to several counties at that time. My master and the others went to Lianhua Mountain and stayed there for more than half a year. .” Luo Wenzhou carefully pinched the edge of the photo and put it back into the notebook. “Not long after I went, I encountered that case—you probably haven’t heard of it, and I was still preschool at that time.”

"At the beginning, a man came to report that the child was lost." Tao Ran flipped through the notebook. Except for the photos and portraits, most of the contents in the notebook were purely handwritten. Tangible and tangible, the word "Guo Heng" is written on the front page of the photo, and three lines of emphasis are drawn under the name, "Yes, the reporter is this Guo Heng, and the one who lost is his eleven-year-old daughter, the youngest. It's called 'Fifi'."

Hearing this, Luo Wenzhou put his hand on a thick textbook and looked up at Tao Ran in confusion: "You've been drinking like this, do you still remember what the girl's name was?"

Tao Ran lowered his head to avoid his gaze: "I've been listening to the old man for so many years, I can remember the ins and outs."

Chang Ning is usually busy with work and has little time to watch TV. It is rare to hear stories from the criminal police team up close.

"At that time, parents generally didn't take care of their children as much as they do now. Eleven or 12-year-olds are already big children. They usually go to school or go to their classmates' house to play. They usually just tell their parents and run away, and adults don't take a day off. Surround them at night."

"But this little girl Guo Fei is very honest and disciplined. She has a fixed time for going to school and leaving school, and she can give a valid reason when she comes back five minutes late. She never needs to be at home to study, and the day she disappears is nothing special, her classmate said. , Guo Fei didn't stay at the school after school that day, and went home on time. It took about 15 minutes from the school to her house. The child was lost in these 15 minutes. My master and the others followed her usual path I stepped back and forth dozens of times on the road. There were not so many surveillance cameras on the road back then, but there was no special place for the child to 'back' on the way home. It was summer at that time, and it was not very dark in the evening, and the outside came and went. There are a lot of people, and it stands to reason that if such an older girl is taken from the street, even if there is something wrong, it is impossible for no one to notice."

"But after a long walk, they found nothing. They turned the school upside down, and they didn't even find a girl's hair - didn't Holmes famously say, 'Without the impossible, the rest No matter how incredible it is, it is the truth', so some people said at the time that either an acquaintance committed the crime, or the child ran away from home by himself."

"Following the idea of ​​an acquaintance committing the crime, the police investigated it over and over again. The school's teachers and staff, the Guo family's relatives and friends, and even the stationery store and small supermarket that the child usually goes to... A total of hundreds of people were called, but they found nothing. "

When Tao Ran said this, he paused: "Just when their investigation was in trouble, Guo Heng, the girl's father, suddenly received a call, and no one spoke, only a little girl was heard screaming hoarsely. I fainted when I heard it, and the police immediately found the location of the phone through the number - it was a very remote phone booth."

Lang Qiao asked strangely, "No surveillance?"

"No, the phone booth itself is next to the garbage station. It looks abandoned. Many people don't know that the phone can still be used," Luo Wenzhou said. "A little blood was found next to the phone booth. Can't test DNA, can't be sure if it's her, no fingerprints."

No one spoke in Tao Ran's living room for a while.

After a while, Fei Du, who had been silent for a while, asked, "No other calls? No extortion, no ransom?"

"No," Tao Ran said. "After that phone call, the kidnappers never contacted the girl's family again. They didn't ask for money, nor did they make any demands."

Fei Du held the wine glass and swayed it lightly, smelling the aroma of the wine, as if the glass was not the gān red that was just bought in the supermarket, but Romanee Conti.

"That's weird," he said. "It doesn't sound like the kidnappers were rushing at children, but to torture the adults in the family—what do girls' parents do?"

"Guo Heng himself is a middle school teacher, and the child's mother is a civil servant. At that time, the family situation was not bad, but it was an ordinary well-off, and they were ordinary people who were paid monthly wages. It is impossible to say how rich they are. I have all gone to school, I am usually a well-educated person, I am not ambitious in my work, I have a good relationship with my colleagues, there is no conflict of interest, and extramarital affairs are excluded."

Ordinary people, ordinary parents, ordinary girls—not even a pretty kid, living a regular life. He is as lackluster as anyone who walks on the street casually. Even if the police dig three feet into the ground, they can't find any special stories.

The folk proverb says, "Flies don't bite unfeeling eggs", but the police have repeatedly combed through the people related to the Guo family, and even analyzed their personal privacy with a magnifying glass, and found that the girl Guo Fei and her family are "nothing". fèng's egg".

Time passed, and the silent kidnapper never made a sound. Whether it was the police or the girl's family, the chances of getting the child back were very slim. But it's more likely that...

The police have no clue as to why the kidnappers chose this girl.

It's as if he's throwing dice on the street and whoever he hits at random is who.

For no reason.

No one in this world is safe.

Lang Qiao asked, "Then...what about the other five?"

"All clues about Guo Fei's disappearance were interrupted. There was no other way, so I had to let it go. Later, Master was transferred back to the city. At that time, it was the criminal investigation team of the Xitai District Bureau. There was another case of missing children in the jurisdiction. It was a girl , 12 years old, also disappeared on the way from school without knowing it, the kidnapper still didn't say a word, the most terrifying thing is that two days after the girl disappeared, the family also received a call from a child crying."

"My master immediately realized something was wrong and reported the situation to his superiors. At that time, the person in charge of Xitai District decided to report it to the Municipal Bureau. It turned out that there have been six similar cases of lost children in the whole city of Yan, including the surrounding counties. "

"Seven incidents," Luo Wenzhou added, "the last surviving girl's family was in a special situation. She didn't have a father, her mother was a bad alcoholic, and she fooled around all day long. She didn't know that the child was lost for several days, and she didn't call the police at all. The Municipal Affairs Bureau took the lead, recruited people from various districts, and set up a task force, and Lao Yang was later transferred to the Municipal Bureau because of this opportunity—but there was no progress, and there was no jiāo gathering among the few missing girls, except…”

When Luo Wenzhou said this, he suddenly remembered something, and his eyes fell on Chenchen, who was accustomed to listening intently while biting his drink. After a pause, he changed his voice bluntly: "Except for the kidnapper's modus operandi."

"Guo Fei's father took a long-term leave without pay after hearing about it, and went to the city to wait for a result from the task force, but he was disappointed in the end." Tao Ran cherished the old detective's notebook and put it into paper Put it away in the box, "Later the task force also disbanded, and those who are still thinking about this case are the victims' family members and my master who handled it from the very beginning. After another six months, Guo Heng suddenly found Master, Said that he had found the suspect, a teacher named Wu Guangchuan - the person in the portrait, Wu Guangchuan was a teacher of 'Jinxiu Middle School', the earliest private junior high school at that time, boarding system, recruiting students from the whole city, high tuition and teaching The quality is high, and many parents in the outer suburban counties feel that the local middle school is not good, so they send their children to Jinxiu. When Guo Fei disappeared, Wu Guangchuan happened to be in the recruitment team of Jinxiu Middle School and went to the Lianhuashan area."

Chang Ning held his breath: "Is that him?"

"Wu Guangchuan was thirty-six years old and lived alone. He did have the conditions to commit a crime. Lao Yang followed him in private and used some illegal methods, but nothing was found. This Wu Guangchuan has a mild temper and is well-liked. , is a well-known and good person. He often contacts children at work, and has never crossed the line. Lao Yang followed him for a while and felt that it was not him, but Guo Heng was like a ghost, and he determined that Wu Guangchuan was the kidnapper. Later, Lao Yang withdrew. Now, Guo Heng went to Wu Guangchuan with a watermelon knife and stabbed him."

Lang Qiao said "Ah", "Dead?"

"Well, I'm exhausted after pulling it to the hospital. They found the seventh missing girl in Wu Guangchuan's basement, as well as the clothes of the previous six girls - the clothes were all cut into strips, with and a few clothes on them. The bloodstains of the victim's blood type match. The serial child kidnapping case of the year was just broken, but the clothes were there, but no one could be found, no dead or dead, no evidence of the suspect's death." Luo Wenzhou stood up and stretched. " Guo Heng was convicted of intentional homicide, and he was also sentenced. This matter was always in Lao Yang's heart, he always felt that his own misjudgment led to the tragedy that followed, and he talked about it for a lifetime - not to mention this, the suspect's bones and scum are cold. Have a meal."

Everyone was noisy at Tao Ran's house until the afternoon. Those who came by taxi and subway dispersed, and those who drove by themselves stayed to help Tao Ran clean up his new home. By the way, he sobered up. Chang Ning and Chenchen also went home.

Tao then came and was poured a few more cups. He couldn't stand when he was washing the dishes, and he was "broken and safe" and was driven away by Luo Wenzhou.

Team Luo washed the piles of dishes and bowls three times, five times by two, and when they returned to the living room, they saw Fei Du with his back to him, flipping through the old detective's notes one by one.

He seemed to have eyes growing behind his back, and said to Luo Wenzhou, "Did you just say one thing less, that the missing girls must have something in common—is it clothes?"

Luo Wenzhou leaned against the wall in the hall, and laughed dumbly: "How do you know, you won't be the reincarnation of the murderer, right?"

"You glanced at Chenchen, then swallowed the words," Fei Du turned around, "The clothes found in Wu Guangchuan's basement, shouldn't they be all floral dresses?"

As soon as Luo Wenzhou saw him, he thought of the unfortunate game console, and avoided his gaze a little uncomfortably: "You can teach your child to guard against strangers and be more vigilant, but you can't make her afraid of wearing a floral dress, or we will be stubborn. For what?"

"Well," Fei Du nodded lightly, "Captain Luo is right."

It was rare for Luo Wenzhou to hear a few good words from his mouth, and his liver trembled when he nodded. Sure enough, the next second, his ominous premonition came true.

Fei Du asked quietly, "Apart from Little White Flower and the game console...what else?"