That night, the siblings, Dai Xiaowen and Dai Xiaoman, were detained in the Nancheng Bureau and interrogated overnight.

Dai Xiaowen was reluctant to speak at first, Song Wen could see that the child wanted to protect the organization he belonged to, until the boy confirmed that Dai Xiaoman was indeed here.

After a brief meeting between the siblings, Dai Xiaowen finally began to cooperate and confessed various situations.

Lu Siyu and Song Wen didn't go back at night, so they dealt with it in the duty room and simply slept for a while.

After a night of summarization and continuous interrogation by several personnel, all kinds of information have been gathered together.

What is now certain is that the person behind these children is called Yu Niangniang. She issues orders through the management of so-called aunts and uncles, and also receives orders.

Boys and girls are separated, and each separation site has a distinct hierarchy, and someone takes care of the children's lives.

They rely on renting and selling manpower for income, and the usual theft, begging, buying and selling, etc., are enough to pay off.

Rabbit holes for raising children have existed in Nancheng for a long time, but because the children live in the old neighborhoods around the city and are very vigilant to change their residences in time, even if one of them is discovered, it will not affect the others. normal operation.

Dai Xiaowen and Dai Xiaoman wrote down the addresses and the corresponding times of the two people's previous residences respectively. Since some of them have been around for a long time, they can only write a rough outline. Once they were in the same community, but in different buildings.

Ye Zheng marked all the places they had rented, and made a data model to determine that those rabbit holes were in an area south of Nancheng, and some were close to the subway line, which was convenient for transportation.

Among the many neighborhoods in the south of Nancheng on the map, stars are lit up.

Some are greyed out, indicating abandoned sites.

One of them marked with an asterisk is the place where Dai Xiaowen lived recently, but it is possible that the children had received news last night and moved out overnight.

Several team members who fought all night were waiting for Song Wen to decide what to do next.

Xu Youyou even raised her head and asked, "Head, what should I do now?"

Du Yong asked: "Do we need to notify the community and the nearby branch for investigation?"

"These communities are old communities with poor security and prevention." Song Wen looked at the map and frowned, "It's meaningless to us to find one or two."

Didn't sleep well last night, Lu Siyu looked at the map with energy, and whispered: "Our actions are definitely not as fast as the other party's news, even if there are no ghosts in the police station now, it is difficult to prevent and investigate. Information leaked in the process.”

Now that they have caught Dai Xiaoman and Dai Xiaowen's sister and brother, the other party probably has discovered that something is wrong and is trying to find a way to transfer it.

If there is a new action at this time, it will only start the investigation. Once the investigation is started, the opponent will quickly dormant, like a swimming fish scattered, sinking to the bottom of the water.

When they try to arrest the rest, it will be even more difficult.

Song Wen stood up, leaned against the desk, supported his chin with his right hand, and said, "We have to think of a safe way to uproot these rabbit holes at the same time."

Ye Zheng turned the pen in his hand: "This is too difficult, the main culprit has not been determined, and we can't get all the addresses. How can we get the list and respond quickly to find these places together?"

Song Wen looked at the map projected on the wall and focused his thoughts. He leaned down and narrowed his eyes slightly to look at the area: "There must be some methods we haven't thought of yet..."

Those children, there may be dozens to hundreds of people, they are mixed among the millions of people in this city, they are like tiny iron sand, and they are inconspicuous.

They haven't found the magnet to screen them all out.

Du Yong sighed: "I think the fact that Yu Niangniang's gang can keep those children for so many years without being discovered is very miraculous in itself."

Ye Zheng played with the electronic pen in his hand and said, "In this magical age, the more bizarre things are, the more likely they are to be realized."

Xu Youyou agreed: "How many people are there in the anti-trafficking agency, Niangniang is so cunning, and they are so vigilant, there are various sources, maybe they even bribed the officials, how is it so easy to get caught? arrived."

Lu Siyu lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then rubbed his temples with his fingers: "I think we can consider how to start from the point of view of Niangniang."

Thinking about problems from the perpetrator's point of view, speculating on the perpetrator's psychology, and unlocking the code of the case, this is what he has always been good at. While the current situation is not a criminal case, the same applies.

As long as there is a criminal, there is a motive for the crime, the method of the crime, and the steps of the crime.

Especially for such a large and multi-year operation.

Lu Siyu opened his eyes, licked his lips and continued: "If it were me, I would choose these rabbit holes in the same area, not too far apart."

Song Wen nodded in agreement: "In order to facilitate management, take care of each other."

Lu Siyu's expression became more serious, and he continued to reason: "Those aunties and uncles should have employment relationship with Yu Niangniang, she will choose those who are not clean, maybe even have a criminal record and are difficult to find a job. education and care."

This is inferred from the testimony at hand, and in the descriptions of Dai Xiaoman and Dai Xiaowen, those people have some common characteristics.

These people who others dare not hire are safe and loyal to Niangniang Yu. Because of their background, because of some of their characteristics, they can guide the children in the direction she needs.

Those released after serving their sentences have their own network of connections and special communication channels.

Afterwards, Niangniang Yu put the innocent children into the valley of evil people carefully created by herself, and accepted the enlightenment of evil.

Ye Zheng was also inspired and continued: "Each child will have different directions and different mentors according to their specialties."

Those who teach beautiful women need Mom Sang, those who teach thieves need more skilled thieves, and those who teach dead men may be desperadoes who are not afraid of life and death.

And besides being able to find a job here, it is difficult for these people to get such a good life after going out. Naturally, would be grateful to this fish lady. After a long period of brainwashing and cultivation, those children became people who could serve them on errands.

Other...what else?

Lu Siyu closed his eyes again, and put his thumb nail to his mouth habitually. With so many children and so many people, how many or ten of these rabbit holes will there be in the city?

The children come from a variety of backgrounds. They were trafficked, runaways, homeless like Dai Xiaoman and the others. They lived together.

They are undoubtedly afraid of being discovered, because those children have no identity. After each one is caught, although they can't confess anything, they will cause losses and certain threats to them, and will also attract the attention of others. A single crackdown could ruin years of hard work.

They are very discreet, and the children's place of residence and the partner they live with are frequently changed.

Except for Yu Niangniang, the people in charge below may not know all the hidden locations.

Only that woman can control the whole situation.

Children need life, they buy things for children, clothing, bed sheets, hygiene products, household items and...

Lu Siyu suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Song Wen: "I thought about it a bit, but I haven't responded yet."

Song Wen's heart moved: "What is it?"

Lu Siyu said: "Food, children's food..."

This is extremely important to Lu Siyu, and it is also extremely important to everyone.

Housing can be changed, people can be sealed, and many things are not so urgent.

Only food, so many children, so many people, need to eat every day.

Song Wen immediately understood: "Their living places are scattered. There are several children in each residence, and the living environment is an old private house. Such a room is not suitable for daily purchases and cooking."

Ye Zheng also came to understand: "The children should eat takeaway every day! But they certainly can't be found separately from outside stores, so ordering large quantities of food and sending it to private houses will arouse suspicion from others..."

Song Wen continued: "Then...they must have a central kitchen, or a fixed place for ordering meals. It is safest to send someone to pick up meals every day! Once we search and locate the food delivered by the restaurant , you can know all the locations.”

In other words, in fact, those seemingly hidden rabbit holes are actually connected by dark lines.

Xu Youyou became excited when she heard it: "It's really clever! Then let's ask Dai Xiaoman and Dai Xiaowen to see if they know which restaurant they ate in the past."

After analyzing this way, they finally found a feasible direction. The problem seems difficult, but in fact it is just a different angle of consideration. Find a solution to the problem and everything will become easier.

Five minutes later, Xu Youyou and Du Yong came out of the interrogation room: "I've asked, they have someone to pick up the meal every day for dinner, the plastic bag and the lunch box say Shi Dewang, and for several years, it has always been, never It's never been replaced!"

This answer should correct Lu Siyu's reasoning.

The owner of Shi Dewang, Xu Dewang, was immediately called to the city bureau. It was a thin, 58-year-old old man. He seemed honest and didn’t talk much. He admitted everything when asked.

Xu Dewang still remembered that it was an ordinary winter night ten years ago.

At that time, his storefront was still very small. When the store was proofed and the door was locked, there were two children squatting at the door. One of the children raised his head and asked him, "Uncle, do you have any leftover food for sale here? We I haven't eaten in days."

There were little tears in the child's eyes, like stars in the sky.

Xu Dewang looked at the two thinly-clothed and shrunken children, and for a moment softened his heart and called them in. The temperature was close to zero, but in order to save electricity, the air conditioner was turned off early in his small restaurant, and he only turned on a dim yellow light to illuminate the entire humble store. There was still some rice left in the business during the day, so he added two eggs and made an egg fried rice for the children.

When the food first came, the children did not dare to eat it, but looked at him.

"Uncle, we don't have that much money."

"It's okay, I don't need money for this meal, I invite you."

The children devoured it.

After the meal, the children seemed to warm up, and one child said, "Uncle, this is the best meal I have ever eaten."

"Oh, it's a pity that this restaurant may not be open for too long..." Xu Dewang looked at the unfamiliar child, and suddenly had a kind of narcissism. The location here is biased. This small restaurant often cannot make ends meet. I am alone, busy and busy, and maybe I will return to my hometown with my family soon to make a living.

After the two children listened to him silently, Xu Dewang kindly packed the rest of the meal for them to eat tomorrow, and finally gave them twenty dollars.

The kid told him, "Uncle, you are a good person, and a good person will be rewarded."

Xu Dewang didn't take what happened that night to his heart, and since then, he has never seen those two children again.

Three months later, just a few days before he decided to give up the small restaurant and return to his hometown, a mysterious woman suddenly appeared.

The woman was nearly forty years old, with a graceful figure and luxurious clothes, which was incompatible with this humble small restaurant. It was the woman who ordered eight meals from here at one time.

Later, women became frequent visitors here, day and night, no matter whether it was hot or cold, without interruption. More and more food is ordered, and later, the woman will not come in person, but let some other people come to pick up the food, they will order the first day and come the next day.

Xu Dewang's business is getting better and better. He used the money he earned to heal his wife, and his rebellious daughter finally returned home to help her parents. He modified the storefront and expanded the storefront.

Probably it is really good people who have good rewards, and their blessings are finally here.

Now, it has been ten years, and these ten years are like a dream.

Xu Dewang retracted his thoughts, raised his head and looked at the policeman in front of him, "...they have ordered meals from me for ten years, from the first few meals to the later one hundred and twenty meals at the peak, now nearly 100 servings of food.”

"Why did they choose your store?"

Xu Dewang shook his head blankly.

"Do you know who the other party is?"

Xu Dewang shook his head again: "I don't know, I own a small restaurant... As long as they give money, I will sell it."

"Do you remember what that woman looked like?"

"It's been too long, I can't remember."

"How is the money settled?"

"The meal is ordered the day before, and when the meal is picked up, it is settled in cash. Sometimes the money is scattered and there is a lot of change."

"Where will that food go?"

Xu Dewang continued to shake his head: "I don't know... There are special people who come to pick it up by myself. I was also curious. But the other party didn't want to say too much. At first, it was only led by one person, but later it became a few people who came to pick it up and send Go somewhere different."

"These foods may be related to a major case of child abduction. Our police hope that you will cooperate with the investigation." The young and capable police officer in front of him said.

Xu Dewang was a little caught off guard. Are those who ordered meals for so long, so they were bad people?

He thought of the woman, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.

Then he regretted that if the biggest customer was gone, there would be no need for the small restaurant to open. He had accumulated some money over the years, and he might have to go back to retire.

Now that things have developed, this is not just a matter that the criminal investigation team can handle.

Song Wen reported it to Bureau Gu, who attached great importance to the matter, and it soon became a major operation of the Criminal Investigation and Anti-Trafficking Office. Bureau Gu even called in a lot of police officers in charge of public security.

The members of the task force made several plans in order to act foolproof.

The specific action was planned for the night a few days later, that is, the day of the frost in the lunar solar term, and it was named Operation Frost.

In order to avoid leaks, this time, did not tell the grassroots criminal police and police officers who participated in the action the real purpose of the action.

The city bureau mobilized the materials, and they processed the disposable tableware in Xu Dewang's restaurant. There were a total of 98 disposable tableware. All the tableware was added with a compartment at the bottom, and a miniature locator was pasted in the compartment.

The entire school of fish will come to the surface, with nowhere to hide.

They are one step closer to Yu Niangniang's underground kingdom...