Chapter 46 Humbert Humbert thirteen

"Impossible, impossible!"

It was past midnight, and the administrative director of the Children's Palace was obviously picked up from his sleep. A pair of sleepy eyes were swollen to the brow bone, his shirt was buttoned up on his donkey's lips, and he was holding a pair of slippers under his feet: "How many children come in and out here all day long? The security is the strictest. Even parents have to register when they enter and leave. The surveillance is 360 degrees without dead ends. What are you kidding when you say there are traffickers here? I use my head to guarantee, Absolutely impossible! Unless the child lifts his legs and walks away, or aliens invade the earth, they will not be able to enter our school!"

"Vice Tao, we just turned on the tracking software on Zhang Yuchen's mobile phone remotely, and we have found the approximate location, near Baitao Lane!"

"Bai Tao Lane," Tao Ran was taken aback, "Why is it in Bai Tao Lane?"

Baitao Lane is about three stops away from the Children's Palace here. It is a famous small commodity distribution center in the city. Many online stores are open here, often all night long. There are wholesale clothes and small accessories sold by the catty. , Wholesalers of large and small bags are running around everywhere. If they are not careful, they will be pickpockets and liars. It is lively and chaotic.

For children who sneak out to play, Baitao Lane is too chaotic, and there is really no fun. For perverts who abduct children, Baitao Lane is too crowded and the risk is too high.

Tao Ran pinched the bridge of his nose, "Hold on, let me think about it..."

Before he could finish his words, Chenchen's mother had already called the two detectives and rushed over: "Officer Tao, I heard, did you locate Chenchen's cell phone? Where is she?"

Lang Qiao, who came here in the middle of the night, hurried over and stopped her to comfort her in a low voice.

"I clearly told her, I tell her every day, pay attention to safety when you go out, don't walk with strangers, don't go to unfamiliar places, if you have any emergency, you must send a message to the adults at any time, I said I feel annoyed myself, if this mouth is made of iron, it has already worn away a layer..."

Chang Ning wiped away her tears with one hand and held her with the other: "Little aunt, don't do this."

As soon as Tao Ran saw Chang Ning wipe away his tears, his anxiety from three points rose to ten points: "Little Qiao'er, you stay here to investigate the surveillance video, you guys follow me to Baitao Lane."

The police car passed like a shooting star in the night, and the four wheels almost left the ground. The three-stop road had arrived in five or six minutes. The season was about to change. The first batch of autumn clothes was about to be put on the shelves. , the shoulder-to-shoulder buyers and sellers created a local urban heat island with their breath.

People shuttled through it, and in less than three or two minutes, sweat had already been squeezed out of his face.

Tao Ran looked around at a loss and asked the technician, "Can you narrow down the scope a bit?"

"Approaching the west exit of Baitao Lane," the technician's voice sounded in his earphones, "the other party hasn't found out that the phone is on yet, Deputy Tao, you have to hurry up."

Tao Ran gave a wink to a few of his subordinates, and several of them immediately split up in tacit understanding. They approached the west side of Baitao Alley from several directions. Tao Ran took off his legs and ran out, his eyes swept over everyone who passed by him. . Garbage trucks, small trucks, one-person-high cargo bags... All the places where people might be hiding were not overlooked, and they were searched one by one. Although no one sounded the siren, this one was quickly searched. The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Suddenly, a technician's warning came from Tao Ran's earphone: "Tao Fu, the other party found something abnormal and shut down!"

Tao Ran's tense eyes swept around subconsciously, and landed right next to a large trash can. A thin man raised his head inadvertently. The two just looked at each other. The man paused for a second, and then saw Tao Ran clearly. uniform, dropped something in his hand, and ran away.

The thing he dropped was a white mobile phone with a mess of stickers on the back.

Tao Ran's pupils shrank: "Stop!"

A wholesaler just happened to be pushing a small truck past. The man was familiar with the road, and stepped on the side of the truck like a monkey. Amidst the screams of the woman pushing the cart, the clothes on the cart fell to the ground like a landslide. A nearby "e-donkey", which was struggling to move, hurriedly braked to avoid the thing that rolled under the wheel, and cursed.

In the chaos, the man stepped over the guardrail on the street, turned over, and was about to cross the road. A tall policeman suddenly appeared from a small intersection next to him, as if he was catching a little jī. Grabbing the back of his neck, twisting it with a backhand, he pushed him to the ground. Tao Ran turned around and picked up the white mobile phone that had been thrown aside, and turned it on again. The desktop was Chenchen's cat face selfie.

He let out a long sigh and strode to the man who had been controlled: "Where's the man?"

The man bruised his nose when he was thrown down and raised his head colorfully, he showed a cry of pleading to Tao Ran: "I, I, I was wrong, the government, this time I promise to make amends, and then I don't care anymore... ouch... hiss... you, you lighten..."

Tao Ran grabbed him by the collar: "Where's the girl?"

"what?"

At this time, Luo Wenzhou had already driven to the entrance of the Children's Palace.

Lang Qiao saw the familiar license plate at a glance, and rushed over in three steps: "Boss!"

"What's the matter, what about Tao Ran?" Luo Wenzhou said, then turned back and waved into the car, "You sit in the car first."

The people in the car didn't listen to him and walked down with one arm dangling.

Lang Qiao couldn't help but be stunned: "Yo, President Fei, why do you still have 'armor on your body'?"

"Small accident," Fei Du looked up at the buildings near the Children's Palace, "Is there any news?"

Before Lang Qiao could answer, a screaming police car stopped at the entrance of the Children's Palace. Tao Ran and a few detectives got out of the car with serious expressions.

Seeing Luo Wenzhou's questioning gaze, Tao Ran shook his head: "Chenchen's cell phone was stolen, an old fritter, a habitual criminal, just released from the detention center, he said that a girl was tying her shoelaces on the side of the road with her cell phone beside it. On the stone flowerbed of the house, after tying her shoelaces, she left by herself, leaving her phone there, so he just 'picked it up'."

Luo Wenzhou: "Which street? When did you steal it?"

"It should be near the Children's Palace..." Tao Ran stroked his hair and frowned, "The boy found seven or eight mobile phones ready to be used, all of which are the results of today's day, the specific time. He can't even tell where."

"Brother," Fei Du asked from the side, "what are you panicking about, what's wrong?"

"I asked Chang Ning, Chenchen was wearing a floral dress today." Tao Ran's face was ugly, and his voice was fast and urgent, "If it's true... the murderer kidnapped two children in a row within five days, this frequency is too high. If it's high, it means that Qu Tong is already 100%... Chenchen was kidnapped around five o'clock, and it has been more than seven hours now, and it is very likely..."

"Shh—" Fei Du patted his arm, "You calm down."

"What's wrong with me?" Tao Ran smiled bitterly, "I'm not the child's parent—I haven't dared to mention these speculations to Chenchen's family... The suspicious person you told me last time was an old man, right? sure?"

"I'm not sure, it's too far away," Fei Du said, "Chenchen is a sensitive girl. The last time I warned her to be safe, I scared her, so I shouldn't forget it so quickly, including old people and acquaintances. Inside, I believe she will not be defenseless, even if someone tricks her out, she will not forget to send a message to her family."

"Vice Tao, the child was found in the studio surveillance!"

Tao Ran turned around abruptly, and just as he was about to lift his legs to walk away, Luo Wenzhou pressed his shoulders: "Give it to me, you are responsible for talking to the parents of the little girl to see if there is any abnormality in the child recently, whether the parents have offended anyone or their family. How about the relationship - we can't miss any possibility."

Fei Du leaned aside: "Do you need my help?"

Luo Wenzhou hesitated for a moment: "What are you talking about?"

Fei Du replied shamelessly, "I count as a group of relatives and friends."

Luo Wenzhou stretched out a finger and gave him a slight warning, but he still didn't say let him cool off.

The monitoring of the studio is very clear. At about 4:30, the other children were picked up by their parents one after another. Chenchen sat alone in the classroom, flipping through the picture album left by the teacher, looking out the window from time to time. In ten minutes, she stared at the window for more than five minutes.

Luo Wenzhou wondered, "What is she looking at?"

Lang Qiao: "Mirror."

Luo Wenzhou looked puzzled.

"The little girl uses the glass window as a mirror, she just needs to turn her head to see the scenery, she doesn't need to turn her whole body to get close, she even curled the ends of her hair with a ballpoint pen," Lang Qiao said, "Every girl understands... Huh? "

When she lost her voice, she saw Chenchen suddenly sitting up straight, leaving the chair slightly, suddenly smiling, standing up and quickly packing up and running - the record in the corner showed that the time was around 4:40.

Luo Wenzhou immediately raised his eyes to see where the studio was. The window was facing the cao field.

The surveillance cameras on the building closest to the cao field were also quickly called up, and Chenchen could be seen running out of the teaching building very quickly, towards the group of children gathered on the cao field. The camera was a little far away, and only her Stayed in the group of children for a while, then walked to the blind spot with a few of the girls, and quickly left the scope of the camera.

Judging from the scene, the direction they went should be a row of red buildings in the northwest corner of the Children's Palace.

"What's the situation?" Luo Wenzhou frowned and asked, "Didn't the person in charge say that there are no dead ends in the park?"

"The row of red houses in the northwest corner is a public toilet, and there are no cameras."

"Then why don't you tell me sooner! Determine the identities of the children on the surveillance video and ask them immediately—bring the map here."

There is a small park in the northwest corner of the Children's Palace. The management is very sparse. The rough flat in the outer circle has been trampled by residents walking in a mess. Footprints and dog shit complement each other. No one goes in the depths. The rough wood is growing like a mosquito bomber. In place, flashlights and dogs bark one after another.

Fei Du listened thoughtfully to Tao Ran's conversation with Chenchen's father.

"I arrived at about 5:5, and I told her... I called at the door first, I heard it was turned off, I thought it was out of power, so I checked in at the doorman and looked for it - but there was nothing in the classroom, I didn't expect her to be lost at the time. This is the Children's Palace, and it's no different from the school. I thought she was going to the toilet or running somewhere... I was quite angry and waited in their studio for a while, until the security had started. I checked the doors and windows one by one and the lights were about to be turned off, so I was a little panicked, I asked around again, and asked the female teacher to help me find someone in the bathroom..."

Chenchen's mother grabbed his shoulder and burst into tears: "Is she that kind of child? She knew that the adults were waiting for her, and she ran out without saying a word... Ah? Is there a father like you? Think about blaming my daughter first, if something happens to the child, I…”

Chenchen's father was staggered by her pull, and kept his mouth shut, Tao Ran and Chang Ning hurriedly separated them from left to right.

Fei Du suddenly asked, "It is said that the child tracking system on the mobile phone can be turned on and off remotely. The police officers should have located Chenchen's mobile phone just now. Why didn't you remember to turn on her mobile phone?"

"I figured it out," Chenchen's father showed a watch that was about to collapse, and desperately held back, gasping in extreme depression, "but I didn't know what was wrong with the software at the time, and kept telling me that the remote service connection failed. I'm not used to this..."

"Chenchen's cell phone was found," Tao Ran said, "at least half of the battery is still there. It should have been stolen by a pickpocket when you called for the first time. Could it be that the child found out that the cell phone was lost and went out on his own? Find?"

"The risk of burglary in the Children's Palace is too great," Fei Du shook his head, "Maybe the sex is not high, it must be because she left the campus for some reason, it took more than half an hour from the end of get out of class to the time agreed with you. , she buys snacks in the surrounding small shops, plays with her classmates... It is possible, but she usually does not leave within one kilometer of the surrounding area, so as long as she receives your call, she can immediately return to the entrance of the Children's Palace - home teacher What if something was stolen from her outside?"

"Teached," Chang Ning glanced at Tao Ran and said softly, "I was joking with her a few days ago, saying that I could call Brother Tao Ran if something happened in the future. She knew how to call the police, but she didn't know how to go back to school to find the security guard. ."

Tao Ran patted the back of her hand, gave her a consoling look, and said softly, "The Children's Palace is surrounded by downtown areas. It was rush hour, so it should be safer, except for the small park in the northwest corner..."

"No," Chang Ning grabbed his wrist as if seeking solace, "Chenchen is very timid, she doesn't dare to sleep alone after reading suspense stories, she can't run to a place where no one is alone!"

Fei Du suddenly said, "What if it wasn't me, but with my classmates?"

Several people looked at him blankly.

Fei Du walked up to Chenchen's father: "When was the first time you tried to open her phone remotely?"

"Six o'clock... It's past six," Chenchen's father said. "It was her teacher who reminded me."

Fei Du: "How did you do it at that time, can you show me?"

"Boss, just now the teacher over there helped to contact the children under surveillance!" Lang Qiao pushed aside a cluster of branches in front of him, and hurried to catch up with Luo Wenzhou, "They went to the bathroom to change clothes, and then went together again. I went to the small park to take pictures."

"Take pictures?"

"There was a child in a photography class who wanted to do homework, and asked a few girls to be models. Some of the children also brought special clothes for taking pictures. After a while, Zhang Yuchen wanted to go back to the Children's Palace, and they were at the entrance of the park. After disbanding, no one knows where Zhang Yuchen went."

Luo Wenzhou took a deep breath—broken.

If Chenchen found out that her mobile phone was gone after parting with her friends, the child's first reaction was to land in the place where the photo was taken, and she would go back to a small park that was inaccessible - but that small park was not a street, what happened after that, I'm afraid it will be difficult to trace.

Lang Qiao: "Boss, what should I do?"

Luo Wenzhou pondered for a moment, then took out his mobile phone and called the person in charge of tracking Xu Wenchao.

"Report on Xu Wenchao's movements today."

"Xu Wenchao copied the dash cam to Deputy Tao. He left our bureau at 5:40. He drove himself to a fast food restaurant for 20 minutes, packed it up and went home, but he didn't move after that."

Luo Wenzhou asked in a low voice, "Are you sure he's been home?"

"Sure, he didn't draw the curtains, and he was in the study all the time, and he never left our field of vision-what's the matter, boss?"

"Boss, either we suspect the wrong person," Lang Qiao said, "or this case has nothing to do with Qu Tong's disappearance - I'm really surprised, how come there are so many perverts in the world?"

Before Luo Wenzhou could speak, the phone rang, and the caller ID was "troublesome".

"how?"

"It's troublesome," the gentleman said calmly over there: "The thief didn't steal the mobile phone from Chenchen. He justified his quibble. It was indeed the girl who took the mobile phone and 'forgot' it there."

Luo Wenzhou immediately asked back, "How do you know?"

"Mr. Zhang tried to remotely open the child's mobile phone at around six o'clock, but the remote failed. I think his cao operation is fine. In this situation, either one of the two of them had no signal at the time, or it was the child. The battery of my mobile phone was pulled out." Fei Du paused slightly, "There is no need for a thief to pull out and install the battery, and he may not know what software is on the phone, there is only one possibility I can think of— One of those children took advantage of Chenchen's time to change clothes or pose, and hid her mobile phone. After Chenchen found out, she suggested that she go back to the small park to find her, and volunteered to accompany her there."

She would naturally trust her friend and tell them that she has a remote system on her phone.

"You mean a child—probably a girl who planned this." Luo Wenzhou gasped, "Not only did he kidnap friends, but he also deliberately threw out the victim's cell phone to confuse the public? This is too… …”

Fei Du smiled softly with an inexplicable meaning.

Luo Wenzhou suddenly remembered the boy with gloomy and cold eyes back then, and swallowed the following words.

"Why do you think in this direction?"

"Because I warned her to be careful with adults, familiar, unfamiliar, men and women, and even old people," Fei Du said. "The only thing I didn't say was the same child as her."

Why can't it be a child?

The little girls in their early ten years, like flowers and bones, beautiful and squeamish, ignorant and fragile, the whole world regards them as potential victims, as if they lack soul and wisdom, and it is too late to take care of them. How can they suspect that they will also commit crimes?

Luo Wenzhou hung up Fei Du's phone and turned to Lang Qiao: "When Teacher of the Children's Palace called just now, was there any call that wasn't picked up by the parents in the first place?"

When Lang Qiao grabbed the murderer with his bare hands, he never showed such a terrifying expression: "Okay...it seems like there is one..."