Chapter 1211: Disappearing Signal

"We have plenty of construction teams in Ningtai County. I haven't heard that installing equipment in Ningtai requires extra fees. How expensive is labor in Beijing? By the time you get to our Ningtai County, one-third of the wages is enough... If you need technicians, just send a few. To be honest, you are going to install one-way glass, not asking you to go to Ningtai to produce it. If you want to add money, just change people."

Huang Qiangmin's voice carried a sense of righteousness, as well as a reprimand from the client.

The man standing opposite, wearing a suit and carrying a Japanese-style leather bag, nodded and bowed, handing over a cigarette: "Yes, yes... this, if we can find suitable construction personnel in Ningtai County, then it really doesn't need to add money..."

"Whether you find them or not, don't add money. Stop telling me these things. If you don't want to do it, forget it. I'll find someone who is willing to do it myself..." Huang Qiangmin directly interrupted the other party's words.

"No... what I mean is..." The other party hissed, then lowered his voice and said: "Isn't there someone paying for you here? Since someone is footing the bill, I'll do it better for you. You won't spend more money either. Isn't that the best..."

"You heard a little news, but not much." Huang Qiangmin glanced at the man with the Japanese-style leather bag: "We are a counterpart support unit with the Zheng Guang Bureau. There is a total package figure for the Zheng Guang Bureau here. We used you. Although you are settling accounts with the Zheng Guang Bureau, what you are settling is the account within this total package. Understand?" Huang Qiangmin's voice actually dropped. As long as the price was negotiated, he didn't care so much about the attitude.

Knock, knock.

Liu Jinghui knocked on the door at this time and walked in.

"Alright, if you can sign the contract, hurry to Ningtai County. If it doesn't work today, I'll find someone else." Huang Qiangmin dismissed the man with the Japanese-style leather bag in one sentence, then turned to ask Liu Jinghui: "How is it? Do you need to use Jiang Yuan?"

"It's not necessarily a homicide, but if we really want to solve it, it might be better to use Jiang Yuan." Liu Jinghui said skillfully.

Huang Qiangmin scoffed: "What does 'better' count for? Or I'll hand this case over to you to handle alone, and I'll go chat with Captain Tao to get another case back."

"That won't work." Liu Jinghui flatly rejected: "I'm not saying I can't do this case independently, but if I do one case here and Jiang Yuan does another case independently, it won't be easy for the two sides to synchronize. When the one who finishes the case first is done, they can't just sit around waiting, right?"

Huang Qiangmin looked Liu Jinghui up and down: "Aren't you often sitting around waiting?"

Liu Jinghui blushed: "That's called a vacation."

"Alright, then do you want to do this case with Jiang Yuan? Or change to another case?" Huang Qiangmin pursued.

Liu Jinghui hesitated for a moment, then said slowly: "Let's do this one. In case it's a disappearance, finding the person back is also a good thing. It's more valuable than solving a homicide."

Huang Qiangmin's eyes flickered, and he just nodded, saying: "Then I'll tell Jiang Yuan."

A 30-year veteran criminal police officer, a 20-year criminal police detachment captain, had seen too many tragic things. Huang Qiangmin picked up his phone in an instant, dialed Tao Lu's number, changed his expression, and said: "Captain Tao, we'll take over the missing female college student case on your side. I've also finalized the renovation of the interrogation room with the construction party. Thank you..."

Conference room.

When Xiao Si came over with a thin stack of case files, he saw that the members of Jiang Yuan's Cold Case Task Force had basically arrived. The table was full of milk tea, and several familiar criminal police officers were eating duck necks seriously.

"Captain Jiang." Xiao Si found the main person, put down the case files, and said: "The information collected so far is not much. It stopped for two days before, and now there are no strong clues."

The reason for stopping was naturally because of the previous Avi Apartments case. This is also the drawback of the task force. Jiang Yuan and others originally wanted to solve cases on a small scale, but if they couldn't solve the case, they could only expand the scale of the task force. For a special case, the cases originally backlogged in the hands of the participating police officers naturally had to be pushed back.

Tang Jia stepped forward to receive the information and said on his behalf: "What was your previous line of thinking? Can it be done?"

"Before, I first checked the surveillance, but found nothing. Then I tried to contact the victim's mobile phone, then asked the school and students, then talked to the victim's family, and finally checked the victim's WeChat and commonly used software. None of them were logged in. Basically, that's as far as it went." Xiao Si described what he had done without adding or subtracting anything.

When this case was received, the police officer in charge was Xiao Si. He had to prove it was a case before more resources would follow. To a certain extent, Jiang Yuan could be considered the additional resource Xiao Si added for himself.

"The last confirmed location of the surveillance was near Jinshan?" Jiang Yuan flipped through the case files. There were only a few sheets of paper inside, and he finished reading them quickly.

Xiao Si responded and said: "The victim first took the subway, then rode a shared bike to the foot of the mountain. There is very little surveillance here, and later, no one could be found."

"Mobile phone signal, at what time did it disappear?" Liu Jinghui sat down next to Jiang Yuan.

"4 hours after the victim left the subway station." Xiao Si said.

"That's a long time." Liu Jinghui sighed and said: "It shows that the case might have developed gradually, not in a very intense state. This is a good thing, indicating that the probability of the victim surviving is relatively high, unlike the situation where they die all of a sudden... Not necessarily, could it be a traffic accident? Have you investigated from this direction?"

"Asked the traffic police brigade, there was no record of police dispatch nearby that day. More than that, they couldn't say anything." Xiao Si answered quickly, with a state of recollection.

Liu Jinghui hesitated for a moment, then said: "The mobile phone is a very important clue. Has the location where the mobile phone signal disappeared been searched?"

"I went there once. It was on the side of the road under the mountain, a distance away from the entrance of Jinshan. There are mountain roads nearby, which are not easy to walk. We walked up a bit, but didn't find any traces."

"Checked very carefully." Liu Jinghui couldn't help but comment. This is also his experience of handling cases outside often. Giving two more good words is always good.

Xiao Si smiled and sat down.

Liu Jinghui pondered for a moment, looked at Jiang Yuan, and said: "As far as the current situation is concerned, surveillance is still the most important. From the time the victim left the subway station to the 4 hours when the mobile phone signal disappeared, the closer, the better."

"I'll try. See how far I can check." Jiang Yuan had already seen the distribution map of local surveillance. The area leaving the subway station had the most, but there were fewer and fewer on the way to Jinshan, and there was more surveillance again only in front of the mountain gate of Jinshan. This distribution was naturally very unfriendly to image investigation.

Moreover, as far as the case Xiao Si handled was concerned, the resources invested in image investigation were obviously not much. Let alone checking the surveillance within 4 hours, the steps of collecting surveillance probably hadn't been completed.

Drawing on the experience of the previous case, handling small cases, the difficulty is not necessarily smaller than big cases. Jiang Yuan simply said: "I'll take people to the scene to see first, then collect surveillance videos back, and then look?"

"Can." Liu Jinghui originally wanted Jiang Yuan to use a dragon's breath to wash the ground first. Only the white ground burned by the big fire could show where the problem was.

Having made the decision, Jiang Yuan didn't delay any longer. He pointed to three cars of people and headed to Jinshan.

Xiao Si, Cui Qishan, and others drove another car and followed behind.

The motorcade flashed its lights all the way and ran fast.

When they arrived at the place, Jiang Yuan didn't need to give orders. Wang Chuanxing and others directed each team to start drawing lines and taking pictures according to the rules, and then went to the surroundings to find and record various cameras.

Jiang Yuan followed the information organized before, rented a shared bike at the entrance of the subway station, and rode all the way along the route of the missing girl.

The last image left by the missing girl was at an intersection two kilometers away from the subway station, and she continued to go east.

At this time, the sun was scorching. There were only a few small shops around. Along the road were Jinshan Electromechanical Parts Company, Changxing Pipe Industry Co., Ltd., Zhengke Cabinet Company, Miaomiao Decoration Co., Ltd...

People had already gone to the companies along the way to collect surveillance videos. If they could find the traces of the missing girl, maybe they could have new clues.

Jiang Yuan rode and looked, reached the main gate of Jinshan at a slower speed, and looked at the time. Only 20 minutes had passed.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1212 =====