Chapter 1212: Traces

"Officer Xiao, Officer Xiao..."

As the group returned to the Criminal Police Detachment, a couple in the lobby stood up and shouted loudly for Xiao Si.

Cui Qishan's face darkened, and he whispered: "Are they the victim's family? Why weren't they taken to the interview room?"

"I'll talk to them." Xiao Si was used to being scolded. He went through the crowd, stopped the couple, and said: "You can just call me if you have anything. Let's go inside. There are people coming and going here, which affects others."

The couple didn't move. The woman grabbed Xiao Si's hand and said: "Officer Xiao, we heard that there is a very powerful detective who took my daughter's case, is that right?"

Xiao Si hesitated for a moment and asked back: "Where do you get your news every day?"

The man opposite stood out, grabbed Xiao Si's other hand, and said: "Friends pity me, let me send over any information or clues... Officer Xiao, I've worked for a lifetime, I don't have any great skills, but I am also a business backbone in the factory. I have participated in and organized technical breakthroughs many times. I might not be as good as many peers, but I have also worked 996, and I have also slept on a folding bed, staying up all night in the factory. I responded to the country's call and only had one child... My daughter just grew up, and now she's gone... Officer Xiao, Officer Xiao..."

He clearly had a lot to say, but as he spoke, he choked up and couldn't say anything more.

Xiao Si sighed softly: "I understand, we are also trying our best to find her."

"Officer Xiao, I want to see that very powerful Officer Jiang." The woman gripped Xiao Si's hand tightly and said: "I don't mean anything else. We want to tell him about our daughter's situation. Our daughter is the very lively type; it's absolutely impossible for her to run away secretly, and even more impossible for her to commit suicide secretly... It's also impossible for her to elope with someone. I often talk to my daughter, often telling her that if she has a boyfriend, just tell me, it doesn't matter what kind he is. She called me the day before she went missing. Someone must have grabbed her, that's why she went missing..."

When Xiao Si heard this, he knew that someone had indeed pointed them in the right direction.

For this type of missing person case, what the police fear most is mobilizing the masses, only to find out that it's the victim playing house. Outsiders might feel it doesn't matter, as long as the person is really okay. But the leaders of the police station won't think so. At the very least, they will judge that the criminal police officer in charge has substandard professional skills and can't even tell the difference between a real case and a fake one.

What the victim's mother expressed at this time was the meaning that this case was real.

Of course, Jiang Yuan's intervention was already confirming that the case was real. This showed from another aspect that the channel through which the two obtained information was not the task force.

Since it wasn't the task force, Xiao Si didn't care. Since ancient times, things in Beijing couldn't be investigated deeply.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the interview room and tell you in detail." Xiao Si definitely couldn't chat with them in the lobby.

The two looked behind Xiao Si.

When the group entered the door just now, Xiao Si was following at the end of the team as a small fry, and the person at the front of the team was most likely the leader.

The victim's mother paid attention to Jiang Yuan's height, suddenly let go of Xiao Si's hand, and ran toward Jiang Yuan.

Xiao Si blocked her, but was pulled by the victim's father. Then, he saw the victim's mother kneel in front of Jiang Yuan without hesitation.

"Officer Jiang. My daughter is really missing!" The victim's mother grabbed Jiang Yuan's pants and started crying. The first two sounds were hard cries, but immediately after, tears gushed out uncontrollably.

Her only daughter had been missing for more than a week, life or death unknown, and the police's feedback was also ambiguous. She had searched all her relatives and friends around her, and could only get some ambiguous news. This feeling of powerlessness, sadness, and fear had already crushed this woman. At this moment, she grabbed Jiang Yuan's pants as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, all her emotions released, crying wildly.

At this time, the police officers passing through the lobby couldn't help but look over.

Cui Qishan came over a bit worriedly and said: "Director..."

He didn't even call Jiang Yuan's surname, thinking of taking the victim's family away first. Those who have been criminal police for a long time are actually not very willing to contact the victim's family. From an emotional point of view, the victim's negative emotions are too intense and can easily crush the criminal police's defenses. From a realistic point of view, the result expected by the victim is likely to be unachievable, and the criminal police themselves might be implicated.

Jiang Yuan was well protected by Huang Qiangmin and others, so he rarely encountered such situations. At this moment, he couldn't help but sigh long, pulled the victim's mother up, and said: "We have already established a task force to formally investigate Yan Meixuan's disappearance."

Yan Meixuan's mother's crying stopped immediately, and she said with some hesitation: "Have... have you found any clues?"

"We are still investigating. The content discovered now cannot be told to you..." Jiang Yuan patted the victim's mother's hand, then turned to Tang Jia and said: "You take the two to the interview room to rest, and then take a statement from them, ask about Yan Meixuan's situation, and if there are any clues and evidence, record them."

The victim's father hurriedly came over at this time and said: "Jiang... Director Jiang, we want to tell you personally."

"That... alright." Jiang Yuan didn't object. He grew up eating food from a hundred families, and seeing the victim's mother cry like this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The interview room of the Zheng Guang Bureau was a coffee table, a set of sofas, and two single sofas, which was similar to the layout of many people's living rooms. This was also the implied joint of the interview room, which was to make the emotions of the interviewers more relaxed to facilitate the conversation. This was completely different from the stern atmosphere of the interrogation room.

Jiang Yuan poured water for the victim's parents separately, and then told them a few things about the current situation that could be said.

Actually, there wasn't much that could be said, but upon confirming that Jiang Yuan had formally started investigating the case, the victim's parents were already excited.

Jiang Yuan quickly shifted the topic and began to ask about the situation they knew.

Yan Meixuan's parents naturally knew everything.

Wang Chuanxing had to look at his watch frequently to remind the two to save time.

After a long time, Yan Meixuan's parents left reluctantly.

Jiang Yuan rubbed his face, stood up, and said: "Go back and watch the surveillance."

This look lasted until nightfall.

When Jiang Yuan pulled his gaze out of the screen, there weren't many people left in the conference room.

Liu Jinghui and Cui Qishan were both there. Liu Jinghui said first: "I let Wei Shiyan and the others go to rest first, and I'll call them over when there's work."

Without clues, there is no direction for investigation. Most of the members of the Cold Case Task Force had no tasks.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said: "Call Shen Yaowei up, call a few more people, and let them go collect surveillance videos from several places at night. I want to go to the scene again."

Jiang Yuan said as he drew several ranges on the map.

When Liu Jinghui saw it, the several circles Jiang Yuan drew just happened to wrap the location where the victim went missing. He couldn't help but ask: "Are you worried that you missed something? Actually, as far as the current situation is concerned, the probability of the victim leaving on her own is not high... Hey, you wouldn't be thinking of checking all the cars that passed by, would you? This workload is too big. The traffic in Beijing..."

"You say, if the victim didn't leave on her own, was she hijacked, or is she dead?" Jiang Yuan suddenly asked a question.

Liu Jinghui frowned slightly: "If we talk about motive, the victim's family is ordinary, and she didn't offend anyone. The possibility of being murdered is not high. On the contrary, the possibility of an accident, or encountering robbery and rape, is a bit higher."

"After robbery or rape, people won't go missing, unless they died by accident..." Jiang Yuan looked at Liu Jinghui.

The three options given by Liu Jinghui actually pointed to the same thing.

Jiang Yuan then asked: "Do you think the victim is dead?"

"Dying is not necessarily worse than being alive." Liu Jinghui didn't give a direct answer, turned his head, and said: "You've been watching for so long, haven't you seen anyone else?"

"No."

"Then it's very likely that she's dead." Liu Jinghui shook his head.

"I'm prepared to look at the scene once, and then use a dog to sniff it tomorrow morning." Jiang Yuan had already considered it.

Liu Jinghui was slightly surprised and reminded: "If she's dead, the body is very likely to have been transported away. It's also possible that she was hijacked while alive..."

"I just looked at the surveillance installation locations within the area range. The areas convenient for violent crimes are actually very small. On both sides of the road, to prevent tourists from going up the mountain, there are barriers. The traffic on the long straight road is not small, and many places can be seen from afar. No matter if the perpetrator wants to rob, rape, or hijack, there are only so many places to hide." Jiang Yuan said this, and had already started drawing circles of another color on the map, and said: "Ambushes have traces. If it's a crime of passion, it's easy to leave a primary scene. I'll walk the scene again to see if I can find clues."

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