Most of the street lights in Tomita Village are damaged. The narrow alley was very dark, as if it could absorb light. Xu Mingzhi walked in front with his mobile phone to provide lighting. He walked around the village with his peripheral vision for a while, and then asked two old people who were enjoying the cool weather at the door before finally finding the building where Zhou Mu lived.
Zhou Mu lives in a six-story, three-bay building. The landlord and his family lived on the fifth floor. Xu Mingzhi rang the doorbell at the door downstairs for a long time before he saw someone coming down cursing.
Seeing the unfamiliar face outside the door, the landlord looked carefully through the iron door and did not open the door immediately.
"Who are you looking for?" The landlord said with a straight face and a somewhat fierce tone.
Xu Mingzhi took out his ID and showed it to the landlord, then said, "I want to ask you something."
The plainclothes guy from before had probably been here. When the landlord saw Xu Mingzhi's ID, he immediately said: "Zhou Mu is not at home. He went to work. If you want to find him, you have to go to where he works. By the way, he Did you commit something?"
Xu Mingzhi was about to answer, but was suddenly pulled by Yu Guang who was standing behind him. He staggered back, squeezed forward from the corner of his eye, and held out a cigarette.
After taking the cigarette, the landlord opened the door.
"Uncle, have you seen Zhou Mu's girlfriend this time?" Yu Guang asked as he took out a lighter to light the landlord's cigarette.
The landlord lit a fire and lit a cigarette. He blew out a puff of smoke and said, "Why haven't I seen this before? I don't know where this guy got his luck. The girlfriend he found is not only beautiful, but also has a good family background. His temperament makes it look like he is not an ordinary person." It can be raised.”
"Did you see him bring his girlfriend back yesterday?" Yu Guang asked again.
The landlord shook his head: "I wasn't at home yesterday, so I don't know."
Yu Guang was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then asked: "Which room does he live in? We want to go up and have a look."
When Xu Mingzhi heard this from behind, he felt something was wrong. Just when he was about to stop him, the landlord turned around and walked in with Yu Guang. As he walked, he said, "He lives on the east side of the fourth floor. It's the best room here."
Out of the corner of his eye, he followed behind and asked, "Aside from bringing his girlfriend back, does he usually have other people here?"
After thinking for a while, the landlord said: "It seems that his family members have been here more than a month ago, but I haven't seen the others."
"When did he come to live with you?" Yu Guang asked again.
The landlord replied: "It will only take two or three months. It won't be long anyway." As he said that, he looked back at the corner of his eye and asked: "Did he commit something? The police came to look for him just now. He asked me a lot of questions. If he breaks the law, you have to tell me, there are a lot of people living in my place, and I have to ensure their safety, right?"
"Yes!" Yu Guang agreed: "However, we are just trying to understand the situation now. If he really has any problems, we will definitely tell you as soon as possible."
The landlord nodded with satisfaction.
The three of them quickly reached the fourth floor. The landlord asked them to wait at the stairs while he went to the fifth floor to get the keys.
After the landlord left, Xu Mingzhi frowned and said to Yu Guang: "This is against the rules."
Without looking at him out of the corner of his eye, he said calmly: "Just don't go in."
Xu Mingzhi looked at Yu Guang, who had an abnormal attitude, and felt a little dizzy. The anger that had been suppressed in his stomach came out again. He couldn't help but ask: "If you have any objections to me, can you just tell me?"
He ignored him from the corner of his eye.
Xu Mingzhi was very angry, but this was not the place for arguments, so he had to endure it.
Soon, the landlord came down. After opening the door, Xu Mingzhi followed Yu Guang in. The two carefully walked around the room and found nothing suspicious.
After coming out, Yu Guang put all the pack of cigarettes he had just smoked into the landlord's hand and said: "Uncle, please help me keep it a secret so that Zhou Mu doesn't know about what we came here today. .”
The landlord was a little confused after hearing this. He probably didn't expect that the police would have to work secretly. However, seeing the bag of gold leaves in his hand that he would never be willing to buy, the landlord still nodded happily.
Finally, he asked Yu Guang worriedly: "Didn't Mu really commit any crime this week?"
"He just has something to do with a case we are investigating. We are here today just to go through the motions. Don't worry, we just checked it out and it's fine. Just let him live boldly. If you really don't Don't worry, let's leave each other's phone numbers. If anything happens here, I'll notify you immediately. If you feel there's anything wrong here, you'll also notify me immediately, okay?" Yu Guang said as he took out the cell phone.
Upon seeing this, the landlord quickly took out his mobile phone. After the two exchanged mobile phone numbers, the landlord sent them all the way to the door, smiling, completely different from the fierce look at the beginning.
After returning to the dark alley again, Xu Mingzhi couldn't bear it anymore. He grabbed Yu Guang who was walking in front and said in a cold voice: "Let's have a few words."
Looking back at him from the corner of his eye, Xu Mingzhi's face was barely visible in the dark environment, but his eyes were bright and shining, like stars.
He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
"Do you have any objections to me? If you have any objections, you can just say it. Don't be so arrogant! You're not a child, so why bother!" Xu Mingzhi probably didn't realize that his tone at this time was not what he expected. He thought he was so cold and stern, but instead he was like an elder brother to his younger brother, angry but helpless.
He had recovered from the corner of his eye. He lowered his eyes slightly, avoided Xu Mingzhi's eyes, and spoke coldly: "Is Jin Jiaojiao's case closed?"
When Xu Mingzhi heard this, he suddenly realized. He looked out of the corner of his eye and wanted to explain, but for a moment he didn't know where to start. He was also helpless about Jin Jiaojiao's case. He has already investigated everything that needs to be investigated. If he can't find any clues, it's because he is incompetent, but what can he do? Huang Bureau made such a choice, and he actually understood it. Due to the lack of evidence, Jin Jiaojiao's case was originally ambiguous between homicide and suicide. Now that her parents' confessions were used as a basis, the final verdict of suicide was actually reasonable. Most of his regrets and self-blame come from his intuition. But as Huang Ju said, intuition is not always correct and can make mistakes. This time, maybe it was wrong!
"Sorry!" In the dimness, he looked at the corner of his eyes that refused to look at him, and finally said helplessly.
Yu Guang sneered: "You don't have to be sorry to me, it's not me who died."
These words were like a heavy hammer hitting Xu Mingzhi's heart, causing a dull pain. He took two deep breaths before suppressing the discomfort.
"Her parents thought she committed suicide. Yu Guang, I really tried my best." After saying these words, Xu Mingzhi suddenly felt a little aggrieved.
Yu Guang said nothing.
The dark narrow alley fell into silence. After a long time, Yu Guang's cell phone vibrated. The buzzing sound broke the solemn atmosphere between the two.
I picked up the phone out of the corner of my eye and saw that the caller was Sister Wen. As he picked up the phone, he turned and walked forward. Xu Mingzhi wisely waited until his peripheral vision was slightly farther away before following him.
"Sister Wen, I asked my friends at the police station to check, but there is no news yet..." Yu Guang hung up the phone without saying a few words. Then he turned around and waited for Xu Mingzhi to catch up, and asked, "Where did Liu Liu get on the bus?"
After Xu Mingzhi looked through the information on his phone, he looked for it with his peripheral vision.
The location where Liuliu got on the bus was on the other side of Futian Village. Interestingly, there are almost no surveillance cameras around Futian Village. There are only two surveillance cameras. One captured Liuliu getting off the car and entering Futian Village, and the other captured Liuliu getting on the car and leaving Futian Village. All this seems to have been deliberately arranged.
Standing at the position where Liu Liu got into the car, Yu Guang looked at the surveillance camera not far away and asked Xu Mingzhi in a deep voice: "Do you feel that this position was specially chosen by the other party? He just wants us to see that Liu Liu is A man got into a car and left."
Yu Guang's words made Xu Mingzhi frown. After pondering for a while, he asked Yu Guang: "Then what do you think the other party's intention is for doing this?"
Out of the corner of his eye, he looked back at Xu Mingzhi and asked, "What do you think?"
"Take out the Zhou Mu?" Xu Mingzhi asked with a frown.
Yu Guang didn't nod, but just said: "I think you can ask someone to check where Zhou Mu was two months ago. If I guessed correctly, he shouldn't be in Yuehu."
Xu Mingzhi immediately called someone to check. Soon, the other party had news. The other party said that they had not found out where Zhou Mu lived two months ago. Zhou Mu had no social security records, no bank card consumption records, and even no traffic records that required an ID card. In this situation, In the information society, it is difficult for even the elderly to avoid leaving traces everywhere in their lives. If a person has no traces, it means that this person is most likely deliberately avoiding leaving traces.
However, Xu Mingzhi's people were not without gains. They searched the system and found that the name Zhou Mu had appeared in a major human trafficking case ten years ago.
This major human trafficking case was the first criminal case in which Xu Mingzhi participated.
The development of things was completely beyond their expectations. Xu Mingzhi frowned, his thoughts a little confused. In the case ten years ago, he seemed to be very successful, but in fact, in the following ten years, he often had nightmares. It was precisely because of that case that during the seven years he worked, he always believed in his intuition too persistently.
"I have to go back to the police station. I can't find anything here. I'll take you back first." Xu Mingzhi said to Yu Guang after clearing his thoughts.
Yu Guang shook his head and said: "You don't have to worry about me. By the way, where was the last place that the deck car was photographed?"
"There is a traffic light at the entrance of a village called Pan Village below Zhuli Town." After Xu Mingzhi finished answering, he glanced at the corner of his eye and thought he was going there to check the situation, so he frowned and said, "The geographical location of Pan Village is relatively complicated. They are all mountains. There are several paths in the village leading to several surrounding villages, and those villages also have paths leading to other places. If the other party is really a human trafficker, it is impossible to stop there. They should have stepped on it in advance and know The situation there, so I wanted to get rid of the surveillance there and successfully take the people away. It has been more than 24 hours since they took Liu Liu away, let alone Yuehu, I am afraid they have already left Jiangchuan Province."
As he spoke, his voice suddenly dropped and he said: "Yu Guang, if our guesses are true, then the possibility of Liu Liu being found is not high."
Out of the corner of his eye, he lowered his head and took out the cigarette case, smoked a cigarette and lit it without saying anything. In fact, Xu Mingzhi's words just now were already implicit. If Liu Liu had really been taken out of Jiangchuan Province, then the possibility of getting him back could be said to be almost zero.
