The fifty-year-old Dongshan man immediately blushed when asked by Xu Zheng. He hesitated for a long time, but chose to tell the truth.
"That...this...that's the situation. It's not easy for a girl from the Gao family to work in a B&B here by herself. We're not neighbors, so I'll come over to help her occasionally. Isn't this familiar? In this case, I'll go Her family is reasonable, right? I regard her as my own sister, so don't think blindly!" Xu Zheng and Xia Zhongqing looked at each other. If he hadn't said the last word, it would be impossible for them to think blindly.
The 50-year-old Pu Lei was tall, about 1.8 meters tall, strong, and absolutely safe. However, Xu Zheng and the others were not interested in the affair between him and the proprietress.
In fact, Xu Zheng has not suspected that he is the murderer until now. He just feels that he should have concealed something. After all, the cameras in Gaolaozhuang Village only captured the video of the two suspects escaping, but not the video of the ten-year-old girl.
"Boss Pu, tell me the truth, you and Gao Cuilan's house are separated by a wall and you haven't heard anything?" Facing Xu Zheng's question, Pu Lei hesitated. He also hesitated when he called the police, just because of the relationship between him and Gao Cuilan. He chose to call the police because of his friendship, but he really didn't want to cause trouble. The Haizhou City police also asked him about this matter before, but he shook his head and denied it.
But this time, the young man's eyes seemed to be penetrating. He should have guessed the relationship between himself and Gao Cuilan in bed.
"Oh, there are some things about the reputation of the Gao family girl. She is like this. I...I am embarrassed to say it!"
"It's okay, just tell the truth about what you saw, um, including some random things." Xu Zheng assured him that the police would not publicize this information after questioning.
After receiving Xu Zheng's assurance, Pu Lei breathed a sigh of relief.
"Last night I did hear the sound of men and women drinking in Gao's girl's house. How should I put it, Gao Cuilan is average-looking, but she can make up and beautify her face. She is considered a big beauty on the screen. There are many fans or tourists on weekdays. She came here because of her reputation. After drinking, some people acted drunkenly and took advantage of her. We neighbors all came over to help. As for her, because she is divorced and living alone, it is ugly to say that she is attracting flowers and attracting butterflies. .So I heard her drinking all night with the two male tourists last night. I heard about them having sex. I...I did hear it, but I really didn’t hear them killing the girl from the Gao family. Only I think the three of them played very intensely. My wife can vouch for this." Xu Zheng sighed inwardly. This person did not tell him any useful information.
"Boss Pu, as the owner of Boss Gao's B&B, you should know the nearby terrain, right? How many caves can you hide in in the entire Huaguo Mountain Scenic Area? It can't be the 72 caves, right?" Pu Lei heard Xu Zheng ask him other questions question, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief,
"Of course there can't be only 72 caves. No one has statistics on how many large and small caves there are in the Huaguoshan Scenic Area. There are probably more than a hundred caves on display, and some caves are not open to the public due to small damage. .
"At this time Xia Zhongqing reminded Xu Zheng,
"Today we focused on checking these caves, and we didn't find any." Xu Zheng nodded and said that he knew. It was not that he didn't trust the Haizhou City police's search capabilities, but he really couldn't think of the mountains and plains. In this windy and rainy weather, , where can the two criminal suspects go with their children?
"Boss Pu, did you know that Gao Cuilan's daughter came here last night?"
"What, Xiaoyu came last night?" Pu Lei was shocked, his eyes widened in surprise,
"Then she last night... No, girls from the Gao family usually don't drink with guests when there are children around! Could it be that the two thieves held the children hostage? Damn it, if I had known this, I should have knocked on the door last night to check Look..." Xu Zheng sighed again in his heart. It seemed that it was impossible for him to find clues from Pu Lei. He asked some more questions about Gao Cuilan's daughter and then said goodbye to Xia Zhongqing.
When leaving, Xia Zhongqing asked Pu Lei to keep the disappearance of Gao Cuilan's daughter secret for the time being. The two people went out and stood in the wind and rain. Even with the raincoat to protect them, Xu Zheng was still shivering from the cold. He asked in a trembling voice: "Xia Bureau, do you think the two suspects Shi Daguo and Du Shuqing escaped with their children?" , or hid the child somewhere?" Xia Zhongqing saw Xu Zheng standing in the rain discussing the situation with himself instead of returning to the B&B. He obviously wanted to ask the truth. He thought about it and thought that the Haizhou City Police did not discover it in time today. Regarding the disappearance of Gao Cuilan's daughter, there are no procedural errors in other matters.
He wiped the rain off his face and lowered his head slightly to block the wind and rain.
"The result of our Haizhou police discussion was that the two suspects did not take the child away, but that the child should have been hidden somewhere by them. But in fact, we searched Gaolaozhuang no less than ten times and still did not find the child. But they are not in Gao Laozhuang, and there was no child in the camera video of the two of them going down the mountain at the end." Xu Zheng saw that Xia Zhongqing was willing to share his love with him at this time and no longer concealed the child's problems. He knew it was his turn to express his sincerity.
"Xia Bureau, I think everyone should understand what you Haizhou City Police did before. At present, we are still working together to find this child, whether alive or dead." A scandal about the murder of an Internet celebrity boss lady has already been circulated on the Internet. , if netizens knew that her daughter might have been kidnapped by a criminal suspect, the Internet would be even more popular.
It is estimated that the private accounts of various forces will take turns to set the pace, which will definitely put an invisible pressure on all the personnel involved.
In addition, police leaders at all levels would originally pay attention to children, because if a child is killed or tortured, it is likely to affect the future of some leaders.
When Xia Zhongqing heard that Xu Zheng didn't mention the things that the Haizhou police had concealed before, he clasped his hands in his fists and raised his head slightly towards Xu Zheng. He felt more and more fond of this young department-level director.
"Director Xu, in this situation, to be honest, we have no choice but to do it. As you have seen, the only way is to cast a wide net and find the needle in the haystack. Therefore, on behalf of the Haizhou Police, I ask Director Xu to help us." Xia Zhongqing said it sincerely, but if Xu Zheng treated him politely, it would seem hypocritical.
"Don't worry, Xia Bureau. I must go all out in my work. Let's go back to the B&B first. I'll check the surveillance. Maybe I can find some problems." Returning to the B&B borrowed by the Haizhou police, Xu Zheng found that most of the escape experts They are no longer here. Obviously they can't wait to start working. In this kind of weather, although everyone is reluctant to go out, but they have responsibilities, and they will do their best when they go out.
Xu Zheng did not stay polite to the leaders staying at the B&B. Instead, with the help of Xia Zhongqing, he watched the four-hour surveillance video of Gaolaozhuang from 8pm to 9am last night.
Because Gao Xiulan's daughter arrived at her B&B by car at eight o'clock last night and never appeared in the surveillance video again. Xu Zheng suspected that the two suspects must have made some moves during this period.
There are only a dozen B&Bs in Gaolaozhuang, and basically every house has surveillance video at the door. However, the surveillance camera at Gao Xiulan's home was broken. The few surveillance cameras collected by the police were camera videos from nearby neighbors' homes.
Xu Zheng watched the video frame by frame very quickly. With his advanced Sky Eye technical analysis ability, he persisted in watching the video for more than an hour and really made new discoveries.
Shi Daguo and Du Shuqing left Gao Laozhuang at around five o'clock in the morning. Haizhou City Police thought that they had never been out before. After all, although it didn't rain last night, there was strong wind, and the street lights here were shaky and broken. With just a few lights, it was impossible to see the road clearly.
But at 4:40 in the morning, Xu spotted a suspicious figure on the camera of Gao Cuilan's neighbor's house, walking west along the wall of Gao Cuilan's B&B.
That area belongs to the back mountain, there is no road, and there is a steep slope not far away. It is very dangerous. If you fall, you will probably fall to your death, because some parts of the slope are very steep, and there are no trees. They are all smooth stone walls.
When Xu Zheng saw this, he suddenly had a guess in his mind. Maybe Gao Xiulan didn't take the initiative to accompany Shi Daguo and Du Shuqing to drink last night, but was forced to do so. Maybe these two scumbags used the child as a threat.
According to the preliminary forensic identification results provided by the Haizhou City Police, Gao Cuilan's real time of death should be between 4 and 5 in the morning. So what was this dark figure doing in the back mountain at 4:40 in the morning?
He stood up and put on his raincoat and said to Xia Zhongqing: "Xia Bureau, I have made a discovery. I want to go to the back mountain to have a look. Please send two people to assist me." Everyone present was silently paying attention to Xu Zheng's every move. , after all, everyone had pinned their hopes on him. As soon as he discovered this, Su Quanming and others immediately stood up and curiously asked: "Xiao Xu, tell me what clues you found?" Regarding these leaders' questions, Xu Zheng felt a little tired at this time. How could he have time to explain to them in detail? The more important thing was to discover the child earlier.
"It's just a conjecture now. Leaders, time is tight. I won't explain it now. I will verify it later." After saying that, he walked out of the B&B without looking back, plunged into the wind and rain, and walked towards the door. As Gao Cuilan walked up the hill behind his house, Xia Zhongqing and four police officers followed him all the way, explaining to him: "The hill behind here is very steep, and there is no way to go down directly. We sent a lot of people to patrol, but No suspicious points were found." As they spoke, everyone had already walked to the mountain behind the B&B. They stood on the cliff and looked down. It was indeed very steep. In addition, the wind and rain blocked the view, so the visibility was not far away. In fact, Xu Zheng stood for a while. He was a little afraid that a gust of wind would blow him down.
"Xia Bureau, you haven't sent anyone down to check this hillside, have you?" Upon hearing this, Xia Zhongqing's face became colorful. Sending people down this hillside in this weather is just making fun of the lives of comrades. After all, it rains. The wind was strong and the temperature was low, making it impossible to go down without auxiliary tools.
If we really go down empty-handed, we will most likely send someone to die. Xu Zheng knew Haizhou City's arrangement by looking at his expression, and he immediately made a decision.
"Xia Bureau, quickly find some long ropes and tie them to me. I'll go down and see for myself." Xia Zhongqing naturally disagreed, but Xu Zhengfei insisted.
He believed that he had certain protective capabilities, and did not agree with Director Xia to send special police to carry out his mission.
To be honest, he believed that he was stronger than these special police officers. The probability of completing the task will be greater and safer!
In the end, this incident alarmed Su Quanming again, and he did not agree with Xu Zheng going down. Xu Zheng pointed to the hillside and said affirmatively: "Dear leaders, I suspect that Shi Daguo and Du Shuqing threw the child here. The sooner we find out, the better, and my physical strength is better than that of our SWAT brothers. So I If you go on, the safety factor will be higher than them." The mission is a mission, but if something goes wrong with Xu Zheng, even if everyone present is not dismissed, the best result is probably to just wait for retirement.
However, after all, we are all police officers, so we still have the courage we should have. As the top leader present, Su Quanming looked at Xu Zheng's determined eyes and made a decision.
"Okay, let's send Xiao Xu down, but at the same time, send two special police officers who are proficient in rock climbing to follow. This way you can take care of each other, otherwise I won't agree." Xu Zheng understood that this was the leader's final decision, no. Allowed to bargain, he immediately nodded, and then the Haizhou City Special Police Brigade sent out two special police officers, who should be experts in rock climbing and rappelling.
Now that the candidates were selected, the next preparations were quickly put in place. Several climbing ropes and equipment were delivered. After being prepared together, leaders such as Su Quanming inspected the equipment of Xu Zheng and the others one by one before letting them go down. .
To be honest, it was not Xu Zheng’s first time rock climbing and rappelling, but it was definitely his first time performing a search mission down the mountain in windy and rainy weather. He stood on the cliff and took a deep breath, nodding to the leaders. Then facing the hillside, guided by the rope, walked backwards step by step.
In Huaguo Mountain in early winter, although the vegetation on the hillside has turned yellow, it has not completely withered. It slides step by step. If it were not for the rope pulling it, it would really slide to the bottom of the mountain in one step.
Especially when the rope and gloves are wetted by the rain, you have to hold on tightly, otherwise if you let go, your whole body will be thrown into the air by the rope, or even hit the hillside.
This is indeed a very dangerous job, and it is also very difficult, because within a minute, their whole bodies were soaked. They don't know whether it was the rain or the cold sweat coming out of their bodies.
Although it was dangerous, Xu Zheng had no regrets at all because he was more confident that he could complete the job.
The most important thing is, if the child is really thrown down the hillside by the two suspects, if she is still dead... When they dropped to a distance of ten meters, the voices of two special police officers came from Xu Zheng's headset,
"Director Xu, I don't have a target person here."
"Same here, Director Xu, are you continuing to descend?" The three people were descending three meters apart. They didn't notice it, and Xu Zheng naturally didn't either. Moreover, their accents were a bit heavy. It was obvious that their The physical exertion is very high.
There is no way, the hillside is very slippery, everyone is holding on to the rope and slowly falling down. This is indeed a task that tests physical strength.
Xu Zheng didn't feel tired at this time. Maybe it was because he had been using the six-character mantra breathing method.
"Down, our climbing ropes are 20 meters long. Let's go down to the end." But when they reached 15 meters, the voices of the two special police officers who couldn't hold on came out.
"Director Xu, I...my hands are numb and I can't use any strength. I can't go any further." Another special police officer was in a similar situation. He kept using his hands to exert force, but they finally couldn't hold on any longer.
Xu Zheng asked them to stabilize themselves and relax for a while. He wanted to look down again because there was a protruding bush below.
Hearing that Xu Zheng insisted on descending, everyone on the cliff showed worried expressions. However, Su Quanming remained calm and did not speak, so everyone had to let Xu Zheng act on his own.
Unfortunately, Xu Zheng ran out of rope and still didn't reach the bushes on the hillside.
But it was not far away, still about three or four meters away. He held the rope tightly with one hand, wiped his eyes with the other, and looked down carefully.
It was now about three o'clock in the afternoon. Despite the resistance of the rain, he could still see clearly. There was indeed a corner of clothes in the bushes. Unfortunately, the branches blocked his view and he couldn't see clearly whether the black figure was the little girl.
"Su Ting, Xia Bureau, please quickly connect a piece of rope to me. I will descend another four meters." Xu Zheng loudly delivered the news through the headset and said excitedly: "There is a bush below, and I saw a corner of clothes. There is also There is a black shadow, this is probably the little girl." Upon hearing the news, everyone on the cliff immediately cheered up. Su Quanming immediately arranged for someone to extend Xu Zheng's rope, and whispered to Xia Zhongqing,
"Send an ambulance quickly."
