Tang Qian was walking in front with his schoolbag on his back, still holding it in his hand. Song Qiaoyu was standing behind him like a bodyguard, only two steps away.
The two of them marched on the street where pedestrians came and went, one behind the other.
Tang Qian always felt a chill behind his back. Although he knew it was Song Qiaoyu's gaze, he still had to pay attention.
After all, this policeman looks really inhumane.
"How should I call you?" Tang Qian asked tentatively.
Overall, he is a typical good boy. In these years of normal campus life, the most serious and rigid adults he has seen are some stern teachers. This strange tall man gave him a feeling that was more severe than the most stern dean. More threatening, this was his first instinctive feeling.
Therefore, Tang Qian was also a little frightened.
This person is difficult to deal with. Fortunately, the person who is supposed to protect him will not stand against him. This is what Tang Qian thought when comforting himself.
"Since we have to hide our identity..." Song Qiaoyu sighed, "Just call me Brother Song. When people ask, just say that he is a distant relative who goes to school elsewhere."
At this time, he didn't know why he ordered bodyguards. Although the reasons were reasonable, he had gained some experience in doing this job.
Tang Qian said oh.
Neither of them are good at stirring up conversations, at least not yet. Because of this, the atmosphere along the way was quite like a funeral, with you saying nothing and me being silent.
Tang Qian was so happy, but Song Qiaoyu had a mission.
Song Qiaoyu recalled Tang Qian's alert look when he came directly to the door yesterday, and felt quite troubled by the current situation. He even lost face and had a private chat with Shao Zi for a while to discuss how to pry open the mouth of this thoughtful child, but he was fooled and did not get any exclusive tips.
Song Qiaoyu told Tang Qian her purpose of protecting him, but she didn't get much information.
And Song Qiaoyu couldn't force him back for trial. This was the most annoying thing.
Because if the special nature of this child is exposed during the operation, I am afraid that danger will come to the door. The murderer with unknown traces may not necessarily know who is provoking him. If he is taken away with great fanfare, he will be pushed out in turn. When identity leads to danger, the fun becomes even greater.
But Song Qiaoyu wouldn't get into trouble with a child because of things not going well at work.
Although she instinctively felt that the danger on the other side was more obvious, Song Qiaoyu still frowned, feeling uneasy.
"Have you felt anything unusual around you recently?" Song Qiaoyu finally asked.
Tang Qian shook his head: "Not really."
His previous argument was that the provocative letter was just a joke, and the picture was just a random gimmick. This is a very unethical act - if the picture doesn't match the number, I'm afraid they won't take him seriously. But the possibility that this "random" picture matched the piece of porcelain in the victim's mouth just by coincidence is infinitely close to zero.
In other words, Tang Qian knew and Song Qiaoyu also knew that this fabricated rhetoric was completely perfunctory.
But the two of them had their own thoughts, and the final agreement was the tacit choice to ignore it.
Again, Song Qiaoyu could not ignore this child who was in danger, and Tang Qian had no objection to this. Perhaps he knew that he would be protected, or perhaps he was confident that his means of hiding the address could be used. When tracking the murderer, he kept things secret.
This is really a headache.
Tang Qian, a child, seemed to have no trust in the police, and was even quite resistant, but his superficial attitude was enough to maintain respect.
He had his own thoughts and refused to reveal them to others, but there was nothing he could do about them.
Song Qiaoyu was not very satisfied with this conclusion because he remembered another thing - which was the reason why he took the initiative without even being assigned.
Those were words that he didn't care about in the past, but now they came to mind along with some old things.
On the other side, they happened to be discussing related topics.
"Tang Qian is an orphan, and his parents died when he was young." Liang An sighed a little, "His life experience is not very good, but fortunately he has kind relatives who can raise another child, and he is living a comfortable life now. But this It’s just the result, not the process.”
Shao Zi turned on the computer and called up a series of information that Liang An had instructed to retrieve, including the part about his parents.
"Originally lived in Nanling City. He disappeared fourteen years ago and was confirmed dead eleven years ago..." Shao Zi frowned, "This death is unusual."
"To be precise, all three members of the family are missing." Liang An found another report for him, "It is precisely because of this that no one noticed anything unusual about the disappearance of this family until several days later. My mother’s workplace called the police because she had been absent from work for several days and could not be contacted, and then they discovered that the whole family was missing.”
What happened was actually not complicated.
Confirmed dead three years after his disappearance, a lonely Tang Qian was found in Yuzhou City, living in a stranger's home. The experiences of his parents were finally revealed through the six-year-old's vague description and the police investigation at the time. Surface.
A family of three took a car to visit relatives in Yuzhou City. On the way, they took a long-distance illegal car for free. On the way, they were hijacked by a malicious driver because they exposed their wealth, and a fierce conflict broke out.
During the dispute, the vehicle fell down on the winding mountain road, causing a crash and killing everyone.
However, there was one person who survived, Tang Qian, who was only three years old and ignorant at the time.
"All conclusions are just hindsight after the investigation results came out two years later." Liang An sighed, "The driver has a criminal record, and the damaged vehicle and three corpses were only discovered after Tang Qian's identity was confirmed. According to the child The statement was combined with the judgment of the driving route, and we searched all the way along the mountain road before finally finding it. Based on the state of the vehicle wreckage, the location of the three bones and the cause of death, we finally came to this conclusion."
The bones left in the wilderness tell it all.
The argument before the incident resulted in several people not wearing life-saving seat belts. All three adults died on the spot due to the violent impact. The frame of the car was twisted and deformed due to the collision. Fortunately, all the glass was shattered, and the petite three-year-old child was able to escape the scene directly through the window.
"Tang Qian's survival is indeed a miracle." Liang An also sighed with emotion, "He can't remember what happened specifically at that time, but he can imagine it casually. Maybe his parents tried their best to protect him before they died? Maybe there was something special in the car. A sturdy child seat? But the truth is unknown. All in all, he not only miraculously survived the car falling off the cliff, but also walked out of the forest at the foot of the mountain alone."
"Since he can come out, wouldn't the matter be settled if the police were found at that time?" Mo Yunwan frowned, "There should have been genetic testing at that time. Although it spanned the city, if the information of such an older child was deliberately compared in the database, It can also be compared.”
"This is about what we are facing now." Liang An smiled, "I was surprised when I found out that there is such a tortuous origin. This time the opponent should be better than our original one. The imagination has more 'historical' origins."
He pulled a handwritten report from the police database.
The font is clear, the format is regular, and the tone is solemn. The cause, process and result of the whole thing are particularly clear.
"This is an investigation report on an antique cultural relic smuggling and trafficking gang."
According to the report, it was an organization with hundreds of millions of dollars involved. After three years of investigation by a low-level informant, the police finally found the leader of the gang and wiped out the organization in one operation.
Shao Zi and Mo Yunwan watched it together.
"What does this have to do with Tang Qian?" Mo Yunwan was a little confused and raised his head to ask.
"After this operation ended, it happened to be when Tang Qian was taken to the police station for questioning." Liang An raised his eyes, "Do you think this timing is a coincidence?"
"The police officer responsible for this operation and the investigation into the disappearance of Tang Qian's parents..." Shao Zi seemed to have an idea suddenly and hurriedly pulled out the original documents for comparison.
When he saw the result, his eyes froze and he murmured: "...It's the same person."
"In other words, after this operation, Tang Qian was discovered by the police officer responsible for the extermination operation, and his identity was found out, so he could trace the whereabouts of his parents..." Mo Yunwan traced his fingertips across the screen and looked at him intently. Those words, "Is that what you mean?"
"Then where was Tang Qian in the past three years? The conclusion is obvious." Liang An spoke slowly.
In any case, it should be related to the destroyed organization.
In the past three years, what kind of life did Tang Qian live, from the age of three to six?
The two investigation reports contained only official content, cleverly avoiding the point of contact they most wanted to see. Even the part about finding Tang Qian in the disappearance of Tang Qian's parents was vague about the process of "finding".
It was only said that it was an investigation of a missing child, and the previous process was obscured by vague writing.
But how can a lost child be "lost" in a city for three years without any reason or consequence, without any experience in the past?
Including the person who raised him in the past three years is a mystery.
Even the truth about three years ago can be revealed through this child's words. Could it be that what happened in the past three years really has no trace at all?
Regarding Tang Qian, what is the briefly mentioned truth?
Shao Zi suddenly realized something.
"As for our current matter," he said with some difficulty, "if it is really related to that organization..."
There are also relevant records in the scanned and saved investigation records.
This is a pretty dangerous gang. Generally speaking, the more interests involved in an unpunished organization, the higher the risk. After all, people die for money and birds die for food. Threat is undoubtedly a more effective weapon in such an organization than trust. The greatest threat is death.
In this "long-established" gang, every item handled by a grassroots member is priceless. As a guarantee, there are naturally some chilling means. Among the descriptions of the police officer, the most common one is the liquidation of killers. There are people within the organization who are responsible for carrying out murders without leaving a trace and eliminating members who may leak secrets or misappropriate goods.
Because this was the most frequently emphasized issue by the informants contacted at the time, the space occupied is not short.
"Eleven years have passed, and the eradication at that time may not be able to completely catch everyone." Liang An moved his eyes away from the screen, a little relieved from the fatigue of long-term use of his eyes, "Maybe this incident is the beginning of this reckoning. Has it started yet?”
Shao Zi smiled bitterly and said, "Don't be so absolute..."
Mo Yunwan picked up the broken porcelain piece again and showed it to him again: "I think this inference is very credible."
After all, this kind of valuable antique is not something that can be found everywhere.
"Captain Liang, you are really amazing at being able to connect these two things." It's not like Shao Zi couldn't accept this point of view, but it was just too involved, and he felt chilled for a moment.
Liang An didn't say much about Shao Zi's praise.
Although the speed of the investigation was astonishing, he himself... actually used a little trick.
He took advantage of the information gap between himself and his colleagues, but it was not considered cheating in a strict sense.
He glanced at the signatures of the police officers who submitted the two investigation reports without leaving any trace. The handwriting of the signature is free and elegant, and the strokes have a strong and soft feel, which is of great ornamental value.
That was actually a name that anyone like him who had been in the bureau for some time would recognize. Therefore, Shao Zi and Mo Yunwan were not surprised when they discovered that the two case report writers were this senior. Nor would he ask whether he should question the police officer who personally investigated the two cases.
Because it was a legend that had long existed in the police station, no one would question that person's ability to investigate, and no one was unaware of the fact that she had passed away long ago.
But for this name... even fewer people know about another relationship.
The police officer's name is Song Jing.
She is Song Qiaoyu's biological mother.
