Li Hua was scratching his head and pulling his hair anxiously. When he saw Zhou Liu coming in, he hurriedly said:
“Our local requirement is that if an adult male is missing and there is no evidence that the person may have been trafficked, he or she will be classified as a missing person.
If a minor or adult female is missing, regardless of whether there is evidence that they may have been trafficked, the local police station will immediately register a report and fill out a missing persons registration form. At the same time, they will initiate an investigation into the crime of trafficking in women and children, report to the criminal investigation department of the public security agency at the county level, initiate homicide investigation procedures, and have all police forces work together to find the person.
There is no 24-hour rule for cases like this. Call the police at any time and intervene at any time. "
The missing Li Zixuan is a minor and a girl.
The mother's emotions were very unstable. Huang Qingmei and Shi Wenwen were in a panic. Everyone else in the institute had left, and only Li Hua was answering the phone. When the three of them saw Zhou Liuyi, they all felt like they had seen a savior.
These young newcomers in the workplace have already regarded Zhou Liuyi as their backbone and are secretly following Zhou Liuyi as their leader.
Some people are not restricted by age, identity or gender. Wherever they appear, they are the focus and center.
Zhou Liuyi was really good at comforting people. He directly helped the mother up from the ground. His hands were so strong that people couldn't refuse him at all:
"Ma'am, I'm a police officer from the Longhua Street Police Station. It's Saturday and I was off duty, but I received your call and now I'm here to look for your daughter.
Please rest assured that my colleagues and I will do our best to find your daughter.
What you need to do now is to cooperate with us and take care of yourself.
This way, when we find your daughter, you will have the strength and energy to take care of her.
Now, listen to me, drink a glass of water and calm down, okay?"
With just a few words, the mother, who had collapsed to the extreme, finally calmed down. Although the police officers at the police station knew the general situation, the more details the better.
Li Hua caught Zhou Liuyi and hoped that Zhou Liuyi could come up with a solution as soon as possible, because there was no clue at all when they went out to look for him:
"Old Wang and my master Xu Hai have gone to mobilize the surveillance cameras of nearby businesses. We have a good relationship with all the surrounding businesses, small enterprises and community property management, so we will definitely be able to mobilize them, but there is no news from them yet."
Checking surveillance footage does not just mean copying it back with a USB drive, but it is more likely to be a quick check on the spot, and asking the merchant to help find suspicious persons.
There are not many entrances and exits nearby, so by mobilizing the surveillance cameras of a few key businesses, we can find the general location.
However, there is still no news...
Everyone sensed that something was wrong.
Li Hua continued to talk about other people's work:
"Our instructor went to the traffic police detachment to check all the vehicle and road information. They have just updated a whole set of identification equipment. Enter the little girl's information. As long as she shows her head, there will be news."
But there is no news yet.
Today’s traffic police have installed high-definition cameras at key intersections. I’ve seen that kind of camera in high school early Saturday mornings.
Teachers can sit in the office, turn on the computer, and see what the students are writing with super high clarity and conversion rate.
If this kind of road surveillance cannot be found, then it really cannot be found.
"The director and Brother Peng contacted the public security brigade and all the nearby police stations to search for anyone in the streets near where the child was lost."
Professional police officers have their own methods when conducting investigations, and they sweep the streets very carefully.
An excellent public security police officer can basically determine whether a criminal is a thief or a robber just by meeting him face to face.
However, the people from the Public Security Brigade did not find any clues...
As you can imagine, the difficulty of finding a child has increased exponentially.
Shi Wenwen beside her couldn't help but say:
"Then we can't find it? No one has seen it, how can we find it?"
The little girl's mother started crying again.
Huang Qingmei glared at Shi Wenwen. She really didn't know how someone who was so bad at speaking could find a professional who made a living by talking.
Zhou Liu checked the places he had searched and scratched his head fiercely:
"The child's uncle, aunt, and grandmother are all looking for him now. They have been to the school playground, classroom, and library."
"Sister Guilan is worried that the child's family and relatives may have missed the school, so she is contacting the kindergarten principal and teachers to look for it again."
…
In other words, all conceivable methods have been tried and all available manpower has been mobilized, but three hours have passed and the child has not been found.
At this time, the child's father came, driving a tool truck. Their family sells handmade dumplings. There is a cartoon picture of dumplings on the truck, with the caption:
Hand-wrapped ones are more delicious!
The car rushed in and was thrown crookedly into the parking space.
The father came in wearing work clothes, with flour all over his cuffs. He looked like a hard laborer. When he learned that his daughter was missing, he started to scold his wife who was watching the child:
"I was just going to buy some supplies, and you left the child behind in a moment. What do you do for a living?"
"If you can't even take care of a child, what's the point of raising you?"
…
Right in the police station, he actually pushed and shoved his wife.
The words were not good, and the wife was not a pushover, so she stretched out her hand and scratched him:
"What do you mean you support me? If you and I hadn't worked hard together to make dumplings, would you have been able to prosper?"
"The child is not mine alone! Why do you leave it to me alone?"
…
Seeing that the two people were about to fight again, the couple were both extremely strong and their fight was too much for the people who were trying to stop them.
Zhou Liuyi watched the two people quarreling fiercely, picked up the water in the paper cups on the table , poured a cup on each of their faces, and said sternly:
"Shut up, everyone!"
Huang Qingmei was shocked. Zhou Liuyi actually dared to treat the people who came to report the case like this. It was too barbaric.
Li Hua was also startled, but both of them calmed down and stopped arguing.
Shi Wenwen glanced at Zhou Liuyi. He was not afraid of being complained at all. He summarized the materials sent back as if nothing had happened.
What was even more surprising was that the husband actually apologized:
"I was negligent. I should have taken my child to the children's park today, but a shopping mall opened near the store in the development zone, so I wanted to organize an event."
The wife cried:
"I told you to take care of the child first, but you opened one store after another and treated the store more like your child. Now that your child is lost, you blame me?"
The husband also had a lot of complaints:
"What do you mean I care about the store more than my children? I work so hard to make money, isn't it for you? You know that Zixuan's illness costs a lot of money, it's for her that I withstand the pressure from my mother and you to have a second child. If we have another one, will Zixuan still have a way to survive?"
…
The wife's eyes were filled with tears. She bit her lips and said nothing.
On Saturday, I took out my phone, found the navigation map, and tried to restore the details of the child's disappearance:
"Tell me again what happened at that time."
The current map uses a VR panoramic map, so you can see the current situation near the store on your mobile phone.
The child's parents were expecting him to walk back to the dumpling shop by himself, but at the door of the closed dumpling shop, there were only the child's plastic cart and shovel, and a dumpling with half a salted egg yolk left over.
There is no more information to be asked.
Wang Caizhi and Xu Hai mobilized nearby surveillance cameras and also hired image detectives from the branch to conduct a screening, but they still could not find the child.
Wang Caizhi, a community police officer who has always been calm, is now extremely anxious:
"We were worried that the surveillance cameras had blind spots and didn't capture the child, so we checked with all the nearby businesses one by one. There was a store that was not doing well and had no customers at night. The owner sat at the door and said he didn't see the child either."
Jiang Hanshan was originally going to pick up his child, but he changed his route and went directly to the traffic police station. Now he received a message from the traffic police station:
"We quickly checked all vehicles passing through those intersections in the city, but we didn't find anyone. The next step is to check the vehicles passing through the Sanjiang City Expressway Exit."
The director was originally going to go home, but turned back and went to the Anti-Fraud Center, where the technical support provided was more advanced:
"I'm at the anti-fraud center. They have the authority to find mobile phones that have connected to the two communication base stations near the dumpling shop. We have contacted the operators and sent messages to these phones, but there is no news now."
With such modern technology, we can’t even find a six-year-old girl! ?
The director was so angry that he wanted to curse. If he wasn't in front of so many gentle-looking colleagues with dark circles under their eyes, he would have kicked the table.
So far, all possible methods have been used.
But time is passing by, and if the child cannot be found, the child may be in danger.
Zhang Guilan went to the school and sent back news that was equally bleak. Officer Zhang was a mother herself, so her voice was trembling:
"We have opened every classroom and even searched all the closets, and we can confirm that there is no one in the school."
…
The child's father also fell into anxiety, grabbing Li Hua and shouting:
"You are the police, you are the most resourceful people in this country, how could you not find him? My child is that old, he is already six years old, don't you have the Sky Eye? Don't you have a road monitoring system? How could you not find him?"
Li Hua was sweating all the time:
"Calm down, we are still working hard!"
He couldn't find any more words besides that.
Huang Qingmei was so anxious that she broke out in a cold sweat:
"What if we can't find such a young child? Could the child have been abducted? Sanjiang now has two high-speed rail stations, an airport, and more than a dozen exits from the highway. If the child is taken away, we can't find him back!"
Shi Wenwen was also planning to ask her seniors in the news industry to mobilize some resources, but after she came in, she also asked:
"Could he have been abducted by human traffickers?"
This is everyone's worry!
A normal child could survive for two or three days if he drank less water and ate less food, but this child was sick and couldn't even survive for a day, or even twelve hours!
Xu Hai, who had been silent all this time, sent a voice message on the information sharing device:
He once handled a case of a missing child. The child was kidnapped by a ghost when the family was not paying attention. The ghost put the child in a snakeskin bag and sold it to a hotel as game.
Fortunately, the hotel's kitchen staff untied the bag instead of throwing it on the ground.
So when they arrived, they would have seen a lively child, otherwise it would have been a pile of rotten meat on the ground.
Xu Hai sent this to make everyone more urgent and quickly find a way to find the little girl.
Time is like a sword hanging over the little girl's head, which may take her life at any time!
Xu Hai repeatedly emphasized sternly that one must ensure that human traffickers have been ruled out before searching through news searches.
Because if we post the news about Li Zixuan on the Internet in a big way and it is seen by human traffickers, they might kill us to silence us!
After Xu Hai finished speaking, everyone else fell silent.
Human life is at stake!
Zhou Liuyi was also anxious, but the more anxious he was, the calmer he looked. He wrote down all the information about the little girl on a piece of paper and analyzed:
“The child must still be in the city, he can definitely be found.
The child is a girl, so the possibility of her being abducted is lower than that of a boy. Moreover, the child is now six years old and can already remember things, so the possibility of being abducted is even lower. Most families do not want a child who can remember things, as they believe they cannot raise him or her well.
Besides, the child is sick. She looks smaller and thinner than other children of the same age, and her lips are purple. Human traffickers will not choose her first, and sick children in orphanages are not easy to be adopted.
The place where the child was lost is in a busy city, so it is very likely that the child got lost on his own. What we need to look for now is the place where the child might have gone.
"Children, where do you like to go most? Where do you want to go most?"
Every word and sentence is calm and well-reasoned.
As soon as the voice fell, the child's father hurriedly said:
"I promised my child to go to the children's park, but I didn't go!"
On Saturday, I posted a message in the group:
"The child's father promised the child to go to the Children's Park. Who is closer to the Children's Park?"
Xu Hai and Wang Caizhi responded quickly:
"We are close, let's go find it now!"
Zhou Liuyi suggested leaving one person at the station to watch over the child, while the others went to the child's home to see if they could find some useful information.
The child's grandparents took turns calling, so the couple had to go out to answer the phones.
Hu Liang is now at the child's home and took a lot of photos. There are many picture albums of the children looking at alone. The house has poor lighting and is quite cramped. The child's mother often has to take care of the dumpling shop business. It is mainly the elderly who take care of the children. The elderly are not meticulous and often leave the children alone at home.
The children’s greatest entertainment activity is to often stand on a stool under the window and look outside.
But there are photos of children everywhere, and all the things in the house are cartoons that children like. Even the TV that I forgot to turn off is still playing Peppa Pig.
From the surface, it seems that this family really loves this child.
Zhou Liuyi lowered his voice and asked Hu Liang on the phone:
"Brother Liang, do you think it's possible that someone wants to throw away the child and have another healthy one?"
Hu Liang carefully checked the things in the house:
"It's unlikely. I asked the neighbors and they said that the child's social security has always been paid by his grandparents, and his medical expenses are borne by his grandparents. Moreover, the couple loves their child very much and even obtained a one-child certificate for the child."
Saturday was a relief.
Shi Wenwen was puzzled:
"How can there be parents who don't love their children?"
Saturday one:
"A large proportion of child trafficking crimes are committed by biological parents, and we must rule this out."
Now the search scope is larger, and of course the more people the better. Who should be left behind?
At this time, Li Juan came back on her electric bike. She went to school in the afternoon to participate in her son's parent-child activities. She still had the red armband on her arm:
"I'll stay at the station to watch over you. You guys go ahead."
The question of who to leave behind was no longer a question. Several people drove to the child's home, and Zhou Liuyi kept asking the child's mother for information about the child:
"Who are the children's friends?"
The child's mother sighed and said:
"My child is smaller than other children because of illness. She becomes weak and sweaty when she moves a little. She doesn't like to move. Other children are so lively and active, jumping up and down. No one likes to play with her. How can she make friends with them?"
After contacting the kindergarten principal and the child's teacher, he asked the teacher who the child usually played with. The teacher responded very quickly:
"There was a little boy named Zixuan who often helped her move stools. There was also a little girl named Zixuan who often pulled her along when she went to the toilet. There was also a little boy named Linxuan who always bullied her. Once, he used bubble gum to stick to the child's hair..."
Shi Wenwen felt overwhelmed after hearing this:
"Who are these? Why are the names repeated? I can't figure it out."
This is Huang Qingmei's professional skills during this period:
"The current rate of repeated names among the children born in the 2000s is particularly high! Zixuan is the Pengfei and Lili of our childhood."
The child's mother was surprised:
"How come I didn't know there were so many people named Zixuan in my child's school?"
The child's father reproached:
"I don't think you care about the child either! The child obviously has so many good friends."
The child's mother was still out of control and said hurriedly:
"Zixuan must have run away with them. Contact their parents and ask them what rights they have to kidnap my child."
On Saturday, he wrote down everything the teacher said and asked the teacher to give him more information.
There are more than a dozen children who often play with Zixuan. Some live in the village in the city, and some live in the community. They are too scattered. It may not be possible to contact all of them now, and there is no targeted information to find them...
It is even possible that contacting the parents may cause them to be resentful and uncooperative, which will bring new troubles to the search.
The kindergarten teacher immediately asked all the parents in the student group, and all the parents said that they had only taken their own children back and had not seen other children.
At this time, Wang Caizhi and Xu Hai sent back a message:
The child was not found in the Children's Park. We asked the sanitation workers there and checked the surveillance cameras nearby and confirmed that the child was not there.
The child's mother broke down again:
"No? How could there be no place? My daughter wants to go to the Children's Park every day. Where else can she go? We are not locals. We have always been in the dumpling shop and bought things online. We have never been anywhere..."
Saturday, let the collapsed mother calm down as soon as possible:
"Does the child have any other connections with these classmates? Think about it carefully?"
The child's mother sniffed:
"I remember that Zixuan once told me that she loved dumplings stuffed with salted egg yolks, and she often brought dumplings to Zixuan! Zixuan also often came to our dumpling shop to buy dumplings. I always thought the child was saying tongue twisters, so I ignored her."
I contacted the teacher immediately on Saturday and the teacher responded quickly:
"There are two boys in our class named Zixuan. One of them is allergic to egg yolks. The other is picked up by the family driver and nanny every day. Another's father seems to be in the paint business and drives a van every day."
Zhou Liuyi felt that he was getting closer to the truth, so he asked the teacher for the contact information of the parents of the child who made the paint.
The suspicion of trafficking has been ruled out.
There was no one to be found in any of the nearby places that the children were familiar with.
None of the surveillance cameras captured the child, so it must be that the child was taken away by an acquaintance.
…
The director and Peng Zhiyuan lived relatively close to the family’s community, so they went there immediately. The parents were very cooperative.
The child did go to the dumpling shop in the afternoon and ate steamed dumplings with salted egg yolks with Zixuan, but they took their own child back to the car to make sure there was no extra child.
Another failure, no child found.
So, where can the children go?
Huang Qingmei is now crying:
"I have learned a little about first aid. I know that if a child with ketoacidosis cannot get an injection, he will be poisoned! For a child that young, first aid may not be effective."
The time has reached half past ten.
All possible places were searched.
Everyone was extremely anxious.
The director smoked several cigarettes and is now calling people from other units to ask for help:
"Lao Du, are you off work? Come back to work for a while and help me!"
"Captain Zhou, I know you are good at finding people. You have found so many abducted children in our province. I have sent you the information. It is still within the golden four hours of finding people."
…
He even called Lao Gu and Lao He, who had already retired.
Wang Caizhi and Xu Hai visited all the businesses again and asked again if there was anything unusual.
…
The child's father banged his head against the wall in frustration:
"Zixuan has always been very well behaved. She always says that she wants to come back every night to see her father, but every night when I come back, it is already half past ten and the child has already fallen asleep..."
On Saturday, I asked Jiang Hanshan to send back the information of vehicles near the dumpling shop entrance. Information of hundreds of vehicles flooded into the mobile phone at once, almost freezing it.
The information on one of the cars caught Zhou Liuyi's attention:
Development Zone Supply!
Saturday morning enlarged the picture and called the child's father over:
"Is your other branch in the development zone?"
The father nodded:
"That's right. The development zone is developing now. There are many workers. The dumplings sold there are in short supply every day. I can make back my investment in less than a year."
Saturday asked again:
"Do you mention this word often in your family?"
The father nodded:
"Of course, this store is now our golden goose. Every night I have to settle accounts with my wife for a long time!"
Zhou Liu was very worried. He pointed at the picture and said:
"The trunk of this car is open, and there is room for stuff inside the car because it is a decoration car, and the car has been modified. There are advertisements on the outside, so you can't see inside.
I think this car is more than enough to hide a child.
The child wants to go to the children's park and sits on a stool every day waiting for his parents.
Maybe the child wants to find his parents by himself! "
Zhou Liuyi just enlarged the picture, and the child's mother burst into tears and said:
"That's right! I remember now. The driver said that the dumplings in Longhua Street are not as big as those in the Development Zone, and there are not as many dishes! I told the customer that the store in the Development Zone is also ours, and the two stores are exactly the same. The child's father works there until late every day.
But the customer still insisted. He thought the dumplings in the development zone were better. He would go to the development zone to pick up some goods and have another bowl there.
The child next to them must have heard it!
That's why I got into this person's car without caring about anything else!"
This is a particularly important piece of information!
In other words, now as long as we find this car and its owner, we can find the child!
The child's father blamed the child's mother:
"How could you forget such important information?"
The child's mother asked excitedly:
"Quick, check the surveillance camera at the entrance of the development zone. The child may be waiting for us there!"
The child's father had turned on his mobile phone to check the online surveillance, but to his disappointment, no matter how hard he looked, there was no news of the child.
He also called the two workers in the shop, but received no response either.
At this time, Jiang Hanshan was still at the traffic police team, checking the car and found the owner of the car. The two brothers were delivering foam plastic packaging to the development zone, but they also picked up several things and stopped the car several times along the way, and did not notice the child.
The car is now parked in the yard. Peng Zhiyuan went to check it out personally on his motorcycle. He could shine a flashlight from inside the car to the bottom, but there was nothing.
The kid is not in the car!
That is to say, children may run away anywhere along the way where there is no surveillance.
The child's mother cried bitterly and was shaking all over. If she delayed any longer, the child might really die:
"My poor child, when he was still in my belly, I was sitting and making dumplings all the time, and I didn't get enough exercise, which led to premature birth. That's why he is in poor health. If I can't find the child, how can I live?"
Huang Qingmei and several other young police officers felt particularly bad:
"It's over. The child will definitely not be found."
Shi Wenwen shot a lot of material, but she felt that she might not need it anymore.
Li Hua was so angry that he kept pounding the table.
However, Zhou Liuyi did not give up. He took his computer and looked at the map along the way. His voice was calm and he was not affected at all. As long as he couldn't find it, he would keep looking.
Never give up until the last moment:
"There is a Longfeng Park here. I saw on the AR map that there are slides and swings in this park. The exterior design is very cartoon-like. Moreover, this park is right opposite this shop. The trees are quite large and may have blocked the surveillance camera. This is the first shop where the car stopped, so the child is likely here."
There were still fifteen minutes until eleven o'clock, and everyone's heart was hanging in the air. At this moment, no one hesitated at all, and everyone went to Longfeng Park.
After Jiang Hanshan arrived, he first found the surveillance camera. To his delight, he could see a little girl in red clothes sliding down the slide alone. All the other children had left, and she was the only one left.
It was Li Zixuan, whom everyone had been looking for for a long time.
Judging from the surveillance footage, at around 6pm, the little girl was in good spirits and there were no other strangers around.
Jiang Hanshan pointed at the surveillance screen:
"Find it quickly!"
All the people from the police station came and people in the park also helped, but the little girl disappeared from the surveillance footage.
The park at night was winding and poorly lit, and everyone was shouting a child's name:
"Zixuan!"
"Li Zixuan!"
…
Every cry is the little girl's hope to survive.
Zhou Liu held a police flashlight in one hand and ran wildly on the park trail with Shi Wenwen. Shi Wenwen kept sneezing. She was wearing a skirt, which made her feel colder than wearing trousers.
Zhou Liuyi immediately took off his coat. Shi Wenwen thought Zhou Liuyi was going to give her the coat, but Zhou Liuyi said:
"The child is wearing thinner clothes and is in poor health. She must be more afraid of cold than you. If it is particularly cold, where will she go?"
Shi Wenwen didn't care about her loss and looked around blankly:
"I definitely found the warmest place in the park, but the Lei Feng learning booth in the park was locked, so I could only find the spot under a tree. The leaves have started to fall now, so it's warmer to cover myself with them."
“That’s right!”
Saturday returned immediately and ran to the trash can.
The sanitation workers piled all the nearby plastic garbage and leaves here, forming a thick layer that they haven't had time to transport away yet.
This pile of garbage looks fluffy, soft and inconspicuous.
On Saturday, I threw away the flashlight, squatted down and started digging with my hands. After a few diggings, the red corner of the clothes appeared.
He stared at the dirty little girl in red clothes without blinking.
Found it!
Finally found it!
Shi Wenwen looked at Zhou Liuyi and she felt that she had seen a miracle today!
He shouted to the others:
"Found it! I found little Li Zixuan!"
He put the jacket in his hand on the thin little girl. He was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt and was covered with goose bumps from the cold.
Then she bent down and carefully took the child out, as if he was holding a rare treasure.
The child fell asleep due to fatigue at first, but now, due to fluctuations in blood sugar in his body and lack of medication and food for a long time, he has fallen into a coma.
The child's mother stumbled over and burst into tears:
"My Xuanxuan!"