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1007: Chapter 976: Desperate Situation!

1007: Chapter 976: Desperate Situation!

Early morning.

Wu Jie, deep in sleep, was abruptly woken by the urgent ringing of his phone.

He flipped over and sat up immediately, quickly answering the call.

“Mr.

Wu, we finally found a usable clue!”

Hearing this, Wu Jie’s spirits were instantly lifted.

“A vendor who delivers groceries like rice, flour, and oil to the school every day claimed that yesterday morning, while driving from the town to the school, he saw a black business car with an out-of-town license plate parked in a valley not far from the school!”

“Because it was an out-of-town plate and an unusual model for the town, coupled with it being stationary by the roadside forest, he took a good look.

He can’t remember the exact license plate number, but we are already having him identify the car model!”

“We’ll find all the photos of business cars and have him identify them one by one.

We’ll likely get the results soon; then we can track the suspicious vehicle using the traffic surveillance on nearby county and provincial roads!”

Wu Jie responded with a few hums of acknowledgment, then urged, “Good, work quickly, the longer we delay, the less favorable it is for the victim!”

After giving his instructions, Wu Jie hung up the phone and quickly relayed the information to Fang Qingya, who hadn’t slept all night.

“…An out-of-town plate?

Doesn’t that mean Lin Yuan has been abducted to another place?

Could she have been kidnapped and sold by human traffickers?”

Fang Qingya asked anxiously.

Wu Jie explained, “Everything is still very uncertain.

We can’t rule out the possibility that the party with a strong sense of counter-surveillance used a cloned vehicle, faking an out-of-town plate to throw off the investigation!”

“But generally speaking, in cases of women and children trafficking, the crime scene and the selling point are usually far apart.

This is to prevent the victim from escaping or being accidentally recognized by family members!”

Fang Qingya, sobbing, muttered, “So you’re saying Lin Yuan must have been trafficked out of town.

Could she end up like those reported in the news before, sold to a remote and impoverished village, forced to be someone’s wife, and never able to escape?”

“Being imprisoned, constantly bearing children for those coarse and vile old men?

Leading a life worse than that of pigs and dogs?”

Fang Qingya became more agitated as she spoke, since these were realities she was describing.

“This…”

Wu Jie hesitated for a moment, then thought of what Zheng had said to him the night before and considering Fang Qingya’s current emotional state, he decided to tell the truth.

“Qingya, don’t be too agitated.

According to the criminal records analysis from the Security Bureau, when it comes to trafficking children, the younger they are, the easier it is for the buyer to adopt them without estrangement, as young children don’t know any better!”

“And for women who are trafficked, they generally go to remote rural areas that are poor, backward, and where there’s an outdated mindset and a surplus of men over women.

However, the prettier you are, the higher the price.

For a stunning woman like Lin Yuan, if we were the traffickers, we’d certainly want to sell her for a high price!”

“The higher the price, the slower the sale.

Also, to avoid depreciating the value, traffickers certainly wouldn’t mistreat or abuse the victims easily; they’d rather keep the victims unconscious for a longer period of time!”

“With the victim unconscious, there’d be no resistance or attempt at escape, and no damage to the victim’s mental state or physical appearance.

That way, traffickers can sell at a higher price!”

“So, I believe Lin Yuan is still intact at the moment.

She’s probably still unconscious, unaware of what happened.

We still have a chance to crack the case and find her!”

As he spoke these words, Wu Jie himself didn’t believe them.

As Zheng said, the higher the criminal’s intelligence, the lower the likelihood of solving the crime.

Criminals like those who, unsatisfied with the amount of money from the robbery, actually asked victims to scan their own QR code for a digital payment, were after all in the minority.

Looking at this case, the criminal’s actions were watertight.

Their moves were swift and efficient, giving Lin Yuan no chance to cry for help or struggle, without letting any eyewitnesses see anything.

After questioning a large number of schoolteachers, volunteers, and students, the special case team deduced that Lin Yuan had disappeared in a brief period of five minutes, somewhere between 11:45 and 11:50 am.

She had two morning classes, and afterward, she usually went to the teacher’s office to prepare lessons.

Before lunch, she would go to the canteen to check on the meal preparations, particularly concerned about the nutritional meals for the children.

Because the school was a village school, the staff was already few.

Previously, being a teacher who also played the role of a headmaster while teaching three grade levels in both language arts and mathematics wasn’t unheard of.

So the teachers without classes would help out in the canteen as ‘chefs’ to prepare meals, while those with classes were busy teaching the children.

The criminal must have swiftly made their move during this time.

They were remarkably precise and ruthless.

Even though they successfully abducted someone, they left no trace behind.

The most critical point is…

Zheng said that cases of beautiful women mysteriously disappearing had happened before.

Five years ago, there was a beauty who won a college campus model competition.

She truly had ‘both beauty and talent’.

An angelic face and a devilish body.

At the time, many people thought she’d be a rising star and become the newest shining star in the entertainment industry.

With her education, appearance, physique, talent, and character, she was a breathtaking beauty that would be sure to become famous with just one look.

It would be hard for her not to become a star.

But what happened?

After winning, she returned to campus to treat her classmates to a meal and then was invited to celebrate with karaoke at a KTV.

After going to the restroom there, she never came back.

She was neither seen alive nor found dead.

Not a single clue.

And three years ago, there was this sexy and enchanting car model, always quite cautious and careful.

Whether attending car shows or fashion runways, she was either accompanied by a group of girlfriends or traveled with her agent.

She never went out alone, and no one could have imagined that she would disappear without a trace in the hotel.

There were a few similar unresolved cases.

Almost all of them were very similar to Lin Yuan’s situation this time: The criminals acted extremely fast, leaving no eyewitnesses, no evidence, and no traces.

It seemed like they had been targeted long before.

Previous cases had always seen relentless efforts to solve them, with every possible lead being pursued a hundredfold, but to this day, they had all come to nothing.

So…

What Wu Jie had said just then was simply trying to comfort Fang Qingya.

This naive girl had been worried and frightened all night, he couldn’t let her fall into despair; he had to give her some hope.

Otherwise, if Lin Yuan wasn’t found yet, and Fang Qingya went crazy with anxiety first, wouldn’t that be even more tragic?

After comforting Fang Qingya, Wu Jie found himself unable to sleep anymore and immediately got out of bed to wash up.

Tang Xiao’s flight wouldn’t arrive in Liuli City until noon, with a scheduled meeting to discuss strategic cooperation with the Academy in the afternoon.

So Wu Jie planned to visit the Liuli City branch of the Security Bureau.

Lin Yuan’s mysterious disappearance was not an isolated case; it had to be addressed seriously.

It wasn’t just because Lin Yuan was his friend, elegant and beautiful, but because, as Zheng had said, similar cases had occurred more than once in recent years.

Why couldn’t the clearance rate for missing persons cases ever reach one hundred percent?

Why did some people disappear without a trace, never to be found again?

As the saying goes, “In every field, there is a leading expert.”

But these ruthless and bold human traffickers were just too damn arrogant.

Given that there had been several unresolved cases of beautiful women mysteriously disappearing over the years, significant efforts should be made to investigate and strive to solve them.

However…

After arriving, Wu Jie received two pieces of news from Zheng, one good and one bad.

The good news was that several unresolved cases of beautiful women mysteriously disappearing, along with Lin Yuan’s abduction, were indeed too damn serious.

Perhaps because of Wu Jie’s connection to the victims, Elder Tan had ordered the merging of these disappearance cases into an unprecedentedly large special task force.

Personnel from various departments were selected to join the task force, sparing no expense to solve these cases.

Otherwise, who knows, in half a year or a year or two, another exceptionally beautiful and talented woman might vanish.

Such intermittent, uncertain crime patterns, which persisted despite efforts to stop them, were a major scourge.

So…

The collaboration of multiple departments, sharing intelligence and pooling ideas…

It might sound good, but it only meant greater investigative efforts, not necessarily a higher probability of solving the cases.

After all, these cases shared common characteristics: the victims disappeared at an alarming speed, and the criminals were extremely cunning, leaving no evidence or clues behind.

And that, of course, signaled the bad news, which was truly terrible.

The van suspected to be used by the criminals had been found.

However, its license plate registration was over two thousand kilometers away from the crime scene.

The plate had been reported lost a while ago, and the original owner wasn’t an individual but a small company.

So, as Wu Jie had suspected, it was a “clone car,” with identical make and appearance.

After gathering all available traffic surveillance footage from county roads, provincial roads, and highways around the crime scene and conducting image recognition and analysis, the conclusion was inevitably tragic.

The vehicle hadn’t been located; it was like a “ghost car” that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and then just as suddenly vanished.

Could the cunning criminals have prepared multiple “clone cars”?

Could they have switched vehicles before and after the crime?

Could the out-of-town van found in the ravine have been a deliberate red herring?

If that was the case, any crime vehicle hidden in the desolate mountains would likely be torched beyond recognition, obliterating any leads.

…

The good news brought no surprises.

The bad news snapped the only clue they had.

Against such treacherous and cunning criminals, it was clear that mobilizing more departments and personnel was futile.

They must be intimately familiar with the investigative process.

Surveillance reviews, roadblocks, joint searches…

Knowing the routine meant knowing how to subvert it.

Facing such high-IQ criminals, it was no wonder that case after case of beautiful women mysteriously disappearing had turned cold and remained unsolved.

Will Lin Yuan’s case, too, ultimately remain unsolved?

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