Chapter 12, Poppy 12

After checking the dormitory, Luo Siwei asked Shen Qing to stay and continue the search, and specifically told him to take the cup back for DNA testing.

She then called out the monitor, Jian Wenlu, from among the boys. Luo Siwei found an open space downstairs and asked him about the situation.

Jian Wenlu was a fair-skinned boy with curly hair and glasses. He looked like the kind of well-behaved student a teacher would like. He had been frightened by the police's actions and hesitated when answering questions from the two female officers.

"Cha Junxi...we're not familiar with each other. He's just an ordinary guy, a homebody who hardly goes out. Besides attending classes, he's in his dorm playing with his phone or computer. He rarely joins us in group activities. He's also evasive at gatherings and barely interacts with us."

Luo Siwei asked him, "Has Cha Junxi told you that he has a girl he likes?"

Jian Wenlu tilted his head and recalled, "He seemed to have a crush on a senior student. We guessed that, but he never told us who it was."

"What's so special about him? Or is it something you find strange?"

"He has a lot of cell phones, often carrying two or three at a time. He switches between them..."

"Did he do anything unusual in the afternoon six days ago?"

"After class that morning, he left. I remember he was wearing new clothes and looked very smart. I asked him, and he said he was going to celebrate his friend's birthday."

Ni Xiang, who was in charge of recording, raised her head when she heard this and exchanged a tacit glance with Luo Siwei.

The detail about "celebrating birthday" matches.

Jian Wenlu continued, "The next day he came to class, looking tired and pale. I asked him if he was feeling unwell. He said he just didn't sleep well."

"When was the last time you saw him?"

Jian Wenlu thought for a moment and said, "Yesterday, he came to the dormitory to pack some things and said he had asked the teacher for a few days' leave."

Luo Siwei then asked some more details, and Jian Wenlu was quite cooperative and answered them one by one.

Luo Siwei realized from his answer that although Cha Junxi didn't like to communicate with his classmates, he had a good relationship with this boy in the dormitory. She felt that Jian Wenlu seemed to be hiding some information.

Luo Siwei took a sharp step forward and asked him, "What websites does Cha Junxi usually visit?"

Jian Wenlu avoided her gaze and shook his head: "His notebook is often facing the wall. I don't know what he is browsing."

Luo Siwei saw through his lies and continued to ask, "Does Cha Junxi do that kind of thing often?"

Hearing this question, Jian Wenlu's face flushed. He was also an adult, so he naturally knew what Luo Siwei was talking about. He didn't expect this beautiful policewoman to ask this question without blushing or beating her heart.

Luo Siwei was just investigating the case and didn't think it was something difficult to talk about. Ni Xiang, standing beside him, pursed her lips and took notes seriously, without even looking up.

Seeing Jian Wenlu remained silent, Luo Siwei asked in more detail: "For example, what kind of movies do you watch?"

We are all boys living in the same dormitory. It is impossible for us to live together for several years without discussing related issues.

Under Luo Siwei's questioning, Jian Wenlu blushed and said, "Cha Junxi knows how to climb over the firewall to find resources on the Internet. He has a wide range of resources and is well-known in several nearby dormitories. Everyone jokes that he looks righteous, but his head is full of nonsense. The boys in the class...will go to him for anything they want..."

After Jian Wenlu finished speaking, he looked at the policewoman in front of him. He felt like he was going to be socially dead after discussing this topic in front of the two policewomen.

Luo Siwei got the answer she wanted and asked Ni Xiang to write it down truthfully. These points also matched her psychological profile of Cha Junxi: Cha Junxi had uncontrollable desires, which was very important for their subsequent judgment.

The groundwork was almost complete, and Luo Siwei asked the key question: "Has Cha Junxi ever mentioned Yu Wanying to you?"

Jian Wenlu paused for breath, then he told the truth: "He mentioned that he doesn't like group activities, but he did go to watch the school singing competition. When Yu Wanying sang, he stood in the audience, staring intently. We started to ask him if that was the senior sister he liked, but he never admitted it. But we all thought it must be her."

Ni Xiang asked from the side: "Why do you judge like this?"

Jian Wenlu recalled: "Because every time we mentioned Yu Wanying, he would get angry and forbid us to talk about her. And I once saw him following behind Yu Wanying, and the way he looked at her was very strange..."

Luo Siwei then asked some more questions, including on what occasions Cha Junxi had met Yu Wanying, where he usually liked to eat, what means of transportation he used when he left, and what he packed his luggage with when he left.

Jian Wenlu answered them one by one, and then he asked Luo Siwei in a trembling voice: "Cha Junxi...could he really be related to the disappearance of that girl?"

"You can wait for the subsequent police announcement." Luo Siwei said, "But it seems... you don't know your roommate well enough."

After hearing this answer, Jian Wenlu's face turned pale and he looked like he was about to cry.

Luo Siwei expressed his understanding of this. No matter how carefree a person is, after spending several years with a suspect, he or she will inevitably be frightened and terrified after learning the truth.

This team of police officers continued investigating until nearly midnight before they left Donglan University and got on the police car for the return trip.

After a busy day, Luo Siwei looked out the window at the night view of Donglan. When he was about to reach the police station, it started to drizzle. The raindrops wet the car window, and the street lights left colorful shadows, like passing stars.

Luo Si tilted his head slightly to look out the window, clearing his mind for a while as if taking a rest.

Then she withdrew her gaze, stretched out her right hand and touched the hairpin on her head. When she was thinking about the problem, her lips were slightly pursed, her jaw was tense, and her expression was a little cold.

Luo Siwei's intuition told her that Zha Junxi might be the suspect the police were looking for. However, they still lacked solid evidence and had too many unanswered questions.

How did he get Yu Wanying to leave? Who is that mysterious netizen, and how is he connected to the case?

The most important thing is, where is Cha Junxi now?

She needs to find the answers to these questions in order to discover the truth hidden behind them.

That night, Luo Siwei and Ni Xiang slept in the No. 3 duty room. Luo Siwei fell asleep quickly and did not have a nightmare tonight. But at five o'clock in the morning, her biological clock still made her wake up early.

Luo Siwei turned over and got up. Ni Xiang hummed when she heard the sound. She rubbed her eyes in a daze.

Luo Siwei said: "It's still early, you can continue to sleep."

Ni Xiang asked, "What about you?"

Luo Siwei went to get dressed: "I can't sleep, I'm going to the office to work overtime."

Ni Xiang insisted and sat up from the bed: "Captain Luo, I'll go with you."

After washing up, the two of them came to the office and turned on a ceiling light.

This was the quietest time in the entire police station. Luo Siwei looked out the window. It was still pitch black outside, with only the street lights on.

Ni Xiang was clearly still a little sleepy. She yawned and stretched, then lay down on the glass of Luo Siwei's workstation like a kitten. "Captain Luo, where do we start?"

Luo Siwei did not answer her immediately. The cold white light shone on her face, and combined with the light from the computer screen, her skin appeared cold and white. Her long eyelashes drooped, casting a shadow.

Luo Siwei's thoughts at this time were exceptionally clear.

Cha Junxi is a quiet, eccentric, and online-obsessed man. He has few close connections with his classmates or family, and he has few friends. He spends most of his time online. Perhaps they need to refocus their investigation on the internet to fully uncover his secrets...

Thinking of this, she looked up and said decisively: "Let's start with social software."

Afterwards, Luo Siwei opened the police backend and told Ni Xiang the good news: "The backend permissions from the Municipal Bureau have been approved, and you can view the records."

In order to investigate this case, Luo Siwei specially applied for police authority, which was finally approved in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Now, Luo Siwei logs into the backend with a police account and can view the communication information of some accounts. He can also see some conversation records stored on the server.

Sitting in front of the computer, Luo Siwei was not in a hurry to start. She recalled the various clues she had obtained last night.

Cha Junxi had been buying Yu Wanying's information for a long time. He had stalked her. His dorm's decor was identical to Yu Wanying's. He loved playing on his computer and phone, even during class. He had multiple phones, and his email address usually started with MYD.

What crazy things could such a person do?

Luo Si narrowed his eyes slightly and imagined himself as Cha Junxi...

She opened the software and checked the operation records of Yu Wanying's account bit by bit, looking through all the conversations, likes, and new followers in the recent period one by one.

Soon she discovered several suspicious accounts among Yu Wanying's mutual followers.

After making the discovery, she called Ni Xiang from the seat in front. Ni Xiang simply sat next to Luo Siwei with her notebook, and the two of them checked together.

These accounts have different names and profile pictures, and their real-name authentication information is linked to different ID cards. The identification information includes both men and women, and one of them is an elderly person in his 80s. But the common point is...

Luo Siwei opened the information page: "The registered email addresses of these accounts all start with MYD."

Ni Xiang also noticed this: "The email addresses have the same prefix and are followed by numbers, which makes them look highly similar."

Luo Siwei said, "This is a common method used by some people to swipe orders or register a large number of accounts. Cha Junxi may have registered these accounts in bulk early on, and later found an online authentication agent to keep these numbers."

It seems that in order to prevent the account from being frozen, some small accounts have added each other as friends so that they can verify each other, but the actual effect is like finding a gourd baby, and once pulled, it involves a large group of people.

This discovery allowed them to find a new breakthrough.

Ni Xiang began to sort out these accounts. As more and more accounts were found, more surprising situations occurred.

Ni Xiang reported, "Captain Luo, these accounts have different personas. Some are die-hard fans who interact frequently with Yu Wanying, some are pretending to be her elective course teachers, and some claim to be Yu Wanying's junior classmate. Some of these accounts are clones."

Those accounts reposted photos and Moments of Friends with disguised identities, making it difficult to detect without face-to-face verification.

These accounts often interact with each other and even have quarrels.

What’s even more exaggerated is that there are also Yu Wanying’s black fans among them.

Of course, there are also accounts tracking and harassing Yu Wanying.

Ni Xiang said, "This person probably has hundreds of smurfs, right? What kind of pervert is this? A smurf maniac?"

As long as someone is disguised on the Internet, people have no idea whether the person they are talking to is a human or a ghost.

Later, Luo Siwei made a new discovery...

She clicked on a group chat on the screen and pointed it to Ni Xiang: "Here, Yu Wanying joined a group."

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