Chapter 59 Chapter 59 Ambush in Investigation

Chapter 59

"Sister Qin Ye, this is bad. Huang Haozi has been kidnapped!"

Shuanzi ran all the way to Qin Ye and Qin Ze, half bent over with exhaustion, and took a long time to catch his breath. "Huang Haozi said just now that he had diarrhea and wanted to go to the toilet. We were fed up with the stench, so we waited not far from the toilet. After waiting for a long time, I still didn't see him come out, so I ran into the toilet and found that he was gone. There was only this thing lying next to the pit."

Shuanzi spread out his hand, in his palm was the small pendant that Qin Ye gave to Huang Haozi.

She gave one to each of her four children, and told them clearly that if they were in danger and did not have time to call for help, they should throw the small pendant on the ground.

Obviously, something happened to Huang Haozi.

In the original world, Huang Haozi was the second child killed by the "water ghost".

The murderer probably discovered that she and Qin Ze were protecting Bai Jie in secret, so he shifted his target to Huang Haozi, who was easier to target.

Qin Ye took the small pendant that Huang Haozi had left at the scene of the crime from Shuanzi, turned around and told Qin Ze: "Xiao Ze, go to the Huang family right now and tell them that Huang Haozi is missing, and have them report the case to our police station."

Qin Ze nodded in agreement and ran towards the Huang family.

She followed Shuanzi and rushed to the crime scene as quickly as possible.

…

The toilet where Huang Haozi disappeared is in the south of the county town, where there are few people and a vast wasteland of grass not far away.

Qin Ye looked around and frowned unconsciously.

She had reminded Huang Haozi and his four other children many times these days not to go out to play in sparsely populated areas. Obviously, Huang Haozi didn't take her words to heart at all.

Shuanzi noticed the ugly look on her face and thought she was blaming herself for not keeping an eye on Huang Haozi, so he tried to comfort her: "Sister Qin Ye, don't be too anxious. To put it bluntly, Huang Haozi asked for it himself, and we have done our best for him."

Ever since the Qin family moved to the county town, Shuanzi has been running to the Qin family every now and then to eat, and has a close relationship with Qin Ye.

In front of Qin Tye, he naturally said whatever he wanted: "It was Huang Haozi who insisted on coming here to dig rabbit holes. We persuaded him many times, saying that this place is remote and prone to accidents. He didn't listen at all, and even shouted that if Qiao Dongfu had the guts, he would turn into a ghost and kill him."

In his opinion, Huang Haozi and his group were just lucky.

He ran out of the house in the middle of the night and wandered around, and happened to run into Qiao Dongfu fishing with electric shock in the fish pond, and only then did he receive the so-called bravery award.

Qin Ye patted Shuanzi's shoulder gently and said, "Thank you for your hard work these days. After we catch the man, I will invite you to play video games in the arcade."

Hearing that they could go to the arcade to play, Shuanzi grinned happily and nodded heavily: "Okay! Huang Haozi told us a few days ago that Bai Jie invited the three of them to play in the arcade for a whole day to thank them for saving his life."

…

Qin Ye was squatting on the ground, holding a magnifying glass and surveying the scene.

When she heard Shuanzi's words, she put down the magnifying glass in her hand and looked up suddenly: "Life-saving grace?"

"Yes, Sister Qin Ye, don't you know that Bai Jie can't swim?"

Shuanzi nodded and said without hesitation, "He almost drowned in the fish pond, and it was Huang Haozi and the other two who pulled Bai Jie out."

Bai Jie can't swim.

Qin Ye remembered it very clearly. When she asked Hu Xuan about the case, Hu Xuan told her that Bai Jie jumped into the fish pond to rescue Qiao Dongfu as soon as he fell and drowned.

If Bai Jie couldn't swim at all, how could he jump into the fish pond to save people? ! !

In other words, from the very beginning, Bai Jie and others lied to the police.

Qin Ye realized this and couldn't help but clench the magnifying glass in his hand.

The issues behind this case are probably more complicated than she imagined.

…

After Qin Ye completed the preliminary investigation of the crime scene, Hu Xuan and other people from the bureau finally arrived.

Huang Haozi had just been awarded a reward for bravery, and now he was suddenly kidnapped. Director Wu attached great importance to this case and came to the scene with the main force.

"Xiao Qin, what on earth is going on? Why was Huang Haozi kidnapped when he was fine?"

Director Wu held his forehead with a headache, and he really didn't understand what went wrong. "Qiao Dongfu's family members are all dead, who would have nothing better to do and come out to avenge these children for Qiao Dongfu?"

Qiao Dongfu's case was indeed a tragedy.

No one expected that Qiao Dongfu would drown in the fish pond, and Qiao Dongfu's wife chose to commit suicide in the house because she could not afford the loss of the fish pond owner.

Director Wu had long anticipated that some family members would be confused and blame the deaths of Qiao Dongfu and his wife on Huang Haozi's four children.

For this purpose, he had specifically checked and confirmed that Qiao Dongfu and his wife did not have any close friends, and there was no one who would take revenge on the four children for them.

Qin Ye stretched out his hand to push aside the grass, pointed at the footprints on the ground, opened his thin lips slightly, and uttered a name: "Qiao Zheng."

Director Wu was stunned: "You mean Qiao Dongfu's son, isn't he dead?"

She shook her head slightly, and did not answer the question immediately. Instead, she analyzed the footprints: "According to the shoe prints at the scene, the person who took Huang Haozi away was about 1.85 meters tall and had a strong body, leaving Huang Haozi with no resistance at all."

There were no signs of a struggle at the scene, only two rows of footprints.

One row is the footprints of the murderer when he came, and the other row is the footprints of the murderer when he left.

The murderer's footprints were deeper, with no signs of dragging or Huang Haozi's footprints. I think the other party subdued Huang Haozi and then carried him away.

Huang Haozi is a chubby boy who is 1.7 meters tall and weighs at least 70 kilograms. It is definitely not something that ordinary people can easily carry him away.

…

Any experienced policeman with a little investigation experience can see this, and Chief Wu is no exception.

He looked at the footprints on the ground, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter: "Qin Ye, did you find anything?"

He knew Qin Ye. Without any evidence, she would definitely not be able to assert with certainty that Qiao Zheng was the murderer.

Qin Ye unbuttoned the top row of buttons on his coat, took out a photo from the inside pocket of his coat, and handed it to Director Wu: "Behind the photo, there is also a timeline of Qiao Zheng's time in school."

In the photo, Qiao Zheng was grinning with his big white teeth, holding up a barbell weighing dozens of kilograms without changing his expression. He was half a head taller than the students who were watching the fun around him.

His height and strength both meet the criteria for a suspect.

Director Wu frowned and turned to the back of the photo, and soon found the problem in Qiao Zheng's timeline at school.

According to the villagers of Miaoping Village, Qiao Zheng was a reckless person just like his father Qiao Dongfu. In the end, he dropped out of school and died in a gang fight.

But according to Qiao Zheng's timeline in school, in the few years before graduation, he had always been a good student who abided by the law and was highly praised by his teachers and classmates.

Qiao Zheng's change began in March of the year he graduated.

"At the beginning of that year, the provincial police conducted a 'tour inspection' at all technical secondary schools and arrived at Qiao Zheng's school in March of that year."

Qin Ye pointed at the photo and continued, "After the police's 'inspection' left, Qiao Zheng seemed to have become a different person. He got into fights everywhere and was soon expelled from school, disappearing from everyone's sight. Later, an urn was sent back to Miaoping Village."

She is very familiar with this process.

Her master who led her in the criminal investigation team in her previous life was valued by his superiors when he was in college and was asked if he was willing to go undercover in a criminal group.

After he agreed to the undercover operation, all his original network of relationships was cut off, and he remained anonymous in the criminal group for three whole years. It wasn't until the criminal group was completely defeated that he finally regained his original identity.

Qin Ye had reason to suspect that Qiao Zheng was also chosen by the higher-ups to become an undercover agent to carry out a secret mission.

Out of caution, she did not express her guess in front of everyone, but Director Wu still understood what she meant.

Director Wu's expression became serious. He propped himself up on his knees and straightened up from the ground. He returned Qiao Zheng's photo to Qin Ye: "I understand. I will report this matter to Mr. Xiao from the Provincial Bureau and verify Qiao Zheng's identity with him."

"Director Wu."

Qin Ye hesitated for a moment, but looking at the sunny smile of Qiao Zheng in the photo, she couldn't help but call out to Director Wu, "Can you give me 24 hours' grace?"

She will try her best to find Huang Haozi's whereabouts as quickly as possible.

According to the trajectory of the original world, it is absolutely impossible for Qiao Zheng to kill Huang Haozi within 24 hours. She must stop Qiao Zheng's actions before he causes disaster.

She could understand Qiao Zheng's desire for revenge, but at the same time, she didn't want Qiao Zheng's future to be ruined by this revenge.

If Qiao Zheng was really an undercover police officer, and his act of kidnapping Huang Haozi was reported to the provincial bureau, all his efforts over the years would be wiped out in an instant.

Director Wu understood what she meant and finally nodded: "Okay."

…

There were no other clues except a small set of footprints in the wasteland.

Fortunately, there are only two roads around the wasteland, one is a main road leading directly to the county town, and the other is a secluded road leading to Miaoping Village.

Qin Ye felt that it would be impossible for Qiao Zheng to carry Huang Haozi on the main road and attract attention.

But for safety reasons, she and other police officers decided to start with the wasteland and conduct a carpet search of the surrounding area.

She and Hu Xuan were following a secluded path as they searched down.

The two men continued moving forward, and when they passed a muddy path, they saw footprints from the crime scene again around a mud pit.

A hint of joy flashed across Qin Ye's brows, knowing that there must be no problem with the direction they were investigating.

"Qin Ye, there seems to be something over there!"

Hu Xuan had sharp eyes and suddenly saw an empty reagent bottle thrown in the bushes next to him.

He took two steps at a time and walked forward. The grass ground trembled slightly with his movements.

Qin Ye looked at the soft ground, realized something, and hurriedly shouted to Hu Xuan to come back quickly, but he was still a little too late.

Boom——

Hu Xuan missed a step and fell into the trap in front of the reagent bottle. For a moment, dust was flying all around.

Qin Ye waved his hand to clear away the dust in front of him, and then he saw clearly that there was a one-meter-wide hole on the lawn. He walked over and found Hu Xuan sitting at the bottom of the hole with his legs hugged, grumbling and cursing, "Damn it, I'm going to fall to death. Who dug this big hole? ! ! Luckily there was some hay underneath, otherwise I would have fallen to death!"

The trap was estimated to be four or five meters deep, and when Hu Xuan tilted his neck back and cursed, there was an echo.

Obviously, someone had set a trap.

Qin Ye breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that Hu Xuan was fine. She looked around vigilantly, intending to rescue Hu Xuan quickly after making sure the surroundings were safe.

At this moment, a gun was suddenly pointed at her waist: "Don't move."