Chapter 23 Fossil Village
Xiao Zhou walked into the teaching building with a few people.
"They should be questioning them in the classroom right now. Let's go over there now."
Several people nodded and followed Xiao Zhou to climb up to the fourth floor.
Then I came to the door of one of the classrooms, only to see that the door was tightly closed. There were policemen guarding the door, and it was sealed all around.
Xiao Zhou pushed his glasses and said seriously.
"That's the class those three girls are in—Class 3, Grade 1."
Through the window, I saw several students in school uniforms being questioned by the police. They looked a little nervous.
“Dongdongdong——”
Xiao Zhou knocked on the door and opened it directly.
"Hello, Officer Li, several experts from the imperial capital have arrived."
The policemen inside were dressed in uniform and looked very capable.
Hearing this, he stood up.
"Welcome, welcome, come in."
This police officer Li looked to be about the same age as Xiao Zhou, and his eyes were filled with fatigue.
"You're finally here. I've been asking around all day and still have no clue."
Next to Officer Li was a computer.
The surveillance was paused. Gu Hansheng sat aside and turned on the surveillance video.
Shi Yi looked at the two well-behaved girls in school uniforms sitting below, who were nervously picking their fingers.
Shi Yi gently pulled Gu Hansheng's sleeve and signaled him.
"Those two girls were very nervous."
Gu Hansheng turned his head and nodded.
"Got it. Officer Li brought out a few stools for a few people to sit on."
"Xu Yunxi, Liang Qimeng..."
Shi Yi spoke softly, and the two girls below raised their hands timidly.
“It’s us…”
Officer Li whispered on the side.
"They are classmates with the three missing girls."
Shi Yi nodded and looked at the two girls below.
"Are you two close with these three girls?"
The two girls looked at each other and shook their heads.
"They don't get along well. The three of them are making a lot of noise. They don't play with anyone in our class and they don't like studying."
Shi Yi nodded, this almost matched the information they already knew.
"Do the three of them have any close classmates besides each other?"
Speaking of this, the two girls below bit their lower lips and looked a little hesitant, which was obviously a manifestation of psychological tension.
Gu Hansheng said in a deep voice from the side.
"Now that the three of them are missing, we don't know if they are still alive. You should tell us everything you know so that we have a chance to rescue them."
The girl below hesitated for a while, and finally scratched her fingers.
"Actually... there was someone who had a pretty good relationship with those three girls. They used to be the four best friends in the class, but that girl dropped out of school last semester and went home."
Shi Yi pursued the victory.
"Drop out of school and go home? Why do you want to drop out of school and go home?"
"Because her family is a minority and very poor, I heard her parents found a good family for her and let her go home, drop out of school, get married, and get a betrothal gift."
Hearing this, everyone frowned tightly, and Mi Chen couldn't help but said.
"Married? How old was she when she got married?"
"fifteen."
....
Tang Yu said on the side.
"This ethnic minority does have a habit of early marriage, but what era is it now? They're still using minors to exchange for betrothal gifts. This is a bad custom."
Shi Yi learned from the two girls that the girl who played better with the three girls was a girl named Shi Xiangxiang.
Unlike the other three girls, this girl named Shi Xiangxiang is usually the most well-behaved and is a good student in the eyes of her teachers.
He always ranks among the top in his studies and his family lives in a nearby village.
Her family was very poor, and even Shi Xiangxiang had to pay for her school tuition with the money she earned from working.
One day her parents suddenly called her and asked her to drop out of school and go home to get married.
The person she married was someone she had never met.
At first Shi Xiangxiang disagreed, and she finally managed to get out of the village.
I finally get to go to school and study. After passing the college entrance examination, I will have the opportunity to go to a bigger city and see the wider sky outside.
She didn't want to stay in such a small village for the rest of her life.
But her parents threatened her life and asked her to go back and get married in exchange for the 5,000 yuan betrothal gift.
After all, Shi Xiangxiang is just a 15-year-old girl. Faced with such a situation, she has no way to resist.
Helplessly, I obeyed my family's arrangements.
After she dropped out of school, no one knew her whereabouts anymore.
Shi Yi felt a little sad after hearing this.
Xiao Zhou was listening silently on the side. After hearing what the two students said, he was suddenly startled, slapped his thigh and screamed.
"oops--"
Everyone was startled by his expression and looked at him in confusion.
Xiao Zhou looked serious.
"The village where Shi Xiangxiang lives is where the first missing girl case occurred two years ago!"
"What?!"
——
At midnight, after everyone had almost figured out the situation, they returned to the hotel where they were staying.
Gu Hansheng gathered everyone in his room for a small meeting.
Mi Chen took off her skirt, changed into light sportswear, and played with her hair.
I looked at the character relationship diagram written by Gu Hansheng on the blackboard on the side.
"Do you think it's possible that the source of this incident is in this fossil village?"
The information Wang Zhiyuan gave them at the time showed that two years ago, there had been frequent cases of young girls disappearing in this village.
However, because this is the territory of ethnic minorities, even people like the mayor cannot easily interfere in their affairs.
So this matter was not as big a deal as it was.
But no one expected that two years later, three girls would disappear from the school in broad daylight for no apparent reason.
None of them connected the Fossil Village with the disappearance of three girls from No. 1 Middle School.
After all, although the two cases seem to be related, without reasonable procedures, they have no way to go to the Fossil Village to investigate the matter without authorization.
“This is a bug!”
"Minorities can't be so arrogant, right? We are the police. We are investigating cases, how can they not cooperate?"
Mi Chen muttered, and Feng Ming pursed his lips, looking cautious.
"How about we go to this fossil village tomorrow?"
Several people wandered around No. 1 Middle School for a whole day, investigating for a long time, and even watched the surveillance video carefully several times.
Various clues show that what happened to these three girls did not happen at school.
Officer Li also told everyone that they had sent people and police dogs to search the mountain behind the school, but did not find any suspicious people or bodies.
This means that they have never been to that mountain.
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