Three children were lost in Taolin Brigade, all boys around six or seven years old.
The people in the team searched with torches all night but couldn't find anyone. Chen Liang took the young men up the mountain to look for him but still couldn't find anyone.
The captain took his men to the police station to report the case, but the public security officers searched the brigade for a whole morning and found no clues.
The three of them seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
In the afternoon, the team leader found out that from last night to this afternoon, a total of four brigades in the surrounding area had lost children. In addition to the children, a brigade farther away from them also lost a young girl, who was an educated youth who had gone to the countryside.
This incident quickly caused an uproar in Maolin Commune. Their county had not seen such a serious incident in several years. To date, in addition to the female educated youth named Wang Haixia, 12 other boys are still missing.
Even the police couldn't find any traces. The people in the brigade reacted quickly enough and took people to search everywhere in the mountains and the village, but they didn't find any clues.
Public security comrades speculated that this time they must have encountered a large-scale human trafficking gang, who were all very cautious and might be veterans.
Song Jin saw that the air in the team was filled with tension every day recently, and finally went out alone at night.
She first went to the captain's house quietly and told him her guess.
"What? You mean this was done by one of our own people?"
The captain screamed.
Song Jin hurriedly lowered his voice: "This may just be my guess, but I think it's possible. The children were all playing around the movie screen at the time. According to the last time the aunts saw them, it must have been no more than ten minutes since they discovered they were missing.
But there's only one road from the threshing ground to the village entrance, and it takes at least 20 minutes to walk out of the brigade. When they found out the child was missing, everyone immediately started looking for him. They definitely didn't have time to take the child out of the brigade."
Chen Liang continued, "If you're not from the brigade, and you're an outsider, there's only one way to find you: up the mountain. But our mountain isn't very high. I've taken everyone up and down several times, and I'm sure there are no Tibetans on the mountain."
"These past few days, everyone has been searching for the children in the brigade, and the police have also been patrolling the roads leading out of the brigade, but they haven't seen any suspicious individuals. So there's only one possibility: the children and the traffickers are still in the brigade."
After listening to the two people's analysis, the captain immediately regretted that he had wasted a day.
He had a preconceived notion that since such a thing had never happened in his team, it would never happen again.
but……
He looked at the two of them
"What about the other teams that lost so many people at the same time?"
Song Jin pondered for a moment: "We are just guessing now. I think either someone in our team is cooperating with them, or someone has sneaked in, or someone in our team is already a member of this gang.
Before we investigate further, anyone could be involved. The projectionist, someone who didn't come to the movie, someone who had been away and recently returned, someone who's been behaving strangely lately..."
Chen Liang suddenly interrupted: "Ajin, wait a minute, you just said that someone who has been away suddenly came back, I thought of someone."
The captain and Chen Liang exchanged glances and said in unison: "Chen Bingkun!"
Song Jin was puzzled: "Is this person from our team? Where was he before?"
The team leader explained: "Chen Bingkun is the grandson of Old Chen at the end of the village. He disappeared about five years ago, not long after Old Chen passed away. He was only 16 years old at the time. We reported him to the police, but we knew that if he went out without a letter of introduction, he would be considered a blind migrant, but we have not heard from him since then.
Some said he ran away, others said they saw him in the mountains. Anyway, there had been no news of him in the past few years. Two months ago, he suddenly came back and even paid for the renovation of their house at the end of the village. He said that after leaving, he accidentally joined the army and had not been able to come back in the past few years.
Now that he's back from military service, he's not leaving. He plans to get married and live a good life. By the way, you know the person he's dating. She's Wang Xiaohui, the educated youth who came with you to your educated youth center."
To Song Jin, everything seemed to be going smoothly, but he just felt something was wrong.
She looked at Chen Liang: "What kind of person is Chen Bingkun? Why did he run away in the first place? Since he later joined the army, why did he suddenly retire? Besides, the army should arrange jobs for veterans. Have you asked about these?"
Chen Liang answered her question: "I was also surprised when I came back to see him before. After all, we were playmates when we were young. He said that he just wanted to go out and see the world, but he was afraid that the team would not give him a letter of introduction, so he left in a moment of excitement.
After he went out, he found that he could not move forward without a letter of introduction, so he chose to walk in secluded mountains and forests. Then he accidentally saved a person. After hearing about his experience, the other person said that he could be arranged to join the army.
He later joined the army. He retired because he was injured while on duty and was no longer suited to the intense training, so he chose to leave. As for why he wasn't offered a job, he said it was, but he didn't want to go. He wanted to stay in our brigade, so he only received a retirement allowance.
He said the subsidy was enough for him to renovate his house and get married. I noticed that he was indeed dressed much better than before and looked quite rich.
He asked Aunt Niu from the village to introduce him to a girl, and within two days, I heard that he had fallen in love with the educated youth Wang Xiaohui. That's all I know."
After hearing this, Song Jin felt that there was something wrong with this person.
In this day and age, is there really someone who would refuse a job in the city and go back to the countryside to farm and earn work points?
Aunt Chen was quietly listening to everyone's analysis. Now that everyone was quiet, she suddenly spoke up:
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