Chapter 86 Chapter 86 The Second Drawing
According to the testimonies of Zhang Wenli and Qiao Pan, Qin Man had a chaotic private life. Neither Zhang Wenli nor Qiao Pan knew how many women he had short-term or long-term relationships with. Only Qin Man himself knew this.
Qin Man is now missing, and Yang Xingping retrieved his chat records.
He was in contact with people until the 17th.
After sending messages to Liu Fan and Zhang Wenli, Qin Man’s company leaders, colleagues and some friends never contacted him again.
Qin Man simply sent messages to Liu Fan and Zhang Wenli, and did not call them. It is impossible to confirm whether the person who sent the messages to Liu Fan and Zhang Wenli was Qin Man himself or the suspect who made them disappear.
Xu An listed the timeline on the whiteboard and circled the date on the 14th.
On the 14th, Qiao Pan saw Qin Man for the last time.
Yang Xingping took out the dashcam from Qin Man’s car.
"This dashcam stops recording after the engine is turned off, so it has no value. Also, there is something wrong with the surveillance camera in Qiao Pan's apartment building, and Qin Man was not seen on the roadside surveillance camera."
Pei Qing: "But Qin Man didn't drive, which means he walked to his destination. He definitely didn't leave the community."
Yang Xingping: "Even rabbits don't eat grass near their nests. Does he have to have sex with the women in this community?"
Xu An suddenly said, "Sex is a sword above your head. Oh, by the way, check out all the chat records of Qin Man on the 14th."
On the 14th, Qin Man sent messages to several colleagues, all of which were work-related communications.
In addition, there were a few women who leaked their photos, and Qin Man sent them some red envelopes.
Yang Xingping glanced at Qiao Pan's statement. That evening, around 8 o'clock, Qiao Pan said that Qin Man received a message saying that Zhang Wenli was looking for him, and he turned around and left.
A little after eight o'clock...
Yang Xingping asked Xu An to come and see.
At around eight o'clock, someone did send a message to Yang Xingping.
But it was not a leaked photo, but a courier message.
[Your express has been delivered, please sign for it in time. ]
It sounded very official, but there was no address, name or phone number.
And don’t most couriers send text messages?
Who will send VX?
Pei Qing took a closer look.
"Whose WeChat account is this? Is it registered with real name?"
Yang Xingping checked it and paused.
"This is Qin Man's own WeChat ID."
Xu An was surprised: "Qin Man's own? It can't be that he sent a message to himself and left Qiao Pan's house?"
*
Qiao Pan was taken to the interrogation room again.
She was sleepy and hungry.
"Qin Man sent a message to himself?"
Qiao Pan cursed: "He must be sick!"
It can be seen that she has no feelings for Qin Man, and she only hooked up with Qin Man because she was dissatisfied with Zhang Wenli.
Qiao Pan: "I say, fellow police officers, Qin Man is a man after all, and I can't beat him, so why did he stage a show to run away from me? Haha."
She crossed her arms, her mind wandering.
"He's not going to Zhang Wenli's place."
Qiao Pan was very happy. She was hoping that Zhang Wenli would be in trouble. Now that Qin Manren had left her place but not Zhang Wenli's place, she was very happy and was in a good mood to cooperate with the police investigation.
When Xu An asked what Qiao Pan was doing after Qin Man left on the night of the 14th, he wondered if anyone could prove it.
Qiao Pan said carelessly, "I'm going upstairs to play mahjong. No man is coming, so of course I have to find some fun on my own. Oh, although Qin Manren is a little old, ugly, and stingy, he's quite normal in bed, and he doesn't have any weird habits. He just stood me up, so I really won't kill him. He's such a big man, it would be hard for me to handle it if he killed me!"
Xu An: "What's the name of the person you're playing mahjong with?"
Qiao Pan: "Jin Daqiao and Erqiao are sisters, and there is a girl named Fang upstairs."
*
Jin Daqiao and Jin Erqiao are a pair of sisters. When Xu An and Pei Qing found them, they were still playing mahjong, playing for ten or twenty yuan.
When they saw the police, the four people at the table put away the mahjong table and confirmed that on the evening of September 14, Qiao Pan did go upstairs to play mahjong with them.
Pei Qing took note: "Who asked to play mahjong first?"
Jin Daqiao: "We have a mahjong group. If we are short of people, we just shout in the mahjong group. At that time, we were short of one person, so we shouted in the group, and Qiao Pan came up by himself."
Pei Qing: "Would you like to have a look?"
Jin Daqiao showed her the WeChat group. She was very curious and asked, "What happened? Who got into trouble?"
In the area where she lived, she had only seen the original wife beat the mistress and call the police. Other than that, it was rare for the police to come to the house in a serious manner.
Xu An: "It has nothing to do with you. Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."
Jin Daqiao curled her lips in disdain.
Pei Qing took photos of the mahjong group and chat records as evidence.
She asked a few more questions: "Are there so many people in your mahjong group?"
There are more than twenty group members.
Jin Daqiao: "We are idle. We are not like you who work overtime every day. It's not easy to be a policeman. Last time, the original wife from the tenth floor came and had a big fight. Oh my, the original wife was very strong and slapped the police station! What bad luck!"
Pei Qing expressed deep sympathy for his colleague who was unfortunately injured by mistake.
When leaving Jin Daqiao's house, Yang Xingping was still studying the surveillance system of the community.
He first went to the property management to check the remaining surveillance cameras, and then found out the broken surveillance cameras or some blind spots in the surveillance cameras.
After the three of them met, Yang Xingping pointed to a simple map drawn on paper and said, "The surveillance in this community is not good. The property management doesn't care if it's broken. Anyway, the residents here don't have any requirements for surveillance. So there are four surveillance cameras at the main gate of the community, and two of them are broken. In addition to the main gate, this community also has a south gate and a north gate. The north gate is a side gate and there is no surveillance installed. Usually, an old man moves a bench to sit at the door and watch, which is considered someone guarding it. The south gate has complete surveillance. There are 21 buildings in the community, and I circled all the places where the surveillance is broken."
Pei Qing looked at the red circles on the paper and said, "You've worked so hard."
Yang Xingping rarely heard Pei Qing say something nice, so he couldn't help but look at Pei Qing.
Pei Qing was looking at the map intently.
Yang Xingping retracted his gaze and continued, "Qin Man didn't drive, so he definitely wouldn't walk very far. As an office worker, he can only walk one or two kilometers at most. If he walks farther, he might as well drive."
What he said made sense, and several buildings on the map were further shortened.
Pei Qing stared at the buildings on the map and felt that the range was still very large.
"Didn't the surveillance camera capture Qin Man?"
Yang Xingping: "The surveillance camera in Building 3 is broken. We checked the surveillance cameras in Buildings 2, 4, 5, and 6. We didn't see Qin Man at the door of the unit. Qin Man didn't enter the unit building."
Xu An: "He left the community?"
Yang Xingping: "I asked the property management to check it out together, and Qin Man didn't leave the community."
Pei Qing guessed: "It's possible that he didn't drive because someone came to pick him up? He got into someone else's car and left the community?"
Xu An: “It’s indeed possible.”
He glanced at the map and emphasized that he should first check several unit doors to make sure that Qin Man did not enter any unit door, and then check the vehicles that left the community at No. 14.
But the investigation into the case did not go smoothly.
The surveillance cameras at the entrance doors of four or five apartment buildings in this Gongguan community were broken and had not been repaired, so there was no way to prove that Qin Man had entered any of the unit doors.
Pei Qing couldn't help but sigh.
Who did Qin Man meet?
The street lights were dim, and a gust of wind blew, causing the leaves on the landscape trees to fall.
Pei Qing sneezed.
"Ache——"
It's already twelve o'clock, and only a few lights in the community are on.
Pei Qing: "Qin Man disappeared on the 14th. Today is the 23rd. I think he is in grave danger."
Yang Xingping: "24th, now it's the second day."
Xu An drove the car to the side of the road. The three of them got in the car and turned on the computer to watch the surveillance footage.
The surrounding sections of the roads without surveillance cameras in front of the units were checked one by one. It was found that Qin Man was wearing a grey striped shirt and black suit pants that day. He was overweight, with sparse hair, but his personal features were quite obvious.
The three of them watched for more than an hour, and the progress bar of the surveillance camera moved countless times, but they did not find Qin Man on the road outside the apartment buildings here.
Pei Qing checked it again and went through it again at triple speed to confirm that there was nothing there.
Pei Qing: "Qin Man can't just flash from Building 3 to the entrances of these apartment buildings."
There is only one possibility, Qin Man got into someone's car and the vehicle drove out of the community, so Qin Man's figure was not photographed at the entrance of the community.
Yang Xingping wondered: "Why would he leave the community? How much temptation would it take for him to leave Qiao Pan's house and go somewhere else?"
After watching the surveillance video, Xu An was also unhappy about the trouble caused by Qin Man.
"Who knows what a horny person would think! All right, register all the vehicles that left the community on the night of the 14th, and we'll slowly look for them."
Xu An: "It's been almost ten days. There's no need to rush. If Qin Man was going to die, he would have died long ago."
*
The three of them went back to have a good rest and faced work the next day with full spirits.
Xu An and Yang Xingping were checking the vehicles in the community, but there was a problem. The north gate of the community was opened recently as a side gate, and vehicles could enter and exit from that side, but no one cared. The gatekeeper was an old man in his fifties or sixties, who could not remember the license plate numbers at all.
Pei Qing watched them busying around and made himself a cup of latte.
I really should have brought my coffee machine from home.
Instant coffee is too sweet!
Li Muxu called and said Pei Qing didn't come home last night, so he called to ask.
Pei Qing answered the phone while opening his tablet.
She rubbed her hands together and took a sip of her latte.
"Brother, I slept at Xu An's place last night. It's okay, I slept well. Che——"
She sneezed again.
Li Muxu: "Cold?"
Pei Qing: "It's a bit cold at night."
Li Muxu: "Ask Auntie to bring you lunch at noon."
Pei Qing wanted to eat, not drink anything else.
She knew Li Muxu too well, so she said directly: "You can send the meal, but don't want ginger soup or other strange-tasting tonic soups."
Pei Qing said confidently: "I'm still young, why should I drink nourishing soup?"
Li Muxu: "Drink some ginger soup, that's all. I'll ask my aunt to call you at noon."
He hung up the phone.
Pei Qing scratched his head. Today was also a day to refuse failure.
She took another sip of latte and looked at the white drawing.
She began to write tentatively.
There was no trace of floor tiles on the gray rough ground, and a pile of cement was in the middle. Looking down from above, the pile of cement was shaped like a human eye.
And right next to the cement, near the corner, there is a low wall with red bricks exposed.
The top of the brick is sealed, and a woman with a broad back, wearing a gray-blue shirt and a hat on her head, is painting the wall with her back to the picture.
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