Chapter 142 142 It is very likely that a huge...
Perhaps it was because Guan Xia's expression changed so obviously that, aside from the somewhat confused detectives from the Nanping branch, Xu Nian and the others all looked over. Ji An even asked nervously, "Guan Xia, did you find anything?"
Guan Xia nodded excitedly and said quickly, "I've heard this man's voice before. It was just yesterday when we got off the plane and were on the way to the hotel. I can't be mistaken, it's him."
The police officer from Shangshuang City was also a little excited, but still asked hesitantly, "What a coincidence, are you sure?"
Guan Xia nodded confidently, "OK."
Pang Le instantly thought of something about Xia's reminder. His expression lit up and he said excitedly, "No wonder I felt that voice sounded familiar. I seemed to have heard it somewhere before. So that's it. On the way to the hotel yesterday..."
Pang Le rubbed his chin and thought for two seconds, then his eyes lit up and he asked, "Is it the road-rage driver who cursed us all the way after we were stuck in traffic yesterday?"
Guan Xia nodded again and again, "Yes, that's him."
Pang Le said excitedly: "You are worthy of it. I didn't think of it before you said it, but as soon as you said it, I immediately realized it."
As Pang Le spoke, he began to dig into his bag. Within seconds, he pulled out a sketchbook and handed it to Guan Xia, saying cheerfully, "I knew you'd find a clue today. Here you go."
Guan Xia took it, skillfully turned to the blank night, and began to draw.
The others controlled the volume and surrounded Pang Le to ask what was going on.
As Pang Le explained in detail, Guan Xia drew very quickly. When she was almost done, everyone had gathered around her. Pang Le pointed at the finished sketch in Guan Xia's hand and nodded with certainty, "That's him. He's the one who kept arguing with the driver who tried to cut in line when we were stuck in traffic."
While Pang Le was speaking, a criminal police officer from Shangshuang City had quickly taken a photo of the sketch, left a message saying that he was going to check the identity information, and ran out of the office.
Everyone subconsciously watched him walk out the door before looking away.
After Guan Xia stopped writing, the criminal police captain in charge of the Ning Xin and her daughter's disappearance case asked, "Do you want to listen to the recording again?"
While asking the question, the criminal police captain looked at Guan Xia. It was obvious that Guan Xia's previous discovery made him realize who the real core figure in the team was.
Guan Xia nodded without thinking, "I need to listen to it again. Thank you, Captain Zhou."
Captain Zhou forced a friendly smile from his rather serious and rigid face and said gently, "You're welcome, you're welcome. We should be the ones troubling Expert Guan."
Since he had already made a discovery, Guan Xia no longer held any other hopes. He had already listened to the recording, so he naturally had to listen to it in its entirety.
The second half of more than five minutes was entirely a contest between Ning Xin and the man, and the female voice never appeared again.
Even though Ning Xin was smart enough to realize something was wrong and tried to get some information indirectly, the obvious gap in strength did not bring about any change to the dangerous situation they were in.
Perhaps it was because the road they were travelling on was becoming increasingly remote, and there were fewer and fewer passing vehicles, the man's voice and tone became increasingly unscrupulous, and in the end it was almost filled with blatant malice, even Ning Ping'an felt something was wrong, and Guan Xia could faintly hear the suppressed sobs from behind.
The recording finally ended with a bang of a hard object hitting something. Guan Xia didn't know how the criminal found out, but with the man's rage and a sudden uncontrollable scream, the phone was thrown out of the window.
The recording ended here. As if to be on the safe side, Xu Nian turned around and asked Guan Xia, "Did you find anything else?"
Guan Xia shook her head, and Xu Nian finally looked away. He looked at Captain Zhou and asked, "Captain Zhou, did you find any other clues about Ning Xin's body?"
Captain Zhou shook his head. "The three criminals who kidnapped and murdered her were quite cautious, or perhaps they were greedy for money. Aside from that ordinary bracelet, no other personal belongings were found around her body. However, according to the live-in nanny who worked at her home at the time, she usually carried a bag. And although she didn't like jewelry, she always wore a watch. There was also a red string around her right ankle, strung with a gold ornament in the shape of a pig. Her mother bought it when she was born, and she hadn't taken it off for over 30 years, only re-braiding it every one or two years. None of these items were found around her body."
"The valuable watches and gold jewelry are gone, but the bracelet, which looked worthless, is still there," Pang Le said, stroking his chin. "This doesn't look like a cautious person. He seems to be greedy. And judging by the recording and the fact that I saw him yesterday, he was easily angered. It doesn't seem like he's cautious at all."
Guan Xia recalled the few minutes she had been paying attention to the man yesterday afternoon. Almost every second, the man had a red face and was cursing viciously. His expression was hideous and distorted, his eyes were red, and he was breathing heavily. He looked like he would get out of the car and chop people at any time.
It was also because of this that Guan Xia and the others paid too much attention to it.
Thinking of this, Guan Xia paused suddenly. She remembered that there seemed to be more than one person in the car driven by the man yesterday. There seemed to be a woman sitting in the back seat.
Guan Xia thought that there was a man and a woman in the recording, and couldn't help but try hard to recall the scene at that time. After the system video was triggered to play again, she quickly dismissed her idea that the ages did not match.
The woman's voice in the recording didn't sound too loud, but she wasn't young either. She should be a middle-aged woman in her thirties or forties. The woman who sat in the back seat of the man's car yesterday was very young, like she was in her early twenties. When the man was cursing, she was a little scared and shrank against the side of the car like a quail. Judging from her expression and body language, she didn't seem to know the man. In addition, the words "Free and Unlimited Enjoyment" on the body of the man's car suggested that she was a tourist.
After waiting for more than an hour, the young male police officer from Nanping Branch who had gone to check his identity information came back in a hurry.
He held a pile of photos in his hand, sweating profusely from running, and handed them to Guan Xia, panting slightly, saying, "Take a look and see if you can accurately identify the person from these photos."
Guan Xia took it and skillfully arranged it in several rows on the conference table. With just a glance, he found it very accurately based on his intuition.
"This is it," Guan Xia pointed to the half-length photo in the middle of the third row and said, "I'm sure it's this person."
Pang Le also took a closer look and said with certainty: "It is indeed him, I am very sure."
The young male police officer visibly breathed a sigh of relief after Guan Xia and Pang Le finished speaking. He picked up the photo from the table and handed it to Captain Zhou, saying, "Captain Zhou, we found this person in the database. His name is Geng Jing, he's 45 years old, from Hanshan County, Shangshuang City, and now makes a living as a ride-hailing driver. His ID says he's divorced. He has an ex-wife, no children, and they divorced in 2015. His ex-wife's name is Tang Lianhua, and this is her photo."
The young male police officer took out another photo and handed it over. Captain Zhou took it and examined it carefully before asking, "Have you found her identity information? How old is she?"
The young male police officer replied, "Born in 1984, so I'm 40 years old this year."
Guan Xia pondered, "I'm 40 this year, but I was 35 five years ago. That fits the age range of the other woman in the recording."
"Then we'll both investigate together," Captain Zhou decided. He then looked at Xu Nian and asked, "Captain Xu, what are your thoughts?"
Xu Nian thought for a moment and said, "Captain Zhou, to save time, why don't we split up and investigate. We'll investigate Geng Jing, and you investigate Tang Lianhua?"
The young police officer hesitated to speak, but Captain Zhou agreed without hesitation. "Okay, then we'll keep in touch. If we have any clues, we'll share them immediately."
Xu Nian nodded seriously and shook hands with Captain Zhou.
After coming out of the Nanping Branch, it was already lunch time. Everyone found a restaurant nearby that was not crowded, asked for a private room, and ate while discussing.
"Captain Xu, how should we investigate next?" Qi Bai asked while pouring water for everyone.
Xu Nian didn't answer immediately, but turned to look at Guan Xia and asked, "What do you think?"
Guan Xia thought for a few seconds and said, "I'm wondering if there's any chance I can follow the clues and find out what's going on."
A smile suddenly appeared in Xu Nian's eyes. He said, "You and I are on the same page. Such a thorough plan is obviously impossible to accomplish with just two people. Besides that man and woman, they must have other accomplices. If we arrest them rashly, it will only alert the enemy. Before, they were in the dark while we were in the light, but now the situation has reversed. They are in the light while we are in the dark. Moreover, five years have passed since the case was committed, and the people from the Nanping Branch have never found them. Even if they were very cautious before, they have relaxed a lot now. If we focus our investigation around him, we might get something big."
Xu Nian's few words immediately aroused everyone's emotions, including Ji An, whose eyes were filled with excitement.
Qi Bai suddenly looked at Wang Yu and said, "I told you, investigating a case with Guan Xia will only make it more complicated. There's no such thing as the most complicated case. So, this case is exciting, isn't it?"
Qi Bai's words immediately reminded everyone of the large burial ground found at the foot of the wild mountain.
Everyone was stunned for a moment. Pang Le said, "Speaking of which, our previous speculation was that there might be a large-scale human trafficking transit station near that wild mountain. The bodies dug out from the burial ground were all adult women and children. Is there any possibility that there is a connection between this case and the one we are investigating?"
Guan Xia couldn't help but hesitate after hearing this. Although Pang Le's guess was a bit outrageous, after all, the two cities were thousands of kilometers apart, but the victims were also adult women and children, so there might be a connection between the two.
The private room was silent for a few minutes, everyone lost in thought. After a moment, Ji An said, "I personally tend to believe there's no connection between the two. First of all, the criminal methods are different. Traditional human trafficking doesn't deliberately seek out targets, but rather adapts to circumstances. The criminal methods are very flexible. However, the disappearance of Ning Xin and her daughter was accompanied by tracking and vehicle damage. If Ning Xin hadn't died and her parents hadn't received any calls or messages demanding money, it would have been more like a kidnapping case."
Pang Le nodded and said, "That's true. It seems that the only person we can target right now is this man named Geng Jing."
After a few more words of discussion, before the food arrived, Zhong Xiaoyu asked again, "By the way, it's been several days since the burial site was excavated. Has the suspected human trafficking transit point been found?"
Jiang Yingyao shook his head and said, "The specific details of the case are still unclear, but I heard from colleagues in other branches that the Yuanshan City Bureau next door has been transferring personnel from all over the city to Changshan County. This should mean there has been a major breakthrough in the case. If all goes well, I think we will know the specific details of the case soon."
Zhong Xiaoyu thought for a moment and said, "That's true. Compared to the case we're investigating now, that case has a plethora of clues. There are two suspects, the burial site has been found, and there are over a dozen bodies. It would be strange if we didn't make a breakthrough."
Guan Xia listened to Zhong Xiaoyu's words, her mind completely focused on the missing case of Ning Xin and her daughter. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that if they continued to investigate, they would most likely uncover a huge case.
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