Chapter 33: You provided clues that successfully helped the police prevent a case...
Under the not-so-subtle gazes of Guan Xia and Pang Le, the man quickly stuffed the remaining food and water into the trunk, jumped into the driver's seat and drove away.
Pang Le suddenly became anxious. He turned around to check the remaining gas and asked Guan Xia, "Did you remember the license plate number and the man's appearance?"
Guan Xia wasn't confident in his memory, but he was confident in the system interface. He nodded and said, "Don't worry. If there's a problem, he won't be able to escape."
Pang Le finally breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help muttering, "This is truly bizarre! We only just got off the high-speed train less than two hours ago, but that person just now was too obvious. Look, it wasn't just the two of us; others also felt something was amiss."
Guan Xia looked up and saw two car owners who were also refueling looking suspiciously at the direction the man drove away. Perhaps they thought they were overthinking it, so they looked away after a few seconds and chatted with their companions around them out of boredom.
"But come to think of it, if it weren't for the two cases I experienced before," Pang Le said, "I might also think that I'm overthinking it."
After waiting for a while, the gas was finally almost finished. Pang Le rushed to pay and came back just as it was finished. He quickly got in the car and drove out of the gas station. As soon as the pole passed, he hurriedly urged, "Hurry up, hit the gun. If there is really a problem, don't let that man get away."
Guan Xia's right eyelid was still twitching. Almost at the same time Pang Le spoke, she had already taken out her cell phone and quickly called Xu Nian.
Xu Nian answered the call quickly as always, without any nonsense, and asked directly, "Guan Xia, what did you find out?"
As Xu Nian finished his last word, the system interface popped up.
You are questioned by the police, and you suddenly remember that at 1:22 pm on May 14, you met a middle-aged man with suspicious behavior and a nervous expression at a gas station. You noticed that there were several long black hairs on the zipper of the suitcase in his trunk, and the suitcase was just big enough to fit a petite adult woman. You keenly realized that something was wrong with the suitcase, and you decided to tell the police.
The appearance of the system interface confirmed Guan Xia's intuition. While she breathed a sigh of relief, her heart also weighed heavily after reading all the words, especially the four words "adult woman".
Guan Xia didn't have time to think deeply, and spoke quickly, "Xu Nian, I was in Quchun City. I just got off the high-speed train and saw a suspicious person. He bought a lot of fast food and water at the gas station convenience store. There was also a suitcase about 32 inches in the trunk, and several long black hairs were tangled in the zipper."
Guan Xia only stated what he saw and did not make any other inferences.
After hearing the words "a few long black hairs", Pang Le looked at Guan Xia with a strange expression.
Xu Nian's reply was decisive. "I'm contacting my classmates at the Quchun City Criminal Police Team now. Please keep your phone open."
Guan Xia said hello, and within two minutes of hanging up, a strange phone call came in.
A slightly hoarse, yet remarkably steady female voice spoke, "Hello, Guan Xia. My name is Shao Ying, and I'm the deputy captain of the third squadron of the Dongning District Criminal Police Brigade in Quchun City. Xu Nian has given me the basic information. Do you remember the license plate number? Can you provide us with the direction the vehicle was traveling?"
As Shao Ying asked the question, the system interface paused and enlarged the scene Guan Xia had just seen. Guan Xia immediately replied, "The license plate number is NF662. It drove out of the gas station and drove on..."
Guan Xia paused, glanced at the navigation system in the car, and then continued, "Drive west to east on Jianshe Road."
Shao Ying said thank you and hung up the phone.
Guan Xia put away her phone and felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from her shoulders, and she relaxed as she sat down.
Pang Le had been a bit nervous before, but he relaxed after seeing this. He glanced at Guan Xia and said, "A few long black hairs. You can see them from such a distance. Your eyes must have mutated."
Guan Xia lied and said, "Maybe I'm sensitive to colors. After all, I studied painting."
Pang Le had no doubts. "That's true. Just like us martial artists, we look no different from ordinary people, but our muscles and bones are definitely stronger."
Guan Xia nodded, indicating that you were right, but in her heart she couldn't help but think of the four words "adult woman" that appeared on the system interface.
Although this system seems a little bit stupid, the prompt is never aimless. It prompts that there is a high probability that there is indeed an adult woman stuffed inside, but it is unknown whether she is dead or alive.
Pang Le was driving the car, glancing at Guan Xia's expression and couldn't help asking, "What are you thinking about?"
Guan Xia hesitated and said, "Don't you think that suitcase is just big enough for a petite person? And there are a few long black hairs tangled in the zipper."
Pang Le immediately understood, "You suspect there's a woman in that suitcase? Maybe she's still alive?"
"I don't know if she's alive or not," Guan Xia said, "but it's most likely a woman."
Pang Le cursed again, "Damn, I'm kind of regretting this. I should have pinned him down at the gas station. He was stuffed into the box without struggling. Even if he didn't die, he must have been injured. It's been so long..."
Guan Xia glanced at her phone. Almost fifteen minutes had passed since the man drove away. Even if the speed limit on Jianshe Road was 40, he had driven at least ten kilometers in that time.
Guan Xia did not regret it. She knew the passivity of the system. Unless there was a policeman traveling with them, even if time could be turned back again, without the trigger of the system interface, the two would still make the same choice.
However, after this analysis, my heart, which had just relaxed, began to tense up again.
Pang Le began to study the navigation while driving, zooming in and out from time to time, swiping back and forth on the screen, apparently studying the direction the man might go.
However, despite her research, Pang Le was very self-aware and did not change the route. She still followed the navigation to the restaurant she had previously planned.
But there was also good news. As soon as the car stopped and Guan Xia hadn't unbuckled her seatbelt, Shao Ying called.
When they heard the ringing, Pang Le and Guan Xia's eyes lit up.
Guan Xia quickly picked up the phone and heard Shao Ying say, "The man has been pinned down, and the person in the suitcase has been rescued and taken to the hospital. He has vital signs."
Guan Xia breathed a sigh of relief but was also nervous, "Is the injury serious?"
Shao Ying said succinctly, "He's in shock. I'll call you back after the rescue is over."
"Okay, okay, thank you for your hard work, Captain Shao." After hanging up the phone, Guan Xia briefly explained the situation to Pang Le.
Pang Le cursed, "You bastard, I hope that woman is okay."
Guan Xia also prayed.
The two sat in the car for a few more minutes before getting out to eat.
The system settlement finally arrived.
You provided clues that successfully helped the police prevent a murder and received a reward: a recharge of the low presence aura.
Charging...
Charging successful.
Low-presence photosensitive ring strength: 100%
Guan Xia was both surprised and expected. It seemed that she had accidentally discovered a function of the system. The halo could be charged not only to solve cases, but also to save victims and prevent murders. What she couldn't understand was why it couldn't be used to discover the whereabouts of wanted criminals and help the police catch them. Wasn't this system a bit too stingy?
Guan Xia complained in her heart and followed Pang Le to sit down at an empty table.
This is a specialty hotpot restaurant. It is very large with more than a dozen tables. The decoration is simple and it doesn’t look very clean. However, it is past dinner time and there are still surprisingly many people here, with only a few tables empty.
Pang Le took out a wet towel and wiped the table while saying, "I looked up food recommendations for several days and searched for reviews of this restaurant on several platforms. There were relatively few negative reviews. Both tourists and locals had high praise for this restaurant, so I decided to book this one."
Pang Le looked around but didn't think anything of it. After all, her life had only gotten better in recent years. In the past, she would only dare to come to a store like this once a year.
After selecting a bunch of dishes they liked, Pang Le unpacked the disposable tableware for the two of them, and then began to look around casually.
Guan Xia knew what she was thinking as soon as she saw her, and couldn't help but pat Pang Le, "Be more normal, there are no such coincidences, we just met one and then we met another."
Pang Le whispered, "That's hard to say. Although Quchun City doesn't have a large permanent population, it has a developed tourism industry. Aren't the criminal investigation stories all about places with complicated outsiders and a mix of good and bad people?"
Guan Xia really felt that Pang Le was a little crazy. She had not been normal since she got on the high-speed train, and the man she met at the gas station made her condition worse.
Guan Xia was speechless and too lazy to persuade them anymore. She asked the waiter for a pot of water to pour tea for the two of them.
After just two sips, Pang Le suddenly winked at Guan Xia and whispered, "Look over there, the table diagonally behind us on the right."
Guan Xia's heart skipped a beat, and she thought to herself that this couldn't be such a coincidence. She glanced cautiously in the direction Pang Le indicated.
Guan Xia didn't dare to be as blatant as Pang Le. She was very cautious and pretended to turn her head inadvertently several times, and only then did she notice some clues.
There were four people sitting at the table behind them on their right. Although they were eating, drinking and chatting lazily, there was always one of them who glanced at the table next to them from time to time, as if observing them.
Guan Xia felt that he didn't look like a wanted criminal, but rather a bit like a scene in a crime drama where the police were tracking a suspect.
After realizing it, Guan Xia quickly touched Pang Le and said, "Don't look at it, or you'll arouse suspicion."
Pang Le controlled his slightly excited mood, not daring to look around anymore. He regained his normal voice and said, "After dinner, let's go to the temple to worship. I made a plan to go to the food street in the evening. There's also an ancient city nearby that just opened. I heard it's very lively and very film-worthy. Let's go shopping after dinner?"
Guan Xia nodded indifferently, "Okay, I'm just bringing someone with me, you can make the arrangements."
Pang Le opened the travel guide he had made and took a look at it. He said, "The hotel I booked is near the food street. Let's go down the mountain to check in, rest a little at the hotel, go out for dinner, and then go to the ancient city to walk around and digest the food. Perfect."
Guan Xia also thought this arrangement was very reasonable. The two chatted while waiting for the food to be served, but a few minutes later, after the diners at the table that the four people had been observing stood up to pay the bill, they stopped at the same time.
He was a short man who looked to be in his forties or fifties. As he stood up and walked to the front desk to pay the bill, the four men who looked like police officers also stood up. Then, the moment the man paid the bill and walked out of the restaurant, he was pounced on by the four men and pinned to the ground.
Guan Xia felt the pain from the heavy thud, but Pang Le's eyes sparkled. He craned his neck to watch the four men escort one man away before saying with satisfaction, "This is truly thrilling. The plot of a crime drama has come true. Hanging out with you is a double the surprise. Although we haven't reached the mountain yet, the purpose of our trip has already been achieved."
Compared to Pang Le's excitement, Guan Xia felt a little hopeless. This test trip was indeed very successful. Although they were not major cases, they ended very quickly. In one of them, he was just a bystander, but judging from the frequency, it was already outrageous.
Guan Xia was a little worried that the frequency of cases like those in Yongquan City would increase in the future.
Guan Xia always had a terrifying feeling that she would be surrounded by murderers in the future.
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