That was the promise the boy made to his brother, and now he must fulfill it.
Just when he was lost in thought, someone gently held his shoulders and whispered in his ear, "Lean on me and sleep for a while."
Ji Rong's eyes were deep, and his crow-feather-like eyelashes drooped slightly, like two small fans fluttering. It was obvious that Ji Rong was worried about him. Jiang Yuan nodded and leaned directly on Ji Rong's shoulder.
Dragon Luo Star.
Longluoxing Police Station.
"The missing person is Qiu Jingming, an omega from the Federation Red Star. He traveled to Longluo Star ten days ago and lost contact three days ago. After calling the police, we arrived at the destination and found only a damaged communicator, but no missing person. From the on-site investigation, we found no fierce fight and we did not find any clues."
A middle-aged policeman named Long Luoxing, who was about fifty years old, gave a brief introduction to the situation at that time.
"Are there any photos of the scene?" Jiang Tianze frowned, glanced at the policeman who was looking at them with squinted eyes, and asked while suppressing his anger.
Policeman Okar lazily threw his equipment in front of Jiang Yuan and the other two. "You can see for yourself. After we received your report, we immediately launched an investigation, but we really didn't find anything. And according to my understanding, the missing person was not in a good mental state when he came to Longluo Star, so we infer that the missing person may have committed suicide by jumping into the sea."
Jiang Yuan glanced at the photos of the scene, and it was indeed the same as the other party said, there were no signs of a fight. But this was normal. Judging from the phone call at that time, there should be more than one person who arrested Qiu Jingming. Qiu Jingming was pregnant and had no training, so it would be difficult for her to resist even if she wanted to.
"Have you retrieved the surveillance footage from that area?"
The policeman named Okar waved his hand and said, "There is no surveillance nearby. That road is a small path and almost no one walks on it."
"Please take us there." Jiang Yuan read the information provided by the Longluo police. It can be said that this information is completely useless. They only know the person's missing location, but the missing location can be found from the communication device.
That is to say, in the three days from when he called the police to when they came over, the Longluo police did not find any useful clues at all!
"Shit, I have other cases to deal with, I don't have that much time," the man said unhappily, "How about this, I'll send you the location address and you can go there yourself."
"Okay, send me the hotel address as well. We need to go over and take a look."
Okar raised one eyebrow and said impatiently, "We have sealed off that room in the hotel, and we have searched it thoroughly, but there are no clues. It will be useless even if you go there. I know you are anxious, but we can only wait while we slowly look for clues. I hope you won't cause trouble."
Before the policeman could finish his words, he saw another middle-aged policeman outside making several gestures to the man, which seemed to be a code word.
Okar raised the corner of his mouth, made a hello gesture to the people outside, turned to Jiang Yuan and said, "Sorry, I have something else to do. I can send you the address, but you can't enter the room."
After the man finished speaking, he put on his police hat and walked out of the office quickly.
Outside the glass window, the two policemen met and talked and laughed. Jiang Yuan touched his chin slightly and followed them out.
"Xiao Yuan?"
Jiang Yuan looked back at his father and made a gesture to him to keep quiet, asking Jiang Tianze to calm down, then followed him.
After standing in front of the door of another office in the police station and pausing for a moment, he heard a low conversation coming from inside. Jiang Yuan took out the communicator in his hand and turned on the recording mode.
"Okar, are those people just now the family members of the missing omega?"
"Yeah, they asked all sorts of questions right away, wasting my time. If they could really find it, would we have to wait for them to come?"
"Don't even mention that we can't find it. Even if we can find it, I'm in charge of this case, and I won't even investigate. Do the federals want us Ricks to help? Haha."
Jiang Yuan was not too angry. It was expected that the people of Longluo Star would not be dedicated and responsible. After all, the war between the Federation and Rick ended less than 30 years ago, and hatred would not disappear so easily.
"Is this what you mean by 'something'?"
Jiang Yuan leaned against the door, looked at several policemen from Longluo Police Station who were gambling in the office, and sneered.
"Why...why did you just come in without knocking!" Okar's face turned ashen, looking extremely ugly.
"Knock on the door and come in. Aren't you just going to put the things away?" Jiang Yuan raised one corner of his mouth. "By the way, I've recorded it. Do you need me to send it out?"
"Damn it..." Jiang Yuan just finished speaking when a policeman swung his fist at his face. He reached out and grabbed the other's fist, then slightly sideways to avoid it. The next second, he threw the communicator in his hand into his bag, held the other's head with both hands and pulled it down, while raising his foot and pressing his knee against the other's Adam's apple. The next second, the man fell to the ground.
Another man also rushed over and tried to take the communicator from him. Jiang Yuan punched the man directly in the stomach, and the man flew into the air and overturned the entire gambling table.
"Do you want to continue?"
Okar swallowed and saw the handsome man standing at the door unbuttoning his neck and tilting his neck. He could hear the sound of bones creaking. His three companions were now all lying on the ground. He pointed a gun at them, but he didn't dare to shoot.
That's right, he didn't dare.
If he shoots, he's done for!
"Shit... stop! Stop!" Okar reluctantly put the gun in his bag and raised his hands. "I don't think I have anything to do now. I'll take you to the crime scene and the hotel. Is that okay?"
Okar asked cautiously.
Although he looked down on the man in front of him, Jiang Yuan didn't want to waste time, so he nodded and said, "Let's go."
After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he walked out of the office. Okar spread his hands to several colleagues, then followed Jiang Yuan with a wry smile on his face.
The three people who got up from the ground spat at Jiang Yuan's back and cursed: "Fuck, damn, the damn federals dare to be so arrogant in our Rick, sooner or later we will deal with this kid!"
"Officer, didn't you say you had something to do?" Jiang Tianze asked with a puzzled expression when he saw Okar coming back with Jiang Yuan.
"Oh, suddenly, suddenly nothing happened..." Okar said with a wry smile, "Well, let's go, I'll take you to the crime scene first.
"But I did investigate that place. There is no surveillance. I also interviewed tourists nearby and they all said there was nothing unusual."
Okar was somewhat helpless. Although he had no good feelings towards the federals, he still followed the procedures to investigate out of responsibility, but he did not find any useful clues.
Jiang Yuan just glanced at Okar indifferently without saying anything. Under Okar's leadership, they soon arrived at the location where the communicator was found.
“Has it rained here?”
Okar nodded. "It rained heavily two days ago. I took some photos before the rain. You have just seen the information."
"Yes." Jiang Yuan frowned and said, "Take us to the hotel."
Okar nodded, "Okay."
The door of the hotel room was sealed and there were two mechanical policemen guarding the door. When Jiang Yuan and others approached, the two mechanical policemen stared at them with infrared laser lights, as if they would shoot them to death in the next second if they made any unusual movements.
It was not until Okar took out his police officer ID and verified his identity that the two mechanical policemen put away their guns and pushed them to both sides of the door.
Pushing open the door of the room, the dazzling sunlight shines into every corner of the room through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sound of waves in the distance can be clearly heard.
The room was clean, not too crowded.
The suitcase was quietly placed aside and I took a quick look at it.
Ji Rong said calmly: "There are no signs of damage. No one has been here."
"Hmm..." Jiang Yuan responded, Ji Rong's judgment was correct.
"Yes, after receiving your call, I checked the crime scene and his hotel. There was no sign that anyone had been in the room, and nothing was missing. I can confirm that no one had entered here." Okar quickly took over the conversation and said, "I also checked the hotel's surveillance video, and there was nothing unusual."
Jiang Yuan glanced at the middle-aged policeman in front of him. He really didn't believe what this man said. Several people went to the hotel monitoring room and called up the surveillance footage of the day before Qiu Jingming disappeared.
Everything in the picture was normal. The boy's eyes were red, but he was smiling when greeting people. It seemed that he had adjusted his mood. After greeting the people he knew at the door, he quickly put on his hat and left the hotel.
"I've already told you, I've checked the video, but you still don't believe it..." Okar on the side complained in a low voice.
Ji Rong glanced at Okar and said to the hotel staff beside him: "Can you help me check the surveillance footage from the first day he checked in?"
"Okay, okay!" The staff member nodded, "I'll go look for it."
Jiang Yuan, Ji Rong, and Jiang Tianze sat together in the monitoring room to watch the surveillance video. Okar curled his lips and said, "What's so good about this? He didn't disappear a few days ago!"
Jiang Yuan ignored Okar and waited for a while, "Stop."
“This person has appeared before.”
“And this one.”
"Well... there's this one too."
Jiang Yuan pointed at the faces of the three people in the surveillance video and said.
"Oh, I have investigated this. Two of them are guests in the hotel, and the other one is a handyman in the hotel." Okar raised his eyebrows.
"It seems that you have checked it carefully." Jiang Yuan looked at Okar suspiciously.
Okar clenched his fist, cleared his throat, and said, "Of course I checked... Do you really think that I won't check just because you are federals? Damn, I'm a policeman, okay?
"But... I really don't have any useful clues so far."
Okar's expression turned ugly when he said this. He secretly looked at Jiang Yuan and the other two from the corner of his eye. Although he didn't want to say it, he thought that the missing omega must be lost...
It is normal for a few tourists to go missing on tourist planets like theirs. Some of them may be found, but some may never be found.
Most of the relatives of the missing persons give up after searching for them.
After all, it is impossible to stay on the tourist planet to look for relatives. It not only requires a lot of money, but also a lot of time to support it, and there is a high probability that you will not find them.
As a police officer working on a tourist planet, this phenomenon is not surprising.
Especially Long Luoxing, who had a similar disappearance case half a year ago, and it ended up being left unresolved.
It was done so secretly, obviously by a professional.
Okar really couldn't bear to tell his guess to the three people who came to him looking for their relatives.
Ji Rong seemed to have thought of something and said, "Come on, follow me."
"Ah?" Jiang Yuan was held by Ji Rong's hand and quickly left the hotel. They arrived at a supermarket outside the hotel. There was no one in the supermarket, only robots. Ji Rong turned to look at Okar, "Check the surveillance."
Okar was stunned for a moment, but when he met Jiang Yuan's eyes, thinking that the other party had evidence of their dereliction of duty, he immediately used his ID to control the robot and quickly called up the surveillance footage of the supermarket.
…
"These three people have followed him." After checking the surveillance outside the hotel, they quickly confirmed that the three people who were found acting suspiciously in the hotel just now had followed Qiu Jingming!
Jiang Yuan rushed back to the hotel and found the hotel to confirm the news. One of the tourists had already left, and another tourist was still staying in the hotel. As for the other person who worked in the hotel, he had also been found.
The hotel has called over the tourists who are still in the hotel. They are from the Hera star, an alpha male named Apface.
"Hello, officers. You are looking for me. I heard that it is related to the missing omega?" Apface asked anxiously.
Before the policeman Okar could say anything, Ji Rong stepped forward and questioned him directly as if he were a real policeman.
Ji Rong: "Yes, according to our investigation, you are following him."
Apface subconsciously shook his head to deny it, and said in a panic: "I didn't!"
Ji Rong meowed at him and continued, "If you want to see the evidence, I can show it to you later. The surveillance camera outside the hotel has footage of you tracking me."
After hearing this, Apfise stopped denying it: "I...well, I did follow him, but I'm not a bad person."
Ji Rong: "Why are you following him?"
Apfis gritted his teeth and explained, "I arrived at Longluo Star on the same day as him. I saw him before at the airport. He didn't look very happy at the time, and his eyes were red. I was a little worried about him, so I followed him. I only followed him for the first two days. Later, I saw that his mood seemed to have stabilized, so I stopped following him."
When Okar heard this, he almost spit on the man in front of him. He curled his lips and said, "I think you want to take advantage of him because he's good-looking?"
When Apphis heard what Okar said, he did not refute but lowered his head guiltily.
Who made that omega so beautiful, and with those red eyes, she's so lovable!
Apface: "I'm really not a bad person. I talked to him and he rejected me. Then I spent the next few days with a friend! He can prove that I definitely didn't do anything bad!"
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong half-closed his eyes and looked at Apface, and asked, "Friend? What friend?"
Affected by being misunderstood, Apface did not hide anything and said, "We just met while traveling. We have been living together for the past few days."
"To put it so politely, isn't it just a gun and a friend?" Okar interrupted with contempt.
Ji Rong raised his eyebrows: "Okay, when you were following the missing person, did you find anyone else following him?"
Apface shook his head: "I don't know about that. I just wanted to chat up...why would I pay so much attention to that?"
After watching the subsequent surveillance footage, Jiang Yuan and his friends were certain that this man had not lied to them, and that in the subsequent surveillance footage, Apface was indeed with another young man.
"Then the only one in the hotel who is still working is that guy." Jiang Yuan pursed his lips slightly and frowned.
Soon, with the help of the hotel staff, they met the waiter who was following Qiu Jingming.
Apparently the other party already knew from the hotel staff why Jiang Yuan and the others were looking for him. His name was Amy, and he was a beta, mainly responsible for delivering things to the kitchen.
"Hello... I know why you're looking for me, but I've already explained it to the police officer last time," Amy said in a low voice, and it was obvious that he was very nervous. "I was just bored that day and came here to deliver something, and I saw him. I ran into him squatting in the corner crying on the stairs that day, and he kept saying sorry...
"I gave him tissues at the time, but because I was a little worried, I followed him secretly, but I really didn't have any bad intentions! Please believe me!"
Seeing the man in front of him looking like he was about to cry, Okar frowned and said, "Talk nicely, don't cry at every turn. You're embarrassing us Rick people!"
After hearing what Okar said, Amy burst into tears and cried very sadly, "It's really not me, I didn't do it!"
"Okay, I believe this for now. When you were following him, did you find any other suspicious people?" Ji Rong asked a similar question as before.
"No."
The answer was similar to Apface's, and did not yield any useful clues.
"Then we can only look for the last person. Here is his information and contact number. We can contact him."
Jiang Yuan watched without much hope as Ji Rong took out his communicator and dialed the number. After the busy tone, about eight seconds later, someone answered the call.
A deep male voice came from the communication.
"Hello, who is this?"
Ji Rong felt that the identity of a police officer was much more useful than their current identity, so he simply said, "Hello, this is the Longluoxing Police Station. Do you remember a missing person case that occurred in the hotel where you were staying three days ago?"
The man's voice was deep, and he answered without hesitation: "Remember."
Ji Rong: "According to our investigation, you have been following the missing person for some time. I hope you can answer my questions truthfully."
The voice on the other end stopped for two seconds, and then a deep and hoarse voice said, "Yes, I followed him."
Ji Rong: "Why are you following the missing person?"
"Isn't he very handsome?" the man on the other end of the line asked back.
Ji Rong: "Answer well."
"He's very handsome, and as an omega he's very attractive to an alpha."
Ji Rong: "When was the last time you saw him?"
"The day he disappeared."
Ji Rong: "Did you follow him that day too?"
"Well... and he found out."
Ji Rong: "Where is it?"
"Uh, just a little path, I don't know the name."
Ji Rong: "Wait a minute, I'll send you the photo, and you can see if it's here."
After waiting for a while, the man looked at the photo and gave a positive answer, "It's here."
Jiang Tianze's heart tightened as he listened nervously to the information given by the man on the communication.
Ji Rong: "Please tell me what happened that day in detail."
"That day I followed him as usual, all the way to the place in the photo, but he spotted me and simply stopped. I waited for a long time but he didn't leave, so I knew I was discovered. He looked very scared... Then I waited for a while and then just left."
Ji Rong: "And then?"
"After that I went back to the hotel and he disappeared."
Ji Rong: "Were there other people on that road at that time?"
"Yes, there are four or five people."
Ji Rong: "Do you remember what it looked like?"
"Who the hell can remember this?"
Ji Rong: "...When you were following him, did you find any other suspicious people?"
Hearing this question, Okar couldn't help but frown. This man had asked the same question to the other two people just now, but it was obvious that this question was meaningless.
"Oh, there was a boy following that cute omega too. I beat him up and told him not to follow."
"There are more people?" Okar couldn't help but exclaim in his heart. Although the missing omega named Qiu Jingming did look very handsome, there shouldn't be so many people following him, right?
Ji Rong: "Please check if it is one of these two people."
Ji Rong sent the photos of Apface and Amy, and after a few seconds, he got a reply, it was Amy.
"That's him. A beta wants to pursue an omega. Damn it!" The man's tone was full of disdain for betas. He was obviously a classist. At the end, he complained, "Inhibitors should not have been invented!"
Although there has been no progress in the investigation before, Okar has realized it now, no matter how stupid he is! The guy named Amy just lied to him! Then there must be a reason for lying!
After hanging up the phone, Ji Rong looked at Jiang Yuan and Jiang Tianze, and Jiang Tianze turned around and walked towards the kitchen.
"Ah, why are you back again?" Amy had a surprised look on her face, like a frightened little rabbit, staring at the four people with eager eyes, looking harmless.
"We have just contacted a tourist, who said he once beat you up and warned you not to follow missing persons." Okar looked at him and said, "You don't have to pretend anymore."
"Ah?" Amy looked a little surprised. After a moment, she explained anxiously, "I'm sorry, I'm just a little scared. That man hit me and he looked very fierce...
"It must be that guy who did it, yeah! It must be him!"
Seeing Amy's tearful face, Okar turned hesitantly to look at Jiang Yuan and the other two, obviously asking them what they thought, but he soon regretted it. Damn him, is he a policeman, or are these three people the police?
"No, not that person." Ji Rong said calmly.
"Ah?" Amy asked in confusion, "Why isn't it him? That guy doesn't look like a good person!"
Ji Rong looked at him and said, "Tell me the truth, where is the person?"
"I don't know." Amy seemed a little disappointed when he heard Ji Rong's question. He put away his crying look, smiled and said, "Whatever you say, I happened to go back to my hometown when he disappeared. I was not in Longluo Star~"
The tone of his voice rose slightly, three parts teasing and seven parts joking.
Okar's heart sank when he saw this. He knew there was something wrong with the boy in front of him, but the key was that he couldn't arrest him without evidence. He lowered his voice and said to the three people around him: "This boy is not afraid at all. If he really didn't go to Longluo Star at that time, I couldn't arrest him..."
"Wait, let me ask someone to check it first." Okar said in a low voice, then he took the communicator and went out, input Amy's information, and quickly found the result.
Okar walked in, looking grim, "He was definitely not on Longluo Star at that time."
"Yeah, I didn't lie to you. I wasn't here when the person disappeared. Don't talk nonsense." Amy let out a breath, looking helpless.
"You can go now." Amy said with a smile.
"You, you bastard, whatever you do will definitely leave traces! Don't think you can hide away!"
Jiang Yuan stopped Jiang Tianze and Ji Rong, and the four of them left the hotel together. Before leaving the hotel, Jiang Yuan whispered a few words to the person at the front desk.
"What did you say to them?" Jiang Tianze was upset. He had finally found a clue and he was really confused. The longer he delayed, the more danger Jingming would be in. To be honest, it had been three days since his adopted son lost contact, and it was still a question whether he was dead or alive.
"It's nothing, Dad. You and Officer Okar go back first and investigate from other angles. I plan to try to follow this guy later." Jiang Yuan said softly.
"I'll come too..." Jiang Tianze said immediately.
Jiang Yuan shook his head: "No, there are too many people and we will be discovered..."
Just when Jiang Yuan was thinking about how to persuade Jiang Tianze to leave, Okar's communication phone rang.
"A floating corpse was found on the beach." Okar said to the three people in a deep voice.
"Corpse?" Jiang Tianze's face turned pale and he swallowed subconsciously.
Jiang Yuan immediately said, "Dad, you and the police officer go over and take a look first. I'll follow that guy over here!"
"Okay!" Jiang Tianze didn't have time to think about it, and immediately followed Okar away, praying silently in his heart: It must not be Jingming, it must not be...
After Jiang Tianze left, Ji Rong looked at Jiang Yuan and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Follow me." Jiang Yuan said calmly. The two walked all the way to the back door of the hotel, and Jiang Yuan leaned against the wall.
Ji Rong stood aside and asked with a smile: "Wait here?"
"Well, as the waiter just said, that guy will leave here. I plan to use some special means, which may be a bit violent. You should leave first. I can handle it by myself." Jiang Yuan thought for a while and said, "After all, this is Rick. They are not friendly to people from our Federation. I think it will get out of hand. The Federation won't help me, so I can handle it by myself."
Ji Rong looked at Jiang Yuan, blinked and said, "Let me do it. I am not only a federal but also a Hoyt."
Jiang Yuan: “…” It’s really amazing to have a dad.
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