Chapter 11: Greetings to Hunter
"No. 6, 4th floor, Building 5, Yongyuan Community, Houmiao Street. FA sends greetings to Hunter."
The processed rough voice made it impossible to distinguish between men, women, young and old, and the sound was distorted by the current in the mobile phone recording. There were four or five people sitting in the room, but at this moment, everyone was silent and deep in thought.
Yang Zhao couldn't help but slap the table. Du Yanze looked over at her. She immediately sat back down in frustration. The short-haired woman in casual clothes sitting at the front paused the recording and looked at everyone in the room.
"What did the technical department say?"
"Sister Chen, the owner of the phone number is Feng You..." As soon as she finished asking, the young man with a buzz cut behind her raised his hand to report, looking confused.
As soon as this was said, everyone started to discuss, and seemed quite surprised by this result. Yang Zhao looked confused, and Du Yanze had been standing by the window in deep thought without saying a word, so she was too embarrassed to ask.
Chen Shuang saw Yang Zhao's confusion and walked to the front whiteboard and said, "This case involves FA. At this point, it is necessary for us to synchronize the complete case with our colleagues at SDD."
"We have now merged the four missing persons cases. After investigating their social relationships, we have not been able to find any overlapping contacts."
Chen Shuang spoke concisely and clearly, and kept looking at Yang Zhao. She must have guessed that Yang Zhao didn't know the specific information of the case yet, so she spoke with full energy and neither hurried nor slow.
"But we checked their social networks and found something in common." Yang Zhao thought she would mention Down's syndrome, but she just tapped the whiteboard.
"All the victims had a common online friend. Of course, they were four different accounts. The technical department spent some time to confirm that it was the same person. The main suspicion is that this mysterious online friend suddenly disappeared half a month before they disappeared."
"According to the chat records, these victims have all been out with this netizen..."
Yang Zhao understood as he listened. Naturally, the police intervened in the case mainly with their conventional criminal investigation methods. In less than a month, and with the obstruction of the powerful technology behind FA, they were able to find out to this extent, which was quite astonishing.
"Yesterday we just found out that this common netizen is most likely this Feng You, and we were just about to summon him today."
Du Yanze turned around and looked at Feng You on the big screen. The man looked to be no more than twenty-four or twenty-five years old. His facial features were unremarkable, and he didn't have any unique temperament. He had an appearance that was not easy to remember, and his presence was not strong.
"Have you checked this address?" Du Yanze asked this question after listening to Chen Shuang's brief introduction of Feng You's information. He had a guess in his mind, but it was difficult to say it now.
"I checked. Yongyuan Community is a redevelopment community that was relocated from a demolished area. It's close to the suburbs. There aren't many people living there. The population composition is complex, and several buildings are haunted. The building where the address is is one of them."
The location of this community is very far from factories, companies, and even bus and subway stations. It is not convenient even to ride an electric scooter. It is also a demolished and restored house with complicated population flow. Most people are unwilling to rent or buy it.
Households who can afford to be relocated can use the compensation money, or at most add a little money to move into a new community. Many of these communities that can barely be called communities have only a few residents on the first floor, and are called ghost buildings.
"Does this Feng You have any real estate under his name?"
“No.” The young man who reported earlier raised his hand and answered: “The owner of the household is a woman named Han Xian, but we can’t contact her for the time being.”
"She doesn't have a younger brother named Han Huai, right?" Yang Zhao asked in surprise.
"Yes, but her brother couldn't contact her either. It is said that he is abroad all year round. And her brother doesn't seem to know the existence of this house."
Chen Shuang thought for a moment and looked at Du Yanze on the side: "Has SDD found anything? If it involves overseas, SDD will be faster than us."
Du Yanze had nothing to hide, so he directly synchronized the information: "Han Xian has been confirmed missing abroad, and there is a high probability that she has been murdered. When the SDD seized evidence during the crackdown, they found a price tag with Han Xian's name on it."
Everyone present felt a chill down their spine and fell silent for a moment.
It is common to find no bodies in Fork cases. Everyone present knows something about it, but it is hard not to feel cold. They treat people, living people, like animals, and sell and eat them...
"Commander, we will summon Feng You as planned. This address may require you and Xiao Zhao..." Chen Shuang was the first to calm down and looked at Du Yanze.
Du Yanze nodded to show his understanding that it was not appropriate for the police to intervene in this matter due to procedural reasons.
"Wait, they called me. Are they not sure who Hunter is? Could this be a bait to make the officer reveal his identity?" Yang Zhao frowned and advised.
Du Yanze patted her shoulder with relief: "The other party does have this idea, but at this point, there is no point in hiding your identity."
"And don't forget, I'm almost half-exposed to Tang Zhilu. If he's from FA, he should know that I'm from SDD. Knowing my specific code name is not important to us at all."
Yang Zhao heard the subtext, the commander was very likely to give up the identity of "Du Yanze", so it was not important. As it was related to the progress of Tang Zhilu, Yang Zhao could not ask more questions at the moment, so he could only nod.
The two of them were temporarily unable to carry guns in the country, but Chen Shuang and Du Yanze both felt that this address might be more important than their search for Feng You, so they left police officers to facilitate support from both sides and keep communication between the two sides open.
Without further ado, after briefly discussing the details of the operation, Du Yanze set off with Yang Zhaoxian. After all, they were going to the suburbs, a long distance away, and it was very likely that Chen Shuang would get the result first.
Yang Zhao has been working in intelligence in China, so his job has always been low-risk. This is his first time to come into contact with such a scene.
Du Yanze sat in the passenger seat, checking his equipment. The film blade shone with a cold light, like a cold star. Yang Zhao became even more nervous and wanted to chat with him to liven up the atmosphere.
"How are you and Mr. Tang doing? Mr. Tang is obviously in a very good mood since you went to the Tang residence."
Du Yanze also laughed: "If it was Deng Shan, she would say that Mr. Tang hasn't been this happy for a long time."
Yang Zhao also thought of Deng Shan, and felt a little relieved. He responded with a smile, but then he thought of something and asked Du Yanze softly, "Sir, is Shan Shan also a Cake?"
Du Yanze did not answer, but just said: "She is very lucky, I hope she will always be lucky."
Deng Shan didn't know that she had been attacked once, but she thought she had met a lunatic. Later, after Du Yanze learned about it from Lin Shuang, he hired her to look after the store and kept her under his nose.
In fact, she should be told, but as long as Du Yanze is still there, Deng Shan is safe. Therefore, everyone tacitly did not say much, but after Du Yanze left, the little girl had to face it.
"Hey, Feng You is on our side. This guy turned and ran as soon as he saw us. We are chasing him now."
Yang Zhao heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. Since Feng You was on their side, maybe nothing particularly thrilling would happen on their side... She was really a little nervous about chasing the criminal.
Du Yanze did not let his guard down. Before getting out of the car, he gave her a knife and told her to hide it.
Yongyuan Community is a restored community. There are even wastelands covered with weeds around it. There are dump trucks and lorries on the road that are not often seen in the city. There is not even an elderly person in the community who takes children out to play.
From the outside, the paint on the outside of the building was visibly perfunctory. Du Yanze had asked Yang Zhao to park the car farther away in the morning. He was not in a hurry to enter the community, but walked into the store at the door.
"Boss, give me a pack of cigarettes." Yang Zhao stared at the way Du Yanze walked. His demeanor had completely changed, like a rebellious young man. He walked to the counter and leaned casually, opened the freezer, took out a bottle of water and drank it.
The boss looked at him unhappily and threw a pack of cigarettes. Du Yanze was not in a hurry to leave. He scanned the code to pay for the water and cigarettes first, and then scanned the box of milk in front of the store.
"How do you buy this? Damn, boss, this is an unknown brand." Du Yanze picked up a cigarette casually, lit it in his mouth and held it.
The boss was immediately unhappy and sneered: "It's just a cheap brand, don't buy it."
Du Yanze frowned and shouted impatiently at Yang Zhao: "Sister, these are all unknown brands. Are you going to buy them or not? You won't beat us up if we carry these boxes to grandma later, right?"
The boss became interested when he heard him say that: "You see grandma? There are only a few people here, and I have never seen any elderly people in their homes."
"You're a policeman, you know every family. My grandma lives on the fourth floor of Building 5."
"Building 5? Apart from a few young people, there are no old people in Building 5." The boss sneered, "I don't need to be a policeman. All the people who can live here are from our original village. They all know each other."
"Aren't there only a few young strangers in and out of Building 5? Hey, just now there was a man who said his relative lives on the fourth floor of Building 5 and came to ask about it. There aren't so many people in Building 5."
Du Yanze and Yang Zhao looked at each other, said a few words casually, bought some things and left.
"Let's go straight ahead. It looks like someone is ahead of us." Du Yanze was carrying a box of milk and looked like he was visiting relatives.
"The young people coming in and out that the boss mentioned..." Yang Zhao pondered, a little unsure of his guess: "It's not that Feng You and the others tied up all the people here."
Du Yanze calmly glanced at Yang Zhao, whose face turned pale. If this was true, then they could see anything.
"We're here, stand behind me." There was no elevator in the community, so the two climbed the stairs and didn't see any special traces along the way.
Finally reaching the fourth floor, Du Yanze walked to the front, carrying a box of milk, and knocked on the door. Yang Zhao followed behind him and forced himself to calm down.
He knocked and shouted loudly: "Grandma! My sister and I are here to see you, Grandma!" He knocked on the door so hard, but no neighbor came out to say anything. And judging from the traces, there was indeed no one living nearby.
"Grandma!" Du Yanze insisted on knocking on the door and listened attentively to the movement inside.
Yang Zhao was just about to ask if there was no one inside when he heard footsteps coming from inside the door. He immediately swallowed and waited quietly.
Du Yanze also heard it, but continued to knock on the door, acting like a grumpy and mentally ill young man.
The door suddenly opened a crack. Yang Zhao's pupils shrank and he tried his best to control his expression and not lose his composure.
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