Chapter 54
Zhou Zhengzheng reached the top floor a step late, holding onto the railing and panting: "Master...did you find anything?"
Chang Ting walked back: "No, go, go down."
"You..." Zhou Zhengzheng was at the point of crying but had no tears.
When passing through the small iron gate again, Chang Ting tried the hidden lock on the door and found that it was broken.
He turned around and told Zhou Zhengzheng, "Tell the property management to fix the lock as soon as possible and lock the door. This will prevent any accidents from happening."
"yes."
This time, Chang Ting walked towards the elevator, saying, "I'll have someone check with the telecommunications company to see who Yu Aiai contacted. You stay and check the surveillance footage at the apartment management to see what time she left."
The elevator reached the first floor and the two of them went their separate ways.
Zhang You quickly checked the call records of the telecommunications company. There were hundreds of records, most of which were incoming calls, filling up several pages.
Zhang You said the calls came from all over the country, even from overseas. He called back a few, and the callers claimed it was about the comics and cursed Yu Aiai.
Chang Ting flipped through the papers and said, "In this case, it's too late to investigate the incoming calls. Let's focus on the outgoing calls first."
Zhang You reached over and pointed at a few crossed-out numbers: "These are the numbers Yu Aiai called."
Yu Aiai made four phone calls before she disappeared.
Chang Ting took a quick look. The first number looked very familiar. It was Chen He's number. It seemed Chen He hadn't lied.
Just skip it and dial the next one with your own phone.
The man on the other end, who sounded like a middle-aged man, heard the name Yu Aiai and said he didn't know her. Chang Ting revealed his identity and told him that this was related to the investigation. If he didn't tell the truth and delayed the investigation, he would be held accountable.
The man then stammered, "Yu Aiai called me and asked me to...get a room."
The man said Yu Aiai asked him to book a hotel room for her. He was with his wife and children at the time, so he didn't dare say anything more and just hung up.
Chang Ting understood the relationship between the man and Yu Aiai.
The other two calls were similar. They all sounded like men who were dating Yu Aiai and were desperate to get rid of her. It seemed like Yu Aiai had a complicated social life.
All three men refused her request to get a room.
The third man was particularly harsh: "She calls herself my girlfriend, but I'm just playing with her. We've only slept together a few times, but she's demanding everything from big to small. She even asked me to buy her a house, without even considering whether her looks are worth the price. To be honest, all the Chanels I bought her were knockoffs. I've been wanting to dump her for a long time, but she's like a fly that can't be shooed away."
"She is a fly, and you are shit." Officer Chang never curses people in his heart, he always says it directly.
The man nearly choked. "You...Officer, how can you talk like that!" Business people rarely dared to provoke public officials. If it weren't for the police, they would have already started a quarrel.
Chang Ting asked, "What else did she say?"
The man held back his anger. "Nothing much. She just sounded a little panicked. It wasn't like she wanted to go on a date with me. It was more like she was in some trouble and wanted to hide somewhere. She didn't want to pay herself, so she tried to get me to pay. I said a few words to her and hung up."
After finishing the call, Chang Ting frowned and repeated in a low voice: "Hide..."
It is understandable that Yu Aiai, who was exposed and harassed, moved to another place to hide from the limelight.
Furthermore, with Xu Candong's death in the past, she was also afraid that the fate of "Yu Er" in the comic would happen to her. The place where the accident was described in the comic was exactly this apartment, so she wanted to escape.
Feedback from other colleagues also came in waves: Yu Aiai had never visited her parents, relatives or friends' homes.
A day passed without any discovery. Where could Yu Aiai go?
*
It was late at night, and Zhou Zhengzheng was still watching the surveillance in the monitoring room of the Aegean Apartment Property.
After a day of running around without any results, Chang Ting called her to ask if she had found anything.
Zhou Zhengzheng sat in a chair in front of the monitoring station, staring intently at the wall of screens. He reported to his phone in a voice almost lifeless:
Aiqin Apartment is an economical apartment with very ordinary supporting facilities. There is no public surveillance in the apartment corridor. But Yu Aiai and her roommate installed a camera at the door to prevent people from stealing packages. Her roommate can then play back the video on his phone.
"The surveillance camera captured Yu Aiai leaving the room five minutes after her roommate left. She didn't take the elevator, but went directly to the stairwell. There was no surveillance camera in the stairwell from top to bottom. She must have gone downstairs."
"However, the security guard at the front door on the first floor said he hadn't seen her leave. The CCTV footage also showed the same thing. We also checked the back door security, but didn't see her."
Chang Ting on the other end of the phone asked in surprise: "Then where did she go?"
Zhou Zhengzheng stretched his waist, which was stiff from sitting, and said, "My analysis is that she should have gone down the stairs directly to the basement, entered the underground garage, and left by car.
"Yu Aiai doesn't have a driver's license or a car, so she must have been riding in someone else's vehicle. However, the apartment's underground garage is connected to the adjacent shopping mall, and there were a lot of cars coming in and out during that time. There were cars belonging to the owners, as well as those of mall customers. I'm trying to track down the vehicles that left and right. There are over a hundred."
Zhou Zhengzheng's voice was filled with despair.
Chang Ting was anxious and spoke very simply: "The characteristics of the clothing."
"A pink Chanel-style dress, beige high heels, a black Chanel shoulder bag, and long wavy hair tied into a left-sided braid."
The clothes Yu Aiai lent to her roommate were also Chanel-style, so it was clear she had more than one set of this style. Zhou Zhengzheng thought, it seems she really likes this style.
Chang Ting said, "Okay, I'll have everyone keep an eye on it. You can continue the investigation."
"Okay, Master." Zhou Zhengzheng replied weakly.
After the call, Zhou Zhengzheng slapped his face and forced himself to cheer up. He took a piece of paper with the license plates of over a hundred cars and asked the property manager to mark the vehicles that were owned by the owners. For those that were not owned by the owners, he would check the phone numbers of the owners through the vehicle management office and call them one by one to ask if Yu Aiai had been taken out of the garage.
The property manager personally stayed with her until late at night, but he couldn't hold on any longer after checking less than half of the information.
He tried to keep his sleepy eyes open: "Officer Zhou, how about we check again tomorrow?"
Zhou Zhengzheng checked the time. It was almost midnight. "Oh, it's really late."
"Of course..." The property manager was almost in tears.
"Then let's continue tomorrow. Thank you for your hard work."
"It's my duty to fully support your work," the manager said with a bitter face.
Zhou Zhengzheng said goodbye, and the manager escorted her out the door. A wind had started outside at some point, blowing fiercely from the side of the building, whipping the hems of people's clothes.
The manager covered his face and said, "What a strong wind! How are you going to get home, Officer Zhou? How about I drive you?"
"No, no, my master left a car for me, you can go back."
As she walked down the hallway steps, her cell phone rang. It was Chang Ting calling. Zhou Zhengzheng was standing in front of the building when he answered the call.
"Master? It's so late, haven't you rested yet?"
Chang Ting was in the technical department of the bureau at the time, with a colleague who he had forced to work overtime sitting next to him.
He did not respond to his apprentice's concern, but only asked, "Where are you?"
"Still in the Aegean Apartment. I haven't found anything yet, and I was just about to leave. It's too late, Master. I can't stand it anymore. Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Chang Ting said mercilessly: "Hold on for a while longer."
"Why?" Zhou Zhengzheng wailed.
Chang Ting stared at the computer screen in front of him with bloodshot eyes: "Yu Aiai's cell phone signal shows that she is in that apartment building."
Zhou Zhengzheng was so shocked that he stood up straight: "What?! When did she come back?"
"have no idea."
Chang Ting and his team had been busy searching for half a day today, but hadn't found any trace of Yu Aiai. They'd initially planned to give up and wait until tomorrow. After all, she'd been missing for less than 24 hours, so under normal circumstances, they wouldn't even be able to call the police.
He always felt uneasy and wanted to check the location of his cell phone.
In fact, during their search, they called Yu Aiai's cell phone several times, but it was always turned off. A turned-off phone cannot be located, so they did not consider using this method to find someone.
But he suddenly remembered to check the location where the cell phone signal last disappeared, so in the middle of the night, he called his colleagues from the technical department to work overtime.
His colleague examined him with dark circles under his eyes and a lot of resentment.
The results showed that when Yu Aiai's phone was turned off in the afternoon, she was at the Aegean Apartment. She must have been turned off when she left, so Zhang You couldn't get through the call at that time.
However, it turned on again at 11pm and turned off again about ten minutes later. The location was still in the Aegean Apartment!
Chang Ting stood up from his chair and said quickly to the phone: "Anyway, she should be in the building now, and she may have returned to her room. Don't take any action yet, just wait there and wait for me to come over." Then he stood up.
"Okay, Master, I..."
Bang!
Chang Ting heard a sudden muffled sound from the receiver, as if something had hit him hard, and Zhou Zhengzheng's voice stopped abruptly.
Chang Ting froze in his tracks. "What's that sound? Zhou Zhengzheng. Zhou Zhengzheng?"
There was silence on the other end of the line.
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