Chapter 3 The last person I saw before I disappeared
Half an hour later, in a factory in the suburbs of Mobei.
It was lunch break time in the factory. Li Xianglan led a few people to find the girl named Gu Xiaobai in the factory cafeteria. The girl was carrying a crossbody bag and a very unseasonable turtleneck thin sweater, eating alone in the corner.
People queue up to get food.
"Do you really have a way to make her talk?" Li Xianglan asked Xu Tiannan slightly worriedly: "Gu Xiaobai was wary of me originally, but now if I take you two with me, she will definitely not say anything.
.”
Xu Tiannan did not answer, but walked quickly behind Gu Xiaobai and observed, patiently waiting for him to finish his meal and then walked to an empty table.
After a while, Xu Tiannan led a few people over, sat directly opposite Gu Xiaobai, and asked: "Is that girl named Li Xiangqin your friend?"
Hearing this, Gu Xiaobai was startled for a moment, and immediately became alert. She sat up straight unnaturally. She saw Li Xianglan and Xu Tiannan, and said angrily: "Sister Xianglan, what have I said?
All over the place, I don’t know where Qinqin is! Why are you still looking for me?”
"Sister Xiaobai." Li Xianglan said almost in a pleading tone: "Qinqin has been missing for three days. I am really worried about her. If you know anything, can you tell me?"
"I don't know, I just don't know! Are you annoyed?" Gu Xiaobai also lost her appetite for food at this time. When she saw Xu Tiannan looking directly at her, she suddenly became nervous, and then she looked away, but her mouth
Still impatiently said: "If you have evidence that Qinqin and I disappeared together, bring it out! Don't always come to me every two days. What a big deal! Who do you think I am?"
Xu Tiannan said: "Sister Xiaobai, since Qinqin once said she was with you on the phone, then you are the last person to see her. In some respects, you are very suspected in the case of Qinqin's disappearance.
Da, do you know?"
Hearing this, Gu Xiaobai clenched his hands unconsciously and hesitated: "You...who are you? The police?"
Xu Tiannan smiled and said: "I'm not a policeman, just an ordinary university teacher."
Hearing that the other party was not a policeman, Gu Xiaobai finally relaxed and spoke more confidently, "Since you are not a policeman, what do you want to do? Let me tell you, this is a public place. If you do something extraordinary,
If something happens, I promise to go to your school to complain against you! By the way, which school are you a teacher at?"
Xu Tiannan said seriously: "Mobei University of Political Science and Law, graduate tutor of the School of Criminal Investigation."
Hearing the name of the University of Political Science and Law, Gu Xiaobai's momentum became weaker again, but he still said stubbornly: "Then...then you can't force me, right?"
Xu Tiannan shook his head, looked directly into the other person's eyes and said, "Just because I'm not a policeman, I can't force you to cooperate with our investigation, but just because I'm not a policeman, I can't guarantee that my behavior will be as civilized as a policeman.
This is all with you, want to try it?"
"you you you……"
Gu Xiaobai, who had never experienced social beatings, had never seen such a scene before. She was about to cry out of fear, but the next moment a man suddenly appeared next to her.
This man is Gu Xiaobai's boyfriend. He had met Li Xianglan a few days ago and did not have a good impression of this aggressive woman.
Gu Xiaobai saw her boyfriend coming to help her out, but a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, and her words trembled slightly: "Ah? You... aren't you on a business trip?"
The man gently scratched Gu Xiaobai's nose and said softly: "You little fool! I've already arrived at the train station, and my supervisor suddenly said that the business trip was cancelled. I'm going to come back as soon as possible to give you a surprise!"
After he finished speaking, he hugged Gu Xiaobai's shoulders and said to Li Xianglan very rudely: "Why is it you again? Didn't I make it clear to you a few days ago? Now you have brought someone here again, what do you want?
Sample!"
Li Xianglan forced a smile and said in a flattering manner: "I'm sorry to bother you again, but the police station has never opened a case for Qinqin's disappearance. I really have no choice now, so I have to come to you again. I want to know where my sister is.
What happened on Friday?"
"Okay, okay!" The man on the other side picked up Gu Xiaobai's food, glared at several people and said, "I'm warning you not to pester my girlfriend again, otherwise I'll call the police now! Xiaobai, let's go!"
Afterwards, the man couldn't help but pulled Gu Xiaobai to another corner of the cafeteria. Li Xianglan helplessly asked Xu Tiannan: "She really refused to say anything. What should I do now?"
Xu Tiannan said: "Although this girl named Gu Xiaobai didn't say anything, she still told me one thing, that is, Qinqin's disappearance is related to someone, and this person happens to be a girl like her.
Someone you can’t afford to mess with.”
Li Xianglan said in surprise: "What? How did you know?"
Xu Tiannan explained: “When I asked her the first question, she first clenched her hands tightly together, and then unconsciously clasped them in front of her chest while speaking, while also crossing her feet on the stool.
Below, this is an obvious defensive posture when she is nervous, indicating that Qinqin's disappearance made her panic, and her body also showed an active defense posture. Therefore, I am sure that she should be concerned about Qinqin's disappearance.
She knows something, but there is someone or something that scares her that makes her afraid to say it."
Murong Shui said eagerly: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's go! Let's go find that little bitch now and ask her!"
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Xu Tiannan grabbed Murong Shui and said, "What are you going to ask?"
Murong Shui said: "How else can I ask? Let me ask you, who are we?"
Xu Tiannan said: "Ordinary teacher."
"Wrong!" Murong Shui waved his finger and said: "Teacher is just our social identity, but our real identity is that of people in the world. As the saying goes, where there are people, there are worlds..."
"Okay, stop it!" Xu Tiannan planned to say to the other party: "Are you sick again? What exactly do you want to say?"
"Boss, listen to me! Just because we are people in the world, sometimes we can't do things according to the rules. People in the world have to do things in the world!" After Murong Shui finished speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and made a fierce expression on his face.
Xu Tiannan said: "Although we usually let you make the decision, give me a chance to show your true strength this time! Give me 5 minutes, and I will pry open that little bitch's mouth!"
Seeing that Murong Shui was about to rush over in a fierce manner, Xu Tiannan stepped forward and grabbed him and said: "There are people everywhere here, don't do whatever you want! Just sit here and wait for me!"
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A few minutes later, Xu Tiannan came back from the factory guard and said to Murong Shui: "Give me your true strength. I'm not as powerful as you, but I only need ten minutes to pry her mouth open. You
What we need to do now is to make sure not to cause trouble within ten minutes, understand? Murong Shuigen."
"Don't call me by my full name!"
Xu Tiannan ignored the other party, turned around and walked to a position a few meters away from Gu Xiaobai, smiled and waved to the other party, indicating to come over.
Gu Xiaobai's boyfriend immediately became angry when he saw Xu Tiannan's reluctance. He picked up his phone and was about to call the police, but was suddenly stopped by his girlfriend. Then she whispered a few words in her boyfriend's ear.
He walked towards Xu Tiannan with an angry face.
Gu Xiaobai walked to Xu Tiannan alone, but said in a very firm tone: "I'll tell you first. If you continue to be entangled like this, we will definitely call the police. This is my last warning to you!"
Xu Tiannan smiled and shook his head: "I'm not here to pester you, I just want to make a deal with you."
"Deal?" Gu Xiaobai looked at the other party in confusion and asked, "I don't know you, why would I do such a thing with you? I'm sorry, I'm leaving."
"Wait a minute." Xu Tiannan suddenly stopped the other party and whispered: "Tell me what happened to Li Xiangqin on Friday. As a deal, I won't tell your man about your cheating with a man named Xiong Haotian just now.
friend."
Hearing Xiong Haotian's name, Gu Xiaobai's mind was suddenly struck by lightning, and his words began to tremble: "You, you, you... who are you?"
The man who had been waiting not far away felt that the atmosphere between the two of them was not right. As he was about to come over, he was suddenly stopped by Gu Xiaobai sternly: "Don't come over!"
The other party didn't know what happened, but he still stood there obediently. At this time, Xu Tiannan was very sure of his thoughts and explained with a smile: "You washed your hair about 40 minutes ago, right?"
Only then did Gu Xiaobai realize that his hair was still slightly damp and smelled faintly of the free shampoo in an express hotel. He only heard Xu Tiannan explain again: "I just passed by the girls' dormitory in your factory.
When I went upstairs, I discovered that the women's bathhouse is open from 6 to 9 o'clock every night, so it is not the opening time now, so you were at the Express Hotel 40 minutes ago, right?"
Gu Xiaobai pursed his lips tightly and said without giving up: "This...what does this mean!"
Xu Tiannan explained unhurriedly: "Usually we can't judge what happens to a person from one point of view, but I have to tell you that the thin turtleneck you are wearing is really out of season.
It's easy to cause drama. Although you have taken off the tag of this dress, the transparent plastic rope of the tag is still hanging on the collar. It can be seen that you were in a hurry when buying this dress and didn't even notice that the tag was not removed. At the same time,
I saw the shopping receipt from the 'only store' in your wallet just now when you were eating. The purchase time was thirty minutes ago. So this is very strange. Why did you buy one in this hot weather?
What about clothes that can cover your neck? I guess it’s most likely to hide the hickey on your neck caused by that man named Xiong Haotian, right? As for the old clothes you changed into, they should be in the crossbody bag behind your back.
, how about it? Do you dare to open it and let me take a look?"
"You...you...you're talking nonsense!" Gu Xiaobai was so anxious that he almost cried. He stood there at a loss and didn't know what to do, but he still said stubbornly: "I just went to buy some clothes. You
There is no evidence to say that I... you are slandering me by saying what you said about me!"
"Do you want evidence? Okay!" Xu Tiannan took out a list full of names from his pocket. The top of the list was printed with "Registration of Personnel Entering the Factory Area" and explained: "This is what I just went to the guard to steal...
Um, one of the pages of the borrowed registration book, I have to say that you still have some anti-reconnaissance ability at such a young age. The people before and after your registered name are all girls, which means that after you and the man came back from the hotel, you still
After a while, we entered the factory separately. Considering that a girl standing outside the gate would be seen by acquaintances, I guess you entered the factory gate first."
After Xu Tiannan finished speaking, he changed the topic and suddenly pointed at the broken zipper on Gu Xiaobai's coat and said: "You who have been carefully dressed will definitely not wear clothes with broken zippers, so there is a high probability that the zipper of your coat will be broken."
It was broken by that impatient man. So with his impatient character, I guess he won't wait too long after you enter the factory, probably within 3 minutes, so let's take a look.
Let’s look at the number of men who have been there within 3 minutes since you entered the factory.”
Xu Tiannan pointed to the names of the two men on the list and said: "These two people entered the factory within 3 minutes after you. Let's exclude the people from this processing workshop first. After all, you and your boyfriend both have it written on their work badges.
He is in the 'Processing Workshop', so things like nest grass should not be done by a cautious girl like you, so the only one left is this man named Xiong Haotian in the logistics department. Well... the word is really ugly, how about it?
?Are you going to tell me what happened to Qinqin that day, or let me give this list to your boyfriend? You have to decide quickly, I feel like he is running out of patience."
At this time, Gu Xiaobai felt that the world was about to collapse, and the fingers that were pinched together were turning white. After being silent for a long time, he finally lowered his head and sobbed softly: "That day was Qinqin's birthday. She was supposed to be there after work."
She wanted to go home with me, but she was... picked up by someone else."
Xu Tiannan said: "Tell me who that person is?"
Gu Xiaobai's face was full of panic at this time and he said: "That man's name is Chen Jialuo... He is the son of our factory boss and a famous bully in our factory. He often bullies people with his father's power, and no one can
I didn't dare to mess with him... I saw with my own eyes that day that Chen Jialuo kept pestering Qinqin, insisting on celebrating her birthday, and then coaxed and deceived her into the car..."
Xu Tiannan silently remembered the other party's name - Chen Jialuo, and asked again: "What color and brand of car is it?"
"Well...it's a black Maxima."
Xu Tiannan was stunned, "Cholima? What kind of car is that?"
Gu Xiaobai recalled carefully: "It shouldn't be a good car. I haven't seen anyone drive it."
People who have money at home but drive broken cars generally like to pretend to be poor, but from Gu Xiaobai's words, he learned that Chen Jialuo was not such a low-key person. Xu Tiannan decided to ask about this matter again. After all, through the way a person behaves
Many clues can be deduced.
"Why are you sure that's not a good car?"
Gu Xiaobai said: "Because the car is short and small, it can only seat two people, and the roof is made of black cloth!"
After the other party said this, Xu Tiannan suddenly thought of something, so he asked: "Does that car have a round butt and a pair of big, round eyes on the front and rear?"
Gu Xiaobai said: "Yes, yes! That's right! Just like the two big nostrils!"
"Hmm..." Xu Tiannan smiled awkwardly, "It seems to be a Porsche."
"What Jie?" Gu Xiaobai asked in confusion.
Xu Tiannan shook his head, "It's okay. Let's move on to the next question. Did that bad boy named Chen Jialuo come to work today?"
Gu Xiaobai shook his head and said, "No, today is Monday. It stands to reason that he should speak at the employee morning meeting every Monday, but I definitely didn't see him today."
Xu Tiannan said directly: "Tell me his phone number."
Gu Xiaobai picked up his mobile phone and logged into an OA platform within the factory, and quickly found Chen Jialuo's phone number. However, when Xu Tiannan called, the other party kept prompting him to shut down his phone.
Xu Tiannan asked again: "If the phone can't be reached, do you know where his home is?"
Gu Xiaobai shook his head, "I can't find it. The factory owner's home address will not be easily disclosed to us workers. I'm afraid only the boss's driver or people in the finance office know it."
Xu Tiannan thought for a while and then said: "As for what we just said, can you and I go to the police station and explain it again?"
Gu Xiaobai was frightened and said with a look of horror in his eyes: "No, no...it's impossible. Even if you tell my boyfriend about Xiong Haotian and I opening a room, I will never go to the police station with you to talk about these things.
, if Chen Jialuo really knows that I betrayed him...I'm afraid I will have to leave this city."
Xu Tiannan said: "Are you afraid of him?"
Gu Xiaobai answered tremblingly: "Not just... not just me, anyone in the factory who offends him will be troubled by some inexplicable people in society. No one is not afraid of him! Because everyone knows that their family is not good.
provoke."
After finishing speaking, Gu Xiaobai seemed to be determined and said: "If you really want to tell my story, just go ahead! But there is no way I will go to the police station with you!"
Although he did not convince Gu Xiaobai, he still got a very important clue. Xu Tiannan finally smiled and said: "Okay, I understand. Thank you for the information you provided. It is very important to us. Now please pick up the diagonal key behind you."
Shoulder bag, hit it with all your strength."
Gu Xiaobai thought he heard wrongly, so he asked: "What? Hit you with a bag...?"
"That's right." Xu Tiannan explained: "Do you still remember our deal? If you tell me the whereabouts of Qinqin, I will keep your secret, so I will not force you to go to the police station with me, but since we are here
After chatting for so long, your boyfriend will definitely be suspicious, so now you have to pick up your schoolbag and throw it at me, making a very angry look to scare me away. Only in this way can our conversation end perfectly."
Gu Xiaobai asked again: "Then... what if my boyfriend asks me what we have been talking about for so long? What should I say?"
Xu Tiannan smiled and said, "Just say that I wanted to buy you with money, but you refused. He is very simple and will believe whatever you say, so pick up your schoolbag and call him now."
Gu Xiaobai seemed to have made up his mind, "There's only so much I can help you with... Then can I ask you to find Qinqin!"
Xu Tiannan smiled confidently: "I promise you, ah..."
Before Xu Tiannan finished speaking, Gu Xiaobai's bag was thrown at him. Before he could react, he felt as if his head had been hit by a stone. There was a muffled "dong" sound, and he almost fell down.
He looked at me. It seemed that there were not only the clothes he had just changed into, but also some hard things in his schoolbag. He hurriedly said: "Don't hit me on the head, you damn girl..."