Chapter 591: Chapter 591: Completely Unrelated

Within a single week, 13 people consecutively went missing, causing a significant stir in the Tianzhou City Criminal Investigation Team.

Generally speaking, missing person cases do not usually draw the attention or focus of the Criminal Investigation Team.

Many missing person cases are reported through police stations, which then conduct the investigation and handle them.

As long as no body is found, and if they’re adults, then generally speaking, if you can’t find them, you can’t find them.

In recent years, the rate of missing person cases has shown a notable increase.

But this doesn’t necessarily mean that people have genuinely gone missing; rather, they are deliberately disappearing.

Nowadays, with the pace of society accelerating and work pressure intensifying, many adults cannot cope with the stress of work and life and temporarily disappear for some time, which occurs quite frequently now.

So, many missing person cases are not like before, where a person disappearing indeed meant they were missing.

In the past, approximately one or two missing person cases per week were considered a normal frequency.

However, in the recent week, the occurrence of missing person cases has sharply increased.

Thirteen people have consecutively gone missing within a week!

The Haizhou City Bureau attaches high importance to this.

Song Jiangguo personally called Qin Yong, requesting the Criminal Investigation Team to intervene in the investigation.

If they were just ordinary missing person cases, then never mind.

But if they aren’t...

Right now, Qin Yong is overwhelmed.

Recently, the appointment regarding Ren Qiang has already been issued; now Ren Qiang is officially the Deputy Captain of the Haizhou City Criminal Investigation Team.

Actually, based on Ren Qiang’s resume, there is no issue with him taking on the Deputy Captain role.

As the leader of the most important second action team within the Criminal Investigation Team, Ren Qiang has solved numerous major cases over the years.

Although his qualifications are not an issue, the key is his age.

Ren Qiang has already surpassed the age limit a long time ago.

This promotion, according to Qin Yong, is primarily due to several achievements of Ren Qiang in recent times and also his injury this time.

Almost losing his life, there’s certainly no problem in promoting him to Deputy Captain.

Now, Ren Qiang sits in the first position to Qin Yong’s left.

"Zhang Hui, please give everyone an overview of the situation."

Zhang Hui nodded and signaled the technical forensic police to turn on the projector.

"Since last Wednesday, various municipal police stations have successively received 13 missing person reports."

"Missing person number one, Chen Degao, male, 34 years old, truck driver, the earliest person to go missing."

"Missing person number two, Li Muxun, male, 36 years old, chef, went missing last Thursday morning."

"Missing person number three, Jianghuai, male, 38 years old, janitor, went missing last Thursday..."

Zhang Hui sequentially introduced the basic information of the thirteen people.

"From last Wednesday to today, within just 6 days, 13 people have gone missing."

"We conducted a general survey of the basic circumstances of all the individuals."

"Among them, the 13th missing person, Sun Jianjun, who is the boss of Tianhai Trading Company, has been confirmed to have a bank card transaction record, and we have already found accommodation information in the provincial city."

"This person is basically a false disappearance; the other individuals should be confirmed as missing persons."

"Everyone, share your opinions."

Everyone looked at each other, unsure of what opinions to share.

Sun Jun noticed Qin Yong looking at him and helplessly cleared his throat.

"Since the 13th missing person has been confirmed as a false disappearance, it means there are actually only 12 missing persons."

Yes, everyone nodded; Old Sun’s arithmetic was indeed correct, 13 minus 1 equals 12.

"According to the previous frequency of missing cases, the number of people missing this week is indeed in a state of a sudden surge."

"Moreover, look at the occupations of these people."

Huh?

When Sun Jun brought this up, everyone paid attention.

"The 13th missing person Sun Jianzhong is the boss of a company. His disappearance shares many commonalities with false disappearances we’ve encountered before."

"For instance, work pressure, or having money."

"But look at the other 12 people."

"There are chefs, janitors, truck drivers, and also waiters, couriers, and so on."

"These 12 people’s occupations can be said to belong to relatively low-income jobs, or jobs with considerable hardships."

"Just before the meeting, I checked the family information of these 12 individuals."

"These people are all aged between 30 to 40, and basically, each of them has a large family to support."

"Except for three who haven’t married, the others have at least one child, and there are even several families where the parents are ill." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"Logically speaking, these people are the mainstay of their families. The possibility of them playing missing on their own is very small, in my opinion."

Sun Jun, worthy of being an experienced detective and the head of the first action team.

Just by looking at these people’s basic information and occupational characteristics, he could analyze so much.

"I agree with Old Sun’s view."

"In our past investigations of missing person cases, there were various professions and ages, but this time, so many young adults disappeared in such a short time, which I think is a big problem."

"So many people going missing in such a short period, it’s very likely the work of the same group."

"I suggest focusing on investigating the interpersonal relationships of the missing persons, to see if there’s any connection among them."

"For example, have they ever worked together?"

"Did they overlap in any place?"

"Otherwise, if these people are truly in trouble, what is the motive behind the murder?"

In detective reasoning, the focus is naturally on exploring all possibilities.

Unfortunately, for the Criminal Investigation Team, any case without a loss of life isn’t a major case.

So, where have these missing people gone?

Either they’re dead, or they’ve been sold.

It’s that simple.

Recently, Liu Guodong has taken annual leave, and Lu Chuan is responsible for the crime scene investigation work.

After most people expressed their opinions, Qin Yong looked at Lu Chuan, "Lu, what are your thoughts?"

Me?

Lu Chuan didn’t expect Qin Yong to call his name.

As a crime scene investigator...

He was just here to make up the numbers for the meeting.

Moreover, it’s a case analysis now, not a crime scene examination.

However, since the leader asked, he certainly couldn’t refrain from speaking.

"Captain Qin, I agree with Old Chen’s opinion."

"First, we still need to investigate if there’s any commonality between these people."

"As Group Leader Sun just mentioned, so many people collectively disappeared in such a short time; what exactly is the perpetrator’s motive for doing this?"

"Is it revenge, or some other situation?"

"Furthermore, whether these missing people are dead, or confined somewhere, or imprisoned somewhere, we cannot determine at this stage. I think we should still check the correlations between these people."

"Additionally, another point is that these people’s occupations generally involve significant labor intensity with relatively low pay. Recently, I’ve seen some news introducing foreign high-paying job agencies."

"I think this aspect should also be looked into?"