Chapter 76

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At the same time, Lu Yizhan and his colleagues are also investigating the case of missing children in the orphanage.

"You said, this matter should be under the control of the Criminal Police Brigade, or some special department?" Lu Yizhan's colleague looked unhappy, "Look at the surveillance footage of the child's disappearance, this is something we can't handle!"

"The four children heard a flute in the early morning last night, and then they lined up and went out to play in the central children's park. The most evil thing is that these children don't seem to be hypnotized or sleepwalking at all, and they will avoid it specially. Surveillance, this shows that these four children are all sane, and after an hour of swinging in that small children's park, these children suddenly disappeared from the surveillance!"

The colleague started to curse while talking: "Damn, but the child is gone, the equipment is still moving, I didn't sleep well yesterday after watching the surveillance..."

After finishing speaking, Lu Yizhan's colleague couldn't help rubbing his arm, he got goosebumps all over his body: "Now there are only 5 children left, and they were going to be transferred to other orphanages, but now there is another incident in the hospital Fuck, everyone has to stay in this orphanage on standby for investigation, it's so fucking weird!"

Lu Yizhan frowned: "Go to the dean first and ask."

"Principal? I don't think she will say anything." Lu Yizhan's colleague curled her lips and muttered, "This old woman never reported the missing child! If it wasn't for the hospital's follow-up incident of mushroom poisoning and death, the This case has been upgraded to a higher level, when we came to strictly check the children, we found that the number was wrong and four were missing, and no one knew that there were still children missing!"

"Then we have to go over and ask." Lu Yizhan said in a calm tone, "She must know something."

In the dean's office, Mu Ke's father had already discussed the donation with the dean, and went to talk with other people. The old dean was the only one in the dean's office.

The old dean sat in a chair and looked at Lu Yizhan who came to look for her with drooping eyelids: "You ask me why I didn't report my child's disappearance?"

Lu Yizhan nodded, and the old dean suddenly laughed. She tremblingly opened the drawer, took out a bunch of receipts and handed them to Lu Yizhan: "Young man, are you new here? I report every time I go missing. But what year did you find my child back? So this time I simply didn’t apply, since our orphanage is about to close down anyway.”

Lu Yizhan frowned and looked at the alarm receipt that the old dean handed him.

The oldest of these receipts is from ten years ago, and all of them are reported missing children, but the reference opinions of the investigation are all [children run away from home by themselves], so there is no follow-up.

"Our private orphanage holds a Children's Day show every year for the well-meaning people who invest in our welfare home, so that these money-spending bosses can see the conditions of their children, but after the annual Children's Day report performance, we There will always be children missing in this orphanage, and the results of the investigation are that the children managed to escape by themselves."

The old dean said slowly: "At that time, your police suspected that our orphanage abused children, so the children [run away from home], but the investigation found that there was no abuse here, even if these children wanted to run away, we did not Didn't do anything outrageous to these children, such as human organ trafficking, pedophile sex trade, you have already investigated this place, didn't you find it?"

The old dean raised his eyelids: "It's very common, very ordinary children run away from home and then disappear."

"Missing children are hard to find. These small bean spots are like a grain of rice falling into a sea of ​​people. When you look for these children who deliberately avoid you, you are undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack, so you end up missing it every year."

The colleague at Lu Yizhan couldn't help interjecting: "But this time, watching the surveillance, the children in the park were sitting on the swings and disappeared! This is not a disappearance case that ran out!"

"What you said is so strange, how could it happen? Our surveillance system has been used for a long time, and it's old and old." The old dean said lightly, "Maybe it's possible that it's broken and malfunctions?"

Lu Yizhan's colleagues were choked for a while, and just about to question the old dean sternly, they were stopped by Lu Yizhan.

Lu Yizhan asked calmly: "Dean, it's our fault that we couldn't find the child, but you should still report it, and you should have not reported it for more than a year, right? I just looked through your receipt. No, and you said that children disappear every year, so what is the truth?"

The old dean was silent for a few minutes, then turned around and found a large file bag from the dusty place in the bookcase behind her, she blew off the dust on it, pulled the thread on it, and pulled out A thick book like a photo album, and then open it.

The first page is [200x Children's Welfare Institute Cultural Performance Group Photo] - this is obviously the archives of this private orphanage.

In the photo, dozens of children are standing awkwardly next to a group of successful people in suits and ties, showing the cute and fake smiles that have been taught thousands of times, a little lipstick mark on the forehead, and painted lips. It is bright red, gaudy and old-fashioned.

"Children go missing every year, but I really don't report them every year." The old director looked at the children in the photo and said in a drawn-out tone, "Even if someone spends a year or two of investment in this children's welfare home, it will still last." It won't be long before it's going to close down, so it's okay to tell you all about these old things."

"Many of the children here are actually not so easy to discipline. To put it mildly, it is personality. To put it bluntly, they are wild and used to running outside."

"Some of them didn't run away from home, but escaped with guilt."

The old director turned another page as he spoke. This page was similar to a diary for children's education records. The investor, who robbed the investor's belongings and mobile phone, was punished by cleaning the whole courtyard and fasting for one day, and whether the punishment will continue to be added depending on the reform situation]

"For example, this group of children beat up investors after the show, and then ran away that night. I didn't report the crime, and turned a blind eye to let them run away, because if they didn't run away, these children would be killed by this family. The orphanage invested by several investors will not end well."

The old dean's finger clicked on the punishment, which was meaningful: "At least the punishment cannot be just a day of fasting."

"Dean, can I take a look at that group photo?" Lu Yizhan's focus was elsewhere, and his expression was unprecedentedly serious.

The dean handed the file bag to Lu Yizhan, and Lu Yizhan turned to the [200x Children's Welfare Institute Art Performance Group Photo] on the previous page, his eyes quickly searched among the children in the photo, and finally locked on a child on the edge of the corner superior.

Even if this child is painted with lipstick and has a big red dot between his eyebrows, he doesn't look funny, but has a very faint beauty of a little girl, but this beauty is destroyed by his calm eyes, showing a This kind of precociousness beyond his age, the other children seemed to be a bunch of idiots in his cold eyes, which was very eye-catching.

No one is more familiar with this face than Lu Yizhan at this time.

Lu Yizhan's eyes fell on the child in this photo without moving. He pointed to the child and looked up at the old dean: "Who is this child? What's his name?"

"Is this child?" The old dean looked at it for a while, and seemed to be lost in memory, "He was the child who took the lead in beating the investor and ran away, so I have a deep memory of him. When he came to the orphanage, he only talked about himself. It's called Bai, and it's called Bai Liu."

"No." Lu Yizhan propped his hands on the table with a "slap" and stared at the old dean, "His name is Bai Liu, and he was indeed called Bai Liu, but he changed his name when he was fourteen years old. He was never called by this name again, he came out of the public orphanage with me, it is impossible for him to appear in this private orphanage at the same time!"

"But..." The old dean looked at Lu Yizhan with a slightly confused look, "Did you admit the wrong person? This kid named Bai Liu escaped shortly after the investor managed to find him back, and He failed to leave here, and Bai Liu died not long after he was found."

"Dead? What was his cause of death?" Lu Yizhan asked in a strange tone.

The old dean sighed: "It's a very strange way of death. He swallowed a strange coin by mistake. There was a hole in the middle of the coin, and he swallowed it into the trachea. He died within a few minutes, because he In our orphanage, we suffered some bad things before leaving and after returning, so...we all suspect that Bai Liu committed suicide."

Lu Yizhan moved his gaze stiffly, looking at the expressionless Bai Liu in the black-and-white photo. He drooped his eyelids loosely and looked to the side as if a little sleepy. His hair was wet, as if he was staged Drenched in sweat, Lu Yizhan felt that these strange things were pressing down on his chest invisibly and heavily. He stared at the thin boy in the photo, feeling a little out of breath.

That was Bai Liu ten years ago.

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Bai Liu stepped forward to pick up the doll next to the seesaw. This is a handmade doll. It is obvious that the reference template is him, but the texture is very old, but there is still a trace of a ribbon on the leg of his doll. It feels like a handmade gift doll - usually there will be a gift or production date on this gift doll

Bai Liu rummaged through the doll, trying to find if there was a date, and finally found a line of handwritten dates inside the twisted-off head.

This is indeed a doll from ten years ago.

And Bai Liu has only been working for two or three years. He only started to dress up the doll as a social animal in a shirt and suit pants after work. The coin hanging around his neck was obtained not long ago after Bai Liu joined the game. Concrete carrier.

His current attire was used to order a doll ten years ago, and his head and limbs were twisted off and thrown here.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes.