"Let's go."
The person who spoke was Lin Chen.
Xing Conglian was patted on the shoulder by him, and then saw that the consultant walked upstairs without turning his head, as if the reunion had reached the point.
Xing Cong quickly chased after him, and Lin Chen was already on the escalator.
"That is?"
"a friend."
Xing Conglian wanted to look back at the "friend" that Lin Chen called, but Lin Chen grabbed him in advance and said, "Don't look, ignore him."
"So, that friend, why are you interested in our case?" He asked tentatively. Although Lin Chen's friend is probably not a vicious bad person, he is not necessarily a good person. At least Su Fengzi, it must not be too good. people.
"I don't know, but he wants to say it, and naturally he will catch up."
Lin Chen rarely turns his face like he does now, so, probably after talking about Photoshop, consultant Lin suddenly thought of something, so he decided to start getting angry.
Sure enough, when the escalator took them to the second floor, Xing Conglian glimpsed out of the corner of his eye that the friend in the smoky gray suit was already standing on the escalator, as if preparing to go upstairs.
"What's wrong?" Xing Conglian asked with a smile.
"We always thought that whether it was Wang Shishi or Xu Haozhen, or even Jiang Liu and Jin Xiaoan, they all met in school..."
He thought he wanted to ask Lin Chen why he suddenly started turning his face, but the other party cleverly used another answer to prevaricate, and then avoided his question.
He had no choice but to follow along and ask: "Not actually?"
"Su Fengzi is right. To use the ABC model, Wang Shishi has always kept Xu Haozhen's signature book, indicating that the person who was deceived by the myth is Xu Haozhen, so the person who deceived Wang Shishi into the organization cannot be Xu Haozhen..."
Xing Conglian roughly understood where the problem was.
Lin Chen continued: "This is what Xu Hao misled me before, she said that she and Wang Shishi had both participated in the literature club, and Jiang Liu was the student council officer, so they both knew each other... We naturally thought that they were indeed both in I knew it at school. But if it was a premeditated criminal organization, it couldn't have picked its members so hastily, and…”
"And it's just the words of ordinary classmates. Suddenly, one day someone mysteriously said to you, 'Do you know XX, classmate?' This seems to be selling Amway, and at the same time it arouses suspicion." Xing Conglian said.
"Yes, you asked me before, how did they choose the loyal victims, why for so long, no one has defected or reported them, to do this, the first choice is to be very careful when choosing members, it chooses They're all people with a certain type of personality trait."
"But they can't give everyone a personality test like you..." Xing Conglian rubbed his chin, but thought of another possibility, "Won't they hack all the students' psychological files like Dynasty?"
"Whether it's stealing data or screening by other methods, it's just the first step, it's far from enough... The best way is to first identify the target group, lure them to the trap, and then select those who actively Those who step into the trap." Lin Chen walked faster and faster, bypassing the two rows of shops, and walking towards the depths of the shops and shops, "Initiative is very important,"
"Oh... It's just waiting for the rabbit, it's a process of mutual attraction." He followed Lin Chen and said, "That is to say, somewhere in this university town, there is a trap that a certain student will take the initiative to step into... Like a bookstore?"
"Not a bookstore."
Lin Chen stopped abruptly, with a look of disappointment on his face after the speculation failed.
Siyuan Inspirational Bookstore is located at No. 19, Area B, 3rd Floor, Phoenix Book City. Xing Conglian raised his eyes to examine the destination of their trip.
At nearly 8:50, the shutters of the bookstore were mostly closed, but the lights in the store were still on.
There are large and small unopened parcels piled in front of the store. Those are all new books shipped from major publishing houses. The situation inside the bookstore is even worse than outside the store.
He pulled the roller shutter up a bit, bent over and went in, almost not finding a place to stay.
The books on the ground are almost piled up to the ceiling height. There are colorful novels and magazines on the table and under the table. The inner part of the shop is full of teaching materials ranging from "Three Years College Entrance Examination" to "Cambridge IELTS Zhenti Answers". In the auxiliary bookstore, Xing Conglian expressed deep concern about the possibility that they could find clues here.
Probably heard someone enter the store, and the staff who stayed at the last to clean up the store emerged from behind a pile of magazines and frowned: "It's closed, what do you want to buy, come tomorrow."
Xing Conglian showed his police badge without hesitation, and then said, "There are some problems that need your assistance in the investigation."
"What... what's wrong?" The young man hurriedly stood up, carefully walked around the floor of books, and came to Xing Conglian.
"Do you have a record of the books in your store?"
"There are some."
Xing Cong patted the boy on the shoulder in succession and said, "Don't be nervous, help check the release record of a book..." He said, and showed the book copyright information page sent by Dynasty to the boy in the bookstore.
The young man nodded and hurried to the computer.
"Discrete Mathematics written by Ye Wenzhong, right..." He said, typing the search entry, and soon, a line of outbound records appeared.
The delivery time is at 17:44 pm on November 19, 2011.
Xing Conglian's eyes fell on the last number of warehouses, and he was stunned for a moment.
Quantity: 300.
"More than expected." Lin Chen's calm voice sounded behind him.
"I came this year, I don't know about this!" The little guy quickly distanced himself.
"Can I find the consignee?" Xing Conglian asked.
The young man shook his head: "No record."
"What about the invoice?"
After Xing Conglian finished the question, he saw the young man raised his head and said with a smirk, "Mr. Police Officer, unless the customer has special requirements, we generally do not issue invoices for retail sales..."
"Call your boss." Xing Conglian said.
The young man hurriedly hung up the phone with the boss, briefly explained the situation, and handed the mobile phone to Xing Conglian.
"Hello, I will make a long story short. Do you have any images of the batch of "Discrete Mathematics" released in November 2011?"
"Hey, Mr. Police Officer, look at me, people come and go every day. You suddenly ask me about a batch of books that came out of the library five years ago. I really can't remember it."
"Even if you are a regional distributor, it should be uncommon for 300 copies to be released suddenly. Besides, "Discrete Mathematics" is not "Three-Year College Entrance Examination and Five-Year Simulation", please recall it carefully."
"To tell you the truth, I wasn't in charge of this store before, but now my partner and their family immigrated, and I took over... And the book from five years ago, if you want to check it, I don't even know where the store clerk is at the time. I'll ask you the law."
"Send your previous partner's phone number and contact information to this phone." After Xing Conglian finished speaking, he hung up the phone neatly, and then shook his head at Lin Chen.
Lin Chen's attitude was even more relieved: "It would be strange if he could leave such an obvious clue."
"I bought 300 copies five years ago, how long has this organization existed..." Xing Conglian almost started to think about whether he should tell the news to Captain Jiang, who has been extremely fragile recently.
"At most, it happened in the past five years, and it's not too far away." Lin Chen suddenly said.
"You just said, what do you mean by not being a bookstore?" Xing Conglian changed the subject and continued the unfinished conversation about traps with Lin Chen.
"What he means is that this place is too broken, and it is difficult for people to have a sense of love or trust at first sight. After all, if you like it or not, it is mainly to look at the face." The slightly lazy tone came from the door of the store again. Xing Nian didn't even have to look back to know who the speaker was.
Only this time, Lin Chen didn't give the person who interrupted any good looks, he didn't even look back, and he didn't even bother to talk to the other party.
"If I am the mastermind behind the scenes, I want to choose my target. Of course, I will first use the most scientific method to screen those people who are most easily controlled by me. Such people are characterized by introversion, low self-esteem, and lack of friends, but at the same time they , they also have a strong yearning and longing for a better life in their hearts. Generally speaking, all MLM organizations, whether it is a higher level of brainwashing, essentially take advantage of this yearning and longing... So, if I want to attract These people are hooked, I will also set up a very beautiful place, it is beautiful and elegant, it is relaxing but not too alien... It is very likely that it is in an ordinary street and is unsuspecting. The members of the organization can easily lure the victims over, and even those potential crowds will come to the door…”
"A shop." Xing Conglian said.
Lin Chen nodded: "This is just an assumption. If we are looking for a store, it must first be in this university town. The audience it attracts is students, and most of them are girls. It is in the major categories of catering and entertainment. , most likely a petty bourgeois drink shop or a women's clothing store and a bookstore..."
Xing Conglian signaled to Lin Chen to suspend, and then called Wang Chao.
"Hello Mr. Xing, I will serve you wholeheartedly."
Xing Conglian handed the phone to Lin Chen.
"Dynasty, can you find the registration records of all shops within Yongchuan University Town? I need to find a shop within Yongchuan University Town."
"Do you mean to enter the backstage of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau? It's a little mean..."
"Come on, my broadsword is thirsty!"
"This store does not have a specific name and address, so it will be relatively difficult to retrieve. First of all, it may be a beverage store, a clothing store or a bookstore. For a beverage store, excluding all the milk tea shops and large coffee chains on the street, the store area is in About 50-150 square meters... Clothing stores are more difficult, first exclude all clothing and brand clothing in the mall, excluding men's clothing stores, the store area is within 20 to 80 square meters... The approximate area of the bookstore is the same as the clothing store... "
"There must be no such bookstore in Phoenix Book City..." said the smiling writer leaning against the door.
Lin Chen glanced at the door, and then said to Chao Dynasty, "Exclude all bookstores in Phoenix Book City... Tell me how many similar stores there are."
"12 beverage stores, 3 bookstores, clothing stores..." Wang Dynasty paused, then said a little embarrassedly, "92..."
"The book purchase time was in November 2011. If someone planned this early in the morning, then the store opening time..."
"The opening time and the book buying time will not be too far apart."
Xing Conglian suddenly approached the microphone and said to the dynasty, "The opening time of the store was between June 2011 and June 2012, and it has not been registered to suspend business so far."
"Damn, boss, you didn't tell me sooner!" When Wang Chao talked to him, he was obviously not as obedient and obedient as Lin Chen, Xing Conglian complained angrily, "There are 3 beverage stores in total, and there is no such bookstore. There are 27 clothing stores." After Wang Chao finished speaking, he suddenly exclaimed in surprise as if he had discovered a new continent, "Boss, do you know that the first floor of your Phoenix Book City is the largest underground pedestrian street in Yongchuan University City... list The two drink shops and 20 clothing shops on the website are at your feet. It is said that the closing time is ten o'clock in the evening, do you want to try your luck?"
"I remember that Lao Jiang's men stared at Cheng Weiwei for several months and asked him to check the records. If Cheng Weiwei has been to these stores, first check if she has been to the underground pedestrian street of Phoenix Book City. Then send me the address." After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
"It's ten past nine." Lin Chen said.
"Fifty minutes left." Xing Conglian looked at Lin Chen and said.
Lin Chen nodded, then said to him, "wait for me here for three minutes, see you at the escalator in three minutes."
Before Xing Conglian could say yes, Lin Chen had already taken the lead and strode out of the bookstore. He aggressively glanced coldly at the writer at the door, then turned a corner, as if looking for a secluded place.
Xing Conglian couldn't help laughing.
——
Lin Chen stood still at the back stairs of the book city, turned around, grabbed the collar of the man behind him, and pushed him directly to the wall.
"What the hell are you doing here!"
"If you want to come back, come back."
Su Fengzi still had a smile in her eyes, and Lin Chen was even more angry: "To be honest, Fengzi, why are you here!"
"I said to help you solve the case, you don't believe it, right?"
"Do not believe."
"Criminal investigation, what a good material, a handsome criminal policeman and a cool psychology expert, isn't it very interesting?"
"roll."
"Tsk... You're so angry, let me guess... You're angry because you suddenly realized that I was interested in this case early in the morning." Su Fengzi spoke softly and gently, as soft as freshly baked bread. "Of course you're not angry that I suddenly appeared to look for Fu Hao instead of you, but you thought that I might have grasped the key evidence of this case earlier, so I appeared in Phoenix Book City, you are angry because I didn't Let me tell you the clues I know ahead of time, right?"
"Speak well." Lin Chen pursed his lips and said coldly.
"Hey..." Su Fengzi stretched out his hand, gently opened his fingers one by one, and said, "I can only answer, the reason why I came back and paid attention to this case was for some very personal reasons. So I know this because these are all clues you found, and I will appear in Phoenix Book City today, this is really a signing event, you have to believe in fate, after all, I am really a writer."
Su Fengzi said this to him, and then the corner of his mouth lifted slightly, a sly smile appeared in his eyes.
Seeing him smiling like this, Lin Chen took a step back, and suddenly had a bad premonition, he turned to leave, only to hear Su Fengzi say behind him.
"But I didn't expect it. I rarely come back, but it's so sad to see you empathize."
Su Fengzi's voice was melancholy, just like the kind of opera singer who cried and complained about a heartless man on stage.
Lin Chen only felt horrified.
At that moment, he seemed to be suddenly illuminated by a beam of light in the dark night. The sudden strong light made him just want to find a place to hide himself. He didn't even have time to explore this inexplicable shyness. I think hiding is the first priority.
Trying to control his emotions, he turned his head and said to Su Fengzi, "Is this the time to talk about this?"
As if to stop at a certain point, Su Fengzi straightened her clothes and said with a smile, "Yes, I was wrong, can I go now?"
Walking out of the corner, Lin Chen saw the captain of the criminal police waiting by the handrail at a glance.
Seeing them come out, Xing Conglian just swept Su Fengzi from beginning to end, put down the phone in his ear, and said, "Old Jiang confirmed, Cheng Weiwei went to the pedestrian street below us."
After he finished speaking, he went downstairs without saying a word.
In fact, Lin Chen was really not familiar with the underground pedestrian street downstairs in Phoenix Book City.
After all, when he was in college, the pedestrian street was still under construction, and all similar places in college towns were prepared for girls. Boys probably seldom went shopping from beginning to end except for shopping with their girlfriends.
When he really went underground, Lin Chen realized that this place was more exaggerated than he imagined.
Dazzling lights, all kinds of shops that can't be seen at a glance, the air pressure in the ground is very low, and the air is abnormally turbid.
Although it was night, there were still twos and threes of students walking, stepping on the bright tempered glass floor, Lin Chen thought that he had entered some two-dimensional space.
"It's really a place with unique taste." Su Fengzi walked at the end and said lightly.
Lin Chen didn't mean to say another word to him at all, and at this moment, Xing Conglian spoke up.
"I just contacted the administrator here, let's go directly to the property office."
Xing Conglian showed a good sense of direction underground. He walked through a pile of colorful pavements and brought them directly to the property office.
It was nearly nine thirty in the evening, and there was only one employee on duty in the property office.
The figure seemed to have predicted Xing Conglian's arrival in advance, got up quickly, and said, "Is that the captain Xing, our manager arranged for me to receive you."
"Excuse me, I need the floor plan of the pedestrian street below."
"The drawings are hanging on the wall!" The employee pointed to the wall and said.
Xing Conglian turned sideways and made way.
Lin Chen followed and walked to the floor plan, looked at the general layout, and wanted to find a marker. At this moment, Xing Conglian took an oil-based pen from the pen holder and handed it over.
Lin Chen nodded, apologized to the staff, and then marked the locations of all the stores on the drawings according to the information from Dynasty.
There were many black spots on the paper in an instant. Lin Chen looked at the marked shops and began to think.
If such a store really exists, it cannot be in a conspicuous position first, it cannot be in a prime location, it will be relatively hidden.
He quickly wiped out all the popular shops at the entrance.
The shops on the main line are also impossible, because he came from the main line, which is too noisy and not comfortable enough.
Thinking like this, he crossed out the four shops on both sides of the main line.
As a result, the remaining stores became 10.
Lin Chen gave way to the location in front of the map and said to the only property employee in the office: "Please take a look at these stores, which one is more fresh and refined, its decoration is not necessarily luxurious, but it is very unique, although there are not many customers , but it has been open for several years, and sometimes you even wonder, what the hell is this store doing to make money, why is it still not closed…”
Lin Chen said this, even he himself felt that such an inexplicable speculation was a bit crazy. All these reasonings were based on a possibility assumption, and only Xing Conglian would be able to make such a store when he could not even be sure whether it really existed. When the time came, he quickly helped him start looking for it.
"When you say this, the D15 store seems to be very similar to what you said before. I remember the name is French, it's a coffee bar, it sells books, it's quite quiet..."
As if the dawn appeared in the sky, Lin Chen heard the words, put down the pen and left, but just as he stepped on his legs, he suddenly stopped.
"You said... before?"
"Yes, a few days ago, when the store opened, the clerk of the store suddenly ran over and said that the store was stolen and wanted to adjust the video. We went over to see that there was nothing in the store, and the thief emptied the store directly. , It's almost, there's nothing in the store."
"Have you called the police?" Xing Conglian asked.
"Of course I did!"
"So, what about monitoring?"
"It's just weird. After the waitress and the boss watched the video, the entire video in Section D was dropped."
"What does it mean to fall?"
"If it's gone, it's gone. I don't know if it was a problem or someone deleted it by mistake. Anyway, it's gone..."