After agreeing on the price, no, deciding to help, Lin An was asked to leave the interrogation room. Jiang Rui took Lin An to his office and handed her a glass of water.
"How are you going to tell fortunes?" To be honest, even at this point, Jiang Rui still didn't believe that Lin Xi could really tell fortunes.
"How long has Corey been kidnapped?" Lin asked.
"It's been almost two hours." Jiang Rui glanced at Lin Xi warily and answered vaguely.
"Did the kidnappers make any demands? For example, a ransom or something?" Lin Wei asked.
Jiang Rui nodded calmly: "Yes, I called Corey's father ten minutes ago and asked for 10 million."
"Puff!" Lin Xi spat out a mouthful of tea.
"How many?"
"Ten million." Jiang Rui silently reached out and moved his wet documents.
"Is his family so rich?" From the way those high school students talked and dressed, it was not difficult to guess that they came from well-off families, but ten million was too much.
Jiang Rui kept observing Lin Yan's reaction and made sure that she was really shocked and not pretending, then he explained: "Corey's father is the founder of AG Company, the company's market value..."
"You don't have to say it." As a fresh graduate who had been looking for a job for half a year, how could Lin Yan not know AG? It was one of the Fortune 500 companies, the kind she didn't even dare to submit her resume to.
Ten thousand dollars is going to be less!!!
"Since the kidnappers want money, there is still a chance to figure it out through divination." Lin Xi adjusted her mindset and said to Jiang Rui.
"Your divination has conditions?" Is this kind of pseudoscience considered science
Lin Xi glanced at him, picked up the schoolbag at her feet, took out the big-character poster from it, and handed it to him.
She was brought here by the police before she even entered the house, so she brought her schoolbag with her.
Jiang Rui unfolded it curiously and read it out subconsciously: "Witch divination, only predict bad luck, no money if it's not bad luck?"
Is this definitely divination and not a curse
"As you can see, I only predict bad luck. In simple terms, I can only see the bad future of the unlucky people."
"Yeah." Jiang Rui didn't believe it in his heart, but he didn't interrupt, "So someone planned to kidnap Corey first, and Corey became the unlucky guy, so you can do divination."
"Smart." As expected of a police officer, she had strong logical ability, so she didn't need to explain any more. "So now if you want to divine more information about the kidnapper and Corey, you must find the person who got unlucky because of this incident. For example..."
"Corey's father, Mr. Green." Jiang Rui said.
"And the police." Lin Yan added.
Jiang Rui was stunned and looked at Lin Yan in confusion.
"Police have to save people, and when they do, they may encounter danger and get injured." Lin Yan thought of the young policeman just now and explained. If the young policeman just now got into trouble because of this incident, it must have been during the process of rescuing the hostages. It would be best to do another divination.
Jiang Rui was silent for a moment, then said: "I know what to do, I'll make the arrangements."
After saying that, Jiang Rui went out.
Lin Xi felt a little bored and was about to take out her cell phone to check it, but when she found nothing, she remembered that her cell phone was still confiscated by the police.
“…” Oh my god, he’s still doubting himself.
Lin Xi was a little angry, but she could also understand it to some extent. If someone had told her a few months ago that there was someone in this world who could fly, she would have taken him to see a psychiatrist.
In the police station's office, Corey's father was staring at his phone with a worried look on his face. Most of the high school students who called the police had left, but Zhang Shaojie was the only one who stayed in the police station, saying he wanted to help the police solve the case. Zhang Shaojie's father was worried about his son, so he stayed here too.
"Captain Jiang." Zhang Shaojie saw Jiang Rui coming out of the office and stood up quickly.
President Green also came back to his senses instantly and looked at Jiang Rui expectantly. It was rare for this business tycoon to show confusion and helplessness.
Jiang Rui looked at the reaction of the victim's family, wondering whether to speak up. According to the normal case handling process, they need to wait until the kidnappers contact again and determine the transaction location of the ransom before setting up surveillance. Before that, they can't do anything. Jiang Rui originally planned to do so, but thinking of Zhang Lianqing's call, he walked out again and wanted to give it a try.
"Zhang Shaojie, do you think Lin Yan, the witch who told fortunes for you, is an accomplice of the kidnappers?" Jiang Rui asked Zhang Shaojie directly.
Zhang Shaojie was slightly stunned. Under the gaze of his father and the police, he thought for a moment and shook his head, saying, "I think she really knows how to tell fortunes."
Although Zhang Shaojie is still a high school student, he is very good at mathematics and has a logical thinking that is far beyond the ordinary: "There are too many details in her divination, and these details cannot be controlled by human factors."
For example, the candy man stall, for example, Corey chose the dragon, and for example, the child who fell down.
"Okay, then please ask Mr. Green if he is willing to cooperate if the witch is willing to help him with divination." Jiang Rui paused and said, "This is the witch's initiative, not our police's suggestion. If he is unwilling, our police will also do our best to help him rescue his son."
Even if Jiang Rui had some intention of trying to save the situation, this intention could not represent the police's intention. If this got out, people would say that the police relied on feudal superstition to solve the case. So he deliberately said that divination was a suggestion made by Lin Yan to prove her innocence.
Zhang Shaojie's eyes lit up when he heard this. To be honest, he had actually thought about asking the witch for help. Now that the witch was willing to help, how could he not agree? He immediately turned around and translated Jiang Rui's words to Mr. Green.
Mr. Green listened to it but didn't say anything. Zhang Shaojie's father frowned and said to his son, "Ajie, let Mr. Green make his own decision."
He did not stop his son from translating for Mr. Green, but when his son was translating, he strongly suggested that Mr. Green go for divination, which was not appropriate.
"I agree." Mr. Green agreed after only a few seconds of hesitation, "I'm willing to give it a try."
No matter which country they are from, business people tend to believe in metaphysics to some extent.
Ten minutes later, Lin was taken to the interrogation room, but this time she sat in the police seat, while Jiang Rui, the captain of the criminal police team, sat in the recorder seat with a notebook, and Corey's father, Mr. Green, sat opposite Lin. Between the two of them, there was a bowling-ball-sized crystal ball, which was still carried in the schoolbag.
As soon as Mr. Green sat down, the black gold lottery tube in the system turned into a crystal ball, emitting a faint white light. Lin Yan knew at a glance that this was the result of the divination.
After comparing the two divination methods, Lin Xi feels that fortune-telling is better. The crystal ball requires her to actively check the image, while the fortune stick will directly display the divination result. She can know it at a glance. It is more direct and easier.
"The fee for divination is ten thousand." Collect the money first and then do the work.
When Lin Yan said this, everyone in the room was stunned. Jiang Rui froze. Oh no, he forgot to tell them that divination costs money. Jiang Rui was about to say that he would pay later, but Zhang Shaojie, who came in with Mr. Green, agreed immediately.
"Okay, I'll transfer you now." He took out his cell phone on the spot.
Seeing this, Jiang Rui shut up silently.
He is so young and has such a huge amount of money. He is indeed a second-generation rich man. Lin Yan directly reported her Taobao account and waited for Zhang Shaojie to transfer the money before she started to tell fortunes for Mr. Green.
"Put your hands up and tell me your name." Lin Xi said these misleading lines, but she had actually already checked the video in the system.
The video did not show the ransom payment scene that Lin Yan had imagined, but Mr. Green was crying in a ruin holding Corey, who was covered in blood. The video was very short, only ten seconds at most.
Lin Xi opened her eyes, her expression was solemn and her face looked very bad.
"What did you see?" Jiang Rui and Zhang Shaojie spoke almost at the same time.
Lin Xi hesitated, not knowing whether to say it or not, because Corey in the picture was covered in blood and motionless, and she was not sure whether he was dead or alive.
"Wait a minute, let me calculate it again." Lin Yan closed her eyes again and said silently to the system.
"I want to use the fortune sticks to calculate it again."
"A little merit." System.
"make a deal."
The crystal ball faded, and the black and gold stick tube reappeared. After shaking, a bamboo stick fell out.
[Dawson Green, male, 42 years old, cried in the ruins while holding his motionless son.]
"… "
“… … ”
What's the difference between this and the information I saw
"The divination results will not change just because the host changes the divination situation." said the system.
I didn't want to change the divination result, but what about the information? Why was Mr. Green crying? Was his son dead or just injured? And the location, is it really okay to just write "ruins" so perfunctorily
"The divination information will not change just because the host changes the divination form." said the system.
Lin Yan resisted the urge to curse and opened her eyes again. She finally understood that the system clearly didn't want her to get stuck. She originally thought that the fortune-telling document could directly give the address. The last time she fortune-told the delivery boy, the cause and effect were clearly written.
"How is it?" Several people looked at Lin Xi.
Lin Xi thought for a moment and told the truth: "I saw you crying in a ruin holding your son."
Jiang Rui frowned slightly, and Zhang Shaojie looked solemn, but he still quickly translated the result to Mr. Green.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the divination task. I will reward you with a little merit and ten yuan in divination money."
Ten yuan for divination? I clearly received ten thousand yuan? Although Lin Yan was puzzled, she didn't want to find out at this time.
"Why? Why am I hugging Corey and crying? What happened to Corey?" Mr. Green asked excitedly.
"That's all I saw. I don't know anything else, but Corey didn't look well. He was covered in blood," said Lin Xi.
"WHY?!" Mr. Green suddenly became even more excited and almost pounced on Lin Yan to grab her shoulders. In the end, Jiang Rui stepped forward to separate the two and asked Zhang Shaojie and his son to comfort Mr. Green. He stayed alone in the inquiry room and continued to ask Lin Yan for details.
"What did the ruins look like?" Jiang Rui asked.
"It looked like an abandoned factory, with a lot of rusty things." Lin Xi recalled carefully.
"Anything else? Some other details, preferably one that can pinpoint the location."
Lin Yan recalled again: "A balloon, a red balloon, floating in the sky, and it seemed to be holding a long banner with words on it. One of the words seemed to be five, but I'm not sure."
The image is too short, and the balloon is just a background in the sky and is not clear.
"Anything else?" Jiang Rui asked while recording.
"No more." Lin Xi shook her head. The main object of divination was Mr. Green, so the whole picture was centered on him.
Jiang Rui frowned, stood up and went out to assign tasks: "Check all the shopping malls in Jin City that are celebrating, opening ceremonies, or anything else. Find all the places with red balloons. Then see if there are any abandoned factories around."
The fact that Lin Xi could see the words on the banner proved that the distance was not too far.
"Boss, do you really believe that woman can tell fortunes?" someone questioned.
Lin Xi was left in the interrogation room. After waiting for a while, she found that no one was paying attention to her.
Didn't I say that besides Mr. Green, the police also need divination? Did Captain Jiang forget it, or did he scare them away by offering too high a price? For the police, 10,000 yuan a divination seems a bit high, but Mr. Green can pay for it. Compared with the 10 million yuan demanded by the kidnappers, this divination fee is nothing.
Lin Yan struggled for a while, but finally couldn't bear it anymore, so she pushed the door and walked out. Forget it, if they don't come to tell fortunes, I'll just go there myself.
Lin Yan began to stroll around the police station, intentionally or unintentionally getting within three meters of every criminal police officer. Jiang Rui naturally noticed Lin Yan's strange behavior, but seeing that she was just walking back and forth, not looking around, and not even thinking of leaving the police station, he just let her go.
Lin spent more than an hour keeping a divination distance of three meters from each criminal police officer, but the divination system did not start again. In other words, except for the policeman named Chai Puxin, no one else would be in trouble.
Lin Xi thought about it and decided to do another divination, perhaps she could get more clues. So she took the initiative to walk to Chai Puxin and started divination again: using the crystal ball to do another divination.
"Deduct some merit points."
As the reminder of deducting merit points sounded, a picture unfolded silently. In the picture, Chai Puxin was lying on the ground with his limbs spread out, blood gushing out from the back of his head. His body was trembling, but his eyes were staring straight up.
The bloody scene made Lin Xi feel physically uncomfortable. She gasped, took a step back, bumped into the table behind her and almost fell down.
"Are you okay?" Chai Puxin looked at Lin Xi in surprise.
"It's okay." Lin Xi shook her head.
From the picture shown in the crystal ball, Lin Yan could almost conclude that Chai Puxin must have fallen from a height and died. But she still didn't get any more information. The whole picture was still dim, and there were no extra clues except for the rough concrete floor.
Time passed by minute by minute. Jiang Rui did not find the abandoned factory described by Lin Yan, and the kidnappers did not call again. Lin Yan had nothing to do, and finally she could not bear it anymore and fell asleep on the chair.
It was not until nine o'clock in the morning that the kidnapper called again.
"Quick, pay attention to the monitoring."
Lin Xi was awakened, but before she was fully conscious, the call had ended.
"The kidnappers asked Mr. Green to go to the Matai Shopping Mall on Ziwu Road at 12 noon today with 10 million in cash."
"What a joke, does he know how heavy 10 million in cash is? Even if we send it to him, can he take it away?" Jiang Rui always felt something was wrong. 10 million in cash weighed 100 kilograms, which was too big to be taken away quietly. Moreover, the other party only gave Mr. Green one night to raise the cash. How could he raise 10 million in such a short time
"Let's go to Ziwu Road to set up control first." Although it felt strange, at least there was a clear location.
"Boss, look at this." At this time, a young policeman rushed out holding a mobile phone.
Jiang Rui took it and looked at it, then suddenly turned to look at Lin Xi.
Lin Xi was rubbing her sore neck. When she saw Jiang Rui looking at her with eyes as if he had seen a ghost, she subconsciously straightened her back.
"What for?" Lin asked.
Jiang Rui pushed aside the policeman beside him, strode towards Lin Yan, pointed at the video playing on his phone and asked, "Is this what the balloon you saw looks like?"
Lin Ping looked at her phone and saw a short Tik Tok video playing on Jiang Rui's phone. In the video, a hydrogen balloon that was originally fixed in the center of the square had its line broken for some reason and was flying into the sky dragging a long banner with the words on the banner clearly visible.
[Warmly celebrate the first anniversary of Zhengtai Plaza, 50% off for all items.]
In the background, the person who filmed the video could be heard laughing: "Haha, it was a naughty kid who untied the rope, and the kid's mother is apologizing right there."
"Is this it?" Jiang Rui asked again.
"I'm not sure, but it looks very similar."
Jiang Rui turned around immediately and said, "Check for me, are there any abandoned factories around Zhengtai Plaza?"
If Jiang Rui was skeptical about Lin Yan's divination before, he believed it at this moment, only because there was a huge electronic clock in the video just now. The time shown on the clock was ten minutes ago. In other words, the hydrogen balloon flew into the sky ten minutes ago.
Moreover, the word "five" is included in the banner.
"Found it." Last night, Jiang Rui had asked his police officers to check all the abandoned factories or places similar to abandoned factories in Jin City. Now, with the coordinates of Zhengtai Plaza, they quickly locked on the destination. "It's a paper mill. It was moved away six years ago due to environmental pollution."
"Groups one and two, follow me. Deputy Captain Liu, you stay behind with group three and continue to monitor the kidnappers' phone calls." After Jiang Rui finished speaking, he stood up and walked out.
"Yes." A dozen criminal police officers responded, and ran out with their equipment. Lin Yan saw a familiar figure, exclaimed, and hurriedly got up and chased after him. But her speed was no match for the fast-moving criminal police officers. When she reached the door, the police car had already set off.
Lin Yan was extremely anxious. She had not yet told Chai Puxin the result of the divination. She had no choice but to turn back and grab a policeman: "Call your captain. I have something to tell him."
The policeman was stunned for a moment, but thinking of the video just now, he took out his phone and called his captain.
"What's up?"
"Chai Pushin, the young policeman who came into the interrogation room and called you earlier." Lin Yan spoke directly about the divination result, "I predicted that he would fall from a height and die in the line of duty."
The other end of the phone fell silent instantly.
"Whether you believe it or not, don't let him go to high places," Lin Xi warned.
"Got it." Jiang Rui paused and said, "Thank you."
Lin Yan breathed a sigh of relief and returned the phone to its owner. The young policeman took the phone and looked at Lin Yan in shock: "Are you telling the truth?"
"I'm hungry. Is there anything to eat?" Lin Xi didn't want to explain anymore. She would soon find out whether it was true or not.
Twenty minutes later, the police car stopped outside the paper mill, and Jiang Rui led a group of people to sneak in quietly. As soon as they entered the factory, they heard voices talking inside.
"Who among you understands bird language? I don't understand what that foreign guy is saying."
"Do you need to pee? You've been tied up all night."
"Don't worry about him. Once three o'clock passes, the one million will be in your hands."
"What a pity! It would be great if we could really get 10 million."
"Forget it, the risk is too great. It's better to do it now. As long as we don't go out, no one will know where we are."
After hearing this, Jiang Rui was certain that Corey was here. He gestured to his men, and they continued to lurk inside the building.
Jiang Rui had just lurked at the staircase on the first floor and was about to go up when he suddenly heard a fierce shout from above: "Fuck, that kid ran away."
Then came the sound of hurried footsteps and the kidnappers chasing after him, swearing.
Jiang Rui no longer cared about hiding and ran upstairs: "Don't move, police."
Jiang Rui ran halfway when he suddenly seemed to think of something. He turned around and shouted to the young policeman who was about to catch up with him: "Xiao Chai, wait downstairs."
The young policeman was stunned, but still obediently stayed downstairs.
Meanwhile, on the third floor, Corey, who had finally broken free from the rope and escaped from the room, was forced onto a high platform by three kidnappers, with a rusty railing behind him. Just when he had nowhere to retreat, Jiang Rui shouted loudly, scaring off the three kidnappers, who turned and ran away, not caring about Corey.
Corey saw the police officers pouring in from below and knew he was saved. He heaved a sigh of relief and squatted on the ground. His arm accidentally brushed against the rusty railing, and with a click, the railing broke.
Corey was sweating coldly. If he had taken a step back, he would have leaned on it.
The three kidnappers obviously didn't expect the police to find this place. It was too late for them to run away, and they were soon surrounded by the police. Two of the three had been pinned to the ground, and only one of them was particularly agile and actually jumped directly from a broken staircase to the other side.
Chai Puxin, who was staying downstairs, saw it and without thinking, he chased up from the other side of the stairs. When Jiang Rui found him, Chai Puxin had already climbed to the third floor opposite.
"Xiao Chai!" Jiang Rui felt a chill all over his body and jumped over the broken stairs.
Seeing that the road below was blocked by the police, the kidnapper turned around and ran upstairs. Chai Puxin followed him all the way upstairs. When he reached the fifth floor, a huge iron barrel suddenly fell from above. Chai Puxin quickly dodged, but the stairs at the corner were too narrow, and his shoulder was hit directly by the iron barrel, causing him to fall over the railing.
“Fuck you…” Jiang Rui rushed over.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the extended mission and helping Chai Puxin avoid bad luck. You will be rewarded with 10 merit points and 0 yuan for divination."
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the extended mission and helping Dawson Green avoid bad luck. I will reward you with 9 merit points and 0 yuan for your divination."
After two notifications were received, Lin Yan finally felt relieved. She smiled. But she didn't tell anyone and waited there as if nothing had happened until Deputy Captain Liu received a call confirming that the hostages had been rescued. The entire police force cheered.
Twenty minutes later, Jiang Rui came back with the three kidnappers. The first thing he did was not to interrogate the kidnappers, but to return Lin Xi's cell phone to her.
"Have I been cleared of suspicion?" Lin Wei asked with a smile.
Jiang Rui laughed, then thought of something, took out his phone and said, "Add WeChat."
Lin Xi raised her eyebrows.
"How can I transfer 10,000 yuan to you if you don't add me on WeChat?" Jiang Rui said, "Chai Puxin was only slightly injured, thank you."
Lin Xi could feel the sincerity in Jiang Rui's thank you. She felt it was not a bad idea to accept the money since it was for saving a life. However, when she thought about the danger the other party encountered in the process of catching criminals, she felt embarrassed to accept the ten thousand yuan.
"Forget it, just consider it as a free fortune telling for you. Can I go now?" Lin Xi asked.
Jiang Rui just thought that it was because of his previous bad attitude that Lin Yan didn’t want to add him on WeChat, so he didn’t force it. Anyway, he had Lin Yan’s contact information, so if he needed help in the future, he could just look for her.
"Okay, but don't you want to know the ins and outs of the kidnapping? The other party doesn't seem to want a ransom."
"This has nothing to do with me." Lin Yan now just wanted to go home and take a good bath. If the watermelon that fell yesterday was still there, she would deal with it before the cleaning lady found it.
After coming out of the police station, the first thing Lin Yan did was to open her mobile phone and check her Taobao account. She found that her Taobao balance was still in four digits.
That's not right. What about the 10,000 I earned yesterday? Didn't I transfer it in
Lin Xi immediately clicked on the transfer details and saw two transfers made one second apart at 23:55 last night.
[At 23:55:31, Zhang** transferred 10,000 yuan to you. ]
[At 23:55:32, you transferred 9990 yuan to the ** Rescue Fund. ]
"system!!!!"
(End of this chapter)