17: Lao Zhang reported the case, and the missing person case unexpectedly attracted public attention
Relying on her younger brother working at the construction site, she used to be able to earn a bit more, but ever since her brother broke his leg, their savings have been slowly dwindling, and now they are basically at the end of their rope.
Since Ye Lin was willing to offer her a legitimate path, she was naturally delighted.
After another round of profound gratitude, Ye Lin hung up the phone.
After doing a good deed, he felt much lighter at heart.
He spent the rest of the day busy with miscellaneous tasks, and time passed quickly.
The entire Criminal Police Team was currently busy with the missing person case.
Poor Lin Xianfeng; they had been roommates for two days, yet he hadn't seen Lin Xianfeng return to the dorm once.
Never mind, Grandpa will go to sleep first.
When he woke up early the next morning, Lin Xianfeng was already lying in bed, his eyes dark with exhaustion like a pair of panda eyes.
As soon as he heard Ye Lin get up, the guy actually managed to crawl out of bed too.
"Damn, Xianfeng, do you have to work yourself this hard? You only slept for a few hours?"
"Isn't this all thanks to you?" Lin Xianfeng said mournfully.
"As soon as our Captain saw that you caught a wanted criminal, he got completely wound up, desperately trying to achieve something."
"Hey, I have divine assistance, but your Team Leader Zhang is just a mortal," Ye Lin said honestly, pointing out that he had a system.
"How is your missing person investigation going?"
Lin Xianfeng mumbled while brushing his teeth, "Not... not well. This person seems to have vanished into thin air."
"Team Leader Zhang said we're continuing to expand the search today. He doesn't believe we won't find her."
"Damn, still expanding? You're already exhausted like this without expanding.
If you expand further, I probably won't even see you when I wake up."
"Forget about you, I'm going to find the Captain."
Lin Xianfeng grabbed a towel, wiped his face, and rushed out with a whoosh.
Ye Lin, left standing there stunned, slowly gave a thumbs-up.
After eating breakfast and arriving at the station, he was surprised to find that the Chief and the Instructor were already there.
The atmosphere was heavy, suggesting nothing good was happening.
Zhang Degen was saying something loudly inside Chief Xie's office.
"What's wrong with your Captain?" Ye Lin leaned over and asked Lin Xianfeng.
Lin Xianfeng shook his head.
"I don't know.
The Chief and the Instructor rushed over early this morning.
It seems like there's some kind of emergency."
"Then the Captain was called in, and the Instructor went in too.
I don't know what they are talking about."
Before the two of them could chat much longer, the Chief's door suddenly opened.
Xie Changkun and Huang Xuliang walked out, followed by Zhang Degen, who looked unhappy.
"Come on, everyone, stop what you're doing, put down your work, I have something to say," Xie Changkun called out.
Everyone obediently turned around.
They could all sense that the atmosphere today was off.
"As you all know, Old Zhang from Baiyun Third District, who is Zhang Jun, reported yesterday that his wife had been missing for three days."
"Yesterday, our Captain Zhang took people to his house and did a lot of work."
"But..."
A hint of displeasure appeared on Xie Changkun's face, suggesting that the following matter also annoyed him greatly.
"What we didn't expect was that Zhang Jun had previously contacted a TV station about his wife's disappearance.
When the broadcast aired last night, it caused a massive controversy online."
"The internet is paying close attention to this incident, and now the Municipal Bureau and the Branch Bureau are aware of the case and have given us a time limit."
"The Municipal Bureau gave the Branch Bureau 3 days.
The Branch Bureau was originally going to take over directly, but I strongly negotiated with Director Gao of the Branch Bureau, hoping the Branch Bureau would give us one more day."
"Therefore, today, we are to drop all other matters and dedicate our full effort to finding the person: Zhang Jun's missing wife, Qu Xiaoli."
As soon as Chief Xie finished speaking, the crowd immediately started discussing among themselves.
"One day? How is that possible? What if she already left Yuezhou?"
"Exactly.
To put it bluntly, if she met with an accident outside, we might not see her for years."
"If she was abducted and sold, she probably wouldn't be able to return in this lifetime."
"One day is too short."
"Alright, everyone quiet down and listen to the Chief continue," Huang Xuliang said, making a shushing gesture.
"I know everyone thinks it's difficult, but the administration at the Branch Bureau said that our station is only capable of handling arrests and catching petty thieves, and that major cases like this should be handled by their professionals."
"I disagree!
Everyone at our station is an elite soldier and a formidable general, not just people who catch thieves.
Am I right?" Xie Changkun suddenly raised his voice.
"Damn it, who in the Branch Bureau said that? I'll kill him."
"If we weren't providing clues to the Branch Bureau, they wouldn't be able to catch anyone."
"They are taking the fruits of our victory and still complaining."
Huang Xuliang rolled his eyes.
Damn Old Xie, when did the Branch Bureau ever say that?
But seriously, this clumsy attempt at provocation was quite effective.
The people below roared in response.
Having lived two lives, Ye Lin instantly saw through Chief Xie's trickery, but it didn't matter.
Sometimes, it was fine to act like a fool and follow the crowd.
"Be strong, be strong!" Ye Lin shouted loudly.
The others had initially been shouting incoherently, but when such a catchy slogan suddenly burst out, everyone started shouting it instinctively.
"Be strong, be strong, be strong, be strong, be..."
"Be strong, be strong, be strong, be strong, be..."
The brilliant Chief Xie was initially smug about his provocation technique, but now the more he listened, the stranger it sounded.
It felt more like bandits or gangsters going out to raid a village.
Not to mention Huang Xuliang, whose face had turned black.
He quickly waved his hand.
"Comrades, Comrades, we just need to investigate the case seriously.
Stop shouting that slogan."
Only then did the crowd realize that something felt a little off.
They all turned their heads simultaneously to look at Ye Lin, the instigator.
Ye Lin shrank his neck.
Popular outrage is hard to resist.
He had just shouted a famous slogan from a later era; it was their own fault for losing control and messing up the chant.
"Alright, now let Captain Zhang assign the tasks," Chief Xie ordered.
Zhang Degen, wearing a sour expression, stepped forward and briefly assigned the tasks: expand the search area, one group to check surveillance, one group to search for the person.
Ye Lin was assigned to go with He Xinmin to visit Zhang Jun's home.
Poor Old He had originally wanted to stay in the hospital for a few more days, but Chief Xie insisted on calling him back.
He was familiar with the people here, and in many situations, familiarity and unfamiliarity were completely different matters, especially in a relationship-based society like Daxia, where what you said to someone you knew was entirely different from what you said to a stranger.
Therefore, there was an urgent need for veteran community police like He Xinmin to conduct resident interviews.
Old He pulled Ye Lin along as they set off.
Along the way, he sighed, complaining that he hadn't rested enough, and then he was suddenly high-spirited, saying that this kind of missing person case relied entirely on knowing the local people.
Ye Lin responded with a perfunctory "Mhm" twice, thinking, Go ahead and boast, old man.
Soon, they arrived at Baiyun Third District.
Sure enough, just as Chief Xie had said, there were many more people in the neighborhood.
There was no helping it; the people of this country just loved a good spectacle.
Zhang Jun lived on the fifth floor of an apartment building with an elevator.