Sometimes, the wish was good, but the reality was cruel.
A whole day passed, and Zhao Yu was full of confidence, but he did not get what he wanted.
The "Dui" hexagram did not go to waste. Early in the morning, Liang Huan told Zhao Yu that a collector was interested in his old banknotes, and wanted to buy them for 1.2 million! If he could see the goods today, he would be able to close the deal immediately!
1.2 million!
The price had indeed exceeded Zhao Yu's expectations, but Zhao Yu was cunning. Facing such a high price, he was not overjoyed. Instead, he suddenly thought of another deeper meaning.
If someone was willing to buy it at such a high price so quickly, it meant that the old banknotes in his hands, other than their original value, had a higher hidden value!
This bag of old banknotes was the ransom money of the famous Mianling Kidnapping Case! If it was hyped up, it might be more than this!
Besides, theoretically, the money was no longer police evidence, and Zhao Yu had the right to handle it himself. However, he felt that it would be disrespectful to the dead if he sold them just like that! If Mister Tao knew, it would be bad!
"That's right!
I'm going to be a good person now! How could I do something so immoral?
So, I should solve the case first, then think about selling it! If I could really solve the case, not only could I sell the money legitimately, with some hype from the media, I might even be able to sell it for two million! Hehehe … "
Zhao Yu told Liang Huan his idea. Liang Huan could not help but give Zhao Yu a thumbs up, praising him for being smart and having the potential to do business.
Putting aside the matter of selling the banknotes, Zhao Yu quickly put all his energy into the investigation of the kidnapping case. He started adding information and clues to the six whiteboards!
In order to clearly reconstruct the incident, Zhao Yu used a mapping software to mark out the location and route of the kidnapping with Li Beini's help.
From the mountain road where the kidnapping took place, to the routes that the kidnappers asked the families of the hostages to move to with the ransom money, to the cliff where Mr. Tao dropped the ransom money, and to the cave where the bodies were found, everything was marked on the map.
Looking at the entire map, Zhao Yu realized that although most of the original crime locations were in the mountains, the distances between these locations were very large. From Mianling to the cliff, then to Yinpan Town's mine, there was a large triangle. The furthest point could be as far as forty kilometers.
Zhao Yu did not understand. Why did the kidnappers have to go so far? What were they thinking back then? Twenty-six years ago, the transportation in the mountains was not convenient. Why did the kidnappers go through so much trouble?
Could it be that … as he had guessed, these people were not professionals at all? Or … were they trying to hide something?
While Zhao Yu was thinking hard about the case, Zhang Jingfeng and Liang Huan had already sent news that they could not find any information related to Liang Sisi in the database, so they had to consider other methods.
Although this result was depressing, it was within everyone's expectations. The chances of Liang Sisi still being alive were not high, and the chances of her being in the database were even lower.
Thus, everyone could only pin their hopes on the missing person notice. Liang Sisi's 3D image had already been made. To increase the accuracy of identification, the experts had made three images of Liang Sisi's grown up appearance. They were immediately sent to the entire country and placed missing person notices on all major media outlets and websites.
At the same time, Team Leader Qu Ping's investigation was in full swing, but there was no new information. The clues for the Mianling Case were pitifully few, and the investigators were having a hard time investigating.
Other than that, Department Leader Wang Fei's forensics team did not stop working.
Through the latest round of tests, they had found the same fabric from the skulls of the five corpses. Based on preliminary speculation, when the hostages died, their eyes were covered tightly with the same fabric!
Imagine, if the hostages were already dead when the culprits blew up the mine, then … would they still need to cover the hostages' eyes?
To recreate the scene of the explosion, the forensics team did a few simulation tests based on the angle of the explosion. The results showed that other than the driver, Niu Weiguang, the other four hostages were leaning against each other in a sitting position when they died.
This meant that when the culprits blew up the mine, the four children were most likely still alive! They were all blown to death!!
The culprits' cruelty was unforgivable!
Niu Weiguang's body was near the entrance of the mine, further away from the four children. His body was not scattered too much, which meant that when the explosion occurred, he was facing the sky.
This meant that when the explosion occurred, he was most likely already dead!
What was even stranger was that the location where Zhao Yu dug up the ransom money was not only the closest to the entrance of the mine, but it was also only three meters away from Niu Weiguang's body.
Some people suspected that Niu Weiguang was one of the kidnappers, and that the bag of ransom money belonged to him. In the end, when the mine was about to explode, he was killed by the other kidnappers, and was buried in the mine along with the ransom money.
But this speculation did not stand up to scrutiny. If the kidnappers wanted to kill him, why would they wait until the mine was about to explode? They could have killed him earlier and swallowed his ransom as well!
Other than that, the forensics team also found the composition of the explosives from the ruins, which proved that it was a type of explosive commonly used in the mining area. The culprit who was responsible for blowing up the mine back then, whether it was the amount of explosives used, or the placement of the explosives, everything was perfect. This meant that the culprit was an expert in explosives!
In addition, the mine's terrain was complicated, and it was difficult for strangers to enter. So the police had sufficient reason to suspect that one of the kidnappers had worked in the mining area, and was a professional in explosives!
Miao Ying immediately sent more people, and once again focused on the silver mining area, trying to find the person who matched the characteristics!
Just like that, the investigation was still going on, but after a whole day, there was not much to be gained.
Zhao Yu was the same. Although he had gotten a "Gen" hexagram, for some reason, it did not come true. The sky was not completely dark yet, when the system sent an ending notification.
As Zhao Yu did not earn any money, nor did he find any progress, his completion rate for the day was not even forty percent, and he did not receive any rewards.
But Zhao Yu, who had a good understanding of the system, was not discouraged. He knew that this was just the beginning. Thinking back to the Lost Hand Case and the Slaughter Case, which one of them had been easy to solve?
How could one see the rainbow without going through a storm? So, the revolution had not succeeded yet, and the comrade still had to work hard!
That day, Zhao Yu was the last one to leave the office. By the time he left, the six whiteboards had already been filled with drawings. There were also many relationship lines densely drawn on them. There were time lines, people lines, and even locations lines. From an outsider's point of view, it was like a book from heaven!
After returning home, Zhao Yu thought hard and repeatedly, trying to find a breakthrough from all these clues!
But, even though his brain was about to explode, there was still no result.
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