Li Rui looked at the beauty, whose appearance and temperament could be compared to a Hollywood actress, and the image of a woman he had been with for a long time flashed across his mind. His heart was thumping wildly, and he thought to himself, This beauty, could she be the female agent Xu Da can't forget about her? If it's really her, it's no wonder that Xu Da doesn't like the women in the country. If it were anyone else, after having an emotional entanglement with this Snow White-like beauty in front of me, I'm afraid that they wouldn't fall in love with someone else. Even I'm a little tempted …
After closing the door, Xu Da, who had already walked into the room, introduced the Caucasian beauty to Li Rui and Yang Xiang. As expected, it was Elaine Christina. Christina, a high-ranking agent of the Central Intelligence Agency! Of course, she could also be understood as an agent.
Elaine was very friendly. Perhaps it was the relationship of loving the house and its crow. She was very warm to Li Rui and Yang Xiang. She took the initiative to shake hands with the two of them, and said something that the two of them didn't understand.
Xu Da translated her words to the two of them. The general idea was, "Welcome to the United States. If you have any needs in the future, including life and the case, you can ask her. She will try her best to satisfy you."
Li Rui took Elaine's words as a courtesy, and didn't take it to heart. He immediately asked Xu Da about the progress of the case over the past two days.
Xu Da actually heard it from Elaine. He said that after one of the victims, Ceng Baohua (also known as Mary), escaped, the task force formulated the idea of "reverse tracking" to solve the case, which was to trace Ceng Baohua's escape route in reverse, and finally determine the location of the terrorist's nest. Of course, other than this method, there was no other way to accurately locate the terrorist's nest. When Ceng Baohua was kidnapped that day, under Zixuan's reminder, she memorized the distance and environment of the route, but the location where she got off was very abstract and couldn't be accurately described, so it couldn't be used as an effective clue by the task force.
Based on the clues provided by Ceng Baohua, the task force also visited Yang Qingqing, who saved Ceng Baohua from the Astor River. Through the descriptions of the two women, they determined the approximate time that Ceng Baohua drifted in the Astor River. Then, by calculating the average speed of the Astor River, they finally determined the area where Ceng Baohua fell into the water, starting from the location where Yang Qingqing found Ceng Baohua, three to twenty miles.
The reason why the area was so wide was because they couldn't accurately determine the time that Ceng Baohua drifted in the river. When Ceng Baohua first fell into the water, she drifted for about two to three miles with a clear mind. Then, the back of her head was injured, and she fainted. When Yang Qingqing found her, she was still unconscious. She didn't know how long she drifted after she fainted, and Yang Qingqing, who saved her, didn't know when she appeared by the river. Was she just pushed to the river, or had she already been there for two hours?
So, the task force could only deduce the approximate time that Ceng Baohua fell into the water (around ten in the morning) as the lower limit, and the time that Yang Qingqing found her (around twelve in the afternoon) as the upper limit. The time difference between the upper and lower limits was multiplied by the average speed of the river, and the length obtained was the farthest point that she fell into the water. The closest point was three miles (the distance that she drifted from the moment she fell into the water to before she fainted), which meant that she was washed to the river and stopped moving as soon as she fainted. The distance between the closest point and the farthest point was the area where she fell into the water. In this area, any point could be the place where Ceng Baohua fell into the water.
After determining this area, the task force used the most clumsy but also the most basic method of investigation. They took Ceng Baohua in a helicopter and followed the river upstream from the place where Yang Qingqing found her. Using the naked eye, they looked for the spot where she fell into the water.
This idea was simple and theoretically useful, but the landscape of the Astor River's drainage area was almost the same. The river flowed through the forest, sometimes the banks were like walls, and the river was fast. Sometimes the banks were flat, and the river was slow. Within a short mile, this scene could be repeated four or five times, let alone in a huge area of three to twenty miles. (One mile is about 1.6 kilometers)
This trip, Ceng Baohua's eyes were blurred, and her mind was confused, but she still couldn't find the spot where she fell into the water. In fact, she didn't know what the environment around the spot where she fell into the water was, because she fell into the river when she heard the sound of the river. She didn't even see the surface of the river, so how could she find the spot where she fell into the water? Through this point, she could speculate that the place where she fell into the water must have a high bank, but there were too many places with such high banks along the Astor River, so how could she confirm them one by one?
The operation to find the terrorist's nest encountered its first problem here. Of course, the task force wasn't incompetent. They quickly decided on two sets of solutions. One was to send out several small teams to search the area where Ceng Baohua fell into the water. They would search on foot for traces left behind by Ceng Baohua, such as footprints. However, this plan was very difficult, and the success rate wasn't high. This was because Ceng Baohua's escape route was all in the forest, and the forest floor was piled with dead branches and leaves. There were very few places where the soil was exposed, so there wouldn't be any footprints left. How could they find traces of her walking?
The second plan was to give up on the complicated and simple. They would give up on the idea of "reverse investigation" to solve the case. Instead, they would directly search for all the garbage factories on both sides of the Astor River (mainly in the area where Ceng Baohua fell into the water). They would investigate them one by one, and finally find the garbage factory that Ceng Baohua escaped from. This plan was undoubtedly more efficient. As long as they found the garbage factory, they would be able to find the terrorist's nest through the working route of the vehicles and drivers.
Both plans had been put into action. Until now, the task force of the first plan hadn't sent back any news, so they probably hadn't found anything. The second plan, however, ran into trouble again. Whether it was on the map or in the area, the task force couldn't find any garbage factories on either side of the Astor River. The nearest garbage factory to the Astor River was fifty miles away, and it was a garbage burning power plant in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Based on Ceng Baohua's speed and the time she took to leave the garbage factory that day, she wouldn't be able to cover the fifty miles even if she walked in a day. Therefore, that garbage factory was automatically eliminated.
There were also agents in the task force who didn't want to give up. They purposely printed a picture of the garbage factory and showed it to Ceng Baohua, hoping that there was a one in a million chance that she escaped from there. However, after Ceng Baohua saw the picture, she shook her head and said that it wasn't that garbage factory. As a result, the second plan was stuck in a deadlock, and they couldn't move forward for the time being.
In summary, if rescuing Zixuan could be divided into three steps, the first step was to find the garbage factory, which was the transfer station that Ceng Baohua escaped from. The second step was to find the terrorist's residence through the garbage factory, and the third step was to carry out the rescue operation. Now, they were stuck at the first step. This first step was very important. If they couldn't even complete this step, they wouldn't be able to rescue Zixuan.
Li Rui pondered for a long time after hearing this. Finally, he said, "I think the key to solving the case is still that garbage factory. Ceng Baohua went to that garbage factory before, but the task force couldn't find it on the map or in reality. This situation is worth thinking about. Could it be that the garbage factory was newly built, and it wasn't recorded on the map, so no one knew where it was? "
Xu Da shook her head and said, "That's the question. I also asked Yi Lian. Yi Lian said that the task force had already inquired with the relevant departments of the city and county government within the scope of the case. A newly built garbage factory must be recorded. Currently, there isn't any garbage factory under construction or trial operation that hasn't been recorded, so this possibility doesn't exist."
Li Rui frowned and said, "Even if this possibility is ruled out, I still think that there's something fishy about this. Ceng Baohua definitely wouldn't lie. Moreover, she was indeed rescued by a garbage truck from the bandit's lair, so she could only end up at the garbage factory. But now, we can't find a garbage factory that fits the case. Don't you think it's strange? There should be another story behind this. "
Xu Da translated his doubts and told Yi Lian. Yi Lian said a lot of things with a serious expression.
Xu Da translated, "Yi Lian said that Ceng Baohua's escape route after leaving the garbage factory was actually very clear. First, she ran in the forest for more than an hour, covering a distance of three to five miles. Then, she lost her footing and fell into the water, floating in the water for thirty to twenty miles. These two sections of the route can actually be seen as two sides of a triangle. Using the maximum value of the two sections of the route, we can calculate the straight-line distance from the garbage factory to the place where she was found, which is the third side of the triangle. The length of this side is about more than twenty miles. With the place where Ceng Baohua was found as the center of the circle, and with the calculated third line as the radius, we can draw a circle that covers all the possible locations of the garbage factory. In the actual operation, the task force also sent a task force to look for it, but they still couldn't find it. This is enough to show that Ceng Baohua's so-called garbage factory is only the garbage factory she thought of. In fact, it's very likely that it's another factory. "
Li Ruiqi said, "Another factory? Do other factories use garbage trucks to transport garbage? "
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