I became the police station's darling after I could understand what the furry creature was sayi

The two looked at each other.

"Hello, sir..."

Li Feng took a few steps forward and had just started when the man seemed to realize something, quickly grabbed Li Feng's arm, and knelt down in front of him with a thud.

"Officer! Officer, please help me! My daughter is missing! My daughter is missing!"

The man appeared to be around forty years old, with disheveled hair and a slightly overweight build. His voice trembled and was filled with sobs. He clung tightly to Li Feng as if he had grasped at the only straw.

“Sir, please get up. I know you're anxious, but your current state will only delay the rescue effort…”

Li Feng had no chance to dodge and was forced to kneel down. After realizing what had happened, he quickly helped the person up.

"Mr. Liu?"

Nan Shu called out uncertainly.

The man was taken aback, seemingly only then noticing Nan Shu. His eyes lit up immediately. "Miss Nan, Officer Nan, you have to help me! Xixi, Xixi, she, she's gone!"

As he spoke, tears streamed down his face again. He was nearly 1.8 meters tall. He hadn't cried when he learned that his daughter was hearing impaired and might be deaf and mute, nor when life was difficult or bitter, or when customers made things difficult for her. But at this moment, he cried like a child.

Nan Shu recognized Boss Liu from his apron and voice. His hair was messy and there were mud stains on his trousers. He was obviously too anxious after hearing the news and his mind went blank. Thinking that the branch was nearby, he didn't think twice and hung up the phone to run over. He may have fallen a few times along the way.

Upon hearing Boss Liu's words, Nan Shu's expression immediately turned serious. The image of the little girl smiling at her flashed through her mind, and she stepped forward to help him up.

"Mr. Liu, calm down and speak slowly. Only when you calm down and provide more information can we find Xixi faster."

As Nan Shu spoke, she glanced at Li Feng.

Li Feng immediately understood, brought over a cup of hot water, which Nan Shu took and handed to Boss Liu.

Nan Punian received the news and rushed over.

Although the basic procedure for handling missing persons cases should be to first report it to the police, since the person is already here, there's no need to follow that formalistic procedure.

"Today is Wednesday, it's my turn to take Xixi to school, and my wife is at the store preparing for opening..."

Because of their shop, the couple takes turns taking Xixi to school, which is only a ten-minute walk away.

But today, when he was less than 100 meters from the school, he received a call from a customer who said that the fish he bought from his shop yesterday had all died overnight.

This matter could be a big deal or a small deal. The customer's tone wasn't very good either. If he couldn't appease them and they gave him a bad review, he might lose a lot of customers. So, Mr. Liu could only make phone calls to explain as he walked.

Xixi was well-behaved and sensible from a young age. When she saw her father was busy, she would say that he should go ahead with his work and that she would go to school by herself.

At that moment, the customers on the other end of the phone started cursing, and Mr. Liu was in a panic. He thought that if they went straight along this road and then turned a corner, they would reach the school. Xixi had walked this road hundreds of times and knew it very well. He figured there wouldn't be any problems, so he nodded in agreement.

Unexpectedly, it happened just this once...

After calming the customers down and returning to the store, not long after opening for business, Mr. Liu received a call from Xixi's homeroom teacher.

The homeroom teacher asked Xixi if she was sick and why she hadn't come to school. She added that if she was sick, she could ask for leave in advance so the teacher wouldn't worry...

Mr. Liu couldn't hear a single word that followed.

My mind went completely blank.

I thought to myself, "That's it."

That's why he rushed into the hall just now.

"In other words, Xixi most likely went missing in that section of the road."

Nan Punian calmly extracted an important clue, turned to look at Lin Chong and the others, and made a gesture—check the surveillance footage.

Xixi attends the primary school section of No. 10 Middle School. No. 10 Middle School has two gates, front and back, but the back gate is usually only opened during events such as sports meets or Mid-Autumn Festival parties. At other times, only the front gate is open.

The No. 10 Middle School is located in the very center of Zhongshan Street, with snack shops, breakfast shops, and toy stores lining both sides of the road.

There are quite a few surveillance cameras.

soon.

They were able to retrieve a surveillance video.

The surveillance footage captured Mr. Liu and Liu Xixi. In the video, Mr. Liu was holding his phone, talking to someone, while holding the little girl's hand with his other hand.

Liu Xixi was wearing the school uniform of No. 10 Middle School and carrying a pink backpack with a pink teddy bear hanging from the zipper. The teddy bear swayed with her movements.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Xixi looked up and said something to Boss Liu. It must have been Boss Liu who said that she would go to school alone. Boss Liu paused, looked up in the direction of the school, looked at the little girl, and then let go of the little girl's hand.

The little girl skipped and hopped towards the school.

Mr. Liu watched Liu Xixi leave until her figure disappeared around the corner, then picked up his phone and walked back towards the shop while talking.

"The next segment is surveillance footage from a stationery store."

As Lin Chong spoke, he pressed the pause button and opened another surveillance video. "The road surveillance camera was blocked by a big tree, so it didn't capture anything."

Nan Pu gave a soft "hmm" in response. Having handled so many cases, he found that either the surveillance cameras were under maintenance and didn't capture anything, or they couldn't find any useful information due to various strange reasons.

He's already used to it.

The stationery store installed the surveillance cameras to prevent students from stealing stationery, so the image quality isn't very clear. The close-up shots are okay, but the distant shots are a bit blurry.

Lin Chong was able to identify the little girl in the lower left corner of the surveillance camera as Xi Xi based on her clothing and backpack at the time.

In the video, Xixi has just turned the corner from the other side and is only a few dozen meters away from the school.

It was just past eight o'clock. The school start time for elementary school students was 8:30. On the sidewalks, you could see many students carrying schoolbags being sent to school by their parents.

Sudden.

A van stopped on the side of the road next to Xixi. The door opened, and in the surveillance footage, all that could be seen was a man wearing a black leather jacket, bald, with his face not clearly visible.

The man must have said something to Xixi, because Xixi stopped walking.

But Xixi remained vigilant and did not approach the van. Instead, she took two steps back and gestured to the man.

Available in the next second.

The man suddenly reached out and pulled Xixi into the van.

Before Xixi could even utter a shout, the van door slammed shut.

Immediately afterwards, the van turned around and drove away.

Some students on the road actually saw this scene, but Xixi didn't shout, and the man moved too quickly, so no one thought of child abduction at all.

It is now 9:10, more than an hour has passed since Xixi was abducted.

Time is tight.

"Xiao Li, call the traffic police and retrieve the surveillance footage from Zhongshan Street, Huaxi Street, and Xiaolin Road during this period. Find an eight-seater Jinbei van."

"Okay!" (End of Chapter)