You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 123 The suspect is among them!
High temperatures and hot weather in summer led to insufficient power supply, resulting in a two-hour power outage in the Chengnan District.

At one o'clock in the morning, after the power was restored, the ceiling light suddenly turned on, and the figures of four people reappeared in the room.

Yang Jinwen blinked, adjusted his eyes to the light, picked up the payroll of the TV station employees, and continued to compare the data.

Jiang Bala and Fu Yun found the department information of the TV station, especially the departments that were relatively quiet after the station closed on Tuesdays, such as video technicians, audio controllers, switcher operators, main controllers, and especially drivers who had contact with cars.

The cat was so sleepy that it sat on the edge of the sofa, propped up on one hand and its head with its wrist, and fell asleep, but no one woke it up.

Time passed slowly, until three in the morning.

Yang Jinwen put down his pen and looked up.

Jiang Bala looked at him: "How's it going? How many people have been screened out?"

Yang Jinwen shook his head and asked in return, "Tell me, is this guy hiding in the shadows a man or a woman?"

Fu Yun frowned: "You suspect it's a woman?"

Yang Jinwen replied, "I can't say for sure. I was originally going to cross out the female employee, but if the suspect is a woman, wouldn't that make people more relaxed?"

After all, no one would think that a woman committing a crime against another woman would be easy to lure away so many victims without being discovered.

Jiang Bala took a drag of his cigarette: "If that's really the case, then what does this female murderer want to do?"

Yang Jinwen squinted: "We haven't discussed the suspect's motive at all. We've always assumed he's male and definitely not after money, right?"
If it were robbery, he wouldn't target a female student from a rural background. Robbery and theft would be far more profitable than kidnapping a poor student like Ma Weiwei.

Therefore, we assume the suspect is male and harbored malicious sexual intentions towards the female student from a rural background.

“That’s right.” Fu Yun nodded.

Yang Jinwen continued, "But what if it's a woman who committed the crime? That can't be ruled out, right?"

Jiang clicked his tongue and said, "No, I really don't understand. If it's a woman, what would she want to do? If it's not for money, if it's not for sex, then what is it for?"

"Women can have these kinds of thoughts about other women too..."

Jiang Bala nodded: "That is indeed possible."

Yang Jinwen leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and replied, "I was just guessing. I just felt that we shouldn't overlook the possibility of anyone committing the crime."

Then, he opened his eyes, pointed to the clue board opposite him, and said, word by word, "We may not be facing one suspect, but two, or more!"

"Multiple?"

These words immediately dispelled Jiang Bala and Fu Yun's drowsiness, and they felt a chill run down their spines.

Yang Jinwen didn't put his finger down, pointing to the missing persons date table on the clue board.

He continued, "In 92, Zhang Qian disappeared; in 93, Wang Lin disappeared; in 94, no one disappeared; in 95, Liao Dongmei and Jia Chun disappeared one after another; in 96, Qin Xuelan and Zhang Huiqun disappeared; eleven days ago, Ma Weiwei disappeared."

94 is important because starting in 94, the number of missing persons increased. We can say that the suspect committed two crimes a year, right?

Jiang Bala nodded: "This is the same idea we had before."

Yang Jinwen picked up the TV station employee list from his lap, waved it in front of them, and said, "So, we can't filter by gender and year of employment. We need to find out why the suspect from 94 didn't commit the crime."

Fu Yun scratched his head and said, "Yang Jinwen, what's wrong with your brain?"

"what happened?"

Jiang Bala laughed and said, "Old Fu is praising you."

Fu Yun nodded: "When we had the meeting at the brigade today, the direction of the investigation that Brigade Captain Yan Bin discussed was all told to him by us. Our clues were given to us by you."

In the end, you deduced all the clues by yourself; that's really impressive.

Now I finally understand how your North City Brigade solved three major cases in just over a month. Amazing!

Jiang Bala exclaimed, "Leaving aside the previous burglary and murder case, just the bus robbery at the beginning of the month still surprises Lao Fu and me. How did you find those criminals? Tell us about it."

Yang Jinwen's eyes were fixed on the clue board, and he no longer paid attention to the content of their conversation.

Seeing that he was frowning and did not answer, Jiang shrugged.

At this moment, Yang Jinwen suddenly spoke up: "Let's investigate the employees of the TV station who took about a year's leave in 94."

"Okay." Fu Yun agreed and began searching through the documents spread out on the floor.

But after searching for a long time, I couldn't find the relevant information. The pay slips were all from last month, and even if I took leave, the TV station would still pay my salary as usual.

Jiang shook his head: "I don't have the leave application form from a few years ago, so I can only go to the TV station again to inquire about the situation."

Fu Yun sighed, "It seems we'll still have to rely on the cat."

He turned his head and saw the cat sitting on the floor, its upper body slumped on the sofa, already asleep.

He shifted his body and something fell out of his arms.

When Fu Yun picked it up, he saw that it was a photograph.

"No, this looks like you..."

Fu Yun handed the photo to Yang Jinwen, who took it and examined it carefully.

Jiang Bala woke the cat up.

The cat blinked: "What's wrong?"

What's going on with this photo?

Cat rubbed his eyes, moved closer to Yang Jinwen, glanced at the photo, and said, "It was taken casually by that female reporter from the TV station's arts and culture department. The people in the photo are me and Yang Jinwen, so I took it back. It must be a coincidence."

The cat climbed onto the table, picked up the water bottle, took a sip of water, and became much more sober. Then he recounted in detail how he stole the photos.

After some analysis, the group concluded that this was a typical scenario where a leader wanted to take advantage of a female subordinate. Clearly, the female reporter named Zhang Wen wasn't falling for the leader's tricks.

Seeing that it wasn't of any use to the case, they put it out of their minds. Jiang checked the time and said, "It's almost four in the morning, everyone should get some sleep."

Fu Yun yawned: "Let's just rest here. I'm too lazy to run around."

Yang Jinwen asked, "Aren't you going to report to the team in the morning?"

Jiang Bala sneered, "What kind of report is this? Yan Bin never intended for us to investigate this case."

"Then let's go back to the north of the city to rest, and come back when it's light."

Fu Yun said, "No need for that. You can sleep on the sofa. It's too much trouble to go back and forth."

Yang Jinwen smiled and said, "It's boring staying here all the time. I'm going out for a walk to clear my head."

Jiang nodded: "Okay, no need to come so early, come at nine o'clock, then we'll try to find out more from the TV station."

"Row."

Yang Jinwen stood up, feeling that his legs were numb. After standing for a while, he and Maozi went out.

Then, the lights in the room went out. Jiang Bala and Fu Yun must have been very tired, so they turned on the lights and went to sleep.

After going downstairs, Yang Jinwen drove his master's car and took Maozi back to the Chengbei Branch.

They rolled down the car windows to let the night air in.

The streetlights were sparse, with only one out of every two lit, in order to save electricity and because it was peak electricity consumption time and the power output was unstable.

The streets were nearly deserted in the early morning, with only red taxis driving on the road.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Maozi looked at Yang Jinwen and asked, "Xiao Yang, are those documents I brought back really useless?"

Yang Jinwen shook his head: "How could it be useless? It's very useful. The suspect is listed in the employee form."

"So who is it?"

"It's not clear yet."

Cat pressed on, "I saw you were checking the TV station's payroll and employee list, and you even took notes. You must have identified a few people."

Yang Jinwen shook his head: "Brother Cat, look, we made this deduction based on Tuesday, and then we concluded that the perpetrator might be someone from the TV station."

But we have no evidence to support this claim; in other words, it's just our speculation.

Therefore, I don't know if our investigation is on the right track, which is also the reason why Captain Jiang and Captain Fu are unwilling to tell the Chengnan Brigade.

"Oh, I thought they were trying to steal the credit, but it turns out that's how it is."

Yang Jinwen narrowed his eyes: "No matter what, we have to catch this suspect as soon as possible and get the case solved. Maybe Ma Weiwei is still alive..."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the cat, who had already fallen asleep in the seat, snoring softly.

The next day at 8:30.

Yang Jinwen only slept for a little over three hours before getting up. He was so tired that he had no energy at all.

Moreover, the temperature rose again in the morning, and the weather was hot and humid, making people feel uncomfortable all over.

The cat was the same; it looked listless.

After getting dressed, the two decided to have breakfast at the cafeteria before going to find Jiang Bala.

Breakfast in the cafeteria starts at 7:30, and there are hardly any people left by now.

Wenling lives at home and usually eats breakfast there, so you can't see her right now.

Old Fan was sitting on a stool, drinking porridge. When he saw them, he smiled and said, "I heard you two were borrowed by the Chengnan Brigade?"

"Good morning, Uncle Fan." Cat nodded obediently.

Yang Jinwen also greeted them and said, "Let's investigate a case together."

Old Fan nodded: "I made some mung bean soup last night, and I just took it out of the freezer. Go and have some. There's also porridge and steamed buns. Help yourselves."

"Ok."

Yang Jinwen nodded, and he and Maozi picked up their lunchboxes from the shelf.

The mung bean soup was placed on the counter outside the shop window, with a stainless steel bowl inside a plastic bowl containing ice cubes.

The cat scooped up a few spoonfuls, tilted its head back and took a sip. From its stomach to its abdominal cavity, its whole body felt refreshed.

He sighed and exclaimed, "It's so refreshing! Uncle Fan added rock sugar, it's so cool and delicious."

The cat looked up and called out, "Little Yang, have a drink."

At this moment, Yang Jinwen was holding a lunchbox and looking up at the newspaper pasted on the shop window.

The cement wall above the shop window was covered with newspapers, all of which were local newspapers from Anan.

Cat was a little puzzled. He took a few steps back and followed Yang Jinwen's gaze. He saw a newspaper with this news headline.

In December 1994, the Three Gorges Project was about to officially commence...

This news was widely reported and took up the entire page.

In addition, there is a subheading below this news article.

In the spring of 1994, An'nan City Television organized a study trip. Under the leadership of Deputy Director Feng Nianbo, 18 journalists from An'nan City were about to travel to Baijing for a six-month study program...

Below the news article is a group photo of the TV station, with about twenty people in total, and the background is the steps in front of the Anan City TV station building.

Yang Jinwen squinted, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)