Super True Crime Story

Super Brain Project

If you work in an industry for a long time, you will unconsciously develop a habit. People often say that in the eyes of the police, everyone is a suspect. I didn't believe this sentence before, but today I have to believe it.

My suspicion of the man started when I met him for the third time.

The first two times I saw him were in the supermarket. Because I promised a friend to buy a designated brand of chocolate for his wife abroad, I ran to several shopping malls in a row. When I was in RT-Mart, I first saw the man. He was wearing casual clothes, his head was slightly protruding, his expression was serious, and he was pushing a cart full of various daily necessities. When I left, he just came out and stuffed the things on the cart into the trunk of a commercial vehicle.

At Jialeduo, I saw him for the second time, still pushing a cart, purchasing a large number of daily necessities.

At this time, I paid some attention to him.

When I met him again at the door of the current supermarket, I began to be sure that something was wrong with him.

He bought daily necessities. Although the purchase volume was large, he definitely did not empty the shelves of a supermarket at one time. If I were to be so demanding of a certain brand of product, it would be understandable, but judging from the goods he bought, they were all very common daily necessities, and any supermarket would have a large quantity of them. It is not strange to buy a large amount of daily necessities at one time, but why didn't he buy the required quantity in one supermarket, but went to three supermarkets to buy them separately?

With this question, I paid attention to him. While he was still moving things into the commercial vehicle, I looked at his car. After looking at the car, I had a vague impression, as if I had seen this car somewhere, especially the slightly concave area on the right side of the front of the car, which seemed to be a very important sign.

Could it be a vehicle that committed a crime and fled?

While trying my best to recall, I took out my phone and called Xiao Li in the bureau to ask me to check the license plate number of the car. Before Xiao Li's call was returned, the man had already finished moving the goods, got in the car and started the car. I quickly started my car and followed him.

As expected, the man's car stopped at the door of the next supermarket again.

Xiao Li's call came back. The license plate belonged to another car. The car was currently in the hands of the owner and was not on the road. In other words, the license plate of the car in front of him was fake. The characteristics of the car in front of him were the same as those of the car that was just reported lost last night. The owner was a friend of Xiao Li. He and several business partners came out after having supper and found that his car was gone. He immediately called the police and asked Xiao Li to help him find it quickly. A notable feature of the car was that there was a dent on the right side of the front of the car caused by a collision with the guardrail. It was stolen before it could be repaired.

Driving a stolen car around, this man is obviously not a good person. And he bought so many daily necessities at one time, which is obviously not for one person to use in a short period of time. Then it means that somewhere, there is a group of people who need to stay dormant for a long time to use these daily necessities. Such a group of people who stay dormant in one place for a long time may have lost their freedom due to coercion, or they dare not come out to see people because they are afraid of the light. In any case, this is a major clue. This man bought food in batches, of course, in order not to attract other attention. It really wouldn't attract other people's attention, but it just happened that I, like him, needed to go in and out of different supermarkets for different purposes, so we just happened to meet. Generally speaking, if you don't want to attract people's attention when buying a large amount of daily necessities like this, you usually choose to buy them in wholesale markets, but he chose the supermarket, which is a very unusual place. There are more than a dozen wholesale markets in Nancheng, but they are all located in relatively remote areas. Unless you are a local, it is difficult for outsiders to find them. From this point of view, it is more likely that the man in front of me is an outsider.

Just thinking about it, the man came out of the supermarket. I followed him all the way, and he went into two more supermarkets. I guess he bought enough things, so he drove all the way to the suburbs.

It was time to get off work, and there were many vehicles on the road to the suburbs, so I didn't have to worry about being exposed. But I was still very careful to keep a distance from him. Seeing that commercial vehicle shuttled through the traffic, it stopped in front of the gate of a warehouse soon. The man jumped out of the car and knocked on the iron door of the garage. A few dog barks came from inside. A very elegant man opened the door, looked around, and then helped unload the goods from the car and moved them into the warehouse.

After the things were moved, the elegant man jumped into the car and left the warehouse with the man who drove earlier. The door of the warehouse was slightly open behind him, and he didn't seem to be afraid of people entering.

I hesitated for a moment, still started the car and followed the commercial vehicle. At the same time, I took out my mobile phone and prepared to report to the bureau, but I received a call from Xiao Li.

"Shen Ao, where are you?" Xiao Li asked casually.

"Suburbs." I said.

"That's right, do you know that there is a warehouse of Zhengye Company in the suburbs? Someone called the police and said that there are a large number of mentally retarded people there..." Xiao Li's words stunned me.

Zhengye Warehouse, where the two men just moved the goods in, isn't it the warehouse of Zhengye Company? The big yellow characters on the door are clearly hanging, what's going on?

"... Go over and take a look..." Xiao Li finally finished his words. I hesitated whether to continue following the two men, and he added: "It is said that someone is dying. You are close, go quickly." Hearing this, I had to give up the two men, backed the car back, and returned to the warehouse.

The road was a bit congested, and when I backed back to the warehouse, Xiao Li and several other colleagues also arrived. The door of the warehouse was not locked, and it opened with a slight push. We went in and first saw an empty yard. A big wolf dog was tied to a tree, roaring and jumping at us. We ignored it and continued to walk in. We pushed open a door and entered the warehouse.

As soon as we entered, we were stunned.

This is a huge space of about 200 square meters, which is filled with people sitting or lying in all directions. These people are all fat and dull. They are dirty and smelly. They grab bags of food piled on the ground and stuff them into their mouths. They eat in an extremely ugly way.

"What's going on?" I murmured.

"I don't know... I just received a call from the police saying that someone hid a lot of mentally retarded people here and there was suspicion of abuse. The higher-ups asked us to come and take a look, but I didn't expect..." Xiao Li's expression also became dull.

There were a total of 46 demented people, men, women, young and old, and we couldn't handle them with just a few people. Xiao Li called again and called several ambulances. The doctors first did a rough check and confirmed that they were in good health, and then they were transported to the hospital for centralized placement.

After the people were transported out, there were a lot of problems. First of all, it was a headache to gather so many mentally retarded people together for unknown reasons. I reported the situation of the two men, and soon there was feedback: the stolen commercial vehicle was found abandoned at the entrance of the highway, and there was no clue left in the car. I went to the technical department with some frustration to draw the portraits of the two men, and returned to the office. Xiao Li and his team had been busy for a while.

"There are clues." Seeing me come in, Xiao Li said without raising his head, "The matter is serious."

"What's serious?" I asked.

"I just put the photos of these mentally retarded people on the internal network for comparison, and found that they were all reported missing last year. There are people all over the country." Xiao Li said.

"Really?" I hurriedly sat down next to him, "When did they disappear? What common characteristics do they have?"

"The time ranged from September last year to the end of the year, and there are really no common characteristics..." Xiao Li quickly flipped through the information on the internal network, "But there is one thing that is strange..."

"What?" I asked.

"Look," Xiao Li pointed at a kind-looking old couple on the screen, "This couple is a professor at a university in the south. They went on a trip last November and have not been heard from since..." He pointed at another smart girl, "This one is a top student in the Department of Clinical Medicine at a northern university. She went on a trip last September and has not been heard from since..." He was still talking, but I couldn't wait to interrupt him, "Travel? Did all these people go on a trip and then disappear?" After hearing what I said, Xiao Li was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked at the screen carefully. He raised his head unwillingly and said, "Really, I didn't notice it... This is an important clue... But that's not what I just said." "Then what are you talking about?" I was immersed in the excitement of finding clues.

"Such an obvious fact is right under your nose, and you didn't notice it?" Xiao Li looked at me in surprise.

"What?" I knocked on the table impatiently.

"This group of mentally retarded people, before they disappeared..." Because he read the word "mentally retarded" with special emphasis, I understood what he meant before he finished. This is really incredible. I widened my eyes in surprise, snatched the mouse from Xiao Li, and looked at the information of the missing persons line by line - all of them disappeared while traveling, and more importantly, all of these 46 people had legitimate jobs and studies, normal or even extraordinary intelligence before they disappeared last year.

So, what caused them to become like this?

Xiao Li and I looked at each other, and I saw a look of shock on his face. It seems that we have the same idea: this case is not small, maybe it is a shocking case.