fog city detective

Chapter 257 Kidnapping suspicion ([-])

It can be ruled out that the head of the administrative department and the secretary of the administrative department who meet with Jack at the same time leave Mike and the president's personal assistant.Personal assistants are extremely loyal and highly paid, so there is no need to be an insider.Liang Xi thinks that Mike is not an insider.

Liang Xi watched the surveillance, as Mike said, during the surveillance, only four people entered Jack's office in the morning.Jack came out of the office, coat slung over his arm, keys in hand.Jessica walked to Jack from the direction of the open office, and the two exchanged a few words. Jessica smiled and hugged Jack's right arm with both hands, and walked towards the elevator together, and entered the elevator.

In the elevator, the brothers and sisters communicated with each other. There was no sound, and they couldn't hear what they said. The atmosphere was not bad, but Jack seemed a little restrained.Go directly to the underground parking lot, the bodyguard's car is already waiting beside the car.The brother and sister got into the car, Jack drove, and the bodyguard vehicle followed and left.

That is to say, except for Jessica, Jack has not come into contact with anyone, has not had close contact with anyone, and it is impossible to install a locator after leaving the sub-level.So the question comes back to the original question: Did Jack's assistant, Mike, or Jeff's personal assistant install the locator?Although neither of these two people is the object of Liang Xi's suspicion, but only these two people are left to be suspected.

Whether it is Mike or Jeff's personal assistant, they have the opportunity to leave the lower level. This type of gang crime pays great attention to destroying evidence, and it is impossible to find any items related to the locator.Liang Xi believes that Jeff, the big boss, can be his personal assistant. The possibility of an insider is extremely low. Liang Xi also believes in his own vision. He believes that Mike knows nothing about the kidnapping. .

If Liang Xi follows the subject, it means that the ghost in this kidnapping case is not in the company.The possibility of this conclusion is relatively low.For a while, Liang Xi's thinking was so trapped.What Liang Xi can do now is to collect more information, and then start over.

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Open office folks already feel something is wrong today.The president didn't come, Jack and Jessica didn't show up again, and the department head's office was tightly closed.But they are all high-level employees, and they know that no speculation or discussion can be made on this matter, and they have to hide it from other departments as much as possible.After coming and going, it was lunch time, and Mike asked Liang Xi if he would have dinner with them.

Liang Xi inquired and learned that they usually eat in different departments and eat with their immediate boss.For example, Mike, Jack's assistant, went to the staff canteen for dinner with Jack.Eating is also a kind of work, which is called table work.There is something that needs to be communicated between the two departments, and they are not in a hurry, so the bosses of the two departments have dinner and talk about things together.

After the meal, the bosses can go back to their offices to rest, and most of the bosses' offices have private lounges.Assistants, personal assistants, and secretaries can go to the temporary lounge on the next floor to rest.

Liang Xi noticed a detail, there are three main occupations working in an open office, personal assistant, assistant and administrative secretary.Among them, the personal assistant and the assistant packed two suitcases and put them in the temporary lounge.When they need to make a surprise business trip, they can take their luggage and leave immediately. One of the luggage is the business trip luggage that they directly report to the boss.

Liang Xi asked: "Jack and Jessica's office doesn't have a break room, are they also resting in the temporary break room?"

"Yes."

"Can you take me to see it?"

It is said to be a temporary lounge, but it is actually an exclusive lounge.There are many beds, two beds and a small room of ten square meters.Jack and Jessica each have their own lounges.Jack's room was rather messy. The ukulele was randomly placed on the table, and there was a notebook on the table. Liang Xi glanced at it, and it seemed to be a musical score, hand-copied or handwritten.Liang Xi took a photo. He didn't know what it was, so he sent the photo to Chris for identification.Chris is an oil painter at any rate, and they are all engaged in art, so they should be able to understand.

There is also a large suitcase in Jack's lounge. After opening, there are clothes and daily necessities inside, which are folded and packed very neatly.There was also a note on it stating that there were some small items in some of the small compartments of the suitcase.Judging from the signature, it should be arranged by the maid.It also means that Jack has never opened the suitcase.

On the contrary, Jessica's room is clean and tidy, with books neatly placed on the table and Jessica's notes in the drawer.After all, she had just finished her graduate studies, and Jessica still had a passion for learning.

Liang Xi sat down, looked at the photo of Jessica wearing a doctor's hat with her parents on the table, turned her head and said, "Mike, can you pack a piece of food for me? Feel free, anything is fine."

As an assistant, of course he could understand this sentence, Liang Xi wanted to be alone for a while, and Mike closed the door and left.Sitting quietly on the chair in Jessica's lounge, Liang Xi remained motionless for 10 minutes until the phone rang.

"Here!" Liang Xi answered the phone.

Poppy asked, "Is there any progress?"

Liang Xi asked, "Is there any police suspecting a kidnapping?"

Bobby asked, "How do you know?"

"A traffic accident, the truck driver is missing, and now Jack's car and a bodyguard are left behind. A normal police detective would guess that Jack was kidnapped." But this is not a problem, even if the police know that he has been kidnapped. There will be no involvement, or even any investigation into the case.The police must give priority to the safety of the hostages, and it is the most correct decision to be made by the family members.What the police have to do is to explain the benefits and risks of police intervention, and the family members make the choice.

Bobby asked, "It's been two hours, and you've run out of ideas?"

Liang Xi sighed: "I said at the beginning that this kind of case is difficult to handle. Everyone is happy if it is done. If it is not done, it will be blamed. I do have a few ideas, but I can't take a tentative attitude to eliminate them." Liang Xi's previous practice , The police are also idle when they are idle, so help yourself to eliminate wrong answers, or to verify your speculations.But the kidnapping case is very special, and the result of Liang Xi's trial and error is tearing up the ticket.

Liang Xi has no room for mistakes.How could Liang Xi, who habitually uses the words "maybe, maybe, maybe" in his speech, take such a risk?Just like the tram game, Liang Xi did not change the track, and the five people who died had nothing to do with Liang Xi.Liang Xi changed the track, and the person who died was directly related to Liang Xi.

Speaking of the tram game, it is said that there are two questions in the tram game.The first question: You are a tram driver, there are five people on the route A, you can change the track to B, and there is one person on the B track.Then because of this question, a new tram game was derived, which is the tram game that we are all familiar with.However, since it is a game, there is basically no right or wrong, and it is impossible to dialectically right or wrong.

Back to the kidnapping case, after spending an hour collecting new information, Liang Xi had several more mature ideas.But several mature ideas cannot be proved right or wrong.There is only one chance, and Liang Xi can only pick out one idea to give it a go.The result is likely to be the death of a hostage.Assuming there was only one hostage, Liang Xi still dared to make suggestions.But because there were two hostages, Liang Xi didn't dare, and he didn't take the cauldron of life.Liang Xi has no sense of responsibility?No, it is precisely because he has a sense of responsibility and responsibility that he dare not make suggestions, because Liang Xi is responsible for his own suggestions.Even if others don't blame him afterwards, he will blame himself.

Bobby knew Liang Xi.From Liang Xi's tone of voice and words, Bobby knew that Liang Xi had fallen into the quagmire of responsibility.Bobby said: "I'll pack some food for you and send it over." Liang Xi had encountered difficulties in handling the case, and it was Liang Xi's habit of talking to himself and the finishing touches of others that helped him out of the predicament.With a lot of responsibility, a lot of psychological pressure, and a lot of depression, Liang Xi couldn't talk to himself, couldn't communicate with himself, because he didn't even dare to say it.Being responsible for other people's lives brought too much psychological pressure on Liang Xi, after all, not everyone can treat human life as a number.

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Four hours after the kidnapping, the people involved had already stabilized their emotions, and they didn't expect to be able to help if they couldn't.The first problem for Jie's family is to keep the matter hidden for 72 hours and not call the police for 72 hours.In principle, even if the police knew about the kidnapping, they would not directly intervene in consideration of the safety of the hostages.However, there are villains in this world, and there are quite a few of them.What if a villain in the know reports to the police for help as a family member?When it was over, the villain told Jeff not to compromise with the kidnappers, but to trust the police.No problem, full of energy.

Because Jessica's office is clean and tidy, the food sent by Bobby and two bodyguards filled Jessica's desk.Food can effectively reduce people's stress. After eating a piece of steak, drinking tea and eating dessert, Liang Xi finally turned the topic to the kidnapping case.Prior to this, Mike got a task. He had to know the frequency of calls and chats of sub-high-level staff during their breaks from lunch to [-]:[-] in the afternoon.

If someone is fidgeting, walking around, and gossiping, it may be an inner ghost.In addition, those who work overtime at the lower level under the pretext of taking breaks are also suspected of being insiders.Everyone has curiosity, but the lower-level staff have professional requirements to restrain curiosity.Liang Xi also secured a bodyguard to monitor the situation in the open office at the lower level.

Before talking about the matter, the chief bodyguard had searched several offices with others to confirm that there were no bugs or other items placed.

Liang Xi explained the basic situation: "Either a locator, or a drone, or a satellite image for real-time positioning."

Liang Xi looked at Bobby, Bobby didn't understand, Liang Xi looked at the head of the bodyguard.Chief Bodyguard: Me again?

The bodyguard said: "Satellite image positioning cannot be truly real-time, and data transmission and processing will take a certain amount of time, although the time is not long. In addition, the stability of civilian signals is poor."

Bodyguard chief: "The possibility of drones is not high. The first reason is the suburbs, and the remote control signal may be blocked. The second reason is that professional bodyguards follow, they may not be able to detect drones, but it is more likely It’s the ability to spot drones.”

Liang Xi said: "There are two ways to locate, mobile phone and locator."

Bobby and Liang Xi looked at the head of the bodyguard together, and the head of the bodyguard said: "The location of the mobile phone is regional. For example, if my mobile phone is stolen, if I search my phone, I will get the location of the phone, but I can really find the location of the body through the location. Is someone hiding my phone? Unless there is only one person in this area, I can’t be sure who took my phone. The role of the phone’s location is the route and itinerary. When the phone feeds back its data at point A to the hacker, The phone itself may have reached point B. It can be tracked, but not precisely."

Poppy asked, "Precise? How much precise?"

The bodyguard pointed to the photo of the kidnapping scene in his mobile phone and explained: "The truck is a manual transmission truck, and its starting acceleration is slower than that of a small car. Look at the view here, Jack's vehicle can't see the truck on the right, and the truck can't see Jack's vehicle either. The truck is not seeing After the vehicle is restarted, start and accelerate for at least 8 seconds. After the speed increases, the driver will accelerate or decelerate according to the situation on the spot to achieve the result of intercepting or hitting the bodyguard vehicle. Being able to do so accurately shows that the gangster is experienced and professional. The gangsters have a very good grasp of time, so it can only be a locator. The locator does not need to be transmitted through a signal tower or satellite, and can be directly fed back to the corresponding device. A good locator is extremely accurate, and the error is almost negligible."

Liang Xi asked: "Suppose the other party has a super hacker, can they hack into the car computer to locate it?"

The head of the bodyguard replied: "If I were a gangster, and I had such a super hacker, I would hack into the bodyguard's vehicle, shut down the car, and lock the doors."

Poppy: "You'll double your salary later." Very long face.

The bodyguard shook his head with a long smile: "It's already very high." His boss threw coins at every turn.It’s okay to sprinkle coins, but the salary cannot be increased, because not only Bobby has the right to speak, but also Bobby’s housekeeper Daisy and Bobby’s father.Bobby doesn't think the salary is high, but it doesn't mean they don't think the salary is high.The chief bodyguard did a good job, but as far as this position is concerned, there are still many people who can do a good job.Furthermore, Bobby's random salary increase behavior will lead to the destruction of the overall salary structure of the manor staff.

You grow flowers very well, so you can double your wages.Although he planted better flowers, either Bobby didn't see it, or Bobby was in a bad mood at the time, so he never raised his salary.As a housekeeper, he would not allow such a huge income gap among the same professionals.Bobby doesn't care about killing or burying, but the butler can only bury it.It is impossible for a housekeeper to raise a low-salary person to a high-salary level, because it will cause a chain reaction, and the most effective means is to fire the high-salary person.

You're right, it's Bobby, he's giving you a random salary adjustment, but because he's the boss, you're fired.

The head of the bodyguard did not have such a deep understanding, but Daisy, the housekeeper, thought that the head of the bodyguard was excellent, and wanted to let him stay, so she had a private conversation with him on this matter.What she meant was that if Bobby recklessly raised the salary of the head of the bodyguard, the head of the bodyguard should refuse, or Daisy would not raise the salary without telling Bobby.Over the course of the year, the head of the bodyguard had his salary jump six times, and the bodyguards who mixed with the blond man had their salary jump four times.This is no longer a question of money, but a question of overall management.

The chief bodyguard readily accepted Daisy's explanation. His current annual salary is twice that of the current police director. You must know that his annual salary was only 12 a year ago.

(End of this chapter)