Detective Files II

Chapter 406 Silent Message

Finding someone sounds simple, but doing it is another matter entirely, especially when the person you're looking for wants to hide and doesn't want to be found.

Tan Lin is now playing such a role.

City C is not considered a first-tier big city, but trying to find a person in the streets and alleys with a population of nearly ten million is like trying to find a small mouse in a big forest.

Since he knew that Tan Lin might not dare to show his face because he was avoiding debts, it was taken for granted that the chances of him being found out from his home were naturally very small.Even though she was well aware of this, she still couldn't let go of every possibility. Tian Mi went to Tan Lin's house anyway, and missed nothing unexpectedly.

Since there is no one at home, it is naturally impossible to search and bump around the world like headless chickens.Tian Mi sorted out her thinking, put herself in Tan Lin's perspective, and speculated where he might be.

If he is Tan Lin, the purpose of hiding is naturally not to be found. If he and his wife hid together, then in order not to be found by creditors, it is definitely not a good choice to go to the house of relatives and friends who are more familiar, but People always need a place to stay and rest, but relatives and friends cannot go to their homes, so hotels have become a must.

There are two reasons for Tan Lin and his wife’s first choice for larger and formal hotels. First, with Tan Lin’s current economic situation, it would be too expensive to live in high-end hotels during the debt avoidance period. Second, regular hotels have relatively strict registration of tenants' ID cards. Although the regulations in the industry are not allowed to disclose the information of the lodgers, if Tan Lin is a cautious person, he must not be afraid of such potential risks. Still not willing to take it.

Another important issue is that what Tian Mi can think of, Tan Lin's creditors may not be unexpected, and those who are eager to recover their debts may not be more eager to find Tan Lin than Tian Mi and the policemen. Low, if they also try to put themselves in Tan Lin's position, those possibilities will naturally come to mind, so if Tan Lin wants to be less easy to find, I'm afraid he may not use his ID card to check in register.

Tian Mi communicated her thoughts with Lu Xiangdong, and Lu Xiangdong agreed, and also praised Tian Mi's progress. From the beginning of her contact with criminal cases to now, she is gradually being trained to be more sophisticated and organized. .

As expected, after three days of hard work, Tian Mi took the printed photos of Tan Lin and his wife and walked all over the streets and alleys of C City, hotels and inns, and finally her hard work paid off. Almost at a small hotel in the suburbs, he heard the news of Tan Lin's whereabouts.

Because everyone split up and searched for Tan Lin's traces, and now that they have really found it, Tian Mi will not be reckless to find someone alone, although now Tan Lin is only because of conflicts with Chu Han, and his son is a coincidence The fact that he once studied in Jiang Yujing's class does not mean that he must be the suspect in the two murders, but he may not be the other side of the murderer, and he may also be the real murderer the police are looking for. In this way, when he sees the police, he will know that something is wrong, and he is likely to do some extreme behavior.

With this in mind, after confirming the reliability of the news, several criminal police officers from the serious crime team acted together and successfully blocked Tan Lin in the small hotel.

When Tian Mi and the others revealed their identities, Tan Lin was extremely flustered. Although he didn't say anything, the sense of confusion was so obvious that even a layman who had no knowledge of criminal psychology could easily see the clues.

Tan Lin lived alone in a small hotel, and he also used a forged ID card and name information. On the way back to the Public Security Bureau, he was silent, didn't say a word, and looked straight at the person in front of him. The patterns on the chair backs of the first row are fascinated, as if they have lost their souls.

"Where's your wife?" Mo Dou asked him on the way back to the police station.

Tan Lin said slowly in an unwavering voice, "I'm back to her mother's house, it's a long way away."

After finishing speaking, he shifted his gaze from the pattern on the back of the chair to Mo Dou's face, looked at him, then quickly sized up the other people, and said, "Just ask me if you have anything to do, my business, whether it is In the company, she has never asked about money or anything else, and looking for her is just a waste of time."

Mo Dou didn't respond, Tian Mi didn't refute his words, or ask him further, the whole car went back to the Public Security Bureau quietly.

A full week has passed since Chu Han was killed. This time, the murderer did not seem to take the initiative to disclose the case to the media. The outside world knew little about Chu Han, the second deceased after Jiang Yujing, so After half a month, even though Jiang Yujing's death was very sensational at first in City C, and the Public Security Bureau had squatted at the gates of reporters who wanted first-hand news for several days, now as time goes by, information is available. Due to the lack of social security, the attention of reporters has gradually shifted from this incident to other social breaking news.

This was expected by the criminal police. After all, in addition to investigating cases, the pursuit of timeliness was also the same for reporters following the news.

A fresh life can only be exchanged for a short period of shock, and then the citizens will still live their own lives. As long as disasters and bad luck do not fall on themselves or their relatives and friends, no one will Take other people's sufferings to heart and always care about them.

The reporter's enthusiasm for Jiang Yujing's case subsided, allowing the criminal police to breathe a little sigh of relief, and also allowed them to avoid being chased and intercepted by cameras and cameras when they brought Tan Lin back to the Public Security Bureau, and to avoid giving Tan Lin a hand before the investigation was clear. Lin personally brought too much pressure and bad influence from public opinion.

After the pressure of public opinion brought by the media eased a bit, Tian Mi couldn't help but have a question in her heart: Jiang Yujing's case has caused an uproar in City C, and under the distorted reports and exaggerations of a certain newspaper, the The police pushed to the cusp. Since the purpose of the murderer's crime was to provoke the police, why didn't he take advantage of the victory to pursue and push Chu Han's matter to the media like the previous one?
Did he change his tactics?Or was it because other things interfered that he had no time to plan the second round of "media offensive"?
The emergence of this question made her focus on Tan Lin again.

After Tan Lin was brought to the serious crime team, he remained silent and did not say a word, but his mental state gradually stabilized, without the initial panic that could not be concealed.

"It seems that he has already established a psychological defense line and adjusted his emotions. When he starts talking later, he may inevitably start to circle around." Before Tian Mi started communicating with Tan Lin, she was quite worried to Lu Xiangdong. Said, "You have to help me keep an eye on him for a while!"

Unexpectedly, Lu Xiangdong, who always had no objection to this, shook his head this time.

"It's impossible for me to investigate cases with you all the time. In addition to accumulating experience, there are some skills that you need to master yourself." He said to Tian Mi, "I want you to try it yourself later."

When he said this, Tian Mi couldn't help but feel nervous.

Seeing her tense body, Lu Xiangdong almost couldn't help showing a smile.

"Don't be nervous. According to my visual inspection, Tan Lin is not a master at hiding emotions. Just observe carefully. I will also watch from the side. Besides, I can give you a hint." He said to Tian Mi .

"What hint?"

"The eyes are the windows to the soul."

Remembering Lu Xiangdong's somewhat inexplicable reminder, Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong sat in front of Tan Lin together.

Tan Lin sat there expressionless, showing no expression when Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong approached.

"Tan Lin, right?" Tian Mi asked, and after the other party nodded in response, she waved in front of Tan Lin the ID card that had his photo on it but showed the name "Zhang Xingshun" that she found when she found Tan Lin, " What is happening?"

"I bought it," Tan Lin replied dully, only his lips twitched slightly on his whole face, and his tone was not obvious. "I was being chased for debts, and I was afraid of being found, so I dare not use my own."

"Is it because you are hiding out because you are afraid of people chasing your debts?"

"Then what else do you think is the reason?" Tan Lin asked Tian Mi in a flat tone.

"You owe a lot, right? I heard from your company's employees that you didn't even pay their salaries on time? If so, your company might not be able to survive, right?"

After hearing Tian Mi's words, Tan Lin didn't say a word, but blinked his eyes quickly twice.

"Your wife has returned to her mother's house? Where's the son?" Tian Mi asked again.

"I went with my wife, isn't it summer vacation?" Tan Lin replied.

"Do you know Chu Han?"

Hearing Tian Mi mention the name Chu Han, Tan Lin blinked his eyes twice quickly, and then nodded his head lightly as an answer.

His subtle movements were noticed by Tian Mi, and she kept Lu Xiangdong's reminder in mind, so she secretly analyzed the situation in front of her, and continued to ask about the daily operation of Tan Lin's small company. Then he changed the subject and suddenly asked: "Chu Han had a cooperative relationship with you before, right?"

Tan Lin's eyes blinked nervously again, and he nodded.

These successive blinks, combined with the knowledge she had learned from Lu Xiangdong, gradually made the answer in Tian Mi's heart clear. What she needed now was nothing more than further confirmation.

[Thank you for the pink cast from the not-so-obscene little Mao Shaozi, meh! 】

(End of this chapter)