The love apartment begins with entering the police station

Chapter 463: Uneasy Christmas Eve
The next afternoon, the day before Christmas Eve, in the Love Apartment community.

Xiang Yu had just returned from the bar after arranging a Christmas event when he saw several elderly men with anxious expressions shouting around near the lawn in the small square of the community.

In the distance there are Meijia and Teacher Zeng.

"Woof woof, where are you? Come out here, you little furry kid!"

Xiang Yu was closer and could hear their shouts clearly.

Xiang Yu asked the auntie who was closest to him, "Auntie Wang, is your dog lost?"

Wangwang is a small bulldog raised by Aunt Huang. Xiang Yu has played with it occasionally. It is a very interesting dog and one of Cai Cai's younger brothers.

Aunt Wang said anxiously, "I took my dog ​​out this afternoon. He ran around twice and I didn't see him anymore. He hasn't come back yet. Usually he comes back on time for dinner. I'm so worried. Where is he?"

Several other old men and women also spoke up, saying that their pets had mysteriously disappeared today.

Xiang Yu walked over to Teacher Zeng and shouted, "What's going on now? Why are everyone out looking for the dog?"

Teacher Zeng explained with a depressed look on her face: "The neighborhood committee was supposed to deal with the problem of cats and dogs in the community recently, especially some unregistered pets, which needed to apply for certificates and health certificates, and then deal with the problem of stray cats and dogs in the community. As a result, before the rectification activities started, the dogs disappeared en masse."

Mika wiped the sweat from her head and cried, "Don't say so much, Caicai is gone too."

Xiang Yu's heart suddenly tightened. Although Cai Cai was just a furry child with a weak presence, she was still a member of the apartment after all. You have to look at the owner before beating the dog!

Xiang Yu quickly asked other uncles and aunts, and they said the dog was lost in the afternoon and has not returned yet.

"Teacher Zeng, have you checked the surveillance?"

Xiang Yu felt something was not right. They had all lost their dogs together, but it didn’t look like the dog was lost.

Teacher Zeng quickly said, "I've checked the surveillance. There's no surveillance near the lawn, but I've checked the surveillance at the entrance of the community, and I didn't see the dog coming in or out."

Generally speaking, the furry children in the community play on the lawns of the small square park in the community and basically do not run out of the community.

Teacher Zeng thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "Maybe it's because the neighborhood committee wants to deal with the problem of stray cats and dogs, so someone came to clean up in advance."

Xiang Yu shook his head and said, "Teacher Zeng, you're overthinking it. Didn't you notice that the ones missing were dogs? I feel like Cai Cai was probably taken away by a dog thief."

If only one dog didn't come back, it could be that it ran out to play outside the community and got lost. But if several dogs didn't come back, it's possible that a dog thief stole the dogs.

"What should we do now? Is it possible that someone wants to kidnap Cai Cai?"

Meijia suddenly became anxious. Not to mention that Cai Cai still earned money for the family every month, just in terms of feelings, Cai Cai was also an inseparable existence.

Meijia seriously suspected that the kidnappers wanted to blackmail her, after all, Caicai could make money.

Xiang Yu said softly: "Don't worry, others don't know that Cai Cai is an actor dog, and the TV series hasn't been broadcast yet."

Meijia cried and complained, "I'm just worried that they don't know that Caicai is a rich dog. What if they want to eat dog meat?"

Xiang Yu was stunned for a moment. Meijia's logic was actually quite organized. She just made simple things complicated.

Teacher Zeng comforted her weakly, "Cai Cai is so smart, how could she be captured? Meijia, don't worry too much."

An old man retorted: "It's impossible that it was stolen by dog ​​thieves. Dog thieves usually steal in the early morning. How dare they steal in broad daylight!"

Xiang Yu sighed and explained, "At night, your dogs will be locked up at home, so they can't steal even if they want to. If they want to steal, they can only do it during the day."

This is not the case in sparsely populated rural areas, where dogs are tied outside the door or in the yard. Even in rural areas, there are many dog ​​thefts during the day. In remote areas of the community, dog thieves only need to shoot them with anesthetic needles, then put them in bags and put them on tricycles or vans. No one knows what is in the sacks.

"Oh my, my dog ​​was also stolen. Who was struck by lightning? He was struck to death as soon as he went out. Why did you steal my dog?"

At this time, the old men and women were extremely anxious, but there was nothing they could do. They couldn't find the dog by themselves, and calling the police to find the dog was actually not a very reliable thing to do. It's not that they shouldn't call the police, but the police didn't have a good way to deal with this kind of thing. The most they could do was to help check the surveillance.

So, the old men and women transferred the pressure to Teacher Zeng, because Teacher Zeng was the chairman of the apartment residents' committee.

The residents’ committee must find a way to give an explanation to the elderly men and women.

Leaving Teacher Zeng to deal with the elderly, Xiang Yu said to the listless Mei Jia, "I remember the dog tag you bought for Cai Cai online last time had a location on it, didn't it?"

Meijia was immediately excited when she heard this: "Yes, there is a positioning, there is a positioning."

Meijia took out her phone and operated it for a while. Three minutes later, Meijia held the phone and said happily: "I found the location of the dog tag. It's just outside the community."

Having said that, Mei Jia pulled Xiang Yu out.

When he arrived at the location shown on the phone, Xiang Yu did not find any signs of a dog, but only found a discarded dog tag in a nearby open space. In this era, there were no advanced electronic dog tags like those in later generations. Meijia bought an ordinary dog ​​tag online, which contained a SIM card, so that the location could be determined through mobile phone positioning. Normally, it would be connected through Bluetooth and an alarm would be triggered when it exceeded 50 meters. However, the dog tag was thrown away, so the positioning naturally did not work.

"It was stolen after all."

Mika's eyes were red and tears began to well up.

Xiang Yu sighed and said softly, "This area is so small. If it were here, it would have been found long ago. Let's go back to the apartment and inform everyone. There is strength in numbers. Maybe we can find a solution."

Hearing this, Meijia nodded disappointedly.

Xiang Yu comforted her as they walked: "Don't worry too much. Cai Cai was found last time she was lost, and she will be found this time too."

"Caica is lost."

When Mei Jia's sobbing voice came from the phone, Zi Qiao immediately dropped everything he was doing and rushed back.

3601 living room.

Ziqiao patted the back of Meijia's hand considerately, comforting Meijia who was about to cry.

Yifei yelled angrily, "Don't let me know who did it, or I'll beat him to death."

Xiang Yu had basically sorted out his thoughts at this moment, and asked Meijia: "Meijia, what happened this afternoon?"

"It's all my fault. If I hadn't let go of the leash, Cai Cai wouldn't have been lost."

Meijia couldn't hold it in any longer, even though no one blamed her, she couldn't bear it any longer.

Xiang Yu comforted her softly, "It's okay, it's not your fault, Meijia, tell us in detail what happened before Cai Cai went missing."

Ziqiao put his arm around Meijia's shoulders and said gently, "It's okay. Caicai is so smart. Everything will be fine this time."

Meijia choked up a little and said, "Today, Caicai and I came back from the crew early, so I thought about taking him to play in the community. I thought Caicai wouldn't bite people, and it would be fine in the community, so I let go of the leash."

Xiang Yu was speechless. Meijia had no resistance to all kinds of small animals, and she used to be a veterinary assistant in a pet hospital, so she would occasionally untie Caicai's leash and let him play freely for a while.

I think after this, Meijia will remember to hold the dog leash and always lead her dog when going out.

Xiang Yu urged, "What happened next? Was there anything different? Like hearing Cai Cai's cry or something? Or meeting some strangers?"

Meijia thought about it and said uncertainly: "I don't remember clearly. I went to the store to buy a sausage for Caicai, but she was nowhere to be found. But I seemed to hear a dog barking at that time. I didn't pay attention to strangers."

Xiang Yu lowered his head and began to think.

Nowadays, dog thieves usually have three people working together. One person is responsible for driving the car without turning off the engine. If they encounter a stranger or something seems wrong, they will immediately drive away. One person sits in the back seat and is responsible for catching the dog. Another person will walk 100 to 200 meters in front of the car. Because they are far away, most people will not think that he is a dog thief. As long as he finds a dog, he will shoot the dog with a poison needle or an anesthetic needle. Even the most ferocious dog will fall to the ground after being shot by the needle in a few minutes. At this time, a car will drive over and the three people will leave.

"After I bought some sausages, I didn't see it and I started to panic. I went to the place where it often played and called it, but it still didn't come running over."

As Meijia was talking, she couldn't stop her tears anymore and they fell down in big drops.

Zhang Wei couldn't help but whispered, "I hope Cai Cai won't be sold to a dog meat shop."

Xiang Yu sighed and explained, "Not so fast. Dog thieves usually sell the stolen dogs to dog dealers, who then sell them to restaurants."

Restaurants and hotels have their own rules for collecting dogs. They do not collect dogs directly from dog thieves, but from dog dealers. Dog thieves collect dogs stolen from various places and then sell them to dog dealers.

Because nowadays, when restaurants and hotels collect dogs, most of them require them to be collected alive to avoid food poisoning or other problems. If the dog is found early, Cai Cai should be able to save its life. However, other situations cannot be ruled out. Dog thieves have no morals and some use poison to poison dogs, and then sell poisonous dog meat on the market.

What’s worse is that some people will poison your dog to death first, then come to buy the dog at a low price the next day, and then sell it to an unscrupulous dog meat restaurant at a high price.

Zhang Wei frowned and said seriously, "So many dogs were thrown away at the same time. This is an organized and premeditated crime."

Yifei was walking back and forth, while Guan Gu and Youyou were comforting Meijia in a low voice.

At this time, Teacher Zeng sent a message saying that the residents in the community had completed the registration and a total of eight dogs had been lost in the community.

Xiang Yu immediately perked up and began to carefully analyze the registration form sent by Teacher Zeng.

Aunt Wang's dog is a small, agile dog with high alertness. It is impossible for ordinary people to catch it. It seems that tools must be used.

Uncle Wu’s dog Chong Chong is an Alaskan, a large dog.

Dongdong from Aunt Zhou’s family is a Labrador. He is very friendly and a large dog.

(End of this chapter)