No Where To Run: Trapped With My Archenemy

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No proof of existence? Are you saying that he also went missing like Song Jia? 

Maybe, maybe not. 

As per the agency, he suddenly disappeared without even taking his salary. 

No matter how busy he was, he would have made sure to get his salary before moving to a new place. 

As we said earlier there is no evidence of his existence, no medical records, call records or anything.

"Are we hitting another dead end?"

"Don't jinx it."

"Where did Hu Geng Xin live? Is it possible for us to search?"

"He lived in the basement of a nearby apartment, and I'm not sure we will find anything useful from there since the landlord has given the house to someone else.

"Still, we should at least try."

"How about we go and search Hu Geng Xin's house in Gui Xiang?"

"It's Gui Xiang you are talking about, we can just go and search there just because we doubt that he is related to  Shu Lili."

"Hmm, that's also a problem. We can't just barge into someone else's house, especially since we are dealing with a murder case and two missing cases. Also, we have to be careful not to gather any attention to the other cases."

"Hmmm. I will talk to Chief Wu and try if we can talk to someone who investigated Song Jia's missing case."

"Are we going to reopen that case, too?"

"If it is necessary, we should do it."

"This case is getting complicated day by day...even I lost the count of people and cases related to this case."

"We investigated the drug deals in Rising Ravens, the enemies of Qin Kai, bullying scandal with that model, now this missing cases...it is nothing but a mess."

"Let's try to look into Hu Geng Xin's contacts in imperial. As per what we have gathered about him, he is an introvert with an eccentric personality, so it is pretty difficult for him to find a place to live or work in the city. So there will be someone who helped him."

"Will look into it."

"Can I suggest something, captain?"

"Even if we somehow managed to prove the relationship between Shu Li Li and Hu Geng Xin, I damn sure that they are just pawns in this case. There is someone, a genius perpetrator behind all this."

"Someone who knows how to tangle everything and make himself safe from the mess."

"Do you have anything to say in it?"

"If there is a perpetrator in it, he holds a huge hatred towards Shu Li Li and what will be the reason for it."

"If it was jealousy, then he or she would aim to ruin Shu Li Li's career."

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By the time, they finished discussing, Wan Yi Jun returned with his laptop. 

"It's just a hypothetical situation. Don't waste time searching for Shu Lili's criminal background." Han Ze Min adviced as soon as he saw his team captain setting up a temporary office room for the eagle team in his living room. 

"Yes, it is just a possibility. But we got nothing to lose...even if we waste time, I don't want leave out anything." Wan Yi Jun said as he sat down with Bing Wen who started cross checking the files.

"Captain, I got the reply from Crime records bureau." All of a sudden, Lao Yating informed them as he hold onto his mobile. 

"There aren't any unnatural death or crimes that are related to Shu Lili, but there is a closed man- missing case in the same neighbourhood in which she has been recorded a witness."

"Ask them to forward a report summary to our mail." Wan Yi Jun requested and logged on to the common mail address for the eagle team. 

Within seconds, the notification for the new mail has popped up on the screen and Bing Wen who opened the mail, started to read the summary.

"It happened six years ago, Song Jia, a 19 year old high school student, went missing on her way back home."

Bing Wen stopped reading and looked at Wan Yi Jun whether to read the rest of the document, 

"According to the statement of Shu Li Li, a classmate was the last person who met the victim, it's found that the witness saw miss Song walking in the direction of the east Gui Xiang, towards national highway road. When the witness tried to talk, miss Song shouted at her classmate and told the other to go home before the rain. Since it was about to rain, the witness didn't pay much attention and went home. Since the victim lived with an abusive father and has previously tried to run away from her home, the police department has closed the case as an act of eloping instead of man missing." 

"That's it?" Wan Yi Jun asked in a disappointed tone. 

"Apparently, yes." 

"The cases of rebellious teens leaving their houses were a huge issue back then...and it's a girl too, there is a high chance that she ended up somewhere worse than her own house." Fei Yan sighed heavily, as if he was reciprocating to Wan Yi Jun's disappointment. 

"I told you, it just waste of time." Han Ze Min commented and stood up from his seat, 

However, right at that time Lao Yating's phone  rang in the room, gathering everyone's attention all at once. 

"It is from the  Bureau." He excitedly picked up the call and put it on the speaker mode, 

"Officer Lao, the previous enquiry report showed up when I searched with 'Shu Lili' and 'West Gui Xiang' as keywords. But I just tried looking for any follow up cases regarding the Song Jia's missing and I found that two years ago, some of the hikers found skeletal remains from the Tai Shan mountain area in West Gui Xiang itself."

"Is it hers?" Han Ze Min asked in a hurried voice, as if he couldn't control his urge to know the rest of the report. 

"The department tried to cross check the DNA samples from the man missing cases. Since the skeleton was of a woman in late teens, there was a talk that it was Song Jia. They cross checked Song Jia's DNA with her father's, but it came out negative."

As soon as the inference heard in the room, the anticipated look on everyone's face vanished in a glimpse.

"Since her parents were dead by the time, there wasn't anyone to pressurize the police department to find out the truth, and eventually the local police had to close the case due to lack of evidence and tag the skeletal remains as unidentified." The officer in the other side of the call, concluded the report. 

"Hmmm. Thank you so much, officer." 

"No problem. Should I send the detailed case report, officer Lao?" 

"Yes, please." Wan Yi Jun requested before ending the conversation, 

"Didn't you hear it? It's a dead end. There is no point in dragging an unidentified corpse into this hot mess." Han Ze Min suggested when he heard his captain's resilient order. 

"I too think the same, captain. We already have enough in our plates." Even Lao Yating who was so pumped up to find the truth, discouraged Wan Yi Jun from committing another mistake. 

"They have sent us the detailed report."  Bing Wen who held the laptop pointed out as soon as he saw the notification for a new mail. 

"Let's see if we can gather information about Song Jia and Shu Li Li' s relationship in their school." Wan Yi Jun proposed as he dragged the mouse and began to go through the case report. 

"No offence. But, even in the school uniform, she looks like a law breaker, some sort of delinquent." Han Ze Min commented as soon as he saw the photograph of Song Jia with dyed, unkempt hair and nose and ear piercings.

"From the statements of her classmates and neighbours, she is indeed a delinquent and outlaw." 

Wan Yi Jun said without lifting his eyes from the screen. 

"Good luck finding anything common between a class topper and a delinquent." Han Ze Min casually remarked with a mocking tone. 

"You are searching in the darkness, Yi Jun. Stop wasting everyone's time." 

However, Wan Yi Jun completely ignored him and went ahead reporting his inferences, 

"From the report, it was said that Ji Ya's personality was a bit problematic as she maintained relationships with various men, especially vendors who came to Gui Xiang for buying fishes and all. So people just assumed that she must have eloped with some of them." 

"If she is eloped with someone, there will be some kind of documents to prove that she is alive...like medical records or proof of name change etc etc." Fei Yan shared whatever came up with one of the possibility to support his claim. 

"Does organ traffickers ask for identity documents?" 

A familiar cold voice echoed in the room, interrupting the conversation. 

When the eagle team's line of sight got focused on the tall and slender figure who stood at the corner of the room, they were literally left dumbfounded. 

They completely forgot that there was some one else in the room, listening to their discussion. 

"What did you just say, Xiao Yue?" Han Ze Min smilingly asked the girl, as if he didn't hear her properly. "Organ traffickers in this country?"

"I know it's a bit difficult for some of you to accept it. But you are talking about a missing case that happened in the rural coastal Village, that too six years ago." Ming Yue explained as if she was well versed in this subject. 

"Since she got a questionable personality, everyone just tagged her missing case as simple act of thoughtless eloping... Who cares if she live or die? She is a bad apple in everyone's eyes." 

She paused for a moment and glanced across the curious and surprised faces in the room, only to settle on Wan Yi Jun's sullen face, 

"Apparently, those who were tagged as "bad and evil, by society doesn't deserve any justice from this world were everyone measure good and bad with different scales."