Xu Changning seemed to be extremely sensitive to the words "call the police". When Fang Siyan said he was going to do so, the man's face immediately darkened. He tilted his eyes up and to the left. With his hands spread out on his thighs, he rubbed them back and forth on his pants.
He reached up and touched the tip of his nose. "If we call the police, what if the kidnappers kill the hostage?"
"I trust the police's capabilities. If the hostage is killed, it means there's a mole among the three of us!"
Fang Siyan didn't hold back. He stared straight into Xu Changning's eyes.
Being tall had its advantages. The ferocity in the man's eyes, combined with his burly build, made Xu Changning seem a bit weaker.
"I'll ask you one more time! Did you really not receive any calls?"
Ding Ruola wanted to confirm again. She felt that the kidnappers' target was too specific, as if they were taking revenge on them.
Xu Changning's answer remained the same as before - no.
There was nothing more to ask. The couple had no choice but to leave the Xu family's place.
After they called the police, the police attached great importance to the case and immediately stationed themselves at Xu Siyan's home.
Since the boy lived in an urban village, the homeowner was quite dissatisfied with the presence of the police. Their arrival had reduced the number of tenants in the house by half.
The people living here were all migrant workers in the city. Naturally, they didn't want to get involved with strange people and things.
"We've already found out the last place where Xu Siyan was seen!"
Since the kidnappers hadn't called Ding Ruola, they could only conduct an investigation based on the surveillance cameras.
First, they found the last place where the boy was seen, and then they checked each place one by one.
"See! Right here!"
The police pointed out the person in the surveillance footage to Ding Ruola.
The girl was extremely familiar with the scene in the surveillance. This was the place where she and Xu Siyan had agreed to meet.
She clutched her phone tightly, and her body began to tremble.
On the surveillance footage, the boy was initially standing by the roadside. It seemed as if he suddenly had something urgent to do. He took a few steps forward and walked into the blind spot of the surveillance camera, and then he never appeared again.
The boy's figure didn't appear in the surrounding surveillance cameras either.
Because of the blind spots in the surveillance, the police had no way of determining who had kidnapped Xu Siyan.
Fang Siyan was afraid that something might happen to Ding Ruola, so he kept a close eye on her.
He had to ensure Ding Ruola's safety; otherwise, it would be a great loss!
"This section of the road doesn't allow parking. If they wanted to take someone away, they must have parked the car first and then taken the person!"
Fang Siyan suggested that they could determine the time it took to pass through this surveillance blind spot by the speed of the vehicles when they appeared on the surveillance cameras on both sides.
The vehicles that passed through during that time and matched the description might be the suspect vehicles.
The police quickly identified the suspect vehicle according to Fang Siyan's method, but they found that this license plate had appeared on many different types of vehicles. It was probably a fake - numbered plate.
The surveillance of this vehicle disappeared after it entered a curve.
"Now the leads are broken again!"
The police could only watch the surveillance footage over and over again. They had no idea what to do for the time being.
"The phone is ringing!"
The police immediately recorded the phone number of the incoming call. One of the girls wrote on a whiteboard - Stall for five minutes!
Ding Ruola nodded. She held the phone in one hand and Fang Siyan's hand in the other.
"Hello! Have you prepared the ten million?"
The girl's voice began to tremble with fear. She kept swallowing and licking her lips.
"Yes, it's ready!"
"I advise you not to be smart!"
The police officer who was monitoring the call wrote a few big words on the whiteboard - Personal safety.
"Can I hear Xu Siyan's voice?"
The person timing the call looked at the stopwatch in his hand. They only needed to hold on for another thirty seconds.
Just when everyone present thought they were about to succeed, the phone suddenly hung up.
The only thing they could trace now was this phone number.
Phone numbers were all real - name registered. They were basically registered with personal information. If they could find the owner of this phone number, they might be getting closer to the answer.
Fang Siyan let out a long sigh. He asked the police to continue the investigation, and now he was going to take Ding Ruola home to rest.
Looking at the red - blooded eyes of the girl and her drooping head, he felt heart - ache.
The police didn't want Ding Ruola to leave. If she left, if the kidnappers called again, they wouldn't be able to monitor the call in time, and there would be no one on - site to handle the situation.
They asked the homeowner to arrange for Ding Ruola to rest in the next room.
Fang Siyan had no choice but to squeeze into this small room with Ding Ruola.
Looking at Ding Ruola's current state, his emotions were quite complex.
If he had let Ding Ruola go to the appointment, Xu Siyan wouldn't have been waiting there and given the kidnappers an opportunity.
Ding Ruola wouldn't have to suffer like this. Fang Siyan was deeply self - reproachful.
Because of his self - reproach, he had now lost his basic logical thinking ability.
He overlooked one thing. The kidnapper who chose this time to carry out the kidnapping must have known that Ding Ruola wouldn't go.
So this person was very likely someone from the company.
Ding Ruola rested for a while. As soon as she opened her eyes, her phone rang.
"Follow my instructions! On Highway 314, turn left at the Wuhua Mountain road sign. After you see the two - kilometer road sign, get out of the car and leave. Eleven o'clock tonight. This is your last chance!"
It was eleven o'clock at night. It was one o'clock in the afternoon now. There were still nine hours left.
The problem now was the money. Neither of them had that much money on hand.
Fang Siyan comforted Ding Ruola. He told the girl that he had a way to get Xu Changning to take out the money.
It was wishful thinking.
When Xu Changning heard that he needed to take out this money, his whole expression became very strange.
"Uncle policeman, the kidnappers are asking them for money. I..."
"You're the victim's family member. You have this obligation!"
The police officer showed a look of disgust at the man's attitude. Now anyone could call the police "uncle policeman".
Fang Siyan didn't want to listen to Xu Changning's nonsense with the police. He pulled a police officer aside and asked about the information of the owner of that phone number.
"Hey! The owner of this phone number is a college student!"
A college student? Could it be that he was an accomplice in the crime?
The police told Fang Siyan that although this kidnapping case hadn't been solved, they had caught a telecom fraud gang.
A large part of this gang were telecom industry employees. They had a large number of phone cards registered with other people's information, and then they sold these phone cards at a high price.
There were many people in the market using this kind of phone cards.
"Aren't personal information required when applying for a phone card?"
This touched on Fang Siyan's knowledge blind spot. He found it quite incredible.
The police said that the source of the phone cards of this gang was completely legal.
When freshmen entered college, they would choose to apply for local phone cards. At that time, China United had a promotion. For every phone card applied for, a fixed - data card would be given for free.
The fixed - data card was mainly bound to a cloud - storage company. You didn't need to use your own data when using this software. However, many college students didn't want this card.
This was mainly because the software of the cloud - storage company wasn't a mainstream one.
The extra fixed - data cards had become a tool for crime.
"Alas! Now college students are really the first to be exploited."
The young police officer shook his head helplessly, glanced at Fang Siyan, and then left.