Chapter 279 Going deeper
Chapter 279 Going deeper
Liu Shun's voice was choked, his eyes were red, and he couldn't say a word.
After a while, Liu Shun calmed down a lot and continued, "Ruyan said she had to go to work that day. She usually goes home at 12 o'clock at night."
"That night, after 1 a.m., she still hadn't returned. Her mother and I were worried something had happened to her, so we called her, but no one answered."
"Her mother was worried, so she asked me to go to the Paradise on Earth to look for her. But they told me that Ruyan hadn't even gone to work."
"Ruyan has been obedient since she was young and would never lie to us. She said she was going to work and she definitely went to work. But I was anxious to find Ruyan at the time, so I didn't argue with them. I just kept looking for her on the road."
"But I walked back and forth three times from my home to Paradise on Earth, but couldn't find Ruyan. I was worried that something had happened to her, so I went to the police station to report it. However, the police refused to accept the case, saying that a missing person can only file a case if they have been missing for more than 48 hours."
"If the police had filed a case, perhaps Ruyan wouldn't have died!"
Liu Shun said with red eyes and a painful expression.
Zhang Hao did not respond to Liu Shun because it was a clear regulation that a case could only be filed after a person had been missing for 48 hours. He had not done anything wrong when he received the call. People were just following the rules and regulations. He couldn't just agree with Liu Shun just because he was a victim.
After venting his anger, Liu Shun continued, "The police didn't accept the case. His mother and I could only search aimlessly for Ruyan. We even searched all the places she frequented, but still found nothing. We finally made it 48 hours and went to the police station to report the case. Although a case was filed, it was just a formality. They didn't really look for her at all."
Zhang Hao was not surprised at all. The police generally would not take cases like missing persons too seriously. After all, Liu Ruyan was an adult, and not answering the phone did not necessarily mean that she had been murdered.
This kind of example often happens in the police station. An adolescent girl goes missing, her parents report the case, and after a lot of time and effort, they find her. It turns out that she is not missing at all, but her parents are against the girl being with the boy, so the girl rebelled and eloped with the boy.
The police who received the call at the time probably had the same idea, thinking that Liu Ruyan had eloped with someone, so they didn't take it seriously.
"We knew the police were no match for us, so we mobilized all our relatives to search. Her mother and I even went to the Paradise on Earth several times, but we were always kicked out. Three days later, we received the devastating news that Ruyan had been murdered."
"I suspect Ruyan was harmed by Paradise on Earth. I went to their house to ask for an explanation, but they said that since Ruyan had worked there for a few days, they would give us 100,000 yuan as a consolation."
"I didn't ask for their money and asked them to return my life like smoke. As a result, they beat me up."
"I went there a few more times, but they beat me out every time. They must have killed my daughter!"
Zhang Hao remained silent. The first thing he had to confirm was whether Liu Ruyan had gone to work at the Paradise on Earth on the day the accident happened.
However, there was no mention of this in the file Meng Qingrui gave him, so he asked: "Tell me first, are you sure your daughter really went there that day?"
Liu Shun said firmly, "I definitely went."
"Then can anyone prove it?" Zhang Hao asked.
Liu Shun replied: "Yes."
"Who?"
"My daughter's classmate Bi Jiayan is a good friend of Ruyan. It was she who introduced Ruyan to work as a summer intern in Paradise on Earth," said Liu Shun.
"After your daughter got into trouble, did she show up again?" Zhang Hao asked.
"When she found out about the accident, she came and cried very sadly. Later I heard that she went to college, and there was no news about her since then," said Liu Shun.
"Okay, big brother, thank you for your cooperation. I have no problem for now. If I need anything again, I will come back to ask you." Zhang Hao said.
Liu Shun looked at Zhang Hao expectantly: "You will definitely catch the murderer, right?"
Liu Shun and others have forgotten, or have buried this matter deep in their hearts and never want to think about it again in their lives.
Now that he had spoken it out loud, the hope of revenge for his daughter rose in his heart once again, so Zhang Hao nodded seriously and said, "Yes, I will definitely catch the murderer and give your daughter justice."
"Thank you!" Liu Shun said.
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Zhang Hao left with Hong Ziyi and Wei Zhengxian. After getting in the car, Zhang Hao took out his phone and called Meng Qingrui, saying, "Brother Meng, can you help me find out where a girl named Bi Jiayan lives now? Has she left Xiaxin City?"
When Meng Qingrui heard the name, he knew who Zhang Hao was talking about and said directly: "You want to start with this girl and want to know whether Liu Ruyan went to work?"
"Correct."
"I thought about this problem at the beginning and wanted to start from this aspect, so I talked to her, but she said that she was sick that day and did not go to work. I also checked the video footage of the Paradise on Earth that day, but it turned out that the camera of the Paradise on Earth was broken that day, and I found nothing." Meng Qingrui sighed.
"Is it such a coincidence that the camera broke?" Zhang Hao questioned.
"Actually, I also find it strange, but there is no evidence. Everyone else says they have never seen Liu Ruyan. Without evidence, there is no way to torture her to extract a confession, so in the end, it can only be left unresolved." Meng Qingrui said helplessly.
Zhang Hao said: "Okay, then you can help me check it out first. I still want to try and see if I can get any information from Bi Jiayan."
"Okay, wait a few minutes." Meng Qingrui said.
He then hung up the phone. About five minutes later, Meng Qingrui called back.
Meng Qingrui said, "I found out that Bi Jiayan went to college after Liu Ruyan's incident. There was nothing special about her four years there. The only strange thing was that Liu Ruyan had a poor family background since childhood, so her academic performance was very poor. However, she performed exceptionally well in the college entrance examination and was admitted to a second-tier university."
"But in my senior year, I was admitted to the graduate school of education at Han University."
Zhang Hao frowned slightly when he heard this. Wuhan University is a 985 university. It is not easy to get into this graduate school.
Even if Bi Jiayan worked hard during her four years in college, it would be basically impossible for her to be admitted as a graduate student at Honam University. There must be something wrong here.
So he said, "Where is Bi Jiayan now?"
"I just called her pretending to be a community worker. It's summer vacation now, and she's at home. Her home address is No. XX, XX Road!"
"Okay, Brother Meng!"
After Zhang Hao hung up the phone, he directly told Wei Zhengxian the address and asked him to drive to Bi Jiayan's home.
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