I Get A Random New Occupation Every Week

Chapter 3921: Chapter 3909: Suspect

The meeting room was unusually quiet, and Lin Yi’s analysis had plunged them into deep thought.

"I have a counterargument for you." Ma Wenliang said seriously:

"In terms of distance, Xinyang Mall is quite close to Chunxi Second Primary School. And little kids aren’t very sensitive to prices, nor do they compare shops or haggle. Choosing Xinyang Mall makes sense."

"No, that’s not right!" Lin Yi replied:

"This set of rules might apply to other children, but not to Sun Dandan."

"Not apply?"

"There’s a detail here: yesterday was Monday!"

"Monday?"

This perspective filled everyone with confusion, unclear about what Lin Yi meant.

"Sun Dandan is in the second grade of primary school, and Chunxi Second Primary School is just an ordinary school with no competitive study environment. Their weekends are true weekends. Li Xiaoping can’t afford to enroll her in tutoring or special skills classes, which means her weekends are spent studying at home. Li Xiaoping is out working to earn money, so she’s not at home on weekends either. For her, going out to buy things on the weekend is the best choice, because her mother wouldn’t know what she did. After buying things and hiding the gifts, giving them to Li Xiaoping on Monday would be the perfect plan, forming a logical closed loop. Moreover..."

Lin Yi paused, then continued:

"If she bought them on Friday, her return home would inevitably be delayed, and Li Xiaoping would definitely notice. This would reveal the gift-buying, and the surprise would be lost. So, going out to buy things on the weekend is the most reasonable, even if she’s just a child."

Everyone fell silent again, feeling that Lin Yi’s analysis had pointed them in a new direction for thought.

Realizing that their previous analysis might have been all wrong!

"So you think that Sun Dandan went to Xinyang Mall with another purpose in mind."

Lin Yi propped his head up with one hand, managing the fast-forward and rewind.

"Look, after arriving at Xinyang Mall, she turned her head many times, looking in other directions, clearly searching for something."

"I understand what you’re saying; you mean someone called her to Xinyang Square!" Ma Wenliang said.

"Correct, there’s a strong possibility of that!" Lin Yi replied.

"I heard from Li Xiaoping that she’s a migrant worker. Besides her parents, she probably doesn’t have any relatives here. So the people who interact with her might be her neighbors. We should start from there and see who contacted her."

"Neighbors?" Zhou Li was a bit confused.

"A child like Sun Dandan surely has a narrow social circle, knowing only classmates and neighbors. Her classmates go to and from school with her, so they couldn’t have arranged to meet her at Xinyang Mall. So, a child from a neighbor’s family is the most likely possibility."

Zhou Li nodded, understanding Lin Yi’s meaning.

"I think we should first bring in her parents to inquire about whom Sun Dandan usually plays with, which might give us some clues." Lin Yi said:

"Moreover, we should ask the police station near Beishui Road if any other children have gone missing. If they have, we can investigate the cases concurrently."

"What if they haven’t?" Zhou Li asked.

"Then it’s another possibility, it’s not one of Sun Dandan’s friends who called her to Xinyang Mall, but someone who abducted her!"

"I think we can rule out the first possibility. We’ve already done a field visit and didn’t hear of any missing children nearby." Ma Wenliang said.

"Then it’s the second possibility. Start investigating from familiar people around Sun Dandan; we should uncover some clues." Lin Yi added:

"First bring her parents to learn about this aspect."

"Li Xiaoping is divorced, so we can only bring her in now." Chen Fangjin said.

"Divorced? Why did they divorce?"

"Drinking, gambling, domestic violence."

"The divorce trifecta is all there. Now the child is missing, has he come to find the child?"

"He’s also searching."

"Then bring them both in to talk about this. This is all we can do for now."

"Hmm."

Ma Wenliang nodded, delegated the task, and the meeting entered a recess stage.

"Young man, you’re incredible. A journalist who can analyze so thoroughly, it’s not simple." Ma Wenliang praised.

"I just watch a lot of crime dramas, all just random talk. As long as it’s useful to you."

"It’s more than just useful." Ma Wenliang laughed:

"Even though you’re an outsider, the viewpoints you’ve presented are indeed very helpful and not simple. Maybe we’ll find clues very soon."

"Much appreciated."

Everyone was relatively relaxed, chatting about their respective fields, gaining knowledge from each other.

In less than an hour, Sun Dandan’s parents had arrived.

Li Xiaoping still looked the same, with clothes and hair that seemed unwashed for days, eyes vacant as if soulless.

In contrast, Sun Jiantao, Sun Dandan’s father, looked much better, but still quite haggard.

"We’d like to know if you’ve kept in contact with relatives from your hometown since coming to Zhong Hai."

Ma Wenliang’s demeanor was completely different from the meeting, much more serious.

"Hardly any. Our family is poor, and people in the village are snobbish, look down on us, and don’t associate with us." Li Xiaoping said.

Ma Wenliang raised his head, glanced at Sun Jiantao, "No money at home and yet you gamble and drink, what are you thinking? A man doesn’t even have this bit of ambition?"

"Yes, yes, you’re right. I’ll change, I definitely will." Sun Jiantao kept his head down, not daring to look at Ma Wenliang.

"None of your relatives at home have a good relationship with the child?"

"Just my parents, no one else. My daughter doesn’t like dealing with those people." Li Xiaoping wiped her tears.

Lin Yi sat beside, listening carefully.

If that’s the case, then the person capable of calling Sun Dandan away might be someone else.

The questioning of the two lasted for over half an hour, since their social circle was truly very small, with little to ask.

Now that the possibility of relatives is ruled out, we need to focus on the surrounding neighbors and the teachers at school.

"What does Sun Jiantao do, wearing a Tissot watch?" Lin Yi asked casually.

"Seems like he’s in engineering." Ma Wenliang replied.

"That’s a big trade, but he doesn’t seem the type."

"It’s not civil engineering; it’s more like installing surveillance, like installing surveillance systems for large malls and schools."

"Got it."

Lin Yi muttered under his breath.

The next second, Lin Yi’s expression changed as if he thought of something.

"This Sun Jiantao might be a suspect!"

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