Chapter 419 Can't afford it? I made it!

The body was found in the northwest outskirts of Beijing. It took several hours to drive there, and if you drove any further, you could have reached the county town. By the time Bai Nuo and the others arrived, it was already afternoon.

The scene where the boy's body was found has been cordoned off by the police. Seven or eight young men in police uniforms are searching around with shovels in hand.

Bai Nuo squatted in the ditch where the body was found, her brows furrowed and her small face covered in frost.

“There isn’t even a mouse hole around here.” Yan Qingyun walked over, wiping the sweat from his forehead. Despite the freezing weather, he had managed to break out in a sweat.

"Is there a map around here?" Bai Nuo stood up and scanned the surroundings with her eyes.

She hadn't studied criminal investigation, but in her previous life she had taken on several assassination missions, the first thing of which was to find the person according to the employer's requirements.

In this apocalyptic world, all the surveillance equipment on the road has long since failed, and even if it is reinstalled, it will be destroyed by flying mutant beasts. Finding people can only rely on manpower and brainpower.

She doesn't know how to solve cases, but she does have some experience in finding people.

First, you need to determine the location and look for any possible clues or traces along the way.

“Yes, we found a fellow villager from a nearby production team yesterday. He travels all year round in the mountains and delivers goods to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the nearby county. He is very familiar with this area and drew a very detailed map.” Yan Qingyun said as he took out a notebook from his bag and pulled out a piece of paper from inside.

Most of the maps currently available on the market are detailed maps of a few major cities. There are no detailed maps of small towns and production teams in the surrounding areas, so people can only rely on local villagers familiar with the environment to help them find their way.

Bai Nuo's lottery system allows her to download detailed maps of the surrounding area, but she has never been here before and can't find a suitable excuse to explain that she knows the surrounding terrain.

Fortunately, most of her colleagues were reliable. Bai Nuo looked at the simple handwritten map in her hand, actually comparing it with the detailed map in her mind.

The map drawn by the mountain runner that Yan Qingyun found was very simple, only indicating which direction led to which county and which production team.

But the map in Bai Nuo's mind could even detail the size of the nearby counties, the population of the production teams, where there were ditches nearby, and which places in the county had sewers.

Bai Nuo followed the ditch where the body was found on the map and eventually found a target.

"Captain Qiu!" Bai Nuo quickly walked towards Qiu Jun with a map in hand, pointing at the map and saying, "I've observed that if you follow this river upstream, you'll reach Pingchang County. It's a large county town with convenient transportation. There are also many small towns and production teams below it, so it shouldn't be difficult to hide people there."

Qiu Jun solemnly accepted the simple map from Bai Nuo. He also had a copy of this map and had initially had his doubts, but...

“I’ve also had my doubts about what you’re talking about, but according to the information provided by the local police station, the families whose children went missing are not exactly close to Pingchang County. There are two big mountains and a small county town in between. Even if they wanted to hide their children, would they really go to such great lengths to travel so far?”

Bai Nuo raised an eyebrow, stretched out his finger and drew a simple route on the map, then said, "Captain, you think so too. When I first saw this map, I thought so too. Do you think those people deliberately chose such an unlikely place because they thought this point could mislead me?"

Moreover, there is another important point: this small county town is not big, and there are probably only one or two police stations. It is also uncertain whether there is an armed team. It is easy to cross over openly. In addition, no one will pay attention to this mountain road, making the process of transporting children safer and more secretive.

Besides, if a child goes missing, the family will definitely search everywhere, especially the children from those production teams. In most rural areas, if a child goes missing, half the village will come out to search. If we hide the child nearby, the risk of exposure is greater. It's better to move the child to a place that is hard to think of as soon as possible, and..."

Bai Nuo turned around and looked only at the small river, pointing northwest along the river: "Yan Qingyun asked that mountain runner, and this small river stops flowing upstream and goes straight to a sewer. Do you think the child's body might have been washed out of the sewer? There was quite a bit of rain a few days ago."

It rained a few days ago!

Qiu Jun said the last sentence almost simultaneously with Bai Nuo, his tone more excited, and his gaze sharp as he looked at Bai Nuo.

"And... there are definitely rats in the sewers!"

The sewer led directly to three nearby counties and towns. The reason we didn't suspect Pingchang County was because it was further away, and it wouldn't have been easy for the body to be transported there.

But what if there's a downpour?

Moreover, the child's body was smaller and lighter!

Having reached this conclusion, Qiu Jun no longer hesitated and immediately ordered everyone to get into the car.

"Yan Qingyun, take three people and get in the car with us. The rest of you stay here and wait."

"yes!"

The two cars drove quickly along the ditch, one after the other. The road here was not as good as the road in the city. Fortunately, Bai Nuo's car had been modified and the shock absorption system could handle the road conditions. However, in order to keep up with the old, dilapidated car behind them, which made noise everywhere except for its horn, Chen Hui kept driving slowly.

"Your car... is really nice!" Having gotten used to the team's old, beat-up car, Qiu Jun was always envious of Bai Nuo's car.

Bai Nuo glanced at the captain, then curled his lips speechlessly: "Alright, stop being envious. After I start school, I'll have more time to go back to the bureau. I'll give you a materials list then, and you can ask the director to find connections at the machinery factory to buy parts. I'll modify that old, beat-up car."

Otherwise, if one day when you're chasing a criminal suspect in your car, you can't even catch up with their bicycle, and if that gets out, you'll be embarrassed along with them.

"real!"

Qiu Jun leaned against the back of the passenger seat, staring longingly at Bai Nuo.

Although the captain is not bad-looking, the kind of guy who could easily win a wife if released, after the ordeal of this case, making that expression is just... an eyesore.

Bai Nuo frowned, disdainfully pushed the head back with a finger, and nodded quickly: "Really, really, when have I ever lied to you?"

At this point, Qiu Jun's face immediately fell, and he looked at Bai Nuo expressionlessly: "Don't try to fool me! Half of last month's salary was swindled away by you little brats!"

"Ahem, anyway, I'm not kidding you!" Bai Nuo turned her head away to look out the window, embarrassed, and refused to continue the conversation.

However, before Qiu Jun could even laugh, he suddenly thought of an important question.

"What about the engine? Our bureau is short of funds and simply can't afford to buy an N1 engine."

Bai Nuo sighed and looked at his captain speechlessly: "Boss, when I joined the company, didn't the director tell you what I had done before? I was the one who created N1."