"Bastard, of course it wouldn't be discovered so easily, otherwise the things this guy did would have been found by the police long ago."
As he and I were discussing, Gao Mingqiang pushed a wheelchair in. "Kou Jingyi's wife is here!"
"Oh?" I hadn't intended to see her, but since she was here and I had nothing else to do, I decided to have others stay in the information department while I went to the reception room myself.
When I saw this woman, she grabbed my hand with some excitement and said, "Officer, do you have any news about Kou Jingyi?"
"Uh, actually, that shouldn't be him. Isn't he already dead?"
"No, Officer, the situation is a bit different. We didn't find his body at all at the time!"
"What? Wasn't he sick and died?"
"Yes, but something strange happened at the hospital. After he passed away, wasn't he sent to the morgue? But the next morning, the nurse said his body was gone. Isn't that strange?"
"The body is gone?" I was a bit surprised by the woman in front of me. How could a body disappear? Unless someone took him, or Kou Jingyi was never dead and was just trying to deceive everyone.
I shared my thoughts with her, and she nodded vigorously, tears in her eyes. She seemed to miss her husband terribly and had been haunted by this matter all these years. It was like a nightmare; as long as Kou Jingyi wasn't found, it would continue to torment her.
"If that's the case, Officer He, you must help me find Kou Jingyi. I don't know how many times I've missed him over the years. He appears in almost all my dreams."
I could see that this woman had deep feelings for her husband. If it had been proven that Kou Jingyi had died, it might have brought her relief. But now that Kou Jingyi might still be alive, she felt a glimmer of hope.
However, when I checked the records, I found that Kou Jingyi had passed away. That's how the neighborhood committee had recorded it. This made me look at the woman with curiosity. After she explained, she told me, "Before he disappeared, we had already processed the death certificate. But when we went to claim the body, we learned that he was missing, which is why it was recorded that way."
Although such situations are rare for women, they are not impossible. After clarifying this, I felt a little relieved. I comforted her and told her that I would notify her immediately if Kou Jingyi was found. This calmed her down a bit. I arranged for a female officer to take down some information and then sent her away for the time being.
Theoretically, our attention could now be focused on Kou Jingyi, but when I returned to the information department, there was still no news. Seeing everyone engrossed in their screens, I felt a little down and made a phone call.
About 30 minutes later, the sound of takeout delivery reached the office of the Punishment Team. Everyone knew there was food and immediately went to get it. The delivery person happened to be quite good-looking, and He Xin joked with him. While eating, Gao Mingqiang, as usual, took care of several portions himself. Although his personality had become much calmer after that incident, he seemed to be the same when it came to food, unable to control his appetite. In less than 20 minutes, there were many empty boxes left on the table.
Fortunately, I knew he ate a lot, so I ordered a few extra portions. Now that everyone was full and revived, this was delicious food from the renowned Xie Ji Restaurant in our Guangming City. Even I still had a craving for their sweet and sour pork ribs.
With renewed morale, everyone attacked their computers as if they had been injected with energy, staring intently at the screens. After a while, Yuan Hezhe said, "The Sky Eye system is really useful. I scanned the road sections from the auction center to the nearby areas several times and finally found where Kou Jingyi disappeared last. Of course, some information provided by the traffic management office was also helpful. Look, he should have been living in Haoxin Apartment!"
"From here, it looks like he often appeared in this area. Although we don't know the specific unit, we can ask the landlord!" Gao Mingqiang said.
Before we set off, He Xin had already found a lot of information about the apartment, including when it was built. When we arrived downstairs, we dialed the number on a wall. A middle-aged man answered the phone and said, "Hello? Are you here to rent a place?"
"No, we are police officers. We want to inquire about someone!"
Five minutes later, the landlord came over. When he learned we were looking for Kou Jingyi, he seemed to recall the person. He said he lived in apartment 603 upstairs. He took the key and led us to the elevator.
This time, Xiahou and Liu Yuning accompanied me. When we reached the floor, the landlord was about to knock on the door as usual, but after I whispered a few words in his ear, he became clever. "Hello, Mr. Kou, I'm the landlord. I'm here to check the gas equipment."
"Gas? Isn't that usually not an issue?"
"No, Mr. Kou, the fire department is inspecting recently, and we need to be thorough. Please, thank you!"
"Sigh, alright!" A lazy male voice came from inside the apartment. It sounded like the guy was still asleep.
The moment he opened the door and saw the people standing outside, his face twitched. He tried to close the door as quickly as possible, but Xiahou, who rushed in, pressed him against the wall!
"What are you doing? Who are you people? Mr. Landlord! What's going on? Help!" Kou Jingyi's chin was pressed against the wall, his limbs struggling, and his mouth babbling incoherently.
"Sorry, Mr. Kou, these police officers want to see you!"
The landlord left after saying this. I directly showed Kou Jingyi my police ID. "Mr. Kou, we've been looking for you for a long time. You're quite clever. Your method of 'borrowing a corpse to return the soul' is quite brilliant. You almost tricked even me!"
"What borrowing a corpse to return the soul? I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Three years ago, you weren't dead? How are you alive now? I've met your wife!" I didn't want to waste time and directly revealed some information. Seeing that he couldn't hide it any longer, Kou Jingyi's expression turned grim. Xiahou forcibly brought him out, and Liu Yuning and I searched the room. Xiahou took him away first, but we searched the room for a long time and found no other agate, nor any murder weapon.