Breaking Through The Clouds

Chapter 46

"Don't touch the bloody clothes, the cardboard box and the sealing tape. Send everything for fingerprint extraction and physical and chemical identification. Give Shen Xiaoqi's mobile phone number to the technical investigation team, ask Director Huang to do another triangulation, I want to know where the kid is. Someone call the Cultural Protection Department, tell them to contact Shen Xiaoqi's school teachers and ask for the list of the students who came on the field trip and their guardians' information, immediately!"

Yan Xie's roar resounded through the corridor, and all the police officers on duty at the city bureau responded, all becoming busy at the same time.

"Yan-ge," Gao Panqing asked in a low voice as he hurried forward, "should I call director Wei?"

Yan Xie did not answer immediately, but looked at father Shen.

The father was dialing his son's number over and over again, and every time the voice prompting that the subscriber was outside the coverage area could be heard in response. Just by looking at his expression, Yan Xie could tell that the couple's tormented nerves were about to snap.

"Wait for Lao Wei," Yan Xie said softly to Gao Panqing, "call Ma Xiang and the others and tell them to come back."

Gao Panqing nodded in response, and left quickly.

"Why is he always outside of the coverage area? Where did your child go on the outing?" Yan Xie asked.

"Tianzhong Mountain." I hadn't heard of it at first, but later I found out that it was a new scenic spot in the south-east - the phone calls have been intermittent since their arrival yesterday morning, saying it was due to the poor reception in the mountains."

Yan Xie raised his chin towards the physics and chemistry lab side, "Then when, where and exactly how was the box found?"

"After we went back in the afternoon, we talked to the child on the phone. And when we came out from the office in the evening....His signal was poor too...."

The mother was so anxious that she was stammering and could hardly speak clearly. Yan Xie couldn't help but frown, wanting to tell her something, but seeing so many people in the corridor made him a little apprehensive. After thinking for a moment he gestured and said, "Come with me first."

Mother Shen, unsure of what to do, pulled father Shen along and followed Yan Xie into a small meeting room.

"It's against the rules for me to say this in advance," Yan Xie said straightforwardly as he closed the door, "but since you're in such a panic, I'll tell you now. The bloody shirt smells a little different from human blood, so the possibility of your son being in an accident is relatively small."

The mother was so excited that she almost bit her tongue, "Huh?"

Yan Xie nodded his head.

"You can smell that too?!"

Yan Xie said to himself that he had smelled more fresh, rotten, deteriorated and congealed human blood than had ever eaten Mao Xue Wang in his life, so how could he not be able to smell it?

What's scary is that there was a man named Jiang who didn't even need to smell it, he knew it was animal blood just by looking at it twice!

But he didn't say this out loud, just simply replied: "At present, it is only a speculation, the details depend on the physical and chemical identification results. Did you find the box at the door of the company at night?"

Mother Shen was finally able to calm down a little, although her voice still trailed off: "Yes, yes, we had a particularly important dinner to attend tonight, and when we came out of the office......"