Fortieth-Puzzle

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Wang Yibo exited the department. At the yard of the office, he met the pastor he saw on the TV last night. He furrowed his brows and tilted his head, following the Pastor moves into the office. His eyes caught a long star tattoo behind his ear. Somehow he recognized the tattoo. He approached an officer who was coming out of the office.

"Who is he?" asked the detective to the officer.

The officer turned to him and looked at the direction that the detective pointing out.

"Ohh... He's Pastor Lee Jia Yun. He's from Dongcheng and he runs an all-girls boarding school in Dongcheng. He's the uncle of the missing boy, Jay Er...!" said the officer.

"All-girls boarding school...?" the detective mumbled.

"What's the matter?" asked the officer.

"Ah! Nothing. I gotta go now!" said the detective. Then he jogged to the car.

The detective rode the car with a destination of Dongcheng. But he stopped by the house of the missing boy's family. He saw there were some cops who still doing the investigation and inspection in the house. He hops off the car and walked to the house.

"Did you get anything new?" asked the detective to one of the officers.

"We found there is no forced entry. The doors and the windows are locked, no signs of someone entered the house forcefully...!" said the officer.

"Even when the kidnapper has left?" asked the detective.

"Yup!" the officer replied.

"The culprit didn't even forget to lock the door before they left..." the detective mumbled.

"And we got information that the boy is not relative to the mother...!" said the officer.

"Means?" the detective furrowed his eyebrows.

"She's the stepmother of the boy. And the mother has a brother in Shanghai. She said he is a pastor, but... I don't know. I doubt that. Yea, I saw him this morning he came in the pastoral attire, but to me, he has no vibe as a pastor. I don't know. Just my instinct!" said the officer.

"Where is the brother lives now? Shanghai?" asked the detective.

"She said he stays in Dongcheng now. He's running the boarding school in Shichahai. That's what the woman said...! But when I asked her what's the name of the boarding school, she was kind of confused. She said she's forgotten the name...!" 

The detective glanced at the house. There was a woman, assumed as the mother or the stepmother of the missing boy watching them, But when the detective looked into the house, she immediately left. The detective turned back to the officer. he slapped the officer's shoulder lightly.

"Ok! Continue your job. I need to go. I think I can guess where the kidnapper brings the boy to...!" said the detective.

'Yes, Sir!" said the officer. Then, he went back into the house to continue the investigation.

The detective got back to the car. When he was about to open the car door, a pair of hands stopped him. He glanced at the hands. They had the slender features and fair skin, with the manicured nails. He looked up at the hands' owner. It was the stepmother of the missing boy. She looked at the detective with the gloomy eyes.

"Please, Detective... Find my son...!" she said, pleadingly.

"Ma'am, we are trying...! We'll do our best to bring him back to his family, sound and alive...!" said the detective, removing the woman's hands from his arm.

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