Chapter 49: The Whereabouts of Yin Tingxue! Prostitution Cards!

A snowy night disappearance case?
Shen Ting felt his temples twitch violently.
Since a task had been issued, didn't that mean Captain Qin's hypothesis was likely correct?
Was there really a criminal committing crimes taking advantage of snowy nights?
"Teacher Xiao Gao, I hope nothing goes wrong..."
"Driver, please drive faster!"
Shen Ting opened the case-solving group chat:
"There's a new case!"
He shared the information regarding Yin Tingxue's disappearance, as well as cases of people disappearing on snowy nights over the past few years, uploading them to a shared folder.
Group Owner: "This case is a bit urgent. Everyone, please take a look as soon as possible."
kikO: "Finally a new case! I'm going to show off my skills this time too. ٩(๑`^´๑)۶!"
Tang Ren: "Xiangxiang, I am definitely going to get your video~~"
Guan Hongyu: "I wonder if solving the case can give me a skill reward. If so, stepping all over my older brother is just around the corner!"
Guan Hongfeng (Older Brother): "Ahem, I'm right here in the group!"
While they were chatting, the other members had already started examining the case files.
Forensic Pathologist Qin Ming: "Huh? This time it's a disappearance case?"
Sketch Artist Shen Xu: "And they all happened on snowy nights?"
Jigsaw: "This is a bit troublesome! The files provide information on dozens of missing persons over the past ten years. But it's not certain whether these people disappeared for the same reason. How many of them were murdered, what the causes of death were, whether it was the same perpetrator, and so on—none of this is certain. How are we supposed to investigate this?"
Kira Yoshikage: "Indeed! The information for this case is even vaguer than the last kidnapping case. Such uncertainty will probably become the biggest obstacle to the investigation."
Hannibal: "The previous two cases at least had clear victims and detailed circumstances. That allowed us to analyze the suspicious points and propose targeted investigation ideas. But this case can be summed up in four words—snowy night disappearance! It's indeed hard to investigate!"
Guan Hongfeng (Older Brother): "Then we can only start with this latest disappearance case. This kindergarten teacher disappearance case has only been confirmed missing for a few hours. The victim likely hasn't been killed yet, and the clues left by the perpetrator might not have disappeared either."
This was precisely what Shen Ting was thinking!

He immediately shared the relevant information leading up to Yin Tingxue's disappearance.
Police records showed that the person who reported Yin Tingxue missing was her mother.
At around seven o'clock this morning, she went to Yin Tingxue's rented apartment to help take care of the child.
However, upon entering, she could not find Yin Tingxue and was unable to reach her by phone.
Overcome with anxiety, she called the police!
"Huh? Yin Tingxue's last WeChat transaction record was at seven o'clock last night—she spent two yuan to board bus number 45?"
The problem was!
There was only a single transaction!
No matter where she was going, a round trip should have deducted the fare twice.
Shen Ting checked the surveillance footage of that bus and, a few minutes later, confirmed that Yin Tingxue boarded the bus at the bus stop near her rented apartment.
Then, to his surprise, he discovered that Yin Tingxue got off at "Huiqiao Road."
The crucial point was!
Huiqiao Road and Huimin Road—where Gao Ya had disappeared—were separated by only a single stretch of Changchuan Road, a distance of less than two hundred meters!
"Did Gao Ya turn into that alley because she spotted Yin Tingxue?"
With this conjecture, Shen Ting hurriedly checked the nearby surveillance footage after Yin Tingxue got off the bus.
Around 7:30, snow began to drift down from the sky!
Yin Tingxue entered a narrow path alongside a river near the bus station.
This river embankment, built nearly twenty years ago, was very narrow.
The river water inside had dried up, and the riverbed was strewn with white toilet paper, plastic bags of various colors, instant noodle wrappers, beverage bottles, and so on!
Gradually, this garbage was covered by the drifting snow, turning into a vast expanse of white!
There were quite a few shops on both sides of the embankment.
Further inside were two relatively dilapidated old residential compounds!
Many working-class people who were tight on money—whether in Chaoyang or other districts of Dajing—rented homes here.
In the surveillance footage, Yin Tingxue walked along the path for a few minutes before turning into a slightly dilapidated shop.
It appeared to be a general store selling instant noodles, beverages, and snacks.
More than ten minutes later, Yin Tingxue emerged from the shop. Instead of leaving the path, she continued walking forward and then turned into an alley.
It was very narrow and damp inside!
There were multiple building unit doors in the alley, which led upstairs once entered.
Yin Tingxue entered one unit building, came out ten minutes later, and entered the next unit building...
"What is she doing?"
Shen Ting was somewhat puzzled.
Unfortunately, there was almost no surveillance in the pitch-black stairwells.
He sped up the surveillance footage of the alley multiple times.
Equipped with [Eidetic Memory], even running the footage at more than ten times speed posed no problem at all.
"The direction she went really seems to be Huimin Road, where Gao Ya is..."
Shen Ting grew even more worried.

He dialed Gao Ya's number once more, but still received no answer.
Even worse!
This time he was directly told, "The number you have dialed is out of service area"!
He had no choice but to examine Yin Tingxue's background further.
Yet the more he read, the deeper his frown became, until he finally let out a sigh.
"Teacher Yin looks gentle and kind; I never expected her life to be so miserable. No wonder she always seemed so exhausted."
Yin Tingxue was 29 years old this year. She had married at 22 and had a six-year-old son.
However, the child had a disability and suffered from cerebral palsy.
After the child was born, her husband persisted for about half a year before ultimately divorcing Yin Tingxue.
Yin Tingxue raised the child alone!
To treat the complications of cerebral palsy, Yin Tingxue had exhausted all her savings.
She had also taken out online loans totaling around 80,000 yuan!
When she could no longer borrow money online, she turned to offline high-interest loans and was now completely unable to pay them back.
Based on her WeChat chat records, Shen Ting reconstructed her recent experiences.
He confirmed that when Yin Tingxue went out at night, she was working to pay off her debts.
She was helping a loan shark syndicate distribute small cards promoting prostitution.
"That's not right..."
Shen Ting frowned.
In this day and age, anyone daring to run a high-interest loan sharking ring was definitely not a soft-hearted person.
Yin Tingxue owed them over a hundred thousand yuan, yet they only made her hand out prostitution cards to pay off the debt?
How could that be possible?
Shen Ting reviewed the chat records even more carefully, but indeed there was nothing else.
"Something is wrong! Since these loan sharks had Yin Tingxue hand out prostitution cards, they must control a considerable number of women. Teacher Yin is pretty; there's no way they would let her off. Do they have other motives?"
Shen Ting pondered, and based on the individuals who had contacted Yin Tingxue, he directly shared the loan shark syndicate's dossier.
He conducted a layer-by-layer investigation and quickly confirmed that this was a criminal syndicate.
Not only were they involved in high-interest loans, but they also controlled women for prostitution and operated multiple gambling dens.
Getting involved with people like this was undoubtedly walking a tightrope over a precipice.
One could fall into their trap at any moment!
"Were Teacher Yin's and Gao Ya's disappearances connected to this criminal syndicate?"
Shen Ting checked the files on the criminal syndicate and quickly discovered that they were indeed not satisfied with merely having Yin Tingxue distribute small cards...