When the plane arrived in Los Angeles, it was 16:44 local time. When Ye Wei left the airport in his Ferrari sports car and returned to his home in Brentwood, it was almost 17:30. Duoduo had been missing for nearly 12 hours and has not been found. Back.
He didn¡¯t dare think about what it meant, but he understood how bad it was.
He knows all the current situation. His parents and many people have been searching all day, in Brentwood, Santa Monica, Westwood and other possible places around.
He immediately posted the news about Duoduo's disappearance and her photos on his blog. First, he hoped that after attracting media attention, more people would join the search team. As long as Duoduo is safe and sound, it will be a great blessing whether fans, fans or paparazzi find her.
The second is to warn the bad guys not to take advantage of her. She is not an ordinary child. The power to find her will only grow stronger and will not stop until she is found.
But in the 24 hours of retrieving gold, the most critical thing is the good mechanisms of the two alarm systems, Adam system and Amber system.
The current recovery rate of missing children in the United States is 95%, but there are still 5% that cannot be found. Considering the population of 800,000 missing children every year, that is a terrifying 40,000 people.
?? 40,000 children just disappeared. I don¡¯t know where they went, what happened to them, and what happened to them in the end.
From the time the police received the report of a missing child, they immediately opened a case for investigation, and then to the two major alarm systems, there were tragedies one after another, including the missing and murdered 6-year-old boy Adam, and the 9-year-old boy who was kidnapped and had his throat cut while riding his bicycle. Girl Amber.
And "Susie", no, no, if this is a movie, it is also "The Wizard of Oz". Dodo and Toto went to a magical world and returned safely after an adventure.
"Toto." Ye Wei walked into the house, and Toto came up to him. He hadn't seen him for half a month, but he was not very enthusiastic. He licked him a few times and then lay down by the door, looking listless and self-reproaching. He patted it and walked quickly to the living room, where he saw his parents sitting on the sofa, both looking dull.
Mom¡¯s eyes looked red, with only tears in her eyes. She couldn¡¯t see her usual expression, as if she had lost her soul.
Dad¡¯s face was gloomy, and his fortitude was full of visible cracks that would break at any time. He looked at it and said, ¡°Wei.¡±
The words could not be heard far, and the silent air seemed to be condensing.
"Dad, Mom, everything will be fine." Ye Wei walked over, but his words of comfort received no response from the two of them. His mother choked and said, "It's getting dark soon."
The sun sets at eight o¡¯clock in the evening in Los Angeles in June, and the sky turns completely dark at eight-thirty. There are still about three hours before night falls. If Duoduo cannot be found, no one dares to think about how dangerous she will be outside, how scared she will be, and no one dares to imagine her current situation.
Ye Wei saw the message paper placed on the coffee table, picked it up and looked at it. Five large simplified Chinese characters "I'm looking for my brother" were written on the white paper with different colored pens, blue, yellow, red, Brown, "brother" is red. In her heart, he is red, like a flame.
Next to the text is a tall man with black hair, a smiling face, and playing a football. That's him No, that's the brother in her heart.
"It'll be fine." Ye Wei said again, holding the message tightly with both hands.
"Do you have any ideas, where will Duoduo be?" Mom's rustling sound was somewhat hopeful.
"II don't know." Ye Wei didn't want to say that. He was thinking about it all the way back from Philadelphia, but he couldn't think of it.
Searched the Barrington Dog Park, Brentwood parks and places, the Getty Center, the country club, his house in Santa Monica, Dad's clinic, the beach I've searched them all, including Berkeley Hall and Harvard-Westlake campuses, but nothing, not even a clue.
In fact, Duoduo is so small that it is impossible for her to know the way to these places. The most likely thing is that she got lost soon after leaving the dog park. It's just that she pedaled a bicycle, even if she didn't pedal fast, she could go far away in one hour. Now in 12 hours, she could reach the city center, Burbank, Malibu, Long Beach
But it¡¯s unlikely that passers-by would notice and call the police. Unless she didn't wander around much and hid; or ran into the mountains to the north, or maybe.
She was kidnapped at a dog park or somewhere.
"Let's continue looking." Dad stood up, and mother also stood up. "First, go to your room to see if Duoduo has taken anything away."
Duoduo went to his bedroom and took an alarm clock. She probably took something else, maybe a clue.
Ye Wei nodded, put down the message paper in his hand, looked at it again, took his parents to his bedroom upstairs, and began to look at it
The room had been rummaged through and put back to its original state. He looked at the many things around him, but fell into a daze. After moving out at the beginning of the year, he rarely went home. He could count the number of times he stayed overnight on dozens of fingers. This room made him feel unfamiliar. He rummaged around, wondering if there was anything missing.
"Is there anything?" Mom asked anxiously.
"I don't know" Ye Wei could only say this.
Mom's eyes narrowed in anger, and she hurried out of the room, "We don't have time to waste, Duoduo is still wandering outside!" Dad gave him a complicated look, patted his shoulder, and followed quickly. Gone.
Ye Wei was still looking around at the complicated surroundings: bed, computer desk, bookcase, desk, utility cabinet, black slate, d2 Is there anything missing?
I don¡¯t know, there¡¯s just an anxious chaos.
He took a deep breath and ran out, wondering where Duoduo would be.
The more people searching, the better, but one person needs to stay at home to avoid making mistakes again if Duoduo comes back by himself. It was Mrs. Langdon's family who was helping. They were also extremely worried, and Duo Duo was the little angel of the entire community.
Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao drove to the National Veterans Park southeast of the dog park to search carefully. They also asked many friends to search in various places.
The same goes for Ye Wei. In the morning, he sent a text message to the group of friends indiscriminately:
"My 5-year-old sister Dorothy ran away from home this morning because she was looking for me. She has not been found yet. She drove away on a yellow children's bicycle and took away a blue children's backpack. The last known trace was in Los Angeles. Barrington Dog Park in Brentwood. I have her photos on my blog. If any of you have time, please help me find her. If you see her and have any clues, please contact me immediately. No need to reply. Thank you!
Many close friends still responded to comfort me. Those who were free in Los Angeles immediately helped, and those who were not available found time. Those who were not in Los Angeles also helped inquire and spread the news. They were all doing their best.
"Duoduo is a smart girl. She knows how to ask others for help when she needs it. It's okay." Gia, who had almost broken off friends before, said nothing and led a group of friends to search for a day. Now they are looking east of Santa Monica.
"She may have passed through the Archer Girls' School, but we can't find any clues." Emma, ??who said she was a friend but had no contact, is also leading people to look for her, and is now north of Brentwood.
"Brother Wei, Duoduo is just teasing us. He must be fine." Lev and Chen Nuo are all looking for him, as long as he is in Los Angeles.
There are many others.
"These kind intentions, helping hands, and friendship that never really left, as time passed, made Ye Wei more and more afraid that so many people couldn't find him even though they were looking for him.
It also gave him a conclusion. Duoduo had not gone far. She was hiding in a location that no one had ever found. There could be hundreds of such locations within a mile. But it shouldn't be in a residential area. She knew she couldn't break into a house, even if it was an unused house. She would most likely hide in the park woods.
But most people have already been looking for it in those places.
It was getting closer and closer to sunset. Ye Wei drove his open-top sports car through the streets and alleys around the Barrington Dog Park. He drove very slowly, paying attention to both sides, and kept shouting along the way: "Duoduo, brother is back. Come on out, Duoduo!¡±
He knew that he was looking for a needle in a haystack, but mobilizing, requesting, hiring, publicizing He had done everything he could ask others to do for him, so what else could he do.
When it came to 7 o'clock, Duoduo had been missing for 13 hours, and there was still no news. The longer you are missing, the lower your chances of being safe.
Why? Ye Wei didn't want to think about the reason, but some thoughts came to his mind uncontrollably.
What accident happened to Duoduo? If it was a traffic accident, there would be news. What other accidents? Was she abducted by some bad guy?
She is so cute and beautiful
Ye Wei's heart suddenly hurt so much that he couldn't bear it. He had to stop the car on the side of the road, took a deep breath, looked at the front of the street, and silently made a prayer: God, please bless Duoduo! If she was abducted, please don't be a pedophile, just a trafficker for money. She didn't hurt her. She is still fine
A flash of spiritual light flashed across.
"I know where she is!"
?Secret base! Duoduo was a gifted child and entered the gifted class at school. She always had a good memory. She probably still remembered an outing and camping trip to the Mandeville Valley last summer. He and Nina made a secret base with her. He didn't know how she found her way there, but there she was!
Ye Wei quickly drove the car and rushed to the Mandeville Valley in the north. Twenty minutes later, the car drove to the top of a mountain.?He saw some tourists preparing to watch the sunset, but there was no Duoduo.
"Hey! Did you see a little girl riding a bicycle?"
The tourists looked at him inexplicably.
"Duoduo!?" He parked the car, took off his seat belt and ran out, heading towards the secret base in his memory. However, the place was overgrown with grass, and the trees in the simple cabins were scattered on the ground. They were all moldy and rotten. Every bit of impression.
He pushed aside the dense weeds and looked around, "Duoduo, brother is here, are you there?"
There was no sound of response, no figure of a little angel running out.
" Duoduo is not here, she can't know the way here.
Ye Wei fell weakly to the ground, crushing some weeds, and looked up at the patches of red sunset sky as night began to fall.
The openness of the valley only increased his confusion. He closed his eyes, then climbed up and ran back to the sports car over there.
When he drove his sports car back to the Getty Center area, he received a call from his father. His father's words were so heavy that he could hardly speak: "However, the police found Duoduo's bicycle and backpack"
There was a buzz, and Ye Wei was a little confused. He found her bicycle and backpack, but couldn't find her.
No! ! ! At least there's a clue.
The discovery site was near the Getty Center. Apparently Dodo headed north after leaving the dog park. Within a few minutes, Ye Wei arrived. This area was an undeveloped residential area, with large villas and mansions here and there, and many wilderness-like woods.
Duoduo's bicycle and backpack were found lying on the side of the road. There were some blood stains on the muddy ground from scratches on her skin. She fell while riding her bicycle and turned a corner. She seemed to be running away in a panic, and even the wheels were not protected. Can't protect it.
Why would she run away? Just in front of the woods, there is a scary half-length black scarecrow hanging from a pine tree. Maybe young people hang it on it to scare passers-by, or maybe this is some kind of activity place. Duoduo was most likely frightened by the scarecrow, or it could be for other reasons
Led by several policemen and parents, Ye Wei saw the scarecrow, a familiar black
Everything is messed up.
Everything is fucked up.
He suddenly rushed over and punched and kicked the pine tree, shouting uncontrollably: "Ah!!!"
Screwed up, like now, he wanted to hit the scarecrow, but hit the pine tree, the world's number one fool.
"Wei!" Gu Qiao shouted, tears falling from his eyes.
"What a bastard" Ye Wei gasped and walked back. Ye Haogen handed Duoduo's backpack to his hand without saying anything. Ye Wei was holding this small blue backpack, but felt that his heart was weighed down by trillions of pounds like the entire sky. He opened the backpack and saw that it was full of candies and snacks, and
He picked up a map of Dungeons and Dragons inside, and finally realized what was missing in the room; he also picked up a children's color pen drawing. On the drawing paper, under the blue sky, white clouds, and the sun's smiling face, a house stood there with a front yard. There is a white-haired puppy playing.
Home, a warm home.
"Brother, I drew a new painting! When will I come back? I want to give it to you."
Duoduo, your painting is really good, much better than the rice cake painting.
Tears welled up in his eyes, Ye Wei held them back, strode back to the road, and said loudly: "Duoduo is not here! The blood stains have dried. She has left this area long ago. We can't just stay here. ¡±
It¡¯s been 14 and a half hours. How long has Duoduo lost her backpack? 13 hours? 12 hours? Did she eat anything during this period? Where's the water? If she hadn't been abducted and nothing happened, she would be hiding somewhere, starving and scared. It was already dark, how long could she hold on? She is only 5 years old.
On the way, his father and mother seemed to say something, but he couldn't hear them. They got into the sports car and drove away. Duoduo walked to the north, and it was impossible to go back to the south. The scarecrow blocked the northeast, so there was a possibility of her escaping to the west. Sex is the biggest.
"Duoduo? Duoduo! Are you there? I am your brother, do you hear me?"
Ye Wei drove toward the west and wandered, searching and shouting.
The passage of time is not affected by anyone's will. Duoduo has been missing for 15 hours. It is nine o'clock in the evening and the night sky is pitch black.
After all, people have their own things to do, and they also need to eat and rest. The 24-hour golden time is getting shorter and shorter. Duoduo's danger is getting higher and higher. There are fewer and fewer people looking for Duoduo, and there are more and more places to look for. The less.
"Duoduo" Ye Wei wandered to a mountainside in the Mandeville Valley and looked at the city under the night. There was danger hidden everywhere. It was almost early morning.
On June 9, Duoduo disappeared for 18 hours. The night sky was collapsing, blackness drowning everything.
The Ferrari sports car was parked on the side of a quiet street. The dim yellow streetlights made the red color of the car very strange, and there was a dead silence inside the car.
Ye Wei lowered his head and slowly fell on the steering wheel. His shoulders shook slightly, and his red eyes were filled with tears, which wet the steering wheel. His suppressed crying was very soft, and turned into a thick sound. Breathing, fitful wheezing.
"Everything is fucked up"
I don¡¯t know how long it took, but there was no more crying, only tears falling.
There is only darkness.
Suddenly the cell phone placed on the passenger seat started to ring. Ye Wei took it without raising his head, raised it to his ear and answered in a hoarse voice: "Hello?"