The story takes place in a county called Zhaoyang, where three teenagers disappeared near Feilong Game Hall. After receiving the report, the police began to search for them. Two of the three missing teenagers are junior high school students Bian Jie and Wang Shuai. Another person they met was Du Yi, a social worker. Wang Shitu, the captain of the criminal investigation detachment, knew Bian Jie's stepfather because Bian Jie was the same age as his son and a classmate. They met when they picked up the children from school. Bian Jie's stepfather, Jin Manfu, cooperated with the police investigation. According to Jin Manfu's statement, although the child was not his biological son, they had lived together for ten years, and Bian Jieyue was no different from his biological son. After the police visited and investigated, they found that it was not Jin Manfu's business rivals who acted maliciously. Wang Shitu got a new clue after visiting the game hall. The human trafficker they had been tracking, Guo Guizhi, had been to the game hall. The boss discovered that she had interacted with the three missing children, so Wang Shitu thought that they should start with Guo Guizhi. , but Qin Yong, a police officer who was transferred from the city to assist in the investigation, believed that it was too early to draw a conclusion, and he was more inclined to commit a homicide.
Qin Yong, who had just arrived, and Wang Shitu had different views on the same case. Wang Shitu did not want to waste time, so he proposed separate investigations. Wang Shitu caught Guo Guizhi, but she confessed that she had nothing to do with the three missing teenagers. Qin Yong asked Jin Manfu and Bian Meizhen to find out whether anything unusual happened the day before the children disappeared, but Bian Meizhen was mentally disturbed and said I kept thinking about the water ghost. Because Bian Jie couldn't swim when he was ten years old and had drowned. After being rescued, he had a high fever for several days and kept talking nonsense, saying that he had been caught by a water ghost.
Wang Shitu lost control of his emotions during the interrogation of Guo Guizhi. He knew that Guo Guizhi had been abducting children for 20 years. He took out a photo of his child and asked her if she had seen it. Guo Guizhi saw that the child in the photo looked very similar to Wang Shitu. Guess When she found out it was his child, she said she seemed to have seen it before. But she was very arrogant and did not want to cooperate with the police. She said that the child fell ill and died on the way to transport. Wang Shitu almost beat her, but luckily he was stopped by his apprentice. Now Qin Yong and Wang Shitu have found nothing after several days of investigation. Wang Shitu knows that the clues are broken. The 417 task force has been temporarily disbanded and will continue the investigation after there are clues.
A few years later, Bian Jie saw a thief stealing an aunt's money on the bus. He took advantage of the thief and took the money back from the thief and was about to put it back in his aunt's schoolbag when he was discovered by a passenger and was regarded as a thief. Sent to the Public Security Bureau. There was another person in the car who recognized Bian Jie based on the mark on his arm.
Bian Jie couldn't explain anything now, so the police could only lock him up. The person who recognized Bian Jie on the bus just now was very anxious when he saw this. He said that he was Bian Jie's uncle and his name was Bian Yutang. Bian Jie had been missing for three years. , the family went crazy with anxiety, but Bian Jie seemed to have no impression of this uncle, but Bian Yutang was able to accurately tell that Bian Jie was lost on April 17, 1993.
It seems that the 417 case of that year can be restarted. Qin Yong has become the captain, but Wang Shitu is still in the position of deputy captain without any change. The director and he have been brothers for many years, and they can't stand it. I hope he can Work harder for promotion. Qin Yong brought Bian Jie's sister. The sister recognized her younger brother and cried sadly while holding her younger brother. However, the younger brother was a little indifferent. Over the past three years, his concept of family gradually became blurred. Later, after investigation, Bian Jie was indeed not a thief. Qin Yong and his sister took him home. On the way, Bian Jie's sister bought him new shoes in a shoe store, but a yellow-haired gangster appeared in front of Bian Jie. Bian Jie was very Scared, but fortunately Qin Yong and his sister were there, and he was not hurt by that person. On the way home, Qin Yong wanted to briefly talk to Bian Jie about the disappearance of him and his companions. Bian Jie said that when he had memories, he was already in Hexi. At that time, he was in a den of thieves, and a man named Qing Ye forced him to steal money. But when Qin Yong asked Wang Shuai and Du Yi When asked about his whereabouts, Bian Jie dodged his eyes and expressed that he was not sure. The elder sister was standing aside and didn't want her younger brother to recall the painful events of the past, so she hoped that Qin Yong wouldn't ask too many questions for the time being and let his younger brother rest first. In fact, Bian Jie had a conflict with Wang Shuai and accidentally stabbed Wang Shuai. He and Du Yi escaped.