Chapter 544
鈥淏oss, a German, an engineer, went to visit a friend the first afternoon and didn’t come home at night. His wife reported it to the police…鈥�
When a foreigner calls the police, the police station will definitely give priority to the case.
First, a uniformed policeman came to the door to investigate and take a statement, and walked along the route that the German named Hans took to his friend’s house.
He also came to this friend’s house and inquired about the relevant situation.
Hans’ friend said that Hans had come to visit him, stayed for dinner, and they had a drink together. He left before 8 pm.
This was also easy to prove. Hans’ friend had a family of four or five, and besides, other people in the alley could also testify that he left the home of the Austrian doctor named 鈥淥newei鈥� before 8 pm.
Hans’ friend was a doctor, Austrian, who ran a small private clinic in the concession to support his family.
Dr. Aunewi was a good person, at least in the eyes of the local people. The couple were kind people, and if ordinary Chinese people came to the clinic for treatment and had no money, they would not charge them a consultation fee, only the cost of medicine.
Hans was an engineer, with Siemens, and in Shanghai was responsible for the maintenance of elevators manufactured by Siemens.
He was a resident technician, so he settled down in Shanghai and had lived there for many years, even having his third child born in Shanghai.
The engineer earns a good salary, so he can rent an apartment in Shanghai. In addition, he has the skills to be called upon to solve problems, and this additional income is sometimes more than he earns from his main job.
Even with the harm of such soaring prices, the Hans family can lead an enviable life.
Although the British and French are now at war with the Germans in Europe, in the concession, the situation is completely different. Besides, Hans is not a soldier, he is just an ordinary expatriate worker, and he is also a technician.
Many of the elevators in the buildings in the concession used Siemens, and Hans was an engineer who could solve problems at any time, which was naturally very important.
After searching for a day and a night, plus the night he went missing, it had been more than 48 hours since Hans left the Onewei family.
He was just gone.
There were no cameras on the streets in those days, and after 8 pm, even in the city that never slept, there were places that were not illuminated by neon lights.
Therefore, the longer the time goes by, the slimmer the hope of finding the person.
This case was transferred to the political unit because Cheng Mo’s subordinate Lv Yue was concerned about the recent cases of missing people and felt that there was something fishy behind this case.
The case occurred in District A, which was also under the jurisdiction of the Laozha Police Station and the Central Police Station, and it happened to be under his jurisdiction as well.
After listening to Lv Yue’s introduction, Cheng Mo asked, 鈥淚s there anything special about this case?鈥�
鈥淎 year after Hans came to Shanghai, he brought his wife and child over, and they have been living in rented accommodation ever since. He is an engineer and a Catholic. He has a lot of famous friends, such as the rabbi, who is in charge of the refugee community. He often volunteers to help the rabbi, fixing electrical appliances and so on.鈥�
鈥漈he rabbi, how is their relationship?鈥�
鈥漋ery good. He is a very popular person, and many people like him.鈥�
鈥淎nd Onewie?鈥�
鈥漁newie is a doctor. They met during a consultation, and that was it. Onewie became Hans’s personal doctor and that of his family. Basically, any physical problem that Hans had was solved in Onewie’s clinic.鈥�
鈥漁newie is an Austrian Hebrew, right?鈥�
鈥淵es, boss. I didn’t mention it in the report. How did you know?鈥� Lv Le asked in surprise, glancing at the information in his hands.
鈥滱 guess. Go on,鈥� said the boss. 鈥楤oss, I’ve looked into so many missing person cases and found that they all seem to have one thing in common: none of the missing people have been seen again. They are either missing without a trace or their bodies have not been found,鈥� said Lv Le.
鈥滼ust that?鈥�
鈥淏oss, these past missing persons cases were not all abductions or kidnappings. There was always one or two cases of accidental death, and sometimes they appeared on their own after a few days, but these cases were basically just people who vanished without a trace.鈥� Lv Le said.
鈥滺ow do you plan to investigate?鈥� Cheng Mo asked. There must be a problem with the increase in missing cases, but how to investigate it is something that needs to be considered carefully.
鈥滺ans is German, and I plan to start with this case and dig deeper,鈥� Lv Le said.
Starting with a foreigner, and a German who is also an ally of Japan, the German consulate will definitely give their full support.
And Siemens, the company behind Hans, will also be a help. After all, they have lost an excellent engineer, and for a while, where can they find such an engineer to replace Hans? 鈥淟et’s do a background check first.鈥�
鈥淏oss, I’ve already done a detailed background check…鈥� Lv Le asked puzzled.
“Not enough!鈥�
鈥淣ot enough?鈥�
鈥漈his Hans is German, he is not of Hebrew descent, right? Why are most of his friends Hebrew?鈥� Cheng Mo said, 鈥滵o you know what the situation of the Hebrews in Germany and Europe under German control is?鈥�
鈥淭his…鈥� Lv Yue was at a loss for words.
鈥滷irst get this straight, and then decide whether or not you want to pursue this case,鈥� Cheng Mo said.
Lv Yue understood. He was from the political unit, so naturally he knew some secrets that outsiders didn’t know. Although Germany’s intelligence capabilities in the Far East were weak, they were not non-existent, and they did cooperate with Japan.
Germany had always targeted the Hebrews, and their power in Shanghai was limited, so they could only rely on the assistance of their ally Japan.
If Hans was a German sympathizer and helped the Hebrews, he would probably become a thorn in the side of the German SS intelligence agency.
鈥淗ave you found out what the attitude of the Siemens office in Shanghai is towards Hans’ disappearance?鈥�
鈥淭hey are very concerned and hope that we can find him as soon as possible.鈥�
鈥淎part from that, there have been no protests. Has the Consul-General not called the IAB to personally intervene?鈥� Cheng Mo asked again.
鈥淚t seems not.鈥�
鈥滾e, this case is not that simple, don’t you think of it as a breakthrough in your investigation of the missing cases,鈥� Cheng Mo said tactfully.
鈥漇o we know that there is something wrong with Hans’s disappearance, but we won’t investigate it?鈥�
鈥漁f course we will investigate, but it depends on how we investigate. I have discovered that the Japanese Black Dragon Society in Hongkou has been secretly infiltrating the concession. Recently, the Japanese expatriates in the concession have become increasingly arrogant. It was the Germans who defeated the French, not them…鈥�
鈥淏oss, what do you mean?鈥�
鈥漁h, nothing, I was just saying that. What did you want to say?鈥�
鈥漀o, boss, I don’t have anything else to say.鈥� Lv Yue was at a loss for words.
鈥滻t’s fine, just go back to work. I still have some paperwork to do.鈥�