Chapter 1827.3
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During the phone call, Hu Fanzhen's mother was very depressed. Obviously, the sudden disappearance of her daughter put her under tremendous psychological pressure.
It was also out of good intentions to let her daughter come to Jiangnan City to visit her dead friend, thinking that children should be encouraged to have this kind of friendship.
But what seemed to be a normal trip originally went wrong in the final stage.
You know, Hu Fan was really sent to the hotel at Jiangnanbei Station by Gu Chen himself, but now something went wrong, obviously, there must be something wrong in some link.
Either the hotel's problem, or Hu Fanzhen's own problem.
But how is it? Gu Chen is not investigating now, so he does not have enough right to speak.
Taking a deep breath, Gu Chen said solemnly: "Madam, don't worry, can you tell me the content of the last phone call between you and your daughter Hu Fanzhen?"
"Yes." On the other end of the phone, Hu Fanzhen's mother let out a long sigh, and then said slowly:
"The last call was the morning before yesterday, when my daughter Hu Fanzhen was about to arrive at Jiangnanbei Station. She said she had arrived and a local friend would come to pick her up. She said it was a handsome policeman."
"I thought to myself, if my daughter comes to a strange city and the local police will pick her up, it shouldn't be a big problem, so there is nothing to worry about."
"But later, that is, at night, no matter how I make a call, my daughter's mobile phone disappears because it is not answered. I don't know what to do..."
"Wait a minute." Before the middle-aged woman could finish speaking, Gu Chen hurriedly asked her, "What time did you call Hu Fanzhen that night, that is, the night before yesterday?"
"Uh...probably... around 10 in the evening. To be precise, I sent a message to my daughter at around 9:30 that night, asking how she was doing in Jiangnan City? But there was no reply."
"So I waited for half an hour, but I still didn't get a reply from my daughter, so I was a little panicked at that time, and then called the past."
"As a result, my daughter's mobile phone was turned off. I felt a little bit in my heart at the time, and comforted myself by saying that my daughter's mobile phone might be out of battery, and maybe it was charging."
Trying to calm down her nervousness, the middle-aged woman adjusted her breathing, and said: "But, I made an appointment with her to talk at night, even if my daughter's cell phone is dead, she should tell me first, right? But she didn't."
"So I'm very nervous, always thinking about the bad side, and then I can't sleep all night, it's just insomnia."
"Well, what then?" Gu Chen recorded these and asked the middle-aged woman.
"And then? Then the next morning, I called my daughter early in the morning, but no one answered, and then I called again around 10 am, and at noon."
"But it's all useless, because my daughter's phone keeps turning off, and I... my whole body is about to collapse."
Having said that, the middle-aged woman on the phone is also in some condition.
Gu Chen continued to comfort: "Don't worry, if you couldn't get through to your daughter Hu Fanzhen until noon yesterday, it means that something happened to Hu Fanzhen, so why did you choose to call the police now?"
"Because I'm not sure." The middle-aged woman on the other end of the phone said in frustration, "I was so self-comforting at the time."
"I think my daughter, Hu Fanzhen, may just have lost or stolen her mobile phone, so she won't be able to contact me for a while."
"I just waited and waited with this fluke mentality, just wanting to wait for my daughter to use another number to report my safety again."
"Because she didn't call me on the appointed night, she should also know that I am worried about her, so I will wait for her to call me and explain her specific situation over there."
"So? Hu Fan really knows your phone number?" Gu Chen asked.
"I know, my daughter Hu Fan can really remember the phone numbers of me and her father."
"It stands to reason that she should be able to call me easily, but she didn't have it all day yesterday. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what to do at the time."
"So, until today, until now, I made up my mind and found the phone number of your Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch in Jiangnan City."
"Because I have heard that she said that the policeman from the Furong branch received her. Gu Chen, after I inquired, I found out that you are in the criminal investigation team, so I found the criminal investigation team and called."
"I just want you to help me, help me find Zhenzhen, I'm really worried about her safety now, I...I have no choice, woo..."
In the end, the middle-aged woman burst into tears.
It seemed that Hu Fan's disappearance had already caused the middle-aged woman to cry bitterly.
Gu Chen took a deep breath, tried to comfort him and said, "Okay, I will help you with this matter, please leave a specific message, if there is any news, I will inform you as soon as possible, what do you think?"
"Yes." The middle-aged woman on the other end of the phone stopped crying when she heard that Gu Chen was willing to help.
"What's your name?"
"My name is Zhuang Caixia." The woman said.
"Is this the phone?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Yes, that's the phone number."
"Give me your ID card." Gu Chen said again.
After the two asked and answered, Gu Chen finished recording Zhuang Haixia's personal information and contact information, and promised that he would dispatch the police as soon as possible to find Hu Fan's real whereabouts.
Only then did Zhuang Haixia hang up the phone gratefully.
Lu Weiwei on the side listened to Gu Chen talking there for a long time, and seemed to have gotten some specific information from Gu Chen's conversation.
When Gu Chen put down the phone and came back, Lu Weiwei was the first to ask Gu Chen:
"Junior Brother Gu, it's Hu Fanzhen's mother calling, right?"
"That's right, Hu Fan really disappeared, just the night before yesterday, after we sent her to the hotel." Gu Chen said.
Lu Weiwei frowned slightly: "How did this happen? After she went to the hotel, didn't she just take the high-speed train and leave? Why did she suddenly disappear?"
"It's not clear yet." Gu Chen took the note in his hand, walked directly to He Junchao, and said:
"Senior Brother He, you can immediately help me retrieve the surveillance camera at Jiangnanbei Station, near the High-Speed Railway Hotel, at around 5:30 p.m. the day before yesterday."
"No problem." He Junchao also heard the conversation between Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei just now, so he immediately started the operating system and retrieved the surveillance screen at around 5:30 pm the day before yesterday.
At this moment, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha also gathered around to check the surveillance screen.
In the picture, the vehicle driven by Gu Chen slowly enters the gate of the high-speed railway hotel.
Lu Weiwei reminded immediately: "This car belongs to us, and we are here to part with Hu Fanzhen."
"En." After understanding, He Junchao nodded slightly, and then sped up the progress again.
In the picture, Hu Fanzhen dragged his luggage, said goodbye to everyone, and walked directly to the hotel.
After that, Gu Chen drove away.
"Speed up the progress." Gu Chen reminded.
He Junchao nodded slightly, and continued to speed up the screen.
In the picture, there is an endless flow of various characters.
But it didn't take long for Gu Chen to discover the scene of Hu Fanzhen walking out of the hotel, and Dang even stopped and said, "Stop."
He Junchao clicked to pause.
Gu Chen stretched out his hand directly on the screen, Hu Fanzhen tapped twice, and said, "Enlarge the screen."
He Junchao obeyed, and the picture continued to enlarge, and Hu Fanzhen's picture suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
"That's right, this person is Hu Fanzhen." Officer Wang said with certainty.
"The time here is 6:10 p.m.." Yuan Shasha confirmed the exact time, and said:
"Then let's see where this Hu Fanzhen is going next? I don't think she has any luggage, which means she is only going out for a short time."
"Understood." He Junchao continued to operate the computer system.
Soon, Hu Fanzhen appeared on the side of the road, stopped a taxi, and disappeared from the surveillance screen.
"The taxi's license plate ends with 663, after He Junchao recorded the taxi's license plate, he continued to follow up and investigate.
With the constant switching of various shots, no matter where the taxi is going? He Junchao was able to use the nearest surveillance on the road to capture it in the first place. "
But towards the end, fewer and fewer pictures appeared.
There was even a monitoring interruption in the middle.
"What's going on?" Officer Wang couldn't help but exclaimed.
He Junchao looked helpless, and explained: "This is the direction to the suburbs, and the monitoring is not so intensive."
After the voice fell, He Junchao called out the next monitoring, and then said again: "This taxi must have turned around here, because there is no monitoring in front, and this car drove here and then turned back. reach the destination."
"This place seems very familiar." Lu Weiwei squinted her eyes, and seemed to feel that the route was familiar.
Gu Chen suddenly snapped his fingers and said, "I see, this is the direction to the cemetery. We just brought Hu Fanzhen to the cemetery the afternoon before yesterday."
"That's right." Yuan Shasha was shocked when she heard the words, "Isn't this the cemetery?"
"Going in from here, it won't be long before the cemetery..."
Speaking of this, Yuan Shasha was quite puzzled and said, "But, Hu Fanzhen only went to the cemetery in the afternoon, why did he go there again in the evening? What is she going to do?"
"Don't worry about this for now." Gu Chen put his hands on his chest and took a deep breath, then asked He Junchao again:
"Senior brother He, is there any other monitoring near the cemetery?"
He Junchao used the computer mouse to select an area on the digital map, and only a few monitoring icons popped up.
He Junchao shook his head and said: "Just here, there is a monitoring at a location on another road. There is no monitoring in the direction to the cemetery."
"Then take a look and see if this Hu Fan really came out of the cemetery?" Lu Weiwei was also anxious now.
I feel that Hu Fan's real whereabouts are really unpredictable.
He Junchao was not idle either, and began to speed up the investigation based on the monitoring screen.
Then people came and went around, and many vehicles passed by, but the investigation continued until around 8 o'clock this morning, and there was still no real trace of Hu Fan.
He Junchao was a little frustrated, but Police Officer Wang continued to remind: "Look at the picture of the high-speed rail hotel again, and see if Hu Fanzhen has returned to the hotel?"
"I'll try." He Junchao was a little helpless, and continued to obey.
Afterwards, two monitors were opened and displayed side by side.
On the left is the monitoring of the road closest to the cemetery, and on the right is the monitoring of the high-speed rail hotel.
Both monitors have been advancing.
However, the monitoring time continued until this afternoon, and there was no trace of Hu Fanzhen.
"It's strange." Lu Weiwei crossed her arms and said with a slight frown:
"What's the real situation with this Hu Fan? Why didn't he even go back to the hotel? He just disappeared?"
Looking at the monitoring screen again, Lu Weiwei said again: "But the last place she appeared, or the last place that could be monitored, was the cemetery. Could it be that she hasn't come out since she went to the cemetery?"
"There must be a problem." Gu Chenlai walked behind everyone, and said in retrospect:
"If that's the case, then Hu Fan is really in the hotel, maybe she didn't check out. If she didn't check out, it means that she might not plan not to come back, it was just an accident. It mainly depends on what the other side of the hotel says."
"It's simple, just call and ask the hotel." He Junchao searched on the computer, and quickly found the contact information of the Gaotie Hotel, and immediately called it to Gu Chendao: "This is the contact number of the Gaotie Hotel."
Without saying a word, Gu Chen walked directly to the landline phone in the office, clicked on speakerphone, and started dialing.
Not long after, the phone was connected, and a middle-aged man asked:
"Hello, this is Jiangnan High-speed Railway Hotel. Do you want to make a reservation?"
"I'm Gu Chen from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch." Gu Chen directly revealed his identity.
"Oh, comrade policeman, is there anything I need to take care of?" The middle-aged man on the other end of the phone had obviously dealt with the police many times.
Therefore, hearing Gu Chen's identity, there were not many emotions, and he directly asked Gu Chen's needs.
"Around 5:30 p.m. the day before yesterday, did a real guest named Hu Fan check in at your hotel?" Gu Chen asked.
"Wait a minute, I'll check for you." The middle-aged man greeted, and immediately began to help Gu Chen check.
Gu Chen only heard the sound of typing on the keyboard on the other end of the phone one after another.
Not long after, I heard the man on the phone reply:
"That's right, a woman named Hu Fanzhen checked in, but it's very strange. This woman only opened the room for one day. Logically speaking, she should check out at noon yesterday, but she didn't check out."
"Fortunately, there was a deposit, so I helped her renew the room, but it was strange that Hu Fanzhen still didn't come to the front desk to check out until 12 noon today."
"So there is no way, we just asked the cleaning aunt to temporarily put her mind in the warehouse of our hotel, and then vacate the room."
"That is to say, since Hu Fanzhen checked in that day, he hasn't checked out?" Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Gu Chen also asked him in confirmation.
The middle-aged man said: "That's right, she didn't check out, and she even kept her luggage with us."
"At first, we thought that we would return the luggage to her if she had already exceeded the time limit and pay the fee for the extension of the room. But now she has not come to claim it, anyway, the luggage has been kept there."
"Okay, I see." Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Gu Chen thought about it for a second, and said again:
"In this way, if Hu Fan really returns to the hotel, you should contact me as soon as possible and ask for Gu Chen from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch."
"Understood, I will notify you when she comes back," the man said.
The two also exchanged a few words of pleasantries, and both hung up the phone.
Returning to He Junchao, Police Officer Wang also asked curiously: "What? Hu Fan really didn't check out? He just disappeared?"
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded reluctantly, and said in retrospect:
"This Hu Fanzhen, since we left that afternoon, I found something wrong."
"Especially when she was in the cemetery, she felt very sad, and she didn't pay much attention at the time."
"However, she also told me some secret words between her and Ye Juanjuan."
"Dark...dark words? Did she really tell you about this?" Police Officer Wang was also amazed when he heard the words.
Lu Weiwei on the side also nodded in agreement: "That's right, we sent Hu Fanzhen to the Gaotie Hotel that day, and before she left, she told Junior Brother Gu not to tell about this matter."
"Junior Brother Gu only told me that there was some secret word between Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan."
"It's not that you wait a little longer, why am I getting more and more confused?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's words, Police Officer Wang felt his head buzzing, and he couldn't help asking curiously:
"You said that Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan had some sort of code word, what's going on?"
"It's just..." Lu Weiwei was about to speak, but she didn't know how to say it.
So he glanced at Gu Chen, and said again: "Junior Brother Gu, you should say it."
"Hmm." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said in retrospect, "Hu Fanzhen said that she had some in-depth exchanges with Ye Juanjuan."
"Specifically, Ye Juanjuan once told Hu Fanzhen that she might die, but she was not reconciled. At that time, Hu Fanzhen didn't quite understand, and felt that Ye Juanjuan was a little sentimental."
"But Ye Juanjuan also concealed her heart disease from Hu Fanzhen at that time, so Hu Fanzhen at that time couldn't understand it at all."
"But later, Ye Juanjuan said that she may die, but she is not reconciled. If one day, Hu Fan can really visit her and meet her parents, then she will buy some Jiangbei specialty donkey rolling."
"Donkey rolling?" He Junchao asked curiously when he heard it: "What is green rolling? Donkey meat dim sum?"
"No." Lu Weiwei shook her head and denied, "It's a special pastry in Jiangbei, or even in the north, it's just called that."
"Okay, I'm ignorant." He Junchao stretched out his hand after hearing Lu Weiwei's words, and said, "Gu Chen, continue."
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and continued:
"That's what Ye Juanjuan meant, and asked Hu Fanzhen to bring some Jiangbei specialty dim sum donkey rolls to visit her parents."
"If her parents look surprised, it means that she died unjustly. If not, then everything is normal."
"This matter was just something that Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan occasionally brought up while chatting online. Hu Fanzhen didn't take it seriously. He always felt that Ye Juanjuan was joking."
"But later, until this time, Hu Fanzhen learned that Ye Juanjuan had passed away several years ago on the phone, and she was completely dumbfounded."
"It wasn't until I went to the Jiangbei High-speed Railway Station to take the train and saw the station's special snack donkey rolling that I didn't think of this matter that the two of them had chatted on the Internet before."
After a pause, Gu Chen said again:
"So, Hu Fanzhen bought a lot of donkeys at the station in Jiangbei, with the mentality of trying, and prepared to take them to Jiangnan City. After meeting Ye Juanjuan's parents, he gave them as a meeting gift."
"However, when Ye Juanjuan's parents saw the donkey rolling cakes, they were really surprised. I was there at the time and discovered these problems."
"Is that so?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Police Officer Wang was quite curious and asked:
"That is to say, the reaction of Ye Juanjuan's parents at that time verified the matter that Ye Juanjuan chatted with Hu Fanzhen on the Internet a few years ago, right?"
"Yes." Gu Chen nodded fiercely, and said in confirmation:
"If it is said that the things that Ye Juanjuan and Hu Fanzhen chatted on the Internet a few years ago were serious, then what Ye Juanjuan said represents certain meanings."
"It's just that the two of them hadn't even seen each other at the time, so Hu Fanzhen didn't pay much attention."
"But when she rolled the donkey into the hands of Ye Juanjuan's parents according to Ye Juanjuan's request before she was alive, the reaction of Ye Juanjuan's parents suddenly made Hu Fanzhen feel very nervous."
"Because these circumstances have been verified, it shows that Ye Juanjuan died unjustly."
Listening to Gu Chen's explanation here, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, as if feeling incredible.
Yuan Shasha also couldn't help but sighed: "Then according to this statement, it is obvious that there seems to be something wrong with Ye Juanjuan's parents."
"Could it be that Ye Juanjuan's death has something to do with her parents?" Officer Wang also threw out his own hypothesis.
Gu Chen shook his head, but also said uncertainly: "As far as the current situation is concerned, we can't say for sure."
"However, Hu Fanzhen's sad posture in front of Ye Juanjuan's tombstone is simply impossible to pretend."
"Obviously, Hu Fan really felt that there was something strange about Ye Juanjuan's death, and she wanted to investigate the cause of Ye Juanjuan's death."
"Damn it." Police Officer Wang slapped the table and said angrily:
"How do you investigate the girl Ye Juanjuan who died a few years ago? She has been cremated and turned into a pile of ashes. How can you investigate?"
After walking back and forth twice with his waist in his hands, Officer Wang asked Gu Chen again: "Gu Chen, according to what you said, do you suspect that there is something wrong with Ye Juanjuan's parents?"
Gu Chen didn't answer right away, but after hesitating for a few seconds, he said slowly:
"If nothing happened to Hu Fan, maybe I wouldn't think so, but the problem now is that after Hu Fanzhen told me about the situation that day, she left the high-speed rail hotel where she was staying that night."
"And judging from the fact that she didn't check out, it's obvious that she was going to come back, but it's very likely that some accident happened, which made it impossible for her to go back to the hotel."
"Yes." Lu Weiwei rested her chin and said in thought: "This Hu Fanzhen, after coming out of the hotel, took a taxi to the direction of the cemetery. Obviously, she went for Ye Juanjuan."
"Because the factor that really has a connection with Hu Fan is Ye Juanjuan."
After a pause, Lu Weiwei was still puzzled and said, "But Ye Juanjuan is already dead, and Hu Fanzhen came all the way here, and she has already paid homage to Ye Juanjuan, so why does she have to go to the cemetery at night?"
"Going to the cemetery at night shows that there are some things that you can't do during the day, and you can only choose to do it in the dead of night." Police Officer Wang had a whim, and said:
"Could it be that there are other secrets between Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan? I just didn't dare to tell you?"
"Eh?" Hearing Officer Wang's words, Lu Weiwei immediately said: "Old Wang, let alone, the hypothesis you put forward is not impossible, and the possibility is very high."
"Then now?" Yuan Shasha has no direction at the moment.
Gu Chen snapped his fingers and said, "In my opinion, we'd better go to the cemetery and see what's going on over there."
"I agree." Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei directly raised her hand in agreement.
Everyone summed up without thinking too much, leaving He Junchao in the office, responsible for providing technical support to everyone.
Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, and drove directly to the cemetery.
It was already 6:10 p.m. at the entrance of the cemetery.
At this moment, the gate of the cemetery has been closed, and there is only a faint light on the building at the gate.
In this deep mountain and old forest, the area of the cemetery is very cloudy.
Coupled with the calls of various birds around, the atmosphere of the scene was quite strange.
Yuan Shasha shrank her neck, pointed at the light in front of her and said, "There are still people living here at night in this cemetery. Thinking about this person living with a bunch of dead people every day, it's... quite scary."
"Hehe, as long as the salary is high, if you let them sleep in a cemetery in the wilderness at night, they will be willing to try." Officer Wang is not surprised.
You know, there is also an office here in the cemetery. If you are still living here at night, you must be the guardian of the tomb.
Due to the large size of the cemetery here, people also need to be on duty.
At this moment, the surrounding area was very quiet, and there was only this police car with the license plate ending in AE86 in the parking lot outside.
"Get out of the car and go over to see the situation." Gu Chen suggested.
So everyone got out of the car one after another and came to the door of the building ahead.
The glass door was already locked, so Gu Chen and the others took out the strong flashlights, first irradiated the interior of the building for a while, and then began to knock on the door.
"Tuk tuk!"
"Is anyone there? Is anyone there?"
"Tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk! Can you please open the door?"
Amidst the continuous knocking on the door, there was finally movement in the house.
From a room in the hall, a white-haired old man suddenly walked out.
Seeing four figures standing at the door, the white-haired old man turned on the light and walked towards the door.
"Eh? Are you a comrade policeman?" Seeing that it was four policemen who came, the white-haired old man immediately became polite.
Through the glass door, he also asked curiously: "Comrade police, what are you doing here at night?"
"Can you open the door first, let's go in and say yes?" Seeing the gloomy atmosphere outside, Police Officer Wang didn't want to stand at the door and talk to the old man through the glass door.
The old man grinned, unlocked the door and let everyone in.
After closing the door, Officer Wang suddenly felt that the gloomy atmosphere had subsided a lot, and he couldn't help sighing:
"After the sun goes down in this place, the atmosphere always feels weird."
"Haha, of course." The white-haired old man also smiled slightly, explaining to everyone:
"In fact, the choice of cemetery can also be important, and Fengshui is even more important. Fengshui in this area is good, so it is suitable for a cemetery."
"In addition to this place, it is surrounded by woods, so it forms a low-lying area."
"When the sun goes down, it's very cloudy here, so you feel weird, and that's normal."
"If you didn't have those cemeteries, you wouldn't feel this way. In fact, it's all your own psychology that is at work."
"Really?" Police Officer Wang was stunned, and said again: "Well, even if it's a psychological problem, it's really scary to come to the cemetery at night."
"That's right." The white-haired old man remembered that these policemen didn't know what to do when they came here, so he hurriedly asked:
"You haven't said, what are you doing here? You know, there are almost no people who stay here after the sun goes down."
Upon hearing this, Lu Weiwei immediately smiled and said, "Then aren't you human?"
"I'm a mausoleum guardian. I'm different from you. I guard the souls of the dead in this cemetery, and I also want to prevent forest fires."
"Anyway, it's my job to stay here, it's different from you."
"Okay, let's not talk about this." Gu Chen felt the need to explain his purpose to the old man who guarded the tomb, so he explained:
"The day before yesterday afternoon, around 4 o'clock, we came here with people from the TV station and newspaper, do you remember?"
Hearing what Gu Chen said, the white-haired old man tried his best to think back for a few seconds, and finally said: "That's right, I remember that around 4 o'clock in the afternoon the day before yesterday, some people came, and some people were carrying cameras."
"Very good." Seeing that the white-haired old man knew, Gu Chen said again: "That afternoon, there was a woman from Jiangbei City who came to pay homage to her friend who passed away."
"But after this girl returned to the hotel, she took a taxi and came here again. After that, she disappeared."
"What... what? Missing?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, the white-haired old man was a little confused, and hurriedly asked Gu Chen:
"Comrade policeman, what do you mean, that woman came to pay her respects in the afternoon, but did she run back here at night?"
"Yes." Lu Weiwei also nodded fiercely, and explained: "She came back here again that night."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Before Lu Weiwei finished speaking, the white-haired old man waved his hand and denied:
"In places like ours, after the sun goes down, especially after five or six o'clock in the afternoon, there are basically no people."
"As far as this is concerned, I have stayed here for so many years, and it has always been like this. No one will come over."
"Besides, it's late at night, what are you doing here? Are you free?"
"But we checked the relevant surveillance and found that she had indeed been here, otherwise we wouldn't have come here to investigate at night."
Police officer Wang also watched the surveillance, and he also reasoned with the old man.
Seeing that the police had investigated the surveillance, the white-haired old man raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you sure?"
"Sure!"
The four spoke almost in unison.
At this moment, the white-haired old man felt a little shaken, and murmured, "Could it be that this little girl left something in the cemetery, so she came here to pick it up?"
"However, I must have taken control of the iron gate at that time. If you want to enter the cemetery, you must let me open the gate, but why didn't I know that someone had come?"
The white-haired old man scratched the back of his head, also very puzzled.
But Yuan Shasha also put forward a hypothesis: "Could it be that you were going to the bathroom at that time, or did something else and didn't pay attention?"
"No." The white-haired old man shook his head and explained, "I usually live here alone, and if there is any movement outside, I can actually hear it clearly from here."
"As long as someone knocks on the door or calls outside, I can hear it. But the night before yesterday, I didn't find anyone coming. I'm sure of that."
"Master." Seeing that the white-haired old man categorically denied it, Gu Chen glanced in the direction of the cemetery outside, and then asked again:
"You said that if you want to enter the cemetery, you must come to you to get the key, is that true?"
"Yes." The white-haired old man nodded in confirmation.
"However, the walls of your cemetery are not high, and there is only one sliding door at the main entrance, which is not high, but anyone with a bit of skill can pass by just looking through it, isn't it?"
Gu Chen's rhetorical question reminded the white-haired old man.
The old man's expression was blank, and he nodded in approval: "Young man, the problem you mentioned... is actually true."
"That's right, the wall around our cemetery is actually just a decoration, it's just a plot of land."
"If it is said that it is not impossible to climb in from the outside, and it is not too big."
"But you can ask me for the key and enter the cemetery openly, so why do you want to sneak in by yourself? It doesn't make sense?"
"You said you lost something, let me take a flashlight and go look for it together, but I didn't see anyone coming the night before, really."
The white-haired old man was quite sure.
As the gatekeeper of the cemetery here, the uncle clearly knows that no one will come over at night.
I have worn it to work here for many years, so I am very clear about the surrounding environment, and the theoretical possibility that Gu Chen mentioned is almost non-existent.
But Gu Chen didn't agree.
If normal people come here, of course they will go to the white-haired old man.
But Hu Fan is really different.
That afternoon, Hu Fanzhen had just met Ye Juanjuan, a friend who had been out of touch for several years, and seemed to recall the secret message that Ye Juanjuan had told him back then, which was to roll the donkey.
And at Ye Juanjuan's home, seeing Ye Juanjuan's parents, Hu Fanzhen also verified what Ye Juanjuan had told him back then.
Perhaps, it was because of this incident that Hu Fanzhen became suspicious.
Perhaps, the communication between Ye Juanjuan and Hu Fanzhen may not be so simple.
But what exactly? Gu Chen doesn't know yet, probably only these two little girls know.
And that afternoon, Gu Chen also had a brief exchange with Hu Fanzhen in front of Ye Juanjuan's tombstone.
From then on, Gu Chen realized that Hu Fan's face was really ugly.
On the one hand, it was the sadness over the death of his friend, and on the other hand, there was something strange in Hu Fanzhen's eyes, as if he couldn't accept this fact at all.
Maybe she didn't want to talk to Gu Chen about the secret language she and Ye Juanjuan chatted on the Internet a few years ago.
It was only because of the emotion at the time that I couldn't help sharing these with Gu Chen.
But afterward, Hu Fanzhen didn't say anything more? Even when Gu Chen sent Hu Fanzhen back to the Gaotie Hotel, Hu Fanzhen asked Gu Chen to keep the secret.
From this point of view, Gu Chen felt that this Hu Fanzhen might be doing something sneaky.
But what exactly? Gu Chen is not clear now.
Looking at the surrounding environment and the white-haired old man, Gu Chen suddenly felt.
If Hu Fan really returned to the cemetery that night, then if she came with some purpose, no one would know about it.
There is no such thing as an old man who guards the tomb of a comrade.
"Then if this is the case, will Hu Fan really sneak through the guardrail and enter the cemetery?"
"Since you came here by taxi, you must be going to the cemetery. If you don't go here, where will you go?"
Gu Chen asked himself.
Seeing that the white-haired old man was still explaining to everyone, Gu Chen couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately interrupted everyone's speech and asked the old man directly:
"Master, can you open the door and let us in?"
"Comrade policeman, what are you doing in the cemetery this late at night?" The old man was a little confused.
Gu Chen explained: "We want to go and see, after all, this woman disappeared here, and her mother has already called the police."
"So, now we have to do our best to find her, and we can only search from the place where she last appeared, which is here. I hope you can cooperate."
Seeing that Gu Chen was talking about this, the white-haired old man couldn't stop him, so he nodded and agreed, "Okay, since you are here to investigate, then...then come with me .”
Walking to a wall, the white-haired old man took down a flashlight hanging on the wall, and then took out the key from his pocket.
Afterwards, he led everyone through a passage to a small door, opened the locked door with a key, and led everyone into the cemetery.
Everyone followed the old man, and as soon as they stepped into the range of the cemetery, a few birds flew away in fright.
Lu Weiwei shrank her neck involuntarily, and said in a bad mood: "This place is really yin."
"Can you not be heavy? After all, they are places where the dead are buried. We are now on their territory, so Lu Weiwei, you'd better keep a low profile." Police Officer Wang also reminded.
Walking in the cemetery at night really makes people feel a little eerie.
In particular, the moonlight in the sky was still not blocked by clouds, which made the cemetery, which was not very bright, suddenly a little eerie.
Everyone held strong flashlights and began to shine on the side of the road.
Based on the experience of being here before, Gu Chen quickly found the area where Ye Juanjuan's tombstone is located.
"This is it." Gu Chen explained, "This is Ye Juanjuan's tombstone. We stayed here with Hu Fanzhen for a long time that afternoon."
"It was also that afternoon that Hu Fanzhen cried and told me about the secret words she had with Ye Juanjuan."
After a pause, Gu Chen squatted down, came to Ye Juanjuan's tombstone, and said with emotion: "I don't know what kind of secret is there between these two women?"
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During the phone call, Hu Fanzhen's mother was very depressed. Obviously, the sudden disappearance of her daughter put her under tremendous psychological pressure.
It was also out of good intentions to let her daughter come to Jiangnan City to visit her dead friend, thinking that children should be encouraged to have this kind of friendship.
But what seemed to be a normal trip originally went wrong in the final stage.
You know, Hu Fan was really sent to the hotel at Jiangnanbei Station by Gu Chen himself, but now something went wrong, obviously, there must be something wrong in some link.
Either the hotel's problem, or Hu Fanzhen's own problem.
But how is it? Gu Chen is not investigating now, so he does not have enough right to speak.
Taking a deep breath, Gu Chen said solemnly: "Madam, don't worry, can you tell me the content of the last phone call between you and your daughter Hu Fanzhen?"
"Yes." On the other end of the phone, Hu Fanzhen's mother let out a long sigh, and then said slowly:
"The last call was the morning before yesterday, when my daughter Hu Fanzhen was about to arrive at Jiangnanbei Station. She said she had arrived and a local friend would come to pick her up. She said it was a handsome policeman."
"I thought to myself, if my daughter comes to a strange city and the local police will pick her up, it shouldn't be a big problem, so there is nothing to worry about."
"But later, that is, at night, no matter how I make a call, my daughter's mobile phone disappears because it is not answered. I don't know what to do..."
"Wait a minute." Before the middle-aged woman could finish speaking, Gu Chen hurriedly asked her, "What time did you call Hu Fanzhen that night, that is, the night before yesterday?"
"Uh...probably... around 10 in the evening. To be precise, I sent a message to my daughter at around 9:30 that night, asking how she was doing in Jiangnan City? But there was no reply."
"So I waited for half an hour, but I still didn't get a reply from my daughter, so I was a little panicked at that time, and then called the past."
"As a result, my daughter's mobile phone was turned off. I felt a little bit in my heart at the time, and comforted myself by saying that my daughter's mobile phone might be out of battery, and maybe it was charging."
Trying to calm down her nervousness, the middle-aged woman adjusted her breathing, and said: "But, I made an appointment with her to talk at night, even if my daughter's cell phone is dead, she should tell me first, right? But she didn't."
"So I'm very nervous, always thinking about the bad side, and then I can't sleep all night, it's just insomnia."
"Well, what then?" Gu Chen recorded these and asked the middle-aged woman.
"And then? Then the next morning, I called my daughter early in the morning, but no one answered, and then I called again around 10 am, and at noon."
"But it's all useless, because my daughter's phone keeps turning off, and I... my whole body is about to collapse."
Having said that, the middle-aged woman on the phone is also in some condition.
Gu Chen continued to comfort: "Don't worry, if you couldn't get through to your daughter Hu Fanzhen until noon yesterday, it means that something happened to Hu Fanzhen, so why did you choose to call the police now?"
"Because I'm not sure." The middle-aged woman on the other end of the phone said in frustration, "I was so self-comforting at the time."
"I think my daughter, Hu Fanzhen, may just have lost or stolen her mobile phone, so she won't be able to contact me for a while."
"I just waited and waited with this fluke mentality, just wanting to wait for my daughter to use another number to report my safety again."
"Because she didn't call me on the appointed night, she should also know that I am worried about her, so I will wait for her to call me and explain her specific situation over there."
"So? Hu Fan really knows your phone number?" Gu Chen asked.
"I know, my daughter Hu Fan can really remember the phone numbers of me and her father."
"It stands to reason that she should be able to call me easily, but she didn't have it all day yesterday. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what to do at the time."
"So, until today, until now, I made up my mind and found the phone number of your Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch in Jiangnan City."
"Because I have heard that she said that the policeman from the Furong branch received her. Gu Chen, after I inquired, I found out that you are in the criminal investigation team, so I found the criminal investigation team and called."
"I just want you to help me, help me find Zhenzhen, I'm really worried about her safety now, I...I have no choice, woo..."
In the end, the middle-aged woman burst into tears.
It seemed that Hu Fan's disappearance had already caused the middle-aged woman to cry bitterly.
Gu Chen took a deep breath, tried to comfort him and said, "Okay, I will help you with this matter, please leave a specific message, if there is any news, I will inform you as soon as possible, what do you think?"
"Yes." The middle-aged woman on the other end of the phone stopped crying when she heard that Gu Chen was willing to help.
"What's your name?"
"My name is Zhuang Caixia." The woman said.
"Is this the phone?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Yes, that's the phone number."
"Give me your ID card." Gu Chen said again.
After the two asked and answered, Gu Chen finished recording Zhuang Haixia's personal information and contact information, and promised that he would dispatch the police as soon as possible to find Hu Fan's real whereabouts.
Only then did Zhuang Haixia hang up the phone gratefully.
Lu Weiwei on the side listened to Gu Chen talking there for a long time, and seemed to have gotten some specific information from Gu Chen's conversation.
When Gu Chen put down the phone and came back, Lu Weiwei was the first to ask Gu Chen:
"Junior Brother Gu, it's Hu Fanzhen's mother calling, right?"
"That's right, Hu Fan really disappeared, just the night before yesterday, after we sent her to the hotel." Gu Chen said.
Lu Weiwei frowned slightly: "How did this happen? After she went to the hotel, didn't she just take the high-speed train and leave? Why did she suddenly disappear?"
"It's not clear yet." Gu Chen took the note in his hand, walked directly to He Junchao, and said:
"Senior Brother He, you can immediately help me retrieve the surveillance camera at Jiangnanbei Station, near the High-Speed Railway Hotel, at around 5:30 p.m. the day before yesterday."
"No problem." He Junchao also heard the conversation between Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei just now, so he immediately started the operating system and retrieved the surveillance screen at around 5:30 pm the day before yesterday.
At this moment, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha also gathered around to check the surveillance screen.
In the picture, the vehicle driven by Gu Chen slowly enters the gate of the high-speed railway hotel.
Lu Weiwei reminded immediately: "This car belongs to us, and we are here to part with Hu Fanzhen."
"En." After understanding, He Junchao nodded slightly, and then sped up the progress again.
In the picture, Hu Fanzhen dragged his luggage, said goodbye to everyone, and walked directly to the hotel.
After that, Gu Chen drove away.
"Speed up the progress." Gu Chen reminded.
He Junchao nodded slightly, and continued to speed up the screen.
In the picture, there is an endless flow of various characters.
But it didn't take long for Gu Chen to discover the scene of Hu Fanzhen walking out of the hotel, and Dang even stopped and said, "Stop."
He Junchao clicked to pause.
Gu Chen stretched out his hand directly on the screen, Hu Fanzhen tapped twice, and said, "Enlarge the screen."
He Junchao obeyed, and the picture continued to enlarge, and Hu Fanzhen's picture suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
"That's right, this person is Hu Fanzhen." Officer Wang said with certainty.
"The time here is 6:10 p.m.." Yuan Shasha confirmed the exact time, and said:
"Then let's see where this Hu Fanzhen is going next? I don't think she has any luggage, which means she is only going out for a short time."
"Understood." He Junchao continued to operate the computer system.
Soon, Hu Fanzhen appeared on the side of the road, stopped a taxi, and disappeared from the surveillance screen.
"The taxi's license plate ends with 663, after He Junchao recorded the taxi's license plate, he continued to follow up and investigate.
With the constant switching of various shots, no matter where the taxi is going? He Junchao was able to use the nearest surveillance on the road to capture it in the first place. "
But towards the end, fewer and fewer pictures appeared.
There was even a monitoring interruption in the middle.
"What's going on?" Officer Wang couldn't help but exclaimed.
He Junchao looked helpless, and explained: "This is the direction to the suburbs, and the monitoring is not so intensive."
After the voice fell, He Junchao called out the next monitoring, and then said again: "This taxi must have turned around here, because there is no monitoring in front, and this car drove here and then turned back. reach the destination."
"This place seems very familiar." Lu Weiwei squinted her eyes, and seemed to feel that the route was familiar.
Gu Chen suddenly snapped his fingers and said, "I see, this is the direction to the cemetery. We just brought Hu Fanzhen to the cemetery the afternoon before yesterday."
"That's right." Yuan Shasha was shocked when she heard the words, "Isn't this the cemetery?"
"Going in from here, it won't be long before the cemetery..."
Speaking of this, Yuan Shasha was quite puzzled and said, "But, Hu Fanzhen only went to the cemetery in the afternoon, why did he go there again in the evening? What is she going to do?"
"Don't worry about this for now." Gu Chen put his hands on his chest and took a deep breath, then asked He Junchao again:
"Senior brother He, is there any other monitoring near the cemetery?"
He Junchao used the computer mouse to select an area on the digital map, and only a few monitoring icons popped up.
He Junchao shook his head and said: "Just here, there is a monitoring at a location on another road. There is no monitoring in the direction to the cemetery."
"Then take a look and see if this Hu Fan really came out of the cemetery?" Lu Weiwei was also anxious now.
I feel that Hu Fan's real whereabouts are really unpredictable.
He Junchao was not idle either, and began to speed up the investigation based on the monitoring screen.
Then people came and went around, and many vehicles passed by, but the investigation continued until around 8 o'clock this morning, and there was still no real trace of Hu Fan.
He Junchao was a little frustrated, but Police Officer Wang continued to remind: "Look at the picture of the high-speed rail hotel again, and see if Hu Fanzhen has returned to the hotel?"
"I'll try." He Junchao was a little helpless, and continued to obey.
Afterwards, two monitors were opened and displayed side by side.
On the left is the monitoring of the road closest to the cemetery, and on the right is the monitoring of the high-speed rail hotel.
Both monitors have been advancing.
However, the monitoring time continued until this afternoon, and there was no trace of Hu Fanzhen.
"It's strange." Lu Weiwei crossed her arms and said with a slight frown:
"What's the real situation with this Hu Fan? Why didn't he even go back to the hotel? He just disappeared?"
Looking at the monitoring screen again, Lu Weiwei said again: "But the last place she appeared, or the last place that could be monitored, was the cemetery. Could it be that she hasn't come out since she went to the cemetery?"
"There must be a problem." Gu Chenlai walked behind everyone, and said in retrospect:
"If that's the case, then Hu Fan is really in the hotel, maybe she didn't check out. If she didn't check out, it means that she might not plan not to come back, it was just an accident. It mainly depends on what the other side of the hotel says."
"It's simple, just call and ask the hotel." He Junchao searched on the computer, and quickly found the contact information of the Gaotie Hotel, and immediately called it to Gu Chendao: "This is the contact number of the Gaotie Hotel."
Without saying a word, Gu Chen walked directly to the landline phone in the office, clicked on speakerphone, and started dialing.
Not long after, the phone was connected, and a middle-aged man asked:
"Hello, this is Jiangnan High-speed Railway Hotel. Do you want to make a reservation?"
"I'm Gu Chen from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch." Gu Chen directly revealed his identity.
"Oh, comrade policeman, is there anything I need to take care of?" The middle-aged man on the other end of the phone had obviously dealt with the police many times.
Therefore, hearing Gu Chen's identity, there were not many emotions, and he directly asked Gu Chen's needs.
"Around 5:30 p.m. the day before yesterday, did a real guest named Hu Fan check in at your hotel?" Gu Chen asked.
"Wait a minute, I'll check for you." The middle-aged man greeted, and immediately began to help Gu Chen check.
Gu Chen only heard the sound of typing on the keyboard on the other end of the phone one after another.
Not long after, I heard the man on the phone reply:
"That's right, a woman named Hu Fanzhen checked in, but it's very strange. This woman only opened the room for one day. Logically speaking, she should check out at noon yesterday, but she didn't check out."
"Fortunately, there was a deposit, so I helped her renew the room, but it was strange that Hu Fanzhen still didn't come to the front desk to check out until 12 noon today."
"So there is no way, we just asked the cleaning aunt to temporarily put her mind in the warehouse of our hotel, and then vacate the room."
"That is to say, since Hu Fanzhen checked in that day, he hasn't checked out?" Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Gu Chen also asked him in confirmation.
The middle-aged man said: "That's right, she didn't check out, and she even kept her luggage with us."
"At first, we thought that we would return the luggage to her if she had already exceeded the time limit and pay the fee for the extension of the room. But now she has not come to claim it, anyway, the luggage has been kept there."
"Okay, I see." Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Gu Chen thought about it for a second, and said again:
"In this way, if Hu Fan really returns to the hotel, you should contact me as soon as possible and ask for Gu Chen from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch."
"Understood, I will notify you when she comes back," the man said.
The two also exchanged a few words of pleasantries, and both hung up the phone.
Returning to He Junchao, Police Officer Wang also asked curiously: "What? Hu Fan really didn't check out? He just disappeared?"
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded reluctantly, and said in retrospect:
"This Hu Fanzhen, since we left that afternoon, I found something wrong."
"Especially when she was in the cemetery, she felt very sad, and she didn't pay much attention at the time."
"However, she also told me some secret words between her and Ye Juanjuan."
"Dark...dark words? Did she really tell you about this?" Police Officer Wang was also amazed when he heard the words.
Lu Weiwei on the side also nodded in agreement: "That's right, we sent Hu Fanzhen to the Gaotie Hotel that day, and before she left, she told Junior Brother Gu not to tell about this matter."
"Junior Brother Gu only told me that there was some secret word between Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan."
"It's not that you wait a little longer, why am I getting more and more confused?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's words, Police Officer Wang felt his head buzzing, and he couldn't help asking curiously:
"You said that Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan had some sort of code word, what's going on?"
"It's just..." Lu Weiwei was about to speak, but she didn't know how to say it.
So he glanced at Gu Chen, and said again: "Junior Brother Gu, you should say it."
"Hmm." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said in retrospect, "Hu Fanzhen said that she had some in-depth exchanges with Ye Juanjuan."
"Specifically, Ye Juanjuan once told Hu Fanzhen that she might die, but she was not reconciled. At that time, Hu Fanzhen didn't quite understand, and felt that Ye Juanjuan was a little sentimental."
"But Ye Juanjuan also concealed her heart disease from Hu Fanzhen at that time, so Hu Fanzhen at that time couldn't understand it at all."
"But later, Ye Juanjuan said that she may die, but she is not reconciled. If one day, Hu Fan can really visit her and meet her parents, then she will buy some Jiangbei specialty donkey rolling."
"Donkey rolling?" He Junchao asked curiously when he heard it: "What is green rolling? Donkey meat dim sum?"
"No." Lu Weiwei shook her head and denied, "It's a special pastry in Jiangbei, or even in the north, it's just called that."
"Okay, I'm ignorant." He Junchao stretched out his hand after hearing Lu Weiwei's words, and said, "Gu Chen, continue."
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and continued:
"That's what Ye Juanjuan meant, and asked Hu Fanzhen to bring some Jiangbei specialty dim sum donkey rolls to visit her parents."
"If her parents look surprised, it means that she died unjustly. If not, then everything is normal."
"This matter was just something that Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan occasionally brought up while chatting online. Hu Fanzhen didn't take it seriously. He always felt that Ye Juanjuan was joking."
"But later, until this time, Hu Fanzhen learned that Ye Juanjuan had passed away several years ago on the phone, and she was completely dumbfounded."
"It wasn't until I went to the Jiangbei High-speed Railway Station to take the train and saw the station's special snack donkey rolling that I didn't think of this matter that the two of them had chatted on the Internet before."
After a pause, Gu Chen said again:
"So, Hu Fanzhen bought a lot of donkeys at the station in Jiangbei, with the mentality of trying, and prepared to take them to Jiangnan City. After meeting Ye Juanjuan's parents, he gave them as a meeting gift."
"However, when Ye Juanjuan's parents saw the donkey rolling cakes, they were really surprised. I was there at the time and discovered these problems."
"Is that so?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Police Officer Wang was quite curious and asked:
"That is to say, the reaction of Ye Juanjuan's parents at that time verified the matter that Ye Juanjuan chatted with Hu Fanzhen on the Internet a few years ago, right?"
"Yes." Gu Chen nodded fiercely, and said in confirmation:
"If it is said that the things that Ye Juanjuan and Hu Fanzhen chatted on the Internet a few years ago were serious, then what Ye Juanjuan said represents certain meanings."
"It's just that the two of them hadn't even seen each other at the time, so Hu Fanzhen didn't pay much attention."
"But when she rolled the donkey into the hands of Ye Juanjuan's parents according to Ye Juanjuan's request before she was alive, the reaction of Ye Juanjuan's parents suddenly made Hu Fanzhen feel very nervous."
"Because these circumstances have been verified, it shows that Ye Juanjuan died unjustly."
Listening to Gu Chen's explanation here, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, as if feeling incredible.
Yuan Shasha also couldn't help but sighed: "Then according to this statement, it is obvious that there seems to be something wrong with Ye Juanjuan's parents."
"Could it be that Ye Juanjuan's death has something to do with her parents?" Officer Wang also threw out his own hypothesis.
Gu Chen shook his head, but also said uncertainly: "As far as the current situation is concerned, we can't say for sure."
"However, Hu Fanzhen's sad posture in front of Ye Juanjuan's tombstone is simply impossible to pretend."
"Obviously, Hu Fan really felt that there was something strange about Ye Juanjuan's death, and she wanted to investigate the cause of Ye Juanjuan's death."
"Damn it." Police Officer Wang slapped the table and said angrily:
"How do you investigate the girl Ye Juanjuan who died a few years ago? She has been cremated and turned into a pile of ashes. How can you investigate?"
After walking back and forth twice with his waist in his hands, Officer Wang asked Gu Chen again: "Gu Chen, according to what you said, do you suspect that there is something wrong with Ye Juanjuan's parents?"
Gu Chen didn't answer right away, but after hesitating for a few seconds, he said slowly:
"If nothing happened to Hu Fan, maybe I wouldn't think so, but the problem now is that after Hu Fanzhen told me about the situation that day, she left the high-speed rail hotel where she was staying that night."
"And judging from the fact that she didn't check out, it's obvious that she was going to come back, but it's very likely that some accident happened, which made it impossible for her to go back to the hotel."
"Yes." Lu Weiwei rested her chin and said in thought: "This Hu Fanzhen, after coming out of the hotel, took a taxi to the direction of the cemetery. Obviously, she went for Ye Juanjuan."
"Because the factor that really has a connection with Hu Fan is Ye Juanjuan."
After a pause, Lu Weiwei was still puzzled and said, "But Ye Juanjuan is already dead, and Hu Fanzhen came all the way here, and she has already paid homage to Ye Juanjuan, so why does she have to go to the cemetery at night?"
"Going to the cemetery at night shows that there are some things that you can't do during the day, and you can only choose to do it in the dead of night." Police Officer Wang had a whim, and said:
"Could it be that there are other secrets between Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan? I just didn't dare to tell you?"
"Eh?" Hearing Officer Wang's words, Lu Weiwei immediately said: "Old Wang, let alone, the hypothesis you put forward is not impossible, and the possibility is very high."
"Then now?" Yuan Shasha has no direction at the moment.
Gu Chen snapped his fingers and said, "In my opinion, we'd better go to the cemetery and see what's going on over there."
"I agree." Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei directly raised her hand in agreement.
Everyone summed up without thinking too much, leaving He Junchao in the office, responsible for providing technical support to everyone.
Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, and drove directly to the cemetery.
It was already 6:10 p.m. at the entrance of the cemetery.
At this moment, the gate of the cemetery has been closed, and there is only a faint light on the building at the gate.
In this deep mountain and old forest, the area of the cemetery is very cloudy.
Coupled with the calls of various birds around, the atmosphere of the scene was quite strange.
Yuan Shasha shrank her neck, pointed at the light in front of her and said, "There are still people living here at night in this cemetery. Thinking about this person living with a bunch of dead people every day, it's... quite scary."
"Hehe, as long as the salary is high, if you let them sleep in a cemetery in the wilderness at night, they will be willing to try." Officer Wang is not surprised.
You know, there is also an office here in the cemetery. If you are still living here at night, you must be the guardian of the tomb.
Due to the large size of the cemetery here, people also need to be on duty.
At this moment, the surrounding area was very quiet, and there was only this police car with the license plate ending in AE86 in the parking lot outside.
"Get out of the car and go over to see the situation." Gu Chen suggested.
So everyone got out of the car one after another and came to the door of the building ahead.
The glass door was already locked, so Gu Chen and the others took out the strong flashlights, first irradiated the interior of the building for a while, and then began to knock on the door.
"Tuk tuk!"
"Is anyone there? Is anyone there?"
"Tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk! Can you please open the door?"
Amidst the continuous knocking on the door, there was finally movement in the house.
From a room in the hall, a white-haired old man suddenly walked out.
Seeing four figures standing at the door, the white-haired old man turned on the light and walked towards the door.
"Eh? Are you a comrade policeman?" Seeing that it was four policemen who came, the white-haired old man immediately became polite.
Through the glass door, he also asked curiously: "Comrade police, what are you doing here at night?"
"Can you open the door first, let's go in and say yes?" Seeing the gloomy atmosphere outside, Police Officer Wang didn't want to stand at the door and talk to the old man through the glass door.
The old man grinned, unlocked the door and let everyone in.
After closing the door, Officer Wang suddenly felt that the gloomy atmosphere had subsided a lot, and he couldn't help sighing:
"After the sun goes down in this place, the atmosphere always feels weird."
"Haha, of course." The white-haired old man also smiled slightly, explaining to everyone:
"In fact, the choice of cemetery can also be important, and Fengshui is even more important. Fengshui in this area is good, so it is suitable for a cemetery."
"In addition to this place, it is surrounded by woods, so it forms a low-lying area."
"When the sun goes down, it's very cloudy here, so you feel weird, and that's normal."
"If you didn't have those cemeteries, you wouldn't feel this way. In fact, it's all your own psychology that is at work."
"Really?" Police Officer Wang was stunned, and said again: "Well, even if it's a psychological problem, it's really scary to come to the cemetery at night."
"That's right." The white-haired old man remembered that these policemen didn't know what to do when they came here, so he hurriedly asked:
"You haven't said, what are you doing here? You know, there are almost no people who stay here after the sun goes down."
Upon hearing this, Lu Weiwei immediately smiled and said, "Then aren't you human?"
"I'm a mausoleum guardian. I'm different from you. I guard the souls of the dead in this cemetery, and I also want to prevent forest fires."
"Anyway, it's my job to stay here, it's different from you."
"Okay, let's not talk about this." Gu Chen felt the need to explain his purpose to the old man who guarded the tomb, so he explained:
"The day before yesterday afternoon, around 4 o'clock, we came here with people from the TV station and newspaper, do you remember?"
Hearing what Gu Chen said, the white-haired old man tried his best to think back for a few seconds, and finally said: "That's right, I remember that around 4 o'clock in the afternoon the day before yesterday, some people came, and some people were carrying cameras."
"Very good." Seeing that the white-haired old man knew, Gu Chen said again: "That afternoon, there was a woman from Jiangbei City who came to pay homage to her friend who passed away."
"But after this girl returned to the hotel, she took a taxi and came here again. After that, she disappeared."
"What... what? Missing?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, the white-haired old man was a little confused, and hurriedly asked Gu Chen:
"Comrade policeman, what do you mean, that woman came to pay her respects in the afternoon, but did she run back here at night?"
"Yes." Lu Weiwei also nodded fiercely, and explained: "She came back here again that night."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Before Lu Weiwei finished speaking, the white-haired old man waved his hand and denied:
"In places like ours, after the sun goes down, especially after five or six o'clock in the afternoon, there are basically no people."
"As far as this is concerned, I have stayed here for so many years, and it has always been like this. No one will come over."
"Besides, it's late at night, what are you doing here? Are you free?"
"But we checked the relevant surveillance and found that she had indeed been here, otherwise we wouldn't have come here to investigate at night."
Police officer Wang also watched the surveillance, and he also reasoned with the old man.
Seeing that the police had investigated the surveillance, the white-haired old man raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you sure?"
"Sure!"
The four spoke almost in unison.
At this moment, the white-haired old man felt a little shaken, and murmured, "Could it be that this little girl left something in the cemetery, so she came here to pick it up?"
"However, I must have taken control of the iron gate at that time. If you want to enter the cemetery, you must let me open the gate, but why didn't I know that someone had come?"
The white-haired old man scratched the back of his head, also very puzzled.
But Yuan Shasha also put forward a hypothesis: "Could it be that you were going to the bathroom at that time, or did something else and didn't pay attention?"
"No." The white-haired old man shook his head and explained, "I usually live here alone, and if there is any movement outside, I can actually hear it clearly from here."
"As long as someone knocks on the door or calls outside, I can hear it. But the night before yesterday, I didn't find anyone coming. I'm sure of that."
"Master." Seeing that the white-haired old man categorically denied it, Gu Chen glanced in the direction of the cemetery outside, and then asked again:
"You said that if you want to enter the cemetery, you must come to you to get the key, is that true?"
"Yes." The white-haired old man nodded in confirmation.
"However, the walls of your cemetery are not high, and there is only one sliding door at the main entrance, which is not high, but anyone with a bit of skill can pass by just looking through it, isn't it?"
Gu Chen's rhetorical question reminded the white-haired old man.
The old man's expression was blank, and he nodded in approval: "Young man, the problem you mentioned... is actually true."
"That's right, the wall around our cemetery is actually just a decoration, it's just a plot of land."
"If it is said that it is not impossible to climb in from the outside, and it is not too big."
"But you can ask me for the key and enter the cemetery openly, so why do you want to sneak in by yourself? It doesn't make sense?"
"You said you lost something, let me take a flashlight and go look for it together, but I didn't see anyone coming the night before, really."
The white-haired old man was quite sure.
As the gatekeeper of the cemetery here, the uncle clearly knows that no one will come over at night.
I have worn it to work here for many years, so I am very clear about the surrounding environment, and the theoretical possibility that Gu Chen mentioned is almost non-existent.
But Gu Chen didn't agree.
If normal people come here, of course they will go to the white-haired old man.
But Hu Fan is really different.
That afternoon, Hu Fanzhen had just met Ye Juanjuan, a friend who had been out of touch for several years, and seemed to recall the secret message that Ye Juanjuan had told him back then, which was to roll the donkey.
And at Ye Juanjuan's home, seeing Ye Juanjuan's parents, Hu Fanzhen also verified what Ye Juanjuan had told him back then.
Perhaps, it was because of this incident that Hu Fanzhen became suspicious.
Perhaps, the communication between Ye Juanjuan and Hu Fanzhen may not be so simple.
But what exactly? Gu Chen doesn't know yet, probably only these two little girls know.
And that afternoon, Gu Chen also had a brief exchange with Hu Fanzhen in front of Ye Juanjuan's tombstone.
From then on, Gu Chen realized that Hu Fan's face was really ugly.
On the one hand, it was the sadness over the death of his friend, and on the other hand, there was something strange in Hu Fanzhen's eyes, as if he couldn't accept this fact at all.
Maybe she didn't want to talk to Gu Chen about the secret language she and Ye Juanjuan chatted on the Internet a few years ago.
It was only because of the emotion at the time that I couldn't help sharing these with Gu Chen.
But afterward, Hu Fanzhen didn't say anything more? Even when Gu Chen sent Hu Fanzhen back to the Gaotie Hotel, Hu Fanzhen asked Gu Chen to keep the secret.
From this point of view, Gu Chen felt that this Hu Fanzhen might be doing something sneaky.
But what exactly? Gu Chen is not clear now.
Looking at the surrounding environment and the white-haired old man, Gu Chen suddenly felt.
If Hu Fan really returned to the cemetery that night, then if she came with some purpose, no one would know about it.
There is no such thing as an old man who guards the tomb of a comrade.
"Then if this is the case, will Hu Fan really sneak through the guardrail and enter the cemetery?"
"Since you came here by taxi, you must be going to the cemetery. If you don't go here, where will you go?"
Gu Chen asked himself.
Seeing that the white-haired old man was still explaining to everyone, Gu Chen couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately interrupted everyone's speech and asked the old man directly:
"Master, can you open the door and let us in?"
"Comrade policeman, what are you doing in the cemetery this late at night?" The old man was a little confused.
Gu Chen explained: "We want to go and see, after all, this woman disappeared here, and her mother has already called the police."
"So, now we have to do our best to find her, and we can only search from the place where she last appeared, which is here. I hope you can cooperate."
Seeing that Gu Chen was talking about this, the white-haired old man couldn't stop him, so he nodded and agreed, "Okay, since you are here to investigate, then...then come with me .”
Walking to a wall, the white-haired old man took down a flashlight hanging on the wall, and then took out the key from his pocket.
Afterwards, he led everyone through a passage to a small door, opened the locked door with a key, and led everyone into the cemetery.
Everyone followed the old man, and as soon as they stepped into the range of the cemetery, a few birds flew away in fright.
Lu Weiwei shrank her neck involuntarily, and said in a bad mood: "This place is really yin."
"Can you not be heavy? After all, they are places where the dead are buried. We are now on their territory, so Lu Weiwei, you'd better keep a low profile." Police Officer Wang also reminded.
Walking in the cemetery at night really makes people feel a little eerie.
In particular, the moonlight in the sky was still not blocked by clouds, which made the cemetery, which was not very bright, suddenly a little eerie.
Everyone held strong flashlights and began to shine on the side of the road.
Based on the experience of being here before, Gu Chen quickly found the area where Ye Juanjuan's tombstone is located.
"This is it." Gu Chen explained, "This is Ye Juanjuan's tombstone. We stayed here with Hu Fanzhen for a long time that afternoon."
"It was also that afternoon that Hu Fanzhen cried and told me about the secret words she had with Ye Juanjuan."
After a pause, Gu Chen squatted down, came to Ye Juanjuan's tombstone, and said with emotion: "I don't know what kind of secret is there between these two women?"
...
During the phone call, Hu Fanzhen's mother was very depressed. Obviously, the sudden disappearance of her daughter put her under tremendous psychological pressure. It was also out of good intentions to let her daughter come to Jiangnan City to visit her dead friend, thinking that children should be encouraged to have this kind of friendship. But what seemed to be a normal trip originally went wrong in the final stage. You know, Hu Fan was really sent to the hotel at Jiangnanbei Station by Gu Chen himself, but now something went wrong, obviously, there must be something wrong in some link. Either the hotel's problem, or Hu Fanzhen's own problem. But how is it? Gu Chen is not investigating now, so he does not have enough right to speak. Taking a deep breath, Gu Chen said solemnly: "Madam, don't worry, can you tell me the content of the last phone call between you and your daughter Hu Fanzhen?" "Yes." On the other end of the phone, Hu Fanzhen's mother let out a long sigh, and then said slowly: "The last call was the morning before yesterday, when my daughter Hu Fanzhen was about to arrive at Jiangnanbei Station. She said she had arrived and a local friend would come to pick her up. She said it was a handsome policeman." "I thought to myself, if my daughter comes to a strange city and the local police will pick her up, it shouldn't be a big problem, so there is nothing to worry about." "But later, that is, at night, no matter how I make a call, my daughter's mobile phone disappears because it is not answered. I don't know what to do..." "Wait a minute." Before the middle-aged woman could finish speaking, Gu Chen hurriedly asked her, "What time did you call Hu Fanzhen that night, that is, the night before yesterday?" "Uh...probably... around 10 in the evening. To be precise, I sent a message to my daughter at around 9:30 that night, asking how she was doing in Jiangnan City? But there was no reply." "So I waited for half an hour, but I still didn't get a reply from my daughter, so I was a little panicked at that time, and then called the past." "As a result, my daughter's mobile phone was turned off. I felt a little bit in my heart at the time, and comforted myself by saying that my daughter's mobile phone might be out of battery, and maybe it was charging." Trying to calm down her nervousness, the middle-aged woman adjusted her breathing, and said: "But, I made an appointment with her to talk at night, even if my daughter's cell phone is dead, she should tell me first, right? But she didn't." "So I'm very nervous, always thinking about the bad side, and then I can't sleep all night, it's just insomnia." "Well, what then?" Gu Chen recorded these and asked the middle-aged woman. "And then? Then the next morning, I called my daughter early in the morning, but no one answered, and then I called again around 10 am, and at noon." "But it's all useless, because my daughter's phone keeps turning off, and I... my whole body is about to collapse." Having said that, the middle-aged woman on the phone is also in some condition. Gu Chen continued to comfort: "Don't worry, if you couldn't get through to your daughter Hu Fanzhen until noon yesterday, it means that something happened to Hu Fanzhen, so why did you choose to call the police now?" "Because I'm not sure." The middle-aged woman on the other end of the phone said in frustration, "I was so self-comforting at the time." "I think my daughter, Hu Fanzhen, may just have lost or stolen her mobile phone, so she won't be able to contact me for a while." "I just waited and waited with this fluke mentality, just wanting to wait for my daughter to use another number to report my safety again." "Because she didn't call me on the appointed night, she should also know that I am worried about her, so I will wait for her to call me and explain her specific situation over there." "So? Hu Fan really knows your phone number?" Gu Chen asked. "I know, my daughter Hu Fan can really remember the phone numbers of me and her father." "It stands to reason that she should be able to call me easily, but she didn't have it all day yesterday. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what to do at the time." "So, until today, until now, I made up my mind and found the phone number of your Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch in Jiangnan City." "Because I have heard that she said that the policeman from the Furong branch received her. Gu Chen, after I inquired, I found out that you are in the criminal investigation team, so I found the criminal investigation team and called." "I just want you to help me, help me find Zhenzhen, I'm really worried about her safety now, I...I have no choice, woo..." In the end, the middle-aged woman burst into tears. It seemed that Hu Fan's disappearance had already caused the middle-aged woman to cry bitterly. Gu Chen took a deep breath, tried to comfort him and said, "Okay, I will help you with this matter, please leave a specific message, if there is any news, I will inform you as soon as possible, what do you think?" "Yes." The middle-aged woman on the other end of the phone stopped crying when she heard that Gu Chen was willing to help. "What's your name?" "My name is Zhuang Caixia." The woman said. "Is this the phone?" Gu Chen asked again. "Yes, that's the phone number." "Give me your ID card." Gu Chen said again. After the two asked and answered, Gu Chen finished recording Zhuang Haixia's personal information and contact information, and promised that he would dispatch the police as soon as possible to find Hu Fan's real whereabouts. Only then did Zhuang Haixia hang up the phone gratefully. Lu Weiwei on the side listened to Gu Chen talking there for a long time, and seemed to have gotten some specific information from Gu Chen's conversation. When Gu Chen put down the phone and came back, Lu Weiwei was the first to ask Gu Chen: "Junior Brother Gu, it's Hu Fanzhen's mother calling, right?" "That's right, Hu Fan really disappeared, just the night before yesterday, after we sent her to the hotel." Gu Chen said. Lu Weiwei frowned slightly: "How did this happen? After she went to the hotel, didn't she just take the high-speed train and leave? Why did she suddenly disappear?" "It's not clear yet." Gu Chen took the note in his hand, walked directly to He Junchao, and said: "Senior Brother He, you can immediately help me retrieve the surveillance camera at Jiangnanbei Station, near the High-Speed Railway Hotel, at around 5:30 p.m. the day before yesterday." "No problem." He Junchao also heard the conversation between Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei just now, so he immediately started the operating system and retrieved the surveillance screen at around 5:30 pm the day before yesterday. At this moment, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha also gathered around to check the surveillance screen. In the picture, the vehicle driven by Gu Chen slowly enters the gate of the high-speed railway hotel. Lu Weiwei reminded immediately: "This car belongs to us, and we are here to part with Hu Fanzhen." "En." After understanding, He Junchao nodded slightly, and then sped up the progress again. In the picture, Hu Fanzhen dragged his luggage, said goodbye to everyone, and walked directly to the hotel. After that, Gu Chen drove away. "Speed up the progress." Gu Chen reminded. He Junchao nodded slightly, and continued to speed up the screen. In the picture, there is an endless flow of various characters. But it didn't take long for Gu Chen to discover the scene of Hu Fanzhen walking out of the hotel, and Dang even stopped and said, "Stop." He Junchao clicked to pause. Gu Chen stretched out his hand directly on the screen, Hu Fanzhen tapped twice, and said, "Enlarge the screen." He Junchao obeyed, and the picture continued to enlarge, and Hu Fanzhen's picture suddenly appeared in front of everyone. "That's right, this person is Hu Fanzhen." Officer Wang said with certainty. "The time here is 6:10 p.m.." Yuan Shasha confirmed the exact time, and said: "Then let's see where this Hu Fanzhen is going next? I don't think she has any luggage, which means she is only going out for a short time." "Understood." He Junchao continued to operate the computer system. Soon, Hu Fanzhen appeared on the side of the road, stopped a taxi, and disappeared from the surveillance screen. "The taxi's license plate ends with 663, after He Junchao recorded the taxi's license plate, he continued to follow up and investigate. With the constant switching of various shots, no matter where the taxi is going? He Junchao was able to use the nearest surveillance on the road to capture it in the first place. " But towards the end, fewer and fewer pictures appeared. There was even a monitoring interruption in the middle. "What's going on?" Officer Wang couldn't help but exclaimed. He Junchao looked helpless, and explained: "This is the direction to the suburbs, and the monitoring is not so intensive." After the voice fell, He Junchao called out the next monitoring, and then said again: "This taxi must have turned around here, because there is no monitoring in front, and this car drove here and then turned back. reach the destination." "This place seems very familiar." Lu Weiwei squinted her eyes, and seemed to feel that the route was familiar. Gu Chen suddenly snapped his fingers and said, "I see, this is the direction to the cemetery. We just brought Hu Fanzhen to the cemetery the afternoon before yesterday." "That's right." Yuan Shasha was shocked when she heard the words, "Isn't this the cemetery?" "Going in from here, it won't be long before the cemetery..." Speaking of this, Yuan Shasha was quite puzzled and said, "But, Hu Fanzhen only went to the cemetery in the afternoon, why did he go there again in the evening? What is she going to do?" "Don't worry about this for now." Gu Chen put his hands on his chest and took a deep breath, then asked He Junchao again: "Senior brother He, is there any other monitoring near the cemetery?" He Junchao used the computer mouse to select an area on the digital map, and only a few monitoring icons popped up. He Junchao shook his head and said: "Just here, there is a monitoring at a location on another road. There is no monitoring in the direction to the cemetery." "Then take a look and see if this Hu Fan really came out of the cemetery?" Lu Weiwei was also anxious now. I feel that Hu Fan's real whereabouts are really unpredictable. He Junchao was not idle either, and began to speed up the investigation based on the monitoring screen. Then people came and went around, and many vehicles passed by, but the investigation continued until around 8 o'clock this morning, and there was still no real trace of Hu Fan. He Junchao was a little frustrated, but Police Officer Wang continued to remind: "Look at the picture of the high-speed rail hotel again, and see if Hu Fanzhen has returned to the hotel?" "I'll try." He Junchao was a little helpless, and continued to obey. Afterwards, two monitors were opened and displayed side by side. On the left is the monitoring of the road closest to the cemetery, and on the right is the monitoring of the high-speed rail hotel. Both monitors have been advancing. However, the monitoring time continued until this afternoon, and there was no trace of Hu Fanzhen. "It's strange." Lu Weiwei crossed her arms and said with a slight frown: "What's the real situation with this Hu Fan? Why didn't he even go back to the hotel? He just disappeared?" Looking at the monitoring screen again, Lu Weiwei said again: "But the last place she appeared, or the last place that could be monitored, was the cemetery. Could it be that she hasn't come out since she went to the cemetery?" "There must be a problem." Gu Chenlai walked behind everyone, and said in retrospect: "If that's the case, then Hu Fan is really in the hotel, maybe she didn't check out. If she didn't check out, it means that she might not plan not to come back, it was just an accident. It mainly depends on what the other side of the hotel says." "It's simple, just call and ask the hotel." He Junchao searched on the computer, and quickly found the contact information of the Gaotie Hotel, and immediately called it to Gu Chendao: "This is the contact number of the Gaotie Hotel." Without saying a word, Gu Chen walked directly to the landline phone in the office, clicked on speakerphone, and started dialing. Not long after, the phone was connected, and a middle-aged man asked: "Hello, this is Jiangnan High-speed Railway Hotel. Do you want to make a reservation?" "I'm Gu Chen from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch." Gu Chen directly revealed his identity. "Oh, comrade policeman, is there anything I need to take care of?" The middle-aged man on the other end of the phone had obviously dealt with the police many times. Therefore, hearing Gu Chen's identity, there were not many emotions, and he directly asked Gu Chen's needs. "Around 5:30 p.m. the day before yesterday, did a real guest named Hu Fan check in at your hotel?" Gu Chen asked. "Wait a minute, I'll check for you." The middle-aged man greeted, and immediately began to help Gu Chen check. Gu Chen only heard the sound of typing on the keyboard on the other end of the phone one after another. Not long after, I heard the man on the phone reply: "That's right, a woman named Hu Fanzhen checked in, but it's very strange. This woman only opened the room for one day. Logically speaking, she should check out at noon yesterday, but she didn't check out." "Fortunately, there was a deposit, so I helped her renew the room, but it was strange that Hu Fanzhen still didn't come to the front desk to check out until 12 noon today." "So there is no way, we just asked the cleaning aunt to temporarily put her mind in the warehouse of our hotel, and then vacate the room." "That is to say, since Hu Fanzhen checked in that day, he hasn't checked out?" Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Gu Chen also asked him in confirmation. The middle-aged man said: "That's right, she didn't check out, and she even kept her luggage with us." "At first, we thought that we would return the luggage to her if she had already exceeded the time limit and pay the fee for the extension of the room. But now she has not come to claim it, anyway, the luggage has been kept there." "Okay, I see." Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Gu Chen thought about it for a second, and said again: "In this way, if Hu Fan really returns to the hotel, you should contact me as soon as possible and ask for Gu Chen from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch." "Understood, I will notify you when she comes back," the man said. The two also exchanged a few words of pleasantries, and both hung up the phone. Returning to He Junchao, Police Officer Wang also asked curiously: "What? Hu Fan really didn't check out? He just disappeared?" "Yeah." Gu Chen nodded reluctantly, and said in retrospect: "This Hu Fanzhen, since we left that afternoon, I found something wrong." "Especially when she was in the cemetery, she felt very sad, and she didn't pay much attention at the time." "However, she also told me some secret words between her and Ye Juanjuan." "Dark...dark words? Did she really tell you about this?" Police Officer Wang was also amazed when he heard the words. Lu Weiwei on the side also nodded in agreement: "That's right, we sent Hu Fanzhen to the Gaotie Hotel that day, and before she left, she told Junior Brother Gu not to tell about this matter." "Junior Brother Gu only told me that there was some secret word between Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan." "It's not that you wait a little longer, why am I getting more and more confused?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's words, Police Officer Wang felt his head buzzing, and he couldn't help asking curiously: "You said that Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan had some sort of code word, what's going on?" "It's just..." Lu Weiwei was about to speak, but she didn't know how to say it. So he glanced at Gu Chen, and said again: "Junior Brother Gu, you should say it." "Hmm." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said in retrospect, "Hu Fanzhen said that she had some in-depth exchanges with Ye Juanjuan." "Specifically, Ye Juanjuan once told Hu Fanzhen that she might die, but she was not reconciled. At that time, Hu Fanzhen didn't quite understand, and felt that Ye Juanjuan was a little sentimental." "But Ye Juanjuan also concealed her heart disease from Hu Fanzhen at that time, so Hu Fanzhen at that time couldn't understand it at all." "But later, Ye Juanjuan said that she may die, but she is not reconciled. If one day, Hu Fan can really visit her and meet her parents, then she will buy some Jiangbei specialty donkey rolling." "Donkey rolling?" He Junchao asked curiously when he heard it: "What is green rolling? Donkey meat dim sum?" "No." Lu Weiwei shook her head and denied, "It's a special pastry in Jiangbei, or even in the north, it's just called that." "Okay, I'm ignorant." He Junchao stretched out his hand after hearing Lu Weiwei's words, and said, "Gu Chen, continue." "Yeah." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and continued: "That's what Ye Juanjuan meant, and asked Hu Fanzhen to bring some Jiangbei specialty dim sum donkey rolls to visit her parents." "If her parents look surprised, it means that she died unjustly. If not, then everything is normal." "This matter was just something that Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan occasionally brought up while chatting online. Hu Fanzhen didn't take it seriously. He always felt that Ye Juanjuan was joking." "But later, until this time, Hu Fanzhen learned that Ye Juanjuan had passed away several years ago on the phone, and she was completely dumbfounded." "It wasn't until I went to the Jiangbei High-speed Railway Station to take the train and saw the station's special snack donkey rolling that I didn't think of this matter that the two of them had chatted on the Internet before." After a pause, Gu Chen said again: "So, Hu Fanzhen bought a lot of donkeys at the station in Jiangbei, with the mentality of trying, and prepared to take them to Jiangnan City. After meeting Ye Juanjuan's parents, he gave them as a meeting gift." "However, when Ye Juanjuan's parents saw the donkey rolling cakes, they were really surprised. I was there at the time and discovered these problems." "Is that so?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Police Officer Wang was quite curious and asked: "That is to say, the reaction of Ye Juanjuan's parents at that time verified the matter that Ye Juanjuan chatted with Hu Fanzhen on the Internet a few years ago, right?" "Yes." Gu Chen nodded fiercely, and said in confirmation: "If it is said that the things that Ye Juanjuan and Hu Fanzhen chatted on the Internet a few years ago were serious, then what Ye Juanjuan said represents certain meanings." "It's just that the two of them hadn't even seen each other at the time, so Hu Fanzhen didn't pay much attention." "But when she rolled the donkey into the hands of Ye Juanjuan's parents according to Ye Juanjuan's request before she was alive, the reaction of Ye Juanjuan's parents suddenly made Hu Fanzhen feel very nervous." "Because these circumstances have been verified, it shows that Ye Juanjuan died unjustly." Listening to Gu Chen's explanation here, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, as if feeling incredible. Yuan Shasha also couldn't help but sighed: "Then according to this statement, it is obvious that there seems to be something wrong with Ye Juanjuan's parents." "Could it be that Ye Juanjuan's death has something to do with her parents?" Officer Wang also threw out his own hypothesis. Gu Chen shook his head, but also said uncertainly: "As far as the current situation is concerned, we can't say for sure." "However, Hu Fanzhen's sad posture in front of Ye Juanjuan's tombstone is simply impossible to pretend." "Obviously, Hu Fan really felt that there was something strange about Ye Juanjuan's death, and she wanted to investigate the cause of Ye Juanjuan's death." "Damn it." Police Officer Wang slapped the table and said angrily: "How do you investigate the girl Ye Juanjuan who died a few years ago? She has been cremated and turned into a pile of ashes. How can you investigate?" After walking back and forth twice with his waist in his hands, Officer Wang asked Gu Chen again: "Gu Chen, according to what you said, do you suspect that there is something wrong with Ye Juanjuan's parents?" Gu Chen didn't answer right away, but after hesitating for a few seconds, he said slowly: "If nothing happened to Hu Fan, maybe I wouldn't think so, but the problem now is that after Hu Fanzhen told me about the situation that day, she left the high-speed rail hotel where she was staying that night." "And judging from the fact that she didn't check out, it's obvious that she was going to come back, but it's very likely that some accident happened, which made it impossible for her to go back to the hotel." "Yes." Lu Weiwei rested her chin and said in thought: "This Hu Fanzhen, after coming out of the hotel, took a taxi to the direction of the cemetery. Obviously, she went for Ye Juanjuan." "Because the factor that really has a connection with Hu Fan is Ye Juanjuan." After a pause, Lu Weiwei was still puzzled and said, "But Ye Juanjuan is already dead, and Hu Fanzhen came all the way here, and she has already paid homage to Ye Juanjuan, so why does she have to go to the cemetery at night?" "Going to the cemetery at night shows that there are some things that you can't do during the day, and you can only choose to do it in the dead of night." Police Officer Wang had a whim, and said: "Could it be that there are other secrets between Hu Fanzhen and Ye Juanjuan? I just didn't dare to tell you?" "Eh?" Hearing Officer Wang's words, Lu Weiwei immediately said: "Old Wang, let alone, the hypothesis you put forward is not impossible, and the possibility is very high." "Then now?" Yuan Shasha has no direction at the moment. Gu Chen snapped his fingers and said, "In my opinion, we'd better go to the cemetery and see what's going on over there." "I agree." Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei directly raised her hand in agreement. Everyone summed up without thinking too much, leaving He Junchao in the office, responsible for providing technical support to everyone. Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, and drove directly to the cemetery. It was already 6:10 p.m. at the entrance of the cemetery. At this moment, the gate of the cemetery has been closed, and there is only a faint light on the building at the gate. In this deep mountain and old forest, the area of the cemetery is very cloudy. Coupled with the calls of various birds around, the atmosphere of the scene was quite strange. Yuan Shasha shrank her neck, pointed at the light in front of her and said, "There are still people living here at night in this cemetery. Thinking about this person living with a bunch of dead people every day, it's... quite scary." "Hehe, as long as the salary is high, if you let them sleep in a cemetery in the wilderness at night, they will be willing to try." Officer Wang is not surprised. You know, there is also an office here in the cemetery. If you are still living here at night, you must be the guardian of the tomb. Due to the large size of the cemetery here, people also need to be on duty. At this moment, the surrounding area was very quiet, and there was only this police car with the license plate ending in AE86 in the parking lot outside. "Get out of the car and go over to see the situation." Gu Chen suggested. So everyone got out of the car one after another and came to the door of the building ahead. The glass door was already locked, so Gu Chen and the others took out the strong flashlights, first irradiated the interior of the building for a while, and then began to knock on the door. "Tuk tuk!" "Is anyone there? Is anyone there?" "Tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk! Can you please open the door?" Amidst the continuous knocking on the door, there was finally movement in the house. From a room in the hall, a white-haired old man suddenly walked out. Seeing four figures standing at the door, the white-haired old man turned on the light and walked towards the door. "Eh? Are you a comrade policeman?" Seeing that it was four policemen who came, the white-haired old man immediately became polite. Through the glass door, he also asked curiously: "Comrade police, what are you doing here at night?" "Can you open the door first, let's go in and say yes?" Seeing the gloomy atmosphere outside, Police Officer Wang didn't want to stand at the door and talk to the old man through the glass door. The old man grinned, unlocked the door and let everyone in. After closing the door, Officer Wang suddenly felt that the gloomy atmosphere had subsided a lot, and he couldn't help sighing: "After the sun goes down in this place, the atmosphere always feels weird." "Haha, of course." The white-haired old man also smiled slightly, explaining to everyone: "In fact, the choice of cemetery can also be important, and Fengshui is even more important. Fengshui in this area is good, so it is suitable for a cemetery." "In addition to this place, it is surrounded by woods, so it forms a low-lying area." "When the sun goes down, it's very cloudy here, so you feel weird, and that's normal." "If you didn't have those cemeteries, you wouldn't feel this way. In fact, it's all your own psychology that is at work." "Really?" Police Officer Wang was stunned, and said again: "Well, even if it's a psychological problem, it's really scary to come to the cemetery at night." "That's right." The white-haired old man remembered that these policemen didn't know what to do when they came here, so he hurriedly asked: "You haven't said, what are you doing here? You know, there are almost no people who stay here after the sun goes down." Upon hearing this, Lu Weiwei immediately smiled and said, "Then aren't you human?" "I'm a mausoleum guardian. I'm different from you. I guard the souls of the dead in this cemetery, and I also want to prevent forest fires." "Anyway, it's my job to stay here, it's different from you." "Okay, let's not talk about this." Gu Chen felt the need to explain his purpose to the old man who guarded the tomb, so he explained: "The day before yesterday afternoon, around 4 o'clock, we came here with people from the TV station and newspaper, do you remember?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, the white-haired old man tried his best to think back for a few seconds, and finally said: "That's right, I remember that around 4 o'clock in the afternoon the day before yesterday, some people came, and some people were carrying cameras." "Very good." Seeing that the white-haired old man knew, Gu Chen said again: "That afternoon, there was a woman from Jiangbei City who came to pay homage to her friend who passed away." "But after this girl returned to the hotel, she took a taxi and came here again. After that, she disappeared." "What... what? Missing?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, the white-haired old man was a little confused, and hurriedly asked Gu Chen: "Comrade policeman, what do you mean, that woman came to pay her respects in the afternoon, but did she run back here at night?" "Yes." Lu Weiwei also nodded fiercely, and explained: "She came back here again that night." "Impossible, absolutely impossible." Before Lu Weiwei finished speaking, the white-haired old man waved his hand and denied: "In places like ours, after the sun goes down, especially after five or six o'clock in the afternoon, there are basically no people." "As far as this is concerned, I have stayed here for so many years, and it has always been like this. No one will come over." "Besides, it's late at night, what are you doing here? Are you free?" "But we checked the relevant surveillance and found that she had indeed been here, otherwise we wouldn't have come here to investigate at night." Police officer Wang also watched the surveillance, and he also reasoned with the old man. Seeing that the police had investigated the surveillance, the white-haired old man raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you sure?" "Sure!" The four spoke almost in unison. At this moment, the white-haired old man felt a little shaken, and murmured, "Could it be that this little girl left something in the cemetery, so she came here to pick it up?" "However, I must have taken control of the iron gate at that time. If you want to enter the cemetery, you must let me open the gate, but why didn't I know that someone had come?" The white-haired old man scratched the back of his head, also very puzzled. But Yuan Shasha also put forward a hypothesis: "Could it be that you were going to the bathroom at that time, or did something else and didn't pay attention?" "No." The white-haired old man shook his head and explained, "I usually live here alone, and if there is any movement outside, I can actually hear it clearly from here." "As long as someone knocks on the door or calls outside, I can hear it. But the night before yesterday, I didn't find anyone coming. I'm sure of that." "Master." Seeing that the white-haired old man categorically denied it, Gu Chen glanced in the direction of the cemetery outside, and then asked again: "You said that if you want to enter the cemetery, you must come to you to get the key, is that true?" "Yes." The white-haired old man nodded in confirmation. "However, the walls of your cemetery are not high, and there is only one sliding door at the main entrance, which is not high, but anyone with a bit of skill can pass by just looking through it, isn't it?" Gu Chen's rhetorical question reminded the white-haired old man. The old man's expression was blank, and he nodded in approval: "Young man, the problem you mentioned... is actually true." "That's right, the wall around our cemetery is actually just a decoration, it's just a plot of land." "If it is said that it is not impossible to climb in from the outside, and it is not too big." "But you can ask me for the key and enter the cemetery openly, so why do you want to sneak in by yourself? It doesn't make sense?" "You said you lost something, let me take a flashlight and go look for it together, but I didn't see anyone coming the night before, really." The white-haired old man was quite sure. As the gatekeeper of the cemetery here, the uncle clearly knows that no one will come over at night. I have worn it to work here for many years, so I am very clear about the surrounding environment, and the theoretical possibility that Gu Chen mentioned is almost non-existent. But Gu Chen didn't agree. If normal people come here, of course they will go to the white-haired old man. But Hu Fan is really different. That afternoon, Hu Fanzhen had just met Ye Juanjuan, a friend who had been out of touch for several years, and seemed to recall the secret message that Ye Juanjuan had told him back then, which was to roll the donkey. And at Ye Juanjuan's home, seeing Ye Juanjuan's parents, Hu Fanzhen also verified what Ye Juanjuan had told him back then. Perhaps, it was because of this incident that Hu Fanzhen became suspicious. Perhaps, the communication between Ye Juanjuan and Hu Fanzhen may not be so simple. But what exactly? Gu Chen doesn't know yet, probably only these two little girls know. And that afternoon, Gu Chen also had a brief exchange with Hu Fanzhen in front of Ye Juanjuan's tombstone. From then on, Gu Chen realized that Hu Fan's face was really ugly. On the one hand, it was the sadness over the death of his friend, and on the other hand, there was something strange in Hu Fanzhen's eyes, as if he couldn't accept this fact at all. Maybe she didn't want to talk to Gu Chen about the secret language she and Ye Juanjuan chatted on the Internet a few years ago. It was only because of the emotion at the time that I couldn't help sharing these with Gu Chen. But afterward, Hu Fanzhen didn't say anything more? Even when Gu Chen sent Hu Fanzhen back to the Gaotie Hotel, Hu Fanzhen asked Gu Chen to keep the secret. From this point of view, Gu Chen felt that this Hu Fanzhen might be doing something sneaky. But what exactly? Gu Chen is not clear now. Looking at the surrounding environment and the white-haired old man, Gu Chen suddenly felt. If Hu Fan really returned to the cemetery that night, then if she came with some purpose, no one would know about it. There is no such thing as an old man who guards the tomb of a comrade. "Then if this is the case, will Hu Fan really sneak through the guardrail and enter the cemetery?" "Since you came here by taxi, you must be going to the cemetery. If you don't go here, where will you go?" Gu Chen asked himself. Seeing that the white-haired old man was still explaining to everyone, Gu Chen couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately interrupted everyone's speech and asked the old man directly: "Master, can you open the door and let us in?" "Comrade policeman, what are you doing in the cemetery this late at night?" The old man was a little confused. Gu Chen explained: "We want to go and see, after all, this woman disappeared here, and her mother has already called the police." "So, now we have to do our best to find her, and we can only search from the place where she last appeared, which is here. I hope you can cooperate." Seeing that Gu Chen was talking about this, the white-haired old man couldn't stop him, so he nodded and agreed, "Okay, since you are here to investigate, then...then come with me . Walking to a wall, the white-haired old man took down a flashlight hanging on the wall, and then took out the key from his pocket. Afterwards, he led everyone through a passage to a small door, opened the locked door with a key, and led everyone into the cemetery. Everyone followed the old man, and as soon as they stepped into the range of the cemetery, a few birds flew away in fright. Lu Weiwei shrank her neck involuntarily, and said in a bad mood: "This place is really yin." "Can you not be heavy? After all, they are places where the dead are buried. We are now on their territory, so Lu Weiwei, you'd better keep a low profile." Police Officer Wang also reminded. Walking in the cemetery at night really makes people feel a little eerie. In particular, the moonlight in the sky was still not blocked by clouds, which made the cemetery, which was not very bright, suddenly a little eerie. Everyone held strong flashlights and began to shine on the side of the road. Based on the experience of being here before, Gu Chen quickly found the area where Ye Juanjuan's tombstone is located. "This is it." Gu Chen explained, "This is Ye Juanjuan's tombstone. We stayed here with Hu Fanzhen for a long time that afternoon." "It was also that afternoon that Hu Fanzhen cried and told me about the secret words she had with Ye Juanjuan." After a pause, Gu Chen squatted down, came to Ye Juanjuan's tombstone, and said with emotion: "I don't know what kind of secret is there between these two women?" ...
