Chapter 1892
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12 o'clock noon.
The family area of Xicheng Chemical Plant.
A bustling commercial street in the past is now dilapidated.
Most of the buildings here still have red brick exterior walls, and have not undergone renovation of the old city, not even basic wall painting.
The reason is very simple. In this community, many buildings are now dangerous buildings and have been listed as demolition objects.
Many local residents have already purchased real estate in other areas of Jiangnan City, and those who stay in the old family area are mostly elderly people.
Here, ruins can be seen everywhere, and stray animals can be seen everywhere.
Both sides of the road are blocked by some iron partitions.
Demolition work is underway almost every day.
But the work is progressing slowly, and many elderly people are slowly moving away, and what remains is a mess.
Gu Chen parked the car beside a road sign, Hu Ming pointed to the iron sign on the side of the road, and said:
"This is a temporary bus stop. In the past, buses would pass through the family area of the chemical plant."
"But now, this place is in ruins, so the bus route has been diverted, just to take care of the local residents, so a bus stop sign is temporarily set up on the side of the road."
Seeing that Gu Chen and the others had already got out of the car, Hu Ming said again: "Last night, I was separated from Wan Xiaomin here. She asked me to take a taxi back first, and she continued to wait here for the next taxi."
"What time was it at night?" Gu Chen asked.
"It's... around 9 o'clock in the evening?" Hu Ming said.
"Is it convenient to take a taxi here at night?" Lu Weiwei also asked quickly.
Hu Ming shook his head: "I don't know very well, maybe it used to be? I guess it's a bit troublesome now, but after all, there are still quite a lot of cars on this road, so I think it shouldn't be difficult to get a taxi."
Hearing Hu Ming's remarks, Gu Chen took two steps back and came to the side of the road.
He looked up at the camera device in the distance.
This is the closest place that He Junchao could see the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant. He Junchao also found out here that Hu Ming and Wan Xiaomin walked into the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant last night.
But when he came out, there was only Hu Ming alone.
Thinking that this is a demolition area, many public facilities have been severely damaged.
If it weren't for the water and electricity here, it is estimated that all residents would have to relocate.
"It seems that it is a bit difficult to investigate, and this location is very large. It may not be easy to find Wan Xiaomin in this area."
Gu Chen muttered in his heart, feeling that Wan Xiaomin must have disappeared in this area.
And where did Wan Xiaomin and Hu Ming go last night? I'm afraid no one knows.
Thinking of this, Gu Chen also urged: "Hu Ming, follow the walking route you and Wan Xiaomin took last night, and walk it for me again."
"No problem." Hu Ming also looked like he really wanted to find Wan Xiaomin.
As soon as Gu Chen said it, he immediately agreed.
Afterwards, several people began to walk slowly towards the interior of the living area along a concrete path.
Because everyone has never been here, or in other words, they have passed by, but they have never entered.
Therefore, Hu Ming's understanding of the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant is not as detailed as that of Hu Ming.
On the other hand, Hu Ming, because he has lived here since he was a child, introduced the living area of the chemical plant more like a tour guide.
Hu Ming first took everyone to visit the ruins of the chemical plant children's primary school, and then took everyone to the living area square.
Finally, follow a path until you reach a ruin.
Hu Ming pointed to the ruins in front of him and said: "This is my home back then, and it has been demolished now, and over there."
Hu Ming turned around, pointed to another dilapidated building, and said, "Over there is Lu Yuan's house, and behind it is Azhe's house. As for Wan Xiaomin, their house is the ruins we passed by just now. I'll let you know where it is. I can't tell the difference anymore."
"These are all the memories of me and Wan Xiaomin from kindergarten to middle school, so we two had a good memory last night."
"It feels like, all of a sudden, I'm back to that green age, as if everything happened yesterday."
"So this is all the roads you walked on last night, right?" Police Officer Wang looked around and asked.
Hu Ming nodded silently, and said affirmatively: "That's right, we only went to these places yesterday, because it was too late, and the street lights here are very old, they were built by the chemical plant unit, and they used the same kind of lights." Big watt light bulb."
"So, we just wandered around in a place with light, and then the two of us came to the waiting position just now, and a taxi happened to pass by."
"So, Xiao Min let me go first. What happened after that? I don't know too well."
"And thinking of the fact that Wan Xiaomin is married, I didn't call again. Until this morning, when I was still preparing company materials, you suddenly came to the door. You also know what happened afterwards."
"Are you sure what you said is true?" Although Lu Weiwei felt that she couldn't believe it completely, she still asked him for sure.
Hu Ming nodded fiercely: "Yes, everything I said is true. I did take a step first. What will happen to Wan Xiaomin after that? I really don't know."
After Hu Ming's words fell, he scratched his head with both hands, feeling that he was also very responsible for Wan Xiaomin's disappearance.
Therefore, Hu Ming seems to blame himself very much at the moment.
Gu Chen looked around for a week, feeling that this place was too remote.
Moreover, the old people who live here probably don't go out much at night, mainly because of the poor lighting.
But after all, is what Hu Ming said true? Gu Chen can't make a judgment at the moment, and feels that he can only ask the surrounding residents to see if anyone has seen Wan Xiaomin.
At least for now, according to the results of He Junchao's investigation, it seems that Wan Xiaomin has never left the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory.
Several people came to the waiting place just now again. Gu Chen looked around and found an old building nearby.
The perimeter of the building is a red wall structure, not painted, with a total of four floors.
In front of the building, there is a huge camphor tree, which looks old and is surrounded by iron guardrails. The iron plates hanging on the branches also record some basic information of the ancient camphor tree.
At this moment, an old lady with white hair was sitting outside the guardrail on the first floor, peeling peanuts.
Gu Chen's eyes pointed out, everyone nodded in unison, and then walked towards the white-haired old lady together.
"Old lady." Gu Chen walked over first, also squatted down, and then showed the screenshot of the phone in front of the old lady, and asked:
"This woman named Wan Xiaomin, I wonder if you've seen her before?"
"Wan Xiaomin?" The white-haired old lady pushed her glasses, and said thoughtfully, "Isn't Wan Xiaomin the daughter of the old Wan family? I know her, she seems to open a pet shop in Sanyuan Lane." .”
"That's right, it's her." Seeing that the old lady knew Wan Xiaomin, Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked again: "Then last night, around 9 o'clock, did you see Wan Xiaomin waiting for the bus over there?"
Seeing Lu Weiwei pointing in the direction of the stop sign, the white-haired old lady was thoughtful and recalled:
"Last night? Around 9 o'clock? It seems that I saw two people standing there waiting for the bus."
"Then what happened next?" Police Officer Wang hurriedly asked again.
"Later? Later, it seemed that someone left early, as if he took a taxi on the side of the road."
"That person is me." Hearing the old lady's words, Hu Ming quickly pointed to himself and reminded: "Old lady, I am Hu Ming, do you still know me?"
Hearing Hu Ming's tone, Gu Chen felt that he should know this old lady.
After all, they all belong to the same family area, so if you look down, you can't see up.
But the old lady hesitated at this time, looked at Hu Ming in front of her repeatedly, but her memory was a little fuzzy and said: "Hu Ming? Is this name strange? Your family used to live here too?"
"That's right, my family used to live there. I'm from Shanghai. When I was in the first year of high school, I moved my household registration back to Shanghai with my parents."
"People from the devil city?" Upon hearing Hu Ming's words, the old lady seemed to have some impressions, and said thoughtfully:
"I seem to remember that there were some people from Shanghai who returned to Shanghai because of the company's bankruptcy and reorganization."
After thinking about it, the old lady turned her head and asked Hu Ming again: "What did you say is your name?"
"Hu Ming, everyone likes to call me A Ming. I used to play with Wan Xiaomin, Lu Yuan, and Ah Zhe. The four of us are always inseparable."
It feels like the old lady's memory is still a little fuzzy, so Hu Ming also deepened her influence for her.
The old lady nodded thoughtfully, and said involuntarily, "I seem to have a little impression, you said you were waiting for the bus with Wan Xiaomin yesterday?"
"Yes, yesterday at around 9 o'clock in the evening, you saw the first person who took a taxi and left, and that was me, Hu Ming." Hu Ming said quickly.
The old lady nodded silently, but her memory was still vague, and she asked again: "What did you ask me just now?"
"After Hu Ming left, did Wan Xiaomin leave here?"
Just as the old lady finished speaking, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha asked together.
The old lady immediately looked hesitant, but she tried her best to think back and said, "Last night? Wan Xiaomin? I remember that after Hu Ming left, Wan Xiaomin didn't seem to stay there any longer. He seemed to be walking back?"
"What?" Hearing the old lady's words, Lu Weiwei couldn't believe it: "Isn't Wan Xiaomin going to take a taxi back here? What is she doing going back? Old lady, did you see clearly?"
"Oh, it's so dark, I can't see very clearly, and my old eyes are dim. I was wearing glasses at the time, and I saw two people waiting for the bus at the stop sign."
"Then, one person took a taxi and left, and the other person, I only saw a figure anyway, walked back slowly."
After thinking for a while, the old lady said again: "This is just the beginning. At the position of the stop sign, I can still see a figure with the help of the light from the street lamp."
"But later, the figure walked back, and I heard some footsteps."
"Old lady, where did you see it?" Hearing the old lady's words, Gu Chen also questioned the quick record in his hand.
"Where did you see it? Oh, I must be on the balcony at home."
"I was watching TV at the time, and I happened to go to the balcony to collect clothes, so I happened to see these things just now."
"Then did anyone else see the scene where these two were waiting for the bus?" Police Officer Wang hurriedly asked.
The old lady put on a troubled expression, and said thoughtfully: "It seems that there is really no such thing. There are only a few families living in this whole building."
"Besides me, the old woman, there is another apartment upstairs, and another apartment in the next-door unit."
"At that time, I remember that when I came out to collect the clothes, there seemed to be no one else around, as if I was the only one who saw it."
"Okay." Hearing what the old lady said, Gu Chen could only record all this temporarily, and then asked the old lady again:
"So you saw the figure that hadn't left after that, and you started to walk back, right? Are you going this way?"
In order to determine the route, Gu Chen pointed to the concrete road beside him.
The old lady nodded silently: "Yes, because there is only this road, the main road leading to the outside, and that figure can only go this way."
"What happened after that? Did you see where she disappeared in the end?" Lu Weiwei was also in a hurry, so she hurriedly asked.
The old lady had a headache at the moment, and felt that her memory was almost drained by these policemen.
Although the memory is a bit fuzzy, the old lady also began to piece together the fragmented information under the constant reminders of the people.
Sitting there blankly, the old lady finally said after five or six seconds: "That's right, the last time I saw that figure, I just walked back."
"Because I was collecting clothes on the balcony at the time, I could only see that figure disappearing into a blind corner of the wall."
"As for where that person went later? I don't know, anyway, I'm going back."
Hearing what the old lady said, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
I feel that if the facts are as the old lady said, I am afraid that the situation here will be a little complicated.
"Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, Xiao Yuan." Gu Chen reminded several partners to come to one side to discuss countermeasures.
So everyone left Hu Ming where he was, while the others came to the corner of the building, gathered together, and discussed what they had seen and heard just now.
"I think this matter is weird." Gu Chen crossed his arms and expressed his opinion first:
"If Hu Ming is not suspected, then the question must be on Wan Xiaomin."
"I think so too." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei quickly echoed, "First of all, Wan Xiaomin is the one who asked Hu Ming to come to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory."
"Then, it was Wan Xiaomin who urged Hu Ming to leave first."
"After that, after Hu Ming took a taxi and left, Wan Xiaomin suddenly turned back."
"But according to Hu Ming's account, Wan Xiaomin's parents' house has already moved away from here, and her house is already in ruins, but why did she want to go back after sending Hu Ming away? where to go?"
"And just disappeared." Yuan Shasha also continued to add.
Police Officer Wang was quite curious when he heard what everyone said, "If things are really as you said, then this matter is indeed very strange."
"That's right." After walking back and forth twice, Gu Chen couldn't help but say:
"This Wan Xiaomin seems to be the leader of yesterday's party. If we say that the arrangement of the party was a wine affair facilitated by Azhe and Hu Ming, then Hu Ming was the leader of the party in the first half."
"But after the meal, until Wan Xiaomin disappeared, it was Wan Xiaomin who was always in charge of everything."
Looking up at everyone, Gu Chen said again: "It seems that Wan Xiaomin wants to come here to do business, but under the guise of wanting to revisit Hu Ming's hometown, that's why Hu Ming accompanied him to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory. "
"Afterwards, although the two of them talked a lot, it was just passing through the scene."
Flicking his right index finger, Gu Chen continued to remind, "But after Hu Ming is sent away, the critical stage of the matter will be."
"Wan Xiaomin suddenly walked back. Obviously, her plan to use Hu Ming to cover herself has been completed. Next, Wan Xiaomin will really go about her own business."
"Really?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Yuan Shasha was also taken aback for a while, somewhat incredulous:
"If things are really as Senior Brother Gu said, then the whole evening's dinner seems to be a round?"
"At the beginning, it was Hu Ming's game. He wanted to meet his first love in middle school, and his wish had already been fulfilled, but he didn't expect Wan Xiaomin to be married, so Hu Ming didn't have any special thoughts about Wan Xiaomin."
"Just after revisiting the old place, I left hastily, but the next thing is Wan Min's own situation."
"Yes." Hearing what Yuan Shasha said, Lu Weiwei immediately understood:
"Junior Brother Gu, do you still remember how we saw Wan Xiaomin after we parked the car in Sanyuan Lane last night?"
"Remember, she locked the door of the shop, maybe she was going to have dinner." Gu Chen said casually.
"No." Lu Weiwei shook her head, and interrupted directly: "She Wan Xiaomin may not be going to dinner, because she knows that Ah Zhe has already greeted her in advance, and last night was a dinner with friends."
"Since it's a dinner with friends, there's no need for her, Wan Xiaomin, to have dinner in advance."
"That's right, why did I forget about this?" After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Gu Chen came to his senses and couldn't help but murmured:
"Wan Xiaomin locked the 'Hamster House', he must have something urgent to leave."
"But if it wasn't for dinner, then what did she do? Or, during that time, did she ever meet someone? Did something? "
"Gu Chen." When Gu Chen started to explain in a strange direction, Police Officer Wang immediately interrupted:
"Do you think, if Wan Xiaomin is really dangerous, I mean, if, if she is kidnapped, do you think she met that person in advance last night?"
"But because Wan Xiaomin is going to have a dinner party at night, she hasn't finished what she needs to do, so she just needs to go back to the hamster house first, and then go to the dinner party."
"After all, didn't you hear Hu Ming's phone call in the restaurant last night?"
"He seemed to be complaining about Ah Zhe, saying that Wan Xiaomin had to come, no matter how busy he was. It can be seen that Wan Xiaomin was really busy at that time, so whether he could come to the restaurant for dinner was a problem."
"But later, Wan Xiaomin came, if she had met someone before you came to her shop, and then asked Hu Ming to come to this family area."
"Obviously, she may have come here to complete unfinished business, and the person she wants to meet may be the person she met before you and Lu Weiwei came to the hamster house."
Officer Wang's voice fell, and the scene suddenly became quiet.
Everyone looked at each other, analyzing Officer Wang's explanation just now.
After a while, Gu Chen snapped his fingers and said, "That's right, what Senior Brother Wang said makes sense."
"If Wan Xiaomin proposed to revisit yesterday's hometown, maybe she has already made an appointment with someone here, so she must come here too."
"And Hu Ming is just a tool man, maybe he became Wan Xiaomin's cover."
"Then doesn't that mean that this Hu Ming is still in the dark?" Lu Weiwei said.
"It can be understood in this way, so the most important thing now is to find the person who had contact with Wan Xiaomin in advance last night, maybe you can find Wan Xiaomin."
Gu Chen's reasoning at the moment is very bold.
It can be said that last night, Hu Ming and Wan Xiaomin took a taxi in front of the station sign under the street lamp, and after they separated, Wan Xiaomin turned back, and the witness of the old lady, it can be shown that Wan Xiaomin seems to be Secrets are hidden in the heart.
Maybe even Hu Ming doesn't know this secret.
Gu Chen took a deep breath, turned his head to look at Hu Ming and the old lady who were communicating, and walked straight over.
Seeing Gu Chen and the others coming from behind, Hu Ming stood up straight and asked Gu Chen, "Officer Gu, have you discussed it? What should we do next?"
Hu Ming seems to be more anxious now than Gu Chen and the others.
The disappearance of Wan Xiaomin seems to have hit Hu Ming deeply, and even blamed himself.
"Hu Ming, let me ask you, you were with Wan Xiaomin yesterday, did you notice anything unusual about her?"
Gu Chen also cut to the chase.
But this question made Hu Ming look dazed, as if he hadn't recovered from Gu Chen's questioning state.
"May I ask you something?" Lu Weiwei hurriedly reminded her.
Hu Ming scratched his cheeks immediately, thinking about it: "What's unusual? What's unusual about her?"
"If Fei wants to talk, it's not impossible."
"What is it?" Officer Wang hurriedly asked.
"Uh, she kept looking at her phone last night. I asked her if she was okay? She said no."
"Frequently check the phone?" Gu Chen kept this in mind, and then asked: "What about other things? Does she have any other abnormalities?"
"Other abnormal places?" After thinking for a while, Hu Ming said again: "Oh, by the way, last night, we were only halfway through eating, and she said that she was full, and then asked me if I would like to go to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant together. change?"
"Didn't I say that place has been demolished? And it's late at night. I originally wanted to communicate with her and go shopping in another place, but Xiao Min seems to be very insisting that I must accompany her to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city."
"At that time, I saw that she was determined and had no appetite, so I agreed."
"No wonder you left so quickly yesterday? What do I say? We haven't finished eating the ones that came first, and you have disappeared. Did the co-authors come here?" Yuan Shasha also said something.
Hu Ming did not deny it, but directly admitted: "After all, Xiao Min asked for it. I felt at the time that this place was a memory for us, so I agreed."
"In the process after that, what did you mainly talk about here?" Gu Chen asked.
Hu Ming shook his head: "I don't seem to be talking about anything? It's strange to say that the person who invited me here was Wan Xiaomin, but it seemed that I was the one talking all the time, and she just replied like 'um, oh, yes', As if absent-minded."
"So I felt bored, so I asked her if she wanted to go back? But she refused again, saying that she wanted to go shopping again."
Taking a deep breath, Hu Ming also said in embarrassment: "When I came here last night, I felt that we were chatting awkwardly the whole time, and Wan Xiaomin seemed to be absent-minded all the time."
"Is there any more?" Gu Chen continued to ask.
Hu Ming nodded silently, and said again: "The other thing is that I was asked to take a taxi and leave quickly, which made me feel very embarrassed."
"As you said, I should have let her go first, or we both took the same taxi, and when we got to her house, she got out of the car first, and I went back to the hotel."
"But yesterday she insisted on me leaving first, and I also felt it was wrong, but Xiao Min was very persistent, and there was nothing I could do."
After a pause, Hu Ming said again: "If you ask me what was suspicious about Wan Xiaomin last night, then I think it should be these."
"Okay." Gu Chen can probably analyze some problems from Hu Ming's mouth.
This is just as I imagined. The purpose of Wan Xiaomin's coming here seems not to catch up with Hu Ming at all, but to come here to do business.
But after coming here, Wan Xiaomin made excuses to send Hu Ming away, and finally disappeared in this area himself.
Gu Chen felt that Wan Xiaomin might still be nearby at this time, but due to demolition and relocation everywhere, ruins and iron partitions are everywhere, it may not be easy to find someone in such a large area.
After thinking about it, Gu Chen said again: "Senior Brother Wang, Senior Sister Lu, Xiao Yuan, I think this area should be searched. At least for now, I can be sure that Wan Xiaomin doesn't seem to have left here."
"If you haven't left, it's only a matter of time before you find Wan Xiaomin."
"En." Hearing Gu Chen's speech, Police Officer Wang suddenly raised his head and said:
"If not, Xiao Yuan and I will stay here. By the way, we will call Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong to help, and Hu Ming will also stay here. Let's look for it together. You and Lu Weiwei can do what you should do. .”
What Police Officer Wang said was very cryptic, but both Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei knew that Comrade Wang wanted them to investigate the specific whereabouts of Wan Xiaomin before they met Wan Xiaomin in the hamster house.
So Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei readily agreed, and then drove away from the scene, heading directly towards Sanyuan Lane.
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Back to Sanyuan Lane again, it was already 2 pm.
At this time, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei also ate a bowl of fried noodles on the side of the road, and then returned to the hamster house.
Since Lu Yuan didn't go to work today, he was planning to go home and take a nap, but now his wife Wan Xiaomin has disappeared, which made Lu Yuan feel a little restless.
At this time, he was also nesting in the hamster house shop, surrounded by a group of cats.
When Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came to the store again, Lu Yuanzheng sat aside with blank eyes.
Gu Chen tapped the gaze next to him, Lu Yuan stared blankly, and turned to look in Gu Chen's direction.
"Officer Gu?" Seeing that it was Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei who came, Lu Yuan immediately stood up and quickly walked in front of them: "How is Xiao Min? Did you find her?"
"Not yet." Gu Chen shook his head.
"Don't you have any clues?" Lu Yuan felt that he was in a bad mood when he heard it.
Lu Weiwei shook her head and said, "It's not that there are no clues. According to our investigation, after Wan Xiaomin had dinner with Hu Ming last night, he asked Hu Ming to go to the old place of the West City Chemical Plant family area to revisit."
"However, Hu Ming was the only one who left the family area of the chemical plant in the end."
"What do you mean?" Lu Yuan became even more anxious when he heard this: "Could it be that Xiao Min is still in the family area? What did Hu Ming do to her? Why did he come out alone?"
Feeling that Lu Yuan was a little anxious and angry at the moment, Gu Chen quickly comforted him: "Lu Yuan, don't worry, just listen to me."
"What else is there to say? Hu Ming invited Xiao Min to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city. I guess there is nothing good about it?"
"I know that the two of them are first love, and they haven't seen each other for many years, so there will inevitably be a lot to say, and I am more like an intervening person to them."
"Lu Yuan." Seeing that Lu Yuan began to blame himself, Gu Chen also reminded: "Why do you think so? The matter between Hu Ming and Xiao Min is all memories of the former student days. You are the little boy now. Min's husband."
"That's right." Hearing what Lu Yuan said, Lu Weiwei also began to refute: "Why do you say that, you don't seem to have confidence in Xiao Min?"
"Then why did the two of them enter the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory, and Hu Ming was the only one who came out in the end? What do you say about this?" Lu Yuan seemed to be in a better position, and his face became more and more ugly.
Gu Chen frowned, and said solemnly: "Lu Yuan, I think you need to calm down now. You're jumping to conclusions before I finish my sentence?"
"Then you say it." Lu Yuan also felt that he seemed a little angry now, and he was trying to suppress his anger.
Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and then slowly said: "Last night, the person who asked Hu Ming to go to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city was Wan Xiaomin, and the person who urged Hu Ming to leave first was also Wan Xiaomin."
"After Hu Ming took a taxi and left, Wan Xiaomin returned to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant by himself. This was witnessed by witnesses."
"What did you say? After Xiao Min asked Hu Ming to leave, she returned to the family area?"
Feeling that this sounded weird, Lu Yuan was silent for a few seconds, and then said again: "That is to say, Xiao Min is still in the family area and hasn't come out, right?"
"It may be so. At present, we have sent people to search Xiaomin's Xiaoluo near the family area. If there is any news, we will inform you as soon as possible." Lu Weiwei also hurriedly told Lu about the situation she knew Please inform me.
Lu Yuan sat back on his seat listlessly, his eyes were lost, and he thought thoughtfully, "How could this happen? Why did Xiao Min stay in the family area?"
"This is also the purpose of our coming here." Seeing that Lu Yuan was becoming more and more confused at the moment, Gu Chen simply discussed his thoughts with him.
"Last night, Senior Sister Lu and I were parking nearby. When we passed by your hamster house, the door of the store was locked with a big lock."
"At that time, we thought that the shop owner might just go for dinner and leave temporarily, but last night, Wan Xiaomin had dinner at the same restaurant as us."
"It means that maybe she's not going to dinner, but to do other things."
After a pause, seeing Lu Yuan's solemn expression, Gu Chen said again: "However, from our investigation of Hu Ming, he also noticed that there seems to be something wrong with Xiao Min, or weird."
"What do you mean?" Lu Yuan looked up at Gu Chen, seemingly not quite understanding.
And Lu Weiwei quickly explained: "It means that Hu Ming felt that Xiao Min was a little weird at that time, and seemed to be urging himself to come to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city."
"On the surface, it's about revisiting the old place and reminiscing about the student days together, but in fact, Xiao Min was absent-minded the whole time, as if he was thinking about something."
"And Hu Ming felt like a tool man throughout the whole process."
After a pause, Lu Weiwei said again: "Besides, after Wan Xiaomin sent Hu Ming away, she somehow returned to the family area. Obviously, this is the serious thing she has to do."
"Are you suspecting that Xiao Min... she hid herself?" Lu Yuan didn't know why.
But Gu Chen shook his head: "We suspect that she was kidnapped, and the person who kidnapped her may have a strong connection with her."
"Otherwise, Xiao Min's series of weird behaviors wouldn't have happened." Gu Chen walked around two times after arriving, and then said: "According to our analysis, Xiao Min seems to want to go to the family area of the Xicheng Chemical Plant to meet someone to talk about things. .”
"Helping Hu Ming is just a incidental thing. Hu Ming's real role seems to be to cover Xiao Min."
"But once Hu Ming leaves, Xiao Min can go about her own business and meet the people she needs to meet."
"And this person, last night, may have met Xiao Min once, but because Xiao Min was invited and had a friend's party at night, so the meeting with this person was temporarily postponed."
"Therefore, we want to find out what exactly did Wan Xiaomin do before Senior Sister Lu and I came to the door of the hamster house last night? Why couldn't our surveillance catch it?"
"This……"
When Gu Chen said this, Lu Yuan was dumbfounded, as if Wan Xiaomin did have a lot of things to hide from him.
Seeing Lu Yuan sluggishly standing there, Lu Weiwei also reminded, "Lu Yuan, what can I ask you? What does Wan Xiaomin usually do when he goes out?"
"What do you do? I usually go to eat. She likes to eat the delicacies in Sanyuan Lane the most, so she usually stays in the store, either brought from home or the delicacies of Sanyuan Lane." Lu Yuan Say.
"Do you usually eat it outside? Or pack it up and take it back to the store?" Gu Chen asked again.
"That's just a takeaway store, because the store needs people to watch, and she is alone. She usually locks the door when she goes out to do errands, but she only leaves for a while."
Lu Yuan thought for a while, and then said: "I remember, every time she went out to buy food, she packed it and brought it back to the store."
"Every time? Or how many times do you eat out occasionally?" Lu Weiwei asked.
Lu Yuan said categorically: "Every time I bring it back, she doesn't have the habit of eating outside."
Hearing Lu Yuan's remarks, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, seeming to have noticed these details.
Gu Chen said: "When we saw Xiao Min last night, she was empty-handed, she didn't look like she was going out for dinner."
"But if she's not going to eat, then maybe she's going to meet someone or do something."
"But we didn't seem to have caught Xiao Min through the nearby surveillance. She didn't seem to have left Sanyuan Lane, but was near Sanyuan Lane."
"That's right." Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei also echoed, "We have investigated the monitoring and confirmed that Xiao Min did not leave Sanyuan Lane at that time."
"So I don't know, what did Wan Xiaomin do when he left yesterday?"
"This……"
Facing the inquiries of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, Lu Yuan was suddenly stunned.
It seems that this issue is not clear to me.
After thinking about it, Lu Yuan hurriedly said again: "I don't know about Xiao Min either, but the neighbors around me know us, so I guess they should know something."
"How about I go around and ask about the situation?"
"Let's go with you." Lu Weiwei also suggested.
Afterwards, several people quickly reached a consensus.
So Lu Yuan locked the door of the store again, and then took Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to ask the neighbors around.
However, after one round, it seems that there is no gain at all.
Some people have seen Wan Xiaomin, but only on the road of Sanyuan Lane.
Since Wan Xiaomin opened a shop in Sanyuan Lane, everyone is accustomed to seeing her, especially the recent adoption of 20 stray cats, which makes Wan Xiaomin a celebrity in Sanyuan Lane.
Especially given the nickname "Sanyuan Lane Receiver", it is not difficult to see that Wan Xiaomin also has a certain mass base in Sanyuan Lane.
It can be seen that they have seen it before, and everyone thought that Wan Xiaomin was going to eat, or was returning to the store, so they didn't pay much attention.
Therefore, although many people saw Wan Xiaomin appearing in Sanyuan Lane last night, they only saw it.
But Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei didn't seem to ask about the result they wanted.
After one round, Lu Yuan also became anxious, and said involuntarily: "These neighbors usually have the best relationship with Xiao Min. They haven't seen Xiao Min doing anything? Then others won't pay attention."
"Don't worry." Gu Chen looked left and right, and suddenly found that at the intersection of Sanyuan Lane, at the corner of a storefront, a fortune teller was setting up a stall there.
Seeing this, Gu Chen didn't hesitate, and walked directly towards the fortune teller.
Seeing that it was a policeman, the old man frowned slightly.
"Master." Gu Chen squatted in front of the old man, also looking at some gossip totems in front of his booth.
"Young man is so lucky, do you want me to tell you a fortune?" The old man looked Gu Chen up and down, touched his long white beard on his chin, and asked casually.
But Gu Chen shook his head and continued, "I'm asking you about someone."
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12 o'clock noon.
The family area of Xicheng Chemical Plant.
A bustling commercial street in the past is now dilapidated.
Most of the buildings here still have red brick exterior walls, and have not undergone renovation of the old city, not even basic wall painting.
The reason is very simple. In this community, many buildings are now dangerous buildings and have been listed as demolition objects.
Many local residents have already purchased real estate in other areas of Jiangnan City, and those who stay in the old family area are mostly elderly people.
Here, ruins can be seen everywhere, and stray animals can be seen everywhere.
Both sides of the road are blocked by some iron partitions.
Demolition work is underway almost every day.
But the work is progressing slowly, and many elderly people are slowly moving away, and what remains is a mess.
Gu Chen parked the car beside a road sign, Hu Ming pointed to the iron sign on the side of the road, and said:
"This is a temporary bus stop. In the past, buses would pass through the family area of the chemical plant."
"But now, this place is in ruins, so the bus route has been diverted, just to take care of the local residents, so a bus stop sign is temporarily set up on the side of the road."
Seeing that Gu Chen and the others had already got out of the car, Hu Ming said again: "Last night, I was separated from Wan Xiaomin here. She asked me to take a taxi back first, and she continued to wait here for the next taxi."
"What time was it at night?" Gu Chen asked.
"It's... around 9 o'clock in the evening?" Hu Ming said.
"Is it convenient to take a taxi here at night?" Lu Weiwei also asked quickly.
Hu Ming shook his head: "I don't know very well, maybe it used to be? I guess it's a bit troublesome now, but after all, there are still quite a lot of cars on this road, so I think it shouldn't be difficult to get a taxi."
Hearing Hu Ming's remarks, Gu Chen took two steps back and came to the side of the road.
He looked up at the camera device in the distance.
This is the closest place that He Junchao could see the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant. He Junchao also found out here that Hu Ming and Wan Xiaomin walked into the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant last night.
But when he came out, there was only Hu Ming alone.
Thinking that this is a demolition area, many public facilities have been severely damaged.
If it weren't for the water and electricity here, it is estimated that all residents would have to relocate.
"It seems that it is a bit difficult to investigate, and this location is very large. It may not be easy to find Wan Xiaomin in this area."
Gu Chen muttered in his heart, feeling that Wan Xiaomin must have disappeared in this area.
And where did Wan Xiaomin and Hu Ming go last night? I'm afraid no one knows.
Thinking of this, Gu Chen also urged: "Hu Ming, follow the walking route you and Wan Xiaomin took last night, and walk it for me again."
"No problem." Hu Ming also looked like he really wanted to find Wan Xiaomin.
As soon as Gu Chen said it, he immediately agreed.
Afterwards, several people began to walk slowly towards the interior of the living area along a concrete path.
Because everyone has never been here, or in other words, they have passed by, but they have never entered.
Therefore, Hu Ming's understanding of the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant is not as detailed as that of Hu Ming.
On the other hand, Hu Ming, because he has lived here since he was a child, introduced the living area of the chemical plant more like a tour guide.
Hu Ming first took everyone to visit the ruins of the chemical plant children's primary school, and then took everyone to the living area square.
Finally, follow a path until you reach a ruin.
Hu Ming pointed to the ruins in front of him and said: "This is my home back then, and it has been demolished now, and over there."
Hu Ming turned around, pointed to another dilapidated building, and said, "Over there is Lu Yuan's house, and behind it is Azhe's house. As for Wan Xiaomin, their house is the ruins we passed by just now. I'll let you know where it is. I can't tell the difference anymore."
"These are all the memories of me and Wan Xiaomin from kindergarten to middle school, so we two had a good memory last night."
"It feels like, all of a sudden, I'm back to that green age, as if everything happened yesterday."
"So this is all the roads you walked on last night, right?" Police Officer Wang looked around and asked.
Hu Ming nodded silently, and said affirmatively: "That's right, we only went to these places yesterday, because it was too late, and the street lights here are very old, they were built by the chemical plant unit, and they used the same kind of lights." Big watt light bulb."
"So, we just wandered around in a place with light, and then the two of us came to the waiting position just now, and a taxi happened to pass by."
"So, Xiao Min let me go first. What happened after that? I don't know too well."
"And thinking of the fact that Wan Xiaomin is married, I didn't call again. Until this morning, when I was still preparing company materials, you suddenly came to the door. You also know what happened afterwards."
"Are you sure what you said is true?" Although Lu Weiwei felt that she couldn't believe it completely, she still asked him for sure.
Hu Ming nodded fiercely: "Yes, everything I said is true. I did take a step first. What will happen to Wan Xiaomin after that? I really don't know."
After Hu Ming's words fell, he scratched his head with both hands, feeling that he was also very responsible for Wan Xiaomin's disappearance.
Therefore, Hu Ming seems to blame himself very much at the moment.
Gu Chen looked around for a week, feeling that this place was too remote.
Moreover, the old people who live here probably don't go out much at night, mainly because of the poor lighting.
But after all, is what Hu Ming said true? Gu Chen can't make a judgment at the moment, and feels that he can only ask the surrounding residents to see if anyone has seen Wan Xiaomin.
At least for now, according to the results of He Junchao's investigation, it seems that Wan Xiaomin has never left the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory.
Several people came to the waiting place just now again. Gu Chen looked around and found an old building nearby.
The perimeter of the building is a red wall structure, not painted, with a total of four floors.
In front of the building, there is a huge camphor tree, which looks old and is surrounded by iron guardrails. The iron plates hanging on the branches also record some basic information of the ancient camphor tree.
At this moment, an old lady with white hair was sitting outside the guardrail on the first floor, peeling peanuts.
Gu Chen's eyes pointed out, everyone nodded in unison, and then walked towards the white-haired old lady together.
"Old lady." Gu Chen walked over first, also squatted down, and then showed the screenshot of the phone in front of the old lady, and asked:
"This woman named Wan Xiaomin, I wonder if you've seen her before?"
"Wan Xiaomin?" The white-haired old lady pushed her glasses, and said thoughtfully, "Isn't Wan Xiaomin the daughter of the old Wan family? I know her, she seems to open a pet shop in Sanyuan Lane." .”
"That's right, it's her." Seeing that the old lady knew Wan Xiaomin, Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked again: "Then last night, around 9 o'clock, did you see Wan Xiaomin waiting for the bus over there?"
Seeing Lu Weiwei pointing in the direction of the stop sign, the white-haired old lady was thoughtful and recalled:
"Last night? Around 9 o'clock? It seems that I saw two people standing there waiting for the bus."
"Then what happened next?" Police Officer Wang hurriedly asked again.
"Later? Later, it seemed that someone left early, as if he took a taxi on the side of the road."
"That person is me." Hearing the old lady's words, Hu Ming quickly pointed to himself and reminded: "Old lady, I am Hu Ming, do you still know me?"
Hearing Hu Ming's tone, Gu Chen felt that he should know this old lady.
After all, they all belong to the same family area, so if you look down, you can't see up.
But the old lady hesitated at this time, looked at Hu Ming in front of her repeatedly, but her memory was a little fuzzy and said: "Hu Ming? Is this name strange? Your family used to live here too?"
"That's right, my family used to live there. I'm from Shanghai. When I was in the first year of high school, I moved my household registration back to Shanghai with my parents."
"People from the devil city?" Upon hearing Hu Ming's words, the old lady seemed to have some impressions, and said thoughtfully:
"I seem to remember that there were some people from Shanghai who returned to Shanghai because of the company's bankruptcy and reorganization."
After thinking about it, the old lady turned her head and asked Hu Ming again: "What did you say is your name?"
"Hu Ming, everyone likes to call me A Ming. I used to play with Wan Xiaomin, Lu Yuan, and Ah Zhe. The four of us are always inseparable."
It feels like the old lady's memory is still a little fuzzy, so Hu Ming also deepened her influence for her.
The old lady nodded thoughtfully, and said involuntarily, "I seem to have a little impression, you said you were waiting for the bus with Wan Xiaomin yesterday?"
"Yes, yesterday at around 9 o'clock in the evening, you saw the first person who took a taxi and left, and that was me, Hu Ming." Hu Ming said quickly.
The old lady nodded silently, but her memory was still vague, and she asked again: "What did you ask me just now?"
"After Hu Ming left, did Wan Xiaomin leave here?"
Just as the old lady finished speaking, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha asked together.
The old lady immediately looked hesitant, but she tried her best to think back and said, "Last night? Wan Xiaomin? I remember that after Hu Ming left, Wan Xiaomin didn't seem to stay there any longer. He seemed to be walking back?"
"What?" Hearing the old lady's words, Lu Weiwei couldn't believe it: "Isn't Wan Xiaomin going to take a taxi back here? What is she doing going back? Old lady, did you see clearly?"
"Oh, it's so dark, I can't see very clearly, and my old eyes are dim. I was wearing glasses at the time, and I saw two people waiting for the bus at the stop sign."
"Then, one person took a taxi and left, and the other person, I only saw a figure anyway, walked back slowly."
After thinking for a while, the old lady said again: "This is just the beginning. At the position of the stop sign, I can still see a figure with the help of the light from the street lamp."
"But later, the figure walked back, and I heard some footsteps."
"Old lady, where did you see it?" Hearing the old lady's words, Gu Chen also questioned the quick record in his hand.
"Where did you see it? Oh, I must be on the balcony at home."
"I was watching TV at the time, and I happened to go to the balcony to collect clothes, so I happened to see these things just now."
"Then did anyone else see the scene where these two were waiting for the bus?" Police Officer Wang hurriedly asked.
The old lady put on a troubled expression, and said thoughtfully: "It seems that there is really no such thing. There are only a few families living in this whole building."
"Besides me, the old woman, there is another apartment upstairs, and another apartment in the next-door unit."
"At that time, I remember that when I came out to collect the clothes, there seemed to be no one else around, as if I was the only one who saw it."
"Okay." Hearing what the old lady said, Gu Chen could only record all this temporarily, and then asked the old lady again:
"So you saw the figure that hadn't left after that, and you started to walk back, right? Are you going this way?"
In order to determine the route, Gu Chen pointed to the concrete road beside him.
The old lady nodded silently: "Yes, because there is only this road, the main road leading to the outside, and that figure can only go this way."
"What happened after that? Did you see where she disappeared in the end?" Lu Weiwei was also in a hurry, so she hurriedly asked.
The old lady had a headache at the moment, and felt that her memory was almost drained by these policemen.
Although the memory is a bit fuzzy, the old lady also began to piece together the fragmented information under the constant reminders of the people.
Sitting there blankly, the old lady finally said after five or six seconds: "That's right, the last time I saw that figure, I just walked back."
"Because I was collecting clothes on the balcony at the time, I could only see that figure disappearing into a blind corner of the wall."
"As for where that person went later? I don't know, anyway, I'm going back."
Hearing what the old lady said, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
I feel that if the facts are as the old lady said, I am afraid that the situation here will be a little complicated.
"Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, Xiao Yuan." Gu Chen reminded several partners to come to one side to discuss countermeasures.
So everyone left Hu Ming where he was, while the others came to the corner of the building, gathered together, and discussed what they had seen and heard just now.
"I think this matter is weird." Gu Chen crossed his arms and expressed his opinion first:
"If Hu Ming is not suspected, then the question must be on Wan Xiaomin."
"I think so too." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei quickly echoed, "First of all, Wan Xiaomin is the one who asked Hu Ming to come to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory."
"Then, it was Wan Xiaomin who urged Hu Ming to leave first."
"After that, after Hu Ming took a taxi and left, Wan Xiaomin suddenly turned back."
"But according to Hu Ming's account, Wan Xiaomin's parents' house has already moved away from here, and her house is already in ruins, but why did she want to go back after sending Hu Ming away? where to go?"
"And just disappeared." Yuan Shasha also continued to add.
Police Officer Wang was quite curious when he heard what everyone said, "If things are really as you said, then this matter is indeed very strange."
"That's right." After walking back and forth twice, Gu Chen couldn't help but say:
"This Wan Xiaomin seems to be the leader of yesterday's party. If we say that the arrangement of the party was a wine affair facilitated by Azhe and Hu Ming, then Hu Ming was the leader of the party in the first half."
"But after the meal, until Wan Xiaomin disappeared, it was Wan Xiaomin who was always in charge of everything."
Looking up at everyone, Gu Chen said again: "It seems that Wan Xiaomin wants to come here to do business, but under the guise of wanting to revisit Hu Ming's hometown, that's why Hu Ming accompanied him to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory. "
"Afterwards, although the two of them talked a lot, it was just passing through the scene."
Flicking his right index finger, Gu Chen continued to remind, "But after Hu Ming is sent away, the critical stage of the matter will be."
"Wan Xiaomin suddenly walked back. Obviously, her plan to use Hu Ming to cover herself has been completed. Next, Wan Xiaomin will really go about her own business."
"Really?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Yuan Shasha was also taken aback for a while, somewhat incredulous:
"If things are really as Senior Brother Gu said, then the whole evening's dinner seems to be a round?"
"At the beginning, it was Hu Ming's game. He wanted to meet his first love in middle school, and his wish had already been fulfilled, but he didn't expect Wan Xiaomin to be married, so Hu Ming didn't have any special thoughts about Wan Xiaomin."
"Just after revisiting the old place, I left hastily, but the next thing is Wan Min's own situation."
"Yes." Hearing what Yuan Shasha said, Lu Weiwei immediately understood:
"Junior Brother Gu, do you still remember how we saw Wan Xiaomin after we parked the car in Sanyuan Lane last night?"
"Remember, she locked the door of the shop, maybe she was going to have dinner." Gu Chen said casually.
"No." Lu Weiwei shook her head, and interrupted directly: "She Wan Xiaomin may not be going to dinner, because she knows that Ah Zhe has already greeted her in advance, and last night was a dinner with friends."
"Since it's a dinner with friends, there's no need for her, Wan Xiaomin, to have dinner in advance."
"That's right, why did I forget about this?" After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Gu Chen came to his senses and couldn't help but murmured:
"Wan Xiaomin locked the 'Hamster House', he must have something urgent to leave."
"But if it wasn't for dinner, then what did she do? Or, during that time, did she ever meet someone? Did something? "
"Gu Chen." When Gu Chen started to explain in a strange direction, Police Officer Wang immediately interrupted:
"Do you think, if Wan Xiaomin is really dangerous, I mean, if, if she is kidnapped, do you think she met that person in advance last night?"
"But because Wan Xiaomin is going to have a dinner party at night, she hasn't finished what she needs to do, so she just needs to go back to the hamster house first, and then go to the dinner party."
"After all, didn't you hear Hu Ming's phone call in the restaurant last night?"
"He seemed to be complaining about Ah Zhe, saying that Wan Xiaomin had to come, no matter how busy he was. It can be seen that Wan Xiaomin was really busy at that time, so whether he could come to the restaurant for dinner was a problem."
"But later, Wan Xiaomin came, if she had met someone before you came to her shop, and then asked Hu Ming to come to this family area."
"Obviously, she may have come here to complete unfinished business, and the person she wants to meet may be the person she met before you and Lu Weiwei came to the hamster house."
Officer Wang's voice fell, and the scene suddenly became quiet.
Everyone looked at each other, analyzing Officer Wang's explanation just now.
After a while, Gu Chen snapped his fingers and said, "That's right, what Senior Brother Wang said makes sense."
"If Wan Xiaomin proposed to revisit yesterday's hometown, maybe she has already made an appointment with someone here, so she must come here too."
"And Hu Ming is just a tool man, maybe he became Wan Xiaomin's cover."
"Then doesn't that mean that this Hu Ming is still in the dark?" Lu Weiwei said.
"It can be understood in this way, so the most important thing now is to find the person who had contact with Wan Xiaomin in advance last night, maybe you can find Wan Xiaomin."
Gu Chen's reasoning at the moment is very bold.
It can be said that last night, Hu Ming and Wan Xiaomin took a taxi in front of the station sign under the street lamp, and after they separated, Wan Xiaomin turned back, and the witness of the old lady, it can be shown that Wan Xiaomin seems to be Secrets are hidden in the heart.
Maybe even Hu Ming doesn't know this secret.
Gu Chen took a deep breath, turned his head to look at Hu Ming and the old lady who were communicating, and walked straight over.
Seeing Gu Chen and the others coming from behind, Hu Ming stood up straight and asked Gu Chen, "Officer Gu, have you discussed it? What should we do next?"
Hu Ming seems to be more anxious now than Gu Chen and the others.
The disappearance of Wan Xiaomin seems to have hit Hu Ming deeply, and even blamed himself.
"Hu Ming, let me ask you, you were with Wan Xiaomin yesterday, did you notice anything unusual about her?"
Gu Chen also cut to the chase.
But this question made Hu Ming look dazed, as if he hadn't recovered from Gu Chen's questioning state.
"May I ask you something?" Lu Weiwei hurriedly reminded her.
Hu Ming scratched his cheeks immediately, thinking about it: "What's unusual? What's unusual about her?"
"If Fei wants to talk, it's not impossible."
"What is it?" Officer Wang hurriedly asked.
"Uh, she kept looking at her phone last night. I asked her if she was okay? She said no."
"Frequently check the phone?" Gu Chen kept this in mind, and then asked: "What about other things? Does she have any other abnormalities?"
"Other abnormal places?" After thinking for a while, Hu Ming said again: "Oh, by the way, last night, we were only halfway through eating, and she said that she was full, and then asked me if I would like to go to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant together. change?"
"Didn't I say that place has been demolished? And it's late at night. I originally wanted to communicate with her and go shopping in another place, but Xiao Min seems to be very insisting that I must accompany her to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city."
"At that time, I saw that she was determined and had no appetite, so I agreed."
"No wonder you left so quickly yesterday? What do I say? We haven't finished eating the ones that came first, and you have disappeared. Did the co-authors come here?" Yuan Shasha also said something.
Hu Ming did not deny it, but directly admitted: "After all, Xiao Min asked for it. I felt at the time that this place was a memory for us, so I agreed."
"In the process after that, what did you mainly talk about here?" Gu Chen asked.
Hu Ming shook his head: "I don't seem to be talking about anything? It's strange to say that the person who invited me here was Wan Xiaomin, but it seemed that I was the one talking all the time, and she just replied like 'um, oh, yes', As if absent-minded."
"So I felt bored, so I asked her if she wanted to go back? But she refused again, saying that she wanted to go shopping again."
Taking a deep breath, Hu Ming also said in embarrassment: "When I came here last night, I felt that we were chatting awkwardly the whole time, and Wan Xiaomin seemed to be absent-minded all the time."
"Is there any more?" Gu Chen continued to ask.
Hu Ming nodded silently, and said again: "The other thing is that I was asked to take a taxi and leave quickly, which made me feel very embarrassed."
"As you said, I should have let her go first, or we both took the same taxi, and when we got to her house, she got out of the car first, and I went back to the hotel."
"But yesterday she insisted on me leaving first, and I also felt it was wrong, but Xiao Min was very persistent, and there was nothing I could do."
After a pause, Hu Ming said again: "If you ask me what was suspicious about Wan Xiaomin last night, then I think it should be these."
"Okay." Gu Chen can probably analyze some problems from Hu Ming's mouth.
This is just as I imagined. The purpose of Wan Xiaomin's coming here seems not to catch up with Hu Ming at all, but to come here to do business.
But after coming here, Wan Xiaomin made excuses to send Hu Ming away, and finally disappeared in this area himself.
Gu Chen felt that Wan Xiaomin might still be nearby at this time, but due to demolition and relocation everywhere, ruins and iron partitions are everywhere, it may not be easy to find someone in such a large area.
After thinking about it, Gu Chen said again: "Senior Brother Wang, Senior Sister Lu, Xiao Yuan, I think this area should be searched. At least for now, I can be sure that Wan Xiaomin doesn't seem to have left here."
"If you haven't left, it's only a matter of time before you find Wan Xiaomin."
"En." Hearing Gu Chen's speech, Police Officer Wang suddenly raised his head and said:
"If not, Xiao Yuan and I will stay here. By the way, we will call Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong to help, and Hu Ming will also stay here. Let's look for it together. You and Lu Weiwei can do what you should do. .”
What Police Officer Wang said was very cryptic, but both Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei knew that Comrade Wang wanted them to investigate the specific whereabouts of Wan Xiaomin before they met Wan Xiaomin in the hamster house.
So Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei readily agreed, and then drove away from the scene, heading directly towards Sanyuan Lane.
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Back to Sanyuan Lane again, it was already 2 pm.
At this time, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei also ate a bowl of fried noodles on the side of the road, and then returned to the hamster house.
Since Lu Yuan didn't go to work today, he was planning to go home and take a nap, but now his wife Wan Xiaomin has disappeared, which made Lu Yuan feel a little restless.
At this time, he was also nesting in the hamster house shop, surrounded by a group of cats.
When Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came to the store again, Lu Yuanzheng sat aside with blank eyes.
Gu Chen tapped the gaze next to him, Lu Yuan stared blankly, and turned to look in Gu Chen's direction.
"Officer Gu?" Seeing that it was Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei who came, Lu Yuan immediately stood up and quickly walked in front of them: "How is Xiao Min? Did you find her?"
"Not yet." Gu Chen shook his head.
"Don't you have any clues?" Lu Yuan felt that he was in a bad mood when he heard it.
Lu Weiwei shook her head and said, "It's not that there are no clues. According to our investigation, after Wan Xiaomin had dinner with Hu Ming last night, he asked Hu Ming to go to the old place of the West City Chemical Plant family area to revisit."
"However, Hu Ming was the only one who left the family area of the chemical plant in the end."
"What do you mean?" Lu Yuan became even more anxious when he heard this: "Could it be that Xiao Min is still in the family area? What did Hu Ming do to her? Why did he come out alone?"
Feeling that Lu Yuan was a little anxious and angry at the moment, Gu Chen quickly comforted him: "Lu Yuan, don't worry, just listen to me."
"What else is there to say? Hu Ming invited Xiao Min to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city. I guess there is nothing good about it?"
"I know that the two of them are first love, and they haven't seen each other for many years, so there will inevitably be a lot to say, and I am more like an intervening person to them."
"Lu Yuan." Seeing that Lu Yuan began to blame himself, Gu Chen also reminded: "Why do you think so? The matter between Hu Ming and Xiao Min is all memories of the former student days. You are the little boy now. Min's husband."
"That's right." Hearing what Lu Yuan said, Lu Weiwei also began to refute: "Why do you say that, you don't seem to have confidence in Xiao Min?"
"Then why did the two of them enter the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory, and Hu Ming was the only one who came out in the end? What do you say about this?" Lu Yuan seemed to be in a better position, and his face became more and more ugly.
Gu Chen frowned, and said solemnly: "Lu Yuan, I think you need to calm down now. You're jumping to conclusions before I finish my sentence?"
"Then you say it." Lu Yuan also felt that he seemed a little angry now, and he was trying to suppress his anger.
Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and then slowly said: "Last night, the person who asked Hu Ming to go to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city was Wan Xiaomin, and the person who urged Hu Ming to leave first was also Wan Xiaomin."
"After Hu Ming took a taxi and left, Wan Xiaomin returned to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant by himself. This was witnessed by witnesses."
"What did you say? After Xiao Min asked Hu Ming to leave, she returned to the family area?"
Feeling that this sounded weird, Lu Yuan was silent for a few seconds, and then said again: "That is to say, Xiao Min is still in the family area and hasn't come out, right?"
"It may be so. At present, we have sent people to search Xiaomin's Xiaoluo near the family area. If there is any news, we will inform you as soon as possible." Lu Weiwei also hurriedly told Lu about the situation she knew Please inform me.
Lu Yuan sat back on his seat listlessly, his eyes were lost, and he thought thoughtfully, "How could this happen? Why did Xiao Min stay in the family area?"
"This is also the purpose of our coming here." Seeing that Lu Yuan was becoming more and more confused at the moment, Gu Chen simply discussed his thoughts with him.
"Last night, Senior Sister Lu and I were parking nearby. When we passed by your hamster house, the door of the store was locked with a big lock."
"At that time, we thought that the shop owner might just go for dinner and leave temporarily, but last night, Wan Xiaomin had dinner at the same restaurant as us."
"It means that maybe she's not going to dinner, but to do other things."
After a pause, seeing Lu Yuan's solemn expression, Gu Chen said again: "However, from our investigation of Hu Ming, he also noticed that there seems to be something wrong with Xiao Min, or weird."
"What do you mean?" Lu Yuan looked up at Gu Chen, seemingly not quite understanding.
And Lu Weiwei quickly explained: "It means that Hu Ming felt that Xiao Min was a little weird at that time, and seemed to be urging himself to come to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city."
"On the surface, it's about revisiting the old place and reminiscing about the student days together, but in fact, Xiao Min was absent-minded the whole time, as if he was thinking about something."
"And Hu Ming felt like a tool man throughout the whole process."
After a pause, Lu Weiwei said again: "Besides, after Wan Xiaomin sent Hu Ming away, she somehow returned to the family area. Obviously, this is the serious thing she has to do."
"Are you suspecting that Xiao Min... she hid herself?" Lu Yuan didn't know why.
But Gu Chen shook his head: "We suspect that she was kidnapped, and the person who kidnapped her may have a strong connection with her."
"Otherwise, Xiao Min's series of weird behaviors wouldn't have happened." Gu Chen walked around two times after arriving, and then said: "According to our analysis, Xiao Min seems to want to go to the family area of the Xicheng Chemical Plant to meet someone to talk about things. .”
"Helping Hu Ming is just a incidental thing. Hu Ming's real role seems to be to cover Xiao Min."
"But once Hu Ming leaves, Xiao Min can go about her own business and meet the people she needs to meet."
"And this person, last night, may have met Xiao Min once, but because Xiao Min was invited and had a friend's party at night, so the meeting with this person was temporarily postponed."
"Therefore, we want to find out what exactly did Wan Xiaomin do before Senior Sister Lu and I came to the door of the hamster house last night? Why couldn't our surveillance catch it?"
"This……"
When Gu Chen said this, Lu Yuan was dumbfounded, as if Wan Xiaomin did have a lot of things to hide from him.
Seeing Lu Yuan sluggishly standing there, Lu Weiwei also reminded, "Lu Yuan, what can I ask you? What does Wan Xiaomin usually do when he goes out?"
"What do you do? I usually go to eat. She likes to eat the delicacies in Sanyuan Lane the most, so she usually stays in the store, either brought from home or the delicacies of Sanyuan Lane." Lu Yuan Say.
"Do you usually eat it outside? Or pack it up and take it back to the store?" Gu Chen asked again.
"That's just a takeaway store, because the store needs people to watch, and she is alone. She usually locks the door when she goes out to do errands, but she only leaves for a while."
Lu Yuan thought for a while, and then said: "I remember, every time she went out to buy food, she packed it and brought it back to the store."
"Every time? Or how many times do you eat out occasionally?" Lu Weiwei asked.
Lu Yuan said categorically: "Every time I bring it back, she doesn't have the habit of eating outside."
Hearing Lu Yuan's remarks, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, seeming to have noticed these details.
Gu Chen said: "When we saw Xiao Min last night, she was empty-handed, she didn't look like she was going out for dinner."
"But if she's not going to eat, then maybe she's going to meet someone or do something."
"But we didn't seem to have caught Xiao Min through the nearby surveillance. She didn't seem to have left Sanyuan Lane, but was near Sanyuan Lane."
"That's right." Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei also echoed, "We have investigated the monitoring and confirmed that Xiao Min did not leave Sanyuan Lane at that time."
"So I don't know, what did Wan Xiaomin do when he left yesterday?"
"This……"
Facing the inquiries of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, Lu Yuan was suddenly stunned.
It seems that this issue is not clear to me.
After thinking about it, Lu Yuan hurriedly said again: "I don't know about Xiao Min either, but the neighbors around me know us, so I guess they should know something."
"How about I go around and ask about the situation?"
"Let's go with you." Lu Weiwei also suggested.
Afterwards, several people quickly reached a consensus.
So Lu Yuan locked the door of the store again, and then took Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to ask the neighbors around.
However, after one round, it seems that there is no gain at all.
Some people have seen Wan Xiaomin, but only on the road of Sanyuan Lane.
Since Wan Xiaomin opened a shop in Sanyuan Lane, everyone is accustomed to seeing her, especially the recent adoption of 20 stray cats, which makes Wan Xiaomin a celebrity in Sanyuan Lane.
Especially given the nickname "Sanyuan Lane Receiver", it is not difficult to see that Wan Xiaomin also has a certain mass base in Sanyuan Lane.
It can be seen that they have seen it before, and everyone thought that Wan Xiaomin was going to eat, or was returning to the store, so they didn't pay much attention.
Therefore, although many people saw Wan Xiaomin appearing in Sanyuan Lane last night, they only saw it.
But Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei didn't seem to ask about the result they wanted.
After one round, Lu Yuan also became anxious, and said involuntarily: "These neighbors usually have the best relationship with Xiao Min. They haven't seen Xiao Min doing anything? Then others won't pay attention."
"Don't worry." Gu Chen looked left and right, and suddenly found that at the intersection of Sanyuan Lane, at the corner of a storefront, a fortune teller was setting up a stall there.
Seeing this, Gu Chen didn't hesitate, and walked directly towards the fortune teller.
Seeing that it was a policeman, the old man frowned slightly.
"Master." Gu Chen squatted in front of the old man, also looking at some gossip totems in front of his booth.
"Young man is so lucky, do you want me to tell you a fortune?" The old man looked Gu Chen up and down, touched his long white beard on his chin, and asked casually.
But Gu Chen shook his head and continued, "I'm asking you about someone."
...
12 o'clock noon. The family area of Xicheng Chemical Plant. A bustling commercial street in the past is now dilapidated. Most of the buildings here still have red brick exterior walls, and have not undergone renovation of the old city, not even basic wall painting. The reason is very simple. In this community, many buildings are now dangerous buildings and have been listed as demolition objects. Many local residents have already purchased real estate in other areas of Jiangnan City, and those who stay in the old family area are mostly elderly people. Here, ruins can be seen everywhere, and stray animals can be seen everywhere. Both sides of the road are blocked by some iron partitions. Demolition work is underway almost every day. But the work is progressing slowly, and many elderly people are slowly moving away, and what remains is a mess. Gu Chen parked the car beside a road sign, Hu Ming pointed to the iron sign on the side of the road, and said: "This is a temporary bus stop. In the past, buses would pass through the family area of the chemical plant." "But now, this place is in ruins, so the bus route has been diverted, just to take care of the local residents, so a bus stop sign is temporarily set up on the side of the road." Seeing that Gu Chen and the others had already got out of the car, Hu Ming said again: "Last night, I was separated from Wan Xiaomin here. She asked me to take a taxi back first, and she continued to wait here for the next taxi." "What time was it at night?" Gu Chen asked. "It's... around 9 o'clock in the evening?" Hu Ming said. "Is it convenient to take a taxi here at night?" Lu Weiwei also asked quickly. Hu Ming shook his head: "I don't know very well, maybe it used to be? I guess it's a bit troublesome now, but after all, there are still quite a lot of cars on this road, so I think it shouldn't be difficult to get a taxi." Hearing Hu Ming's remarks, Gu Chen took two steps back and came to the side of the road. He looked up at the camera device in the distance. This is the closest place that He Junchao could see the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant. He Junchao also found out here that Hu Ming and Wan Xiaomin walked into the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant last night. But when he came out, there was only Hu Ming alone. Thinking that this is a demolition area, many public facilities have been severely damaged. If it weren't for the water and electricity here, it is estimated that all residents would have to relocate. "It seems that it is a bit difficult to investigate, and this location is very large. It may not be easy to find Wan Xiaomin in this area." Gu Chen muttered in his heart, feeling that Wan Xiaomin must have disappeared in this area. And where did Wan Xiaomin and Hu Ming go last night? I'm afraid no one knows. Thinking of this, Gu Chen also urged: "Hu Ming, follow the walking route you and Wan Xiaomin took last night, and walk it for me again." "No problem." Hu Ming also looked like he really wanted to find Wan Xiaomin. As soon as Gu Chen said it, he immediately agreed. Afterwards, several people began to walk slowly towards the interior of the living area along a concrete path. Because everyone has never been here, or in other words, they have passed by, but they have never entered. Therefore, Hu Ming's understanding of the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant is not as detailed as that of Hu Ming. On the other hand, Hu Ming, because he has lived here since he was a child, introduced the living area of the chemical plant more like a tour guide. Hu Ming first took everyone to visit the ruins of the chemical plant children's primary school, and then took everyone to the living area square. Finally, follow a path until you reach a ruin. Hu Ming pointed to the ruins in front of him and said: "This is my home back then, and it has been demolished now, and over there." Hu Ming turned around, pointed to another dilapidated building, and said, "Over there is Lu Yuan's house, and behind it is Azhe's house. As for Wan Xiaomin, their house is the ruins we passed by just now. I'll let you know where it is. I can't tell the difference anymore." "These are all the memories of me and Wan Xiaomin from kindergarten to middle school, so we two had a good memory last night." "It feels like, all of a sudden, I'm back to that green age, as if everything happened yesterday." "So this is all the roads you walked on last night, right?" Police Officer Wang looked around and asked. Hu Ming nodded silently, and said affirmatively: "That's right, we only went to these places yesterday, because it was too late, and the street lights here are very old, they were built by the chemical plant unit, and they used the same kind of lights." Big watt light bulb." "So, we just wandered around in a place with light, and then the two of us came to the waiting position just now, and a taxi happened to pass by." "So, Xiao Min let me go first. What happened after that? I don't know too well." "And thinking of the fact that Wan Xiaomin is married, I didn't call again. Until this morning, when I was still preparing company materials, you suddenly came to the door. You also know what happened afterwards." "Are you sure what you said is true?" Although Lu Weiwei felt that she couldn't believe it completely, she still asked him for sure. Hu Ming nodded fiercely: "Yes, everything I said is true. I did take a step first. What will happen to Wan Xiaomin after that? I really don't know." After Hu Ming's words fell, he scratched his head with both hands, feeling that he was also very responsible for Wan Xiaomin's disappearance. Therefore, Hu Ming seems to blame himself very much at the moment. Gu Chen looked around for a week, feeling that this place was too remote. Moreover, the old people who live here probably don't go out much at night, mainly because of the poor lighting. But after all, is what Hu Ming said true? Gu Chen can't make a judgment at the moment, and feels that he can only ask the surrounding residents to see if anyone has seen Wan Xiaomin. At least for now, according to the results of He Junchao's investigation, it seems that Wan Xiaomin has never left the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory. Several people came to the waiting place just now again. Gu Chen looked around and found an old building nearby. The perimeter of the building is a red wall structure, not painted, with a total of four floors. In front of the building, there is a huge camphor tree, which looks old and is surrounded by iron guardrails. The iron plates hanging on the branches also record some basic information of the ancient camphor tree. At this moment, an old lady with white hair was sitting outside the guardrail on the first floor, peeling peanuts. Gu Chen's eyes pointed out, everyone nodded in unison, and then walked towards the white-haired old lady together. "Old lady." Gu Chen walked over first, also squatted down, and then showed the screenshot of the phone in front of the old lady, and asked: "This woman named Wan Xiaomin, I wonder if you've seen her before?" "Wan Xiaomin?" The white-haired old lady pushed her glasses, and said thoughtfully, "Isn't Wan Xiaomin the daughter of the old Wan family? I know her, she seems to open a pet shop in Sanyuan Lane." . "That's right, it's her." Seeing that the old lady knew Wan Xiaomin, Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked again: "Then last night, around 9 o'clock, did you see Wan Xiaomin waiting for the bus over there?" Seeing Lu Weiwei pointing in the direction of the stop sign, the white-haired old lady was thoughtful and recalled: "Last night? Around 9 o'clock? It seems that I saw two people standing there waiting for the bus." "Then what happened next?" Police Officer Wang hurriedly asked again. "Later? Later, it seemed that someone left early, as if he took a taxi on the side of the road." "That person is me." Hearing the old lady's words, Hu Ming quickly pointed to himself and reminded: "Old lady, I am Hu Ming, do you still know me?" Hearing Hu Ming's tone, Gu Chen felt that he should know this old lady. After all, they all belong to the same family area, so if you look down, you can't see up. But the old lady hesitated at this time, looked at Hu Ming in front of her repeatedly, but her memory was a little fuzzy and said: "Hu Ming? Is this name strange? Your family used to live here too?" "That's right, my family used to live there. I'm from Shanghai. When I was in the first year of high school, I moved my household registration back to Shanghai with my parents." "People from the devil city?" Upon hearing Hu Ming's words, the old lady seemed to have some impressions, and said thoughtfully: "I seem to remember that there were some people from Shanghai who returned to Shanghai because of the company's bankruptcy and reorganization." After thinking about it, the old lady turned her head and asked Hu Ming again: "What did you say is your name?" "Hu Ming, everyone likes to call me A Ming. I used to play with Wan Xiaomin, Lu Yuan, and Ah Zhe. The four of us are always inseparable." It feels like the old lady's memory is still a little fuzzy, so Hu Ming also deepened her influence for her. The old lady nodded thoughtfully, and said involuntarily, "I seem to have a little impression, you said you were waiting for the bus with Wan Xiaomin yesterday?" "Yes, yesterday at around 9 o'clock in the evening, you saw the first person who took a taxi and left, and that was me, Hu Ming." Hu Ming said quickly. The old lady nodded silently, but her memory was still vague, and she asked again: "What did you ask me just now?" "After Hu Ming left, did Wan Xiaomin leave here?" Just as the old lady finished speaking, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha asked together. The old lady immediately looked hesitant, but she tried her best to think back and said, "Last night? Wan Xiaomin? I remember that after Hu Ming left, Wan Xiaomin didn't seem to stay there any longer. He seemed to be walking back?" "What?" Hearing the old lady's words, Lu Weiwei couldn't believe it: "Isn't Wan Xiaomin going to take a taxi back here? What is she doing going back? Old lady, did you see clearly?" "Oh, it's so dark, I can't see very clearly, and my old eyes are dim. I was wearing glasses at the time, and I saw two people waiting for the bus at the stop sign." "Then, one person took a taxi and left, and the other person, I only saw a figure anyway, walked back slowly." After thinking for a while, the old lady said again: "This is just the beginning. At the position of the stop sign, I can still see a figure with the help of the light from the street lamp." "But later, the figure walked back, and I heard some footsteps." "Old lady, where did you see it?" Hearing the old lady's words, Gu Chen also questioned the quick record in his hand. "Where did you see it? Oh, I must be on the balcony at home." "I was watching TV at the time, and I happened to go to the balcony to collect clothes, so I happened to see these things just now." "Then did anyone else see the scene where these two were waiting for the bus?" Police Officer Wang hurriedly asked. The old lady put on a troubled expression, and said thoughtfully: "It seems that there is really no such thing. There are only a few families living in this whole building." "Besides me, the old woman, there is another apartment upstairs, and another apartment in the next-door unit." "At that time, I remember that when I came out to collect the clothes, there seemed to be no one else around, as if I was the only one who saw it." "Okay." Hearing what the old lady said, Gu Chen could only record all this temporarily, and then asked the old lady again: "So you saw the figure that hadn't left after that, and you started to walk back, right? Are you going this way?" In order to determine the route, Gu Chen pointed to the concrete road beside him. The old lady nodded silently: "Yes, because there is only this road, the main road leading to the outside, and that figure can only go this way." "What happened after that? Did you see where she disappeared in the end?" Lu Weiwei was also in a hurry, so she hurriedly asked. The old lady had a headache at the moment, and felt that her memory was almost drained by these policemen. Although the memory is a bit fuzzy, the old lady also began to piece together the fragmented information under the constant reminders of the people. Sitting there blankly, the old lady finally said after five or six seconds: "That's right, the last time I saw that figure, I just walked back." "Because I was collecting clothes on the balcony at the time, I could only see that figure disappearing into a blind corner of the wall." "As for where that person went later? I don't know, anyway, I'm going back." Hearing what the old lady said, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. I feel that if the facts are as the old lady said, I am afraid that the situation here will be a little complicated. "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, Xiao Yuan." Gu Chen reminded several partners to come to one side to discuss countermeasures. So everyone left Hu Ming where he was, while the others came to the corner of the building, gathered together, and discussed what they had seen and heard just now. "I think this matter is weird." Gu Chen crossed his arms and expressed his opinion first: "If Hu Ming is not suspected, then the question must be on Wan Xiaomin." "I think so too." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei quickly echoed, "First of all, Wan Xiaomin is the one who asked Hu Ming to come to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory." "Then, it was Wan Xiaomin who urged Hu Ming to leave first." "After that, after Hu Ming took a taxi and left, Wan Xiaomin suddenly turned back." "But according to Hu Ming's account, Wan Xiaomin's parents' house has already moved away from here, and her house is already in ruins, but why did she want to go back after sending Hu Ming away? where to go?" "And just disappeared." Yuan Shasha also continued to add. Police Officer Wang was quite curious when he heard what everyone said, "If things are really as you said, then this matter is indeed very strange." "That's right." After walking back and forth twice, Gu Chen couldn't help but say: "This Wan Xiaomin seems to be the leader of yesterday's party. If we say that the arrangement of the party was a wine affair facilitated by Azhe and Hu Ming, then Hu Ming was the leader of the party in the first half." "But after the meal, until Wan Xiaomin disappeared, it was Wan Xiaomin who was always in charge of everything." Looking up at everyone, Gu Chen said again: "It seems that Wan Xiaomin wants to come here to do business, but under the guise of wanting to revisit Hu Ming's hometown, that's why Hu Ming accompanied him to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory. " "Afterwards, although the two of them talked a lot, it was just passing through the scene." Flicking his right index finger, Gu Chen continued to remind, "But after Hu Ming is sent away, the critical stage of the matter will be." "Wan Xiaomin suddenly walked back. Obviously, her plan to use Hu Ming to cover herself has been completed. Next, Wan Xiaomin will really go about her own business." "Really?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Yuan Shasha was also taken aback for a while, somewhat incredulous: "If things are really as Senior Brother Gu said, then the whole evening's dinner seems to be a round?" "At the beginning, it was Hu Ming's game. He wanted to meet his first love in middle school, and his wish had already been fulfilled, but he didn't expect Wan Xiaomin to be married, so Hu Ming didn't have any special thoughts about Wan Xiaomin." "Just after revisiting the old place, I left hastily, but the next thing is Wan Min's own situation." "Yes." Hearing what Yuan Shasha said, Lu Weiwei immediately understood: "Junior Brother Gu, do you still remember how we saw Wan Xiaomin after we parked the car in Sanyuan Lane last night?" "Remember, she locked the door of the shop, maybe she was going to have dinner." Gu Chen said casually. "No." Lu Weiwei shook her head, and interrupted directly: "She Wan Xiaomin may not be going to dinner, because she knows that Ah Zhe has already greeted her in advance, and last night was a dinner with friends." "Since it's a dinner with friends, there's no need for her, Wan Xiaomin, to have dinner in advance." "That's right, why did I forget about this?" After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Gu Chen came to his senses and couldn't help but murmured: "Wan Xiaomin locked the 'Hamster House', he must have something urgent to leave." "But if it wasn't for dinner, then what did she do? Or, during that time, did she ever meet someone? Did something? " "Gu Chen." When Gu Chen started to explain in a strange direction, Police Officer Wang immediately interrupted: "Do you think, if Wan Xiaomin is really dangerous, I mean, if, if she is kidnapped, do you think she met that person in advance last night?" "But because Wan Xiaomin is going to have a dinner party at night, she hasn't finished what she needs to do, so she just needs to go back to the hamster house first, and then go to the dinner party." "After all, didn't you hear Hu Ming's phone call in the restaurant last night?" "He seemed to be complaining about Ah Zhe, saying that Wan Xiaomin had to come, no matter how busy he was. It can be seen that Wan Xiaomin was really busy at that time, so whether he could come to the restaurant for dinner was a problem." "But later, Wan Xiaomin came, if she had met someone before you came to her shop, and then asked Hu Ming to come to this family area." "Obviously, she may have come here to complete unfinished business, and the person she wants to meet may be the person she met before you and Lu Weiwei came to the hamster house." Officer Wang's voice fell, and the scene suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked at each other, analyzing Officer Wang's explanation just now. After a while, Gu Chen snapped his fingers and said, "That's right, what Senior Brother Wang said makes sense." "If Wan Xiaomin proposed to revisit yesterday's hometown, maybe she has already made an appointment with someone here, so she must come here too." "And Hu Ming is just a tool man, maybe he became Wan Xiaomin's cover." "Then doesn't that mean that this Hu Ming is still in the dark?" Lu Weiwei said. "It can be understood in this way, so the most important thing now is to find the person who had contact with Wan Xiaomin in advance last night, maybe you can find Wan Xiaomin." Gu Chen's reasoning at the moment is very bold. It can be said that last night, Hu Ming and Wan Xiaomin took a taxi in front of the station sign under the street lamp, and after they separated, Wan Xiaomin turned back, and the witness of the old lady, it can be shown that Wan Xiaomin seems to be Secrets are hidden in the heart. Maybe even Hu Ming doesn't know this secret. Gu Chen took a deep breath, turned his head to look at Hu Ming and the old lady who were communicating, and walked straight over. Seeing Gu Chen and the others coming from behind, Hu Ming stood up straight and asked Gu Chen, "Officer Gu, have you discussed it? What should we do next?" Hu Ming seems to be more anxious now than Gu Chen and the others. The disappearance of Wan Xiaomin seems to have hit Hu Ming deeply, and even blamed himself. "Hu Ming, let me ask you, you were with Wan Xiaomin yesterday, did you notice anything unusual about her?" Gu Chen also cut to the chase. But this question made Hu Ming look dazed, as if he hadn't recovered from Gu Chen's questioning state. "May I ask you something?" Lu Weiwei hurriedly reminded her. Hu Ming scratched his cheeks immediately, thinking about it: "What's unusual? What's unusual about her?" "If Fei wants to talk, it's not impossible." "What is it?" Officer Wang hurriedly asked. "Uh, she kept looking at her phone last night. I asked her if she was okay? She said no." "Frequently check the phone?" Gu Chen kept this in mind, and then asked: "What about other things? Does she have any other abnormalities?" "Other abnormal places?" After thinking for a while, Hu Ming said again: "Oh, by the way, last night, we were only halfway through eating, and she said that she was full, and then asked me if I would like to go to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant together. change?" "Didn't I say that place has been demolished? And it's late at night. I originally wanted to communicate with her and go shopping in another place, but Xiao Min seems to be very insisting that I must accompany her to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city." "At that time, I saw that she was determined and had no appetite, so I agreed." "No wonder you left so quickly yesterday? What do I say? We haven't finished eating the ones that came first, and you have disappeared. Did the co-authors come here?" Yuan Shasha also said something. Hu Ming did not deny it, but directly admitted: "After all, Xiao Min asked for it. I felt at the time that this place was a memory for us, so I agreed." "In the process after that, what did you mainly talk about here?" Gu Chen asked. Hu Ming shook his head: "I don't seem to be talking about anything? It's strange to say that the person who invited me here was Wan Xiaomin, but it seemed that I was the one talking all the time, and she just replied like 'um, oh, yes', As if absent-minded." "So I felt bored, so I asked her if she wanted to go back? But she refused again, saying that she wanted to go shopping again." Taking a deep breath, Hu Ming also said in embarrassment: "When I came here last night, I felt that we were chatting awkwardly the whole time, and Wan Xiaomin seemed to be absent-minded all the time." "Is there any more?" Gu Chen continued to ask. Hu Ming nodded silently, and said again: "The other thing is that I was asked to take a taxi and leave quickly, which made me feel very embarrassed." "As you said, I should have let her go first, or we both took the same taxi, and when we got to her house, she got out of the car first, and I went back to the hotel." "But yesterday she insisted on me leaving first, and I also felt it was wrong, but Xiao Min was very persistent, and there was nothing I could do." After a pause, Hu Ming said again: "If you ask me what was suspicious about Wan Xiaomin last night, then I think it should be these." "Okay." Gu Chen can probably analyze some problems from Hu Ming's mouth. This is just as I imagined. The purpose of Wan Xiaomin's coming here seems not to catch up with Hu Ming at all, but to come here to do business. But after coming here, Wan Xiaomin made excuses to send Hu Ming away, and finally disappeared in this area himself. Gu Chen felt that Wan Xiaomin might still be nearby at this time, but due to demolition and relocation everywhere, ruins and iron partitions are everywhere, it may not be easy to find someone in such a large area. After thinking about it, Gu Chen said again: "Senior Brother Wang, Senior Sister Lu, Xiao Yuan, I think this area should be searched. At least for now, I can be sure that Wan Xiaomin doesn't seem to have left here." "If you haven't left, it's only a matter of time before you find Wan Xiaomin." "En." Hearing Gu Chen's speech, Police Officer Wang suddenly raised his head and said: "If not, Xiao Yuan and I will stay here. By the way, we will call Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong to help, and Hu Ming will also stay here. Let's look for it together. You and Lu Weiwei can do what you should do. . What Police Officer Wang said was very cryptic, but both Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei knew that Comrade Wang wanted them to investigate the specific whereabouts of Wan Xiaomin before they met Wan Xiaomin in the hamster house. So Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei readily agreed, and then drove away from the scene, heading directly towards Sanyuan Lane. ... ... Back to Sanyuan Lane again, it was already 2 pm. At this time, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei also ate a bowl of fried noodles on the side of the road, and then returned to the hamster house. Since Lu Yuan didn't go to work today, he was planning to go home and take a nap, but now his wife Wan Xiaomin has disappeared, which made Lu Yuan feel a little restless. At this time, he was also nesting in the hamster house shop, surrounded by a group of cats. When Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came to the store again, Lu Yuanzheng sat aside with blank eyes. Gu Chen tapped the gaze next to him, Lu Yuan stared blankly, and turned to look in Gu Chen's direction. "Officer Gu?" Seeing that it was Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei who came, Lu Yuan immediately stood up and quickly walked in front of them: "How is Xiao Min? Did you find her?" "Not yet." Gu Chen shook his head. "Don't you have any clues?" Lu Yuan felt that he was in a bad mood when he heard it. Lu Weiwei shook her head and said, "It's not that there are no clues. According to our investigation, after Wan Xiaomin had dinner with Hu Ming last night, he asked Hu Ming to go to the old place of the West City Chemical Plant family area to revisit." "However, Hu Ming was the only one who left the family area of the chemical plant in the end." "What do you mean?" Lu Yuan became even more anxious when he heard this: "Could it be that Xiao Min is still in the family area? What did Hu Ming do to her? Why did he come out alone?" Feeling that Lu Yuan was a little anxious and angry at the moment, Gu Chen quickly comforted him: "Lu Yuan, don't worry, just listen to me." "What else is there to say? Hu Ming invited Xiao Min to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city. I guess there is nothing good about it?" "I know that the two of them are first love, and they haven't seen each other for many years, so there will inevitably be a lot to say, and I am more like an intervening person to them." "Lu Yuan." Seeing that Lu Yuan began to blame himself, Gu Chen also reminded: "Why do you think so? The matter between Hu Ming and Xiao Min is all memories of the former student days. You are the little boy now. Min's husband." "That's right." Hearing what Lu Yuan said, Lu Weiwei also began to refute: "Why do you say that, you don't seem to have confidence in Xiao Min?" "Then why did the two of them enter the family area of Chengxi Chemical Factory, and Hu Ming was the only one who came out in the end? What do you say about this?" Lu Yuan seemed to be in a better position, and his face became more and more ugly. Gu Chen frowned, and said solemnly: "Lu Yuan, I think you need to calm down now. You're jumping to conclusions before I finish my sentence?" "Then you say it." Lu Yuan also felt that he seemed a little angry now, and he was trying to suppress his anger. Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and then slowly said: "Last night, the person who asked Hu Ming to go to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city was Wan Xiaomin, and the person who urged Hu Ming to leave first was also Wan Xiaomin." "After Hu Ming took a taxi and left, Wan Xiaomin returned to the family area of Chengxi Chemical Plant by himself. This was witnessed by witnesses." "What did you say? After Xiao Min asked Hu Ming to leave, she returned to the family area?" Feeling that this sounded weird, Lu Yuan was silent for a few seconds, and then said again: "That is to say, Xiao Min is still in the family area and hasn't come out, right?" "It may be so. At present, we have sent people to search Xiaomin's Xiaoluo near the family area. If there is any news, we will inform you as soon as possible." Lu Weiwei also hurriedly told Lu about the situation she knew Please inform me. Lu Yuan sat back on his seat listlessly, his eyes were lost, and he thought thoughtfully, "How could this happen? Why did Xiao Min stay in the family area?" "This is also the purpose of our coming here." Seeing that Lu Yuan was becoming more and more confused at the moment, Gu Chen simply discussed his thoughts with him. "Last night, Senior Sister Lu and I were parking nearby. When we passed by your hamster house, the door of the store was locked with a big lock." "At that time, we thought that the shop owner might just go for dinner and leave temporarily, but last night, Wan Xiaomin had dinner at the same restaurant as us." "It means that maybe she's not going to dinner, but to do other things." After a pause, seeing Lu Yuan's solemn expression, Gu Chen said again: "However, from our investigation of Hu Ming, he also noticed that there seems to be something wrong with Xiao Min, or weird." "What do you mean?" Lu Yuan looked up at Gu Chen, seemingly not quite understanding. And Lu Weiwei quickly explained: "It means that Hu Ming felt that Xiao Min was a little weird at that time, and seemed to be urging himself to come to the family area of the chemical factory in the west of the city." "On the surface, it's about revisiting the old place and reminiscing about the student days together, but in fact, Xiao Min was absent-minded the whole time, as if he was thinking about something." "And Hu Ming felt like a tool man throughout the whole process." After a pause, Lu Weiwei said again: "Besides, after Wan Xiaomin sent Hu Ming away, she somehow returned to the family area. Obviously, this is the serious thing she has to do." "Are you suspecting that Xiao Min... she hid herself?" Lu Yuan didn't know why. But Gu Chen shook his head: "We suspect that she was kidnapped, and the person who kidnapped her may have a strong connection with her." "Otherwise, Xiao Min's series of weird behaviors wouldn't have happened." Gu Chen walked around two times after arriving, and then said: "According to our analysis, Xiao Min seems to want to go to the family area of the Xicheng Chemical Plant to meet someone to talk about things. . "Helping Hu Ming is just a incidental thing. Hu Ming's real role seems to be to cover Xiao Min." "But once Hu Ming leaves, Xiao Min can go about her own business and meet the people she needs to meet." "And this person, last night, may have met Xiao Min once, but because Xiao Min was invited and had a friend's party at night, so the meeting with this person was temporarily postponed." "Therefore, we want to find out what exactly did Wan Xiaomin do before Senior Sister Lu and I came to the door of the hamster house last night? Why couldn't our surveillance catch it?" "This" When Gu Chen said this, Lu Yuan was dumbfounded, as if Wan Xiaomin did have a lot of things to hide from him. Seeing Lu Yuan sluggishly standing there, Lu Weiwei also reminded, "Lu Yuan, what can I ask you? What does Wan Xiaomin usually do when he goes out?" "What do you do? I usually go to eat. She likes to eat the delicacies in Sanyuan Lane the most, so she usually stays in the store, either brought from home or the delicacies of Sanyuan Lane." Lu Yuan Say. "Do you usually eat it outside? Or pack it up and take it back to the store?" Gu Chen asked again. "That's just a takeaway store, because the store needs people to watch, and she is alone. She usually locks the door when she goes out to do errands, but she only leaves for a while." Lu Yuan thought for a while, and then said: "I remember, every time she went out to buy food, she packed it and brought it back to the store." "Every time? Or how many times do you eat out occasionally?" Lu Weiwei asked. Lu Yuan said categorically: "Every time I bring it back, she doesn't have the habit of eating outside." Hearing Lu Yuan's remarks, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, seeming to have noticed these details. Gu Chen said: "When we saw Xiao Min last night, she was empty-handed, she didn't look like she was going out for dinner." "But if she's not going to eat, then maybe she's going to meet someone or do something." "But we didn't seem to have caught Xiao Min through the nearby surveillance. She didn't seem to have left Sanyuan Lane, but was near Sanyuan Lane." "That's right." Hearing Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei also echoed, "We have investigated the monitoring and confirmed that Xiao Min did not leave Sanyuan Lane at that time." "So I don't know, what did Wan Xiaomin do when he left yesterday?" "This" Facing the inquiries of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, Lu Yuan was suddenly stunned. It seems that this issue is not clear to me. After thinking about it, Lu Yuan hurriedly said again: "I don't know about Xiao Min either, but the neighbors around me know us, so I guess they should know something." "How about I go around and ask about the situation?" "Let's go with you." Lu Weiwei also suggested. Afterwards, several people quickly reached a consensus. So Lu Yuan locked the door of the store again, and then took Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to ask the neighbors around. However, after one round, it seems that there is no gain at all. Some people have seen Wan Xiaomin, but only on the road of Sanyuan Lane. Since Wan Xiaomin opened a shop in Sanyuan Lane, everyone is accustomed to seeing her, especially the recent adoption of 20 stray cats, which makes Wan Xiaomin a celebrity in Sanyuan Lane. Especially given the nickname "Sanyuan Lane Receiver", it is not difficult to see that Wan Xiaomin also has a certain mass base in Sanyuan Lane. It can be seen that they have seen it before, and everyone thought that Wan Xiaomin was going to eat, or was returning to the store, so they didn't pay much attention. Therefore, although many people saw Wan Xiaomin appearing in Sanyuan Lane last night, they only saw it. But Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei didn't seem to ask about the result they wanted. After one round, Lu Yuan also became anxious, and said involuntarily: "These neighbors usually have the best relationship with Xiao Min. They haven't seen Xiao Min doing anything? Then others won't pay attention." "Don't worry." Gu Chen looked left and right, and suddenly found that at the intersection of Sanyuan Lane, at the corner of a storefront, a fortune teller was setting up a stall there. Seeing this, Gu Chen didn't hesitate, and walked directly towards the fortune teller. Seeing that it was a policeman, the old man frowned slightly. "Master." Gu Chen squatted in front of the old man, also looking at some gossip totems in front of his booth. "Young man is so lucky, do you want me to tell you a fortune?" The old man looked Gu Chen up and down, touched his long white beard on his chin, and asked casually. But Gu Chen shook his head and continued, "I'm asking you about someone." ...
