Chapter 2002
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"101? So this is room 101?" Gu Chen picked up the key in his hand, and looked at the door of the warehouse in front of him, wondering what the other party was trying to trick?
But with the key in hand, it is impossible to stand still in place.
So Gu Chen hesitated again and again, and opened the door of the warehouse with the key.
With the sound of "squeak", Gu Chen's fine hairs stood up involuntarily at this moment.
It seems that no one has entered the warehouse for a long time, and there is thick dust everywhere.
The moment the iron door opened, the dust on the top of the head scattered all over the ground.
This made Gu Chen step back alertly, and couldn't help but flap his hands twice.
"What's the situation? No one has been here for a long time, like an abandoned room?"
Covering his mouth and nose, Gu Chen felt something strange in the room.
Because this so-called "101" room doesn't have any number at all.
The so-called "101" is a number sprayed by people with spray liquid.
And this room is just a small abandoned compartment in the No. 2 warehouse.
Coupled with the thick dust around it, it was obvious that no one had entered or exited for a long time.
"But if this is the case, then why did this woman give me the key? No one has been here before."
Gu Chen hesitated again and again, and suddenly became more cautious about the situation at the scene.
It seems that when I came here, I completely entered the maze set up by the woman.
First, he sent an envelope written in blood and asked himself to meet at Binjiang Park.
Then let a little boy hand over the key and reminder to himself.
This is tantamount to allowing myself to come to Warehouse No. 2 and use the key to open the rusty door.
Gu Chen was very puzzled, feeling like he had fallen into a trap.
At this moment, his phone suddenly vibrated.
Gu Chen took it out and saw that Lu Weiwei was calling herself.
It turned out that she didn't check the phone information, so Lu Weiwei was afraid that she would be unsafe, so she called to ask about the situation.
Thinking that there was no one else around, Gu Chen simply disconnected the phone and answered it directly: "Senior Sister Lu."
"Gu Chen, where are you now? Room 101 in Binjiang Freight Yard No. 2 warehouse?" Lu Weiwei on the other end of the phone seemed anxious.
Gu Chen replied: "At present, I am standing at the door of the room, and the room has been opened by me, but it is strange, it seems that no one has been in this room for a long time."
"There was thick dust all around, and the moment I opened the iron door, even the rust on the iron door was the latest to fall."
"That is to say, the woman asked you to open the place with the key, but no one has actually been there for a long time, right?" Listening to Gu Chen's narration, Lu Weiwei felt more and more that this seemed to be a trap.
Gu Chen sighed softly, and replied: "The situation at the scene is like this, I am still hesitating, should I go in? If I want to go in, I need some personal equipment."
"How about, Senior Sister Lu, you can bring those protective equipment to me directly."
"Is it okay?" Seeing that Gu Chen let go of his mouth suddenly, Lu Weiwei also hurriedly asked.
Gu Chen grinned: "The most important thing now is to clear up this room."
"That's okay, Junior Brother Gu, you send me the location, and we'll come over right away."
The two parties also hung up the phone after a short communication.
Since Warehouse No. 2 is itself an abandoned warehouse, there are no lights around it.
The whole environment reflects each other with the street lights on the far side of the road, forming a strong sensitive contrast.
In the freight yard in the distance, there are still various machines and vehicles working.
On the contrary, in Warehouse No. 2, weeds even grew in many corners, and the rotten smell of feces was everywhere.
Gu Chen felt that this place might still be a living place for stray animals.
Taking advantage of the time when Lu Weiwei and the others rushed over, Gu Chen picked up a strong flashlight and shined it on the inside of the room from the door. When he found that it was not convenient to investigate from the angle of the door, Gu Chen resolutely gave up the search.
Instead, see the focus of the investigation, and place it in Warehouse No. 2 and its surroundings.
In the place where the strong light swept, from time to time, you can see the scene of mice walking on some sundries.
The surroundings are dim, giving people a sense of eerie déjà vu.
After an unknown amount of time, three figures suddenly appeared under the distant lights.
The figure gradually approached, and soon came to Gu Chen.
"Junior Brother Gu." Seeing Gu Chen standing there, seemingly in a state of meditation, Lu Weiwei hurriedly reminded him.
Gu Chen turned his head and asked, "Senior Sister Lu, have you brought everything?"
"I've brought them all. Protective footwear, gloves, headgear, and a mask." After Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she also looked for the "101" on the wall.
After a while, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but marvel: "So, this is room 101? Why was it painted so casually?"
"The paint was only applied in the last two days, and the smell is still very strong." During the short time Gu Chen stayed here, he had already investigated the paint sprayed on the wall.
Officer Wang walked to the side and sniffed, nodded and said, "That's right, it was sprayed on recently."
"Maybe it's to remind Senior Brother Gu of the location?" Yuan Shasha said.
Gu Chen used a bright flashlight to illuminate the room in front of him twice, reminding him:
"I was standing at the door of the room just now, and I could clearly smell the disgusting smell in the room."
"It can be seen that this room has not been opened for too long, so the smell inside is very bad."
"The reason why I waited for you to send the protective equipment is also to let the smell in this room dissipate, because it is too bad."
"That's right." Looking at the various rust marks left on the ground when the door was opened, Lu Weiwei said in confusion:
"Tell me, what is the meaning of this woman? It took a lot of trouble to invite your brother Gu here, but he didn't tell you the real situation, and he didn't even come out to meet."
"Maybe there are difficulties?" Yuan Shasha said.
"Ghost knows." Police officer Wang walked over from behind the crowd, and he also saw that the shoe covers were put on, so he asked, "Do you want to go in and have a look together?"
"Go." Lu Weiwei took advantage of the situation to put on her ankle boots, and then looked at Gu Chen.
Gu Chen reminded Yuan Shasha: "Xiao Yuan, you just stay at the door. If there is anything unusual, remember to notify us."
"Understood." Yuan Shasha nodded silently, turned her back immediately, and used the strong flashlight in her hand to illuminate the surroundings for warning.
Since the interior of Warehouse No. 2 is full of all kinds of dilapidated materials, it looks more like a garbage dump.
Could there be something hidden inside? It's hard for Yuan Shasha to say that.
Seeing Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang, they entered the warehouse room one after another.
Yuan Shasha couldn't help but thumped in her heart, she immediately turned around and flicked the mechanical baton she was carrying on the spot.
For nothing else, holding it in your hand gives you a sense of security.
On the other side, the three people who entered the room formed a search formation in turn.
Everyone pulled out the mechanical batons they were wearing, and made a defensive posture.
The interior space of room 101 is huge, just looking at the area, it looks like 200 square meters.
And it was full of all kinds of dilapidated wooden boxes, as well as some randomly discarded work boots.
Gu Chen signaled to Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang to follow his finished glyphs to search.
She was in front, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang were on the left and right.
Everyone began to bypass the sundries and investigate the internal situation.
It can be seen that the interior of the room was indeed a large warehouse before.
However, the valuable materials seem to have been emptied long ago, and the rest are some damaged and abandoned materials.
But these are worthless in Gu Chen's view.
After a simple search, Gu Chen and the others came to the door with puzzled faces.
"I didn't find anything. What did this woman want us to do here? Could it be a prank?"
Lu Weiwei didn't have a clue and couldn't help complaining.
Officer Wang held his breath, and said involuntarily, "I don't think so, if this woman is playing a prank, then there's no need to play so many tricks."
"It can be said that from the moment she entered the police station, this woman started her own steps."
"Including now, through step-by-step guidance, lead Gu Chen to the No. 2 warehouse in Binjiang Freight Yard."
Glancing in the direction of the door, Police Officer Wang said again: "Also, the number 101 at the door was sprayed with paint only recently, and it took some effort."
"Treading Stars"
"If it's just for pranks, does it take so much effort?"
"Don't that woman know the consequences of playing with the police like this?"
"It seems to make sense." Listening to Officer Wang's explanation, Lu Weiwei, who had some doubts before, quickly woke up from her doubts.
Turning to look at Gu Chen, seeing that Gu Chen was still standing there, observing the surrounding situation, Lu Weiwei asked:
"Junior Brother Gu, do you think we need to check? It seems that no one has been in this room for a long time. There is dust everywhere, and there seems to be no valuable clues."
"Let's take a look." Gu Chen also felt in his heart that it was definitely not that simple for this woman to lead him here.
Moreover, he even prepared the keys for himself, and marked 101 on the wall, obviously wanting to tell Gu Chen the exact location.
But now, the door of the room is opened, but the items inside are all junk, which makes Gu Chen feel a little embarrassed.
After all, it was necessary to be so secretive just to let myself come to this broken warehouse after a lot of effort?
And there is a problem. The woman could have come to the police station to find herself, but she didn't do so.
It was difficult to see Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang, after all, the smell in the room was unpleasant.
Although everyone is wearing masks, they can still feel the various rotten smells in the room.
When Gu Chen saw this, he also reminded him: "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, why don't you go out first, anyway, there isn't much danger here, I want to look for it alone."
"Forget it." Seeing this, Lu Weiwei said helplessly, "Since Junior Brother Gu is looking for it, I'll accompany you to find it. Old Wang, go out."
"Okay." Police officer Wang is not Lu Weiwei, he didn't want to stay inside for a long time.
Seeing that there was no problem to be found, Police Officer Wang simply made an excuse and said, "Xiao Yuan stayed outside by himself. It's not safe for this shady person."
"I'll go out to accompany Xiao Yuan, if you find anything, remember to call me."
"Understood, let's go." Seeing that Police Officer Wang made many excuses, Lu Weiwei urged directly.
After Officer Wang left, Lu Weiwei began to follow behind Gu Chen, checking for Gu Chen's omissions.
Where did Gu Chen go? Lu Weiwei followed wherever, mainly to check some blind spots for Gu Chen.
Just like that, the two of them kept turning in circles in the warehouse room.
"But why? Why has this room been dusty for a long time, as can be seen from the dust on the ground."
"What does she want me to do here? What is it to help her find?"
Do you feel that you are looking for clues in some aspects, and you are looking in the wrong direction?
So Gu Chen stopped searching.
Gu Chen is very clear that even if he continues to follow the steps, there will be no results.
Instead of doing useless work here, it's better to rearrange your thoughts and look for clues from other aspects.
"If I have already searched for everything that the eyes can see, then let's try it with the sense of smell."
Because the entire room wafted a dusty rotten smell.
Therefore, Gu Chen wore a mask and was not very clear about the internal situation.
At this time, Gu Chen had searched for a long time but found nothing, which made Gu Chen suddenly feel that he might really be looking in the wrong direction.
Taking off the mask, Gu Chen began to slightly feel the rotten smell in the air.
So he turned on his master-level observation ability, and began to carefully screen out the rotten smell inside the air.
It can be said that in the entire room, most of the wafting smell is the rotten smell of wood.
The reason is simple, there are many broken wooden boxes in the warehouse.
It may have been used to store items before, but now the various items in the wooden box seem to have been collected long ago.
And many wooden boxes are now in dilapidated condition, almost all of them are open.
Gu Chen, who was wearing gloves, began to walk among these wooden boxes, using his keen sense of smell, to move forward slowly.
Since all the wooden boxes have been checked and confirmed that there are no problems, Gu Chen used his master-level memory to combine the roads he traveled before with the overall layout of the entire room.
Quickly form a virtual map in your mind.
Then, through his master-level imagination, he instantly constructed a virtual scene in front of him.
It's just that this virtual scene is highly consistent with the factory where I am, and it didn't appear out of thin air.
While Gu Chen closed his eyes, he was able to see clearly in the virtual space.
In this way, Gu Chen's concentration instantly became much higher than before.
Relying on his keen sense of smell, Gu Chen began to select the essential from the rough, discard the false and keep the true.
Although the air is filled with a smell of decaying wood, Gu Chen can smell a different smell in the air.
"No." Gu Chen frowned, and continued to check based on his identification of the smells in the air.
"In the air, there is not only the smell of wood, but also a familiar smell. What is it?"
In the virtual space, Gu Chen suddenly snapped his fingers.
In an instant, a rainbow flashed across the eyes, and the originally transparent scent suddenly became colorful.
Including the smell of wood is blue, the smell of rusty iron is green, the smell of plastic is green...
However, Gu Chen found a red smell in the air.
The red stripes in front of me slowly floated out from a pair of tattered wooden boxes.
Seeing this, Gu Chen hurried over.
However, this red color bar floating in the air seems to be getting thicker and thicker.
In the virtual space, Gu Chen also began to close his eyes, concentrating on screening.
But after a while, Gu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he backed away in fright.
"That's right, it's that familiar smell." Gu Chen snapped his fingers immediately.
In an instant, a rainbow flashed across the eyes, and the virtual space dissipated immediately.
Gu Chen returned to the real world, and what was in front of him at this time was still the pile of rotten wooden boxes.
At this moment, Gu Chen didn't care too much, and began to open these damaged wooden boxes one by one.
Because the movement was too noisy, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, who were still sitting in a row outside, were startled by the movement behind them.
Yuan Shasha was confused: "Could it be that Senior Brother Gu found something?"
"But...maybe?" Officer Wang was not sure either.
But Lu Weiwei stood up, patted the dust off her body, and said as she walked, "Go and have a look."
Upon seeing this, Police Officer Wang immediately told Yuan Shasha, "Xiao Yuan, keep guarding outside."
"Understood." At this time, Yuan Shasha also stood up, and immediately turned on the bright flashlight, making a vigilant gesture.
On the other side, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang who entered the room were almost smashed by a wooden board thrown away by Gu Chen in an instant.
The two also shrank back involuntarily.
Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked: "Junior Brother Gu, did you find something?"
"Remove these wooden boxes, let's have a look." Gu Chen didn't understand what he said, and continued to work hard, moving the wooden boxes in front of him one by one.
Although it is not clear, what exactly is Gu Chen doing?
But when Gu Chen did this, Lu Weiwei believed that Gu Chen had his own reasons.
So I started to join in.
The three of them worked together, and after removing the last larger wooden box, Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei were out of breath, but Gu Chen was breathing smoothly, and he didn't seem to be tired at all.
"Gu... Junior Brother Gu, move these wooden boxes, and then what?" Lu Weiwei asked puzzled.
But Gu Chen didn't respond right away, but squatted down and started pressing the ground with his fingers.
Then he tapped with the back of his hand, lay down on the ground again, continued to tap, and continued to listen.
After a while, Gu Chen stood up and paused a few times with his feet on the ground just now.
Go to the surrounding area again and continue the same action.
"How is it?" Officer Wang asked with a confused face.
Gu Chen pointed to the location just now and said, "It seems to be hollow inside."
"It's hollow, you mean, there might be something buried in it?" Police Officer Wang was also shocked.
You know, in this eerie environment, there is actually a hollow ground, which undoubtedly made the atmosphere of the scene suddenly tense.
"Senior Brother Wang." Gu Chen turned to look at Police Officer Wang, and asked, "Did you bring the police dagger?"
"Bring it." For self-defense, Officer Wang pinned the police dagger to his waist.
Hearing that Gu Chen wanted to use it, he immediately took it out from his waist and handed it to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen took the police knife, quickly started to look for the gaps, and then pried the ground.
Because the floor of the warehouse is covered with tiles, some tiles even have various cracks.
But in the area that Gu Chen pried, the tiles seemed to be intact.
Also after several unsuccessful attempts, Gu Chen resolutely put the police dagger aside, then took out a mechanical baton, and slammed the tiles with his back.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
As Gu Chen's strength increased, the originally intact tiles were cracked instantly.
So Gu Chen put the mechanical baton aside, continued to pick up the police dagger on the ground, and began to clean up the debris from the cracks.
Since Gu Chen pried open the gap, he quickly pulled the tiles away.
However, the bottom of the tiles is sand and stone, which is not unusual for the materials used when laying tiles.
Officer Wang asked curiously, "Gu Chen, is there something wrong with the sand?"
"It should be." Gu Chen didn't care too much, so he could only use both hands, and began to push the tiles away from the corners one by one.
After a while, all the tiles were thrown to one side, and in front of them were all kinds of gravel materials for laying tiles.
However, the smell that Gu Chen felt became stronger from the weak state before.
Gu Chen frowned, and began to plunge the blade into the gravel as a test.
After a few cuts, Gu Chen suddenly felt that there seemed to be something tricky hidden under the gravel.
So I started digging hard at the sand, and after a while, I found a hard material.
Gu Chen then focused on digging, but after a while, Lu Weiwei screamed and said, "Yes...it's a hand bone. Could it be that there is a corpse hidden under here?"
"Corpse?" Officer Wang became interested when he heard the words, and immediately moved to Gu Chen's side.
Seeing that the prototype of the hand bone had appeared, Officer Wang immediately joined in the excavation without saying a word.
What was horrifying was that as the gravel was gradually peeled away, a rotting corpse had already begun to take shape.
Police officer Wang suddenly felt bad and said: "It seems that there is still a murder case hidden here. No, you have to notify Gao Chuanfeng and the others immediately, and ask them to exclude the forensic team and bring professional equipment to prevent the body from being damaged."
"Agreed." After confirming that the underground substance was a rotting corpse, Gu Chen also stopped the excavation work.
Lu Weiwei, who stood up, also let out a long sigh, and said nervously: "This woman, she knows that there is a corpse hidden here."
"So, she came to the police station to find you by writing a letter, just to let you come here and find this buried body."
Now Lu Weiwei finally understands why that woman took so much trouble to ask Gu Chen to come here.
Even the keys are prepared for Gu Chen.
The current Lu Weiwei instantly admired that woman.
I thought it was a mental patient before, but now it seems that Lu Weiwei feels that she has wrongly blamed the woman.
But why is this woman doing this? Everyone is still unclear.
After Gu Chen probably conducted a preliminary inspection of the corpse, he took off his gloves and threw them aside, and said slowly:
"This corpse should have been buried here for many years, and the bones have long been rotten."
"There is no other way but to let Gao Chuanfeng and the others, with professional equipment, carefully dig out the corpse, and then bring it back for testing."
"Gao Chuanfeng, I'm going to trouble you, yes, come here now." As soon as Gu Chen's voice fell, Police Officer Wang over there also finished the phone call, and then he took a deep breath and said:
"Gao Chuanfeng and his team are preparing to assemble now, and they may come over later."
"It's so late at night, if Gao Chuanfeng hadn't told him that a rotting corpse was found here, I guess this kid really didn't want to get up."
"The forensic doctor is hard enough, it seems that I have to owe him some chicken legs." Thinking of Gao Chuanfeng's love for chicken legs, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that a few chicken legs were indispensable this time.
Afterwards, Gu Chen and the others came to the door, quietly waiting for Gao Chuanfeng's team to appear.
During the interval, Lu Weiwei looked up at Gu Chen, and said seriously, "Junior Brother Gu, this woman must be found."
"It seems that this woman knows everything, but she doesn't say anything, just let us look around."
"It's fortunate that you, Junior Brother Gu, can reach a state of perfection in grasping the details."
"If we send an ordinary team, we may not be able to find the corpse."
"What's the situation?" Officer Wang looked around and couldn't help but sigh:
"This warehouse seems to have been abandoned for many years, but why are there still corpses hidden in it?"
"Who is this corpse?"
With his hands behind his back, Police Officer Wang walked back and forth twice, and said involuntarily, "This woman must be investigated, but now, I feel that we need to investigate the Binjiang Freight Yard."
"At the very least, we need to find out what's going on in the No. 2 warehouse?"
"That's right." Lu Weiwei looked at the lights in the distance, and also reminded: "This Binjiang freight yard is still working the night shift. We can go over and ask about the situation."
Glancing at Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei said again: "Gu Chen, what do you think?"
"Yes." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and echoed, "How about this, Senior Brother Wang, Xiao Yuan, you stay here and wait for Gao Chuanfeng's team to arrive, and help them dig out the corpse."
"Senior Sister Lu and I, first go to the construction site of Binjiang Freight Yard to see if the leader is there?"
"If it is, let's go find out the situation here and see who has been missing before?"
"Comparing this again, the identity of the deceased should be found out soon."
"Okay, let's do this, you and Lu Weiwei hurry over, Xiao Yuan and I are here to guard." Police Officer Wang said.
After a few people communicated briefly at the scene, Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei and hurried to the construction site.
At this moment, the Binjiang construction site was still brightly lit.
Since there is a riverside wharf nearby, all the riverboats coming and going here will choose to stop here to unload their cargo from the wharf.
The Binjiang Wharf will transport the unloaded goods to the nearby Binjiang Freight Yard by vehicle.
And the area where he works now is the new freight yard in Binjiang.
As for the No. 2 warehouse where Gu Chen found the body, it belongs to the earliest old warehouse.
It is now an abandoned building and may be demolished later.
When Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei walked to the work site, a middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet hurried over and said, "Hello? Where are you from? You can't just walk around in the work area. What are you guys?" Who is it?"
"Are you an employee here?" Seeing someone approaching, Gu Chen directly took out his police ID, and said in front of that person:
"I'm from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch. I'm here to investigate the situation. Is your leader there?"
"Ah? So you're a policeman?" Seeing that Gu Chen was a policeman, the man immediately regained his temper, and said politely:
"The leader is here, come with me first, this is the work area, don't walk around casually, otherwise accidents will easily happen."
While talking, the man took Gu Chen and the others to one side, pointed to a high-rise building, and reminded:
"That's the duty room. There's also an office in it. The leader rests there. Just go and find him."
"Thank you." Gu Chen glanced at Lu Weiwei's chin when he saw the little brother pointing out the direction.
The two immediately trotted all the way, and began to search for the high ground quickly.
Pushing open the door of the duty room, a man in overalls was eating instant noodles. He also saw Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei standing at the door. The man in overalls asked curiously, "Who are you looking for?"
"Is the leader here?" Lu Weiwei said.
"I am." The man in overalls also looked puzzled, immediately put down the instant noodles in his hand, stood up and said:
"I am the leader on duty here, who are you?"
"We are from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch." Gu Chen took out his police card again.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man in overalls said politely, "So it's the police, what are you doing here?"
"What's the situation in the warehouse over there?" Gu Chen didn't immediately explain the discovery of the corpse in the warehouse, but hurriedly inquired about the situation in the warehouse.
The middle-aged man looked through the window, guided by Gu Chen's fingers, and then said: "You mean the warehouse? It's an old warehouse, and it's been abandoned for a long time now."
"Did anyone go missing in your place in the past few years?" Lu Weiwei hurriedly continued to ask.
"Missing?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's question, the middle-aged man was puzzled.
Gu Chen continued to urge: "Think carefully."
"It seems... It seems that someone has disappeared." The middle-aged man scratched the back of his head, trying to remember.
Then he looked up at Gu Chen, shook his right hand and said:
"Oh, yes, there was one. At that time, I hadn't worked here yet. I also heard that a worker suddenly disappeared while working at night."
"At first everyone thought that he might have accidentally fallen into the river during inspection."
"We have also sent many ships to search along the lower reaches of the river."
"But there was no trace of that person. In the end, we all gave up. Just like that, the person has been missing."
Walking to an old water dispenser, the middle-aged man hurriedly used disposable paper cups to pour hot water for Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, and also handed them over and said:
"Both officers, have a glass of water."
"Thank you." Lu Weiwei thanked her.
After Gu Chen took the paper cup, he continued to ask: "Then, have any of this person's family members come here to look for you?"
"Uh, this..."
It seems that it has been some years since the incident happened, so the memory of the middle-aged man seems to have become a little blurry.
But the middle-aged man, after trying to remember, said slowly: "This...is strange to say."
"Originally, after the worker disappeared, the general family members would come to the door and ask for compensation or something."
"The strange thing is, I heard from the people on the construction site that after the man disappeared, no family members came to the door."
"No family members came to the door?" Lu Weiwei was also very curious when she heard this:
"Impossible? How could there be no family members? Did you remember wrongly?"
"Impossible." The middle-aged man waved his hand and replied in an affirmative tone:
"I was very curious when I heard about it, and I also asked these workers about it."
"But they told me that after that person disappeared, no relatives really came to make trouble."
"Could it be this person who suddenly didn't want to work while working and went to work elsewhere without notifying you?" Gu Chen gave another result.
But the middle-aged man shook his head and denied it: "Comrade policeman, what you said is not true in my opinion."
"Why?" Gu Chen asked.
"The reason is very simple." The middle-aged man sat back in his seat and said involuntarily:
"Because I heard from people here that that person still has more than half a month's salary unpaid."
"Think about it, if you just found another job, at the very least, you have to pay the construction site for more than half a month's salary, right?"
"After all, no one's money came from the wind, and he is just a part-time worker. It's impossible. He doesn't even want his own wages, right?"
Hearing what the middle-aged man said, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, feeling that the situation was getting weirder.
But from the middle-aged man's tone of voice, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei seemed to be able to confirm that the body buried in the abandoned warehouse might be the missing worker.
So Gu Chen hurriedly asked: "This leader, can you help me find out the specific information of this missing worker?"
"This..." Feeling a bit difficult, the middle-aged man hesitated.
"What? Difficulty?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"That's not true." The middle-aged man shook his head and said thoughtfully, "Why don't we do this? After all, I don't know what happened to that person at that time."
"I'll make a call and ask someone who knows about it to come and explain it to you. What do you think?"
"This is the best." Gu Chen said.
"That's fine." Seeing that the police agreed, the middle-aged man immediately took out his mobile phone and started dialing the number.
Because the surrounding noise was too loud, the middle-aged man also turned up his voice and communicated with each other after making a call.
After a while, the middle-aged man hung up the phone and said slowly: "I have asked a worker who is on duty tonight to come over quickly and explain the situation to you face to face."
"Thank you." I also saw the middle-aged man solve the problem.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, so they sat quietly on one side, waiting for each other's arrival.
Not long after, a
�The middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet gently opened the door and came to everyone.
But Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei turned their heads to see that the person who came was the worker who showed everyone the way just now.
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"101? So this is room 101?" Gu Chen picked up the key in his hand, and looked at the door of the warehouse in front of him, wondering what the other party was trying to trick?
But with the key in hand, it is impossible to stand still in place.
So Gu Chen hesitated again and again, and opened the door of the warehouse with the key.
With the sound of "squeak", Gu Chen's fine hairs stood up involuntarily at this moment.
It seems that no one has entered the warehouse for a long time, and there is thick dust everywhere.
The moment the iron door opened, the dust on the top of the head scattered all over the ground.
This made Gu Chen step back alertly, and couldn't help but flap his hands twice.
"What's the situation? No one has been here for a long time, like an abandoned room?"
Covering his mouth and nose, Gu Chen felt something strange in the room.
Because this so-called "101" room doesn't have any number at all.
The so-called "101" is a number sprayed by people with spray liquid.
And this room is just a small abandoned compartment in the No. 2 warehouse.
Coupled with the thick dust around it, it was obvious that no one had entered or exited for a long time.
"But if this is the case, then why did this woman give me the key? No one has been here before."
Gu Chen hesitated again and again, and suddenly became more cautious about the situation at the scene.
It seems that when I came here, I completely entered the maze set up by the woman.
First, he sent an envelope written in blood and asked himself to meet at Binjiang Park.
Then let a little boy hand over the key and reminder to himself.
This is tantamount to allowing myself to come to Warehouse No. 2 and use the key to open the rusty door.
Gu Chen was very puzzled, feeling like he had fallen into a trap.
At this moment, his phone suddenly vibrated.
Gu Chen took it out and saw that Lu Weiwei was calling herself.
It turned out that she didn't check the phone information, so Lu Weiwei was afraid that she would be unsafe, so she called to ask about the situation.
Thinking that there was no one else around, Gu Chen simply disconnected the phone and answered it directly: "Senior Sister Lu."
"Gu Chen, where are you now? Room 101 in Binjiang Freight Yard No. 2 warehouse?" Lu Weiwei on the other end of the phone seemed anxious.
Gu Chen replied: "At present, I am standing at the door of the room, and the room has been opened by me, but it is strange, it seems that no one has been in this room for a long time."
"There was thick dust all around, and the moment I opened the iron door, even the rust on the iron door was the latest to fall."
"That is to say, the woman asked you to open the place with the key, but no one has actually been there for a long time, right?" Listening to Gu Chen's narration, Lu Weiwei felt more and more that this seemed to be a trap.
Gu Chen sighed softly, and replied: "The situation at the scene is like this, I am still hesitating, should I go in? If I want to go in, I need some personal equipment."
"How about, Senior Sister Lu, you can bring those protective equipment to me directly."
"Is it okay?" Seeing that Gu Chen let go of his mouth suddenly, Lu Weiwei also hurriedly asked.
Gu Chen grinned: "The most important thing now is to clear up this room."
"That's okay, Junior Brother Gu, you send me the location, and we'll come over right away."
The two parties also hung up the phone after a short communication.
Since Warehouse No. 2 is itself an abandoned warehouse, there are no lights around it.
The whole environment reflects each other with the street lights on the far side of the road, forming a strong sensitive contrast.
In the freight yard in the distance, there are still various machines and vehicles working.
On the contrary, in Warehouse No. 2, weeds even grew in many corners, and the rotten smell of feces was everywhere.
Gu Chen felt that this place might still be a living place for stray animals.
Taking advantage of the time when Lu Weiwei and the others rushed over, Gu Chen picked up a strong flashlight and shined it on the inside of the room from the door. When he found that it was not convenient to investigate from the angle of the door, Gu Chen resolutely gave up the search.
Instead, see the focus of the investigation, and place it in Warehouse No. 2 and its surroundings.
In the place where the strong light swept, from time to time, you can see the scene of mice walking on some sundries.
The surroundings are dim, giving people a sense of eerie déjà vu.
After an unknown amount of time, three figures suddenly appeared under the distant lights.
The figure gradually approached, and soon came to Gu Chen.
"Junior Brother Gu." Seeing Gu Chen standing there, seemingly in a state of meditation, Lu Weiwei hurriedly reminded him.
Gu Chen turned his head and asked, "Senior Sister Lu, have you brought everything?"
"I've brought them all. Protective footwear, gloves, headgear, and a mask." After Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she also looked for the "101" on the wall.
After a while, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but marvel: "So, this is room 101? Why was it painted so casually?"
"The paint was only applied in the last two days, and the smell is still very strong." During the short time Gu Chen stayed here, he had already investigated the paint sprayed on the wall.
Officer Wang walked to the side and sniffed, nodded and said, "That's right, it was sprayed on recently."
"Maybe it's to remind Senior Brother Gu of the location?" Yuan Shasha said.
Gu Chen used a bright flashlight to illuminate the room in front of him twice, reminding him:
"I was standing at the door of the room just now, and I could clearly smell the disgusting smell in the room."
"It can be seen that this room has not been opened for too long, so the smell inside is very bad."
"The reason why I waited for you to send the protective equipment is also to let the smell in this room dissipate, because it is too bad."
"That's right." Looking at the various rust marks left on the ground when the door was opened, Lu Weiwei said in confusion:
"Tell me, what is the meaning of this woman? It took a lot of trouble to invite your brother Gu here, but he didn't tell you the real situation, and he didn't even come out to meet."
"Maybe there are difficulties?" Yuan Shasha said.
"Ghost knows." Police officer Wang walked over from behind the crowd, and he also saw that the shoe covers were put on, so he asked, "Do you want to go in and have a look together?"
"Go." Lu Weiwei took advantage of the situation to put on her ankle boots, and then looked at Gu Chen.
Gu Chen reminded Yuan Shasha: "Xiao Yuan, you just stay at the door. If there is anything unusual, remember to notify us."
"Understood." Yuan Shasha nodded silently, turned her back immediately, and used the strong flashlight in her hand to illuminate the surroundings for warning.
Since the interior of Warehouse No. 2 is full of all kinds of dilapidated materials, it looks more like a garbage dump.
Could there be something hidden inside? It's hard for Yuan Shasha to say that.
Seeing Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang, they entered the warehouse room one after another.
Yuan Shasha couldn't help but thumped in her heart, she immediately turned around and flicked the mechanical baton she was carrying on the spot.
For nothing else, holding it in your hand gives you a sense of security.
On the other side, the three people who entered the room formed a search formation in turn.
Everyone pulled out the mechanical batons they were wearing, and made a defensive posture.
The interior space of room 101 is huge, just looking at the area, it looks like 200 square meters.
And it was full of all kinds of dilapidated wooden boxes, as well as some randomly discarded work boots.
Gu Chen signaled to Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang to follow his finished glyphs to search.
She was in front, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang were on the left and right.
Everyone began to bypass the sundries and investigate the internal situation.
It can be seen that the interior of the room was indeed a large warehouse before.
However, the valuable materials seem to have been emptied long ago, and the rest are some damaged and abandoned materials.
But these are worthless in Gu Chen's view.
After a simple search, Gu Chen and the others came to the door with puzzled faces.
"I didn't find anything. What did this woman want us to do here? Could it be a prank?"
Lu Weiwei didn't have a clue and couldn't help complaining.
Officer Wang held his breath, and said involuntarily, "I don't think so, if this woman is playing a prank, then there's no need to play so many tricks."
"It can be said that from the moment she entered the police station, this woman started her own steps."
"Including now, through step-by-step guidance, lead Gu Chen to the No. 2 warehouse in Binjiang Freight Yard."
Glancing in the direction of the door, Police Officer Wang said again: "Also, the number 101 at the door was sprayed with paint only recently, and it took some effort."
"Treading Stars"
"If it's just for pranks, does it take so much effort?"
"Don't that woman know the consequences of playing with the police like this?"
"It seems to make sense." Listening to Officer Wang's explanation, Lu Weiwei, who had some doubts before, quickly woke up from her doubts.
Turning to look at Gu Chen, seeing that Gu Chen was still standing there, observing the surrounding situation, Lu Weiwei asked:
"Junior Brother Gu, do you think we need to check? It seems that no one has been in this room for a long time. There is dust everywhere, and there seems to be no valuable clues."
"Let's take a look." Gu Chen also felt in his heart that it was definitely not that simple for this woman to lead him here.
Moreover, he even prepared the keys for himself, and marked 101 on the wall, obviously wanting to tell Gu Chen the exact location.
But now, the door of the room is opened, but the items inside are all junk, which makes Gu Chen feel a little embarrassed.
After all, it was necessary to be so secretive just to let myself come to this broken warehouse after a lot of effort?
And there is a problem. The woman could have come to the police station to find herself, but she didn't do so.
It was difficult to see Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang, after all, the smell in the room was unpleasant.
Although everyone is wearing masks, they can still feel the various rotten smells in the room.
When Gu Chen saw this, he also reminded him: "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, why don't you go out first, anyway, there isn't much danger here, I want to look for it alone."
"Forget it." Seeing this, Lu Weiwei said helplessly, "Since Junior Brother Gu is looking for it, I'll accompany you to find it. Old Wang, go out."
"Okay." Police officer Wang is not Lu Weiwei, he didn't want to stay inside for a long time.
Seeing that there was no problem to be found, Police Officer Wang simply made an excuse and said, "Xiao Yuan stayed outside by himself. It's not safe for this shady person."
"I'll go out to accompany Xiao Yuan, if you find anything, remember to call me."
"Understood, let's go." Seeing that Police Officer Wang made many excuses, Lu Weiwei urged directly.
After Officer Wang left, Lu Weiwei began to follow behind Gu Chen, checking for Gu Chen's omissions.
Where did Gu Chen go? Lu Weiwei followed wherever, mainly to check some blind spots for Gu Chen.
Just like that, the two of them kept turning in circles in the warehouse room.
"But why? Why has this room been dusty for a long time, as can be seen from the dust on the ground."
"What does she want me to do here? What is it to help her find?"
Do you feel that you are looking for clues in some aspects, and you are looking in the wrong direction?
So Gu Chen stopped searching.
Gu Chen is very clear that even if he continues to follow the steps, there will be no results.
Instead of doing useless work here, it's better to rearrange your thoughts and look for clues from other aspects.
"If I have already searched for everything that the eyes can see, then let's try it with the sense of smell."
Because the entire room wafted a dusty rotten smell.
Therefore, Gu Chen wore a mask and was not very clear about the internal situation.
At this time, Gu Chen had searched for a long time but found nothing, which made Gu Chen suddenly feel that he might really be looking in the wrong direction.
Taking off the mask, Gu Chen began to slightly feel the rotten smell in the air.
So he turned on his master-level observation ability, and began to carefully screen out the rotten smell inside the air.
It can be said that in the entire room, most of the wafting smell is the rotten smell of wood.
The reason is simple, there are many broken wooden boxes in the warehouse.
It may have been used to store items before, but now the various items in the wooden box seem to have been collected long ago.
And many wooden boxes are now in dilapidated condition, almost all of them are open.
Gu Chen, who was wearing gloves, began to walk among these wooden boxes, using his keen sense of smell, to move forward slowly.
Since all the wooden boxes have been checked and confirmed that there are no problems, Gu Chen used his master-level memory to combine the roads he traveled before with the overall layout of the entire room.
Quickly form a virtual map in your mind.
Then, through his master-level imagination, he instantly constructed a virtual scene in front of him.
It's just that this virtual scene is highly consistent with the factory where I am, and it didn't appear out of thin air.
While Gu Chen closed his eyes, he was able to see clearly in the virtual space.
In this way, Gu Chen's concentration instantly became much higher than before.
Relying on his keen sense of smell, Gu Chen began to select the essential from the rough, discard the false and keep the true.
Although the air is filled with a smell of decaying wood, Gu Chen can smell a different smell in the air.
"No." Gu Chen frowned, and continued to check based on his identification of the smells in the air.
"In the air, there is not only the smell of wood, but also a familiar smell. What is it?"
In the virtual space, Gu Chen suddenly snapped his fingers.
In an instant, a rainbow flashed across the eyes, and the originally transparent scent suddenly became colorful.
Including the smell of wood is blue, the smell of rusty iron is green, the smell of plastic is green...
However, Gu Chen found a red smell in the air.
The red stripes in front of me slowly floated out from a pair of tattered wooden boxes.
Seeing this, Gu Chen hurried over.
However, this red color bar floating in the air seems to be getting thicker and thicker.
In the virtual space, Gu Chen also began to close his eyes, concentrating on screening.
But after a while, Gu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he backed away in fright.
"That's right, it's that familiar smell." Gu Chen snapped his fingers immediately.
In an instant, a rainbow flashed across the eyes, and the virtual space dissipated immediately.
Gu Chen returned to the real world, and what was in front of him at this time was still the pile of rotten wooden boxes.
At this moment, Gu Chen didn't care too much, and began to open these damaged wooden boxes one by one.
Because the movement was too noisy, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, who were still sitting in a row outside, were startled by the movement behind them.
Yuan Shasha was confused: "Could it be that Senior Brother Gu found something?"
"But...maybe?" Officer Wang was not sure either.
But Lu Weiwei stood up, patted the dust off her body, and said as she walked, "Go and have a look."
Upon seeing this, Police Officer Wang immediately told Yuan Shasha, "Xiao Yuan, keep guarding outside."
"Understood." At this time, Yuan Shasha also stood up, and immediately turned on the bright flashlight, making a vigilant gesture.
On the other side, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang who entered the room were almost smashed by a wooden board thrown away by Gu Chen in an instant.
The two also shrank back involuntarily.
Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked: "Junior Brother Gu, did you find something?"
"Remove these wooden boxes, let's have a look." Gu Chen didn't understand what he said, and continued to work hard, moving the wooden boxes in front of him one by one.
Although it is not clear, what exactly is Gu Chen doing?
But when Gu Chen did this, Lu Weiwei believed that Gu Chen had his own reasons.
So I started to join in.
The three of them worked together, and after removing the last larger wooden box, Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei were out of breath, but Gu Chen was breathing smoothly, and he didn't seem to be tired at all.
"Gu... Junior Brother Gu, move these wooden boxes, and then what?" Lu Weiwei asked puzzled.
But Gu Chen didn't respond right away, but squatted down and started pressing the ground with his fingers.
Then he tapped with the back of his hand, lay down on the ground again, continued to tap, and continued to listen.
After a while, Gu Chen stood up and paused a few times with his feet on the ground just now.
Go to the surrounding area again and continue the same action.
"How is it?" Officer Wang asked with a confused face.
Gu Chen pointed to the location just now and said, "It seems to be hollow inside."
"It's hollow, you mean, there might be something buried in it?" Police Officer Wang was also shocked.
You know, in this eerie environment, there is actually a hollow ground, which undoubtedly made the atmosphere of the scene suddenly tense.
"Senior Brother Wang." Gu Chen turned to look at Police Officer Wang, and asked, "Did you bring the police dagger?"
"Bring it." For self-defense, Officer Wang pinned the police dagger to his waist.
Hearing that Gu Chen wanted to use it, he immediately took it out from his waist and handed it to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen took the police knife, quickly started to look for the gaps, and then pried the ground.
Because the floor of the warehouse is covered with tiles, some tiles even have various cracks.
But in the area that Gu Chen pried, the tiles seemed to be intact.
Also after several unsuccessful attempts, Gu Chen resolutely put the police dagger aside, then took out a mechanical baton, and slammed the tiles with his back.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
As Gu Chen's strength increased, the originally intact tiles were cracked instantly.
So Gu Chen put the mechanical baton aside, continued to pick up the police dagger on the ground, and began to clean up the debris from the cracks.
Since Gu Chen pried open the gap, he quickly pulled the tiles away.
However, the bottom of the tiles is sand and stone, which is not unusual for the materials used when laying tiles.
Officer Wang asked curiously, "Gu Chen, is there something wrong with the sand?"
"It should be." Gu Chen didn't care too much, so he could only use both hands, and began to push the tiles away from the corners one by one.
After a while, all the tiles were thrown to one side, and in front of them were all kinds of gravel materials for laying tiles.
However, the smell that Gu Chen felt became stronger from the weak state before.
Gu Chen frowned, and began to plunge the blade into the gravel as a test.
After a few cuts, Gu Chen suddenly felt that there seemed to be something tricky hidden under the gravel.
So I started digging hard at the sand, and after a while, I found a hard material.
Gu Chen then focused on digging, but after a while, Lu Weiwei screamed and said, "Yes...it's a hand bone. Could it be that there is a corpse hidden under here?"
"Corpse?" Officer Wang became interested when he heard the words, and immediately moved to Gu Chen's side.
Seeing that the prototype of the hand bone had appeared, Officer Wang immediately joined in the excavation without saying a word.
What was horrifying was that as the gravel was gradually peeled away, a rotting corpse had already begun to take shape.
Police officer Wang suddenly felt bad and said: "It seems that there is still a murder case hidden here. No, you have to notify Gao Chuanfeng and the others immediately, and ask them to exclude the forensic team and bring professional equipment to prevent the body from being damaged."
"Agreed." After confirming that the underground substance was a rotting corpse, Gu Chen also stopped the excavation work.
Lu Weiwei, who stood up, also let out a long sigh, and said nervously: "This woman, she knows that there is a corpse hidden here."
"So, she came to the police station to find you by writing a letter, just to let you come here and find this buried body."
Now Lu Weiwei finally understands why that woman took so much trouble to ask Gu Chen to come here.
Even the keys are prepared for Gu Chen.
The current Lu Weiwei instantly admired that woman.
I thought it was a mental patient before, but now it seems that Lu Weiwei feels that she has wrongly blamed the woman.
But why is this woman doing this? Everyone is still unclear.
After Gu Chen probably conducted a preliminary inspection of the corpse, he took off his gloves and threw them aside, and said slowly:
"This corpse should have been buried here for many years, and the bones have long been rotten."
"There is no other way but to let Gao Chuanfeng and the others, with professional equipment, carefully dig out the corpse, and then bring it back for testing."
"Gao Chuanfeng, I'm going to trouble you, yes, come here now." As soon as Gu Chen's voice fell, Police Officer Wang over there also finished the phone call, and then he took a deep breath and said:
"Gao Chuanfeng and his team are preparing to assemble now, and they may come over later."
"It's so late at night, if Gao Chuanfeng hadn't told him that a rotting corpse was found here, I guess this kid really didn't want to get up."
"The forensic doctor is hard enough, it seems that I have to owe him some chicken legs." Thinking of Gao Chuanfeng's love for chicken legs, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that a few chicken legs were indispensable this time.
Afterwards, Gu Chen and the others came to the door, quietly waiting for Gao Chuanfeng's team to appear.
During the interval, Lu Weiwei looked up at Gu Chen, and said seriously, "Junior Brother Gu, this woman must be found."
"It seems that this woman knows everything, but she doesn't say anything, just let us look around."
"It's fortunate that you, Junior Brother Gu, can reach a state of perfection in grasping the details."
"If we send an ordinary team, we may not be able to find the corpse."
"What's the situation?" Officer Wang looked around and couldn't help but sigh:
"This warehouse seems to have been abandoned for many years, but why are there still corpses hidden in it?"
"Who is this corpse?"
With his hands behind his back, Police Officer Wang walked back and forth twice, and said involuntarily, "This woman must be investigated, but now, I feel that we need to investigate the Binjiang Freight Yard."
"At the very least, we need to find out what's going on in the No. 2 warehouse?"
"That's right." Lu Weiwei looked at the lights in the distance, and also reminded: "This Binjiang freight yard is still working the night shift. We can go over and ask about the situation."
Glancing at Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei said again: "Gu Chen, what do you think?"
"Yes." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and echoed, "How about this, Senior Brother Wang, Xiao Yuan, you stay here and wait for Gao Chuanfeng's team to arrive, and help them dig out the corpse."
"Senior Sister Lu and I, first go to the construction site of Binjiang Freight Yard to see if the leader is there?"
"If it is, let's go find out the situation here and see who has been missing before?"
"Comparing this again, the identity of the deceased should be found out soon."
"Okay, let's do this, you and Lu Weiwei hurry over, Xiao Yuan and I are here to guard." Police Officer Wang said.
After a few people communicated briefly at the scene, Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei and hurried to the construction site.
At this moment, the Binjiang construction site was still brightly lit.
Since there is a riverside wharf nearby, all the riverboats coming and going here will choose to stop here to unload their cargo from the wharf.
The Binjiang Wharf will transport the unloaded goods to the nearby Binjiang Freight Yard by vehicle.
And the area where he works now is the new freight yard in Binjiang.
As for the No. 2 warehouse where Gu Chen found the body, it belongs to the earliest old warehouse.
It is now an abandoned building and may be demolished later.
When Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei walked to the work site, a middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet hurried over and said, "Hello? Where are you from? You can't just walk around in the work area. What are you guys?" Who is it?"
"Are you an employee here?" Seeing someone approaching, Gu Chen directly took out his police ID, and said in front of that person:
"I'm from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch. I'm here to investigate the situation. Is your leader there?"
"Ah? So you're a policeman?" Seeing that Gu Chen was a policeman, the man immediately regained his temper, and said politely:
"The leader is here, come with me first, this is the work area, don't walk around casually, otherwise accidents will easily happen."
While talking, the man took Gu Chen and the others to one side, pointed to a high-rise building, and reminded:
"That's the duty room. There's also an office in it. The leader rests there. Just go and find him."
"Thank you." Gu Chen glanced at Lu Weiwei's chin when he saw the little brother pointing out the direction.
The two immediately trotted all the way, and began to search for the high ground quickly.
Pushing open the door of the duty room, a man in overalls was eating instant noodles. He also saw Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei standing at the door. The man in overalls asked curiously, "Who are you looking for?"
"Is the leader here?" Lu Weiwei said.
"I am." The man in overalls also looked puzzled, immediately put down the instant noodles in his hand, stood up and said:
"I am the leader on duty here, who are you?"
"We are from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch." Gu Chen took out his police card again.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man in overalls said politely, "So it's the police, what are you doing here?"
"What's the situation in the warehouse over there?" Gu Chen didn't immediately explain the discovery of the corpse in the warehouse, but hurriedly inquired about the situation in the warehouse.
The middle-aged man looked through the window, guided by Gu Chen's fingers, and then said: "You mean the warehouse? It's an old warehouse, and it's been abandoned for a long time now."
"Did anyone go missing in your place in the past few years?" Lu Weiwei hurriedly continued to ask.
"Missing?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's question, the middle-aged man was puzzled.
Gu Chen continued to urge: "Think carefully."
"It seems... It seems that someone has disappeared." The middle-aged man scratched the back of his head, trying to remember.
Then he looked up at Gu Chen, shook his right hand and said:
"Oh, yes, there was one. At that time, I hadn't worked here yet. I also heard that a worker suddenly disappeared while working at night."
"At first everyone thought that he might have accidentally fallen into the river during inspection."
"We have also sent many ships to search along the lower reaches of the river."
"But there was no trace of that person. In the end, we all gave up. Just like that, the person has been missing."
Walking to an old water dispenser, the middle-aged man hurriedly used disposable paper cups to pour hot water for Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, and also handed them over and said:
"Both officers, have a glass of water."
"Thank you." Lu Weiwei thanked her.
After Gu Chen took the paper cup, he continued to ask: "Then, have any of this person's family members come here to look for you?"
"Uh, this..."
It seems that it has been some years since the incident happened, so the memory of the middle-aged man seems to have become a little blurry.
But the middle-aged man, after trying to remember, said slowly: "This...is strange to say."
"Originally, after the worker disappeared, the general family members would come to the door and ask for compensation or something."
"The strange thing is, I heard from the people on the construction site that after the man disappeared, no family members came to the door."
"No family members came to the door?" Lu Weiwei was also very curious when she heard this:
"Impossible? How could there be no family members? Did you remember wrongly?"
"Impossible." The middle-aged man waved his hand and replied in an affirmative tone:
"I was very curious when I heard about it, and I also asked these workers about it."
"But they told me that after that person disappeared, no relatives really came to make trouble."
"Could it be this person who suddenly didn't want to work while working and went to work elsewhere without notifying you?" Gu Chen gave another result.
But the middle-aged man shook his head and denied it: "Comrade policeman, what you said is not true in my opinion."
"Why?" Gu Chen asked.
"The reason is very simple." The middle-aged man sat back in his seat and said involuntarily:
"Because I heard from people here that that person still has more than half a month's salary unpaid."
"Think about it, if you just found another job, at the very least, you have to pay the construction site for more than half a month's salary, right?"
"After all, no one's money came from the wind, and he is just a part-time worker. It's impossible. He doesn't even want his own wages, right?"
Hearing what the middle-aged man said, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, feeling that the situation was getting weirder.
But from the middle-aged man's tone of voice, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei seemed to be able to confirm that the body buried in the abandoned warehouse might be the missing worker.
So Gu Chen hurriedly asked: "This leader, can you help me find out the specific information of this missing worker?"
"This..." Feeling a bit difficult, the middle-aged man hesitated.
"What? Difficulty?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"That's not true." The middle-aged man shook his head and said thoughtfully, "Why don't we do this? After all, I don't know what happened to that person at that time."
"I'll make a call and ask someone who knows about it to come and explain it to you. What do you think?"
"This is the best." Gu Chen said.
"That's fine." Seeing that the police agreed, the middle-aged man immediately took out his mobile phone and started dialing the number.
Because the surrounding noise was too loud, the middle-aged man also turned up his voice and communicated with each other after making a call.
After a while, the middle-aged man hung up the phone and said slowly: "I have asked a worker who is on duty tonight to come over quickly and explain the situation to you face to face."
"Thank you." I also saw the middle-aged man solve the problem.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, so they sat quietly on one side, waiting for each other's arrival.
Not long after, a
�The middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet gently opened the door and came to everyone.
But Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei turned their heads to see that the person who came was the worker who showed everyone the way just now.
...
"101? So this is room 101?" Gu Chen picked up the key in his hand, and looked at the door of the warehouse in front of him, wondering what the other party was trying to trick? But with the key in hand, it is impossible to stand still in place. So Gu Chen hesitated again and again, and opened the door of the warehouse with the key. With the sound of "squeak", Gu Chen's fine hairs stood up involuntarily at this moment. It seems that no one has entered the warehouse for a long time, and there is thick dust everywhere. The moment the iron door opened, the dust on the top of the head scattered all over the ground. This made Gu Chen step back alertly, and couldn't help but flap his hands twice. "What's the situation? No one has been here for a long time, like an abandoned room?" Covering his mouth and nose, Gu Chen felt something strange in the room. Because this so-called "101" room doesn't have any number at all. The so-called "101" is a number sprayed by people with spray liquid. And this room is just a small abandoned compartment in the No. 2 warehouse. Coupled with the thick dust around it, it was obvious that no one had entered or exited for a long time. "But if this is the case, then why did this woman give me the key? No one has been here before." Gu Chen hesitated again and again, and suddenly became more cautious about the situation at the scene. It seems that when I came here, I completely entered the maze set up by the woman. First, he sent an envelope written in blood and asked himself to meet at Binjiang Park. Then let a little boy hand over the key and reminder to himself. This is tantamount to allowing myself to come to Warehouse No. 2 and use the key to open the rusty door. Gu Chen was very puzzled, feeling like he had fallen into a trap. At this moment, his phone suddenly vibrated. Gu Chen took it out and saw that Lu Weiwei was calling herself. It turned out that she didn't check the phone information, so Lu Weiwei was afraid that she would be unsafe, so she called to ask about the situation. Thinking that there was no one else around, Gu Chen simply disconnected the phone and answered it directly: "Senior Sister Lu." "Gu Chen, where are you now? Room 101 in Binjiang Freight Yard No. 2 warehouse?" Lu Weiwei on the other end of the phone seemed anxious. Gu Chen replied: "At present, I am standing at the door of the room, and the room has been opened by me, but it is strange, it seems that no one has been in this room for a long time." "There was thick dust all around, and the moment I opened the iron door, even the rust on the iron door was the latest to fall." "That is to say, the woman asked you to open the place with the key, but no one has actually been there for a long time, right?" Listening to Gu Chen's narration, Lu Weiwei felt more and more that this seemed to be a trap. Gu Chen sighed softly, and replied: "The situation at the scene is like this, I am still hesitating, should I go in? If I want to go in, I need some personal equipment." "How about, Senior Sister Lu, you can bring those protective equipment to me directly." "Is it okay?" Seeing that Gu Chen let go of his mouth suddenly, Lu Weiwei also hurriedly asked. Gu Chen grinned: "The most important thing now is to clear up this room." "That's okay, Junior Brother Gu, you send me the location, and we'll come over right away." The two parties also hung up the phone after a short communication. Since Warehouse No. 2 is itself an abandoned warehouse, there are no lights around it. The whole environment reflects each other with the street lights on the far side of the road, forming a strong sensitive contrast. In the freight yard in the distance, there are still various machines and vehicles working. On the contrary, in Warehouse No. 2, weeds even grew in many corners, and the rotten smell of feces was everywhere. Gu Chen felt that this place might still be a living place for stray animals. Taking advantage of the time when Lu Weiwei and the others rushed over, Gu Chen picked up a strong flashlight and shined it on the inside of the room from the door. When he found that it was not convenient to investigate from the angle of the door, Gu Chen resolutely gave up the search. Instead, see the focus of the investigation, and place it in Warehouse No. 2 and its surroundings. In the place where the strong light swept, from time to time, you can see the scene of mice walking on some sundries. The surroundings are dim, giving people a sense of eerie dj vu. After an unknown amount of time, three figures suddenly appeared under the distant lights. The figure gradually approached, and soon came to Gu Chen. "Junior Brother Gu." Seeing Gu Chen standing there, seemingly in a state of meditation, Lu Weiwei hurriedly reminded him. Gu Chen turned his head and asked, "Senior Sister Lu, have you brought everything?" "I've brought them all. Protective footwear, gloves, headgear, and a mask." After Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she also looked for the "101" on the wall. After a while, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but marvel: "So, this is room 101? Why was it painted so casually?" "The paint was only applied in the last two days, and the smell is still very strong." During the short time Gu Chen stayed here, he had already investigated the paint sprayed on the wall. Officer Wang walked to the side and sniffed, nodded and said, "That's right, it was sprayed on recently." "Maybe it's to remind Senior Brother Gu of the location?" Yuan Shasha said. Gu Chen used a bright flashlight to illuminate the room in front of him twice, reminding him: "I was standing at the door of the room just now, and I could clearly smell the disgusting smell in the room." "It can be seen that this room has not been opened for too long, so the smell inside is very bad." "The reason why I waited for you to send the protective equipment is also to let the smell in this room dissipate, because it is too bad." "That's right." Looking at the various rust marks left on the ground when the door was opened, Lu Weiwei said in confusion: "Tell me, what is the meaning of this woman? It took a lot of trouble to invite your brother Gu here, but he didn't tell you the real situation, and he didn't even come out to meet." "Maybe there are difficulties?" Yuan Shasha said. "Ghost knows." Police officer Wang walked over from behind the crowd, and he also saw that the shoe covers were put on, so he asked, "Do you want to go in and have a look together?" "Go." Lu Weiwei took advantage of the situation to put on her ankle boots, and then looked at Gu Chen. Gu Chen reminded Yuan Shasha: "Xiao Yuan, you just stay at the door. If there is anything unusual, remember to notify us." "Understood." Yuan Shasha nodded silently, turned her back immediately, and used the strong flashlight in her hand to illuminate the surroundings for warning. Since the interior of Warehouse No. 2 is full of all kinds of dilapidated materials, it looks more like a garbage dump. Could there be something hidden inside? It's hard for Yuan Shasha to say that. Seeing Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang, they entered the warehouse room one after another. Yuan Shasha couldn't help but thumped in her heart, she immediately turned around and flicked the mechanical baton she was carrying on the spot. For nothing else, holding it in your hand gives you a sense of security. On the other side, the three people who entered the room formed a search formation in turn. Everyone pulled out the mechanical batons they were wearing, and made a defensive posture. The interior space of room 101 is huge, just looking at the area, it looks like 200 square meters. And it was full of all kinds of dilapidated wooden boxes, as well as some randomly discarded work boots. Gu Chen signaled to Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang to follow his finished glyphs to search. She was in front, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang were on the left and right. Everyone began to bypass the sundries and investigate the internal situation. It can be seen that the interior of the room was indeed a large warehouse before. However, the valuable materials seem to have been emptied long ago, and the rest are some damaged and abandoned materials. But these are worthless in Gu Chen's view. After a simple search, Gu Chen and the others came to the door with puzzled faces. "I didn't find anything. What did this woman want us to do here? Could it be a prank?" Lu Weiwei didn't have a clue and couldn't help complaining. Officer Wang held his breath, and said involuntarily, "I don't think so, if this woman is playing a prank, then there's no need to play so many tricks." "It can be said that from the moment she entered the police station, this woman started her own steps." "Including now, through step-by-step guidance, lead Gu Chen to the No. 2 warehouse in Binjiang Freight Yard." Glancing in the direction of the door, Police Officer Wang said again: "Also, the number 101 at the door was sprayed with paint only recently, and it took some effort." "Treading Stars" "If it's just for pranks, does it take so much effort?" "Don't that woman know the consequences of playing with the police like this?" "It seems to make sense." Listening to Officer Wang's explanation, Lu Weiwei, who had some doubts before, quickly woke up from her doubts. Turning to look at Gu Chen, seeing that Gu Chen was still standing there, observing the surrounding situation, Lu Weiwei asked: "Junior Brother Gu, do you think we need to check? It seems that no one has been in this room for a long time. There is dust everywhere, and there seems to be no valuable clues." "Let's take a look." Gu Chen also felt in his heart that it was definitely not that simple for this woman to lead him here. Moreover, he even prepared the keys for himself, and marked 101 on the wall, obviously wanting to tell Gu Chen the exact location. But now, the door of the room is opened, but the items inside are all junk, which makes Gu Chen feel a little embarrassed. After all, it was necessary to be so secretive just to let myself come to this broken warehouse after a lot of effort? And there is a problem. The woman could have come to the police station to find herself, but she didn't do so. It was difficult to see Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang, after all, the smell in the room was unpleasant. Although everyone is wearing masks, they can still feel the various rotten smells in the room. When Gu Chen saw this, he also reminded him: "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, why don't you go out first, anyway, there isn't much danger here, I want to look for it alone." "Forget it." Seeing this, Lu Weiwei said helplessly, "Since Junior Brother Gu is looking for it, I'll accompany you to find it. Old Wang, go out." "Okay." Police officer Wang is not Lu Weiwei, he didn't want to stay inside for a long time. Seeing that there was no problem to be found, Police Officer Wang simply made an excuse and said, "Xiao Yuan stayed outside by himself. It's not safe for this shady person." "I'll go out to accompany Xiao Yuan, if you find anything, remember to call me." "Understood, let's go." Seeing that Police Officer Wang made many excuses, Lu Weiwei urged directly. After Officer Wang left, Lu Weiwei began to follow behind Gu Chen, checking for Gu Chen's omissions. Where did Gu Chen go? Lu Weiwei followed wherever, mainly to check some blind spots for Gu Chen. Just like that, the two of them kept turning in circles in the warehouse room. "But why? Why has this room been dusty for a long time, as can be seen from the dust on the ground." "What does she want me to do here? What is it to help her find?" Do you feel that you are looking for clues in some aspects, and you are looking in the wrong direction? So Gu Chen stopped searching. Gu Chen is very clear that even if he continues to follow the steps, there will be no results. Instead of doing useless work here, it's better to rearrange your thoughts and look for clues from other aspects. "If I have already searched for everything that the eyes can see, then let's try it with the sense of smell." Because the entire room wafted a dusty rotten smell. Therefore, Gu Chen wore a mask and was not very clear about the internal situation. At this time, Gu Chen had searched for a long time but found nothing, which made Gu Chen suddenly feel that he might really be looking in the wrong direction. Taking off the mask, Gu Chen began to slightly feel the rotten smell in the air. So he turned on his master-level observation ability, and began to carefully screen out the rotten smell inside the air. It can be said that in the entire room, most of the wafting smell is the rotten smell of wood. The reason is simple, there are many broken wooden boxes in the warehouse. It may have been used to store items before, but now the various items in the wooden box seem to have been collected long ago. And many wooden boxes are now in dilapidated condition, almost all of them are open. Gu Chen, who was wearing gloves, began to walk among these wooden boxes, using his keen sense of smell, to move forward slowly. Since all the wooden boxes have been checked and confirmed that there are no problems, Gu Chen used his master-level memory to combine the roads he traveled before with the overall layout of the entire room. Quickly form a virtual map in your mind. Then, through his master-level imagination, he instantly constructed a virtual scene in front of him. It's just that this virtual scene is highly consistent with the factory where I am, and it didn't appear out of thin air. While Gu Chen closed his eyes, he was able to see clearly in the virtual space. In this way, Gu Chen's concentration instantly became much higher than before. Relying on his keen sense of smell, Gu Chen began to select the essential from the rough, discard the false and keep the true. Although the air is filled with a smell of decaying wood, Gu Chen can smell a different smell in the air. "No." Gu Chen frowned, and continued to check based on his identification of the smells in the air. "In the air, there is not only the smell of wood, but also a familiar smell. What is it?" In the virtual space, Gu Chen suddenly snapped his fingers. In an instant, a rainbow flashed across the eyes, and the originally transparent scent suddenly became colorful. Including the smell of wood is blue, the smell of rusty iron is green, the smell of plastic is green... However, Gu Chen found a red smell in the air. The red stripes in front of me slowly floated out from a pair of tattered wooden boxes. Seeing this, Gu Chen hurried over. However, this red color bar floating in the air seems to be getting thicker and thicker. In the virtual space, Gu Chen also began to close his eyes, concentrating on screening. But after a while, Gu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he backed away in fright. "That's right, it's that familiar smell." Gu Chen snapped his fingers immediately. In an instant, a rainbow flashed across the eyes, and the virtual space dissipated immediately. Gu Chen returned to the real world, and what was in front of him at this time was still the pile of rotten wooden boxes. At this moment, Gu Chen didn't care too much, and began to open these damaged wooden boxes one by one. Because the movement was too noisy, Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, who were still sitting in a row outside, were startled by the movement behind them. Yuan Shasha was confused: "Could it be that Senior Brother Gu found something?" "But...maybe?" Officer Wang was not sure either. But Lu Weiwei stood up, patted the dust off her body, and said as she walked, "Go and have a look." Upon seeing this, Police Officer Wang immediately told Yuan Shasha, "Xiao Yuan, keep guarding outside." "Understood." At this time, Yuan Shasha also stood up, and immediately turned on the bright flashlight, making a vigilant gesture. On the other side, Lu Weiwei and Police Officer Wang who entered the room were almost smashed by a wooden board thrown away by Gu Chen in an instant. The two also shrank back involuntarily. Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked: "Junior Brother Gu, did you find something?" "Remove these wooden boxes, let's have a look." Gu Chen didn't understand what he said, and continued to work hard, moving the wooden boxes in front of him one by one. Although it is not clear, what exactly is Gu Chen doing? But when Gu Chen did this, Lu Weiwei believed that Gu Chen had his own reasons. So I started to join in. The three of them worked together, and after removing the last larger wooden box, Police Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei were out of breath, but Gu Chen was breathing smoothly, and he didn't seem to be tired at all. "Gu... Junior Brother Gu, move these wooden boxes, and then what?" Lu Weiwei asked puzzled. But Gu Chen didn't respond right away, but squatted down and started pressing the ground with his fingers. Then he tapped with the back of his hand, lay down on the ground again, continued to tap, and continued to listen. After a while, Gu Chen stood up and paused a few times with his feet on the ground just now. Go to the surrounding area again and continue the same action. "How is it?" Officer Wang asked with a confused face. Gu Chen pointed to the location just now and said, "It seems to be hollow inside." "It's hollow, you mean, there might be something buried in it?" Police Officer Wang was also shocked. You know, in this eerie environment, there is actually a hollow ground, which undoubtedly made the atmosphere of the scene suddenly tense. "Senior Brother Wang." Gu Chen turned to look at Police Officer Wang, and asked, "Did you bring the police dagger?" "Bring it." For self-defense, Officer Wang pinned the police dagger to his waist. Hearing that Gu Chen wanted to use it, he immediately took it out from his waist and handed it to Gu Chen. Gu Chen took the police knife, quickly started to look for the gaps, and then pried the ground. Because the floor of the warehouse is covered with tiles, some tiles even have various cracks. But in the area that Gu Chen pried, the tiles seemed to be intact. Also after several unsuccessful attempts, Gu Chen resolutely put the police dagger aside, then took out a mechanical baton, and slammed the tiles with his back. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" As Gu Chen's strength increased, the originally intact tiles were cracked instantly. So Gu Chen put the mechanical baton aside, continued to pick up the police dagger on the ground, and began to clean up the debris from the cracks. Since Gu Chen pried open the gap, he quickly pulled the tiles away. However, the bottom of the tiles is sand and stone, which is not unusual for the materials used when laying tiles. Officer Wang asked curiously, "Gu Chen, is there something wrong with the sand?" "It should be." Gu Chen didn't care too much, so he could only use both hands, and began to push the tiles away from the corners one by one. After a while, all the tiles were thrown to one side, and in front of them were all kinds of gravel materials for laying tiles. However, the smell that Gu Chen felt became stronger from the weak state before. Gu Chen frowned, and began to plunge the blade into the gravel as a test. After a few cuts, Gu Chen suddenly felt that there seemed to be something tricky hidden under the gravel. So I started digging hard at the sand, and after a while, I found a hard material. Gu Chen then focused on digging, but after a while, Lu Weiwei screamed and said, "Yes...it's a hand bone. Could it be that there is a corpse hidden under here?" "Corpse?" Officer Wang became interested when he heard the words, and immediately moved to Gu Chen's side. Seeing that the prototype of the hand bone had appeared, Officer Wang immediately joined in the excavation without saying a word. What was horrifying was that as the gravel was gradually peeled away, a rotting corpse had already begun to take shape. Police officer Wang suddenly felt bad and said: "It seems that there is still a murder case hidden here. No, you have to notify Gao Chuanfeng and the others immediately, and ask them to exclude the forensic team and bring professional equipment to prevent the body from being damaged." "Agreed." After confirming that the underground substance was a rotting corpse, Gu Chen also stopped the excavation work. Lu Weiwei, who stood up, also let out a long sigh, and said nervously: "This woman, she knows that there is a corpse hidden here." "So, she came to the police station to find you by writing a letter, just to let you come here and find this buried body." Now Lu Weiwei finally understands why that woman took so much trouble to ask Gu Chen to come here. Even the keys are prepared for Gu Chen. The current Lu Weiwei instantly admired that woman. I thought it was a mental patient before, but now it seems that Lu Weiwei feels that she has wrongly blamed the woman. But why is this woman doing this? Everyone is still unclear. After Gu Chen probably conducted a preliminary inspection of the corpse, he took off his gloves and threw them aside, and said slowly: "This corpse should have been buried here for many years, and the bones have long been rotten." "There is no other way but to let Gao Chuanfeng and the others, with professional equipment, carefully dig out the corpse, and then bring it back for testing." "Gao Chuanfeng, I'm going to trouble you, yes, come here now." As soon as Gu Chen's voice fell, Police Officer Wang over there also finished the phone call, and then he took a deep breath and said: "Gao Chuanfeng and his team are preparing to assemble now, and they may come over later." "It's so late at night, if Gao Chuanfeng hadn't told him that a rotting corpse was found here, I guess this kid really didn't want to get up." "The forensic doctor is hard enough, it seems that I have to owe him some chicken legs." Thinking of Gao Chuanfeng's love for chicken legs, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that a few chicken legs were indispensable this time. Afterwards, Gu Chen and the others came to the door, quietly waiting for Gao Chuanfeng's team to appear. During the interval, Lu Weiwei looked up at Gu Chen, and said seriously, "Junior Brother Gu, this woman must be found." "It seems that this woman knows everything, but she doesn't say anything, just let us look around." "It's fortunate that you, Junior Brother Gu, can reach a state of perfection in grasping the details." "If we send an ordinary team, we may not be able to find the corpse." "What's the situation?" Officer Wang looked around and couldn't help but sigh: "This warehouse seems to have been abandoned for many years, but why are there still corpses hidden in it?" "Who is this corpse?" With his hands behind his back, Police Officer Wang walked back and forth twice, and said involuntarily, "This woman must be investigated, but now, I feel that we need to investigate the Binjiang Freight Yard." "At the very least, we need to find out what's going on in the No. 2 warehouse?" "That's right." Lu Weiwei looked at the lights in the distance, and also reminded: "This Binjiang freight yard is still working the night shift. We can go over and ask about the situation." Glancing at Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei said again: "Gu Chen, what do you think?" "Yes." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and echoed, "How about this, Senior Brother Wang, Xiao Yuan, you stay here and wait for Gao Chuanfeng's team to arrive, and help them dig out the corpse." "Senior Sister Lu and I, first go to the construction site of Binjiang Freight Yard to see if the leader is there?" "If it is, let's go find out the situation here and see who has been missing before?" "Comparing this again, the identity of the deceased should be found out soon." "Okay, let's do this, you and Lu Weiwei hurry over, Xiao Yuan and I are here to guard." Police Officer Wang said. After a few people communicated briefly at the scene, Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei and hurried to the construction site. At this moment, the Binjiang construction site was still brightly lit. Since there is a riverside wharf nearby, all the riverboats coming and going here will choose to stop here to unload their cargo from the wharf. The Binjiang Wharf will transport the unloaded goods to the nearby Binjiang Freight Yard by vehicle. And the area where he works now is the new freight yard in Binjiang. As for the No. 2 warehouse where Gu Chen found the body, it belongs to the earliest old warehouse. It is now an abandoned building and may be demolished later. When Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei walked to the work site, a middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet hurried over and said, "Hello? Where are you from? You can't just walk around in the work area. What are you guys?" Who is it?" "Are you an employee here?" Seeing someone approaching, Gu Chen directly took out his police ID, and said in front of that person: "I'm from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch. I'm here to investigate the situation. Is your leader there?" "Ah? So you're a policeman?" Seeing that Gu Chen was a policeman, the man immediately regained his temper, and said politely: "The leader is here, come with me first, this is the work area, don't walk around casually, otherwise accidents will easily happen." While talking, the man took Gu Chen and the others to one side, pointed to a high-rise building, and reminded: "That's the duty room. There's also an office in it. The leader rests there. Just go and find him." "Thank you." Gu Chen glanced at Lu Weiwei's chin when he saw the little brother pointing out the direction. The two immediately trotted all the way, and began to search for the high ground quickly. Pushing open the door of the duty room, a man in overalls was eating instant noodles. He also saw Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei standing at the door. The man in overalls asked curiously, "Who are you looking for?" "Is the leader here?" Lu Weiwei said. "I am." The man in overalls also looked puzzled, immediately put down the instant noodles in his hand, stood up and said: "I am the leader on duty here, who are you?" "We are from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch." Gu Chen took out his police card again. Seeing this, the middle-aged man in overalls said politely, "So it's the police, what are you doing here?" "What's the situation in the warehouse over there?" Gu Chen didn't immediately explain the discovery of the corpse in the warehouse, but hurriedly inquired about the situation in the warehouse. The middle-aged man looked through the window, guided by Gu Chen's fingers, and then said: "You mean the warehouse? It's an old warehouse, and it's been abandoned for a long time now." "Did anyone go missing in your place in the past few years?" Lu Weiwei hurriedly continued to ask. "Missing?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's question, the middle-aged man was puzzled. Gu Chen continued to urge: "Think carefully." "It seems... It seems that someone has disappeared." The middle-aged man scratched the back of his head, trying to remember. Then he looked up at Gu Chen, shook his right hand and said: "Oh, yes, there was one. At that time, I hadn't worked here yet. I also heard that a worker suddenly disappeared while working at night." "At first everyone thought that he might have accidentally fallen into the river during inspection." "We have also sent many ships to search along the lower reaches of the river." "But there was no trace of that person. In the end, we all gave up. Just like that, the person has been missing." Walking to an old water dispenser, the middle-aged man hurriedly used disposable paper cups to pour hot water for Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, and also handed them over and said: "Both officers, have a glass of water." "Thank you." Lu Weiwei thanked her. After Gu Chen took the paper cup, he continued to ask: "Then, have any of this person's family members come here to look for you?" "Uh, this..." It seems that it has been some years since the incident happened, so the memory of the middle-aged man seems to have become a little blurry. But the middle-aged man, after trying to remember, said slowly: "This...is strange to say." "Originally, after the worker disappeared, the general family members would come to the door and ask for compensation or something." "The strange thing is, I heard from the people on the construction site that after the man disappeared, no family members came to the door." "No family members came to the door?" Lu Weiwei was also very curious when she heard this: "Impossible? How could there be no family members? Did you remember wrongly?" "Impossible." The middle-aged man waved his hand and replied in an affirmative tone: "I was very curious when I heard about it, and I also asked these workers about it." "But they told me that after that person disappeared, no relatives really came to make trouble." "Could it be this person who suddenly didn't want to work while working and went to work elsewhere without notifying you?" Gu Chen gave another result. But the middle-aged man shook his head and denied it: "Comrade policeman, what you said is not true in my opinion." "Why?" Gu Chen asked. "The reason is very simple." The middle-aged man sat back in his seat and said involuntarily: "Because I heard from people here that that person still has more than half a month's salary unpaid." "Think about it, if you just found another job, at the very least, you have to pay the construction site for more than half a month's salary, right?" "After all, no one's money came from the wind, and he is just a part-time worker. It's impossible. He doesn't even want his own wages, right?" Hearing what the middle-aged man said, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, feeling that the situation was getting weirder. But from the middle-aged man's tone of voice, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei seemed to be able to confirm that the body buried in the abandoned warehouse might be the missing worker. So Gu Chen hurriedly asked: "This leader, can you help me find out the specific information of this missing worker?" "This..." Feeling a bit difficult, the middle-aged man hesitated. "What? Difficulty?" Lu Weiwei asked. "That's not true." The middle-aged man shook his head and said thoughtfully, "Why don't we do this? After all, I don't know what happened to that person at that time." "I'll make a call and ask someone who knows about it to come and explain it to you. What do you think?" "This is the best." Gu Chen said. "That's fine." Seeing that the police agreed, the middle-aged man immediately took out his mobile phone and started dialing the number. Because the surrounding noise was too loud, the middle-aged man also turned up his voice and communicated with each other after making a call. After a while, the middle-aged man hung up the phone and said slowly: "I have asked a worker who is on duty tonight to come over quickly and explain the situation to you face to face." "Thank you." I also saw the middle-aged man solve the problem. Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, so they sat quietly on one side, waiting for each other's arrival. Not long after, a The middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet gently opened the door and came to everyone. But Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei turned their heads to see that the person who came was the worker who showed everyone the way just now. ...
