The police car stopped near the intersection of Ping'an Road East Lane...
The road in this alley is narrow, and the installation of telephone poles is extremely irregular.
Sometimes, it will appear in the middle of the road.
If there were not some reflective strips attached, if the vehicle drove straight at night, it would easily cause "close contact" with the telephone pole.
Moreover, it is not easy for vehicles to turn around in alleys.
After getting off the car, Gu Chen and Officer Wang went upstairs together to investigate each unit in the alley one by one.
As for Lu Weiwei, she stood in the passage and paid close attention to the movements of pedestrians around her.
After checking five units in a row, no so-called little girl of seventeen or eighteen years old was found.
The closest one was also a twelve-year-old girl, but she was not a student at a foreign language school.
"Gu Chen, could it be that we made a mistake?"
After five consecutive units failed to achieve anything, Officer Wang began to waver a little: "If the last unit fails to achieve anything, then the joke will be too big."
Gu Chen didn't say anything. He asked Lu Weiwei, who had been standing at the intersection, "Senior Sister Lu, what did the dispatch room say?"
"I didn't find that they left, and there was no monitoring at both ends." Lu Weiwei also shrugged, feeling that tonight's investigation was a bit strange.
Officer Wang breathed a sigh of relief. He pointed to the last unit and said, "This is the only unit left. If we can't find anyone again, then we will close the team."
Lu Weiwei didn't know what to say. She could only watch Gu Chen stick out his tongue.
Logically speaking, reporting a crime with such a code word is really unconventional. Maybe it is really a prank by some girl?
But after all, there is still a unit, and everything needs to be searched before we talk about it.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk! Tuk-tuk-tuk!"
On the left side of the first floor, Gu Chen knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no movement inside. Instead, a man from the residence on the right opened the door, and he curiously stuck his head out to find out.
Then……
When he saw that the person coming was the police, he immediately retracted his body, prepared to close the door, and then pretended not to see it.
"Wait a minute." Officer Wang turned around and called him.
The middle-aged man was caught peeping, but he reluctantly stopped and asked: "Comrade police, what do you think of me?"
Gu Chen stepped forward, showed the surveillance screenshot from his phone, and asked: "Is there a girl wearing a foreign language school uniform living in this unit?"
The man simply opened the door, took the phone and looked at it for a few times, then shook his head: "No."
"Are you sure?" Officer Wang asked.
The man continued to shake his head: "Indeed not, but the other two men seemed to have some impression."
Gu Chen and Officer Wang looked at each other with joy on their faces.
Because even if you can't find a girl wearing a school uniform, you can still find two men wearing peaked caps.
"Do you know them?" Gu Chen asked.
"do not know."
"But you just said you were impressed by them."
"Yes, but we only met once at noon. They seemed to have been in and out of the opposite room."
Gu Chen and Officer Wang suddenly looked heavy, and they frowned and looked behind them.
Is there really something weird in this room that I can't open the door to?
"Did they come in just now?" Officer Wang lowered his voice to avoid alerting the enemy.
The thin man hesitated for a few seconds, also thinking, and then said: "It seems that he came in, maybe half an hour ago."
"Why half an hour ago? Did you see it with your own eyes?"
"No, I heard some noises." The man quickly calmed down from his nervousness just now: "This house... is used by the head of the household to store goods. Usually the clerk in the store has the key, so he may be the clerk."
"Can you contact the head of the household and ask him to open the door?" Officer Wang suddenly became cautious and asked in a low voice.
"Okay, please wait a moment." The man was very cooperative. He took out his mobile phone and started making calls.
Fifteen minutes later...
A middle-aged woman riding an Emma electric scooter hurried to the scene.
"Comrade police, what's going on?" The woman flipped her hair and looked confused.
"They suspect that someone is carrying out kidnapping activities here. Sister Liu, who have you rented this house to recently?" The thin man was afraid of getting into trouble, so he quickly helped the police to ask.
"Comrade police, the key to my house was lost yesterday by the clerk in the store. Before the key could be replaced, you said that someone is kidnapping here? How is this possible?"
The woman was also confused and didn't know where to start.
"It doesn't matter if it's there or not, just open it and take a look." Gu Chen said straightforwardly.
The woman looked helpless.
She looks innocent.
However, she did not dare to neglect cooperating with the police investigation. If, as the police said, there were criminals hiding in the room, wouldn't she also be involved?
"Okay." After thinking about it, the woman agreed decisively.
She took out the key from her pocket and prepared to open the door.
"Wait a minute." Gu Chen interrupted her.
"What's wrong?"
"Give me the key."
"Um??"
"Then... step back." Gu Chen was afraid that the woman wouldn't understand, so he explained again.
"Oh." The woman understood instantly. After she handed over the key, she hid in the neighbor's house opposite, with half a curtain separating them.
If there is a real situation, you can immediately close the door to avoid danger and hide behind the police to be safe.
Gu Chen took the key and prepared to enter the room to search.
Officer Wang unhooked the pistol holster on his right side and held the strong flashlight in his hand.
Gu Chen also took out his telescopic baton and prepared to rush into the room with Officer Wang.
Lu Weiwei was standing at the exit of the unit. She took out her baton, ready to support the two of them at any time.
Since there is no basement on the first floor, Lu Weiwei has to prevent criminals from breaking the window and escaping.
However, after opening the door, the room was completely dark, with only a strong smell of wood, which was very pungent.
Gu Chen quickly turned on the light, and the various folding furniture in front of him filled the whole room.
"Search separately and pay attention to safety." Officer Wang reminded Gu Chen, and the two searched separately.
However, after a while, the entire house was searched, and no one was left in the room.
"How could this happen?" Officer Wang was confused now. He quickly walked to the door and asked the man opposite: "Did you really hear someone come in the room just now?"
"It is true." The man opposite confirmed: "The movement was a bit loud, and there seemed to be a woman's voice."
"Where did that person go? Will he disappear from the world again?" Officer Wang suddenly felt confused.
I feel like the man across from me is just talking nonsense?
Now not only the man was confused, but also the woman hiding in his house.
Watching the police operate fiercely, but nothing happened, I thought I was scaring the baby to death. Is this a filming?
However, just when everyone was confused, Gu Chen's call came from the room: "Senior Brother Wang, the person we are looking for has indeed been here."
