"You want to search the room? Of course you can. As long as you can find my husband, you can search the house."
Linda is now focused on her husband.
It can be seen that the two people are very affectionate...
A husband who called me every day to ask where he was suddenly disappeared in one day.
This kind of disruption in the rhythm of life does not mean that you can adapt to it overnight.
Linda gave up her position and said, "Officer, please do as you please."
Gu Chen, Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei looked at each other in confusion, took out white gloves from their bodies, and began to conduct a carpet-like search of the objects in the house.
The three of them used a method of concentrating their personnel to carefully search each room, moving forward in a streamlined manner.
Although the ancient villa of Linda's family looks old from the outside, its interior facilities are luxurious, giving people a visual experience that combines modernity and antiquity.
The decoration inside, each room has its own characteristics...
When you walk into each room, apart from the similarity in the tiles under your feet, the decoration style of the walls and the arrangement of various furniture all appear to be extremely different.
This scene makes everyone feel as if they have entered a time tunnel, an intuitive experience from ancient times to modern times.
Many rooms are vacant…
It seems that Linda's family is not short of money and does not rent a separate room to outsiders like her neighbor's family.
Gu Chen, led by Linda, walked into the room where she and her husband lived, a room decorated in an American style.
The furnishings of the room are still the same as before, and there are no signs of any objects being disturbed.
"Is there anything unusual about this house?" Gu Chen asked Linda after searching.
Linda shook her head: "I have checked all the items. It is the same as usual. No one has touched it."
"That only leaves the room opposite." Lu Weiwei sighed quietly, feeling a little numb.
"Opposite is my husband's study." Linda walked to the door and introduced to everyone: "Normally, if there is any unfinished work in the company, James will come here to continue working."
"It also includes...meeting friends, right?" Gu Chen also walked to Linda and followed her into the study.
"Yes, I don't usually come into this house, so I'm not very clear about the furnishings here." Linda turned on the light.
Suddenly, Lu Weiwei was almost startled by a deer head decoration hanging on the wall.
"Oh my God, this thing is scary."
"I'm sorry, officer, James likes this kind of decoration style. He also has a decoration like this in his company's office." Linda saw the deer head scaring Lu Weiwei and hurriedly came over to apologize.
In the dark, when an animal's head suddenly appears in front of you, most people may be frightened.
"It doesn't matter." Lu Weiwei waved her hand and said nonchalantly: "Fortunately, it's just a plastic object. It's about cherishing and protecting animals, so I have to take you back and investigate it carefully."
"The police officer was joking." Linda's melancholy mood was relieved by Lu Weiwei's joke.
Gu Chen walked to the bookshelf in James's study and started to read all the books one by one.
I have to say that James still likes Chinese culture very much.
The entire study room is very refreshing. In addition to James' desk, there are two chairs.
Lu Weiwei sat on one of the chairs, turned on the computer on the table, and asked Linda next to her: "Can you read it?"
"Of course." Linda also cooperated very readily, which made the search mission go smoothly.
Gu Chen also searched all the drawers, but found no valuable clues at all.
Logically speaking, if the man James received last night was an old acquaintance, then the two of them would have been discussing some related issues either in the living room or in the study.
And during the conversation between the two, will James leave some clues, or has he not discovered it yet?
"Does your husband usually come back to the study when chatting with old friends?" Gu Chen sat opposite Lu Weiwei, raised his head and asked Linda: "For example, those old acquaintances."
"Unless it's company business or some personal issues." Linda walked to Gu Chen and began to think with a solemn face.
After Lu Weiwei searched the computer, except for a few relatively private photos of James and Linda, the others were basically the company's normal files. She couldn't help coughing twice and said: "The computer is normal, there is nothing suspicious."
Before entering the study, several people had imagined that they could find some clues in the study. If that didn't work, they could only search for a needle in a haystack of acquaintances who had come into contact with James.
But this will undoubtedly add a lot of unnecessary burden to the investigation of the case.
"Ms. Linda." Gu Chen picked up the desk calendar on the table and turned to ask her: "If you want to find your husband as soon as possible, then please give us the police a list of acquaintances who are close to James."
"Officer, can you be more specific?" Linda was confused.
"Anyone you think is most likely to be related to James, write them down. We need detailed evidence."
Gu Chen now has master-level logical reasoning ability, coupled with the combination of functional drinks, even if it is to find a needle in a haystack, Gu Chen wants to use his strength to try it.
And coupled with the cooperation of several other skills, there is no doubt that I have greater confidence in being able to select from the crowd.
"Let me try it first." Linda walked to Lu Weiwei and took out a note from the drawer.
Lu Weiwei took the initiative to give up her seat, while Linda was thinking hard and writing down some of the names she knew on the paper.
Linda wrote very slowly, like squeezing out toothpaste, squeezing out a new name every ten seconds.
Gu Chen and Officer Wang looked at each other, not in a hurry, but just taking a few furtive glances.
Among the names Linda wrote, there are both Chinese and English, and the distinction is very good.
Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei were walking back and forth in the study...
Time passed quickly and it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.
The surrounding noise is getting smaller and smaller...
Officer Wang looked down at his watch, then looked back at the list in Linda's hand.
There are already more than fifty people grinding and chirping...
"How much more can you write?" Officer Wang asked impatiently.
"Probably, there are many more. These people are usually very close to James, but I can't remember many of their names for a while. I'm in a bad mood right now. I'm afraid someone will miss them."
"Let's do this." Gu Chen looked at Officer Wang and asked, "Brother Wang, how about we go back first and let Ms. Linda think about it at home, and we can come back tomorrow to get the list?"
"That's all we can do." Officer Wang sighed and nodded silently.
To be honest, Officer Wang also wanted to work on the case all night, but his energy did not allow it.
The high-intensity work during the day has consumed too much of everyone's physical strength and energy.
The other policemen slowly went home after nine o'clock, fell asleep on the bedside, and yet he had to bring members of three teams here to investigate this clueless case. It was heartbreaking to think about it.
Seeing Gu Chen's lively appearance, Officer Wang thought to himself, how nice it would be if he could be ten years younger.
"Ms. Linda, good night." Gu Chen stood up and was about to say goodbye to Linda, when he was suddenly attracted by the desk calendar that had been in front of him.
"Good night, officers, let me see you off." Linda also stood up and followed Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei to the door, but found that she was still there suddenly, looking at the desk calendar blankly.
"Officer, aren't you going back?" Linda asked curiously.
"Does your husband James have the habit of keeping records on the desk calendar?" Gu Chen turned around and asked.
"Um..." Linda hesitated for a few seconds and said, "It seems like there isn't one. Sometimes I don't even bother to look through the desk calendar. These are all given by customers and are just for decoration on the table."
"Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei, who wanted to return to her bed, forced her heavy eyelids to hold up and asked, "Have you discovered anything new?"
"The writing here is new." Gu Chen held the desk calendar in his hand, pointed at the numbers written with an oil-based pen on the desk calendar and said, "Judging from the color of the ink, it should have been written recently."
Gu Chen looked at Linda and continued to ask: "Has your husband, James, written numbers on the desk calendar recently?"
"This?" Linda was speechless and thought about it for a long time, and finally said: "I have never seen these numbers. Maybe James wrote them down recently."
"How could a person who seldom touches the desk calendar write so many numbers on a whim?" Gu Chen looked at the desk calendar in front of him with hesitant eyes.
"If you feel strange, then take it back." Officer Wang rubbed his eyes.
To be honest, if Gu Chen lingers longer, everyone may have to stay for another hour.
I often work on cases with Gu Chen, so I naturally know some of Gu Chen’s little habits.
Gu Chen didn't say much, just took out a transparent evidence collection bag, put the desk calendar in it, and then said: "Let's go."
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The next morning, the weather was gloomy and there was some light rain.
At eight o'clock in the morning, after Officer Wang closed the window, he saw Gu Chen take out the desk calendar from the evidence collection bag on the table, put it in front of him, then took out a pen and paper and started writing on the table.
Gu Chen sometimes wrote a few words, then quickly deleted them, then wrote them again, then deleted them...
Lu Weiwei also noticed Gu Chen's unusual behavior and felt a little curious.
Logically speaking, the case of James' kidnapping yesterday must continue.
But this guy is here drawing talismans, which is a bit unreasonable.
"Do you have any questions? Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei lay on the desk, supporting her beautiful face with one hand, blinking at Gu Chen.
"I can't understand these numbers." Gu Chen held his chin and held the numbers written with an oil-based pen on the desk calendar in front of Lu Weiwei.
At this time, Officer Wang also came over and looked at the trouble with Lu Weiwei.
"The crooked numbers seem to have been written randomly, here and there, and it feels like a headless fly." Officer Wang held his thermos cup and blew in a breath of cool air silently.
"According to the information we learned from Linda, James usually doesn't touch the calendar at all, but this time it was different. It was extremely rare that he wrote some numbers. So, were these numbers the ones he had written before he was kidnapped?
What about writing?" Gu Chen looked at the ceiling and hesitated for a few seconds, then said, "I think it's possible."
Officer Wang took the desk calendar, sat on Gu Chen's office desk, and silently muttered: "7, 8, 9, 10, 11?"
"Could this be Morse code?" Lu Weiwei also suddenly gave a new view.
Officer Wang rolled his eyes at her and said: "I also have the Caesar cipher. What about the fence cipher? Is it so complicated? James is not a cryptography expert. In my opinion, these are just numbers written casually out of boredom."
Seeing that Lu Weiwei was not convinced, Officer Wang laughed and said: "Look at these numbers, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, arranged in such a neat order, they are not just written casually."
"Are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 missing from the front?" Lu Weiwei also gave new numbers based on Officer Wang's ideas.
Officer Wang held his forehead and said: "I heard that there are many people who count stars, hair, and hair when they are bored. I think James is the boss of a trading company. There will always be times when there is too much pressure, right? Then he
It shouldn’t be a problem if you just write numbers when you’re bored, right?”
He looked at Gu Chen, who was still deep in thought, and said: "Gu Chen, I know you usually like to dig into doubtful points when handling cases, but you also have to think about the problem clearly. James, he is just an ordinary person, he wants Morse code
, or the Caesar cipher, what does the barrier cipher do? Can ordinary people understand it?"
"Senior Brother Wang, you mean that this string of neatly arranged numbers is not a complicated password?" Gu Chen was also awakened by Officer Wang, and it seemed to make some sense.
Gu Chen was actually the most reluctant to crack the password...
After all, things like Morse code, Caesar code and barrier cipher require a lot of effort to crack.
But who is James? He is just the owner of a trading company. Why does he want to do so many mysterious things? Let everyone play a code-breaking game?
In Gu Chen's opinion, it's not so boring.
But the only thing that puzzled Gu Chen was that James, who rarely touched the desk calendar and only regarded the desk calendar as a decoration, suddenly wrote a series of numbers in an orderly manner on the desk calendar, which made people think a lot.
Gu Chen felt something was wrong, but he had no evidence and couldn't explain why.
nine in the morning.
The thirteen people who came to report to Group 3 yesterday came to the office of Group 3 again.
Since the Chinese Valentine's Day Cultural Festival lasts for three days, the patrol mission must continue. The trainees from the Judicial Police Academy who followed the group yesterday also found the old comrades who led their respective groups yesterday.
Wei Junzhi was driven back to school by Gu Chen yesterday. Since he worked with everyone until almost early in the morning, he didn't look too energetic today.
But Wei Junzhi is already very excited. After all, this is a rare work experience.
"Senior brother." Wei Junzhi stood beside Gu Chen and asked, "Are we going to go on duty in the old street today?"
"I'm not going today. There aren't as many people as yesterday. Other groups will go." After thinking about Wei Junzhi, who was alone, there was no special task arrangement for a while, so Gu Chen said: "Why don't you just follow us today?
Handle the case."
Hearing this, Wei Junzhi suddenly smiled: "Really, senior brother, can I really handle the case with you?"
Officer Wang on the side laughed and said: "What are you excited about? Do you think handling cases is so easy? Do you think handling cases is like playing house? Let me tell you, handling cases is not as easy as patrolling. Sometimes I am as tired as a dog.
You saw it yesterday."
Wei Junzhi was not as timid as yesterday. Instead, he said with a playful smile: "I think being able to follow my senior brothers and help them solve their problems is the greatest expression of my value. If you have any dirty work, just leave it to me. I promise.
No complaints at all.”
It seemed that she was serious. Lu Weiwei was surprised by Wei Junzhi's changes today.
This guy had low self-esteem yesterday, but today he seems to be a different person.
Lu Weiwei looked at Gu Chen and asked, "Junior Brother Gu, did you brainwash him yesterday?"
"No?" Gu Chen was curious and asked: "Does he need brainwashing? I think he is very good, he works very seriously and has a good attitude. Yesterday we worked overtime to go on a mission, and he didn't complain and kept busy with us.
It’s late at night.”
Although Gu Chen didn't pay much attention, Officer Wang could see that Wei Junzhi had just followed Gu Chen to patrol the old streets for a day, and his eyes were full of admiration.
He feels like he can't wait to follow Gu Chen on missions every day, which shows that he has also begun to appreciate Gu Chen's personality charm.
Maybe this look is very similar to the look he had when he first met Gu Chen, or maybe it's Gu Chen's unique personality charm.
Officer Wang was lost in thought. At this time, the ringtone of his cell phone disrupted his thoughts, and Officer Wang answered the call.
"Hello, yes, what? You have already written the list? Okay, okay, you stay at home now, we will come right away."
Officer Wang hung up the phone and said to everyone: "Let's change into casual clothes and go to West Street and Minxiang. Linda has already written a list."
"No problem." Everyone answered readily.
Not long after, a civilian car specially used for tracking stopped in the small square of Mingxiang, West Street.
Officer Wang, Lu Weiwei, Gu Chen and Wei Junzhi, each wearing ordinary casual clothes, came to Linda's home.
Linda, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, quickly opened the iron door: "Officer, you are finally here."
"Have you received the latest news about the kidnappers?" Officer Wang came in and asked.
Linda shook her head: "Not yet."
"Where's the list?" Officer Wang came to the living room, took off his police hat, put it aside neatly, and then placed the leather bag under his arm next to the police hat.
Linda took out a list from her pocket and said: "I thought about it all night yesterday and listed here all the people who have social contacts with my husband James recently. I can get to know everyone you want to know."
Tell you."
As soon as Officer Wang stretched out his hand halfway, Gu Chen grabbed it first.
After a quick glance, Gu Chen quickly gave his own data: "There are 43 English names and 68 Chinese names. Is your husband James really a social expert?"
"Thank you, police officer." Linda also said with shame: "If the business needs it, you will have to contact more people."
"Can you explain this number to me?" Gu Chen took out the numbers written on the note and asked, "Are these the passwords of a safe in your home?"
