Looking at the sudden appearance of the small balcony and the half-hanging iron staircase next to the small balcony, Gu Chen became curious.
Due to this structure and the internal location of the house, it is difficult for others to see it from outside the building.
But this is the place where Lu Xiaofeng and Fox traded. If this place is not investigated clearly, Gu Chen feels that there will be something wrong.
So, after a brief observation, Gu Chen quickly grabbed the corners of the iron ladder with both hands and began to climb towards the roof at an extremely fast speed.
Not long after, Gu Chen came to the roof of the old building.
As this building looks like, it only has five floors, and the first and second floors are the coffee shop's business area, while the other areas on the roof seem to be controlled family housing.
But this external iron ladder leads directly to the roof.
Gu Chen felt very curious. It seemed that it was completely unnecessary to install such an iron ladder on the outer wall.
And the safety cannot be guaranteed. If your hands slip, you will fall directly from the tall building.
This reminded Gu Chen of the exterior walls of some large factories. Outside those very large factories, there would also be some external stairs for climbing to the top floors of large factories.
It's exactly the same as the design here.
You might say this is a residential area, but there don't seem to be many residents upstairs, and the exterior staircase is installed to avoid all windows.
Obviously, this staircase is not prepared for residents' fire escape.
When Gu Chen climbed to the top of the building, his view suddenly became wider.
Gu Chen discovered that the space on the roof of the building was very narrow, but there was a big tree growing wildly against the roof.
The branches of the big tree cover almost most of the entire rooftop area.
Hesitating and fearing that if he stayed upstairs for too long, he would easily attract the attention of the coffee shop clerk, Gu Chen did not dare to slack off and quickly ran towards the big tree along the narrow roof space.
When Gu Chen came to the big tree, he discovered that someone seemed to have deliberately installed a safety rope under the big tree. Along the direction of the rope, Gu Chen found that the rope extended directly to the window sill of another building.
"Is there no one living here?" Gu Chen stood on the roof, looking at the area reached by the rope on the opposite side.
Since the windows were open and there was a lot of dust, it was obviously a sign that no one was living there.
There is a spacious street between these two buildings.
But since this area is blocked by the branches of big trees, gliding from the rooftop to the opposite window is obviously a good means of escape.
Thinking of this, Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that I have found the other party's escape method. It turns out that I want to use the rope on the roof to slide to the opposite building, and then escape."
Sighing softly, Gu Chen shook his head helplessly: "It seems that this old fox is really cunning."
"Buzz!"
Just when Gu Chen was thinking, his phone suddenly vibrated. Gu Chen knew that this was Lu Weiwei's reminder. Obviously, he had stayed on the roof long enough.
Gu Chen didn't have time to think too much, so he quickly took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the location opposite.
Then he ran towards the iron ladder at a flying speed.
Since Gu Chen was good at climbing, he seemed to be able to crawl easily and quickly jumped to the balcony on the second floor.
Afterwards, Gu Chen quickly walked towards the passage in the direction of the stairs.
When Gu Chen came to the stairs, he quickly stopped, took a deep breath, adjusted his breathing rhythm, and then walked slowly towards the first floor.
The middle-aged waiter saw him and reminded him, "Don't touch the things upstairs."
"I know, I just took a few random photos, and the location feels like that." Gu Chen, wearing a baseball cap and mask, said.
Then walked to Lu Weiwei.
At this moment, Lu Weiwei happened to buy coffee for the two of them, so she quickly walked to the outer area with Gu Chen.
"Here, here." Seeing that there was still an empty corner, Lu Weiwei quickly pulled Gu Chen and ran there.
As soon as I sat down, the customers on the other side also hurried over.
But they arrived a step too late, so several customers turned back again. After thinking twice, they chose to pack up and leave.
"Junior Brother Gu, have you discovered anything?" Lu Weiwei asked casually while drinking coffee leisurely.
Without moving his body, Gu Chen used the brim of his baseball cap to cover his surroundings and quickly looked around. After finding that there was no suspicious person, he took out his cell phone.
Pretending to share the photos she just took upstairs with Lu Weiwei: "Look here."
"What is this?" Lu Weiwei frowned slightly and quickly got closer.
After a moment, Lu Weiwei was stunned, looking at Gu Chen in disbelief, and whispered: "Why is there a rope here?"
"This is the cleverness of foxes." As he spoke, Gu Chen also picked up his coffee, took a slow sip, and said:
"The design structure of the coffee house here is very strange. It has an external iron ladder that can be used to climb to the roof."
"But the roof is a cone-shaped structure, high in the middle and low on both sides, so it is difficult to use it at all."
"If you want to say that the roof is flat, you might be able to dry things on the roof, but that's not possible here at all."
"Yeah, this kind of triangular cone-shaped roof is really difficult to use, or in other words, it has no use value at all."
After thinking for a few seconds, Lu Weiwei suddenly realized: "I understand, the purpose of designing this external iron ladder is to transport people to the top of the building."
"Although the location on the roof of the building has no use value, the big tree can build a bridge."
"It's a bridge that slides from the roof to the window of the opposite building. It's just one high and one low, right?"
As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Gu Chen nodded and said: "Yes, judging from the current situation, it is indeed the case."
"The only function of this iron ladder is to take people up to the roof and then slide them to the opposite window."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "But who would go to such great lengths to leave this escape route for themselves?"
"It's a fox." Lu Weiwei flicked her fingers, quickly looked to the left and right, and then whispered into Gu Chen's right ear:
"I guess this design genius is a fox, because he can escape from the encirclement."
"Even if we were besieging him downstairs, he found something unusual and could quickly reach the top of the building through the iron ladder, and then use the rope to escape to the opposite building."
"In this case, we will definitely miss out down there, so..."
After thinking about it, Lu Weiwei said cautiously: "So, the design of this place is a fox, and this is a coffee house, so to sum up, maybe the fox is the owner of this coffee house."
"Yes, the two of us want to go together." After listening to Lu Weiwei's analysis, it was exactly the same as what she had guessed.
Gu Chen crossed his hands and thought carefully before saying, "What we have to do now is to investigate the owner of this coffee shop."
"Then, we have to go to the building floor opposite to check and see what's going on with that vacant room?"
"Well, when investigating the coffee house, I think we should look for nearby businesses. These businesses basically know everything." Lu Weiwei looked at some nearby snack bars and said casually.
Gu Chen nodded silently and agreed, "That's a good idea. Let's leave now."
"Leave now? Haven't you finished the coffee yet?" Lu Weiwei felt that queuing for so long just to drink a few sips of coffee was a waste of energy.
Gu Chen didn't waste any time. He drank the coffee in one gulp and said, "You can go now."
"Okay." Seeing Gu Chen's behavior, Lu Weiwei could only finish her coffee, and then followed Gu Chen towards the snack bar on the opposite block.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came to a shop to buy special snacks.
Many of the candies here look quite unique and can be bought by the pound.
So Gu Chen pretended to choose food and secretly glanced at a middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was playing with his baby girl at the moment. Since she was still in the crib, it was obvious that the store could take good care of her and he only needed to keep her with him.
So Gu Chen quickly asked: "Boss, how much does this cost?"
"Which one?" Hearing someone asking about the price, the middle-aged man who was just teasing his daughter quickly stood up and came to the store:
"Oh, this is 12 yuan a pound."
"What about this?" Lu Weiwei looked at another area.
"This is 16 yuan. If you buy two kilograms, it will cost you 30 yuan. Do you want some? It's delicious."
As the middle-aged man spoke, he directly took off a packaging bag, obviously to urge consumption.
Generally speaking, when encountering this kind of situation, customers will naturally buy some.
Of course, this is also a consumption habit. If you don't buy at this moment and the other party puts down the packaging bag, the customer may be embarrassed.
Therefore, in this case, customers will buy some.
Lu Weiwei frowned slightly and resisted a little: "It's too expensive."
"It's not expensive. This stuff sells for 19 yuan per pound in shopping malls. I've seen it all."
“We operate on a small scale here, and at 16 yuan a pound, it’s already very cheap.”
"And if you buy two kilograms, I'll give you 30 yuan. If you convert it, it's only 15 yuan per kilogram. It's really a good deal."
In order to encourage Lu Weiwei to make a purchase, the middle-aged man directly used tweezers to pick up a small mouthful and handed it to Lu Weiwei and said:
"Beauty, take a bite and see. It's definitely delicious. If it doesn't taste good, it doesn't matter if you don't buy it."
Lu Weiwei saw that the delicious food that was brought to her mouth was in vain, so she caught it with her hands and took a small bite.
"How is it?" The middle-aged man looked at Lu Weiwei and asked expectantly.
"Yeah." Lu Weiwei nodded silently and couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said: "Boss, this thing you have is really delicious."
"I didn't expect to find such delicious food in a place like this. It seems that the dim sum I had before was a complete failure."
"Haha, let me just say it's delicious. The dim sum I sell here is said to be delicious by the neighbors. You can tell this just by asking."
Seeing that Lu Weiwei seemed to be quite satisfied with her delicious food, the man immediately felt confident. He quickly took the bag and continued to ask: "Then... how about some?"
"Then have some." Before Lu Weiwei opened her mouth, Gu Chen answered.
"Hey, how much do you want?" The middle-aged man picked up some snacks and put them in the bag.
Gu Chen said casually: "Just buy two catties."
"Okay." Seeing Gu Chen speak, the man immediately started packing the two of them.
While the middle-aged man was picking up snacks, Gu Chen glanced at the Fangfang Coffee House behind him and curiously asked the middle-aged man:
"Boss, the owner of that coffee shop is named Fangfang? It seems like the business is very good, the queue will take a long time."
After hearing what Gu Chen said, the middle-aged man looked up and said, "Which store are you talking about? That store is an Internet celebrity store."
"The boss is indeed a very elegant beauty named Fangfang, but I don't know her specific name."
"Anyway, it's quite tasteful."
"Then doesn't she usually stay in the store?" Lu Weiwei heard this and continued to ask.
The middle-aged man shook his head: "I don't know much about this. Anyway, I rarely see it."
"However, when it opened, she came here often. I met her a few times, and she also bought snacks from my store."
"So what does this guy look like?" After hearing what the boss said, Lu Weiwei continued to ask.
The middle-aged man chuckled and said, "How can I describe this? Anyway, he is tall and thin, and the clothes he wears look quite expensive."
"My body smells good. I must have sprayed it with a very expensive perfume. Her tone of voice is also very gentle."
"Anyway, it makes me feel like a big star."
"Big star?" Listening to the boss's story, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but look at Gu Chen.
You know, there are big structural problems in this coffee shop, but if the shop owner is a woman, it seems a little unreasonable.
So Gu Chen quickly asked: "So, does this coffee shop only have one proprietress? There is no boss?"
"Uh... this..." seemed to be confused by the question. The middle-aged man thought for a moment, put the wrapped snacks on the electronic scale, and said in retrospect:
"How do you say this? Anyway, when I see that woman, she always comes here alone."
"Moreover, her store has only been open for less than a year. Mine is a time-honored store. When she was renovating it, I didn't see any man accompanying her."
"It seems that this woman is doing everything by herself. Even when we opened the business, all the people who came here seemed to be quite wealthy."
"Is that so? A female boss? Is she really single?" Listening to what the middle-aged man said, Lu Weiwei felt more and more that there seemed to be something wrong with this female boss Fangfang.
You know, if Fangfang is the contact fox mentioned by Lu Xiaofeng, then it is indeed a bit scary.
But so far, we have no concrete evidence.
Gu Chen only found a suspicious rope on the roof of the building.
So is Fangfang a fox? Gu Chen feels that further investigation is needed.
"Here, it's exactly two kilograms, I'll give you a little more." The boss weighed the snacks, then put a few more pieces into the bag and said.
