"In other words, there is more than one passage here?" Lu Weiwei seemed to have discovered the problem.
Several plainclothes policemen who were investigating were immediately stunned on the spot.
One of them said helplessly: "At that time, the entire inside of the pipeline was dark, and we were just feeling our way around. Later, we saw a bright light here, so we didn't think much about it."
"So this is not necessarily the other party's escape route." Gu Chen understood the plainclothes situation and roughly understood what Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang were thinking.
These two old foxes will not let themselves get into trouble no matter what.
Especially Hu Fang. Although Gu Chen has never had direct contact with her, through the investigation of Hu Fang's experience and the surveillance installed on Lu Xiaofeng's buttons, it can be seen that this is a very sophisticated woman.
To escape from police tracking, everything on the roof is a deception, so the passage at the bottom of the building is obviously another option for her.
The location of the exit is so obvious, it seems that it was done deliberately to distract the police from tracking.
Thinking of this, Gu Chen picked up a strong flashlight and shined it on the dark passage a few times. Then he turned around and said, "Leave a few people outside and follow me in."
"yes."
After hearing what Gu Chen said, everyone agreed in unison.
Soon, everyone followed Gu Chen and came to the passage again.
As soon as we entered, all the intercom and mobile phone signals began to become extremely weak. When we walked into the hinterland of the passage, all signals were interrupted.
Every time Gu Chen took a step, he would shine a strong flashlight to the left and right to check the surrounding situation.
I found that the passage here does seem a bit strange.
Although there is a relatively straight passage in front of you, the building structures on both sides are somewhat strange.
"If this was a former air raid shelter, it wouldn't be as simple as just setting up a direct passage, otherwise it wouldn't be so secretive."
"In addition, Senior Brother He also sent me the structural drawings of the surrounding buildings, but there is no structural layout of the underground passage."
"So, most people don't know the level of secrecy here, which means there must be something going on here."
"I think so too." Officer Wang looked around, quickly walked to the right corner, touched the wall lightly with his hand, and immediately felt that his hand was stained with some sticky objects.
Putting it on the tip of his nose and smelling it, Officer Wang immediately moved away and said: "Bah, the smell is really unpleasant. After so many years, there are really a lot of things covering the walls."
"Squeak!"
At this moment, several mice seemed to be startled by Officer Wang's movements, and they jumped out from under Officer Wang's feet and ran towards Yuan Shasha.
Yuan Shasha screamed in fright and kicked one of the mice running toward her into the air.
The mouse fell to the ground and quickly fled along the corner of the passage.
After a while, it disappeared under the flashlight light.
"It seems like this place has become a rat's nest." Lu Weiwei shook her head and complained.
Gu Chen shined the light on the location where the mouse appeared just now, and then walked over.
I found several obvious marks on the wall.
After thinking about it, Gu Chen directly put the flashlight under his arm, and then pushed the wall with both hands.
After a while, the wall suddenly made a "buzzing" friction sound.
"You can move here." Gu Chen only moved a small part and said as a reminder.
"Go and help." Officer Wang gave the order, and everyone came to the wall and pushed the wall with both hands.
At this moment, the wall began to show obvious signs of movement.
Not long after, one of the walls turned 90 degrees using the central axis as the fulcrum.
When seeing this structure, everyone was stunned on the spot.
"Oh my God! This looks like a maze, isn't it? Is there something else inside?" When seeing this structure, Lu Weiwei took a step forward and couldn't help but explain.
Officer Wang took out his mechanical baton and entered directly from the side to the other side of the passage.
At the entrance, after a simple irradiation, I found that there was nothing abnormal, and then I said hello to the back:
"No problem, there is another passage here."
"Go over and have a look." Gu Chen couldn't wait and got into the inside of the passage for the second time.
At this moment, Gu Chen discovered that this was a smaller passage than before, and there were some old hooks on the walls of the passage.
From the structural point of view, it seems to be the installation point of the electric light, but the electric light at this moment seems to have been removed.
On one side of the installation point, there are some older structures that look like candle stands. You can light candles here when there is no power.
"Where is this place? There is no water on the ground." Lu Weiwei pointed the light ahead a few times and said as a reminder.
"Look." Yuan Shasha pointed to one of the corners and said, "There are footprints here."
When Gu Chen heard this, he quickly ran over, squatted down, and checked the marks on the ground.
After touching it with his hand and measuring it with his fingers, Gu Chen suddenly frowned, looked forward and said:
"The footprints are the latest, which means someone has been here."
"Does that need to be said? It must be Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang, these two cunning people, who escaped from the passage all the way here and left footprints." Lu Weiwei said.
Officer Wang also quickly said: "Then take a look, where do these footprints lead?"
Gu Chen observed calmly for a few seconds, then stood up and said: "The entrance to the passage is relatively humid, so the footprints are relatively new and obvious."
"However, the road ahead seems to be drier and the footprints are less obvious."
"But don't worry, there is just a passage here, you can just walk over and have a look."
"In addition, everyone should always pay attention and look at the walls on both sides. Are there any other abnormalities?"
"clear."
At Gu Chen's reminder, everyone agreed in unison.
Later, Gu Chen and Officer Wang explored the road ahead, and other police officers also lined up on both sides, checking along the roads on both sides.
The main thing is to check the location of the wall to see if there are any new traces.
If there is, it is likely to be a new channel.
Officer Wang and Gu Chen walked side by side in the front row, and he said angrily: "Gu Chen, you said that the people who built this secret passage before really didn't leave any drawings."
"Once a few people know about this kind of place, it is actually quite dangerous."
"They can use this secret passage to use this place as a warehouse to do illegal activities, and it will be difficult for us to detect it."
"Maybe this is the purpose of Hu Fang coming here to open a coffee shop." Listening to Officer Wang's complaint, Gu Chen said casually.
Officer Wang also nodded silently and said: "In my opinion, it must be like this."
"This Hu Fang was abroad before, and then after returning to China, he started to hang out in Shanghai. Logically speaking, he should have plenty of connections."
"Moreover, she probably met the core members of Sanji when she was in the Magic City."
"Perhaps there is some kind of cooperative relationship with Sangji, so we opened the coffee shop here."
"On the surface, this is a serious coffee shop, but in fact, Hu Fang may be interested in the secret passage under the coffee house."
"This time Sanji asked Lu Xiaofeng to bring the important encrypted USB disk here and hand it over to Hu Fang. In my opinion, it also has some kind of ulterior secret."
After a pause, seeing that Gu Chen was silent and thinking seriously, Officer Wang quickly said again:
"And this Lu Xiaofeng, for the sake of the lost USB flash drive, he did not hesitate to use the extreme method of attacking the police to achieve his goal. This shows that this Lu Xiaofeng is really crazy."
"But it also means that the USB flash drive is really important." Gu Chen also added casually.
The two exchanged a few words and soon came to another intersection.
At this moment, Gu Chen used a flashlight to shine and discovered that this was a T-shaped intersection with two passages on the left and right.
At this moment, since there is no signal underground, no one can determine the specific location.
"What should we do? Divide into two teams to search?" Yuan Shasha asked.
"Let's do this." Gu Chen frowned and gave an order: "Senior Sister Lu and I will lead a few people and search from the left."
"Senior Brother Wang and Xiao Yuan, lead a few people and search from the right."
"Everyone, look at where these passages lead to. If you encounter difficulties or the road is impassable, then you can go back the same way and come to where we are now. Do you understand?"
"Understood!" At Gu Chen's request, everyone immediately agreed.
Afterwards, Gu Chen simply and Officer Wang's team divided their supplies, then took Lu Weiwei and several other plainclothes police officers and walked directly to the left side of the passage.
After walking only a few dozen steps, Gu Chen heard the sound of "tick-tick-tick" falling into the water.
So Gu Chen quickly made a sign language gesture to stop moving forward.
After a while, Lu Weiwei took a flashlight and came directly to a depression, turned around and explained:
"There is a depression here."
Looking up at the top, Lu Weiwei added: "There seems to be some water seeping up there. The water dropped here and formed a depression. The surrounding area is relatively humid. Please pay attention to your steps."
"Check to see if there are any new footprints." At Lu Weiwei's prompt, Gu Chen also requested.
Soon, everyone dispersed immediately.
Not long after, a plainclothes police officer reported: "Gu Bureau, come and take a look. There seem to be a few footprints here."
When Gu Chen heard this, he immediately shined a flashlight on it.
When other people saw this, they also gathered around.
Gu Chen squatted down and carefully checked the traces in front of him, confirming that they were exactly the same as the footprints he found at the entrance of the passage.
Looking at the direction in which the footprints extended, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It seems that these two people escaped from this way."
"Then should we call Senior Brother Wang and the others back?" said another trainee police officer.
Gu Chen shook his head: "No need for the moment, the passages inside seem to extend in all directions, maybe they will be connected together."
"Senior Brother Wang and others may be able to find some problems by searching from the right side. We have enough personnel here."
After the words fell, Gu Chen stood up and ordered: "Keep moving forward and speed up the pace."
"Crunch! Crunch!"
Everyone took big steps and began to pursue the past.
The shoes stepped on the ground, making a constant "crunching" sound, and there were some loud echoes.
When Gu Chen led everyone to walk a certain distance, he discovered that there seemed to be some new problems ahead.
Lu Weiwei shined the flashlight on the wall and said with a confused look: "It's strange, why is it still a dead end?"
"Could it be that there are other passages here?"
"There must be one, right? How else could these footprints come from?" said a plainclothes police officer in the crowd.
Gu Chen was not interrupted by everyone's anxiety, but continued to shine the flashlight on his feet, looking for less obvious traces, and turned all the way to a corner.
Looking up at the wall, there seemed to be signs of movement.
So Gu Chen pushed with his hand and heard a "squeaking" sound. Soon, a large gap appeared in the wall.
"It seems that this wall is not thick, and one person can push it open." As he spoke, Gu Chen moved forward with force, and the stone door, which was not thick, was quickly pushed open by Gu Chen.
It's still the same structure as before, but the material here seems to be stone, but it's not, it's a lighter material.
It's just that the construction here has been for a long time, so the walls are covered with some sticky moss plants, and they don't look much different from other walls.
Everyone passed through the small door one after another and came to another location.
At this moment, the road seems even narrower.
Obviously, every time you enter a door, the road will be narrower than before.
In the past, everyone could conduct separate inspections with eight people abreast in the passage. However, after entering the later passage, only six people could conduct separate inspections abreast.
But now, it seems that there is only room for two people side by side.
"Everyone, please pay attention to your feet and sides." Gu Chen walked in the front row of the team, constantly reminding the people behind him.
There is a lot of echo when walking here, and the sound of talking is basically my own echo.
Therefore, there is no situation where someone is walking in front of you but you cannot hear it.
But the quieter the situation, the more worried Gu Chen became.
You know, everyone has now arrived in a narrow space, and the unpleasant smell is getting deeper.
This shows that everyone has arrived at the core area of the air raid shelter.
And what exactly is here? No one present knows clearly.
But Gu Chen understood that since there were no drawings of the air-raid shelter, it meant that it was very secretive.
At least it is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
However, Gu Chen also had an ominous premonition that Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang might be nearby.
But the two of them didn't make any movement, maybe they were just hiding nearby and keeping silent.
Therefore, Gu Chen needs to be very cautious now. Any move he makes may alarm the other party.
Or, if you are a little careless, you will pass by those two people.
At this moment, he was in the light and the other party was in the dark. Gu Chen immediately stopped and used his master-level observation skills to constantly sense the surrounding atmosphere.
