Seeing that the man in blue uniform spoke politely, he also provided a solution to everyone.
Gu Chen was also lucky that he was able to find the tenant of the two warehouses, namely Hu Zhe.
You know, Hu Zhe is just a night market barbecue stall owner, and his raw materials are not purchased here.
And he is also a member of a metal band, but why would such a person rent two warehouses in this relatively remote area?
Or is it that Vujicic wants to use the market warehouse as a cover to secretly engage in some illegal activities?
But no matter what, Gu Chen has now found some clues, that is, Hu Zhe's death seems to be closely related to these two warehouses.
Now, as long as the warehouse door is opened, perhaps the answer will be revealed.
Not long after, a middle-aged fat man walked downstairs of the market management center carrying some demolition tools and smoking a cigarette.
At this moment, the man in blue uniform has been waiting here with Gu Chen's team for a long time.
Seeing that the fat man was late, the man in blue uniform also blamed him and said: "Look at you, it took so long to get you a tool."
"I haven't even finished playing cards yet, so I was called over by you, which is enough to give me face, haha." After the words fell, the fat man looked at Gu Chen and the others, and he also took the initiative to hand over cigarettes.
"Thank you, I don't smoke." Gu Chen waved his hand and refused.
So the fat man handed the cigarette to Officer Wang again.
Officer Wang also smiled slightly: "Thank you, I don't smoke either. We still have to do serious things now."
"Okay then." Seeing that no one was smoking, the fat middle-aged man just threw a cigarette to the man in blue uniform, then walked to a parking space at the door and put the tools in the trunk.
This is a market management center pickup truck with a rear exhaust and only five seats.
Before the man in blue uniform could say anything, the fat middle-aged man jumped into the back of the pickup truck.
Gu Chen and others were invited into the pickup truck by the man in blue uniform.
The group of people drove the vehicle to the entrance of the market.
Afterwards, several people walked quickly towards the target area.
Arriving at the entrance to the narrow road in Area E5, the middle-aged fat man hesitated for a moment and asked hurriedly: "Are you going to demolish this place?"
"Yes, is there any problem?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"The problem is no, it's just that no one has opened the door to this place for a long time, right?"
"You didn't know when I opened the door." Yuan Shasha also added.
Finally, the fat middle-aged man looked at the man in blue uniform out of habit and asked cautiously:
"Are you sure you want to dismantle it? After this disassembly, the door lock will be scrapped. If you need to repair it in the future, you will basically need to replace it with a new one. Are you sure there is no problem?"
"Oh, just tear it apart." The middle-aged fat man seemed a bit verbose, but after all, he knew that Gu Chen's team was here to investigate the case, so the man in blue uniform also urged.
"Okay, since you guys have already decided, I'll do it." After hearing what the man in blue uniform said, the fat middle-aged man no longer hesitated.
He started to pick up his demolition tools and started prying them.
However, the market was relatively quiet at night, but the middle-aged fat man's disturbance suddenly alerted the three managers in the monitoring room upstairs.
After a while, the three of them rushed to the E5 area downstairs and looked at the people with confused expressions.
When he saw the man in blue uniform, the tall and thin security guard also asked curiously: "What's going on? Why are you removing the lock here?"
"The police are handling the case and we are just cooperating," said the man in blue uniform.
"The police are handling the case?" The tall and thin man, feeling confused, turned his attention to Gu Chen and the others. They also looked confused and asked hurriedly:
"Eh? Aren't you those guys who want to investigate and monitor? You..."
"We are from Furong Branch." Before the tall and thin man could continue, Lu Weiwei immediately took out her police card and showed it in front of him.
The tall and thin security man stared blankly, with a look of surprise on his face: "Are you the police? Before that..."
"Before, just to not disturb your work, we lied about coming to look for your wallet." Officer Wang also said casually.
After all, it was during the preliminary investigation, and when there was no need to reveal the identity, the identity could be concealed.
But now, if the rolling shutter needs to be broken down, the security personnel upstairs will inevitably be alerted.
In this way, the identity cannot be concealed, but this is good, so that the market staff can cooperate with the investigation.
After learning the police identities of Gu Chen and others, the three security guards immediately became polite and even offered cigarettes to please them.
But they were all rejected by Gu Chen and others one by one.
Gu Chen asked the tall and thin man directly: "Are you familiar with this warehouse?"
"Not familiar." The security guard shook his head and said truthfully:
"This warehouse, it was empty for a long time, and then it was rented."
"Do you know what the rental is for?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
"I don't know." The tall and thin man still shook his head: "Anyway, we only care about the order here. We can't control other things."
"Crack! Crack!"
Just as a few people were talking, the parts of the door lock suddenly fell off, and the middle-aged fat man directly opened the rolling shutter door.
With a piercing sound, one of the warehouse's rolling shutters opened instantly.
But when everyone walked in and took a look, it was empty inside, with nothing at all.
However, there is a smell of pickles in the air.
"Well, why does it smell so bad?" Yuan Shasha covered her mouth and nose, feeling like she was about to suffocate from the air.
Upon seeing this, everyone retreated temporarily so that the entire warehouse could have some ventilation.
"What was put in this before? Why does it always smell like pickled cabbage?"
Officer Wang couldn't bear the smell. While covering his mouth and nose, he also turned on a strong flashlight and shined it on the interior space a few times.
However, after checking, it was still empty.
Officer Wang looked in Gu Chen's direction and shook his head.
Gu Chen looked at the fat middle-aged man and said, "Master, please open the rolling shutter on the opposite side again."
"Okay." After all, it was necessary to dismantle one door. The middle-aged fat man didn't care too much. He just picked up the tools, turned around, and prepared to forcefully dismantle the opposite door.
Gu Chen also took advantage of the gap to fan away the pungent smell in front of him with his hands, walked to the middle of the warehouse, squatted down, and inspected the objects on the ground.
Since there are no electric lights installed here, the light source only relies on the incandescent lamp at the entrance.
Lu Weiwei quickly turned on the strong flashlight, stood behind Gu Chen, and reminded:
"Junior brother Gu, was this a place where pickles were stored before? This smell is so obvious, it's just pickles."
"Maybe the pickles are just a cover-up." Gu Chen stood up and said thoughtfully.
"You mean, Hu Zhe enjoys the smell of pickles to cover up the smell of the real goods?" Lu Weiwei was still able to guess what Gu Chen meant.
Gu Chen didn't hide it, and said to Lu Weiwei bluntly:
"Senior Sister Lu, do you remember that when we went to Hu Zhe's barbecue stall to eat barbecue, were there any pickles ingredients in his stall?"
"This..." According to the ideas provided by Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei thought about it for a few seconds, but then she shook her head and denied it:
"That night, while eating barbecue at the night market, we did not find any ingredients related to pickles."
"Not at all." Officer Wang also approached the two of them and whispered.
Accompanied by the harsh noise at the opposite door, Gu Chen and others gathered together to discuss quietly, not afraid of being overheard.
Gu Chen also said to Officer Wang: "Brother Wang, it can be seen that this Hu Zhe may be hiding some unknown secrets from everyone."
"He chose the far away for the near. In a place like this, renting two warehouse stores must be to store important items."
"Pickles? It's just a disguise."
Turning to look at the empty warehouse, Gu Chen added: "It is not difficult to find out from the emptying of these goods that the goods here have been secretly moved for a long time, just for fear of being investigated and causing problems."
"And the smell of pickles is the best shield, just a blindfold for us."
"That's right." After hearing Gu Chen's explanation, Officer Wang nodded silently and couldn't help but say:
"You dare to do anything in front of us with this little skill? It's really ridiculous."
"But then again, perhaps Vujicic's actions were not his original intention. There may be a big boss behind him."
Shaking his right index finger, Officer Wang also continued: "It is possible that the boss behind the scenes who wants to kill him is his own boss behind the scenes."
"Because Vujicic has too many secrets about the boss behind the scenes, or Vujicic has long lost his use value."
"In order to protect himself from being discovered by our police, the boss behind the scenes decisively sent people to kill Vujicic and did it quietly."
"Isn't that what it is?" Listening to Officer Wang's explanation, Yuan Shasha also echoed:
"Vujicic came here to rent a warehouse. It feels like this was not his original intention."
"Perhaps the boss behind the scenes asked him to do this, and he was just an errand boy."
"Yeah." After listening to Yuan Shasha's words, Gu Chen also agreed.
But at this moment, the door lock parts of the opposite door also fell to the ground.
The fat middle-aged man's movements were still very nimble, and he finished these things in a few clicks.
Then, just lift it up with your hand, and the entire rolling shutter opens instantly.
Gu Chen and others hurried over and arrived at the door of warehouse No. 002.
However, just as I guessed, the smell here is exactly the same as what I smelled when I opened the door of warehouse 001 just now.
Gu Chen couldn't help but frown, and took two steps back as a habit, so that the turbid air here could be dispersed.
"Ahem!" The man in blue uniform couldn't help but cough twice, covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and backed away and said:
"This place smells so bad, it feels like pickles, but I haven't seen any pickles being sold?"
"Please give way." Lu Weiwei asked the man in blue uniform to give up a position, and she walked to the door first.
Turn on the strong flashlight in your hand and shine a circle around the internal environment.
Then, Lu Weiwei turned around and said: "Junior Brother Gu, it is also empty inside, and it is exactly the same as the situation inside Warehouse No. 001."
"It seems that these pickles have been moved." Such an ending is also expected.
However, Gu Chen had been monitoring the situation of the warehouse here for many days and found no movement of goods being transported in and out.
Gu Chen also turned to look at the three security personnel and asked proactively: "There should be a lot of things that look like pickles stored here."
"That means that these things need to be transported from the gate to the inside of the market. Have you ever seen them?"
After the words fell, the tall and thin security guards looked at each other, and they seemed to be confused.
Lu Weiwei said angrily: "Have you seen that pickles were once transported here?"
"No."
"No."
…
Several people shook their heads in denial one after another.
The leading tall and thin security guard also said truthfully: "Comrade police, to be honest, we really didn't pay much attention to this place before."
"Moreover, even if goods need to be moved here and enter the market, we will definitely be able to see it."
"Because during normal working hours, we usually don't play cards, so we always sit in a corridor on the second floor, sitting on stools and observing the operations of the merchants below."
"It can be said that we can see clearly with the naked eye whoever is bringing in what goods."
"What is invisible to the naked eye, we can also understand through surveillance."
After a pause, the tall and thin security guard shook his head helplessly and complained: "But we really don't know how the goods in the E5 area, warehouse 001 and warehouse 002 are transported in?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "After all, it is impossible for you to slip in under my nose."
"Could it be that these two warehouses were used to store pickles before they were leased?" Yuan Shasha also provided a new possibility.
But another fat security guard shook his head and denied: "No, I remember this place before, it seems to be an empty warehouse."
"There is almost nothing inside except some discarded wooden boards."
"Because this place is relatively remote, and the warehouse at the corner of the market is obviously more expensive than the warehouses outside."
"So, in order to save some money on rent, those merchants usually rent their warehouses in some surrounding areas."
"As for merchants who operate on a small scale, it's okay to just pile the goods in the store."
"No items were stored?" Hearing this ending, Officer Wang couldn't help but sigh:
"Could it be that you didn't even see them transporting so many pickles to this warehouse?"
"Then they took the pickles away again, but you still didn't see it? Is that what you mean?"
I was also confused by what Officer Wang said.
Although the three security guards were a little confused, the tall and thin security guard among them still answered truthfully:
"Yes, that's the fact. When we were on duty, we didn't see anyone bringing pickles in."
"If you don't believe it, you can come with me and take a look at the surveillance."
"Okay." Looking up at the tall and thin security guard, Gu Chen turned to Yuan Shasha and said:
"Xiao Yuan, you go to the monitoring room with them and check all the monitoring from the rental warehouse to now to see if any goods have been moved here."
"Understood." After receiving Gu Chen's order, Yuan Shasha said directly to the three security guards:
"You guys come with me."
"Okay." I feel that instead of staying here and being questioned all kinds of questions, it is better to go to the control room and contribute to find out how the pickles are transported in and out.
Seeing the four people leaving, the man in blue uniform also looked confused and said: "It's quite strange, huh? This warehouse actually stores pickles."
"I wonder what this merchant is thinking? Is he in the pickle business?" As soon as he finished speaking, when he looked up and saw Officer Wang looking at him seriously, the man in blue uniform said again:
"Comrade police, if it is as you said, this merchant may have been killed, then do you think there might be some contraband hidden in it?"
"I have to ask you this. Aren't you the managers of this vegetable market? If you ask me this question, how can I find the answer for you?"
I felt that what the man in blue uniform said was too funny, and Officer Wang retorted angrily.
"Haha." The man in blue uniform who hit the wall also laughed dryly and stood aside honestly, not interfering anymore.
And Gu Chen stood still and was not idle. In Gu Chen's opinion, the goods would not disappear for no reason.
"Vujicic must have his own intentions for renting this warehouse."
Crossing his arms, Gu Chen looked around and continued to think:
"If this place is relatively secretive, then there are many other secretive places like this. Why did you choose this place?"
"Or is it just for convenience? Or is it close to the logistics company, so it is more convenient to transport certain goods?"
After walking back and forth twice, Gu Chen continued to think: "What if, this place was always empty before Hu Zhe rented it."
"Then, the smell of these pickles cannot be so strong, but how do these products escape the eyes of surveillance and market security personnel and suddenly appear in the warehouse? And then disappear suddenly?"
"Is there a secret passage here?"
Just when he thought of this, Gu Chen suddenly had a concept of space.
Because this is the E5 area of the entire vegetable market, which is the most remote corner of the entire vegetable market.
The two warehouses happened to be opposite each other. Gu Chen guessed that it might not be necessary to rent these two warehouses, maybe because he was afraid of being disturbed by other people.
Here Gu Chen was still thinking, and Lu Weiwei beside him also put forward her own opinions:
"Junior brother Gu, look at these two warehouses being big enough. If Hu Zhe wants to store pickles here, does he need such a large space? I don't think he needs it at all?"
"Of course." As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Gu Chen also expressed his opinion:
"Actually, the reason is very simple, because this is a very secret area, Area E5, which is not conspicuous in the entire market and is located in a corner."
"Normally, people who don't rent warehouses at this location would never come here."
"In this way, we can effectively exclude those strangers."
After a pause, Gu Chen looked at the warehouses on the left and right sides, and then said: "In addition, there are only these two warehouses on both sides of this narrow passage."
"If someone sees someone renting one of the warehouses on one side, they might consider renting the other one as well."
"In this way, strangers may rent the opposite side of the warehouse."
"But in this way, if there is any trouble on Hu Zhe's side, it is likely to be clearly seen by the merchants in the opposite warehouse."
"If Hu Zhe really hides a secret here, then the gain will outweigh the loss, and the point of renting the warehouse here will be lost."
"Yes." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Officer Wang also came close to the two of them and whispered:
"If this is the case, warehouses like this should be everywhere in Jiangnan City, and there is no need to rent them in this Yuhua Logistics Park wet market."
"But since we rented this place, it is quite remote from the layout point of view. If we only need to use one of the warehouses, but for our own privacy, we must rent the opposite warehouse. This is safer."
"Yes." After hearing what Officer Wang said, Gu Chen nodded silently, and then said:
"In this way, this place has become a secret base, but transporting pickles here is definitely not that simple."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "If it were me, it must be to cover up a certain smell. It's all a cover-up."
Taking a deep breath, Gu Chen also thought carefully: "But is it necessary for those pickles to disappear like this? Isn't it necessary? Are you still afraid of being known by people in the market when you store pickles generously?
"
After saying this, Gu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up and he suddenly realized: "By the way, why did I forget this?"
"Junior Brother Gu, have you thought of something?" Seeing Gu Chen's sudden inspiration, Lu Weiwei guessed that Gu Chen seemed to have discovered something?
Gu Chen snapped his fingers and said involuntarily: "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Brother Wang, I know how these pickles were secretly transported in without being discovered by the market staff?"
"I also know how these pickles were secretly transported under the same circumstances."
"You know?" Officer Wang was also very curious after hearing what Gu Chen said.
Lu Weiwei was even more stunned and asked hurriedly: "Junior Brother Gu, please tell me quickly."
"Do you remember the end of this passage?" Gu Chen asked.
"You know, it's a dead end, a dead end without a door, only a sealed window..."
Lu Weiwei seemed to have thought of something in the middle of her sentence based on Gu Chen's prompts.
Lu Weiwei looked up at Gu Chen and said seriously: "So Junior Brother Gu, do you think these pickles are transported in and out through the reinforced window?"
"That's right." Seeing that Lu Weiwei had already mentioned the key clue, Gu Chen no longer hid it and said straightforwardly:
"At the end of this road is the fixed window without glass, only blocked by a few steel bars to form an anti-theft net."
"But the gap is huge. Although people can't get in, it's not difficult to send some pickles in and out."
"That's right." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Officer Wang couldn't help but look in the direction of the dead end.
So the three of them understood it by heart and immediately followed the trail and looked for it towards the end.
Not long after, everyone turned a corner and saw the window.
Originally this place was used for ventilation, but now it seems that it is an excellent secret passage for transporting goods in and out of the market.
Gu Chen came to the window, leaned forward, put the tip of his nose close to the window sill, sniffed briefly, then immediately frowned and retreated.
"How is it?" Lu Weiwei asked quickly.
Gu Chen nodded silently and couldn't help but said: "It seems that my guess is correct. Those pickles were indeed transported in and out through this window."
Pointing to the window sill, Gu Chen added: "The smell of pickles still lingers on this window sill, which is very obvious."
After Gu Chen finished speaking, Officer Wang also took a closer look. After sniffing for a few seconds, he also confirmed:
"Not to mention, it does taste like pickles, so it seems like this is the right place."
"It's amazing." Seeing the secret being revealed, Lu Weiwei was also amazed and said:
"This Vujicic is really powerful. I thought this place was just an ordinary warehouse before."
"But now it seems that is not the case at all. This seems to be a warehouse tailor-made for Vujicic."
"Here, Vujicic can not be disturbed by anyone, and he can also use this window to directly transport goods in and out, avoiding the surveillance of the vegetable market and the eyes of the management personnel."
Taking a deep breath, Lu Weiwei also looked confused and said: "This Hu Zhe seems to be a very smart person, but how could he think of this?"
"Perhaps there is a master behind him for guidance." Police Officer Wang also told the truth: "The master behind him may be the boss behind the scenes who wants to kill him most."
"Well, now it seems that this is a possibility." Lu Weiwei now also strongly agrees with Comrade Lao Wang's remarks.
Yuan Shasha's surveillance investigation is still continuing, and Gu Chen has no intention of letting Yuan Shasha stop the investigation.
Instead, she hoped that Yuan Shasha would continue to investigate and see if she could capture some usable information from the surveillance footage.
Seeing Gu Chen and others coming to the dead end of the dead end, the man in blue uniform also followed with a middle-aged fat man.
Seeing Gu Chen and others standing by the window, the man in blue uniform also asked curiously:
"Comrade police, what are you doing here?"
"The pickles are transported in and out from here." Officer Wang also sighed.
After hearing what Officer Wang said, the man in blue uniform just looked at the fat middle-aged man next to him who was unlocking the door.
Then the two of them hurried to the window, sniffed it carefully, and suddenly realized something.
"So that's it?" The man in blue uniform, as if he had discovered a new world, also looked surprised:
"However, transporting goods through this window will definitely be time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is not as easy as transporting goods through the market door."
"You are stupid. I rented this place just because I didn't want you to find me." Officer Wang also told the truth.
The man in blue uniform once again hit a wall, feeling that he, a layman, would definitely not be able to talk about what the police were investigating.
Everything he said was a joke.
So the man in blue uniform was also self-aware, so he couldn't help but smile and said quickly:
"I'm just curious, and I'm not a professional."
"Then please keep quiet, okay?" In fact, Lu Weiwei doesn't like the man in blue uniform either. He always hangs around everyone and chatters, which affects everyone's thinking.
The man in blue uniform also nodded silently, indicating that he could shut up.
Gu Chen took a deep breath, leaned against the window and took a few glances, then turned and asked the man in blue uniform:
"By the way, where is this place outside?"
"It's a wasteland outside our vegetable market." The man in blue uniform answered.
Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "Then let's go out and take a look."
"Get out?" The man in blue uniform responded slowly, and was stunned in place for a few seconds.
Seeing that Gu Chen's team had already gone away, he quickly followed behind.
When the middle-aged fat man saw this, he also asked: "Then do I still need to stay here?"
"Wait for me in the car first." The man in blue uniform also waved his hand, indicating that the middle-aged fat man could get in the car first, and he followed Gu Chen and others out of the vegetable market.
Then, along the edge of the vegetable market, we started walking towards that area.
This is a small road. Due to the construction of a vegetable market, the surrounding area has actually been paved with cement and looks very flat.
But when Gu Chen came to the periphery of the window and looked around, he didn't see any surveillance.
Gu Chen suddenly asked out of curiosity: "Why aren't surveillance cameras installed here?"
"Here?" According to Gu Chen's gaze prompts, the man in blue uniform looked left and right, and then said with a smile:
"Gu Bureau, there is no need for us to install surveillance cameras here, because no one will pass by here at all."
"So, installing cameras is just a decoration. We usually install cameras in key areas."
"Okay." Knowing that there is no need to install surveillance cameras here, Gu Chen didn't ask any more questions.
But Gu Chen now also knows very well that Hu Zhe's calculation is very shrewd.
Especially the location selection of the warehouse here is textbook level.
Not only does it solve the privacy problem well, but it also leaves a cargo channel for yourself.
It can be said that there may be many warehouses similar to vegetable markets in Jiangnan City, but there are very few warehouses that can meet all these conditions.
The vegetable market in Yuhua Logistics Park obviously became the only choice.
But Gu Chen also knew very well that it would be difficult for a college student like Hu Zhe, who had just graduated, to think of such a subtle area.
In other words, even if Vujicic has this ability, because he needs to investigate market areas one by one, this is a big project in the first place.
For Vujicic, it is too difficult and requires a lot of resources to investigate.
But now it seems that Vujicic does not have these, because he is not a resource person.
"But who is the boss behind the scenes?" Looking at the iron window, Gu Chen was in a daze, thinking about the question:
"If I am the real tenant of this warehouse, then what conditions do I need to meet to find such a warehouse? Obviously, I first need to be very familiar with the branches of these wet markets."
