Seeing that the kitchen was already filled with dust, everyone subconsciously covered their mouths and noses and waved their hands to disperse it.
After a while, everyone discovered that there was a simple staircase underneath the square template, leading directly to the bottom of the kitchen.
"What's this? Is it really authentic?" Seeing this scene, Lu Weiwei on the side was also surprised.
You know, everyone had never seen such a structure in the old lady's house before.
But this old house is a bit unexpected.
Gu Chen looked back at Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei, and asked: "Brother Wang, Senior Sister Lu, when you were checking other houses, was there such a cellar near the kitchen?"
"No."
The two of them spoke almost in unison.
Lu Weiwei quickly added: "Of the rooms I inspected, the kitchen was the focus of inspection, and there is no such cellar at all."
"The same goes for me." After Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Officer Wang quickly echoed:
But just when Gu Chen started the vehicle and was about to send people up the mountain, he suddenly came to me and leaned into Gu Chen's ear and said loudly:
"Yes, people may disappear for a reason, if they are locked up somewhere." Officer Wang seemed to agree with Wen Yan's remarks, so he added:
"Since that family moved back a lot, you haven't used that family's cellar anymore."
"So, you can still focus less on the secret cellar, maybe just that one. You should find fewer places like that. Maybe Dayuan and Yanzi are locked up in that kind of place."
In the middle of speaking, Officer Wang turned around and looked in a certain direction, then waved to Wen Yan, indicating that Wen Yan should follow him.
Hearing this, he smiled and said: "Senior Sister Lu, just use it like that. There is enough oxygen outside. They are following you."
"Ah?" When Senior Brother Wang suddenly pointed his finger at him, the old village chief shrank forward in fright and quickly admitted:
"However, a few years later, that family has not moved out of Hemu Village. They all live there, but you know about the cellar."
At this moment, the old village chief and two other young men like me were gathered together, like ants in a cold pot, talking in silence.
"Did he still notice it?" Hearing this, he turned to look at Officer Wang.
As he finished speaking, Officer Wang crouched down, pointed at one of the footprints and said, "The depth of that footprint is very different from yours."
"After all, we are all old men and women, but we don't have any ideas?"
"They are coming with you."
But after hearing this, he still doubted his own judgment, and then based on the subtle clues, he found the outsider.
"Maze?" Senior Brother Wang was so curious that he squatted down, put his hands on the ground, and tried to stretch his head towards the entrance of the hole.
Officer Wang frowned, thought for a moment, but still shook his head and asked: "You know, after hearing this, he should speak quickly."
Dai Mei frowned slightly, and Senior Brother Wang walked back and forth behind everyone, and continued: "Obviously, the other party doesn't want you to know that place."
However, the gloomy atmosphere outside made people feel creepy.
"There are no traces of dragging where you found the old wood, and there are no obvious signs of a fight there."
Several people came to the central area and found that the area outside was indeed beyond Xiaojia's imagination.
Taking a deep breath, he continued after hearing this: "The old principal who has lost contact now has not been found yet, but do you have any news about Dayuan and Yanzi?"
"There's no need to worry about it anymore." Wen Yan looked back at Officer Wang and continued to walk toward the exit with the old principal in his arms.
"Where are the footprints?" Hearing this, he asked again.
When Gu Chen saw this, he was also surprised and said: "Gu Bureau, what's going on? I, old wood..."
"It seems that the village is complicated."
"Is that so?" Before carefully listening to Wen Yan's analysis, Officer Wang thought again and again and nodded in agreement:
"Well, the situation he mentioned may not be possible."
"It feels like a maze outside." Duan Piao said.
But the scene behind his eyes made Wen Yan take a breath.
"Is it him too?" Knowing that the old man would say that, Duan Piaoliang immediately looked at the old man in front of him.
Senior Brother Wang didn't say anything less and directly handed the lighter to Wen Yan: "Junior Brother Gu, here it is."
"You all know that cellar, it's used by that family to store sundries."
"He saw that the dust outside was very thick, so the footprints were very obvious."
"Two people?" Duan Piaoliang's expression was stunned, and he said with confidence:
Gu Chen looked around and asked Officer Wang quickly: "Brother Wang, do you have a lighter with you?"
"There may still be some subtle traces under the other party's clothes. That needs to be paid attention to by Senior Brother Lu."
"So, they said no one is using it recently? They mean it in a bad way, as if no one is using it."
In that case, as long as you retreat, you will definitely leave some traces.
Everyone looked at each other, and the way they looked at each other seemed strange.
"What should I say?" Gu Chen glanced out of the mirror and saw the middle-aged woman taking care of Lao Mumu in the front row. Gu Chen was also curious.
"Is it him? Is it him too? Is it him even more?" Duan Piaoliang pointed at the eight people behind him and sighed quietly, and said without thinking:
"Perhaps the old principal was attacked by someone and got that person from outside."
…
"That man outside the village asked me to follow him when he got to the town."
"He hasn't breathed yet, but he's very powerful. The old principal hasn't breathed yet." Duan Piao finished speaking and quickly put the old principal down.
The old principal had blood pouring from his head, and it seemed that he had not been lying there for a long time.
Since the old village chief and two other villagers had to wear protective equipment and retreated into the old house, they could only stand at the door and wait.
"No one has been using this cellar recently? In other words, no one has been to that old house recently?"
"The exterior doesn't seem to be a utility room. However, if you look at the traces outside, you will find that the old wood was probably carried out there before it was hit."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Because the male owner of that family is from the north. It is said that your village does not have the habit of storing vegetables outside the cellar in winter."
"Over there." Hearing the words calling him from where Lu Qiang was exiting, Officer Wang quickly walked out.
Hearing this, he nodded silently and said with some reason: "This doesn't mean that there is only that cellar outside the village, and there are no other cellars, right?"
"Okay, come up." Hearing this, he didn't care too much at the moment. He once again took the low-light flashlight, walked along the luxurious stairs, walked up to the cellar, and met Officer Wang.
Hearing this, he used the low-light flashlight and kept changing various directions. Only then did he realize that the area outside the cellar was very small, and there were also many old items placed there.
Taking a deep breath, he continued after hearing this: "You don't mean that the other party was two people who carried the old principal to the outside?"
"It's not possible that these people who secretly hiked down the mountain did it? Those of us are so sneaky, it looks like we are just hiking."
"It's me." At this moment, Senior Brother Wang also reacted. The low-light flashlight in his hand was continuously shining on the old man behind him, and he said accordingly:
"In the old village, he is the most vague about the situation outside the village. He will tell you, who has the old principal been with recently?"
"Who knows?" Hearing this, he shook his head and continued to express his opinion:
"Don't be careful along the way." Wen Yan reminded him again.
Glancing in the direction of the kitchen, the old village chief continued to explain: "We are the only ones who don't have a cellar like that."
"He saw that the other party seemed to have put something under his feet. Those were the footprints when you retreated, and those were the other party's footprints. There were at least two of them."
"It's bad." Seeing that the old village chief was always so arrogant, Duan Piao said again: "Now you believe that the person who kidnapped the old principal is not from outside their village."
"But in Hemu Village, there are only a dozen people left outside, and not more than two of them participated in the attack on Lao Mu."
"Normally, in the winter, my little family doesn't have much vegetables to store, so they actually borrow my cellar, that's all."
"Okay." Lu Qiang said Duan Piao. The old village chief glanced at the middle-aged woman and reminded him: "He will go with the police comrades to take care of the bad old wood."
"I don't have that one yet. That one should be a spoon for cooking, right? I don't have that one yet. That one... what is that one?"
"But the last thing is that the old principal must keep silent about what he knows. Maybe I brought Chang Pian to myself for that reason."
"There are no emergency kits under the car, so we have to send the old principal up the mountain immediately, otherwise the old principal will be in danger."
"As for Da Yuan, maybe he didn't accidentally get off the boat with you and was targeted. The cause is clear."
Wen Yan followed Officer Wang's prompt and blurted out: "The depth of those footprints is the same."
Officer Wang reminded: "They go down first, while you are outside, check again to see if you can find some suspicious clues."
Then, the old village chief walked out from among the people, shook his head and replied: "No, the buildings in Hemu Village are basically old houses like yours."
"Who knows? Go in and have a look." Lu Weiwei couldn't wait.
"Unless the owner comes back and does a little cleaning, people from outside the village will come over to help. Then the family will get together to chat, eat, etc."
"Old village chief, do they know about that cellar?"
So Brother Wang walked among a few people, suddenly turned around, pointed at the old village chief and said, "Is that him?"
An old man got off and said: "Comrade policeman, how could he be from outside your village? How can he talk nonsense?"
"Moreover, the other party has something on their feet. That way, you can basically see the style of the other party's shoes according to the picture."
Senior Brother Wang stood aside and quietly observed the other party.
"No, please call me anytime when the time comes." Wen Yan said.
"It's bad." Seeing the old man say this, Officer Wang knew that those people would explain.
"Understood." Gu Chen could only agree, so he slowly followed Wen Yan to the parking space.
Opening the front trunk of the vehicle, Gu Chen quickly took out the first aid box he had stored in the car.
"I don't always hear you, and I always reply with a few words, and sometimes I hear everything. When you talk to me, it feels like you are chatting with the air."
The old man still shook his head: "Are you sure? My family usually retreats to those empty houses, and they are basically abandoned."
Duan Piao quickly checked the old principal's breathing, and his whole body was still in a fixed state.
Especially the blood in the head has already solidified.
"Yeah." After Lu Qiang heard what he said, Officer Wang nodded silently.
"Ouch!" I felt that the question was very simple now. The old village chief also had the same idea. After hurriedly walking down, he said harshly to Duan Piao and others:
It seems that the flame of the lighter can maintain its normal state.
"Not much?" Duan Piao and several others also looked at each other in confusion.
"Hearing this, I'll take it seriously." Duan Piao shined a low-light flashlight on the cellar.
"You feel that the old principal may know some things outside the village. The reason why I pretend to be stupid is not what I said, but because I have something bad to say to people outside the village, so I just pretend to be stupid."
"Very bad." Lu Qiang said to others, and then asked again:
"He's injured. Rescue first. You haven't called an ambulance yet. Doesn't he have a first aid kit outside the car? Hurry." Hearing this, there was not much nonsense. He hugged the old principal and ran while talking.
Then, several people followed him and hurriedly walked up the luxurious stairs with their hands outstretched upon hearing the words.
"Yes... I know." An old man shook his head and admitted:
"Furthermore, according to your subsequent investigation, the people who brought the old wood out of the cellar were not two people who committed the crime in a gang."
"Perhaps you came there to investigate something."
However, he unexpectedly discovered that upon hearing this, he was holding the injured old village chief and running towards him quickly.
Duan Piaoliang, who was on the side, still reacted, but was immediately startled.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Upon seeing this, Senior Brother Wang subconsciously took a photo of the scene, followed by Wen Yan, and walked towards Youna.
"Didn't you find it?" Wenyan asked.
The two came to a corner, and Officer Wang also pointed to the ground and reminded:
When Senior Brother Wang saw it, he quickly asked: "What's wrong? Do they know or not?"
"Understood." Lu Qiang, a middle-aged woman, immediately jumped out of the car and helped the old wood break.
"Is this him? Who could it be?" Duan Piaoliang and Lu Qiang immediately turned their attention to another old man, then stretched out their fingers, pointed at the old man and said, "Is it him?"
"Has anyone been there before?" Officer Wang continued to ask.
"But it's you, how could it be you? You're simply capable of doing that kind of thing."
Then, he quickly took off his jacket, covered the old principal, and hugged the old principal directly.
"So, if you want to be indifferent to outsiders in the village, no matter who they are? It's all about keeping outsiders from the village too close to the old principal."
Although I didn't have any premonition after hearing this, the old principal might have been tested.
"You can talk about that later." Hearing this, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued:
"Are you from outside the village?" Seeing Wenyan say this, the eight people behind him suddenly became normal-looking.
Since the cellar outside seems to have not been used for a long time, there will be less dust outside.
Before walking back and forth twice, he heard the words and stopped his eyes under the old village chief. He also walked up to the old village chief and said seriously:
"Yes." After hearing what Duan Piao said, eight people nodded in agreement.
Aiming the low-light flashlight behind him, he saw an old man lying there, moving, as if he had already regained consciousness.
Watching the vehicle hurriedly leave, the old village chief and two other young men from outside the village also approached Duan Piao and asked about the specific reason:
"Oh my god." A moment ago, he heard this and exclaimed.
Hearing this, he also sighed and continued: "Do you believe that I should know some secrets of outsiders in the village, but in order to protect myself, I pretended that I had no problem with my mind before I fell ill."
"Anyway, you feel that Yanzi's return that time may not have been so common."
"Comrade police, what's going on? Why is that old wood outside this old house?"
"It seems that those people are complicated." After hearing Officer Wang's analysis, Duan Piao suddenly realized that those people were not as common as he imagined.
Duan Piao lit the lighter, followed it, placed it at the entrance of the cave, and observed secretly.
So he helped Wen Yan and walked to the door together.
"Yes." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Officer Wang took out a pack of smoked cigarettes and a lighter from his body.
"It's bad." Officer Lu Qiangwang said. He nodded silently and said accordingly:
"In this way, the other party may relax their guard against the old principal, and the old principal can also protect himself."
Glancing at the cellar entrance in front of him, Officer Wang added, "Perhaps, only the kitchen of this house has been redeveloped to store items?"
"Comrade police, everything is vague now. They also want to make random guesses. Although the matter is very suspicious, it must be done by people outside your village with good intentions. It is impossible, it is impossible..."
"All eight of them are. Doesn't this mean that they may be the remaining villagers?"
"When Xiaojia usually sees me, she doesn't joke with me, she just occasionally says a few words."
"Anyway, Lao Mumu may not have any conflicts with anyone, because Xiaojia has only said a few words to me, so how could he have any enmity?"
Officer Wang analyzed the traces he found in the cellar and shared them with Senior Brother Wang.
The young family came to the door of the front yard of the old house and stopped together. After hearing this, they asked a few people to wait outside for a while, and then they went to the kitchen to meet Officer Wang.
"Well……"
"The old houses I inspected, whether they were occupied or not, basically did not have this kind of wooden board covering."
Hearing this, he held a lit lighter in his right hand and a low-light flashlight in his left hand, and hurriedly came to the top of the cellar.
"Not much." Officer Wang said.
"How's it going?" He quickly asked as soon as he met Officer Wang.
Before completing all the operations, Wenyan reminded Gu Chen: "The situation is very serious now. We have to send the old principal up the mountain immediately. The ambulance will drive down to the town. When the time comes, I will be sent to the central hospital for treatment."
At this moment, Gu Chen, who was still doing inspection inside, and another young man from the village were preparing to join Duan Piao and others before completing various search tasks.
"It's the old principal. When you saw me yesterday, I wasn't wearing those clothes. How could I be there?"
Especially when it comes to dealing with marks on your feet.
"Because, you found that there are some traces of footprints under the ground."
"But people in the south don't have that kind of custom here? But the man of the house requested that the little family help make a cellar."
"I understand, let him worry about that." Lu Qiang Duan Piao explained, Gu Chen also nodded silently and prepared to drive away.
"But now, on a whim, I suggested digging a cellar."
"But if there is no cellar, then that family does not have one. Other villagers build a utility room outside the front yard. It is mainly for convenience and saves money."
But his arm was pulled by Duan Piao again. Hearing this, he continued to remind Gu Chen loudly in his ear:
"Okay." Senior Brother Wang had already paid too little attention. He took out his mobile phone and called the ambulance as usual.
"Yeah." Officer Lu Qiangwang said, and after hearing the words, he gave a complicated reply, so the two of them quickly walked out of the cellar and came to the entrance of the front yard.
"He knocked out the old wood, moved me to that place and hid me, and even covered the entrance with firewood."
"Nana...then what's going on?" The old village chief was stunned when he saw this.
Seeing that everyone's eyes became calm after hearing that, Senior Brother Wang continued to explain:
Before Duan Piao finished the complicated inspection of the old principal's injuries, he picked up the old principal again and said to Senior Brother Wang:
"I know." When asked about it, the old village chief also nodded silently, and quickly took a step back and said:
"But the other party doesn't seem to be using complicated plastic bags or anything like that to cover their feet."
Before finishing the work, Duan Piao immediately looked at Senior Brother Wang: "Senior Sister Lu, please notify the ambulance immediately and be slow."
"Of course, it may be one-sided to say that the crime was committed by a gang of two people, because the other people may not have gone to the cellar, but it is impossible for them to participate."
"This... hurry up." At this moment, the old village chief didn't care too much, and directly made way for a passage, and assisted Wen Yan, and walked inside together.
"I got it." Officer Wang was also adamant and urged: "Slow down, leave that to Duan Piao."
Looking at the strange object in his hand, Senior Brother Wang was also curious.
"Don't talk about that yet, we have to go down quickly and find the village chief and let's ask about the situation."
"There aren't many secret cellars like that outside their village?"
After hearing this, several people could also see that the villagers at this moment seemed to be all in a state of war, for fear of involving themselves.
"Bad." Lu Qiang heard what he said, and everyone's eyes widened. They could only follow Wen Yan and Senior Brother Wang towards the old house where the old wood was found.
Gu Chen jumped out of the car and prepared to drive.
"We have collected some, but the other party seems to be very cunning." While speaking, Officer Wang took the trace photos he had taken to Wen Yan and said:
At least tell me, no one has been close to that person recently, so there is a suspicion that this is not the person who kidnapped Lao Mu.
Duan Piao also relied on the cooperation of Senior Brother Wang, but with unfamiliar techniques, he used iodophor to clean Lao Mu's wound in a complicated manner, and then used a medical bandage to bandage Lao Mu's wound.
Duan Piaoliang quickly urged: "Junior Brother Gu, what did he find?"
As soon as these words came out, the eight people who were chattering about Xiu just now became speechless in an instant.
"Okay." Having said that after seeing and hearing the words, Senior Brother Wang was still confused.
As he walked along the luxurious stairs to the kitchen step by step, Duan Piaoliang quickly took off his jacket and put it on the ground.
Officer Wang shook his head and replied: "Yes, there are only two footprints outside, not even the old wooden footprints."
But when Zhongzhan discovered that Duan Piao came to Xiaojia with the injured old village chief in his arms, everyone was stunned on the spot.
Wen Yan put the old principal under the trap of Senior Brother Wang and ended up doing a basic inspection on the old principal.
"But he looks at that again."
"Comrade male police officer, he...he can't talk nonsense? You are the village chief, how could you do something like that?"
And these baggage may not be a cover-up at all, but a behavioral means to confuse one's own judgment.
"Huh?" When Lu Qiang heard what he said, Officer Wang frowned and asked Wen Yan: "Wen Yan, what did he mean by that?"
"I'm dead for the time being. We need to send him to the mountain for emergency treatment. You don't have any first aid kits outside the car. Now you need to clean the wound." Wen Yan said.
After hearing this, he stretched out his low-light flashlight and illuminated it.
"Maybe it's a tool." Wen Yan just glanced at it casually and said casually.
"Sent to the town, he walked with the ambulance himself, taking care of the bad old principal at all times, in order to let suspicious people get close to me."
"Ouch!" The old man was frightened when Senior Brother Wang pointed at him, and he quickly waved his hand and admitted:
"That means that the old wood was carried back by two people."
"You helped that family dig the cellar."
With a heavy sigh, Duan Piaoliang also pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Then it's not a bad idea at all. It's said that it was done by someone from outside their village, but who can do that kind of thing?"
"No one." Wen Yan reminded him.
Duan Piaoliang stayed at the door and looked at everyone.
"How about it?"
"Have you found any other footprints yet?" Hearing this, he continued to ask.
Seeing Wenyan and Officer Wang coming out, Senior Brother Wang also hurriedly came to the two of them:
It was also before repeatedly communicating with Wen Yan that Gu Chen started the vehicle and drove towards the mountain.
However, when Wen Yan walked around an old wooden furniture, he discovered that the marks on his feet had become messy.
"Understood." Gu Chen nodded silently and continued to agree: "I'll leave that matter to you."
"Before he was knocked unconscious, the old village chief was carried outside the cellar and imprisoned. Moreover, there were only two people who retreated into the cellar. There should have been plastic bags or something like that under their feet. The footprints were very muddy."
"Besides, I don't have any problems outside." While speaking, the old village chief also pointed to his head, and then said:
Still waiting for Senior Brother Wang to raise his finger, the young man panicked and said, "Girl, he is going to look at you with that look. You can do anything."
"Let's talk about that first." Wen Yan sighed heavily, walked directly to the old village chief and others, and asked:
"That village has always given you a rather mysterious feeling, but there are only a dozen people staying in that village."
"Because..." Gao Tou glanced at the marks on the ground, and Officer Wang said again:
Brother Wang took Comrade Wang's lighter and threw the cigarette back to me. He muttered: "Smoke more."
"Yes." Officer Wang nodded silently and said with some reason:
"Okay, you go out quickly." Duan Piaoliang took a breath of cold air, feeling that there was also a place of right and wrong outside.
"What do I actually do for this?" After hearing what he said, Officer Wang asked again.
A moment ago, Officer Wang was surprised: "Then...is that the missing old wood? Isn't it the old principal?"
After thinking about it, the old village chief suddenly remembered something? So he quickly added:
"Old Wood, although he later became the president of a university outside the town and had some topics to discuss with people outside the village before he retired, my family usually treats each other in a polite way."
"You all wear professional protective footwear, so the traces of your walking outside are relatively uniform."
"Obviously, that old piece of wood was carried outside before being knocked unconscious, and..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Understood, I'll leave that to you." Gu Chen understood what he meant, so he reminded the old village chief beside him: "Old village chief, they sent
I’ll go with you personally.”
"So, although the footprints are very blurry, the depth can still be seen."
When Duan Piaoliang saw Duan Piao's delay in responding, he quickly asked: "Junior Brother Gu, how are you?"
"Because the only people who know about that cellar are outsiders from their village."
"Yes, Xiaojia dug the cellar, and Xiaojia will also borrow ours." At this moment, another old villager replied.
"You have also contributed." Another young man also echoed.
"Go over and have a look." Hearing this, he also felt that there was nothing strange about the matter.
Officer Wang quickly came to Wen Yan's side and used the low-light flashlight in his hand to shine on the area behind him.
Since Xiaojia came to that place based on the traces, the first time he came up after hearing this, he started judging what was going on there based on the direction of the traces.
"Okay." Seeing that Officer Wang didn't understand what he meant, he hid the words and replied directly:
The middle-aged woman was also full of astonishment: "Then...why is that old wood out there? Why is he still injured? I...am I dead?"
But the other party seems to be aware of this, so they have made sufficient preparations to cover up the traces.
Senior Brother Wang also came to an old piece of furniture and said from time to time: "The outside looks like a general store, but why is there nothing? Look at that, is that a regular stool?"
"Besides, we must protect the bad old principal. I may be the most confused person outside that village."
Duan Piao, who was stunned for a moment before reacting, quickly nodded and confirmed: "Just do it as usual. When we get to the town, you know what to do."
After hearing this, he continued to remind: "It has nothing to do with people outside the village that you believe in that matter, but in the end, it still depends on who Chang is."
"You just believe it reasonably." Seeing what the old man said, Senior Brother Wang, who was standing next to Duan Piao, also took the next step and said:
"Yes." As soon as the old village chief finished speaking, the young man beside him quickly agreed:
"Um...is it really true?" Seeing that Wenyan could ask that kind of question, the old village chief immediately admitted:
The eight people were seen frowning and looking at each other, as if they were also suspicious of each other.
"How does that look like a grocery store?" Officer Wang, who came up first, was also holding an old object, observed it carelessly, and then threw it aside.
"The footprints are much different from the ones he left when he came to leave the cellar with the old wood in his arms."
