"Okay." Officer Wang didn't hesitate. He grabbed Gu Chen's belt and, together with Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, pulled Gu Chen directly onto the balcony.
"How?" Officer Wang asked.
Gu Chen took a deep breath, adjusted his breathing, and then said slowly: "There are only two entrances and exits down there, there is nothing else, not even windows."
"There are only two entrances and exits? What's going on?" Officer Wang was a little confused when he heard this explanation.
Lu Weiwei also said in disbelief: "Is it a secret base? What ulterior secrets are hidden in it?"
"I don't know." Gu Chen looked around and said quickly: "It's just that we don't have the tools to go down."
"Furthermore, judging from the height of the building on the first floor below, the builders actually don't want people to climb down from the balcony easily."
"There is no better way now. The only thing we can do is to find a way to find the manager here and ask around."
"But there seems to be no one here." Yuan Shasha said.
"Let's go outside and look around, maybe we can find something?" Gu Chen said.
"Okay." Yuan Shasha didn't know what to say at this moment, so she could only nod in agreement.
The group of people walked out of the building directly and returned to the garden outside.
At this moment, there happened to be some movement on the other side of the iron gate. When everyone saw this, they immediately pretended to come here to visit.
I saw a man wearing a winery uniform, pushing open the small iron door and walking directly towards the building.
But as soon as he raised his head, he met Gu Chen and others. He was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but say:
"You...who are you?"
"Oh, we are tourists here and happened to be here." Yuan Shasha quickly explained.
The man in uniform also frowned and said, "This place is not open to the public. Didn't you see the sign outside?"
"Oh, that's it." Seeing that the man was suspicious, Gu Chen quickly explained:
“We thought the scenery here was good and we wanted to stay at the winery for a few days, so we asked the staff at the exhibition hall and they said there was accommodation here so we could come and have a look.”
Turning to look at the building behind him, Gu Chen quickly said: "It should be the building behind it, right?"
"Accommodation?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, the man frowned and quickly reminded:
"We don't provide accommodation here, unless our boss's dealer customers come over. If they have to have a meeting and discuss it until late, they can stay here for a few days."
"However, we are not open to tourists here."
"But, the staff member said, let us come over and ask about the situation." Lu Weiwei glanced behind her and quickly explained:
"I saw there were clothes hanging over there, so I wanted to come over and ask, and I happened to meet you."
"Yes." As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Officer Wang quickly stood up and said:
"This is a premium group customer of our travel agency. Our tour groups have tourists coming here every day to visit, so we try our best to meet customers' requirements."
Taking a deep breath, Officer Wang took a decent look at the building behind him, and then said:
"I see that the house behind you is well built, and the owner must be quite tasteful. There should be quite a few rooms here, right? Can you provide us with a few?"
"This..." The man originally wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he explained:
“In principle, it’s not open to the public, but it’s not impossible because people have lived there before.”
"Are you a tourist too?" After hearing what the man said, Gu Chen quickly asked.
"Well, I don't know the specifics. A man who looks a bit like a foreigner, but not quite like him."
"That should be mixed blood, right?" Lu Weiwei couldn't help but feel secretly happy when she heard this.
I wonder if this person is Shu Ke?
But the man in work uniform obviously didn’t know much about this and could only shake his head and said:
"I'm not very sure about this. Anyway, he paid to live here. It seems like he's staying here for a long time, right?"
"That person may be a friend of my friend, I don't know if he is the person you are talking about?" At this moment, Gu Chen didn't know the specific situation.
But I can only think of ways to get close to men.
The man also smiled bitterly and said, "I really don't know about this."
"Then can you take us in for a visit?" Lu Weiwei stood up again at this moment, her voice a little coquettish.
How had a man in work uniform ever seen a beauty like Lu Weiwei? Dang even pretended to be embarrassed and agreed:
"Originally it's not possible, but seeing that you are also tourists visiting our winery, I'll make an exception."
"Thank you very much." Seeing that the man agreed, Lu Weiwei quickly thanked her.
Afterwards, everyone followed the man and walked towards the building together.
The man also took the same route that Gu Chen and others entered just now. He opened the small door and went in. Then he explained to everyone:
"There is also a small garden here. There are many rooms, but they are usually empty. Some are provided to our staff here."
Since everyone had already checked in advance before the man came here, in order to get more information from the man, everyone could only pretend to be here for the first time.
The man suddenly realized something, so he quickly asked everyone: "Have you come in just now?"
"No." Everyone shook their heads in unison.
"Okay, then I'll show you around." Upon hearing this, the man immediately transformed into a winery tour guide and began to explain the details of the building to everyone.
"This is the storage room, this is the staff room, and this is an activity room."
"Then where is the guest room?" Gu Chen asked.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Upstairs, second floor." The man said.
Officer Wang quickly pointed in the direction of the first floor and asked:
"Then what is this place on the first floor? It looks quite mysterious?"
"Oh, that place? It's just a warehouse." The man said casually when he heard this.
"Whose warehouse is designed like this? Isn't it inconvenient to move things like this?" Yuan Shasha also said jokingly after hearing this.
But the man smiled and said: "I don't know about this. Anyway, I won't go to this place."
"Eh? You don't seem to have any stairs to go down here?" Seeing that the time was right, Gu Chen quickly pretended to mention it casually.
The man also smiled bitterly and said helplessly:
"Tell me the truth? I don't know if that bastard designed the building? There are no stairs in this place at all."
"What? No stairs?"
They originally thought that the stairs might be hidden inside a certain room, but now after hearing the man's explanation, everyone discovered that there was no stairs to go down to the entire negative floor? This was a bit confusing.
Lu Weiwei also quickly asked: "Then how do you usually get down there?"
"Use a ladder, a folding ladder, there's one in the warehouse," the man said.
"Oh." Lu Weiwei scratched the back of her head and continued to ask:
"So do you usually go down there?"
"What are you doing down here?" When the man heard Lu Weiwei asked, he immediately shook his head and denied:
"We usually don't go down there. It feels like a rather eerie place, quite scary."
"I don't know why the boss built a negative floor here in the first place. The building looks quite strange."
"If there are some wild animals hiding inside, we wouldn't even know it if we live on the floor."
Having said this, the man quickly complained to everyone:
"A wild cat ran to the balcony before and accidentally fell to the first floor below. As a result, it couldn't come up. Oh, you didn't know."
"At that time, I lived on this floor. The whole night, especially late at night, the heart-rending screams sounded so weird and terrifying."
"It felt like the noise coming from hell. It was really unbearable."
After the words fell, he seemed to realize that he had said something wrong. The man quickly explained to everyone:
"I'm sorry, that was just an accident. In fact, most of the time, living here is quite quiet."
"It's just that no one goes to the first floor. It's probably just for storing some sundries, right? I heard it from someone in the past."
"Then how long have you been working here?" Seeing the man say this, Gu Chen also asked curiously.
The man smiled brightly and responded immediately: "I have been here for less than a year, and my dormitory is on the second floor, right over there."
"Oh." After hearing what the man said, Gu Chen simply agreed.
While walking up the stairs to the second floor with the man, Gu Chen also asked him in a subtle way:
"Then the mixed-race guest you mentioned, did he come to stay alone? Or did he say that there were several people staying together?"
"How many people are there? Just one person." After listening to Gu Chen's question, the man also raised his index finger and gestured:
"This guest is usually quite mysterious. He basically doesn't see other people."
"But at night, he will appear on the second floor late at night, and then disappear again early in the morning."
"Well, when I hear you say that, why does it sound so mysterious? It comes and goes without a trace?" Yuan Shasha said.
"Isn't that right?" Seeing Yuan Shasha's doubtful face, the man also smiled bitterly and explained:
"Anyway, this customer feels quite mysterious to me. I don't know what he does. I feel like he should be a friend of our boss or something."
"Maybe you know our manager here, because only the manager has the power to agree whether the guest can stay here. I guess he is a friend of the manager."
"Then is your manager usually at the winery? Have we seen him before?" Lu Weiwei heard this and asked quickly.
But the man waved his hand: "You may not be able to see this, because the manager is usually busy with many things."
“Sometimes, I often socialize outside and rarely stay at the winery.”
"Because every link and position in our winery has corresponding management. There is a production director in the production area and a sales manager in the exhibition hall."
"The general manager of our winery socializes outside every day. Sometimes, he brings some visiting groups over and entertains them warmly."
While speaking, the man had already led everyone to the door of a room and said:
"This is the room of the mixed-race guest. Basically no one can be seen during the day, and I don't know where he went?"
"And at night, he will come back by himself. Anyway, he is quite a mysterious person. I have only met him outside a few times."
"This guest is quite strange." Gu Chen felt more and more that this so-called mixed-race guest was the Shu Ke he was looking for.
So he asked the man in a subtle way: "Where does that guest usually eat? The restaurant of your winery?"
"Yeah." Facing Gu Chen's question, the man nodded silently and agreed:
“Our winery has a very large restaurant, and tourists who come to us will basically take them to that restaurant.”
After he finished speaking, the man looked at Officer Wang and said, "You are leading a boutique group, you should know that."
"Ah, yes, of course I know, because we also went there for lunch at noon."
In order to avoid exposing any flaws, Officer Wang immediately started to change the topic and said:
"What about the rooms? Are there any extra rooms here?"
"There should be extra rooms." As he spoke, the man walked to the door of a room and explained to everyone:
"Like this room, and this one, and this one, all the way past here, these rooms are all empty and can be occupied."
"If the manager agrees, I guess you can live here."
"Does the manager have to agree?" Lu Weiwei said.
"Yeah." The man nodded in agreement without hesitation:
"There's no way, because the keys are locked in the manager's office."
"Only when the manager agrees can we get the keys and provide accommodation to the customers."
"So, you don't have the key now?" Gu Chen felt that the reason why Shu Ke could live here, or in other words, hide here, might be precisely because of this manager's relationship.
The man smiled and said: "Of course I don't have the key, so I can only take you to visit now."
"If you want to live here, I can call you later and talk to the manager. If the manager agrees, then I will go get the keys."
"Okay." After walking around for a while, I felt that I almost knew everything I needed to know.
So Gu Chen quickly asked: "Then the mixed-race customer before, he will also come back at night, right?"
"I think so." The man nodded silently.
Gu Chen also smiled and said, "I'm afraid it will feel weird if we are the only ones living here."
"Harm, what's the point? It's not as scary as I said, and there won't be any wild cats. The walls around here have also been repaired by us, and stray cats ran in."
While talking, everyone walked out of the building again and returned to the place where they met before.
