With the information given by He Junchao, Gu Chen felt that these two people might be directly connected to the incident of the dead electrician.
So after He Junchao sent screenshots of relevant photos, Gu Chen prepared to lead people to arrest the two men in person.
Since the two of them lived in different areas, Gu Chen planned to take people to Huangjia Village in the eastern suburbs, which is closer to the KTV.
As for the arrest task of Liujiacun in the northern suburbs, Gu Chen planned to hand it over to Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong.
"Ding Liang, I have sent you the message. You should immediately take someone to Liujia Village in the northern suburbs. You must help me bring this person back."
"Understood, leave this matter to me. As long as this person still stays in Liujiacun, I can help you bring him back."
Ding Liang was also full of confidence on the phone.
It was only after communicating the details with each other that Gu Chen hung up the phone, then walked up to Officer Wang and others and said, "Let's go, let's go now."
"Okay." Everyone didn't hesitate. Seeing that Gu Chen had already taken care of the matter, they followed Gu Chen and walked out of the KTV together.
After everyone got in the car, they went directly to Huangjia Village in the eastern suburbs.
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When the vehicle slowly arrived at its destination, everyone discovered that Huangjiacun was on the edge of the city.
Nowadays, many residential areas have been built here, and the surrounding buildings are also complex.
Road construction is going on here recently, so a lot of construction equipment is parked nearby.
Various iron fences block many areas.
Therefore, in order to pass the road, you need to pass through some narrow areas.
Gu Chen parked the vehicle at the entrance of a supermarket, then pulled up the handbrake, took out his mobile phone, and continued to contact He Junchao: "Brother He, we have arrived at the entrance of Lihua Supermarket. Where is the specific location of that person?"
Not long after, He Junchao's voice reply came from his hand: "I don't know about this. Road construction has been going on in this area recently, and many surveillance cameras have stopped working."
"I can only see that guy entering this area, but where exactly it is, you need to investigate it yourself."
"But what is certain is that this guy may not have gone out and has just stayed in this place."
"Because there is only one way out, which is the road construction area you are currently in."
"If he wanted to go out, he had to pass here, but no trace of him was found."
"Okay." Seeing that He Junchao was helpless, Gu Chen had no choice but to search by himself.
So after some communication with He Junchao, I hung up the phone.
"What? He can't find it either?" Lu Weiwei, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked.
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently and couldn't help but said: "Recently, many monitoring equipment are temporarily unavailable due to road construction here."
"It's harmful." Feeling that it came at the wrong time, Lu Weiwei also sighed and said helplessly:
"No matter, it's nearby anyway. Let's check it out. It shouldn't be a big problem."
"Then get off the car." Yuan Shasha in the back row said.
So everyone opened the car doors and got out of the car one after another.
Gu Chen first came to the entrance of Lihua Supermarket.
Judging from the location, this should be the largest supermarket nearby, and there should be a lot of people coming here to shop.
Gu Chen simply wanted to ask his boss about the situation.
"Boss, get four bottles of water." Gu Chen walked to the counter and said.
"Here." The boss is a small man, very thin, with a body that can fall over if the wind blows.
He found four bottles of mineral water from the display cabinet next to the cashier and handed them directly to Gu Chen.
After Gu Chen distributed the mineral water, he took out his mobile phone, showed it in front of the boss and said:
"Boss, I want to ask you about someone. Have you seen this person?"
"This person?" When the little boss heard this, he immediately stretched his neck and squinted his eyes to take a look.
But after a moment, he nodded and confirmed: "I know him. This guy's name is Mao Zi. He's an idle guy. He often borrows money from my shop. He still has hundreds of yuan of cigarette money that he hasn't paid yet."
Seeing that she knew her boss, Yuan Shasha quickly asked: "Then what does he usually do?"
"Usual work? How can there be any serious work? It's just a person who idles around all day and goes out to work, that is, looking for some daily jobs, earning a day or two, and sleeping for a day or two."
After sitting back in his seat, the little boss also continued: "This guy, when he has money in his pocket, he will come to my place to spend money."
“When you don’t have money, you owe it first, and then pay it back when you have money.”
"Anyway, it's common to owe me money. Sometimes it's a few hundred dollars, sometimes it's a thousand dollars. But I pay it back every time, so I don't take it seriously."
"After all, I am a regular customer here, but I don't have a serious job."
"Then has he always been like this? I think he is not young anymore, he must be in his forties, right?" Lu Weiwei said.
"Well, I guess so." The little boss nodded silently and said involuntarily:
"This person's family used to have average conditions, but through bad luck, they encountered demolition and got a sum of money."
"But it was all squandered by this guy himself. This guy likes gambling and often hangs out in various small casinos in Jiangnan City."
"Whenever I hear this guy walk into my store and speak very loudly, I know that he must have made a small profit and come here to spend money."
"After all, according to his principles, everything you earn must be spent immediately. Only in this way can you always be lucky."
"But there are also times when I'm unlucky, and at that time I'm very submissive, and I know that I want to get credit."
"But it doesn't matter. I can pay him back every time. If he dares to keep defaulting, then I won't be able to give him credit here."
"Is this what it was originally like?" Listening to the little boss's narration, although everyone has not seen this so-called Mao Zi, they can still get a rough idea of what the situation is from the little boss's mouth.
"Then do you have this person's address? Also, has this person been to other places recently?" Gu Chen also quickly asked.
"Address?" The boss was stunned, then walked to the door of the supermarket, pointed to one of the directions and said:
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Go straight over there. Do you see that old building? That's where he lives."
"That place? Can people live in that place? Why does it feel like a dilapidated dormitory building?" Lu Weiwei couldn't help but sigh when she saw this building.
"It's harmful!" The little boss smiled slightly and explained: "This guy is just messing around now, how can he have so much money and live in a good place?"
"Didn't he receive compensation?" Yuan Shasha asked.
"There is compensation money, it was left by the old man in the family, but the old couple are no longer here, so he only gets the compensation money, not the house."
"That's why he had so much spare money in his hand that he was able to squander it so much, so he chose to rent a house."
"In the early years, he lived in a community, but over the years, he squandered almost all his money, so he moved to this old dormitory where no one lived."
"And this dormitory was the employee dormitory of a state-owned enterprise here. Later, the company moved away, but the dormitory building is still preserved."
"Because the land in the surrounding area has been sold to other people, so the dormitory building has not been started yet. If you want to live in it, just pay the room fee and I will connect the electricity for you."
"Is that so?" After hearing what the little boss said, Lu Weiwei realized that this guy named Mao Zi seemed to have gotten to this point because of his own good cards.
But under such conditions, it feels a bit abnormal to go to such a high-end KTV to spend money.
At least the money for going to the KTV this time was definitely not paid by him.
"Okay, thank you. Has he gone out recently?" After Gu Chen learned about Mao Zi's basic accommodation situation, he asked about Mao Zi's activities.
"Recently, it seems that he hasn't gone out much, because he bought some food and drinks from me and would stay in his room for a while."
"Sometimes I go out, but when I go out I will inevitably come to my pack of cigarettes, but I haven't come here for a few days."
"I guess he is still lying at home playing with his mobile phone. Anyway, this person is useless."
Seeing the little boss complaining like this, Officer Wang seemed to feel that he was a useless person.
"Okay, thank you." With the information provided by the little boss, Officer Wang quickly thanked him.
I feel like I'm lucky to get this guy's information.
So after everyone exchanged a few words with the little boss, they went directly to the old dormitory building.
When everyone came downstairs and passed through the old iron gate, they discovered that the bottom of the house was already overgrown with weeds.
There was only one lane in the middle, and it looked like there were traces of someone stepping on it.
But still no one cleaned it up.
Outside the abandoned iron gate is a trash can, which smells a bit unpleasant.
After walking through the weeds and arriving at the bottom of the dormitory building, Gu Chen looked up and observed that these families still lived here.
I heard a barbecue tricycle while I was going to the toilet. It was probably that someone was setting up a stall here at night to do business, or maybe working outside during the day.
Today's work pressure is high, and many people choose to do some side jobs after get off work.
"Junior Brother Gu, how many families live here, let's look for them one by one, right?"
"Okay." After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Gu Chen also agreed: "Look at the clothes hanging on the balcony and judge how many there are."
"I've calculated, there are six families." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Yuan Shasha on the side quickly replied.
Officer Wang also said: "These people live on the second and third floors. Let's investigate separately. Xiao Yuan and I will go to the second floor. Gu Chen, you and Lu Weiwei will go to the third floor."
"Okay." After hearing Officer Wang's words, everyone immediately divided their work.
Then, knocking on the door began to ring throughout the corridor.
But although there were constant knocks on the door on the second floor, there was no sign of opening the door.
Gu Chen also took Lu Weiwei to the left side of the third floor. There was a broom outside the door. The door was very clean, and there were some flowers on the balcony.
Two pairs of clean slippers were hanging outside to dry.
"This family is quite clean." Gu Chen looked up at the clothes hanging on the corridor and found that there were barbecue aprons. He immediately said to Gu Chen:
"This should be the owner of the barbecue truck downstairs, right?"
"Probably." Gu Chen also looked at the barbecue apron and nodded silently.
But according to the rules, the door must be knocked.
So Lu Weiwei knocked on the door.
The dormitory rooms here have iron doors that make a loud banging sound when knocked.
Therefore, although living here is peaceful, you can imagine the noise when someone comes in or out of the house.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk, is there anyone? Tuk-tuk-tuk, is there anyone?"
After knocking on the door several times, Lu Weiwei looked at Gu Chen and shook her head: "No one is there. I guess the owner is working outside, right?"
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently, and then looked towards the end of the aisle, where there were several pairs of men's sneakers piled randomly at the door.
So Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei walked over directly.
When she came to the door, Lu Weiwei quickly covered her mouth and nose and said with a look of disgust:
"Well, the smell at the door is too bad. Why is it so ugly? I don't care about cleanliness."
"It's food." Gu Chen pointed to the trash can at the door. There were many miscellaneous food packaging bags inside, as well as some leftover food residue.
There were all kinds of flies surrounding the trash can. Even though it was on an open balcony with good ventilation, the smell was still very unpleasant.
"This should be that Maozi's residence, right? Only he can live like this." Lu Weiwei sighed, covering her mouth and nose with her left hand, and knocking on the door with her right hand:
"Tuk tuk tuk, is there anyone? Tuk tuk tuk, is anyone there?"
Lu Weiwei knocked on the door continuously and suddenly heard some creaking noises inside.
There was a sound like someone getting up from the wooden bed.
Since the windows here are all closed with curtains, you can't see clearly what's going on inside.
Seeing that there was movement inside, Lu Weiwei continued to knock on the door hard: "Dudududu, is someone there? Dudududu, is anyone there?"
As if he was not tired of it, after a burst of noise in the house, he finally heard the sound of someone putting on slippers and walking towards the door.
Lu Weiwei took a step back and stood in front of Gu Chen.
Not long after, only the click of the old door lock was heard. A middle-aged man with unkempt hair and unkempt beard, shirtless and squinting, looked at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei with a puzzled look on his face and asked:
"Is something wrong with you?"
"Are you Mao Zi?" Gu Chen asked casually when he saw the man.
The man hesitated for a moment, then nodded dully: "Yes, what's wrong?"
"Do you know this person?" Upon seeing this, Gu Chen quickly showed the photo of the dead electrician and brought it to Mao Zi.
Looking at the photo of the electrician on Gu Chen's cell phone, Mao Zi felt his heart skip a beat, frowned, and said hesitantly:
"I don't seem to recognize this person."
"Don't know him? Are you sure?" Seeing the man lying on the spot, Lu Weiwei was not happy.
Xin said that we all have evidence that you were in the KTV room with the deceased, how dare you lie on the spot?
The man also scratched the back of his head and continued to think, "I don't seem to have any impression of this person."
While speaking, the man also knocked his head and said with a confused expression: "I'm sorry, I haven't sobered up yet."
