Gu Chen felt that he needed to go and investigate in person, so he quickly said to the middle-aged woman: "Can you take me there?"
"Now?" the middle-aged woman on the phone said.
"Yes, that's right now. I'll leave immediately."
"Okay, then... let's meet at the intersection of the alley where we met before?" the middle-aged woman said.
"Okay, wait for me there." Gu Chen simply explained to the middle-aged woman and hung up the phone.
He turned around and looked at Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha, and said, "Let's go there quickly."
"Okay." Everyone agreed.
You know, if you can get even a little clue at this time, it is extremely precious.
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Gu Chen drove the car and slowly stopped at the entrance of the alley. At this moment, Gu Chen found that the middle-aged woman was standing on the roadside.
Standing next to her at the same time were a middle-aged man and a little boy.
Obviously, this is a family mobilization.
After Gu Chen got out of the car, he walked directly to the woman and said, "Hello."
"Officer Gu, we meet again." Seeing that the visitor was Gu Chen, the woman also smiled and quickly introduced her to Gu Chen:
"Oh, this is my lover and this is my son. They are afraid that it is not safe for me to go out alone at night, so they must accompany us."
"It's okay, thank you for your cooperation." Gu Chen said to the woman's husband.
"It should be done. It is the duty of every citizen to cooperate with the police in handling cases." The middle-aged man was quite open-minded.
So Gu Chen looked at the little boy again.
The little boy was about seven or eight years old. When he saw Gu Chen, he was still a little nervous.
Gu Chen also touched his head and asked: "Kid, are those strangers asking you about the situation in the vegetable field?"
"Yeah." The little boy nodded silently and couldn't help but said, "They asked me if there was access to the outside of the block."
"I also felt very strange at the time. What were they going to do outside? And why did they go that way?"
"Mainly because that road is not easy to walk on. I feel weird if I have to walk through the vegetable fields over there instead of walking on the road."
After the words fell, the little boy glanced at his mother again and said quickly:
"It just so happened that my mother told me this again today, so I felt that those people must be the people you are looking for, so I told my mother what I knew."
"Kid, you did a good job." Lu Weiwei touched the little boy's head and said encouragingly.
The little boy was a little embarrassed by Lu Weiwei's encouragement, so he quickly smiled and said:
"Isn't this what it should be?"
"How far is this place from here? How should we get there?" Officer Wang also walked up and asked.
"Oh, you can't drive there, so you have to walk over here." The middle-aged woman pointed to the alley and said.
"Leave from here?" Gu Chen took a look and saw that this was the place he had been today, and it was also the place where Zhang He was attacked by that group of people.
The middle-aged woman nodded silently: "Yes, we go there from here, but we usually go from another place because it is closer to our home."
"If you go from here, it's the closest way to go through this alley."
"Okay, let's go there then?" Gu Chen said.
"Well, okay." Seeing what Gu Chen said, the woman quickly took her husband and son with her, flashlight, and prepared to lead the way.
Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha followed behind, and they all walked towards the alley together.
Since this old alley usually doesn't have many people passing by, there are no street lights here, making it very dark.
Especially when weeds grow up from the gaps under the floor tiles, it may even become slippery when walking on them.
The middle-aged woman and her family also led Gu Chen and others, turning left and right in the alley, and then they came to a damaged cement road.
The middle-aged woman explained: "This road was the road we walked when we were in primary school."
"The school was later closed down, the teaching building was demolished, and the roads here were damaged by construction trucks."
"In the end, the place became deserted and no one left. Later, we turned the old school site into a vegetable patch, and more people came here."
"But we don't know why that group of people took this road. They must have wanted to avoid surveillance."
"Then you guessed it right, they just want to avoid surveillance tracking." Yuan Shasha said.
"That's right." The middle-aged woman nodded affirmatively and continued:
"Anyway, I just felt that something was wrong with those people, so I wanted to inform you as soon as possible."
The conversation between several people continued, and they were also walking and chatting.
And in the dark night, the flashlight light kept scanning the dim road ahead.
It's pitch black here, but there are bright lights in the distance.
One light and one dark form a sharp contrast.
Arriving in front of a damaged wall, the middle-aged woman pushed open an iron door and said to Gu Chen with a smile:
"This is the small gate before our elementary school. The security booth next to it used to be a canteen."
"And this gate is now surrounded by a wall. When we go in, we always enter through the small gate."
While talking, the middle-aged woman had already brought Gu Chen and others to the interior of the old campus site.
It's so dark in here that you can't see anything clearly.
But through the flashlight light, we can still see the prototype of some vegetable fields.
"Be careful of the rocks, go this way." The middle-aged woman reminded Gu Chen, shining a flashlight on the ground, and then led Gu Chen forward.
After passing through a large vegetable field, the middle-aged woman explained:
"This used to be the playground where we studied, but now it's a vegetable field, and over there, there used to be a teaching building, but it has been razed to the ground long ago."
"Originally, we planned to build a real estate here, but later the project was canceled due to various reasons."
"Go here and you'll find the school's old fence. Do you see it? This fence is very old. It has been there for many years. There is a small door here that leads to another community."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "And this community used to be a family area of a state-owned enterprise. Later, the state-owned enterprise went bankrupt, and many plots of land were demolished and built into a commercial housing community."
"But here, because the location is relatively remote, there are relatively few people who still live here."
After passing through the small door between the walls, Gu Chen came to an old community. As the middle-aged woman said, the houses here are generally on the fourth floor. They all have red brick exterior walls and look quite old.
feel.
Perhaps because the location is relatively remote, developers feel that this location does not have much development value.
In these communities, only a few houses have lights on.
"Go over and ask about the situation." Gu Chen said.
"Yes, but I don't know them. They may be old residents here. There should be more elderly people living here," the middle-aged woman said.
So everyone came to the door of the first house with the lights on.
Lu Weiwei knocked on the door, and not long after, an old lady opened the door.
The dim lighting in the room made the old man look extremely haggard.
"Hello, how many people are there in your family?" Lu Weiwei asked.
"It's just me." The old lady's front teeth were missing and her speech was a bit leaky.
"Oh, then have there been a group of strangers here recently?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
"Strangers? Where do strangers come from here? Our families have lived here for so many years."
The old lady didn't seem to know the purpose of Gu Chen and others' visit, so she just said it casually.
So Yuan Shasha quickly explained to the old lady: "Just yesterday, a doctor from out of town was attacked by several strangers here. He was seriously injured."
"And I heard that these foreigners, in order to avoid surveillance, chose to pass through the abandoned elementary school and leave from here. So, we want to ask you to see if you know their whereabouts?"
"I don't know." The old lady waved her hand and said involuntarily:
"How would I know their whereabouts? I don't even know there are any strangers here."
After the words fell, the old lady continued: "We are all elderly people living here. I have one family here, and there is one family over there, and there are two families over there. There are four families in total, and there are five people in total.
It's an old man."
"Other than that, I haven't seen anyone else, and no one else will come here."
"Okay." Listening to the old lady's story, Gu Chen probably understood the situation here.
Maybe the old man is used to living here, so he didn't see any strangers.
Gu Chen briefly took a look at the old man's internal situation, communicated for a few words, and left with everyone.
After that, Gu Chen visited almost other families. Except for one family with two elderly people, the others were all elderly people living alone.
But everyone's story was the same, that they had never seen anyone else, especially last night.
Maybe it's because it's night, so the elderly are watching TV in the house, so they don't pay much attention to what's going on outside.
And these people attacked Zhang He late at night. After the attack, if they passed through here, as long as they didn't make too much noise, there wouldn't be many problems.
So the middle-aged woman's family, together with Gu Chen and others, walked directly through this community and walked to another community.
There is a long and narrow passage here. There is a community on the left, but the fence is relatively high. There is also a fence on the right, but the trees inside the fence on the right are obviously denser. It seems that they have been planted for many years.
The middle-aged woman also explained: "On the right is the former state-owned enterprise. When the profits were good, there were many employees and the benefits were very good."
"But the subsequent development failed to keep up with the times, so it went bankrupt and all the buildings inside were demolished."
"However, because it is industrial land, after expert environmental assessment, it was determined that the land is not suitable for commercial residential areas and cannot be developed for at least several decades."
"So the land over there is also abandoned. Oh, here, there is a road on the left, you can go directly through the community and get to the main road over there."
"Is there surveillance here?" Gu Chen asked.
"Yes, after all, it is within the community and there is surveillance here." said the middle-aged woman.
But Gu Chen quickly looked to the right again.
On the right is the factory gate, which is still blocked by an old sliding door.
The small door on the right is open.
Gu Chen quickly said: "Go in and take a look."
"Okay." The middle-aged woman's husband quickly opened the iron pin of the iron door and pushed the iron door open.
After everyone entered, a strange atmosphere hit them.
The little boy seemed a little scared and hugged his mother tightly.
When Yuan Shasha saw this, she quickly said: "The child seems to be quite scared. Why don't we go in and let dad stay outside?"
"Aren't you going in?" Seeing this, the middle-aged woman also asked.
The little boy nodded: "I'm afraid."
"Then you and dad just stay outside, okay?" the middle-aged woman asked.
"Yes, yes." The little boy agreed readily.
So the middle-aged woman asked her husband to take the little boy down the road in that community and wait for her where there were street lights.
After communicating, the middle-aged woman continued to lead Gu Chen and others inside.
At this moment, everyone discovered how strange the inside of the factory of this old state-owned enterprise was now.
The woman Zong Neng pointed to an abandoned building on the right side of the door and said: "This place was the office building of this state-owned enterprise in the past, where it was used as an office."
"Going further inside, that building is the old state-owned enterprise's own guest house, which is specially used to entertain customers who come here for business trips."
"When the profits are good, there are often many customers here, carrying large and small bags to the factory to inspect and place orders."
"I was still young at that time, but I knew that if I could join this kind of company, I would basically have enough food and clothing."
"But who would have thought that in less than ten years, the company would go bankrupt and liquidated. It's such a pity that such a big company will collapse at the drop of a hat."
"This may be the wave of development of the times. If you don't advance, you will retreat. It won't work to develop an enterprise relying on old ideas." Officer Wang said.
"Maybe, oops." As she spoke, the middle-aged woman slipped and almost fell.
Fortunately, Lu Weiwei had quick eyesight and quick hands, and quickly supported the woman: "Be careful."
"Hey, there is a big hole here, please pay attention." The middle-aged woman was also frightened for a while and said quickly.
Gu Chen used a strong flashlight to shine around the area and found that the road here was full of potholes.
The previous cement floor is now in dilapidated condition.
Gu Chen did not continue walking forward, but used a flashlight to shine around and asked the middle-aged woman: "Is there an exit passage here?"
"I seem to remember it being here, but I have never been here. After all, I usually grow vegetables in that vegetable patch."
"As for this place, I just heard people say that there seems to be a passage that can lead to the outside. I don't know where it leads specifically."
"Then we have to look for it. There must be a gap in the wall here." Lu Weiwei said.
So everyone shined their flashlights in all directions, focusing on the direction of the fence.
But this deserted land is so large that the wall in the distance can't be seen clearly.
So Gu Chen decided to get closer and check out the situation.
