The uncle held the cardboard tube and lingered at the door without going in. He was very conflicted and didn't seem to know whether he should go in or not.
At this time, Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong had just returned from a field trip. When the vehicle passed by the door, the uncle saw the police car and quickly gave way.
Ding Liang, who drove into the police station compound, also curiously said to Huang Zunlong beside him: "Hey, Huang Zunlong, have you seen the old man at the door?"
"Which uncle?" Huang Zunlong, who was looking at his cell phone, raised his head and asked.
"Just at the door just now, I felt that the uncle was hesitant and wanted to come in, but he kept hesitating. I felt like there was something wrong with him."
"Really?" After listening to Ding Liang's story, Huang Zunlong quickly turned to look in the direction of the door and shook his head: "I was looking at my phone just now and didn't pay attention."
"Can you stop looking at your phone?" Ding Liang complained. After getting off the car, he closed the car door and walked towards the gate.
Upon seeing this, Huang Zunlong got out of the car and quickly followed Ding Liang.
The two came to the gate one after another. At this time, the old man was nervous when he saw the two coming, and turned around to leave.
When Ding Liang saw this, he quickly chased after him: "Uncle, uncle, wait a minute."
It was also when Ding Liang called him to stop that the uncle stopped and turned to look in the direction of Ding Liang.
"Uncle, what's wrong with you? Why did you hide when you saw us?" Ding Liang was confused and quickly stopped the uncle.
The uncle frowned and said: "I...I..."
"If you have any questions, just tell me." Huang Zunlong, who came later, also said with a smile.
The uncle hesitated for a moment and then said slowly: "I want to see you, Director Gu."
"You're looking for our Gu Bureau? He's usually very busy. What are you looking for for?" Ding Liang heard that he was looking for Gu Chen and asked curiously.
The uncle lowered his head and seemed to be thinking, but after a moment, he raised his head and said slowly:
"I have something to give him."
"What is it?" Ding Liang finished speaking and his eyes quickly fell on the cardboard tube in the uncle's hand.
When the uncle saw this, he quickly patted the cardboard tube in his hand and said, "I want to give this to him."
"What...what is this?" Huang Zunlong on the side was a little confused and asked.
The uncle quickly explained: "A young man gave it to me for safekeeping five days ago. He said that if he didn't come back to pick it up after five days, he would ask me to hand it over to Director Gu."
After a pause, the uncle continued: "He said that the real thing is very important and must be handed over to Director Gu personally."
"Oh, is that so?" Ding Liang felt confused after listening to the uncle's explanation.
He looked back at Huang Zunlong beside him, and then said: "Okay, come with me."
"Alas." Seeing that Ding Liang had said this, the uncle followed Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong directly into the Furong Branch compound.
Ding Liang also took out his mobile phone while walking and dialed Gu Chen's phone number directly.
Not long after, the call was connected, and Ding Liang quickly asked: "Gu Chen, where are you now? The general office? Oh, okay, I understand. There is an old man here who wants to see you, saying that there is something that someone has stolen.
Please, I must leave it to you."
After a pause, Ding Liang continued: "I have brought people over now, just wait for me there, okay, um."
After hanging up the phone, Ding Liang glanced at the uncle behind him and said: "Uncle, Director Gu is in the office, just follow me."
"Alas." The uncle was extremely nervous at the moment, but he was holding the cardboard tube tightly with both hands, for fear of falling from his hands to the ground, and it would be too precious.
Walking to the general office of the criminal investigation team, Ding Liang found that Gu Chen was having a small meeting with his colleagues, and some documents were hung on the whiteboard with colorful magnets.
Seeing Ding Liang standing at the door, Gu Chen put down his writing pen, took the initiative to walk to the door, looked at Ding Liang, then looked at the old man behind Ding Liang, and asked:
"Is this the uncle who wants to see me?"
"Yes." Ding Liang nodded silently, then gave up his position and introduced:
"Uncle, this is the Gu Bureau of our Furong Branch. What do you want to give him?"
"Oh, hello, Director Gu." Looking at the young Gu Chen, the uncle hurriedly came over to shake hands with Gu Chen.
Gu Chen also looked at the things in the uncle's hands and asked: "I heard that you were entrusted by someone to give me something, is this it?"
"Yes." The uncle handed the cardboard tube in his hand to Gu Chen and quickly explained:
"Five days ago, a young man came to me and asked me to keep this thing temporarily. If he doesn't come to pick it up after five days, then I will give it to you the next day."
"Leave it to me? Did that young man tell you to leave it to me?" When Gu Chen heard this, he was also very curious.
The uncle nodded silently and said involuntarily:
"Yes, that's what he said at the time, saying to hand it over to Director Gu of Furong Branch."
"Of course I know, you are Director Gu. I've seen you on promotional posters."
"Is that so?" After hearing what the uncle said, Gu Chen also felt a little confused, so he quickly opened the cardboard tube and took out an old parchment map from it.
Seeing this, other people in the office quickly gathered around.
"What is this? A sheepskin map? Is it this?" Gu Chen asked the uncle for confirmation.
The uncle nodded silently and couldn't help but said: "Yes, the thing he gave me at that time was this sheepskin map."
"Where is this map?" Lu Weiwei looked at it and asked curiously.
"I don't know." The uncle shook his head like a rattle.
"However, there is no specific text here, only a topographic map and some symbols. What do I think of this?" Gu Chen also discovered the problem with the sheepskin map, that is, there is no text.
Although some of the details marked on the map are very detailed, there are no words on them, which seems to have an ancient meaning.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Gu Chen didn't know for a while why this young man gave him an old sheepskin map.
Then he asked the old man.
The uncle also shook his head: "I don't know what kind of map this is? But the young man said that this is his life."
"He said that if he didn't come back in five days, he would ask me to hand this thing over to you. I felt that he must have been in danger. After all, he had already explained his experience to me when he handed me this thing.
"
"Oh? Could it be that this person has other circumstances? How do you know each other?" Upon hearing this, Officer Wang also felt that there seemed to be something fishy hidden in this.
The uncle also hurriedly explained: "That's right, I am a scrap collector. In an old alley in the old city, there is a yard where the scraps are specially stored."
"That day he suddenly appeared in my yard and said that the kitten I raised was very similar to the kitten he had adopted."
"Later I discovered that the civet cat I raised was actually the kitten he had adopted. Moreover, this cat even saved his life."
"Saved his life?" When Yuan Shasha heard this, she felt a little interesting, so she quickly asked: "What on earth is going on?"
"That's it." The uncle was afraid that everyone would not understand the situation, so he explained to everyone the details of how he met the young man and how he accepted his entrustment.
Hearing this, Gu Chen also frowned and asked hurriedly: "In other words, someone deliberately set the fire a few years ago with the purpose of killing him?"
"Yes, that's what he said at the time." The uncle said.
"Then, he came back here now to do something important, but he didn't tell you what he was going to do, right?" Gu Chen asked again.
The uncle continued to nod: "Yes, but he said that he would get back all the things he lost."
"Oh, this is a bit troublesome. He didn't explain anything clearly. He just asked you to hand this thing over to us in five days, but he didn't say what it was. Did he miss something?
?Or are you missing something?"
Officer Wang also felt more and more that explaining things in this way seemed too general.
The uncle quickly waved his hand: "No, I didn't miss anything. That's what he told me at the time. He told me not to ask anything, just to do him a favor."
"As long as he doesn't show up after five days, just give this thing to Director Gu."
"I was just as curious as you at the time, what exactly is this thing? But he didn't say it, and I didn't feel like he wanted to say it either."
"I didn't take it seriously. I thought if you really needed my help, then I would do it for you."
After a pause, the uncle also spread his hands and continued: "No, five days have passed, and I will give this thing to you according to his request."
"Yeah." After hearing this, Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "Then do you remember where he left that day? Also, where is your scrap collection station?"
"I'll see if I can find any trace of him through surveillance."
"Oh, my scrap collection station..."
After hearing what Gu Chen said, the uncle quickly told the address of his scrap collection station.
Then Gu Chen asked He Junchao to help investigate and see if he could find surveillance video of this young man.
Afterwards, Gu Chen spread the sheepskin map on his desk and began to study it seriously.
"Judging from the material of this sheepskin map, it should be quite old, maybe forty or fifty years old."
"But the strange thing is that there is altitude data on this map. It can be seen that this is a topographic map of a valley, with many distant points marked on it. It looks like some strongholds."
"In other words, this is the target location of the route, but I don't know which area it belongs to, so the map is useless to us."
"Yes." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei on the side also echoed:
"If we don't even know where this place is, then getting this parchment map is no different than waste paper."
"The most important thing is, he should tell us, where is this place?"
"Alas." Listening to what Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei said, the uncle also sighed and said:
"I don't know whether he forgot it or didn't tell it on purpose, but he also said that this thing must be handed over to you."
"I still don't understand what he was thinking at the time. Anyway, it felt like he had no way out."
"Even when he handed the things to me, he knelt down and kowtowed three times. It felt like he really entrusted his life to me."
"What? He kowtowed to you three times?" Huang Zunlong on the side heard this and said in disbelief:
"Then this is a life trust?"
"Yes, this is a life-entrustment to him. It was because of his three heads that I was willing to help him keep this thing."
"He told me that he no longer has any relatives in this city. His relatives passed away a few years ago, and his current situation is also very dangerous."
"So, he first handed this thing over to someone who had nothing to do with him. He said that this way, it would not be lost."
"Moreover, he has complete trust in me. He believes that meeting me is fate. After all, I saved the cat that brought him out of the fire. It is also fate."
Speaking of this, the uncle was also filled with emotion.
When Gu Chen heard this, he quickly asked: "By the way, you said he escaped from a sea of fire a few years ago. Where was the fire location?"
"In...a villa over there in East Lake Park, he said that villa is his home." The uncle said.
"The villa in East Lake Park?" Gu Chen frowned, looked at He Junchao, and said:
"Brother He, please check for me to see if there was a fire near East Lake Park a few years ago?"
"Wait a moment." After receiving Gu Chen's instructions, He Junchao immediately started to inquire.
Not long after, He Junchao quickly reported: "Yes, there was indeed a fire near East Lake Park a few years ago. Several villas were burned down at that time. However, according to subsequent investigations, it was found that the source of the fire originated from one of the villas.
, the fire may have been caused by a wiring failure in the villa.”
"Line failure?" Gu Chen frowned.
He Junchao continued to explain: "Yes, it took a long time to investigate the fire. The final conclusion was that the wiring failure in the villa may be caused by the aging of some wiring."
"Because the villas near East Lake Park are relatively old and are one of the earliest villa areas in Jiangnan City. It is said that the people who lived there back then were either rich or noble."
"Who is the owner of the villa that caused the fire?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
"It's... it's the property of a winery owner. The specific name has not been announced, but there are reports that the owner of the villa is the property of a winery owner. This is the only information that can be found."
"Yeah." After hearing this, Gu Chen also crossed his arms and said slowly:
"It's better to go to East Lake Park to investigate. At least we can confirm the specific identity of that person. Otherwise, what is the use of the sheepskin map he gave us? We don't know anything."