A light on the river swept across the shore, adding a touch of light to the dim environment. The tugboat made a lot of noise, covering up the movements of Gu Chen and Officer Wang walking.
"This is my first time in a place like this. Why do I feel weird?" Officer Wang couldn't say what was wrong. He always felt like he would encounter something when he came to a place like this in the middle of the night.
"Senior Brother Wang, are you scared?" Seeing Officer Wang's slow movements, Gu Chen volunteered, "How about we change places and I will lead the way?"
In fact, Gu Chen knew very well that Officer Wang walked in the front out of motivation to protect the newcomers.
After all, Gu Chen is still a trainee police officer who has just been working for one month. If he is brought to an unknown location for field work, if he encounters some complicated situation and causes casualties, Officer Wang will be held responsible.
"It's okay, I can." Officer Wang decisively rejected Gu Chen's request.
He was afraid, but he couldn't show it too obviously in front of the trainee police officers. Officer Wang was also a decent person and loved face, so he started to walk forward faster.
The two came to the outside of several small houses. Judging from the appearance, they should have been abandoned for a long time. Even the handles on the doors were rusty.
"Has anyone come to this place? Why does it feel so deserted?" Officer Wang turned on the law enforcement recorder and pointed the lens at the door handle.
Out of curiosity, he wanted to open the door and go in, but the big rusty lock on the door blocked his thoughts.
Then Officer Wang had no choice but to walk to the window and use the light of his flashlight to conduct a partial survey of the room.
There are desks and several wooden stools in the room, and a small wooden bed in the corner.
However, judging from the window, it was already covered in thick dust, and there were no traces of human habitation.
"It looks like it's a duty room. It may have been abandoned a long time ago." Officer Wang took back the flashlight and turned to look for Gu Chen, only to find that Gu Chen was also stopping in front of the door of another hut.
"It seems that only this hut has been entered. The door lock is new." Gu Chen has improved professional observation skills. While Officer Wang was investigating the hut, he quickly and carefully inspected several other huts.
, only found anomalies in front of this hut.
Officer Wang took three steps in two steps and walked quickly to Gu Chen. Then he picked up the flashlight and quickly surveyed the house.
It is the same as the small house that Officer Wang inspected just now. It has almost the same furnishings and even the same number of furniture.
But the strange thing is that the dust in the room does not seem to be very uniform, and there are even wear marks in some places.
"That's right, it's really different from the one just now." Officer Wang's eyes lit up, and he felt the mystery coming from the hut. But when he took a closer look, he didn't see anyone living there: "It's strange, why is there no one there?"
Live here?"
"Senior Brother Wang, don't you want to go in and take a look?" Gu Chen was obviously more curious about the doubts than Officer Wang.
Expert-level observation told me that there must be something going on in the hut.
"Isn't this bad? After all, we are the police, so it is better not to damage other people's public property." After Officer Wang checked outside the window, he decisively gave up the idea of entering the room when he found that no one was living there.
But Gu Chen refused and said, "Senior Brother Wang, don't you think this house is weird?"
"Of course there is, but the key point is that we haven't found the person." Officer Wang also told the truth.
Gu Chen shook his head and said, "Senior Brother Wang, do you remember where Gao Shan finally disappeared in the surveillance blind spot?"
"That's right here." Officer Wang replied.
Gu Chen nodded, and then said: "There are no traces of human habitation around here, and the nearest sand and gravel dumping point is a few kilometers away. The only place where people may come in and out is this hut."
"But we didn't find anyone living here, so your previous assumption that Gao Shan kidnapped Aguda may not exist." Officer Wang also had some doubts about Gu Chen's previous speculation.
"No." Gu Chen pointed to the surrounding route and said: "From the moment we walked to the hut, I carefully observed the surrounding plants. There are obvious signs of breakage, and the time of breakage is different in each place.
It has dried up, and some of it is still green, which shows that someone has been here at different times."
Why did Gu Chen dare to say this?
Because the specialized level of observation can improve one's observation ability to several times the level of ordinary people, it is also obvious that he can discover the details that Officer Wang ignored.
"Gu...Gu Chen, when did you discover these details?" Officer Wang found it a bit unbelievable. He walked in the dark at night and was lucky not to fall down on the slope.
As a result, Gu Chen was able to clearly see all the conditions of the surrounding routes in a very short period of time, and seemed to have extremely strong powers of observation.
But in such dim conditions, it's almost impossible.
"But for damage to public property, after the operation is over, we have to compensate from the operation funds." Officer Wang also explained the key point.
Let Gu Chen know that any action has a price.
Gu Chen smiled and said: "I understand, Senior Brother Wang."
"Then what are you going to do? After all, we don't have any tools."
"It doesn't matter, smash the glass." Gu Chen pointed at the glass and said.
Officer Wang held his forehead, feeling that he had been dragged down. He couldn't do it without smashing it: "Okay, you will enforce it..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Chen picked up a stone and smashed the glass window in front of him.
"Aren't you moving too fast?" Officer Wang said with a stiff expression.
Gu Chen used a baton to knock down all the glass shards on the window sill, then used rocks to clean up the shards. Then he jumped up to the window sill and climbed directly into the small room.
"Did you find anything?" Officer Wang was shining a flashlight outside the window to provide light support for Gu Chen.
Gu Chen shook his head: "Not yet."
Later, Gu Chen used flashlight to investigate every corner of the house, but found nothing new.
Officer Wang was a little impatient, so he climbed over the window and jumped into the house.
But just when Officer Wang landed, there was a sudden "dong" sound, which was completely different from Gu Chen's previous soft landing.
"Senior Brother Wang, don't move yet." Gu Chen suddenly shined the light on his feet.
"Is there any problem?" Officer Wang asked.
"It seems like there is nothing under your feet." Gu Chen squatted down and checked carefully with a flashlight. He found that the gaps around the floor were obviously much larger than other places.
"You mean... there is a secret passage under my feet?" Officer Wang also discovered the problem, and a long-lost smile suddenly appeared on his face: "So this room is like this."
Gu Chen also saw this kind of structure for the first time, and then he and Officer Wang used the standard knives in the "Nine Small Pieces" to pry open the wooden boards on the spot.
As expected, there is actually a basement just under the floor of the cabin.
Under the available light, Gu Chen discovered that there was a height of nearly four meters between the basement and the floor.
"Senior Brother Wang." Gu Chen's eyes hinted that there happened to be a long bamboo ladder placed beside Officer Wang, which seemed to be a tool used to connect the basement to the ground.
"It seems there is something great here." A gust of cold wind blew, and Officer Wang suddenly got goosebumps. He stretched the wooden ladder underground, and after scanning it several times with a light, he found that there was no living thing.
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But just when Officer Wang thought it was safe, he was about to climb down the stairs when he suddenly felt the creaking sounds of several wooden furniture in the basement, as if they were overwhelmed and would burst at any time.
Officer Wang's heart skipped a beat. What surprised him even more was that at the same time, there were dense "dong" and "dong" sounds in the basement, as if something was approaching.
