"Who? Who's down there?" Officer Wang suddenly stopped moving and climbed up two steps in fear.
Gu Chen quickly stayed close to the ground, pointed his flashlight at the ground, and then slowly moved around. In the corner of the basement, a dark night was slowly moving.
"Reply if you are a human or a ghost, don't think I'm afraid of you?" Officer Wang's back was soaked with cold sweat, but his expression was still very calm, and the baton and flashlight in his hand were tightly held together.
This is a closed basement. Without the help of bamboo ladders, if there are people underneath, there is no way to climb up.
Gu Chen shined his flashlight on the black shadow, but the other party didn't seem to dare to move, being immobilized by the strong light.
Because the bright flashlight used by Gu Chen belongs to police equipment, it can stun or blind people in less than one second, and the blinding time can last for one minute.
Moreover, there is an attacking head in the front section, which has the function of causing pain by attacking and subduing.
Under normal circumstances, strong light is not allowed to be aimed at people's faces unless necessary.
But now, two bright flashlights were pointed at the black figure, illuminating the black figure so that it could not move, and at this moment it let out a cry of pain.
"Senior Brother Wang, he is a human being." Gu Chen confirmed after observing for a moment.
The dark figure in front of me seemed to be wearing a thin blanket and a ponytail with a very messy hairstyle.
After Officer Wang jumped down, Gu Chen followed closely, and the two slowly approached the target.
"Who are you? Why are you being held here?" Officer Wang asked as he turned away the light.
"I am Takasugi, who are you?" The man snorted in pain several times before replying.
At this moment, Officer Wang and Gu Chen looked at each other, wondering if there was something wrong with their ears?
Gu Chen stepped forward and took a look, and saw that the man looked exactly the same as Gao Shan, both wearing a ponytail.
"Strange, when did Gao Shan come here? He was still waiting at the police station just now." Officer Wang was also startled by this strange thing and felt that he was hallucinating.
The weird hut and the weird person turned out to be Gao Shan who was detained at the police station.
"Senior Brother Wang, they might be twins." Gu Chen was shocked at first, but after thinking calmly, he felt that the people in the basement should be twin brothers with Gao Shan.
"Who are you?" The man closed his eyes and looked surprised.
"We are the police." Gu Chen replied.
"Police?" The man was also surprised. After thinking for a few seconds, he said, "Could it be that my unlucky brother caused trouble outside again?"
"So, you do have a twin brother?" Gu Chen was a little overjoyed, and then asked: "Then you should be Teacher Aguda?"
The man was also suddenly startled, but he did not reply immediately. Instead, he waited for his eyes to slowly recover before carefully looking at Gu Chen and Officer Wang in front of him.
Looking at the police uniforms of the two men, the man with the ponytail finally confirmed that everything in front of him... was real.
"Are you really the police? Am I not dreaming?" The man rubbed his eyes and stood up, but suddenly there was a metallic friction sound on his feet.
Gu Chen and Officer Wang lowered their heads, also shocked by the scene in front of them.
The man's ankle was actually locked with a long iron chain.
"How could this happen? Who caught you here?" Officer Wang was also startled by the scene in front of him. He immediately squatted down and tried to open the chains that trapped the man.
But he gave up after trying because the chain was very thick and couldn't be opened without a key.
"Senior Brother Wang, let's go to 119. Only they have the tools to open it." Gu Chen gave advice.
Officer Wang immediately agreed: "Okay, then you make a call and inform Lu Weiwei by the way, and ask her to lead the way for the fire brigade."
It would take some time to wait for the fire brigade to arrive. Gu Chen and Officer Wang simply put the flashlights aside, sat next to the ponytail man, and began to ask about the specific situation.
Gu Chen pointed the law enforcement recorder at the ponytailed man and asked: "Mr. Gao Shan, are you the painter Aguda?"
The man nodded: "Yes, I am."
"Then who is the man who locked you in the dark room outside?" Gu Chen took out his notebook and began to make a brief note.
The man also relaxed his guard, leaned against the wall and said, "It's my twin brother, Gao Yang."
"Then why are you locked up here?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Because... because of money." The man smiled and shook his head: "My younger brother is a gambler. Since he got into this bad habit, he has already owed millions of dollars in debt."
"So, you have been helping him pay off his debts?" Gu Chen stared at Gao Shan and said calmly.
"That's right." The man nodded and told them everything about the situation between himself and his younger brother Gao Yang: "I have been a painter since I was a child, and I showed my talent for painting when I was very young. Therefore,
That’s why I started on this path.”
"I found that you and Gao Yang are both quite lonely people. Is there any reason for this?" Officer Wang couldn't help but be curious.
Gao Shan smiled and asked: "Is there any cigarette?"
Officer Wang simply took out a pack of three-dollar cigarettes from his pocket and handed them to him along with a lighter: "Here."
Gao Shan smiled: "It seems that the police's salary is not high."
"Don't talk about this, just talk about yourself." Officer Wang didn't want to tell him the fact that he had to hand over his salary to his wife every month.
"Ever since my parents died in a car accident, the situation at home has changed." Gao Shan lit up his cigarette and puffed out the smoke and said, "We were boarded at relatives' homes and became unsupervised children. I have always insisted on painting, while my younger brother Gao Shan
Yang started to become a gambler, so I have helped him pay off most of his debts."
"But you can't help him pay off his debts for the rest of his life." Gu Chen wrote down the notes in his hand quickly, keeping his eyes on Gao Shan.
"Little comrade, you are right." Gao Shan said with a smile: "After my repeated persuasion failed, I decisively refused to help Gao Yang pay off his debt. But since my younger brother knew that I have a work worth millions,
After it was exhibited in the capital a month ago, he had a crooked idea, and he trapped me here and forced me to reveal the whereabouts of the painting."
Gu Chen suddenly stopped writing and carefully looked at his surroundings.
This small basement is almost isolated from the outside world except for a very small ventilation opening.
Moreover, this location is not far from the buoy on the river. When many tugboats pass by, they will emit huge whistles, and the noise will cover up all the surrounding movements. Therefore, even if Takasugi shouts for help at the vent, he probably will not
Someone heard it.
"What a brother. If I had such a brother, I promise to beat him to death." Officer Wang became more and more angry as he listened, thinking to himself, what is this called?
He locked his brother in the basement, pretended to be his brother, and even called the police to report that the painting was stolen, in an attempt to use the police's resources to find the Takasugi work.
Thinking about it this way, what the fake Takasugi did when he was detained in the police station is simply hateful.
They are born from the same roots, so why be too hasty in fighting each other?
Gu Chen also roughly understood the whole story...
Previously, I used my upgraded specialized level of observation to discover the canary's small clues, and then used my master's level of logical reasoning to find a new direction for solving the case, and I finally got to the bottom of this absurd theft investigation.
At that time, when I speculated in front of Officer Wang that the real Aguda might have been kidnapped by the fake Gao Yang, I was actually very conflicted in my heart. I thought that I would never have dared to say such a speculation before.
But all the reasonable reasoning at the time pointed in this direction, and now it seems to be completely correct, and Gu Chen is more confident in his previous reasoning.
When all the inquiries were completed, there was suddenly a loud noise above the basement.
A few lights swept down, and Lu Weiwei was heard calling from above: "Junior Brother Gu, Lao Wang, comrades from the fire brigade are here, are you okay?"
