I am a super cop

Chapter 1009 Addition Formulas and Honeycomb Lockers
Gu Chen also noticed that Ding Liang's speech was a little vague, and he seemed mysterious.

What does it mean to find a suspicious location, but it is difficult to investigate?
There seems to be some inconsistency.

Without thinking too much, Gu Chen directly said, "Take me to have a look."

"Okay, you come with me."

Ding Liang didn't have time to think too much, and directly led Gu Chen and the others into the exhibition hall.

When everyone came to a backcourt passage, the rows of lockers immediately caught everyone's eyes.

In the entire passage, there are various lockers densely packed, making people dazzled.

Gu Chen turned his head and asked Ding Liang: "What are these?"

"The administrator said it was the lockers for the staff. Sometimes when the exhibition hall needs to receive a large number of tour groups, these lockers will also be used as temporary lockers for tourists."

"So many?" Lu Weiwei looked at the densely packed lockers in front of her, and suddenly said, "How many are there in total?"

"Preliminary estimates, there are more than 800?" Ding Liang said.

"More than 800?" Officer Wang frowned when he heard this.

Xin said that it is possible to hide cultural relics here, but opening more than 800 lockers one by one is a big project.

But if you don’t open it, you can’t find it. If you don’t open it, you won’t be able to find it. Police Officer Wang still bites the bullet and reluctantly said: “Well, let’s all work hard and check these lockers together.”

Glancing at Ding Liang, Police Officer Wang said again: "Xiao Ding, please bring the key here."

"The key?" Ding Liang immediately said with a bitter face, "If I have the key, I will do it myself, and I don't need to bother you to do it, but the key is that I don't have the key."

"You don't have a key?" Officer Wang was stunned for a moment, his heart skipped a beat, and he said again: "Isn't it normal that you don't have a key? Ask the administrator to get the key."

"He doesn't have a key either." Ding Liang also shook his head, feeling helpless.

At this moment, Police Officer Wang was stunned, thinking what's going on?In an exhibition hall, even the administrator does not have a locker key?Isn't this an international joke?
Thinking that Ding Liang might be joking, Police Officer Wang said tentatively, "Well, Ding Liang, call me the administrator now."

"Okay, you guys wait here." Ding Liangliang nodded and trotted away.

Not long after, he took the exhibition hall administrator, who was the one who helped Gu Chen get the surveillance, and walked quickly all the way.

"People brought it." Ding Liang said.

The administrator also nodded at Gu Chen: "Officer Gu."

"Where is the key to this locker?" Gu Chen asked him directly.

The administrator said with a bitter face: "I only have one key."

"What?" Lu Weiwei thought she had misheard.

You know, just looking at these more than 800 lockers, they are also high-end batches just by looking at their appearance. It can be seen that the locker merchants have made many promotions to the leaders of the exhibition hall.

But for this kind of locker, basically one key can be used to open one lock. The administrator said that he only has one, which means that he can only open one locker, which is a bit funny.

Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, the administrator took out his own bunch of keys, found a small key, opened the No. 23 locker, and took out an umbrella from it.

"This is my own storage box. Every employee we work in the exhibition hall has his own storage box, and each person is only assigned a key."

"The lockers numbered from 1 to 100 are reserved for our internal employees, and those numbered above 100 are all for tourists. I don't have these keys."

"Then who has it?" Yuan Shasha asked him.

The administrator said: "Our deputy curator, he has the keys, but those keys are kept at his home, and he is still on a business trip, so he can only come back tonight."

"Then what about your exhibition tomorrow? Without keys, how do visitors store items? If these storage boxes can't provide services for tourists, do you buy them as decorations?"

Gu Chen also expressed his thoughts.

I feel that these lockers are relatively new, and they seem to be newly ordered materials for the exhibition hall.

The administrator said with some embarrassment: "Our batch of lockers were installed just before the National Day, and we are waiting to use them tomorrow."

"But the venue reserved 100 numbers for our internal employees to use, and I only received one key."

"But tonight when our deputy curator comes back from a business trip, he will bring the remaining keys from home. Visitors who buy tickets tomorrow can get a locker key with the ticket and use it as temporary storage."

"However, if you want to open all the storage boxes, you can only wait until our deputy curator returns home at night."

"Wait until night?" Doesn't this feel like delaying time?

Especially now that Zhang Qi's whereabouts are unknown, and the cultural relics are also missing.

The longer the delay, the greater the possible variables.

After all, the inner ghost Lu Junhao and his accomplice Zhang Wei were both caught. If Zhang Qi changes suddenly, there may be many uncertain factors.

Therefore, Lu Weiwei felt that she couldn't afford to wait at all, so she asked again: "Then is there anyone else in his house? Let's go to his house to get the key."

"No." The administrator shook his head and said, "The deputy curator is on a business trip, and his family is busy during the National Day holidays, so he just went on a trip abroad, and there may be no one at home for a while."

Fearing that the police would wait too anxiously, the administrator said comfortingly, "How about I call the leader and ask him to come back as soon as possible?"

"That's the only way to go." Gu Chen has no other choice but to agree with the administrator.

So the administrator took out his mobile phone and started calling the deputy curator.

After a while of communication, the administrator's complexion did not improve, his brows were always furrowed, and he answered the phone in an anxious tone the whole time.

Gu Chen could tell from the administrator's facial expression that there seemed to be no good results.

After hanging up the phone, the administrator said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, comrade policeman, the deputy curator is going to Jiangnan City by the high-speed train at 8:9 p.m., and now the tickets are hard to buy. Returning to Jiangnan City's home and then coming to the exhibition hall, it is estimated that it will be after [-]:[-] p.m. gone."

"It's so late?" Hearing the administrator's words, Lu Weiwei, who had been looking forward to it before, suddenly froze like a discouraged ball. "

"If you return to the exhibition hall so late, you have to open these storage boxes one by one. Wouldn't it be busy until midnight?"

Thinking of this, Lu Weiwei suddenly said bitterly: "It seems that most of the time today is waiting."

"Is there no other way?" Yuan Shasha asked again.

"No." The administrator still shook his head.

"For example... to pry open these lockers?" Lu Weiwei had a sudden thought.

The administrator immediately stopped him and said, "You can't, you can't, these lockers have just been purchased, and you are going to pry them all open? Then who is to blame for the loss?"

"I, Senior Sister Lu, are joking with you." Seeing that the administrator was nervous, Gu Chen smiled and said, "You know, how long does it take to pry a locker? How long does it take to pry open more than 800 lockers?" How long will it take? If you have this time, it’s better to wait.”

"That's right." Seeing that Gu Chen is a sensible person, the administrator finally let go of his dangling heart, but said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, why don't you look elsewhere first?"

"Alright." Gu Chen agreed with this statement.

At present, it is difficult to find Zhang Qi, but it seems not difficult to find cultural relics.

The cultural relics are unlikely to be taken out of the exhibition hall, so as long as you search carefully, it is still possible to find clues, it just takes time.

But from the current point of view, there is a great possibility that the cultural relics are hidden in the storage box.

After all, I learned from Zhang Wei that both he and Zhang Qi are habitual thieves.

For professional thieves, picking the locks of several lockers is no problem.

But for myself, it was really difficult to pry open more than 800 lockers.

Even if you have the key, opening more than 800 lockers one by one is still a big project.

Seeing that everyone began to search separately, Gu Chen still stood in front of the honeycomb locker, and began to check the situation of the locker from left to right.

Since it is a newly purchased material from the exhibition hall, the paint smell of the lockers is still a bit strong.

When Gu Chen walked all the way to the far right, he suddenly found that there was a small mark written in pencil on the outside of the locker on the far right.

Ordinary people may not be able to see clearly, but Gu Chen has master-level observation skills, and such subtle clues cannot escape his eyes.

"What's this?" Gu Chen leaned forward slightly, carefully looking at a series of marks on the outside.

The mark is marked as X+396=824, which is an addition formula. Gu Chen quickly calculated in his mind that X should be 428, and he couldn't help being curious.

At this time, Lu Weiwei didn't gain much after searching around the outside, so she walked back to Gu Chen's side.

However, Gu Chen kept bowing his body, staring at the position of the outer box on the right side of the locker for a while.

Out of curiosity, Lu Weiwei also probed and said, "Junior Brother Gu, what are you doing?"

"I'm looking at this formula." Gu Chen said.

"Formula?" Lu Weiwei was stunned, followed Gu Chen's gaze and glanced in front of her, but she looked puzzled: "By the way, where is the formula?"

"Here." Gu Chen knocked on the outer locker twice.

Lu Weiwei's eyes narrowed immediately, and her body bowed even more.

After a while, Lu Weiwei also said in disbelief: "I lost it, Junior Brother Gu, you can even discover this small formula written with a pencil? Your eyes are really amazing."

"Who would leave the formula here?" Gu Chen crossed his arms and thought.

Lu Weiwei smiled lightly and said, "Maybe it was marked by the locker installer for assembly?"

"No." Gu Chen shook his head directly, pointed to the formula on the outside and said, "Senior Sister Lu, take a closer look at this formula."

"Look carefully?" Lu Weiwei was puzzled, but she didn't know what Gu Chen meant?So he bowed again, looked at the formula on the outside, and read out casually: "X+396=824? Isn't this just an addition formula? X is equal to...equal to..."

Lu Weiwei was not as good at mental arithmetic as Gu Chen, and it took a few seconds before she read the answer: "X is equal to 428."

Seeing that Gu Chen was unmoved and just stared at her, Lu Weiwei's eyes were startled, and she thought about it for a few seconds, as if she had suddenly realized.

"Could it be that... this formula was left by Zhang Qi?"

Gu Chen nodded silently: "It is very likely that this is the case. After all, if you think about it, even if it is the locker installer who temporarily wrote the calculation formula, why set an 'X'? Is it necessary? And this formula is right Installing a locker doesn't seem to be a problem, does it?"

"That's right." Hearing what Gu Chen said, Lu Weiwei felt a little tricky.

He muttered to himself, so he said again: "Then X is equal to 428. Could it be that Zhang Qi made the mark himself, but he didn't want others to know the meaning, so he assumed it was X?"

"If this is the case, will he hide the cultural relics in the locker numbered 428?"

Thinking about it this way, there seems to be nothing wrong. Lu Weiwei suddenly looked at Gu Chen and asked, "Junior Brother Gu, what do you think?"

"It's very possible." Gu Chen nodded silently, and said again: "Hurry up and call that Zhang Wei over. This guy is a habitual thief. I think it should be easy to pick the lock of a locker."

"Yes, let's find him." Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that Zhang Wei seemed to have some effect at this moment.

So Lu Weiwei asked Gu Chen to wait here first, while she trotted all the way to find Zhang Wei.

Not long after, Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong, Police Officer Wang, Yuan Shasha, Lu Weiwei and the exhibition hall administrator brought Zhang Wei to Gu Chen.

"Junior Brother Gu, he's already here." Lu Weiwei pushed Zhang Wei forward.

Zhang Wei is also in a daze at the moment, he doesn't know what's wrong with him?She looked at Gu Chen suspiciously.

Gu Chen took out the key, opened the rose gold handcuffs on Zhang Wei's hand, pointed to locker No. 428 and asked, "Can you open this locker?"

"You mean... don't need a key?" Zhang Wei seemed to understand what Gu Chen meant.

But before Gu Chen could speak, Lu Weiwei said angrily, "We'll look for you if you have a key? You don't need a key to open it."

"Uh..." Zhang Wei began to hesitate after hearing this.

Lu Weiwei felt that this guy was playing tricks again, so she reminded: "I'm asking you, can you open it?"

"It's possible." Zhang Wei raised his head, but said to Gu Chen, "But Officer Gu, you have to find me a wire."

Gu Chen glanced at the curator of the exhibition hall beside him, and asked him, "Can you find a wire?"

"This... warehouse seems to exist, why don't you wait here and I'll go look for it right away?" the administrator said.

Gu Chen nodded slightly: "Then I will trouble you."

The administrator said "you're welcome" and ran quickly to the end of the aisle.

About three or four minutes later, the administrator returned to Gu Chen with a long wire.

"There's only this one, do you think it's okay?" The administrator handed the wire to Gu Chen.

Gu Chen glanced at Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei nodded immediately: "Let's make do with it, everyone give way."

After taking the iron wire and spreading the crowd apart, Zhang Wei began to twist and twist with the wire.

Soon, he put his ear on the locker, and using the twisted wire in his hand, he stuck it into the keyhole and tossed about.

In less than 20 seconds, there was a "click" sound from the locker, and the originally locked locker burst open.

"Open?" Seeing the divine operation in front of her, Lu Weiwei finally knew why this guy was in jail.

With this kind of technology, picking a lock is like playing a house, and anyone who changes it will have some strange ideas.

Before Zhang Wei could sneer in front of him, Gu Chen directly pushed him away, then opened the locker, and looked down.

At this moment, a delicate porcelain pot is placed in it at this moment.

Gu Chen quickly put on his white gloves, gently took the porcelain pot out of the locker, and put it on in front of everyone.

"This..." The administrator was stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief, "Is this the lost cultural relic?"

"Xiao Yuan, go and find the security manager Zou Wenqing." Gu Chen also wondered if this is the lost cultural relic.

Yuan Shasha immediately agreed, and then left quickly.

Not long after, Zou Wenqing trotted over, led by Yuan Shasha.

"Have you found the cultural relic?" Zou Wenqing asked Gu Chen excitedly.

Gu Chen casually pointed the porcelain pot in his hand in front of him: "Is this it?"

"Yes, this porcelain pot is indeed one of the 10 lost cultural relics." Seeing the lost cultural relics recovered, Zou Wenqing was very excited at the moment.

So he asked Gu Chen again, "What about the other cultural relics? Where are the other lost cultural relics?"

Seeing that Gu Chen didn't speak suddenly, the locker No. 428 behind Gu Chen was open.

So Zou Wenqing bowed directly and searched the locker for a while.

But the locker was empty, nothing.

Zou Wenqing was a little puzzled and said, "Could it be that Officer Gu found this cultural relic from the locker?"

"That's right." Gu Chen nodded and admitted.

"Shouldn't it?" Zou Wenqing suddenly felt a little dizzy, and hurriedly asked again: "But why is there only this one porcelain pot? Where are the other nine cultural relics?"

"Maybe it's still hidden in these lockers?" Lu Weiwei guessed.

Hearing Lu Weiwei's remarks, Zou Wenqing breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly begged: "Officer Gu, since you can find one cultural relic, please help me find the other cultural relics. After all, the lost cultural relics are 10. It’s not good to be short of 9 pieces.”

"Whether you can find the key depends on how to unlock it." Police Officer Wang also spoke for Gu Chen: "You have to know, we also deciphered the calculation formula left by the thief on the locker to calculate the number '428'."

"That's why Zhang Wei was allowed to pry open the big lock of the locker with the most advanced methods. If you want to find other items, you have to rely on Zhang Wei."

"No, please don't." Hearing that Police Officer Wang wanted to use himself as a tool man, Zhang Wei refused on the spot: "You asked me to pry one or two lockers, I can barely agree, after all, the one just pried Lockers, the degree of difficulty is not too big."

Glancing at the densely packed honeycomb lockers in front of him, Zhang Wei suddenly complained: "But there are more than 800 here, and you let me pry more than 800, then you might as well let me die."

"Pfft." Hearing Zhang Wei's remarks, Lu Weiwei couldn't help laughing.

That's right, although this guy is usually a thief, he probably has done a lot of lockpicking.

Allowing him to pry open more than 800 lockers at once is a bit overwhelming and unrealistic.

After thinking about it this way, he realized that Zhang Qi was so cunning that he only kept one cultural relic in one locker.

Lu Weiwei really wanted to swear on the spot, but she didn't do that, instead she directly discussed with Gu Chen: "Junior Brother Gu, you said that Zhang Qi is really cunning, a formula only leaves a locker number for himself Answer."

"The other 9 cultural relics must also be hidden in these more than 800 lockers. It is really difficult to find out."

"There must be a pattern." Gu Chen thought for a moment, but still felt that there was something wrong.

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(End of this chapter)