I am a super cop

Chapter 1568 Unexpected encounter?

Gu Chen looked around and found that the two windows of the house were not open.

The air in the whole room suddenly seemed to be not very circulated.

Without saying a word, Lu Weiwei walked directly to the window at the back, pulled out the iron bolt of the old window, and gently pushed the glass and wooden window open.

Suddenly a breeze came, and the outside air circulated through the windows, through the room, and through the door.

The whole room suddenly became a little cooler.

Gu Chen took the opportunity to open the windows in the front row.

For a moment, the air in the entire room became circulated instantly, and the peculiar smell dissipated with the wind.

"Uncle Zhao, your room needs to be ventilated." Lu Weiwei also reminded.

Uncle Zhao nodded silently, and said with a smile: "Of course I know that the air needs to be ventilated, but now no one is renting a house, thinking that it is raining outside and it is easy to enter the room, so I closed all the doors and windows."

"Understood." Gu Chen nodded silently, checking back and forth in the room.

Opening the closet, there were still some winter clothes on the hangers inside.

Although these clothes look a little old in terms of style, Gu Chen can tell that the material is very good, and the price should not be low.

Then pull out the shoe cabinet under the closet. Inside the shoe cabinet are several pairs of leather shoes wrapped in plastic bags.

Gu Chen simply squatted down, untied the plastic bags one by one, and put the leather shoes on the ground.

"These shoes seem to be new this year." After Lu Weiwei found out, she also said curiously: "These are the new sandals this year. I wanted to buy this brand when it first became popular. give up."

"Is it expensive?" Gu Chen asked.

Lu Weiwei nodded fiercely: "That's right, the price is not very friendly, because although the decorations on the shoes are beautiful, they are too expensive, so I didn't buy them."

"Is it the same brand? Could it be the same style?" Gu Chen didn't know much about these women's shoes, so he asked Lu Weiwei for advice.

Lu Weiwei picked up one of the right shoes and checked it carefully in her hand. After looking at the bronzing logo inside and the small label on the side of the shoelace, she nodded for confirmation:
"It's this brand. I took photos at the time to check online to see if it would be cheaper. It turned out that the price was about the same, not much cheaper. I asked Xiao Yuan."

"Xiao Yuan said that this brand is a foundry of a major international brand, and it's branded by itself, so the price is naturally very expensive."

"That's strange." Gu Chen picked up the left shoe and looked around: "Since this shoe is expensive, but there is no quality problem, why don't you take it with you?"

Gu Chen raised the shoe in his hand, and asked, "Senior Sister Lu, how much is this shoe?"

"More than 1000?"

"More than 1000?" Gu Chen stared blankly, and then asked Uncle Zhao: "Uncle Zhao, how much rent do you charge her a month for this house?"

"350, excluding water, electricity and internet fees." Uncle Zhao said.

Gu Chen frowned, and asked again: "Then how long has she rented from you?"

"Well, it's a year and a half. By the way, she still has half a month to rent, and the rent is still under pressure for one month."

"Then you didn't give it to her?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Uncle Zhao shook his head: "She sent me a text message to tell me that he was leaving, and she didn't ask me, so I didn't give it to her. I can't ask her to give it to her, right?"

"Besides, in the past year and a half, the house has also suffered some damage, and it will cost money to repair it."

"Okay, I see." Gu Chen probably got the clue from Uncle Zhao.

The tenant Xu Xintong did not return the key to Mr. Zhao face to face, and he still has a one-month deposit and a half-month lease here.

For Xu Xintong, who only rents a house in a cheap area for 350 yuan a month, he is generous in buying branded sandals worth 1000 yuan.

When he moved out, he abandoned it generously?This made it difficult for Gu Chen to understand.

Lu Weiwei was also incomprehensible.

I have always been reluctant to buy those sandals worth 1000 yuan, but Xu Xintong didn't care.

From Lu Weiwei's point of view, Xu Xintong did leave a bit strangely.

After trying to calm down, Lu Weiwei asked Uncle Zhao: "Uncle Zhao, when Xu Xintong left, did she tell you where she was going? Why did she move away suddenly?"

"This one……"

Asked by Lu Weiwei, Uncle Zhao hesitated.

Gao Mingyang walked up to Uncle Zhao, and asked again: "Isn't she going to tell you something?"

"Didn't I tell you last time? She just told me in a text message that she was going to move out. I also showed you the text message. It was just a few words."

Uncle Zhao casually found a wooden chair and sat down, and said involuntarily, "The tenant is leaving, just say hello."

"As long as the damage to the house does not exceed the amount of the deposit, I will take care of where you go."

"So, when Xu Xintong left, he just left you this text message, right?" Gu Chen asked again for confirmation.

Uncle Zhao nodded silently: "That's right, that's it. Except for this text message, I never contacted her again."

"What about the phone? Can the phone still be connected?" Lu Weiwei walked over and asked.

Uncle Zhao and Gao Mingyang shook their heads together: "No."

Gao Mingyang said first: "I have called Xu Xintong many times. When I saw Uncle Zhao come to collect the house that day, I called her, but later found that the phone has not been connected."

"Could it be...that text message wasn't sent by Xu Xintong to Uncle Zhao?" Lu Weiwei seemed to sense something unusual.

Everyone didn't have much feeling before, and always felt that this was just the tenant quitting the lease and moving away, but now the more I heard it, the more confused I became.

Everything in the house feels too weird.

The first is the items in the house. Except for some necessary items and clothes, most of Xu Xintong’s items are still in the room.

If you spend a lot of money to buy this pair of luxury sandals, why do you want to keep this pair of expensive sandals when you leave?

And the upper is clean and tidy, and the heel is less scuffed.

Just such a pair of high-quality sandals, just abandoned in the shoe cabinet, it is difficult for normal people to operate like this.

And even if you want to leave after canceling the lease, you have to meet with the landlord anyway, and it is best to get the deposit back.

What's more, Xu Xintong still has half a month's lease.

Hearing Gao Mingyang talk about this matter before, although he was puzzled, he didn't feel it personally.

Until now, everything in the room made Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei terrified after thinking about it.

"No, there must be something wrong with it. That text message may not have been sent by Xu Xintong himself." Gu Chen also agreed with Lu Weiwei's remarks.

After all, on-site objects speak for themselves.

At this moment, the landlord, Uncle Zhao, also panicked.

Originally, I was just taking back the tenant's house, but now hearing the posture of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, it seems that the female tenant has a big problem.

And everyone's explanation just now seems to let the landlord, Mr. Zhao, see the root of the problem clearly.

"Gu Chen, don't scare me." Uncle Zhao's face was heavy and nervous.

Gu Chen came over to comfort him and said, "Uncle Zhao, have you seen Xu Xintong before checking out?"

"No, after I rented out her house, I seldom come here, and I haven't seen her recently."

"What about you?" Gu Chen turned to look at Gao Mingyang.

Gao Mingyang's face was heavy, and he was also thoughtful: "I can see Xu Xintong every day, but it's just to say hello, because everyone has to go to work."

"Xu Xintong works the day shift, and I work the night shift, so I usually sleep at home during the day, and only go out to sing at night."

"If the timing is right, I will meet Xu Xintong who is returning home before I leave in the evening."

"And sometimes when we don't have to sing, we eat and chat together."

"In other words, before Xu Xintong left, everything was normal, and you didn't find anything suspicious about Xu Xintong?" Gu Chen asked again.

Gao Mingyang nodded silently: "Yes, there is no problem."

"Okay." Gu Chen crossed his arms and expressed his understanding: "Then the next question, what is Xu Xintong's job?"

"Assistant." Gao Mingyang said, "She is the assistant to the vice president of a media company."

"Do you know where the company is?" Gu Chen asked again.

Gao Mingyang pondered for a few seconds, trying to recall.

After a while, Gao Mingyang raised his head and replied, "I remember it's called Xingyao Media, and it's just over there in Xingyao Plaza. It's mainly for promoting work in the entertainment industry."

"Xingyao Media, Xingyao Plaza." Gu Chen took out the note paper he carried with him, and wrote down the name casually.

Looking up at Gao Mingyang, Gu Chen asked again: "Does Xu Xintong have any special friends? The ones you have met?"

"No... I don't know." Gao Mingyang shook his head, but also told the truth: "I heard that she has fellow villagers working here, but it seems that they don't come and go frequently. I don't know who it is."

"This is a little troublesome." Hearing such a reply, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness rushing over her face.

What the investigation needs are enough clues, but the landlord and neighbors, who are the parties concerned, know nothing about these situations.

If Xu Xintong's haste to leave was a bit suspicious, then who was texting the landlord became even more important.

Thinking that he didn't have enough resources at hand, Lu Weiwei suggested: "Junior Brother Gu, why don't you ask He Junchao to investigate and see what's going on with Xu Xintong?"

"If you suspect that there may really be a possibility of disappearance, you can investigate." Gu Chen hesitated for a few seconds, and replied directly: "Then please ask Senior Sister Lu to explain to Senior Brother He."

"Come on, leave this to me, I'll ask He Junchao to look it up now."

Glancing at the landlord, Uncle Zhao, Lu Weiwei asked again: "Uncle Zhao, did Xu Xintong sign a rental contract with you?"

"Signed." Uncle Zhao nodded silently.

"Do you remember Xu Xintong's ID number?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

"Body... ID number? You wait for this." Uncle Zhao seemed to be a little impressed, and hurriedly took out his phone and searched in the phone's photo album.

After a while, Uncle Zhao showed a photo of the rental contract to Lu Weiwei: "This is the rental contract, with Xu Xintong's ID number on it."

"It's great." Seeing this, Lu Weiwei quickly edited a text message and sent it to He Junchao.

Afterwards, a group of people sat at the door and waited quietly.

Gu Chen looked at the other houses and asked curiously, "Are there tenants in the other three houses?"

"Well, there are two rooms for people to live in, one is empty, and this one is for a couple who set up a barbecue at the night market. They go out every afternoon and go home late at night."

"Then there is another room?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

"The other one is a decoration worker from out of town. Anyway, he often has to stay on the construction site, and his board and lodging are also on the construction site."

"Because the job at the construction site is not stable, he will live here when he is not working."

"That is to say, the time this decoration worker lived here is not certain, right?" Gu Chen said.

Before Uncle Zhao opened his mouth, Gao Mingyang replied directly: "That's right, he rarely lives here, unless the construction site is closed."

"Just a few days before Xu Xintong moved away, he also stayed at the construction site and didn't come back."

"Later when I heard that Xu Xintong had moved away, everyone was very sad. After all, we have lived here for a while and we all know each other very well."

"Okay." Gu Chen understands the friendship of renting in the same yard.

Xu Xintong's leaving without saying goodbye is indeed a bit chilling.

After a while, He Junchao called Gu Chen's phone.

Gu Chen didn't think too much about it, just swiped the answer button and asked, "Senior Brother He, did you find it there?"

"Gu Chen, I checked here. There is no record of Xu Xintong using his ID card in the entire Jiangnan City, and there is no record of buying tickets."

"No ticket purchase records?" Gu Chen stared blankly, turned to look at Gao Mingyang and Uncle Zhao, and asked casually:

"Does Xu Xintong have any friends who own cars?"

"No."

"never seen it."

The two shook their heads.

Gu Chen frowned, and asked He Junchao who was on the phone: "Senior Brother He, can you investigate the surveillance records on Osmanthus Alley according to the time we gave you?"

"Wait a minute, I'll look for it."

Gu Chen only heard the crackling sound of the keyboard on the other end of the phone. Not long after, He Junchao replied again: "Unfortunately, there are basically no cameras in Osmanthus Alley where you are."

"Because the road is being built outside, many lines are under maintenance, and the surrounding area is surrounded by old alleys. There are very few residents living here, and most of them are old houses. There is only the exit of Osmanthus Alley, which is across the road. There's a surveillance device looking right at it."

"But unfortunately, as you know, a lot of monitoring equipment was temporarily removed for road construction."

"It's road construction again." Hearing this explanation, Gu Chen also complained in his heart.

Many roads in Jiangnan City are usually not repaired, or they are slow-moving. When the school season starts, the roads start to be busy again.

Not to mention causing various traffic jams, many surrounding lines are also affected.

Especially for many monitoring equipment, the surrounding equipment was removed one by one because of road construction.

Even at intersections, only solar traffic lights can be placed to guide traffic.

Gu Chen said helplessly: "Is there no other monitoring around to call?"

"I'm sorry, the monitoring for several kilometers around Osmanthus Lane cannot be used normally due to road construction."

"In the direction where the road is not repaired, the surveillance can be used, but the Osmanthus Alley cannot be monitored."

"Okay, then can you check for me again, the day before Xu Xintong disappeared, the Xingyao Company where she worked, the exit there should be monitored by her."

"I'll try." He Junchao was also helpless, but he could only follow Gu Chen's instructions and continue to operate.

After a while, He Junchao reported, "Gu Chen, I checked over at Xingyao Company, and there is indeed Xu Xintong."

"She took the shuttle bus home normally that night, and the last location she could capture was that the shuttle bus entered the maintenance section, and I couldn't track it down afterwards."

Hearing this, Gu Chen continued to ask: "Then take a look, is she carrying a lot of things? For example, a cardboard box or something?"

"If she's leaving her previous residence, it could be a job change."

"No." He Junchao on the other end of the phone still gave a negative answer.

Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, this situation was different from what he had imagined.

So Gu Chen casually asked: "Didn't you bring anything with you when you left the gate of Xingyao Company?"

"No, just carry a bag with empty hands."

"What happened after that? The next day, did Xu Xintong go to the company?" Gu Chen asked.

The keyboard on He Junchao's end continued to crackle, and he replied after a while: "Gu Chen, I have already checked. Since Xu Xintong left the company that day, I have never been at work. I found out where Xu Xintong entered the company's gate. She It disappeared from that day on."

"Okay, thank you, Senior Brother He."

"You're welcome."

……

After exchanging pleasantries with He Junchao for a while, Gu Chen hung up the phone directly.

Seeing this situation, Gao Mingyang immediately stepped forward and asked, "Gu Chen, how is it?"

"The situation is not very good." Gu Chen pinched his eyebrows with his right hand, and said helplessly, "The scope of our monitoring is really limited."

"Roads are being built near Osmanthus Lane, so the nearby surveillance cannot be used normally, and the Xingyao Media Company can only capture the footage of Xu Xintong leaving the company before the night he disappeared."

"After entering the vicinity of Osmanthus Alley, the vehicle I was riding in could not catch Xu Xintong's figure."

"There should be monitoring on the car, so we can find out where Xu Xintong got off." Gao Mingyang said nervously, also weakly.

Gu Chen patted him on the shoulder and said comfortingly, "You are right, but you need to go to the bus company to get the monitoring."

"Also, there is a high probability that Xu Xintong will get off at Osmanthus Alley."

"That's true." Gao Mingyang wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said a little at a loss: "Then what should I do? Go to her company? Ask about the specific situation?"

"Right on my mind."

Gu Chen frowned, glanced at Uncle Zhao, and said apologetically, "Uncle Zhao, please come here and open the door."

"No trouble, it's normal to find someone, but that Xu Xintong disappeared so mysteriously, when I checked out, I only sent text messages, and left without seeing each other, I also feel a little strange."

"If you can find her, maybe I can sleep more peacefully. After all, there are indeed many strange things about Xu Xintong's departure. I also felt this before."

After a pause, Uncle Zhao said again: "It's just that, I feel sorry for the deposit and the remaining half-month lease, so I thought she wouldn't ask, I wouldn't tell, and I wouldn't contact her."

"But now, hearing what you said, I feel that this girl has encountered some accidents?"

……

　Ask for votes, with a sincere face. ╰(‵ ′)╯

　　
　
(End of this chapter)