I am a super cop
Chapter 1798 "Dumb" boy? 【2 in 1 chapter】
Chapter 1798 "Dumb" boy? 【Chapter [-] in [-]】
"Voice-changing software?" Listening to Lu Weiwei's advice, Gu Chen, who was driving, suddenly realized that this possibility is indeed very high.
First of all, the other party said that he was only four years old, but a four-year-old child is not very good at asking such professional questions.
Moreover, Gu Chen answered the other party in a professional tone. If the little boy Zhou Jiahao who called was really only four years old, then Gu Chen only said it once, would he be able to remember it?
But it doesn't rule out that the other party is a child with a good memory, but all this is just in the imagination.
"Let's go to the scene and see." Gu Chen is not sure now, but after receiving such a call, he still has no idea.
Not long after, a police car with a license plate ending in AE86 slowly drove into the parking lot near the Internet celebrity restaurant on Jiangnan Fourth Bridge.
After getting off the car, Gu Chen and the others immediately walked towards the restaurant terrace.
To enter the restaurant, one must first enter the terrace, and then walk down the steps from the terrace to enter the restaurant.
Since it's 10:50 am, it's not time for lunch yet.
Therefore, most of the customers near the terrace come here to check in and take pictures, and the number of them is not too many now.
When Gu Chen walked into the store, he found that the waitress who served him last night was playing with her mobile phone at the front desk.
The entire restaurant was empty, only some subtle movements could be heard from the direction of the back kitchen.
Gu Chen took the initiative to step forward and tapped the table with the back of his hand.
The waitress looked up slightly.
When he saw that it was a policeman, he immediately put down his mobile phone, stood up and asked, "Comrade policeman, what do you do?"
When the voice fell, the female receptionist suddenly looked hesitant, and then looked at the people around Gu Chen, and then said:
"Eh? Aren't you the free customers last night?"
"It seems that you have a good memory." Gu Chen also smiled slightly, expressing his gratitude: "Yesterday your boss gave us a free order, and I haven't thanked him yet."
"So, you guys came here today just to thank our boss?" The waitress looked hesitant.
Do you think the policeman is too polite?Came here to thank you in police uniform. Is this to show dignity?
But Lu Weiwei also stepped forward with a smile, and took the initiative to explain: "Thanks must be thanks, but we came here today to handle business."
"Working? Come here?" The female clerk suddenly looked puzzled, feeling that she couldn't figure out what Lu Weiwei meant.
Police officer Wang cut to the chase and said, "We're here to ask, have you seen a little boy? He looks about four years old, called... called..."
"It's Zhou Jiahao." Seeing that Police Officer Wang suddenly forgot the little boy's name, Yuan Shasha beside him hurriedly reminded him.
"Oh yes, it's Zhou Jiahao." Police Officer Wang also waved his hands to confirm.
"Zhou! Jia! Hao?" The waitress frowned slightly, repeated the name word by word, and then shook her head: "I don't know, I haven't seen it before."
"Are there any children in your store? Just... how many minutes ago?" Yuan Shasha asked.
The female clerk continued to shake her head: "I don't know, maybe some customers brought their children here? But we haven't started business today, so I don't know where the little boy you are talking about is?"
Turning her head to glance towards the terrace, the female clerk immediately reminded: "Maybe there are children who have come to play on the terrace, but have not entered the store, you can ask the people on the terrace to see if they have seen it. "
"Okay." Seeing that the female shop assistant did not look like she had seen before, Gu Chen didn't force it, thanked her, and hurriedly led everyone to the direction of the terrace.
At this moment, some tourists on the terrace also left, and some came again.
Everyone sat on a public seat in the direction of the terrace, and from this perspective, they took pictures of the beautiful scenery of the Fourth Jiangnan Bridge in front of them.
Many young women posed in S shape, taking pictures and checking in.
But when they saw four policemen in uniforms approaching, many of them couldn't let go of their enchanting figures, and they were a little embarrassed.
A young woman in cool clothes saw that Police Officer Wang was staring at her, so she quickly retracted the S shape just now, and said to another female companion: "Let's go over there to take pictures."
"Girl, wait a minute." Officer Wang called to stop the young woman.
The young woman's expression was blank, and she asked nervously, "What's the matter, Comrade Police?"
"You are here, have you ever seen a little boy about four years old?"
"Little boy? Is there any?" the young woman asked her companion.
The companion shook his head, indicating that he hadn't seen it.
So the young woman also shrugged: "I'm sorry, we were only focusing on taking pictures and checking in, and didn't pay attention."
"Okay, thank you." Officer Wang's answer was simple and straightforward. If you don't know this, then ask the next one, and the next one.
Not long after, Officer Wang asked the tourists who clocked in and took pictures near the terrace one by one.
However, the results obtained were all negative. No one had seen a four-year-old child here.
I saw several tourists leave their seats.
Officer Wang sat down directly, and said angrily: "I have never seen these people, and there is no surveillance system installed here, how can we investigate?"
Glancing at a construction site that was being repaired not far away, Police Officer Wang also said without hesitation: "These people are really careless in building roads. Now that the nearby monitoring is all invalid, I really have to 'thank you' to their ancestors."
"Haha." Seeing Officer Wang complaining, Lu Weiwei also said lightly:
"This little boy may have already left, or it may be that Junior Brother Gu is thinking too much."
Glancing at Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei said again: "But then again, Junior Brother Gu's alertness is quite high, but unfortunately, there is no way to find that little boy here."
"Yeah, what does this kid named Zhou Jiahao want to do? Or...he really just wants to consult?"
Gu Chen shook his head, feeling that the children nowadays are really so precocious?
Yuan Shasha went to the front desk, bought a few drinks for them, and the four of them sat on the seats and took a short rest.
At this time, on the balcony on the second floor of the restaurant, a stylishly dressed woman suddenly lay down beside the guardrail.
Seeing that Gu Chen and the others were resting on the terrace, they also greeted warmly: "Comrade police, I heard that you are looking for someone?"
Hearing the woman's words, Gu Chen turned his head to take a look, only to find that the other party was a young woman in her 25s, dressed in fashion.
At first glance, from this angle, this dress looks more like a model walking out of a fashion magazine.
Especially the dressing taste, which seems to have a European and American style, which is obviously different from the clothes of ordinary people.
"Hello, do you know who we are looking for?" Gu Chen asked her.
The woman nodded her head: "I just heard the clerk tell me that you are looking for a little boy. Maybe, I seem to have seen that little boy a few times."
"Have you seen it?" Yuan Shasha heard the words, and quickly said to Lu Weiwei: "Senior Sister Lu, she said she has seen it."
"That's great." Lu Weiwei also clapped her hands happily, and then hurriedly asked her: "Then can we talk?"
"Okay, you guys come to the second floor." The woman walked into the room after she finished speaking.
When Gu Chen and the others saw this, they also looked at each other, so they walked into the store again.
At the prompt of the clerk, he walked directly up the stairs to the second floor, the room where the woman appeared just now.
At this moment, everyone realized that this room was not a so-called private room, but more like a private boudoir.
There are all kinds of European and American furnishings in the room. At first glance, it seems that any angle can be an ideal place for taking pictures.
Lu Weiwei also exclaimed in amazement: "My God! I thought the terrace was already an excellent angle for taking pictures and clocking in, but I didn't expect that there is even a hole in the sky here."
"By the way, is this room of yours specially used for people to take pictures and check in?"
The woman shook her head: "This is my room. Usually the store is closed for rest, so I live here and guard the store."
"Live here?" Lu Weiwei was quite curious, and said in admiration, "But living here and guarding the store is really very happy."
"Look at the scenery here is really amazing. Open the window at night and you can directly see the scenery of the Fourth Jiangnan Bridge."
"Ahem." Seeing that Lu Weiwei was chatting endlessly, Police Officer Wang quickly coughed twice and interrupted his speech.
Only then did he take the initiative to walk up to the woman and said, "You said you've seen that little boy?"
"Well, maybe the little boy I saw is the one you are looking for?" the woman said.
"Then who are you? Do you work in this store?" Officer Wang asked again.
The woman smiled slightly: "I am the owner of this internet celebrity restaurant."
"Ah? Are you the boss?" Upon hearing the young woman's words, Police Officer Wang was stunned, and immediately changed his tone and said softly:
"Oh, I didn't expect the owner of this Internet celebrity restaurant to be so young? So beautiful? No wonder..."
"No wonder what?" The young woman was a little embarrassed to see Police Officer Wang praising herself, a little brazenly flattering.
Officer Wang said with a smile: "No wonder the decoration style and location of this store are so unique. I can tell from the fact that I was eating on the terrace yesterday."
"Without a certain taste in life, it is very difficult to have such a vision. It can be seen that your experience should be quite rich, right?"
"Haha." Feeling that the policeman's mouth is really sweet, the woman also smiled slightly: "By the way, you policemen are all as glib as you?"
"Why is this glib? This is a sincere compliment." After the words fell, Police Officer Wang said again: "Oh, by the way, we also want to thank you for the waiver yesterday."
"Because we were the guests at the last table last night, so your clerk told us that the order can be waived. I'm really sorry. We met by chance, and we still have this discount."
"So you were the last batch of customers last night?" The woman obviously didn't expect that the last batch of free customers last night were the four policemen in front of her.
"That's right." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said truthfully, "We were the last batch of customers last night, so thank you, lady boss."
"Haha, why are you being polite? Come, come and eat some fruit." The female boss was very polite, and directly invited Gu Chen and the others to come to the sofa in the room.
Every piece of furniture here has its own Internet celebrity atmosphere.
In the middle of the coffee table, there is a fruit platter.
The fruits inside are all cut into strange shapes with molds of various shapes.
From this point, everyone can see that this is a woman who has a high pursuit of quality of life.
Otherwise, it would not be possible to open such a unique and strong Internet celebrity restaurant.
While eating the fruit platter, Gu Chen also got down to business. After pointing the law enforcement camera at the woman, he took out the notebook and asked her:
"Don't know the name of the lady boss?"
"Oh, my name is Hu Shishi, you can also call me Shishi." The woman said.
"Hu Shishi? Good name." Gu Chen nodded silently, and then asked, "Can you tell me your ID number?"
"Ah?" Seeing Gu Chen asking for his ID number, Hu Shishi felt a little embarrassed.
But after a while, Hu Shishi smiled and said: "Then shall I also tell you the mobile phone number?"
"Of course." Gu Chen said straightforwardly.
"In exchange, can this police officer tell me your mobile phone number?" Hu Shishi looked at Gu Chen appreciatively, feeling that this young and handsome policeman was interesting.
It was only now that Gu Chen came to his senses, and quickly explained to Hu Shishi: "Oh, Ms. Hu, don't get me wrong, this is our normal investigation procedure."
"It is necessary to know the specific contact information and identity of each person being consulted. This can be effectively contacted in our subsequent case handling, so I will..."
"Haha." Seeing that I just said it casually, this handsome policeman actually became serious, and I felt that it was quite interesting to tease him.
So Hu Shishi also had a teasing tone, and explained to Gu Chen: "Then may I know your name?"
"My name is……"
"His name is Gu Chen, do you have any questions?" Before Gu Chen could finish speaking, Lu Weiwei answered for him with a forced smile.
Hu Shishi clearly felt the murderous aura coming from Lu Weiwei, and immediately understood the subtle relationship between this beautiful policewoman and Gu Chen, and she immediately accepted it as soon as she saw it, and resolved the embarrassment with a smile:
"Of course there is no problem, my cell phone number is..."
Hu Shishi cooperatively told Gu Chen her mobile phone number.
Seeing that Gu Chen's record is complete, in order to resolve the embarrassment just now, Police Officer Wang also put on a smiley face, and smiled teasingly:
"Miss Boss, don't mind, we just want to understand some simple issues."
"What is the specific situation? Can you tell us?" Hu Shishi also withdrew her provocative expression, and then asked seriously.
"It's like this..." Police Officer Wang glanced at Gu Chen beside him, and then said again: "Gu Chen, you answered the call, the specific situation, should you tell the proprietress?"
"Okay." Gu Chen didn't refuse, and said directly: "Just before we came here, we received a call to the police."
"The caller was a four-year-old boy named Zhou Jiahao."
"He asked us some questions about the death penalty, and some questions about hidden marriages."
"It confuses me because, after all, it doesn't seem like a question that only a four-year-old would ask."
"So?" Hu Shishi also expressed puzzlement.
Gu Chen said slowly: "Later, we were afraid that this little boy had some problems, so we wanted to know where he was? But he didn't disclose this, so he chose to hang up the phone directly."
"But you have to know that I also used professional spoken language to answer these professional questions he asked, but he said that he had memorized them."
"So, the memory of this four-year-old boy is too strong. We feel that there is something specific that he hasn't told us yet?"
"So, we traced through technology and found that the address where the little boy called was in your restaurant."
"Ah?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Hu Shishi was a little embarrassed, and quickly asked Gu Chen, "Could that be the case? That little boy just passed by my restaurant?"
Gu Chen shook his head: "Your restaurant is the only one nearby, and you have to go uphill from the side of the road. If there is nothing wrong, who would run here? It must be your restaurant when you come here."
"Uh……"
Seeing that Hu Shishi was still hesitating, Gu Chen said again: "By the way, you said you might have seen this little boy before, what's going on?"
"Oh, it's like this." Seeing Gu Chen's curious face, Hu Shishi simply explained:
"A few days ago, there was indeed a little boy who often came here. Maybe it's the boy you are looking for? I'm not sure either."
"Is it about four years old?" Lu Weiwei asked quickly.
Hu Shishi nodded silently: "It's about the same, the age should be about four years old, a very cute little boy."
"Then did he come here alone? Or did he come with his family?" Yuan Shasha was also very curious, what happened to this little boy?
After Hu Shishi hesitated for a few seconds, she slowly said: "At first, I'm not sure, did he come with his family?"
"I remember that the first time I saw this little boy was last week."
"That night, there were as many people dining in the restaurant as usual, and I found a little boy squatting upstairs in the corner of the guardrail of the terrace."
"The little boy was squatting in the corner, leaning his head on the guardrail, quietly watching the night scene outside."
"Because for the sake of safety, we also use stainless steel pipes as handrails on the inside of the guardrail, which is separated from the guardrail by a certain distance."
"But the little boy is small, and it's a bit dangerous to squat by the guardrail, but fortunately, our guardrails have relatively dense gaps."
"Also, I thought that the little boy's parents should be eating next to him and they could watch, so I didn't remind him."
"Then what happened afterwards?" Gu Chen continued to ask while recording.
"Later? Later, when the customers on our side finished their meals and basically left, I realized that this little boy was sitting alone in the corner, which is where I found him before."
"He's alone?" Yuan Shasha was puzzled when she heard this, "Didn't he come here with the adults?"
"No." Hu Shishi directly shook her head in denial, and said with a puzzled look:
"At that time, I felt very strange. I thought why this kid didn't go home? There is no adult around?"
"So for safety reasons, I went downstairs and was going to ask about the situation."
"And then? Did the little boy chat with you?" Officer Wang asked.
Hu Shishi shook her head: "No, I wanted to chat with this little boy, but when I walked out of the restaurant and onto the terrace, the little boy noticed the movement, and then ran away immediately. The steps ran down and then disappeared down the road."
"Run away?" Lu Weiwei felt quite curious, and said without vomit: "What is this little boy doing?"
"I don't know either?" Hu Shishi shook her head, also quite curious: "The strangest thing is that such things happened one after another in the next few days."
"Every night when it's time for dinner, I will find this little boy near the terrace from time to time."
"He seems to be elusive, he will appear in every corner of the terrace, and he seems to be playing hide and seek with us in the store."
"Pfft! He's playing hide-and-seek with you?" Lu Weiwei felt a little interesting when she heard it.
Hu Shishi said affirmatively: "I didn't lie to you, he was really playing hide and seek with us in the store. You can ask the clerk about this, and the clerk can testify."
"How do you say it?" After Gu Chen recorded these records, he raised his head and asked:
"Is this little boy consciously avoiding you, or does he want to play tricks on you?"
"Maybe there are both? I can't say for sure." Picking up a piece of watermelon with a toothpick, Hu Shishi put it into his mouth, and after chewing slowly, he recalled and said:
"Anyway, our shop assistants wear uniforms, so it's easy to tell."
"So, whenever the little boy saw the clerk walking towards him consciously, he ran away."
"At first our clerks didn't pay much attention. After all, we were busy, so we didn't care about it. It seems that it should be a child who came here to play nearby."
"But every time after the customers are gone, when the clerk is clearing up the tableware, if he is found, he will immediately go over to ask about the situation."
"But this little boy is very ghostly. He ran away like a rabbit. The clerk saw that he was not here to cause damage, so he didn't bother to ask."
"The clerk told me the situation here again when I turned back. I was also shocked at the time. I felt that this little boy was quite a weird person."
Listening to Hu Shishi's narration, Gu Chen also felt her helplessness.
Indeed, a mysterious child suddenly appeared in the store, and came here every now and then.
Especially when there are no adults around the little boy, it is a bit of a headache.
After all, the restaurant here is located near the cliff.
If the little boy is naughty, he will jump over the guardrail directly.
If it accidentally falls down, it will be in big trouble.
Therefore, Hu Shishi will pay more attention in the store, which is also reasonable.
"Then did you have any contact with this little boy?" Gu Chen asked her.
Hu Shishi lay on the sofa, and nodded slightly: "I did get in touch with him later."
"Because of the previous experience, I know that once this little boy finds a stranger approaching him, especially when the staff in our store approach him, he will run away."
"And the clerks in our store rarely pay attention to these, but I have been silently paying attention."
"So, once, when I found that little boy sitting by the guardrail on the second floor of the restaurant, I wanted to go over and ask about the situation."
"Can think of the previous few times, the little boy ran away, so I asked the chef in the store to walk up the steps from the store to the terrace."
"And I was hiding under the other exit steps of the terrace."
"When the little boy found out that the chef was walking towards the terrace, he really ran out to another step before."
"Then he was stopped by you?" Gu Chen asked.
"Yes, I stopped him this time." Hu Shishi said here with a proud face.
"When he came down the steps, I just hid under the steps, and then I heard the movement, so I hurried out and pretended to meet him face to face."
"Haha, what was his reaction then?" Feeling caught, the little boy must have been a little confused, so Lu Weiwei was also very curious.
Hu Shishi grinned: "It's nothing? I just feel a little surprised because I blocked his way."
"In the end, I gave him a piece of chocolate and asked him why he always comes to my store alone? And runs away every time he sees me?"
"Then what does this little boy say?" Gu Chen felt more and more, is there something hidden in this little boy's heart?
Otherwise, why would this little boy behave in such a weird way?
Hu Shishi rubbed her face, trying to recall the scene at that time, and then said slowly:
"I remember, I gave him a piece of chocolate, he didn't hesitate, he felt that I was not a bad person, so he took it."
"Then, I went with him to the lawn outside the terrace, where the swing was and sat down."
"The two of us were swinging there, and I asked him casually, why did he always come to our terrace? I asked him where are his parents?"
"Then how did he answer you?" Yuan Shasha also asked impatiently.
Hu Shishi shook her head: "He never mentioned his parents to me, he just ate chocolate, but he didn't talk to me."
"Later, I met him twice again, and it was the same every time. He didn't speak, but he didn't seem to be afraid of us anymore."
"Every time I see him, I share some of the snacks in the store with him."
"But then it wasn't on the patio, one time, it was on the fence in the backyard of the restaurant."
"Another time, it was at the swing, as if he was waiting for me, because he knew that every time I saw him, I would give him some snacks."
After a pause, Hu Shishi took a deep breath and said helplessly, "But it's strange, he just doesn't speak, he doesn't say anything."
"You can chat with him, he seems to understand again, and will look at you from time to time, but he just doesn't speak."
"I felt at the time that this must be a mute. Anyway, if he doesn't speak, isn't he a mute? So I didn't care."
Listening to Hu Shishi's explanation, Gu Chen carefully recorded these situations.
I feel that this little boy seems weird and makes people feel a little scary.
But Gu Chen is still not sure whether this little boy is the boy Hu Shishi mentioned, so Gu Chen asked again:
"And what about the next few days? Has he ever appeared?"
"No, I haven't seen him in the past few days, as if he just disappeared." Hu Shishi said.
"Okay." Seeing that Hu Shishi couldn't ask about the situation, Gu Chen had no choice but to give up, and then wrote the office number of the criminal investigation team of Furong Branch on a blank page, tore it off and handed it to Hu Shishi:
"This is our office phone number. If you see the little boy next time, please hold him steady and don't let him leave. Then call us and we will come to check the situation."
"Well, if I meet that little boy again, I will definitely call and tell you, and I won't let him run away."
Regarding Gu Chen's explanation, Hu Shishi was still very happy to oblige.
Afterwards, everyone exchanged a few simple greetings, Hu Shishi sent everyone to the parking lot near the door, and watched Gu Chen and the others get into the car.
However, when Gu Chen was driving away, at a turning position, he suddenly found a weak black shadow flashing past in the rearview mirror.
Gu Chen immediately stepped on the brakes.
Following the inertia, Police Officer Wang, who had just picked up the thermos, immediately poured the wolfberry tea into his mouth directly on his face.
"Hey, Gu Chen, what are you doing?" Officer Wang wiped his face, but also looked depressed: "Look at you ruining my wolfberry tea."
Seeing that Gu Chen was absent-minded, Lu Weiwei who was sitting in the co-pilot hurriedly asked, "Junior Brother Gu, what's wrong?"
Gu Chen didn't speak, but turned his head to take a look at the position that the rearview mirror scanned just now.
In the Internet celebrity restaurant, Hu Shishi was standing at the door, and seemed to be watching everyone leave.
Looking around, Gu Chen didn't seem to find anything unusual, so Gu Chen suddenly doubted himself:
"Am I wrong?"
"What did you read wrong?" Officer Wang took the napkin from Yuan Shasha's hand and quickly wiped his wet spot clean.
Especially the crotch position.
If you want to go back now, don't you want to be laughed at by those people in the office?
"I seemed to see a figure just now, but I didn't seem to see it." Gu Chen also said to himself.
"A figure?" According to Gu Chen's reminder, Lu Weiwei also turned her head to look, staring at the Internet celebrity restaurant repeatedly.
Seeing the entrance of the restaurant, the proprietress Hu Shishi was already walking towards the restaurant, so she smiled and said, "What did Junior Brother Gu see? Is it the proprietress Hu Shishi?"
"Maybe?" Gu Chen couldn't say clearly at the moment, so he could only start the car again and drive slowly towards the Furong sub-bureau.
When the vehicle arrived at the branch, it was just in time for lunch.
After everyone parked the car, they went straight to the cafeteria.
Since it was a few minutes earlier than the off-duty time, everyone came earlier, and soon the first batch of meals were ordered, and they sat at the place where everyone usually eats and enjoyed them.
Not long after, other police officers also came over one after another, queuing up to get food.
Gu Chen saw He Junchao and Officer Ding walking towards the restaurant, so he reminded He Junchao, "Senior Brother He, how is your investigation going on with the number you were asked to investigate?"
"A temporary card, not registered with an ID card." He Junchao walked over and said.
"Then can you find out where you bought this temporary card?" Gu Chen asked again.
He Junchao shook his head: "It's hard to check, because temporary phone cards can be bought in many places."
"Besides, we didn't use an ID card to handle it, so we couldn't track it down." Seeing that the police officers who came later had already run in front of him, He Junchao reminded:
"I'll go get some food first, and I'll talk about it later."
After the words fell, He Junchao ran to the front again to line up.
A few minutes later, He Junchao came to the side of Gu Chen and the others with a plate in his hand. He also wolfed down a few mouthfuls of food, and then asked curiously:
"By the way, Gu Chen, when you went to that internet celebrity restaurant today, did you find that kid named Zhou Jiahao?"
"No." Gu Chen shook his head, but said again: "But, I heard from the proprietress in the store that a few days ago there was a mysterious little boy who had visited his store many times."
"But I didn't come to eat with the adults, but hid silently on the edge of the cliff terrace, in a quiet daze."
"Until all the customers in the store have left, he will run away when he sees the clerk approaching him."
"This kid is quite strange." He Junchao said while eating, "Then no one knows what his name is?"
"No one knows." Lu Weiwei picked up the food, also thoughtfully:
"But I heard from the proprietress, Hu Shishi, that she stopped the child several times, and every time she would share some snacks with him."
"The little boy was no longer afraid of her, and would stay with her for snacks, but he just didn't speak."
"Don't talk? Is it dumb?" He Junchao suddenly raised his head and asked after hearing Lu Weiwei's words.
"Hehe, who knows?" Lu Weiwei shrugged, feeling that this was a world-class problem.
After taking a sip of seaweed egg soup, Police Officer Wang turned his head and asked Gu Chen: "Gu Chen, could it be that you are worrying too much? After all, nothing happened?"
"I know." Gu Chen nodded, expressing his own opinion:
"In this case, in principle, there is no need to call the police, but in order to prevent problems before they happen, I think it is still necessary to understand the situation."
Putting down the chopsticks, Gu Chen, who finished his lunch, immediately sat up straight, and then said:
"I think there is something wrong with the little boy who called the police. If the little boy who called me this morning is not the one that the proprietress of the Internet celebrity restaurant said, then maybe it is the one that Senior Sister Lu said. Happening."
"Perhaps, the person who called and claimed to be Zhou Jiahao is not a child, but an adult who uses voice-changing software?"
"Uh……"
Seeing Gu Chen's questioning, He Junchao, who was eating, suddenly became uneasy and said, "Gu Chen, these are just your assumptions, you don't have to be so nervous, but if anything happens, these people will call the police."
"No." As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, Gu Chen directly interrupted with a wave of his hand:
"That's what I thought, this little boy called the police and asked me about the death penalty, would he know something?"
"For example, what did he see? That's why he thought of this question?"
"Or, this kind of thing happened around him, which made him feel scared?"
"After all, it is impossible for the little boy to call the police for no reason. It can be seen that he wants to tell us something, but he dare not say it clearly."
"Only when you have seen or experienced these things will you consciously speak out about these problems, won't you?"
Gu Chen's voice fell, and the scene paused for a few seconds.
Police Officer Wang took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and then said thoughtfully:
"Hearing what you, Gu Chen, said, I really feel a little terrified after thinking about it."
"If, I mean, if, this little boy is surrounded by such people, it is indeed very dangerous."
"And if the little boy who called the police was the little boy that Hu Shishi, the proprietress of the Internet celebrity restaurant, knew."
"The little boy didn't speak, as if he had something hidden in his heart, and he didn't dare to tell her."
"Or, that little boy wants to tell Hu Shishi something? But because he has scruples, he is afraid to say it? He has been hesitating, so he keeps coming to the restaurant." Yuan Shasha also gave her own opinion.
A mysterious phone call that keeps everyone busy for so much time, but ends up getting nothing.
This made everyone a little frustrated.
The key is that the person who called the police did not know who it was?
It would be okay if it was an ordinary person, but it happened to be a child.
Gu Chen lay on the chair in the restaurant, looked at the colleagues who were eating and chatting around, and began to recall in his heart, and couldn't help talking to himself:
"If the little boy called the police at the Internet celebrity restaurant, why did he choose to call the police here?"
"Or, this Internet celebrity restaurant has special meaning to the little boy?"
"Why does the little boy often come to Internet celebrity restaurants? Could it be that he has some kind of relationship with this restaurant? Or..."
Thinking of this, Gu Chen turned around and asked Lu Weiwei beside him: "By the way, Senior Sister Lu, how long has this internet celebrity restaurant been open?"
"It opened... two weeks, right? But it was also a trial operation for a week before, and it was full of money. It should be less than a month since the official operation?"
"Less than a month?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's words, Gu Chen hesitated again.
Consider this little boy, when he first appeared in the restaurant last week.
And the restaurant as a whole has been open for less than a month, so it seems that the time will be a little delicate.
So Gu Chen asked Lu Weiwei again: "Then, where was this Internet celebrity restaurant before it was opened? After all, I think the building of this room is a bit old. It seems that it was built on the basis of the old old house. The renovation of the literary style.”
"Uh……"
When asked by Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei suddenly froze.
After trying to think back for a few seconds, he said helplessly, "Junior Brother Gu, this... I don't know much about it. After all, this place used to be desolate, and few people came here."
"Especially the Fourth Jiangnan Bridge. There was no bridge here before, and the traffic connecting the two sides of the river is also very inconvenient."
"Senior Brother He." Gu Chen looked at He Junchao again.
He Junchao shook his chopsticks and replied, "When I finish eating, I will go back and check for you."
Although these are only Gu Chen's tentative speculations, but from the content of the call and the address of the call, Gu Chen has already subconsciously compared the image of this little boy whom he has never met with the little boy described by Hu Shishi, the proprietress of the Internet celebrity restaurant. connected to the image.
A lonely little boy began to approach the restaurant because of its opening.
And this weird behavior has been going on for more than a week.
It's just that in the past few days, Hu Shishi, the proprietress of the Internet celebrity restaurant, didn't see the little boy appearing again.
It can be seen from this that the suspicious little boy did appear, and it was exactly what this Hu Shishi described.
"If the little boy Zhou Jiahao and Hu Shishi established a friendship because of snacks, then he called the police near the Internet celebrity restaurant to ask these professional questions, is it also related to Hu Shishi?"
Thinking of this, Gu Chen looked at He Junchao who was eating again, and also reminded him: "Senior Brother He, after lunch, you can also investigate the proprietress of this restaurant, Hu Shishi."
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"Voice-changing software?" Listening to Lu Weiwei's advice, Gu Chen, who was driving, suddenly realized that this possibility is indeed very high.
First of all, the other party said that he was only four years old, but a four-year-old child is not very good at asking such professional questions.
Moreover, Gu Chen answered the other party in a professional tone. If the little boy Zhou Jiahao who called was really only four years old, then Gu Chen only said it once, would he be able to remember it?
But it doesn't rule out that the other party is a child with a good memory, but all this is just in the imagination.
"Let's go to the scene and see." Gu Chen is not sure now, but after receiving such a call, he still has no idea.
Not long after, a police car with a license plate ending in AE86 slowly drove into the parking lot near the Internet celebrity restaurant on Jiangnan Fourth Bridge.
After getting off the car, Gu Chen and the others immediately walked towards the restaurant terrace.
To enter the restaurant, one must first enter the terrace, and then walk down the steps from the terrace to enter the restaurant.
Since it's 10:50 am, it's not time for lunch yet.
Therefore, most of the customers near the terrace come here to check in and take pictures, and the number of them is not too many now.
When Gu Chen walked into the store, he found that the waitress who served him last night was playing with her mobile phone at the front desk.
The entire restaurant was empty, only some subtle movements could be heard from the direction of the back kitchen.
Gu Chen took the initiative to step forward and tapped the table with the back of his hand.
The waitress looked up slightly.
When he saw that it was a policeman, he immediately put down his mobile phone, stood up and asked, "Comrade policeman, what do you do?"
When the voice fell, the female receptionist suddenly looked hesitant, and then looked at the people around Gu Chen, and then said:
"Eh? Aren't you the free customers last night?"
"It seems that you have a good memory." Gu Chen also smiled slightly, expressing his gratitude: "Yesterday your boss gave us a free order, and I haven't thanked him yet."
"So, you guys came here today just to thank our boss?" The waitress looked hesitant.
Do you think the policeman is too polite?Came here to thank you in police uniform. Is this to show dignity?
But Lu Weiwei also stepped forward with a smile, and took the initiative to explain: "Thanks must be thanks, but we came here today to handle business."
"Working? Come here?" The female clerk suddenly looked puzzled, feeling that she couldn't figure out what Lu Weiwei meant.
Police officer Wang cut to the chase and said, "We're here to ask, have you seen a little boy? He looks about four years old, called... called..."
"It's Zhou Jiahao." Seeing that Police Officer Wang suddenly forgot the little boy's name, Yuan Shasha beside him hurriedly reminded him.
"Oh yes, it's Zhou Jiahao." Police Officer Wang also waved his hands to confirm.
"Zhou! Jia! Hao?" The waitress frowned slightly, repeated the name word by word, and then shook her head: "I don't know, I haven't seen it before."
"Are there any children in your store? Just... how many minutes ago?" Yuan Shasha asked.
The female clerk continued to shake her head: "I don't know, maybe some customers brought their children here? But we haven't started business today, so I don't know where the little boy you are talking about is?"
Turning her head to glance towards the terrace, the female clerk immediately reminded: "Maybe there are children who have come to play on the terrace, but have not entered the store, you can ask the people on the terrace to see if they have seen it. "
"Okay." Seeing that the female shop assistant did not look like she had seen before, Gu Chen didn't force it, thanked her, and hurriedly led everyone to the direction of the terrace.
At this moment, some tourists on the terrace also left, and some came again.
Everyone sat on a public seat in the direction of the terrace, and from this perspective, they took pictures of the beautiful scenery of the Fourth Jiangnan Bridge in front of them.
Many young women posed in S shape, taking pictures and checking in.
But when they saw four policemen in uniforms approaching, many of them couldn't let go of their enchanting figures, and they were a little embarrassed.
A young woman in cool clothes saw that Police Officer Wang was staring at her, so she quickly retracted the S shape just now, and said to another female companion: "Let's go over there to take pictures."
"Girl, wait a minute." Officer Wang called to stop the young woman.
The young woman's expression was blank, and she asked nervously, "What's the matter, Comrade Police?"
"You are here, have you ever seen a little boy about four years old?"
"Little boy? Is there any?" the young woman asked her companion.
The companion shook his head, indicating that he hadn't seen it.
So the young woman also shrugged: "I'm sorry, we were only focusing on taking pictures and checking in, and didn't pay attention."
"Okay, thank you." Officer Wang's answer was simple and straightforward. If you don't know this, then ask the next one, and the next one.
Not long after, Officer Wang asked the tourists who clocked in and took pictures near the terrace one by one.
However, the results obtained were all negative. No one had seen a four-year-old child here.
I saw several tourists leave their seats.
Officer Wang sat down directly, and said angrily: "I have never seen these people, and there is no surveillance system installed here, how can we investigate?"
Glancing at a construction site that was being repaired not far away, Police Officer Wang also said without hesitation: "These people are really careless in building roads. Now that the nearby monitoring is all invalid, I really have to 'thank you' to their ancestors."
"Haha." Seeing Officer Wang complaining, Lu Weiwei also said lightly:
"This little boy may have already left, or it may be that Junior Brother Gu is thinking too much."
Glancing at Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei said again: "But then again, Junior Brother Gu's alertness is quite high, but unfortunately, there is no way to find that little boy here."
"Yeah, what does this kid named Zhou Jiahao want to do? Or...he really just wants to consult?"
Gu Chen shook his head, feeling that the children nowadays are really so precocious?
Yuan Shasha went to the front desk, bought a few drinks for them, and the four of them sat on the seats and took a short rest.
At this time, on the balcony on the second floor of the restaurant, a stylishly dressed woman suddenly lay down beside the guardrail.
Seeing that Gu Chen and the others were resting on the terrace, they also greeted warmly: "Comrade police, I heard that you are looking for someone?"
Hearing the woman's words, Gu Chen turned his head to take a look, only to find that the other party was a young woman in her 25s, dressed in fashion.
At first glance, from this angle, this dress looks more like a model walking out of a fashion magazine.
Especially the dressing taste, which seems to have a European and American style, which is obviously different from the clothes of ordinary people.
"Hello, do you know who we are looking for?" Gu Chen asked her.
The woman nodded her head: "I just heard the clerk tell me that you are looking for a little boy. Maybe, I seem to have seen that little boy a few times."
"Have you seen it?" Yuan Shasha heard the words, and quickly said to Lu Weiwei: "Senior Sister Lu, she said she has seen it."
"That's great." Lu Weiwei also clapped her hands happily, and then hurriedly asked her: "Then can we talk?"
"Okay, you guys come to the second floor." The woman walked into the room after she finished speaking.
When Gu Chen and the others saw this, they also looked at each other, so they walked into the store again.
At the prompt of the clerk, he walked directly up the stairs to the second floor, the room where the woman appeared just now.
At this moment, everyone realized that this room was not a so-called private room, but more like a private boudoir.
There are all kinds of European and American furnishings in the room. At first glance, it seems that any angle can be an ideal place for taking pictures.
Lu Weiwei also exclaimed in amazement: "My God! I thought the terrace was already an excellent angle for taking pictures and clocking in, but I didn't expect that there is even a hole in the sky here."
"By the way, is this room of yours specially used for people to take pictures and check in?"
The woman shook her head: "This is my room. Usually the store is closed for rest, so I live here and guard the store."
"Live here?" Lu Weiwei was quite curious, and said in admiration, "But living here and guarding the store is really very happy."
"Look at the scenery here is really amazing. Open the window at night and you can directly see the scenery of the Fourth Jiangnan Bridge."
"Ahem." Seeing that Lu Weiwei was chatting endlessly, Police Officer Wang quickly coughed twice and interrupted his speech.
Only then did he take the initiative to walk up to the woman and said, "You said you've seen that little boy?"
"Well, maybe the little boy I saw is the one you are looking for?" the woman said.
"Then who are you? Do you work in this store?" Officer Wang asked again.
The woman smiled slightly: "I am the owner of this internet celebrity restaurant."
"Ah? Are you the boss?" Upon hearing the young woman's words, Police Officer Wang was stunned, and immediately changed his tone and said softly:
"Oh, I didn't expect the owner of this Internet celebrity restaurant to be so young? So beautiful? No wonder..."
"No wonder what?" The young woman was a little embarrassed to see Police Officer Wang praising herself, a little brazenly flattering.
Officer Wang said with a smile: "No wonder the decoration style and location of this store are so unique. I can tell from the fact that I was eating on the terrace yesterday."
"Without a certain taste in life, it is very difficult to have such a vision. It can be seen that your experience should be quite rich, right?"
"Haha." Feeling that the policeman's mouth is really sweet, the woman also smiled slightly: "By the way, you policemen are all as glib as you?"
"Why is this glib? This is a sincere compliment." After the words fell, Police Officer Wang said again: "Oh, by the way, we also want to thank you for the waiver yesterday."
"Because we were the guests at the last table last night, so your clerk told us that the order can be waived. I'm really sorry. We met by chance, and we still have this discount."
"So you were the last batch of customers last night?" The woman obviously didn't expect that the last batch of free customers last night were the four policemen in front of her.
"That's right." Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said truthfully, "We were the last batch of customers last night, so thank you, lady boss."
"Haha, why are you being polite? Come, come and eat some fruit." The female boss was very polite, and directly invited Gu Chen and the others to come to the sofa in the room.
Every piece of furniture here has its own Internet celebrity atmosphere.
In the middle of the coffee table, there is a fruit platter.
The fruits inside are all cut into strange shapes with molds of various shapes.
From this point, everyone can see that this is a woman who has a high pursuit of quality of life.
Otherwise, it would not be possible to open such a unique and strong Internet celebrity restaurant.
While eating the fruit platter, Gu Chen also got down to business. After pointing the law enforcement camera at the woman, he took out the notebook and asked her:
"Don't know the name of the lady boss?"
"Oh, my name is Hu Shishi, you can also call me Shishi." The woman said.
"Hu Shishi? Good name." Gu Chen nodded silently, and then asked, "Can you tell me your ID number?"
"Ah?" Seeing Gu Chen asking for his ID number, Hu Shishi felt a little embarrassed.
But after a while, Hu Shishi smiled and said: "Then shall I also tell you the mobile phone number?"
"Of course." Gu Chen said straightforwardly.
"In exchange, can this police officer tell me your mobile phone number?" Hu Shishi looked at Gu Chen appreciatively, feeling that this young and handsome policeman was interesting.
It was only now that Gu Chen came to his senses, and quickly explained to Hu Shishi: "Oh, Ms. Hu, don't get me wrong, this is our normal investigation procedure."
"It is necessary to know the specific contact information and identity of each person being consulted. This can be effectively contacted in our subsequent case handling, so I will..."
"Haha." Seeing that I just said it casually, this handsome policeman actually became serious, and I felt that it was quite interesting to tease him.
So Hu Shishi also had a teasing tone, and explained to Gu Chen: "Then may I know your name?"
"My name is……"
"His name is Gu Chen, do you have any questions?" Before Gu Chen could finish speaking, Lu Weiwei answered for him with a forced smile.
Hu Shishi clearly felt the murderous aura coming from Lu Weiwei, and immediately understood the subtle relationship between this beautiful policewoman and Gu Chen, and she immediately accepted it as soon as she saw it, and resolved the embarrassment with a smile:
"Of course there is no problem, my cell phone number is..."
Hu Shishi cooperatively told Gu Chen her mobile phone number.
Seeing that Gu Chen's record is complete, in order to resolve the embarrassment just now, Police Officer Wang also put on a smiley face, and smiled teasingly:
"Miss Boss, don't mind, we just want to understand some simple issues."
"What is the specific situation? Can you tell us?" Hu Shishi also withdrew her provocative expression, and then asked seriously.
"It's like this..." Police Officer Wang glanced at Gu Chen beside him, and then said again: "Gu Chen, you answered the call, the specific situation, should you tell the proprietress?"
"Okay." Gu Chen didn't refuse, and said directly: "Just before we came here, we received a call to the police."
"The caller was a four-year-old boy named Zhou Jiahao."
"He asked us some questions about the death penalty, and some questions about hidden marriages."
"It confuses me because, after all, it doesn't seem like a question that only a four-year-old would ask."
"So?" Hu Shishi also expressed puzzlement.
Gu Chen said slowly: "Later, we were afraid that this little boy had some problems, so we wanted to know where he was? But he didn't disclose this, so he chose to hang up the phone directly."
"But you have to know that I also used professional spoken language to answer these professional questions he asked, but he said that he had memorized them."
"So, the memory of this four-year-old boy is too strong. We feel that there is something specific that he hasn't told us yet?"
"So, we traced through technology and found that the address where the little boy called was in your restaurant."
"Ah?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Hu Shishi was a little embarrassed, and quickly asked Gu Chen, "Could that be the case? That little boy just passed by my restaurant?"
Gu Chen shook his head: "Your restaurant is the only one nearby, and you have to go uphill from the side of the road. If there is nothing wrong, who would run here? It must be your restaurant when you come here."
"Uh……"
Seeing that Hu Shishi was still hesitating, Gu Chen said again: "By the way, you said you might have seen this little boy before, what's going on?"
"Oh, it's like this." Seeing Gu Chen's curious face, Hu Shishi simply explained:
"A few days ago, there was indeed a little boy who often came here. Maybe it's the boy you are looking for? I'm not sure either."
"Is it about four years old?" Lu Weiwei asked quickly.
Hu Shishi nodded silently: "It's about the same, the age should be about four years old, a very cute little boy."
"Then did he come here alone? Or did he come with his family?" Yuan Shasha was also very curious, what happened to this little boy?
After Hu Shishi hesitated for a few seconds, she slowly said: "At first, I'm not sure, did he come with his family?"
"I remember that the first time I saw this little boy was last week."
"That night, there were as many people dining in the restaurant as usual, and I found a little boy squatting upstairs in the corner of the guardrail of the terrace."
"The little boy was squatting in the corner, leaning his head on the guardrail, quietly watching the night scene outside."
"Because for the sake of safety, we also use stainless steel pipes as handrails on the inside of the guardrail, which is separated from the guardrail by a certain distance."
"But the little boy is small, and it's a bit dangerous to squat by the guardrail, but fortunately, our guardrails have relatively dense gaps."
"Also, I thought that the little boy's parents should be eating next to him and they could watch, so I didn't remind him."
"Then what happened afterwards?" Gu Chen continued to ask while recording.
"Later? Later, when the customers on our side finished their meals and basically left, I realized that this little boy was sitting alone in the corner, which is where I found him before."
"He's alone?" Yuan Shasha was puzzled when she heard this, "Didn't he come here with the adults?"
"No." Hu Shishi directly shook her head in denial, and said with a puzzled look:
"At that time, I felt very strange. I thought why this kid didn't go home? There is no adult around?"
"So for safety reasons, I went downstairs and was going to ask about the situation."
"And then? Did the little boy chat with you?" Officer Wang asked.
Hu Shishi shook her head: "No, I wanted to chat with this little boy, but when I walked out of the restaurant and onto the terrace, the little boy noticed the movement, and then ran away immediately. The steps ran down and then disappeared down the road."
"Run away?" Lu Weiwei felt quite curious, and said without vomit: "What is this little boy doing?"
"I don't know either?" Hu Shishi shook her head, also quite curious: "The strangest thing is that such things happened one after another in the next few days."
"Every night when it's time for dinner, I will find this little boy near the terrace from time to time."
"He seems to be elusive, he will appear in every corner of the terrace, and he seems to be playing hide and seek with us in the store."
"Pfft! He's playing hide-and-seek with you?" Lu Weiwei felt a little interesting when she heard it.
Hu Shishi said affirmatively: "I didn't lie to you, he was really playing hide and seek with us in the store. You can ask the clerk about this, and the clerk can testify."
"How do you say it?" After Gu Chen recorded these records, he raised his head and asked:
"Is this little boy consciously avoiding you, or does he want to play tricks on you?"
"Maybe there are both? I can't say for sure." Picking up a piece of watermelon with a toothpick, Hu Shishi put it into his mouth, and after chewing slowly, he recalled and said:
"Anyway, our shop assistants wear uniforms, so it's easy to tell."
"So, whenever the little boy saw the clerk walking towards him consciously, he ran away."
"At first our clerks didn't pay much attention. After all, we were busy, so we didn't care about it. It seems that it should be a child who came here to play nearby."
"But every time after the customers are gone, when the clerk is clearing up the tableware, if he is found, he will immediately go over to ask about the situation."
"But this little boy is very ghostly. He ran away like a rabbit. The clerk saw that he was not here to cause damage, so he didn't bother to ask."
"The clerk told me the situation here again when I turned back. I was also shocked at the time. I felt that this little boy was quite a weird person."
Listening to Hu Shishi's narration, Gu Chen also felt her helplessness.
Indeed, a mysterious child suddenly appeared in the store, and came here every now and then.
Especially when there are no adults around the little boy, it is a bit of a headache.
After all, the restaurant here is located near the cliff.
If the little boy is naughty, he will jump over the guardrail directly.
If it accidentally falls down, it will be in big trouble.
Therefore, Hu Shishi will pay more attention in the store, which is also reasonable.
"Then did you have any contact with this little boy?" Gu Chen asked her.
Hu Shishi lay on the sofa, and nodded slightly: "I did get in touch with him later."
"Because of the previous experience, I know that once this little boy finds a stranger approaching him, especially when the staff in our store approach him, he will run away."
"And the clerks in our store rarely pay attention to these, but I have been silently paying attention."
"So, once, when I found that little boy sitting by the guardrail on the second floor of the restaurant, I wanted to go over and ask about the situation."
"Can think of the previous few times, the little boy ran away, so I asked the chef in the store to walk up the steps from the store to the terrace."
"And I was hiding under the other exit steps of the terrace."
"When the little boy found out that the chef was walking towards the terrace, he really ran out to another step before."
"Then he was stopped by you?" Gu Chen asked.
"Yes, I stopped him this time." Hu Shishi said here with a proud face.
"When he came down the steps, I just hid under the steps, and then I heard the movement, so I hurried out and pretended to meet him face to face."
"Haha, what was his reaction then?" Feeling caught, the little boy must have been a little confused, so Lu Weiwei was also very curious.
Hu Shishi grinned: "It's nothing? I just feel a little surprised because I blocked his way."
"In the end, I gave him a piece of chocolate and asked him why he always comes to my store alone? And runs away every time he sees me?"
"Then what does this little boy say?" Gu Chen felt more and more, is there something hidden in this little boy's heart?
Otherwise, why would this little boy behave in such a weird way?
Hu Shishi rubbed her face, trying to recall the scene at that time, and then said slowly:
"I remember, I gave him a piece of chocolate, he didn't hesitate, he felt that I was not a bad person, so he took it."
"Then, I went with him to the lawn outside the terrace, where the swing was and sat down."
"The two of us were swinging there, and I asked him casually, why did he always come to our terrace? I asked him where are his parents?"
"Then how did he answer you?" Yuan Shasha also asked impatiently.
Hu Shishi shook her head: "He never mentioned his parents to me, he just ate chocolate, but he didn't talk to me."
"Later, I met him twice again, and it was the same every time. He didn't speak, but he didn't seem to be afraid of us anymore."
"Every time I see him, I share some of the snacks in the store with him."
"But then it wasn't on the patio, one time, it was on the fence in the backyard of the restaurant."
"Another time, it was at the swing, as if he was waiting for me, because he knew that every time I saw him, I would give him some snacks."
After a pause, Hu Shishi took a deep breath and said helplessly, "But it's strange, he just doesn't speak, he doesn't say anything."
"You can chat with him, he seems to understand again, and will look at you from time to time, but he just doesn't speak."
"I felt at the time that this must be a mute. Anyway, if he doesn't speak, isn't he a mute? So I didn't care."
Listening to Hu Shishi's explanation, Gu Chen carefully recorded these situations.
I feel that this little boy seems weird and makes people feel a little scary.
But Gu Chen is still not sure whether this little boy is the boy Hu Shishi mentioned, so Gu Chen asked again:
"And what about the next few days? Has he ever appeared?"
"No, I haven't seen him in the past few days, as if he just disappeared." Hu Shishi said.
"Okay." Seeing that Hu Shishi couldn't ask about the situation, Gu Chen had no choice but to give up, and then wrote the office number of the criminal investigation team of Furong Branch on a blank page, tore it off and handed it to Hu Shishi:
"This is our office phone number. If you see the little boy next time, please hold him steady and don't let him leave. Then call us and we will come to check the situation."
"Well, if I meet that little boy again, I will definitely call and tell you, and I won't let him run away."
Regarding Gu Chen's explanation, Hu Shishi was still very happy to oblige.
Afterwards, everyone exchanged a few simple greetings, Hu Shishi sent everyone to the parking lot near the door, and watched Gu Chen and the others get into the car.
However, when Gu Chen was driving away, at a turning position, he suddenly found a weak black shadow flashing past in the rearview mirror.
Gu Chen immediately stepped on the brakes.
Following the inertia, Police Officer Wang, who had just picked up the thermos, immediately poured the wolfberry tea into his mouth directly on his face.
"Hey, Gu Chen, what are you doing?" Officer Wang wiped his face, but also looked depressed: "Look at you ruining my wolfberry tea."
Seeing that Gu Chen was absent-minded, Lu Weiwei who was sitting in the co-pilot hurriedly asked, "Junior Brother Gu, what's wrong?"
Gu Chen didn't speak, but turned his head to take a look at the position that the rearview mirror scanned just now.
In the Internet celebrity restaurant, Hu Shishi was standing at the door, and seemed to be watching everyone leave.
Looking around, Gu Chen didn't seem to find anything unusual, so Gu Chen suddenly doubted himself:
"Am I wrong?"
"What did you read wrong?" Officer Wang took the napkin from Yuan Shasha's hand and quickly wiped his wet spot clean.
Especially the crotch position.
If you want to go back now, don't you want to be laughed at by those people in the office?
"I seemed to see a figure just now, but I didn't seem to see it." Gu Chen also said to himself.
"A figure?" According to Gu Chen's reminder, Lu Weiwei also turned her head to look, staring at the Internet celebrity restaurant repeatedly.
Seeing the entrance of the restaurant, the proprietress Hu Shishi was already walking towards the restaurant, so she smiled and said, "What did Junior Brother Gu see? Is it the proprietress Hu Shishi?"
"Maybe?" Gu Chen couldn't say clearly at the moment, so he could only start the car again and drive slowly towards the Furong sub-bureau.
When the vehicle arrived at the branch, it was just in time for lunch.
After everyone parked the car, they went straight to the cafeteria.
Since it was a few minutes earlier than the off-duty time, everyone came earlier, and soon the first batch of meals were ordered, and they sat at the place where everyone usually eats and enjoyed them.
Not long after, other police officers also came over one after another, queuing up to get food.
Gu Chen saw He Junchao and Officer Ding walking towards the restaurant, so he reminded He Junchao, "Senior Brother He, how is your investigation going on with the number you were asked to investigate?"
"A temporary card, not registered with an ID card." He Junchao walked over and said.
"Then can you find out where you bought this temporary card?" Gu Chen asked again.
He Junchao shook his head: "It's hard to check, because temporary phone cards can be bought in many places."
"Besides, we didn't use an ID card to handle it, so we couldn't track it down." Seeing that the police officers who came later had already run in front of him, He Junchao reminded:
"I'll go get some food first, and I'll talk about it later."
After the words fell, He Junchao ran to the front again to line up.
A few minutes later, He Junchao came to the side of Gu Chen and the others with a plate in his hand. He also wolfed down a few mouthfuls of food, and then asked curiously:
"By the way, Gu Chen, when you went to that internet celebrity restaurant today, did you find that kid named Zhou Jiahao?"
"No." Gu Chen shook his head, but said again: "But, I heard from the proprietress in the store that a few days ago there was a mysterious little boy who had visited his store many times."
"But I didn't come to eat with the adults, but hid silently on the edge of the cliff terrace, in a quiet daze."
"Until all the customers in the store have left, he will run away when he sees the clerk approaching him."
"This kid is quite strange." He Junchao said while eating, "Then no one knows what his name is?"
"No one knows." Lu Weiwei picked up the food, also thoughtfully:
"But I heard from the proprietress, Hu Shishi, that she stopped the child several times, and every time she would share some snacks with him."
"The little boy was no longer afraid of her, and would stay with her for snacks, but he just didn't speak."
"Don't talk? Is it dumb?" He Junchao suddenly raised his head and asked after hearing Lu Weiwei's words.
"Hehe, who knows?" Lu Weiwei shrugged, feeling that this was a world-class problem.
After taking a sip of seaweed egg soup, Police Officer Wang turned his head and asked Gu Chen: "Gu Chen, could it be that you are worrying too much? After all, nothing happened?"
"I know." Gu Chen nodded, expressing his own opinion:
"In this case, in principle, there is no need to call the police, but in order to prevent problems before they happen, I think it is still necessary to understand the situation."
Putting down the chopsticks, Gu Chen, who finished his lunch, immediately sat up straight, and then said:
"I think there is something wrong with the little boy who called the police. If the little boy who called me this morning is not the one that the proprietress of the Internet celebrity restaurant said, then maybe it is the one that Senior Sister Lu said. Happening."
"Perhaps, the person who called and claimed to be Zhou Jiahao is not a child, but an adult who uses voice-changing software?"
"Uh……"
Seeing Gu Chen's questioning, He Junchao, who was eating, suddenly became uneasy and said, "Gu Chen, these are just your assumptions, you don't have to be so nervous, but if anything happens, these people will call the police."
"No." As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, Gu Chen directly interrupted with a wave of his hand:
"That's what I thought, this little boy called the police and asked me about the death penalty, would he know something?"
"For example, what did he see? That's why he thought of this question?"
"Or, this kind of thing happened around him, which made him feel scared?"
"After all, it is impossible for the little boy to call the police for no reason. It can be seen that he wants to tell us something, but he dare not say it clearly."
"Only when you have seen or experienced these things will you consciously speak out about these problems, won't you?"
Gu Chen's voice fell, and the scene paused for a few seconds.
Police Officer Wang took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and then said thoughtfully:
"Hearing what you, Gu Chen, said, I really feel a little terrified after thinking about it."
"If, I mean, if, this little boy is surrounded by such people, it is indeed very dangerous."
"And if the little boy who called the police was the little boy that Hu Shishi, the proprietress of the Internet celebrity restaurant, knew."
"The little boy didn't speak, as if he had something hidden in his heart, and he didn't dare to tell her."
"Or, that little boy wants to tell Hu Shishi something? But because he has scruples, he is afraid to say it? He has been hesitating, so he keeps coming to the restaurant." Yuan Shasha also gave her own opinion.
A mysterious phone call that keeps everyone busy for so much time, but ends up getting nothing.
This made everyone a little frustrated.
The key is that the person who called the police did not know who it was?
It would be okay if it was an ordinary person, but it happened to be a child.
Gu Chen lay on the chair in the restaurant, looked at the colleagues who were eating and chatting around, and began to recall in his heart, and couldn't help talking to himself:
"If the little boy called the police at the Internet celebrity restaurant, why did he choose to call the police here?"
"Or, this Internet celebrity restaurant has special meaning to the little boy?"
"Why does the little boy often come to Internet celebrity restaurants? Could it be that he has some kind of relationship with this restaurant? Or..."
Thinking of this, Gu Chen turned around and asked Lu Weiwei beside him: "By the way, Senior Sister Lu, how long has this internet celebrity restaurant been open?"
"It opened... two weeks, right? But it was also a trial operation for a week before, and it was full of money. It should be less than a month since the official operation?"
"Less than a month?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's words, Gu Chen hesitated again.
Consider this little boy, when he first appeared in the restaurant last week.
And the restaurant as a whole has been open for less than a month, so it seems that the time will be a little delicate.
So Gu Chen asked Lu Weiwei again: "Then, where was this Internet celebrity restaurant before it was opened? After all, I think the building of this room is a bit old. It seems that it was built on the basis of the old old house. The renovation of the literary style.”
"Uh……"
When asked by Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei suddenly froze.
After trying to think back for a few seconds, he said helplessly, "Junior Brother Gu, this... I don't know much about it. After all, this place used to be desolate, and few people came here."
"Especially the Fourth Jiangnan Bridge. There was no bridge here before, and the traffic connecting the two sides of the river is also very inconvenient."
"Senior Brother He." Gu Chen looked at He Junchao again.
He Junchao shook his chopsticks and replied, "When I finish eating, I will go back and check for you."
Although these are only Gu Chen's tentative speculations, but from the content of the call and the address of the call, Gu Chen has already subconsciously compared the image of this little boy whom he has never met with the little boy described by Hu Shishi, the proprietress of the Internet celebrity restaurant. connected to the image.
A lonely little boy began to approach the restaurant because of its opening.
And this weird behavior has been going on for more than a week.
It's just that in the past few days, Hu Shishi, the proprietress of the Internet celebrity restaurant, didn't see the little boy appearing again.
It can be seen from this that the suspicious little boy did appear, and it was exactly what this Hu Shishi described.
"If the little boy Zhou Jiahao and Hu Shishi established a friendship because of snacks, then he called the police near the Internet celebrity restaurant to ask these professional questions, is it also related to Hu Shishi?"
Thinking of this, Gu Chen looked at He Junchao who was eating again, and also reminded him: "Senior Brother He, after lunch, you can also investigate the proprietress of this restaurant, Hu Shishi."
……
Ask for votes, with a sincere face. ╰(‵ ′)╯
(End of this chapter)
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