I am a super cop

Chapter 2373 The Hidden Corner [Happy Mid-Autumn Festival]

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In the market, the uncle seemed to be afraid that everyone would think his stall was dirty, so he felt that the mineral water was not clean either, so he hurriedly explained.

Lu Weiwei waved her hands sheepishly and quickly explained: "Uncle, that's not what we meant. We are not thirsty."

"Thank you, sir." As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Gu Chen took the bottle, unscrewed the cap, and took a few sips.

This made Lu Weiwei on the side quite embarrassed.

I just rejected the uncle, why did Gu Chen drink it?Isn’t this a slap in the face?

Seeing that Gu Chen accepted his kindness, the uncle also smiled and handed the remaining bottles of mineral water to everyone and said, "Take it."

"No, we're not thirsty." Officer Wang also waved his hand, feeling that Gu Chen had his own intention in taking the bottle of mineral water.

But I'm really not thirsty, so I don't need to take advantage of him.

So the uncle handed the mineral water to Yuan Shasha again, and Yuan Shasha also kindly declined and said: "I'm not thirsty either, thank you, uncle."

"Okay." The uncle saw that at least one young man accepted the water, so he stopped worrying and went back directly to put the other three bottles of mineral water back into the foam box.

Seeing this, Gu Chen also walked up to the uncle and asked him out of curiosity: "By the way, uncle, what time does this vegetable market usually close?"

"Here?" The uncle frowned and thought. After a moment, he slowly said: "We usually don't lock the door at night."

"Because there are so many vendors here, if someone leaves something behind, it would be troublesome to run back and lock the door. Therefore, the door of the vegetable market is usually unlocked."

"As for us merchants, the closing time depends entirely on our own actual conditions."

After the words fell, the uncle walked up to Gu Chen, then pointed to several other shops with lights on and said, "Did you see that? Those shops also go home very late and need to stock up on goods. They will leave when they are done."

"And I am too, because there are not many goods in the store, and there is a buyer from a big hotel today who purchased a large amount of eggs from me."

"So, there weren't many eggs in the store, so I shipped some from the warehouse."

"As for what time I'll be back? I'll pack up and go."

"That is to say, the door here is not locked at night, and what time the merchants leave depends on their actual situation, right?" Lu Weiwei heard this and also asked.

The uncle nodded silently: "That's it. Anyway, we are more open here."

"What about the security situation? What if a thief comes in at night?" Yuan Shasha was also very curious.

Logically speaking, if it is stolen at night, it should be quite troublesome.

But the uncle smiled and said: "We are not worried about this. After all, our property fees are not in vain."

After the words fell, the uncle took two steps, pointed to a location at the end of the road and said:

"Did you see that there is surveillance over there and you can see all the businesses in this row?"

After a pause, the uncle pointed in another direction and continued: "There are them over there, and there are them over there, and there are them at the door as well."

"Anyway, there will be people on duty here at night, and I will wander around the market from time to time. It's quite safe."

"Hasn't there been any theft problem?" Officer Wang was also curious.

The uncle shook his head: "I can't say it's completely impossible, but the probability is very small."

"After all, we are all selling vegetables. How cheap is this food? Is it okay for the thief to steal the food?"

"Even if it's just stealing vegetables, right? It has to be transported away, right? Holding a big bundle of vegetables isn't worth much."

"Cheap vegetables are worthless if stolen. Expensive pork and so on, other merchants sell out the meat on the same day. If they can't sell out, they take it home."

"Anyway, to sum up, our vegetable market has no value in stealing."

"So that's it?" After hearing what the uncle said, Gu Chen probably knew the specific situation here.

I thought to myself that if Hu Zhe came here, some surveillance images would be left behind.

But the most important thing for me now is to find those surveillance images.

So Gu Chen quickly asked the uncle again: "By the way, uncle, where is your monitoring room? I had a friend who lost something here a few days ago."

"So, we came here this time just to help look for it."

"Oh, the monitoring room?" Seeing that Gu Chen and the others came here to look for something, the uncle pointed to a corner very politely and said:

"Did you see the corner over there? You go over there, turn a corner and you're there. Then go up the stairs to the second floor. There is a control room over there, and there are words on the door."

"Thank you." Seeing that the uncle pointed out the specific location, Gu Chen didn't think much and quickly led everyone towards the control room.

Lu Weiwei followed Gu Chen and asked Gu Chen out of curiosity: "By the way, Junior Brother Gu, are you really thirsty when you drank that bottle of water just now?"

"Not thirsty." Gu Chen said.

"Then you..." Lu Weiwei thought for a few seconds, and then said: "I understand, you are afraid that the uncle will think that we dislike him, so you..."

"Yes." Seeing that Lu Weiwei had guessed what she was thinking, she hurriedly explained as she walked:
"You all saw the situation just now. The uncle's pawn shop is indeed dirty and messy, and there is an unpleasant smell everywhere."

"At this time, he took out a few bottles of mineral water from the old foam box."

"If we don't have anyone to take over, the uncle will feel that we think his things here are unclean."

Taking a deep breath, Gu Chen also smiled and said: "So I have no choice but to drink a bottle of water from him. This will make it easier to get closer and communicate with the uncle, and it will not be easy to have a sense of boundaries."

"So that's the case. Your Junior Brother Gu was thoughtful." Seeing that Gu Chen's intentions were roughly consistent with what she had guessed, Lu Weiwei stopped worrying about this issue.

Everyone followed the egg seller's prompts and quickly found the monitoring room.

The control room requires going up stairs. The hygiene here is a bit bad. There are cigarette butts and garbage everywhere on the steps.

Before they even reached the monitoring room, Gu Chen and the others heard people in the monitoring room cursing, and then there was a sound of cards being tossed.

"fry!"

"Hahaha!"

"My luck is so good today."

"Is there smoke coming out of your ancestral grave?"

……

Gu Chen came to the door, and through the crack of the door, he saw three people playing a landlord game. Several of them had cigarettes in their mouths, and there were scattered playing cards on the table.

Gu Chen and his colleagues looked at each other, and then walked in directly.

Seeing someone come to the monitoring room so late, a tall and thin man with a cigarette in his mouth also raised his head curiously.

Seeing Gu Chen and others standing at the door, he looked carefully and felt that the four people at the door were all extraordinary.

The tall, thin man who thought the leader was coming to inspect the work immediately became serious, stood up quickly, and asked politely: "Who are you?"

"Oh, my friend dropped a wallet here before. I wonder if I can find it?"

"Later I heard that there was surveillance here, so we wanted to use the surveillance here." Officer Wang also quickly explained.

When he heard that he was looking for something, the tall and thin man's tense nerves immediately relaxed and he smiled and said:
"So that's it, what day is it? I'm very busy now."

As he spoke, the tall and thin man immediately threw away his cigarette and started shuffling the cards on the spot, clearly looking like he was going to play again.

When Officer Wang saw this, what did he want to say?But he was stopped by Gu Chen.

Gu Chen took a step forward and said politely: "If I don't bother you, can we use the surveillance here?"

"Can you use it?" After pausing the cards on the table, the man began to shuffle the cards skillfully and glanced at Gu Chen casually.

Gu Chen smiled slightly and explained, "I know a little bit. My relative is in charge of surveillance business in a property management company. I also went there and he taught me some things."

"Oh, okay, go and see for yourself, but don't damage the equipment."

"Thank you." Seeing the tall and thin man relent, Gu Chen walked directly towards the surveillance system on the side.

The equipment here is very old, just a desktop computer, and you need to enter a password to open the computer.

Gu Chen turned to look at the three people playing cards and asked out of curiosity: "What's the password?"

"Bah! Eight eight."

Hearing Gu Chen's words, the tall and thin man who had already picked up the cards threw out a card and said calmly: "Eight, eight, eight, eight, hair, hair, hair, I must deal this year."

Hearing the tall and thin man's words, Lu Weiwei also snorted and reminded Gu Chen: "Junior brother Gu, it's eight eight."

"Yeah." Gu Chen didn't think much and entered the password directly. The computer responded very slowly, but fortunately there were no problems in all aspects.

Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha also gathered around, blocking Gu Chen's line of sight from the men playing cards.

Seeing that the card game was going on over there, Gu Chen was able to investigate with ease.

After turning on the surveillance system, start to find relevant videos based on the date.

Since the clues Liu Jinwen provided at the time were that he met Hu Zhe in the morning, Gu Chen also locked in the time he said he met Hu Zhe based on the date.

Soon, traces similar to Vujicic appeared in the surveillance footage.

Since the video pixels are a bit blurry, it doesn't look too clear.

But fortunately, when the long-haired man Liu Jinwen appeared and started communicating with the man, Gu Chen and the others were able to accurately capture that this was Hu Zhe.

"It's him," Officer Wang reminded in a low voice.

Gu Chen nodded slightly and immediately started watching the video.

Since Hu Zhe left the market after the two communicated, Gu Chen played the video backwards and began to look for traces of Hu Zhe based on the timeline.

Soon, all the characters in the video began to walk backwards.

Not long after, Gu Chen discovered that Hu Zhe's route was in a corner of the vegetable market.

"Where is this place?" Yuan Shasha looked confused. It didn't feel like the inside of a wet market.

"Is there another exit here?" Officer Wang also reminded.

Gu Chen frowned, and quickly switched to another monitoring angle at the same time. If he found something was wrong, he would cut again.

After completing a series of switches, Gu Chen still couldn't find any video in that corner, and he suddenly became confused.

"There's no surveillance here?" Gu Chen said.

"Is this some kind of secret place?" Lu Weiwei was a little confused.

Officer Wang scratched his cheek and reminded in a low voice: "Gu Chen, don't worry about this for now. Just keep walking backwards and see when Hu Zhe came in?"

"Okay." Gu Chen did not hesitate, continued to call the monitoring, and began to rewind the timeline.

But since then, no trace of Hu Zhe has been found.

But as the timeline of regression gets longer and longer, it gets longer and longer.

It wasn't until early in the morning that Gu Chen discovered Hu Zhe walking backwards from that secret corner.

Later, Gu Chen discovered based on the timeline that Hu Zhe retreated directly out of the vegetable market.

"No way?" Lu Weiwei, who saw this scene, also whispered in disbelief: "This Hu Zhe, how could he stay here all night?"

"What on earth is this guy going to do?" Officer Wang also expressed confusion.

Yuan Shasha thought for a moment and reminded Gu Chen: "Brother Gu, didn't that long-haired Liu Jinwen say that? He has met Hu Zhe twice in this vegetable market, so let's move the timeline forward."

"Yeah." Gu Chen thought about the same truth, so he continued to call the monitoring.

The investigation time also came earlier.

Still based on previous investigation techniques, Gu Chen quickly locked in the communication time between Liu Jinwen and Hu Zhe.However, what shocked everyone was that Vujicic once again entered that secret corner.

According to the timeline, Gu Chen continued to rewind to around early morning and found that Hu Zhe had just arrived at the vegetable market.

Now everyone is not calm.

Officer Wang also raised his forehead and said: "What on earth is this Hu Zicic doing? Why do you want to stay here all night?"

"There must be something going on." Yuan Shasha also had an ominous premonition.

Gu Chen frowned and said out of curiosity: "Why is there no surveillance in this place? How about we go over and have a look later?"

"I think it works." After learning about Hu Zhe's whereabouts, Lu Weiwei also agreed.

So after everyone exited the monitoring system, they also took the initiative to walk to the three people playing cards.

Lu Weiwei thanked her and said, "Thank you."

"Did you find it?" asked the tall, thin man playing cards.

Lu Weiwei smiled and said: "No, maybe it fell into a surveillance blind spot and was picked up by someone."

"Then there's nothing we can do, a pair of kings." As he spoke, the tall and thin man directly threw out two cards.

Lu Weiwei smiled and said: "It's really troublesome for you, so I won't bother you anymore."

"You're welcome." Seeing that the beautiful women said so, the tall and thin man also spoke politely.

But the three people's attention was all on the cards, and they couldn't care less about Gu Chen and the others.

So Gu Chen and others quickly left the monitoring room and came to the previous monitoring blind spot.

"Is this here?" Lu Weiwei looked around and asked Gu Chen beside her.

Gu Chen quickly found the surveillance area, then looked back for a few seconds, pointed to the left and said: "Go this way, Hu Zhe will walk into this place on the left."

"Go over and take a look." Officer Wang couldn't wait. In other words, Officer Wang really wanted to find out what Hu Zhe was doing.

You know, the investigation into Hu Zhe's disappearance made everyone discover that Hu Zhe seemed to have many secrets hidden in him.

This also offended the boss behind the plot to murder him.

Thinking of this, everyone became very anxious and eager to get the true picture.

But when Gu Chen came here, he found that it was a narrow alley. The road could only accommodate a tricycle, and even turning around was difficult.

There are rolling shutters on both sides and it looks like a warehouse.

However, Gu Chen walked further in, passed through a narrower alley, and came to a dead end.

There is a ventilation window here, open, without any glass, but fixed and blocked by steel bars.

"Could it be that Hu Zhe slept in this place during those few nights?" Gu Chen also looked surprised when he came back to his senses.

Officer Wang quickly looked around, then looked up.

Because the lighting here is dim, a small path is entirely illuminated by an incandescent lamp installed on the wall at the entrance.

The whole environment was dark.

Plus it's still storming outside.

The heavy rain hit the roof of the vegetable market and made a huge noise.

This made the atmosphere at the scene very strange.

"Could it be that these warehouses belong to Hu Zhe?" Gu Chen also had a sudden thought.

Lu Weiwei quickly agreed: "Junior brother Gu, it is entirely possible. Hu Zhe appeared at the vegetable market here twice, and he came here in the early morning and left the next morning."

"This means that Vujicic came here to spend the night, but what needs him to come here to spend the night?"

"Besides, didn't you just listen to what the egg seller said? The door is not closed here at night."

"Each business is locked by itself, so this is most likely Vujicic's warehouse."

"What is this guy doing?" Officer Wang held his chin and said thoughtfully:
"It's quite a distance from his home, but he has a warehouse here?"

"Besides, doesn't he know that Liu Jinwen of Metallica also lives nearby?"

"If he was doing something without telling others, didn't he think that Liu Jinwen would meet him here, which would eventually lead to his behavior being exposed?"

Officer Wang also seemed to realize that Hu Zhe might really have a problem.

At least many of the unusual behaviors are difficult to explain.

Yuan Shasha also expressed her opinion: "Perhaps Hu Zhe doesn't know at all that Liu Jinwen, who is in their band, lives nearby."

"I didn't even know that Liu Jinwen would have the habit of coming to this market to buy food, so I met him here twice."

"There is such a possibility." Gu Chen walked back and forth in front of everyone, thinking about it and said:
"The residence of Liu Jinwen may be a mystery, or perhaps Hu Zhe never thought of it before."

After a pause, Gu Chen looked back at everyone, and then said: "It is very possible that Hu Zhe just wanted to find a private place farther away from his residence."

"In other words, rent a warehouse in an area that is not easily discovered, so that you can do other things here."

"But this matter may have something to do with his murder, and also with the boss who hired the murderer behind the scenes."

"Maybe there is something shady in this warehouse, so Vujicic is very cautious. He didn't even tell his best friends, the band members."

"What does this mean?"

"Do you mean that Hu Zhe is doing something illegal?" Lu Weiwei seemed to feel that based on Gu Chen's prompts, only in this way could Hu Zhe need to be sneaky.

Officer Wang scratched his cheek and said thoughtfully, "Anyway, I feel like this Vujicic is sneaky and quite good at picking places."

Looking to the left and right, Officer Wang added: "Look around here. I feel like this place should be the most secret corner of the entire Yuhua Logistics Park wet market, right?"

"When other people rent warehouses, they probably rent more convenient places. The places we came to just now look like warehouses, but the locations are very good."

"Moreover, some of the rolling shutters have A4 papers for rent posted on them, which means they also have rentals there, but why is it in this corner?"

Before everyone could react, Officer Wang asked and answered himself: "This shows that Hu Zhe is guilty and dare not rent his warehouse in a conspicuous location, especially in an area covered by surveillance."

"Yes, this can only be the case." As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, Yuan Shasha quickly agreed.

Gu Chen crossed his arms and thought for a moment, then said again:

"The most important thing for us now is to figure out this..."

After finishing his words, Gu Chen looked at the warehouse number and then said: "Who is renting this store No. 001 in Area E 002 and the store No. [-] opposite?"

"You have to ask the management department for this. Only the management department knows." Lu Weiwei said.

"Harm, it seems we have to find those three card players." Officer Wang felt that he was just pretending in vain, and he was speechless.

Lu Weiwei chuckled for a lifetime, and then said: "It's probably useless to look for them. They are only responsible for monitoring security."

"Besides, I just saw it. In every room, except for the computer used for monitoring, there is nothing else."

"Especially things like merchant information, they must be in other management offices."

"That's right." After listening to what Lu Weiwei said, Officer Wang said again:
"I have to go find the old man just now and see where the management office of the wet market is?"

"Then we have to hurry. If the uncle leaves and other merchants have also left, then who should we look for?" Yuan Shasha also urged.

Everyone hit it off immediately and immediately started walking quickly towards the road they came from before.

When he arrived at the door of the shop that used to sell eggs, the uncle seemed to have finished unloading the goods and was about to close the rolling shutter door.

Seeing Gu Chen and others returning to his side, he also asked out of curiosity: "Why are you still here?"

"Uncle, there is one more thing I need to trouble you with. Do you know where the management office of the wet market is? It's the office that manages store information." Gu Chen said.

"Oh, that place? It's a bit far away. It's not here." As the uncle spoke, he directly locked the rolling shutter door and said with a smile:
"In that place, go out and go straight to the right. There is a building over there. There is a facade in it, which is the management office of this vegetable market."

"Can the information about all the merchants here be found over there?" Lu Weiwei also asked curiously.

"Of course." The uncle nodded silently and said with a smile:

"Just in time, my tricycle has lost its chain. I'm going to go over there to repair it and ask the repair shop over there to borrow some tools."

"Okay, uncle, let's help you push the cart." Seeing that the uncle was also going there, Gu Chen also took the initiative to ask for help.

The uncle was a little embarrassed and said: "Oh, why is this so embarrassing?"

"You're welcome." Gu Chen didn't think much and directly reminded the uncle: "Uncle, get in the car and hold the steering wheel. We will push the car for you from behind."

"Oh, it's still raining heavily now."

The uncle felt sorry for Gu Chen.

But Gu Chen smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if we hold an umbrella, really."

The two groups of people were humble to each other for a long time, but they couldn't resist the persistence of Gu Chen's team. The old man also sighed deeply and then agreed:
"Okay, I'm really lucky to have met you. You are all good people."

"Uncle, please get in the car." Lu Weiwei also had to rush for time. They all knew that at this time of night, there might be get off work over there, so everyone also wanted to go there and try their luck.

So, the uncle got into the car and directly held the steering wheel.

Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha took out their own umbrellas, held various positions of the tricycle, and pushed it forward together.

Everyone pushed the tricycle to the entrance of the vegetable market. As the uncle put on the hat of his raincoat, everyone used their strength to maneuver quickly to the right.

After about 10 minutes of journey, the tricycle arrived at the terminal.

At this moment, Gu Chen discovered that the management office of the vegetable market was now locked, and it seemed that the staff had already left work.

But when he looked up, he saw that the lights on the second floor were still on, indicating that someone was still working upstairs.

Only the door on the first floor was locked, which gave Gu Chen some hope.

He turned to look at the uncle, and then looked to the left of the management office. There was a supermarket and a repair shop. There seemed to be quite a few shops.

The uncle parked his car at the entrance of a repair shop, turned to look at Gu Chen and others standing blankly at the door of the management office, and asked curiously: "What? Is it locked?"

"Well, I guess they have already got off work." Gu Chen nodded silently, then pointed to the second floor and said:

"However, I saw that the lights are still on on the second floor. I guess someone is on duty."

"Oh, is that so?" Upon hearing what Gu Chen said, the uncle immediately understood Gu Chen's difficulty. Then he frowned and quickly took out an elderly phone from his pocket and reminded Gu Chen. explain:
"Young man, don't worry, I'll help you think of a solution."

"Uh……"

Gu Chen didn't understand what the uncle was saying, but when he saw the uncle using the elderly phone to search for the address book, he felt that the uncle should know the relevant person.

After all, the uncle is a merchant in the vegetable market, so it makes sense when you think about it.

Soon, the uncle dialed the number, and not long after, he was chatting with the person on the other end of the phone:

"Hello? Why is your door locked? Are you off work? I have a few friends here who want to go in. Send someone over and open them. Yes, I have something to do with your management center. Yes, yes, yes, hurry up, um, just so."

The uncle spoke with a strong tone, which surprised Gu Chen and others.

I feel like asking someone to do something is not the way it should be, right?
Although everyone was thinking that the tone of the uncle's words was a bit wrong, they couldn't bear it because the uncle really wanted to help everyone, so they didn't care.

At least the door can be opened.

Not long after, I heard hurried footsteps coming from the corridor.

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