I am a super cop

Gu Chen had never paid attention to the ventilation duct before, but now, through his master-level observation skills, he keenly observed the food under Master Liu's feet.

Gu Chen was convinced that there might be important clues in this warehouse.

At this moment, Gu Chen realized that the ventilation duct that he had previously ignored might be the key to the problem.

Walking to one of the ventilation ducts, Gu Chen looked up and then turned to look at Master Liu and asked:
"Master Liu, where is the switch for the ventilation duct here?"

"At...at the door."

"Open them all." said Gu Chen.

"Now?" Master Liu looked surprised.

Seeing Gu Chen nod silently, he ran to the door, followed the various words posted on it, began to find the switches of the ventilation ducts, and turned on all the switches.

At this moment, as various noises sounded, everyone discovered that several vents began to make some "buzzing" sounds, which was a sign that the fans had started to ventilate.

So everyone immediately found a place with ventilation and observed carefully.

"Senior Brother Gu, look there." Yuan Shasha pointed to one of the iron frames.

Only then did Gu Chen realize that the location of the iron frame was exactly above and below the ventilation duct.

In other words, people can climb up through the iron frame and then leave through the ventilation duct.

"Let's go and take a look." Gu Chen was a little impatient at this moment. He really wanted to know how this group of people evaded the police pursuit.

Not long after, when Gu Chen came under the iron frame, he found that there were obvious signs of movement at the four legs of the iron frame.

This situation usually occurs when people climb up the iron frame, causing some slight shaking, which causes the iron frame to move.

"Someone climbed up there." Officer Wang said quickly when he saw the traces below.

"I'll go up and take a look." said Gu Chen.

Officer Wang immediately reminded him, "Gu Chen, be careful. I'll go up with you to take a look."

He was also worried about Gu Chen's comfort. After all, if there were really these people hiding in the ventilation duct, they might fight to the death with the police.

Therefore, the best way now is to first find out the exact location of this group of people, and then make long-term plans.

The two looked at each other and nodded silently.

Afterwards, Gu Chen first extracted some fingerprint information on the iron frame, and then climbed the iron frame from another location, while Officer Wang followed closely behind.

Other personnel held the iron frame to prevent it from moving.

When the two men came to the top of the iron frame, the fan in the ventilation duct was still buzzing.

Gu Chen took out a police dagger and began to try the ventilation duct opening.

After finding no problems, they began to move the ceiling above the pipe along the gap.

At this moment, the humming noise of the fan is getting louder and louder.

However, Gu Chen did not enter the pipe immediately, but took out the mobile phone and turned on the camera.

Then, position the camera deeper into the ceiling above.

After taking some photos, put the phone away.

Officer Wang immediately came up to Gu Chen, and the two of them confirmed the internal conditions of the ventilation duct again.

"Is there garbage?" When Officer Wang saw some food garbage bags, he was startled.

I thought that Gu Chen had guessed it right, there were indeed people hiding upstairs.

Thinking of this, Officer Wang took out his cell phone again and, imitating what Gu Chen had done just now, he went deeper into the phone to investigate again.

When Officer Wang took the phone back, he discovered that there were not only food packaging bags but also some empty mineral water bottles.

However, apart from some fan blades, no trace of people was found in the ventilation vents.

But when I looked up, I saw that the leaves seemed to have been disassembled.

Officer Wang put on gloves and began to twist the obstacle in front of him. When the obstacle was removed, he could actually crawl into the ventilation duct as long as he stood up.

"I'll go in and take a look," said Officer Wang.

"Senior Brother Wang, be careful." Gu Chen also reminded.

Officer Wang waved his hand and said, "It's okay. This pipe seems to lead to the outside. There's no one inside now. I guess they escaped from the warehouse through the pipe."

Without having time to think, Officer Wang immediately began to crawl into the pipe.

Thanks to his successful weight loss, Officer Wang's physical fitness has been remarkable in recent years.

Dealing with this kind of environment is no problem.

Soon, Officer Wang crawled into the ventilation duct and used the light of a flashlight to take a look at the situation inside.

Because of these four ventilation holes, only this place has an iron frame underneath as support so people can climb up.

So if you want to escape from the pipe, you can only go through this pipe, so just keep crawling along the pipe.

Officer Wang crawled forward for a long time, and a flashlight beam came from behind.

When I turned around, I saw Gu Chen was already behind me.

Then, the two began to crawl forward, searching continuously.

There are many packaged food bags on both sides of this passage.

Gu Chen, who was following behind Officer Wang, also kept taking these packaging bags in front of him, observing them carefully, and making sure that they had been used recently before continuing to crawl forward.

But the two of them didn't know how long they had been crawling in this dim pipe, before suddenly there was some light in front of them.

Officer Wang turned around and looked at Gu Chen, and also reminded him: "Gu Chen, there might be an exit ahead."

"I understand. Senior Brother Wang, please be careful." Gu Chen nodded silently, and the two of them nodded in tacit understanding.

But when Officer Wang crawled towards the light source, he discovered that there was an air vent similar to a Venetian blind in front of him.

When Officer Wang arrived at the ventilation vent, he discovered that there was a green area in front of him.

The screws at the seal had been removed, and were only nominally stuck there. Officer Wang easily removed the seal and then drilled out of the vent.

Gu Chen followed closely behind.

When both of them came to the ground, they found that this was a lawn of the hotel, and around the lawn, there seemed to be some dense woods.

There is a wall not far away.

"These people won't escape from here, right?" When Officer Wang saw this scene, his heart skipped a beat, thinking that there was a blind spot in the surveillance here.

Gu Chen did not reply, but immediately started walking towards the wall.

During the journey, we passed through a dense forest.

The trees here are lush and leafy, so it is quite shady.

But when Gu Chen came near the wall, he found that there was a broken iron railing, and people could easily get out from here.

"It's here." Seeing this scene, Gu Chen took a deep breath and finally figured out where this group of people escaped from.

But when he thought about it, he felt something was wrong: "If these people took Wen Jun away from here, then why would Wen Jun be willing to be kidnapped by them?"

"If it's a threat, then getting out of the ventilation duct is not easy."

"If Wen Jun refuses to cooperate, or in other words, cooperates passively, these people will suffer."

"After all, to kidnap a person, you have to crawl from the inside of the warehouse to the ventilation duct, then get out from another location in the ventilation duct, and climb over the wall to escape from the hotel."

"With all these factors added together, how can the kidnappers be 100% sure of success? Instead of choosing the simplest way to kidnap Wen Jun into a car and then drive away?"

All these questions suddenly made Gu Chen feel that the situation was not that simple.

At the same time, after receiving the phone reminder from Officer Wang, Lu Weiwei and others hurriedly came to the ground from the underground warehouse, and after going around in a big circle, they found the exact location of Gu Chen and Officer Wang.

"Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei was the first to trot over to Gu Chen. After seeing the damage to the wall, her heart skipped a beat and she said without hesitation:
"How come we didn't find this location during the previous search?"

"There are a lot of plants here serving as cover. People who are not familiar with the situation here would never notice that there is a broken wall behind these plants." Gu Chen said casually.

"That's right." Lu Weiwei nodded silently and said without hesitation: "Then these people must be quite familiar with the hotel, at least the layout, and they should be very familiar with the hotel."

"I dare say that ordinary hotel employees may not be aware of the loopholes here."

"Yes." Yuan Shasha also agreed with Lu Weiwei's words and echoed:
"It seems that this group of people has planned this for a long time, but..."

Halfway through her words, Yuan Shasha turned her head to look in Gu Chen's direction and asked curiously:
"But Senior Brother Gu, it seems very difficult for this group of people to take Wen Jun away from here. Without Wen Jun's cooperation, many links will be difficult to establish."

"That's right." As soon as Yuan Shasha finished speaking, Gu Chen also expressed his opinion:
"This is where my suspicions arise, because just now Senior Brother Wang and I crawled all the way through the ventilation duct in the warehouse, and we deeply felt that without Wen Jun's cooperation, it would be difficult for these people to achieve their goal."

"But if they kidnap Wen Jun, how can they guarantee that Wen Jun will cooperate? The time is also too short."

Shaking his right index finger, Gu Chen added: "Especially in terms of the destruction of the hotel's lines, it feels like these people are really well versed in the hotel's internal situation."

"It seems as if everything was arranged in advance. It seems that there are indeed many unreasonable things."

"That's right." Upon hearing this, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but say:

"This is a bit strange no matter how you look at it. The key point is that even the porcelain bottle that Wen Jun brought from his grandfather's neighbor's house is missing."

"It's obvious that Wen Jun would definitely keep such an important thing with him, which means he would put it in his room."

"Then Wen Jun was kidnapped, and his belongings must have been taken away with him."

"We need to kidnap Wen Jun, take him out of the room, hide him in the warehouse, wait for the right opportunity, and then crawl from the ventilation duct above the warehouse to the road here."

"Go through this dense forest, come to the broken wall, and then escape from here through this broken wall."

"It's difficult to achieve no matter how you look at it, unless..."

"Unless Wen Jun cooperates himself." Before Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Gu Chen directly said:
"Unless Wen Jun cooperates himself, all this will be difficult to achieve."

"Yes." Officer Wang also snapped his fingers and expressed his opinion:
"When Gu Chen and I climbed out of the pipe, I was thinking that if these people just escaped from the scene by themselves, climbing out of the pipe would be difficult but possible."

"But now if we have to add the kidnapped Wen Jun and the porcelain bottle in Wen Jun's hand, it seems impossible to achieve."

"If this risk is likely to succeed, the probability of success is extremely low. Will these people try it so easily? If they try, it would be a bit reckless, and the probability of failure would greatly increase."

"They won't be reckless." As soon as Officer Wang finished speaking, Gu Chen directly replied:
"If they can even destroy the line, if they even know the damaged part of the wall, if they even know that they can climb all the way to the exit from the warehouse's ventilation duct."

Looking up at everyone, Gu Chen said again: "How could a group of people with such a careful plan do such a reckless thing?"

"Obviously, this incident looks like kidnapping, but in fact, maybe Wen Jun is playing missing himself."

"You mean, Wen Jun created the illusion of being kidnapped? What about the blood on the blade at the scene?" Yuan Shasha asked.

"Obviously." Gu Chen also took a deep breath and said lightly:

"If all this is true, then the blood was also left by Wen Jun himself."

"He wanted to use these things to get our police to detect them and make us believe that the criminals were using his blood to warn others."

"In this way, people will naturally not place their suspicion on him."

"That's right." After listening to Gu Chen's analysis, Yuan Shasha nodded silently.

At this time, Officer Wang was also walking back and forth in front of the crowd, saying without hesitation:
"But I just can't figure out what Wen Jun's purpose is? Why would he create a situation where he was kidnapped?"

"His father Wen Tiexiong said his son was kidnapped before, but later said he might have been the victim of a telecom scam."

"But now it seems that it's not that simple. Maybe the first time was also Wen Jun's own masterpiece. Maybe something went wrong, so Wen Jun chose to take the initiative to refute the rumor."

“But this time, maybe he has a new idea.”

"I agree with Senior Brother Wang's opinion." After hearing what Officer Wang said, Gu Chen nodded in agreement:

"Perhaps this time, Wen Jun has other plans, and the reason why he chose to stay in this hotel is probably because he discussed it with the people here, and then played a trick to paralyze us and make us careless."

Listening to Gu Chen's analysis, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. It seemed that the truth was mixed and hard to fathom.

But what can be judged now is that Wen Jun may be using deceptive means to make everyone believe that he was kidnapped.

Especially since he left the police behind and went to look for his grandparents on his own, it is not difficult to see that he might be more eager to see his relatives, but he cannot let anyone know.

...(End of chapter)