I am a super cop

Chapter 2776 The Living Area Near the Mining Area

After all, it seemed like a very long journey, and walking along the tracks made Officer Wang feel a little crazy.

Gu Chen asked Officer Wang in return: "Brother Wang, do you have any better ideas?"

"Uh……"

Officer Wang was stunned for a second, and instantly lost his temper. He could only reluctantly agree: "Okay, I'll listen to your opinion and let's go over there."

Gu Chen walked up to several elderly people and asked them in detail about the general direction of the railway tracks.

Based on the descriptions of these elderly people, Lu Weiwei roughly marked out all the places that the railway would pass through, and quickly completed the puzzle of the route.

After all the preparations were completed, Gu Chen asked Yuan Shasha to go to a nearby store to buy some food and water for consumption on the road.

After completing the preparations, Gu Chen led everyone and started walking inside along the old station.

The railways are all narrow-gauge and look quite old, and on both sides of the tracks are old houses.

The walls of many houses are covered with vegetation.

But there are some houses that seem to still have people living there.

"I really don't understand. If the murderer is really Zhang Li, then why would Zhang Li bring Zhang He to this kind of mining area? What on earth do they want to do? Or are they deliberately playing tricks on us?" Officer Wang is a little annoyed now.

Because the initiative of the investigation is not on our side, this means that we will be led by the other party.

But Gu Chen didn't have too many thoughts, and just replied calmly: "Whether it's a trap or not, the fact that this badge appeared there means that Zhang He wants to provide us with clues."

"But if this clue was really provided by Zhang He, and we are not very sure about it, then the final result is that we have let Zhang He down."

"Then I don't think it will be possible for us to get any more clues from Zhang He next time."

"That's right. No matter whether it's true or not, it's at least a clue that needs to be verified." Lu Weiwei also supported Gu Chen.

Yuan Shasha also smiled and said, "I think this involves many people, including the former driver and the current driver."

"Everyone has seen the tragic condition of the deceased, which shows that the murderer hated that person to the core."

"This means that there must be many unknown secrets between them."

"Zhang He and Zhang Li have always been at odds with each other, but Zhang Li did not kill Zhang He. Instead, he sent someone to teach Zhang He a lesson."

"It's obvious that Zhang Li doesn't want Zhang He's life yet, or the grudge between the two hasn't reached that level yet."

After a pause, Yuan Shasha continued, "Imagine that Zhang Li is the disciple adopted by Grandpa Zhang He. Even if this disciple hates his master, he has no reason to be against Zhang He."

"Anyone with a bit of humanity wouldn't do this. Moreover, up to now, it seems that he has been taking Zhang He with him and has no intention of making things difficult for him. This is very telling."

With a deep sigh, Yuan Shasha said, "The biggest question now is, is the murderer Zhang Li?"

"All the clues and conditions clearly point to tension, but we don't have any clues to prove it yet."

"Once we find them, everything will be clear," said Lu Weiwei.

Everyone continued to discuss while walking along the old narrow track in the mining area.

I don’t know how long we walked, but we finally saw the first stop in the forest.

This old train station has dilapidated buildings, and there are some old mining locomotives and coal carriages parked on the tracks.

"Junior Brother Gu, this is a fork in the road. According to the old people, when a train arrives here, it needs to change the locomotive and go backward instead of forward. That means it goes in a V-shaped formation in the opposite direction, that is, to that side."

After Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she also pointed to the other end of the zigzag railway track.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "Yes, to the mining area, it is indeed in that direction, but we need to check this train station."

"What are you waiting for? Check it out quickly." Officer Wang looked at everyone and reminded them:
"Everyone, please pay attention. Divide into the same groups as before. Everyone, please be safe and search the area around the train station carefully. Do you understand?"

"understand!"

It was also at the command of Officer Wang that everyone immediately divided into groups to start searching.

Mainly checking the footprints here.

Since the mining station here has been abandoned for a long time, few people usually come here.

But if Zhang He and Zhang Li really came here, then there must be traces of their footprints left here.

So everyone began to focus on the underground location and the surroundings of some houses.

When everyone returned to the gathering point, none of the teams noticed anything unusual.

"Didn't you find anything?" Officer Wang asked anxiously.

"Report, no, we checked the surrounding area and there is no sign of anyone being here."

"So are we."

……

As everyone reported, Officer Wang sighed, a little disappointed, and then he waved his hand and said, "Let's go."

Everyone did not stop and continued walking towards the other end of the pedestrian track.

This time, we passed through many cedar forests and finally arrived at the second station after climbing for a while.

To reach this station, you need to continue walking in a V-shape on the railroad tracks before climbing a steep slope parallel to the mountain.

So everyone crossed the zigzag track directly, went up and down the track to the slope, and then climbed onto the zigzag track at the other end.

There is a building here, but it has long been dilapidated. The lock on the door is rusty and there is no sign that anyone has been here.

The surrounding area is also full of weeds and looks very desolate.

However, there are many small yellow flowers growing on both sides of the railway track.

"Keep going." Gu Chen reminded.

Everyone immediately formed a formation. This time, no one knew how long they had been walking. They only remembered that they had been walking through the woods. After climbing a certain height, they found a steep slope.

Gu Chen sent a team to search the hillside. After watching on the high ground for a long time, the team returned to report.

"Director Gu, there seems to be a complex of buildings not far ahead. It's quite large and feels like a small town."

"Yes, that is the living area closest to the mine." After hearing the young police officer's report, Lu Weiwei immediately unfolded the hand-drawn topographic map and quickly explained to Gu Chen:
"According to what the old people said before, this is the living area near the Jiaxiang Mine."

"This is also the flattest place with many buildings, such as the auditorium and cinema."

"There's also a cafeteria, workshops, dormitories, expert buildings, squares, and all the necessary supporting facilities and buildings. It seems that they all have them."

“It’s just that now, it seems to be abandoned.”

"Let's go and take a look." After listening to Lu Weiwei's explanation, Gu Chen became more certain that this place should be the area where Zhang He and Zhang Li were hiding.

Although it was unclear what the two were doing here, Gu Chen felt through the badge that Zhang Li must have his own considerations for coming here.

And Zhang He seemed to have been forced to come here.

The abandoned mining area here gave Gu Chen a mysterious feeling.

"Let's go, keep up." Seeing that everyone seemed a little tired, Officer Wang encouraged them. When everyone dragged their tired bodies and saw a stone arch across the railway track, everyone stopped.

Gu Chen took a few steps forward, walked off the rails, came to a rock on the side of the road, and observed the situation ahead.

Then he turned around and told everyone: "The living area is on the left side of the track. We should be very close to the mine. Let's keep going."

"Ouch!"

"worn out."

“Why is this rail so long?”

"Do we need to lay tracks if it's not that long? Stop complaining and just get going."

……

Everyone started to follow Gu Chen amid complaints.

When everyone arrived in front of the stone arch, they discovered that this was actually a platform with two old locomotives and some passenger carriages parked there.

On one side of the platform is a stone staircase that leads directly to the living area below.

Gu Chen led everyone downstairs and found that there were large dormitory buildings and some expert buildings here.

It is not difficult to see from the sign on the building that this is for the Russian experts to live in.

The Russians provided a lot of support for our construction back then, including sending many experts to teach us how to mine.

If you walk a little further to the left, you can see that there is a cinema here.

The style of the cinema's entrance is full of age.

There are also some dormitory buildings ahead.

If you walk to the right side of the stairs, there will be a downhill section, and in front of the building on the section is a blackboard.

Although the chalk handwriting on it is very blurred, it is still not difficult to see that this was the daily report of life in the mining area at that time, and someone updated it every day.

If you continue walking downhill, you will come to a square.

It is surrounded by buildings. On the left side of the entrance is a huge machine repair workshop, and on the right side is a large stage, which is usually used for leaders to give speeches or for artistic performances.

The square is where the workers gather.

On the other side of the stage is a row of buildings, which appear to be a storage area for supplies.

Opposite the stage is the mining area’s canteen, a building similar to a large factory.

Above the entrance to the cafeteria, there is a huge, eye-catching red five-pointed star.

Although the color of the red five-pointed star has faded a lot, the sense of age is still evident.

Many police officers felt a little uneasy when they saw such a building.

“Coming to a place like this, I feel like I’ve traveled through time.”

"Yeah, it feels like time has gone back several decades."

"Wow, it's a shame not to shoot period movies in this place."

"Yes, although this place has been abandoned, the buildings are still well preserved."

"Judging from these buildings, the living area of ​​this mining area must have been very lively back then."

"Isn't it? In those days, everyone had a strong sense of collective honor, and those who could come to work in the mines were all capable people."

……

While everyone was discussing, Gu Chen was observing the situation around him.

Since this is the closest place to the mine, it was also the living and working area for the miners at that time.

So the building area here is very large and there are many buildings.

It's a huge community at first glance.

However, due to the closure of the mining area, the lively scene here in the past is no longer there.

All that remain are these old buildings.

"Everyone, be quiet." Gu Chen called out after observing for a long time.

The noisy scene just now suddenly became quiet.

Gu Chen also came to the crowd and reminded them, "There are a lot of buildings here. The murderer is likely hiding in this area."

“Even though we have a large number of people, it still takes a lot of time to search these places.”

Looking up at the sky, Gu Chen said, "It won't be long before dark. We must check everything here before dark."

After a pause, Gu Chen continued: "From now on, everyone will search separately according to the previous grouping."

Turning around and looking in the direction of the dormitory area, Gu Chen said, "Start from the dormitory area and search one building at a time."

"After searching the dormitory area, we will search the expert building, office building, cinema, cafeteria, warehouse..."

Gu Chen arranged the search steps in an orderly manner, and everyone quickly dispersed after listening carefully.

Gu Chen came to the square, looked around, and continued to wait for news from everyone.

Since the other teams had already been assigned, Gu Chen looked at Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang, and Yuan Shasha and said, "Let's go to the cafeteria."

"Okay." Lu Weiwei agreed readily, and soon followed Gu Chen and started walking towards the cafeteria.

The cafeteria door was not locked and could be pushed open by pulling out the iron bolt.

As the door creaked open, Gu Chen discovered that there were some new supplies stored inside.

And the interior of the cafeteria seemed to have been cleaned as well.

"Someone has been here recently." Officer Wang said casually.

Yuan Shasha on the side also added: "Didn't the old people say that the cultural tourism company of the Yuan Group once sent people to investigate here and wanted to build a mining park here."

"So, in the living area here, some people came here before to move supplies. Maybe they were preparing to use them for the expedition team."

"Just store these things in the cafeteria temporarily."

"That's right." After listening to Yuan Shasha's explanation, Officer Wang nodded silently and said:

"When these inspectors come here, I guess these former expert buildings will need to be cleaned and tidied up again to serve as temporary residences for these inspectors, right?"

Pointing to the supplies in front of him, Officer Wang said without hesitation: "Look, there are even folding beds and Simmons mattresses. They must be for the people who are investigating to live in."

With a deep sigh, Officer Wang said, "It looks like this place will really start to become lively again soon."

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