I am a super cop

Chapter 2789 Five-Day Agreement
Five days later, at the gate of Furong Branch.

The old man was holding the cardboard tube, wandering at the door and not going in. He was very conflicted and didn't seem to know whether he should go in or not.

At this time, Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong had just returned from a field trip. When their vehicle passed by the door, they saw the old man see the police car and quickly made way.

Ding Liang, who drove into the police station compound, also curiously asked Huang Zunlong beside him: "Hey, Huang Zunlong, did you see the old man at the door?"

"Which uncle?" Huang Zunlong, who was looking at his mobile phone, looked up and asked.

"Just the guy at the door just now, it seemed like that old man was hesitant, wanting to come in, but he was still hesitating. I felt like there was something wrong with him."

"Really?" After listening to Ding Liang's story, Huang Zunlong quickly turned his head to look towards the door and shook his head: "I was looking at my phone just now and didn't pay attention."

"Can you look at your phone less?" Ding Liang complained. After getting out of the car, he closed the door and walked towards the gate.

Seeing this, Huang Zunlong got out of the car and hurriedly followed Ding Liang.

The two men came to the gate one after the other. When the old man saw them coming, he became very nervous and turned around and prepared to leave.

Seeing this, Ding Liang quickly chased after him: "Uncle, uncle, wait a minute."

It was also because Ding Liang called him that the old man stopped and turned to look in the direction of Ding Liang.

"Uncle, what's wrong with you? Why are you hiding when you see us?" Ding Liang was puzzled and quickly stopped the uncle.

The old man frowned and said, "I...I..."

"Just tell me what you want to say." Huang Zunlong, who arrived later, also said with a smile.

The old man hesitated for a moment, and then slowly said, "I want to see your Director Gu."

"Looking for our Director Gu? He is usually very busy. What do you want to see him for?" When Ding Liang heard that it was Gu Chen he asked curiously.

The old man lowered his head, as if thinking, but after a moment, he raised his head and said slowly:
"I have something to give him."

"What is it?" Ding Liang finished speaking, and his eyes quickly fell on the cardboard tube in the old man's hand.

Seeing this, the old man quickly patted the cardboard tube in his hand and said, "I want to give this to him."

"This...what is this?" Huang Zunlong on the side didn't understand it and asked again.

The old man quickly explained, "A young man gave it to me for safekeeping five days ago. He said that if he didn't come back to take it away after five days, he should give it to Director Gu."

After a pause, the old man continued, "He said that the real thing is very important and must be handed over to Director Gu personally."

"Oh, is that so?" Ding Liang felt confused after listening to the old man's explanation.

He looked back at Huang Zunlong beside him, and then said, "Okay, then, follow me."

"Oh." Seeing Ding Liang said this, the old man followed Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong and walked directly into the Furong Branch compound.

Ding Liang also took out his cell phone as he walked and directly dialed Gu Chen's number.

Not long after, the call was connected, and Ding Liang quickly asked: "Gu Chen, where are you now? General Office? Oh, OK, I see. There is an old man here who specifically wants to see you. He said that he has something entrusted to him and must give it to you."

After a pause, Ding Liang continued, "I have brought the person here now, just wait for me there, okay, ok."

After hanging up the phone, Ding Liang glanced at the old man behind him and said, "Uncle, Director Gu is in the office. Just follow me."

"Oh." The old man was extremely nervous at the moment, but he held the cardboard tube tightly in his hands, fearing that it would fall to the ground. He treasured it so much.

Walking into the general office of the criminal investigation team, Ding Liang found that Gu Chen was holding a small meeting with his colleagues. There were some documents hanging on the whiteboard with colored magnets.

Seeing Ding Liang standing at the door, Gu Chen put down his writing pen, walked to the door, looked at Ding Liang, then looked at the old man behind Ding Liang, and asked:

"Is this the gentleman who wants to see me?"

"Yes." Ding Liang nodded silently, then made way for him and introduced himself:

"Sir, this is Director Gu from our Furong Branch. What do you want to give him?"

"Oh, hello, Director Gu." Looking at the young Gu Chen, the old man hurried over to shake hands with Gu Chen.

Gu Chen also looked at the thing in the old man's hand and asked, "I heard that you were entrusted by someone to give me something. Is it this?"

"Yes." The old man handed the cardboard tube to Gu Chen and quickly explained:
"Five days ago, a young man came to me and asked me to keep this thing temporarily. If he doesn't come to take it away after five days, I will give it to you the next day."

"Give it to me? Did that young man specifically say that he wanted to give it to me?" Gu Chen was also very curious when he heard it.

The old man nodded silently and said without hesitation:

"Yes, that's what he said at the time. He said to hand it over to Director Gu of the Furong Branch."

"Of course I know, you are Director Gu, I have seen you on the promotional poster."

"Is that so?" Hearing the old man say this, Gu Chen also felt a little confused, so he quickly opened the cardboard tube and took out an old sheepskin map from it.

Seeing this, other people in the office quickly gathered around.

"What is this? A sheepskin map? Is this it?" Gu Chen asked the old man for confirmation.

The old man nodded silently and said without hesitation: "Yes, the thing he handed me at that time was this sheepskin map."

"Where is this map from?" Lu Weiwei asked curiously after taking a look.

"I don't know." The old man shook his head like a rattle.

"But there are no specific words here, only a topographic map and some symbols. How can I understand it?" Gu Chen also discovered the problem with the parchment map, which is that there is no text.

Although some of the details marked on the map are very detailed, there are no words on it, which makes it look somewhat ancient.

For a moment, Gu Chen didn't understand why the young man handed him an old sheepskin map.

So I asked the old man.

The old man also shook his head: "I don't understand what this map is. But the young man said that this is his fate."

"He said that if he didn't come back after five days, he would let me give this thing to you. I feel like he must have been in danger. After all, he explained his experience to me when he handed me this thing." "Oh? Could it be that there is something else going on with this person? How did you two know each other?" When Officer Wang heard this, he also felt that there seemed to be something fishy going on.

The old man also quickly explained: "It's like this, I am a scrap collector. In an old alley in the old city, there is a yard that is used to store the scrap I collect."

"He suddenly appeared in my yard that day and said that the kitten I raised looked very similar to the kitten he adopted."

"Later I found out that the civet cat I raised was really the kitten he had adopted, and that this cat had saved his life."

"You saved his life?" Yuan Shasha thought it was interesting, so she asked quickly, "What happened?"

"It's like this." The old man was afraid that everyone didn't understand the situation, so he explained to everyone in detail how he met the young man and how he accepted his request.

Hearing this, Gu Chen frowned and asked hurriedly, "In other words, the fire a few years ago was deliberately set by someone with the intention of killing him?"

"Yes, that's what he said at the time," said the old man.

"Then, he came back here to do something important, but he didn't tell you what he was going to do specifically, right?" Gu Chen asked again.

The old man continued to nod: "Yes, but he said that he wanted to get back everything he lost."

"Oh, this is a bit troublesome. He didn't explain anything clearly. He just asked you to hand it over to us in five days, but he didn't say what it was. Did he miss something? Or did you miss something?"

Officer Wang also increasingly felt that this explanation seemed too vague.

The old man quickly waved his hands and said, "No, I didn't miss anything. That's what he told me at the time. He told me not to ask anything and just consider it as a favor to him."

"As long as he doesn't show up after five days, just hand this thing over to Director Gu."

"I was just like you at the time. I was very curious about what this thing was. But he didn't say anything, and it seemed like he didn't want to say it either."

"I didn't take it seriously, thinking that if you really need my help, then I will do you a favor."

After a pause, the old man spread his hands and continued, "Look, five days have passed. I will give this thing to you according to his request."

"Yeah." Hearing this, Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "Then where did he leave from that day? Do you remember? Also, where is your scrap collection station?"

"I'll see if I can find his whereabouts through surveillance."

"Oh, my scrap collection station is..."

After hearing what Gu Chen said, the old man quickly told him the address of his scrap collection station.

Gu Chen then asked He Junchao to help investigate and see if he could find any surveillance video of the young man.

Afterwards, Gu Chen spread out the sheepskin map on his desk and began to study it carefully.

"Judging from the material of this sheepskin map, it should be quite old, perhaps about 40 to 50 years old."

"But what's strange is that there is altitude data on this map. It can be seen that this is a topographic map of a valley. There are also many distant points marked on it. They look like some strongholds."

"Or rather, this is the location of the landmark on the route, but I don't know which area it belongs to, so the map is useless to us."

"Yes." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei on the side also echoed:

"If we don't even know where this place is, then this parchment map is no different from a piece of waste paper."

"The most important thing is, he should tell us where this place is."

"Alas." Listening to what Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei said, the old man sighed and said:
"I don't know whether he forgot or deliberately didn't tell me, but he also said that this thing must be given to you."

"I still don't understand what he was thinking at the time. Anyway, it felt like he had no way out."

"He even knelt down and kowtowed three times before handing the things to me. I felt like he was really entrusting his life to me."

"What? He kowtowed to you three times?" Huang Zunlong, who was standing by, heard this and said in disbelief:

"So this is a matter of life and death?"

"Yes, this is a matter of life and death for him. I was willing to help him keep this thing because of his three nods."

"He told me that he no longer had any relatives in this city. His relatives had died a few years ago, and he was in a very dangerous situation."

"So, he first gave the item to someone who had nothing to do with him. He said that this way, it wouldn't be lost."

"Moreover, he completely trusts me. He believes that meeting me is fate. After all, I saved the cat that brought him out of the fire, which is also fate."

Speaking of this, the old man also expressed some emotion.

When Gu Chen heard this, he quickly asked, "By the way, you said he escaped from a fire a few years ago. Where was the fire?"

"In...a villa near Donghu Park. He said that villa is his home." said the old man.

"The villa in East Lake Park?" Gu Chen frowned, looked at He Junchao, and said:

"Brother He, please help me check if there was a fire near Donghu Park a few years ago?"

"Wait a moment." After receiving Gu Chen's instructions, He Junchao immediately started to search.

Soon, He Junchao hurriedly reported, "Yes, there was indeed a fire near Donghu Park a few years ago. Several villas were burned down at the time, but according to subsequent investigations, it was found that the fire started in one of the villas. It may be caused by a wiring fault in the villa."

"Line failure?" Gu Chen frowned.

He Junchao continued to explain: "Yes, it took a long time to investigate the fire, and the final conclusion was that the wiring in the villa was faulty, probably due to aging of some wiring."

"Because the villas near Donghu Park are quite old, it is also one of the earliest villa areas in Jiangnan City. It is said that the people who lived there at that time were either rich or noble."

"Who is the owner of the villa where the fire started?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

"It is... the property of a winery owner. The specific name was not released, but there are reports that the owner of the villa is a winery owner. This is the only information we can find."

"Yeah." Hearing this, Gu Chen crossed his arms and said slowly:
"We still have to go to East Lake Park to investigate. At least we can confirm the specific identity of that person. Otherwise, what is the use of this sheepskin map he gave us? We know nothing about it."

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