I am a super cop

Chapter 2810: In a Hurry
The search had to continue, but the bodies needed to be transported back quickly.

These days in this canyon, Gu Chen discovered too many suspicious things, including the white bones before.

After struggling in the canyon for a long time, it was almost dark, so Gu Chen had to let everyone return to a safe area. He successfully led everyone back to the cabin camp, and then evacuated from the cabin camp to the village.

At this moment, the sun had just set and the sky was gradually getting dark.

Gu Chen prepared to set up camp near the village. Since the village had a small population, Gu Chen arranged personnel and borrowed some vacant rooms from the villagers to accommodate the police officers who came to carry out the search mission.

"Come on, everyone must be hungry, let's have some hotpot. These vegetables are all grown in our own fields." The old landlady was very kind. When she saw so many policemen coming to the village, she hurried over to greet them.

Although she was not quite sure about things like murders in the canyon, it seemed that these things were too far away from her.

"Thank you, we'll do it ourselves." Lu Weiwei took the vegetables that the old lady brought and quickly added them into the pot.

The police officers around were either sitting or standing, filling the spacious living room to the brim.

"Grandma, thank you so much for troubling you and helping us prepare food." Gu Chen quickly stood up and thanked the old lady.

The old lady waved her hands and said, "Oh, it's just a small favor. Besides, you guys paid for it, so why thank me? You guys eat first, I'll go to the kitchen to check."

"Okay." Seeing the old lady being so polite, Gu Chen didn't bother to be polite with her.

After everyone had a simple lunch, Gu Chen arranged for people to take turns guarding the village entrance at night, while he and his team members prepared to sleep in the room together.

There are some beds on the floor here so it's warm for everyone to sleep together.

The old lady was sleeping in her room, seemingly addicted to her cell phone.

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, and Lu Weiwei said, "This old lady is quite relaxed."

"Maybe life is happy." Yuan Shasha said on the side.

Gu Chen also sighed: "I feel that this old lady doesn't seem to care at all about what happened in the canyon, which makes me curious."

"Junior Brother Gu, maybe the old lady is more accustomed to a stable life and feels that the canyon is farther away. After all, I heard that there were wild beasts roaming around here in the past, and when the villagers' poultry were taken away, the old lady was not afraid."

"How can she be afraid of what you told her?"

After Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she glanced at the old lady in the room, also with a puzzled look on her face:
"It seems like she likes playing with her phone."

"Let's go over and talk to her and see if we can get some clues out of her," said Gu Chen.

Now that the remains, bodies and wounded have been moved away, Gu Chen stayed in the village and wanted to communicate with the villagers.

Get some clues from the villagers.

After all, the men in black can operate and survive in the canyon, most likely relying on the existence of the village. Otherwise, how can they survive without supplies?

Therefore, Gu Chen suspected that the man in black had a close connection with the villagers, and he had to get to the bottom of it.

So he walked to the old lady's door, knocked gently, and asked, "Grandma, can I talk to you?"

"Oh, sure, come in." The old lady was lying on the rocking chair, watching the video leisurely.

Lu Weiwei was very curious, so she looked down and found that the old lady was giving three likes to a middle-aged male anchor.

"Grandma, who is this person? Is he your son?" Lu Weiwei asked curiously.

The old lady grinned: "No, but don't you think he is handsome?"

"Ah?" Hearing the old lady's words, and looking at the middle-aged man with greasy hair and powdered face in the video, posing there, Lu Weiwei was instantly overwhelmed by the man's greasy face, and said with a wry smile:

"Grandma, do you think he's handsome?"

"Yes, many of us old people like him." The old lady also said with a smile.

"Okay." It seems that the old lady doesn't like a handsome guy like Gu Chen, who is her grandson's generation, but actually likes a handsome guy like her son's generation.

The key point is that the male anchor looks very greasy at first glance, and the clothes he wears are also very retro and have a certain sense of age.

Lu Weiwei couldn’t understand why this old lady liked such a person?

Seeing Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei coming into the room, the old lady also sat up straight and asked:

"What do you want to talk to me about?"

"Grandma, there was a murder in the canyon. Aren't you worried at all?" Gu Chen asked curiously.

The old lady grinned: "Worried? I'm almost dead. The murderer wants to kill an old woman like me? No, so why should I worry?"

"It's good to eat and drink, and watch the male anchor dancing and singing every day."

"Uh." When Lu Weiwei heard this, she was speechless for a moment.

She didn't know why the old lady was so relaxed, but she felt that she looked as if it had nothing to do with her.

If it were a normal person, he would have been worried.

This is how other people in the village behaved.

Therefore, the old lady's abnormal behavior puzzled Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen.

Could it be that the old lady has let it go and no longer cares about these things?
Or maybe the old lady was just pretending not to care?

Gu Chen hesitated for a moment and asked, "Grandma, has anyone in your village ever practiced martial arts?"

"Martial arts?" The old lady was stunned for a moment, and then she started to think, "Where can we find people who can practice martial arts here? What can you do with martial arts?"

Waving her hands, the old lady said again: "No, no."

"Then do you know if anyone coming to the village has practiced martial arts?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Well, I really don't know. After all, I don't care about it." The old lady still shook her head in denial.

Feeling that the old lady seemed rather different, Gu Chen asked again: "Has anyone ever been lost in that canyon?"

"After all, we found a body there. Apparently, someone was trapped and died in the mountain."

"Well, I'm not sure about this, but we have a saying here, that is, don't wander around in the deep mountains."

"Plus, the forest areas here are all protected areas, and you can't cut down trees at will, so people won't go in." "If you don't go into the mountains, you won't know much about the situation there, but in the past two years, it seems that more and more people have gone into the mountains."

"What do you mean?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"What else can I say? They are all those people who enjoy the outdoors, saying that they have discovered some secret route or something like that."

"Anyway, in the past two years, people with big backpacks have come into the mountains from time to time."

"Before going into the mountains, they would come to our village to buy some food and drinks, and we could earn some money at the same time."

"Do you know Zhuang Hu?" Gu Chen listened carefully to the old lady's explanation and suddenly asked.

The old lady was stunned: "Who is Zhuang Hu? What does he do?"

"It's over there in the mountains. Isn't there a small wooden house? It's decorated very luxuriously. That house belongs to Zhuang Hu." Gu Chen explained in simple and easy-to-understand words.

When the old lady heard this, she nodded and said, "Oh, it's him? I didn't know that he bought the cabin from someone in our village."

"We started decorating right after we bought it. During that period, all kinds of luxurious decorative materials were moved here in a rush."

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"And during that period, many decorators would come to our village to buy things. I even rented out a few rooms for those decorators to live in."

"Is that so?" After hearing what the old lady said, Gu Chen quickly asked again:

"How about this Zhuang Hu? Do you have much contact with him?"

"A lot, of course a lot. He often comes to my house. Because of the renovation, aren't there several workers living here?"

"He often comes here to discuss the progress of work with the workers, so they chat over and over again. He also often brings some things to the renovation workers."

"So, I'm pretty familiar with him, but I don't know his name. I usually call him Fatty because he's quite fat."

"Okay." After listening to this explanation, Gu Chen also felt that the old lady and Zhuang Hu knew each other.

So Gu Chen hurriedly continued to inquire: "Do you know who his enemies are? After all, the person who died in the canyon was him, and his stomach was ripped open."

"What? Disembowel?" When the old lady heard Gu Chen say this word, she was stunned for a moment and came back to her senses from her relaxed state.

This seemed to be enough to move her: "You mean, the dead person was him? And he was disemboweled?"

"Yes." Gu Chen nodded silently and said:

"The scene was horrific. It felt like it was done by an enemy. He often came to your house at the time, so you were quite familiar with him. You should know more about it, right?"

"Oh, you can't say that." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, the old lady waved her hand and said slowly:
"I don't know that person very well, but as for enemies, I feel like businessmen have some, more or less. That's normal."

The old lady narrowed her eyes and continued to think, then she said:

"When he came to my house, he seemed to have a good temper, and he was also very nice to the renovation workers."

"At that time, he had a meal at my house. When we were chatting, I learned that he had made the cabin in the mountains very beautiful."

"Especially the decoration inside. Many decoration workers said that they had never seen such a playful boss. He decorated a small wooden house outdoors into a mini outdoor villa, and praised him for his good taste."

"I had never been there before. Doesn't the water there often rise and submerge the wooden bridge in the river?"

"Yes." When seeing the old lady looking at her, Lu Weiwei nodded silently.

So the old lady continued to explain: "So I was also envious at the time. I said that I had never seen that villa. At my age, I would not go to that place."

"So that Zhuang Hu showed me the photos on his phone. At that time, I asked him, it's not easy for you to make money, why do you like to tinker with this kind of thing? Isn't this a waste of money?"

"But he told me that the cabin was the meeting room, and that he would usually arrange for important clients to stay in the cabin when he brought them here."

"Then, we often take clients to the mountains for hiking, but they probably walk on regular routes, which are the ones that have been walked many times by people."

"After all, haven't more people come to the village in the past two years? They all say they go hiking, so I feel that this place will be developed sooner or later."

"I even asked him, as a big boss like you, will you come here to invest and do business in the future? He said yes, and I scolded him."

"What?" Lu Weiwei felt a little confused when she heard it:
"You scold him? He came here to invest and do business, and you scold him? What kind of operation is this?"

"I just don't want him to come here and destroy the ecology. After all, green mountains and clear waters are as valuable as gold and silver."

"If he brings people here to renovate a wooden house, I welcome him. But if he wants to invest and do business here, I will be the first one to refuse."

"Why?" Lu Weiwei expressed confusion.

The old lady said amiably, "Because I like quietness. The reason I stayed in the village is that I am used to the quiet life in the village."

"I can sleep well at night. If I live in the city, the noise of cars passing by at night will make it impossible for me to sleep."

Waving her hands, the old lady continued, "So, I warned him at the time not to come here to develop. We live a rich and comfortable life, and we don't need tourism development."

"I just hope it can be quieter here. If you want to hike here, I welcome you, but please don't destroy the ecology."

"You are quite aware." Hearing the old lady say this, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that this old lady seemed to have a lot of opinions.

Gu Chen also continued to ask: "Then when you came into contact with him later, did you find any strange behavior from him here?"

"Yes." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, the old lady also said slowly:
"When he renovated the cabin, he said it would be used as a meeting room so he could entertain his clients."

"But recently, he has been coming too frequently, and he comes even without clients. Sometimes he comes alone, and sometimes he comes with his assistant."

"This level of intensity means they are much more diligent than before."

"You mean, in the recent period of time? Can you be more specific about the time?" Gu Chen felt that there must be something fishy here, so he asked.

The old lady scratched her wrinkled cheek and said thoughtfully, "When was it recently? It was in the past two months. I felt that he suddenly became very anxious."

"In the past, when he came here for hiking or something, he would bring his assistant or clients to our village to buy some fresh vegetables and meat."

“After all, in their own words, they are going to cook and eat outdoors.”

"But in the past two months, he has been coming more and more frequently, and most of the time he comes alone. He no longer enters our village and seems to be in a hurry."

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