I am a super cop

Chapter 2329

At this moment, in the storage room of Fangfang Coffee House, several plainclothes police officers were standing on the left and right.

The surrounding empty cardboard boxes have been scattered all over the place, and in the corner, a manhole cover is placed aside, and the bottom is dark.

Gu Chen quickly took the police flashlight handed over by the team members, lay down on the ground, and shot a circle in the direction of the well.

"Gu Ju, when we found this place, there were no traces of people. Now two colleagues have gone down, but it's dark inside and we can't see anything," said a plainclothes policeman.

Gu Chen nodded silently, glanced in the direction behind, and asked, "Where's the salesperson in the store?"

"It has been controlled by us." Another plainclothes policeman said.

"Bring them here." Lu Weiwei said.

Not long after, the three shop assistants were brought to Gu Chen by the police officers one after another.

The leading female shop assistant was also trembling at the moment.

Since Gu Chen was packed tightly when he went upstairs, the female shop assistant didn't know Gu Chen's appearance.

At this moment, the coffee shop was surrounded by many plainclothes policemen, and she was brought here again. The female clerk seemed not to be able to bear it very well. Before she could ask her, her legs kept shaking.

"Keep your head up," Police Officer Wang reminded.

The female clerk didn't dare to neglect, she quickly raised her head to look in the direction of Police Officer Wang.

"Are you the store manager?" Yuan Shasha asked her.

"Hmm." The female clerk didn't dare not to say, but just said "hmm".

Gu Chen walked up to the female clerk, pointed to the floor of the storage room and said, "Your storage room has a manhole cover leading to the ground, do you know about it?"

"I don't know." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, the saleswoman shook her head in denial.

"I don't know?" Lu Weiwei knew that the saleswoman was lying when she heard it, and continued to ask: "You said you didn't know? You have worked in this store for so long, don't you know that there is an underground passage? "

"I really don't know." Feeling that Lu Weiwei was wronging herself, the female shop assistant became anxious immediately, and quickly clarified for herself:
"I only know that there is a manhole cover here, but there are usually things holding it down, and occasionally I can hear some running water."

"I think there may be a channel of flowing water below, but what kind of channel is it? I don't know at all."

"After all, who flips over the manhole cover to play when they have nothing to do? So I really don't know."

"What about the two of you?" Yuan Shasha pointed to the two behind her after listening to the female store manager's remarks.

The two female shop assistants also looked at each other in blank dismay at this moment, and shook their heads, expressing their ignorance.

Seeing that he couldn't ask too many questions from a few people, Gu Chen immediately glanced at the people behind him.

Because of the pursuit of Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang just now, two plainclothes colleagues have already gone to search.

Then followed a few more people, but at the moment there is still no whereabouts.

As for the three shop assistants, each one of them showed an innocent appearance, it is difficult for Gu Chen to judge whether these three people are suspected of lying.

Thinking that Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang hadn't been caught yet, and they couldn't let them go back, he said:
"Take them back to the police station first, temporarily block the store, and don't let anyone get close."

"Understood." Upon hearing this, several plainclothes officers immediately led the three of them to the door.

Afterwards, let a few people get into the car and prepare to escort them back to the police station.

At this time, Gu Chen came to the direction of the manhole cover again, and regretted it:
"I would have known that there was an underground passage here, and I wouldn't have focused on the roof all the time."

"Junior Brother Gu, I don't blame you for this matter. Who would have thought that there is an underground passage hidden in this small storage room?"

"Even if you wanted to check at that time, they wouldn't let you in."

"But if you revealed your identity as a policeman at that time, then Hu Fang would not be able to come out. Anyway, it's because the other party is too cunning, and you don't have to blame yourself."

Lu Weiwei always liked to comfort Gu Chen, thinking that this kind of loophole could not be checked, so she casually said a few words of comfort.

Seeing that Gu Chen was silent, Yuan Shasha quickly echoed and said, "Yes, Senior Sister Lu is right. We can't blame us for this. The most important thing now is to quickly find the exit of the passage."

After a pause, Yuan Shasha said again: "I don't know where the exit of this passage leads to? These people have already chased them, why is there no news yet?"

"Wait a little longer." Officer Wang walked back and forth in front of the crowd, also anxiously said:

"I have long said that this fox is not simple. Let me see, this Hu Fang is quite pretty. Her name is fox, which seems quite appropriate."

"The more beautiful this woman is, the more cunning she is sometimes. You have no idea how cunning Hu Fang is behind it. It seems that she already knew everything."

Looking up at Gu Chen, Police Officer Wang also comforted him and said, "Gu Chen, you don't have to worry, let me see that this Lu Xiaofeng also has a big problem."

"The reason why he is willing to cooperate with us, now it seems that this is completely a trap."

"Oh?" Hearing Officer Wang's words, Gu Chen hurriedly asked:

"What do you think, Senior Brother Wang?"

"My opinion is this." Officer Wang put his hands on his chest and said in thought:
"This Lu Xiaofeng, in fact, has never wanted to change his ways, but was thinking about how to escape."

"The things he told us all feel false, and there must be hidden factors in it."

"Hmm." Hearing Officer Wang's words, Gu Chen also analyzed:
"Lu Xiaofeng did show an inconsistent attitude before. Do you still remember when we first met him?"

"Of course I remember, attacking the police, and murder. At the beginning, I didn't say a word about life and death."

"It was only later that I slowly let go and expressed my willingness to cooperate. This is just the beginning. Looking at him as an undercover agent, I thought he could help us catch big fish, but now it seems that he is just playing us."

"I want to use us to make him an undercover agent, so that I can take the opportunity to escape when I get in touch with this connector fox."

"Those things he said, such as planting flags as signals, I feel that the truth may not be the case." Lu Weiwei said.

"Yeah, maybe this is not a signal for them to meet at all, but a signal to tell the other party that the situation has changed."

Just as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, Yuan Shasha on the side also expressed her opinion:

"From the looks of it at the time, it seemed that we were going step by step together, but if there were other secret words of connection between Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang, perhaps this was one of them."

"If they had discussed it before, then when Hu Fang saw the flag, she might have known that Lu Xiaofeng might have had an accident and had been captured by our police."

"So, when she sees the flag, she will plan to meet Lu Xiaofeng."

"In this way, the two can escape the scene through the secret passage."

"And the rope on the roof might just be their cover-up."

"That's right, from the looks of it now, it's a cover-up." Lu Weiwei was also very angry at the moment, expressing her anger with her hands on her hips.

Gu Chen walked back and forth twice, thinking about it and said, "Perhaps, we trust Lu Xiaofeng too much."

"It seems that this person is stubborn. I gave him a chance. He didn't accept it, so don't blame me for being rude."

Gu Chen has an idea now, to catch Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang.

In my own opinion, although the two of them were cunning, it was basically impossible to escape Jiangnan City with such little thought.

Perhaps it was because the two were eager to get the USB flash drive, so they staged a double reed in the box of the coffee shop, and even got away with it.

After getting the USB flash drive, the two fled quickly according to the previous deployment.

Therefore, in Gu Chen's view, this USB flash drive is very important to them.

But now, Lu Xiaofeng not only retreated completely, but even handed over the USB flash drive to Hu Fang. This is an extremely serious matter.

Just when Gu Chen was hesitating, the phone rang suddenly.

When Gu Chen pressed the answer button, the voice of a plainclothes policeman came from beside his ear:

"Gu Ju, we followed the underground passage where Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang escaped and chased them all the way. Finally, we found that the exit of this passage was a deserted pile of weeds."

"Where's the location? Send me the location immediately." Hearing the other party's words, Gu Chen hurriedly urged.

"I'll send it to you, Gu Ju."

While speaking, Gu Chen received a message on his cell phone.

When Gu Chen clicked on the dialog box, the coordinates of the other party immediately appeared on the phone map.

Gu Chen clicked on the map to confirm the location.

And others also gathered around.

After a while, Lu Weiwei couldn't help exclaiming: "So far? Unexpectedly, this secret passage can reach such a long distance. How did you do it?"

"Could it be that they dug out the foundation? That's a big project, how is it possible?"

"Of course it's impossible." Gu Chen sighed, and quickly forwarded the location of the target to He Junchao in the office, and then replied by voice:
"Senior Brother He, Lu Xiaofeng and Hu Fang have already passed through the underground passage in the store and escaped from this location. Please check the nearby surveillance cameras for me to see if I can find their location."

As soon as Gu Chen's voice fell, He Junchao's reply quickly came from the dialog message: "No problem, if I find the target, I will notify you immediately."

Putting down the phone, Gu Chen calmly analyzed: "In my opinion, Hu Fang didn't hire someone to dig this underground passage."

"Didn't she hire someone to dig it? What's going on?" Yuan Shasha looked incredulous.

Gu Chen said calmly, "Do you all remember what this area is?"

"Old family area."

Everyone was almost in unison.

Gu Chen nodded silently, and said: "It is the family area of ​​the machinery factory, but according to my previous investigation information, the predecessor of this machinery factory was actually a military factory, producing some military products."

"It was only later that with different tasks, it gradually transformed into a machinery factory producing civilian products."

Looking outside, Gu Chen said again: "So, I am not surprised that such an underground passage sometimes appears in the family area here. It may be a passage dug for safety needs when it was an arsenal."

"I've seen passages like this before in other places."

"That's right, maybe it was a temporary command post back then." Just as Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei also expressed her opinion:
"Like the West Lake in Hangzhou, didn't there used to be a command post known as the Underground Great Wall? That was also established in line with the actual needs of the time."

"And this machinery factory has existed for many years. After the transformation of this unit back then, many constructions may no longer be needed, so it was sealed up."

"And this Fangfang Coffee House is located in the center of this area. Maybe it was used as a temporary command post back then? There is an underground passage, which seems to make sense."

"That's right." Listening to Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen's explanation, Yuan Shasha scratched the back of her head and said involuntarily:
"It's no wonder that this Hu Fang opened the coffee shop here. If you ask me, as a local, Hu Fang should know this area very well."

"The reason why she arranged the store here may have ulterior motives. It may be for this day, when she may be arrested, so as to give herself a chance to escape."

"Then Hu Fang is too cunning, right? Since she escaped from this secret passage, she probably knows where she should escape from."

"I guess, even if we chase her now, the possibility of catching her is very low, unless God blesses us." Officer Wang is now rather pessimistic.

The main reason is that Hu Fang is a local, and his understanding of this area far exceeds that of everyone present.

Therefore, when people decide to escape, they will definitely leave a way out for themselves.

But Gu Chen didn't believe in this evil. After learning the specific escape direction of Hu Fang and Lu Xiaofeng, he said slowly:

"Don't say anything, let's go over now and see if they are at the scene, have they left any traces?"

……

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After 6 minutes, everyone came to the exit of the passage, only to find that the passage leads directly to an abandoned house.

It looks very old here, and many buildings are red brick structures, which are on the edge of this area.

And all around is a river.

As for the area of ​​commercial development, it is only limited to the few streets where concerts were held that year. As for the fringe area of ​​this old community, few people seem to come here.

But around the riverbed, there will still be some vegetable fields developed by local residents.

The exit of the channel is in the shape of a pipe, and the periphery is covered with weeds, which is difficult for ordinary people to find.

"Gu Bureau." A plainclothes policeman who came out of the passage also came to Gu Chen on his own initiative and reported:
"When we chased here, the passage was open, and only one place here was lit, so we chased here."

"However, when we came out, we didn't find any signs of their escape."

"You mean, you found a bright light in the passage, so you came here following the light?" Gu Chen asked.

"Yes." Another plainclothes police officer nodded in agreement.

Gu Chen frowned, and asked again: "In that passage, are there any other passage branches?"

Gu Chen's question made everyone stupid in an instant.

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(End of this chapter)