I am a super cop

Although Zou Yaohua spoke clearly and coherently, after all, he was the most likely suspect to take away the landlady, and Gu Chen did not intend to let him go like this.

So it was determined that the boss of the aquatic product base was indeed just a business friend with him, and it was Zou Yaohua who took the initiative to stay here to earn a living.

Gu Chen did not make things difficult for the owner of the aquatic product base, but took Zou Yaohua away.

Returning to Furong Branch, Gu Chen brought Zou Yaohua to the interrogation room.

At this moment, Zou Yaohua, who was still eloquent before, instantly became much more restrained.

Looking at the Gu Chen team in front of him, Zou Yaohua grinned and quickly explained:

"Comrade police, what are you doing? It's late at night and I have to go home."

"Is your family not from here?" Gu Chen looked up at the information record about Zou Yaohua and asked him.

Zou Yaohua nodded fiercely: "I am from out of town and have been working here for several years."

"Then have you met this pancake proprietress before?" Lu Weiwei asked.

Zou Yaohua shook his head: "I don't know."

"Are you sure?" Lu Weiwei didn't quite believe it.

But Zou Yaohua hesitated for a few seconds, and then suddenly said: "I can't say that I don't know him. I have bought pancakes from them, and I know that their pancakes are better."

"Then why doesn't the pancake boss know you?" Officer Wang on the side also quickly asked.

Zou Yaohua scratched his cheek and said hesitantly: "Well... I'm not sure. Maybe it's because their business is so good, so the boss doesn't pay much attention to me."

"Okay." Feeling that this was a good reason, Officer Wang asked again: "Then are you familiar with the boss's wife?"

"Not familiar, I'm not familiar with her." Feeling that he was being implicated, Zou Yaohua quickly waved his hand and denied it:
"When I buy her pancakes, I occasionally chat with the lady boss. Other than that, I rarely have contact with the lady boss."

"Don't you usually get in touch with the landlady when she's not out at the stall?" Yuan Shasha quickly asked again.

But Zou Yaohua still shook his head in denial and said: "No, because I am usually very busy at work, so I usually have little contact with the boss lady..."

Throughout the night, Zou Yaohua kept going around with everyone, trying his best to clear up his relationship with the missing landlady.

But as the exchange continued to deepen, Gu Chen felt that the relationship between Zou Yaohua and the landlady was not as simple as imagined.

However, due to the lack of information currently available, Gu Chen decided to temporarily put Zou Yaohua back and wait until he had sufficient evidence to investigate again.

After bringing Zou Yaohua to the door of the branch, Gu Chen reminded him, "We will verify your situation carefully and please don't lie to us."

"No." Zou Yaohua shook his head and said with a bitter look, "I'm just a hardworking worker, and I'm not familiar with this pancake proprietress."

"But I feel quite sorry that she disappeared. After all, the pancakes she made are really delicious."

"Okay." After listening to Zou Yaohua's words, Lu Weiwei also lowered her head and glanced at her watch, and then urged: "You should go back quickly. Remember, keep your phone on 24 hours a day."

"Don't leave Jiangnan City for the time being. If we want to know something from you, please come over in time to cooperate with our investigation."

"Absolutely." After listening to Lu Weiwei's instructions, Zou Yaohua also nodded firmly:
"Anyway, if you need me to cooperate with the investigation, I will be responsible."

"That's good." Officer Wang took a deep breath, patted his mouth, and yawned: "Then you go back, we also need to rest."

"Okay, then I'll go back." Zou Yaohua nodded silently and was about to turn around to leave, but was stopped by Gu Chen again.

"Wait a moment."

After hearing Gu Chen's words, Zou Yaohua slowly turned around with a curious look on his face: "Comrade police, are you okay?"

"Take a taxi back. We will reimburse you for the fare. You can come to us for reimbursement." Gu Chen said.

"Oh, it's not that troublesome, no need." Feeling that he didn't want to stay here for a moment, Zou Yaohua walked directly to the roadside and called an online taxi after being polite.

Looking at Zou Yaohua's leaving figure, Gu Chen glanced at the area on the right.

At this moment, a motorcycle rider in casual clothes rode his motorcycle in front of Gu Chen.

Ding Liang pushed aside the windshield of his helmet and asked Gu Chen, "Are you following me now?"

"Yes." Gu Chen nodded silently and warned again and again: "Be careful not to be discovered by him."

"In addition, we have bound tracking software when checking his mobile phone."

"Even if he loses track of his position, we can still determine his specific location."

"Okay." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Ding Liang also agreed:
"I'll try to follow him as closely as possible to prevent him from finding out. In addition, Huang Zunlong will be on standby at another intersection."

"Anyway, the task of tracking this guy is left to us."

After hearing what Ding Liang said, Gu Chen felt relieved.

After briefly communicating with Ding Liang again, Ding Liang rode his motorcycle and drove directly out of the branch compound.

"Let's go to the office." Gu Chen reminded.

This night is destined to be a sleepless night.

Because of Zou Yaohua's statement, it is difficult to determine whether it is true or false.

So everyone was ready to launch a detailed investigation into Zou Yaohua.

Of course, with Zou Yaohua's information, the investigation will be easier.

And the target man, He Junchao, is working overtime at the moment.

When Gu Chen and others walked back to the office and came to his side, He Junchao had already found some important clues.

"Gu Chen." Glancing at Gu Chen beside him, He Junchao reminded him:
"This Zou Yaohua has a criminal record before."

"Tell me about it." Gu Chen held the thermos cup in his hand and took a sip of water.

He Junchao quickly explained: "This Zou Yaohua is from the north. He used to be there because of many thefts."

"Later, when I was working here in Jiangnan City, I was once detained by criminal investigation for intentional injury."

"Anyway, it feels like there are a lot of things going on, so it shouldn't be a good thing."

"Yeah." Listening to what He Junchao said, Officer Wang on the side also nodded silently:
"This Zou Yaohua, I don't think he is a good person. Although you can't judge a book by its appearance, after all, we have been working as police officers for so many years. Whether a person has any problems, sometimes our intuition is quite accurate."

"I felt before that there must be something wrong with this guy. Sure enough, he still has a lot of criminal records."

"Then your guess is really accurate." Yuan Shasha was also impressed by what Officer Wang said.

Lu Weiwei reminded: "In my opinion, although Zou Yaohua gave the reason for the breakdown of his van, so far, there are no witnesses who can prove anything, so we still have to be cautious."

"Especially this guy, has he ever had any private contact with this boss lady? This must be investigated clearly."

"After all, if you think about it, this landlady had a big quarrel with her husband, and then came out of the community where they rented, taking a road that is rarely passed."

"Then, just in time, she disappeared into the surveillance blind spot in that narrow alley."

"It just so happened that Zou Yaohua drove his gray van and happened to arrive at the surveillance blind spot."

"It just so happened that his vehicle broke down and the journey that originally only took 7 minutes took him 40 minutes."

After a pause, Lu Weiwei also looked at everyone and reminded: "For such a person, if you want to say that he has no problem, but if you want to say that everything about him is just a coincidence, then you will be damned."

"Yeah." After listening to Lu Weiwei's analysis, Gu Chen also expressed his own opinion:

"If one coincidence is a coincidence, then the probability of multiple coincidences put together is even lower than winning the lottery."

"This is why I asked Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong to follow Zou Yaohua privately."

"Although we have no definite evidence now, this Zou Yaohua is the most suspicious and must be guarded against."

"In addition, Zou Yaohua and the pancake proprietress know each other. As long as they know each other, there will be intersections. This needs to be investigated immediately."

"Did you hear that?" Seeing what Gu Chen said, Officer Wang quickly reminded He Junchao:

"He Junchao, please quickly check for us. Has this Zou Yaohua ever had contact with the proprietress? Check their activities and find evidence."

"Okay." It feels like Comrade Lao Wang said it easily, but it will be a little difficult to do it.

He Junchao also said truthfully: "This will take some time. It seems that I will be busy all night..."

"Snapped!"

As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, Lu Weiwei put a bottle of refreshing drink on He Junchao's table. She also smiled at He Junchao and said, "I'll trouble you, He Junchao."

"You have some conscience." He Junchao took a look at the refreshing drink and said again:
"It would be better if I could have some snacks."

"Pa!" As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, Lu Weiwei, as if she knew in advance that He Junchao would have such a request, took out a pack of spicy strips from the other hand and threw it directly on He Junchao's table:
"I've prepared it for you. I won't owe you anything. Please check it for me now."

"Okay." Seeing her request, Lu Weiwei was already familiar with the routine, so she immediately turned on the liver-exploding mode.

And since waiting here is not an option, everyone is preparing to recharge their batteries for tomorrow's investigation.

So everyone intuitively opened the folding bed in the corner and prepared to sleep in the office.

Lu Weiwei also put on her coat and lay on the folding bed and reminded: "If He Junchao finds relevant clues, remember to tell me the next morning. I have to have a good sleep."

"I know." It felt like what Lu Weiwei said, but it felt like she didn't say it at all.

However, Gu Chen didn't feel tired at all and just sat at his desk.

He Junchao glanced at Gu Chen and reminded him: "Gu Chen, you should go to sleep too. I am here. I will sort out the evidence and give it to you tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll lie down for a while. If you find evidence, remember to call me." Gu Chen has his own energy drink, and in terms of energy, he can crush everyone.

The reason why he had to cooperate with He Junchao's request and pretend to take a rest was to avoid others discovering his abnormality.

Even if he is a notoriously hard-working police officer, sometimes he has to look like an ordinary person.

Take a break when you need to. This is also a necessary choice.

When everyone was lying on the folding bed and quickly fell asleep, Gu Chen simply lay on his desk and took a short rest, but he never fell asleep.

Instead, he listened to He Junchao's movements on the computer and judged He Junchao's work progress based on the frequency of He Junchao's movements.

After an hour passed, Gu Chen heard that He Junchao's operating rhythm gradually slowed down, and with the frequency of several mouse clicks, Gu Chen knew that He Junchao was browsing important information.

But Gu Chen did not wake up immediately, but continued to pretend to rest.

In just the past 10 minutes, 12 minutes, and 15 minutes, He Junchao's operating rhythm slowed down again.

Gu Chen felt that He Junchao should have found relevant clues.

So, Gu Chen pretended that he had just woken up, sat on the seat and stretched, and then pretended to glance in the direction of He Junchao casually.

So, Gu Chen picked up his thermos cup, took a sip of water, and then walked towards He Junchao.

He Junchao also noticed that Gu Chen had woken up, so he glanced at Gu Chen beside him.

"How's it going?" Gu Chen took a step closer and asked quickly.

"Gu Chen, this Zou Yaohua is lying. In fact, he and the lady selling pancakes have known each other for a long time." He Junchao said.

Gu Chen bent over and took a look. The screen flashed, showing the surveillance screenshots compiled by He Junchao.

At this moment, the scene of the pancake proprietress and Zou Yaohua sitting on a bench chatting suddenly appeared in front of them.

Gu Chen frowned: "Is this in the park?"

"Yes, it's Beihu Park. These two people sat here chatting for a long time, but they didn't notice that there was a surveillance camera not far away blocked by a big tree."

"And this surveillance camera is also blocked by some leaves, but there is a breeze blowing the leaves."

"I can still vaguely see the pancake proprietress and Zou Yaohua, sitting on the bench chatting."

"The two of them seem to be quite close," Gu Chen said.

"Yes." He Junchao also echoed and continued to explain: "These two people look like they have been friends for many years, chatting and talking."

"Moreover, this is not the first time the two have met. They have met several times."

While speaking, He Junchao continued to operate on the results of his investigation.

Soon, more relevant surveillance images appeared in front of Gu Chen.

Some are on the corner of the street, and some are in some restaurants and shops.

He Junchao sorted out four pieces of surveillance for Gu Chen, and also reminded him: "This Zou Yaohua must be an old acquaintance with the pancake proprietress." "I followed and investigated the activities of the two of them this month, and found that there are surveillance records , there were four times when we met when we were not buying pancakes.”

"And in terms of time, it's either evening or early morning. It can be said that except for the time when the proprietress is doing the pancake business, we meet in her free time."

"What are the two of them talking about?" Looking at the surveillance screen in front of him, Gu Chen also fell into deep thought.

He Junchao shook his head: "It's not clear yet, but one thing is for sure. The husband of the pancake proprietress definitely doesn't know about the communication and meeting between the two."

"That's right." After listening to He Junchao's explanation, Gu Chen nodded and confirmed, "If the husband of the pancake proprietress knew about this, then he should have told her long ago."

"In my opinion, these two couples are now focused on making pancakes and making more money, so they work from early to late in the morning."

Shaking his head, Gu Chen added: "But even under such circumstances, the pancake proprietress still found time to meet and chat with Zou Yaohua. This seems to me completely incredible."

"Yes." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, He Junchao nodded in agreement: "I feel that the relationship between these two people is definitely not simple."

After a pause, He Junchao also speculated and said: "Maybe, this pancake proprietress may have cheated on her, and the other party may be this Zou Yaohua."

"After all, according to the results of your investigation, this pancake proprietress doesn't have many friends in Jiangnan City at all."

"Moreover, since she and her husband came to Jiangnan City, they have been making pancake sounds."

"And this pancake proprietress is also from outside. There is only one fellow in Jiangnan City, and she is from their village."

"No matter what happens, this pancake proprietress likes to go to her fellow villager's house. She also goes to her fellow villager's house when she runs away from home."

Sighing softly, He Junchao added: "But even in this situation, her fellow villagers don't know her situation, which shows that this boss lady is not simple."

"At least in this busy life, she can still find time to meet Zou Yaohua without letting her hometown best friends and husband know."

Shaking his head, He Junchao said helplessly: "With this kind of time management, to be honest, it's hard not to think about cheating."

"Maybe you are right." After listening to the advice given by He Junchao, Gu Chen also thought about it and said:
"It seems that Zou Yaohua is lying, and the pancake proprietress may also have a big problem."

After a pause, Gu Chen continued: "If you put it this way, it is very likely that the pancake proprietress was driven away by Zou Yaohua."

"And why is the timing so coincidental? Why does the pancake proprietress quarrel with her husband? I think there might be something fishy going on here."

"What do you mean?" He Junchao asked doubtfully.

Gu Chen quickly said: "I mean, the quarrel happened quite unexpectedly. Perhaps, it was prepared by the pancake proprietress in advance."

"Use this trigger to have a big argument with your husband, then walk to that narrow area and disappear."

"In my opinion, maybe she has done this before, but this time, there may have been a new accident, which caused her to be missing for about a week."

"Ouch." After hearing Gu Chen's analysis, He Junchao also thought about it and said:
"Listening to what you said, why do you feel that the situation is getting more and more complicated?"

"Originally I thought it was just a couple at a pancake shop who had a disagreement over some trivial matter, and then they just started to make a fuss."

"But now it seems that this pancake proprietress is not simple. It seems that all her actions are planned in advance."

"That's what I mean." Seeing that He Junchao had already mentioned this, Gu Chen also affirmed:
"First of all, there must be something wrong with this boss lady. If she has not offended anyone, then her disappearance is somewhat unjustifiable."

"In my opinion, she might be doing something secretly behind her husband's back? She just doesn't want her husband to know."

"There may have been no accidents before, but it seems that we were not so lucky this time, so the horse stumbled."

After a pause, Gu Chen also looked at He Junchao and said:

"Of course, these are all my own speculations at the moment, but it feels a little weird that Zou Yaohua lied."

"If there is definitely something wrong with Zou Yaohua, then there must be a big problem if he parked his car for 37 minutes."

"So, if the pancake boss lady is missing, she must be in his gray van."

"And this van ended up going to that aquaculture base, so there must be something wrong with the aquaculture base."

"Then you didn't leave any tracers at the aquaculture base?" He Junchao said.

Gu Chen shook his head: "That's not entirely true. When I was communicating with the boss of this aquatic product base and Zou Yaohua in the shack, I had already sent my location to Wu Xiaofeng and Ji Zhe."

"The reason why I stayed in the shack for so long was to buy time for Wu Xiaofeng and Ji Zhe so that they could lurk near the aquatic base as soon as possible."

"So Wu Xiaofeng and Ji Zhe have been sent by you to lurk?" He Junchao was also impressed by Gu Chen's arrangement.

Gu Chen smiled slightly and explained: "At first, I didn't really believe what Zou Yaohua said."

"But later, when I came to the door of the aquaculture base, I found that the other party had a dog. Of course, this may just be to prevent thieves or something."

"However, I can also understand that raising a dog is to be alert to the surrounding situation."

"Yes." After hearing what Gu Chen said, He Junchao also expressed his opinion:

"As for raising dogs, perhaps the aquaculture base needs to be alerted. It seems that the boss alone can't handle it."

"but……"

After hesitating for a few seconds, He Junchao said again: "But, Gu Chen, aren't you worried? Wu Xiaofeng and Ji Zhe are lurking there. They can be easily exposed after dawn."

"Don't worry about this." As soon as He Junchao finished speaking, Gu Chen explained:

"I have surveyed the terrain of that aquaculture base. It is in a hilly area and the terrain is undulating."

"Although many aquaculture areas are in low-lying areas, those undulating terrain can still be well hidden."

"Besides, Wu Xiaofeng and Ji Zhe are also smart people. They should know what to do."

"Okay." Feeling that Gu Chen had arranged everything in place, He Junchao couldn't say anything more, so he just asked weakly:
"Then what are you going to do tomorrow?"

"We have to continue the investigation." Gu Chen crossed his arms and said thoughtfully:
"First take a look at Zou Yaohua's situation and see if there is anything unusual about him?"

"If not, or if he doesn't want to expose himself for the time being, then I can go to the shop of the pancake proprietress's friend, her friend from the same village."

"This pancake boss has told me the address, store location, and phone number of the female owner of the restaurant. I can go there tomorrow and visit on the spot."

"Let's see if we can get some useful clues from her."

"This is best." Seeing that Gu Chen had already made the plan, He Junchao yawned and asked:
"So, now I..."

"You can rest now." Gu Chen said.

"Okay." He Junchao continued to yawn and drank the refreshing drink in one gulp.

Then, he fell down on the folding bed.

Gu Chen, on the other hand, sat in front of He Junchao's computer and continued to repeatedly watch all the surveillance videos compiled by He Junchao.

……

……

The next morning, at 6:20 am.

Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha were in the office, eating the breakfast brought by Gu Chen, and listening to Gu Chen's analysis and explanation of the entire situation, everyone looked serious.

After Gu Chen finished speaking, Lu Weiwei also asked curiously: "So Junior Brother Gu, do you think this Zou Yaohua may have been hiding the truth from us?"

"In fact, he and the pancake proprietress may have discussed it a long time ago. First, the proprietress had a big quarrel with her husband over some conflicts."

"Then, she came to the designated place, got into Zou Yaohua's car, and left quickly."

"I originally thought it would only be a few days, but I lost contact for a week. Maybe there was an accident in the middle?"

"Yes." Facing Lu Weiwei's doubts, Gu Chen also said slowly:

"I also made a rough analysis based on the clues provided by Senior Brother He yesterday."

"But no matter what, there must be something wrong with this pancake proprietress, and there must be something wrong with this Zou Yaohua."

"The two of them are usually so busy at work, but they can still find time to meet in secret, which shows that the relationship between the two should be quite close."

"It's just that it's not yet easy for me to judge the true relationship between these two people, so my plan today is to first find the friend of this pancake proprietress, the female best friend who owns a restaurant, to find out more about the situation."

"Yes." After listening to Gu Chen's explanation, Officer Wang nodded silently and agreed:
"That's all. If even her best friend doesn't know what the hell the pancake proprietress is doing? Then the problem is really big."

"At least it shows that the pancake proprietress didn't even tell her best friend. This secret should be quite interesting."

"I think it's a relationship issue, right?" Yuan Shasha was eating the breakfast bought by Gu Chen and thinking about it:
"It feels like this pancake proprietress is having an affair with Zou Yaohua. Of course, there is no definite evidence now."

"But the four pieces of surveillance that Senior Brother He found seem to be very problematic. Ordinary people should think so, right?"

"It's hard to say anything without evidence?" Lu Weiwei sucked the pure milk and said thoughtfully:
"Anyway, since the best friend who runs the restaurant is the pancake proprietress' best friend in the city and is from the same village, she should have many secrets that she will share with her."

"If we ask her to understand the situation, we should be able to analyze the specific situation of this pancake proprietress from the side."

"It won't be too late." Gu Chen lowered his head and glanced at his watch, and then said: "Everyone, let's go now."

After hearing Gu Chen's words, everyone nodded silently and quickly got up to get their equipment.

So, at 7 o'clock in the morning, Gu Chen's team had already driven to a suburb.

At the intersection of an old community here, a couple is running a breakfast business.

Lu Weiwei lowered the car window, looked at the specific address on her phone, and said as a reminder:
"It's right here. The best friend of the pancake proprietress' house is diagonally opposite the elementary school here. There is a noodle shop."

"We should also be doing noodle business for breakfast, right?" Yuan Shasha said.

"Whatever, we came here after we were full." Officer Wang didn't care.

Afterwards, everyone got off the car and walked directly towards the store.

Since it was 7 o'clock in the morning, it was still a long time before office workers went to work, and it was still very early before elementary school students went to class.

Therefore, there are not many customers in the store at the moment.

And the boss uses simple operating techniques.

Just boil hot noodle soup, use leaky utensils, put noodles or rice noodles in it, soak it in the hot noodle soup, and you can quickly prepare a bowl of breakfast.

Plus some ingredients, it's a bowl of rice noodles or a bowl of noodles.

So breakfast was not too busy for the couple.

Gu Chen stood at the door observing for a long time before walking into the store.

At this moment, the middle-aged woman who happened to be carrying a bowl of rice noodles handed the rice noodles to the customer, looked up at Gu Chen, felt unfamiliar, and asked curiously:
"What do you want?"

"Are you the boss lady here?" Gu Chen asked casually.

"Yes." The landlady was confused and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I'm from Furong Branch." Gu Chen took out his police ID, then turned on his cell phone, showed the photo of the pancake proprietress in front of the woman, and asked:
"Do you know this person?"

"We know each other. This is my best friend. We are from the same village." The woman saw that Gu Chen was from the police station.

In addition, Gu Chen showed him the photos of his best friends, and he roughly guessed the purpose of Gu Chen's visit.

After all, before this, the husband of the pancake proprietress had also called and asked him.

Lu Weiwei, who was standing next to Gu Chen, grinned and said quickly: "Then you should know the purpose of our coming here to find you, right?"

"Uh..." After hesitating for a moment, the landlady nodded and confirmed:
"I seem to know that you are here to get news about my bestie, right?"

"Yes." Seeing that the landlady was a sensible person, Lu Weiwei nodded silently, looked around, and then asked again:

"Is it convenient? Let's chat?"

"Uh..." Still hesitated, she looked back at her husband who was in the kitchen. The woman quickly said to her husband: "Husband, I have something to do. I will take them upstairs to talk. You can work downstairs alone."

"If you're too busy, just call me at the top of the stairs."

"Okay, I got it." He also heard the conversation between Gu Chen and others, and the landlady's husband didn't say much.Just chimed in casually.

Afterwards, the landlady took Gu Chen and others directly along the narrow stairs to the second floor.

The second floor is also a dining area. When the first floor is full, guests can sit on the second floor to dine.

This is actually a convenient restaurant, but now it is a living room.

... (end of this chapter)