I am a super cop

Chapter 2767 Deserted Land
Gu Chen felt that he needed to go over and investigate in person, so he quickly said to the middle-aged woman: "Can you take me over there?"

"Now?" said the middle-aged woman on the phone.

"Yes, right now. I will leave immediately."

"Okay, then...then let's meet at the alley intersection where we met before?" said the middle-aged woman.

"Okay, wait for me there." After Gu Chen briefly explained to the middle-aged woman, he hung up the phone.

He turned to look at Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha and said, "We should hurry over now."

"Okay." Everyone had no objection.

You know, even a little clue at this time would be extremely valuable.

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Gu Chen drove the car and slowly stopped at the entrance of the alley. At this moment, Gu Chen found that the middle-aged woman was standing on the side of the road.

Standing next to her were a middle-aged man and a little boy.

Obviously, this is a family affair.

After Gu Chen got off the car, he went straight to the woman and said, "Hello."

"Officer Gu, we meet again." Seeing that the person coming was Gu Chen, the woman smiled and quickly introduced herself to Gu Chen:
"Oh, this is my wife, and this is my son. They are afraid that it would be unsafe for me to go out alone at night, so they must accompany us."

"It's okay, thank you for your cooperation." Gu Chen said to the woman's husband.

"Of course, of course. It's the duty of every citizen to cooperate with the police in their investigations." The middle-aged man was quite open-minded.

So Gu Chen turned his gaze to the little boy again.

The little boy looked about seven or eight years old. He was still a little nervous when he saw Gu Chen.

Gu Chen also touched his head and asked, "Little friend, are those strangers just asking about the situation of your vegetable plot?"

"Yeah." The little boy nodded silently, and said without hesitation: "They asked me if I could get to the outside of the block."

"I also felt very strange at the time. I thought to myself, what are they doing outside? And why are they going that way?"

"It's mainly because that road is not easy to walk on. I feel it's weird to walk through the vegetable fields instead of the main road."

After the voice fell, the little boy glanced at his mother again and quickly said:

"My mother just told me all this today, so I felt that those people must be the ones you are looking for, so I told my mother what I knew."

"Little boy, you did a great job." Lu Weiwei touched the little boy's head and said encouragingly.

The little boy was a little embarrassed by Lu Weiwei's encouragement, so he smiled and said:

“Isn’t this as it should be?”

"Then how far is this place from here? How do we get there?" Officer Wang also walked forward and asked.

"Oh, you can't drive up there, you have to walk from here." The middle-aged woman said, pointing to the alley.

"Go from here?" Gu Chen took a look and found that this was the place he had been to today, and also the place where Zhang He was attacked by that group of people.

The middle-aged woman nodded silently: "Yes, it is from here, but we usually go from another place because it is closer to our home."

"If you go from here, the shortest way is to go around this alley."

"Okay, let's go over there?" Gu Chen said.

"Well, okay." Seeing Gu Chen say this, the woman hurriedly took her husband and son, holding flashlights, ready to lead the way.

Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha followed behind, and they all walked towards the alley together.

Because this is an old alley and not many people pass by normally, there are no street lights here, making it very dark.

Especially when weeds grow out from the gaps under the floor tiles, it may even be slippery to walk on them.

The middle-aged woman and her family also brought Gu Chen and others, turning left and right in the alley, and finally came to a broken cement road.

The middle-aged woman explained: "This road is the one we walked on when we were in elementary school."

"Later, the school was closed down, the teaching building was demolished, and the road was damaged by construction vehicles."

"Finally, this place became deserted and no one left. Later, we turned the old school site into a vegetable field, and more people came here."

"But we don't know why the group took this route. I think they must have wanted to avoid surveillance."

"Then you guessed it right. They just want to avoid surveillance." Yuan Shasha said.

"That's right." The middle-aged woman nodded affirmatively and continued:
"Anyway, I felt that there was something wrong with those people, so I wanted to inform you quickly."

The conversation between the few people continued, and they talked while walking.

In the darkness, the flashlight kept sweeping across the dim road ahead.

It's pitch black here, but there are bright lights in the distance.

One light and one dark, forming a sharp contrast.

Arriving in front of a damaged wall, the middle-aged woman pushed open an iron gate and said to Gu Chen with a smile:

"This is the small gate that used to be our primary school. The security booth next to it used to be a small shop."

"And this gate is now surrounded by a wall, so we have to go in through the small door."

As they were talking, the middle-aged woman had already brought Gu Chen and the others to the interior of the old campus.

It's dark in here and I can't see anything.

However, through the light of the flashlight, you can still see the outline of some vegetable fields.

"Be careful of the stones, come this way." The middle-aged woman reminded Gu Chen, shone the flashlight on the ground, and then led Gu Chen forward.

After passing through a large vegetable field, the middle-aged woman explained:

"This used to be the playground where we studied, but now it's all vegetable fields. And over there, that used to be the teaching building, but now it's been razed to the ground."

“Originally, we planned to build a real estate here, but later the project was cancelled due to various reasons.”

"Go over here and you will see the old wall of the school. Do you see it? This wall is very old and has been there for many years. There is a small door here that leads to another community."

"This community was previously a residential area for the families of a state-owned enterprise. Later, the state-owned enterprise went bankrupt, and much of the land was demolished and turned into a commercial housing community."

“But here, because the location is relatively remote, the number of people still living here is relatively small.”

After passing through the small door in the wall, Gu Chen came to an old neighborhood. Just as the middle-aged woman said, the houses here are generally four stories high, with red brick exterior walls that look quite old.

Perhaps because the geographical location here is relatively remote, the developer feels that this location does not have much development value.

In these communities, only a few households have lights on.

"Go over and ask about the situation." Gu Chen said. "Okay, but I don't know them. They may be old residents here. There should be more elderly people living here." The middle-aged woman said.

So everyone came to the door of the first house where the light was on.

Lu Weiwei knocked on the door, and soon an old lady opened it.

The dim light in the room made the old man look extremely haggard.

"Hello, how many people are there in your family?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Just me." The old lady had missing front teeth, and her voice was somewhat limping when she spoke.

"Oh, have there been a group of strangers hanging around here recently?" Lu Weiwei asked again.

"Strangers? Where did the strangers come from? For so many years, we are the only families living here."

The old lady didn't seem to know the purpose of Gu Chen and his companions' visit, so she just said it casually.

So Yuan Shasha quickly explained to the old lady: "Just yesterday, a doctor from outside the city was attacked by several strangers here and was seriously injured."

"And we heard that these outsiders chose to pass through the abandoned elementary school and leave from here in order to avoid surveillance. So, we want to ask you if you know their whereabouts?"

"I don't know, I don't know." The old lady waved her hand and said without hesitation:
"How would I know their whereabouts? I don't even know there are any strangers here."

After she finished speaking, the old lady continued, "We are all inhabited by the elderly here. There is one family here, one family over there, and two families over there. There are four families in total, and there are only five people in total, all of them are elderly."

"Besides that, I haven't seen anyone else, and no one else will come here."

"Okay." After listening to the old lady's story, Gu Chen roughly understood the situation here.

Maybe the elderly are used to living here, so they didn’t see any strangers.

Gu Chen took a quick look at the internal situation of the old man's house, communicated a few words, and then took everyone away.

Afterwards, Gu Chen went to visit almost all the other families. Except for one family with two elderly people, the others were all elderly people living alone.

But everyone said the same thing: they hadn't seen anyone else, especially last night.

Maybe it was because it was night, so the elderly were watching TV in the house and didn’t pay much attention to what was happening outside.

These people attacked Zhang He in the middle of the night. After the attack, if they passed through this side, as long as they didn't make too much noise, there wouldn't be too many problems.

So the middle-aged woman and her family, along with Gu Chen and a few others, walked directly through this community and went to another community.

There is a long and narrow passage here. On the left is a residential area, but the wall is quite high. There is also a wall on the right, but the trees inside the wall on the right are obviously quite dense, and you can tell at a glance that they have been planted for many years.

The middle-aged woman also explained: "The one on the right is the former state-owned enterprise. When the business was good, there were a lot of employees and the benefits were also very good."

"But its development couldn't keep up with the times, so it went bankrupt and all the buildings inside were demolished."

"But because it is industrial land, after an environmental assessment by experts, it was determined that the land is not suitable for commercial residential areas and cannot be developed for at least several decades."

"So the land over there is also abandoned. Oh, here, there is a road on the left that can go directly through the community and come to the main road over there."

"Is there any surveillance here?" Gu Chen asked.

"Yes, after all, this is a residential area, and there are surveillance cameras here." said the middle-aged woman.

But Gu Chen quickly turned his gaze to the right.

On the right is the factory gate, which is still blocked by an old sliding door.

The small door on the right was open.

Gu Chen quickly said, "Let's go in and take a look."

"Okay." The middle-aged woman's husband quickly opened the iron pin of the iron gate and pushed the iron gate open.

After everyone entered, a strange atmosphere hit them.

The little boy seemed a little scared and quickly hugged his mother tightly.

Seeing this, Yuan Shasha also quickly said: "The child seems to be very scared. Why don't you not go in and let Dad stay outside with you?"

"Aren't you going in?" the middle-aged woman asked when she saw this.

The little boy nodded: "I'm scared."

"Then you and dad can stay outside, okay?" asked the middle-aged woman.

"Yes, sure." The little boy agreed readily.

So the middle-aged woman asked her husband to take the little boy to the road of the community and wait for her where there were street lights.

After the communication, the middle-aged woman continued to lead Gu Chen and others inside.

At this moment, everyone realized how strange the interior of the factory of this old state-owned enterprise was.

The woman pointed to an abandoned building on the right side of the entrance and said, "This place was the office building of this state-owned enterprise before. It was where the office was."

"Go further in, that building is the guesthouse of this old state-owned enterprise, which is specially used to entertain customers who come here on business trips."

"When the business is good, there are often many customers here, carrying large and small bags to the factory to inspect and place orders."

"I was still young at that time, but I knew that if I could enter such an enterprise, I would basically have no worries about food and clothing."

"But who would have thought that in less than ten years, the company would go bankrupt and be liquidated. It's such a pity that such a large company collapsed so suddenly."

"This may be the trend of the times. If you don't move forward, you will fall behind. It is not feasible to develop a business relying on old ideas." said Officer Wang.

"Maybe. Ouch." As the middle-aged woman spoke, she slipped and almost fell.

Fortunately, Lu Weiwei was quick to help the woman and said, "Be careful."

"Oh, there is a big pit here, please be careful." The middle-aged woman was also frightened and said quickly.

Gu Chen used a high-intensity flashlight to shine around the area and found that the road surface was bumpy.

The previous cement floor is now in disrepair.

Gu Chen did not continue to move forward, but shone the flashlight around and asked the middle-aged woman: "Is there an exit outside?"

"Here, I remember it seems to be there, but I have never been here. After all, I usually grow vegetables in that vegetable garden."

"As for this place, I just heard people say that there seems to be a passage that can lead to the outside, but I don't know exactly where it leads to."

"Then we have to look for it. There must be a gap in the wall here." Lu Weiwei said.

So everyone shone their flashlights everywhere, focusing on checking the direction of the wall.

But the area of ​​wasteland was too large, and the wall in the distance could not be seen clearly.

So Gu Chen decided to walk closer and take a look at the situation.

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