I am a super cop

Chapter 2908 K Brand Compressed Biscuits

The team leader nodded silently, agreeing with Lu Weiwei's statement: "This route is not suitable for most people, and it has not been considered a hiking route before."

"Before this, the ridgeline from the hiking entrance to the Golden Summit of Jiufeng Mountain was not open to the public."

"Before this route became popular, only a few people would walk it. Now there are so many people hiking here that we have to open it."

After a pause, the leader continued, "But this hiking route to other scenic spots doesn't exist at all."

"This is a route that several hiking enthusiasts chose to explore based on the topographic map."

"Later, these people often showed off in the comments under various videos of Jiufeng Mountain, which led to everyone knowing that they could also walk here."

“But since this route was exposed last year, there have been several accidents, so we don’t recommend taking this route at all.”

"That is to say, the two people we are looking for are very likely to have gotten lost on this route?" Gu Chen asked.

The team leader nodded silently: "You can say that, but it's not absolute. After all, they left the camera on the road, which is very suspicious."

"Yes." As soon as the leader finished speaking, Gu Chen quickly agreed: "It is not reasonable to casually discard valuable items such as cameras. Either they were forced."

"What does Junior Brother Gu mean?" Lu Weiwei thought for a moment before asking, "Was Zhao Wenli forced to take this route?"

"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently and said without hesitation:
"Zhao Wenli may not want to take this route, and she is a novice hiker. It is very difficult for her to walk along the ridgeline from the hiking entrance to the Golden Summit."

"Not to mention that this route is not easy even for experienced hikers."

"So I feel like Zhao Wenli was forced into this situation, and the person holding her hostage might be someone else."

"Do you think that the person who held her hostage was not her travel companion Zhuang Qing?" said Officer Wang.

Gu Chen continued to nod: "I suspect there are others, and this is why Zhao Wenli originally wanted to hike to the Golden Summit, but ended up changing her route here."

"Of course, we have no other conclusions yet as to whether Zhao Wenli took this route, but what is certain is that the dry food Zhao Wenli carried with him was prepared by Zhao Wenli's mother."

"According to Zhao Wenli's mother, she prepared some K brand compressed biscuits for her daughter. I searched for this brand and found that it was quite expensive."

"Most hikers would not be willing to buy it, but Zhao Wenli's family is relatively well-off, so her mother was willing to spend money for her first hiking experience."

"Yeah." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Officer Wang quickly responded:

"If Zhao Wenli was smart enough, she would definitely find a way to leave clues, such as packaging bags, when she ate compressed biscuits along the way."

"Then let's search along the way. If we can find the K brand compressed biscuit packaging bag, it means that Zhao Wenli might have taken this route?" Yuan Shasha also said.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "That's about the idea, but this is just a preliminary basis and can only be used as a reference."

"But I hope we can come across this kind of situation. Otherwise, it would be very unusual for Zhao Wenli to go to such great lengths to throw away the backpack containing the camera."

"You know, the camera is expensive, and Zhao Wenli always takes pictures with it, so there is no reason for her to throw it away."

"Correct."

After a discussion, everyone determined the general search strategy.

That is to try to find packaging bags of K brand compressed biscuits along the way.

Because Gu Chen believed that Zhao Wenli was smart enough. Since she could abandon the camera and find a way to convey a certain intention by taking random photos.

Then as long as there is an opportunity, Zhao Wenli will definitely choose to leave other clues.

So based on this principle, everyone began to expand the search range along the way.

Lao Zhang led the way in front, while everyone walked around the road to expand the search range.

After all, in some relatively flat places, everyone will search around, because this is most likely the place where these people rest.

And rest will inevitably replenish food and water.

At this time, as long as Zhao Wenli had this idea, she would definitely find a way to leave some packaging bags as a reminder.

We continued walking for nearly 3 hours, slowly moving forward in the search, and finally arrived at a watershed on the ridge line.

There is alpine grassland on one side and coniferous forest on the other.

So everyone chose a shady place and prepared to take a short rest.

Everyone immediately took off their backpacks and prepared to rest on the spot.

Officer Wang was in a hurry to pee, so he started looking for a place to pee and soon found one.

So Officer Wang walked over, prepared to use the big tree as cover and urinate on it.

But a ray of reflected light shone into his eyes. Officer Wang squinted his eyes and looked towards the light source, only to find a food packaging bag floating in the grass.

Officer Wang squinted his eyes, took a look, and quickly went to the place after relieving himself.

When he came in front of the reflective light source, Officer Wang carefully picked up the food packaging bag on the ground and found that the brand mark on the packaging bag was exactly the K brand compressed biscuits that Gu Chen mentioned.

"Good job." Seeing this, Officer Wang was overjoyed and quickly ran towards Gu Chen with the packaging bag:

"Gu Chen, Gu Chen, I found it."

"Found it?" Gu Chen was originally sitting there resting, but when he heard what Officer Wang said, he quickly stood up.

When Officer Wang handed the package to Gu Chen, Gu Chen was sure, so he quickly asked Officer Wang: "Brother Wang, where did you find it?"

"Through the woods, onto the grass," said Officer Wang.

"Let's go." Gu Chen didn't care about too much at the moment, and immediately led everyone to look for the grass.

Everyone gathered around and came to the place Officer Wang mentioned, and then everyone started searching around again.

But no food packaging bags were found.

At this time, Gu Chen stopped while searching and said:

"Someone has indeed rested here, and more than one person."

"Yes." Lu Weiwei also found some places where the grass was stepped on and said:
"It was raining here a few days ago, and the grass was quite wet, so walking on it would leave some footprints, and the footprints here are particularly obvious."

"It's obvious that someone had rested here before, and we found a bag of K brand compressed biscuits."

"And this packaging bag is very likely left by Zhao Wenli." "That means our search idea may be correct. If this packaging bag of K brand compressed biscuits was really left by that girl, it means she has been here." Old Zhang was also extremely excited at this time.

All members of the search and rescue team were filled with fighting spirit at this moment.

At least after searching for so long, we finally have some clues.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Gu Chen also quickly looked around and said, "There are no roads around. There is only one road leading to the scenic area, which is to walk along the ridgeline of this branch line."

"Then Zhao Wenli may have left here with these people. We have to speed up our pace."

"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up." Yuan Shasha on the side could no longer wait.

Before, everyone’s search was like a headless fly, but with Gu Chen’s clues and reminders, everyone seemed to have found the direction of the search in an instant.

Now everyone is thinking about finding the whereabouts of the two missing women as soon as possible.

The team only took a short rest before continuing on their journey.

The following mountain road was extremely difficult to walk on. It could be said that there was basically no road.

Lao Zhang was familiar with the terrain in this area and led everyone to grope forward.

But when faced with some complicated road conditions, Lao Zhang would have to stop and think for a while before he could lead everyone to continue walking.

Another day passed and the sky gradually darkened.

The search and rescue leader looked around and warned, "We can't go any further. The road conditions here are bad. It's dangerous even with a headlamp because the mountain has started to fog up."

"If we're not careful and someone falls behind, it'll be troublesome."

"Then let's rest here for one night and set off early tomorrow morning." Lao Zhang looked around and continued:
"I see there's fog in the mountains, so we really can't go anywhere."

"Then set up the tent," said the leader.

So everyone immediately began to take off the various parts from their backpacks and started to build a simple tent in a relatively open area in the woods.

The tent consists of several canopies, surrounded by some thermal blankets.

Everyone slept in the middle. Although the conditions were a bit poor, at least there was a place to camp.

This is much more convenient than each person carrying a tent.

At night, everyone lit up the camping lights and gathered together to discuss search and rescue matters and chat about some interesting things in life.

Of course, Gu Chen was not in the mood for this. He just took a flashlight and started wandering around the camp.

Lu Weiwei also came out of the tent, followed Gu Chen, and reminded him:
"Junior Brother Gu, it's foggy in the mountains. We can't walk too far."

"I know." Gu Chen nodded silently and said without hesitation: "I was just wondering, who asked Zhao Wenli to take this route? It must be someone who is familiar with this route."

"But why did they let Zhao Wenli take this route? I think the purpose was kidnapping."

"Because they need to register their identity information when entering from the hiking entrance, they took the waterfall route, which does not require registration."

"If you walk along the ridgeline all the way to the Golden Summit, you will reach the real scenic area, where there will be many cameras."

"If Zhao Wenli had appeared there, she would have been captured by the cameras, but they did not take this main route and chose to go straight to other scenic spots."

After a pause, Gu Chen continued, "You know, the Jiufeng Mountain Scenic Area is very large. It takes a long time to walk down this straight route, and it leads to another place."

"If they had prepared a car at another location at this time, Zhao Wenli would have been kidnapped for sure."

"Besides, there are no cameras in those places, so we have no idea who did it."

"Oh my god." Hearing Gu Chen say this, Lu Weiwei couldn't believe it:

"If that's the case, Zhao Wenli is in danger. I think she was tricked into coming here."

After a pause, Lu Weiwei asked Gu Chen again: "So, Junior Brother Gu, do you think it was Zhuang Qing who did it?"

"It's possible." Gu Chen nodded silently, turned around and looked at Lu Weiwei and said:

"Zhuang Qing is Zhao Wenli's guide and partner for this hike. If they had discussed it beforehand, Zhao Wenli would have taken the hiking route to the Golden Summit."

"Because Zhao Wenli herself knows that she is a novice in hiking. She has no confidence in a route like this, so she would never agree to take this route."

"But why did she still leave? Because she didn't know the way, she could only follow Zhuang Qing. Wherever Zhuang Qing went, she would go."

"In this way, if Zhuang Qing wants to change the route temporarily, Zhao Wenli will have no choice but to agree, because she doesn't know the way here at all."

"Yes." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but say:

"In this way, Zhuang Qing has Zhao Wenli firmly under control. If there are a few other people around at this time, it would only take a few minutes to hold Zhao Wenli hostage."

"And Zhao Wenli didn't dare to resist under such circumstances. After all, she was in the deep mountains and there was no one around."

"If they do something to Zhao Wenli, it's useless for her to cry. She can only choose to cooperate with them."

"And if that's the case, then the probability of Zhao Wenli being kidnapped will greatly increase."

"After they finish their hike, just as you said, Junior Brother Gu, prepare a car on the other side of the mountain road."

"After Zhao Wenli was brought down the mountain, they tied her up, sealed her mouth with tape, and took her directly into the trunk of the car. That was the end of her."

"It's possible." After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Gu Chen also shook his hands and continued:
"If this is true, it can only mean that this group of people may have planned to invite Zhao Wenli to climb the mountain. They may have intended to kidnap her from the beginning."

After a pause, Gu Chen fell into deep thought and said:

"But, did they kidnap Zhao Wenli for money? Although Zhao Wenli's family is well-off, they are not wealthy."

"According to Zhao Wenli's mother, her husband only worked at a foreign port and was just a small leader. He was not particularly rich."

"If you want to kidnap and blackmail someone, you should at least kidnap a rich kid, right?"

"Maybe this group of people can only kidnap someone like Zhao Wenli?" Lu Weiwei put forward her own hypothesis.

Gu Chen pondered for a few seconds, then nodded silently and said without hesitation: "Maybe."

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