I am a super cop

As for why Zhao Wenli was kidnapped, Gu Chen couldn't tell at the moment.

The key question is whether Zhao Wenli was kidnapped or not. There is no evidence for this yet.

It was only based on the clues provided by Zhao Wenli's mother that everyone knew that the rations Zhao Wenli carried were K brand compressed biscuits.

However, this type of compressed biscuits is expensive, so hiking enthusiasts usually do not carry it with them.

Therefore, it is extremely rare on the market. So when Officer Wang found the packaging bag of K brand compressed biscuits in the woods, it gave everyone a little hope.

At least it shows that Gu Chen's judgment was correct. This might be Zhao Wenli's food.

When these people evacuate, they will definitely dispose of the garbage they carry with them to avoid leaving any clues.

However, there was only one bag of K brand compressed biscuits along the entire route.

Obviously, this might be the clue that Zhao Wenli secretly left behind, hoping that someone could find her based on the clue.

Seeing that the visibility around was getting lower and lower, Gu Chen reminded Lu Weiwei: "Senior Sister Lu, we should go back quickly, otherwise we won't even be able to find the camp."

"Okay." Lu Weiwei looked around and couldn't help but complain: "The fog in this mountain is really thick. I can't see anything all of a sudden."

The two of them also communicated and returned to the camp.

Then, everyone took out the moisture-proof mat and spread it on the grass, and then took out the independent egg nest mat and put it on top.

Because everyone brought a sleeping bag before setting off, this helped to keep warm in the mountains.

Plus, surrounded by thermal blankets, everyone formed a simple camp here, so sleeping was not a problem.

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The next morning, everyone started packing their luggage early in the morning, preparing to follow that road to look for Zhao Wenli and Zhuang Qing.

Since we saw the packaging bag of K brand compressed biscuits yesterday, we were sure that the route we were taking was correct.

So everyone began to urge Lao Zhang to lead the way as soon as possible and take everyone to find Zhao Wenli's whereabouts.

Lao Zhang is the only one here who is very familiar with the terrain.

Even the leader of the search and rescue team was not 100% sure that they were looking in the right direction.

So everyone immediately started the forced march mode.

In this way, we walked and stopped along the ridge line for two days.

It was not until the early morning of the third day, when everyone had packed their luggage and prepared to set off again, that they discovered some colorful buildings not far away.

Gu Chen quickly called Lao Zhang over: "Lao Zhang, come over and take a look."

"What?" Old Zhang was stunned and quickly walked up to Gu Chen.

Gu Chen pointed to the colorful building not far ahead and asked, "Is that the other scenic spot you mentioned?"

"Uh... let me see." Facing Gu Chen's question, Lao Zhang also took a closer look, and then he suddenly realized:

"Yes, that's it. We have now arrived at another scenic spot. This place is our final destination and the end point of this route."

"That means we have finished the investigation? But we haven't found Zhao Wenli?" asked Officer Wang.

Lao Zhang was a little embarrassed, and said slowly: "This is the end point of the hiking route, and it is also under the jurisdiction of another city."

"But the mountains here cover a wide area. If Zhao Wenli and her group took this route, they would have many ways to leave here."

"Which route is the most likely?" Yuan Shasha asked.

"Uh..." Feeling a little embarrassed, Lao Zhang thought for a few seconds and shook his head to deny it:
"It's hard for me to judge, because the mountain road here is so easy to walk down."

"Besides, people can park anywhere on the winding mountain road. Who knows how they will leave?"

"Don't worry about that." Seeing that Lao Zhang had doubts, Gu Chen also said slowly:

"I have contacted my colleague and asked him to closely monitor the movement of vehicles near this scenic spot."

"If there are any abnormal vehicles, keep an eye on them. Maybe we can find out the problem."

"But now, the question before us is, which direction will Zhao Wenli leave from? Can we still find some clues in the mountains and forests?"

"Because from what we have been searching in the mountains and forests over the past few days, there is indeed a hiking group that has passed by the roads we have walked on before us."

"Also, they set up camp before us, but they left no trash or clues behind."

"This situation is difficult to deal with." Officer Wang sighed and said without further explanation.

Lu Weiwei analyzed calmly and said, "These days, they changed their original hiking route to the Golden Summit to this route, so their supplies will definitely not be sufficient."

"After all, if you want to go to Jinding, two days and one night, or three days and two nights is enough for a rookie like Zhao Wenli."

"But now that we have changed to the direct route, it will take one to two days longer. This means that Zhao Wenli's supplies may not be enough to support her for another day or two."

"And if these people don't give Zhao Wenli supplies, everyone will starve."

After a pause, Lu Weiwei glanced at everyone and said slowly:

"Well, from now on, if they come here, what should they do first?"

"Buy supplies." Yuan Shasha said.

Lu Weiwei snapped her fingers. "That's right. We are going to buy supplies, such as mineral water. This is very important. Their supplies must have run out in the past few days, especially water."

"Yes." Listening to Lu Weiwei's analysis, the leader of the search and rescue team said slowly:
"You make sense. We've been walking for these days and our supplies are all gone. I was just thinking of going to buy some food and water. Maybe they need to get some supplies too."

"That's right, we can go to the scenic spot to ask about the situation." Gu Chen said.

Everyone quickly reached a consensus and headed towards the colorful buildings.

Since we were hiking to the Golden Summit of Jiufeng Mountain, we temporarily changed the route to Wolong Valley Hot Spring Resort.

Therefore, everyone seemed to be in a good mood. After all, the various searches in the mountains and forests these days had consumed a lot of everyone's time.

Especially in terms of supplies, the situation is extremely tight.

Refueling at a hot spring resort at this time is undoubtedly the best solution.

Later, when everyone arrived at the hot spring resort area, they quickly found several homestays.

So everyone went to the B&B owner's living room and frantically bought mineral water and food.

Gu Chen took out a photo of Zhao Wenli and asked in front of the boss: "Have you seen this person?"

"This person? I've never seen him." The owner of the B&B squinted and quickly shook his head. So Gu Chen showed Zhuang Qing's photo again and continued to ask, "What about this person?"

"No." The boss still shook his head, indicating that he had never seen it.

Gu Chen took a deep breath and asked again, "Have some people come here from the mountains to buy supplies recently?"

Seeing the boss was stunned, Lu Weiwei quickly reminded him, "Yes, he hiked here from the mountains like us, and then bought supplies from you, right?"

After all, this is the nearest homestay location for hiking out of the mountain and into the Wolong Mountain Hot Spring Resort.

Generally speaking, if you go out to purchase supplies, you will definitely choose to buy supplies here.

The boss thought for a moment and said slowly: "A few days ago, a group of people came to purchase supplies."

"How many people are there in total?" Officer Wang asked quickly after hearing this.

The owner of the B&B shook his head: "I don't know how many people there are. I know they have a group of people outside, but only two of them came to purchase supplies. The others stayed outside."

"So there are more than two people?" Yuan Shasha asked.

"Uh, yes, there are more than two people. Two of them are here to purchase, and the others are outside."

"They look very tired. I think they must have come here from the mountains on foot. They are dirty just like you."

With the boss's answer, Gu Chen quickly became alert and asked again:
“Do you have any surveillance cameras here?”

"Uh...what do you want this for?" The boss expressed his incomprehension.

So Gu Chen showed his police ID and explained, "We are tracking down the suspect."

"Well, okay then." Seeing that Gu Chen had revealed his identity, the B&B owner had no choice but to do as he was told.

So I quickly started to retrieve the surveillance footage on my computer.

Gu Chen and his companions gathered around.

Soon, everyone noticed two men wearing masks and baseball caps, carrying hiking backpacks, walked in and frantically bought food and water in the store.

But no matter from which angle, the camera cannot capture the whole face.

However, one can see the figures of these two people. Judging from their body features, Gu Chen concluded that they were both around 30 years old.

"Is there no front face?" Officer Wang was also a little anxious.

But the boss shook his head and said: "They all came in wearing masks, I couldn't see their faces clearly, and the camera couldn't capture them. There's nothing I can do."

"What accents do these two people have?" Gu Chen asked quickly.

But the B&B owner shook his head: "They didn't say anything, they didn't say anything the whole time, they just took the things and put them on the counter."

"I told them the price and they just paid cash and left."

"Is the cash still there?" Gu Chen asked quickly after hearing this.

"Uh..." After standing there thinking for a few seconds, the boss immediately took out the key from the drawer, then used the key to open another drawer, took out a handful of change from an iron box and put it on the table.

Then he picked out a few ten-dollar bills and said, "These should be them."

"One hundred yuan note and four ten yuan notes."

"Thank you, we're going to take these back." Upon seeing this, Officer Wang directly scanned 140 yuan for the boss, then put on white gloves and put the cash into the evidence bag.

Although this type of investigation is minimal, related items are now the focus of collection.

Then Gu Chen asked the boss again: "Where did they go after they left your store?"

"I don't know about this." The boss was a little confused, so he checked the surveillance again and said:
"They should be going down the mountain. From the surveillance camera at my door, I can see that they are heading down the mountain."

Gu Chen looked at the surveillance camera at the door, which was actually installed behind the cash register in the store.

It's just that I can capture the location of the gate and the road in front of it.

After finishing their purchase, the two men indeed walked down the mountain.

"Thank you." Gu Chen thanked him and picked up a bottle of mineral water and gulped down a few gulps.

The mineral water bottles were quickly empty. Gu Chen put the empty bottles in the trash can at the door and immediately reminded everyone, "Go down the mountain and find someone."

Wolong Valley Hot Spring Resort is a large health tourism area.

It is divided into an amusement park and a hot spring resort.

There is an ancient town in this mountain, and there are many hot springs in the mountain, which have been developed into hot spring hotels.

Every year, many tourists come to soak in the hot springs.

But there is still a spring in the ancient town, and people living there still come to the spring to fetch water.

It is said that drinking the water from the spring can cure all diseases. Of course, there is a certain amount of exaggeration in this, but it is true that the spring water contains beneficial minerals.

But our goal now is to find the whereabouts of those people.

Therefore, after walking on the road down the mountain for a while, as long as Gu Chen saw a residential area near the roadside, he would take people to inquire.

But because the roads here are monitored in segments, and there is a signal here, Gu Chen took out his mobile phone and started contacting He Junchao.

Not long after, He Junchao's phone call came through, and Gu Chen quickly asked: "Brother He, on the way down the mountain from the Wolong Valley Hot Spring Resort, were there any outdoor hikers coming down the mountain a few days ago?"

"I didn't go there and didn't find anything." He Junchao said on the phone:
"Impossible. The owner of the B&B here revealed that a group of outdoor hikers came here a few days ago. It seems that they also walked through from Jiufeng Mountain."

"And they purchased a lot of supplies at the B&B. They must have come down the mountain from here. Please confirm it again."

After a pause, Gu Chen continued to remind, "Especially those vehicles that can carry many people, you need to pay special attention to see which vehicles are suspicious?"

"Okay." After receiving Gu Chen's order, He Junchao could only agree first, but he said helplessly:
"In fact, I have checked this road down the mountain from Wolong Valley many times in the past few days."

"We haven't found any suspicious vehicles yet, but there are some vehicles that can carry a lot of people. However, we need to track their movements one by one, which is very time-consuming."

"We have to investigate to the end no matter how much time it takes. Now I suspect that the missing Zhao Wenli and Zhuang Qing may have come down the mountain from here."

"Moreover, they should have been taken into the vehicles that had been prepared."

"Check the vehicles that have entered the Wolong Valley Hot Spring Resort in the past few days to see if there are any suspicious targets. If there are, find those vehicles."

"Okay, I'll do my best." Hearing Gu Chen say this, He Junchao on the phone took a deep breath, agreed reluctantly, and then hung up the phone.

...(End of chapter)