I am a super cop

Chapter 3019 Villa Theft Case

Inside the room, Lu Weiwei seemed to understand Gu Chen's meaning and quickly echoed him:
"Junior Brother Gu, do you mean that Pan Xu doesn't usually cook at home and eats out?"

"And that restaurant is where Pan Xu frequents, and Pan Xu's girlfriend, He Lili, probably doesn't cook at home, otherwise Pan Xu wouldn't eat out, right?"

"Yes." Seeing that Lu Weiwei had already expressed her thoughts, Gu Chen slowly said, "The unopened takeout on the table is the best answer."

"Moreover, the gas cylinder in the kitchen has not been used for a long time, and it is covered with a thick layer of dust."

"And I discovered..." Gu Chen stopped mid-sentence, walked to the kitchen area, gently wiped the area next to the sink, and then showed everyone the dust on his fingers:

"They seem to rarely go into the kitchen, and they rarely use the kitchen faucets."

"I understand." As soon as Gu Chen said this, Yuan Shasha quickly chimed in.

"They rarely use the kitchen faucet, so it's very likely that there's no standing water in the kitchen drain."

"The carbon monoxide produced in the bathroom boiler room could very well enter the kitchen directly through the bend in the kitchen's drainpipe."

"Because there is no water in the bend pipe, the toxic gas can be released directly."

"That's how it is." Gu Chen said slowly after hearing Yuan Shasha's words.

Officer Wang frowned and quickly said, "We'll know by testing the bends in the sewer pipes."

Gu Chen nodded silently, then found a piece of white paper in the room and a roll of wire under the coffee table in the living room.

After straightening the wire, Gu Chen rolled the white paper into a circle and wrapped it around the top of the wire.

He then pulled out the drain pipe from the sink and inserted one end of the wire wrapped with white paper directly into the sewer.

Using the flexibility of the wire, Gu Chen continuously pushed it into the sewer pipe.

After a short while, having calculated the approximate position, Gu Chen rotated the wire and slowly retracted it.

After Gu Chen retracted the wire, everyone gathered around and discovered that the white paper end, apart from dust, had almost no signs of moisture.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Officer Wang couldn't help but sigh, "Gu Chen, it seems you were right. There was no water accumulation at the bend in the design because they hardly use the kitchen."

"Therefore, there is no water in the bend of the kitchen drain, or rather, there was water before, but due to long-term disuse, the water here has long since dried up."

"This is why the toxic carbon monoxide gas spread along the drainpipe and into the room."

"Pan Xu and He Lili died of carbon monoxide poisoning without their knowledge."

With a snap of his fingers, Officer Wang let out a long sigh of relief and said slowly, "It's solved. Everything is solved. The problem was right here. It seems our experiment wasn't in vain."

"There's still the first floor, everyone. Don't forget, we haven't checked the drainage pipes on the first floor yet. If the drainage pipes on the first floor are exactly the same as those on the sixth floor, then everything is correct," Lu Weiwei reminded them.

"Yes, and the first floor too." Officer Wang took a deep breath and quickly reminded Gu Chen:

"Gu Chen, we need to go back to the first floor to check immediately."

"Okay." Gu Chen was overjoyed, as the problem that had troubled him for many days had finally been explained.

Gu Chen knew that this was the real reason. Fortunately, he was able to persevere, otherwise he would have missed the crucial moment to solve the problem.

Having learned from their experience on the sixth floor, everyone quickly returned to the first floor.

As before, everyone was still wearing gas masks, but now, since the evidence collection was complete, all the windows on the first floor were open.

Gu Chen used the same method he had on the sixth floor, wrapping a piece of white paper around the end of the wire and slowly extending it toward the passage.

To Gu Chen's surprise, the place seemed to be unobstructed, and he didn't feel any resistance.

Gu Chen hesitated for a moment before pulling out the wire.

Everyone looked puzzled upon seeing this.

Yuan Shasha quickly asked Gu Chen, "Senior Brother Gu, what's wrong?"

"That's not right, there doesn't seem to be a hairpin bend here." Gu Chen frowned and said slowly.

"No bend design?" Officer Wang asked with a puzzled look. He quickly took the wire from Cheng's hand and continued to reach into the sewer.

After several attempts, it was indeed impossible to feel the structure of the bend design, and the wire could be directly passed down.

Officer Wang broke out in a cold sweat: "My God, this sewer pipe is straight through! There's no bend at all. No wonder carbon monoxide could get in."

“That’s right.” Upon hearing Officer Wang’s explanation, Gu Chen replied without hesitation:
"The drainage pipes on the first floor have no bend design at all; they are completely straight."

"If there were sewage stored inside, it would be effective in preventing the spread of toxic gases, but there is none here at all."

"That's right," Lu Weiwei said, suddenly realizing.
"That's why residents on other floors weren't poisoned when carbon monoxide was released through the drainpipes in the bathroom that day, but the problems only occurred on the first and sixth floors."

"Because the drainage pipes on the first floor have a direct discharge structure, toxic gases can enter directly."

"Although the sixth floor has a bend in the drainpipe design, Pan Xu, He Lili, and Liu Si rarely cook at home, so the kitchen is rarely used, resulting in no water accumulation in the bend."

"In this way, carbon monoxide can still enter the home through the drainpipe."

"That's why only these two households in the building experienced poisoning."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Weiwei breathed a sigh of relief and patted Gu Chen on the shoulder, saying, "Junior Brother Gu, we succeeded. This experiment was worthwhile."

"Mm." Gu Chen nodded silently.

Officer Wang, who was standing nearby, quickly reminded him, "Stop talking and tell Director Zhao this news right away. Don't keep him waiting outside for too long. He's under a lot of pressure waiting for our news."

"Okay, let's go tell Director Zhao." With Officer Wang's reminder, everyone immediately headed outside.

At this very moment, Zhao Guozhi was still standing outside the apartment building, quietly waiting for Gu Chen and the others to finish their investigation.

But when Zhao Guozhi saw Gu Chen and the others remove their gas masks and walk towards him with relaxed expressions, he already knew the outcome.

"Director Zhao."

"Director Zhao."

Everyone surrounded Zhao Guozhi.

Zhao Guozhi smiled slightly and quickly asked, "What were the results of the investigation?"

"The experiment was a success; the culprit was that bathhouse," Gu Chen said.

Zhao Guozhi took a deep breath and said with a sigh of relief, "It seems we didn't make a mistake. It seems this experiment wasn't a waste of time."

After calming himself down, Zhao Guozhi looked at Gu Chen again and asked, "What exactly happened?"

"The thing is like this..."

Based on his on-site investigation, Gu Chen explained the experimental results everyone had just obtained to Zhao Guozhi in detail. Zhao Guozhi listened with great interest, nodding silently, and said without further ado, "So that's how it is? So that's how it is?"

After a pause, Zhao Guozhi immediately took out his phone and ordered Gu Chen, "Gu Chen, we can take control of the main person involved in the bathroom incident now. I need to report to Director Qin immediately."

"Yes." Seeing that Zhao Guozhi could finally breathe a sigh of relief, Gu Chen glanced at Ji Zhe beside him and said, "Ji Zhe, take some men and take control of the bathhouse owner."

"Yes," Ji Zhe agreed and immediately led his men out of the residential area.

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After being battered by several typhoons, Jiangnan City has officially entered the sweltering summer.

At this moment, the outside temperature has reached a high of 35 degrees Celsius.

In contrast, temperatures in the north reached as high as 40 degrees Celsius.

Beijing and Northeast China, two places that are usually relatively cool, have been frequently hit by high temperatures.

Many university students in Northeast China are so hot that they even sleep on the school playground at night with their sleeping mats.

Compared to the high temperatures in Northeast China and Beijing, the 35-degree Celsius heat in Jiangnan City seems rather mild.

"It's so hot! It's so hot!" Officer Wang, his forehead covered in sweat, walked into the office from outside and quickly went to the air conditioner to cool himself down.

Lu Weiwei glanced at him and reminded him, "Old Wang, don't stand under the air conditioner, you'll easily catch a cold."

"It's better to catch a cold than to die from the heat, right?" Officer Wang couldn't help but complain.

Lu Weiwei retorted without hesitation, "Is it really that exaggerated? The temperature in Beijing and the Northeast is four or five degrees higher than in the South right now. How are people supposed to live there?"

"I don't care how others live, but I'm about to die. Go outside and see for yourself; the sun is incredibly scorching today."

"The way that gaze is on my skin makes me feel like I'm being grilled like braised pork."

As soon as he finished speaking, Officer Wang took off the watch on his left wrist and then showed it to everyone:
"See that? Where the watch is, there's a white patch, and the surrounding skin is all black."

"Senior Brother Wang," Gu Chen glanced at it and asked curiously, "Why does the skin around your watch look like it's peeling?"

"Oh dear." Officer Wang sighed and quickly explained, "Wearing a watch in the summer makes you sweat too much, so I took it off yesterday."

"But my arms have been in the sun for so long, so when I took off my watch, a patch of white skin was exposed where I wore the watch."

"But when the sun shines on it, hey, my fair skin gets really itchy. When I take a shower after get off work, it feels like my skin is peeling."

"It's probably because the watch protected this area of ​​skin from UV rays. Now that I've taken off the watch, my skin is suddenly exposed to such a strong attack, which is why it's peeling," Yuan Shasha said.

"I think so, so I applied some ointment last night, and I'll wear my watch today, otherwise my skin will really peel from the sun," Officer Wang couldn't help but complain.

"Old Wang." Seeing Officer Wang's miserable look, Lu Weiwei took out her local sunscreen and tossed it to him.

"Just carry a bottle of sunscreen with you and apply it whenever you feel like it. It won't hurt."

"Or you could wear arm sleeves, physical sun protection will do, and you won't have this problem now."

"Okay, okay." Listening to Lu Weiwei's nagging, Officer Wang picked up the sunscreen that Lu Weiwei handed him and poured it directly onto his hand to apply.

Because so much sunscreen had been poured out, Lu Weiwei immediately felt sorry for herself and said, "Old Wang, did you really have to pour out so much? Just a little bit would have been enough."

"Hehe, you're still not happy? Applying a little bit won't protect you from the sun at all." Officer Wang knew that Lu Weiwei was worried about her sunscreen, but she just felt great using other people's products.

Lu Weiwei frowned slightly, unsure of what to say for a moment.

Just then, the office landline phone rang.

Seeing this, Yuan Shasha quickly answered the phone: "Hello, this is the Furong Branch..."

Before the words were even finished, a middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Officer, my house has been burgled, and all my valuables have been stolen."

"What did you say? All the valuables in your house were stolen? How much did you lose?" Yuan Shasha was also preparing to take stock.

The middle-aged man on the other end of the phone thought for a moment before slowly saying, "It's at least several hundred thousand."

"Hundreds of thousands? Where are you now?" Yuan Shasha asked quickly upon hearing this.

"Fushan Road, Garden Villas, Building 6," the man on the phone said.

"What is your surname?" Yuan Shasha asked.

"My surname is Zhu, Zhu Yang."

"Okay, Mr. Zhu, please wait a moment while we dispatch the police."

After a brief conversation with the person who called the police, Yuan Shasha hung up the phone and quickly handed the recorded information to Gu Chen.
“On Fushan Road, near the garden villas, a family was burglarized, and the loss may be several hundred thousand yuan.”

"A villa area? Villas can be burglarized too?" Lu Weiwei asked in surprise.

"What's the property management company doing in this villa area? Does it do nothing but collect property fees?"

Lu Weiwei was also shocked by this place.

The main issue is that the location of this theft was actually a villa area.

Yuan Shasha smiled faintly and said, "How would I know? The person who called the police seemed hesitant, as if there was something wrong with them."

"No matter what, let's go take a look first." Upon hearing this, Gu Chen immediately went to get the police equipment.

Seeing this, everyone else followed suit.

After retrieving their cars from the compound's parking lot, everyone headed directly to the garden villa in Fushan District.

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Forty minutes later, Gu Chen parked his car outside the Garden Community parking lot, revealed his identity, and entered through the small iron gate to reach Building 6.

This is a detached villa with a garden and yard.

At this moment, on the steps at the entrance of the villa, sat a middle-aged man with a large belly.

Upon seeing Gu Chen and his group approach, the middle-aged man quickly stood up and walked over to Gu Chen.

"Did you call the police?" Gu Chen asked.

“Yes, I called the police,” said the man named Zhu Yang.

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