Solving the case: Combining the police dog's olfactory genes at the beginning

"You...you are Luo Fei?!"

That...that Luo Fei who personally killed two Japanese devils in the international special police competition?! My God! A national hero!

The man was so excited that he was incoherent and gesticulating wildly.

"I watched that match live! It was so satisfying! You're awesome! I never expected to meet you in person here!"

His face flushed with excitement, and his gaze shifted to Chen Xuanran beside Luo Fei, confirming his suspicions even more.

"This...this must be your partner, right? I saw them during the competition! A perfect match, a match made in heaven!"

This unexpected fan meeting caught Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran somewhat off guard.

Luo Fei coughed lightly, bringing the topic back on track.

"We're here to investigate a case."

"Investigating a case? Oh, right, right!"

The man then realized what was happening, but he couldn't hide his excitement. He rubbed his hands together and made the request, somewhat embarrassed.

"Um... Officer Luo, Officer Chen, I... can I take a picture with you? Just one! I promise I won't share it!"

Chen Xuanran glanced at Luo Fei, who nodded slightly, and then smiled and spoke to the man.

"Okay, let's hurry."

"That's great! Thank you! Thank you!"

Overjoyed, the man quickly took out his phone and moved between Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran, nervously and excitedly asking a passing cleaning lady for help.

A group photo was taken with a "click".

After putting his phone away with satisfaction, the man finally calmed down and asked curiously.

"Officer Luo, what brings such an important person like you to our small town? What major incident has happened at Hequan Manor?"

Luo Fei's expression turned serious, and he said in a deep voice.

“We received a report that two young girls likely entered your neighborhood at the beginning of last month and then disappeared. We came here specifically to investigate.”

"Someone's missing again?!"

The smile on the man's face froze instantly, replaced by shock and a hint of understanding.

"My God... this place is really something..."

Chen Xuanran keenly grasped the key words in his words.

"Again? You mean something similar happened before? Like that college student couple who went missing last year?"

The man nodded heavily, a look of lingering fear on his face.

"Yes! It was that couple! I had only been transferred to this project for a short time when that happened, and I even helped the police look for them in the neighborhood!"

He lowered his voice and said mysteriously.

"To be honest with you both, our Hequan Villa has long been 'famous' in the area. Many people say it's a 'ghost house,' very eerie! Few of my colleagues in the property management company are willing to work here. I only came here because the salary here is two thousand yuan higher than elsewhere."

Luo Fei pressed for an answer.

"Regarding the couple's disappearance, what was the status of the investigation by the police and your property management at the time? Did the surveillance cameras capture anything?"

The man recalled.

"Several groups of police came at the time and reviewed the surveillance footage of all the entrances and exits of our community, including the front and back gates and the underground parking garage, many times, but they still couldn't find any footage of the young couple leaving the community!"
They just walked in and...vanished! Later, the police, along with our property management staff, went door-to-door checking almost everything, even empty houses, and even...even lifted the septic tank lid to inspect them, but still found nothing! It's so bizarre!

He paused, then added a crucial piece of information.

"Moreover, most of the surveillance cameras in our community are broken. Because of the low occupancy rate, we can't collect the property management fees, the company isn't making money, and the boss is simply unwilling to spend money on replacements and repairs."

Therefore, even if the college students went to a part of the residential complex without gate surveillance cameras, we wouldn't be able to find out anything.

The internal monitoring system has been severely compromised!
This undoubtedly adds tremendous difficulty to the investigation!

Luo Fei immediately made his request.

“We now need to review the surveillance footage from last month, focusing on the front and back gates and the garage exit, to confirm whether the two girls we are looking for entered the community and whether they left afterwards.”

"No problem! Keep it on me!"

The man patted his chest and assured him.

"Officer Luo, you've rid the people of a scourge, you're a hero! I'll cooperate fully! Come with me to the monitoring room!"

He warmly led Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran into an even smaller room inside.

The so-called monitoring room consisted of only six monitor screens embedded in the wall, one of which was black and obviously broken.

The remaining five screens displayed live footage of the front and back gates of the residential complex, the two underground parking garage exits, and what appeared to be a corner inside the complex. The image quality was generally poor, with some images being blurry.

The man sat down in front of a computer that looked quite old and began explaining as he operated it.

"Officer Luo, our hard drive has a small capacity, and the surveillance videos are usually only saved for three months before being automatically deleted and overwritten. Last year's videos were already copied by the police. If you had come two months later, you probably wouldn't have been able to see last month's videos either."

Luo Fei moved a stool over, sat down next to the man, and stared intently at the screen.

"Retrieve the video from around 8 a.m. on the 4th of last month, and focus on the front and back gates."

"okay!"

The man operated the system skillfully, quickly bringing up the corresponding video file, selecting the footage from the front door camera, and speeding up the playback.

The scene moves rapidly at an accelerated pace, and people and vehicles entering and exiting become blurry shadows.

Luo Fei's eyes were like the most precise instruments, not missing a single frame.

"stop!"

Suddenly, Luo Fei spoke up.

The man immediately pressed the pause button.

Luo Fei pointed to the figures of two girls who had just entered the community gate on the screen.

"Zoom in here."

The image zoomed in; although somewhat blurry, the young faces of Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui were still clearly visible on the screen! Time display.

At 8:56 AM on the 4th of last month!
It's them!

They did come in!

Chen Xuanran confirmed from the side.

"We've found the key evidence!" Luo Fei's spirits lifted, and he continued to give orders.

"Next, focus on checking if they've left! Get all the available surveillance footage from the moment they entered the community until now—from the front and back gates to the two garage exits—and copy it to the cloud. I need to take it back for detailed analysis!" "All of it? More than a month's worth?"

The man was somewhat taken aback, but seeing Luo Fei's determined gaze, he immediately nodded.

"Okay! I'll get right on it! But it'll take a while, our internet speed isn't very good."

"ASAP!"

Luo Fei stood up and patted the man on the shoulder.

"Thanks for your hard work."

The man remained in the monitoring room, busy copying data, while Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran left the property management center first.

The two took another quick walk around the deserted neighborhood, and apart from the pervasive sense of gloom and the eerie layout, they did not find anything else obviously unusual.

As it got dark and they were getting hungry, they decided to leave the neighborhood to find something to eat.

Just as they reached the strange entrance that resembled a tombstone, a familiar figure suddenly appeared from the side—it was Guo Qian!

"Officer Luo! Officer Chen!"

Guo Qian didn't seem too surprised when she saw them.

"Miss Guo? What are you doing here?"

Chen Xuanran was somewhat surprised.

Guo Qian's face showed both fatigue and determination as she explained.

“I… I guessed you would come here to investigate, so I followed you. I’ve been waiting around here.”

"Officer Luo, do you... do you have any news about my sister?"

Looking at Guo Qian's expectant yet fearful eyes, Luo Fei shook his head and told her the truth.

"We have just confirmed that your sister and Gong Xiaorui did indeed enter this residential area on the morning of the 4th of last month."

However, whether they left afterwards, and where they went, requires further review of surveillance footage to determine. Currently, there are no new findings.

Upon hearing that her younger sister had indeed entered this rumored, extremely eerie neighborhood, Guo Qian's face paled even more, and she swayed slightly. Chen Xuanran quickly steadied her.

Seeing her distraught appearance, Luo Fei softened his tone.

"Did you have meal?"

Guo Qian shook her head blankly.

"Then let's go together."

Luo Fei said.

“We’re going to eat soon, so let’s chat while we eat. You can also think carefully about everything you know about your sister and this neighborhood, and make sure you don’t miss any details.”

<|end of thinking|> Okay, this is a continuation of the writing based on the outline you provided, following directly from the previous text.

The three of them found a small restaurant near Hequan Villa that looked fairly clean. After sitting down and ordering, the atmosphere became somewhat subdued.

Guo Qian was clearly still immersed in the fear and worry of her younger sister entering that eerie neighborhood, and she had no appetite.

Luo Fei broke the silence, his tone calm but guiding.

“Ms. Guo, relax. Anxiety won’t solve anything. Think back carefully. Before your sister Guo Mengyun came to Haizhu City, or even earlier, did she mention anything about ‘Hequan Villa’ to you?”

Even if she had only mentioned the name casually, or mentioned hearing rumors about this place online or from classmates?

Guo Qian absentmindedly stirred the rice in her bowl with her chopsticks, trying hard to recall what she was thinking, her brow furrowed. After a while, she looked up uncertainly.

"It seems...it seems that once, a few days before she decided to leave, she talked to me about that recurring nightmare, and she was in a very low mood."

She said... she said she researched a lot of information and felt that the place where the girl in the dream was trapped might not be a simple geographical location, but more like... an "energy field" or a "gathering point of negative emotions"?
She also mentioned something... "Feng Shui arrangement"? Yes, that's it!

She said she suspected that "Black Spring Manor" might be a man-made, extremely bad feng shui arrangement, intended to trap something, or... nurture something?

"Feng Shui arrangement?"

Upon hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed in Chen Xuanran's beautiful eyes.

Although she was a police officer, she had heard of these metaphysical things, but she never expected to hear them from Guo Mengyun, a young girl with higher education, especially since they were related to bizarre dreams.

"Energy field? Negative emotions? Feng shui arrangement?"

Luo Fei repeated these words in a low voice, his eyes becoming deep.

He recalled the chaotic building orientations of Hequan Villa, the glaring red running track, the sparse trees, and the occupancy rate far below normal... These abnormal phenomena, viewed from a particular perspective, seemed to indeed conform to some kind of deliberate "layout"!
Could it be that this Hequan Villa is not an ordinary residential community, but a massive, meticulously designed... feng shui formation?!

Once the thought arose, it grew wildly in his heart like weeds.

If that's the case, then the developer, Reincarnation Group, and that mysterious Xie Junshan, are after far more than just money!

What was his purpose in spending such enormous financial and material resources to build such a bizarre "array"? What was it meant to trap? Or perhaps, to nourish something?
Are the disappearances of Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui, and the vanishing of the college student couple, all related to the sinister scheme hidden beneath the surface of this modern residential community?

Was the girl who cried for help in Guo Mengyun's dream trapped by this "feng shui arrangement"? And did Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui sense something and try to "break the situation" or investigate the truth, thus inviting their deaths?
Countless questions swirled and collided in Luo Fei's mind.

He felt that he was approaching an unprecedented, enormous dark vortex intertwined with metaphysics, conspiracy, and crime.

Just then, Luo Fei's phone rang. It was a message from Zhou Xiaobei. The young man from the property management had uploaded all the surveillance videos Luo Fei had requested to the designated cloud storage space.

Luo Fei immediately took out his tablet computer, logged into the cloud, and began to quickly browse the massive amount of surveillance videos.

Chen Xuanran also came over to take a look.

The videos are numerous, and many are blurry, requiring immense patience and focus.

Luo Fei immediately activated the [Eagle Eye] skill, his eyes acting like a high-speed scanner, quickly filtering out useless information.

Time passed by, and the number of customers in the restaurant gradually decreased.

Guo Qian watched Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran intently, not daring to make a sound to disturb them.

Suddenly, Luo Fei's finger, which was swiping the screen, stopped abruptly! His eyes instantly sharpened like a hawk's!

"found it!"

His deep voice carried a hint of icy chill.

Chen Xuanran and Guo Qian immediately looked at the screen.

In a surveillance video labeled "Exit B of the underground parking garage," the time shown is 11:27 PM on the 4th of last month. A black minivan without license plates slowly drove out of the garage!
Due to the angle, the driver's appearance was not clearly visible, but as the car drove out of the garage and the light swept across the passenger window, it was vaguely possible to see two figures huddled in the back seat!

The silhouette and clothing color of that figure were extremely similar to those of Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui, who had entered the community that morning!

They didn't stay put! They were taken away from the residential complex by vehicle! And they deliberately avoided all the main gate surveillance cameras, choosing a relatively secluded underground parking garage exit, and even used a vehicle without license plates! (End of Chapter)