Chapter 36
Four months ago, when Shang Ren was released from prison, he used his ID card to apply for a mobile phone number with the lowest package costing 8 yuan per month. Investigators tracked his cell phone number and found that he had been active in an area of old houses near the university town for several months.
The investigator found those buildings based on the mobile phone positioning and quickly found out which families were renting out houses. He asked every house and finally found the house that Shangren rented.
In front of Chen Pu and Li Qingyao is an old six-story building, which is an old house of a certain unit. It is several decades old, so the rent is very cheap. The room Shangren rented was on the first floor. It is called a single room, but in fact it is the storage room of every household on the ground floor of the old buildings. It has no kitchen or toilet and is very cheap, only 400 yuan a month.
Accompanied by the local police, the old landlady took out her key and opened the door. This type of house is in poor condition, has poor ventilation, and is inconvenient to live in. Although it is cheap, not many people rent it. According to the landlord, no one has moved in since Shangren moved out half a month ago.
As soon as the door was opened, a stuffy musty smell came into the air. It was a single room of about seven or eight square meters, with a cement floor, gray walls, and a small window on the opposite wall. Against the wall were two 1.2-meter single beds, an old wooden table, two plastic benches, a plastic trash can, and the cheapest fabric folding wardrobe.
Chen Pu and Li Qingyao went in and took a look around. Apart from the instant noodle packaging bags, disposable lunch boxes, 2-yuan-a-pack of Red Golden Dragon cigarette boxes in the trash can, and a few advertisements on the table, Shang Ren and the others didn't leave anything else.
Chen Pu asked the landlord: "There are two people living here?"
"right."
"What do they do every day?"
The landlady said, "I don't know what they do, they probably don't have a formal job. Sometimes they sleep at home during the day, sometimes they go out at night and come back early in the morning. After all, if they rent my house, I have to be careful. If they are not good people, I have to take the house back."
So, Chen Pu likes to deal with this kind of elderly ladies the most. They know everything and can tell you everything. Comparable to half an investigator.
"Do you pay rent on a monthly basis?"
"Yes, after all, the turnover of people who rent this kind of house is very high, and sometimes they rent it out on a short-term basis."
"How long has Shangren rented the house? When did his friend come to live here?"
"It was rented for three months, and his friend came to stay for one and a half months."
"You didn't keep a copy of his friend's ID card?"
The old lady stammered, "I wanted to bring it up, but the man looked too fierce. He was shirtless in the yard taking showers all day, but he was quite polite to me. I thought it was better to have less trouble than more. Anyway, they paid the same rent, so let it go."
Li Qingyao said: "Yes, Auntie, you live alone, so you must protect yourself first, otherwise your children who live outside will also worry."
The old lady nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
Li Qingyao asked again: "So how do you feel about these two people?"
The old lady slapped her thigh and said, "Hey! Police comrades, since you came today, I knew they were not good people. They must have committed a crime, right?"
Li Qingyao smiled but said nothing.
The old lady continued, "But I don't think they're taking drugs. They look pretty energetic. The young man exercises every day, and there's nothing like that in his room. But I still think he's not a decent person. Once, he even talked to a single girl who rented a room upstairs from me. She was so scared that she didn't dare to come back alone after get off work at night."
Chen Pu and Li Qingyao looked at each other, and Li Qingyao asked, "Do you have the contact information of that girl?"
The girl the old lady was talking about worked in a nearby milk tea shop and shared a house upstairs with someone else. She happened to be on vacation at home today, so Chen Pu and Li Qingyao went straight upstairs to find her.
The girl was very young, about 18 or 19 years old. She was not pretty, but she was fair and pretty, with a hint of childishness.
When the man who lived downstairs was mentioned, the girl showed a look of slight fear and disgust.
Li Qingyao asked, "Did he approach you?"
The girl nodded.
"What did he say? What did he do?"
The girl looked at Chen Pu beside her with some embarrassment. Li Qingyao said to him, "You go downstairs first." Chen Pu turned around and went downstairs without saying a word.
The girl was curious: "He is your subordinate? He listens to you so much."
Li Qingyao smiled: "You can say that."
"But he's so handsome, the most handsome policeman I've ever seen."
"I think it's OK." Li Qingyao said calmly, "Can I tell you now?"
It was one night, the girl came back from the night shift, it was 10 o'clock, and the community was quiet. When she reached the stairs, the door of the room just opened and Luo Long came out with a cigarette in his mouth. When he saw her, he stopped and blew a big smoke ring in her direction.
"I haven't seen you before. Do you live upstairs?" Luo Long asked.
The girl was still very innocent. She had just started working and living independently. She looked like a student and nodded: "Yes."
Luo Long laughed: "That's a neighbor. Live alone?"
Luo Long was tall and strong, with a fierce look and a frivolous smile. The girl instinctively felt uneasy and hesitantly said, "I have something else to do. I'll go up first."
"Wait a moment." Luo Long suddenly came over and followed her, holding the handrail as if he was going to go up the stairs too. In the narrow stairwell, the girl suddenly felt a sense of oppression.
"What else do you have to say?"
Luo Long smiled again and said, "Can we be friends? I live on the first floor, but it's just temporary. I'm short of money lately. I'll be able to earn enough money to buy a house soon. Are you free tomorrow? I'll invite you out to play."
The girl was frightened and said, "I'm busy!" and ran up the stairs quickly.
Just then a neighbor was coming downstairs and all the lights in the stairwell were on. The girl rushed to the door and found that Luo Long had not followed her. She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went into the house and locked the door.
From then on, the girl never stayed downstairs, and tried to come back early after get off work, or asked a male colleague in the store to send her off. Occasionally, when she saw Luo Long from afar, she would turn around and run, hiding for a long time before daring to come out.
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Li Qingyao told Chen Pu about the situation. The two looked at each other and Chen Pu said the same thing: "Let's find the person first."
As soon as the two walked out of the neighborhood, a colleague called: After Shangren moved out of the lease here, his cell phone signal location has been found in the past half month.
About 14 days ago, Shangren's cell phone signal entered Heili Peak.
Due to signal problems in the mountainous areas, Shangren’s mobile phone signal has been intermittent in recent days, making it impossible to accurately locate him.
There has been no signal on his cell phone for the past five days.
Chen Pu immediately called Ding Guoqiang and reported the matter about Shang Ren.
Ding Guoqiang said, "Good fellow, it seems that Qian Chengfeng's case was really committed by Luo Long and Shang Ren?"
Chen Pu said, "Master, I feel like something is not right with this case."
Ding Guoqiang was very sensitive and asked, "What else did you find during your investigation of Luo Long?"
"The situation is rather complicated. I will report back to the bureau later."
"Okay. I'll notify Team Three. They're still at Heili Peak. Let them look for Shang Ren as well. Anyway, the case is closely related to these two people."
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