Several police cars headed straight for Fenjinbao Company.
Without previous evidence, the police had no way to take control of Fenjinbao Company. Now the evidence is irrefutable and the truth has been turned upside down. But the discovery of the secret passage was both unexpected and reasonable to everyone.
As soon as You Mingxu and Yin Feng arrived, they were taken to the most remote storage room on the first floor. Han Feng was waiting there.
The first thing You Mingxu asked was: "Does anyone have any clues?" The person he was referring to was naturally Fan Jia.
Han Feng replied: "Go down and take a look first."
You Mingxu's heart sank. He saw that the room was about ten square meters and had been cleared out. There was a dark hole about one and a half feet square on the ground near the window, and a broken staircase could be vaguely seen.
Looking closely, the steps are all made of stone slabs and look very old. There are stone walls next to it, and the steps are very clean, with obvious signs of cleaning. They walked down the narrow staircase about 2 meters deep, and in front of them was a similar path leading forward. The cave is not high, and people have to bend over to pass through.
Han Feng said, "I called you here just after we found this secret passage. The forensics personnel will be here soon. There used to be a storage room above it, with a cabinet at the entrance and a thick wooden board pressing it down. If you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all. It looks like a very old hole. It looks like the air-raid shelter I played in when I was a child. This building is a renovation of an old factory building, which was built around the founding of the People's Republic of China. This hole might have been preserved from that time."
You Mingxu nodded. This made sense. Just as she was about to speak, Yin Feng suddenly turned around with a serious look on his face. He grabbed her hand and said, "Ah Xu, there is a secret passage ahead. Don't leave me alone. I will protect you."
You Mingxu: “…”
I'm sick again!
Han Feng was also silent.
There were criminal police ahead, and Han Feng's men had already explored the entire secret passage.
You Mingxu glanced at Han Feng, and Han Feng turned his head to look away. She then whispered to Yin Feng, "Play by yourself! I don't have time."
In the dim light of the flashlight, a mischievous smile flashed in his eyes, but in the end he was obedient and went on the adventure alone with great interest.
Han Feng sighed: "It's not easy for you either."
You Mingxu stared at Yin Feng's back, feeling very uncomfortable. He is the one who makes you fall in love, and he is also the one who is stupid. Didn't she know that she was standing at a crossroads? If she wanted him, she would have to accept everything he had now. By the way, she also has to be prepared for the day in the future when he suddenly recovers his memory and nature, sneers and leaves, and from then on, she has a young model in her left hand and a hot friend in her right hand, and she will be cuckolded in front of all the police in the province.
You Mingxu was so upset by the thought that he simply stopped thinking about it. Isn't he supposed to stay outside the line? Let him guard it. Things will work out when the time comes.
Thinking of this, it suddenly became clear. No matter how many changes he makes, the situation is still under her control.
The tunnel was surprisingly long and it took more than ten minutes to reach the end. There are hooks nailed on the wall of the cave, one level at a time, for people to climb up. There was a thick layer of rust on the iron ring, and several of them were broken.
The exit had already been opened by the criminal police, and sunlight shone in. You Mingxu and his friends climbed out and found that this was a small hill surrounded by weeds and trees. Fenjinbao Company is just not far down the hill.
This area is on the edge of the slums and is built against the mountain. No wonder it can still hide the air defense secret passages before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Several criminal police officers were exploring around the cave entrance, and a square iron fence, also covered in rust, was placed on the ground next to it. There are also a lot of weeds and even wild flowers on it. I guess it is difficult to be noticed when it covers the entrance of the cave. There was a small lock on it. You Mingxu squatted down and took a look. The lock was new.
You Mingxu was silent for a moment, put one hand into his long hair, clenched his teeth, and felt his heart shrink and he felt very suffocated. Yin Feng squatted down beside her and whispered, "What's wrong with you?"
You Mingxu let out a sigh of relief and said, "It took no more than 20 minutes from the time Fan Jia ran out of Zhou Rongfeng's room to the time we broke in. This secret passage takes about 10 minutes one way, and the murderer didn't have time to get her out. Fan Jia was right under our feet at the time. Later, we released that group of people, and the murderer probably had a chance to move her away."
Yin Feng patted her head and said, "Ah Xu is being too stubborn. This is not your responsibility."
You Mingxu didn't say anything. He squatted quietly for a while before standing up. His expression had returned to its frozen calm. He looked at the road down the hill and said, "If he drove here, he could easily take Fan Jia anywhere. So we couldn't find Fan Jia in the vicinity. The question now is, who knows about the existence of this secret passage?"
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However, Zhou Rongfeng, Zhang Wei and others were all confused about the existence of this secret passage. It's not panic, it's not concealment, but a unanimous confusion.
This was actually somewhat within You Mingxu's expectations, because if they had known about the secret passage earlier, when Fan Jia escaped and disappeared, they would not have made such a fuss in the building and gained nothing. We must intercept them in the secret passage and seize the evidence. How come he is in jail now?
But looking at the condition of the secret passage, someone must have deliberately covered it up, and even cleaned and maintained it.
You Mingxu thought about it, looked through the information, and found out that Fenjinbao Company moved to this office location two years ago.
"Who was responsible for the decoration at that time?" You Mingxu asked.
Zhang Wei replied: "It's me."
You Mingxu pondered for a moment and asked, "Who else can help you?"
Zhang Wei was startled and replied, "And Chen Zhaoci."
Just then, Xu Mengshan brought other information.
You Mingxu rarely saw him these past two days. When he looked for him, he discovered that this usually gentle young man now had an untidy beard, two big dark circles under his eyes, and bloodshot eyes. In fact, his personality is somewhat similar to You Mingxu, and he is not very obedient. Once you decide on something, you will hold on to it and won't let go. It seems that ever since Fan Jia went undercover, he has disliked Chen Zhaoci. Now that Fan Jia is missing and Chen Zhaoci has escaped, he is even more relentless and is about to dig up every last eight generations of Chen Zhaoci's ancestors.
"Do you know what I found out?" Xu Mengshan sneered, "There are quite a lot of stories about Chen Zhaoci."
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Fan Jia woke up in darkness. The first thing I felt was coldness, dampness, and a stagnant and moldy smell. It felt like being buried underground.
There was really no light around, and when she tried to get up, she felt something long and solid pulling at her arms and legs. She realized later that her wrists and ankles were numb and painful, and she was tied up. She ran her hand along the long thing and felt it was a thick rope.
I still couldn't see anything and could only hear my own heavy breathing. Suddenly there was a loud noise in the darkness. It was Fan Jia tearing the rope like crazy. But the man tied her up too tightly, and there was one around her neck. If she moved a little too violently, she would be almost suffocated.
After struggling in vain for more than ten minutes, Fan Jia collapsed and lay on the cold ground. The smell of earth wafted over more clearly, her tears fell, and only low sobs could be heard in the darkness.
After crying for a while, she suddenly opened her eyes and began to yell at the darkness: "Let me out! Who the hell are you! Let me out! Let me out! Otherwise I won't forgive you--"
When she no longer had the strength to scream, she stopped crying and lay there motionless, but her body was still shaking slightly uncontrollably. Yes, she is a criminal police officer, but she has only been working for two years. She had followed them to the scene, seen corpses several times, and also witnessed the cold faces of the most vicious criminals. With passion and indomitable heroism, she volunteered to be the "bait" this time. But everything she was going through now was beyond her ability to predict or imagine. She kept telling herself to be brave, like Sister You. The last time Sister You encountered a more brutal serial killer in Tibet, she not only escaped safely, but also captured the killer. So can she. She can, too.
She slowly calmed down and regained her composure and courage as she had hoped. I stayed in the darkness for about half an hour, and then I heard a faint rustling sound above my head. She opened her eyes wide and felt like her heart was about to jump out. Then there was a heavy dragging sound, like stone. The light came in all at once, it wasn't actually dazzling, but it made Fan Jia cover her eyes with her hands, and slowly get used to it.
Above my head, about 2 meters high, there is a row of rusty iron railings. The entrance to the cave is only one and a half feet square. The light was orange, illuminating a small area of ground below the cave entrance. Fan Jia could see clearly that the ground was made of cement, but it was not smooth and seemed to be quite old. The surroundings were blurry, as if painted white, square, no more than 10 square meters.
Fan Jia stood up, and the rope on his body was stretched to its tightest, making it difficult for him to breathe. He was still more than a meter away from the cave entrance. She took a step back, gasping for breath, and looked up at the iron railings at the entrance of the cave.
There was someone sitting there, with half of his body exposed. She saw the man's black coat and jeans, but not his face. Furthermore, beyond the iron bars, she saw a small piece of ceiling and light bulbs, and a corner of a window with daylight shining through the glass. They are all very old and worn out. In other words, she was locked up in the basement of a room. You can tell by experience how hidden this place is. Fan Jia's heart sank even more.
After calming herself down, she shouted, "What do you want?"
The man lowered one hand and pressed it on the iron railing. It was a slender, white hand that emerged from the black cuffs. Fan Jia kept staring.
"I want to lock you up," the man said, "so you won't get lost."
The voice was so familiar that Fan Jia felt like he was electrocuted and his heart felt hot and cold at the same time. But the tone of his voice was completely different from before. It was somewhat intimate, yet slow and relentless.
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