The space below the ground was wider than what he saw when he was above, Chen Xiao walked forward along the brick corridor while sweeping around with a flashlight, silently calculating the time of walking in his mind, and when he walked about 4 or 5 meters, he saw a collapsed wall, and the broken masonry was scattered on the ground. One deep and one shallow, he walked carefully to the broken wall, he climbed on the wall and looked through the broken gap, and the black hole on the opposite side should be the same hole as this one.

Immediately off the broken wall was a recessed room, about the same size as the one he had just arrived, with a few iron tables, a few dusty instruments lying alone in the corner, and a few pieces of paper scattered on the floor.

Chen Xiao bent down and picked it up, the paper should have been abandoned for many years, the handwriting on it had been seriously blurred, and he could barely see that what was written on it should be some names, he tried to identify it for a long time, and finally recognized the two names of Mao Zecheng and Li Yang.

Wait, Mao Zecheng?! Suddenly, some hidden memories came back to him, and he carefully folded the paper and put it in his jacket pocket, eagerly returning to the ground.

In the archives room, the archivist Leng Juan was taking out the files stored in the cabinet, and then nervously flipped out the page with folds and corners, took it out and carefully smoothed it out over and over again, and then put it back in the filing cabinet.

Just when she had just finished a layer of cabinets, the door of the archive room was suddenly slammed open from the outside, and a black shadow flashed with a burst of flashes, and Leng Juan, who was squatting on the ground and smoking the archive book, saw a man in black suddenly standing in front of her, who was looking at her with her head down and a serious face.

With a scream, the file book in his hand was thrown to the ground, and Leng Juan got up angrily and glared at the other party.

"Chen Xiao, you are sick. I didn't knock when I entered the door, and I was so reckless. I'm going to tell the boss to deduct your salary!! ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not in a hurry." Chen Xiao smiled and bent down to help the other party pick up the papers scattered on the ground. was slapped on the back of his hand by the other party.

"Don't fool around, you don't know which is right which, if you mess up with me, it will be more troublesome."

"Okay, okay." Chen Xiao got up stupidly, stepped aside and watched the other party seriously pick up and sort out one by one on the ground, and complained about herself depressedly.

"If I had known this, I might as well have given you a call before I came over. Now this delay is even more. ”

"That's not your fault, what's the matter with me? What files do you want to check? ”

"I want to see the files of missing people in the last year."

"Is there a missing person?"

"No, I just have something I want to confirm."

"Oh." Leng Juan nodded and didn't ask, put the file in his hand back into the cabinet, and then took out the case record of the disappearance of people in the past year and handed it to Chen Xiao.

Unpacking the bag, Chen Xiao looked through them one by one, and when he was about to turn over more than halfway, a familiar name jumped into his eyes.

"Mao Zecheng"

There really is this person!! I remember correctly. Chen Xiao excitedly took out the file and carefully copied the phone number and contact address left by the original informant.

"Hungry?"

Qian Duoduo, who was fiddling with flowers and plants in the courtyard, saw Lu Chen walking into the courtyard gate from the outside, his steps were brisk, and he couldn't see that he had been so seriously injured before.

Lu Chen handed the paper bag he was holding to the other party, and the sesame baked cakes that had just come out of the pot were still warm and exuding an attractive fragrance.

"I caught up with her family just out of the pot, eat it while it's hot, didn't you just want to burn the cake yesterday."

"Let's eat it later, I'll go stir-fry, I got a fish back with a vegetable ticket today, and we'll open meat in the evening."

The clouds in the sky were dyed orange-red, and Lu Chen looked at the horizon in the distance, the corners of his mouth hooked, and a satisfied smile rippled on his face. Smoke came out of the chimneys of every house, and he turned around and walked into the kitchen, where Qian Duoduo was standing in front of the board with an apron on his face dealing with the carp that was still struggling and dying, and his serious expression seemed to be performing a delicate and difficult operation.

"Do you want my help?" Lu Chen walked up to Qian Duoduo and looked at the fish that was about to enter his stomach on the board and asked.

"Why don't you go and get a basin of water, I'll slaughter it and wash it in a while."

Following the address recorded on the paper, Chen Xiao rode his exclusive two-wheeled Audi on the road, and just now he talked to the owner of the phone left on the police report, and the other party said that he was waiting for him in the small supermarket he owned.

Turning into a fairly clean alley, Chen Xiao saw the convenience store that the other party said on the phone, the dark green billboard, which was very conspicuous in the market.

Parking the car at the door, he walked into the supermarket, where there were several people standing in front of the cash register with something in their hands, presumably customers waiting to pay.

Seeing that the other party was busy, Chen Xiao didn't want to go up and disturb him, so he walked into the convenience store and wandered around aimlessly, waiting for the other party to be free before going forward to ask.

"What do you need?"

Probably seeing that Chen Xiao was not as focused on the shelves as other customers looking for things, the tally clerk in the store walked behind him vigilantly and followed him step by step, no matter where he went, the other party followed closely.

Hehe, Chen Xiao chuckled in her heart, the waiter in this house seems to be quite responsible.

The front of the silver counter was finally empty, Chen Xiao quickly walked over and took out her ID to the middle-aged aunt sitting inside to introduce herself, "Hello, I am Chen Xiao who just talked to you on the phone." ”

"Oh, Officer Chen, hello." The convenience store manager got up and shook hands with Chen Xiao politely, just now he was still waiting for a strong plan to grab the waiter who invited credit to the store manager as long as the other party came out of the fox tail, and when he heard his boss shouting that the other party was a policeman, his eyes widened in shock and he was stunned in place for several times, and then quickly turned around and ran towards the deepest part of the convenience store.

"Do you have any news of Mao Zecheng?" The convenience store manager looked at Chen Xiao anxiously with concern.

"This.... Not yet. Chen Xiao scratched the back of her head with some shame, "But I found clues that have something to do with him." ”

"Really?!" The convenience store owner's eyes had just brightened again because of the dimming of the other party's words.

"Well, can I ask about your relationship with Mao Zecheng?"

"I'm her aunt and uncle." The woman said, "His parents died in a car accident when he was a child, and I have always taken care of him and brought him up, but I didn't expect it.... Alas....."

"So, can I ask him where he used to live?"

"His family, you all know the village where he lives, it is the deserted village that is now lively and lively in the streets and alleys, in fact, there is nothing strange there, but the traffic is too inconvenient for people to leave."

Huang!! Sure enough, it has something to do with there.

"Do you still know anyone from that village?" Chen Xiao wanted to take this opportunity to ask more about that village.

However, what he didn't expect was that just when the other party opened his mouth to answer, suddenly there was a panic outside the store, and an elderly man ran into the store, still holding a Mazazi with a Niren strap in his hand.

"Aunt Wang, your house has been recovered!!

"What ?!!!"

There was no time to tell the clerk, and the fat body of the convenience store owner sent out the aisle circled by the counter, and ran in the direction of home with his small feet.

A few people from afar saw black smoke billowing out of the old community not far from the convenience store, and a fire truck blaring its siren drove past several people at a high speed, speeding towards the community on fire.

Fortunately, only the kitchen and balcony caught fire, and everyone put out the fire in time, and there was no other big loss in the living room except for the wall being blackened.

Chen Xiaoxun asked the firefighters about the cause of the fire, and they said that it was probably caused by cigarette butts, because they found several fresh cigarette butts on the balcony.

"I guess it's a thief wandering around here, so he threw his cigarette into this balcony, after all, the format of this old house, the second floor is only two heads taller than a normal person."

Is that really the case? Although the firefighter's explanation was quite reasonable, Chen Xiao still felt that something was wrong. Could it be that it was such a coincidence that he came to the other party, and the other party's house was set on fire by others.

In the end, it was useless to ask for the content, but Chen Xiao was not discouraged, after all, he knew that the missing person turned out to be a villager in that village.

It seems that we have to start the investigation from that deserted village........

When I returned to the bureau, I happened to meet the boss who was commanding at the scene and came back, and the other party was sweating, and the uniform on his body was also rubbed with a lot of mud, as if he was rolling in the mud and then crawling out.

"Hey, Chen Xiao, I said what are you doing with the bastard?! As soon as he arrived at the scene, he suddenly walked away without saying a word. Do you have itchy hands and want to write me a check-up?! ”

The dirt on the captain's hands had not been washed off, and he got out of the police car and saw that Chen Xiao was also riding an electric car back from outside, rubbing his dirty hands against the other party, causing Chen Xiao to run away with a strange scream.

"I found something interesting." In the office, Chen Xiao sat on the chair opposite the boss and handed the paper he picked up in the pit to the other party.

"What is this?" Puzzled by the result, the other party put the paper under his eyes and looked at it carefully several times, and finally shook his head in confusion, "The words on this are blurred like this, and I can't see anything strange with my myopic eyes." ”

"It's supposed to be a list, and I can see the two names clearly." As he spoke, Chen Xiao took out a pen from the pen holder, pulled a piece of white paper, and wrote the name on it.

"Who are these two people?" The captain asked.

"I don't know this person." Chen Xiao refers to one of the names of the other person. "This man is on our list of missing people. I just went to investigate with the person who reported this person's disappearance, and guess what I found? ”

"Don't sell it, hurry up!"

"I found out that this person was from that deserted village, but his parents died in an accident when he was a child, and he was later taken in by relatives living in the city to raise him."

"Huh? Looks like we're really lucky today. This village seems to be quite secretive..."

"By the way, Boss, do you know what the pile of instruments we brought out is for?" Chen Xiao remembered the strange instruments he had seen in the morning.

"I asked the professionals, and they were all for the lab, but the models were very old. They speculated that it might have been something from a previous war. ”

"Then it can't be ..... there?"

Chen Xiao's calm face suddenly showed a hint of weirdness, and he looked at the captain with burning eyes.