I am a super cop

Chapter 564 Mysterious Fire [Two in One]

Kaitian Group is a local real estate development company in Jiangnan City, which owns many real estate projects in the city.

The area around the Jiangnan City International Circuit is a high-end residential area.

Surrounded by mountains and rivers, it is a holy place for leisure and retirement, so it has also been developed into many high-end real estate.

Kaitian Real Estate's real estate here is mainly villa real estate. The place where the fire broke out just now happened to be a Banpo villa located on the periphery of the International Circuit.

The raging fire, accompanied by thick smoke, illuminated the entire area fiery red.

Gu Chen drove, brought Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha and Xu Zhenggang to the gate of Kaitian Villa.

At the moment, property security is organizing fire fighting.

However, the fire was so fierce that many property security guards did not dare to approach it.

And many residents living in Kaitian Villa are choosing to evacuate at this moment.

Fortunately, the burning villa is a single-family house, and it did not cause a joint fire to the surrounding villas.

"Have you contacted the fire brigade? Also, how many fire extinguishing tools do you have now?" Gu Chen walked to the reception room, found a security guard and asked.

The middle-aged security guard glanced at Gu Chen and asked, "Who are you?"

"Police." Gu Chen took out his ID and said, "We are from the Furong Sub-bureau. Also, you haven't answered my question just now."

The security guard looked at Gu Chen, and half-jokingly said: "I thought you were a firefighter. I thought someone from you would come over just after calling 119, but I didn't think so, you don't have a fire truck."

"Don't talk about this, where are your fire extinguishing tools? How come your villa area doesn't even have a fire extinguishing tool?" Lu Weiwei felt a little headache when she saw several security guards carrying small fire extinguishers standing in front of the burning villa.

The security guard replied: "I also just came to work, so I don't know the specific situation, but all the fire extinguishers in the reception room have been taken away, but we are not professional firefighters, and we don't know how to put out the fire."

"Is there anyone trapped in the villa?" Gu Chen asked again.

The security guard froze for a moment, with a slightly embarrassed expression.

Gu Chen could tell from his embarrassed expression that this guy didn't know at all.

Before Gu Chen could speak, Lu Weiwei couldn't wait to say: "I said how do you do property security, which buildings are inhabited and which ones are not, how come you don't know any of them?"

"I..." The property security guard smiled wryly, and he was too embarrassed, and said directly: "I haven't just been here for a long time, so..."

"Okay, I got it." Gu Chen knew that no matter how much he said, the security guards of the property would use these words to stop him.

Rather than being useless here, it is better to go to the scene to see, and perhaps rescue the trapped people in the house before the firefighters arrive.

But when Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha and Xu Zhenggang ran to the scene of the fire.

The security guards who were carrying fire extinguishers just now quickly retreated to the side of the road, and when they saw Gu Chen and the others running towards them, they immediately stopped them and said, "Don't pass by, the fire is burning badly, and flammable objects will fall from it, so it's important to save your life." what."

"Is there anyone in that room?" Gu Chen asked.

A thin security guard said: "I don't know if there is anyone inside, but we yelled downstairs for a long time just now, but no one inside responded, probably no one."

"Yes, I know this family, but it seems that they are not at home a lot recently, maybe there is no one there?" Another fat security guard said.

But at this time, the thin security guard just now was surprised and asked: "But why did I hear his cat meowing yesterday when I was patrolling? No one is at home, what should the cat do? Did it starve to death?"

Several people talked more and more fiercely, but at present, no one can give a definite answer as to whether there is anyone in the villa.

Gu Chen looked at the raging fire in front of him, and asked directly: "Which one of you has a useless coat?"

"I...we have one in the reception room." The tall and thin security guard said.

"Bring it to me, and prepare a bucket of water." Gu Chen said, and wanted to take off his coat.

"Junior Brother Gu, what do you want to do?" Lu Weiwei frowned slightly, and quickly discovered Gu Chen's intentions.

Gu Chen obviously wanted to rush into the fire scene to see if there were still trapped people in the villa.

Seeing this, Yuan Shasha hurriedly stopped her and said, "Brother Gu, don't take any risks. If there is no one inside, wouldn't you be trapped inside?"

"Gu Chen." After hearing what the others had said, Xu Zhenggang also stopped in front of him, and said, "I don't know if there is anyone here. Let's wait until the firefighters come over. We don't have any fire extinguishing tools."

"If you say that when the firefighters come, if there are people inside, wouldn't that mean one or a few lives?"

Gu Chen's words instantly choked everyone back.

At this time, the security guard also took a worn-out military overcoat from the reception room, handed it to Gu Chen and said, "This is what we usually use to keep warm, you can wear it."

"Where's the water?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Here comes the water." Another chubby security guard who knew Gu Chen's meaning also brought two barrels of tap water from the reception room at this moment.

Without saying a word, Gu Chen handed over his mobile phone and documents to Lu Weiwei for safekeeping, and immediately covered his head with the military coat.

Then he hugged the bucket with both hands and poured two buckets of cold tap water onto the military coat.

Soon, the military overcoat was soaked, Gu Chen covered himself with it, quickly took the fire extinguisher from a security guard, and rushed into the flames.

At this moment, the windows on the first floor had been cracked, so Gu Chen directly picked up the fire extinguisher and smashed it hard against the broken glass.

While the window is open, use a fire extinguisher to clear the sill of the fire.

After a light jump, Gu Chen rolled into the villa.

"Junior Brother Gu, be careful." Lu Weiwei stood outside nervously.

Yuan Shasha also clenched her fists.

Xu Zhenggang walked back and forth in front of the crowd with his hands on his hips, looking into the room from time to time.

Three minutes passed, and thick black smoke began to emit from the windows of the house, and everyone's expressions became more tense.

Suddenly there was a thunderbolt in the sky, and the wind howled, and then, raindrops the size of beans began to fall down with a crackling sound.

After a while, the entire Kaitian villa began to be rattled by the rain, and the fire gradually suppressed and spread in the rain.

"Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei walked to the front, put her hands to her mouth, and shouted like a trumpet: "Come out quickly, if you don't come out, you really won't be able to come out."

However, apart from the crackling of rainwater falling on the villa, there was no movement at all inside.

And at this moment, on the road in the distance, the siren of the fire alarm began to sound.

Many residents of Kaitian Villa also surrounded the burning villa with umbrellas.

One minute later, the fire in the burning villa began to be suppressed by the heavy rain. Two minutes later, the gate of the villa was opened, and Gu Chen rushed out of the fire scene from the house wearing his burnt military coat.

Seeing this, several security guards immediately picked up a dry powder fire extinguisher and extinguished the burning flames on Gu Chen's body.

"Boy, are you all right?"

"How's the situation inside? Is there anyone there?"

"Aren't you hurt?"

At this moment, more and more onlookers gathered around to check on Gu Chen's injuries.

Gu Chen looked at his burned white shoes and trousers, and said with a smile, "I'm fine."

"Comrade policeman, then... what's going on there?" The tall and thin security guard who didn't dare to go in just now came over and asked.

Gu Chen frowned, shook his head slowly, and said, "I have searched every room inside, and there must be no one living there."

"However, I clearly heard a cat meowing yesterday, and this resident, I remember, has a cat." A security guard reminded.

And another security guard also affirmed: "Yeah, we all heard this, just what happened yesterday, if there is no one, what about the cat? Did you see it?"

"Dead." Gu Chen took the tissue from Lu Weiwei and wiped off the dirt on his face.

"Dead?" Several security guards said in unison.

Gu Chen nodded: "You are right, I did find the cat's body in a closed room."

"Burned to death?" The tall and thin security guard was stunned for a moment, and then he muttered to himself: "That's a pity, I think the owner of the house once said that the cat seems to be quite valuable."

"No matter how valuable money is, is life worth it? As long as people are healthy, that's better than anything else." The fat security guard also couldn't help but say.

At this time, the fire engine had already entered the residential area of ​​Kaitian Villa.

Several firefighters jumped out of the car immediately. After some skilled operations, they only heard a team leader say, give him some guns, and immediately several firefighters started to put out the fire with water cannons.

Coupled with the torrential rain at this moment, after the fire spread just now, it is obviously possible to shrink.

Half an hour passed, and the fire was completely extinguished.

When the team leader in the fireproof suit came out of the villa, he looked at the embarrassed Gu Chen and asked curiously, "Is this your home?"

Gu Chen shook his head.

"Then which song are you singing?" The fire brigade leader pointed at Gu Chen's scorched shoes and pants.

Gu Chen just smiled and explained, "Save people."

"Save people? Do you want to die?" said a firefighter.

At this time, the fat security guard just now came over and explained: "The comrade who saved people is a policeman. The fire was in danger just now. We all don't know whether there is anyone in the house, so this policeman comrade Venture into the house and search."

"So...so that's how it is." The firefighter who was a little bit blaming Gu Chen just now, when he heard that Gu Chen was a policeman, immediately expressed his agreement.

Of course, to some extent, both police and firefighters must be on the front line of danger, which is obviously a common consensus.

And when everyone was thankful that there were no casualties, a property manager in formal attire and holding a contact book in his left hand rushed over and said, "The owner has been contacted, and he will be here soon."

"Can he not come? The house is burned down."

"That's right, why did it catch fire suddenly? It doesn't make sense? It's rare that the wires are short-circuited?"

"No, no, this person is not at home, how can he use electricity? And I remember that their family was not at home a week ago."

"You weren't at home a week ago? Then why didn't you take the cat away? Wouldn't it starve to death?"

"I don't know, maybe I have prepared cat food."

At the scene, many people were expressing their opinions, and Gu Chen was also listening carefully.

After getting enough information, Gu Chen approached the man who knew the situation of the resident just now and asked: "You just said that the resident was not at home a week ago, can you be sure?"

The man didn't directly respond to Gu Chen's words, but instead said: "My house is opposite to him, do you think I'm not clear?"

"Then do you know where their family has gone?" Lu Weiwei also asked quickly.

"This..." The man also laughed dryly, waved his hands and said, "I don't know where this is going, but it seems to be going far away, because I saw the hostess opposite, with two little girls, dragging each other. This kind of luggage, I guess it will take a while to go out."

Gu Chen nodded, and asked again: "What about the male master?"

"Master?" The man held his chin, hesitantly said: "It's strange to say, I seldom meet the master, because I only moved here half a year ago."

After thinking about it, the man suddenly said again: "Oh yes, one time, late at night, when I got up to go to the bathroom, I found the male owner opposite opened the door and entered the house."

"There was another time in the middle of the night. The host seemed to have just returned home. I saw him washing clothes, as if he had just finished taking a shower."

"Late at night?" Yuan Shasha, who was standing aside, was a little curious, and couldn't help asking Gu Chen, "Brother Gu, you said... who would often go out late at night? Is there such a job?"

"Yes, there seem to be quite a lot." Gu Chen nodded, and just about to speak, there was a sudden roar of an engine in the distance.

A car drove in suddenly and stopped firmly at the door of the villa that was destroyed by fire.

After the driver got out of the car, he ran directly to the gate of the villa, stood there with his hands on his hips, and stood in a daze for a long time.

At this time, the man opposite the owner patted Gu Chen on the shoulder, pointed at the driver just now and said, "See? This is the owner of this villa."

"The back is very familiar." Gu Chen was taken aback suddenly.

Xu Zhenggang moved closer to Gu Chen's side, and asked weakly, "Do you know him?"

Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, we met tonight."

"Tonight?" Upon hearing this, Lu Weiwei immediately walked to Gu Chen's side and asked, "Junior Brother Gu, I've been staying with you tonight. Have I seen you too?"

"Yes." Gu Chen nodded, and said again: "Not only Senior Sister Lu has seen it, but Xiao Yuan has also seen it."

"I've seen it too?" Yuan Shasha pointed at herself, but she didn't understand it, but quickly realized, and said, "Oh, I see, it's him? That Didi driver."

"Didi driver?" The man was a little unclear about what Gu Chen and the others were talking about.

Gu Chen nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "Maybe it's him, go and have a look."

Several people pushed aside the hot discussion crowd and came to the driver's side.

At this moment, the property manager was communicating with the driver. The two seemed very unhappy. The driver had a bad temper and kept scolding the property manager.

And the property manager nodded frequently, trying to make up for it.

While the two were arguing endlessly, Gu Chen suddenly put his right hand on the driver's right shoulder.

The driver was taken aback, and when he turned around and saw Gu Chen, he couldn't help being stunned: "Eh? You're not, you're not..."

"I am the passenger in your car tonight." Gu Chen reminded.

The male driver just slapped his head: "Yes, yes, you have been in my car tonight, but..."

Glancing at Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha behind Gu Chen, the male driver asked puzzledly, "But why are you here? And your shoes and pants, what's going on?"

"My brother was busy entering the house to save people just now. He was afraid that someone would be trapped in the house, so he searched all the rooms on the scene of the fire, and finally only found the body of your cat."

Xu Zhenggang walked up to the two of them familiarly, looked at the male driver and said, "If I guess correctly, you are the owner of this villa, right?"

"No... that's right, this is my home, but now, why is it like this now?"

When he said this, the man had a sad face, feeling that all the unlucky things had happened to him, and he squatted on the ground angrily.

After Gu Chen and Xu Zhenggang looked at each other, Gu Chen squatted directly in front of him and said, "When we arrived, the fire was out of control. The property security wanted to put out the fire, but ordinary dry powder fire extinguishers were only a drop in the bucket."

"So..." Looking at the depressed male driver, Gu Chen asked, "So, do you have any major losses at home?"

The male driver shook his head: "How can I have any major losses? If it is a loss, it may be this house. After all, I bought it before and lived in it for several years. Now... now it has been set on fire. Burn it, I'm really unlucky."

Looking at the property manager beside him, he was also furious, and grabbed his collar tightly: "I said, what did you do with Kaitian Property? How could you let him burn a good house? You all Is it a rice bucket?"

"First... sir, you... don't get excited, can we talk about it if we have something to say?" The property manager strongly resisted.

"What else is there to say? My fucking house is gone, and your property has nothing to do with it." The male driver easily dragged the property manager to the other side.

It was also with the help of Gu Chen and Xu Zhenggang that the property manager was able to break free from the shackles. He said angrily, "Mr., if I'm not wrong, you owe the property fee for a year."

"I want to ask you, when do you plan to pay the property fee?"

"The house is gone, what am I going to pay for?" After the male driver finished speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and went forward to argue again.

The property manager is also a sensible person, knowing that his physique is obviously not going to take advantage of him, so he quickly hid behind Gu Chen and said, "I don't know the cause of the fire, so what's the use of you talking nonsense here?"

"Besides, I kindly called you to come back, but you still treat me like this, are you still unreasonable?"

"You..." The male driver was about to go to argue, when Gu Chen stopped him in an instant.

"Master, please calm down first." Gu Chen patted him on the shoulder, then pointed to the burned villa and said: "The house is gone now, the important thing is that we need to find out the cause of the fire now, not here. Arguing nonsense."

"I think so too." When Xu Zhenggang walked to the side by side with Gu Chen, he said, "I just heard from your neighbor across from you that your family left the house a week ago. You've been back, right?"

The male driver looked at Xu Zhenggang, then at Gu Chen, and then asked Gu Chen weakly: "I said comrade policeman, who is he? Is he also a policeman?"

"He is my brother." Gu Chen said.

"Then it's not a policeman?" The male driver couldn't help but shook his head and said, "It's not a policeman, so I don't want to answer your question."

"Eh? What do you mean?" Xu Zhenggang was pushed back, feeling upset, and just wanted to speak again, but was stopped by Gu Chen.

At this moment, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha also came over and surrounded the male driver.

On the way to Jiangnan International Circuit, everyone also had in-depth exchanges with him and learned about the past of the driver.

Knowing that the driver master had a brilliant past, he is now in debt of 200 million, and he lives by driving Didi desperately every day.

Now that the former villa has been burned down, it will undoubtedly make his family in debt even worse.

Therefore, it is only natural in Gu Chen's eyes not to pay the property fee for a year.

"Master, does your family usually live here?" Gu Chen suddenly asked him without warning.

The male driver was stunned, and asked weakly: "Isn't it... isn't it?"

"Then why did your wife and children leave the house a week ago? Where are they now?" Gu Chen asked again.

"This..." The driver frowned, and said reluctantly: "A week ago, the child's grandmother missed them, so my wife told me that she wanted to take the two children back to her hometown and planned to stay there for about ten days. "

"Then after they left, you have always lived in the house?" Gu Chen said.

The driver quickly shook his head: "No, no, living here is too far from the city, and every time I go home, I pay a lot of gas."

"Besides, most of the people who live here have private cars, and it's inconvenient to take orders. So in order to save a little money, I've lived with my brother in the city center for more than a week."

Gu Chen nodded slightly, and then said again: "According to what you said, you haven't been home for a week, but I have a question, why didn't you take that expensive pet cat away with you?" ?”

"Pet... a pet cat?" The driver was stunned for a moment, and then said calmly: "I can't take care of this cat. I don't even have enough time to eat, so I keep it at home."

"Won't that starve to death?" Lu Weiwei asked.

The male driver shook his head: "How could it be? I have prepared enough cat food, enough for it to eat for about ten days, and my wife and children will come back in about ten days, no problem."

"Isn't that so?" Seeing the lightness of the driver's words, Gu Chen couldn't help but frowned.

The male driver was puzzled, and asked weakly: "What's wrong? Is there any problem? Has my cat already..."

Thinking of this, the male driver suddenly became sad: "If my two daughters know that their most beloved pet cat has died, I don't know how sad it will be."

Sniffing, the male driver looked at the damaged villa after the rainstorm, and then said: "Fortunately, the heavy rain stopped the fire from spreading. Otherwise, the loss would not be my villa and pet cat. Maybe the entire villa area will be affected."

"Master." Gu Chen frowned suddenly, stared at him and said involuntarily: "But, I went to the scene to check, and found no source of fire or ignition device, but how did you start the fire?"

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(End of this chapter)