disappearing gold

Chapter 74 The same footprints
  As soon as the master and apprentice entered Dongli Village, they saw a man who looked like Song Xiaofan walking past. The man had a flawless oval face, a high nose, and narrow eyes.

Just looking at this face, Lao Sun felt that this man looked like Song Xiaofan's beautiful celebrity face.

Zhu Lan was obviously more sure of this than her master, so she decisively walked over and showed her ID, "Hello! You look very similar to the major suspect the police are looking for. Could you please show me your ID?"

The man was casually walking by the roadside, but when he heard these words, he suddenly turned his head, as if he had just become aware of the existence of the two police officers.

He pointed to himself and asked, "Are you asking me?"

"Is there anyone else here besides you?"

"Oh, let me look for it," the man said.

After a while, the man finally took out his ID from his pocket and handed it to Zhu Lan.

After reading it, Zhu Lan asked: "Is your name Chen Dawei?"

"Correct."

"Do you live in Dongli Village?"

"Yeah, I'm hanging around right now."

This time, Zhu Lan was confused.

There are many people who have very similar looks. Some ordinary people are born with a 70% or 80% resemblance to an idol star on the screen. However, it is rare to encounter it by chance.

She looked back at her master, who nodded.

She handed her ID card back to Chen Dawei, "You can leave."

The man took back his certificate without any hesitation and walked away calmly.

"Master, do you feel it? It's so similar." Zhu Lan asked.

"Well, unfortunately not." Old Sun already knew it.

After walking along the village road for a few minutes, Lao Sun saw a pregnant woman passing by. He walked over and asked, "Beauty, have any strangers come and go in your village recently?"

The pregnant woman was frightened by the sudden question, "What?"

She took a step back, to a safe distance.

"Don't be afraid! We are the police." Lao Sun pushed the police ID in front of her.

However, the pregnant woman still had a pair of glasses hanging on her eyes. She looked closely at them for a while, barely able to make out the photos, names and occupations.

Now, her tense expression finally relaxed, leaving only questions in her head.

She said: "I didn't see it, but the empty house next to my house used to make strange noises, especially at night. But there was no movement during the day."

"Did a stranger move into the empty house?"

However, the pregnant woman herself is not sure, "I don't know, maybe it's a mouse, or maybe it's a wild cat catching mice! Anyway, it scares me half to death every time, because my husband has been working away from home for a long time."

Lao Sun took a breath, "When did it happen?"

"I heard it last night. The strange sound lasted for more than a week." The pregnant woman said.

Hearing this, the old detective suddenly became nervous, "You mean-?"

The pregnant woman's face couldn't tell whether she was happy or worried, "That's right, there has been no movement for the past two days!"

Lao Sun felt that he had something to tell and quickly asked, "Then where is your home?"

The woman took the lead and said she would take the police to check. Her pregnant belly was eight months old, and her body swayed from side to side when she walked, like a penguin. She was extremely funny and extremely slow.

But Lao Sun didn't dare to laugh, and he wasn't in the mood to laugh. She didn't know how anxious she was at the moment. She had to pass the pregnant woman several times, but she couldn't leave her behind.

Therefore, she could only take advantage of this moment to continue to understand the situation of the empty house.

The pregnant woman was a foreigner. When she got married and moved to Dongli Village, she discovered that the house next door was empty. I heard it had been vacant for at least twenty years. My neighbor was doing business outside and moved to the city early to buy a house and settle down.

After walking for a while, she took a breath and said that the empty house was a three-story building with long front and back rooms. Finally, the pregnant woman stopped in front of a five-story building and said, "My home is here, and the building next to it is empty."

The detectives looked over and saw that the exterior wall of the three-story empty house was covered with a layer of cement. The door on the first floor was an old-fashioned wooden door with two doors. There were a pair of copper handles on the door. The red paint on the wooden door has long faded, leaving only a faint layer of red.

The glass of the window was very cloudy and dusty, making it difficult to see what was inside.

Lao Sun walked over and pushed the wooden door. Unexpectedly, with just a slight push, the door opened with a creak.

"Huh? Is the door unlocked?" She turned around and asked the pregnant woman.

The latter shook his head, "I don't know, I never dare to go in."

After the door opened, Lao Sun and Zhu Lan walked in to search.

The room was not very bright and the lights could not be turned on. There are several old furniture scattered throughout the living room, such as a large round table, bamboo chairs, small benches, etc. Everything was covered in a thick layer of dust, including the cement floors.

However, there was a series of obvious footprints on the floor, probably left by the person who made the strange noise in the pregnant woman's mouth.

Zhu Lan suddenly became alert, "Master, there is a situation."

"Be careful!" Lao Sun reminded.

After searching the first floor, they found nothing but footprints. They carefully stepped onto the stairs and searched on the second floor.

There are three bedrooms on the second floor, one in the front and two in the back.

They checked the front one first, but they didn't expect that the bedroom in that room had been ruined. The quilt on the bed was piled up to look more messy than garbage, and the pillows fell to the ground and no one picked them up. There were many footprints at the foot of the bed, some overlapping and some separated.

In addition, there were many instant noodle bags and instant noodle chips scattered on the cement floor.

There was no ashes in an ashtray, and no cigarette butts were found.

"Master, it seems that people have indeed lived here." Zhu Lan came to the conclusion.

Lao Sun felt the same and immediately called Xiao Li and asked him to come over to measure and inspect the footprints.

Continue to search the third floor, but there are so many spider webs here that there are no traces. The bedside and chairs were crooked, covered in dust, and looked like they had not been moved.

So they went back to the first floor and checked carefully. They could see that the house was still running water.

In order to protect the scene, the master and apprentice stayed here overnight. Lao Sun ran to ask the pregnant beauty again, "There is indeed someone living in the empty house. Have you seen the person next door coming in and out?"

"I've never seen it before," said the pregnant woman.

Back in the empty house, Zhu Lan didn't believe in evil, "Master, how could it be such a coincidence? The man ran away just as we arrived."

"who knows?"

The next day, Xiao Li quickly came over to measure the footprints and fingerprints.

To their surprise, the corresponding fingerprint was not found in the database. In other words, they did not know whose fingerprint it belonged to. However, the footprints are the same as the last pair that were suspected of being worn by Song Xiaofan, and even the diamond-shaped checkered soles are the same.

And these humble shoes can be seen everywhere on the street.

They speculated that the person who stayed in the empty house this time was probably Song Xiaofan.

It happened that someone in this village installed surveillance cameras, so Lao Sun immediately asked someone to call the surveillance camera of the house next door to the empty house. There was indeed a man entering and exiting the house.

However, the man always wore a large hood and went in and out, and his face never faced the surveillance camera. He was always in and out at night, leaving for the last time at five o'clock in the morning.

But the man's figure was a bit bigger than Song Xiaofan's figure in the video in the air-raid shelter. He was wearing a relatively fluffy and loose coat, as if he was deliberately covering his body.

This also requires monitoring to investigate and see where he left.

However, the only cameras covering the door area of ​​the vacant house are the cameras of the family next to the vacant house. After the man left the empty house, he lost track of his whereabouts.

"Master, the clue is broken again, what should I do?" Zhu Lan was anxious to death.

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