Chapter 2164

There are many public toilets in the timber market, but the public toilet mentioned by Hukou, the crane, is located in the corner of the compound in the machinery parking area.

On the edge of the fence, there is a forest outside.

Since the timber market itself is close to the mountains and forests, it is extremely secretive here.

But when Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei came here with the crane Lao Hu, they didn't find anything unusual.

However, it was unexpectedly discovered that on one side of the toilet wall, due to the old wall, part of the building had collapsed.

In this way, the originally low wall formed a gentle area for a slope outside.

From the situation of the lawn outside the wall, Gu Chen can easily see that people often pass by here.

There are weeds on both sides, but there is only a piece of mud in the middle. Of course, this is not natural, but a dirt road that has been trampled by many people.

"Could it be that people outside can enter the interior from the outside of the wall?" Gu Chen asked the crane beside him.

Crane Hu also nodded and said, "Yes, it's convenient, because through this forest, you can reach a reservoir, and many people like to go fishing there."

"If you want to go outside the market, you have to take a lot of unnecessary detours. If you go here, you can save more than a little distance."

"So just for the sake of convenience, many people climb over the wall from here to the forest outside, and then run to the reservoir to fish?" Lu Weiwei also asked puzzled.

Crane Hu folded his arms and said in thought, "It's about the same. Some people also drive there, because there is a dirt road in the middle of the forest."

"Anyway, if you have a car, you can drive a little more around the road. If you don't have a car, then turn over the wall here, and then go through the forest, and you won't be far away."

After the words fell, Lao Hu went straight to the toilet.

Seeing this, Lu Weiwei asked casually, "What are you doing?"

"Go to the bathroom, do you want to go together?" Crane Old Hu joked.

"Forget it." Hearing the old nonsense, Lu Weiwei didn't care about him, but glanced at Gu Chen beside him.

And Gu Chen also had a plan in mind at this moment, he directly browsed the fence, and transferred to a dirt slope outside.

Seeing this, Lu Weiwei also lay down on the gap in the fence and asked, "Junior Brother Gu, are you going to the reservoir?"

"Go and have a look." Gu Chen couldn't tell what was wrong, but he always felt that the road leading to the reservoir seemed to be full of stories.

Thinking that Gu Chen was going to investigate on the spot, Lu Weiwei didn't talk nonsense, she just looked through the damaged wall and jumped down.

Due to the gap in the damaged wall and the location of the opposite slope, the height difference is not large, so there is not much technical content, and both men and women can pass.

Gu Chen supported the fallen Lu Weiwei, and also saw the bright flashlight he was carrying turned on.

Soon, a forest suddenly appeared in the originally dark area.

In front of the forest, Gu Chen found a dirt road.

"Go, go and have a look." Gu Chen said.

Lu Weiwei nodded silently and followed behind.

Due to the faint movement made by walking, the birds resting in the forest suddenly made a movement.

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Lu Weiwei frowned slightly, and quickly leaned closer to Gu Chen.

And Gu Chen was not in a hurry to pass through the forest, but stood at the entrance of the forest road, carefully observing the surrounding environment.

Outside the wall, there is a gravel road, which seems to have been simply renovated, and the road is a bit rough.

But judging from the traces of the dirt road, there are often vehicles passing by here, and various tire marks are very obvious.

And Gu Chen shined the light of the flashlight on the forest, and the winding road in the forest immediately made people feel shuddering.

The trees here are mostly tall fir trees, and people standing in front of the big trees appear extremely small.

"Junior Brother Gu, are you sure you want to go in and take a look?" Lu Weiwei asked again for confirmation.

Gu Chen nodded slightly, then took out his mobile phone and clicked on the satellite map.

So Liang said in front of Lu Weiwei: "Senior Sister Lu, look, the reservoir is at the other end of the forest, it only takes ten minutes to walk, why don't we go over and have a look."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." I feel that Gu Chen's thoughts are right, but it still feels a bit weird to walk through such a secluded forest at night.

While walking through the intersection, Gu Chen observed the situation on both sides.

It was found that this is a T-junction, and the dirt road runs parallel to the wall, leading to an unknown area.

But Gu Chen can see through the phone map that there is a village at the end of the road.

Because this village is located not far from the timber market, and the main road leading to the village is on the other side of the village.

Therefore, this gravel road has actually become another road choice for the village to go outside.

But Gu Chen doesn't care about these things at the moment, but plans to go to the reservoir on the other side of the forest to have a look.

"Shushasha!"

The two shuttled through the woods, their shoes rustling on the gravel.

Lu Weiwei followed behind Gu Chen, constantly looking at the coordinate displacement of her phone's map location.

The original 15-minute walking distance, due to the slow walking speed at night, the two walked directly for 18 minutes.

When they reached the end of the last bend in front of them, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei could clearly feel that the force of the wind blowing on their faces was obviously increasing.

When the two moved forward again, a medium-sized reservoir appeared in front of everyone.

Since there is no vegetation to cover it, the evening wind blowing from the other side of the reservoir seems to be stronger by other places.

"Is this the place where those people often fish?" Lu Weiwei couldn't help saying as she took a few steps forward.

"There is a gate on the other side of the reservoir. When there is a lot of water, the gate will release water regularly to control the amount of water."

"But the fish here should belong to wild fish and have not been raised on a large scale."

"It is not difficult to find that in recent years, many people who are dedicated to the Buddha will regularly follow the life release group and come to the reservoir to release animals on a regular basis."

Gu Chen also casually said what he knew.

This reminded Lu Weiwei of the fake temple case that she and Gu Chen uncovered together.

Lu Weiwei couldn't help laughing and said, "Junior Brother Gu, do you still remember the fake temple case we uncovered back then?"

"Of course I remember." Gu Chen stayed in place for a few seconds, then continued to walk towards the reservoir, and said casually:

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"Back then, we, Senior Brother Wang, and Xiao Yu, pretended to be tourists and went to investigate the reservoir near the fake temple."

"The temple is not only fake, but even the monks are fake. The release of life turns out to be a whole industrial chain."

"That fake monk, under the pretext of organizing the release, went to the aquatic market every day to wholesale large quantities of fish fry and aquatic products at low prices, and then sold them at high prices to those who released them."

"After these releasers are designated to release animals in that reservoir, the fake monks will team up with others to salvage the fish fry and aquatic products in the reservoir and sell them to those aquatic product wholesalers."

"Repeating and repeating, those life releasers keep paying money, and the fake monks rely on this industrial chain to make a lot of money."

"That's right, so Junior Brother Gu still remembers?" Thinking of the case that she and Gu Chen uncovered back then, Lu Weiwei still feels that this fake monk is really willing to spend money to deceive the trust of these elderly life releasers.

Next to the reservoir, a fake temple was built at no expense.

At the time, this shocked Lu Weiwei's three views.

That's why Lu Weiwei understood very well that life release is, after all, a business.

Now many release enthusiasts like to put fish fry into the reservoir river, which to a certain extent increases the biological species in the water basin.

However, there are also some foreign species that have caused a lot of damage to the ecological environment.

The current reservoir has basically become a holy place for swimming enthusiasts and some fishing enthusiasts.

This is also the reason why the market wall will be damaged and collapsed, but no one has repaired it for a long time.

Gu Chen guessed that a large part of the reason for this may be human-made sabotage in order to take a shortcut.

From the bare dirt road among the weeds, it is not difficult to see that there will be many people fishing in the reservoir in the market.

Thinking that He Liqiang may also know this set of roads, and it may be related to something on the other side of the reservoir.

Feeling that he didn't care too much, Gu Chen continued walking until he came to the edge of the reservoir.

Due to the large area of ​​the reservoir, and there were no night fishermen around, Gu Chen could only observe the surrounding strangeness by himself.

There will be some discarded garbage, broken lighters under your feet, and some cigarette butts stuck in the mud.

And cans, and some bait bags.

"This place looks ordinary, is there anything unusual?" Lu Weiwei looked around, but couldn't see too many problems.

Seeing Gu Chen standing on the edge of the reservoir, observing the surroundings carefully, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but ask him.

"Maybe I was worrying too much, or maybe He Liqiang didn't come here at night."

After thinking for a while, Gu Chen said again: "But there is one thing, we can check if there is anything unusual happening around here recently."

"For example, isn't there a village on the other side of the road we came in from the entrance?"

"Junior Brother Gu means, at night, we have to go to that village to see?" Feeling that Gu Chen is really capable of tossing around, Lu Weiwei also asked for his opinion.

Gu Chen smiled slightly: "Maybe a blind cat can meet a dead mouse?"

"I always feel that it's not that simple for He Liqiang to come here to work part-time at night, and when he was threatened by Huang Zhiqiang, he directly said that he knew the location of a fortune."

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"Although that location is fictitious, could it be that this is the case, this location really exists, and it was He Liqiang who couldn't help blurting out when he was cornered?"

"After all, when people face death, sometimes they can't let go of the things they care about most. Some are family members, and some are the money that they haven't spent yet."

"Uh, I think the latter is very likely." Listening to Gu Chen's remarks, Lu Weiwei also felt more and more that He Liqiang seemed to have quite a fortune.

And this wealth was hidden somewhere by him, and before he could enjoy it, he was threatened by Huang Zhiqiang with a knife.

In desperation, he jumped over the wall in a hurry, blurted out unconsciously, and revealed his hidden secret.

The purpose is to let Huang Zhiqiang let himself go straight.

But it was precisely this unconsciousness that made Gu Chen feel psychologically, and He Liqiang subconsciously, seemed to value this place very much.

Especially when Gu Chen asked whether this matter was true or not, Gu Chen was actually carefully observing the changes in He Liqiang's demeanor.

It can be said that at that moment, He Liqiang was also nervous and held back.

Due to interrogating too many suspects, Gu Chen has also accumulated a lot of experience.

For people like He Liqiang, Gu Chen felt that he was hiding something from him.

But without evidence, it is difficult to get the desired result just by guessing.

Why? Gu Chen chose to come here to do the on-the-spot investigation in person, because he wanted to get some useful clues from people around him through He Liqiang's network.

In this way, Gu Chen can understand this He Liqiang more comprehensively from the side.

Returning to the T-junction just now, Gu Chen chose to turn right and go directly to the nearby village.

The useful market is built in the direction close to the woods.

The equipment storage area is the innermost part of the market section.

As for this village, when Gu Chen walked to the outskirts of the village, he could clearly feel that the wealth here was far beyond his imagination.

Although the gravel road is not the main road of the village, the buildings in the village are almost all townhouses.

Moreover, every household has a yard, which seems to be very neatly constructed.

"I guess, this timber market should be built on the land of this village, so the village made a lot of money selling the land, so it can be so rich."

Looking at the townhouse in front of her, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but say.

"Maybe." Gu Chen took a deep breath and continued walking inside.

Not long after, Gu Chen found a road around the village.

This road around the village is located on the outskirts of the village.

And through the road around the village, many roads in the village are almost arranged vertically and horizontally in a grid.

No matter which road you go into the village, you can basically reach any building you want to go to.

There are solar street lamps around the village, which still illuminate the roads of the village at the moment.

The side near the woods is relatively quiet, but the side near the main road leading to the outside of the village is obviously much more lively.

Gu Chen could even hear the movement of playing cards.

Thinking of coming to the village to understand the situation, Gu Chen urgently needs to find people in the village to find out, have any strange things happened in the village recently?

"Junior Brother Gu, there are people there." Lu Weiwei pointed to a small square in a village.

"Go, go and have a look." Gu Chen didn't care too much at the moment, and walked directly with Lu Weiwei.

Since the village is a township structure of villas, but there are no guardrails and walls around it, so all roads here lead to the square.

Under a large street lamp in the square, a group of white-haired men were gathering to play cards.

And here is also in a mess, with many foreign license plates parked.

Gu Chen knows that there may be many businessmen renting houses in the market, and the residents here may also be non-locals.

"Excuse me." Gu Chen stepped forward and also took the initiative to say hello.

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Li's Tang Dynasty