Not long after dinner, the news of Sun Zhisheng came.

The accident happened to Fang Huize's newly recruited Chinese assistant before returning to China. His name was Luo Tian. He was in his 20s. He had a father named Luo Jianhong and an uncle named Luo Jianxin.

Brothers Luo Jianhong and Luo Jianxin are at odds. It is said that they have not seen each other for almost 30 years. Luo Tian grew up so old that he has never even seen the two of them eating at the same table.

However, such a pair of old brothers who have never been in touch with each other suddenly disappeared at the same time two days ago, that is, at noon on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and there was no news for three consecutive days.

At first, the family members on both sides didn't pay much attention, because the two old men often went out to drink with the old man, and stayed for a day or two by the way.Unexpectedly, this time they didn't go home for three days and two nights, and they couldn't even get through the phone, so the family panicked.

Luo Tian has been working overtime at the company these days on the launch of "The Great Wilderness", and didn't go home. He suddenly received a call from his family in the afternoon, and was startled. He immediately asked his mother to call 110 to call the police.

"Missing for three days and two nights, his family didn't call the police? Isn't this too much?" Xiao Su asked in disbelief.

Rong Rui said: "Because Luo Tian's mother is worried that his father will be kidnapped, calling the police will be detrimental to the old man."

"Is their family rich?" Xiao Su asked, "Local tyrant?"

"The demolition households in the last century had three or four properties under their name, and the current market value is about 6000 to [-] million." Rong Rui was still reading the information sent by Sun Zhisheng, "He is considered rich, but they are all real estate, so it is difficult to buy them in a short period of time. Cashing out—in fact, it is very troublesome to kidnap such a person, and it is difficult to get the ransom in time.”

"Did someone send a message asking them for money?"

"No." Rong Rui shook his head, "That's why Luo Tian insisted on calling the police. He was worried that his father was getting old and had an accident outside, and no one would notice the delay. After calling the police, he found out that his uncle Luo Jianxin was also missing. Just like his dad."

"No one from his uncle made blackmail calls?"

"No."

The old brothers who had not been in contact with each other for 30 years suddenly disappeared at the same time, which is obviously very strange.The police immediately divided into two groups. One group went to their home to investigate on the spot, looking for suspects who might have feuds with them at the same time; the other group retrieved their mobile phone and network information to find suspicious clues.

After ten o'clock in the evening, the news came, and the police found a location information in their WeChat records.

This message was sent to the two of them by a person named "Potato Chips". The strange thing is that apart from this location information, Potato Chips and them have no record of any conversation.

In other words, for some unknown reason, the two old men passed the friend verification of this "potato chip" at noon on the tenth day of the first lunar month, received the location information, and then disappeared.

"Where is the location?" Xiao Su asked.

Rongrui directly forwarded Sun Zhisheng's news to him: "It is a sub-county and suburb of a prefecture-level city under Longzhou. I located it and took a look. It should be a small product processing and distribution center."

Is it Longzhou again?

Xiao Su was puzzled, thought for a while and called Fang Huize: "Uncle, how is the matter? Is it serious? Have you eaten yet?"

Fang Huize's voice on the other end of the phone was a little distorted: "It should be... It's okay, I'm helping to deal with it. I've eaten, the box lunch ordered by the company."

"When will you come back?" Xiao Su asked, "Shall I prepare some supper for you?"

"Well, no need, I won't be able to go back for a while, let's see tomorrow." Fang Huize said, "Don't wait, go to bed early, and I will tell you gossip when I find someone later, be good."

Rong Rui was sitting next to Xiao Su, and when he heard the word "good boy", two flying knives swished out of the corners of his eyes. After Xiao Su hung up the phone, he said, "He is driving, using Bluetooth."

Xiao Su also felt that his voice was a bit strange, it didn't seem like he was using a telephone receiver directly: "Where is he driving so late? He doesn't plan to go home."

"Longzhou." Rong Rui said without hesitation, "Luo Tian may have told him about the location information, even if he didn't tell him, he would still be able to find it out - he has a super expert by his side."

Xiao Su knew he was talking about Wen Sen.Rongrui has been investigating Wensen for the past few days, but unexpectedly discovered that this guy had a lot of criminal records in his youth, either doing trouble on the dark web, attacking large platforms, or tampering with the background data of government websites... In short, before meeting Fang Huize, He is a typical problem boy.

It is also thanks to him meeting Fang Huize that he has become a well-known cutting-edge game designer, otherwise he would be staying in some shitty prison picking up soap right now.

"It's almost eleven o'clock." Rong Rui looked at his watch and said, "I'm going to Longzhou, brother, go to bed first, and I'll let you know when there is progress."

"Shall I go with you?" Xiao Su was worried that he was alone, and besides, he wanted to know what Fang Huize was doing.

Originally thought that Rong Rui would object, but he hesitated for a moment before agreeing: "Okay, put on more clothes, Longzhou is colder than Jingchuan, and it has just snowed."

Xiao Su heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately went back to the room to pack his things, took Sun Zhisheng's big down jacket that was wrapped from head to toe, and got into the car with Rong Rui.

It's not far from Jingchuan to Longzhou, but because of the snow and the temporary speed limit on the highway, I drove very slowly, and it was almost early morning when I got out of the toll booth.

Xiao Su couldn't bear to sleep in the backseat. When he woke up, he saw snow-covered fir trees and mistletoe flashing past the window. He yawned and asked, "Is it almost here?"

"Hurry up." Rong Rui turned the car off the main road, walked through the farmland along the rugged village road, stopped the car after about a quarter of an hour, and said, "I can't make it through, I have to walk, there are still about 500 meters."

Xiao Su got out of the car with him, and found a vast expanse of whiteness all around, with a vaguely disorganized factory building in the distance, with no lights at all.

"This ghostly place..." Xiao Su hesitated, "Two old men who are almost sixty, why do they come to this kind of place?"

"I don't know. The Jingchuan police are investigating the location of the potato chips. There may be clues later." Rong Rui stretched out his hand, "Be careful."

Xiao Su found that there were ice skates under the snow, so he had to hold his hand: "There is no road, how did they come here?"

"Rent a car, and then walk." Rong Rui dragged his hand and walked forward slowly, with steady steps, "This place may have special meaning to them, or the potato chips have been sent to them through other channels before. Extraordinary information, so they had to come."

It has only been a few hours since the incident happened, and the police have very little information, so everything can only be guessed.

Xiao Su's motor function was already declining, and his balance was very poor. It was only because of Rongrui's pulling that he didn't fall. After 10 minutes, he finally walked into the messy factory building.

It used to be a small commodity processing and distribution center. Later, Longzhou built a development zone, and the factories moved there one after another, and it was abandoned. Even the roads were in disrepair for a long time and could not be opened to traffic.

A damaged fence surrounds the entire factory area, and some real estate company advertisements are painted on it. It seems that this place has been sold.Xiao Su brushed aside the accumulated snow and took a look. Coincidentally, it was You Gang's company.

No wonder it was so barren.

Rongrui turned on his mobile phone to navigate, and led Xiao Su to turn left and right. Suddenly, he paused, pressed the hearing aid on his left ear, and said, "There is someone!"

Xiao Su slipped and almost fell, he hugged his arm subconsciously, and managed to stand still, only to see a few black shadows flashing from another direction, and the first one shook his flashlight: "A Su?"

Fang Huize led four young men, apparently also looking for the location address, a short fat man followed closely on his left hand, with anxious eyes, it was the client Luo Tian.

Fang Huize glanced at the two of them's clenched hands with his dark eyes, frowned slightly, and then asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Xiao Su didn't expect to meet him, and didn't know how to answer for a while.But that Luo Tian couldn't wait any longer. Wiping the cold sweat off his forehead, Fang Huize said, "Mr. Fang, the location is right here. My father and uncle are both old. Look..."

"Yes, let's find someone first." Fang Huize didn't ask Xiao Su any more, turned around and walked to the location.

Xiao Su let go of Rong Rui's arm, the two looked at each other, and followed silently.

A group of seven people turned a corner, and saw a dilapidated workshop surrounded by dense pines and cypresses. Because no one pruned, the canopy almost covered the roof, which was very spooky and scary.

"It's here!" Luo Tian was sweating, looking at his phone excitedly, then at the workshop, and wanted to rush over.

Fang Huize grabbed him, looked around, and then walked over slowly step by step, and shouted, "Teacher Luo? Luo Jianhong?"

Shino was quiet, and after a pause of two seconds, the door on the south side of the workshop suddenly rang loudly, and a hoarse scream came from inside: "Is there anyone? Is there anyone outside? Help! Help!!!"

After three days, they are still alive, and nothing happened? !Surprised, Xiao Su followed quickly, only to see that the door of the workshop was closed tightly, with an old-fashioned door bolt stuck on it, trembling slightly as the people inside kept pounding on the door.

Fang Huize motioned to Luo Tian, ​​and Luo Tian immediately pulled the door latch, crying, "Dad? Uncle? Are you all right?"

The door opened, and two old men in their sixties rushed out from the inside. The older one hugged Luo Tian first, choked up and said, "Xiao Tian! The son is really you! I still think I'm dreaming! "

The younger old man at the back called out: "Xiao Tian!" Suddenly his chest heaved violently.Rong Rui just walked up to him, and immediately took a step forward to hug him: "Uncle, what's wrong with you? What's wrong?"

The old man twitched twice, regained his breath, held Rong Rui's hand and burst into tears: "Thank you, thank you young man, I thought my old life would end here!"

"Dad, Uncle, why are you here? What are you doing here?" Luo Tian came back to his senses and wanted to go into the workshop, but was grabbed by Fang Huize: "Xiao Luo, don't go in, don't destroy the scene. The police will definitely have to collect evidence when they come.”

"Yes, thank you, President Fang, for reminding me!" Luo Tian patted his forehead, grateful.

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, the voice fell, a group of policemen approached the workshop, and looked at them in surprise: "What's the situation? Who are you?"

Fang Huize took Luo Tian to explain, Rongrui handed Luo Jianxin to the person they brought, rubbed his fingers, sniffed at his nose, and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Su asked.

Rong Rui shook his head, took out his mobile phone and looked through it, saying: "These are the people from the Longzhou police here. The Jingchuan side has not arrived yet, and Lao Sun is with them."

He raised his eyes to look into the dark workshop, and said, "It's strange that people are really locked here... What kind of operation is this? Why did you send the victim the location of the hiding place before the kidnapping?"

Xiao Su is also at a loss now: "Yes, normal kidnappers, shouldn't they trick people and transfer them immediately?"

Rong Rui groaned, rubbed his fingers again, and said, "Wait for the on-site inspection, Lao Sun should be here soon."

Half an hour later, at dawn, the investigation team from the Longzhou police arrived, and people from the Jingchuan police finally rushed over.Sun Zhisheng was still in plain clothes, so he was not conspicuous at all among the crowd.

"You came with the victim and the others?" Sun Zhisheng walked around the periphery of the scene and walked to Rong Rui's side.

"Front and back, Fang Huize and Luo Tian went back with the police to record statements, brothers Luo Jianhong and Luo Jianxin may have to be sent to the hospital for examination." Rong Rui briefly explained the situation at that time, and raised his right hand, "Luo Jianxin's condition is not very good, Maybe he has asthma or a heart attack, I helped him and felt that there was water on his body, his clothes were wet in several places, and the smell was a bit strange."

Sun Zhisheng lowered his head and sniffed his fingers, narrowing his eyes slightly.

Rong Rui exchanged glances with him, and raised his chin towards the studio: "What's going on inside? Can I go in and have a look?"

Sun Zhisheng gestured to the policeman at the door of the studio, then turned around and said, "Okay, let's go."

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