Chapter 4 Chapter 3 The Strange Disappearance

The police officer turned around and ordered his subordinates to immediately inform Mrs. Guo who was in the hospital that Mr. Guo could not have been in the car when the car fell into the sea. I walked forward and looked at the car. This car, which was driven by Xiao Guo, went to that building with me. The car was full of water, and the key was not in the car. I can't imagine how the car fell into the sea, and this is not what I care about. What I care about is, where did Xiao Guo go? The question I was concerned about became the headlines of the newspaper and the concern of many people three days later.Because Xiao Guo never showed up again after he drove down the ramp that night.

The police are trying their best to find him. He is a successful detective himself, presides over a huge detective agency, has many extremely capable assistants under him, and is also trying his best to find him. With so many people looking for it, it's not an exaggeration, even if it lost a foreign mouse, it could be found, but Xiao Guo couldn't even see it. Xiao Guo's expensive watch was found in the bathroom of a unit on the 22nd floor of that building. He originally took the elevator upstairs to retrieve the watch, and the watch still remained. In the bathroom, it means that after he went up again, he never entered that unit at all, otherwise, the watch would not have stayed there!

Chen Mao was not suspicious, because I saw Xiao Guo rush out and drive away with my own eyes.It seems that I am the most suspected person, but Mrs. Guo, who is heartbroken and anxious, has proved the friendship between me and Xiao Guo, and it is absolutely impossible for me to harm Xiao Guo. After five chaotic days, when I had a chance to be alone, I remembered what happened to Luo Ding again. What needs to be added is that at that time, when I waited for Xiao Guo for a long time and saw Xiao Guo rushing out of the building with such a hasty expression, I thought of what happened to Luo Ding.

However, during the investigation in the next few days, I never told anyone my thoughts. Because of what happened to Luo Ding, after the crash, the police also knew, so I don't need to mention it. Moreover, such absurd things can't be used as a basis for formal investigation. What's more, after the incident happened, I was in that building again, took this elevator, went up and down several times, and there was nothing unusual at all. However, I finally remembered what happened to Luo Ding, because Xiao Guo's disappearance was so bizarre that it made me think that I couldn't find him through the normal way, and there must be strange changes in it that we couldn't even imagine in our dreams. Inside!

So, I decided to visit Luo Ding. The company I went to work for was a large commercial organization, and the employees were not allowed to meet personal guests during working hours. Fortunately, I had an import and export company, and the arrangement was passed. In the name of business negotiation, I Luo Ding was seen in the reception room of that large organization. On the surface, he is normal, about forty years old, a senior employee in a large organization, with a certain education and a certain way of life. Two newly healed scars—that was left after he and Xiao Guo crashed. Luo Ding didn't know my real reason for coming, so I discussed business issues with him first, and he told me straightforwardly that they couldn't give me any help, so I changed the subject: "Mr. Luo, I heard that you Once, in an elevator in a building, had a horrible experience?"

Luo Ding's complexion suddenly changed, and he stood up. If it weren't for his upbringing, which stopped him from losing his temper, I believe he would be furious. He stood with a pale face, and after a while, he said: "Mr. Wei, goodbye!" I immediately said again: "Mr. Luo, do you still remember that Mr. Guo whose car you hit?" Luo Ding shook again: "Yes, he is missing!" The news of Detective Guo's disappearance was very sensational, so he naturally knew about it. I said again: "Of course you know how he disappeared? At that time, I was with him, and there was one thing I didn't mention to anyone, and no one would believe me if I did. It will take at least fifteen minutes to come out!"

Luo Ding's expression became even paler, and he murmured: "It's more than fifteen minutes, it's really more than that!" I took the opportunity to ask, "What's the situation? The elevator has been going up for fifteen minutes or more?" Luo Ding's expression was so terrified, his face was twitching, his eyes were wide open, even his pupils were dilated, and his upper and lower lips were trembling together. His expression made me unable to bear to ask again. I don't feel like going down, but I have to understand the truth. After a long time, he said: "Yes, the elevator has been going up, and it has been going up."

I stood up, came to him, looked him in the eye, and I hoped he would act calmer, because I do have a lot of issues that I would like to talk to him about. I said, "Mr. Luo, we are all adults, and we are all insane and educated people. Do you think this is possible? In nearly twenty minutes, the elevator can go up several thousand feet!" Luo Ding murmured absentmindedly: "I don't know, I don't know." I asked again: "So, Mr. Luo, what happened after the elevator finally stopped?" I thought that my question would remind Luo Ding of what happened to him, and he would be more frightened and even unable to support himself.However, beyond my expectation, he calmed down immediately and said, "Nothing happened!"

After he said this sentence, he seemed to feel that it was a bit inappropriate for him to say that, so he said again: "I told many people what happened after that in the hospital, and Mr. Guo knew it too, so I don't want to talk about it anymore!" After he finally stopped in the elevator, I heard Xiao Guo talk about it, that is: he entered a residential unit, went to the balcony, looked out, there was no sky, no ground, it was just a gray area. Originally, I had absolutely no reason not to believe Xiao Guo's report.At this time, it's not that I don't believe Xiao Guo's report, I just have doubts about Luo Ding's original report.

I have a strong feeling that Luo Ding must have concealed something, and I can infer that what he concealed happened after the elevator finally stopped and he got out of the elevator! On this point, since I asked him what happened after that, he suddenly became calm, and he said "nothing" first, and then added something, but his words were still flickering, and he couldn't tell why. It can be seen. At this time, it is naturally inconvenient for me to point out this point directly, so I can only ask: "Mr. Luo, can you explain it to me again?" However, Luo Ding had already issued an order to evict the guest, he said: "I'm sorry, I'm very busy, your business has already been discussed!"

I still said: "Then, in private time, can you talk to me about this matter! Because Xiao Guo is my best friend, I want to know what happened to him!" Luo Ding laughed unnaturally: "My matter, the doctor has already explained to me that it is a kind of trance phenomenon caused by the busy and tense urban life, which makes me overly nervous. I agree with this statement. Mr. Guo's disappearance has nothing to do with it, please don't trouble me again in the future!" He was evading, and the purpose of his evading was obviously to cover up some truths that he had concealed. Those truths must have a lot to do with Xiao Guo's disappearance, so I naturally don't want to stop there. But at this time, I could no longer talk to him, because he had already strode out the door and walked out. I watched him go out, so I had no choice but to go out, but I was patient. I waited downstairs in the commercial organization, in the parking lot, and in my car until it was time to get off work. After get off work, many senior staff came to the parking lot to pick up their cars. I saw Luo Ding. He looked no different from others, and, judging by his appearance, he never paid attention to me. I watched him get into the car and drive away, and then I followed him out of the parking lot. To be honest, I followed him at this time, it can be said that there is no purpose.I want to find Xiao Guo, which may have nothing to do with Luo Ding. But I feel that if I have a better understanding of what happened to Luo Ding, I may find a clue in the absence of clues. The traffic was very crowded. Sometimes I was far away from Luo Ding's car, and sometimes I was very close to him. The car was heading east, and the road was a bit sparse before long, so I followed him. I saw him stop in front of a bakery, and the person in the bakery gave him a paper box, and he took the paper. box, and continued to drive forward. This is naturally not worth doubting. The carton is either cake or bread. He may have eaten it himself, or he may have bought it back every day as a breakfast for his children. This is the normal behavior of a father in a normal family. Luo Ding's car was parked on a side street. When he got out of the car, several people greeted him. He must live on this street. I also stopped the car and looked at him. He walked into a three-story house. This kind of house does not have an elevator. When he came into the house, he looked perfectly normal, nothing suspicious at all, which made me not want to get out of the car and continue to follow him, because he had told me not to trouble him again. However, there is no other way except to find some clues about Xiao Guo's disappearance from him. In the car, I thought for a long time before I decided to get out of the car and walked into the house. I knew he lived on the third floor, so I walked up to the third floor. There were two living units there, one of which was There is a bronze plaque nailed to the door, and the word "Luo Zhai" is engraved on the bronze plaque. I rang the bell, and it was Luo Ding who answered the door. As soon as Luo Ding saw me, his face darkened immediately: "Mr. Wei, what do you mean?" I naturally knew that my actions were very wrong, so I had no choice but to lower my voice: "Mr. Luo, I'm here to ask you to help me!" Luo Ding's face stretched longer: "I can't help you, I warn you, don't bother me again!" I heard a woman's voice in the room asking loudly, "Who is it?" Luo Ding replied: "I don't know either, an annoying guy!" As he spoke, he slammed the door shut. The moment the door was about to slam shut, I was impulsive, and I really wanted to slam the door and rush in! But I didn't do that. I just stood in front of the door and stood silently for a while, then turned and walked down the stairs. The next day, early in the morning, a police officer woke me up. The police officer warned me with a very serious look: "We have received a complaint that you are harassing a Mr. Luo." I was stunned for a moment, and smiled wryly: "I just asked him some questions, hoping to find clues to find the missing Guo..." I invite you here, but the police officer has already waved his hand and interrupted my topic: "That Mr. Luo accepted the doctor's advice and then came to complain to us. When he came to complain, he brought a doctor's certificate The book proves that he is extremely neurasthenic, and any harassment will have an extremely adverse effect on him, so please stop all actions against him!" I stayed for a while before I sneered: "Actually, this Mr. Luo's nerves have been troubled for a long time. I didn't make him weak. I think you also know the story about him in the elevator in that building?" The police officer spread his hands: "That's his business, anyway, he doesn't want anyone to bother him!" I had no choice but to agree: "Okay, but I hope you go back and mention it to Mr. Jack. I think this Mr. Luo has a secret in his heart, and this secret will help Xiao Guo's disappearance." Colonel Jack of the police is in charge of dealing with extremely special cases. I know that the case of Xiao Guo's disappearance has been handed over to him. It can be said that Colonel Jack and I are no longer familiar, but since I first met him, until now, we have maintained such a relationship—except on a certain occasion , Everyone met, otherwise, I wouldn't go to him, and he wouldn't come to me.This is naturally because he and I are both extremely subjective people. When we meet, there is almost nothing else except disputes. When the police officer heard that I mentioned Colonel Jack, he immediately said: "By the way, before I came to you, the colonel summoned me and told me a few words." I raised my eyebrows. The police officer said: "The colonel asked me to tell you that he knows that you and Mr. Guo's staff are working hard, but he said, you don't need to waste your efforts, if the police can't find Mr. Guo, you can't find it either!" I laughed. I didn't expect that the relationship between me and Colonel Jack would develop to the point where we could argue without meeting each other, but I couldn't help but answer. I immediately said: "Thank you, and please tell the colonel, if we can't find Mr. Guo, neither can the police!" The police officer left with a helpless expression, and I went out a few minutes after he left, and arrived at Xiao Guo's detective agency. After Xiao Guo disappeared, I came here almost every day, and invisibly became the host of this detective agency. Of course, I am in charge of this detective agency, which is different from when Xiao Guo was in charge. We refuse to accept any cases and concentrate our efforts on investigating Xiao Guo's whereabouts. As soon as I sat down, two capable staff came to report to me. They were two of the eight staff I sent to guard Mrs. Guo 24 hours a day and night outside Xiao Guo's residence. The reason I did that was because I thought that if Xiao Guo's disappearance was planted because of his grievances with some powerful criminal organization during the investigation of a certain case, then Xiao Guo has Trouble, Mrs. Guo may also be in trouble. I even expected that someone would trouble Mrs. Guo.Because of that, I can get clues when I have no clue. However, every report of the eight staff disappoints me. Mrs. Guo is recuperating at home, and she has no troubles except for constant visits and condolences to her. I firmly believe that Mrs. Guo is the saddest during these days, but I can't think of any words to comfort her. All I can do is to try my best to find Xiao Guo—if he still Words in the world. The disappearance of Xiao Guo is too bizarre and unbelievable. The most impossible thing is that the car was picked up from the sea, and the door was locked. I deduce that Xiao Guo had an accident on the way, and then someone locked his car Come to the door and push into the sea. So what was the accident? Colonel Jack asked the police officer to give me a message to tell me not to fuss, but I believe that what we are trying to do is completely different from what the police are trying to do, and the police will never spend time on what we do. I ordered the two employees to continue to protect Mrs. Guo, and then another employee came in with a large stack of documents: "It took us a while to find the original design of this building, all the information It's all here." I nodded to them: "Don't trouble me for now!" When I opened the first page of the stack of documents, I couldn't help wondering in my heart, starting with studying this building, could the missing Xiao Guo appear? I began to study the architectural drawings, and it seemed that this was a very common design, nothing special. The most special point, perhaps, was that this building had only one elevator. Among the many documents, I found a small piece of paper with a line written on it, which made me stunned for a while. That line read: "The original design of the three elevators was cancelled, and according to the owner's opinion, it was changed to one." That piece of paper is the kind used by copiers. Of course, the handwriting is also copied.I was stunned for a while, and quickly copied all the documents again. This note is suspicious. On this note, there is a signature, but the name of the signer cannot be discerned from the scribbled signature. I try to be as calm as possible, and make an idea based on the simple sentence on the note. My idea is: the so-called "owner" on the note is naturally the owner of the building.The usual procedure is to first acquire a piece of land, then set up a real estate company, then invite architects to design architectural drawings, and then invite investment for construction, and then through a series of activities, sell the completed buildings, unit by unit. This procedure remains unchanged. From the two lines on the note, I can infer that the original building design had three elevators, two of which may be in the lobby, and one at the back door, which is the rear elevator. The design is normal. However, the owner rejected the normal design and insisted on changing the whole building to have only one elevator. That's not normal, and any architect can know that, that's not normal!But if the owner insisted, the architect had to do so.The large stack of patterns I see now is naturally redesigned according to the owner's intention. It was built, but not a single unit could be sold. This may be because it only has one elevator, the house could not be sold, and the owner suffered losses. The question is: why does the owner of this building insist on only one elevator for the entire building? This is really not something that can be explained by common sense. There must be some special reasons for it. In particular, Luo Ding once stated that such a strange thing happened in this elevator, and I believe that in Xiao Guo a When people went up to get his watch back, they might have had the same weird experience as Luo Ding, otherwise, as a person, he would never have left in such a panic and abnormally, and since then disappeared without a trace. The discovery of this note is too important. After I thought about this, I first looked at the designer's name on the corner of the drawing, which had "Chen Tuqiang Designer Firm" printed on it, as well as its phone number and address. I pressed the intercom button, asked the two employees to come in, and told them: "Go and find out who is the big owner of this building as soon as possible. I'm going out now, and I will call back to ask you!" The two staff listened, and when I finished speaking, they looked at each other with a look of disapproval on their faces, one lip moved and did not say anything, and the other said: "Mr. Wei, the owner of this building Who is it, seems to be related to Mr. Guo's disappearance, there is no—” I waved my hand and interrupted him: "There's no direct connection, is there?" The two clerks nodded and looked at me together, obviously eager to hear my explanation. I paused for a while. I really didn't know how to explain this incident, but I finally said: "Mr. Guo's disappearance is not an ordinary incident. There must be extremely mysterious and unknowable factors involved." Now, we're going to follow every clue—" At this point, I stood up, walked towards them, and patted each of them on the shoulder: "Do as I say, I hope the first time I call back, there will be results!" As I said that, I walked towards the door. When I came to the door, I turned around and said, "You don't have to ask Chen Tuqiang Architects. I will go to see the architect now. If he knows the owner Whoever it is, of course it would be the best!" I walked out, and although the two employees agreed, I could tell from their expressions that they still didn't take it seriously. I walked through the crowded streets, walked into a building, squeezed into the elevator, squeezed out of the elevator again, pushed open the door of Chen Tuqiang Architects, and walked in. The scale of this architect's firm is quite large, and there are many staff members. When I expressed my intention to one of the staff members, he took me to a female secretary. The lady secretary was wearing very thick glass myopia glasses. She was thin and dry. She first looked up at me, then immediately lowered her head and continued to read her novel: "What's the matter?" I said, "I want to see architect Chen Tuqiang." Miss Secretary said: "Is there an agreement in advance?" I shook my head, but I immediately thought that she was reading a novel with her head down, so she couldn't see me shaking her head, so I said, "No!" Her boss put down the novel impatiently, took out a book, flipped through it, and asked, "Name." I had no choice but to give my name: "Wesley." She wrote my name on one of the lines, and said: "Please see the reason?" I frowned: "It's a very complicated matter, and it can't be explained clearly in one or two sentences!" Miss Secretary didn't even raise her head: "Okay!" I don't know what she meant when she said "OK", but I saw that she wrote the word "unknown" in the notebook, which really made me laugh and cry, and then she asked: "Telephone?" I said: "Miss, I want to see designer Chen Tuqiang, is he there? If he is, please inform him!" The secretary finally gave me another look, but her voice was still cold: "Mr. Chen is very busy. Anyone who comes to see him must make an appointment. Your time is ten o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow. I will give you 20 minutes. Do your own business!" She closed the book, and I couldn't help laughing, and exclaimed, "Well, he's just an architect, not an emperor, is he?" The secretary was as cold as ice: "This is our rule here." My loud talk just now has already attracted the attention of many staff members. I spread my hands and said, "Okay, but I have something urgent. I want to ask him something very important!" Miss Secretary seemed to have no room for negotiation, and said coldly: "Come early in the morning the day after tomorrow." I stopped talking to her, straightened up, walked beside her, and walked straight to the door with "Architect Chen Tuqiang", and the secretary called out loudly: "Hey, you do what?" I stood still in front of the door: "Maybe you need to get a hearing aid. I've told you three times. I want to see Mr. Chen!" My words caused a roar of laughter, and the secretary's face was flushed, but I had already opened the door and walked in.Inside the door is a rather gorgeous office. I immediately saw a middle-aged man with gray hair reviewing a large number of documents behind a desk. When I appeared at the door, he looked up at me with a very surprised expression on his face. I heard Miss Secretary's voice coming from behind me, and I immediately said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Chen, I'm sorry. I didn't get your secretary's consent, but I have something important to see you." The middle-aged man stood up with a smile: "Please come in." When I walked in, Miss Secretary also appeared at the door with an angry face, and the middle-aged man immediately said: "Miss Shi, please close the door, this gentleman said he has something important to talk to me about!" The young lady paused for a while with a look of resentment, but closed the office door anyway. This kind of relationship between an employer and an employee is quite rare. Of course, I am not interested in further investigation. I just go forward, shake hands with the other party, and introduce myself. The other party is Chen Tuqiang Architects.I sat down opposite him, and he looked at me. I had already figured out how to start, so I didn't say anything nonsense, and immediately said: "Mr. Chen, I know you have designed many buildings, but one of them Building, you must have a very deep impression on it." Chen Tuqiang looked at me with puzzled eyes, and I continued talking, I said: "This building was originally designed with three elevators, but later, the owner insisted on changing it to only one elevator, so you have to follow it." The owner's opinion changed your original design!" Chen Tuqiang listened to me attentively, and as soon as I said it, he answered: "Yes, I remember this building, has it been completed for a long time?" I nodded and said: "Yes, it has been completed for a long time, but the first floor has not been sold, and it is all empty." Chen Tuqiang shook his head: "That day, I warned him that there is no problem with changing the design. The only consequence is that no one wants this building, but he refused to listen to me." The "he" in Chen Tuqiang's mouth naturally refers to the owner of that building. It seems that my progress is going smoothly, because Chen Tuqiang has a very deep impression on that building.