I have said before that a dog's nose is more than 1,200 times more sensitive than that of a human. They can smell some odors that even the most advanced machines in the world cannot capture. When I heard Pan An's words and looked at his obscene eyes, I immediately understood that this Pan An has a dog's nose!
Zhang Qishan had already lowered her head in embarrassment, but when she heard Pan An say this, she immediately became angry and went up to hit Pan An. Pan An quickly begged for mercy, "You can't blame me. My nose is like this. It's easy for me to detect the source of the smell. You can't let me block my nose, right?"
I hurriedly stopped Zhang Qishan and persuaded her for a while before she stopped paying attention to Pan An. But I also felt very disgusted. When I thought about a grown man smelling the odor of some indescribable part of my body, I got goosebumps all over my body and subconsciously moved away from Pan An.
Originally, I was planning to chat with Pan An to ease the awkward atmosphere, but he said something shocking, making the situation even more awkward, and I didn't dare to ask him any questions.
After a while, I saw that Zhang Qishan seemed still angry, so I asked Zhang Qishan to buy me a pack of cigarettes. I planned to talk to Pan An alone. After all, Pan An had such incredible abilities, it would be very awkward to have a conversation with a girl present.
"Ahem, is your nose really that sensitive? How did you do it? Logically speaking, your nose, which is beyond the limits of humans, should be caught and used as a guinea pig for research."
After Zhang Qishan left, I chatted with Pan An again. Pan An didn't seem to feel how abrupt his previous statement was. He smiled and said, "What are you thinking? Even if my nose is special, the country won't study me because of it. I had a serious illness when I was a child. I don't know what happened at the time. I heard it from my mother later. She said that I had a high fever for nearly half a month and was unconscious. I relied on glucose injections to maintain my life. In the end, the doctor had no choice but to sentence me to death. But the next day, my fever inexplicably subsided."
As he spoke, Pan An took out a pack of ten-yuan Ziyun cigarettes, handed me one, and lit it himself, saying, "Since the fever subsided, I found that I seemed to be a little different. I can see things more clearly than before, and even my sense of smell has increased dramatically. Within 500 meters, as long as the smell is remembered by me, it cannot escape the tracking of my nose. This is why I am called the 'Special Case Team Police Dog'."
I didn't expect Pan An to have such a miraculous experience. I immediately asked curiously, "Just now you said that you can see things more clearly than before. Does that mean your eyesight is also extraordinary?"
Pan An just smiled complacently and didn't answer my question directly. He looked up at the road outside the community and said, "The car is coming. The license plate number is Ning AXXXX."
I immediately looked in the direction of Pan An's gaze, and found that we were nearly three hundred meters away from the entrance of the community. Let alone seeing the license plate number clearly, even seeing whether there was a car at such a long distance was a bit difficult for a game fanatic like me.
Sure enough, after only looking for a dozen seconds, I finally saw a red car slowly driving towards us. When the car stopped in front of us, I was shocked to find that the license plate number was exactly the same as what Pan An described to me!
I looked at Pan An as if he were a monster. In my eyes, Pan An might be a living monster.
"Fuck, are you kidding me? Are you still human? Is your hearing also insane?"
Pan An shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, my hearing is the same as that of ordinary people, nothing special. When I joined the special case team, the military doctor also examined me and said that it was because of the serious illness that year that stimulated my cerebral cortex, allowing me to maximize the functions of my eyes and nose. If the serious illness had lasted a few more days, perhaps my ears would have become truly super-ears, hehe."
I really admire Pan An, and said, "You should be content. If you had burned for another two days, you would have died. Do you have a lot of capable people like this in your special case team?"
"That's not the case. Although there are capable people, they are only a minority after all. My ability is the most useful in the special case team. Whenever Commander Bai encounters a problem, he will come to me for help. However, although my nose and eyes are quite powerful, my brain is not very good. I am not as smart as them."
Pan An smiled shyly, and the red car stopped in front of us. A policeman in uniform walked out of the car, saluted us, and explained that he was here to pick us up.
I hurriedly urged Zhang Qishan to come back, and then I got on a car and headed towards Yinchuan City.
I have said before that it only takes two hours to drive from Yinchuan to Zhongwei if you drive fast, and the atmosphere in the car was not too dull. Pan An is a very humorous person. He talked and laughed with us along the way. Even Zhang Qishan, who had a grudge against him, became familiar with him again.
After about two hours, we finally arrived at our destination, Yinchuan City. We drove for another hour in the city before we arrived at our real destination, Jincheng Hotel.
It was almost afternoon when they arrived at Jincheng Hotel. Pan An said that Bai Qi had already arranged food and lodging. They could put their things in the room and then go to the restaurant for dinner.
I stood under the Jincheng Hotel and took an overall look at this legendary ghost hotel. I found that the hotel is indeed quite old, but it does not look shabby. Instead, it has a sense of history and a feeling that it reflects that era.
It is said that this Jincheng Hotel is a four-star hotel, but I have never been to a four-star hotel, let alone Home Inn, since I was a child. I suddenly felt a little panicked and didn't know what to do. In the end, I obediently took the luggage and walked at the back, letting the two of them take the lead.
Pan An walked to the hotel front desk with a relaxed look on his face and took out a certificate of some unknown kind. The waitress at the front desk smiled and handed two room cards to Pan An. After getting the room cards, Pan An took us to the elevator, pressed the button for the eighth floor, and successfully arrived at the eighth floor.
As soon as the elevator door opened, I walked out first and immediately took a careful look at the environment on the eighth floor. After all, according to Bai Qi, the eighth floor is the only passage leading to the water tank on the top floor. Perhaps there are some clues hidden here that have not been discovered yet.
After a careful look, I found that the corridor on the eighth floor was very long, about one hundred meters. The floor of the corridor was covered with clean carpets. Rooms were neatly and symmetrically arranged on both sides. At the door of each room, there were two pots of green plants. I didn't know whether they were real or fake.
Although it is daytime now, the lights in the corridor have been turned on. Each light is evenly distributed above the roof. Although it is daytime now, looking at the brightness of the lights, I am afraid that it will be as bright as day at night.
I looked around for the cameras on the eighth floor, but the lights were too bright and I only saw the cameras at the elevator and staircase entrances. So I turned to Pan An and said, "You have good eyesight. Look at how many cameras there are on this floor."
Pan An nodded and immediately looked around the corridor of the entire floor. After just a few seconds, he spoke: "There are seven in total, one at the elevator entrance, one on each end of the corridor, and the remaining four are evenly distributed in the corridor. It looks like there is really no blind spot in the 360-degree corridor."
I was convinced by Pan An's eyes and nodded, "If that's the case, if the murderer wants to get to the roof, he will definitely not escape the records of these cameras, but how did he get there?"
We were at the elevator entrance on the eighth floor, and next to the elevator entrance was an emergency escape staircase, which also had another step going upwards. It seemed that going up the stairs would lead us to the location of the water tank of the Jincheng Hotel.
I was planning to go up and see what the water tank looked like, but Zhang Qishan covered her stomach and said, "I'm starving. Let's go eat first. It won't be too late to come back and see it later. It won't matter if we're late."
Although I was not very hungry, seeing that Zhang Qishan was hungry, I gave up the idea of going to check the water tank, nodded and prepared to look for our room.
Bai Qi had said before that the room arranged for us would be right at the entrance of the stairs leading to the water tank. I walked to the stairs and took a look. Sure enough, Pan An's and my room were on both sides of the stairs. Pan An handed our room card to Zhang Qishan and went to his room alone.
After Zhang Qishan opened the door, I took my luggage and prepared to go in. But I don’t know if it was because we had been on the bus for a long time or because I hadn’t eaten, but I couldn’t lift the suitcase, which was not very heavy. My hands went weak and the suitcase slipped out of my control and hit the flower pot next to the door of our room, knocking the entire flower pot to the ground.
Zhang Qishan, who hadn't even entered the house yet, wondered, "What's wrong with you?"
I smiled awkwardly without explaining and hurriedly picked up the pot of flowers. Only then did I realize that the flowers were just a fake plant. Otherwise, if the flowers were killed, who knows if the hotel would ask me to compensate me.
After putting the flower pot back in place, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, picked up my luggage again, and prepared to go into the house to see how amazing the room in this four-star hotel was.
However, just as I was about to go in, I found that Zhang Qishan, who should have gone in a long time ago, was still standing at the door, staring at the room motionlessly without going in. It seemed that there was something strange in our room at this moment, stopping Zhang Qishan's steps.