This hotel was already filled with a weird atmosphere. Seeing Zhang Qishan's actions, I suddenly became nervous. I immediately put the luggage I had finally lifted on the ground again and whispered, "What's wrong? Is there something inside?"
Unexpectedly, Zhang Qishan turned around and looked at me with a puzzled look and said, "What's in there? Nothing?"
"What are you doing standing at the door without you?"
Zhang Qishan rolled his eyes at me and said, "You don't understand this, do you? When staying in a hotel, especially in rooms at the stairwell or the edge of the corridor, you must knock on the door before entering, and then walk in sideways, so as not to disturb the dirty things living in the room that we can't see."
Zhang Qishan spoke in a very serious manner, and then she walked in sideways. I was completely speechless, and once again picked up the luggage with great effort and followed her into the room.
When I walked into the room, I found that it was really nice. Not to mention its large area, the decoration inside alone gave people a very warm feeling, as if I was back home.
There was a large double bed in the middle of the room. After Zhang Qishan entered the room, he jumped onto the bed and rolled around while laughing, "This bed is so soft. You have to buy me one exactly like it in the future."
I reluctantly put the luggage in my hand on the bed and said, "It's not good for your back if it's so soft. If you really want it, I will definitely buy it for you."
As I said that, I turned around and looked at the bathroom next to it, and found that this bathroom actually had no walls. The entire bathroom was surrounded by several transparent glass panels. It was fully equipped with all the facilities and there was also a bathtub that looked very nice.
When I saw the bathroom in front of me, I immediately imagined Zhang Qishan taking a shower in it. I turned to Zhang Qishan and said with a sly smile, "Xiaoshan, you see we are exhausted from the journey, why don't you take a shower first and then we can have a good sleep first?"
Zhang Qishan covered her mouth and laughed, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. That's wishful thinking. We'll talk about it tonight. I'm so hungry now. Let's go out for dinner first."
As they were talking, Zhang Qishan pulled me out of the room. At this time, Pan An was already waiting outside the door. When he saw the two of us come out, he took the elevator to the restaurant on the first floor to have dinner.
I always thought that the food in such a high-end hotel should be delicious, but who would have thought it was so bad. We were originally very excited, but after eating a little, we completely lost interest. We might as well go out and find a small restaurant. I guess the food in small restaurants is better than here.
After finishing our meal, we had nothing else to do, so we went to the eighth floor together and walked up the stairs to the rooftop.
The stairs leading to the rooftop are very narrow, and at the end of the stairs is a door. We originally planned to go in and take a look, but who knew that the door was locked tightly and could not be opened at all.
"I guess this place was locked up after the two murders. Do we have to go up and take a look?" Pan An asked, staring at the huge lock on the door.
"Of course. This is where the body was dumped. I have to see it with my own eyes to get a rough outline of the case in my mind." I said helplessly, turned around and prepared to leave, and went to find the waiter to see if I could get the key to this place.
But before I left, Pan An said, "If you really want to go in, don't bother. Just look at me."
As he spoke, Pan An took out a black box the size of a cigarette box from his pocket. After opening the box, I saw that it was filled with densely packed small iron rods of various sizes, some of which had curved hooks. I had no idea what they were used for.
Pan An took out a slightly thicker iron rod with a curved hook from the small box with a proud look on his face. He looked around to make sure there was no one around, then he poked the small iron rod into the keyhole and began to fiddle with it left and right.
I finally understood that Pan An was about to pry open the lock in front of him. Seeing his skillful movements, I couldn't help but ask, "Pan An, what did you do before you became a policeman? Were you a Buddhist monk?"
Buddha is another name for a pickpocket, and Pan An naturally knew this. He concentrated on picking the lock and said, "No, I learned this trick from a friend in the special case team. He is an expert in picking locks. It is said that he is confident that he can even pick open Jack Ma's safe. Just watch me show you."
Although Pan An said so, I still felt that he must have been a Buddhist before. Seeing his skillful movements, I felt relieved and waited and chatted with Zhang Qishan on the side.
But I waited for a full ten minutes and still didn't see any progress from Pan An. He always looked very focused. I really couldn't understand this guy. Could he actually unlock the door
"Hey, can you please help me? I've already gone to get the key twice in these ten minutes. Can you please stop wasting time?"
Pan An said calmly, "Just wait a little longer, it will be done soon. This place is blocked by the local police and we have to keep our identities secret. How are you going to get it? If it doesn't work, you guys can go to the room and have a round of battle first. I'll probably be ready by the time you're done."
Before Pan An finished speaking, I heard a crisp sound of metal collision, and then I saw the unbreakable lock hanging on the door fall to the ground with a clang.
The lock was successfully opened, and Pan An said with a proud look on his face: "See, I told you that there is absolutely no problem with me being a horseman. Do you admire me very much?"
I ignored him, walked around him, opened the door and went in, while Zhang Qishan punched Pan An hard, apparently to avenge the nonsense Pan An had just said.
When I walked out of the door, I suddenly felt the view in front of me opened up. The entire roof of Jincheng Hotel was in full view. There are eight floors here, which is considered a relatively tall building in the entire area. I instantly felt like I had climbed to the top of a mountain.
Of course, the moment I walked to the roof, my eyes were attracted by a huge white-painted water tank in the center of the roof. I had never seen this thing before, and I didn’t know why such a large water tank was installed here. Is there no tap water here
It was not until later that I realized that some places are far away from the water plant and the buildings are high, so this kind of water storage tank is needed to pressurize the water. Otherwise, residents on high floors will not be able to enjoy tap water.
As far as I can remember, I have only seen such a water tank in a horror movie before. I forgot the name of that horror movie, but it was divided into four stories. One of the stories was about the hero killing the heroine and putting her body in the water tank. No one found it for several days until the landlord drank rotten human skin from the smelly tap water and discovered the heroine's body. However, the heroine's ghost had already killed the hero.
I remember watching this movie when I was in high school. At that time, several of my classmates and I went to an all-night class together. One of my classmates asked me if there were any good horror movies. I introduced this movie to him. But when I went to class the next day, I found that the classmate was not there. Later I learned that he had gone home to sleep after watching the horror movie that day. I don’t know if it was because he was too tired from staying up all night or because of the horror movie, but he had a heart attack and was hospitalized.
Anyway, when I recalled this horror movie again and thought of the disgusting scenes in the horror movie where people drank tap water, I suddenly felt a little nauseous. I told myself that I must buy enough mineral water when I go out, because I won’t drink a drop of the water here.
After I walked around this huge water tank, I suddenly found a strange problem. That is, there seemed to be no way to go up the water tank. The entire water tank was integrated and was nearly three or four meters high. If the murderer wanted to put the body in, how did he get up there
I told Zhang Qishan and Pan An about my idea, and they also realized the problem at this time. Since this thing was placed on the roof, there must be some way to get up there. So we immediately split up and looked for ladders or something like that on the roof.
Just as I was about to leave the water tank, I suddenly discovered that near the door we reached on the roof, there was a very hidden camera placed there, facing the water tank. It seemed that this camera should be the newly installed camera that Bai Qi mentioned before, which was used to monitor the water tank.
I was about to go over to check the camera, but before I left the water tank, I saw Pan An running towards me excitedly with a folding ladder in his arms, saying, "Ji Wen, I found it! There really is a ladder here!"
I looked in the direction Pan An was running from and asked, "Where did you see this ladder?"
"It's in a hidden corner in front. Fortunately, I have good eyesight, otherwise it would be difficult for ordinary people to find it." As he spoke, Pan An had already brought the ladder over, stretched it out and stood on the edge of the water tank.
I looked at the ladder in front of me and suddenly became confused. If the murderer didn't know this hotel like us, then let's not talk about how he knew there was a water tank here. It should be difficult for him to find this ladder when he killed someone and dumped the body in the middle of the night! In other words, the murderer must know this hotel very well, maybe he is an employee of this hotel!
After figuring this out, I immediately narrowed down the scope of my search for the murderer. I thought to myself that after I finish looking at what is happening here, I will get to know the employees here. As long as we take the initiative to look for the murderer hiding among the employees, the murderer will definitely reveal a flaw!
"Ji Wen, I have found the ladder. You can go up and take a look quickly. After we finish looking, we will leave here. I always feel that this place is a bit high and it is not very comfortable to stand here." Pan An woke me up from my thoughts. I also planned to take a look at the structure of the water tank, so I asked Pan An to hold the ladder and then climbed to the top of the water tank.
This water tank has a lid that can be lifted up, and the lid is made of iron sheet, so it is not very heavy. I thought to myself that since I was already up here, it would not be too late to take a look at the internal structure of the water tank before leaving. So I stood firm, grabbed one end of the lid, and lifted the lid of the water tank with force.
After lifting the lid, I leaned over to look inside the water tank. Maybe because the opening of the lid was not very large, the light inside was very dim. But even in such a dim light, I saw a creepy scene!
Because I saw that at this moment, there was a woman with disheveled hair in the water tank, staring at me with a pair of bloodshot red eyes and sneering!