In the dark water tank, I suddenly saw such a horrifying scene. I originally watched it with a relaxed attitude, but as soon as such a shocking picture entered my brain, I was immediately scared to the point of forgetting my current situation and just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible!
"Fuck!"
I screamed in fear, loosened my hands holding the edge of the water tank, and was about to escape from here, but I forgot that I was standing on a ladder two or three meters high at that time. My feet slipped and my hands loosened, and my body fell backwards in an instant!
I had never experienced this feeling of falling from a high altitude, and I instantly felt that I was doomed this time.
But who would have thought that when I felt I was about to fall from the eighth floor, a pair of strong arms caught me, although the bones of those arms were still bruised and I felt some pain.
"Ouch, why are you so heavy? Ji Wen, are you having a seizure? Why did you fall down out of nowhere?"
I looked up and saw that the person who caught me was Pan An, who was holding the ladder from below. Pan An looked very struggling at this time, his hands were shaking a little, and he said to me with a grin.
Pan An let me go. Zhang Qishan, who was so scared that he couldn't speak, immediately came forward to see if I was injured. As my feet stepped on the solid ground, my frightened heart gradually calmed down.
After I recovered from my fear, I realized what had just happened. I immediately asked Pan An to hold the ladder again, then I quickly climbed up the ladder and looked into the water tank again.
This time I didn't feel fear, and I could see everything inside the water tank clearly. The woman with disheveled hair and bloodshot eyes sneering at me that I just saw was actually the head of a woman soaked in water!
This was the first time I was so close to a severed head. I wasn’t scared at first, but now my legs started to feel weak again. Pan An below me asked anxiously, “Ji Wen, what did you see? Why don’t you say something? If you don’t, I’ll go up and see for myself.”
I ignored Pan An and kept my eyes on the head soaking in the water, looking for any clues that could be dug up, because I understood that the third murder had occurred in this Jincheng Hotel.
"Pan An, call the police! Another body has been found!"
About five minutes later, I heard a series of hurried footsteps coming from behind the door leading to the rooftop. I immediately looked in the direction of the sound and saw six men rushing in first, followed closely by a middle-aged man with brightly dressed clothes and a slicked-back face.
The middle-aged man with slicked hair and powdered face was obviously the person in charge of the hotel. Among the six men who came in first, two of them looked Chinese. They were all wearing security uniforms and should be around 30 years old.
But I turned my attention to the other four people, because they all had darker skin and from their facial features, they were obviously not Asians. I thought these should be the people Bai Qi had told me about before, the ones sent by the country of the deceased foreigner to investigate the case.
I couldn't understand why people from other countries should get involved in a case that happened in our country. Because I couldn't understand this, I didn't treat these four foreign policemen well, and even ignored them.
The hotel manager had a sad face. He looked at the ladder on the water tank, then at the pried-open door lock, and immediately pointed at us and asked, "Is this the dead body you found?"
I didn't say anything, Pan An said first: "Yes, we have called the police, the police will be here soon, please don't disturb the scene, if there is anything, we can talk about it outside."
Unexpectedly, the hotel manager sneered and said, "Why call the police? Can't you just turn yourself in?"
"Turn yourself in? Why should I turn myself in?" Pan An asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"You killed someone, can't you just turn yourself in? Damn it, we finally caught the murderer. You broke into here by prying the lock, you must have done it to hide the body, and then pretend to report the crime! Don't think I can't see it, I'm smart!"
After hearing what the hotel manager said, I just wanted to laugh from the bottom of my heart. If you were really smart, you wouldn't say such stupid things.
The hotel manager did not give Pan An a chance to continue speaking. He immediately ordered two security guards to come towards us and said something completely incomprehensible to the four foreign policemen. Even the four foreign policemen surrounded us.
We didn't kill anyone, so I was naturally fearless. At most, I could just go with them. When the police come, everything will be revealed. But Pan An was not happy at this time. He took out his special case police ID from his arms and said to the person in charge of the hotel: "Let me tell you, I'm from the National Special Case Team. This time I'm here to secretly investigate this case. Just try to catch me!"
But the hotel manager didn't give Pan An any face at all, and sneered: "The higher-ups have already approved these foreign friends to investigate, so why would they ask people to investigate the case in vain? Besides, what is a special case team? I've never heard of it. If you have anything to say, wait for Director Ouyang to come and tell him, and quickly arrest these people!"
Pan An originally wanted to resist, but I signaled him not to act rashly. He then obeyed a little, but was still dragged all the way downstairs by two security guards.
After Pan An was taken away, the hotel manager turned to me and said, "Do you two also need us to use force to deal with you?"
"No need, I can walk on my own!"
I glared at the hotel manager fiercely and walked downstairs with Zhang Qishan. As soon as I turned around, I heard the hotel manager muttering to himself, "Finally, we caught the murderer. Now we can give an explanation to the CEO of the foreign company."
Hearing this, I immediately felt unhappy and turned around and asked, "Why, is the foreigner who died your father?"
The hotel manager was stunned at first, then said, "No."
"You're so friendly if it's not you? Is that foreigner the only one who died in this case? What about the other two? Don't you care at all?"
The hotel manager snorted coldly, "I don't want to waste my time talking to you! You don't know anything. Just find out the cause of death of the son of the foreign company. I don't care what other people do!"
I was so angry that I wanted to go up and pin the hotel manager down and beat him up. This guy is the epitome of worshipping foreign things and fawning on foreigners! I thought to myself that if it were a war, this kind of person would definitely be a translator!
It’s a pity that we are at a disadvantage now, and I can’t continue arguing. I walked downstairs with Zhang Qishan with a lot of anger.
When we walked into the corridor, we found that Pan An was still struggling with the two security guards and refused to be taken away by them. During the struggle, he kicked over all the flower pots at the doorsteps of several rooms along the way.
I sighed, and Zhang Qishan and I rearranged the overturned flower pots, then stepped forward and said, "Let's go first. A person with a clear conscience has nothing to fear. When the truly sensible people come, they will naturally clear our name."
Pan An finally gave up the resistance and shook off the two security guards, saying, "I can leave on my own! Since I joined the special case team, I have never been treated like this before. I will ask my brothers to investigate the person in charge of the Yinchuan General Administration and find some evidence to kill him!"
Just like that, two security guards took us to the security room on the first floor and detained us temporarily. Zhang Qishan and I remained calm the entire time. Only Pan An was cursing there, with an attitude of "Kill me if you can".
The two security guards standing by couldn't stand it any longer. One of them sighed and said, "Friend, we are also workers who follow orders and get paid by others. Don't take your anger out on us."
Another security guard also nodded and said, "Yes, I know you must have an identity. Please don't embarrass us, okay?"
Seeing the two security guards start talking, I immediately told Pan An to shut up and said, "Since you all know our identities, can you tell us something about this case? After all, we just got here, and we don't know the details clearly."
I have always suspected that this case was committed by someone inside the Jincheng Hotel. Now that I finally have the opportunity to infiltrate them, how could I let it go
After some chatting, I found out that these two security guards were the only security guards in Jincheng Hotel. They worked in shifts and their salary was reasonable. One of them was named Zhang Wei and the other was named Huang Xu.
What the two of them told me was almost the same as what Bai Qi had told me before. The only difference was probably the news about the dead foreigner.
According to them, the foreigner is the youngest son of the chairman of an oil company in an Arab country. He came to Yinchuan this time to discuss cooperation with some companies here. The owner of Jincheng Hotel, the middle-aged man we saw just now, happened to have business dealings with the person in charge of the company who negotiated the contract with the foreigner, so the foreigner was arranged to live here.
Everything was fine at first, but the foreigner died tragically in this hotel for unknown reasons. Now the hotel owner was panicked. If this matter was not handled properly, his hotel would lose many important customers and might even face the risk of bankruptcy.
This is probably the inside information of the hotel. If all this is true, then the owner of the hotel has no motive to kill. After all, he would not shoot himself in the foot.
After listening to what the security guard Zhang Wei said, I asked, "How many employees do you have in your hotel now? Can you give me a list of the employees here later?"
Unexpectedly, Zhang Wei said helplessly: "I'm afraid this won't work, because..."
Before he could tell us the reason, we were attracted by a series of sirens outside the door. I immediately walked out of the room to see, and saw that there were a dozen police officers walking towards the hotel. The leader was a middle-aged man who was a little fat but had a serious expression on his face.
When Pan An, who had been standing beside me with an angry look on his face, saw the middle-aged man, he finally smiled.
"Fortunately he is here. Now we are saved."