After hearing what Pan An said, I immediately looked carefully at this middle-aged man who looked as if he was owed a lot of money. I found that he didn't seem to be anything special, so I asked, "Who is this?"
"This is Chief Li from the Xixia District Police Station. He has a very good relationship with our Chief Bai, and he is also opposed to foreign police intervening in this matter. If Chief Ouyang had come, we would have been in trouble. Fortunately, he came."
Pan An said this with a smug look on his face. It was obvious that he had great confidence in this so-called Director Li. Director Li naturally saw Pan An and first ordered his men to go upstairs to check the body. Then he walked over alone and said in a serious tone: "I remember that you should be a subordinate of Chief Bai of the Special Case Team? Why are you here?"
"It's hard to explain, Director Li, you have to make the decision for us."
Pan An, with a sad face, told Director Li about what happened from the time Bai Qi arranged for us to secretly investigate until we found the bodies. Director Li's face became increasingly unsightly, and he snorted coldly, "How ridiculous! Xixia District is under my jurisdiction, what does it have to do with those foreign policemen! Come with me, I want to see how they can deal with you in front of me!"
Although I only spoke a few words to Director Li, I already understood that Director Li was definitely a very protective person. It was also because of this that Director Li gave me an extremely safe feeling.
Originally we wanted to take the elevator to the rooftop to check, but Director Li didn't like taking the elevator. We had no choice but to accompany Director Li up the stairs to the eighth floor. Isn't this like taking off your pants to fart
On the way upstairs, I asked Director Li about the details of the case. From Director Li, I understood the complete details of the entire case.
The first foreigner who died was, as the hotel owner here said, the youngest son of the chairman of a foreign oil company. His name was Curry Gege. Actually, I'm not sure if his real name was this, but when Director Li spoke it, he seemed to be speaking a foreign language, and it was a very long name. I only remember the middle part of Curry Gege, so let's just call him that.
This Curry Gege disappeared on the night he came to live in the Jincheng Hotel. The hotel owner immediately called the police and found Director Li. Director Li also attached great importance to this matter and immediately sent people to seal off the entire Jincheng Hotel. All people living in the hotel were not allowed to leave. Then they searched house by house, but they still couldn't find any trace of this Curry Gege.
At that time, they also retrieved the surveillance video and found that Curry Gege had not come out since he entered his room that night. According to Director Li's idea at the time, someone had kidnapped Curry Gege from outside the window. Although this idea seems a bit absurd, it is the only reason that can explain Curry Gege's disappearance.
Although Director Li said so, I think it is possible that the murderer hung himself down from the roof with a rope, then killed Curry Gege, and used the rope to bring the two back to the roof, finally achieving the purpose of dumping the body and killing the person. After all, the room where Curry Gege lived was also on the eighth floor of Jincheng Hotel.
Curry Gege was not found in the Jincheng Hotel, so Director Li sent people to look for him outside. But a few days later, some residents reported that the tap water in the Jincheng Hotel had a strange smell, which was like a fishy odor. So the owner of the Jincheng Hotel asked people to repair the water tank on the roof, and naturally, they found Curry Gege's rotten body.
After Curry Gege's body was found, his father was furious. He immediately contacted their country to protest against our country and asked to send someone to investigate the matter. At that time, Director Li strongly disagreed with this matter and strongly opposed it, but Director Ouyang agreed to this matter considering the long-term development of the two countries in the future. Director Li was so angry that he almost resigned.
But who could have thought that on the very next day, a young man named Wang Qiang who also lived on the eighth floor also disappeared mysteriously. At that time, people just tried to look for him in the water tank on the roof, but they actually found Wang Qiang's body with his head separated from his body in the water tank!
The foreign police didn't care about Wang Qiang's death and didn't intervene. However, Chief Li rushed over again and carefully analyzed the cause and time of Wang Qiang's death. After retrieving the surveillance video, he saw the horrifying scene!
Because according to the forensic autopsy report, Wang Qiang died at around 3 a.m., and the surveillance video showed that at around 3 a.m. that day, only one person entered Wang Qiang's room and never came out again. That person was Curry Gegege who had been dead for many days!
Director Li, who had been handling cases for many years, simply did not believe this kind of thing and immediately asked someone to do a careful analysis of the surveillance video. However, professionals said that there were no signs of modification on the surveillance video and the recorded images were completely real.
This made Director Li a little puzzled, thinking, could it be that Curry's soul really killed Wang Qiang? Because the matter was too special, Director Li had to ask the special case team for help, but who knew that the special case team could not easily intervene in this matter because of Director Ouyang's decision at the time. Director Li had no choice but to investigate secretly by himself, but he didn't expect that Bai Qi finally decided to send someone to investigate the case.
After listening to Director Li's words, I finally had a preliminary understanding of this case, and immediately asked, "Director Li, where is the first scene of the death of the two victims? Have you found it?"
Director Li nodded and said, "Our forensic doctors have carefully checked their rooms. The first scene of their death was in the bathtub in their rooms. The murderer killed them in the bathtub and cut off their heads. When the blood had almost drained out, he transported their bodies to the roof and placed them in the water tank using a method we don't know about. I have thought about the method you mentioned of transporting the bodies with ropes before, but I always feel that this idea is a bit far-fetched."
I understand what Director Li meant by far-fetched. If the murderer used a rope to transport the body to the roof, although the body's direct appearance in the water tank can be explained, how did the murderer disappear under the surveillance camera afterwards? Even if he used the rope to return to the deceased's room, he could not cover up the traces of his exit from the deceased's room. Unless, the murderer lives on the eighth floor of the hotel! After killing someone, he followed the rope back to his room, so that he could kill people without anyone noticing!
After figuring this out, I immediately shared my thoughts with everyone. Director Li's eyes lit up instantly and he said, "Yes, if that's the case, then the murderer can really disappear perfectly under the surveillance! Moreover, the murderer always commits crimes in the middle of the night, when no one will notice the murderer transporting the body along the rope outside the window! Young man, are you also from the special case team? You're quite smart!"
Actually, there are some loopholes in my idea. How did the murderer get the rope directly to the roof? How did the murderer take it away? I didn't tell them this loophole. After all, if I told them everything, my visit this time would be useless.
Pan An said proudly, "Director Li, you don't know, right? This brother is not from our special case team, nor is he a policeman, but he is the focus of training for our Chief Bai. You should have heard of many strange cases that happened in Zhongwei City before, and they were all solved by this murderer Ji Wen alone."
Chief Li looked at me carefully with a surprised look on his face, and then said, "So, this young man is really a talent! Are you interested in working in our Xixia District Police Station? I will definitely give you a satisfactory treatment!"
Pan An hurriedly said, "Don't be like this. This is someone our Chief Bai likes. You can't poach him away, hehe!"
As we were talking, we finally climbed to the roof of the eighth floor with great effort. Walking out of the door, I saw the people brought by Chief Li. They seemed to be arguing with the four foreign policemen. It’s just that they couldn’t communicate in the same language, so the hotel owner had to translate between them. I didn’t expect that the hotel owner was actually a translator!
The four foreign policemen obviously knew Chief Li, and when they saw Chief Li coming, they stopped arguing and turned their attention to the translator and hotel owner beside them, as if they were going to let the hotel owner negotiate with Chief Li.
The hotel owner changed his arrogant attitude and bowed, "Director Li, you are here. Didn't Director Ouyang approve these foreign friends to take full responsibility for this matter? I'm afraid it's a bit embarrassing for me if you come here now."
Director Li didn't even look at him, and turned to his men and said, "Ignore them, just do what you have to do. You know, this is our country, and it's not up to others to make irresponsible comments when we do things in our country!"
Chief Li's men were so excited by his words that they immediately stood up and said yes to Chief Li. Then they bypassed the four foreign policemen and went to the water tank to take pictures for their criminal records.
Not only them, but even I, who was standing by, had a new respect for Director Li. In my opinion, when faced with such unfair treatment, we should be tougher! Otherwise, others will think that we are easy to bully!
Director Li asked one of his men to bring over a file bag, and handed it to me, saying, "Since you have such a high talent for solving cases, I'll leave this matter to you!"
I nodded slightly, took the file bag from Director Li, opened it and asked, "Director Li, what's in it?"
"These are photos of the previous two cases, as well as screenshots of the surveillance video. You should take a look at them. They may be helpful to you."
Since these were the things, I was naturally very interested. I immediately opened the file bag and looked at the photos inside carefully one by one. However, when I saw the bodies of the first two victims, Curry and Wang Qiang, in the water tank, I immediately frowned!
"That's not right? Why did the way the victim died this time differ from the previous two cases?"