Among all the people present, except for the men of Chief Li who are now checking the water tank, I am the only one who has seen everything inside the water tank with my own eyes. Now, comparing the condition of the water tank when the bodies of the first two victims were found, I can immediately see that the woman who died this time should be a little different from the previous two victims.
The difference does not refer to the cause of death of the deceased, but the state of the water tank containing the deceased's body!
The photo in my hand is very clear. I can see clearly that although the water tank was filled with the bodies and heads of the two victims when they died, the water in the tank was not very bright red, just a faint red. As for the inner wall of the water tank, there was no blood stain at all.
Director Li said before that when they investigated, they found that the first two victims were killed in their respective rooms. The victims were beheaded in the bathtubs in the rooms, and the murderer waited until there was not much blood left in the bodies before putting the bodies into the water tank. There must be an obvious reason for the murderer to do this, which is that he did not want people to find the bodies in the water tank too early, and did not want to leave blood stains when he moved the bodies.
But when I saw the woman's head in the water tank just now, it was a completely different scene. I clearly saw that the water in the tank had been completely dyed bright red, and the inner wall of the tank was also stained with a lot of blood. There was no blood residue outside the tank, which means that the body of the deceased was intact at least when she was in the water tank. The first scene this time might be this huge water tank in front of us.
My doubts were heard by everyone around me. Director Li and Pan An asked me what was different, so I told them what I thought. Director Li walked directly to the front of the water tank, climbed up the ladder to see the situation inside the water tank, and then came down and said, "It is indeed the case! I wonder why the murderer, who is always so careful in his actions, chose to cut off the victim's head in the water tank this time?"
I thought about it and said, "I think the murderer must have encountered an emergency this time and had to kill the victim in a hurry, so he chose to cut off the victim's head in the water tank. Director Li, please quickly find out the identity of the deceased and the time of death. If I am not mistaken, the time of death of the deceased should not exceed one hour!"
Pan An was stunned after hearing this and said, "No way? The murderer usually chooses to commit crimes at night, because even if he climbs to the roof with a rope at night, he will not be easily seen. If he chooses to climb to the roof with a rope and the body during the day, isn't he afraid of being seen by the people downstairs?"
I looked up at Pan An and said, "I think the murderer's method of killing should not be to bring the victim to the roof with a rope. He must have used another method that we don't know about to kill the victim. If we can find the murderer's method of killing and avoiding surveillance, perhaps we can know the identity of the victim!"
As I said that, I took out my phone to check the time. It was already past five in the afternoon, almost six. Then I continued, "According to the situation now that the water tank is full of blood, if the deceased died late last night or this morning, then the blood flowing out of the water tank must have been discovered by the guests here a long time ago. But up to now, no one has discovered the body in the water tank except us, so I can be sure that the deceased has been dead for no more than an hour!"
After I said this, Pan An and Director Li suddenly realized what I meant. Director Li nodded continuously and said, "Young man, your reputation is well-deserved! With you here, this troublesome case is hopeful. I will ask someone to investigate this matter. If possible, I hope you can solve the case as soon as possible. It's not because of me, but because we Chinese police cannot lose to those foreigners!"
I nodded and said, "Don't worry, Director Li. Compared with that group of people, I am still very confident!"
After talking with Director Li, I climbed up the ladder to the top of the water tank and carefully looked at everything inside the tank and the head of the deceased with bloodshot eyes. I made sure that there were no clues that I could capture with my naked eyes. Then I followed Pan An and Zhang Qishan to the monitoring room on the first floor of the hotel, because I wanted to take advantage of this time to take a good look at the surveillance videos of the days when the crime occurred and today.
Along the way, Pan An was like my fan, constantly saying some flattering words. Although I didn't know whether he was sincere or not, it really satisfied my vanity. Especially since Zhang Qishan was by my side, I felt secretly happy.
"Ji Wen, your family's genes are really strong. Without any professional training, you are able to do such detailed analysis and observation. I think if you come to our special case team, that annoying Li Hua will definitely be outshined by you!"
When I heard Li Hua's name again, I once again remembered that Bai Qi said Li Hua was Lin Yingxue's suitor. I don't know if it was because of this reason, so I asked, "I also heard that Li Hua is very powerful. What is he like?"
Pan An sneered, "He is nothing special. He is self-righteous all day long. Few people in the special case team are willing to pay attention to him. But his brain is really good. Many difficult cases can be solved after passing through his hands. But I think you are much better than him. Otherwise, Commander Bai would not have left him alone to train you instead. Don't you think so? Hehe!"
I didn't pay attention to what Pan An said afterwards. Even someone who disliked Li Hua so much thought Li Hua was amazing. This immediately made me very curious about Li Hua. I thought that if I had the chance in the future, I must compete with him to see who is more capable!
Soon, we took the elevator to the first floor. Under the guidance of security guards Zhang Wei and Huang Xu, we found the monitoring room on the first floor, which was right next to the security room where we were just detained.
The monitoring room is a small house with five or six screens inside. Each screen has four pictures showing the current situation in the hotel. Huang Xu somehow manipulated the computer that controlled the monitoring, and a monitoring picture appeared on the computer. Then Huang Xu said to me: "This is the monitoring picture before the death of the first victim. Since it is too long, I will play it at a fast speed for you."
I carefully looked at the surveillance content displayed on the computer screen and found that at the beginning, a young foreigner wearing strange clothes and with dark skin but very handsome slowly walked to the door of his room, opened the door and walked in. I also asked Huang Xu to freeze the picture and carefully looked at the state of the young man, the first deceased Curry, and found that he always had a smile on his face, as if something good had happened before. I also looked carefully at his clothes and the surrounding environment at this time, and confirmed that he was very normal at this time, and there was no one around, so I asked Huang Xu to continue playing.
For a long period of time afterwards, Curry Gegege was no longer seen in the screen. It was not until the next morning that a foreigner in strange clothes came knocking on the door. After the hotel owner and his men opened the door, they began to panic. It seemed that they had discovered that Curry Gegege was missing.
After that, Director Li and others kept shuttling back and forth in the corridor. I knew that the remaining images were meaningless, so I directly let Huang Xu jump to the surveillance video of the day when the second victim, Wang Qiang, died.
The picture in front of my eyes jumped rapidly, and it was not until the time showed a little after three in the morning that Huang Xu resumed the playback speed. At this moment, I saw Curry Gege, who had died before, appeared on the screen again!
Although I am a little face-blind when it comes to foreigners, I can still tell that the person appearing in the picture is the Curry Gege Gege I saw before!
Curry seemed to be acting sneaky. He walked alone in the corridor, looking around, and finally came to the door of another room. He pushed the door gently and it opened. Then Curry walked in openly. There was no trace of him in the subsequent surveillance video.
"This is the room of the second deceased, Wang Qiang. When I saw the surveillance video that day, I was almost scared to death." Huang Xu still seemed to be a little frightened, and his colleague Zhang Wei beside him kept nodding in agreement.
This is strange. If the murderer used some method to evade the surveillance camera, how did he make the dead Curry Gege appear in the corridor again? Could it be that Curry Gege's soul really killed people
Although the surveillance video was irrefutable, I still didn't believe in the idea of soul murder. I watched the surveillance video of Wang Qiang for a while and said to Huang Xu, "Skip the video to about half an hour before we came here today."
Huang Xu turned around and asked, "Which floor do you want?"
"Of course it's the eighth floor! Both of the deceased were on the eighth floor. Although we don't know the identity of the third deceased, there is a high probability that she also lived on the eighth floor."
Huang Xu finally understood and immediately opened the surveillance video of the eighth floor today and adjusted the time to half an hour before we arrived here.
All of us present were focused on the surveillance screen, only to see that the corridor on the eighth floor was still empty, as if the screen was still.
I asked Huang Xu to speed up little by little, and soon twenty minutes had passed, but there was still no sign of a ghost in the corridor.
Just when I was about to think that I had guessed wrong, after twenty-five minutes, a human figure finally appeared in the picture!
Curry Gege and Wang Qiang, who had died before, appeared in the corridor at the same time and walked towards the end of the corridor together!