The scene before our eyes made all of us gasp and shrink back, some even afraid to look at the surveillance footage that had been frozen!
If Curry Gege who appeared in the surveillance footage when Wang Qiang died was the murderer in disguise, then how do we explain Curry Gege and Wang Qiang who appear in the footage now
"I won't watch it anymore, and I won't do it anymore! This hotel is really haunted!"
Huang Xu, who had been operating the surveillance screen, pushed the chair behind him away. His legs seemed to be weak and he fell to the ground and crawled towards the door. The other security guard, Zhang Wei, was also frightened, but he was relatively calm and helped Huang Xu up while trembling.
Pan An was also shocked. He stared at the frozen image and trembled as he said, "How is this possible? Could it be that the two of them are not dead at all?"
I took a deep breath to calm myself down, and held the hand of Zhang Qishan, who was too nervous to speak, and said, "No, if these two people are not dead, how do we explain the previous bodies? Let's take a look and see what's going on!"
Although I don't know how to use surveillance video, I still know how to continue playing it. After pressing the space bar on the computer, the surveillance footage continued to play.
I watched with my own eyes as the dead Wang Qiang and Curry walked side by side towards the end of the corridor. From the picture, it seemed that the two were not dead at all. They seemed to be chatting on the way, and it seemed that the two had a good relationship.
They walked forward calmly, and finally stopped at the door of a room at the end of the corridor. They gently pushed the door open and walked in.
I kept staring at the surveillance screen and didn't press the fast-forward button. I didn't miss every second of the picture. After staring at it for about five or six minutes, the elevator door opened again. Then I saw Zhang Qishan, Pan An and I appeared in the surveillance video. It seemed that this was when we just arrived on the eighth floor.
When Pan An saw this, he took a deep breath and said, "This happened five minutes before we arrived. If we had come five minutes earlier in the morning, we might have been able to see with our own eyes whether these two people were human or ghosts!"
I didn't expect that everything happened just five minutes before we came up, but now was not the time to be shocked by this. I immediately pressed the pause button, then turned to Huang Xu and Zhang Wei and asked, "Do you know who lives in this room?"
Zhang Wei's voice was trembling as he said, "This is the room where the floor attendants live. Many of them have resigned and there seem to be only two waitresses left there."
"Many people quit their jobs? When did this happen?"
Hearing this, I immediately asked, and Zhang Wei sighed and said, "It happened in the past few days. The murder has already made people here panic, and the ghost appeared in the surveillance footage. Many people have resigned. We didn't plan to do it, but now it's only a month or two before the Chinese New Year. If we don't continue, we won't have money to go home for the New Year."
I didn't know much about those foreign policemen before, but now after hearing what Zhang Wei said, I suddenly felt that they were just pigs! A murder happened, and they promptly locked up the guests in the hotel. This was a very correct decision, but how could they let the employees resign so easily? You know, in this case, the internal staff of Jincheng Hotel are a huge suspect!
But fortunately, since a murder happened today, it means the murderer has not resigned. Otherwise, I will definitely let Director Li teach those foreign policemen and the owner of this hotel a lesson!
It has now been confirmed that the room in the corner is where the two waitresses live, so the female head I saw in the water tank must be one of them. So I immediately returned to the eighth floor with Pan An and Zhang Qishan to see if we could find any clues in that room.
When I arrived at the eighth floor, I found that the door of the room we were going to was full of policemen and a large group of onlookers who were talking about the room. Chief Li was standing at the door smoking. Judging from his appearance, he must be in a bad mood.
Director Li saw us coming and sighed, "I was just about to go down to look for you, why did you come up here?"
I told Director Li everything I had just seen in the surveillance video. After hearing it, Director Li seemed to be frozen in time. He did not recover from his dazed expression until the cigarette butt in his hand burned his hand.
"Is this the case again? Ghosts killing people, I can't believe this kind of thing. How can I write a case report? How did the murderer do it?"
Director Li sighed and said this, and the group of onlookers surrounding us instantly exploded when they heard what I said. Looking at their expressions, it seemed that they had no sympathy for what happened, but were instead extremely excited.
"See! I told you there was a ghost killing people, but you just didn't believe me! Buy me a drink later!"
"I didn't expect that ghosts really exist in this world. It's worth living here this time."
"Why are you still drinking? Hurry up and find the surveillance video. If you post it online, it will definitely be exclusive news!"
Listening to the group of people's discussions, I felt like my brain was about to explode from their noise. I immediately went into the deceased's room with Director Li and closed the door. Fortunately, the sound insulation of this hotel is very good, and I immediately felt that the world was quiet.
After entering the room, I immediately looked around this staff dormitory and found that although this room looked no different from other guests' rooms from the corridor, the space inside was actually only half the size of my room, and there were not that many furniture and facilities inside, only four single beds and some simple furniture. In short, it generally fits the name of a staff dormitory.
Among the four single beds, only two have quilts. It seems that what Zhang Wei said is right. There are only two waiters left here. However, the room looks very clean, and the sheets are very neat. There seems to be no signs of a fight. Could it be that the deceased did not struggle before death
Chief Li took the information handed to him by a police officer next to him and said, "The deceased's name is Wu Qian, she is 24 years old, unmarried, and worked as a waitress on the eighth floor of Jincheng Hotel. Preliminary conclusion is that she died half an hour to an hour ago, and the cause of death was suffocation."
I listened carefully to what Director Li said. When I heard the words "suffocated to death", I immediately wondered, "Suffocated to death? Are you sure?"
Director Li nodded and said, "That's right, this is exactly what I don't understand. The cause of death of the first two victims was a sharp weapon cutting their throats, but Wu Qian died of suffocation, and the cause of suffocation was drowning. In other words, Wu Qian's death may have been in the water tank on the roof!"
After hearing what Director Li said, I immediately felt that the death of this waitress named Wu Qian was indeed very strange. Not only was the time of death different from the previous two deaths, but even the way of death was so special. At the same time, I also understood that there must be something between Wu Qian and the murderer that I didn't know about, otherwise, according to the murderer's routine, Wu Qian would never die so strangely!
Director Li saw that I hadn't said anything for a long time, so he asked, "Ji Wen, what do you think?"
I came back to my senses and thought carefully, "Did you find the murderer's fingerprints on the body of the deceased?"
Director Li shook his head and said, "It's not clear yet. Our forensic doctor is investigating and we should have results soon."
I sighed and said, "Now it seems that we only need to know how the murderer avoided the surveillance and moved the body to the water tank on the roof, and what happened to the soul of the deceased in the surveillance. As long as we know these two things, we can know who the real murderer is, but these two things are still a bit troublesome for me. I'm afraid I have to give me some time to think carefully."
Director Li immediately said, "No problem. I've already told the boss here. You can move around freely in the hotel these days. If he dares to stop you, tell me or I'll skin him alive!"
Director Li is a very straightforward person, no matter what he says or does, I just smiled and looked around the dormitory, saying, "Aren't there two people living here? Where's the other waiter?"
"I've already asked. Another waiter recently caught a bad cold and just went out to buy medicine an hour ago."
"An hour ago? It's such a coincidence that she went out. Director Li, please help me find this waitress later. I have something to ask her. Now let's go downstairs and see if we can find anything else from the surveillance."
Director Li was stunned and asked, "Hasn't the surveillance camera already checked it?"
"The surveillance video we saw is just one of the images. I have to check all the surveillance cameras on the eighth floor, including the surveillance camera hidden next to the water tank. I have to check it carefully. I want to see who this legendary ghost is!"
Anyway, I can't do technical work like checking rooms and bodies, and there's no point staying here, so I plan to go downstairs to check the surveillance. But at this moment, Pan An, who had been silent, suddenly screamed as if he had a seizure, "I understand! I understand how the murderer killed people and brought the bodies to the water tank on the roof!"
Hearing Pan An's words, all of us stopped and looked towards him immediately. We saw that Pan An had a serious face and was staring at the only faucet in the room with an extremely firm look in his eyes, as if he had really seen through all the truth!
Seeing Pan An's move, I was also shocked. I thought to myself, I haven't figured out anything yet, and you've already solved the case? How can I step down
Pan An didn't see my expression. He slowly pointed his finger at the faucet in front of him and said, "The murderer used this faucet to kill people and transport corpses without anyone noticing!"