After Director Ouyang and Director Li left, Pan An finally breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been pardoned, and immediately said to me: "Ji Wen, you are too bold, aren't you? Do you know what you just said means? From now on, it may be difficult for you to join the special case team, not to mention your future career!"
Of course I was very sober at this time. Since I had already made my attitude clear, I had no intention of regretting it. I said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter. I can't do anything against my conscience anyway. At worst, I can just not join the special case team in the future. Do I have to join the special case team to survive?"
Zhang Qishan, who was standing by, smiled and gently put his arms around my neck from behind and said, "Yes, we originally planned to be ordinary people in the future. We can offend whoever we want, but he can't kill us."
Pan An shook his head helplessly and said, "Since you think so, it probably doesn't matter. But Ji Wen, I still admire your courage. If it were me, I would never say that."
I stretched lazily, pulled Zhang Qishan and walked outside, saying, "Alright, don't think too much. What happened today will definitely not implicate you. I can take the blame alone. It's getting dark now, shall we go eat? The food here is really terrible, let's go out and find a small restaurant for better food."
Just like that, after ending the tense conversation just now, I suddenly felt relaxed all over. I found a halal noodle restaurant outside the hotel with Zhang Qishan and Pan An to have a bowl of noodles, and then returned to the hotel to continue the investigation.
We had just returned to the hotel, and before we took the elevator back to our room, we saw the security guards Huang Xu and Zhang Wei on the first floor suddenly run over and said, "Lv Wen is back, aren't you looking for her?"
I wondered, "Who is Lv Wen?"
"That's Wu Qian's roommate! She caught a cold and went to the hospital for an IV drip today. She just came back. I asked her to wait for you in the dormitory. I guess she's still awake now. Go ask her anything you want to ask."
Hearing this news, I was cheered up. I immediately thanked the two security guards, took the elevator to the eighth floor, and rushed directly to the staff dormitory on the eighth floor. I knocked on the door gently, and I heard a slightly hoarse woman's voice coming from inside the room.
"Ahem, the door is not locked, come in."
When I pushed the door open, I saw a pretty but pale woman sitting on the bed packing her luggage. This person should be the deceased Wu Qian's roommate, Lv Wen. I have said before that Wu Qian's death might not be part of the murderer's plan, so I thought that maybe I could learn something from her roommate.
"Hello, we are the police responsible for investigating this case. You should have heard about Wu Qian's incident this morning, right?"
I asked straight to the point when I came up, and after hearing this, Lv Wen's eyes instantly turned red. She coughed and choked and said, "I've heard about it. I told Xiaoqian before that she should resign with me. After all, this place is haunted and it's not safe for us to stay here. But who knew that before we made up our minds to resign, she had already..."
When she said this, Lv Wen had already burst into tears. Seeing that she was still emotionally unstable, I did not continue asking. I looked at Lv Wen carefully and found that she had almost packed her luggage and seemed to be preparing to leave.
"See you packing your luggage, are you leaving?"
Lu Wen wiped her tears and nodded, "Yes, it's too dangerous here. I might be the next one to die. I'd better move to the hospital first. When I recover, I'll quit my job and go back home."
When I heard that Lu Wen was leaving, I immediately said, "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you can't resign right now because the case has not been solved yet. Anyone could be a suspect."
Lu Wen didn't care what I said. She looked up at me sadly and said, "Don't worry, I won't run away. After all, Xiaoqian is my best sister. If this case is really man-made, I also want to see the murderer caught and avenge Xiaoqian. I won't resign for the time being. I will stay in the hospital for the next few days. If you have any problems, you can come to the hospital to find me. I really don't want to live alone in such a horrible place."
If it were the old me, I would never agree with her approach, but after what happened with Xiao Liu in the haunted elevator last time, I was also afraid that my decision would cause the girl in front of me to lose her life, so I had to sigh and agree.
"Since you and the deceased Wu Qian were good sisters, can you tell me when was the last time you saw Wu Qian? Did she have any abnormal reactions at that time?"
Lu Wen thought for a moment and said, "The last time I saw her was before I went to get the drip this afternoon. She seemed to be in a bad mood. She didn't say a word to me from the time she woke up in the morning until I left. She kept her head down and didn't eat. Normally, she would accompany me to the hospital, but this time she was in a bad mood, so I went alone. Who would have thought that would be the last time I saw her."
In a bad mood? According to my thinking, if she was just in a bad mood, she would not react like this. She would not talk or eat all day and just be in a daze. My intuition told me that Wu Qian must have encountered something big, and this big thing was the reason for her death!
I then asked, "Do you know why she is in a bad mood? Is it because of her relationship? Does she have a boyfriend?"
Lv Wen started coughing again, and Pan An immediately poured her a glass of water. She felt a little better and continued, "I'm not sure about this. Xiao Qian usually doesn't tell others about her worries. I remember she seemed to tell me that she had a boyfriend in her hometown, and it seemed that they were going to get engaged when she returned home for the New Year. As for whether she was unhappy because of her relationship, I don't know."
Seeing that Lv Wen's condition was getting worse, I couldn't bear to continue asking, so I said, "One last question, is there any connection between Wu Qian and the two previous victims?"
Hearing this, Lu Wen was stunned for a moment, then said, "Contact? There shouldn't be any. The two dead were just guests on the eighth floor. They only met when they were cleaning. They had no contact at other times. How could they be in contact?"
I was very disappointed with Lu Wen's answer. After all, three people died in succession. I don't believe there is no connection between these three people. If it was an indiscriminate killing, the murderer would not have made such a meticulous plan.
Lu Wen's physical condition was so bad that I asked her to go to the hospital to rest first, and left the staff dormitory with Zhang Qishan and Pan An. We originally planned to go to the water tank on the roof, but we saw that the door was locked again, and it was already dark, so we finally decided to rest first and discuss anything tomorrow morning.
After returning to the room, I originally planned to take a good bath in the bathtub. After all, I have never used this thing to take a bath since I was a child, and I also wanted to feel what it feels like to take a bath in a bathtub. However, when I thought about the "water quality" of the water tank on the roof, I gave up the idea and lay quietly on the bed thinking about today's case, while Zhang Qishan sat aside watching the Korean drama.
During this time, I went to Pan An's room and asked him to be alert tonight. After all, his dog nose is very sensitive. If the ghost appears again tonight, he must notify me if he smells it.
But Pan An asked me in confusion what ghosts smelled like. I didn't know how to answer his question, so I told him that if he smelled the scent of a living person, he must observe it quietly.
Having such a magical Pan An can indeed save a lot of effort. I have deeply experienced the power of his nose. As a result, I didn't even have the courage to be intimate with Zhang Qishan today, for fear that Pan An would smell some flaws again.
Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was already past eleven o'clock. Zhang Qishan and I felt a little sleepy after what happened today, so we turned off the lights and went to bed, waiting to continue our investigation tomorrow after getting enough rest.
I felt sleepy and soon fell into a deep sleep. I don’t know if it was because of the change of environment or because the case today was too complicated, but I always felt that I didn’t sleep very well, and was in a state of half asleep and half awake.
I don’t know how long this state lasted, but suddenly, I seemed to hear the sound of people talking outside the door!
When I heard the sound, I immediately turned over and looked outside the door. Because the sound insulation of this room is very good, if I can hear the sound, it means that the person outside is standing at the door of our room and talking!
I turned to look at Zhang Qishan, and saw that she was sleeping soundly, so I didn't wake her up. I walked quietly to the door barefoot, crawled to the edge of the door and listened carefully to the sounds outside. After all, it was already late at night, especially in this Jincheng Hotel. If someone talked in the corridor in the middle of the night, it was definitely worthy of attention.
But the strange thing was that when I listened carefully, the person who was talking outside the door stopped talking, as if he had noticed that I was eavesdropping. Just as I was wondering, I suddenly heard someone walking towards the other end of the corridor just across the door in front of me!
I listened carefully to the footsteps and was basically certain that there were two or three people walking in the corridor outside my door. I secretly cursed Pan An in my heart, thinking to himself that I should tell him to cheer up, why didn't he even react now
I kept listening silently, and when I heard the footsteps about ten meters away from me, I carefully opened the door and stuck my head out to see who was outside the door. It would have been fine if I hadn't looked, but when I did, I was almost scared to death on the spot!
At this moment, I saw three figures walking forward in the corridor with their backs to me. I couldn’t see clearly the person walking in the middle, but from the backs of the people walking on both sides, I thought these two people should be the dead Curry and Wang Qiang!