On the afternoon of October 20, Qu Jingan’s body was lying on the morgue bed of the Interpol. According to the monitoring of the elevator in the accident, three bodyguards escorted Qu Jing’an to the upper floor of the hotel. The elevator was suddenly powered off in the middle of the incident and then descended rapidly. A strange flame appeared inside the elevator.
The three bodyguards were all severely burned and are now receiving emergency treatment in the hospital. Only Qu Jingan was burned alive.
The whole thing was full of strangeness, it seemed that someone was directed at the Qu brothers.
At this moment, Lin Dongxue, Chen Shi, Lin Qiupu and others are all wearing sterile gowns, waiting for Peng Sijue’s autopsy results. Peng Sijue used a scalpel to cut open the surface of Qu Jing’an's severely burned body. The internal organs were taken out and weighed. The assistant stared at the electronic scale. Reporting the weight in a monotonous voice, Peng Sijue said: "There is an abnormality in the liver, Xiao Wang, go for a pathological test. Wait..."
He removed the burnt skin and attachment fragments from the corpse and asked his assistant to take it for testing. Soon after, the assistant came back and said: "Captain, the cause of death may be poisoning."
"Poisoning?" Lin Dongxue was slightly startled, "Obviously it was burned to death!"
"Of course we have seen the situation. The fire on other people is no less than Qu Jingan's, only he is dead." Chen Shi said.
"Did someone poison the fire extinguisher?"
"It's whimsical, how can the fire extinguisher be poisoned? That thing is completely sealed."
Peng Sijue went to do the identification himself, and came back to tell everyone, “Arsenic toxin was detected on the inside of the deceased’s shirt. It is suspected that someone applied it to the clothes beforehand. The skin absorption alone is not enough to be fatal. The toxins are heated and volatilized into the body, killing them in a few seconds."
Chen Shi said with emotion: "The bizarre fire in the elevator is for this purpose?"
Lin Qiupu said: "We went to try those suspicious persons caught at the scene of the first trial."
At that time, the police arrested three suspicious persons at the scene. In addition to the one holding the iron box, there was also the truck driver who deliberately parked the truck at the intersection. As a result, the police could not arrive in time, and the third person was near another safe exit. Wandering and was captured by bodyguards.
The iron box, which Chen Shi thought was an explosive or dangerous item, was sent to the bureau to be carefully examined by a bomb disposal expert. It was found that it was only a pocket watch with only the man's own fingerprints on it.
None of the three were directly involved in the killing of Qu Jing'an, but their presence added trouble to the police, so it is suspected that someone instigated them.
Unexpectedly, they were so stiff, insisting that they just happened to be there, investigating their occupations and identities, and found that they did not know each other.
I don’t know when the interrogation will result. Chen Shi and Lin Dongxue went to see the surveillance found on the spot. Staring at the monotonous surveillance, Lin Dongxue said, “Couldn't the Qu brothers offend Zhou Tiannan?”
"Possibly, I think this murder case was definitely planned carefully."
"Brother Chen, Brother Chen, look here!"
Xu Xiaodong discovered a suspicious point. In the morning when the signing ceremony began, a man dressed as a cleaner entered the elevator with a spray paint can in his hand and sprayed something on the elevator carefully.
Then another person entered the elevator, pried the emergency button, and stuffed something underneath.
The two suspicious persons continued to move this elevator and moved their hands and feet, and the other one did the same thing. Seeing Chen Shi here was scared into a cold sweat, Lin Dongxue said: "It's okay. Use these two elevators."
"Walk, go to the scene to see!"
They took two technical police officers. The cordon was blocked in the lobby of the hotel. The staff of the hotel were being questioned. When passing by, a few words floated into Chen Shi's ears.
"... The man said he was lost and ran into the monitoring room. Fortunately, the security found out in time and drove him out."
The inside of the elevator in the accident was already blackened. While collecting it, Chen Shi sniffed it carefully and said, "Combustion-supporting materials!"
Then his gaze fell on the emergency button. The button was gone. There seemed to be a slight explosion in the hole. Chen Shi found some burnt metal fragments inside.
"Go look at another elevator!" Chen Shi said.
The two entered another elevator, sniffed the inner wall of the elevator, and carefully smelled the smell similar to gasoline. However, due to the use of fragrance in the elevator, it was not so noticeable. Chen Practical touched his finger and said, "This is ordinary. Anti-oxidant paint, but it is mixed with flammable unleaded gasoline, and the paint itself can melt into gasoline."
"So, as long as the ignition source is activated, the entire inner wall of the elevator will burn right away?"
"It's the first time I've seen this kind of murder. It's really whimsical." Chen Shi looked a little excited.
The two carefully pried open the emergency button, but there was nothing underneath.
The subsequent investigation was very trivial and took a lot of time. After three days, some progress was made. Lin Qiupu said at the morning meeting on October 24: "This case has been characterized as a deliberate murder, but the real murderer. It is impossible to define who it is. It is not because there are no suspects. In fact, the number of suspects is unimaginable this time! We arrested a total of 13 people through the witness testimony and monitoring records on the spot. There may be more than this number. Create chaos at the scene, turn off the fire alarm, change the clothes worn by the deceased that day, call to interfere with bodyguards, apply combustion aids in the elevator, tamper with the elevator's main control program, and some people are responsible for the aftermath. The traces left by those people were cleared away.
"We interrogated all these people. They didn't know each other, and their age and occupation were also very different. Some people confessed that a man in a black hat hired them to do this, and the props were provided by each other. Each of them Just did a small thing, and didn’t even know what the consequences would be. Behind the scenes, the master decomposed a carefully planned murder case into several small tasks, which were handed over to different people to execute them. They were like touching elephants. The blind people in China don’t even know the significance of this incident. In other words, these hired people have not violated the criminal law themselves. They are just a dozen pieces of chess in the hands of the murderer behind the scenes."
This conclusion caused a shock, because the policemen who were involved in the case were also pursuing their clues separately. Many of them found suspicious persons and thought they had caught the real culprit. The shock at this moment was beyond description.
After finally getting quiet in the conference room, Chen Shi asked, "Are they still in the game?"
Lin Qiupu shook his head helplessly, "It's all released, it's just ordinary people. It's just a clue that people in black hats taught them to do."
"There should be people who have received Zhou Tiannan's'favor' in it, right?"
"I suspect this is the case, so I arranged for someone to follow them..."