I don't know how long it took before Xu Tiannan woke up from his coma.
It was already dark now. He was struggling to support his body and smelled the smell of disinfectant around him.
The electric shock injury on the back of his neck was still painful. He moved his neck and saw the pager placed on the bedside next to him and the bottle slide hanging above his head. He finally realized that he was in a hospital.
There was a small buzzing sound, and with a "dong" sound, Murong Shui fell off the sofa. She rubbed her eyes and looked around confusedly for a while, as if she was just like Xu Tiannan before she remembered.
Where are you.
"Ah! Boss, are you awake?"
The vibrating sound from the phone kept ringing stubbornly, so she pressed the phone and hurriedly came over and asked: "How do you feel? Is there anything uncomfortable? The doctor said that if you wake up, you need to observe it for 72 hours.
"
Xu Tiannan moved his body and found that there were no other problems except for his arm being a little numb. He asked, "Where is Wen Sibao? Have you caught anyone?"
Murong Shui shook his head, "When we arrived, you were already lying unconscious in the kitchen. But when you were unconscious, Wen Baobao and the others called the hotel's surveillance camera and found that the executioners were indeed what you suspected.
Like that, at least a group of four people."
"One of them is a woman and one of the other three men has unknown physical characteristics."
"The other two are tall, at least 1.9 meters tall, and are good at fighting skills."
"The other one is a fat man, and I haven't found any special skills yet."
"And the last person who didn't show up and was responsible for driving should be the mastermind of the whole thing."
"Let's go back to the command room." Xu Tiannan didn't want to stay here any longer. He sat up and was about to leave, but saw that the other party was still sitting on the small stool, motionless, so he asked: "What's wrong with you?"
Murong Shui thought for a long time and whispered: "Boss, I want to ask you something."
The other party didn't dare to look directly at him when he was talking. Xu Tiannan also wondered when the other party became so strange, so he said: "Ask."
Murong Shuidao: "Do you still remember the accident that happened on Beijing Road? It was the time when the executioner used a tower crane to attack Boss Qian."
"Isn't this just what happened a few days ago? Of course I remember it. What's wrong?"
The other party asked again: "At that time, when I was fighting with that female drug police officer, did you ask me to come over and help you out, and then you could escape and rescue Zheng Jianghu and the others?"
"Well, that's it, what's wrong?"
"Well..." Murong Shui thought for a long time before hesitatingly said: "Boss, we... have been together for two years, right?"
Xu Tiannan laughed and explained: "We have been working together for two years. What do you want to say?"
Murong Shui said: "Well... why did you ask me to rescue you, but you chose to save Zheng Jianghu and his gang by yourself?"
Hearing this, Xu Tiannan was stunned. After a while, Murong Shui asked again: "Since we have been working together for two years, you should know that I cannot lose to that person when I have a weapon in my hand."
The female drug police officer named Xingye, right?"
Xu Tiannan thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, your ability to fight with bare hands may be evenly matched, but I know that you are better at using weapons."
Seeing that the other party lowered his head again and hesitated to speak, Xu Tiannan asked directly: "Hey! What are you doing today? What do you want to say?"
After being silent for a while, Murong Shui took a deep breath and asked a series of questions.
——"In this case, for you who always look at problems rationally, why didn't you let me bring down the female drug police officer as quickly as possible?"
——"You know that I have weapons in my hands, and she will not be my opponent."
——"Then if after I bring her down, it is up to me to rescue Zheng Jianghu and his gang, this is obviously the most efficient approach and the one with the highest success rate."
——"Boss, why didn't you do this then?"
A series of questions made Xu Tiannan's head feel a little swollen, and he murmured an answer after a while.
"Water roots."
"Um?"
Murong Shui was very strange this time. He did not protest against the other party calling him by his full name. Instead, he quietly raised his head, as if waiting for the other party's answer.
Xu Tiannan said: "The situation was too dangerous at that time, I couldn't let you take the risk."
After a moment, Murong Shui lowered his head again, "Why... why?"
Xu Tiannan has always been quick in thinking, but when asked this question, he suddenly became speechless.
Why can't Murong Shui be allowed to take risks?
He really hasn't thought about this issue.
After thinking for a long time, Xu Tiannan said slowly: "Maybe... Strictly speaking, you are my assistant, and the salary I pay you is not higher than the market price. At the same time, I have taken up 8 hours of your working time every day.
There is too much time outside, so it is even more impossible for you to take such a big risk for work, right?"
Murong Shui whispered: "You mean... out of responsibility?"
Xu Tiannan himself didn't know whether this description was accurate, but he did feel that Murong Shui was very different today from before.
But for me now, that feeling of itching and sourness in my heart, which is enough to kill my rationality, emerges from my heart again for some reason.
Fortunately, Murong Shui quickly changed the subject.
"Boss, it's the same today. I hope that in the future work, you won't go to the front line alone again. It was the same last time and it's the same today. In my opinion, this kind of behavior is just like giving away someone's life...
…”
Before Murong Shui finished speaking, the annoying vibrating sound of her cell phone rang again.
The two of them just looked at each other, and neither of them knew how to end the conversation, but Murong Shui's pocket kept buzzing.
"You...you answer the phone first."
Xu Tiannan's throat was dry, so he got out of bed and poured a glass of water, only to find that his slightly trembling palms were sweating a lot, and Murong Shui's impatient voice could be heard faintly outside the door.
"Okay, okay, I understand! Let's talk about it later! I'm very busy!"
Murong Shui hurriedly hung up the phone, only to find that Xu Tiannan had walked out.
"Old, boss..."
Xu Tiannan also felt that this occasion was a bit strange, so he said: "Let's go back to the bureau first."
…
Mobei City Public Security Bureau, task force command room.
When Wen Sibao saw Xu Tiannan arriving, he first did a routine check and found that there was nothing serious about him, so he projected the video he brought back from the hotel onto the big screen.
During the surveillance, a cleaning woman, estimated to be in her fifties, was pushing a hotel-specific multifunctional cleaning vehicle in the middle of the elevator.
This multifunctional cleaning vehicle is about the height of a person, but the cleaning lady placed two buckets on the top of the vehicle. As a result, as soon as the vehicle parked, the aunt's figure was completely hidden from the surveillance camera.
After a while, when the cleaning lady finished cleaning the trash can and left, everything on the surveillance screen was as usual. However, if you look carefully, you can find that the "3f" that previously displayed the floor has been replaced by "17f".
According to the time displayed on the surveillance screen, all this happened around 6:30 this morning, and this time happened to be the time for the entire hotel staff to change shifts. No one would care that the sticker showing the floor here had been replaced by one.
A new one.
Wen Sibao explained.
——“I don’t think the security guard on duty at the hotel can be entirely blamed for the secret change of floor display stickers.”
——"I checked the number of their surveillance cameras. There are at least 8 cameras on each floor, so the entire two walls of the surveillance room are covered with monitors. There are more than 200 monitors."
——"If they didn't follow the screens in the monitoring room and count them one by one, it would be difficult to find out that the stair signs on the third floor had been replaced. Moreover, the replacement of floor signs was an emergency situation at the time, and no one would have thought of it at all.
This time."
——"Thus, this led to the error message we received in the morning."
Xu Tiannan said: "I was stunned by this cleaning lady. You must also know her identity, right?"
Wen Sibao nodded.
——"She is the female murderer in the executioner team. Although she deliberately hunched over in the surveillance, judging from her body shape, she should be the woman who changed the traffic light a few days ago."
——"The murderer disguised herself as a hotel cleaner, and she was still pushing the cleaning truck at the time, so she would not arouse suspicion no matter which floor she went to."
——"Later, we retrieved the surveillance and found that during the time when Boss Qian's elevator stopped, the female cleaning lady still pushed the cleaning cart into the electrical machine room on the first floor."
After saying that, Wen Sibao added: "By the way, before I took people to the third floor to find you, this was the same direction that the cleaner pointed to us..."
"You..." Xu Tiannan sighed helplessly and said: "At that time, the entire restaurant on the third floor was temporarily closed, and a cleaning lady suddenly appeared. Don't you think it's strange?"
Murong Shui murmured: "It was me... At that time, I saw the cleaning lady pointing to the kitchen in a panic, so I took the lead and rushed over. As soon as I took the lead... everyone followed me."
Xu Tiannan asked: "What does that person's voice sound like? Is it sharp or hoarse? How old does it sound?"
Wen Sibao shook his head and explained: "According to the hotel manager's confession, the cleaning lady is mute. She took the initiative to apply for a job with a disability certificate a few days ago. Because of the shortage of manpower, the manager didn't think too much, so he just copied the disability certificate.
At that time, the other party was put on duty."
Xu Tiannan looked at the copy of the disability certificate in his hand. The name, ID number, and photo written on it were all fake. Especially the photo, which had been made up so that it was impossible to recognize the original appearance.
It seems that in order to kidnap Boss Qian, the other party even thought of pretending to be a disabled person in advance to work in the hotel. This is exactly the case. No matter it is the bodyguard or the hotel staff that day, no one will raise doubts about an internal cleaning staff.
Xu Tiannan said: "Adjust the scene to when Boss Qian is in trouble."
Soon, a video screen came out. At this time, the floor displayed in the screen was still "17f". The trapped boss Qian ordered the bodyguard to open the outer door of the elevator with brute force.
However, commercial elevators are divided into two layers: inner and outer doors. Even if the outer door is opened, several people will not be able to pass through the inner door with steel beams in the middle.
So several people could only stretch their hands out of the gap and send a distress signal to the surveillance camera.
Xu Tiannan also immediately understood that it was because of this scene that the hotel manager and the bodyguard captain made a wrong judgment and mistakenly believed that Boss Qian was still on the 17th floor.
Soon, two male waiters appeared on the screen, one tall, one short, one strong and one fat. Both of them covered their faces with hats and masks. They were wearing work clothes issued by the hotel, but it was obvious that they were tall men.
The clothes don't fit.
The two opened the inner door of the elevator with a three-point wrench and pulled Boss Qian and others up one after another. But the next moment, the fat waiter suddenly took out a white towel from his pocket and suddenly covered Boss Qian's mouth.
The bodyguard next to Mr. Qian immediately came to the rescue after seeing this, but before he could take action, another muscular waiter quickly punched the bodyguard directly on the mandible. The punch was fast and hard, and the blow hit him hard.
The opponent flew out completely, fell heavily to the ground, and passed out immediately.
When the other bodyguard saw this, he wanted to resist, but was hit on the back by the strong man again, and he immediately passed out. The whole process ended in less than 30 seconds.
After that, the two waiters quickly stuffed the stunned Qian Boss into a huge vegetable basket, and each of them carried it towards the kitchen.
After watching the video, Xu Tiannan asked: "Did the waiter pretended to be the executioner also apply for the job together with the cleaning lady?"
Wen Sibao shook his head, "According to the hotel manager, he had never seen these two people at all, so I looked up the video of an event in this hotel yesterday and finally discovered the problem."
Wen Sibao opened another video. The time in it showed that yesterday, an exhibition on healthy mattresses for the elderly was being held in the top-floor banquet hall. At least hundreds of elderly people attended this meeting, and the scene was extremely lively.
Wen Sibao pointed to the crowd and explained: "Yesterday's fair, because all the elderly people present could receive a kilogram of eggs for free, so there were a lot of people participating. I specifically counted, there were 247 elderly people present.
"
"Watch this again." Wen Sibao clicked on another video. At this time, the time displayed on the screen was already afternoon. Just as the elderly gradually left the scene, the cleaning lady appeared on the screen again, and
From the surveillance point of view, it can be clearly seen that there are several pieces of employee work clothes placed in the bucket on the top of the cleaning truck.
Wen Sibao explained: "I counted the elderly people who finally left the venue again, and found that there were only 245 people leaving. In other words, the two executioners pretending to be elderly people had already stayed in the banquet hall."
Xu Tiannan: "As expected, the cleaning staff who applied for the job in advance and entered the hotel became the internal agents of these two people and found work clothes for them in advance, so the two of them only needed to find an opportunity to hide in the self-service restaurant on the third floor of the hotel on the first day when Boss Qian came.
Just the restaurant.”
"Yes, it's these two people." Wen Sibao paused the screen, pointed at an old man pushing a wheelchair on the screen and said: "This is the little fat man among the executioners. He disguised himself as an old man and pushed the wheelchair.
Another old man disguised as a strong man walked in. Perhaps this strong man was too disguised, so he wrapped a blanket around him."
The video ends here, Wen Sibao finally concluded.
——"So the kidnapping of Boss Qian this time was a premeditated plan by the executioners and their gang."
——"They asked the woman who was familiar with the circuit system to pretend to be a cleaner and sneak in in advance, and then used her identity as an employee to help the two accomplices disguise themselves on the first day of Boss Qian's meeting."
——"When Boss Qian was negotiating this morning, he used the sudden intrusion of pigeons to make the situation uncontrollable. Boss Qian would definitely choose to leave immediately."
——"However, Mr. Qian's departure is also part of their plan, because the executioners and the others had already planned to take advantage of the information gap on the floor to hold him hostage when Mr. Qian left the scene."
After saying the above, Wen Sibao asked: "In this case, we have mastered 90% of the executioner's crime process, but the only question now is what method they used to make such a large group of pigeons break in
Venue.”
"It's quite good to be able to restore the case to this point." Xu Tiannan nodded to Wen Sibao with praise, and then asked Murong Shuidao: "What about you? What method do you think the murderer used to cause such a large group of pigeons to break in this morning?
At the venue?"
Murong Shui blinked, "Could it be that... there is an animal trainer among the executioners' gang?"
"Animal tamer?" Xu Tiannan looked at the other person in surprise and asked.
Murong Shui nodded, "It's like the one on TV. With a wave of your hand, thousands of animals obey my orders. How about that? Boss, am I right?"
"Hmm... Actually, there is a simpler way." Xu Tiannan changed the topic and asked Wen Sibao: "Has the banquet hall been inspected on site? Why did those window glasses suddenly fall off?"
Wen Sibao nodded, "I have already figured this out. It should be that those two guys, one fat and one strong, scraped off the putty powder on the inside of the banquet hall window glass a day in advance, so a large group of pigeons flew over,
It's easy to knock the glass off."
Xu Tiannan pointed to the wheelchair in the picture, where the strong executioner was riding, and explained: "The other party used a wheelchair. In addition to not wanting to be exposed, I think they also brought something in."
"what?"
Xu Tiannan said: "If you want such a large group of pigeons to fly outside the banquet hall window at a fixed time, you only need to bring three things, a couple of pigeons, one of their cubs, and a bag of feed."
"Pigeons...and a couple?" Murong Shui asked in surprise.
Xu Tiannan said with a smile: "Of course, pigeons are one of the rare 'monogamous' systems in nature. They recognize their partners and will stay together for the rest of their lives. From this point of view, they are much better than humans."
——"Therefore, those two people only need to enter the banquet hall in advance, place the pigeon babies outside the window, and then release the parents of the babies. I believe that these pigeons have been bred and they will return to their breeding farms, so as long as
One of the executioners can just control the pigeon couple that flew back from the breeding farm."
——"Then wait for the next day. After a total of three executioners, two men and one woman, are ready inside the hotel, the last executioner driving the car will release all the pigeons in the car."
——"After being released, the pigeon couple will definitely fly to their babies immediately. There is also something special about choosing this couple. They must be the 'leading pigeons' of the pigeon crowd, so hundreds of other pigeons will definitely follow.
, this is another characteristic of pigeons, scientifically called 'herding'."
——"The rest is simple. A large group of pigeons found food outside the banquet hall, and the window glass inside the banquet hall is already in danger, which can easily trigger a series of chain reactions. So you only need to find it tomorrow.
All this can be verified by checking if there is any leftover pigeon feed outside the window of the banquet hall."
"So this is ah!"
Wen Sibao finally restored the facts of the case. In addition to his usual admiration for Xu Tiannan, he was also deeply shocked by his opponents this time. He did not understand why a team with such outstanding abilities would embark on this journey.
The path of crime.
What is the other party’s ultimate goal?
This chapter has been completed!