When entering the Fuju Hotel, Su Le and Liang Fu first saw the cameras in the lobby and above the cashier. They looked at each other and smiled, then came to the counter and revealed their identities directly.
When the front desk clerk saw the police arriving, he became a little nervous and called their hotel manager. The hotel manager's surname was Li. He invited Su Le and Liang Fu to sit down in the office and enthusiastically handed them tea.
"Comrade police, if you have anything to say, just tell me."
"We are investigating a case. The suspect once came to your hotel. We want to see the hotel's surveillance video." Su Le said.
"No problem, no problem. Every floor of our hotel is equipped with surveillance cameras. The security team just came to inspect it in the first half of the year. The equipment is in good condition. I will take you there right away."
Su Le and Liang Fu followed Manager Li to the control room located next to the hotel restaurant. The so-called control room in the hotel was just a simple computer room with a computer and some sundries in it.
Su Le picked up the mouse and clicked the playback button, and a password box popped up on the screen. Upon seeing this, Manager Li said:
"Oh, what is this password? You haven't used it for a long time, so I have forgotten it."
"It doesn't matter, let me try." Su Le said as he entered the letters "admin" in the password box, then clicked the Enter key, and the system was indeed logged in.
"Gee, officer, how did you know the password?"
"The default original password of this kind of monitoring system is usually this. Most users don't change the password because they are afraid of the trouble."
"Oh, so that's it." Manager Li scratched his head and said.
Su Le operated the surveillance system and skillfully found the folder where the video files were stored. However, Su Le was surprised to find that part of the video data stored in the hotel surveillance system was missing. The missing content included the time when Jin Hui's family came to check in that day.
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"Manager Li, do you know who has touched this monitoring system during this time?"
"I don't know about this. No one should touch this thing, and it's usually of no use."
"But I found that there was a period of time when the surveillance system stopped recording."
"Then I'll ask our maintenance man here. He sometimes comes here to check on the operation of the equipment."
"Okay, if he is here, you'd better ask him to come."
Manager Li of the hotel quickly called the hotel's maintenance man through the intercom. The maintenance man thought for a while and told Su Le that he had discovered that the power cord of the monitoring system had been unplugged.
After failing to obtain the hotel's surveillance video, Su Le and Liang Fu found the waiter who checked in for Jin Hui's family. The waiter was about 40 years old. When she heard that the police were looking for her, she was so frightened that she couldn't walk.
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"You don't have to be afraid. We are just here to understand the situation. You just need to tell us the real situation." Su Le comforted the waiter and said.
The waiter stabilized his mood and said to Su Le:
"That afternoon, someone came over to book three rooms. He specifically asked for three rooms next to each other. He showed his ID card, and I went through the formalities for him. Then I told him that when he checked in, he had to show
The ID card of the person staying here. He said yes at the time, no problem."
"After dark, the man came again and asked me when I would be on duty. I told him that I would be on duty all night. Then he said he wanted to ask me a favor. I said no problem, help customers.
It's our responsibility."
"Then he told me that a few people who came to check in soon did not bring their ID cards, so they should not register. I said it was not allowed according to the regulations, but that person stayed here and refused to leave, so I agreed to him later."
"Then the man took out 1,000 yuan and said there was one more thing he wanted me to help with. When I saw him giving me the money, I felt a little scared. I said he could help me, but I couldn't ask for the money."
"He told me that when those people came later, he asked me to ask them for their ID cards. They would definitely not be able to produce their ID cards. He told me to put my phone on the counter."
"I asked him, can he agree to it? He said, don't worry, he has already agreed, and he can agree to it."
"I asked him why you were keeping other people's mobile phones? He said these people owed him money and he was afraid they would run away in the middle of the night."
"I asked him where to put the other person's mobile phone? He said just leave it with me and give it to them when they check out."
"I thought about it later and realized that it wasn't a big deal. Since he had already agreed, I could just help him."
"When he saw that I agreed to him, he wanted to give me money again, but I refused to take his money. Later, when he saw that I was determined not to want it, he took it away."
"So I did as he asked, and those people obediently handed over their phones to me."
"Comrade policeman, I didn't do anything bad, I just did him a favor."
"Do you still remember what he looks like?" Su Le asked.
"Well, that man was wearing a baseball cap, a brown jacket, jeans, and sneakers. His skin color is neither white nor black. His rectangular face looks very stylish, his eyes are big, and his eyebrows are dark and long."
"Did he show his ID card when he checked in for a room?" Su Le asked.
"Well, that's right. I registered him with his ID card."
"Can we take a look at the registered information?"
"Yes, but you have to watch it on the computer."
Su Le and Liang Fu followed the manager and waiter to the lobby. They opened the hotel's guest identity registration system and found out that the guest who rented three rooms at the Fuju Hotel that day was named Hou Shengli. He was 43 years old and was from a province in southwest China.
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"Have you done real-name authentication when you checked in?" Manager Li asked the waiter.
"I did it. There are records in it. If you don't believe me, you can check it."
He retrieved the ID card registered at that time from the real-name authentication system and saw that the photo on the ID card was blurry and not quite the same as the waiter's description. Su Le took photos of the evidence and sent it back to the task force.
While Su Le and Liang Fu went to Xiangwen County to investigate the fat man Liu Bin, Geng Yuanliang and other colleagues came to the Liang County Detention Center.
Xie Tianhe, deputy director of the Liang County Detention Center, was called to the office. Facing the serious-looking task force members, Xie Tianhe appeared a little embarrassed. Before Geng Yuanliang could ask questions, Xie Tianhe took the initiative and said to Geng Yuanliang:
"Team Leader Geng, I have something to report to the task force."
"Okay, but I want to ask you first, why did you just think of reporting the situation to the task force now?"
"I, I still have some luck, and I am afraid that I will take responsibility. In fact, I am also very conflicted in my heart. I have always felt guilty since Jin Hui died."
"Okay, please tell me the specific situation."
"Wang Chao and I are from the same village and have played together since childhood. When we grew up, we all had careers and families, so we had less contact. Besides, Wang Chao got a good relative and became the son-in-law of Xiejiacun.
Some people look down on me, a peripheral member of the Xie family."
"Later, Wang Chao suddenly contacted me and took me and Director Xie to have dinner several times. The relationship between us gradually became closer."
"A few days ago, Wang Chao called me and asked me to help with a small matter. He asked someone to send someone named Ma Long in and asked me to put him and Jin Hui in the same cell. I checked.
Suddenly, Jin Hui's cell happened to be short of one person. I thought to myself that as long as they had the procedures, it wouldn't be the same if they were held in that cell, so I agreed to him."
"Who would have known that Jin Hui would die a few days later, and I heard that he was poisoned. I remembered that Wang Chao had come to the detention center to interrogate Ma Long the day before, and I also thought that Wang Chao asked me to lock Ma Long and Jin Hui in the detention center.
A prison cell. I thought that this matter might not be that simple, and I began to feel scared, for fear that it might have something to do with it."
"Then why did you take the initiative to explain this matter today?" Geng Yuanliang asked.
"I, I saw that you guys were looking for me, it might be related to that matter, so I took the initiative to explain it."
"Besides this incident, have you and Wang Chao done anything else illegal?" Geng Yuanliang asked.
"No, no, I'm a timid person and don't dare to do anything illegal. Wang Chao once asked me to sing, take a bath, or find a woman with him, but I never went there once. I only drank with him."
"Well, since you took the initiative to admit your mistake, your matter will be investigated by your institute and then reported to your bureau."
Director Liu of the detention center who was present here stood up and said:
"Don't worry, Team Leader Geng, we will investigate this matter clearly."
The interrogation of Ma Long was far less smooth than the investigation of Xie Tianhe. He insisted that he did not know Jin Hui at all, and he did not admit that someone deliberately sent him in to deal with Jin Hui.
"Ma Long, you'd better confess your crime honestly, otherwise you will be convicted of intentional homicide and it will be too late for you to regret it."
"I didn't kill anyone. What evidence do you have to prove that I did?" Ma Long had a tough mouth. He was the kind of master who wouldn't shed tears until he saw the coffin.
"The person who gave you the poison has already admitted it. If you don't say anything anymore, what's the point?"
"Impossible, don't lie to me. I have never seen any poison."
"Do you know Wang Chao?" Geng Yuanliang asked.
"Wang Chao? I don't know him." Ma Long looked at Geng Yuanliang alertly and replied.
"Since you don't know Wang Chao, do you know Zhang Feng?"
"I don't know Zhang Feng either."
"Haha, you said you didn't know them, then what did you say when you talked to them on the mobile phone before entering the detention center?"
"No, I haven't spoken to them."
"Ma Long, do you think we are fools? Your call records clearly record that you have spoken to them many times. Are you determined to fight the government to the end when you say you don't know them?" Geng Yuanliang said sternly.
After listening to Geng Yuanliang's words, Ma Long lowered his head and remained silent, his eyes moving restlessly. He, an old slippery man with many trials experience, was thinking about what the police knew.
"Well, since you are so stubborn, I will show you something." Geng Yuanliang took out his mobile phone to find the footage of Wang Chao and Zhang Feng's trial and showed it to Ma Long.
Ma Long was shocked after seeing this. He did not expect that the backer he relied on had now become a prisoner. He was so arrogant just now that his body had no support and he collapsed in the chair like a puddle of mud.