The general manager's face was dripping with sweat. He glared at the manager and shouted, "What are you doing here? Why don't you hurry up and get two cups of iced coffee?"
The manager slapped his forehead and quickly turned around to make arrangements.
After a while, a waitress brought two cups of iced coffee.
Lu Ming and Zhang Ziyang ignored it, but asked the general manager to take out the employee roster and check those who resigned after the kidnapping incident.
The general manager immediately called for a steward and asked him to bring a roster of all employees.
"Have you ever counted how many people have resigned since the day Miss Ning disappeared?" Zhang Ziyang asked sitting on a chair.
"Inspector Zhang, you also know that in our place, it is common for staff to leave and leave. In my impression, there are quite a few people leaving their jobs. Who would count such things?" The general manager stood beside him and said with a wry smile.
"Then, in the half month before Miss Ning's disappearance, you must also find out which new people you had on duty." Lu Ming said.
"OK."
The general manager and the people in charge hurriedly flipped through the roster. According to Lu Ming's request, using the time of Ning Xiner's disappearance as the starting point, the names of all those who took up their posts within half a month before the incident and those who left half a month after the incident must be found.
come out.
The two of them worked for about an hour before they found all these people one by one.
Lu Ming and Zhang Ziyang looked at the list in their hands, and they were beating drums in their hearts. There were really a lot of people.
A total of 53 people were employed half a month before Ning Xiner's disappearance, but 122 people resigned half a month after Ning Xiner's disappearance, and only five people applied for the job.
This is a bit strange, because the ratio of entry and exit is obviously uncoordinated, and there must be something wrong with it.
"Check the people with the same name among the people who started and resigned." Lu Ming's mind turned around and he said immediately.
A few people carefully compared the number, and this time the number was smaller. There were only four people who started working half a month before Ning Xiner's disappearance and resigned after her disappearance, two women and two men, all staff members.
"Hey, it must be them." Zhang Ziyang punched the general manager's desk hard.
Lu Ming's feeling was the same as Zhang Ziyang's. This trip was not in vain. These criminals were unlucky for them. Who knew they had encountered a master detective?
"What, it's them? They..." The general manager was a little confused, wondering what Zhang Ziyang's sudden excitement meant.
"I still don't understand that these four people were involved in Miss Ning's kidnapping case." Zhang Ziyang said easily.
"But... how is it possible? These four people are all very ordinary people. They are so ordinary. How could they kidnap people? Are you right?" The general manager was still confused.
"Kidnappers are usually very ordinary people and don't kidnap people often. Have you ever seen someone kidnap someone for fun?" Lu Ming glared at the other person and said angrily.
Sweat poured down from the general manager's head. If it was true that Paramount employees were involved in the kidnapping, Paramount would be in serious trouble and might be forcibly closed for rectification.
This is a serious violation of regulations in the industry. It is not only the place where the crime occurred, but also the den where the crime occurred. No punishment is excessive.
"Master Lu, Detective Zhang, you just checked the list and came to this conclusion, aren't you a little hasty?" He had to be tougher. If he was still weak at this time, he would wait to go to the police station for questioning.
"Of course we haven't come to a conclusion yet, we will have a conclusion after further investigation." Zhang Ziyang said unceremoniously.
"General Manager Wu, don't worry. We are just guessing. But even if these four people are really a group of kidnappers, it doesn't mean that you, Paramount, are in cahoots with the kidnappers. These are two different things."
Lu Ming felt that there might be something else that required Paramount's cooperation, and he couldn't scare people away all at once, so he said in a comforting tone.
In fact, it is useless to blame Paramount now, not to mention that Paramount has always been very casual in recruiting people, and there is no obligation to check the family background of employees. Even if you use a random name, you can still become a staff member as long as you pass the assessment.
If you want to investigate the ins and outs of these four people, you will of course need Paramount's cooperation.
"When you recruited these four people, did you notice anything, such as how their words, deeds, and dress were any different from others?" Lu Ming asked.
"Um...I can't remember clearly. There seems to be nothing different from others?" The general manager didn't understand.
"Also, they may not be Chinese." Lu Ming reminded.
"Impossible, we only recruit Chinese here, not foreign employees," the general manager said.
"So, do these four people speak and act differently from us Chinese? For example, although they speak Chinese fluently, they may have foreign accents?" Lu Ming asked.
"Do you suspect these four people are Japanese?" The general manager understood somewhat.
"Yes." Lu Ming nodded.
"I don't know about that, Master Lu. You also know that I have to deal with too many things every day. I don't care much about small things like recruiting employees."
"Then call the person in charge." Zhang Ziyang immediately followed.
The general manager hurriedly asked someone to find the supervisor who specifically recruited employees, but that supervisor didn't come to work today.
Zhang Ziyang suddenly thought of something and asked hurriedly: "General Manager Wu, after Miss Ning disappeared, I made notes for all employees. I feel that these four people were not there at that time."
The general manager was stunned and said with a wry smile, "Maybe the person who gave you the employee list missed these four people."
Lu Ming and Zhang Ziyang looked at each other and smiled coldly. They both felt at the same time that the matter was basically finalized.
"Is the manager who provided me with the employee list the same person who recruited employees?" Zhang Ziyang asked.
"That's him." The general manager also felt that something was wrong.
"Is this person just not at work today?" Lu Ming asked.
The general manager didn't know the specific situation, so he sent someone to ask and found out that the person in charge had not come for five days. He asked another person in charge to help him evaluate the applicants.
"Where does this person live?" Lu Ming asked.
"I seem to live on a street in Zhabei." The newly hired manager thought about it and said.
"Then take us to his home now and find him." Zhang Ziyang said impatiently.
"Is there something wrong with this person?" the general manager asked in a panic.
"He hasn't come to work for five days. If he is still alive, he will be fine. If he has problems, he should be dead by now." Lu Ming sighed.
Lu Ming and Zhang Ziyang got into the car with the manager. The general manager couldn't sit still and wanted to follow them.
Four people and two cars arrived at the street in Zhabei in twenty minutes.
After getting off the bus, the person in charge searched for a long time before finding the place, and then knocked on the door of a house.
"Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan, are you at home?"
Lu Ming and Zhang Ziyang looked around. There was a long row of bungalows on this street, one after another, but they all had a small yard. The manager of Paramount could buy a house here, and it seemed that the income was good.
In a place like Shanghai, where land is at a premium, if you can own your own house, you are considered middle class.
The steward knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered or opened the door.
Zhang Ziyang pulled out his pistol, kicked open the door and rushed in regardless of the situation.
But then he rushed out at an even faster speed.
Before anyone could ask him what was going on, they already smelled a suffocating stench.
Lu Ming hurriedly took out a handkerchief and covered his nose, then exited the yard. Several people stood on the street, and they could still smell the disgusting stench.
Lu Ming already understood at least seventy-eight points in his heart that he was late.
At this time, the four people retreated to the street, and people from the neighbors also came out to see what was going on. It was not that they smelled the smell, but were alarmed by the sound of Zhang Ziyang kicking the door.
The neighbor came a little closer and saw nothing. He covered his nose and was speechless.
"You guessed it right, this guy should have been dead for several days, this summer..." Zhang Ziyang covered his nose and muttered to Lu Ming.
Zhang Ziyang is a detective by training, so the smell of corpses cannot escape his nose.
"I'll call a few brothers to come over, and also call the forensic doctor over," Zhang Ziyang said.
"Well, that's the only way it can be. This can be considered a criminal case." Lu Ming nodded.
If the person is still alive, he still has many questions to ask, but now that the person may be dead, he will have nothing to do, and the rest is the work of the police and forensic doctors.
So far, today's matter is only half successful. The clues about the four people have been broken, and we still have to work hard to continue the investigation.