The automatic sensor glass door opened, and the beautiful female receptionist of Wangfujing Hotel was about to put on her business smile and shout her lines, but when she looked up, she saw a few familiar hotel guests rushing in and rushing all the way to the elevator at the end.
One of the tall, blond guys suddenly stopped and turned to look at the female receptionist when he was passing by the front desk. He pretended to clear his throat. Under the eyes of the companion in front of him who instantly turned his head and looked like a murderer, he quickly stopped using useless syllables and spat out his question.
Then, "Beauty, did anything happen in the hotel while we were away? For example, a power outage, an explosion, a black screen on the CCTV, etc."
"Well, when everyone left, all the facilities in the hotel were normal. Welcome to check in again." The female front desk did not understand what this foreigner who spoke fluent Chinese with an accent meant, but if it involves the operation of the hotel, then even if it is
She also had to answer the questions no problem.
"That's good, that's good." Fingel quickly turned around and followed the people who were waiting for him at the elevator, pressing the door button.
Behind him, the female receptionist said, "The cleaning lady in your room upstairs is preparing to clean up. Please be sure to check your belongings before leaving!"
Fingel suddenly stopped the car and turned to look at the receptionist, "What did you say?"
The female receptionist was startled for a moment and repeated her words, "Sir, I mean, the rooms upstairs where you have checked out have not been cleaned yet. The cleaning lady will wait for everyone to pack your luggage before entering the room and start cleaning.
Hygiene, please check your belongings before leaving the store."
"Check out? Why do we have to check out? Didn't our room be reserved until a month later?" Fingel gestured to Zero, Villeva and others who were waiting for him in the elevator to wait, then turned around to look.
He asked the female receptionist in confusion, "Beauty, did you make the mistake of checking out the guest?"
"Didn't you all temporarily change your travel plans and decide to leave the hotel early, so you went through the check-out procedures? There are a total of five rooms from 1021 to 1025. We have already refunded your deposits."
The front desk was also a little stunned.
"Who said we have to check out? Where will we sleep tonight after we check out the room?" Fingel was stunned.
"Ah? I don't know? Let me verify it for you?" The female receptionist was stunned for a moment when she heard Fingel's rhetorical question, and immediately picked up the front desk phone.
Fingel realized that something was wrong, and the landline phone held by the female receptionist on her shoulder could not be connected. He was a little anxious and puzzled, and kept saying to himself: It was the check-out from 1021 to 1025 that Manager Cai handled before! Could it be?
The manager made a mistake?
At the elevator, Vileva and others chose a few of them to go up first, leaving Susie to come over and see what was going on here.
"The phone call can't be connected. The manager may not have his cell phone with him, but everyone's check-out is definitely correct! Our deposit has been refunded to your two friends, sir!" the female front desk explained in confusion.
"Our friend? Who did you give it back to?"
"By the way, please wait a minute, I remember I still have the check-out receipt signature here!" The female front desk suddenly remembered this matter, lowered her head and started looking for something.
"What happened?" Susie walked up behind Fingel and asked in a low voice.
"She said our room was canceled from 1021 to 1025."
"Retired? Who retreated?" Su Qian frowned slightly.
"Found it!" The female receptionist pulled out a pink receipt and placed it on the front desk for Susie and Fingel to see. "It was the gentleman named 'Lancelot' who checked out the room."
"Lancelot?" Fingel turned over the pink receipt and stared at the cursive English signature with wide eyes.
"Yes, I still have the impression. Sir, your companion named 'Lancelot' came down with a boy who looked very good, and checked out at my place, 1021 to 1025, five rooms
All the rooms have been checked out, and my deposit has been refunded. This is no joke! Can you please call your friends to verify?" The female receptionist is obviously afraid of getting into trouble and being held accountable. It is not easy to find a job these days, especially in...
Find a job within the second ring road.
"What about them?" Fingel subconsciously raised his head and asked.
"How do I know? Sir." The female receptionist was stunned when asked, "Mr. Lancelot, after completing the check-out procedures, received the deposit and left with his companions.
"
"When did this happen?"
"About half an hour before everyone comes back?" the female receptionist looked at the clock and replied.
Fingel's expression changed instantly. Just as he was about to say something to Susie, he found that Susie had already turned around and ran towards the empty elevator on the other side.
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The elevator went up, then stopped, a pleasant "ding" sounded, and the elevator doors opened.
Outside is the all-too-familiar corridor, which is clean and tidy, with wall lamps hanging next to the doors. Vases and paintings are arranged in order in front of the wallpaper with complicated patterns. In front of it is the open door of Room 1021.
And Vileva stood outside the door with a rather ugly expression.
"What's going on?" Fingel and Susie rushed forward and asked directly without even having time to breathe.
Zero didn't answer, but just looked into the room silently. The two of them followed their gazes and only saw Villeva who just walked out.
"Where are they?" Fingel asked.
"How did you know they were gone?" Veleva did not answer, but asked with a frown.
"The front desk downstairs told me that Lancelot checked out the room and left the hotel with Xiawang, just half an hour ago." Fingel explained.
"Have all the rooms been vacated at the same time?" Veleva fell into deep thought and looked back at the empty room.
"Where's Lancelot's phone number?" Susie asked.
"Can't get through." Ling on the side took out his mobile phone, which showed missed calls, "It's not turned off, and no one answered."
"Here, no need to dial." Vileva at the door took out a mobile phone, which belonged to Lancelot. She pressed it to light up the screen to show missed calls and it was in silent mode. "I found it on the sofa. He
I didn’t take anything with me when I left.”
"What the hell? First Lu Mingfei disappeared, then Su Xiaoqiang disappeared, and now Lancelot and Xiawang also disappeared?" Fingel was a little confused, "Why didn't they tell us when they left the hotel?
Are you in danger?"
"Impossible. Even if something unexpected happens, according to the scene described by the female front desk, she can calmly complete the check-out procedure, leave her signature and leave. If she has this kind of time, she will definitely have time to call or leave a message with us.
Tell us what happened." Susie rejected the idea.
"Then what did he want to do? He took Xiawang and left without saying a word. He wouldn't be hungry in the middle of the night to make hot pot, right?" Fingel had already started to pick his head.
"You can go to the hot pot restaurant and look for it. You might even find Su Xiaoqiang and Lu Mingfei on the table." Veleva said in a nonchalant way, criticizing Fingel's bad words.
"Check the surveillance, the hotel has surveillance." Zero said.
"I'll go." Susie walked towards the elevator without looking back.
Villeva stood at the door and frowned and turned around, "Let's search the room again to see if Lancelot left any message before he left. Otherwise,"
She didn't say the second half of her sentence, but Fingel and Ling both understood. Otherwise, they would have no choice but to call Lin Nian to move reinforcements. Although they had previously made up their minds to cooperate with Lin Nian,
They are operating in line, trying not to interfere with each other's investigation paths, but now the people on their side are almost out of fun, disappearing, disappearing, disappearing, if this continues, I'm afraid the last person to find someone will be to turn around and discover all of their companions.
There is no shadow of Lin Nian!
Fingel and Zero followed Veleva into the room, and had no choice but to look for clues that might not exist at all.
The layout of Room 1021, a two-bedroom apartment with one living room, is similar to the room they live in. They are all suite-type, and basically everything in the room is in order.
Fingel stood in the middle of the living room and scratched his head, looking left and right. It seemed that everything was in the right place, and there was nothing strange. He bent down and looked under the coffee table. It was so clean that there was no paper scraps.
Praise the cleaning lady for her carefulness.
After searching around, at most he found some potato chip crumbs that had not been swept away from the blanket on the ground in front of the TV. They probably leaked from Xiawang's mouth while he was sitting and watching TV.
"Why are there no people left?" Fingel muttered a few words, circling wildly in the living room, not giving up any corner, bending down to look, hoping to find some note left behind, a password or something, but it's a pity that there is nothing left.
It was because he found nothing that he was sweating profusely. After a day of being crowded with people on the subway, he now smelled all over his body.
I really want to take a bath.
He subconsciously looked towards the bathroom, but suddenly found that there seemed to be still dew on the glass door of the bathroom?
Zero and Veleva did not find any clues in the other two rooms. Lancelot and Xiawang's personal belongings were taken out of the cabinet and rummaged through. The boxes contained normal daily necessities, mixed with
With some prohibited weapons and even the weapons well placed in boxes, what else could happen to Lancelot and the others?
But he checked out without bringing anything with him. This was obviously unreasonable and made everything feel weird.
Just when Veleva and Zero were about to start looking again for the second or even third time, Fingel's unexpected voice suddenly came from the living room, "Come here quickly! I found it!"
Zero and Veleva quickly came to the living room and immediately saw a bath towel held by Fingel who came out of the bathroom?
"What did you find?" Although Veleva said so, she had already looked at the bath towel in Fingel's hand.
The outside of that bath towel was full of traces of blood, as if it had fallen into a pool of blood, and the plush was stained red!
"These bloodstains are"
"That's not the point. Look here." Fingel quickly turned the bath towel over in his hand. There was also blood stains on the other side of the snow-white bath towel, but what made people's hearts beat was that the blood stains on that side were not bloody fingerprints.
Or mottled blood clots, but a string of clear words in blood!
【4DNA】
Unlike one side, which is stained red with blood, the other side of the towel is relatively pure white, with only the above few simple blood characters remaining.
"Is this a death message?"
I'm sorry that Veleva thought of this immediately, because the bloody words left on the bath towel looked like a death message. At the last moment when the victim knew that he was unable to escape, he tried his best to leave it on the inconspicuous bath towel.
A death message was downloaded that pointed to key information for solving the case.
"Who left it, Lancelot or Summerview?" Fingel asked.
"There is no way to check the blood type and DNA immediately, but this message must have been left for us, but why was it left on the bath towel?" Veleva couldn't help biting her finger.
"Didn't Lancelot and Xiawang check out of the room downstairs? If you want to convey any message to us, just tell the front desk directly. Is there any need to use this trick?" Fingel looked weird.
"Either the front desk is lying, or what she said she saw, one of Lancelot and Xiawang who checked out at her place was a fake, threatening the other to obey and become a hostage, and forged
She gave up the illusion of leaving peacefully." Veleva reasoned quickly.
"The possibility that the front desk lied can be ruled out. The surveillance showed that it was indeed Lancelot who left with Xiawang." At the door, Susie walked in. She checked the surveillance and got the answer she wanted, "It's probably the latter.
"There is something wrong with Lancelot's condition under surveillance."
"Something is wrong? What's wrong? Is someone pretending to be someone? Could it be that Lancelot has been killed and Xiawang was kidnapped and kidnapped by a murderer disguised as Lancelot?" Veleva asked quickly.
"No, Lancelot is himself. I said he was in a bad state because I think he seems to be a different person." Susie said, "He usually doesn't have such rich expressions on his face, nor does he have that kind of strong expression.
An uncomfortable slightly shallow smile.”
"Smile?" Several people were stunned. They had not had much contact with Lancelot. In the Lionheart Club, only Susie of the same level might be qualified to make this conclusion.
"It's just an intuition. I feel that something is wrong with the Lancelot who appeared in the surveillance. Xiawang's state is also wrong. The pace and posture he followed beside Lancelot seemed a little timid, as if he was afraid of something." Susie.
She said slowly and looked at the bath towel again, "After seeing this 'death message', I am more sure of my intuition."
"Is there a possibility"
An extremely terrifying suspicion suddenly appeared in Fingel's mind. He raised his head suddenly and found that the eyes of Veleva, Zero, and even Susie all had the same fear as his.
The way the guy who called himself "Emperor" appeared at the hearing left a deep impression on them. Andrew Gattuso's anomaly and the truth that was finally revealed shocked everyone's eyes. The ghostly appearance
"Arrival" once sowed seeds of fear in the hearts of those who witnessed the chaos.
The most worrying possibility is often the reality.
Everyone present quietly accepted this "possibility" in their hearts.
"Then it seems that the blood words on this bath towel are not difficult to understand." Veleva turned her eyes and looked at the words on the bath towel.
"If that happens, what does the Arabic numeral 4 and DNA mean? If Lancelot was killed, what would he want to convey to us at the last moment?" Fingel is not stupid, in this kind of situation
When it comes to big things, his head turns faster than anyone else.
"4 may have many interpretations, 4 people, 4 things, 4 o'clock, person, place, time. But DNA has only one interpretation, and that is deoxyribonucleic acid, which carries the genetic information necessary to synthesize RNA and proteins.
"Villeva said.
"If Lancelot met the emperor and left this death message, connecting the two things, then the number 4 is not difficult to guess." Susie lowered her eyes.
"Four conditions." Zero said, "In the Lion Heart Club, we discussed the conditions for the emperor to activate the soul-stealing word spirit. Lancelot proposed that in order to achieve this kind of word spirit, at least three or more conditions need to be met.
condition."
Veleva stretched out her hand and pressed it hard against her temple. The pain made her thoughts run faster. Her face was expressionless, "It means he met the emperor, had a battle, and failed. DNA is probably one of the four conditions. The emperor
Does the victim’s DNA need to be activated to activate the word spirit?”
"Blood is a type of DNA, and this death message was left in the form of blood stains." Susie said, "This is the most reasonable conjecture. He is warning us and using the last resort to remind us of the information he has detected about the enemy.
"
"The emperor's target is Xiawang, otherwise he would not attack the hotel." Zero's thinking was even faster, and he pointed out a problem that everyone might ignore.
"But Xiawang is an ordinary person." Fingel hesitated.
"It won't be ordinary from now on." Susie said, "I'll contact Xia Mi, she has the right to know the situation here."
"I'll call Lin Nian." Veleva no longer hesitated, "This is no longer something we can handle."
The situation has completely gotten out of control.