After everyone heard Lu Weiwei's words, they turned their attention to the broken door lock.
In addition to the door lock that locks from the inside, the old wooden door also has an antique door bolt for locking from the inside.
At this time, the door bolt was still hanging on the iron pull.
"It is indeed locked from the inside." Zhao Guozhi confirmed after repeated inspections: "This kind of old wooden door, once locked from the inside, is difficult to open from the outside."
"But the exhaust window..." Yuan Shasha looked up at the exhaust window on the door and reminded: "But the exhaust window is open."
"Could the murderer use the exhaust window to open the door lock?" Officer Wang hesitated for a moment.
But Gu Chen quickly shook his head and rejected it: "It's unlikely, because even if you can open the door from the exhaust window, how can you lock the door?"
"We just broke in and the door was locked."
"And just when I kicked the door, I felt a strong resistance, which means that these door locks were not destroyed in advance, but were damaged after I kicked the door."
"That's right."
After hearing what Gu Chen said, Zhao Guozhi checked the door lock again and then confirmed: "The door lock showed no signs of secondary damage, which means that when Gu Chen broke in, the door was locked normally.
"
"But..." Officer Wang looked back at He Xizhou who was lying on the bed, and said with a confused look on his face:
"But if this guy is sleeping soundly here, how can he get a sharp blade pierced into his neck? This makes no sense."
"And Gu Chen just said that this doesn't look like suicide. After all, after committing suicide, is it necessary to bury his hands in the quilt?"
"Maybe after committing suicide, just lie back on the bed?" Lu Weiwei on the side had a sudden thought.
But Gu Chen soon gave up this idea: "I looked at the various shapes on the bed, and it didn't look like I was lying on it after committing suicide."
"Because when a person commits suicide, his hands cannot be in this state."
After the words fell, Gu Chen walked to the bedside, pointed at He Xizhou's body and said, "Look, the deceased He Xizhou's arms were buried in his arms, which means he was in deep sleep."
"And it's more like being attacked suddenly, with no room for resistance at all."
"Judging from the actions at the scene, there may have been a brief struggle, but that may have been muscle twitching due to pain."
"But because the murderer struck quickly and accurately, the deceased He Xizhou just died after a useless struggle."
Gu Chen's voice fell while Zhao Guozhi frowned.
According to Zhao Chen's reasoning, everything seems to make sense.
But if it was a homicide and the room was a secret room, it would be difficult for Zhao Guozhi to imagine how the murderer suddenly killed He Xizhou in his sleep.
Looking at the window not far away in the room, Zhao Guozhi put on white gloves, opened the sliding window bolt, and pushed it to one side.
I stretched my head outside and looked around, and found nothing unusual.
Gu Chen, who was standing behind Zhao Guozhi, reminded: "There is no problem with the window bolts. Although this is an old building, the windows here have been reinstalled and are all push-pull structures."
"Once the window bolt is locked, it is difficult to open the window from the outside. I have already checked it just now."
"That's right." Zhao Guozhi nodded silently, closed the window again, and then walked back to the door.
"But why are there so many bloody masks on the ground? And there seems to be blood remaining on these masks. What's going on?"
"These masks are really weird." Gu Chen squatted down and picked up one of the masks, holding it in his hand for a closer look.
Then he handed it to Zhao Guozhi and said: "Director Zhao, look at the mouth of this mask."
"There is blood." Zhao Guozhi said.
Gu Chen nodded slightly, then picked up another one, pointing to the mouth area as well: "There is also this mask, and on this ground, there is blood on almost every mask at the corners of the mouth."
"It really is."
"Yes, there is this one too."
"And this one."
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After being reminded by Gu Chen, everyone looked at the mask on the ground.
It was found that all the masks had a common feature, that is, there was a trace of blood remaining at the corner of the mouth.
"What's going on?" Officer Wang frowned, feeling that the scene was too weird.
You know, He Xizhou died on the bed within half an hour.
But it seemed impossible to get all the masks stained with blood in just half an hour.
But the only source of blood at the scene came from the deceased He Xizhou.
Everyone can't help but associate the blood remaining on these masks with the blood stains left on He Xizhou's wounds.
"Collect all these masks and take them back to the City Bureau's Technical Section to see if these blood stains belong to He Xizhou."
Zhao Guozhi can't think of a better way at the moment.
At least these masks left at the scene are the only clues so far.
The other police officers nodded silently, began to take out the evidence collection bags, and collected the masks one after another.
All this was seen by Gu Chen.
At this moment, a police officer standing outside the door observing suddenly walked directly in front of Zhao Guozhi holding a bloody rope.
"Director Zhao, this bloody rope was found near the corridor outside the door."
"A bloody rope?" Seeing that there was a new clue, Zhao Guozhi quickly took the rope and checked it, then walked out of the room and walked to the corridor to look around.
Seeing this, Gu Chen also followed.
"Where did you find it?" Zhao Guozhi asked.
"It's right here." The young police officer pointed to a corner of the corridor.
Following the corner, everyone turned on all the flashlight lights and began to continue searching along the surrounding area.
Due to the location of the corridor, at the back of the hotel, the lighting is not particularly good.
But everyone still found some blood stains near the place where the rope was found.
Gu Chen searched all the way to the end of the corridor based on his weak sense of smell.
Only then did I realize that the corridor on the third floor was not far from another two-story mobile building.
From the third floor corridor, it corresponds to the roof of the two-story building next door.
Seeing this situation, Gu Chen used his flashlight to shine at the handrail of the corridor.
Sure enough, we found that there were many traces of friction on the handrails in the corridor.
Because the handrail is an iron guardrail structure, although it is old, it has been repainted by the hotel owner.
But in the corridor adjacent to the building next door, the friction marks are still very obvious.
Gu Chen took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the scene before climbing over and hanging directly outside the guardrail.
"Gu Chen, what are you going to do?" Zhao Guozhi asked in fear.
"Go up and have a look. The murderer may have climbed into the hotel from here and then escaped unscathed." Gu Chen said.
Zhao Guozhi frowned, but considering that Gu Chen was a master of climbing when he was in the police academy, he didn't worry too much.
After just saying "be careful", he ordered all the police officers to provide Gu Chen with light cover.
In an instant, the area between the end of the corridor and the roof of the building next door was illuminated by flashlight light.
Gu Chen didn't have time to think too much. After calculating the approximate distance, he kicked his left leg straight back.
Using the reaction force, Gu Chen easily crossed over and reached the roof of the building next door.
Then, Gu Chen turned on the flashlight and began to follow the footprints on the roof to the middle of the roof.
Only then did I discover that from here, you can follow the old steps and go directly down to the first floor of the building.
Since this is an abandoned building, there are no people living there, only a small number of animals living here.
When Gu Chen arrived on the first floor, Zhao Guozhi also arrived with other police officers.
"The murderer must have escaped from here. Look at the footprints." Gu Chen gave up an area and continued to explain: "Judging from the scene, this old building is uninhabited."
"So I just walked down the stairs from the top of the building and found strange footprints in the thick dust."
"Of course, I can guarantee that this footprint was left by the murderer, but from here on, everything is on the cement floor, and there is no surveillance around, so..."
Looking around, Gu Chen shook his head helplessly: "So the clue has been interrupted here."
"Perhaps we arrived in town just in time and met the murderer," Lu Weiwei reminded.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Guozhi immediately turned around and asked everyone: "When we got off the bus, did everyone have their law enforcement recorders turned on?"
"Mine is open."
"Mine doesn't."
"Neither does mine."
"I have."
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Also under Zhao Guozhi's inquiry, everyone explained the situation one after another.
It can be seen that some police officers still turn on the law enforcement recorders habitually.
Zhao Guozhi sighed quietly and couldn't help but said: "I hope these shots can capture the murderer's movements."
"But why did this murderer want to kill He Xizhou? What grudges does the murderer have with He Xizhou?"
"Well... maybe we can get some clues from the hotel proprietress." Officer Wang suggested.
Everyone looked at each other and returned directly to the hotel.
At this moment, the hotel proprietress was a little dumbfounded.
Surrounded by many police officers, I didn't know what to do.
Seeing Zhao Guozhi leading other police officers towards her, the landlady also shivered and said, "Comrade police, what's going on? I heard that the customer died in my hotel room?"
"That's right." Zhao Guozhi looked around and said casually.
"Oh, what can we do? This is the most taboo thing for business people. It's over, it's over. It seems that the business is over this year."
After hearing what Zhao Guozhi said, the landlady immediately became frustrated.
Zhao Guozhi glanced at her and said seriously: "Don't be depressed. Let me ask you, what is the relationship between this deceased and you?"
"What else does it have to do with it? I'm just staying in a hotel." The landlady sat slumped in the swivel chair, seemingly losing her energy.
Gu Chen continued to ask: "Don't you think it's strange that this guy chooses to live here during the Chinese New Year?"
"It's strange, of course it's strange, but after all, they are guests, coming to stay at the hotel, how can we businessmen refuse?"
The landlady had a complaining look on her face and instantly looked like a resentful woman.
Officer Wang continued to ask: "Did this guy come to the hotel alone?"
"Yes, I came to the hotel alone, and he said he would stay for a long time. I asked him how long he would stay, and he said about a month."
"But then I asked him again, did he come here to do business? He said yes, he came to the town to do some business. I asked him what he was doing? But he kept silent, so I didn't ask any more questions."
"After all, during the Chinese New Year period, there are very few guests. Everyone goes home to celebrate the New Year."
"Then you're still in business, aren't you?" Lu Weiwei said.
The landlady laughed and couldn't help but said: "I'm a foreigner, it's too far to go home, and it's popular to stay here for the New Year this year, so I won't go back after thinking about it."
"What kind of business can be done in this place?" Officer Wang looked around and felt that the place was quite deserted, but this area was still somewhat lively.
The landlady smiled bitterly and explained: "This place is going to be built, and there are several companies nearby that will start construction in the next year, so it will be very lively here."
"I guess those who come here to do business come here for this."
After hearing what the landlady said, Gu Chen didn't think too much.
Instead, he checked back and forth in the lobby, then returned to the front desk and asked, "Are you familiar with this deceased person?"
"Wan Fakui? I'm not very familiar with him," said the landlady.
Lu Weiwei immediately corrected him: "His real name is He Xizhou, and he is a fugitive murderer."
"What? A murderer?" After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, the landlady's face suddenly froze, and she said with some fear: "Oh my god! Have I been dealing with a fugitive murderer these days? This...isn't this too scary?
"
"Don't be nervous." Gu Chen lay down at the front desk. After looking around, seeing the landlady trying to calm down, he continued to ask:
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Since He Xizhou has been living in your hotel, have you noticed anything unusual about him these days?"
"No." The landlady shook her head.
"Then who has had contact with him?" Gu Chen asked again.
"No." The landlady replied still affirmatively.
"It's impossible. Judging from the current situation, the murderer climbed over the guardrail from the building next door and directly entered the third floor of your hotel. This shows that the murderer is very familiar with the building here."
"Obviously, the murderer had already inquired about He Xizhou's residence, so he chose the right time to commit the murder."
"But you can't tell whether He Xizhou has had any contact with anyone. This is obviously illogical."
In Lu Weiwei's opinion, the reason why the murderer was able to climb over the guardrail so smoothly and murder He Xizhou was.
It is obviously the result of stepping on the spot.
If this is the case, then the murderer obviously knows He Xizhou's specific residence very well.
And all of this may not be able to bypass the front desk.
Seeing this, the proprietress smiled bitterly and said: "Comrade policewoman, we are just a small hotel, not very standardized."
"Normally I don't even wait at the front desk, let alone meet any strangers."
"And I have installed a camera here, and it is pointed at my front desk. If you don't believe me, you can check it yourself."
After the words fell, Officer Wang volunteered to walk out of the crowd, raised his hand and said, "I'll do it."
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5 minutes later.
Officer Wang, who had retrieved all the surveillance videos, also looked disappointed and said, "What the hell? He Xizhou is the only one staying here for so many days?"
"I'm not lying to you, right? That's the truth." The proprietress also spread her hands and took the initiative to explain: "It's the Chinese New Year period, there aren't many people here, and we're just a small hotel in the town, so that's the situation.
Condition."
"He Xizhou is the only one staying here, and no strangers come here."
After hearing what the landlady said, everyone was immediately confused.
You know, He Xizhou suddenly disappeared, without even refunding the deposit, and directly changed from the presidential suite in the city to the current small hotel.
What is He Xizhou doing? No one knows yet.
But everyone is very sure that there must be a reason for He Xizhou to come here.
Gu Chen turned to look at Zhao Guozhi and said, "Bureau Zhao, could it be that the murderer deliberately lured He Xizhou here, and then took advantage of him to assassinate him unprepared?"
"Well, judging from the current situation, it is indeed possible." Zhao Guozhi crossed his arms and said involuntarily: "It can be seen from the fact that He Xizhou left the presidential suite of the star hotel in a hurry and came to a small place like this.
It came with a purpose.”
"And it's really abnormal to stay in such a small hotel for such a long time."
"Maybe he came here to meet a friend, or maybe he came here to make a deal."
"But..." Seeing that Zhao Guozhi said a lot, Lu Weiwei also stood up and said: "But we also searched He Xizhou's room just now and found that except for some daily necessities, he seemed to have nothing else at all. Could it be that he is a buyer?
?”
"Maybe." Zhao Guozhi nodded silently, but also had some confusion: "The most important thing now is to find out how the murderer committed the crime to kill He Xizhou."
"I don't think it's difficult." As soon as Zhao Guozhi finished speaking, Gu Chen replied directly.
Zhao Guozhi was stunned and asked weakly: "Gu Chen, do you have any clues?"
"Based on the circumstances at the scene, there should be some, but now I need to return to the crime scene to verify it."
Although Gu Chen had already deduced the general situation, it was not easy to talk nonsense without verification.
Zhao Guozhi nodded silently and said directly: "Then as you said, let's go directly to the third floor."
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Returning to the third floor, the police officers who had been left behind had already set up a cordon on the scene.
When Gu Chen followed Zhao Guozhi and arrived, everyone gave way to both sides.
Stopping at the door, Gu Chen turned around and asked one of the police officers: "Where are those masks?"
"After taking photos and collecting evidence, we collected them all here." The young police officer gave up his position and took out a bag containing masks.
"Where's the bloody rope?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Here, keep it all." Another police officer also took out the evidence bag.
Gu Chen first took the bloody rope and showed it in front of Zhao Guozhi: "Look, Director Zhao, this is a bloody rope."
"And just now, the places where we found blood in the secret room were just at these locations."
Pointing to He Xizhou's body on the bed, and then to the bag of collected masks, Gu Chen added: "One is He Xizhou's neck, which is the source of the blood."
"The other thing is the mouth area of the mask. Almost every mask has some blood stains remaining on the mouth area."
"Then add this bloody rope and combine these key points. What do you think will happen?"
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