The magician was very vigilant and refused to answer, while protesting against Professor Liang for treating him as a suspect.
The four members of the special case team returned to Su Mei's room. Professor Liang checked the Jiazhou police's interrogation transcript of the magician. On the night Lan Keer disappeared, the magician and his assistant were performing in the theater and did not have the time to commit the crime.
Su Mei said: A magician can definitely create a proof of alibi and kill people and dump their bodies.
Bao Zhan said: Why?
Su Mei said: Because he is a magician, he can put the ring into the egg, and he can also transform a living person and make himself disappear.
Hualong said: The body was found in the water tank, so we had to cut open the water tank to get out the body. Is this a magic trick?
Professor Liang said: If forced, the murderer could stuff Lan Ke'er into the water tower. She would be soaked in the water and her body would be swollen, so she would not be able to get her out from the entrance.
Bao Zhan said: I can avoid surveillance, kill people, dump corpses, and throw them into water towers, but I can't guarantee the integrity of the corpse.
A strange murder case once occurred in Shanghai. This real case was changed into a reasoning question on the police school examination paper.
A couple checked into a hotel, but the wife never left the hotel until they checked out. Through surveillance, it was discovered that the husband went shopping many times, each time traveling lightly. Without a backpack, it was impossible to move the body out. Corridor surveillance showed that the wife did not leave the room.
The room is on the third floor, with the window facing north, and guardrails installed. There are faint blood stains on the bathroom floor. The police speculate that the wife is dead, but where is the body and how did the murderer transport the body?
Bao Zhan said that he wrote three answers on the test paper at that time.
1: The murderer bought some dismemberment tools, returned to the hotel, cut the deceased's body into pieces, and flushed it into the toilet.
2: The murderer cut the deceased's body into pieces, carried it on his body, covered it with clothes, and dumped the body outside the hotel several times.
Three: Most hotels face the sun, and windows facing north are generally not within the surveillance range. The murderer cuts the body into several pieces, cuts off the flesh, and uses purchased tools to smash or squeeze the head and torso so that the body parts can be removed from the window guardrail.
Stuff it out, drag it to the roof with a rope, then hoist the corpse to the surveillance blind spot behind the hotel building, and finally move it quietly.
Professor Liang rocked the wheelchair and walked to the window to open the curtains. The window of the room where Lan Keer lived also faced north. Although there was no protective fence installed, the window was stuck and could only open a gap. The human body could not pass through it.
However, Lan Keer's body was intact, and police inspection also showed that there were no signs of damage to the windows.
Bao Zhan said: None of my three answers apply to this case.
Professor Liang said: Yes, we are now encountering the fourth situation.
Hua Long said: Anyway, I firmly do not believe in ghosts and gods.
Su Mei said: If you don’t believe it, why is there a Tomb-Sweeping Day and burning paper money?
The person in charge of the Jiazhou police asked how to explain to the media. The special case team could only delay. The information they currently have is no more than the media. The world's attention is focused on this case, and news media from China, the United States, Canada and other countries have done so.
The case attracted headlines and reporters gathered at the Dahlia Hotel. It also attracted a large number of explorers curious about the case, causing hotel room rates to soar.
A few days later, Lan Keer's body was buried, but the police still did not confirm the real cause of death.
This case of global attention has made the special case team feel unprecedented pressure. Various rumors and speculations cannot erase people's doubts. Did Lan Keer commit suicide? Murder? Or died accidentally? How did Lan Keer's body get inside?
The water tower on the top floor? Why has Lan Keer's body been missing for half a month? What caused Lan Keer's strange behavior in the elevator? If Lan Keer was murdered, who was the murderer? What was the murderer's motive?
The case was at a stalemate, and the special case team was at a loss. Although they investigated every employee of the hotel again, there was still no progress.
Professor Liang thought of a way. He summoned the media and some private detectives who were curious about the case, hoping to work together to make a breakthrough in the case. Everyone expressed their opinions and discussed and analyzed the whole afternoon in the hotel conference room. The case was complicated and confusing, and there were many differences.
Professor Liang sorted out several common points.
Lan Keer encountered something that frightened her during her lifetime.
Lan Keer died in this hotel.
Lan Keer's clothes were missing, and a naked body was found in the water tank.
A reporter speculated that Lan Ke'er's clothes might have been sucked away by the water tank. The hotel's water supply system is complex and has many pipes, so the police did not find it. Where did Lan Ke'er die in the hotel? If it was the corridor or the roof where the murderer met,
Then she probably struggled, but there were no external injuries on the body. According to the forensic autopsy results, Lan Keer died of drowning. Whether it was suicide, homicide, or accidental death, Lan Keer's death was related to water.
Besides the water tank, where in the hotel is there water?
Bao Zhan seemed to see a glimmer of light. He pointed to the bathroom and said that this might be the scene of the first murder.
Hualong said: There was a sink and a bathtub in the bathroom. The murderer might have pressed her head into the water and drowned her.
Su Mei said: I noticed that Lan Keer’s relics contained facial cleanser. She filled the sink with water first, lowered her head to wash her face, and her face was covered with facial cleanser. She couldn’t open her eyes. It may have been at this time that the murderer attacked
He killed her and forced her head into the sink. Otherwise, when she was washing her hair, the murderer approached her quietly and she would not have been able to see it. The murderer drowned her in the bathtub.
Professor Liang said: How the murderer entered Lan Keer's room and how he left it is a mystery.
Everyone was discussing the case in the room when suddenly there was a knock on the door and the magician and female assistant next door walked in.
The female assistant said: I wonder if you want to enjoy a magic trick?
Hua Long said: We are busy and have no time to see any magic tricks.
The magician said: Forget it, originally we wanted to perform a wall-walking trick for you.
After the magician and the female assistant finished talking, they walked out. Professor Liang stopped them and expressed his interest.
The magician said: The magic I want to perform is very simple. If you lock the door, I can enter your room through the wall.
Su Mei said: How is this possible? You passed through the wall and entered our room from the next room. Is that so?
The magician said: For one thousand dollars, I will not perform for free.
Hualong said: This is a bit much.
The magician said: I'm talking about dollars, a thousand dollars.
Bao Zhan said: Can you really do it?
The magician said: Of course.
Hualong said: We are investigating a case, and you must know that we now have reason to suspect you.
The magician said: Whatever, I'm not afraid.
Hualong took out the handcuffs and said with a smile: Maybe you can perform an escape technique and use your hair to open the handcuffs or something.
The magician said: If you want to see me perform the magic of walking through walls, I have only one request: let this barbarian stay away from me.
Professor Liang said: Okay, we will pay you one thousand dollars and we would like to see how you penetrate the wall.
Professor Liang asked Hua Long to go to the hotel restaurant to prepare dinner. Hua Long left angrily. Only Professor Liang, Bao Zhan and Su Mei were left in the room. The magician and the female assistant left the room and when they closed the door, he said: "Performance"
It's started, the time limit is one hour.
Bao Zhan locked the door and put on the anti-theft chain. Su Mei also closed the window. After careful inspection, everyone believed that it was impossible for the magician to enter the room with the door locked and the windows tightly closed.
Su Mei said: If this room is the scene of the first murder, then how the murderer entered, I think it will be revealed soon.
Bao Zhan asked: Can this magician really do it? If he were a criminal suspect, wouldn't he throw himself into a trap like this?
Su Mei said: Could it be that he deliberately let us sit here to lure the tiger away from the mountain and create a second case?
Professor Liang said: The magician may not be the murderer, he may have some kind of hint to us.
While Professor Liang and the other three were discussing, some smoke drifted in from the gap under the door. Everyone was a little panicked. They didn't know if it was some kind of poisonous gas. The room was filled with smoke. Su Mei pushed up Professor Liang in the wheelchair and Bao Zhan
Standing up and trying to open the door and leave, there was a burst of laughter from behind. Everyone looked back and saw that the magician was already standing in the room.
The door was locked, the windows were closed, and the magician suddenly appeared like a ghost.
Professor Liang said: Well, your performance was very successful, Xiaomei will pay the appearance fee later.
The magician said: I changed my mind and I won’t charge you any money.
Professor Liang asked: Why?
The magician said: Because you are the first audience who is willing to pay a lot of money to watch my magic show.
Bao Zhan said: We need to know how you entered this room, and please cooperate with the investigation.
The magician laughed loudly and said: I had expected it a long time ago, I will not cooperate with your police.
Su Mei said: It’s not that easy for you to leave.
The magician said: I can come in or go out. Goodbye.
Su Mei called the police officer on duty in the hotel lobby, and Bao Zhan mustered up the courage to rush forward and try to subdue the magician.
The magician threw a smoke bomb on the ground. The smoke suddenly rose up along with the flames. Bao Zhan hurriedly dodged. The smoke gradually dissipated. Everyone found that the magician disappeared in front of their eyes, and the doors and windows of the room were still closed.
Gotta be good.
News came from the hotel front desk that the female assistant had checked out half an hour ago and left the hotel early.
Hualong arrived with the police, but the magician had left and his whereabouts were unknown.
Hua Long said, I told you earlier that this guy should be handcuffed. Is he running away now?
The Jiazhou police were busy until midnight, but could not find the magician. The special case team analyzed that even if the magician is not a suspect, he is probably an insider. He has lived in the Dahlia Hotel for several months and may have discovered something strange about this hotel.
Department, use a magic show to hint at giving the police some information.
Before going to bed, Su Mei took a bath. The smoke created by the magician was some powdery substance, which sprayed on Su Mei's hair.
Su Mei turned on the shower and restrained her inner fear. She did not dare to close her eyes. This bathroom scared her.
Su Mei simply rinsed her body. Nothing strange happened. The bathroom was filled with hot air. She felt relieved and kept comforting herself. She walked to the mirror, wiped it with her hands, squeezed out facial cleanser and washed her face.
With her head tilted, she vaguely felt someone approaching quietly and standing behind her. She hurriedly wiped the facial cleanser from her eyes, and when she looked back, there was no one behind her. She exhaled, patted her chest, and continued washing her face...
The moment Su Mei raised her head and opened her eyes, she was extremely frightened. A face suddenly appeared in the mirror, and her facial features were blurry. Su Mei was the only one in the bathroom. She was horrified and screamed.