"Last night, because everyone knew that they were going back today, there were no entertainment activities arranged. Everyone went back to their rooms very early and started packing their luggage and preparing to go home. But around ten o'clock in the evening, something suddenly happened in the hotel.
There was a power outage. I went to the front desk to ask, and the hotel said that there was a problem with the line and it would be repaired soon. After more than 40 minutes, the line was finally repaired and the power came on."
After Xu Fang finished speaking, Liang Tao also said: "Yes, yes, yes, this is indeed the case."
Qin Hai pondered: "After the power outage, did anyone leave the room?"
Xu Fang said: "Yes, the weather was very hot last night. After the power outage, many people left their rooms and went to the beach outside the hotel to enjoy the cool weather. They did not go back to their rooms to rest until the power came on."
"During the blackout, did you see any unrelated people entering the hotel?"
Liang Tao and Xu Fang looked at each other and shook their heads together.
Liang Tao said: "Because the entire building has been booked by us, and the security in the hotel is pretty good, everyone is not too worried about someone going in and stealing things. Later, when I called, I asked around, and everyone was
He said nothing was lost. Chairman, could someone have stuffed drugs into our luggage while the power was out? But if that is the case, what are the motives of these people? This is really strange."
Qin Hai pondered for a while and said: "Until the matter is investigated clearly, everything is possible. Please let everyone not be anxious first. This matter will definitely be investigated clearly, and everyone will be innocent, so that everyone can go home smoothly.
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Liang Tao and Xu Fang nodded. Seeing that Qin Hai had no other instructions, they turned back and continued to appease the members of the tour group.
Qin Hai waited for a while and saw that Qiao Wei and Xiao Lingling had not come back. He guessed that their negotiation with the airport police was not going well, so he left the dark room and prepared to go and have a look.
Not long after he left the dark room, Anna appeared in the airport waiting hall. After dialing Qin Hai's mobile phone, she quickly came to Qin Hai.
Anna was called by Qin Hai. He made a phone call to Anna before setting off from the villa. After all, this is Sydney, a world of Westerners. Sometimes in the eyes of foreigners, yellow-skinned Orientals, especially Chinese
People still have some prejudices, and it might be better to let Anna come forward at this time.
"Qin, have you called Serena?" Anna asked.
"I called, but her phone was turned off and she couldn't get through." In fact, Qin Hai had called Serena as early as when they were in the villa, but couldn't get through. If Serena could come forward at this time,
The effect must be better, after all, the Edward family is still very famous in Sydney.
At this moment, Qiao Wei and Xiao Lingling also came back, both of them looking not very good.
Qin Hai asked: "How is it? What did they say?"
Qiao Wei sighed, "They have searched all the packages, but they still refuse to let him go."
Xiao Lingling said angrily: "These people are so bullying. They say that the three things we Chinese like to do the most are stealing, selling YIN and selling drugs. They also say that the security in Sydney is due to the large number of immigrants from China.
It got bad.”
Qin Hai's eyes darkened, "I'll go talk to them."
Anna quickly stopped him and said with a smile: "Don't worry, honey, we need professionals to deal with the police." After that, she made a phone call, and soon a middle-aged man came in from outside the airport and passed by Anna's door.
According to the introduction, this middle-aged man’s name is Smith. He is a senior local lawyer in Sydney. He has worked with Anna many times before, so he is familiar with her.
"Mr. Smith is a very professional lawyer. It is most appropriate for him to mediate this matter with the police." Anna said with a smile.
Qin Hai also knew that he had been impulsive just now, and it was indeed better for a lawyer to intervene in this kind of matter. Afterwards, he told Smith the whole incident and entrusted him with the whole matter.
Smith did live up to expectations. Half an hour later, after collecting a $1 million deposit, the police agreed to let everyone in the dark room leave the airport. However, they could only return to the hotel to rest and were not allowed to leave Sydney.
As for the eight people who have been detained by the police, they cannot be released yet.
Qin Hai asked Liang Tao and Xu Fang to lead the tour group back to the hotel. He, Qiao Wei and others followed Smith to the police station again. Here, they saw the police searching the boxes of Xie Shan and eight others.
of drugs, and those eight pieces of luggage.
Perhaps because of Smith's intervention, the police's attitude toward them improved a lot, but they still refused to let go and insisted on detaining eight people, including Xie Shan.
Because drug trafficking is a felony in Australia and parole is not allowed, Smith has no good way to deal with it. He can only hope that the police will find out the truth early and clear Xie Shan and the others. However, according to Smith's experience, this kind of case is unlikely to be solved.
It will take at least one or two months, or even longer, to investigate clearly. In other words, the other members of the tour group may be able to return to the country smoothly in a few days, but Xie Shan and the other eight will be detained in Sydney for at least one or two days.
Months of time. If the judge finally finds that they are indeed suspected of drug trafficking, they may even be sentenced to prison.
This is so painful!
After coming out of the police station, Smith left first, while Qin Hai and his party went to the hotel where the tour group stayed.
Qin Hai started looking all the way from the hotel door, and then all the way to the room where Xie Shan had lived before. He looked inside and out, but found nothing.
Then I checked the rooms where the other seven people had lived, but still found nothing.
Then they went to the hotel monitoring room to check last night's monitoring records. Unexpectedly, the hotel's monitoring last night also lacked 40 minutes of records due to a power outage. As for the monitoring in other time periods, after the hotel's self-inspection, there was no
It was discovered that strangers were entering and leaving Xie Shan's room.
Qin Hai still did not give up, and soon came to the power distribution room of the hotel. Here, Qin Hai quickly discovered the problem.
In the locker in the power distribution room, a broken electric meter was thrown there casually. There were traces of smoke and fire on it. It seemed that a serious short-circuit fault had occurred, which eventually caused the meter to be burned.
Anna quickly found a circuit repairman. It is said that he was the one who repaired the circuit after the hotel had a power outage last night.
According to this person's explanation, the electric meter in the locker was indeed replaced by him last night. Last night, for some unknown reason, the electric meter suddenly short-circuited and burned completely, causing a complete power outage in the hotel. He replaced it in time
After the electricity meter was turned off, the hotel regained its brightness.
After hearing this, Qin Hai finally confirmed that someone was indeed doing something secretly and using drugs to frame Xie Shan and the others.
However, Qin Hai could not figure out who this person was and what his purpose was.
Xie Shan and the others were all in Sydney for the first time, and they had not had any conflicts with anyone in the past few days. Who would use such vicious methods to frame them?
At this moment, a hotel security guard quickly walked into the power distribution room and handed an envelope to Qin Hai. He said that a child of fourteen or fifteen years old had just sent this letter to the hotel and named him.