Crime Hunt Files: Bloody Angel

After Bai Ji'an parked the car, he followed Cao Kelly and Tan Jie to the door of the unit.

The shiny silver unit door is new, and next to it is a pager that can be connected to each household. If you want to open the door, unless you have a key, you can only press the room number and ask the landlord to open the door.

Bai Ji'an asked, "Has the door been broken?"

"No, it was this door from the beginning."

"That looks new."

Kelly Cao's expression was slightly comforting, "Our unit is better protected, but the same cannot be said for other units. Some doors are damaged within a few months. If the door lock is broken, you have to find the property management company to repair it. Once or twice is fine. , after a long time, the property management got tired of it, and asked the owners to repair the doors from their own pockets. There were always a few who disagreed, and those who agreed didn't want to pay more to give others an advantage, so they couldn't reach a consensus, and the doors were just left there. , over time, the business owners who were originally stuck in the middle got used to it.”

Cao Huilin's home lives on the fourth floor. Each floor is divided into three households on the left, right and middle. The doors of each household are only one or two people apart.

Except for the door of Cao Huilin's house, the doors of the other two houses are unified security doors installed when the community was opened.

Tan Jie asked: "How big is this house?"

Kelly Cao shrugged, "Just look at the distance and you'll know it's not that big inside."

Bai Ji'an stood on the platform in the middle of the three doors, looked around the corridor, and agreed: "Indeed, installing surveillance will make it easy to photograph neighbors entering and exiting."

"Right, I can't help it." Cao Huilin took out the key and inserted it into the keyhole, muttering: "It's a waste of time to blind such a good door like mine. I change the lock every day."

Bai Ji'an stood in the entrance hall, looked up at the monitor on the inside of the door, and asked, "Have you never lost anything?"

Cao Huilin looked up in his direction and said, "No, I'm just afraid that someone will sneak in. I've violated the neighbor's privacy outside, so I can install it casually inside the house."

"When was it installed?"

"After the door was locked for the first time." Cao Kelly felt frightened when she thought of this strange thing. "As a woman living alone, I am easily targeted by bad people, so I have never let down my guard. Even if I want to live out, it is safe." Put it first. It’s just that I didn’t expect that this kind of thing would happen even if the unit door locks are all good.”

Tan Jie thought, "That's strange. Are you sure you didn't offend anyone? Think about it again, even if you think you didn't say anything you think is serious."

Kelly Cao tilted her head, not understanding what Tan Jie meant.

"How can I remember when you ask me this suddenly?"

If she didn't think it was important, she wouldn't remember it so clearly.

"What I mean is that you may have offended someone unintentionally, so he looks for an opportunity to secretly retaliate against you."

Bai Ji'an agreed, "It's not impossible. After all, the person blocking your door lock has never entered your home, or even harassed you personally. The possibility of greed for money or sex can basically be ruled out."

Tan Jie wondered, "It can't be a child's prank."

"Then you may have really wronged the child." After saying that, Bai Ji'an looked at Cao Huilin next to him and was about to leave, "You guys talk."

Kelly Cao was stunned, "Where are you going? My case..."

"I'm just going to investigate the case."

Tan Jie pulled Cao Huilin over with great discernment, "Just let him go. Maybe he will be caught by you when he comes back."

This was Cao Kelly's first contact with a detective, so she was naturally dubious about Tan Jie's words.

"Okay, don't worry, he is quite powerful."

Cao Kelly called Tan Jie to the living room, went to the kitchen to pour a glass of carrot juice, and handed it to him angrily, "Are you sure?"

She paid the deposit, but she didn't want to lose everything.

"Well." Tan Jie was not polite to his old friend. He took the juice and took a sip, comforting him: "Your door lock is not a big deal. He can even solve murder cases."

"Killing people?" Cao Kelly couldn't help shaking her body after hearing this, "You don't want to participate too..."

Hearing this, Tan Jie suddenly remembered the scene when he dug out a half-rotten corpse from under a plum tree with a shovel, and the juice suddenly became so astringent that it became bitter.

"Well, it is."

Her outstanding imagination made Kelly Cao's facial features converge to the middle, "It's so miserable."

Bai Ji'an went all the way upstairs.

The entire residential building has seven floors, no elevator, and 21 households. Only 4 households have replaced the original doors by themselves.

Cao Huilin's house is the lowest floor among the other three households. One of the other three households is on the sixth floor and two on the seventh floor.

Bai Ji'an stood on the platform on the 6th and a half floors, scanning the three households that were changing their doors up and down. Finally he walked to the 6th floor and knocked on the door.

"coming."

What came out from inside was the voice of an adult woman.

Bai Ji'an saw a dark shadow flashing out of the cat's eye. After a moment, the woman asked through the door: "Who are you looking for?"

"Hello, I'm from a locksmith company, and I'm the investigator responsible for visiting users to investigate user satisfaction. Can I talk to you?"

"Does the locksmith company still have a satisfaction survey?"

"Yes, after all, the company has been established and all aspects are being improved. In order to provide users with a better experience, the leaders will arrange for me to visit customers and provide feedback."

Bai Ji'an knew very well how nonsense his lies were, but his purpose was not really to make people believe that he was the investigator, but for another reason.

"This……"

Seeing the woman's hesitation, Bai Ji'an immediately took a step back and said, "If you are worried, you don't have to open the door. We can talk through the door, as long as you give me feedback."

"Okay. The lock works well, but the price is a little high."

"How much did you spend then?"

"430 yuan. It may have something to do with my door. I want to replace it with the same lock cylinder as before."

"Then why did your previous lock cylinder break? Is it rusty due to age? Lost the key?"

"Nothing... My door lock was blocked by something that looked like sand, and the key couldn't be inserted."

Bai Ji'an pretended to be surprised, "Is this happening?"

"Yes."

"Do you know who did it?"

"do not know."

"No investigation?"

"It only happens once in so many years. It's very troublesome, and I don't want to bother."

"One last question." Bai Ji'an scanned the four clean walls, "How did you contact our company?"

"Call the police. The police introduced you to me."

"Okay, thank you very much."

The woman hummed, said you're welcome, and then fell silent.

The cat eyes in front of his eyes emitted white light.

Bai Ji'an walked to the seventh floor and hunched over to check the door locks of the two houses. They were both fingerprint-coded locks without keyholes, and the door locks and doors were of the same brand.

He walked downstairs, changed to a corridor where the unit door was not locked, and continued to investigate.

Corridors without door locks are equivalent to open public places.

Compared with Cao Kelly's unit, the hygiene here is obviously much worse.