Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

The series of murders made those who originally wanted to move in immediately hesitate again. However, the buildings where the accidents occurred were Building F, Building H, and Building B. Currently, the floors of these three buildings where the accidents occurred are temporarily cordoned off by cordons, and the other floors are not affected by the murders for the time being.

The residents in the resettlement housing community can be divided into two types. One type is those who use their savings to pay in full for the house and are determined to live in the community for the rest of their lives. The other type is those who have to live here on a monthly basis due to job transfers. However, the monthly rent for the latter is not cheap. The monthly rent for a 2-square-meter house is nearly 3 yuan, which is - times the monthly rent of the resettlement housing community on the ground.

Gu Tongwan looked at the busy store. Yu Chang was confirming the menu for tomorrow morning with the waiter, and the cleaning lady went to inspect the rooms again to make sure all the rooms were clean. Xia Yang also rushed to the guesthouse to familiarize himself with the equipment in the monitoring room in advance and to coordinate the work arrangements with Xiaoyu.

The three days before the opening are a discount period, during which accommodation can be discounted by 15%, and a breakfast coupon can be given for dining in the restaurant.

This was decided after discussing with Liao Yunyun. They both believed that the discount could not last long, after all, the guesthouse still needed to operate normally to maintain expenses.

Gu Tongwan had already brought some of the fruits in the space to the restaurant two days ago. As for vegetables and grains, the purchase of them had been handed over to Yu Chang. These fruits can be supplied daily as part of the restaurant's limited menu.

Tomorrow is not only the opening time of the guesthouse, but also the time when the third and largest batch of citizens will enter the underground city. In addition, the underground city will also open another 30,000 places to the outside world. However, the time for the 30,000 people to enter the city is restricted. They are only allowed from 8 am to 10 pm. After 11 pm, the city is closed. If you are a non-underground city citizen and stay in the underground city, you will be punished accordingly.

"Tomorrow there will be about 70,000 to 80,000 people pouring into the underground city, so the Self-Defense Forces will start setting up cordons at the entrances to the underground city starting early this evening, and will also dispatch at least a thousand Self-Defense Forces to enter the underground city for security patrols." Liao Yunyun has already asked for leave from work today and tomorrow, so she arrived at the guesthouse early. Tomorrow's opening will definitely be very busy, and as a friend and restaurant consultant, she will definitely have to run around.

"A lot of people will be coming tomorrow, including Aunt Man, Sister Cai, the Far Sailing Guild, the Beehive Guild, and the Zhang family. There are dozens of people on the list you gave me. These people will be seated at the three tables on the left. I have already told the kitchen staff that there is no need to settle the bill for these three tables." Liao Yunyun was very efficient and handled everything she was assigned in an orderly manner. She was worthy of being a small boss who had experience in opening a store.

After Gu Tongwan confirmed that there was no problem with the restaurant, he checked the room. Currently, the guesthouse does not have online booking, so citizens who want to stay there can only go to the front desk to book a room.

After confirming everything, it was already 5:30 in the afternoon, but Gu Tongwan suddenly received a call from Zhou Qian.

Liao Yunyun was left to take care of the store, while Gu Tongwan went to the Security Bureau.

Zhou Qian has been so busy these past two days that she has spent almost all her time following up on cases. The reason is that three homicides occurred in just two days, and these three homicides also have a common feature: the victims' heads were cut off. However, according to the results of the bureau's investigation, there are some differences among the three cases. In addition to Lin's relatively smooth cut wound, Zhang's head was more like being caused by some blunt instrument. There were also several marks of muscle tearing on the wound, which was not as smooth as the previous two cases, and the amount of bleeding was also large. Afterwards, the smell of blood attracted mutant rats and black-shelled cockroaches to bite.

Judging from the wounds on the body and the means of committing the crime, Lin and the first murder may have been committed by the same person, but the subsequent Zhang may have been an imitator.

At present, the owners of the resettlement housing community have jointly complained to the developer, and the developer has put pressure on the Security Bureau, demanding that the case must be solved within a week. Otherwise, once the incident ferments, it will cause a new round of public opinion tsunami and even cause people to question the security mechanism of the underground city.

Now, not only Zhou Qian is anxious, but even their captain has not slept for two days and is busy investigating all possible clues.

Zhou Qian couldn’t remember whether the last time she slept was fifteen or eighteen hours ago. She just felt her head buzzing and she didn’t even dare to close her eyes, for fear that she would fall asleep if she closed her eyes.

The colleague opposite sighed, then dragged his tired body to the tea room. When he came back, he had a cup of American coffee in his hand. He didn't know how many cups he had had today. He felt uncomfortable after drinking it, and even more uncomfortable if he didn't drink it.

In addition to bearing enormous pressure, the Security Bureau also had to deal with other cases in the past two days. Originally, there were a total of eight employees in the Second Branch, including Zhou Qian. After the next two murders, the superiors transferred four more members from the ground to assist in solving the case. Even so, Zhou Qian still felt very stressed. It was impossible to solve the case in a week without any clues, because the man locked in the detention room committed suicide by taking poison that night!

Everyone is working overtime tonight. Zhou Qian belongs to the Criminal Investigation Department, so she has the greatest pressure on her shoulders. Now it is simply a week of limit. Although the higher-ups have given the Second Bureau a week to investigate, the leaders of the internal bureau have only given the Criminal Investigation Department 72 hours. The shortest time they need to investigate the key clues is three days. As long as they can find it before the news reports come out, the bureau must have a way to deal with the bombardment of various media outlets. They also need to give the people in the base a satisfactory explanation and stabilize the emotions of the residents in the underground city.

Although it was speculated that the first headless female corpse was most likely from a cult organization, because they had her accomplices in their hands, the police station thought that as long as they conducted a high-intensity and prolonged interrogation of the man, the man's psychological defenses would be easily broken under the high-pressure interrogation method.

In reality, the man showed signs of collapse less than twelve hours after being arrested. At first, he kept silent and even remained indifferent to any questions asked. Later, he became furious and even screamed and smashed things in the interrogation room, kicked over the table, and finally engaged in self-abuse by banging his head against the wall.

However, the interrogation room is generally partitioned by sound-absorbing cotton. The material of this kind of wall is thick but soft, and no matter how much he bangs his head against the wall, it will not cause much damage to his body. So on the first night, no matter how much the man bangs his head against the wall and how much he screams heartbreakingly, the staff of the Criminal Investigation Department ignored him. Instead, they were waiting, waiting for the man to run out of strength and energy. Only then will his psychological defenses be the most vulnerable, and they can seize this opportunity to interrogate the man.

There are a total of six members in the Criminal Investigation Department, half of whom are people with superpowers, and the other half were experienced police officers in their previous lives. Before the apocalypse, Zhou Qian was a sophomore student at the Police Academy. After the apocalypse, she was successfully admitted to the Self-Defense Forces and assigned to the Guard Bureau.

Like other colleagues, she was waiting for the final interrogation time. According to past experience, criminals usually would not last more than 24 hours after entering the interrogation room. During these 24 hours, three groups of people would conduct various interrogations on the man, asking the same questions each time. When the man wanted to fall asleep, they would continue to ask him questions as a routine, causing the man to be in a state of mental weakness, feeling sleepy, tired and exhausted for a long time.

Although this method seems mild, it is actually no better than torture. The former is mental torture, while the latter is physical torture.

The man was found to have committed suicide at 5:30 p.m. the next day, which was also the 23rd hour he had been locked in the interrogation room. A tiny amount of red powder was found in the man's mouth, probably the Kansai that had melted in his mouth.

When the man was arrested, a simple physical examination was conducted on him, and professional instruments were even used to detect that there was no metal substance in his body. The man was locked up only after it was confirmed that there was no possibility of suicide.

But unexpectedly, the man committed suicide by taking poison. It turned out that the tiny powder came from one of the man's dentures. This tooth embedded in the back molar was completely hollowed out, and some powder had sneaked into it, but it was wrapped with a layer of waterproof sugar coating on the outside, which would not melt when in contact with water. Unless the denture is removed and bitten hard and then mixed with blood, it will produce a highly toxic substance that only requires 0.1 mg to be instantly fatal.

The time when the man chose to commit suicide happened to be the time when everyone else was most relaxed. It was the time for lunch in the afternoon and the time for the handover of the monitoring personnel. There was at least ten minutes of unattended time. The man pretended to curl up on the ground as before, but in fact his entire back was facing the camera. Seeing this, the supervising staff did not pay much attention to the man's movements. After all, before this, the man would always curl up like a hedgehog after crying.

The man's symptoms of poisoning were actually not very serious. Apart from the saliva flowing from the corners of his mouth, his body did not turn blue or have any external injuries, not even foaming at the mouth. He looked like he was asleep, and even the expression on his face was unusually peaceful.

"This drug may be a highly toxic product of some new virus. We need to take samples back to the laboratory to know the final composition. The laboratory will send someone to take the body away later. Those of you who have had physical contact with the prisoner are best to undergo full body disinfection. But don't be too nervous. This is just for safety reasons."

The staff of the Virus Research Institute solemnly said this to everyone in the Second Bureau before leaving. It was like dropping a bomb in the hearts of all colleagues. As a result, everyone rushed to pick up all the alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, hydrogen peroxide and alcohol gel that could be used for disinfection and sprayed or rubbed them on their bodies.

It was already 7:30 in the evening when Gu Tongwan arrived at the Security Bureau. She drove for less than five or six minutes. The distance between the guesthouse and the Second Bureau was only about four kilometers. The street lights on both sides were not fully turned on, but left some darkness, so that it could be better synchronized with the time on the ground.

An hour ago, people from the Virus Research Institute took the man's body away. Their Security Bureau has tried every means to investigate the man's identity, but unfortunately, the man's identity is that of an "illegal household."

"Black households" refer to those who sneak into the base or obtain base identity cards illegally through other means. The information on the identity cards of such people may not belong to themselves but to other people. Because the network system of each guard bureau in the base is not fully connected to the Internet, there are still certain loopholes in identity verification. Therefore, many people will take advantage of this loophole to falsify their identities. Although the base conducts a personal information census every year, the population base of the base is getting larger and larger, and the workload of identity confirmation is too large. There are only so many people in the census department of the base, so the time spent on verification will be prolonged. During this period, those "black households" can change their identities and move around in the base again.

Zhou Qian had just returned from the census department and received two pieces of information: the man had two identities in total, but unfortunately, neither of these two identities should be the man’s real identity.

Su Qiang, male, 2027 years old, from Hai City, entered the base in September 9, received his ID card in November, currently lives in Street A, District 11 in the south, has his own restaurant in District 12, usually stays in the store to work, but in recent months Su Qiang has been going out frequently, the store employees don't know where Su Qiang goes, they only know that Su Qiang disappears for a period of time from 13 noon to 12 o'clock every day. In April, Su Qiang transferred the store to other people, and used this asset to successfully apply for a citizen card for the third-class citizen of the underground city, and was able to enter the underground city normally during this period.

Su Qiang's second identity is a salesman in a small real estate agency. His age is also changed to about five years younger. Due to the nature of his job, Su Qiang does not need to punch in at work every day. He only needs to take customers to see houses when there are customers. Therefore, even other colleagues in the company only have the impression that Su Qiang is a short and mediocre middle-aged man.

It is still unknown which identity of the man is real, and the identity of the woman is even more of a mystery. The woman has no other relatives in the base. She had been married, but her husband died in an accident a few months ago. Therefore, she is currently a widow with a child. However, after investigation, it was found that the woman lives alone. It is impossible for someone who can enter a single apartment to have children. In addition, residents of the community who have seen the woman learned that the woman has always been a loner and has never seen any children around her.

One of the people who provided the confession was a partner in a private detective agency. What was even more bizarre was that the store jointly owned by these people was just diagonally opposite the guesthouse where the reporter who had previously discovered the woman's body was staying.