dead innocent

The crowd panic and onlookers caused by the explosion on the top of the State Guest Building were serious. The already busy night traffic flow was blocked by a loud bang. It is difficult to move an inch in it.

Chu Xingyun was stuck in the middle of the road and decided to abandon the car and walk within less than a minute. He shuttled through the stalled vehicles, left the road and arrived at the pedestrian street, only to find that he was not the only police car blocked.

On the section of road tens of meters away, two armed police vehicles with their lights on were surrounded by social vehicles. The armed policemen in the vehicles stuck out their heads and kept yelling at the people in front to move the vehicles away.At the same time, several police cars drove past at the central intersection at the back of the street.

Such a large-scale police dispatch is too rare. Chu Xingyun ran to the besieged police car, and after showing his ID, he asked, "What's going on?"

Armed policemen in black anti-explosion suits said: "There was a shooting in Jingguiyuan, Ninghuai Road!"

"Isn't it Sanfu Road?"

"Again!"

The walkie-talkie in the hands of the armed police suddenly rang: "Patrol team, patrol team, who is near No. 29 Jinling Road? Street people reported to the police and found a dead person who was shot."

Armed police: "Everyone is crazy!"

Chu Xingyun subconsciously looked up at the burning fire on the top of the State Guest Building, and then glanced around the panicked and terrified crowd.

There was a shooting on Sanfu Road, followed by Ninghuai Road, Jinling Road... Why did the three shootings happen at the same time?Is it a coincidence?

"Master Qiao!"

He suddenly roared.

Qiao Shishi poked his head out of the car: "Huh?"

"Contact Fu Yi and ask him to send more people to the scene of the shooting. They are the same gang!"

Before Qiao Shishi understood the deep meaning of his words, he saw that he was already galloping forward in the opposite direction.

As he expected, the congestion on the outer ring that avoids the city center is not serious, and special vehicles drive past from time to time, but the rescuers have no choice but to look far away, which will waste a lot of time.

Chu Xingyun suddenly rushed into the center of the road and stopped an ambulance.

The driver said angrily: "You are courting death!"

Chu Xingyun ran over to show his credentials: "Are you going to the Guobin Building?"

After getting an affirmative answer, Chu Xingyun opened the co-pilot's door and sat in, and the ambulance drove him through the outer ring road.

The whole street of Wangjing Road was under martial law. When he rushed to the scene with the ambulance, the fire on the top floor of the State Guest Building had been extinguished, and fire trucks and special vehicles blocked the road in front of the State Guest Building.

The crowd who successfully escaped from the building stood scattered on both sides of the building, while firefighters and armed police were still searching for rescue in the building.

Chu Xingyun glanced at the fleeing crowd. Although he hoped to see He Cheng among them, the possibility of this was very slim. He knew very well that the explosion was in the banquet hall on the top floor, and He Cheng was in the banquet hall at that time.

He found the commander of the firefighters who was directing the rescue at the scene, rushed over and grabbed his shoulder, and growled with red eyes: "Has He Cheng come out? He Cheng!"

"All the injured patients found have been sent to the hospital, you go to the hospital to find them!"

Chu Xingyun suddenly snatched the flashlight in his hand and ran towards the dark building.

Seeing this, two firefighters who were evacuating the crowd of survivors rushed to stop him.

Chu Xingyun threw off their arms with brute force, took out his ID card and held it in front of them, and said maniacly: "I am a policeman!"

Before he finished speaking, he heard someone calling him: "Captain Chu."

He quickly turned around and saw Zhou Quliang with a tired look coming out of the building with a woman in a dress.

Seeing Zhou Quliang, he seemed to see hope, and rushed towards him without thinking: "Where is He Cheng? Isn't He Cheng with you?"

Zhou Quliang handed the frightened woman nestled in his arms to the ambulance personnel, turned slightly, and pointed to the revolving door of the building: "He is there."

Two firefighters came out of the revolving door carrying a stretcher, still yelling loudly at the crowd in front of them.

Although the temporary lights on the fire truck were dim, he recognized at a glance that the man lying on the stretcher with blood dripping from his face and neck was He Cheng.

He pushed away the shoulder of a firefighter carrying a stretcher, and put his hand on He Cheng's jugular artery. He felt his life stirring in his palm, and his whole body went numb. Help the firefighters clear the rescue channel, and escort He Cheng all the way to be carried into the ambulance.

Zhou Quliang thought that he would leave with He Cheng, but unexpectedly he just sent He Cheng to the ambulance, watched the ambulance leave, and then returned to the scene.

"Who is in charge of this building?"

At this time, Chu Xingyun was no longer panicked and irritable. He found the commander of the fire brigade again and asked calmly and calmly.

The commander called over the man in a suit and tie who was being questioned by the armed police, and said, "He is Manager Chen."

Manager Chen's suit was torn, and his face was scratched several times. He looked as if he had just escaped from a tiger's mouth.

"Which floor is your monitoring room on?"

Chu Xingyun asked.

"The thirteenth floor, downstairs of the banquet hall, you are late, the surveillance video has been completely destroyed."

"There is such an important meeting tonight, don't you check whether the people entering and leaving are carrying dangerous goods?"

Manager Chen called Qu: "We know that famous politicians and entrepreneurs will be there tonight, so we strictly control the number and list of staff. It must be the bomb brought by the foreign personnel attending the meeting. I'm sure our own staff is fine! "

"Were you there when the explosion occurred?"

"I'm on the first floor of the banquet hall."

"Retell the situation at that time."

"There's nothing to say. Suddenly someone found a bomb in the corner on the second floor. Everyone ran downstairs in a swarm. The bomb exploded on the way to escape."

"Who found it?"

"Securities patrolling the banquet site."

"Where is he now?"

"I was injured and sent to the hospital."

Manager Chen probably had a premonition that the lawsuit was about to be entangled, so he was busy shirking responsibility, and did not intend to cooperate with him to fully recount the situation at that time, with an impatient and impatient expression on his face.

Just when Chu Xingyun was about to take certain measures to dig out something from his mouth, Zhou Quliang, who had been watching for a long time, suddenly stepped forward and said, "I can go up with you to have a look, Captain Chu."

The suit jacket on Zhou Quliang's body was put on by the woman just now, and the tie was also taken off by him and wrapped around his hands. He was wearing only a black shirt on his upper body. Standing in the background of the noisy and panicked crowd without changing his expression, he said to him: " I was there too."

Chu Xingyun walked up to him, looked at the dark building behind him, and said, "Are you sure? There may be a second explosion."

Zhou Quliang nodded, and turned to make way for him.

The people have already gone out to cooperate with him, and Chu Xingyun didn't hold back too much, handed him a flashlight, and took the lead in getting into the dark building.

On every corner of the building, there are armed police with explosion-proof detectors searching for possible explosive devices.The team leader of the armed police search team was an acquaintance of his. He learned that he was going to the scene of the explosion to collect evidence, asked a few questions routinely, and then let him go.

The banquet hall is on the top of the building, which is divided into upper and lower floors. The bomb was placed on the second floor of the banquet hall. At that time, the people attending the banquet were distributed between the first floor and the second floor. Fortunately, the security guards found the bomb before the explosion, so it was still considered a banquet. There is a buffer time for people to escape.Therefore, the big explosion occurred just before the crowd poured out of the banquet hall, and did not cause large-scale casualties, except that the banquet hall was destroyed.

The banquet hall is on the top of the building, which is divided into upper and lower floors. The bomb was placed on the second floor of the banquet hall. At that time, the people attending the banquet were distributed between the first floor and the second floor. Fortunately, the security guards found the bomb before the explosion, so it was still considered a banquet. There is a buffer time for people to escape.Therefore, the big explosion occurred just before the crowd poured out of the banquet hall, and did not cause large-scale casualties, except that the banquet hall was destroyed.

The scene of the explosion was horrific. The two-story banquet hall was scorched and black. The luxurious and exquisite decoration and furnishings turned into debris all over the floor. heat wave.

Because the circuit of the building has been damaged, only the two flashlights in their hands are illuminated at this moment.

Zhou Quliang took him to the second floor of the banquet hall, at the corner between the guardrail on the second floor and the west wall: "This is where the bomb was found."

Chu Xingyun first scanned the glass slag with several layers of thick glass with a flashlight, then used his feet to disperse a small open space, and asked, "So what is there here?"

Zhou Quliang concentrated the light in his hand on the place he illuminated, and said, "It's a display rack with many crystal products on it."

Chu Xingyun squatted on the ground, pushed aside the crystal residue that was still exuding scorching heat with his hands, and found a two-color wire connected to the plastic cover, and two glass tubes that could still be seen in shape.

Improvised explosive device, detonated by remote control.

This kind of material is everywhere, and it can be sold wholesale with a little bit of tricks, without any clues to follow.

He threw away the wreckage in his hand, stood up and looked around, and found that the upper and lower floors of the banquet hall were a duplex structure.There is a staircase in the center of the lobby on the first floor leading to the second floor, and his position at this time is a blind spot. Standing here, he can take in the scene of the first floor, but the people on the first floor cannot see him.

No, not everyone can't see him.

Chu Xingyun pointed the flashlight at the stairs on the first floor, and to the east, you can still see the outline of the bar counter. The bar counter and the bomb placement site on the second floor are almost facing each other, and the deviation is less than [-] degrees. That is to say, if you stand on the bar counter Before, it is possible to see this blind spot that cannot be seen in other places.

"You stand here and don't move."

He said to Zhou Quliang,

He stepped on the broken stairs from the second floor to the first floor, then stood in front of the bar, raised his flashlight to shine on Zhou Quliang on the second floor: "Can you see me?"

Zhou Quliang said: "It's very clear."

From his point of view, Zhou Quliang, who was in a blind spot, could see clearly.

"Is there anyone on the second floor?"

Chu Xingyun asked again.

Zhou Quliang recalled for a moment: "It doesn't seem to be. The second floor is the kitchen and lounge. Only the staff come and go. Most of the participants are on the first floor."

Manager Chen said that their staff had undergone strict training and safety checks, and all of them were old employees with some qualifications in the hotel. However, the second floor was originally the site of the staff, and there was a high possibility that the suspects would hide in the hotel. among the staff.

The time when the security found the bomb was also very strange. Manager Chen said that when the security found the bomb during the on-site inspection, the general security would patrol according to the established route. Minutes to find the bomb?

While scanning the surrounding wreckage with a flashlight, Chu Xingyun thought of two situations.

1. The security guard is the one who dropped the bomb.

2. The person who dropped the bomb placed the bomb on the west corner of the second floor ten minutes before the explosion.

He quickly overturned the first speculation, because if the security guard was the one who dropped the bomb, he would have stayed far away and detonated the bomb instead of getting involved in a dangerous situation, let alone evacuate the crowd.So there is only one last possibility left, the bomb was placed at the explosion site more than ten minutes before detonation.

"Are there any rules for the security guards patrolling the scene?"

Chu Xingyun asked.

Zhou Quliang said: "As far as I know, it seems to be patrolling every 10 minutes."

As he said that, he seemed to suddenly think of something, and said with his eyebrows pressed together: "Around [-]:[-], the security guards had just made their rounds at that time, and the mayor's secretary was speaking on the rostrum on the first floor. Floor. According to the procedure, the secretary will cut the cake after speaking. The cake is huge and has nine layers. All the staff present at that time should be preparing the cake in the kitchen on the second floor."

At 10:[-], [-] minutes before the explosion, almost all the staff were in the kitchen, the participants were on the first floor, and the security guards had just patrolled...

In other words, at that time, the second floor was empty.

In other words, whoever appears on the second floor between [-]:[-] and [-] o'clock is the one who dropped the bomb.

But at that time, all the participants were listening to the mayor's secretary's speech on the first floor. Who would have noticed if anyone appeared on the second floor?

Chu Xingyun looked at the position where Zhou Quliang was standing again. The place where Zhou Quliang was standing was a blind spot for other positions on the first floor, but in his field of vision, Zhou Quliang was on the edge of his peripheral vision, so there was no need to pay attention to it. I can circle him into my field of vision.

So he can almost conclude that there must be witnesses.Whoever stands where he stands is a witness.

"When the secretary of the mayor spoke, was there anyone in the place where I was standing now?"

Although there must have been witnesses, he didn't really expect to find this person.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Quliang said decisively without thinking, "Yes."

Chu Xingyun hurriedly asked: "Who?"

Zhou Quliang came down from the second floor, stopped in front of him, and said, "He Cheng."