dead innocent

The Shu Palace has recently been closed for renovation. Except for the staff, there are no idlers coming and going.However, just after the police sealed off Room 106 and removed the criminal police, the boss of Shu Palace, who is superstitious in Feng Shui, ordered someone to clean the third floor except Room 106, and according to the master's instructions, rearranged all the furniture in the room.

It was also this move that exposed the dripping blood buried deep in the dark soil to the sky.

After waiting in the lobby on the first floor for nearly half an hour, Manager Zhang saw the captain of the criminal police who led the team to seal off the scene to search for evidence last time, and VIP customer He Cheng pushed open the revolving door on the first floor and walked in side by side.

"what happened?"

Chu Xingyun stopped in front of him and asked with a gloomy face.

Manager Zhang looked at He Cheng first, and was about to start a conversation with He Cheng, when he saw He Cheng took a step back and stood behind Chu Xingyun, and said, "Don't talk to me."

So Manager Zhang turned to Chu Xingyun, wiped the cold sweat from the false alarm on his forehead, and said: "When cleaning the room today, I found a blood-stained iron hammer in room 105. I will take you to see it."

According to Manager Zhang, it was several hotel staff who discovered the suspected murder weapon.They found the murder weapon wrapped in a plastic bag at the corner between the wardrobe and the base of the wall when they shifted the wardrobe according to Mr. Feng Shui's instructions.Manager Zhang saw blood stains on the hammer, and immediately called the phone number Chu Xingyun left for him the night before.

When Chu Xingyun arrived at Room 105, he first observed the staff present, and found that there were many witnesses, and it was impossible to reach a collusion confession for a while, so he accepted Manager Zhang's statement.

Manager Zhang didn't pretend to be smart this time to remove the evidence, so the hammer wrapped in the plastic bag was still lying in the corner between the sloping wardrobe and the base of the wall.

"Has anyone else been in this room since the accident?"

Chu Xingyun lifted the hammer out through the plastic bag to try the weight, tried the feel, put it back on the floor without even opening it, patted his palm and asked.

"No one has ever come in. We have been closed for two days for refurbishment."

Chu Xingyun squatted on the ground and looked back at several hotel employees: "Who was the first person to find out?"

A young man stood up and said, "We discovered it when we were moving the closet, so it must be at the same time."

Chu Xingyun stood up and fell into deep thought.

He remembered that the occupants of this room were a couple, and he had a chat with the couple in the tea area on the first floor. There was nothing suspicious about the couple at that time, except that the wife looked a little stiff and nervous.

This hammer is in line with Su Wan's determination of the murder weapon, but it has not been identified, so it is impossible to confirm whether the blood on it belongs to Zhou Shiyang.But as far as the situation at this moment is concerned, he must speculate from the standpoint of doubting the couple, and temporarily use this hammer as a murder weapon.

Chu Xingyun suddenly looked at the east wall of the bedroom that was separated from Room 106.

If the hammer was really the murder weapon that killed Zhou Shiyang, and it appeared in room 105 after committing the crime, it means that someone sneaked into room 105 from room 106, and thus completed the secret room murder in room 106.

But the doors and windows are locked, and the only remaining possible entrance to room 106 is the wall shared by 105 and 106.

For the sake of aesthetics, the east wall was turned into a whole pane wall, which was filled with various components and ornaments in a patchwork manner.If he remembered correctly, behind this wall was bedroom 106, where Zhou Shiyang's body lay.

He walked to the pane wall, tried to move a few panes, and asked with little hope, "Is there a way to open it here?"

No one paid attention to him, so he looked back at Manager Zhang impatiently: "I said, are these panes movable?"

Manager Zhang said with a little guilty conscience: "Yes, there is a place that can be opened."

Chu Xingyun's eyes froze, and his voice was as cold as a cold wind: "Where is it?"

The secrets of Room 105 and Room 106 were exposed after Manager Zhao pointed it out.

It turns out that where the Shu Palace was built, Room 10, Room 5 and Room 106 are not guest rooms, but an operating room.Later, rooms 105 and 106 were converted into guest rooms when the supply of guest rooms was in short supply. Because the partition between 105 and 106 had been opened and the walls had been destroyed when the operating room was built, a pane had to be built in the middle to act as a wall.This pane seems to be a whole side, but it is actually two left and right panes, filled with sound-proof cotton in the middle, and combined like a sliding door, when they are closed together, they become a seamless wall.

Unless someone knows, it is impossible for anyone to see the mechanism in this wall.

Manager Zhang took something similar to a window opener, found an almost invisible gap on the pane wall, inserted it into an extremely concealed hexagonal groove at the bottom, and turned it hard to the right, followed by two Two young men separated the two panes that merged into one wall, one from the left and the other from the right.

The moment the panes were separated, Chu Xingyun saw bedroom No. 106, which was slowly pulled away, where Zhou Shiyang's body lay.

His eyes were burning red. Standing on the spot, he glanced at the layout of bedroom No. 106, and then raised his legs and walked into the bedroom of No. 106.

Zhou Shiyang's body had been carried away, and now there was only a pool of blood left on the carpet.

He walked to the bloody carpet, knelt down and stretched out his hands to caress the soft, white carpet, then grabbed a white fluff and pinched it between his fingers, asking, "Is this kind of carpet only available in Room 106? "

Manager Zhang said: "That's a white fox fur rug, only a presidential suit will match it."

Chu Xingyun inspected the place where the murder happened again, and found another logical loophole.

If Zhou Shiyang died of a murder in a secret room, then the 105 people must have ambushed here, so how can they be sure that they will wait for Zhou Shiyang?

Also, it was Qin Xiao who booked the room, but Zhou Shiyang was the one who died. Regardless of who the murderer's target is, how did they know that they could wait for their target in Room 106?

Chu Xingyun faintly feels that although the current evidence is conclusive, this clue seems to be integrated and orderly, but in fact it is scattered and disorganized.If you want to use these clues effectively, there is still a crucial rule missing.

He returned to Room 105, stood in front of Manager Zhang, his eyes were shining brightly, and asked in a questioning tone: "Since you already knew that there is a passage between the two guest rooms, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Under his gaze, Manager Zhang humbly smiled and said: "Captain Chu, you also know that the most important thing in hotel business is the privacy and safety of guests. I didn't mean to hide it from you. The one who tells is you."

Chu Xingyun’s eyes flashed across his face as if a cold front was dragging, he went into the bathroom and took out a brand new plastic bag, wrapped the hammer in his hand, and said to Manager Zhang before leaving: “Take Qin Xiao Call up all the check-in records with Zhou Shiyang."

It took him a long time this time, so that when he stepped out of the Shu Palace, it happened to usher in the sunset.

The Shu Palace was closed for renovations, so it was very quiet, and there was no one in the lobby on the first floor.

He Cheng sat in the empty tea area, perhaps because the waiting time was too long, or maybe he was a little tired from running around with Chu Xingyun all day, so he fell asleep with his forehead propped up.

Chu Xingyun walked in front of him with light steps, looked at his sleeping face with his eyes closed, and smiled unconsciously.

He leaned on the armrest of the sofa, bent down and blew on He Cheng's slightly trembling eyelashes.

He Cheng frowned, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Chu Xingyun's face close at hand, and the rare gentle and bright smile on his face.

"Tired?"

Chu Xingyun asked.

He Cheng took off his glasses, pinched the center of his brows, and said, "No, shall we go now?"

He gathered his suit jacket and wanted to stand up, but Chu Xingyun circled him, preventing him from moving.

"I guess I'll have to stay up late tonight, and I'll send you back first before going back to the police station."

Although the tone of Chu Xingyun's words is very soft, it cannot be questioned.

He Cheng originally wanted to pester him for a day, but now seeing the persistence in his eyes, he took a step back and nodded slightly.

Chu Xingyun touched his chin with a smile: "It's really sensible, let's go, take you home."

Sending He Cheng to the gate of Jiuli Jinting Community, Chu Xingyun watched him open the door and get off the car, and suddenly stopped him when he closed the car door.

He Cheng leaned on the car door to look at him: "What's wrong?"

There was a trace of worry and uneasiness in Chu Xingyun's eyes, and he looked at him solemnly for a moment, and suddenly his face was swept away, and he said with a smile: "It's nothing, remember to feed the cat when you go back, I will come back to accompany you when I am done."

The last sentence was very pleasant, He Cheng's lips curled up, and he said, "Then I'll wait for you."

Watching He Cheng enter Building No. 7, Chu Xingyun drove to the police station until the lights in the window of 717 came on.

On the way, he first called Xiao Shu.

"Has the bodyguard He Ying found arrived?"

Xiao Shu said: "I just got off the plane, and I'm rushing to Jiuli Jinting."

The road ahead was congested, and Chu Xingyun slammed on the brakes a little irritably: "Let them all be smart, I always have a bad feeling."

Xiao Shu was silent for a moment, then said, "I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Chu Xingyun stared at the constantly jumping red light at the intersection ahead, lost his mind for a while, followed the traffic flow slowly when the green light was on, and made another call.

Qiao Shishi answered quickly: "Boss, where are you?"

"On the way back, did someone bring it?"

"According to what you said, Fang Junhai and Liu Ru were brought back."

"Separate them first, I'll be right there."

Less than 10 minutes after hanging up the phone, he returned to the city bureau at a miraculous speed in the evening rush hour, which was completely paralyzed.

Now the whole police force, except him, does not know why Fang Junhai and his wife were invited to drink tea, so Fang Junhai and his wife were temporarily separated into two interrogation rooms, and no one interrogated them.

Chu Xingyun went upstairs and went straight to Su Wan's office, and threw the evidence brought back on her desk, and there was a bang, which startled Su Wan.

"Check the blood and fingerprints on it, and give me the results immediately."

Zhao Feng came from the other end of the corridor with a teacup in hand, just in time to see him coming out of Su Wan's office with a dignified face and a blaze of fire.

"Boss, where did you go today?"

Chu Xingyun walked past him non-stop, took the teacup in his hand along the way, and walked downstairs while drinking water.

In interrogation room No. [-], Qiao Shishi was sitting with Liu Ru, flipping through a document spread on his lap.

Chu Xingyun suddenly pushed open the door, causing the two women to turn their heads to look at him at the same time.

Liu Ru should have been taken away by the police just after get off work, and she was still wearing a decent suit.She wears a little makeup and has a delicate hairstyle. Even if there are a few fine lines at the corners of her eyes, it does not prevent her from exuding the charm and beauty of a mature woman.

Chu Xingyun looked at her calmly, then walked to Qiao Shishi, and took the documents she handed over: "All?"

Master Qiao nodded.

Chu Xingyun took a sip of water, turned around and walked out of the interrogation room, as if he didn't see Liu Ru, and didn't say a word to her.

In interrogation room No. [-], Fu Yi bumped into Chu Xingyun as soon as he opened the door.

Fu Yi took a step back in time so that the water splashed from his cup would not wet his clothes.

"What's wrong with you? You're in a panic."

Fu also asked.

"There is evidence."

Chu Xingyun dropped an ambiguous sentence, then stuffed the teacup to Fu Yi, pushed the door open and walked into the interrogation room.

Although Fu Yi didn't know what he had done all day, Chu Xingyun would only attack when he had cards in his hand.Now that he mysteriously summoned two guests, they should be the suspects in his heart, and he has already grasped the evidence of possible conviction, otherwise Chu Xingyun might as well attack so easily.

Fu Yi was slightly taken aback, and walked into the interrogation room with a teacup in hand.

In the interrogation room, Fang Junhai sat on the chair in the middle, and Yang Kaitai and Chu Xingyun sat behind a table opposite.

After Chu Xingyun was seated, he crossed his legs and flipped through the documents in his hands, with a pen between his fingers, and wrote two strokes on a piece of white paper from time to time.The interrogation room was treated like a university classroom by him.

His routines have always been confusing, Yang Kaitai is used to Chang Anzhi waiting by the side.

Fang Junhai asked several times, but was blocked by Yang Kaitai's 'don't make noise'.

About 10 minutes later, Chu Xingyun took out a handful of change from his breast pocket and threw it in front of Yang Kaitai, biting his cigarette butt and saying, "Go and buy me something to eat."

Yang Kaitai put together the change: "Have you eaten yet?"

Chu Xingyun put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, and exhaled the last puff of smoke: "There is no time."

After Yang Kaitai left, he called Fu Yi over and showed him a few pages in the document, with a faint smile on his lips: "What a coincidence?"

Without his pointing it out, Fu Yi really couldn't see the connection between these photos. He frowned for a while and said nothing for a while, and the color of his dark eyes behind the lenses became deeper and deeper.

Fu Yi glanced at the key issues he had listed on the paper, then sat in Yang Kaitai's place, acting as a recorder temporarily, and said, "Let's get started."

When Fang Junhai heard the word 'start', his flat brows were slightly frowned, and his body leaned back against the back of the chair.

Chu Xingyun closed the document and pushed it aside, knocked out another cigarette from the cigarette box, lit it with the flame, looked at Fang Junhai and asked with a smile: "Do you mind?"

Fang Junhai has already entered a state of alert, with a trace of trance and nervousness appearing in his expression, he hurriedly said: "I don't mind."

Chu Xingyun picked up the cigarette case: "Do you want it?"

"I don't smoke, thank you."

Chu Xingyun put down the cigarette case, his eyes hidden behind a little white smoke quietly scanned his whole body up and down, and then began the prologue of tonight's interrogation.

"Mr. Fang, I changed a pair of shoes today."

Fang Junhai subconsciously looked down at the leather shoes on his feet, and suddenly recalled something, his feet suddenly shrank back.

Chu Xingyun saw his reaction in his eyes, looked at him calmly and coldly and said lightly; "Actually, you shouldn't wear leather shoes, do you know why?"

Fang Junhai didn't look directly at his question, but avoided the center of the topic, saying: "I usually meet clients at work, and I'm used to wearing leather shoes, and my family also—"

Chu Xingyun didn't seem to care what he said, knocked the ashtray on the edge of the ashtray, interrupted him leisurely, and said slowly: "Because of sticky hair."

Although his eyes were on the ashtray, he was always paying attention to Fang Junhai from the corner of his eye. He saw that Fang Junhai seemed to be gagged suddenly, silent and panicked.

"Last time I asked you what kind of cat you have, your wife said it was a Persian cat—"

Said, Chu Xingyun paused, and then opened a very false smile: "But as far as I know, you seem to be allergic to cats and dogs, and your family does not have cats."

Then, he took out a small evidence bag from his pocket and held it up to Fang Junhai: "Do you know what this is? Is it similar to the fur on your shoes that night?"

Fang Junhai swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva with a guilty conscience, cold sweat rolled down his forehead, and the dim light in his condensed pupils floated up and down.

What Chu Xingyun held in his hand was the few white fox furs he took from the carpet in the bedroom of Room 106.

Fang Junhai's eyes froze, as if he wanted to refute, but he was speechless.

Chu Xingyun put down the evidence bag, looked at him thoughtfully and said: "No wonder I felt familiar with you at the first sight, it turns out that you are really an acquaintance who has never met before." Pulling, showing a shallow and indifferent smile, said: "Fang Yu really looks a bit like you."

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