When the magic flower blooms

"Let's talk about the situation now. The sooner this matter is over, the better. I don't want to waste time here."

As on the outside, Officer Lin is a man who acts straightforwardly and without delay.

"Okay. We will actively cooperate."

Ming Ruoxing nodded, and then made a speech that surprised He Tiansi: "I think the deceased is most likely to be poisoned by carbon monoxide."

"Judging from the bright color of the face of the corpse, especially the lips, it does look like carbon monoxide. Those who destroyed the scene just now probably felt that 'the face doesn't look like a dead person', so they rushed forward to try to rescue them."

Officer Lin agrees with Ming Ruoxing's point of view, and uses this as a breakthrough point to think deeply.

"It's just that if you want to create a carbon monoxide poisoning scene in a high-end hotel, what should you do? Do you have any idea?"

"No clue, only doubt."

Ming Ruoxing didn't hide anything, and briefly recounted the two events that happened around last night.

"Is there such a thing?" Police Officer Lin squinted at Ming Ruoxing, "...So it seems that you also have a motive for killing."

After saying this, he quickly looked at He Tiansi again.

"I haven't asked yet, this is your friend? Why do you think you're staying in a hotel at this time?"

He Tiansi immediately became nervous when he received the police's attention. Fortunately, Ming Ruoxing was already ahead to answer for him.

"I'm on vacation with my friends. You need to understand that these irrelevant things will satisfy you later. But now you should hurry up and solve the case. I believe you can't waste too much of your thoughts on this matter of ordinary people. Bar?"

Police officer Lin was also interesting, being so provoked by Ming Ruoxing, he really became serious.

"Carbon monoxide poisoning is generally caused by burning charcoal. However, no container and ashes were found at the scene. This is probably the murderer's biggest trick and the key to solving the case."

Ming Ruoxing also sorted out following his train of thought.

"Carbon monoxide poisoning is one of the most easily identifiable causes of death. If you want to pretend to be a suicide, the easiest way is to place a charcoal basin at the scene. However, there are no obvious suicide tools at the scene. The victim's death is so bizarre, it is obvious that the murderer There is no intention to cover up the murder as a suicide attempt, so it is superfluous to tie the door chain. It can be inferred that the door chain should be tied by the victim himself."

"That's true." Officer Lin confirmed his deduction, "Only the victim's fingerprints were found on the door chain. Therefore, this should be a murder scene in a secret room."

"It's not exactly a secret room."

Ming Ruoxing pointed to the floor-to-ceiling windows not far away, "The murderer may also enter the crime scene from the balcony."

"Regarding this, our people are collecting evidence, and you can go and see for yourself."

Police officer Lin made a gesture of invitation, Ming Ruoxing immediately stepped into the scene, and He Tiansi, who had been listening carefully, also hurriedly followed.

Like the two of them's room next door, this room also had a viewing balcony large enough to be called.In the space of about eight or nine square meters, there is an outdoor table and two chairs, but there is nothing else.

Ming Ruoxing walked to the left and right sides of the balcony and looked at the distance to the next room respectively—unfortunately, both the balcony on the left and the right are separated by a bathroom, at least four to five meters away by visual inspection. The outer facade is made of dry-hanging marble, which is very smooth, and there is no place to stand on it.

Even so, he still asked persistently, "Who lives next door?"

"A female colleague of the deceased. Why don't you tell me more, the two rooms directly above and to the right of the deceased are also his colleagues."

"Choose on purpose?"

"It is said that there was a problem with the water pipes during the renovation of the secret floor. The affected rooms are all special rooms."

"That is to say, it is entirely possible that a certain colleague took advantage of the location of the guest room to attack him."

"It is indeed very possible. We will search the rooms of those eight people later. We hope to find traces of preparing or storing carbon monoxide. Then we will go through interrogation to find out how they completed this secret room trick."

Reasoning so far, the matter seems to be only one step away from being resolved.Officer Lin indicated that Ming Ruoxing could go to the rest area to wait for the result.As soon as he walked out of the scene, He Tiansi couldn't wait to drag Ming Ruoxing's arm into their room.

"What's going on? That guy surnamed Lin is a decent policeman, right? Why do you even know the policeman in City H? You still talk and laugh with him?"

Ming Ruoxing still said the same thing: "I said before, the world of demihumans is very small."

"But the number of police officers is huge. There's no reason for such a coincidence that we met a demihuman policeman. By the way, it can't be such a coincidence that the men he brought are all demihumans, right?"

"Your mind seems to be more flexible."

"Don't try to change the subject like that!"

In order to show his firm determination, He Tiansi reached out and pressed down on the wall, trapping Ming Ruoxing in a small space.

"Speak quickly!"

Maybe it was because the distance was too close, Ming Ruoxing had to turn his head to hide the uncontrollable subtle blush on his cheeks.

"When the shift was over in the morning, the night shift manager had informed the day shift manager of the conflict between us and the deceased. So after the body was discovered, the hotel chose to notify the special subhuman public security department instead of the ordinary 110 command center."

"Special demi-human public security department? Is there such a department in the Public Security Bureau?"

"It has no affiliation with the Public Security Bureau, or even the government's Ministry of Public Security. The Asian Public Security Department is directly subordinate to the Asian Public Security Department. But in terms of functions, it is not much different from ordinary police."

"Then I have a question: Suppose the hotel reported this case to the Yaren police, and the onlookers called 110. The two arrived at the same time, who should the case be handed over to?"

"Give the police to the demihumans."

"Why?"

"The priority is higher. In the society of ordinary people, the sub-human police work in the name of the Ministry of National Security."

"I see……"

He Tiansi seemed to understand, but at the same time seemed half-understood.

"Why do you have such a good relationship with the Asian Public Security Bureau? And the reasoning is sound. Think about it carefully, many things about you were also very suspicious..."

"Then what do you think I am?"

Knowing that blindly avoiding would lead to suspicion, Ming Ruoxing simply fought back.

"Well..." He Tiansi pondered for a while, "I think you look like a policeman, a policeman with a lot to do."

It was a terrifyingly accurate intuition.

Ming Ruoxing sighed in his heart, but his mouth was still relentless:

"The only thing I'm interested in is your matter..."

Just as he was saying this, footsteps came from the door.Immediately afterwards, someone knocked on the door, saying that Officer Lin needed to find the two of them again in an urgent matter.

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In less than 10 minutes, Officer Lin's face darkened by at least two shades, which shows that the process of collecting evidence did not go very smoothly.

"In the rooms of those colleagues, there was no trace of burning charcoal, and there were no similar tools."

Sure enough, the original biggest breakthrough suddenly became a bottleneck, and the case suddenly entered a stalemate.

On the one hand, the forensic doctor has put the body into a body bag, and the investigation work on the scene is basically completed.If there is no accident, it will be time to seal the scene and transfer it to the forensic laboratory soon.

Officer Lin and Ming Ruoxing fell into deep thought at the same time, and no one expected that He Tiansi, who had been watching the excitement, suddenly interjected.

"Does carbon monoxide smell?"

"Pure should not have."

Thinking that he was just asking casually, Ming Ruoxing didn't even bother to raise his head.

"But if it's burning charcoal, there should be a bit of burnt smell at the scene." This is what Police Officer Lin added.

"Really? But I seem to have smelled a fragrance just now."

He Tiansi's words immediately attracted the attention of both Ming Ruoxing and Police Officer Lin.

"What scent?"

"It's thick and light, and it's quite complicated... the thick one is like lemon, and it's still very thick! The light one is like cream, but it won't smell soon."

"Lemons are right, just because so many people squeezed in and knocked off the lemonade on the bedside table, the carpet is still wet." Officer Lin explained, "Are you sure there is still a creamy smell? There are no dairy products on site."

"Uh...maybe it's just lemon flavor." He Tiansi hesitated after being pressed hard by his questioning.

But Ming Ruoxing suddenly remembered something.

"...Cream smell, I also smelled it last night!"

According to Ming Ruoxing's recollection, after he had a dispute with the deceased yesterday, there was a short period of chaos in the elevator.In the midst of that chaos, he suddenly smelled a very distinct, sweet aroma that resembled cream.

"Those people smelled of alcohol at the time, and we had just come out of Xueliu. The creamy smell definitely didn't come from people." He was very sure of this.

After listening to the memories of the two of them, Police Officer Lin used his index and middle fingers to push the deep wrinkles between his brows, as if doing so would push away the fog in front of him and glimpse the truth.

"Recall your memories carefully, what strange things were in the elevator at that time?"

Ming Ruoxing and He Tiansi looked at each other, and this time, He Tiansi was the one who got the answer first.

"...It's a balloon!"

He unconsciously raised his voice: "At that time, someone in the elevator took a lot of balloons, and some balloons burst when they were pushing. Could it be something tricky somewhere?"

"Balloon, cream?"

Officer Lin's eyebrows really stretched: "So that's what happened!"

Obviously, Ming Ruoxing had already thought of going with him, his eyes were full of excitement that he was determined to win.

Only He Tiansi is still in a foggy state.

"Can you take care of the students who are less advanced? Anyway, I was the first to provide this clue!"

"It's laughing gas."

Ming Ruoxing explained the mystery: "Laughing gas with a creamy fragrance was originally a very common anesthetic gas in oral surgery. But because it can stimulate the secretion of endorphins and make people feel euphoric, in recent years it has It has become a dangerous substance. In some bars, people will inhale balloons filled with this gas to achieve a similar state of drunkenness. Obviously, these nine people did not only inhale in bars yesterday, but also put this terrible stuff Bring it back to the hotel."

"But the victim did not inhale excessive laughing gas to death."

Officer Lin pointed out the crux of the case: "At least on the surface, he died of carbon monoxide poisoning."

"This is the murderer's trick."

Ming Ruoxing's eyes are bright, he has seen through everything.

"In the last few minutes of life, the deceased thought that what he was inhaling was just laughing gas for fun. But in fact, it was carbon monoxide gas of high purity and enough to kill."