remnants

The on-site inspection work was over, Nie Qing asked the inspection team to go back to the city bureau first, Chi Xiaojing also went back to do a further autopsy, and the three groups were divided into one part to track Zhou Jun's whereabouts, and the other part Responsible for contacting He Tian's relatives and investigating the relationships around her.

Nie Qing on Su Ji's side had already called and told him to go directly to the Forensic Medical Examination and Appraisal Center to find Chi Xiaojing.

As for Nie Qing himself, he stayed in room 3201 at the scene of the murder for the time being.

There are too many incomprehensible causes and consequences and unclear clues. He feels that he may be inspired by staying on the scene for a while.

How did He Tian get here?How did the murderer leave?

The several exits downstairs are all watched by the police. Nie Qing has confirmed to them before that at least two people are in charge of monitoring each exit. There has never been a blank period of guarding, so they should not miss it.

But in this way, how to explain He Tian who appeared out of thin air and Zhou Jun who disappeared out of thin air?

Going downstairs doesn't work, so there is only...upstairs?

Nie Qing walked to the door silently, her eyes quietly looking at the elevator room in the middle of the corridor.

Is it possible to go upstairs?According to what they have just learned, the real estate in the Zongshuying community is mainly for two classes of customers: one is rich, and the other is extremely rich.

Take the building where Zhou Jun’s house is located as an example. It has a total of 39 floors. From the first floor to the 34th floor are relatively common apartment-style apartments, and from the 35th floor onwards, they all belong to the category of penthouses. One household, the price is naturally staggeringly expensive.

In addition, in order to provide a better resident experience, the builder also built a "garden walk" on the top floors of the two adjacent buildings to connect the open-air swimming pools and roof gardens on the two balconies. It is possible to walk around each other on the roof.

But the problem is that the facilities on the top floor are only freely open to residents living in the penthouse. If residents and non-residents on other floors want to go up, they must pay a small fee and need to register their real names at the front desk of the building. , so that you can get the permission card that can unlock the elevator button on the top floor.Otherwise, even if you get on the elevator, you cannot press the button above the 34th floor.

When Nie Qing had someone come over to secretly protect Zhou Jun, the reason why he didn't monitor the entrance and exit of Building No. [-] next door was that on the one hand, there were not enough manpower, and on the other hand, he felt that it was unlikely that the murderer would choose to come up from the next door.

If he chooses to register and leave his name, it is tantamount to leaving clues to the police.But if he didn't have to register, would someone go out of their way to buy a penthouse just to kill someone?

Nie Qing originally thought that this possibility was extremely small, but now, he had to try to reconsider...

A sudden vibration came from the side of her thigh, pulling Nie Qing out of her meditation.

It was he who arranged for the men at the People's Hospital to call!

Nie Qing put the phone to his ear almost within half a second, and asked without waiting for a sound from inside, "Is the operation over? How is he?"

"Team leader, don't worry, just after the operation, Dr. Ming said that the wound has been healed, and it will be fine as long as you rest for a while!" The young man on the other end of the phone said quite briskly.

Nie Qing relaxed slightly, but the feeling of worry still lingered, and she couldn't help but asked, "Is it convenient for you to see him now? Is he asleep or awake? Can he talk?"

"This..." The other side hesitated for a while, "team leader, he is falling asleep at the moment, and Doctor Ming told him not to disturb him. How about I take a photo of you? You can feel at ease looking at it some."

"Well... that's fine, I'm sorry." Nie Qing held the phone tightly in his hand, turned on the speakerphone, and stared at the screen without blinking until he saw a pop-up message "xxx sent a picture ", he quickly clicked on it, and waited for another ten seconds for the photo to be completely loaded before he finally saw clearly the person he wanted to see.

In the photo, Yu Sheng was lying on a snow-white hospital bed with his eyes closed, and his face looked even whiter than the color of the hospital bed, almost showing a transparent texture.

Nie Qing subconsciously clenched his other hand into a fist and firmly pressed it against his teeth, but it was still difficult to suppress the overwhelming pain in his heart.

"Team leader? Have you received it?" The person on the phone asked again without hearing Nie Qing's voice.

"Got it..." Nie Qing paused, "Thank you."

"You're welcome! It's a casual thing!" The person inside said with a smile, and then his voice suddenly dropped again, "Okay, the team leader will stop talking, Doctor Ming is staring at us... as if he wants to kill people..."

"Okay—hey wait!" Nie Qing suddenly remembered that he almost forgot a very important thing, "You want the knife that stabbed Yu Sheng from Doctor Ming, and send someone to send it back to the city bureau immediately. , to the laboratory for testing."

"No problem! Doctor Ming gave us the knife just now, I'll go back right away!"

"Okay. Remember to tell the lab, and let me know as soon as the result comes out, no matter what time it is." Nie Qing urged again.

"understand!"

After speaking, he hung up the phone.

Nie Qing wandered around in room 3201 for two more times to confirm that there would be no new discoveries for the time being, then locked the door and went downstairs, and went directly to the front desk of Building No. [-] to inquire about today's registration status on the top floor.

The person in charge of the front desk of Building No. [-] was a young girl with a very juicy appearance. When she saw Nie approaching her, she got up and nodded politely at him, "Hi sir, may I help you?"

"Hello." Nie Qing handed over his police officer card while speaking, "I want to check the list of people who have been to the top floor today, as well as the list of residents on the 35th to 39th floors of Building [-]. It is convenient If so, please also provide the surveillance video of the six elevators.”

Although the girl at the front desk looked young, she was very alert. After seeing Nie Qing's police officer's certificate, her attitude became a little more enthusiastic, and she sped up her speech: "Hello, officer, you want to see There is no problem with the registration on the top floor, so I can give it to you right away. But I need to ask our leader for instructions on the top floor residents list and the surveillance video inside the elevator, and I can give it to you only after I get his approval. Otherwise, it will be regarded as a serious violation of the staff. I will be expelled according to the rules, please understand."

"I understand. Is it convenient for you to talk to your leaders now? Just say that people from the Municipal Public Security Bureau want to investigate information about a case. I hope your company can cooperate." Nie Qing said very sincerely.

The girl nodded quickly, "I see. I'm going to use the internal line to call the leader. Please wait for a few minutes. If you are tired, please sit on the sofa over there and have a rest."

"It's okay, I'll wait here." Nie Qing said.

Seeing this, the girl didn't force her, she nodded again and said, "Okay, please wait a moment." After she finished speaking, she turned and entered a small office beside the front desk, and gently closed the door.

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening, and the sky was already dark, but it was not completely dark, and some orange-red residual clouds that were about to disappear could still be vaguely seen in the sky.

Standing sideways at the front desk, Nie Qing looked through the French windows with an excellent view on the first floor, and felt that the truth of this case was like these residual clouds, which seemed to appear and disappear, but actually fell into it step by step Yong Ye will eventually be completely annihilated in the darkness.

It will be too late if the case is not solved.

This idea suddenly popped up in Nie Qing's heart.

His whole body seemed to be hit hard by a powerful sense of urgency, making him shiver instantly.

"Officer," the little girl at the front desk just came out of the office at this time, holding a piece of copy paper in her hand, walked over and put it on the counter and said, "I have already asked the leader for instructions, and he asked me to report today. I printed a copy of the registration list for you. As for the surveillance video in the elevator and the list of residents on the top floor, the leader said that he has no choice but to confirm with the big boss after going to work on Monday tomorrow.”

"Big boss?" Nie Qing frowned slightly, "Is it so troublesome?"

"I'm really sorry, but please understand that we are obliged to protect the personal information of residents, and there is really no way to give it out without permission." The girl at the front desk apologized.

Nie Qing was also aware of their rules of doing things, and after thinking about it for a while, she compromised and said, "It's okay, let's wait until tomorrow. When can I confirm with the big boss?"

"The leader said that I will ask the boss as soon as he gets to work. It should be around ten o'clock in the morning. Why don't you leave me a contact information, and I will notify you as soon as I get a response. Is this okay?"

"Well, I'll leave you my phone number." As soon as Nie Qing finished speaking, the girl at the front desk had handed over a post-it note, and he wrote down his phone number.

"By the way, officer, our leader just said that if it's convenient, you might as well ask the leader of the city bureau to contact our big boss directly. That might be easier." The girl at the front desk looked at Nie Qing kindly and added .

Nie Qing immediately understood what she meant, probably because her rank was low, so the leader must have told her just now that it was impossible for him to obtain this information at his rank.

"I see. I will ask my superiors for instructions when I go back. Thank you for reminding me." Nie Qing nodded to her.

After finishing speaking, he picked up the registration list on the counter and looked at it carefully.

On this list, there are a total of fifteen people, including nine residents of this building and six non-residents.

However, after carefully reading it three times, Nie Qing has already confirmed that there is no familiar name on it.

"Excuse me, are the names registered on it really real names?" Nie Qing asked.

"They are all real names. We register according to the information on the ID card." The girl at the front desk said affirmatively.

"These non-residents who go up to the rooftop, can anyone pay the money?" Nie Qing asked again.

"No." The girl at the front desk shook her head this time, "If non-residents want to go up, they must have an introduction from the residents on the top floor of this building or the No. Isn’t the room number also written in the column at the back? That’s the room number of the resident introduced to them.”

Nie Qingting nodded slightly, "Will there be any omissions in this list? For example, someone secretly followed the registered person to the elevator to the rooftop?"

The girl at the front desk smiled when she heard the words, "It's impossible. There are colleagues in charge of reception at the roof garden and the entrance of the swimming pool. If the number is wrong, they will definitely be discovered. Uh...but—" The girl at the front desk suddenly paused , added: "If the non-residents are accompanied by the residents on the top floor, or if the residents on the top floor give their door cards to the non-residents, they can go up directly without registration, because the door cards of the top floor residents themselves can swipe the top five doors. floor elevator authority."

"Well, I understand." Nie Qing folded the list in his hand and put it in his pocket. "Then I will wait for news from you tomorrow. Once the big boss agrees to provide those materials, please notify me as soon as possible."

"No problem, please rest assured, we will definitely notify you." The girl at the front desk bowed respectfully and replied.

"Thank you."

When I came out of Building No. [-], although only ten minutes had passed, the sky had already completely darkened, and it might rain again after a while.

If it really started, the search work at night would become more and more difficult, and Zhou Jun didn't know when he would be found.

Nie Qing's heart was heavy, and she walked quickly towards the place where she parked.

And when he just got into the car, the phone vibrated suddenly, and seeing that it belonged to Luo Qi, Nie Qing thought that there was something new about him following Fu Mingjie, but when he connected, he heard Luo Qi say nervously : "Hey team leader... you should go back to the game now, just now the team leader asked me to notify you to come back for a meeting."

"Meeting again? What time?" Nie Qing glanced at his watch, it was eight o'clock.

Luo Qi gave a low hum, and seemed to cover the microphone with his hands, "Leader, I feel that the atmosphere is not right... The way the captain looked at me just now is scary..."

Nie Qing listened helplessly, "There's nothing to be afraid of. What time does the meeting start?"

"08:30, can the team leader come back soon?" Luo Qi was a little anxious.

"Yes. You wait for me in the bureau." Nie Qing heard a sigh of relief on the other end of the phone after speaking, and couldn't help laughing.

However, after laughing, Nie Qing's expression became serious little by little.

He realized that tonight's meeting would turn into a "Hongmen Banquet" if there was any trouble with him.

We can only face the difficulties.