Neverland

The surveillance video of Xingshan Resort will be covered every other week. Fortunately, Xu Muzhou came early, so he can still find it by picking and picking.

Yan Cending's room is in the small building next to the hot spring clubhouse. This building is a new building of Xingshan Resort just renovated the year before last. The monitoring facilities inside were also renewed at that time, and the clarity is better than the other old buildings. There are many.

The security guard in the monitoring room was fidgeting and rewinding the video tape. From time to time, he would glance cautiously at Xu Muzhou next to him, as if he was sitting on a prickly cushion under his buttocks.

Xu Muzhou stood beside the security guard with his arms folded. He frowned slightly and stared at the monitoring screen with a serious expression.

The picture on the screen reversed rapidly at several times the speed, Xu Muzhou stared at the camera at the end of the corridor, and waited for a long time before seeing the reflection of the dining car in the picture.

"Stop." Xu Muzhou said, "Just here, go back for 2 minutes and try."

The security guard adjusted the video playback settings to normal speed and moved the progress bar forward by 2 minutes.

The young man in uniform pushed the dining car and politely knocked on the door of Room 207, and said something to the inside of the door.

The surveillance cameras are placed at a high position, some distance away from 207, some of them can't see the specific situation clearly.

"Can you zoom in?" Xu Muzhou reached out and tapped 207 on the screen, and said, "It's here."

"After zooming in, the clarity may not be as good as it is now," the security guard said.

"It's okay." Xu Muzhou said, "Just zoom in a little bit."

The security guard nodded and complied.

The waiter in the picture should have received feedback from the people in the room, put down his hands, and pushed the dining car in a different direction.

After a few more seconds, the door of Room 207 opened a small crack—it was opened from inside the room.

Xu Muzhou had clasped his hands behind his back, but when he saw the door opened, he became nervous. He changed his standing posture calmly, and then put his hands in his pockets, wiping the cold sweat from his palms on his pants.

The man who came out of Room 207 was neatly dressed, wearing a turtleneck sweater—the one that Yan Cen wore on Sunday morning.

In the picture, Yan Cen refused the waiter's request to enter the room, picked up the tray from the dining car, and then slightly bowed to the waiter, probably as a thank you.

The angle of the surveillance camera is limited, so it can only capture part of his side face, but even so, this unclear picture is enough for Xu Muzhou to recognize that the person in the picture is indeed Yan Cen.

Xu Muzhou frowned, and subconsciously looked at the time in the lower right corner.

—Ten past three in the morning.

Xu Muzhou was slightly taken aback, counting the time of ordering and delivery, this time was 10 minutes earlier than what Yan Cen said.Although 10 minutes is not enough to prove anything, and it is not enough for Yan Cen to go to Shanyuan District to kill someone, but Xu Muzhou still felt a strange feeling for no reason.

But in fact, the time difference of 10 minutes is nothing, and ordinary people are not all criminal policemen like him, so it is easy to remember the time wrong, let alone the confusing time in the middle of the night.

But that weird feeling tends to be more intuitional, and Xu Muzhou always feels that there is something wrong with Yan Cen's misremembering the time.

In the video, the waiter pushed the dining car and turned away, but Yan Cen didn't enter the house immediately. He stood at the door for a moment, then took a small step forward, leaving the door's edge, then turned around and looked up. Camera, raised the corners of his lips and smiled.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

Yan Cen's face was completely exposed to the camera, and every detail clearly proved that he was indeed in this resort at [-]:[-] in the morning, and it was absolutely impossible for him to go to the other side of Shencheng to call Xu Kang .

In the picture, Yan Cen seemed to take two random steps, looked at the camera, turned and opened the door, and went back to the house with the dinner plate.

Yan Cen's statement did not lie, but Xu Muzhou's face became ugly.

Because the man in the picture was obviously doing it on purpose, he calmly let the camera capture his whole body clearly from 360 degrees, and even provocatively blurred the four characters "intentionally" through the surveillance screen. On Xu Muzhou's face.

—— Yan Cen knew that Xu Muzhou would stand here one day to watch this video.

Seeing that Xu Muzhou hadn't spoken for a long time and didn't give any further instructions, the security guard rubbed his hands a little uneasily, and asked, "Is there anything else you want to see?"

"No more." Xu Muzhou said, "Thank you..."

Before Xu Muzhou finished speaking, he suddenly stopped.

"Is there anything else?" the security guard asked suspiciously.

Xu Muzhou frowned and waved at him, signaling him to be quiet.

In fact, even if Yan Cen's face did appear on the surveillance, it doesn't mean that Xu Muzhou really thinks that Yan Cen is innocent. It is different from Qi Yuan's alibi that is continuously online. Yan Cen's alibi , although it is established in theory, there is still a lot of room for operation in actual operation.

Taking a step back, if the assumption of "more than one murderer" is true, then the phone call cannot be used as the time anchor of the crime for reference.

Xu Muzhou was already suspicious of this matter, not to mention that Yan Cen's "alibi" is so presumptuous, he can't wait to write the words "I'm suspicious" on his face.

Xu Muzhou didn't understand whether he was confident or had other hidden secrets, but judging from his attitude so far, Xu Muzhou was more inclined to the former.

No policeman can remain indifferent to the provocation of a suspected criminal. Xu Muzhou frowned and pinched the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes and searching for possible effective entry points in his mind.

Xu Muzhou searched out all the information related to Yan Cen in his mind. He recalled the check-in and check-out information he saw at the front desk, but suddenly remembered a point that he had overlooked.

"... Excuse me, turn to the camera near the main entrance at around eight o'clock last Friday night." Xu Muzhou said.

The security guard didn't know what he meant, but he had already quickly started searching for related videos. There was a specific time period, and the surveillance video was not difficult to find. The security guard moved the cursor to the place designated by Xu Muzhou, and clicked to play.

There are several lines of remarks in Yan Cen's check-in information details, and all his consumption in Xingshan Resort is written in the remarks column.But in the details on that page, in addition to the buffet card and hot spring, Yan Cen also had a parking fee of 30 yuan.

Just as Xu Muzhou guessed, at around eight o'clock on Friday night, the infrared camera clearly captured a black Buick driving in from outside, and it stopped at the entrance of the main building of Xingshan Resort.

Yan Cen got out of the car, and then handed over the car keys in his hand to the car boy who was waiting at the door to park.

But Xu Muzhou clearly remembered that when he saw Yan Cen at Xu Kang's residence on Sunday morning, he obviously took a taxi to the scene.

—Where did his car go?

It takes exactly half an hour to drive from Xingshan Resort to Jiahe Community where Xu Kang lives. If the inexplicable phone call with "Ace of Spades" is not counted, Yan Cen can leave immediately after receiving the meal. Find Xu Kang.

Xu Muzhou was faintly excited. He patted the security guard on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, let's see when this car leaves."

"It's probably impossible to see it." The security guard said awkwardly: "Our parking lot is our own place, which is purely open-air, and the charges are charged from the accommodation book, so there is no access system and surveillance cameras in the parking lot."

Xu Muzhou was not discouraged, he pursed his lips and said, "Then go back and check the room surveillance in the early morning of Sunday to see if he has left the hotel."

But unfortunately, Xu Muzhou did not find the information he wanted from the surveillance. The corridor was empty, except for the waiters who occasionally passed by. The door of Room 207 was not reopened until after six o'clock in the morning. , Yan Cen came out dragging a small suitcase, apparently planning to check out.

Xu Muzhou knew very well that when it came to investigating the case, the clues would not lead to a bunch of clues like Taobao package packages, so he was not disappointed.

What's more, he got enough suspicious clues this time.

There was no news from the city bureau, and the remaining four living people on the list drank tea separately at the city bureau. There was no new victim information, and there were new clues—it seemed that everything was turning around for the better.

After repeatedly instructing the personnel involved not to disclose the situation to the outside world, Xu Muzhou left Xingshan Resort.

He put the bluetooth headset on his ear, dialed Shen Shuang's phone casually, fastened his seat belt, and reached out to turn on the ignition.

The phone was connected quickly, and there was an echo after only two rings.

"Hello." Shen Shuang's voice sounded a little echoy, it should be open to the public: "Brother Xu, tell me."

"Check out a car for me." Xu Muzhou said, "Shen A26C17, black Buick. I drove into Xingshan Resort on Friday night. I don't know when I drove out. Maybe I need to adjust the road information."

Shen Shuang understood the time and place as soon as she heard it, and responded: "Okay, let's check—is it the car of Forensic Doctor Yan?"

"Yeah." Xu Muzhou said: "Yan Cen was indeed in Xingshan Resort at that time, but it is not sure whether he was in the house after that, his room is on the second floor, it is not impossible if he wants to jump out of the window... he I have a car, if I drive there, the time difference is enough for him to kill Xu Kang."

"But didn't Ace of Spades call Xu Kang in advance?" Shen Shuang said, "The development zone is too far away from the suburbs, it's impossible."

"Who said that the call must be made by the murderer?" Xu Muzhou asked back.

Shen Shuang on the other side of the phone choked suddenly.

Xu Muzhou lifted the control lever of the turn signal, turned the steering wheel half a circle to the left, and drove onto the main road.

"The Ace of Spades." Xu Muzhou said, "It sounds like a heart is born like a villain, sharp and special...but who said the Ace of Spades is the killer card?"

Shen Shuang came back belatedly: "You mean..."

"We seem to have been misled by this card." Xu Muzhou said, "Of course the suit of the poker card cannot be the murderer... Shen Ergou, only people can kill people."