Deadly virus

Xu Sichen's heart missed a few beats, and just as her thoughts were diverging uncontrollably, Yang Bo had already driven the car to the International Hotel.

"Still leaving? What are you thinking?" Lu Linjiang turned to call her after getting off the car.

Xu Sichen stuffed the phone in his trouser pocket, got out of the car and followed.

The hotel immediately reported to the police, and some reporters had already heard the news. Lu Linjiang took the people upstairs directly from the freight elevator.The International Hotel has a total of 26 floors, and Tao Minxing lives on the [-]th floor, which is a standard room.

The entire 2025th floor has been sealed off. Lu Linjiang glanced at the sign and went straight to room [-] where the accident happened.Colleagues from the forensics department are already busy inside.Lu Linjiang waved behind him, Tang Hua took Yang Bo to find someone to find out the situation, and Lu Linjiang went straight into the room.

There is a bathroom on the left hand side after entering. Lu Linjiang met with the forensics staff, and Tao Minxing was being pushed out of it.

Lu Linjiang signaled the other party to stop, and lifted a corner of the white cover very carefully.Tao Minxing, who was wearing rimless glasses, maintained a painful expression, not lying there peacefully.

"what's the situation?"

Guo Junyi, who was taking notes, came over: "When the assistant opened the door and came in, he found that the bathroom door was closed, and he was sitting on the toilet. He was out of breath. I checked, and there was no trauma. But there were needle holes in the arms, and some were still Old fashioned, look back to see if there was a self-injection treatment or something."

"What about the time of death?"

"Preliminarily, it can only be determined that it was after eleven o'clock last night." Guo Junyi nodded to the neighbor, "The assistant said that he came back from the professor after eleven o'clock last night."

Lu Linjiang looked at the bathroom while listening to him. In accordance with the hotel tradition, a four-star standard room is not that big. Both the ceiling and the floor are wet, as if water has been poured on the floor. There are a lot of footprints because of the shipment.

"What's the matter, has the fire protection system been turned on? It's as wet as a water curtain hole."

"The hot water was always on, and it was only turned off after the customer service came in."

"The hot water is on?" Lu Linjiang looked at the bathtub filled with water, "People are sitting on the toilet waiting for the water to fill up..."

While talking, he stroked his chin and looked at Guo Junyi. Guo Junyi shrugged at him and made an expression that I didn't know.Lu Linjiang tried to probe his feet: "Can I go in?"

"Okay, the on-site investigation is over."

Lu Linjiang's leg was finally put down. His 1.9-meter physique stood in the bathroom, almost blocking the entire space. The bathroom layout is standard, sink, mirror, toilet, bathtub, exhaust fan, towel rack , nothing more.

He took out his gloves from his pocket, looked around, and turned on the faucet of the sink.The index finger of the other hand was placed under the faucet, and the water was hot before he counted to three silently. When he counted to five, the water was already so hot that he shrank his hand.

Lu Linjiang turned off the faucet, wiped his body, and pinched his earlobe, and did not put down his hand until he didn't feel it was hot.

He was about to go out, looked up at the vent in the corner, and paused: "Guo Junyi!"

Guo Junyi poked his head out at the door: "What's the matter?"

"The ventilation is off?" Lu Linjiang pointed to the corner.

Guo Junyi glanced at it: "It's not open. Can it still be here every day if it's open!"

Lu Linjiang nodded clearly, and Guo Junyi immediately retracted his head.He looked around, glanced at the neatly arranged towels on the shelf, and suddenly felt something was wrong.He leaned over to take a closer look, and touched it again, only to confirm that it was not a towel provided by the hotel.Lu Linjiang stared at the towel for a moment, and suddenly turned around to look for it if he realized something.Among the piles of things on the sink, there was indeed a small white bottle.

He unscrewed the cap of the bottle and fanned it with his hands. Unsurprisingly, he smelled the smell of disinfectant. Lu Linjiang, who looked thoughtful, was about to put the bottle back when Yang Bo knocked on the door a few times with his notebook.

"what?"

"The assistant's name is Luo Jia. I asked about Professor Tao's itinerary. He came here to give a report. It was the opening day and the closing ceremony, which is today. Luo Jia came to call the professor after seven o'clock in the morning, but found that the door could not be opened. , I felt something was wrong, so I went to call the waiter to help open the door."

"Professor Tao has always been in good health, but he has diabetes, but he pays attention to his diet and takes insulin. He may not be used to coming to Jinghai, and he has been a little bit cold for the past two days."

Lu Linjiang frowned after listening: "Where is the last person I contacted?"

"Luo Jia said that he went back after eleven o'clock last night, and no one should have had contact with the professor after that. Professor Tao's schedule is relatively normal, but the jet lag has not been good since he came here. Anyway, he only planned to stay for a few days, so it's okay. I didn’t make too much effort to get jet-lagged.”

Yang Bo finished the situation and concluded: "It sounds like there is nothing wrong with it."

Lu Linjiang nodded noncommittally, and restored the things on the sink to their original state: "Have you checked the monitoring?"

"Xu Sichen went to see it, and probably will be back soon."

As soon as the words fell, Xu Sichen appeared behind Yang Bo, and Lu Linjiang signaled Yang Bo to get out of the way: "What's the situation?"

The expression on Xu Sichen's face was a bit unnatural, her eyes were moving around and she didn't want to look at Lu Linjiang. She took a deep breath and said, "Well, the surveillance shows that after Professor Tao's assistant left the room at 32:[-] in the evening, another person came .”

"Who?"

"People are in 2019."

Lu Linjiang glanced at Xu Sichen, Xu Sichen turned a blind eye to the question in the other's eyes, turned around and walked out.Lu Linjiang had no choice but to follow out. Before leaving, he saw Guo Junyi packing up his things and said, "Hurry up for the autopsy report!"

Guo Junyi didn't raise his head, and gave him an OK gesture from the air.

Xu Sichen stood at the door procrastinatingly, and when he saw Lu Linjiang coming out of the room, he turned around and led the way.Xu Sichen has followed Lu Linjiang for several years, and this is the first time Lu Linjiang has seen her like this.He couldn't help frowning, there were people coming in and out all around, so Lu Linjiang had no choice but to ask her what happened afterward.

Xu Sichen stopped at the door of 2019, Lu Linjiang glanced at her, and walked in first. The layout of 2019 and Tao Minxing's room 2025 happened to be symmetrical. There was a person sitting on the sofa chair by the window. Hearing the voice, he raised his head and looked at Lu Linjiang who came in.

Lu Linjiang immediately understood the reason for Xu Sichen's abnormality just now, he looked back at Xu Sichen blankly, and then took a step forward: "Long time no see."

Jiang Cheng put on a royal blue sweater, stood up in the sunlight.The sunlight came in and sprinkled on him, and for a moment he looked whiter than the wall behind him.He didn't show any surprise for Lu Linjiang's arrival, he just pushed his glasses: "Yes."

The other party looked calm, looking at Lu Linjiang as if looking at a stranger who knew each other.Lu Linjiang felt relieved when he saw Jiang Cheng: "You know about Professor Tao's death, right?" Seeing Jiang Cheng nodding, he continued, "As a matter of routine, why did you go to Professor Tao's room in the middle of the night last night?"

Jiang Cheng took a slight breath: "During dinner, the professor asked me to come over at midnight."

"For what?"

"Some data from the research institute."

Lu Linjiang looked at him, apparently not very satisfied with the answer.But Jiang Cheng didn't seem to know what Lu Linjiang meant: "What we're talking about belongs to the confidentiality of the research institute, and I can't reveal more."

Lu Linjiang frowned slightly, although he was not satisfied with the answer, he still said, "Well, is there a third person who can prove it?"

Jiang Cheng shook his head: "The matter is more serious, the professor avoided others on purpose." He stopped suddenly when he said this, "What do you mean, what is the cause of the professor's death?"

Although Lu Linjiang said that he had only been separated from Jiang Cheng for three years, in fact he hadn't seen this person properly for five years.In his impression, this person always seems to be very thoughtful, although his thoughtfulness made him shy away, but in his memory, he never had such a sharp expression on others, Jiang Cheng.

But this person was standing in front of him at the moment, with a pale face that seemed almost expressionless, but those strange black eyes looked like a sword out of its sheath.Lu Linjiang subconsciously wiped his nose with his bent index finger: "The specific cause of death will have to wait for the autopsy report. This is just a routine question."

Jiang Cheng's eyes flicked on his index finger: "Yesterday we had dinner in the cafeteria on the fifth floor. When the professor was picking up the food, he told me to remember to look for him at [-] o'clock in the evening, and don't tell others. We had about We chatted for ten minutes, and the content was all about things in the institute."

The matter was not definite, and it was facing Jiang Cheng, Lu Linjiang instinctively didn't want to make it too complicated, so he just nodded: "When are you leaving?"

"I will not leave the country until the results come out."

Such a cooperative investigation subject couldn't be better. After Lu Linjiang finished what he had to say, he was hesitating whether to say a few pleasantries, but Jiang Cheng continued, "Is there anything else?"

Lu Linjiang's phrase "How are you?" stuck in his throat.Jiang Cheng had already put on a gesture that he was willing to leave, so he had no choice but to shake his head, turn around and walk out.

Jiang Cheng watched his back disappear with the closing of the door, and then sat back on the sofa, thinking that people who would never see each other in this life would meet again under such circumstances.Seeing each other again, there was no ripple in my heart, and the joy, anger, sorrow, and joy that had been tied to him every minute were taken back.But the feelings that have been paid in those years will eventually leave some traces that cannot be erased - Lu Linjiang just touched his nose, and he subconsciously knew that Lu Linjiang had doubts about Professor Tao's death.