Urban Night Returner

Although there was a fatality, the Jinyu Building still looked as usual. The men and women who went to work walked quickly towards the elevator, raising their hands to look at their watches from time to time.Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen were stopped by the security at the entrance of the building: "I'm sorry, please show your ID to enter."

Shen Gu frowned, Zhong Lecen said softly, "We're here to find someone."

The security guard did not relax: "Then please explain to the two people you are looking for, we need to call to verify."

Shen Gu was about to take out his documents, when suddenly someone came from behind and nodded to the security guard: "Go ahead, I'll do it."

Shen Gu looked back, he was a 24-year-old young man, he had seen it at Xiao's birthday party.The man looked at him up and down: "You are the uncle's son. Shen Gu, right?"

Shen Gu nodded slightly: "You are—"

"My name is Jian Pin. Oh, my mother is Xiao Ping. I met you on Grandpa's birthday."

Shen Gu nodded: "I remember."

Jian Pin looked at Zhong Lecen: "This is your friend?"

"Yes. I'd like to see—what happened to him, may I?"

Jian Pin looked around and signaled Shen Gu to follow him to the corner: "Why do you still bring someone here? Who is he?"

Shen Gu glanced at him lightly: "It's my friend."

Jian Pin coughed: "No, what I mean is——Grandpa blocked the news with great difficulty. You——your friend is not a reporter or something?"

Shen Gu frowned: "Do you think he looks like a reporter?"

Jian Pin smiled embarrassedly: "I mean, if this gets out, grandpa will scold me."

Shen Gu didn't have the heart to say more: "He is not, and he will not spread it to the outside world. Is it okay now?"

Jian Pin scratched his head: "Alright then, I'll take you up."

It was past 8:4, and the elevator room became quiet again. Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen followed Jian Pin into the No. 8 elevator. Jian Pin pressed down on the [-]th floor, and the elevator began to ascend steadily.Jian Pin kept looking at Shen Gu, and finally couldn't help but said: "I heard that you used to be a special soldier? The way you dealt with those two bodyguards that day was really cool!"

Shen Gu glanced at him, not interested in having this kind of discussion with a half-grown child, and was trying to perfunctory, when the elevator suddenly shook violently and stopped.Jian Pin let out an ah, and instinctively looked up: "What's going on?"

Shen Gu stood by the door and immediately pressed the yellow alarm bell, but there was no response.After a while, a strange sound came from the intercom, as if someone was breathing heavily into the intercom.Jian Pin slammed on the elevator door and yelled into the intercom: "We are locked in No. 4 elevator, hurry up and open the elevator door!" The sound was still whistling, and it was especially clear in the closed elevator.

Jian Pin took out his mobile phone to dial, but there was no signal in the elevator, even though he dialed over and over again, no one answered.Shen Gu observed the ventilation above his head, there was no problem for now, but the panting sound became more and more obvious, as if he was just outside the elevator.Jian Pin couldn't make a call, so he cursed angrily: "What a broken signal!" Before he finished speaking, Zhong Lecen had already turned around and booed him: "Don't talk!"

Shen Gu looked at Zhong Lecen.Zhong Lecen's lips were tightly closed, and he took out a piece of yellow paper from his pocket and pasted it on the crack of the elevator door, and then drew on it with the pen filled with cinnabar.The wheezing came closer, and it sounded like something had climbed up from the bottom of the elevator shaft and was now outside the elevator doors.Jian Pin didn't seem to hear any sound, and asked blankly, "What's wrong? What are you doing?"

Zhong Lecen turned his head and stared at Jian Pin, his expression was so fierce that Jian Pin shrank back.Zhong Lecen turned back and pressed his ear to the elevator door again, the fingers holding the pen were also a little white.Shen Gu stood beside him, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and held the telescopic stick that never left his body. With the other hand, he gently pulled Zhong Lecen behind him.

The elevator suddenly shook, from light to heavy, as if it was touched by something, and it tilted backwards.Zhong Lecen couldn't stand up and fell backwards, Shen Gu put his arms around him, and stood firmly with his back against the elevator box wall.The elevator shook violently for the last time before regaining its balance.The whirring sound gradually moved upwards and gradually disappeared.Both Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen's eyes moved upward involuntarily, of course they couldn't see anything except the top of the elevator box.Suddenly the elevator shook slightly again and began to ascend.Jian Pin opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, the elevator had already stopped—it was on the top floor.

The elevator door opened slowly, Shen Gu stepped out with Zhong Lecen in his arms, and Jian Pin followed, just as he took one foot, the elevator door suddenly closed, Shen Gu pulled him out with quick eyesight and quick hands.There was only a creak, and the elevator door closed tightly, and then the steel cable sounded, and the elevator fell straight down this time.

Because he almost fell on the son of the group's HR director, the elevator team was terrified, and immediately dispatched everyone to repair the No. 4 elevator. The team leader nodded and bowed behind Jian Pin, apologizing for nothing.Jian Pin was still in shock, and he didn't even have the energy to scold him, but just waved his hands and told him to do something.Shen Gu asked Zhong Lecen in a low voice: "Is it alright for the workers to go overhaul?"

Zhong Lecen thought for a while, and stopped the team leader: "Don't send workers yet, turn on the elevator monitoring system to see if there is anything unusual."

The team leader didn't know who he was, so he looked at Jian Pin with his eyes.Jian Pin frowned, but still said: "Listen to this gentleman."

The team leader hastened to do so, but the monitoring system repeatedly checked and found nothing abnormal. In fact, the elevator suddenly slipped down without warning, and the elevator monitoring personnel didn't even notice the moment of pause before.

Jian Pin's eyes widened: "Why didn't you find out? The elevator stopped for at least 3 minutes! We even rang the alarm bell!"

The team leader had a bitter face: "Jian Shao, the alarm system really didn't go off."

Jian Pin turned pale with anger: "Hurry up and check! What are you people doing for food!"

The team leader hurried away.Jian Pin turned around and looked at Zhong Lecen with some doubts: "What happened just now? What did you post in the elevator?"

Zhong Lecen pondered for a while: "Mr. Jian, since something happened in the building, why are the employees still working?"

Jian Pin gave him a strange look: "Of course the employees have to go to work. Although something happened to my uncle, the group still operates normally."

Shen Gu didn't speak.He could guess that although Xiao Yifan is the eldest son, he has no real power in the Xiao family, and his life and death will not affect the operation of the Xiao family.

Jian Pin probably also felt that what he said was inappropriate, so he changed the subject: "Uncle happened in the corridor in front."

The interior layout of Jinyu Building is different, especially on the top floor, where the corridors are winding and winding like a labyrinth.Bonsai, sculptures and various fish tanks can be seen everywhere in the corridors, with brightly colored fish swimming around.Jian Pin led them to a corridor: "This is it."

Shen Gu looked around.At the front of this corridor, above the three steps is Xiao Yifan's office, but it's just a symbolic one, because Xiao Yifan doesn't come here often.He is an engineering manager, so he should often go to the construction site. Of course, no one knows whether he is on the construction site or not.On the left side of the corridor is the reading room, which is used for the Xiao family’s lunch break. There is no room on the right side, but two windows facing the street. From here, you can see the busy traffic on the street, and the window of the reading room is facing the sea, with a good view.

Jian Pin pointed to the place next to the door of the reading room: "There used to be a large fish tank here, in which uncle's favorite silver dragon was kept. It is estimated that uncle had drunk and fell off the steps when he went out. It hit the fish tank. When the security guard heard movement in the corridor, the blood on the ground flowed like a river. It was a miracle that my uncle was still alive at that time. But he bled so much that he couldn't be rescued even after being sent to the hospital..."

Shen Gu didn't speak.Zhong Lecen had a strange look on his face, and suddenly asked: "Who designed this building?"

"It's my brother-in-law, Xiao Qingfan. He is the chief designer of the group. Back then, my grandfather attached great importance to this building, so my brother-in-law specially brought a group of people and worked hard for half a month to get the design drawing out."

"Who are the people involved in the design? Can I meet?"

Jian Pin laughed: "Of course it is the designer of the group. But it has been several years, and the personnel have also changed. I don’t know all the names of more than a dozen people. I only know that there is my uncle and one of his special assistants, Zuo Mu. They are the two who are responsible for the design.”

Zhong Lecen frowned slightly: "Then can I meet Mr. Xiao or this Zuo designer?"

Jian Pin shook his head: "The year before last, my brother-in-law said that he would go abroad for further studies, and went abroad with Zuo Mu." Although the words were polite, there was a bit of contempt in the expression, implying that even if they did not go abroad, Zhong Lecen would People who don't know the origin can't say that they met Xiao's designer.

Zhong Lecen didn't care, and just asked: "Then, can Mr. Jian show us around the whole building?"

Jianpin's face is troubled.He joined the Xiao family following his mother's relationship, and he worked as an assistant in the personnel department, doing idle errands.He brought them up because he was curious about Shen Gu's skills.Although he doesn't have a lot of work, it doesn't seem like that to bring two people around the building during working hours.

Zhong Lecen chose the next best thing: "Then, can you let us go to the elevator shaft?"

Jian Pin suddenly remembered what happened just now: "What happened to the elevator? What did you paste on the elevator door just now? Why didn't you let me talk at that time?"

Zhong Lecen hesitated for a moment, but said: "I think it's better to suspend the use of the building until Mr. Xiao's matter is clarified, which is safer."

Jian Pin stared at him suspiciously: "Why? Is there any problem? Who are you?"

Zhong Lecen glanced at Shen Gu for help, and Shen Gu interrupted Jian Pin lightly: "Take us to have a look first. Even if there is something, you can't be the master, right?"

Jian Pin was a little unhappy, but still nodded.But just as they were walking down, suddenly the high heels sounded in front of them, and a middle-aged woman walked up quickly. Seeing her, Jian Pin quickly called out: "Mom."

Shen Gu knew that this was Xiao Pingping.Although her sons have already graduated from college, Xiao Pingping still dresses up very delicately, looking remarkably young, and exuding the capable temperament of a professional woman.She glanced at Jianpin first: "The elevator broke down just now? Did you fall?"

Jianpin shook his head.Xiao Pingping's eyes immediately turned to Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen, but she still said to Jian Pin: "I'm not in the office during working hours, why are you taking two people around? Hurry up!"

Jian Pin hesitated: "Mom, this is—"

Xiao Pingping interrupted him: "Get down quickly! Non-staff are not allowed to enter, why did you take the lead in violating the rules?" As he spoke, he fixed his sharp eyes on Shen Gu, "Do you need me to call security?"

Shen Gu was not afraid of what she called a security guard.Even if all the security guards of the Jinyu Building came up, he didn't pay attention.Seeing that he was not moving, Xiao Pingping gradually became disdainful in her voice: "What? I remember that on the old man's birthday, there were people who were very noble. Now that they heard that the eldest brother died, they are going to show off the airs of the eldest grandson?"

Zhong Lecen couldn't help but said: "Ms. Xiao, please be more polite. There is something wrong in the Jinyu Building. If you don't check it out thoroughly, I'm afraid people will die."

Xiao Pingping's complexion changed slightly, and she said sharply: "Who are you? Don't come to Xiao Shi to talk nonsense! I have seen people like you a lot, and you pretended to be fools to eat, and you actually tricked Xiao Shi! You two, get out of here immediately, or I will call the police! Don't think you have the old man backing you up, since you don't admit that your surname is Xiao, don't come to Xiao's house to make trouble!"

Zhong Lecen was so angry that he wanted to speak, but Shen Gu held him back: "Let's go."

After leaving the Jinyu Building, Zhong Lecen looked at Shen Gu worriedly: "Where are we going?"

"Go to Xiao Heizi." Shen Gu started the car, "We can't watch, but they can."

Little Heizi was busy on all fours, and when he saw Shen Gu, he pulled him back: "In the case last time, that piece of jade really has been found!"

Shen Gu snorted: "Have the murderer been caught?"

Xiao Heizi smiled wryly: "No. A jade player has seen Xia Tian's piece of jade. It may not be very old, but the quality of the jade is good, the color is good, and the knife is good. He originally wanted to buy it for 12 yuan. He opened his mouth to ask for 20 yuan. He didn't let go. He went to find Xia Tian later. He was already dead. However, he had seen that piece of jade from a customer, but he couldn't ask who the customer bought it from. .”

Shen Gu frowned: "He can't ask, you can ask."

Xiao Heizi grinned: "I asked, of course I did. But they said it was a gift from a friend, and they passed it from one hand to another, so there is no way to check it. This is also their rule, not to reveal the seller. We are slowly clearing things up, trouble Hey, why are you here today?"

"It's still about the Jinyu Building. After all, it's a dead person, so you have to investigate, right?"

Little Heizi scratched his head: "Brother, do you think I can take care of everything? As soon as I joined the team, I was able to check things like Xia Tian. Jin Yu's matter is related to the Xiao Group, so it's out of my hands. Besides, didn’t the newspapers say that the employee fell and broke the fish tank after being drunk, and was cut by the glass and died of arteries. This means that the conclusion has already been drawn, and Xiao’s will not pursue it, so how can I investigate?”

Shen Gu sighed: "Isn't Xia Tian an employee of Xiao's?"

Xiao Heizi became interested: "I said, big brother, why are you so interested in Xiao Shi's affairs?"

Shen Gu pondered for a while, and finally decided to tell him something: "There is something strange in the Jinyu Building. If you don't investigate, people may die."

Xiao Heizi's eyes widened: "What's wrong? Didn't that Xiao's employee die accidentally? The murderer is still hiding in the Jinyu Building?"

This kind of statement is also in line with the facts, so Shen Gu nodded.Little Heizi jumped up: "The murderer is still in the Jinyu Building? How do you know?"

Shen Gu frowned: "I can't say a word or two. This matter has to be checked carefully on the spot before we can draw a conclusion. But Xiao's attitude is very strange, and he doesn't let us investigate at all, so I want you to do me a favor. Check out Xia Tian, ​​let us go in and have a look."

Little Heizi stared at him for a long time, muttered for a while, and then said: "Let's talk about it, I really shouldn't do this, and it's not in compliance with the regulations. But... Captain Zuo told me that if you want to What's the matter, let me help you as much as possible... In this way, I also have to investigate this matter in Xia Tian. Let's go and have a look tomorrow. But as I said before, I can only go alone. If Xiao Shi insists on not cooperating, I can't How about it……"