Early the next morning.

Gu Chen washed up early and prepared to take a taxi to the high-speed rail station.

And Zhao Lin continued to sleep soundly......

In Zhao Lin's words last night, he won properly lying down.

If he followed Gu Chen, maybe he wouldn't have more opportunities to contact Liao Qing.

But now it's different, Gu Chen's heart seems to only have work, and he is not interested in participating in the jewelry exhibition with Liao Qing at all.

Thinking that he didn't have to get up very early, Zhao Lin saw that Gu Chen was ready to go out with his shoes on, so he also said hello and continued to sleep.

Gu Chen came to the restaurant downstairs, at this moment, there were not many people dining, Gu Chen came to the buffet area, casually pretended to have some breakfast, and sat quietly by the window to enjoy it.

At this moment, Gu Chen found a waitress passing by and working in the hot drink area, looking a little familiar.

I remembered that she was the woman who took the elevator with everyone yesterday, and she was also the waitress who recorded daily matters for Liao Qing later.

Seeing that the waitress filled the hot milk and sandwiched the Haidong muffin cake and prepared to leave, Gu Chen guessed that it must have been sent to Liao Qing upstairs.

So I didn't think much about it and continued to enjoy the breakfast.

Take a taxi from here to the high-speed rail station, 15 minutes is enough if there is no traffic jam.

And there is a taxi pick-up area in front of the hotel, and there are many taxis waiting for guests, so you don't have to worry about waiting.

So Gu Chen took out his mobile phone and simply browsed the current news.

At this moment, the security guard downstairs seemed to have received the situation and quickly trotted towards the elevator door.

But Gu Chen didn't care much about it, and continued to enjoy the special pastries of Haidong City.

At this time, I found a man in a security uniform, who went down the stairs dejectedly and returned to the restaurant.

A waitress asked him, "What's going on?"

The security man replied: "Xiaoli was injured, and Lao Gao and they are helping her treat her wounds." ”

"Xiaoli was injured?Who is so ruthless?" The waitress shuddered when she heard this: "Xiaoli also sent milk to the guest just now, how could this be?"

Hearing the waitress's words, Gu Chen suddenly raised his head.

"Isn't it for Liao Qing?" Thinking of this, Gu Chen continued to listen carefully.

The security guard took a sip of water and said helplessly: "I don't know what's going on? ”

"What the hell is going on?" the waitress heard the security guard's words, and the more she listened, the more confused she became, and she quickly asked again.

The security guard said: "The lady surnamed Liao in our hotel, VIP, do you know?"

"You know, their company is a big customer of our hotel. The waitress said.

The security guard said: "It's just that she lost something, I heard that she put a lot of jewelry in her handbag, but she went to the toilet, and the thing is gone, this is what she wants to bring to the exhibition today." ”

Listening to the security guard talking to the waitress about Liao Qing, Gu Chen couldn't sit still, and walked over directly to ask the two: "May I ask, just now you said that a colleague was attacked, and a customer's things were taken away, what is going on?"

"You are?"

Seeing that Gu Chen was suddenly curious, the security guard also asked more.

Gu Chen replied: "I am a friend of Liao Qing, and I came with her yesterday to attend my classmate's wedding. ”

"Oh, I remember, you're a customer in room 8805. The waitress recognized Gu Chen.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "So...... What's going on?"

The security guard hesitated for a moment, and didn't want to talk about it, but when he saw that Gu Chen knew the person concerned, he directly informed: "Actually, I don't know what the situation is, my colleague Xiaoli sent her a cup of hot milk and some pastries this morning according to the request of the VIP customer." ”

"But after being sent into the room, the customer was just going to the toilet, but my colleague Xiaoli was injured, and the lady Liao heard the movement and hurried out. ”

Later, she found out that her handbag was missing, but she said that the handbag contained a lot of treasures that were to be displayed at the jewelry fair today. ”

"Now that I've lost something, I'm negotiating with our manager, and I'm probably still arguing. ”

"So that's the case?" After learning about the situation, Gu Chen was not in the mood to eat breakfast again, so he trotted all the way to the elevator door and boarded the elevator to the eighth floor.

Came to the door of room 8801, at this time the door of the room opened, and the crowd in the room was negotiating.

Gu Chen rushed over, only to find that Liao Qing was covering his cheeks at this time, and his whole person was haggard.

In the room, a hotel manager, a security guard, and the waitress Xiaoli I saw before were also there.

Seeing Gu Chen suddenly break in, the hotel manager asked blankly, "Are you?"

"I'm Liao Qing's friend. Gu Chen said.

When Liao Qing heard this, she suddenly lowered her hands.

When he saw that it was Gu Chen, the whole person cried out loud: "Gu Chen, I'm dead now, all the jewelry I brought to the exhibition was taken away, how can I explain to the company now." ”

"You calm down first. Gu Chen didn't know much about the situation at the scene, so he walked among the crowd and asked, "Can any of you explain to me what happened here?"

Glancing at the female waitress who was a little weak and had a head injury, Gu Chen asked the manager again, "What's the matter?" ”

"This ...... I don't know this very well, but I also received a request for help from Ms. Liao, so I brought someone over to have a look. ”

But who would have thought that Ms. Liao said that her jewelry was stolen. ”

"yes. The security guard also said: "We don't know the situation, who can know if the thing was lost in the hotel." ”

"What do you mean by that? You just don't want to take responsibility, right?" Liao Qing was annoyed at this time, and said angrily directly: "The thing was lost in your hotel, what do you mean by saying that now? I don't want to be responsible, right?"

"No...... No, Ms. Liao, do you want to calm down?"

"I don't want to be calm, the problem is that my stuff is gone, woo. ”

Several people quarreled with each other, and the scene suddenly became noisy.

Gu Chen didn't care about this, walked up to Xiaoli, the waitress who was sitting on the sofa, and asked her, "The milk and pastries in Ms. Liao's room were sent by you, right?"

"That's right. The waitress named Xiaoli covered her forehead with a wet towel at this time, and the whole person was also in pain.

It seems that every time he says a word, his head will explode.

Gu Chen asked again, "Can you tell me about the situation just now?"

"Yes. Xiaoli nodded slightly and explained: "Yesterday, Miss Liao arranged for me to send her a cup of hot milk and some pastries this morning, because I am a VIP customer of the hotel, so I sent her over today according to the time agreement." ”

"Was it Liao Qing who opened the door?" Gu Chen asked her.

Xiaoli nodded: "That's right, I knocked on the door, and it was Miss Liao who opened the door for me." ”

"She was washing up, and when she opened the door, she went back to the bathroom, and I was preparing the meal on the table. ”

"But then it suddenly went dark in front of me, and then I lost consciousness, and when I woke up, everyone was around me, and I felt a terrible pain in my head. ”

Gu Chen glanced at Liao Qing and asked her, "Is this what she said?"

"How do I know?" Liao Qing was sad at the moment, and said sadly: "I was washing my face with facial cleanser, and I heard someone knocking at the door, so I asked who it was?"

Then she said it was the waiter, brought me milk and came early, and I didn't think much about it at the time, so I went straight to open the door. ”

"Because I was washing my face, and I applied facial cleanser, I ran back to the bathroom. ”

Then she asked me if I could put it on the table, and I said yes, and then I heard a movement outside, and when I asked her what was going on, there was no movement. ”

Snorting, Liao Qing said again: "Now I realized that the situation was wrong, so I quickly rushed down my face and ran to the room." ”

"But at this time, I found her on the ground, which startled me, but when I saw that the handbag on the table was missing, I was completely confused, this is the jewelry that I want to bring to the exhibition today, and it is all real jewelry. ”

"How can this be?" Gu Chen also felt quite strange.

Liao Qing actually brought genuine jewelry with her and put it directly on the table, was it so casual?

Think about asking her directly: "Your jewelry is just on the table?"

"That's right. Seeing that Gu Chen was a little incomprehensible, Liao Qing said again: "That's the case, every time I come to Haidong City to participate in the exhibition, I will always carry some jewelry that needs to be exhibited by my side." ”

"Because no one knew I had jewels in my handbag, I was fine every time, after all, I didn't stay here once or twice. ”

"But today was different, as soon as I packed my things, I put my handbag on the table and went to wash my face. ”

"I thought that someone would come to deliver milk and breakfast, so I opened the door and asked her to put it on the table, and then went back to the bathroom to continue washing my face. ”

"But I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, in broad daylight, my handbag disappeared, such a big hotel, just let people snatch things away, what's going on with you people?"

"This ...... How can we be blamed for this?" When the hotel manager heard this, he immediately stopped doing it, so he retorted: "Miss Liao, will it be that you usually show your wealth and are targeted by some illegal people?"

"How is it possible? When did I take these things out?" Liao Qing felt that the manager was dumping the pot, so she also retorted: "Anyway, the thing was lost in your hotel, and your hotel has the responsibility to help me find it." ”

took out her mobile phone and looked at the time, Liao Qing was a little impatient and said: "This morning is the exhibition, if I don't bring things over, I'll be finished, what can I do?"

Feeling that she was dead, Liao Qing was about to cry.

But the hotel doesn't seem to be able to give an explanation.

No matter how Liao Qing cries, it seems that there is nothing to be done.

Gu Chen felt that something was wrong, so he retreated to the door of the corridor, looked left and right and said, "You don't even have surveillance here?"

"Uh......" The hotel manager hesitated and didn't speak.

Gu Chen asked him again: "There is no monitoring in the corridor, what about the elevator entrance?"

"There is surveillance at the elevator entrance. The security guard snapped up.

"Then hurry up and watch the surveillance. Gu Chen felt that instead of prevaricating here, it was better to investigate quickly.

It's easy to do with surveillance, and you know who has been here during this time.

When the manager heard this, he quickly took out his mobile phone and began to dial the phone number.

Soon, he communicated on the phone, seemingly explaining the matter of investigating the surveillance.

But after a minute passed, the other side seemed to give a result that he was not satisfied with.

The manager hung up the phone and shook his head helplessly: "It doesn't make sense, the monitoring shows that during that time period, only Xiaoli went upstairs with breakfast, and no one else appeared." ”

Gu Chen frowned slightly: "It seems that this person still has some scruples, and he didn't take the elevator directly, so that means that the place where he evacuated may be in the fire escape?"

Thinking of this, Gu Chen asked the manager again: "Is there monitoring of the fire escape?"

The manager was silent for a long time, looked at the people around him, and then shook his head.

"What? no?" Gu Chen was a little surprised.

The manager nodded silently: "Not really." ”

"How did you guys do it? Gu Chen felt that the hotel was a little reluctant to invest.

It stands to reason that in a hotel of this size, in addition to the elevator to be monitored, at least the fire escape also needs to be installed, so as to avoid some potential safety hazards.

But looking back, the perpetrator did not take the elevator, perhaps escaped from the fire escape, which suddenly made Gu Chen think that the perpetrator may know the hotel structure very well, maybe it was an insider who committed the crime.

I also think that Liao Qing is the VIP of this hotel, and often stays in this hotel because of business trips.

Therefore, the person who knows Liao Qing should be the hotel staff.

Glancing at the injured Xiaoli, Gu Chen asked her, "Do I want to take a look at your injuries?"

"Absolutely. Xiao Lidai frowned slightly, and slowly removed the wet towel.

Gu Chen gently brushed away her long hair and touched it lightly with his hand.

The waitress Xiaoli suddenly screamed in pain.

And at this moment, Gu Chen also touched the bulging part.

Xiaoli's head was smashed out of a large bag.

Turning around, Gu Chen asked Liao Qing directly: "When you came to the hotel, did you tell anyone about what you brought?"

"No, I'm not exhibiting in a hotel, why should I tell the hotelier?" Liao Qing also looked aggrieved at the moment.

So Gu Chen asked again: "Since there isn't, have you ever told the hotel staff that you are here to participate in the jewelry exhibition?"

"Uh......"

Liao Qing hesitated for a few seconds, then nodded and said, "This ...... That's right, because I basically know these faces in the hotel, and they will talk to me casually. ”

Glancing at the injured waitress Xiaoli, Liao Qing said again: "Yesterday she came to my room and asked me what help I needed, because I am a hotel VIP and deserve this kind of treatment." ”

"So I asked, help me bring breakfast, that's all. ”

Seeing that Gu Chen was still staring at him, as if he was still waiting for other answers, Liao Qing said again: "Then she asked me, is this business trip for a meeting or what?" I said that I came to attend a jewelry exhibition. ”

"Because in this hotel, besides me, there are other merchants who come to attend the jewelry show, so I don't think it's anything?"

Hearing Liao Qing's words, Gu Chen walked back and forth between several people twice, and then asked again: "Liao Qing, is that thing valuable?"

"Value, of course it's worth it, all the jewels together, the market value is tens of thousands. ”

"Such a valuable thing, you just put it in your handbag and stay by your side?" Hearing this, the manager also gave a thumbs up and said, "Miss Liao, your heart is really big?"

"What's this?" Feeling that the hotel manager was making a fuss, Liao Qing couldn't help but say: "The so-called most dangerous place is the safest place." ”

"I casually put tens of thousands of pieces of jewelry into my handbag, and no one necessarily knows about it, so I take it with me, but I am down-to-earth. ”

"And it's not a day or two to stay in your hotel, but often, nothing like this has ever happened, but today it's suddenly ......"

Speaking of this, Liao Qing was also depressed, and she was so anxious that she stomped her feet.

Gu Chen hurriedly comforted her: "Don't worry, you can always find who did it, the most important thing now is to piece together all the information and see if there is anything else missing." ”

"That's right. Seeing that Liao Qing was depressed, the security guard also comforted and said: "This kind of thing has never happened in our hotel, and Xiaoli was suddenly injured, there must be a problem." ”

After looking at everyone, the security uncle said, "Will someone keep following Xiaoli and waiting for an opportunity to commit crimes?"

"That's for sure. Seeing that the security guard said the same as not saying it, the manager was also impatient and said: "The modus operandi is so smooth, just in an instant, Miss Liao's things were taken away, which shows that people are professional." ”

"Then who do you think the perpetrator will be?" Gu Chen also wanted to hear the hotel manager's opinion.

After all, he is the manager of this place, and he knows the structure of the customers who live here best.

After hesitating, the manager said, "Maybe it's a hotel customer who came to the exhibition, because today is the opening day of the exhibition, and there are many customers who come to the exhibition like Miss Liao." ”

"So I think it's very likely that the perpetrator is someone who knows Miss Liao, or someone who knows Miss Liao very well. ”

"Because according to Miss Liao's habit, she hid her jewelry in her handbag and brought it with her so openly, we, as hotel staff, must not know. ”

"But we don't know that those who often see Miss Liao at jewelry fairs may not have guessed that Miss Liao is probably hiding things with her. ”

"Makes sense. Gu Chen thought that the manager's words had a certain point.

Because Gu Chen didn't know the structure of the customers staying in the hotel in advance, listening to what the manager said, Gu Chen thought that some of the customers staying here were more or less acquaintances or peers with Liao Qing.

In this way, Liao Qing is used to bringing exhibits with her, and it seems that it is not difficult to guess.

As a result, the scope of the perpetrators seems to have rapidly expanded from the hotel staff at the beginning to the customers staying in the hotel, especially those who came to attend the exhibition.

Thinking that he was going to start using the elimination method to search the perpetrators, Gu Chen was a little big, because the investigation seemed to be a big project, thinking that Zhao Lin should be called up to help.

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