Chapter X: Surveillance Footage
I pulled Zhang Meng, got out of the barbecue season, took a taxi, and went straight to Kunlun Hotel. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info on the road, because I was afraid that the taxi driver listened to the conversation between the two of us, and we had to treat our brothers as neurotics, because the thing we encountered was too mysterious, and it was difficult for ordinary people to dream of it, so they didn't say much along the way.
I asked Zhang Meng to borrow his mobile phone, took out the phone book from his pocket, and dialed Chen Yan's phone. By the way, although I used to work in computers, I always felt that high-tech was unreliable, and maybe one day the equipment would be broken, and the information would be lost, or like a certain star surnamed Chen, personal privacy would be stored in the device, and the information leakage would make the city stormy. Although I don't have that much important information and I don't have a lot of fancy ideas, I still get used to using traditional methods, such as jagging things in a notebook. Today it is confirmed that this is indeed a good habit.
Chen Yan is one of my high school classmates, although not in the same class, but often played football together in high school, the relationship is good, and then I was admitted to the University of Science and Technology Beijing, majored in computer science, he has always been more interested in management things, especially hotel management and the like, at that time always dreamed of becoming a giant tycoon in the hotel industry, it is estimated that it was also because of the popular Singapore TV series at that time I watched too much, I heard that he later really studied tourism and hotel management, and went to Zhaolong Hotel after graduation, But there is always a certain gap between reality and dreams, mixed now is almost thirty, just mixed with the sales manager, but also catch up with a little back, recently affected by the financial crisis, the hotel industry is sluggish, the performance is not good, the income is getting worse, people always have to support their families, can not only live by dreams, no way, a while ago changed careers to an automobile company to engage in marketing. But people are like this, there is a loss, there is a gain, although he is disappointed in his career, but he is proud of his love, not long ago he married his girlfriend who has been in love for eight years, and it can be regarded as a complete merit, at that time, he also invited some old classmates to attend the wedding, and finally did not forget the heroic love of playing football and drinking together, and also found me and invited me to attend his wedding, so I have been remembering his phone number.
Although Chen Yan is not mixed in the hotel industry, but there are still contacts, he used to be in the Zhaolong Hotel not far from the Kunlun Hotel, and there are business dealings with the managers of various departments, I dialed his phone and said that I want him to help contact the security department of the Kunlun Hotel, I want to check the surveillance video, he said happily that there is no problem, wrapped in him, let me listen to the reply, sure enough, after a while, I replied to the phone, said that they were all connected, let us directly find the security department Manager Zhao on it.
After hanging up Chen Yan's phone, in less than a quarter of an hour, the taxi we took stopped at the door of the Kunlun Hotel.
I went to the front desk and inquired where the security department was, and went straight to the destination, on the way, Zhang Meng couldn't help but ask me what I was doing watching the surveillance video, and I said that you will know in a while.
Sure enough, it seems that Chen Yan had a good relationship with this Manager Zhao before, and it was easy to do things with acquaintances, and Manager Zhao warmly received us, but when I mentioned to him that I wanted to inquire about the monitoring in February, Manager Zhao made it difficult.
I saw that Manager Zhao seemed to have some unspeakable addiction, and asked: "Manager Zhao, does the hotel have a rule that does not allow other personnel to inquire about the hotel monitoring casually?" If it's really inconvenient, you're in a quandary, so we'll think of another way."
"This ...... Not really", Manager Zhao said: "Although the hotel has regulations, but the rules are regulations, favors are favors, since it is Lao Chen's friend, I can still help with this little thing, but ......"
"Just what?" Zhang Meng asked next to him.
Manager Zhao frowned and said: "Don't hide it, the Ministry of Public Security has regulations, it stands to reason that the hotel should keep half a year's monitoring records, and the daily video recording of the monitoring equipment will be automatically saved, and it will be automatically backed up every month, and then made into a CD by our Security Department for unified preservation and management."
"Yes", Zhang Meng said: "Since there is a CD, don't you have it?"
Manager Zhao was embarrassed: "This is also an oversight of my work, if you two check other months, it's no problem, but it's just this February...... Truth be told, I don't know when I lost the disc."
"What, it's lost", Zhang Meng and I were taken aback at the same time.
"Hey, it's a coincidence, why are our brothers so back, and they will lose it if they look for a few months, look at this thing", Zhang Meng said.
"I'm really sorry, I'm really embarrassed to let the two of you run for nothing", Manager Zhao couldn't help us and was very unhappy.
I wanted to inquire about the night when I planned to go to Yuquan Mountain with Zhang Ziheng, Wu Lan, Cheng Jiao, Hu Qi, Tang Ying, and Xiaopang at the Kunlun Hotel two months ago, how did I get out of the Kunlun Hotel after I smelled that fragrance and lost consciousness, we live on the seventh floor, it can't be someone else who flew out of the window with me, someone must have taken me out of the room while I was unconscious, and then took it from the Kunlun Hotel to the ancient tomb, although I don't know what the purpose of this person is doing this, But what is certain is that the last time this incident and this time I smelled the same fragrance in the basement of Xi'an ** cemetery and lost consciousness was done by the same person, and I became a "suspended animation" state is likely to be because of this fragrance, if this is the case, in the tomb of the concubine of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Ziheng became a "suspended animation" state It is also very likely that this person did it, if you can know who this person is, you may be able to find out what the purpose is, the most important thing is to know how Lao Qin and Xiaopang died, or if you are lucky, if they are not deadWhere is it now, I originally thought that I could find out who this person was from the surveillance video of the Kunlun Hotel, but now it has failed, and I feel very disappointed.
But this is no wonder Manager Zhao, we can only blame our own bad luck, there is no other way, I and Manager Zhao said some polite words, nothing more than not to care, we will think of other ways to wait, and then Zhang Meng and Manager Zhao said goodbye, out of the Kunlun Hotel.
Zhang Meng saw that I was in a bad mood, and I also wanted to go home to rest and rest, maybe I had been relying on nutrient solution these days, and my body had not fully recovered, and I felt very tired, so Zhang Meng went back to the store to take care of business, and I took a taxi back to my residence.
When I got home, I looked at my watch, it was more than four o'clock in the afternoon, I didn't come back for a few days, the home was still the way I was when I left, and when I got home, I felt how important home was, like a safe haven, and I could feel safe and warm at home. I envy what it's like to be an otaku now, but a lot of things have to be done.
I was just about to take off my clothes and change into my pajamas for a good night's sleep, when I heard someone ring the doorbell.
"Who is this, I just came back and knocked on the door", I thought about it while going to open the door, opened the door and looked, I knew, it was Uncle Chang next door.
"Dongzi, are you back?" Uncle Chang said happily.
"Oh, uncle, it's you, yes, just came back, come in and sit," I said.
"No, it's nothing, two days ago there was a courier to deliver a package to you, you were not at home, it happened that I went out and saw it, so I asked him to leave me here, just now I heard a movement here, I knew that you were back, so I brought it, give, that's it", said and handed me a cowhide envelope.
I took the envelope and said, "Oh, thank you."
"Hey, this little thing, close the door and rest", after speaking, Uncle Chang turned around and went back to the house.
I closed the door, wondering who had sent me the courier, and I didn't know what it was.
Back on the sofa, I looked at the courier list posted on the cowhide envelope, which vaguely said that it was sent from a 771 factory in Yanliang District, Xi'an, and the sender only wrote the word "Yuan".
Touching the leather envelope, I don't know what it is. I don't seem to know anyone surnamed Yuan in Yanliang District, Xi'an, and I don't know what to do with the courier for me, so I thought about opening the envelope.
When I opened the envelope, there was a CD inside, and a note, which I opened and had a few words printed on a printer.
When I saw the first sentence, I was stunned: "Wang Yu and Qin Lei are ...... in our hands", aren't Wang Yu and Qin Lei Chubby and Lao Qin? Didn't they die? I was surprised and delighted, happy that if what was said on this note was true, then it must be my hallucination in that basement, the Western Buddha Jade Emperor Virgin Mary blessed, Xiaopang and Lao Qin are still alive. The surprise is that if they are still alive, they have now fallen into the hands of others, and this person surnamed Yuan must have bad intentions.
I calmed down for a while, and then looked down and said: "If you still want to see them, tomorrow at 12 o'clock in the evening, go to 201, Building 13, 771 Factory, Yanliang District, Xi'an, if you can't see you by then, you know what the consequences are."
Damn, this is obviously using Xiaopang and Lao Qin to blackmail me, I don't know what he wants to do.
Then he looked down and said, "I know you're looking for this surveillance video, what you want to know is on the disc." After that, there was nothing else.
After reading the note, I couldn't figure it out, is what this note says true? Are Chubby and Lao Qin really alive? Could this be a trap? This disc was sent a few days ago, how did he know that I was looking for the surveillance video of the Kunlun Hotel? Could it be that the surveillance video of the Kunlun Hotel is not in this disc, but something else, no matter how much, let's see what is in this disc first. After thinking about it, I turned on my computer and put the disc into the optical drive.
After a while, the video playback window pops up and the video starts to play automatically.
I saw that the picture was a corridor with a colorful carpet, which was the corridor of the Kunlun Hotel guest room!
The time shown at the bottom of the screen is 11:43 p.m., and the monitoring system of the Kunlun Hotel is obviously very good, and the picture is very clear.
The time below the picture is beating second by second, and the picture is like a stillness, it has not changed, it is estimated that the guests have already rested, I recall that at that time, I and Xiaopang had come back from Hu Qi and Tang Ying's room, Xiaopang was curious about why Hu Qi "can pinch and count" and pulled me to ask what was going on, but he didn't ask why, so he went back to the room with me to rest, Xiaopang quickly fell asleep, and I was lying on the bed thinking about things because I thought of a lot of questions and missing links, and I should have fallen asleep at this time.
I kept staring at the screen, for fear of missing something, but after staring for more than half an hour, the picture of the surveillance video still did not change, and no one appeared, it was always a static picture of the corridor of the guest room. I started to get a little disappointed, and I thought to myself, wasn't this the surveillance that night?
While I was pondering, suddenly, for some reason, the picture shook a little, and I immediately came to my senses, feeling that something might happen, and looked at the time below the screen, it was twelve twenty-seven in the night.
Sure enough, a person appeared on the screen, this person came out of a room not far from the other end of the corridor, it seemed that his movements were very light, and after coming out, he turned around and gently closed the door, and saw that the figure of this person seemed to be very familiar, and then looked closely, holding a bamboo pole in his hand, it turned out to be Hu Qi. That's right, I thought about it carefully, Hu Qi and Tang Ying lived in the third room near the west end of the corridor, and the room next door to their east, that is, near the monitoring side, was where Xiaopang and I lived, Zhang Ziheng and Wu Lan lived next door to the west, and Cheng Jiao lived in a separate room to the west.
Could it be that it was Hu Qi who made me unconscious? Seeing someone appear in the surveillance footage, I felt an inexplicable excitement in my heart.
I saw Hu Qi leave the room, walked a few steps to the east, and stopped in front of the room where I and Chubby were. My heart was pounding, and I didn't know what he was going to do.
But to my disappointment, Hu Qi only paused in front of our room, as if he was just listening, and then walked forward again, and then came to the elevator near the surveillance camera, pressed the elevator, and after a while the elevator came, Hu Qi got on the elevator, the elevator door closed, and the picture returned to calm.
"What did he do? Is it to find a helper? "I stared at the surveillance footage and wondered.
The time at the bottom of the screen is still beating second by second, and the picture seems to be frozen, showing the empty corridor all the time, without any movement.
After only about two or three minutes, I suddenly saw the elevator door open, Hu Qi walked out, followed by a person, and my heart began to get excited again, it seemed that he had come back from looking for help. But when he looked closely, he was disappointed that he was followed by nothing more than a waitress carrying a kettle in her hand.
"Damn, this old-fashioned, can't you use the phone to call the waiter, and you still call yourself, haven't you stayed in a hotel", I scolded in my heart.
I saw that the waiter and Hu Qi came out after entering their room, turned around and closed the door, Hu Qi did not come out again, the waiter entered the elevator and left.
Surveillance footage returned to calm.
After a long, long time, my eyes were staring, and the picture seemed to be frozen again, motionless, only the time below the picture was still beating second by second.
I thought to myself, "What's going on? Am I wrong? Did someone really take me from the window on the seventh floor? Doesn't this become a plot in a science fiction novel? ”
Just as I was about to lose confidence, suddenly, another figure appeared in the surveillance video.