Due to the special nature of the case, unlike previous temporary copies, it is not possible to narrow down the scope of suspects this time.

Even if several people in the hotel have a motive to kill and have the possibility of carrying out the murder modus operandi, there are many more people in the town who have these possibilities.

This is mainly because the anti-theft system of the hotel proprietress is very bad, although the security exit doors on both sides of the hotel are locked very tightly, but the guest rooms not far away are very easy to invade, not only is there no anti-theft net, but there is not even a surveillance video to shoot there.

The windows of the guest rooms are also simple sliding locks, which can be opened from the outside with a noose made of fishing line, so even if the murder method is known, the police cannot locate the suspect.

For An Yizhi, he knows very well that the prisoner is among the few people who are temporarily staying in the hotel, because the system will not waste so much effort to arrange the plot of these people, but this point cannot be explained to the NPCs in the game, so he can only pretend to be confused by himself.

It is precisely because the possibility of outsiders infiltrating the crime cannot be ruled out, the police did not restrict the movement of several people in the hotel, but only asked the local police to cooperate and not let these people run away.

In addition to not being able to shrink the number of suspects, the police did not have enough manpower.

Helicopter capacity is limited, and the situation may only be better when subsequent reinforcements arrive.

However, although the police did not restrict their movements, and the people who stayed at the hotel that night did not run around, it didn't take much effort for An to find someone else and ask about what happened twenty years ago.

The innkeeper's sons and daughters don't know much about this, except that their father died in a mining accident twenty years ago, and the rest is not so clear.

It's no wonder that twenty years ago, even the proprietress son's son was only seven or eight years old, and the proprietress daughter's was only one or two years old and didn't remember anything at all.

It's the same thing with Erin, who was older than the other two, and was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time, but because her father was also a survivor at the time, he knew a little more, and it was roughly similar to what the proprietress said.

So far, this clue has not shown anything suspicious, but An Yizhi does not intend to give up, anyway, there are no other clues to check except this line now, and the police have been idle in the period before the results of the investigation into the mining accident twenty years ago were sent.

Moreover, compared to the three who were all children at the time, the current bus driver, the miner captain of the year, Swiddy, is the one who has experienced it firsthand, and perhaps he knows more things.

Svedy was still in the hotel room, and when Ann Yizhi and the others found him, he was drinking in the room, probably because the mayor's death was a bit of a big irritation.

"Mr. Svidie, I would like to ask you about the mining accident twenty years ago."

Too lazy to ink, An Yizhi asked directly without any disguise.

"Twenty years ago?"

Maybe he drank a little too much, Svedi's eyes were stunned, and he slowed down for two seconds before he reacted:

"Does what happened 20 years ago have anything to do with the present?"

"Maybe, maybe it's just that I'm curious and ask."

"Twenty years, it's been so long."

Svedi didn't have a question of whether it didn't matter too deeply, and after pouring himself another glass of wine, he said:

"The mine was running out and the town was in a panic."

"Is it because the mayor is planning to close the mine?"

"Well, the mines in our town belong to the state, and they have to pay over as many gems as they dig out, and everyone just takes a dead salary, and it's okay to keep some gems as long as they don't go too far, and that guy is not bad to us miners, and everyone won't talk nonsense about his personal enrichment."

The guy in Svidi's mouth is probably the mayor of the town.

"But shutting down the mine is too much, and nine out of ten people in the town are counting on this breadwinner, and what will everyone eat when the mine is closed. So when the news of the mine closure was first announced, some of us miners decided to secretly hide some gems after private discussions, and if the mine was really going to close, these gems would at least allow everyone to go out and settle down again. ”

Hearing this, Jimmy said strangely:

"It's unlikely, miners generally don't have direct access to the gemstones, and there should be regulators sent by the government."

Swedi did drink a little too much, and he waved his hand nonchalantly and said:

"This may be the case with other gem mines, but we can't use large machinery to dig here, the mining work is manual, anyway, the quality of the diamonds produced is not high, and the quantity is not much, it is not a big vein in the first place, as for the supervisors?"

He smiled and pointed to his head:

"I was the overseer at the time."

If he hadn't drunk too much, it is estimated that he would not have admitted so happily in front of the police that he had stolen from prison back then.

"I still remember the day of the accident, which happened to be the day when the mine was closed, and we miners with our own little abacus had already prepared some raw gemstones to hide in the mine, and then sneaked into the mine in the dead of night to take them away."

Svedi said and took another long sip of wine, this time not using the glass at all, and blowing directly into the bottle:

"But we didn't expect that there was a guy who wanted to be alone, I knew that guy for more than 20 years, I didn't expect him to be so ruthless."

"The man...... Could it be the boss lady's husband? ”

Svedi nodded, then leaned back against the back of the couch and said:

"At first I thought he was joking, he often makes such jokes that make people think it's true, but when we saw him take out the detonator, we knew he was serious, after all, our mine can't be mined with explosives because of the geological structure......"

"And then?"

"And then? Then that bastard literally lit the dynamite and blew up the passage, running away with our share of the diamonds. Hey, but it's a bad retribution, the explosives caused the collapse blocked the entrance to the mine, and buried everyone including that guy underneath. When the rescue arrived, it was the one who had been robbed of the diamond who had survived, and the body of the guy was still in the mine, and the rescue did not find him at all. ”

"Won't he run away on his own?"

"No way, the traffic at that time was more inconvenient than now, the cars in the town had no signs of moving, and leaving the town on foot was to find death, and the police also wanted him, and later the rescuers and many experts researched that he was still in the mine, buried forever underneath."

Jimmy interjected at this point:

"This ...... It doesn't seem to be the same as what the hostess said. ”

"It's definitely different, because what the proprietress knows is a lie we made up."

Svidi Says:

"After the police and rescue workers presented the results of the investigation to us, the survivors, we discussed it and felt that we would not make the truth of the incident public."

"Why?"

An Yizhi pondered:

"It's because of the hostess."

"Hah, that's right. It doesn't matter if that guy dies or not, but what do you think about being left behind in town? After losing her husband, if this matter is exposed again, the town will definitely not be able to stay, how will a little widow and two children live in the future? ”

Sveidy patted his chest and said:

"The man said that one is one, her husband is not particular about things, but he can't implicate her, what kind of man is he if he implicates his family."

I can't see that Svedi is quite righteous, after all, the husband of the boss lady caused him to almost be buried in the mine and hung up.

"Although these things have not spread in the town, but those of you with an official background only need to go back and look through the archives of the year to know what happened, and I don't bother to hide it from you, although I don't think it's useful......"

As he spoke, Svedy leaned back on the couch and seemed to be asleep.

–‐‐——–‐‐——

There are differences between what Svidi said and the proprietress account, but as he himself said, he only needs to look through the files at the time to find out, and he can debunk it as long as the news from the police comes, so there is no need for him to lie.

But in other words, it really doesn't help the current homicide case.

The modus operandi of this case is not very clever, but the murderer did it too cleanly, which led to a lot of trouble.

If you don't find more information along this line twenty years ago, you can only count on conventional methods to solve crimes.

i.e. the body, the scene of the first crime, and the murder weapon.

The first two have not found anything, and the best hope for solving the case still falls on the murder weapon.

When An pointed out that they asked about the incident 20 years ago, the other police also searched the hotel and found no trace of the murder weapon.

A bloodstained bowling ball, this thing should have been put in a plastic bag and taken away by the murderer, there is no bowling alley in the town, otherwise it will be very conspicuous.

The question of where the murder weapon is is crucial.

Turning his attention back to the murder weapon, An Yizhi looked at the video of the hotel again, and then remembered something.

Since the surveillance of this hotel is too fucked, did the surveillance of the other hotels next to it capture anything?

But no.

The police also thought of this, and needless to say, they sent someone to a nearby hotel early to investigate the video, but they still found nothing.

"Is the murderer really so aware of the surveillance nearby? Why can't you see the shadow of the murderer. ”

Jimmy complained, and Yumeko Mizushima then said:

"No matter how you know, it's impossible to evade all the surveillance, especially the outdoor surveillance, since there are no suspicious characters on the surveillance, you can roughly narrow down the scope of the suspect to Hotel Street."

"That being said, the suspects on the whole street are too ......"

It is indeed a lot less to shrink from a small town to a street, but this hotel street is not seen to be in the off-season, and there are hundreds of people who may be able to do it, and it is too difficult to investigate one by one.

An Yizhi suddenly realized that the suspicious person carrying a heavy plastic bag on the surveillance was not a very important clue.

A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, and he said:

"Since there is no trace of the murderer on the surveillance, and the whereabouts of the murder weapon have been found in the hotel, where do you think the murder weapon is now?"

Jimmy was stunned for a moment, and said strangely:

"Huh? It's because I can't think of where I am worried. ”

"No, there's another place we haven't seen, and if we hide the murder weapon there, it won't be monitored at all in front of the hotel."

An Yi pointed and pointed in the direction behind him.

Outside the hotel, Ann pointed in the right direction......

- Mines.