Chapter 6: Smith's Warehouse
To the south of the port of Massa, it is home to a cluster of warehouses. It's past midnight, Benjamin, who was still drunk and misty in the ** bar before, his brown eyes are clear, and the bright moon and street lamps in the night sky are reflected in Alpha's pupils, which is surprisingly bright.
"Mr. Grande. In front of the warehouse belonging to Smith, a grumbling grumble flashed in the eyes of the janitor's staff. His superiors had already explained that there would be someone other than the police to investigate today, and the order was to meet all the other party's requirements and cooperate. But I didn't come to the other party first to pick such a late time.
"This way. The doorman pouted and led Benjamin to a warehouse, "Are you alone?"
Benjamin casually looked left and right, "Yes." ”
The doorman tugged at the corners of his mouth, and on the order he received, there would be two people coming. Those people in the West End seem to pay attention to details, and Zach takes Benjamin with him every time he visits, and they naturally see the two as one, and the instructions they give are intimate and comprehensive.
The doorman took a notebook and jotted down something, a special extra job, and he needed to give a faithful feedback.
The two of them bypassed the guarded cordon, and Benjamin was a little surprised, "Where are we going?"
"There are other imports and exports. The doorman lowered his voice and smiled and waved at the policeman, "Just keep up." ”
Benjamin pouted, which was not mentioned in James's report.
The two walked around to the side of the warehouse, the light of the street lamp abandoned behind them, and the darkness seemed to deepen the quiet atmosphere, and the god of the northern waves faintly passed through the warehouse complex.
A doorman who had not introduced his name walked to the end of the warehouse, handed Benjamin the flashlight and notes in his hand, and said to himself, "Barton's warehouse is mostly by the sea, and the goods are easy to get wet, so we will build an isolation layer in the warehouse in our Smith warehouse." ”
This doorman is of moderate stature. His hands were lifting a layer of rubber underground, and Benjamin on the side shook his flashlight and looked at the reddish-brown layer of rubber. This thing is very common, and it is generally a cushion that is placed on the bottom layer of the container.
"Go here!" the doorman seemed unhappy with Benjamin's shaking of the light source, and pressed Benjamin's hand down, revealing a partition under the open glue layer.
The sound of hula appeared. The doorman took out a large set of keys, opened the partition, and retrieved the flashlight, "Let's go." ”
Benjamin frowned, normal people would not think this was a good direction.
Half of the doorman's body had already stepped off the ground, and he frowned impatiently, "It's the same as the ventilation tunnel, there is no danger!"
Benjamin didn't bother to explain, and pulled the baffle with one hand. Stepping down the stairs after the other party, "Why don't you enter through the main entrance?"
After entering, there is an unexpected sufficient light source, already underground, there will be a recessed emergency light every two meters, and it doesn't feel dim after getting used to it. There was a whistling air flow in the various winding pipes around him, and it was just a relatively large ventilation duct, as the doorman explained.
The doorman squinted his eyebrows at Benjamin, "I thought you all like to go the same route as the police. If you want to press the police, we can go back. ”
Benjamin waved. It turned out that it was illicit, "the police report did not mention this, why?"
The doorman tugged at the corners of his mouth, and there was a hint of irritation on his face, and he stepped on the ground, "There is another layer of warehouse down there." ”
Benjamin was helpless, and Smith was one of the founders of the city of Barton. As for using such childish means. But Benjamin didn't ask what was below, the wings of his nose twitched, and the truth was already on the tip of Alpha's nose.
The two of them weave through the pipes, not just two people here, but some staff members pass by occasionally. Say hello and bow your head and staggered by. For a warehouse that is only used to store building materials, there are a lot of surprises for the staff here, or this kind of midnight hour, oh, Smith, Smith......
The doorman pushed open a curtain on the ceiling again, and the two returned to the real warehouse. Benjamin could already smell the residual blood, and the body had long been taken away, but the smell would not have gone away so easily. The doorman took Benjamin through the huge shelves, "Do you want to see for yourself, or do you want me to explain on the side?"
The two were already standing at the scene of the crime, the shelves were piled up with neatly cut planks and rebar, and the ground was marked with chalk. Although the body was removed, the scene was still preserved, and the two steel pipes, which were considered murder weapons, were still stuck between the shelves, and the dark red blood stains were like slippery water droplets on the cyan pipe wall, and a pool of blood accumulated where Benjamin stood.
"Let's talk about it. Benjamin ripped over the sliding staircase next to the shelves and climbed up.
The doorman stood in place, watching Benjamin stand at the top of the shelf, raising his hand and pointing in the general direction and began to speak, with irrepressible sadness on his face, "That's it, the police's version is that people fell from there." Then it just hit the tube here, punctured all the way, and slid down. The doorman's expression was very uncomfortable, but he still pointed to the other steel pipe very responsibly, "and then it was blocked by this one and put in the air." That's it. ”
Benjamin looked condescendingly to the left and right. This is already close to the edge of the warehouse, behind which is the staircase of the net, the top of the shelf, and the police have also drawn the full marking. In fact, James's report has completely restored what happened. The deceased must have wanted to pull back the slippery steel pipe, because lazily wanted to jump onto the shelves directly from the stairs by the warehouse, and then the force was insufficient, and there were two handprints that wiped the dust in a panic where Benjamin stood......
Benjamin looked at it for a while, and felt that there was nothing to expand, so he honestly climbed down the sliding ladder down the shelves, "Is the passage that took me through the compartment to see if there is a possibility that someone will get in from there?"
The doorman pursed his lips and did not answer directly, "The door is just that one, and there is the top, follow me." ”
Benjamin followed the doorman again and walked towards the edge of the warehouse. As has been explained before, the real structure of this warehouse is the same as the vacuum insulated cup that has been popular for a while, and the underground pipe room that Benjamin walked through is connected to the entire warehouse isolation layer, which is a building with two layers of inner and outer envelopes.
The two of them went up the stairs at the edge of the warehouse, and the doorman patted the wall with one hand, "It's a mezzanine, and I don't know if no one is going in, but it goes all the way to the top." He glanced at Benjamin, "But we've checked, and the door I brought you in has never been opened, and the exit on the top floor doesn't look like anyone has touched us." ”
The incident has to be reconstructed again, the whole commission cannot be said to be a cover, there must be tighter security measures for things under the warehouse, Smith may be worried that someone has inadvertently discovered something, because from now on, the police have ruled out the normal channels to enter the warehouse, and there is obviously a secret under the isolation layer shown by the doorman, if the murderer just chose to come in from the isolation layer, then the things below may have been discovered.
Benjamin's fist pounded the wall, and like the solid one, it was clearly a solid concrete wall, except that there was an extra space in the back to isolate the dampness from the seaside.
There was no staircase in the warehouse to reach the zenith, and the doorman tugged at a ring on the wall, and a telescopic ladder similar to a fire escape fell, and Benjamin tugged at the corners of his mouth and reached down the metal staircase. I was going to show my face and leave, but I didn't expect it to be so troublesome.
The grinding sound of metal echoed in the warehouse, and Benjamin glanced at the rust stains on his palms and frowned, "You don't really think that anyone can come down from here without being discovered by you?"
The doorman pouted, "Maybe that unlucky guy is sleeping?" ”
Benjamin shook his head and began to climb up. As soon as his body sank into the ceiling, the rapid air currents ruffled Benjamin's hair.
At the end of this staircase, in the isolation level, there is about half a body space to accommodate people, and above that, is the real warehouse ceiling. Benjamin hooked his body first, asked for a flashlight, and checked it in the isolation layer, to be honest, this isolation layer is no different from the general ventilation duct, but there is an extra layer of soft, I don't know what composition of the mat, Benjamin tried to touch it, shivered, the touch, uncomfortable slippery.
Benjamin shook his head, dropped his flashlight, climbed up to the roof with his arms, and climbed to the top floor with a little force.
"I don't have to go up. The doorman frowned, tilted his head, and looked at Benjamin, who was already on the roof.
Benjamin replied lazily, stretched his body, breathed in the fresh air, and casually enjoyed the scenery. In the distance, Grande's van could be seen parked at the end of the warehouse complex like a matchbox, and the vampire was sitting in the passenger seat, noticing the place, smiling and waving his hand in the car.
The corners of Benjamin's mouth twitched, and he looked around to check the ground. After a while, he didn't notice anything. Back up the stairs, the doorman leaned down the lowered stairs, not knowing what he was thinking with a frown.
"Nothing. Benjamin said simply, his body had jumped down the stairs.
The doorman looked at Benjamin and asked eagerly, "So it was really an accident?"
Benjamin suddenly thought of something, such an obvious accident actually needs to be re-investigated by a third party, and Smith's purpose is probably going to be reconstructed again, "It's an accident, you can rest assured." ”
This seemed a bit harsh to the doorman, who frowned and pushed the stairs back with a gloomy face, "Go back the way you came, follow me." ”
Returning outside from the underground barrier full of pipes, Benjamin headed straight to the van.
Zach couldn't wait, unlike the werewolf's shining eyes, the vampire's light green eyes were as deep as an inky ocean in the night, "How's it going?"
Benjamin got in the driver's seat, turned the key, didn't look back at the road, turned the steering wheel around the car, and said with a smile, "The case is just as good as the police report." ”
Zach raised an eyebrow, Benjamin's statement was interesting, what he found.
In Benjamin's narrative, the vampire's eyebrows are raised in Benjamin's narration, and the commission takes an unexpected turn. (To be continued......)