I always stared at Xiao Chen's eyes, then turned my head to look at Lin Yingxue and said: "It seems that this reason should have a lot to do with Director Zhao's death, maybe someone was dissatisfied with Director Zhao's layoffs, so he designed to kill Director Zhao in that rural interview." ”

Lin Yingxue just nodded and didn't speak, while I asked Xiao Chen, "Then did you all come to work at this newspaper after Director Zhao's death?" Came about a few days after Director Zhao's death? Can you still remember the order? ”

Xiao Chen obviously didn't expect me to ask this question, thought for a moment and said: "I was the last to be recruited, Xiao Wei and the two of them were already at work when I came, seeing that they were not completely familiar with the overall environment of the newspaper at that time, presumably they didn't come for a long time, probably a day or two earlier than me, so if you calculate it, when I came was about eight days after Director Zhao's death, they should be about six days, as for which of the two of them came first, I really don't know." ”

I took Xiao Chen's answer to heart, although it was useless on the surface, but it was hard to guarantee that it would not play a key role in my subsequent investigation.

At this time, Lin Yingxue said: "If Director Zhao really died from his murder instead of an accident, then do you think the murderer is dead?" After all, the people who followed Director Zhao to the countryside at that time were basically dead, and now there is only one office director left who is not dead, will there be murderers among the three deceased, Ma Jie, Li Gang and Zhou Jingyi? ”

"It's very likely, after all, they all have time to commit crimes."

"But if that's the case, then what are we investigating? The three of them are dead, and now there is only one office director left, so let's just grab the office director and hand it over to the person who controls *, just say that this is the murderer, and then stabilize his emotions, and first resolve the crisis in front of us, okay? ”

Lin Yingxue said that this proposal I haven't thought about, but it is reasonable, this proposal will not work, I explained: "I'm afraid it won't work, first of all, the person who manipulated * must have a deep understanding of this case, and he should have also investigated for a while, we just grabbed a person and couldn't say why, we couldn't deceive him at all, but it would make him angry, I don't know what else he would do, or investigate first, maybe we can really solve the case in the last time?" ”

After hearing this, Lin Yingxue sighed: "But what if we can't solve the case by then?" Judging from the amount of * we found when we searched layer by layer just now, if the person who controlled * really detonated all the *, I'm afraid none of us would survive. ”

I smiled and stroked her hair to comfort her: "Don't worry, if we can't solve the case when it's almost a little bit, I still have a backhand, this*, I will never let that person detonate!" ”

Hearing me say this, the worry in Lin Yingxue's eyes instantly dissipated, and was replaced by incomparable trust, as if she had completely relieved herself to put her life in my hands at this moment.

I think back to when Lin Yingxue and I first met, when we were still working in the express store, she was extremely disgusted with me at that time, but I didn't expect that after a few months of getting along, we have formed such a firm trust, and time really flies.

Now is not the time to sigh, after learning the information I need from Xiao Chen, I said to Xiao Chen: "Do you want to go back to the office director now, or do you want to continue the investigation with us?" ”

Xiao Chen immediately said, "Of course it's with you!" I think it's safer to be with you, with those two people, I always feel like they're always secretly staring at me behind my back, as if they're ready to kill me at any moment, and if I stay with you to solve the crisis in front of me, maybe the boss will reward you afterwards. ”

Since Xiao Chen has made a statement, we have temporarily included him in the team of me and Lin Yingxue, perhaps because of the sudden betrayal of the two police officers before, Lin Yingxue has always been worried about this Xiao Chen, and said that the three of us will investigate together, and no one can leave alone.

In fact, this is also my original intention, since Xiao Chen is the security guard here, then his understanding of the internal situation of this newspaper must be very clear, with him leading the way, twice the result with half the effort.

I asked Xiao Chen, "What kind of room is on the fifth floor, you tell me about it, and I can decide if we need to search here." ”

Xiao Chen didn't think about it and said: "On the fifth floor is the archives room, which is the files and materials of all the employees working here, although the archives are generally recorded in the computer now, but this newspaper is still very traditional, and the files are all sealed with brown paper and placed on the bookshelf. On the other side is the props room of the newspaper office, which is full of props that are usually needed in the newspaper office, do we need to check the fifth floor? ”

It's not just a need, it's just a need! My biggest headache now is that I don't know this Director Zhao at all, if I can find Director Zhao's file in the archives, I think there will be a lot of new discoveries!

"Is Director Zhao's file still in the archives?"

Xiao Chen was stunned and said: "I don't know much about this, I don't know if they have lost it, let's go and look for it now, maybe we can find it." ”

I waved my hand and said, "No, let's go here first, didn't you just say that you heard footsteps here?" Let's go over and see if there's really anyone hiding in the prop room here. ”

If there is someone hiding here, needless to say, it must be a person with a ghost in his heart, it is better to catch and figure it out in advance than to be stabbed in the back when we relax our vigilance, if there is no person hiding here, then this Xiao Chen is lying, and then I will ask him why he lied to us on this issue.

Now we have a lot of people, so there is no need to tiptoe to search, we first came to the corridor on the side of the props room, and found that the props room and the conference room on the second floor are very imaginative, they are all through the room, forming a larger room, the only difference is that there are only two rooms on the props room, and the conference room on the second floor, there are four.

Xiao Chen told us that there are only props in the room on the left, and the room on the right has been empty, and it has become a recreation room for the employees here, which is full of entertainment facilities such as chess and card billiard tables and table tennis tables.

We took the lead in opening the door of the room on the right, and sure enough, this room was very empty, standing at the door, you could have a clear view, there was no place to hide people, and this empty room was just as Xiao Chen said, there were only some entertainment facilities, and there were no other complicated things, we took a general look, and after making sure that there was no one inside, we gently closed the door and walked towards the room on the left.

When I opened the room on the left, the flashlight in the hands of the three of us immediately shone in, and we immediately saw everything inside.

If the room on the right can be described as empty, then the room on the left, I can only describe it as cluttered, there are all kinds of strange props everywhere, and they are not neatly placed, the whole looks like they have arrived at a scrap yard, fortunately, I am used to this kind of messy environment, if I come here with a person with a habit of cleanliness or obsessive-compulsive disorder, I will definitely not be able to stand it.

Obviously, it was very easy to hide a person in the room on the left, and when the three of us entered the room, we locked the door behind us, and then carefully searched the garbage-like place little by little to see if there was anyone hiding here.

We searched as carefully as we could, and soon we found that at the end of the room in front of us, there seemed to be a neat line of people standing!

The sudden sight of this scene made my body tremble immediately, but when I looked closely, I realized that it was not a row of people, but a row of dummies, like plastic models in a clothing store.

"That's what we use to decorate the background when we shoot exterior shots, and we don't usually use it, so we keep it in the deepest part of the world." Xiao Chen stared at the row of dummies in front of me and explained.

I turned my head and glanced at Lin Yingxue, she immediately understood what I meant, and took the lead and walked towards the row of dummies, because if someone was hiding among these dummies, if he didn't look carefully, he would really be able to hide from the world.

We followed closely behind Lin Yingxue, and soon came to the front of the row of dummies, I roughly counted, there were more than thirty dummies in this row, some were wearing clothes, some were directly naked, all standing in the same position, like a row of soldiers.

We started at one end of a row of dummies and walked past them like parade soldiers, trying to discern their authenticity. At first I looked at the first five or six more carefully, but then I became impatient and my steps gradually increased, because they were all in the same position, and if someone was really mixed in, it would be easy to recognize.

The flashlight of the three of us flashed forward as we moved, but as we reached the halfway point, the three of us stopped at the same time, took a few steps back, and pointed our flashlights at one of the dummies.

Because we only realized after we walked over, this dummy seemed to be a little different from other dummies, but when we looked back, we were shocked to find that this was not a dummy, but a real person!

It was a man with his back to us, but his head was turned one hundred and eighty degrees behind his back, staring at us motionless with a bloody face!