Chapter 3: The Two Minutes That Disappeared

The man, led by a bearded man who looked to be in his forties, wore a light gray trench coat and walked in front of a group of young men behind him.

"Group zero."

With a blank face, he walked up to the detective standing next to me.

I saw him pull out a green notebook from his pocket and hand it to him, the detective was visibly taken aback, and let them in.

And behind him were two men and a woman, the woman was dressed in civilian clothes, her hair was neatly tied behind her head, her hair was not over her shoulders, and she walked like a big man. People seem to have a natural arrogance.

As for the two men in the back, one walked with his hand in his coat pocket, and the other wore a pair of square-rimmed glasses and a pen in his ear.

The other is with your hands around your chest. A smart short shirt with a jacket tucked around the waist.

In the pocket of his clothes, although he has a handsome face, he has a pair of glasses, and his eye bags are a little heavy, so it looks like he should stay up late often. The other has a handsome face, sword eyebrows and a high nose, and does not seem to be very approachable.

"Alas, it's really scary, obviously they look the same age as me, but this identity is really too bad."

I sighed and whispered.

Suddenly, I felt a cold gaze that went straight to my eyebrows.

"Jiang Yu! Why are you stunned? Let's go! The bespectacled lazy man patted the shoulder of the man with his hands around his waist and urged.

Only then did I realize that the terrifying gaze came from the man's eyes, and the man must have heard the words just now.

"Don't worry about it!" Jiang Yu said coldly.

The bespectacled man scratched his head in embarrassment, shrugged his shoulders and walked in. Then Jiang Yu glanced at me and walked in.

After I watched the scene, I went home. As I sat on a chair in my room, I suddenly remembered a document, I turned on my computer, clicked on a hidden file, and the file opened, and it was all a string of garbled characters, and it was estimated that it was five pages long when it was printed.

I bit my pen, propped my chin, and frowned in thought.

Suddenly, my computer message alert came. It's news, it's what happened today, and I don't have much interest in watching it at the moment. Just when I was about to quit, a related recommended article caught my eye.

I clicked in, and the title was "Two Minutes for a Dead Tenant in a Hotel", and out of curiosity, I skimmed through it, and it was roughly:

Three days ago, a 22-year-old woman died in her room at the XXX Hotel, according to the police's preliminary diagnosis of homicide, and the informant was a waiter cleaning the hotel.

According to her description, she usually goes to clean up her room at ten o'clock in the morning, when most people are already up, not to mention, she only rents for one night.

When she went to clean it, the door was hidden, so she knocked on the door, but no one answered inside. She thought she was gone, so she stepped inside, and didn't notice anything unusual, so she walked to the bathroom with the towel she had used to clean as usual.

But the bathroom door was closed, and there was a gurgling sound of running water coming from the door, and a puddle of water had accumulated under his feet.

She thought the woman had forgotten to turn off the faucet before leaving, but when she pushed the door open, she was horrified.

Because what caught my eye was a half-lying female corpse in the bathtub, soaked in white and swollen hair.

Her head was brutally cut off and placed at the end of her foot, facing her own corpse, and the corpse's hands were behind her back, and the whole murder scene had a sense of ritual.

In addition, the death of the female tenant was extremely strange, and the police did not find any valuable clues at the scene, nor did they have any fingerprints of the murderer. What's even more strange is that there is no smell at the scene, it is the smell of the victim's blood. There is no rusty smell characteristic of blood.

It's like something has been done.

After investigation, the police inadvertently found a miniature camera in the hotel room, and after investigation, the suspect Zhu was finally arrested in the monitoring room.

Zhu is an incumbent in the monitoring room, has no wife and no children, and is lustful and gambling. By virtue of his position, he installed a camera in the room for peeping. Later, the police confirmed that on the night of the incident, Zhu was shouted by the leader for being lazy and returned home early. With an alibi, his suspicion was ruled out.

So the police followed the clues, turned their attention to the surveillance, and the video extracted did not bring surprises, but more horror.

Surveillance video shows the woman walking into the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel and not seeing any suspicious people in or out until she was found the next day. In other words, the victim committed suicide, but this is impossible, and a mere putting his head in front of him is enough to overturn the inference of suicide, not to mention the question of how to deal with the smell of the corpse.

Just when people were panicking and rumors were spreading.

Some people are rumored to have taken over the case by a mysterious team affiliated with the provincial department, but no one has come up with a substantive basis for the authenticity, and there are no relevant records on the Internet, and most of them are silent about the police.

Anyway, later, an important clue came out, and two minutes were missing from the surveillance footage. That is, the murderer completed the entire killing process within two minutes.

This is not just something that can be done by one person, it should be a group to assist in the crime.

However, despite this, some people have raised questions, first, the victim's property is not less. Second, according to the victim's relatives and classmates, the victim did not have any enemies, and she was introverted, not good at communication, and would not hold grudges with others. Therefore, there was no motive for the crime, and there was no murder weapon at the scene. It should have been taken away. 3. What is the purpose? If it was a gang, what was their purpose? Is it worth the effort to kill someone?

The answer to all of this should probably be in the two minutes that disappeared.

I rubbed my aching eyes, remembering the people I had seen today, "Group Zero......" I whispered.

Suddenly, a message came from my mailbox, and I opened it curiously, and I was startled by the huge headline.

"Invite you to add someone to us - zero group", it really means Cao Cao Cao arrived, I clicked on it with curiosity, and suddenly the pen in my mouth fell to the ground with a clatter.

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"My name is Chen Qi, and I remember what I said. And my father was a criminal policeman who had died in the line of duty, and my mother, because of my father's affairs, was hit and was mentally unstable from time to time. At present, he has been treated, and at present, he is recovering well, and now he works as a cashier in a supermarket.

She couldn't remember a lot of the previous events vaguely. When I was so sick, sometimes I couldn't even recognize it.

I probably learned from my father's experience, or maybe I experienced the shadow of that incident, I don't want to be a policeman, I'm not a policeman myself, anyway, I think so.

I'm not a person who abides by the rules, so I can't stand it if I face the leader, the rules, and the etiquette all day long. Therefore, some people behind my back say that I don't want to make progress, and I like to work hard.

I once registered an account on the Internet, called "Ghost Detective", coupled with my hobby interest in supernatural events, soon had a lot of fans and popularity, and began to help people solve some troubles, and thus made a lot of money, saying that it is to solve the supernatural, in fact, most of the people who ask me for help are just for peace of mind, and there are few people who really have something.

But later, because of an incident, the account was blocked, and I started a hard career again.

In fact, it's nothing, it is estimated that someone can't see me making money, and they jointly reported it, and then the lawsuit went to the police station, and then it is conceivable that the account was blocked, and the money was also sued, and the fine was taken away.

He was also convicted of fraud and spent some time in prison. Poor, a dignified seven-foot man, now he is also haggard for money.

I'm only 21, and I've been in prison before, and when I say it, I don't even have the face to see my father and fellow villagers.

However, thanks to my mother's understanding, I was able to regain my strength and rise to the occasion......

Back in the present, I looked the middle-aged man in front of me up and down.

With broad lips and dark skin, this kind of person is not difficult to guess, at first glance, he is the kind of person who has experienced vicissitudes all the year round, and most of his personality is the kind of person who acts according to the rules, is stubborn, and acts resolutely.

After looking at him, I sneered at him.

"Well, this resume is clear enough, right?"

Liu Lifeng nodded, knocked on the table and said,

"Xiaoqi, I haven't seen you for many years, I didn't expect to grow so big, and it's difficult for you and your mother, but I still have to say, it doesn't matter if you make a mistake, the important thing is to change, to have the meaning of being wrong, and the determination to change."

"We're in Group Zero, and we're all happy to welcome people like that."

"Are you all at fault?" I asked cautiously tentatively.

"How?" His gentle face suddenly straightened and said solemnly.

Liu Lifeng's changeable temper, I told me when my mother sent me, he used to be my father's teammate, and they were all apprentices of Dong Liang's predecessors, and she still remembered it.

Sure enough, it's better to be famous than to see it. I had seen him before, and I thought that this person's city was unfathomable.

"I didn't ...... Nothing?" I swallowed a mouthful of water and shook my head.

"You also understand that the government is not allowed to violate the socialist system of organizations, not to mention that our organization itself has some superstitions in it, so we are not allowed to recognize, there are many organizations, maybe the name is different, but the nature is the same, we are specialized in solving supernatural events or superstitious traditions in various places, but it does not belong to the Public Security Department, but it has the right to handle cases.

To put it bluntly, it's an employment relationship.

Liu Lifeng was a former captain of the criminal police team, and Group Zero was established under his leadership.

And we are the people he selects from all over the world with their own strengths.

Hello, my name is North Road. Computer Expert: "The man with glasses walked up and held out his hand to me in a friendly manner, and I shook it politely.

"Chen Qi."

"Zhuang Qin and Jiang Yu are both members of Group Zero, and we are both directly ordered by Group Liu."

Glasses said, looking at the two of them. I saw that they didn't respond. I had to smile awkwardly.

"Oh, by the way, I've seen a report about you, well, it doesn't count, it's about a hotel death, right? Any clues? ”

I remembered the last time I browsed on my computer, so I asked curiously.

"Not for the time being, only for those two minutes."

Zhuang Qin spoke for the first time, but his voice was a little contemptuous. I wondered if I had offended her somewhere.

"I can't say that, this strange house is also related to the death of the hotel."

Jiang Yu also spoke at this time. Several people were in the same room, and when they said this, they suddenly fell silent, and they felt too embarrassed. So I said,

"How do you know there's a connection? Did you find any clues? ”

"The house was subleased to Ms. Li (the victim) to Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Jun just a month before she died. It was still transferred at a low price, and it was packed up and left almost overnight, and some people said that there was evil in it. She often heard the sound of the window in the middle of the night. Neighbors also testified that they had heard it. ”

"Then why haven't I heard of it?"

I frowned. Several people looked at me.

"By the way, Chen Qi, you seem to live next door to that house!" Liu asked after thinking about it.

"That's right, my mother's room is facing the couple's bedroom, although it is on the second floor, but my mother sleeps very lightly, and the slightest sound will wake her up, if there is a lot of movement next door, she can't not mention it."

"Perhaps, she took sleeping pills?" Zhuang Qin replied.

"No, my mom is not in good health and generally doesn't take sleeping pills to maintain sleep."

"Then you mean that the family was killed without any resistance?" North Road's eyes widened suddenly.

"If that's the case, it's possible, after all, there are many ways to stun people." Liu Group held his chin and said.

"I'm wondering, what are the clues between these two that we've overlooked, except for the lend-lease relationship?"

"Huh! What if these were two different cases? We can't always think of the subtle connection between them as the same case indirectly. What's more, those two minutes alone are already head-headed. ”

"The time of death, the forensic doctor has confirmed that it was around two o'clock in the morning." Liu Group said to us.

"What? Impossible. You mean she took a bath around ten o'clock and was not killed until about two o'clock in the morning? How much does she love cleanliness?" I said incredulously.

I observed that Kitaji's hand kept scratching his head, thinking that I had heard that the masters of playing computer games had very smart IQs, but this did not seem to be the case.

Sure enough, in this place, one craft is not enough. As the saying goes, if you can play double knives, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. Okay, I made it up myself, but there is some truth to Chen's quote.

"Hey! Boy, are you distracted? ”

Liu Group suddenly yelled at me and pulled me back from the fugue sky. I feigned coughing and looked at them with an awkward smile. My sudden fugue seems to have to be corrected.

"I think she was already stunned by something when she went in, so it took at least two people until about two o'clock, two minutes," Jiang Yu analyzed.

"Okay, that's all for the time being, Chen Qi just came, and he is not used to it, you have to get along with him more."

Liu Group said mildly. In the end, there were only glasses, oh no, the north road dealt with me, and the other two were very arrogant, especially Zhuang Qin. But fortunately, the case is still a bit eyebrow-raising.