Immediately set off for Fellin Hill and stayed in Room 1112 at the Rainbow Hotel Riel, which had been the same room as Sloanmandel, and he saw that this ordinary hotel room was as unspecial as any other hotel. He lay on the bed and closed his eyes, silently experiencing the scene where his friend used to work, what kind of clues did he leave me?

He didn't have a clue and didn't know how to get on the 'road' that Sloanmand had left him, but Sloanmand did leave him with important clues, Riel believed that it was somewhere in the city, where he had started his final mission a month ago, and a month later I was in the same place worrying about it, Riel sat up sharply, put on his coat and walked out of the room, he didn't want to worry about it anymore, he wanted to go out for a walk and relax.

Riel doesn't have so many high-rise buildings in this city, the houses are generally relatively low, and the low-paced living standard makes the atmosphere here very comfortable and relaxed, but unfortunately the city lacks natural scenery, he returned to the hotel and looked up when he entered the room and saw that there was a CCTV system in his room, and Riel fell into a reverie.

Sloanmander left me a letter with nothing written in it, why did it just say '7:45'? The code, the code, or something that would happen at that point in time, since it was an ordinary letter, there was no need for Christina to pass it on to me, it was certain that he had been followed, and was avoiding the possibility of being discovered, he knew that I would come here to stay in the same hotel and room as him, Sloanmand had already predicted the worst outcome before this, and there was a purpose in choosing this room.

Riel stood in the hallway and looked at the silent hallway on either side, the room was in the middle of the entire hallway, not near the elevator or the safe passage, he didn't plan to retreat safely, so why? He looked up at the surveillance system, then closed the open door again, he needed to find the security manager, he needed to check the surveillance, he was sure Sloanmand would leave me the last message.

He walked to the front desk and was greeted by a young and temperamental girl, and after he made his request to the girl, she happily dialed the security manager and told Riel to be patient, he told the girl that he was waiting for him in a lounge area in the lobby, and about a few minutes later, a bloated security manager with short hair and fat came over.

"Hello, sir, what can I do for you?"

"Hello, may I ask ......"

"Everybody calls me Lu, sir."

"Oh, Mr. Lu, I live in room 1112......"

"Yes, Mr. Riel, the front desk has already told me......"

Riel saw that this Lou was a little anxious to know what he was going to do, and Riel didn't want to beat around the bush, "Here's the thing, in a month my friend Marlon. Sloanmand lives in room 1112, and a few days later, he was killed in this city, ......, I have some suspicions and speculations that I need your help, I need to retrieve the surveillance footage here, and according to the ordinance of this place, the surveillance must not be less than 60 ......days, and there may be something that the police missed......"

"I see, sir, I'm very sorry for my friend's affairs...... these have been taken away by the police, sir, I really can't help you." Lew prepares to stand up, but Riel raises his hand to stop him from getting up.

"I guess there happens to be a backup ......"

The head of security sighed, and he resisted his impatience and replied in what he thought was more peaceful, "Mr. Riel, a police or court warrant is required to access surveillance, and no one has access to these things. ”

"Lew, I hope we can make this deal privately......" He pulled out a $100 from his bosom and put it on the table, Lou was horrified by this action, he looked nervously from side to side, lowered his voice and said, "No...... That won't work...... sir, you don't have to ...... that"

Riel didn't speak, his hand reached into his arms again, and pulled out another $100 and put it on the table, Lou began to fidget, Riel didn't wait for him to speak, and continued to add another $100 to the table, just like that, when the last $800, Lou completely gave up his bottom line, he said nervously: "Okay, okay, I understand, but not now, when the shift changes at night, I'll arrange it." ”

Riel nodded in satisfaction, and Lou pulled the money on the table in front of his eyes, nervously grabbed the money and stuffed it into his pocket, Riel stood up and said to Lu, "I'll wait for your call, we'll see you in the evening." ”

At about 6 o'clock in the evening, I received a call from Lu to the room, Arrail came to the basement floor of the hotel according to Lu's instructions, and the elevator was the staff passage, Lu was already waiting for him at the elevator door, Riel followed Lu to the monitoring room, and then turned back to Riel and said: "Now it's the shift time for dinner, you only have half an hour, I hope you speed up." ”

"Of course, I won't trouble you......"

Lu brought Ariel into the surveillance room, which was full of large screens, where every area of the hotel could be seen clearly, he pointed to a computer and said, "We did a renovation last year, and all the images here are high-definition ......" He walked to a console computer and typed the administrator's password, stood up and said, "You can view the footage, you have half an hour, if there is any problem, I am outside." With that, Lou walked out of the room, and Rare immediately began to operate, looking at the list in the database.

He chose the surveillance system on the 11th floor, which contained cameras on 11F-A, 11F-B, 11F-C, and 11F-D, and he chose the 11F-B camera closest to the room, and adjusted the time to the video content three days before the accident, and the fast-forward image of Arrail was displayed quickly.

At about 7:10 in the morning, the door of room 1112 opened and Sloanmander walked out of the room, stood at the door and looked left and right, and suddenly beckoned to the front, a blonde boy about 6 or 7 years old ran over, Sloanmand crossed his hands on his chest and leaned on the door frame and said something to the boy with a smile, the boy nodded incessantly, Sloanmander took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it to the boy, and gave the boy a banknote, according to the size it should be, the boy took the letter and the banknote and ran away, Sloanmander looked in the direction the boy was running for a while, the door was not closed and he entered the room, fast-forward about 10 minutes, the boy reappeared at his door as if to say something, Sloanmander came out of the room and said something with a smile, the boy walked away He waved his hand at him, paused, Riel crossed his hands to his mouth.

Sloanmand paid the boy to run an errand for him, so why didn't he send it to the front desk himself? The only possibility is that someone in the lobby is waiting for him to appear, he has been watched, the letter that says '7:45' is a letter addressed to Christina, he has made two preparations, even if the stalker gets this letter, he can't read it, well, cunning guy.

Riel continued to watch the video Sloanmander did not immediately enter the room, but stood in the doorway and took out a pocket watch from his pants pocket, he opened the pocket watch and looked at it, closed the lid and looked up and smiled at the child who ran by, in Riel's eyes, it looked more like Sloanmander was smiling at him, this is a very strange behavior.

At about 8 o'clock, Sloanmander walked out of the room with a backpack on his back, Riel kept fast forward until the evening and didn't see him back to the room, at about 2 o'clock in the morning, there were three people sneakily walking to the door of room 1112 with a room card and looking around, someone opened the door of the room and went inside, and after another 10 minutes or so, the three people walked out of the room again with a laptop in their hands, and the hotel lights in the early morning night only left a few lights, and the corridor was a little dim and only a short black hair and beard could be seen, A fierce and vicious appearance.

At the end of the room, the police and the waiter appeared at the door of the room, when Sloanmand's body had been found by the police on the shore of East Lake, and the police's criminal investigation report showed that Sloanmand had been kidnapped and killed by a blunt object to the head, about 12 hours after the time of the crime.

Riel copies the entire video, walks out of the surveillance room and thanks Lu before returning to the room, where Riel recalls every detail of the surveillance, "pocket watch", "smile", "kidnapper", "computer".

Sloanmande's actions were exposed, and he should have found more egregious information than the scandal, and it was sensational information, and Riel confirmed his suspicion that one or both of the Sennar and Thomas events had a shocking inside story.

Riel pauses to think about some of Sloanmand's unusual actions before he dies, 'pocket watch' and smiles at him.

He knew that I would see this surveillance footage, and he deliberately expressed to Riel that he had found the answer, if the letter was a door lock, could it be assumed that the 'pocket watch' was the key to unlock the door, and the most suspicious thing was that there was no pocket watch in the relics in the police body, so the pocket watch was obviously snatched by the kidnappers? Why does Sloanmand have a pocket watch? When did this guy have a pocket watch? Does he have a penchant for collecting pocket watches? I'm going to prove my guesses.

Riel calls Christina and asks if she knows what a pocket watch means to Sloanmand, and Christina tells Riel that when Sloanmand married her, his grandfather gave him a pocket watch as a wedding souvenir, and Sloanmand is very fond of it, and has a strong love and study of clocks since that time, and if he takes a break, he will go to the library and antique shop for a while, where he has learned a lot of knowledge about clocks, and he also has a collection of several pocket watches that he lovesRiel understands the 'footprints' that Sloanmand left him, and he is now stepping on his 'footprints'.

Riel sends the video file to his colleague and asks him to search for all the information about the bearded man on the video through a central server, and monitor it, not only to find his friend's last gift to him, but also to avenge his friend's death.

Early the next morning, Arrail ran to the front desk and asked the girl who was hosting, "Do you know where Ferlinghill's famous antique watch shop is?" ”

"Of course, sir, there are two very good watch shops here, one on the 12th street, specializing in designer watches and watches, in which you can find all kinds of world famous brands, and the other is for repairing clocks and watches, unlike the previous one, most of the old time watch shops deal in antique clocks and handmade watches, on the south side of the Lomere Park, the sign is very conspicuous, my father used to repair watches there, the owner is very good, and most of the taxi drivers know."

"Thank you very much."

Riel got out of the car at the door of the 'Old Time Watch Shop', looking at this antique watch shop, he could feel that the answer was here, he pushed the door in, the door hit the door and the bell made a crisp sound, a middle aisle led to a glass counter at the end, on both sides were placed all kinds of table clocks, clocks, wall clocks, pocket watches and other antique clocks, and heard the sound of an old man with glasses coming out of it.

"Hello, sir, what do you need?" The old man spoke slowly, but in a powerful tone.

"Hello, I've been asked by a friend to come here to find something...... he didn't know what Sloanmand had done here.

"Is it an appointment? Or is there something to explain......"

"Malone. Sloanmand......"

The old man looked at him, took out a book from under the counter, opened it and searched it line by line with his fingers, and after turning the page, he found the name, "Yes, sir, Mr. Malone has bought a clock here, and paid a deposit, and the note says that someone will come to collect and pay the remaining arrears." ”

The old man looked up at Riel hoping that he would make a clear choice, "Of course, I'm willing to pay, no matter how much ......" He couldn't suppress his excitement, as if finding this old friend of his could be resurrected,

"Yes, sir, you still have to pay $1,300." As he spoke, he turned the notepad to Riel, which said a total of $1,400, of which $100 was a deposit and $1,300 was owed, which was paid by the recipient and signed by him, and was kept for about 3 months, but I didn't expect it to drag on for so long.

Riel smiled wryly with relief, Sloanmand, you're there.

"Of course, is it okay to swipe a card?"

"No, sir, I'm old, I don't understand these modern things, and I only accept cash here."

Riel nodded, took out his wallet from his jacket pocket, and handed it to the old man, who took out a grandfather clock from the storeroom according to the number written on it, and the hand on it happened to be 7:45.

Riel took the clock and fiddled with it from side to side, and the old man began to speak, "I'm old and forgetful, but I can still remember the young man, and I was very impressed with him, about ...... A month ago, the man named Malone, came here, and we talked a lot...... "Riel listened carefully to what the boss had to say about his friend, "and we also bought a Tissot pocket watch here, and we talked about clocks for a long time, and we admired the exquisite craftsmanship of the pocket watch, and we admired the ancient sesame chain tower power transmission, the crown escapement, and the balance spring technology, and I liked that young man very much, and I hadn't talked to me so much in a long time." ”