Chapter 34: The Bathroom of Terror

The magician was vigilant and refused to answer while protesting Professor Leung's criminalization of him.

The four members of the special case team returned to Su Mei's room, and Professor Liang checked the transcript of the Jiazhou police's interrogation of the magician, and on the night of Lan Keer's disappearance, the magician and his assistant were performing in the theater and did not have the time to commit the crime.

Su Mei said: Magicians can definitely do it if they make an alibi and kill people and throw corpses.

Bao Chu said: Why?

Su Mei said: Because he is a magician, he can get the ring into the egg, and he can also make himself disappear.

The dragon said: The corpse was found in the water tank, and the body could only be cut open to get the corpse out, is this a magic trick?

Professor Liang said: If it is force-plugged, the murderer can stuff Lan Keer into the water tower, and she is soaked in the water, and the body is swollen, so she cannot get her out of the entrance.

Bao Chu said: I can avoid surveillance, kill people and throw corpses, and throw them into the water tower, but I can't guarantee the integrity of the corpses.

There was a strange homicide case in Shanghai, and this real case was changed to a reasoning question on the police academy exam paper.

A couple stayed at the hotel and the wife never left the hotel until they checked out. Through surveillance, it was found that the husband had gone out shopping many times, and each time he traveled lightly, without a backpack, it was impossible to transfer the body out. Corridor surveillance showed that the wife did not leave the room. The room is on the 3rd floor, the window is facing north, there is a guardrail installed, and there are faint blood stains on the bathroom floor, the police speculate that the wife is dead, but where is the body, and how did the murderer transport the body?

Bao said that he wrote three answers on the test paper at that time.

One: The murderer bought some tools for dismembering the body, returned to the hotel, broke the deceased's body into pieces, and flushed it down the toilet.

2: The murderer shredded the body of the deceased, carried it on his body, hid it with clothes, and went to the hotel to throw the body many times.

Three: Most of the hotels are facing the sun, and the windows to the north are generally not in the scope of monitoring, and the murderer cut the body into several pieces, cut off the meat, and smashed or squeezed the head and torso with the purchased tools, so as to stuff the body out of the window railing, drag it to the roof with a rope, and then hang the body to the monitoring blind spot behind the hotel building, and finally quietly transfer.

Professor Liang shook his wheelchair, walked to the window and opened the curtains, the room where Lan Keer lived, the window was also facing north, although there was no protective fence installed, but the window was stuck, and only a gap could be opened, and the human body could not pass through, Lan Keer's body was intact, and the police inquest also showed that the window had no traces of destruction.

Bao Chu said: None of my three answers apply to this case.

Professor Leung said: Yes, we are now in the fourth situation.

Drawing the dragon said: Anyway, I resolutely don't believe in any ghosts and gods.

Su Mei said: If you don't believe it, why is there a Qingming Festival, and you have to burn paper money.

When asked by the person in charge of the Jiazhou police how to explain to the media, the special case team could only delay, and at present it does not have more information than the media. The eyes of the world were focused on the case, with news outlets in China, the United States, Canada and other countries making headlines, many reporters flocking to the Dahlia Hotel, and a large number of curious explorers attracting so much that hotel room rates skyrocketed.

A few days later, Lan Keer's body was buried, and the police still did not confirm the true cause of death.

This case of global concern has put the special case team under unprecedented pressure, and various rumors and speculations cannot erase people's doubts. Did Lan Keer commit suicide? Murder? Or an accidental death? How did Lan Keer's body get into the water tower on the top floor? Why did Lan Keer's body disappear for half a month? What is the reason for the strange behavior in the Lan Keer elevator?

Is it? If Lan Keer was murdered, who was the murderer? What was the murderer's motive for committing the crime?

The case was deadlocked, and the special case team was at a loss, and although every employee of the hotel was investigated again, there was still no progress.

Professor Liang thought of a way, he convened the media and some people who were curious about the case, hoping to work together to make a breakthrough in the case, everyone expressed their opinions, and discussed and analyzed the case in the hotel conference room for a whole afternoon.

Lan Ke'er encountered something that frightened her before she died.

Lan Keer died in this hotel.

Lan Keer's clothes were missing, and a naked corpse was found in the tank.

A reporter speculated that Lan Keer's clothes may have been sucked up by the water tank, and the hotel's water supply system is complex and there are many pipes, so the police did not find it. Where did Lan Keer die in the hotel, if it was a corridor or a rooftop and encountered a murderer, then she would probably fight, but there were no external injuries on the surface of the body. According to the results of the forensic autopsy, Lan Keer died by drowning, whether it was suicide or homicide, or accidental death, Lan Keer's death was related to water.

Apart from the water tank, where is water in the hotel?

Bao Chu seemed to see a glimmer of light, and he pointed to the bathroom and said that this might be the scene of the first murder.

The dragon said: There is a washbasin in the bathroom, as well as a bathtub, and the murderer may have pressed her head into the water and drowned her.

Su Mei said: I noticed that there was facial cleanser among Lan Keer's relics, she first filled the washbasin with water, lowered her head to wash her face, her face was full of facial cleanser, and her eyes couldn't be opened, it may be at this time that the murderer attacked her and forcibly pressed her head into the washbasin. Either as she washed her hair, the killer quietly approached her, and she couldn't see it at all, and the killer drowned her in the bathtub.

Professor Liang said: How the murderer entered Lan Keer's room and how he left is a mystery.

Everyone was discussing the case in the room when suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the magician and female assistant next door walked in.

The female assistant said: I wonder if you want to enjoy a magic trick?

The dragon said: We are busy, we don't have time to watch any magic tricks.

The magician said, "Forget it, we wanted to show you a wall-piercing technique."

After the magician and the female assistant finished speaking, they walked out, and Professor Liang stopped them, expressing interest.

The magician said, "The magic I want to perform is very simple, you lock the door behind the back, and I can enter your room through the wall."

Su Mei said: How is this possible, you entered our room from the next room, through the wall, is that so?

The magician said, "For a thousand dollars, I won't perform for free."

Drawing Dragon said: That's a bit much.

The magician said: I'm talking about dollars, a thousand dollars.

Bao Chu said: Can you really do it?

The magician said, "Of course."

"We are investigating a case, and as you know, we have reason to suspect you now.

The magician said: Whatever, I'm not afraid.

Hualong took out the handcuffs and said with a smile: Maybe you can perform an escape technique and use your hair to open the handcuffs or something.

The magician said, "If you want to see me perform the wall-piercing technique, I have only one request, to keep this barbarian away from me."

Professor Leung said, "Okay, let's give $1,000 and I'd love to see how you get through the wall."

Professor Liang asked Hualong to go to the hotel restaurant to prepare dinner, and Hualong left in a huff, leaving only Professor Liang, Bao Shu, and Su Mei in the room. The magician and the female assistant leave the room and close

When he came to the door, he said: The show has begun, and the time limit is one hour.

Bao Chop locked the door and hung up the anti-theft chain, and Su Mei also closed the window, and after careful inspection, everyone thought that it was impossible for the magician to enter the room with the door locked and the window closed.

Su Mei said: If this room is the first murder scene, then how the murderer entered, I think it will be revealed soon.

Bao Shu said: Can this magician really do it, if he is a criminal suspect, he will not throw himself into the net like this, right?

Su Mei said: Could he be deliberately letting us sit here, divert the tiger from the mountain, and create a second case?

Professor Leung said: "The magician should not be the murderer, he may want to give us some kind of hint.

When Professor Liang and the three of them were discussing, some smoke drifted in from the gap under the door, everyone was a little flustered, I don't know if it was some kind of toxic gas, the room was full of smoke, Su Mei pushed up Professor Liang in the wheelchair, Bao Shu stood up and wanted to open the door to leave, there was a burst of laughter from behind, everyone looked back, and the magician was already standing in the room.

The doors were locked, the windows were closed, and the magician suddenly appeared like a ghost.

Professor Liang said: Okay, your performance was very successful, Xiaomei will pay the appearance fee in a while.

The magician said, "I have changed my mind and will not take any money from you."

Professor Leung asked: Why?

The magician said, "Because you're the first audience member willing to pay a lot of money to see my magic show."

Bao Shu said: We need to know how you entered this room, and please cooperate with the investigation.

The magician laughed and said, "I expected it a long time ago, I won't cooperate with you police."

Su Mei said: It's not so easy for you to leave.

The magician said: I can come in, I can go out, goodbye.

Su Mei called the police officer on duty in the hotel lobby, and Bao Chu mustered up the courage to rush up to subdue the magician.

The magician threw a smoke bomb on the ground, and when it soared, the smoke rose violently with the flames, Bao Slash hurriedly dodged, and the smoke gradually dissipated, and everyone found that the magician had disappeared before their eyes, and the doors and windows of the room were still closed.

There was news from the front desk of the hotel that the female assistant had checked out half an hour ago and left the hotel early.

Painted Dragon arrives with the police, but the magician has already left, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Drawing dragon said, I said earlier, this guy should be handkold, now run away, right?

The Jiazhou police were busy until midnight and did not find the magician. According to the analysis of the special case team, even if the magician is not a suspect, he is likely to be an insider, he has lived in the Dahlia Hotel for several months, and may have found something strange about this hotel, and hinted at some information to the police with a magic show.

Before going to bed, Su Mei took a bath, and the smoke created by the magician was a powdery substance that splashed on Su Mei's hair.

Su Mei turned on the shower, restrained the fear in her heart, she didn't dare to close her eyes, this bathroom made her feel scared.

Su Mei simply rinsed her body, nothing strange happened, and the bathroom was filled with heat. She put her mind at ease, kept comforting herself, walked to the mirror, wiped the mirror with her hand, squeezed out the facial cleanser to wash her face, she lowered her head, and vaguely felt that someone was quietly approaching and standing behind her. She scrambled to wipe the facial cleanser off her eyes, and when she looked back, there was no one behind her. She exhaled, patted her chest, and continued to wash her face......

The moment Su Mei raised his head and opened his eyes, he was extremely frightened, and a face suddenly appeared in the mirror, and he couldn't see his facial features clearly. It was only Su Mei herself in the bathroom, and she was creepy and screamed.