Chapter 103: A Game of Cat and Mouse
September 16, 2013 around 12 p.m
It was almost early in the morning, and the panicked voices in the theater had calmed down a little, and at this moment, Oda was still holding Merlot's hand tightly, and he finally calmed down Miss Merle's emotions! The two men walked to the corner of the court and waited.
When he couldn't see his five fingers, Oda didn't dare to move around with Mero, and it would be bad if he really ran into someone who was going to be unfavorable to them.
"It's safer here, there are props all around, and if someone really wants to attack, it's not easy to find us." Oda whispered comforting words in Meruk's ear.
Merlot still felt very excited, gasping for breath and trembling slightly. The hem of her skirt doesn't seem to be as big as it was just now, maybe Merlot deliberately pulled the skirt together, after all, walking in the dark, such a wide skirt is indeed easy to be pulled by people, or trip over her feet.
Oda continued, "Tomorrow the morning shift will check all the power supplies in the hotel, and I think if I'm lucky, they'll turn on the power of the elevator and check it to see if it's working properly." At this time, the spare lights around the theater will also be lit, and we can take the opportunity to leave. Well... If you're a little unlucky, you'll have to wait until the night of the 18th, but don't worry, I'll always be here to protect you. ”
Merlot didn't answer, but kept her old movements and sat there like a wooden man, and Oda only thought she was too scared, so she did this.
Gu Gu continued to say: "We can only settle for the next two days, and there is no way to go hungry, I hope everything goes well!" When he said the last sentence, Oda himself felt very annoyed and sat there with his head down.
At this time, Mero's hand suddenly moved slightly, and she squeezed Xiao Tian's palm, as if to confirm whether the person next to her was real.
Then, there was silence all around, and Oda didn't say anything more, and the two of them sat there quietly as if they had disappeared into thin air.
Not far from them, a tall, straight black figure was searching, he didn't have the night vision to see objects in the dark, but he had another way of searching for what he wanted.
He seemed to be very familiar with the structure of the Colosseum, moving very quickly without bumping into anything. Soon, the footsteps moved to the end of the theater, and the shadow confirmed a little, and found that he had reached the bend in the elevator.
There's not much of anything here, it's empty. 'Have they gotten the box underneath?' No, it definitely can't be so fast! And the rat below had already ...... the dark shadow denied his thoughts, turned around and walked back.
At this moment, a pair of pupils like the night suddenly poked out from under the stairs, which could not be found in the darkness at all, and there was a little bit of light looming under the pupils, which made people feel extremely terrifying.
The owner of these pupils seemed to have already spotted the black shadow, and he hid there motionless until the black shadow disappeared completely, and then he brought the shining light to his ear and whispered, "Hey, quickly open the elevator and let me go down, it will be too late." ”
Perhaps immediately answered, the light in the hands of the man hiding in the corner of the stairs went out, and he looked up at the arrow indicator in the middle of the elevator, and silently said: "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" The anxious mood made his whole body shrink even tighter. Some of them scrambled to tug at a large piece of cloth-like stuff beneath their bodies.
Suddenly, the man hiding at the bottom of the stairs felt as if someone behind him was pulling at his clothes at the same time, and it was getting tighter and tighter, as if he was going to tie his body with a strap.
"Who? Who is it? The voice was a little louder than before, and it was only then that we could hear clearly that the person at the bottom of the stairs was actually a woman.
It's strange that there is only one woman in the amphitheater, and that is Miss Merlot. How could she be at Oda and at the bottom of the stairs at the same time?
Oda is indeed holding a woman's hand, there is no doubt about this, no matter how dark it is, he can't mistake a woman and a man.
Could it be that the people downstairs are pretending to be girls? But listening to the voice she made just now, it was indeed a soft and glutinous girl's voice, if it was a man, how could she pretend to be so similar?
Before figuring out these questions, the struggle and tugging at the bottom of the stairs continued, and the hidden woman desperately tried to break free from the person behind her, but the person behind her did not say a word, just desperately tugged at the woman's clothes and skirt, as if determined not to let her go.
The elevator up and down indicators lit up at this time, and the woman threw herself into the elevator with all her strength to press the downward button, but the strong pull behind her made her body bounce back like a spring, and her back slammed heavily on a man's broad chest, letting out a cry of pain.
Almost at the same time, the elevator indicator light that had just been lit went out like a flame that had been blown out. The woman's eyes widened incredulously, completely unaware of what was going on, and her body was firmly controlled by the man behind her! The woman could only let out a faint cry of sorrow.
"Alright, Miss Meihua, let's stop here!" As Mo Haiyou's voice sounded, the top lights that had just been extinguished in the amphitheater also turned on again, dispelling all the darkness.
The embarrassed 'Goddess of Tragedy' fell under the fold of the stairs, her long skirt and the ribbon on her skirt became a kind of restraint at this moment, allowing the man behind her to control her tightly.
Looking behind me again, the person squatting behind the 'Goddess of Tragedy' was actually the last theater renovation worker to appear, Iwamine!!
This is incredible, so who are the people around Oda? Miss Meile, who was called Meihua by Mo Haiyou, who is her actual identity?
At this time, there was also an exclamation from inside the theater, which was from Oda. "You! Who are you?! Where did you get Miss Merlot?!! ”
As soon as Xiao Tian's words fell, Mo Haiyou had already returned to the center of the theater, his face looked very relaxed at the moment, and he walked to the woman next to Xiao Tian and said, "Ms. Fan, are you okay?" ”
The woman, known as Ms. Fan, was dressed in a way that seemed to be modeled after Merlot, but the style of the dress was much simpler than that of Merlot.
Mo Haiyou didn't care about other people's reactions, but approached Ms. Fan and continued: "Tell me, why were you put in a box? And why did he dodge that fatal blow? As he spoke, he pointed to a deep wound under Ms. Fan's temple, which was still oozing blood.
The handkerchief that Ms. Fan used to cover it had also been dyed a large patch of red.
“…… You, you are Mr. Yun! I don't know why I was attacked. After arranging all the preparations in the secluded Rose Hotel tonight, I went to the entrance of the park to greet the guests who came in one after another, and then ......"
"What time was it?" Mo Haiyou asked.
"It's about seven o'clock."
"Around seven o'clock? But the time I came was 6:40, and there was already a person who called herself Ms. Fan waiting at the door. ”
"No, I went to the garden gate and looked at my watch, it was 7.03 points, and there was no one else at the door!"
"Were you a staff member at the door at the time?"
"Yes, but soon Miss Merlot's assistant came to call me, saying that there was something wrong with her clothes, and then ......" Ms. Fan said at this point and suddenly stopped, her eyes began to panic, as if she was trying to deny the thought that had just sprung up in her mind.
Mo Haiyou took her words and said, "Then you were attacked in Miss Merlot's dressing room and put in a wooden box, and I guess, they were going to kill you in the wooden box so that no evidence would be left at the scene of the murder." ”
"Impossible! When I got to the dressing room, only the assistant was with me, and Miss Merlot went to the bathroom, and her dress was still on the couch! Ms. Fan retorted urgently.
Mo Haiyou didn't argue with her, and still said calmly: "Ms. Fan, don't worry, the wound under your temple is very deep, and I don't have any medicine to treat you for the time being, you just need to answer my question." ”
"Did you see your assistant's face clearly?"
"She wears a lot of makeup, as if she is a new assistant, I didn't pay attention to the specifics."
"Miss Merlot is the bathroom you went to after you entered the dressing room? Or did you go before? ”
"I went before, and since my assistant and I entered the dressing room, we haven't seen Miss Merlot."
"So, what time did Miss Merlot arrive at the hotel today?"
“…… Miss Merlot didn't inform me at all today when she would arrive, I just received a call from Miss Merlot, saying that Miss Merlot had come early and was partying with some friends outside the circle in the hotel room, so I was asked not to disturb him, just take care of the fans and VIPs below. ”
"In other words, from the time you arrived at the hotel until the accident, you didn't really see Miss Merlot, did you?"
"Uh...... Yes. But what does this prove? Do you want to say that Miss Merlot attacked me? Ms. Fan finally raised the question in her heart, and this time, she really couldn't keep a calm attitude anymore.
"I didn't say that Miss Merlot attacked you, I just wanted to prove that you had never seen Miss Merlot or Miss Meihua here all along. Also, the assumption that you were attacked in the dressing room of Merlot. Mo Haiyou said.
At this time, the rest of the place seemed unusually quiet, and Xiao Tian had already stood up, he was no longer as stunned as he was just now, but listened to the conversation between the two people with an indifferent face, and his eyes glanced in the direction of the staircase from time to time.
"Ms. Fan, now that we are trapped in this amphitheater, there is one thing I must tell you, that is, the Siddens Villa where Meihua Meile lives has been destroyed by a fire, the police and firefighters have found three charred bodies from the inside of the villa, and now the investigation of the cause of death of the corpses is underway, so you must answer every question carefully and carefully, so as to help us solve the case."
This is undoubtedly a bombshell! Ms. Fan's astonishment is beyond words! She was speechless all of a sudden, and could only open her mouth wide to stare directly at Mo Haiyou's cold eyes.
After a while, Ms. Fan finally came back to her senses, and she asked loudly, "Aren't you the actor Mr. Yun Yeyao?" You've never been to Villa Siddens at all! How do you know there's something going on? And how do you know about the police? ”
“…… I'm not Yun Yeyao, and I haven't seen that person either, but Miss Merlot mistook me for this Mr. Yun when I was here just now, and you all of you are wrong, so I'm going to talk to you as Mr. Yun! In fact, I am a forensic doctor from the Public Security Bureau of S City, and my name is Mo Haiyou. If you don't believe me, you can ask Xiao Tian, my ID should still be in his pocket right now. ”
Mo Haiyou reached out again to straighten all his hair behind his head, and turned his head to look at Xiao Tian on the side with Ms. Fan.
Xiao Tian didn't deny it, and then took out a document card that was a little bigger than the ID card from his pocket and handed it to Ms. Fan for confirmation, and the woman sitting looked back and forth at the photo on it and Mo Haiyou's face, and couldn't believe that the two people looked so similar! She opened her mouth and said, "It's too similar, you and Mr. Yun can't be twins, right?" ”
"No, I said I didn't see that person at all."
"Oh...... Mr. Forensic Doctor, this one is back for you. Ms. Fan handed back the documents in her hand to Mo Haiyou, and after confirming her identity, she suddenly looked much more restrained, after all, the feeling of facing the police personnel and facing ordinary people is completely different, Ms. Fan continued: "If you have any questions, please ask, I will answer them truthfully." ”
At this time, more than ten minutes have passed from the light to now, and Miss Merlot and Iwamine at the bottom of the stairs have not made a sound.
Mo Haiyou said: "Ms. Fan, before I go on to ask questions, I would like to ask you to go to the elevator door to confirm a person. ”
"Who is it?"
"She told me that she was Miss Merlot, but judging from all kinds of clues, I thought she should be Miss Meihua. I'm not sure about this yet, so I hope you can help me confirm her identity. ”
"That, Forensic Doctor Mo, when it comes to confirming the twins, I can't be 100% sure, after all, I don't usually see them every day, and I have a lot of other work to deal with. can be 100% sure who is the twins, except for the sweetheart and crispy grandma in the Siddens villa, there is only Mr. Luo Yifan. ”
"It's okay, then please go over with Oda to confirm." After Mo Haiyou finished speaking to the two of them in a meaningful tone, he took the lead in the direction of the exit of the amphitheater.
The two people behind him could only follow him silently, and on the way, Xiao Tian took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket, handed it to Ms. Fan, and said, "Use this, your piece has been soaked in blood." And I don't understand, how on earth are they going to kill you in a wooden box? And why didn't it work out? ”
Ms. Fan smiled bitterly at Xiao Tian and said, "Who am I going to ask if you ask me?" Wait a minute, let this medical examiner explain, I'm already confused in my head right now. ”
The three of them quickly turned over the audience and came to the corner of the stairs where Miss Meihua and Yan Feng were squatting-
An unexplained strange event happened again, this time even the cold forensic doctor became panicked and uneasy in an instant, he quickly rushed to the front of the elevator, and suddenly picked up the body of the woman on the ground who had been cut off from her head! Ms. Fan let out a miserable scream and collapsed to the ground on the spot, only Xiao Tian was still standing firmly above the staircase, something seemed to peel off from his eyes, and his demon-like pupils were looking at the two panicked men and women in front of him at the moment......
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In the early morning of September 17, 2013
Due to the disappearance of Miss Merlot, almost all the guests in the hotel and garden are gone. The Blue Rose Cafe was now empty, and the waitress didn't know where he had gone, except for the elegant piano music that continued to echo in the void.
In the elevator hallway, which is invisible to outsiders, an anxious man is walking back and forth, looking in the direction of the elevator hall and the inside of the bathroom from time to time.
This person is the waiter on night duty in the café, he is not wearing a hat at the moment, his hair is also scratched messy by himself, and his uncovered face does look exactly like Wei Jun.
In the evening, the man who was trapped because of drunkenness and trouble did not know when he was gone, and the power supply also had traces of being manipulated, and the waiter felt that he was about to be exposed, and he could no longer pretend that nothing had happened and stay in this café.
If they are killed, it will be more than worth the loss, and who knows if they are telling the truth? Having made up his mind in his heart, the waitress said to the elevator door, "I'm sorry, I'll leave first." ”
With that, he hurriedly took off the waiter's clothes, threw them inside the counter, and then strode towards the outside of the Blue Rose Cafe, completely ignoring the people upstairs who were still trapped in the amphitheater, and soon there was no one.
Ten seconds later, the door of the small elevator hall suddenly opened with a clang, and a man dressed in a worker's costume and looked like he was five big and three thick poked his head out of it. He first cautiously looked around, and after making sure that there was no one around, the man quickly moved from the elevator room to the corridor, holding a round object wrapped in cloth in his hand, quite large, and was held tightly in his arms.
The object seemed to have just been scooped out of the water, dripping from beneath the package. But the man holding it didn't care about this, he moved to the edge of the corridor connecting the café little by little, and carefully looked at the hall and the service desk, until he was sure that there was no one, and then let go and rushed into the service desk.
However, the man did not bring the package in his hand into the service desk, but temporarily threw it on the floor of the hall. When the package fell to the ground, it rolled a few times, and the water in it seemed to flow more, slowly smearing to the sides of the floor.
The man couldn't wait to rummage through the counter for something, and in a moment he brought out a large pile of rags, as well as a pair of mops and mop buckets for cleaning.
Quickly carry the mop bucket into the bathroom and fill it with water, and then the man padded all the rags under the package, and completely wrapped the package with a thick layer of plastic sheeting to prevent any more water from leaking out.
After doing this, the man quickly hid the package under the counter and sprayed some perfume in the air to hide the smell. Finally, after the floor outside was hastily mopped, until the dirty water was poured into the bathroom and everything was cleaned up, the man breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the counter and changed into the waiter's clothes and began to look for his mobile phone.
I wish he hadn't taken my phone with him!' This time, things got serious, and we had to find a way to get in touch with the person outside. ’
The man thought as he quickly rummaged through various things, and finally, a corner of his phone was revealed between the bags of ground coffee, and the man almost cheered.
He quickly covered his mouth, and after taking the phone in his hand, he immediately dialed the phone number.
"Hey! Where are you now? ”
“……”
"No, someone just tried to change my position and took my phone, so I could only sneak upstairs and explain the situation to that person, but she didn't pretend to know me at all."
“……”
"Later? Then things got worse and worse, and I panicked when all the power to the amphitheater was cut off by someone who didn't know who had cut it off...... Kill that person!! ”
"What ?!!" The voice on the other end of the phone was noticeably higher an octave, and although it was not clear whether it was a man or a woman, it sounded very old.
"I can't help it! At that time, the people inside were already starting to doubt each other! And...... And there is also an actor who is looking around like a detective!! ”
“……”
"Who? It's that Yun Yeyao, didn't I send you a message from the beginning? Why didn't you talk to the people upstairs! ”
“……”
"What's the use of letting me be at ease now? You'd better hurry up and figure it out! Otherwise, none of us will be able to get out of it! …… What, what! Oven on top? Is it an escape garment? Okay, okay, I'll get it right away! Then after I left, this matter has nothing to do with me, I have already cut off the man's head and taken it away, right in the counter of the café, and now the people below can't tell who he is? Hurry up and act on your own!! ”
With that, the man hurriedly hung up the phone and ran to the baking area behind the counter, and on top of a dilapidated oven that had been discarded in the corner, he did find a bag, very thin, like a garment or two in it.
Glad that the person on the other end of the phone hadn't lied to himself, the man quickly opened the package with a trembling hand, and because he was nervous and anxious, his face was on top of the package. Inside, as expected, it was a normal suit and a hat, but it was sealed in a large plastic bag.
Without the slightest hesitation, the man reached out and tore open the plastic bag on his clothes, and suddenly, a strong smell of bitter almonds rushed towards him, and he didn't have time to think about what was going on? The man fell to the ground, convulsing like a spasm, holding his throat with both hands, and rolling desperately on the ground.
But this time, the criminals did their job to death, and the hydrocyanic acid hidden in the plastic bag was enough to poison a cow, and the strong smell almost filled the entire barbecue area. Soon, the man on the ground stopped moving, his face was completely distorted, and white foam and vomit kept coming out of his mouth, and he was killed like a broken doll in a place that no one could see?
At around two o'clock in the morning on September 17, 2013, a short woman quietly approached the entrance of the Blue Rose Cafe, and now that all her obstacles had been removed, it was impossible for anyone to link the charges against her.
The woman quickly reached out and closed the door of the café and locked it, and wrapped it around the chain several times, and after testing the firmness, she left with peace of mind.
When she returned to the hall, the woman immediately returned to normalcy and hurriedly walked outside the door of the hotel, ignoring even the staff on night duty at the door who bowed to her and said hello.
When she reached the flowers, where no one could see her, the woman immediately made a call, not one, but several calls. After every phone call was answered, she only said one sentence: "The amphitheater is going to be renovated, so the Blue Rose Cafe will also be temporarily closed for three days, so you can rest at home for the next few days!" ”
Soon the woman finished all the calls and closed the phone. Suddenly, as if she had let go of all her burdens, she buried herself deep in the roses, and began to gasp and cry, completely ignoring the fact that the roses had pierced her skin.
On the back of the hand full of wrinkles and the vicissitudes of time, there was a trace of hot tears! It seems that this woman is going to shed all the tears of her life at this moment, and then start to face the future again. The lonely is left with the future to face alone.
After a long time, the man sitting in the rose bush stood up, wiped his tears with his clothes, and whispered to the void: "Sister, I have succeeded, may you rest in peace on the Huangquan Road!" After saying that, he left the quiet rose park without looking back, got into a car and left.
At the place where she had just left, a small piece of paper was left on the black dirt, it was a plane ticket to the city international airport, and the flight time was 6:50 a.m. on September 19, 2013.
It's not too cold in September, but the night is already windy, and the overpowered rose bushes can't resist the night wind, and the slightly dry soil can't stick to the pieces of paper left on it. The evening breeze gently blew the ticket into the depths of the rose bushes, and eventually, the ticket was stuck on the leaf of one of the roses, where it swayed with the flowers.