At 7:19 a.m. on December 5, Fucheng

The dense office buildings are located close to the northwest end of the city's People's Park, which have been built for many years, and each office building has nearly 100 companies.

The thick fog enveloped the hurried passers-by on the road, and the light of the street lamps projected on the road, pulling everyone out of a long shadow.

Zhang Xiaohua's company is located on the 18th floor of the Ruby Building in this office building.

Walking to the entrance of the building, she quickly stuffed the remaining half of the bun in her hand into her mouth, and then knocked on the closed glass door of the entrance.

The old security guard in the door slowly sat up from the wire bed under the front desk of the building, glanced at the woman in a red coat outside the door, reached out and took the key hanging at the front desk, and then hobbled to the door, dragging a slow and heavy voice and asking, "What are you doing?" ”

Zhang Xiaohua stomped his feet on the spot and explained to the uncle, "Uncle Wang, I am an employee on the 18th floor, come to the company to get some information, please open the door." ”

The security guard seemed to remember this man, and with a far-fetched smile on his tired face, he opened the lock hanging on the doorknob from the inside, and then slowly removed the lock, slowly pulling open the glass door.

The door was only half open, and Zhang Xiaohua had already slipped in sideways, thanked the old security guard, and ran quickly to the elevator.

Zhang Xiaohua has been working in this company for more than half a year, although the work is easy, but because it is close to the end of the year, a salesman like her, if she wants to get a satisfactory bonus at the end of the year, she has to work hard to rush her own performance recently, if she didn't receive a call from a prospective customer last night, she made an appointment to meet this morning, and her character would never appear here at this time.

She pressed the elevator button, looked up at the red number displayed on the elevator, according to this time, the elevator will soon come down from the 6th floor, but looking at the number has not changed, she anxiously looked at her watch, it is almost 7:30, if it is not faster, the morning rush hour of the city is coming, even if it is a taxi, it may not be able to catch the appointed time.

She was about to ask the old security guard at the door if the elevator was faulty, the elevator door opened as she wished, she didn't have time to think about it, quickly walked into the elevator, and pressed the floor she was going to.

Making more money is Zhang Xiaohua's greatest wish, she has long been interested in a brand-name bag and a white brand-name down jacket, if this business is completed, her performance this year will be all achieved, then not only can you buy your favorite, but also pay off the credit card debt, thinking of this, her mood is no longer irritable because of this early riser.

(Come on, there is a lot of hope for this order, as long as the benefits of the product are explained to the customer in detail according to the information, this order should be very easy to sign.) ）

She cheered herself up in her heart and regained her spirits.

"Bang! Bang bang bang! ”

After the elevator made a few abnormal noises, the lights in the elevator compartment flickered a few times with the abnormal sound, and stopped at the same time as the sound, fortunately, there were still lights, but it seemed to stop running.

Zhang Xiaohua was taken aback by the sudden situation, she pressed the buttons on the elevator hard, but there was no response.

She was the only one in the entire elevator, and even when she pressed the emergency call button, she didn't respond.

(It can't be so unlucky, right?) The mood that had just gotten a little better was disrupted again.

She took out her mobile phone and was thinking about what phone to call for help, but the phone rang at this time, an unfamiliar number, she thought to herself, maybe it was a customer, pressed the answer button, and put the earpiece close to her ear.

She cleared her throat and greeted the other party in her sweet voice, hoping to make a good impression on the other party, but she fed a few times, but there was no response in the earpiece.

(What the hell!) ）

Zhang Xiaohua took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said hello a few more times, and there was a violent sound of electricity on the other side, and then the phone was hung up.

(Early in the morning, I really met the fetal god!) ）

She scolded in her heart, but the top priority was to get out of the current environment as soon as possible.

"Bang! Bang bang bang! ”

The elevator made another abnormal noise, she only felt that her feet sank, and the elevator was lucky again, but after a few seconds of running, the elevator stopped again, and the elevator door opened.

She glanced at the outside of the elevator, there was a big 6 words written on the wall, it seems that it is on the 6th floor at this time, which is still far away from the floor where her company is located, today in order to meet customers, she is wearing a pair of 12 centimeters of hatred sky, if you want to climb the stairs, she is naturally unwilling.

She pressed every button anxiously in the elevator, but the elevator still didn't move.

(It seems that you can only climb the stairs.) ）

Even though she was unwilling to do so, the pressure of life still forced her to choose the way she was least willing to accept.

"What a broken elevator, you must complain about the property here after finishing the work!"

Zhang Xiaohua walked out of the elevator and was still indignant.

This floor is exactly the same as the layout of the floor where her company is located, in a hollow shape, she naturally knows where the fire staircase is, and when she gets out of the elevator, she walks in the direction where the stairs are located.

The distance between the stairs and the elevator should not be as far as Zhang Xiaohua's impression, but when she walked to the position in her impression, she didn't see the stairs.

She thought to herself that maybe she had misremembered the direction, so she turned around and walked back, and the fluorescent lights in the hallway suddenly flickered, and then she realized that this floor looked like it had been abandoned for a long time, and there was dust everywhere, although she had been coming here for work constantly, but she had never heard of the 6th floor.

The strange atmosphere began to make her regret getting off the elevator a little, and she couldn't help but speed up the frequency of her feet, and if she continued to stay here, she might not even have the courage to walk back.

As she walked, she opened the phone in her hand, thinking about who to call, but the phone showed no signal.

"Bang dang!" She kicked something under her feet, and she quickly put her hand on the wall next to her, barely controlling her balance and keeping herself from falling.

She looked down angrily, but found that there was a small iron basin on the ground, and the basin was full of ashes, and against the wall was the incense wax that had long been burned, and it seemed that the ashes in the basin were paper money that had been burned long ago.

It would be bad luck to encounter these early in the morning, but in the strange atmosphere at this moment, it makes people's scalps tingle.

Zhang Xiaohua didn't dare to think about it anymore, she was afraid that she couldn't bear the growing fear in her heart, she just wanted to get back to the elevator as soon as possible.

Fortunately, everything was as she wished, and the elevator appeared not far from her line of sight just after she turned a corner.

She hurried back into the elevator compartment and pressed every button again, but the elevator still didn't move.

She took out her phone again and found that it had a signal, and she was overjoyed and quickly searched for the phone number of the building's property in the address book.

She lowered her head and looked at the white light coming from her phone's screen, and she suddenly felt as if something was touching her neck.

The 26-year-old Zhang Xiaohua deeply felt the growing fear in her chest at this time, and she didn't know if it was behind her or on top of her head.

She felt like she was about to cry, but the curiosity in her heart gave her the desire to find out, because only by making sure that there was nothing could she escape from this state of collapse.

Sweat soaked her underwear, and the chill gradually spread from her back to her body, she gritted her teeth and slowly turned around.

December 05, 10:16 a.m., Fucheng Ruby Building entrance

A cordon was drawn at the entrance of the alley where the entrance to the building was located, and the blackened crowd stood on the periphery of the line to watch what was happening inside.

The taxi stopped not far from the crowd, and the driver turned around and told me that I couldn't go in front of me, so I could only get off here.

The temperature outside the car made me shiver, and I hurriedly pulled the zipper of my down jacket to the highest level, and squeezed my neck to the innermost part of the cordon.

There were three police cars and an ambulance parked in the cordon, and a young man in jeans was leaning against the back of a police car, shaking one leg and the cigarette in his mouth was flickering and faintly rising, and his entire face was covered.

I shouted in the direction of the man, who was attracted by my shouting, turned his head to see me in the crowd, smiled, walked quickly to me, said a few words to the officers who were maintaining order in the cordon, and then pulled me closer to the cordon.

The young man stayed on me as soon as he came in, leading me to the police car before stopping.

"Why has it been so long? Your turtle was still sleeping? ”

The young fat man said to me.

"It's such a cold day, it's as cold as a hammer, what do you do if you don't sleep, and I'm not like you public officials who have stable jobs, you need to clock in, and it's better to get tired in bed if you don't have a business."

I replied to the fat man's question.

"I still envy you, when I called your turtle, I heard that your baby didn't seem to wake up yet, and I didn't have to go to work to make money, and I slept until I woke up naturally."

The fat man was obviously a little unhappy with my sour words.

"Don't talk nonsense, let's get down to business, call me over early in the morning, not necessarily to see your demeanor in handling cases here, what's going on?"

"That's right, I called you to come and help look at the case."

"Call me to see the case? You get it up, Officer Xu, you are an expert in this case, I am a feng shui person, I can see what's wrong. ”

The fat man pulled me aside and whispered to me, "Someone died here this morning!" “

I'm not surprised at all when the fat man says this, this young fat man's name is Xu Tian, he is my hair school, elementary school classmate, junior high school classmate, and also the captain of the criminal police brigade in our city, there are usually places where he appears, most of them are murders, so I guessed what was going on, but I didn't understand a homicide case, what does it have to do with me as a charlatan.

I asked the fat man: "If the dead man is dead, you will solve the case, is it possible that now that there is a murder case, you still have to be responsible for doing things and comforting the dead?" ”

The fat man handed me a cigarette and said with a mysterious look: "This dead person is normal, but after I came to see the scene, I felt that this thing was a little abnormal, and I wanted you to come and see it." ”

I was intrigued by what he said, and patted him on the shoulder, "Let's go, take me to see it." ”

Walking into the lobby of the building, two policemen were making notes with an old man in a security uniform at the front desk, not far away two doctors were examining a young man's body, and two policemen were standing next to him asking the young man what he was, not far from the sight was the elevator entrance, and there were a bunch of people around the entrance, there were policemen and forensic doctors, it seemed that the person died in the elevator.

I was stopped by the fat man a few meters away from the elevator, and said that I would wait for the forensic examination to finish before going to see it, I expressed my understanding and asked the fat man what was going on.

The fat man said that the current known situation is that the deceased was a woman, whose occupation was an ordinary salesman of a company on the 18th floor of this building, and the place of death was in the elevator of the building, and the cause needs to be investigated.

I rolled my eyes and asked, "How did the deceased look?" “

The fat man's eyes kept staring at the crowd near the elevator, and when he heard me ask, he turned his head to look at me and said, "Judging from the photos, there is still a bit of posture, why are you asking this?" ”

I lit the cigarette in my mouth, took a sharp puff, felt a lot more energetic, spit out the circles in my eyes, turned my head to look at the fat man, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

The fat man moved his gaze back to his original position, "Anyway, it can't be him killed, we have already adjusted all the monitoring in the building, the monitoring shows that the time when the deceased entered the building is non-working time, except for the security guard guarding the door, there is no one else in the building, and after the security guard opened the door, he locked the door again, and he has always been at his post and has never left." The deceased was found dead by a water delivery worker who delivered water after the building had opened normally. ”

I remembered that I just saw the person who made the record, probably the security guard and water delivery worker in the mouth of the fat man, I thought about it for a long time and couldn't think of the reason, it is estimated that the fat man is also troubled at this time, and is thinking, a doctor-like person next to the elevator walked to the fat man's side and handed him a report, the fat man looked down and looked at it quickly, returned the report to the other party, and then said to me: "The cause of death is myocardial infarction, and the time of death is the same as we speculated, let's go, please go and see." ”

I was a little reluctant and said, "Why do you want me to come when you have found the reason?" ”

The fat man said as he walked: "We adjusted the monitoring in the elevator, but during the period of the deceased's death, the monitoring did not leave any records, the reason for you to come and see is that the appearance of the deceased's death and the situation at the scene are somewhat abnormal anyway......