5. Blanket denial
I didn't tell Shu Xin what I encountered in Hegang, and now I still don't want to mention it to her, but fortunately, Shu Xin never reads what I write, and he never takes the stories I write seriously, which saves me a lot of trouble. Regarding Shu Xin's question, I can only say that I missed it, and I also thank Shu Xin for saving me face in front of my friends.
Now that Shu Xin mentioned it, I can't continue to ignore this possibility, but whether it is the hotel staff or the fourteen female employees, it is extremely difficult to find evidence that can prove that they are abductors.
We don't have the slightest clue in our hands, and even the two possibilities we come up with are entirely imaginary guesses. Now, even if I have the slightest clue in my hand, I think I will use the threatening methods I learned from Zhang Yuchi to force the suspect to tell the truth, but now I have no clues, which makes me both upset and a little crazy.
I'm not a patient person, which is probably why I can't be a real detective.
Where did the Xia sisters go? Were they really dismembered in the hotel, as I thought? Did the hotel staff do it? Or is there really a skinner? How to explain the ghost on the fourth floor of the hotel?
There are so many questions, and so few clues, I have no clue!
After dinner, the night shift attendant of the No. 3 hotel building came to change shifts, and the two male security guards and four female waiters on duty were the original crew members of the Xia family when the two sisters disappeared, and the two men and four women were also the standard night shift staffing of the hotel building. According to the surveillance footage, only the two waitresses at the service desk were always seen in the footage that night, and the two male security guards and the other two waitresses had not been seen since 10 o'clock.
We talked to the two security guards and asked them where they were that night. Two people said they had been in the lounge on the third floor, and the other two waiters were there.
The female waiter, the male security guard, and the lounge on the third floor all met my assumptions about the abduction process, so I offered to visit their lounge, and the two security guards readily agreed and took us to the lounge together.
The lounge is a converted guest room with some cleaning tools and a simple pot for boiling noodles, in addition to two bunk beds, a dining table and a few folding chairs. There is a separate toilet in the lounge, but there is no bathtub or shower in it.
After looking at the entire lounge, I quietly asked Qiao Wei if he had found resentment, ghosts, or anything like that in this room.
Qiao Wei shook his head at me gently.
After that, I asked the waiter if there had been any cases of guests missing for no reason in the resort, and the waiter and security guard shook their heads and said that it had never happened.
Later, Zhu Yue also called the police in charge of investigating the disappearance of the two sisters.
According to the officer, this is not the first time that tourists have disappeared in the Shennongjia area, and most of the missing people are children and young women. It's just that this is the first time that the two sisters disappeared directly in the hotel, and there was no trace of abduction, and there had never been any case of missing guests before returning to Longwan Resort.
The policeman's answer confirmed that the security guards and waiters were not lying, and at the same time cleared their suspicions.
If this was really a black shop that made human meat buns, the two sisters wouldn't be the only missing residents. In this way, those who come here to train are more suspicious.
After nine o'clock in the evening, a group of men and women in black suits and black skirts returned to Hotel No. 3 with a smile and a smile. When we walked over to ask them some questions, the men immediately put away the smiles on their faces and put on very vigilant expressions, and the men in the suits even formed a formation to surround the women in the skirts to protect them.
I quickly took out my police adviser card and explained why I was here.
After looking at my documents, these people relaxed, and then a person who looked like a team leader came out and smiled apologetically at me, and then explained: "I'm sorry just now, we were also afraid of accidents, and we settled the training expenses at one time, and the company leaders didn't agree with us to change places, so we could only pay more attention to our own precautions." ”
"It's okay, and it's to blame that I didn't identify myself in the first place." I exchanged a polite word to the man and asked what company they belonged to.
The man replied that they were from an insurance company, and that the people who came here for intensive training were all from excellent companies from all over the country.
I also have a certain understanding of insurance companies, and one of my college classmates went directly to the insurance company to do personnel management after graduation. According to my college classmate, insurance companies often organize some national trainings, and it's especially interesting for people from all over the world to get together. However, this kind of training is not available to everyone, it must be outstanding in business performance, and basically every province will have a quota of places.
I had a few more conversations with the team leader, and their situation was basically the same as the insurance company training I knew. There were a total of 67 people who came to the training this time, and except for more than a dozen people from the head office organizer and the training instructor, the other participants had never met before.
I don't think a few first-time people will band together to form a group of corpse killers, and their semi-military training management will hardly give them a chance to go out. They have very limited time to move freely every day, especially after the disappearance of the two sisters, their movement restrictions have become even more restricted, and now they don't even leave the resort for morning exercises, only running in the square at the door.
After the team leader learned the basic situation, we chatted with 14 female employees under the supervision of the male employees of the insurance company. These female employees are very young, the youngest is 20 years old, and the oldest is only 27 years old, and they are basically college students who have graduated less than four years ago, and they are all beautiful.
I didn't ask too many hard questions, just casually asked them about their hometowns and work conditions, but the female employees took the initiative to ask me if the two missing sisters had been found, because they had heard of a legend about skinners in the village. They said that they now lock the doors and windows every day when they come back, and even if someone knocks on the door, they have to call the male employees to come and watch, so that they can open the door, and they never act alone.
People are beautiful and do excellent work, and such people rarely have mental illness, let alone psychopaths, and it is difficult for me to come up with a motive for them to kill and dismember. So, all the inferences I have made so far about the murderer have been completely repudiated.
Of course, this is not a blow to me, after all, these speculations themselves are not supported by any evidence, and if we deny them, we can also turn our attention to other conveniences, such as the unjust ghosts on the fourth floor and the legend of the skinners in the village, I think these are the real reasons why Qiao Wei and I are here.