Chapter II: Cross-examination
My brain went blank, and the whole person stood still as if it had been pointed, and everything that happened in just ten minutes was far beyond my logical scope, so that I was overwhelmed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
I didn't dare to open my eyes until a middle-aged man's loud voice came from my ears, "Everyone stand here, don't touch anything, Xiao Li, immediately block the scene and notify the forensic doctor." ”
Blockade the scene? Forensic?!
I snapped my eyes open, trying to distinguish between the police and a lot of cops in the dazzling light! Oh my God, what the hell is going on here, attracting so many heavily loaded cops!
"Luo Jun, hey, Luo Jun! Come here! Seeing that I was still standing in place, Lin Hui waved to me not far ahead.
In any case, since the police are present, everyone's safety naturally does not have to worry, and the sound just now was made by the police when they broke down the door.
I walked up to the crowd, glanced at my companion and asked, "Is everyone coming?" ”
Lin Hui's eyes kept staring at my back, his frightened eyes seemed to be a ghost, in fact, even when he beckoned to me just now, his gaze never stayed on me, I could feel his body trembling, even his voice was trembling, "No...... Still...... One more missing, right behind you! ”
A chill suddenly ran down my spine, and I remembered what the policeman said after breaking down the door just now, protect the scene and notify the medical examiner! Could it be that someone is dead here?!
I followed Lin Hui's gaze and looked back, the last thing I wanted to see still happened, at this moment, there was a man sitting on a chair not far from me, he was tied to the seat, his head was raised high back, his mouth was glued to the tape, his eyes were looking at the ceiling in horror, and there was a deep strangulation mark on his neck.
The most incredible thing is that the palm of his right hand was nailed to the table with a dagger, and the table and floor were already stained with blood, and now even I, a layman, could see that he was dead, and there was no chance of survival!
The game we play is called the Revenge Room, which is an audio-visual reasoning game, according to the game, all players should find the murderer by reasoning after listening to the story in the headset, but the reality is not like this. This voice, which is not even a story, is like the murderer's judgment of the dead, and he is killing people around us, right under the noses of everyone!
The game room is a small wooden room of only more than ten square meters, each with a small door for only one person to enter and exit, against the walls on both sides of the wall is placed a slender wooden table, in front of the wooden table there are four wooden chairs fixed to the floor, and on the wooden table, there are eight pairs of headphones corresponding to eight people, the furnishings in the room are extremely simple, and there is nothing else.
"Okay, you all come with me, I have something to ask you."
The policeman who had ordered others to call a forensic doctor spoke again, he was a middle-aged man of about fifty, he looked a little old, but his eyes were extremely attentive and majestic, and he looked like the leader of these policemen. He whispered a few words to another young policeman beside him, and then led us away from the scene of the murder and into a room that looked like an office not far away.
As soon as he entered the room, the middle-aged policeman took out a palm-sized booklet from his jacket pocket, shook it in front of us, and said, "Let me introduce myself, I am the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of this city, Lu Yong, who is in charge of today's case." ”
Lu Yong's eyes roamed over everyone's faces like falcons as he spoke, and his oral interrogation was more than questioning, which made me unhappy, and some painful memories of the past were gradually awakened.
Lu Yong seemed to see through my thoughts, and said matter-of-factly: "Before we talk formally, there are a few things that I still want you to know, the man who was in the house with you has been confirmed dead, and the preliminary estimate is that the cause of death is suffocation, and everyone present before the investigation of the case is clear has the responsibility to cooperate with the police." His voice was silent, but it had an indistinguishable power.
"That'...... Are we being treated as criminals? Or is it ......" Lin Hui glanced at the people around him with a little horror, "Or is that murderer among us?!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the girls who had long been frightened and didn't dare to squeak turned even more pale as death.
Lu Yong waved his hand impatiently and said, "You have the protection of the police now, no matter what the outcome is, you don't have to worry about safety." I've already learned about the general situation of this game when I'm outside, and I just want to hear what you found out at the time of the crime, just tell the truth, don't be nervous. After speaking, he turned around and beckoned to a policewoman in the room and ordered, "Xiao Liu, you divide the people and do a routine check before talking." ”
The policewoman named Xiao Liu answered, found a male policeman of the same age, divided us into two teams according to men and women, and carefully conducted a routine inspection.
Routine inspections are simply body searches, and as a police officer, it is naturally best to find clues from us, and it would be even more perfect if the murderer could be caught directly. It's just that they don't do it properly, if they were abroad, someone might have called a lawyer a long time ago, and before that, even the police have no right to do so until the identity of their suspects is determined. However, things in the world are not black and white, and it is inevitable that there will be some gray.
In the interval of routine inspections, all of them were identified, there were a total of eight people in the house at that time, it was two groups of tourists, the deceased man named Li Qing, 38 years old, fitness instructor, and his two friends who traveled with him were 35-year-old female colleague Erin, and 26-year-old gym male student Kang Long.
There were five of us, three men and two women, and Lin Hui, the closest college classmate to me, in addition to myself. Lin Hui is a few months older than me, unmarried, a handsome guy with some style, generous and romantic, with an excellent relationship with the opposite sex, and the two beauties who are traveling with him today are also brought by him. Among them, the girl with a petite figure and two sweet dimples is named Ye Ying, twenty-two years old, a senior in college; Another beauty with a proud figure is Ye Ying's sister Ye Li, twenty-five years old, working as a secretary in a private company, but unfortunately at this moment, these two beauties who should have been beautiful have already cried into two big faces, like two kittens trembling and snuggling together, their eyes are frightened and dazed.
As for the remaining boy, he is a junior who is three years younger than me, named Zhu Lu, who runs transportation in a shipping company, and we have had several encounters in school in the past, and it is indeed a bit surprising that he was also called by Lin Hui this time.
After the inspection, the seven of us were taken into seven different rooms.
I sat down on a chair in my room, quietly waiting for the police to take a confession, but my state of mind was still difficult to calm down, and some unwanted memories were sprouting in my brain.
Now I am no longer panicked, everything that happened in the dark room just now crossed my brain like a meteor, which made me feel unreal, who could imagine that the people around me were tortured to death and I was not even sure if there was a murderer!
It's a ghostly trick!
Or, it's really a ghost!
There was a sound of the door opening behind me, and the policeman who was supposed to have taken my confession had arrived. I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, the one who came in was none other than Lu Yong, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, the man who made me very uncomfortable, and behind him was followed by the policewoman named Xiao Liu, who should have come to make a record.
Before Lu Yong's ass could sit firmly in the chair, the inquiry had already begun, "Get straight to the point, Luo Jun, what happened in that room just now?" ”
I suppressed my displeasure at his arrogant tone, and told everyone everything I knew from the time I entered the house until the police broke down the door, and even some subtle feelings were not missed, as for whether this murderer was among us, I didn't dare to speculate at will, and I really didn't know, but there was one point, to easily kill Li Qing, a sturdy fitness coach, it was difficult for one or two people alone.
Lu Yong kept frowning as he listened to my narration, I believed that no matter how detailed he said, he would not be able to achieve results, and even if he felt that I was lying, he didn't know if he was lying, and sure enough, he looked at me more sharply, "The location of the deceased is less than five meters away from you, did you not even notice it when he was killed?" ”
"Nope." I shook my head with great certainty, "Everyone was wearing headphones, and I couldn't hear any of the voices next to them, and the room was so dark that I couldn't see my fingers. ”
"I can't hear outside with headphones on?" Lu Yong obviously didn't believe me, he turned his head and whispered a few words in the policewoman's ear, and the latter put down the pen and paper in his hand and went out.
"Then do you think the murderer took advantage of the darkness inside the house, sneaked in from the outside, killed Li Qing, and then escaped?" Lu Yong asked again.
"No, it can't be."
I immediately dismissed his speculation, and could see that he was surprised, and his eyes narrowed slightly, waiting for my explanation.
"The staff who brought us into the house had already gone out before the lights were turned off, there was no one else in the room except for the eight of us, it was impossible for the murderer to sneak in while it was dark, as long as the door was opened, even if it was a small gap, there would be light coming in from the outside, in such a dark and narrow environment, anyone would find out, unless ......"
"Unless what?"
"Unless there's some other dark room in that room, isn't it? I think your police must have already investigated, right? ”
I also thought about the dark room by accident, and it was impossible to enter and leave the room where the crime occurred without knowing it.
Of course, it would be a different story if the murderer was not human.
Lu Yong didn't answer my question, he thought for a while and then asked, "Didn't you take off your headphones or get up and walk around in the middle of the game?" Should the staff have warned you to take off your headphones as soon as you feel scared, or should the recordings you hear not scary at all? ”
"I don't know about others, but I don't ......"
Speaking of this, I stopped suddenly, it wasn't that I hadn't taken off my headphones, just when the game was coming to an end, while waiting in the dark, I had spoken to Lin Hui, but I didn't hear other unusual sounds at that time.
"What's wrong? Did you remember something? ”
I don't know if it's because the police have been working for a long time, Lu Yong's face will always have only one expression, doubt.
I nodded slowly, and told the conversation with Lin Hui that I had just thought of, and almost everyone took off their headphones in the minute before the police rushed in, but this information didn't seem to be of much use, after all, Li Qing was already dead at that time.
Although there are indeed a lot of doubts in the case now, as long as you think about it, the possibility that we are murderers is not great, not to mention that it is too difficult to kill people in a dark and narrow space, and it is impossible to subdue Li Qing, a strong man, not to mention that as long as someone takes off the headphones during the game, the criminal's behavior will be revealed, how can he let his carefully planned actions take such a risk?
Lu Yong seemed to be a little moved by my thoughts, and his first smile since meeting showed on his face, "The analysis is good, maybe after you leave the company, you can consider our criminal investigation team to work, but this case is not as simple as you think, otherwise we wouldn't have to dispatch so many people." ”
His last words seemed to make me think of something, but I couldn't say it for a moment.
After that, Lu Yong's question was much simpler, and there were even repetitions, maybe even he couldn't remember what else to ask, he raised his hand and looked at the watch on his wrist and said, "That's it for today, if there is still a need in the future, we will look for you." ”
As soon as the words fell, the knock on the door rang again, and I saw Xiao Liu walking in from outside with the heavy headphones we had just used, walking up to Lu Yong and whispering in his ear, the latter's originally calm face rippled.
When I left the room, I caught a glimpse of Lu Yong putting the headphones on his head, and Xiao Liu's face was extremely ugly, and an ominous premonition arose.
In the lobby, Lin Hui and Ye Ying had already finished recording their statements and sat on the sofa, but both of them looked preoccupied with their faces tense, which surprised me, I had never seen Lin Hui look like this in front of a beautiful girl.
Lin Hui almost jumped up from the couch and ran in front of me, he pulled me aside, looked left and right like a thief, and then said something shocking mysteriously.
"Luo ...... Luo Jun! I see, it's a ghost...... I mean the murderer, the murderer is not a human at all! ”