Chapter 34: The Red Dahlia Murder
Seeing that the impact of the events on Luling gradually faded, Bi'an Office began to live the previous days without a meal, and the commissions it received were such as helping neighbors save cats and pulling fiber to protect the media. This life lasted until the beginning of autumn, when Lin Sheng came to visit.
Early that morning, Shen Qingming came to the store in advance to clean up the storefront, yesterday a drunk man vomited when he was looking for Yang Xu to tell a fortune, it is not okay not to clean up carefully, Qin Yeyou and Yang Xu also arrived slowly before the opening.
As soon as Yang Xu was about to encourage Shen Qingming, he heard someone knocking on the door outside the door. Yang Xu asked Qin Yeyou if anyone had made an appointment yesterday, Qin Yeyou tilted his head, probably not.
"It's really strange, who came so early? Yang Xu complained.
Shen Qingming opened the door and found Lin Sheng standing at the door with a big fat man, Lin Sheng looked a little thinner than before. Shen Qingmingqi said: "Yo, isn't this Senior Young Master Lin, you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, you came to us so early in the morning, is there anything wrong?"
Lin Sheng said: "What you said, can't I come to you if I have nothing to do? At that time, we lived and died together in the stone cave, and we had a lifelong friendship, so I couldn't come to see you if I had nothing to do?"
Shen Qingming said: "Isn't it okay to see the outside world, what kind of feelings do our buddies have, use these red tape, hurry up and come in and sit." ”
On the side, Qin Yeyou tilted his head frantically, probably asking Yang Xu what the relationship between the two was. Yang Xu spread his hands and shook his head.
Lin Sheng and the fat man sat down with a swagger, glanced at the three of them and said, "However, I do have a little trouble coming this time, and I hope I can solve it with you." Of course, love is love, business is business, and I will not lose any of the money I should give you. ”
"Co-author Young Master Lin also has trouble that can't be solved?" Yang Xu sat on the boss's chair and quipped, "Which girl was unexpectedly pregnant, or was the junior photographed by the paparazzi in a private meeting?"
"Hey, I said that's how you treat your patron, Lao Liu, let's go. Lin Sheng got up and was about to leave.
Yang Xu hurriedly persuaded Lin Sheng with a sneer: "Don't don't don't be Lin Dashao, you see that we are all friends, how can you say that you will turn your face." ”
Shen Qingming slandered that it was not that you were cheap, plus the operator Qin Yeyou, no wonder there had been no business before.
"Okay, they're all acquaintances, so there's no more nonsense, Lao Liu, you can tell them about it. Lin Sheng said to the big fat man beside him.
The fat man named Lao Liu was a little nervous, Shen Qingming noticed that his palms were sweaty, Lao Liu pondered for a while before saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am Liu Xuan, the person in charge of Baili Hotel, you can just call me Lao Liu." To tell you the truth, our hotel has really encountered a big strange thing. ”
"Baili Hotel?Red Dahlia Murder Incident?" Shen Qingming interrupted Lao Liu's words, "This is what happened in your hotel?"
"What is it?" Yang Xu looked confused.
Shen Qingming explained: "The red dahlia murder incident is a very popular case uploaded on the Internet recently, it is said that it is exactly the same as the black dahlia murder incident decades ago, and was named the pinnacle of imitation crime by netizens, but if I say it, the red dahlia is more like a copy of the blue Keer tragedy." ”
Black Dahlia Murder. It happened in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947, at about 10 a.m. that day, a housewife named Betty Bosinger took her 3-year-old daughter to the shoemaker to pick up the shoes for repair, Bosinger seemed to see a broken plaster cast of the human body lying there, and when she approached, she was shocked to find that it was a dismembered naked female corpse, the deceased's body was severely torn apart, the internal organs were also hollowed out, and the strangest thing was that the deceased's face actually retained the residual smile.
The Lamb Kerr tragedy refers to the drowning in the water tower on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles between January and February 2013. Because of the bizarre location of his death, and the fact that the deceased Lan Keer was filmed by a monitor making a series of strange actions in the hotel elevator before his disappearance, it became the focus of attention. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office concluded on June 20 that the cause of Lan Kear's death was accidental drowning based on the results of an autopsy, and the problem was that the water tank pipe was not large enough for the deceased to pass through, which also added a layer of mystery to the matter.
Yang Xu said: "What kind of red dahlia murder incident, I thought it was a new theatrical version of Conan, so it's just a mystery, Lao Liu, you go on, don't listen to this kid's nonsense." ”
Lao Liu continued: "The beginning of the matter was on November 2, the deceased stayed in our hotel, opened an ordinary single room for a week, we confirmed that her identity information was correct and then opened a room for the deceased, during which everything was normal, until November 6, the room service staff reported that the deceased's room had not been back for two days, and I didn't take it to heart, after all, the guests have their own arrangements, as long as they come back before checking out." On November 8, a customer reported that the water in the guest room smelled, and we sent staff to the top floor to deal with the rust, and the unthinkable happened, we found the body of the deceased in the water tank. ”
Shen Qingming said: "Look, I just said that it is very similar to the bizarre tragedy before." ”
Lao Liu's face wrinkled into a bitter gourd, and said: "The most outrageous thing is that the water tank is usually filled with water and drained with a pipe, although the pipe is not small, it is definitely not something that an adult woman can drill through." ”
"Oh, there's also the part of the Lan Ke'er tragedy. Shen Qingming interjected.
Yang Xu took out the small black book and asked Lao Liu: "Then what did you do with it after that? Did you call the police? If you called the police, how did the police deal with it?"
Lao Liu said: "Human life is at stake, where do we dare to hide it and not call the police, we are responsible." After the police came, they turned our hotel upside down, investigated more than a dozen guests up and down, and found out the ancestors of the entire hotel staff, and finally found nothing. But I found a very weird video!"
Lin Sheng added: "I can guarantee that this thing is true, that video is really scary, even a well-informed hero like me is shocked. ”
I didn't boast that I was a hero!
In that elevator video, the deceased stood in a corner of the elevator and shivered, as if something outside the elevator was staring at her, and she saw the deceased huddled in the elevator, and after a while began to dance again, very happy. Finally trotted out of the elevator, out of our surveillance on the eighteenth floor, and then when we saw her again, it was in the cold water tank. Lin Sheng said, "This is her last image in the world." ”
"Boss Lin, can you speak well....." Yang Xu said.
Lin Sheng coughed twice: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've watched too many ghost movies." ”
Lao Liu complained: "Because of this, Baili Hotel has had no customers for a while, the most important thing is that the reputation is bad, and foreign tourists do not dare to come to live with us now, and we are most afraid of this as a hotel." In our business, no one comes for a day, and the electrical appliances in our rooms are empty for a day, and all we burn is money. We want to hire all the heavenly masters to come to our hotel to see what is wrong with our feng shui, so as to clear the wrongs of the deceased, and the second is to correct the name of our hotel, otherwise we will really jump into the Yellow River and can't wash it away. ”
Yang Xu made a few notes in the small notebook, looked up and asked Lao Liu: "I said Boss Liu, did anything unclean happen to your Baili Hotel before?"
"Nope. Lao Liu shook his head.
Yang Xu asked solemnly again: "Are you sure you have it?" This matter is very critical and cannot be concealed. We are professionals and will keep all your secrets confidential. ”
Lao Liu sat for a while and asked, "Can I smoke here?"
Yang Xu raised his hand and made a gesture of please.
Lao Liu took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath and said: "Actually, there is really a strange thing that happened, but it didn't happen in our hotel, it happened in our hotel's predecessor, Xihua Women's Conservatory." Around the turn of the millennium, there were several homicides here, and the deceased died in a strange way. After the police took over the case, they have not been able to solve the case, so the reputation of Xihua College has become worse and worse, and finally it has gone bankrupt and closed down, so that we can acquire the land so smoothly. And these headless murders, with the bankruptcy of Xihua College, have become bizarre campus legends. ”
"I said you didn't want to bankrupt this school, did you? Send someone in to make trouble, and then take the opportunity to buy land at a low price or something. Yang Xu speculated, "If that's the case, it seems reasonable that your hotel is haunted." ”
Lin Sheng said: "If you want the land here, my Lin family only needs to buy it, and there is no need for this kind of trick to pretend to be a ghost." ”
According to the strength of the Lin family, he really has no reason to pretend to be a ghost. Every sentence of the Lin family has the strong family background of the Lin family to endorse him, and there is no need for other auxiliary materials to prove it.
"That being the case, I have one last and most crucial question to ask. Yang Xu closed the small notebook and asked seriously.
Lin Sheng: "But it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”
Yang Xu said: "How much is the remuneration for this commission?"
Lin Sheng spread five fingers.
"Fifty thousand, deal. Yang Xu clapped.
"No, it's half a million. As soon as the task is completed, the money will be credited to your account. Lin Sheng said lightly.
Yang Xu said: "After living for so many years, it is the first time I have seen a price increase, especially a boss who has raised the price so much. ”
"Brotherhood, brotherhood. Lin Sheng said with a smile.
Shen Qingming asked, "Besides?"
Lin Sheng still had a little respect when he saw Shen Qingming, and said bluntly if he had something to say: "For me, 550,000, there is no difference." For you, the extra ten is your motivation for all your efforts. Money is just a tool, a tool to achieve the goal, as long as the goal is achieved, how much the tool is used, it does not matter. ”