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As soon as Hao Dong, a young criminal policeman in the serious case group of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, went to work, facing the tense atmosphere that enveloped the entire group, the sleepiness remaining in his mind disappeared. He immediately perked up like an alert police dog.

"Something's wrong!" The hoarse voice of Team Leader Tian Chunda shot at Hao Dong like a machine gun. "There was a homicide at the North Lake Hotel, and I had the people in the group rush over there. You come with me, too! ”

"North Lake Hotel?" Hao Dong subconsciously asked again.

Tian Chunda regarded this as a professional reaction, and urged him to leave quickly in an indisputable tone: "Don't be verbose, let's go!" ”

Room 2525 of the Beihu Hotel has entered many police officers. They are methodically conducting on-site investigation and evidence collection in accordance with their respective duties.

As the saying goes, the scene is a treasure trove of investigative materials. The closer the investigative data is to the time of the crime, the more valuable it is. Racing against time to get to the scene is the best way to hunt down the murderer. The "original state" of the scene may be deformed or disappear during the investigation, so the on-site search personnel are required to be very alert.

When Tian Chunda and Hao Dong arrived at the scene, several team members had already arrived. The criminal police reported to the ocean: "A big man has been killed!" The victim was the chairman of the hotel. ”

Tian Chunda also knew Wang Wenliang's name and had seen his photos in weekly magazines. From the furnishings and utensils in the room, it is not difficult to assume that the victim was a big man.

"Let me see the dead first." Tian Chunda took Hao Dong into the back room.

"Wang Wenliang may have died after taking a large amount of sleeping pills. But what I took by myself was still poured into it by others, and further investigation is needed. Xiang Haiyang said to Tian Chunda.

Tian Chunda took a closer look at Wang Wenliang. His eyes were closed, his expression was peaceful, and his pajamas were not messy. There was no expression of struggle or pain, much like the symptoms of dying from sleeping pills.

"There was a bottle of sleeping pills on the deceased's bedside table, which was empty." Xiang Haiyang pointed to the empty medicine bottle on the bedside table and said.

Tian Chunda glanced at the house, the room was very tidy, and even the paper basket and ashtray were placed in a fixed position in an orderly manner without moving. The wastepaper basket and ashtray are also clean, as if they had been cleaned by the waiter.

A bedside table had an in-room telephone, the key to room 2525, and the victim's glasses. On the other bedside table were duckbill jugs, empty medicine bottles and glasses, with about a centimeter of water left at the bottom of the cups.

"Do you already know the approximate time of death?" Tian Chunda asked the forensic doctor.

"It has to be dissected to be determined. The on-site investigation, judging from the stiffness of the body, is estimated to have died last night...... No! It was between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m. today. The medical examiner said.

"First of all, we have to determine whether the deceased committed suicide or homicide. Let's start with an investigation around this issue. ”

Xie Na is the discoverer of the case. Tian Chunda, the leader of the first group of the serious case, and the team members Hao Dong and Meng Xiaochun first questioned Xie Na in a room in the hotel.

Xie Na walked in with a nervous expression. The nearly twenty-seven-year-old secretary did not seem to have recovered from the excitement of the death of the chairman he witnessed two hours earlier, and he was terrified.

"Isn't it fun to work at a hotel?" Tian Chunda, a seasoned criminal policeman, said in a casual tone, "This job is very decent, you can see high-class guests every day, and you can eat delicious food." He said this to make Xie Na relax.

"Nothing!" Facing Tian Chunda's ridiculous tone, Xie Na raised her voice. "It's true to see high class guests every day, but we're service work, and it's never as fun as people seem. It is our responsibility to make our guests feel the utmost satisfaction, so we are physically and mentally exhausted. Delicious food that only guests can enjoy. ”

"Hey! I see. In our opinion, there is no more decent and cleaner job than this. Hey...... This is probably because it depends on whether people have a hard time carrying the burden. Tian Chunda nodded matter-of-factly. But this morning's scene has scared you. ”

"Yes! I felt very uncomfortable, I hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and I didn't want to eat at all. ”

"In this matter, we want to know from you, do you think Wang Wenliang committed suicide or did he kill him?"

"Well, I can't say that. However, yesterday the chairman was fine, there was nothing abnormal, why did he commit suicide? ”

"Do you know what enemies he has?"

Xie Na thought for a moment and shook her head: "I don't know. However, he manages such a large hotel, he has to deal with many people inside and out, many things, and now the society is so complex, and the business competition is so fierce, it is inevitable that there will be some contradictions. ”

"Then has he encountered any major conflicts lately?"

"I don't know." Xie Na answered the question cautiously.

"When you came to the chairman's room, was the door really locked?" Tian Chunda asked casually.

"That's absolutely true, because the door is closed tightly. And even if it's not locked, it will be reported when you check the room. ”

"Does anyone check the room every night?"

"Some of the guests came back drunk and lay down to sleep without the door closed. The safety of the guests in the hotel is the first priority, so the security personnel check the entire hotel every three hours, and if they find a room that is not locked, they lock the door and report it to the foreman on each floor. From last night to this morning, there hasn't been a single report like that on the 25th floor. ”

"It's been so hard. So, is there a time limit for the check-up? ”

"Yes. 10 p.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m., in three sessions. ”

Several detectives at the same time thought of the time of the victim's death. After investigation, it was tentatively presumed that the victim had died between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.

Tian Chunda said: "If it was not a suicide, then the murderer was able to skillfully use the interval between the examination time, which shows that this person knows the inside of the hotel very well." ”

"The chairman is a very cautious person, right?" He asked Xie Na again.

"Yes, very discreetly. Always lock the door of the inner room before going to bed. ”

"Understood. So, Xie Na, before you find out that the chairman is dead, you have to open the door of the room and the door of the inner room, right? ”

The corners of Xie Na's mouth trembled and nodded. This question may have reminded her of that terrifying moment.

"So, who else but you have the spare key to this room?"

"Spare keys for each room are kept at the front desk. Then there are the two secretaries, Xia Yun and me, who have the keys to room 2525. ”

"Speaking of which, there are four keys that can open room 2525, in addition to the keys given to the guests, one at the main service desk and one for each of the two secretaries."

Xie Na nodded vigorously.

"Are there absolutely no other keys?"

"As far as I know, no."

"Didn't anyone else borrow the key from you?"

"I would never lend it to anyone. Never!" Xie Na puffed up her chest and said confidently.

"Did the chairman see any guests last night?"

"The chairman takes sleeping pills before going to bed, so he doesn't see guests at night."

"Is the chairman sleeping badly?"

"Once I fell asleep, I slept very deeply, but it was a little difficult to fall asleep at first."

"Do you know what time he took his medicine last night?"

"I don't know. I didn't see him taking his medication. But he always goes to bed around 10 o'clock, so he takes his medicine around 9:30 o'clock, right? ”

Tian Chunda thought that the medicine bottle on Wang Wenliang's bedside table said that the preparation of amobarbitus was a kind of amituto sleeping pill. If you take the medicine around 9:30 a.m., then between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., I am afraid that it is the time to sleep the deepest.

"Do you remember who was the last to enter the chairman's room? I mean, when the chairman was alive. ”

"This ...... It should be Xia Yun, she is the secretary on the night shift, and she usually leaves before the chairman goes to bed. ”

"Do you know where Xia Yun lives?"

"I don't know, you can go to the personnel department and ask." Xie Na added: "There are still some situations I want to report. ”

"What's the situation?"

"I found that the valuables on the chairman's body were missing. He wears a world-famous watch, worth hundreds of thousands of yuan. He wore a white gold necklace around his neck, and the necklace had an ancient jade carving, which was said to be worth millions. The jade bracelets and rings he wears on his hands are also very valuable. These things are gone. Also, the door of the safe in his room was not closed tightly, and when I opened it, I saw that the antiques collected by the chairman inside were gone. It is said that these antiques are worth tens of millions. ”

"Oh, so it seems that there is a great possibility of murder and robbery." Tian Chunda said.

Xie Na nodded.

Tian Chunda asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Xie Na thought about it and said, "There is nothing else for the time being." I'll report back to you if I find something new. ”

Tian Chunda said: "Okay, thank you. He said to Hao Dong again: "You go to the personnel department of the hotel immediately and find Xia Yun's home address, we will go there in a while." ”

Hao Dong agreed and walked out.

"Is the officer on duty who held the key on the night shift last year still in the hotel?" Tian Chunda asked Xie Na again.

"In. After this incident, the deputy general manager said that no one should leave the hotel without permission. ”

"Now, then, please go and beckon the man on duty who held the key last night to come here, and you can go back. If there is something in the future, I hope to be able to get your help. ”

Xie Na bowed and walked out of the room. After confirming that she had gone away, Tian Chunda said: "This secretary's words seem to be credible.

Meng Xiaochun nodded. She added, "Will the murderer use a spare key to get another one?" ”

"Possibly. Now Xiang Haiyang is looking for a deputy general manager, and this matter will become clear sooner or later. ”

"It is likely that the murderer used a spare key to enter Wang Wenliang's room. Of course, the person who has the key can also go in. Hao Dong said.

"So, it's an internal crime?" Meng Xiaochun said.

“…… I can't say for sure yet! ”

Tian Chunda did not affirm, but his expression was clearly in favor of the "internal crime".