Tang Zeyu hissed softly.

He was like a dormant and reviving wooden man, suddenly feeling the change of seasons. The cold wind through the crack in the door blew through his arm, and he shivered unconsciously, only then did he realize that it was early spring.

The heating in the room had not yet covered the entrance, and the cold air diffused silently through the door panel.

When you are extremely nervous, your five senses will unconsciously focus to the extreme, and the wood grain on the door will gradually fade and be excluded from attention.

All of Karasawa focused on listening, concentrating on catching every movement outside the door.

It seemed that a long time had passed, and the old roller finally "clicked" for a long time—and the distant wheels were mixed with the footsteps of another person.

It's just that this time the sound is lighter than the previous two passes, as if some weight has been removed.

The people outside the door gave up.

Tang Zeyu closed his eyes, his deliberately smooth breathing made his heartbeat even faster, and he could almost feel every throbbing of the organ in his chest, and the hot blood was pumped all over his body.

The belated warm breeze in the room made the cold hairs on his arms gradually calm down. Karasawa jumped back into the room on one foot and retrieved his shoes from under the bed.

The way the lurker outside the door left confirmed his suspicions.

This man is not a professional killer, he has a vague breath, has no means to hide, and even lacks the most basic awareness of covering his whereabouts, and will easily give up after a little fright.

If it was really an organized and planned ambush, at least if it was replaced by Tang Zeyu, he would not have sent such a layman to startle the snake.

So what is his purpose?

*

In the lobby of the hotel, there is a staff member sitting in the front desk of beige marble, she is a young woman, her smooth black hair is coiled at the back of her head, and there is some baby fat on her cheeks, with a young and serious look, it is not difficult to see that she has just worked in this position.

European-style ceiling lamps cast a warm colour at the top, the steps outside the door were bathed in a golden glow from the glass doors, and at the end and beyond, the night was endless and deep.

The front desk was checking the accounts on the computer, but the work at hand was a little absent-minded, looking up for two seconds from time to time to look at the darkness outside the glass door.

When she raised her head for the third time, a hand reached over and tapped lightly on the countertop, "—excuse me." ”

The front desk was frightened and immediately raised its head.

There was no sound behind the counter, and there was a strange man with half-length hair, a soot plaid scarf covering half of his chin, which looked soft and warm in the golden light source of the lobby.

The front desk slowly relaxed its vigilance and recognized him as a guest of the hotel for the past few days, so he asked, "Hello, how can you help yourself?" ”

"I want to ask for one thing." Tang Zeyu said gently, "After ten o'clock, are there any guests coming in and out of the door of the hotel?" ”

In fact, this was just a routine question that was hopeless, but the front desk immediately shook his head, and his tone was categorical: "No!" ”

"......" Tang Zeyu raised his eyebrows in surprise: "I didn't expect it...

You work so carefully and carefully. ”

The young lady on duty was embarrassed by his praise, and explained with a slight red face: "Actually, in recent times, there have always been strangely dressed people passing by the door. I'm on duty alone, so I can only be a little more careful. ”

"I see, I'll try to check these people in the future." Tang Zeyu bent the corner of his eyes: "There is another problem, the staff passage of the hotel will be locked after work at nine o'clock in the evening, right?" ”

"Yes, after nine o'clock, there is only one entrance and exit to the hotel, the front door."

Tang Zeyu got the information he wanted and bowed down to thank him. The front desk was aroused by these two endless questions, and couldn't help asking: "Are you a private detective?" ”

She looked to the sides for a moment and added in an airy voice, "...... Is something being investigated? ”

Tang Zeyu laughed for a moment and shook the police card in his hand at her. The young lady's eyes widened suddenly, she covered her mouth with both hands, and exclaimed in a low voice.

"You ......"

Tang Zeyu raised a finger and gently signaled her to silence: "Please contact the manager of the lower lobby ,—— excuse me." ”

***

At the same time as Tang Zeyu confronted outsiders, the reliable squad leader immediately contacted the Metropolitan Police Department. The red and blue sirens sounded from far and near, and the Twilight Police Department and Takagi Wataru hurriedly got out of the car, and Date Airlines was not at ease and rushed to the hotel scene from home.

“…… There have been weirdos outside the hotel recently, can you go into more detail about this? ”

"I've made it clear enough, bells and whistles, people I've never met, what else do you want from me!" The one who was talking was the lobby manager of the hotel, a pale and thin middle-aged man, with an unexpectedly short temper, standing in front of Wataru Takagi, who was collecting evidence, with an eyebrow raised to the sky.

The Mudu Police Department on the side frowned, and said calmly: "Please also cooperate and don't hinder the Metropolitan Police Department's handling of the case." ”

"Case handling, hmph, you should take out the case and show it to me!" The manager raised his eyebrows, "Don't take me for not knowing, there is no homicide here, you can call it a routine interrogation at most, and it is my freedom to say or not to say." Why, does the Metropolitan Police Department still want to extract a confession? ”

Behind Wabu Takagi, who couldn't be seen, Date Hang and Twilight remained silent and quietly exchanged glances.

They came here because of Tang Zeyu's phone call, and now there is no accident, and the manager's words are not unreasonable.

"The last one who wanted to see the surveillance, I already let him go, I can't imagine that you guys are endless." The manager snorted, "Okay?" If it's okay, go back quickly, and don't affect our normal business. ”

In fact, there were very few people on the street outside the hotel, and no one had any intention of entering.

The scene was frozen for a while, and at this moment, a gentle voice sounded from behind: "What is really going on here, if I say?" ”

"Ah, Brother Karazawa!" The eyes of the twilight who looked up lit up, and he took three steps and two steps to meet him: "What is the situation over there?" ”

"Just went to the monitoring room to take a look."

After pushing open the fire door, Tang Zeyu walked out of it unhurriedly.

The manager said anxiously, "Something? Joke, I've been on duty all day today and haven't seen any dead people at all! ”

Tang Zeyu, who was passing by, glanced at him with a smile, and his footsteps stopped abruptly beside him.

"I didn't say there was a murder here," he said, "and what does the manager know...

Word, is there a dead man? ”

"......," the manager said in a dying struggle, "I'm guessing, isn't it okay?" ”

"It's not impossible."

Tang Zeyu's footsteps passed him lightly, "Takagi-kun, please go and check the manager's room." ”

"Okay." Wataru Takagi nodded, trotted to press the elevator, and the thin manager burst out with incomparable speed at this moment, and stopped in front of him in an instant: "You can't go!" ”

The corners of his lips trembled: "You are breaking into the house illegally!" I can sue you! ”

Immediately afterwards, the manager's eyes turned to Tang Zeyu, and the end of the road in his eyes seemed to be quenched: "How do you know——! ”

It's almost like not admitting yourself, and Tang Zeyu smiled.

"Of course I'm guessing." He said lightly.

*

Following Twilight Thirteen, Wataru Takagi, and Ita Hang, the medical examiner was also woken up by a phone call from his sleep and yawned and rushed to the autopsy.

Before the forensic doctor arrived, Hiroshi Karasawa and Date Hang put on gloves and conducted a preliminary examination of the scene.

"The deceased Reiko Iori, female, 27 years old, the time of death was preliminarily judged to be within one hour, and the direct cause of death was a fruit knife stabbed in the back."

The deceased, named Reiko Iori, was found under a desk in the manager's office, a medium-sized woman with an impartial fruit knife that stabbed her in the heart from behind.

Her beautiful face was distorted and terrifying by the shock before she died, her eyes were wide open, and there seemed to be a frozen shadow on the light brown iris.

The manager waited outside the door with his head down, the pale cannon seemed to be dumb for a moment, and the spirit that had been yelling was stripped from his body in an instant, and he shrunk into a ball in the corner, and all he could do was mutter: "It's not me, it's not me......"

"The murderer is not necessarily him,"

In the room separated by a wall, Tang Zeyu shook his head gently: "There is no blood left at the scene, according to the amount of bleeding from the wound, this is almost impossible, the victim was transferred to this office after his death." ”

Yi Dahang looked at the decadent figure outside the door, frowned, and said, "Then what is he hiding?" ”

Karasawa touched him with his elbow and handed a screen to Date Hang.

The corridor in the picture is quiet and silent, which is monitored by the hotel camera.

"He had deleted the surveillance footage from outside his door in time, but he had ignored the full-length mirror at the corner of the hallway," Mr. Tang said, "and I found it from the corridor opposite." ”

The full-length mirror stands at the end of the corridor of the video, barely visible, but it is this subtle deviation that makes the manager ignore it when destroying the evidence.

Date Hang stared at the small picture reflected in the mirror with a solemn expression, but Tang Zeyu had already seen it once, his eyes were slightly condensed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

At around ten o'clock, Iori Reiko appeared in the hallway, her steps firm, and she headed straight for the manager's room.

The picture quality of the surveillance is not good, and countless rough edges and noise immediately appear after zooming in, and her identity can only be judged through the same clothing.

After a few seconds, Reiko Iori opened the door and walked inside.

After another two minutes, a waiter walked in with a small cart, which seemed to be specially requested by Iori Reiko, as there were still quite a few snacks on the cart.

Take it in a minute...

When the shosho pushed the door and left, and the trolley was half-stuck in the door, Iori Reiko leaned out from behind the door and said a few polite words to him. At this time, the snacks in the car were gone, and the waiter returned with the cart and took it to the office door.

There was no movement in front of the hallway, and after another ten minutes, the manager returned to his office.

"In other words, until after 10:05, Iori Reiko was still alive." Date Air naturally gave a judgment, "Who is this waiter?" ”

"His name is Eiji Yoshida, he has been working in the hotel for three years, and his girlfriend came to accompany him tonight, so he just left work early and booked a room at the employee's internal price."

Date Airlines went through the monitoring again at double speed and returned the phone to Tang Zeyu.

"In this case, the suspect could only be the manager, no wonder he panicked like this."

Tang Zeyu frowned and said: "But his reaction is too natural and normal, I think that the murderer will not be him." ”

The time and place coincide, the evidence is conclusive, and it is certain.

Since Tang Zeyu said this, Date Hang followed his train of thought and thought: "Then who do you think the suspect will be?" ”

"I checked the rest of the records," Mr. Karasawa said, "and except for a hallway connected to the office, where surveillance broke down a month ago, none of the tenants were out during that time."

Door. ”

He swiped his fingers across the screen, and with the exception of the first one, which had a mirror, the rest of the footage seemed to be still. Tang Zeyu added: "The staff at the front desk are very sure that no one else will enter or leave through the gate tonight. ”

"In other words, the possible suspect is the occupant of this corridor with broken surveillance." It's only then that Date Hang said that he thought of the reason why he came here in the first place, and turned sharply to Tang Zeyu: "-Speaking of which, why are you here?" ”

"That's the problem," Karasawa shrugged, "The reason I called you before was because there were people outside the door. ”

Date Hang's expression seemed to petrify: "You mean—"

"Yes."

Tang Zeyu's expression was calm, contrasting with Date Airlines' seriousness and solemnity, and he said lightly: "I'm also living there, and I'm one of the suspects." ”

*

The blood stains in the manager's office are so small that it is almost impossible to make it the first crime scene, but until her death, Iori Reiko stayed inside.

After a thorough investigation of the scene, there was more evidence to support the manager's innocence: the manager's hands were completely clean except for the blood stains on the initial encounter with Iori Reiko, not to mention a blood reaction, not even the slightest smell of cigarettes.

From the time Iori Reiko's death to being discovered, the time in between was obviously not enough for him to take a bath secretly.

The fruit knife that killed Reiko Iori didn't have any fingerprints on it, but she was found in the cart.

The trolley was parked in the tool room at the end of the hallway, and the fingerprints on it were supposed to have been left by her hand when she poked her head out from behind the door.

The structure of this corridor as a whole presents an "L" shape, the manager's office is located at the turn of the lower left corner, and the surveillance he temporarily deleted, only recorded the image in the corridor on the short side at the bottom, but it was reflected by the dressing mirror at the end, and it was recorded in another monitor, and the deletion was equal to no deletion.

And the corridor opposite the broken monitoring is the long side on L, and in addition to Tang Zeyu, there are three rooms where people live.

First of all, the waiter Eiji Yoshida, because...

The girlfriend came early, and he booked a room early with the employee's internal price. After delivering the cart to Iori Reiko, he changed into his staff uniform, and when there was a knock on the door, he was in bed with his girlfriend.

The girlfriend is also a common Japanese face, medium build, standing next to the tall Eiji Yoshida, and more birdie-like.

Yi Dahang, who knocked on the door, unconsciously felt a little embarrassed in his expression.

The occupant in the second room was a travel writer who, in his own words, had to choose "such a cheap" hotel because he had accidentally spent all his money.

As soon as he woke up in the morning, he was in his room with his head in the middle of the manuscript, his bedside piled with torn bags of instant coffee.

The person who lived in the third room was named Kusuda Rido.

Hiroshi Karasawa looked grim when he saw this name, and it was the existence of this person that made him re-examine the death of Iori Reiko.

In the original plot, Kusuda Ludo is an important figure in the red and black chapter, in order to find Kiel, he pretended to be a patient and infiltrated the cup to the central hospital, and after his identity was exposed to the FBI, he shot himself, and used his life to tell the organization the location of the comatose water no mercy Nai hiding.

- Why did such a person appear in this hotel at this time, and he was still in the same corridor as me?

When Twilight walked out of the interrogation room, she saw Hiroshi Karasawa contemplating by the wall.

In the process of recording the confession just now, Nantian Ludao's expression was particularly gloomy and impatient.

"The efficiency of the police," he scoffed, "so to speak, at that time I was answering the phone, and it happened that there were several of them, and my brothers could testify to me, and I was always in my room, and I was not going anywhere." ”

"And why are you talking at this time?" The police department on the opposite side of the twilight wrote hard, and Nantian Lu Dao said coldly: "The matter on the road." Do you care? ”

The existence of the Japanese yakuza is legitimate, no matter what Kuroda Ludo is doing, as long as he does not kill anyone, it is his freedom. When Twilight left, Nantian Ludao added another sentence behind him.

"That policeman of yours looks like a little white face." He said, "Perhaps, he killed the man?" ”

*

Twilight who came out of the interrogation room looked worried, but still handed the confession in his hand to Tang Zeyu, who stood up straight from the wall and quickly swept the paper, after reading it, instead of being angry, on the contrary, he laughed softly.

"In this way, none of the three people in the room have the motive or time to commit the crime." Twilight said distressedly, "The writer and Kusuda Rikumichi, both of whom don't know the manager, and the manager usually takes care of the waiter Eiji Yoshida, so there is no conflict between the two. ”

If it goes on like this, Tang Zeyu, who is in the same corridor and has rich experience in criminal investigation and counter-investigation, is really about to become the most suspicious one.

The Twilight Police Department looked at the three closed doors in annoyance, and suddenly realized that there was no one missing: "Hey, Brother Takagi." Where did he go? ”

"Oh, he didn't follow when he got back to the Metropolitan Police Department from the hotel." Tang Zeyu said casually, "I asked him to find something." ”

"Looking for something?"

Date Hang, holding two disposable paper cups in his hand, strode from the end of the corridor. The rim of the paper cup was still bubbling hot, and he stuffed one into his hand alone: "What is Takagi-kun looking for?" ”

...

"Thank you,"

Tang Zeyu lowered his eyes and took a sip of coffee, and his tone was slow and reasonable: "Of course it's a murder weapon." ”

！

"Murder weapon!"

Mu Dudden's eyes widened: "Tang Zejun, do you already know who the murderer is?" ”

Tang Zeyu shook the paper in his hand and nodded flatly, compared to the excitement of the twilight on the side, he looked much calmer, as if revealing the truth was as ordinary for him as eating and drinking.

"Actually, it's not hard to think about the method, but there is still a key clue that does not appear here."

Karasawa said, "That's the cart. ”

"Trolley?"

Ita Hang reacted first: "Little Tang Ze, you told me that there was someone outside the door, did you just hear the sound of a cart?" ”

"Yes. The cart passed by my door three times, and it wasn't until the third time that I noticed the difference. ”

Tang Zeyu easily pulled over the information rack placed in the corridor, which is used to facilitate the transfer of documents between team members when encountering a major emergency case, and there are four rollers at the bottom, which can be pushed around at will.

Tang Zeyu regarded the data rack as a temporary "cart", he first pulled it to his side, and then, with one foot on the bottom iron frame, used it as a skateboard, and the whole person and the cart slid out together.

Then he didn't control the direction all of a sudden, and with a bang, he hit the wall with the car.

After just a few seconds of sliding, Date immediately noticed the difference: "The sound of the wheels is different!" ”

Tang Zeyu jumped off the data rack in a daze, and nodded depressedly when he heard the words.

"Yes, in fact, if the things in the car are lighter, such as documents, there is not much difference between the two, but if you add one person, it will sound obvious."

*

The cart passed by his door three times, the first two times and the last time, not the same wave of people.

The real place of Iori's death is not the manager's office, but the room where Eiji Yoshida and his girlfriend are; The real time of death is actually earlier than ten o'clock.

Twilight asked, "In that case, how should Iori Reiko, who had a few words with her before Eiji Yoshida left?" ”

Yu Karasawa shook his head: "That's not her anymore, it's Eiji Yoshida's girlfriend." ”

The hotel's surveillance picture quality is not good, and Eiji Yoshida has long been aware of this.

After killing Iori Reiko in the room, he colluded with his girlfriend and staged a big drama in the unmonitored corridor.

First, he refills the upper layer of the cart with snacks and stuffs Iori's body into the bottom of the cart, and no one knows what exactly is being transported inside due to the white cloth hanging from both sides.

At the same time, the girlfriend changed into the same clothes as Iori Reiko. The picture quality is not enough for the person viewing the surveillance to see the face in the video clearly, as long as you change your clothes, everyone will naturally think that she is Iori Reiko.

Reiko Iori, who is still "alive", walks into the manager's office, but the hapless manager doesn't know anything about it.

Then Eiji Yoshida, who was pushing a small cart, appeared on the stage, and because of his weak heart, he knocked on his door when he passed by Hiroshi Karazawa's room.

This is the first time Yu Karasawa heard&#...

30340; "Sir, do you need room service?"

After pushing Iori Reiko into the office with a small cart, the climax of the whole drama arrives: the two unload their snacks, and when Eiji Yoshida leaves, his girlfriend deliberately leans out and says a few words to him.

This is to create the illusion that Reiko Iori is still alive at this time, and to clear the suspicion of Eiji Yoshida himself.

Immediately afterward, the girlfriend got into the cart with a short body.

- Because half of the cart was still stuck in the door, the way she got into it was not recorded by any of the surveillance cameras.

Immediately afterwards, in the face of police interrogation, Eiji Yoshida, as an eyewitness, as long as he easily said, "Iori Reiko was still alive at that time, I talked to her for a few words", and the manager, who knew nothing about it, would become the only murderer.

Takagi Shibu, who was appointed by Tang Zeyu, was late, and when he saw a few people, he waved his hand from afar.

With this action, everyone saw what he was holding: it was a transparent evidence bag, and inside it was a shirt identical to that of the deceased Iori Reiko.

The coffee cup in Tang Zeyu's hand was already empty, he leaned against the aisle of the spring night, and exhaled softly: "The case is closed." ”

*

The interrogation room was brightly lit with white lights, and the people sitting on the iron chair in the center were not panicked, but on the contrary, they were in a happy mood, and their noses were low, humming an unknown melody.

Hearing someone come in, he said casually, "The trial is over?" Now you know I'm not a murderer, right? ”

"You're certainly not the murderer of Reiko Iori," another voice said gently, "and it's impossible to tell if it's the one who attempted murder." ”

Tang Zeyu leaned down slightly, bent down to sit at the table, and with his movements, the end of the smoky gray plaid scarf gently hung down on the table in the middle.

Across from him, the writer in the iron chair had a changed face.

The monitoring hanging above the heads of the two people, the red light that represents their normal operation, has been quietly extinguished unconsciously. Immediately afterwards, the fluorescent lamp overhead also began to "sizzle" unnaturally, and Tang Zeyu raised his head in accordance with the writer's gaze.

He even smiled calmly: "Just now, the general control insurance on this floor of the Metropolitan Police Department tripped due to the overload of the power grid. ”

"Fortunately, the lighting and other equipment are supported by another backup power supply."

Tang Zeyu knocked on the table regularly with one hand unhurriedly. "But guess."

"——When should the power supply of this set of monitoring be restored urgently?"

TBC.