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——Office of Criminal Investigation Detachment of Qinjiang City.

After arranging for others to send Li Guo's parents and Li Wenxin home, Yan Cun handed over the broken mobile phone to Wen Lianyi, an Internet investigator and "electronic equipment repairman", and went to the small room to change out of the crumpled uniform.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Jiang Huai and Zhang Jingze had also dealt with the hotel situation and returned to the detachment.

"Li Guo's family situation is quite complicated," Shen Lin handed the information records to everyone, "During the interrogation process, Li Wenxin said that she had a bad relationship with her family, mainly because of her parents' partiality, and her elder sister's acrimonious personality, who often came to her behind her back. Trouble or something."

Jiang Huai took the documents and looked at them for a while, then frowned and said, "Does that mean there is no motive for committing the crime?"

Shen Lin nodded.

"What did her parents say?" Jiang Huai asked.

"They said that my older sister, Li Guo, is very well-behaved and has good grades. She often receives scholarships at school, and she no longer has to ask her family for living expenses when she was a sophomore. The younger sister, Li Wenxin, is more rebellious and doesn't like studying."

Yan Cun added: "The victim's undergraduate major is an English teacher, and Luo Qingsen is engaged in film investment. Logically speaking, they should not have any intersection."

He went to the water dispenser to get a cup of warm water, and rummaged through the office drawers, but he didn't even find a biscuit, so he decided to order a takeaway first: "Lianyi, can the phone still be repaired?"

Wen Lianyi frowned and stared at the phone screen for a while.

Yan Cun: "?"

After a while of silence, Wen Lianyi tore off the broken tempered film, pressed and held the power button, and the phone lit up in full view.

She laughed without losing face: "Brother Yan, are you hungry and stupid?"

Yan Cun: "..."

He coughed lightly in embarrassment, and took the phone: "I haven't turned my mind for a while."

Wen Lianyi took out a piece of chocolate from her pocket and threw it to Yan Cun.

"By the way," he opened the chocolate and took a bite, "Have you found the IP address of that call?"

Wen Lianyi shook her head.

"The call was dialed out after several transfers by the virtual network base station. It should be someone deliberately interfering with the investigation... But I found something when I watched the surveillance."

She turned the computer screen to the crowd, moved the mouse to open the surveillance video, pulled the time to around 21 pm, paused the screen and zoomed in—Li Wenxin, who had just met in the detachment lobby, actually appeared in the banquet hall on the [-]st floor, and carefully placed the tableware in the banquet hall. Set it on the table.

"Oh yes, I forgot to mention," Shen Lin quickly added, "Li Wenxin is indeed working in the restaurant on the 15th floor of Chengfeng Hotel. She has a shift every Friday, and today she was called to help on the 21st floor temporarily. That's all."

"Working?" Jiang Huai frowned, "Isn't she preparing for the college entrance examination this year?"

"Her family only has one child," Shen Lin paused, "Her parents were not willing to support her in high school, and hoped that she would come out to work and earn money to support the family."

Yan Cun analyzed: "So emotionally, she probably won't want to avenge Li Guo, and in terms of personal financial situation, she also has no ability to kill Luo Qingsen."

Shen Lin nodded: "Yes."

"Team Yan," Zhang Jingze put forward his opinion in a low voice, "Could it be that Luo Qingsen is just afraid of sin... eh?"

"There is a certain possibility, but we have to rule out all doubts first." Yan Cun raised his hand and glanced at his watch, "It's getting late, you guys send me the surveillance video and the record of the interview in the banquet hall just now, let's do this first Let's continue the investigation tomorrow."

Everyone responded and packed up their things.

Although there were still doubts about the case, the urgency had been reduced a lot, so he decided to let the yawning people's police get off work, and he opened the x group takeaway and ordered a shrimp dumpling noodle.

After a while, the surrounding environment quieted down.

Yan Cunben was going to sort out the case first, but he found that his eyes stayed on the first line for almost 10 minutes, and he barely moved to the second line until the takeaway phone rang.

So he decided-let's talk when we are full.

"Your takeaway," the deliveryman handed the box to Yan Cun, "If you are satisfied, remember to give a five-star praise."

"Thank you."

The smell of shrimp dumpling noodles suddenly wafted into the air. Just as Yan Cun was about to turn back to the detachment office, he caught a glimpse of something familiar out of the corner of his eye.

He paused: "Hey, wait."

Delivery guy: "?"

"You little thing..." Yan Cun frowned, "Where did this pendant come from?"

The delivery man followed Yan Cun's line of sight to look at the small blue and white porcelain pendant on his mobile phone, lifted it up and shook it, and said with a smile, "Did you say this? This is not a pendant, it's a small USB flash drive. My girlfriend gave it to me for my birthday. Gift."

Yan Cun was confused: "U disk?"

"That's right," said the delivery boy, "Last year's joint commemorative model should be off the shelves now, right?"

Yan Cun nodded: "Oh..."

After the delivery man drove away, Yan Cun returned to the criminal investigation office with the takeaway, opened the box and ate a shrimp dumpling, then he recalled that the blue and white porcelain necklace was mentioned when Jianghuai reported the situation.

However, there was no such gadget near the cordon or on Luo Qingsen's body!

……! ??

Yan Cun quickly dropped his chopsticks and rushed out of the gate of the detachment.

at this time.

No. 23, Chongning Avenue, Dongcheng District, Chengfeng Hotel, where the falling incident just happened.

Captain Yan only had time to eat a [-] yuan takeaway shrimp dumpling noodle free of delivery fee. The terrified Ji Shuwang had just finished a whole bowl of time-honored limited edition wax gourd and crucian carp soup, and was leaning on the sofa in the lobby to play with his mobile phone.

The driver parked the car firmly in front of the revolving glass door, she turned her head and spoke to her brother Ji Liao, then walked out of the door with her bag and got into the car.

Ji Liao put his hand on the car door and said: "When you get home, send a message to brother."

Ji Shuwang nodded, "Got it."

"Go back tonight and rest early, don't stay up late playing games."

"I know, I know."

Ji Liao paused, and then said: "Go back and ask Aunt Chen to cook some soup for you, take it easy."

"It's a big deal, there's no need," Ji Shuwang smiled at him, "Let's go."

Ji Liao gave a soft 'hmm' and closed the door for her.

Watching the car leave Chongning Avenue, he returned to the hotel and asked, "Have you found out the cause of the power outage? Can the monitoring be restored?"

The hotel manager shook his head helplessly: "It's probably impossible to recover."

Ji Liao frowned and walked into the front desk, took the mouse from the technician, and pulled the surveillance video to the corresponding time point of the power outage.

But before he had time to take a closer look, he raised his eyes and saw a person getting out of the taxi in front of the door, slammed the car door, rushed into the hotel aggressively, threw something at him, and stepped into the hotel in three steps at a time. elevator.

Ji Liao: "???"

Until the moment when the elevator door slowly closed, Ji Liao hesitated to pick up the card that hit him - it seemed to be a work permit.

He narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the photo on his work card for a while.

…………

After rushing out of the gate of the detachment, Yan Cun went to the street and stopped a taxi, and at the same time turned on the surveillance video of the banquet hall when the incident happened.

Because Luo Qingsen made a big move when holding Ji Shuwang hostage, the blue-and-white porcelain USB flash drive fell into the surveillance blind spot near the safety exit of the banquet hall.

Just at this moment, the phone 'jingle bell' rang.

"Brother Yan, just now the hotel's surveillance system went black for about 9 minutes at around 40:5," Wen Lianyi said, "I called the staff and they said that the whole building was powered off for unknown reasons. , They didn't dare to delay, and quickly found someone to restore the power level."

Yan Cun had a bad premonition, hung up the phone and called Zhang Jingze.

"When you were looking for a Bluetooth headset just now, did you notice a square necklace with a blue and white porcelain pattern?"

"Ah?" Zhang Jingze was taken aback by Yan Cun's tone, and thought carefully, "Blue and white porcelain pattern? It seems that there is no such thing."

"……okay, I get it."

Previously, Jianghuai was asked to temporarily block the 21st floor. When he arrived at the destination by elevator, the entire banquet hall was empty, and the dishes and food on the table had not been cleaned up.

He reached out and patted the switch on the wall, and found that the lighting system was still out of order, so he turned on the light of his mobile phone and went to monitor the blind spot near the window sill. He bent down to search for a long time, but he couldn't even find the shadow of the gadget.

... Well, it's really hellish difficulty.

He turned on his phone to edit the information, and walked towards the elevator.

[Lianyi, look up a blue-and-white porcelain USB flash drive that these two brands co-branded last year, and see if you can still find the one from that time...]

Before finishing editing the news, there was a sudden 'ding' sound in the empty and silent banquet hall, and Yan Cun stopped immediately.

His heart stopped beating, and he raised his eyes to look at the slowly moving and opening elevator door, his body acted before his thoughts, and he raised his leg to sweep towards the figure in the elevator, trying to take advantage of the gap to grab the opponent's wrists.

The man sideways avoided Yan Cun's movement, raised his elbow and hit Yan Cun's chest.

Yan Cun took a step back and bumped into the table, dodging the opponent's continuous attacks, grabbed a chair and wanted to push the opponent to the ground, and growled in a low voice, "Who is it?!"

Hearing the sound, the man seemed to hesitate for a moment, then raised his hand and grabbed the leg of the chair, forcefully stopping Yan Cun's movements.

He said coldly, "Who are you?"

Yan Cun: "???"

...this voice?

"I'm a policeman." Yan Cun's veins bulged, neither of the two sides would let go, and just confronted each other across the chair, "Who are you? What are you doing here in the middle of the night? I don't know if it's locked down here. !"

The man silently judged the authenticity of Yan Cun's words.

"The police, don't you turn on the lights? What about the police uniform? What about the work permit?"

Yan Cun: "..."

A little familiar.

He hesitated and relaxed, and then said: "And this is my hotel, why can't I come?"

"...The light tube in your hotel is out of order, thank you." Seeing that the other party backed down a little, Yan Cun also reduced his strength, "I didn't have time to change into the police uniform, and the work card was thrown at the front desk just now. You can ask yourself later."

"... out of order?"

The man frowned and thought for a while, then quickly pulled out the remote control from his pocket, pointed at the ceiling and pressed it, and the whole banquet hall was lit up immediately.

"??"

Yan Cun got used to the sudden light for a while, and met the cold eyes of the visitor.

really.

No wonder Yan Cun inexplicably wanted to beat him the moment he heard the voice clearly.

"Brother of the hostage, is it?" Yan Cun put the chair on the ground, looked at the troublemaker for a while, and asked in a deep voice, "Why are you here?"

The troublemaker answered irrelevantly: "I haven't seen you."

"I came to the scene later," Yan Cun said helplessly, "Elevator, mobile phone, winter melon and crucian carp soup, remember?"

"Mobile phone?" The man was taken aback, "What mobile phone?"

"..." Yan Cun raised his forehead, "Answer the police's question first, why are you here?"

The troublemaker patted the dust off his hands, and said, "You sneaked into my hotel and threw things at the front desk, you look crazy, I can't come up and take a look?"

Yan Cun: "..."

He frowned and opened the investigation records on his phone, and at a glance, he found another person named Ji besides Ji Shuwang: "Ji Liao, is that right?"

The troublemaker stared at him without saying a word, and after a long time, he uttered two words with some hesitation.

"Yan Cun?"

"???" Yan Cun was stunned, "Do you know who I am? Are you still attacking the police?"

He came back to his senses: "No, how do you know who I am? Didn't you just say you never met me?"

Also accurate to the specific name?How did you do it? ? ?

Ji Liao didn't say that he was the receptionist whose work permit was smashed, and coughed lightly: "Your photo has been posted on the wall of the outstanding graduates of University A for several years, and now you look haggard as if you haven't had enough to eat. recognize."

The amount of information was too much, Yan Cun reacted for a long time, and said unhappily: "You are not full."

He lowered his head and quickly edited and sent the information on the phone, looked up at Ji Liao again for a while, and asked, "Around nine forty, where are you?"

"Nine forty?" Ji Liao frowned.

Yan Cun nodded.

Ji Liao said, "Call someone to repair the meter in the lobby."

"Can anyone prove it?"

"front desk."

"Okay," Yan Cun patted the ashes on his hands, "Go downstairs first, I have something to ask you later."

Now it is certain that the blue and white porcelain USB flash drive was secretly picked up during the power outage.The rest of the crew are temporarily staying in the hotel room on the 17th floor tonight, and everyone may go upstairs to pick up the USB drive within 5 minutes.

There are so many surveillance blind spots in the broken hotel, even if it is confirmed that Ji Liaozhen was in the lobby on the first floor at that time, there is no way to completely remove the suspicion.

Things started to get complicated.

Ji Liao was silent for a long time before he let out a cold "Oh", followed Yan Cun into the elevator, raised his hand and pressed the button with the number '1'.

However, at the moment when the elevator door was about to close, Ji Liao seemed to hear something faintly, subconsciously raised his hand and pressed the door open button.

Yan Cun: "?"

Immediately afterwards, a shrill and panicked scream sounded from the empty banquet hall.

"Ahhhh!! Dead people——"

The author has something to say: Ji Liao attacked, Yan Cun accepted.