S.C.I.谜案集 (Special Criminal Investigation) Book 2

Case 1. An Innocent Murderer: Chapter 11. Body

Bai Yutang's words stunned Zhan Zhao, who raised his head to look at Bai Yutang. Unsurprisingly, Bai Yutang saw Zhan Zhao's red eyes...There was sudden pain in Bai Yutan's heart, with a trace of sweetness. To be honest, at the beginning, Bai Yutang was very happy when he noticed how frightened Zhan Zhao was. It showed how important Bai Yutang was to cat. But now, he felt a bit of regret.

"You said...You know where the body is?" Zhan Zhao asked again, "How do you know? Did something just now give you an idea?"

Bai Yutang smiled and said, "Cat, I was just over the railings, pulling Luo Tian with one hand and Pang Ji with the other hand. I felt like I was going to be split in two!"

Zhan Zhao's eyes flashed after hearing this. He seemed to have thought of something, but not sure what. He looked at Bai Yutang in a daze.

Bai Yutang smiled, "When I realized this just now, an idea also flashed in my mind. Then, I looked up...I saw that thing!" While he spoke, Bai Yutang walked behind Zhan Zhao and gently dragged Zhan Zhao's chin to one side, "Look. What is that?"

Opposite the International Hotel was also a six-star hotel called the Century Hotel. When it was being built, the two buildings were supposed to be connected by a bridge. Therefore, the style of the two hotels were basically the same and their shapes complemented each other. It felt like the same two halves, but later, due to technical problems, the bridge was not built.

"...A half?" Zhan Zhao suddenly realized that the two buildings faced each other. Then, they both said in unison, "Red Wine and steak!"

With that, they ignored the SCI people who were still making useless conversations next to them and ran downstairs. Luo Tian and Ma Han looked at each other, then quickly went to catch up with Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

Running out of the International Hotel, the two ran straight across the road to the Century Hotel.

Luo Tian asked Ma Han while he ran, "What's wrong with Bai Sir and Dr. Zhan?"

Ma Han smiled at him, "They must have found an important evidence!"

After entering the hotel, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao went straight to the reception desk. The receptionist recognized Bai Yutang at a glance and said with a smile, "Master Bai, what brings you here?"

Zhan Zhao was surprised and asked Bai Yutang, "Your brother bought this building too?"

Bai Yutang shrugged, "I don't know."

The receptionist's face smiled professionally, "Two young masters, what can I do for you?"

"Check for me which room had ordered red wine and steak after 4pm today." Bai Yutang said, "I'm investigating a case!"

"Oh...Okay!" The receptionist quickly turned on the computer to look for it, then said, "There are six rooms that had ordered meals with red wine and steak."

"Call them room to room!" Bai Yutang said seriously, "Find the room that doesn't answer the phone!"

"Uh..." The receptionist was in a dilemma, "It's pretty late now...Will it affect the guests resting?"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other. This receptionist was good. When they go back, they have to ask brother to raise his salary. Zhan Zhao said with a smile, "Just find a random excuse. Cooperating with the police and catching the culprit will be good for your hotel, right?"

"Yes, that's right!" The receptionist quickly dialed the rooms one by one.

Zhan Zhao looked at the numbers the receptionist had pressed. The first three were answered. The receptionist said that there was fruit provided at night and asked if they wanted it. When he pressed the fourth phone number, which was 215425, Zhan Zhao suddenly frowned and seemed to be lost in thought.

The phone rang around 10 times, but there was still no answer. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, then asked the receptionist, "What is the name of the guest who checked in?"

The receptionist checked and said, "Oh, it's someone called An Lingli."

"An?" Bai Yutang was stunned, "Is their ID card registered? How old is that person?"

The receptionist pulled out the information, looked at it and said, "19 years old. Checked in at 4pm today. The room number is 1407."

Bai Yutang nodded and said, "Find someone to open the door for us!"

"I will go!" The receptionist found the key card and took Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao to the elevator. Soon, everyone arrived at the door of room 07 on the 14th floor.

After knocking on the door, there was still no answer. When the receptionist saw Bai Yutang nod to him, he used the key card...The door was opened.

There was a strong smell of perfume in the room, mixed with a trace of sweetness, which made everyone feel very uncomfortable.

As the receptionist inserted the key card into the power switch next to the door, the entire room lit up.

"Ah..." The receptionist let out a cry of surprise. There was a woman sitting at the table in the dark and empty room. She sat there quietly, her eyes wide open, staring at the people at the door.

"You scared me to death...Miss, how come you...Ah..." As the receptionist spoke, he took a closer look. When he could see clearly, he froze. It was not easy for an ordinary person to not scream and faint from being so frightened!

The people of SCI also gasped. They saw that the woman sitting on the seat was quite young. Her face was white and her eyes wide open as she stared blankly at the door. She was dressed in a luxurious evening dress, her hands on the table, motionless.

However, looking at her closely, it was possible to see a bright red blood mark on her neck. The edges of her neck were not neat. It was obvious that this young girl's face did not match such a mature figure. In addition, her gorgeous dress and snow-white skin were covered with blood. There was also a lot of blood on the ground. The head was placed on the body, and this girl was wearing exactly the same dress as Pang Xiaoqin.

After looking at it for a long time, Bai Yutang turned around and whispered to Ma Han, "Tell Gong Sun to come back...Have any of you met Uncle An's daughter before?"

After a long time, Zhao Hu slowly raised his hand. His voice was a little hoarse, "I...I have."

"Is this her?" Bai Yutang asked.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Hu nodded, his eyes red. "Captain, God really doesn't have eyes!"

Everyone was depressed.

"There's a piece of paper." Zhan Zhao slowly approached the body and carefully pulled out a piece of paper from between the hand and the table. He took a look at it and then slowly read out loud, "This is a gift for An Youdao. Thank you for your care during this period." In the lower right corner of the paper, there was smiling face with a tongue sticking out...This made people feel strange. Zhan Zhao felt how terrifying this cute expression could be for the first time.

Before long, Gong Sun came with people from the forensics department. Uncle An had also came. As soon as he saw that it was his daughter's body, he fainted.

Zhan Zhao clenched the piece of paper tightly and refused to show it to the old man. In reality, the reason why this innocent teenage girl had ended up like this was because the killer wanted to get back at her dad, a policeman...If the old man knew that his daughter was killed because of him, then he might really fall apart.

Everyone present had an unspoken agreement. No one would mention the message.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang could not bear to see Uncle An's sad appearance, so they walked out of the room together and called the person in charge to check the surveillance video of the hotel.

This time the surveillance video had not been destroyed. Zhan Zhao and the others saw the complete picture.

At a little past 4pm, An Lingli dragged a small suitcase into the room. She had opened the door with a key card. 30 minutes later, a person dressed in a black jumper appeared in the camera. Judging from the height of the door, that person was around 175cm tall.

This height was the most troublesome, because the killer had wrapped themselves up very tightly, so it was difficult to tell whether this was a short man or a tall woman.

That person stopped in front of An Lingli's room, then looked left and right. The moment this person turned their head, everyone saw that there was a robot cat mask on their face, and Tinkerbell was smiling cutely it. There were only two holes, which was where the eyes were. Suddenly, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang remembered the unfinished jigsaw puzzle of the robot cat in the first dismembering case. They thought for the first time that Tinker Bell, who was originally extremely cute, had such a terrifying side.

The person in the surveillance camera reached out and took a strange card out of their pocket. It was a fake chip card. The card was placed against the door, then the door opened. The person dressed in black went in and closed the door...Everything became calm.

At around 5pm, the door opened, and the person dressed in black placed a big black leather suitcase outside the door.

After a while, a waiter arrived, picked up the suitcase and then left. The images captured by the camera continued until the waiter slipped out through the backdoor.

Then, everything became calm again, until a little past 7pm. Pang Xiaoqin ran to the door in her dress. Everyone became interested, as they saw the door was quickly opened. The person inside said something to her, which made Pang Xiaoqin unexpectedly smile. Shen then entered the room happily.

After about 30 minutes, they saw that the door of the room was opened again, and the person was still dressed in a black jumper with a robotic cat mask on their face. However, that person was pushing a birthday cake box.

Zhan Zhao felt nauseous for no reason and shook his head as he said to Bai Yutang, "It seems that the killer is someone who Pang Xiaoqin knows."

"No wonder." Bai Yutang smiled, "This Pang Xiaoqin is already fierce enough. I didn't expect for her friend to be even tougher than her."

"Now, in addition to checking the identity of this person dressed in black, it is also necessary to find out why An Lingli suddenly came to such a place, and what the relationship between that person and Pang Xiaoqin is."

"Go and get that waiter." Bai Yutang ordered. Before long, a trembling waiter came over and nervously looked up at Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, "What...What happened?Ah ~ " The waiter screamed in horror when he saw Pang Xiaoqin's body.

Zhan Zhao asked him, "Did you come here this afternoon to collect garbage?"

"En." The waiter nodded, "It was the guest who called and told me to do it."

"Was it a male or female?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"I couldn't tell." The waiter tilted his head, "It was hard to tell over the phone."

"When you threw out the garbage, did you not think it was heavy?" Bai Yutang asked, "Did you lift it with one hand?"

"It was not heavy at all!" The waiter explained,"That person said it was just a couple of papers inside."

Bai Yutang frowned as he became more puzzled. But he heard Zhan Zhao say, "It was on the phone when the murderer hypnotized him."

"Without looking in the eyes?" Bai Yutang was surprised.

"This person...Is not simple!" Zhan Zhao said to himself.

When the waiter was sent away, Bai Yutang suddenly asked,"By the way cat, when you saw the receptionist press the phone number, did you already think something was wrong?"

Zhan Zhao smiled and sighed, "I really can't hide anything from you mouse."

"Is there something wrong with the phone number?" Bai Yutang asked.

"The number is 215425." Zhan Zhao looked up at Bai Yutang and said, "What do the numbers 2, 15, 4 and 25 represent in the English alphabet?"

"2, 15, 4, 25..." Bai Yutang touched his chin and thought for a bit, "B, o, d, y...Body?! The body..."