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First degree murder [18](1/2)

The Shu Palace has recently closed down business and rectified, and there are no idle people coming and going except the staff. However, after the police blocked Room 106 and removed the criminal police, the boss of Shu Palace, who was superstitious about Feng Shui, ordered people to clean up the third floor except Room 106, and according to the guidance of the master, all the furniture ornaments in the room were re-placed.

It is this move that has allowed the dripping blood buried deep in the dark soil to be exposed to the sky.

After Manager Zhang waited in the first floor lobby for nearly half an hour, client He Cheng pushed open the first floor revolving door and walked in shoulder to shoulder.

"What's going on?"

Chu Xingyun stopped in front of him and asked with a gloomy face.

Manager Zhang looked at He Cheng first and was about to talk to He Cheng, but saw He Cheng step back and stand behind Chu Xingyun, saying, "Don't pay attention to me."

So Manager Zhang turned to Chu Xingyun, wiped the false alarm and cold sweat on his forehead, and said, "When I was cleaning the room today, I found a blood-stained iron hammer in Room 105. I'll take you to see it."

According to Manager Zhang, the person who found this suspected weapon was several hotel staff. When they were transferring the wardrobe according to the instructions of Mr. Feng Shui, they found a weapon wrapped in a plastic packaging bag at the corner between the wardrobe and the wall. Manager Zhang saw that the hammer was stained with blood, and immediately opened the phone number Chu Xingyun left him the night before.

When Chu Xingyun arrived in Room 105, he first looked at the staff present and found that there were many witnesses and could not reach a joint offer for the time being, so he accepted Manager Zhang's statement.

Manager Zhang did not act cleverly this time and made evidence, so the hammer wrapped in a plastic bag was still lying in the angle between the tilted wardrobe and the wall.

"Who has anyone come in since the accident in this room?"

Chu Xingyun raised the hammer through the plastic bag and tried the weight and felt it. He put it back on the floor without even opening it, and asked.

"No one has ever come in, we have closed business and repaired the past two days."

Chu Xingyun squatted on the ground and looked back at several hotel employees: "Who was the one who discovered it first?"

A young man stood up and said, "What we found when we moved the wardrobe is considered to be the same."

Chu Xingyun stood up and fell into deep thought.

He remembered that the guest of this room was a couple, and he also chatted with the couple in the tea area on the first floor. There was nothing suspicious about the couple at that time, except that the wife looked a little stiff and nervous.

This hammer is in line with Su Wan's determination of the weapon, but it has not been identified yet, so it is impossible to confirm whether the blood on it belongs to Zhou Shiyang. But as for the situation at this moment, he must speculate from the standpoint of suspicion of the couple and temporarily use the hammer as a weapon.

Chu Xingyun suddenly looked at the wall on the east side of the bedroom separated from Room 106.

If this hammer is really the weapon that killed Zhou Shiyang and appears in Room 105 after committing the crime, it means that someone sneaked into Room 106 from 105, thus completing the secret room killing in Room 106.

However, the doors and windows are locked, and the only remaining entrance to Room 106 is the wall shared by 105 and 106.

For the sake of beauty, the wall on the east was made into a whole pane wall, which was staggered and filled with various components and accessories. If he remembered correctly, behind this wall was bedroom 106, which was where Zhou Shiyang was lying on his body.

He walked to the pane wall and tried to move a few grids, asking with almost no hope: "Is there a way to open it here?"

No one paid attention to him, so he looked back at Manager Zhang impatiently: "I said, are these panes movable?"

Manager Zhang said with a little guilty conscience: "Yes, there is a place that can be opened."

Chu Xingyun's eyes sterned, and his voice was as deep as the cold wind: "Where is it?"

After Manager Zhao pointed out, the secrets of Room 105 and Room 106 were exposed.

It turned out that the Shu Royal Palace was built, Room 10 Room 5 and Room 106 were not rooms, but an operating room. Later, when the guest rooms were in short supply, Room 105 and 106 were converted into guest rooms. Because the partitions between 105 and 106 had been opened and the walls were destroyed when the operating room were built, so a pane had to be formed in the middle to serve as a wall. This pane seemed to be a whole side, but in fact it was two left and right, filled with sound insulation cotton in the middle, and a combination like sliding doors, it was put together and turned into a seamless wall.

Unless an insider is in the matter, it is impossible for anyone to see the mechanism in this wall.

Manager Zhang took something similar to a window opener, found an almost invisible gap on the pane wall, and then inserted it into an extremely hidden hexagonal groove at the bottom and turned it to the right. Then he attracted two young men to separate the two panes that merged into a wall, one left and one right.

The moment the panes separated, Chu Xingyun saw the bedroom No. 106, which was slowly pulled open in front of him, where Zhou Shiyang was lying on his body.

His eyes were red, and he stood there and scanned the layout of bedroom No. 106, then raised his legs and walked into bedroom No. 106.

Zhou Shiyang's body had been carried away, and at this time there was only a pool of blood left on the carpet.

He walked to the carpet with blood, squatted down and reached out to touch the soft and thin white carpet, then grabbed a piece of white fluff and pinched it between his fingers, and asked, "Is this kind of carpet available in rooms 106?"

Manager Zhang said: "That's a white fox carpet, only the presidential condom will match."

Chu Xingyun carefully inspected the murder site again and found a logical loophole.

If Zhou Shiyang died in a secret room and killed people, then 105 people must be ambushing here. So why would they definitely wait for Zhou Shiyang?

Also, it was Qin Xiao who booked the room, but Zhou Shiyang who died. No matter who the murderer was, how did they know that they could wait for their goals in Room 106?

Chu Xingyun faintly felt that although the evidence is conclusive at present, this clue seems to be integrated and orderly, but is actually scattered. If you want to effectively utilize these clues, there is still a crucial rule.

He returned to Room 105, stood in front of Manager Zhang, with an elite light coming out of his eyes, and asked in a questioning tone: "Since you already knew there was a passage between the two rooms, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Manager Zhang looked at him and smiled with a humble heart: "Captain Chu, you also know that the most important thing in hotel business is the privacy and safety of the guests. I didn't mean to hide it from you. I saw that something was wrong, and the first thing I told was you."

Chu Xingyun's eyes were like a cold front, and he walked into the bathroom and took a brand new plastic bag to wrap the hammer in his hand. Before leaving, he said to Manager Zhang: "Click out all the check-in records of Qin Xiao and Zhou Shiyang."

This time he took a little longer, so that the sunset happened to be when he stepped out of the Shu Palace.

The Shu Palace was closed for renovation, so it was very quiet and there were no people in the first floor lobby.

He Cheng sat in the empty tea area, perhaps because he was waiting for too long, or because he was tired after running around with Chu Xingyun for a day, so he fell asleep with his forehead on his back.

Chu Xingyun walked lightly to him, looked at his sleeping face with his eyes closed, and smiled a little unconsciously.

He held the handrail of the sofa and bent down to blew on He Cheng's slightly trembling eyelashes.

He Cheng frowned, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Chu Xingyun's face that was close to him, and the gentle and bright smile that was rare on his face.

"Are you tired?"

Chu Xingyun asked.

He Cheng took off his glasses and pinched his eyebrows, and said, "No, are you leaving now?"

He put his suit and jacket together to stand up, but Chu Xingyun surrounded him, making him unable to move.

"I guess I have to stay up late tonight. I'll send you back first and then go back to the police station."

Although Chu Xingyun's tone of this was very gentle, it was not questionable.

He Cheng wanted to pester him for a day, but at this moment he saw the persistence in his eyes, so he took a step back and nodded slightly.

Chu Xingyun smiled and touched his chin: "I'm so sensible, let's go, and I'll send you home."

He Cheng was sent to the entrance of Jiuli Jinting Community. Chu Xingyun watched him open the door and got out of the car. When he closed the car door, he suddenly called him.

He Cheng held the car door and looked at him: "What's wrong?"

Chu Xingyun's eyes were filled with a hint of worry and uneasiness. He looked at him with a serious expression for a moment. Suddenly, his face turned sad and said with a smile: "It's nothing. Remember to feed the cat when you go back. I'll come back to accompany you after I finish my work."

The last sentence was very impressive. He Cheng bent his lips and said, "Then I'll wait for you."

He Cheng watched He Cheng enter Building 7, and it was not until the lights on window 717 that Chu Xingyun drove to the police station.

On the way, he called Xiao Shu first.

"Have He Ying found a bodyguard?"

Xiao Shu said: "Just got off the plane and was rushing towards Jiuli Jinting."

The road ahead was congested, and Chu Xingyun stepped on the brakes a little irritated: "Let them all be smarter, I always have a bad premonition."

Xiao Shu was silent for a moment and said, "I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Chu Xingyun watched the red light jumping in the intersection ahead for a while, and when the green light lit up, he followed the traffic slowly and dialed another phone call.

Qiao Shishi quickly answered: "Boss, where are you?"

"On the way back, someone was brought here?"

"As you said, Fang Junhai and Liu Ru have brought them back."

"Split them apart first, I'll arrive right away."

Less than twenty minutes after hanging up the phone, he returned to the city bureau at a miraculous speed during the entire paralyzed evening rush hour.

Now, except for him, the police team did not know why Fang Junhai and his wife were invited for tea, so Fang Junhai and his wife were temporarily separated in two interrogation rooms and no one interrogated them.

Chu Xingyun went upstairs and headed straight for Su Wan's office, threw the evidence he brought back to her desk, and a clanging sound scared Su Wan.

"Check the blood and fingerprints on it, and give it to me immediately after it comes out."

Zhao Feng walked from the other end of the corridor with a teacup on his face and happened to see him coming out of Su Wan's office with a serious face.

"Boss, where were you going today?"

Chu Xingyun kept walking past him, and walked downstairs with the teacup in his hand while drinking water.

In the interrogation room No. 1, Qiao Shishi was sitting with Liu Ruxian, flipping through a piece of information spread on her legs.

Chu Xingyun suddenly pushed open the door and asked the two women to turn their heads to look at him at the same time.

Liu Ru should have been taken away by the police just after get off work, and she was wearing a decent suit. She put on a little thin makeup and delicate hairstyle. Even if there were fine lines at the corners of her eyes, it would not prevent her from exuding the charm and beauty of a mature woman.

Chu Xingyun looked at her calmly, then walked towards Qiao Shishi and took the document she handed over: "All?"

Qiao Shishi nodded.

Chu Xingyun took a sip of water, turned around and walked out of the interrogation room, as if he hadn't seen Liu Ru, and didn't say a word to her.

In the interrogation room No. 2, Fu Yi had just opened the door and collided with Chu Xingyun.

Fu Yi took a step back in time to prevent the water splashing out of his cup from wet his clothes.

"What's wrong with you? She's in a panic."

Fu Yi asked.
To be continued...
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