I am a super cop

Chapter 1077
The next morning.

Gu Chen washed up early and prepared to take a taxi to the high-speed rail station.

And Zhao Lin continued to sleep soundly...

According to Zhao Lin's words last night, he was well placed to win.

If I were with Gu Chen, maybe I wouldn't have more opportunities to get in touch with Liao Qing.

But it's different now, Gu Chen seems to only have work in his heart, and has no interest in participating in the jewelry exhibition with Liao Qing.

Thinking that he didn't have to get up very early, Zhao Lin greeted Gu Chen when he saw Gu Chen put on his shoes and was about to go out, and continued to sleep.

Gu Chen came to the restaurant downstairs. At this moment, there were not many people dining. Gu Chen came to the self-service area, casually packed some breakfast, and sat quietly by the window to enjoy it.

At this moment, Gu Chen found a waitress passing by, working in the hot drink area, she looked familiar.

It just occurred to me that she was the woman who took the elevator with everyone yesterday, and she was also the waitress who later recorded daily matters for Liao Qing.

Seeing the waitress packed the hot milk, packed the Haidong sponge cake and was about to leave, Gu Chen guessed that it must be delivered to Liao Qing upstairs.

So without thinking too much, I continued to enjoy my breakfast.

Take a taxi from here to the high-speed rail station. If there is no traffic jam, 15 minutes is enough.

Moreover, there is a taxi pick-up area at the entrance of the hotel, and there are many taxis waiting for customers, so you don't have to worry about waiting.

So Gu Chen took out his phone and simply browsed the current news.

At this moment, the security guard downstairs seemed to have received the situation and quickly ran towards the elevator door.

But Gu Chen didn't pay much attention, and continued to enjoy Haidong's special pastries.

At this time, a man in a security uniform got off the elevator dejectedly and returned to the restaurant.

A waitress asked him, "What's going on?"

The security man replied: "Xiaoli was injured, Lao Gao and the others are helping her treat the wound."

"Xiaoli was hurt by someone? Who is so cruel?" The waitress heard the words, and her whole body shuddered: "Xiaoli just delivered milk to the guests, how could this happen?"

Hearing the waitress' speech, Gu Chen suddenly raised his head.

"Milk delivery? Isn't it for Liao Qing?" Thinking of this, Gu Chen continued to listen carefully.

The security guard took a sip of water, and said helplessly, "I don't know what's going on? I'm still dizzy now. The most terrible thing is that customer. The things I lost are said to be very valuable."

"No way? What's going on here?" The waitress became more and more confused when she heard what the security guard said, and hurriedly asked again.

The security guard said: "The lady surnamed Liao in our hotel, VIP, do you know?"

"I know, their company is a big customer of our hotel." The waitress said.

The security guard said again: "It's because she lost something. I heard that she put a lot of jewelry in her handbag, but she went to the toilet, and the things disappeared. These are the things that I will bring to the exhibition today."

Hearing Liao Qing being talked about by the security guard and the waitress, Gu Chen couldn't sit still anymore, so he walked over and asked the two of them, "Excuse me, just now you said that some colleagues were attacked and some customers' belongings were taken away. what's going on?"

"you are?"

Seeing that Gu Chen was suddenly curious, the security guard also asked one more question.

Gu Chen replied: "I'm Liao Qing's friend, and I attended a classmate's wedding with her yesterday."

"Oh, I remembered, you are the customer in room 8805." The waitress recognized Gu Chen.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "So... what's going on?"

The security guard hesitated for a moment, originally he didn't want to say anything, but when he saw that Gu Chen knew the client, he told him directly: "Actually, I don't know what's going on. My colleague Xiaoli sent her a cup of hot water this morning at the request of a VIP customer." Milk and some pastries."

"But after being sent to the room, the customer happened to go to the bathroom. As a result, my colleague Xiaoli was injured. That Ms. Liao hurried out when she heard the movement."

"It was only later that I found out that my handbag was missing, but according to what she said, that handbag contained a lot of treasures that will be exhibited at the jewelry exhibition today."

"I lost my things now, and I'm negotiating with our manager. I guess they are still arguing."

"So that's the case?" After learning about the situation, Gu Chen didn't feel in the mood to have breakfast anymore, so he ran all the way to the elevator door, boarded the elevator and went up to the eighth floor.

When I came to the door of room 8801, the door of the room was opened, and the people in the room were negotiating.

Gu Chen searched for the sound and rushed over, only to find that Liao Qing was covering her cheeks at this moment, her whole body haggard.

In the room, a hotel manager, a security guard, and the waitress Xiaoli I saw before were also there.

Seeing Gu Chen barging in suddenly, the hotel manager asked blankly, "Who are you?"

"I'm Liao Qing's friend." Gu Chen said.

Hearing this, Liao Qing suddenly lowered her hands.

Seeing that it was Gu Chen, the whole person burst into tears and said, "Gu Chen, I'm doomed now, all the jewelry I brought to the exhibition was taken away, how can I explain to the company now? "

"Calm down first." Gu Chen didn't know much about the situation at the scene, so he went to the crowd and asked, "Can any of you explain to me what happened here?"

Glancing at the weak waitress with a head injury, Gu Chen asked the manager again: "What's going on? Tell me."

"This... I don't know very well about this. I also brought someone over to take a look after I received Ms. Liao's request for help."

"But who would have thought that Ms. Liao said that her jewelry had been stolen."

"That's right." The security guard also said, "We don't know the situation, who knows if something was lost in the hotel?"

"What do you mean by saying that? You just don't want to take responsibility, right?" Liao Qing became furious at this moment, and said angrily, "The thing was lost in your hotel. What do you mean by saying that now? You don't want to be responsible, right?" ?”

"No... no, Ms. Liao, can you calm down first?"

"I don't want to calm down. The problem is that my stuff is gone, woohoo."

Several people quarreled with each other, and the scene suddenly became noisy.

Gu Chen didn't care about this, walked up to the waitress Xiaoli who was sitting on the sofa, and asked her: "The milk and pastries in Ms. Liao's room were delivered by you, right?"

"That's right." The waitress named Xiaoli said that she was in pain as she covered her forehead with a wet towel.

It seems that every time I say a word, my head will explode.

Gu Chen asked again: "Can you tell me about the situation just now?"

"Yes." Xiaoli nodded slightly, and explained: "Yesterday, Ms. Liao arranged for me to bring her a cup of hot milk and some pastries this morning. come over."

"Did Liao Qing open the door?" Gu Chen asked her.

Xiaoli nodded: "That's right, I knocked on the door, and Miss Liao opened the door for me."

"She happened to be washing up at the time, and went back to the bathroom after opening the door. I also prepared the meal and put it on the table."

"But then suddenly my eyes went dark, and then I lost consciousness. When I woke up, everyone surrounded me, and I felt a severe headache."

Gu Chen glanced at Liao Qing and asked her, "Is that what she said?"

"I don't know if it's true?" Liao Qing was very sad at the moment, and said sadly: "I was washing my face with facial cleanser, and when I heard someone knocking at the door, I asked who it was?"

"Then she said it was the waiter, who brought me milk and came early. I didn't think much about it at the time, so I went directly to open the door."

"Because I was washing my face, the facial cleanser was still applied to my face, so I ran back to the bathroom again."

"Then she asked me if it was okay to put it on the table? I said yes, and then, I heard a strange movement outside. When I asked her what was going on? There was no movement at all."

Sniffing, Liao Qing said again: "Now I realized that something was wrong, so I rushed to face and ran into the room."

"But at this moment, I found her lying on the ground, which shocked me, but when I saw that the handbag on the table was gone, I was completely dumbfounded at the time. This is what I will bring to the exhibition today. The jewels are real jewels."

"How could this be?" Gu Chen also felt quite strange.

Liao Qing actually brought genuine jewelry with her, and put it directly on the table, is it so casual?
Think about asking her directly: "Is your jewelry just casually placed on the table?"

"That's right." Seeing that Gu Chen didn't understand, Liao Qing said again: "That's right, every time I come to Haidong City to participate in an exhibition, I always bring some jewelry that needs to be exhibited with me."

"Because no one knows I have jewelry hidden in my handbag, it's okay every time, after all, I don't live here once or twice."

"But today is different. As soon as I packed my things, I put the handbag on the table and went to wash my face."

"I thought, if someone came to deliver milk and breakfast, I would open the door and let her put it on the table, then go back to the bathroom and continue washing my face."

"But I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen. In broad daylight, my handbag disappeared. In such a big hotel, people snatched things like this. What's the matter with you people? "

"This...how can we blame us?" The hotel manager stopped doing it immediately when he heard it, and retorted: "Miss Liao, could it be that you are being targeted by some criminals for showing off your wealth?"

"How is it possible? When did I take these things out?" Liao Qing felt that the manager was throwing the blame, so she also retorted: "In short, the things were lost in your hotel, and it is your hotel's responsibility to help me find them. .”

Taking out her mobile phone to check the time, Liao Qing said impatiently: "This morning is the exhibition, if I don't bring my things there, I will be finished, what should I do?"

Feeling that she was going to die, Liao Qing was about to cry.

But the hotel seems to be unable to give an explanation.

No matter how Liao Qing cried and complained, there seemed to be nothing she could do.

Gu Chen felt that something was a little strange, so he retreated to the door of the corridor, looked around and said, "You don't have surveillance cameras installed here?"

"Uh..." The hotel manager hesitated for a moment, but said nothing.

Gu Chen asked him again: "There is no surveillance system installed in the corridor, what about the elevator entrance?"

"There are surveillance cameras at the elevator entrance." The security guard hurriedly said.

"Then hurry up and watch the surveillance." Gu Chen felt that instead of trying to evade excuses here, it would be better to investigate quickly.

It is easy to handle with monitoring, and you will know who has been here during this period.

Hearing this, the manager quickly took out his mobile phone and started dialing the number.

Soon, he communicated on the phone, as if he was explaining the investigation and monitoring matters.

But after 1 minute passed, the other end seemed to give him an unsatisfactory result.

The manager hung up the phone and shook his head helplessly: "It doesn't make sense. The monitoring shows that at that time, only Xiaoli went upstairs with breakfast, and no one else showed up."

Gu Chen frowned slightly: "It seems that this person is still a little scrupulous, and he didn't take the elevator directly, that is to say, the place where he evacuated might be the fire exit?"

Thinking of this, Gu Chen asked the manager again: "Are the fire exits monitored?"

The manager was silent for a long time, looked at the people around him, then shook his head.

"What? No?" Gu Chen was a little surprised.

The manager nodded silently: "Not really."

"How did you do it?" Gu Chen felt that the hotel was a little unwilling to participate.

Logically speaking, in a hotel of this size, in addition to the installation of elevator monitoring, at least the fire exits also need to be installed, so as to avoid some potential safety hazards.

But thinking back, the perpetrator didn't take the elevator, maybe escaped from the fire escape, which immediately made Gu Chen think that the perpetrator might know the structure of the hotel very well, and it might be an insider who committed the crime.

It also reminds me that Liao Qing is the VIP of this hotel and often stays in this hotel because of business trips.

Therefore, the people who know Liao Qing should be the hotel staff.

Glancing at the injured Xiaoli, Gu Chen asked her, "May I take a look at your injury?"

"Of course." Xiao Lidai frowned slightly, and slowly removed the wet towel.

Gu Chen gently brushed her long hair away, and touched it lightly with her hand.

The waitress Xiao Li suddenly yelled in pain.

And at this moment, Gu Chen also touched the raised part.

Xiaoli's head was smashed into a big bag.

Looking back, Gu Chen directly asked Liao Qing: "When you came to the hotel, did you tell anyone about what you brought?"

"No, I'm not exhibiting at the hotel, why should I tell the hotel people?" Liao Qing also looked aggrieved at the moment.

So Gu Chen asked again: "Since there is no one, have you ever told the hotel staff that you are here to participate in the jewelry exhibition?"

"Uh……"

Liao Qing hesitated for a few seconds, then nodded and said: "This... I have said that, because I basically know the faces in the hotel, and they will chat with me casually."

Glancing at the injured waitress Xiaoli, Liao Qing said again: "Yesterday she came to my room and asked me what help I need, because I am a hotel VIP and should enjoy this kind of treatment."

"So I asked, bring me breakfast, that's all."

Seeing that Gu Chen was still staring at her, as if she was still waiting for another answer, Liao Qing said again: "Then she asked me, is this business trip for a meeting or something? I said I was here to attend the jewelry exhibition."

"Because in this hotel, apart from me, there are other merchants who came to participate in the jewelry exhibition, so I don't think it's okay?"

Hearing Liao Qing's remarks, Gu Chen walked back and forth between several people twice, and then asked again: "Liao Qing, is that thing worth money?"

"It's worth it, of course it's worth it. All the jewelry is worth tens of thousands in the market."

"You just put such a valuable thing in your handbag and take it with you casually?" The manager gave a thumbs up and said, "Miss Liao, how big is your heart?"

"What's the matter?" Feeling that the hotel manager was making a fuss, Liao Qing couldn't help but said, "The most dangerous place is the safest place."

"I put tens of thousands of jewelry in my handbag casually, and no one may know it, so I am more at ease when I carry it with me."

"Besides, I don't live in your hotel for a day or two, but often, it has never happened before, but today suddenly..."

Speaking of this, Liao Qing was also very frustrated and stomped her feet anxiously.

Gu Chen quickly comforted her: "Don't worry, you can always find out who did it. The most important thing now is to piece together all the information and see if there is anything else that is missing."

"That's right." Seeing that Liao Qing was depressed, the security uncle said comfortingly: "This kind of thing has never happened in our hotel, and Xiaoli was also injured suddenly, there must be something wrong."

Looking at everyone, the security uncle said: "Is there someone who has been following Xiao Li, waiting for the opportunity to commit crimes?"

"That's for sure." Seeing that the security guard said it as if he didn't, the manager also said impatiently: "The modus operandi is so smooth. In just a moment, he took away Miss Liao's things, which shows that he is a professional."

"Then who do you think is the perpetrator?" Gu Chen also wanted to hear the hotel manager's opinion.

After all, he is the manager here, and he also knows the structure of the customers staying here best.

After some hesitation, the manager said, "Maybe it's the hotel customers who came to the exhibition? Because today is the opening day of the exhibition, there are also many customers who came to the exhibition like Ms. Liao in the hotel."

"So I think the perpetrator is likely to know Ms. Liao, or someone who knows Ms. Liao very well."

"Because according to Ms. Liao's habit, she hides her jewelry in her handbag and carries it with her in such a grand manner. As hotel staff, we must not be clear about it."

"But we don't know. Those who often see Ms. Liao at jewelry exhibitions may not necessarily. They may more or less guess that Ms. Liao probably has Dong XZ by her side."

"It makes sense." Gu Chen thought that what the manager said made sense.

Because Gu Chen didn't know the structure of the customers staying in the hotel in advance, after hearing what the manager said, Gu Chen actually thought that the customers staying here were more or less acquaintances with Liao Qing, or colleagues.

In this way, Liao Qing is used to bringing exhibits with her, so it doesn't seem difficult to guess.

As a result, the scope of the perpetrators seems to have rapidly expanded from the hotel staff at the beginning to the customers staying in the hotel, especially those who came to participate in the exhibition.

Thinking of starting to use the method of elimination to search for the perpetrator again, Gu Chen felt a little dizzy, because the investigation seemed like a big project, so he should wake up Zhao Lin to help.

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(End of this chapter)