Book of Sins 4

Chapter 34 The Horror Bathroom

The magician is on high alert and refuses to answer, while protesting that Professor Leung makes him a suspect.

The four members of the special case team returned to Su Mei's room. Professor Liang checked the records of the Jiazhou police's interrogation of the magician. On the night of Lan Ke'er's disappearance, the magician and his assistants were performing in a theater, so they didn't have the time to commit the crime.

Su Mei said: It is absolutely possible for a magician to create an alibi, kill someone and throw away his body.

Bao Zhan said: Why?
Su Mei said: Because he is a magician, he can put the ring into the egg, and he can also make people alive and make himself disappear.

Hualong said: The body was found in the water tank, and the only way to get the body out was to cut the water tank. Is this a magic trick?

Professor Liang said: If it was forced, the murderer could stuff Lan Ke'er into the water tower. She was soaked in the water, and her body was swollen, so she couldn't get her out from the entrance.

Bao Zhan said: I can avoid surveillance, kill people and throw their bodies into water towers, but I can't guarantee the integrity of the bodies.

There was a strange murder case in Shanghai. This real case was changed into a reasoning question on the police academy test paper.

A couple checked into the hotel until they checked out, but the wife never left the hotel.Through monitoring, it was discovered that the husband went out shopping many times, and each time he traveled lightly. Without a backpack, it was impossible to transfer the body out.Corridor monitoring showed that the wife did not leave the room.The room is on the third floor, the window faces north, and there are guardrails installed. There are faint blood stains on the bathroom floor. The police speculate that his wife is dead, but where is the body and how did the murderer transport it?

Bao Zhan said that he wrote three answers on the test paper.

One: The murderer bought some dissection tools, returned to the hotel, dismembered the dead body into pieces, and flushed it down the toilet.

Two: The murderer dismembered the body of the deceased, carried it on the body, covered it with clothes, and threw the body outside the hotel several times.

Three: Most of the hotels face the sun, and the windows facing north are generally not within the monitoring range. The murderer cut the corpse into several pieces, cut off the meat, and smashed or squeezed the head and torso with purchased tools so that the corpse pieces could be removed from the window guardrail. Stuffed it out, dragged it to the roof with a rope, hoisted the corpse to the blind spot of monitoring behind the hotel building, and finally moved it quietly.

Professor Liang shook the wheelchair, walked to the window and opened the curtains. The room where Lan Keer lived had the window facing north. Although there was no protective fence installed, the window was stuck and could only open a gap, which cannot be worn by the human body. However, Lan Keer's body was intact, and the police inspection also showed that there were no signs of damage to the windows.

Bao Zhan said: None of my three answers apply to this case.

Professor Liang said: Yes, we have now encountered the fourth situation.

Hualong said: Anyway, I firmly don't believe in ghosts and gods.

Su Mei said: If you don't believe it, why is there a Ching Ming Festival and paper money is burned.

The person in charge of the Jiazhou police asked how to explain to the media. The special case team could only delay, and the information they currently have is no more than that of the media.The eyes of the whole world are focused on this case. The news media in China, the United States, Canada and other countries have made headlines. Housing prices soared.

A few days later, Lan Keer's body was buried, but the police still haven't confirmed the real cause of death.

This case of global concern has made the special case team feel unprecedented pressure, and various rumors and speculations cannot erase people's doubts.Did Lan Keer commit suicide?murder?Or an accidental death?How did Lan Keer's body get into the water tower on the top floor?Why did Lan Keer's body disappear for half a month?What is the cause of Lan Keer's strange behavior in the elevator?If Lan Ke'er was murdered, who was the murderer?What is the motive of the murderer?
The case was at a stalemate, and the special case team was at a loss. Although every employee in the hotel was checked again, there was still no progress.

Professor Liang thought of a way. He summoned the media and some folk detectives who were curious about the case, hoping to work together to make a breakthrough in the case. Everyone expressed their opinions and discussed and analyzed the whole afternoon in the hotel conference room. The case was complicated and confusing, and there were many differences. Professor Liang sorted out several common points.

Lan Ke'er encountered something that frightened her during her lifetime.

Lan Keer died in this hotel.

Lan Keer's clothes disappeared, and a naked body was found in the water tank.

A reporter speculated that Lan Ke'er's clothes might have been sucked away by the water tank. The hotel's water supply system is complicated and there are many pipes, so the police did not find it.Where did Lan Ke'er die in the hotel? If it was the corridor or the roof, if she encountered a murderer, then she would probably fight, but the body has no external injuries.According to the forensic autopsy results, Lan Keer died by drowning, whether it was suicide, homicide, or accidental death, Lan Keer's death was related to water.

Besides the water tank, where is there water in the hotel?

Bao Zhan seemed to have seen a glimmer of light, pointing to the bathroom, he said that this might be the first murder scene.

Hualong said: There is a washbasin and a bathtub in the bathroom. The murderer may have pressed her head into the water and drowned her.

Su Mei said: I noticed that Lan Ke’er’s belongings contained facial cleanser. She first filled the sink with water, lowered her head to wash her face, her face was covered with facial cleanser, and she couldn’t open her eyes. It was probably at this time that the murderer attacked her. He grabbed her and forced her head into the sink.Or, while she was washing her hair, the killer stalked her, completely invisible to her, and drowned her in the bathtub.

Professor Liang said: How the murderer entered Lan Keer's room and how he left is a mystery.

Everyone was discussing the case in the room when someone knocked on the door suddenly, and the magician and female assistant from the next door came in.

The female assistant said: I don't know if you want to appreciate a magic trick?
Hualong said: We are busy and have no time to watch some magic tricks.

The magician said: Forget it, originally we wanted to show you a wall-penetrating trick.

After the magician and the female assistant finished speaking, they went out. Professor Liang stopped them, expressing their interest.

The magician said: The magic trick I want to perform is very simple. You lock the door, and I can enter your room through the wall.

Su Mei said: How is this possible, you entered our room from the next room, through the wall, is that so?

The magician said: 1000 yuan, I will not perform for free.

Hualong said: This is a bit much.

The magician said: I'm talking about dollars, a thousand dollars.

Bao Zhan said: Can you really do it?
The magician said: Of course.

Hualong said: We are investigating a case, and you must know that we have reason to suspect you now.

The magician said: Whatever, I'm not afraid.

Hualong took out the handcuffs, smiled and said: Maybe you can perform an escape technique, use your hair to open the handcuffs or something.

The magician said: If you want to see me perform wall penetration, I have only one request, let this barbarian stay away from me.

Professor Liang said: OK, we will offer you a thousand dollars, and I would like to see how you pass through the wall.

Professor Liang asked Hualong to go to the hotel restaurant to prepare dinner, Hualong left angrily, leaving only Professor Liang, Bao Zhan, and Su Mei in the room.When the magician and the female assistant left the room and closed the door, he said: The show has begun, and the time limit is one hour.

Bao Zhan locked the door and put on an anti-theft chain, and Su Mei also closed the window. After careful inspection, everyone believed that it was impossible for a magician to enter this room with the door locked and the windows closed.

Su Mei said: If this room is the first murder scene, then how the murderer entered, I think it will be revealed soon.

Bao Zhan said: Can this magician really do it? If he is a criminal suspect, he wouldn't throw himself into the net like this, right?

Su Mei said: Could it be that he deliberately let us sit here, divert the tiger away from the mountain, and create a second case?

Professor Liang said: The magician should not be the murderer, he may have hinted at us.

When the three of Professor Liang were discussing, some smoke drifted in from the gap under the door, everyone was a little flustered, wondering if it was some kind of poisonous gas, the room was filled with smoke, Su Mei pushed Professor Liang on the wheelchair, and Bao Zhan He stood up and wanted to open the door to leave, but there was a burst of laughter behind him. Everyone looked back, and the magician was already standing in the room.

The door is locked, the windows are closed, and the magician suddenly appears like a ghost.

Professor Liang said: Well, your performance was very successful, Xiaomei will pay the appearance fee later.

The magician said: I've changed my mind and I won't charge you money.

Professor Liang asked: Why?
The magician said: Because you are the first audience willing to pay a lot of money to watch my magic show.

Bao Zhan said: We need to know how you entered this room, and please cooperate with the investigation.

The magician laughed loudly and said: I expected it a long time ago, I will not cooperate with your police.

Su Mei said: It is not so easy for you to leave.

The magician said: I can come in or I can go out, goodbye.

Su Mei called the police officer on duty in the lobby of the hotel, and Bao Zhan mustered up the courage to rush forward to subdue the magician.

The magician threw a smoke bomb on the ground, and after a while, thick smoke rose suddenly along with the flames. Bao Zhan hurriedly dodged, and the smoke gradually cleared. Everyone found that the magician disappeared before their eyes, and the doors and windows of the room were still closed. well done.

News came from the front desk of the hotel that the female assistant had checked out half an hour ago and left the hotel early.

Hualong arrives with the police, but the magician has left and his whereabouts are unknown.

Hualong said, I told you earlier, this guy should be handcuffed, should he run away now?
The police in Jiazhou were busy until midnight, but they couldn't find the magician.According to the analysis of the special case team, even if the magician is not a criminal suspect, he is probably an insider. He lived in the Dahlia Hotel for several months, and he may have discovered something strange about this hotel, and used a magic show to hint to the police.

Before going to sleep, Su Mei took a bath, and the smoke made by the magician was some powdery substance, which splashed on Su Mei's hair.

Su Mei turned on the shower, restraining the fear in her heart, she didn't dare to close her eyes, this bathroom frightened her.

Su Mei simply washed her body, nothing strange happened, and the bathroom was filled with heat.She relaxed and comforted herself constantly, walked to the mirror, wiped the mirror with her hands, and squeezed out facial cleanser to wash her face. She lowered her head, vaguely feeling that someone was approaching quietly and standing behind her.She hurriedly wiped off the facial cleanser from her eyes, and looked back, but there was no one behind her.She exhaled, patted her chest, and continued to wash her face...

The moment Su Mei raised her head and opened her eyes, she was terrified, a face suddenly appeared in the mirror, and the facial features were blurred.Su Mei was the only one in the bathroom, and she screamed with horror.

(End of this chapter)