The Devil is Lurking By Your Side

After Police Officer Tang finished speaking, his eyes fixed on the front desk of the hotel, not allowing her the slightest chance to dodge.

"There have been two homicides in a row in Longshi. You can imagine the seriousness of the incident, and it is not something we can joke about. We came here to search for clues, hoping to solve the case quickly, so you can give us a good cooperation. Right." Officer Tang said again. This time, his voice was quite loud and immediately attracted the attention of other hotel guests and staff.

The lack of progress for several days has caused Officer Tang to lose his patience. Now, they finally found the clues, but they encountered such obstacles, which made him jump a little bit.

Seeing that things were a bit tricky at the front desk of the hotel, and it was difficult for me to make a decision, I immediately called the assistant manager in the lobby. Due to the emergency situation, the deputy manager of the lobby immediately walked over from the back of the hotel after receiving the call due to the emergency situation. When he met Officer Tang, he smiled and asked: "Officer Tang, long time no see, what happened?"

When Police Officer Tang saw the assistant manager in the lobby, he eased his anxiety, because he and the assistant manager in the lobby were old acquaintances, and it happened that he was on duty tonight, so things might be easier to talk about.

Just after Police Officer Tang briefly talked about the ins and outs of the matter, the deputy manager of the lobby sank, and said to the hotel receptionist: "The police officers from the Public Security Bureau and the Federal Bureau are here, what are you doing in a daze? Arrange for someone right away. I called them up from last Friday to today's surveillance video!"

"Okay, I'll make arrangements now." The front desk of the hotel was anxious to leave quickly. After she got the instructions from the assistant manager in the lobby, she immediately ran to make arrangements.

"Brother Tang, I'm sorry, she is new here, and she is not too familiar with the rules and operations here, which has caused you a lot of trouble." The deputy manager of the lobby said with a smile to Officer Tang.

Then he led them to the sofa next to him.

"Sit down first, I'll check if they can bring you the surveillance video as soon as possible. I'm sorry." The deputy manager in the lobby apologized to them again and again.

"You don't need to apologize anymore. Go and see it now. The matter is very urgent." Officer Tang said, his tone was heavy.

The deputy manager in the lobby saw that he was rarely showing impatient emotions, so he didn't say more, and hurried to let people bring up the surveillance video to them.

"Inspector Lin, do you think the murderer will leave Longshi soon?" Officer Tang turned to look at Lin Xin who was sitting on his right, and asked the question that had been hidden in his heart.

"It's possible. But isn't Officer Tang already distributing police officers in various places? I think with the method of Officer Tang's arrangement, even if a suspicious person wants to escape, it is already difficult to fly. In addition, there is still a line at Officer Wu. People are paying attention to the whereabouts of more than a dozen men who have attended the class reunion. As long as people who are suspected of them want to leave the province, he will immediately call us." Lin Xin said slowly and answered Tang. The suspicion in the police officer's mind.

"Oh, what Police Officer Lin said was right. I was so confused by these two cases, it's not that Police Officer Lin's head is sober." Officer Tang smiled.

Since he got Lin Xin's affirmative answer and believed in the execution ability of Yang City Police Officer Wu, he temporarily relaxed slightly.

After a pause, Officer Tang asked again: "So, Officer Lin, do you think the murderer is still in Longshi?"

"Well, I think he is still in Longshi. However, it is very likely that he is planning to escape across provinces, or is planning to find the next victim." Lin Xin said lightly.

While they were talking, the assistant manager in the lobby had already transferred them the surveillance video of the past few days, and he said to them: "This is the surveillance video you want, and I brought it up to you."

And he was standing next to the front desk of the hotel just now, looking at them tremblingly.

Lin Xin greeted her, bowed her head and smiled at the front desk of the hotel, and then said, "Miss Jian, I have some simple questions to ask you."

"Uh... police officer... I... I... I don't know anything." Miss Jian said anxiously after hearing what Lin Xin said.

The assistant manager in the lobby frowned, and said to her angrily: "You have been on duty at night these days. The police officer just has something to ask you, so you can answer it, and it won't catch you."

Seeing Miss Jian's timid expression, the assistant manager in the lobby secretly sighed for the courage of the young girl. She just graduated from school and came to work in the hotel a month ago. Although he is still young and knowledgeable, he still doesn't feel so scared, right?

"It's okay, we just want to confirm a few things with you, don't be nervous." Lin Xin looked at her still childish face and smiled at her again, her voice extremely soft.

Miss Jian saw that Lin Xin was not as fierce as Officer Tang, so she nodded and gained courage.

"Did the strange woman with Ms. Dong help her stay in the hotel room that night?" Lin Xin asked, looking at Ms. Jian intently.

"Yes, just after they checked in, I saw her holding Ms. Dong to the elevator over there, and then after a long time, she walked out again." Ms. Jian whispered and raised her eyes. Secretly glanced at everyone.

"Did she feel particularly strenuous when she was holding her?" Lin Xin asked, curling up the corners of her mouth.

"I don't know about this, because I didn't pay attention to them either. However, the woman was taller than Miss Dong, so she didn't think it was too difficult when she got up." Miss Jian said again.

Lin Xin nodded, and then asked, "So, after this woman comes out, can she go back to the hotel again?"

Miss Jian shook her head without thinking, and said: "No, she went straight out of the hotel later, never came back, and didn't explain anything to us. Since I was on night shift, I continued until morning. , I never saw her again."

"Yeah." Lin Xin agreed.

At this time, she secretly thought: Since the surveillance video has been mentioned by us, whether the woman will be able to see it from the surveillance video after returning to the hotel the next day.

"So, has Miss Dong ever called room service?" Lin Xin asked again.

"Yes. I checked her out in the morning, so I know she called room service when she checked into the hotel." Miss Jian said, with a firm expression on her face.

After Lin Xin heard Miss Jian's answer, there was a buzz in her head, as if something faintly emerged. However, just when she wanted to think deeper, the incident disappeared without a trace like soot.

So, she temporarily suppressed the doubts in her heart, turned her head to look at the assistant manager in the lobby, and asked: "How is the guest room cleaning of this hotel handled?"

Seeing Lin Xin suddenly turned to her, the deputy manager of the lobby was taken aback for a moment. However, he quickly settled down and said: "Our guest room cleaning work starts at 9 o'clock in the morning every day to clean up every guest room. However, sometimes the guest does not The cleaning workers will be allowed to enter and disturb, so an instruction card will be hung up at the door of the guest room to inform the workers that they do not have to do cleaning work that day."

"Well, do you have a record about which guest room did the cleaning work, but which one did not?" When Lin Xin said this, police officer Tang, Yang Cong, Mei Hua and others had already guessed that she asked. The meaning of this sentence.

"Yes, we keep a record every day." The deputy manager in the lobby said, and he also vaguely guessed something.

So, he asked directly: "Police officer, should we check the cleaning records of the guest rooms where Miss Dong has stayed right away?"

"Well, that's the best." Lin Xin smiled and nodded.

The deputy manager of the lobby quickly disappeared from the sight of everyone again. He hurriedly walked to his office, then brought up a pile of cleaning records, and quickly extracted the cleaning records from last Friday to the days after Dong Hongwei checked out.

He quickly took a few glances at the record, and saw that the records were actually not allowing people to enter the room cleaning, he immediately came to Lin Xin and others quickly again, handed the record to her, and said at the same time : "Police officer, since Dong Hongwei checked into Room 315, she never asked Auntie Cleaning to clean the room for her."

After Lin Xin looked down and checked the records, she saw that, as the assistant manager in the lobby said, she had never asked the cleaning staff to clean the guest room for her.

She later handed the record to Officer Tang and whispered to him: "We have to keep this record temporarily, it may be useful in the future."

When Lin Xin said these words, everyone had already seen a little bit of it on her face, knowing that she should have grasped some new information again.

"Okay, we are finished asking, thank you for your cooperation." Lin Xin clapped her hands and said. Then, she turned to Yang Cong and the others and said, "Let's go."

When everyone left the hotel, Lin Xin suddenly turned around and looked up at the hotel sign for some reason, and saw the golden characters "Rose Hotel" engraved there.

"Officer Tang, since the hotel staff has given us such a good cooperation, when we solve the case, we must not tell the media reporters the name of this hotel, otherwise they should be out of business soon." Lin Xin smiled. He said, I am very grateful to the deputy manager of the lobby for his clarification.

"Okay, I see." Officer Tang nodded and agreed.

They took the same police car again and ran in the direction of the Public Security Bureau.

Along the way, Lin Xinyouyou said: "Dong Hongwei was probably brought into the hotel by the strange woman who found Lufeng to dance. However, according to the records of cleaning and room service, she has always been I live in a hotel alone, and it seems that I haven’t walked out of the hotel before, otherwise I wouldn’t have ordered room service for all meals.”

"Yes, I am also feeling very strange. Could it be that the strange woman took advantage of Dong Hongwei's drunk, took the room card, and then handed it to the murderer, so the murderer can freely enter and exit the hotel?" Tang The police officer asked, expressing his thoughts.

"Maybe, maybe not, let's watch the surveillance video, and see if another man walked into the hotel that night after the strange woman left, and also quietly followed Dong Hongwei when she checked out. Behind." Lin Xin said with an eyebrow raised.