The Devil is Lurking By Your Side

After Lin Xin was full, she raised her hand and glanced at her watch, and said, "It should not be too late. Let's hurry to the XX Hotel now."

Officer Wu agreed, stood up immediately, and said, "I'll go to the office first. Five minutes later, we will meet at the door of the Public Security Bureau."

Without saying anything, he picked up his dinner plate and hurried to the back of the cafeteria. After he threw the dinner plate to the side of the basin, he stepped towards his office.

He quickly picked up his coat and the mobile phone resting on the table, then stepped out of his office again, and quickly came to the door of the Public Security Bureau, seeing Lin Xin and others already standing outside the door waiting for him.

Officer Wu reached out and took out the car key from his trouser pocket, and said, "Okay, let's go now."

Lin Xin opened the door of the passenger seat and sat in. Yang Cong and Mei Hua sat in the back seat of the car. The four people hurried to the XX hotel.

While driving, Officer Wu remembered something Lin Xin mentioned to himself, and asked: "Officer Lin, the dead woman involved in an industry like the young lady?"

Lin Xin immediately remembered what Leng Yu had said to Peng Jingchun in the classmate meeting that day, and nodded and said, "Yes, I suspect she used to be a lady, but I don't know her death and what she did. Whether the industry is related again."

Officer Wu thought for a while, and once again expressed his opinion to Lin Xin: "I don't think whether she is a young lady or not has much to do with this case. I think her clients also pay for her for one night. , There is no reason to kill her, and what's the matter with those high heels? The clients who are looking for her are only interested in her body. Doesn't the ambition lie in the high heels she wears?"

Lin Xin said with an "um" and said: "Officer Wu, your point of view is not unreasonable. However, the clients who come to find the lady for pleasure are of all kinds. We don't know what kind of men they are, or they are not. They may all look the same."

"Then Officer Lin, according to your opinion, the murderer is most likely one of the clients?" Officer Wu asked with a frown.

What he thought at the moment was that if, as Lin Xin said, the murderer was one of the prostitutes who came to look for pleasure, then how should they track down which prostitute sexually assaulted and killed the female deceased.

He thought, if the deceased woman was really a young lady, there would not be hundreds of clients who had a relationship with her, maybe there would be dozens of them.

When the time comes, how should they look for them one by one? Moreover, he also thought that if the deceased woman did not rely on pimps to attract customers to her, then she could be said to have "worked" completely independently.

Therefore, this makes it even more difficult for them to track down the murderer. After all, it is impossible for the deceased woman to only go to one place to find customers. She would not hesitate to walk around in order to get more customers.

In this case, these clients may not all be from Yangshi, they may even be from other provinces. If the murderer really came from other provinces, then he should have already left Yang City after killing someone.

Or maybe he didn't know where to hide, and their police had to spend a lot of time, resources, police force and spirit to find the murderer.

At this time, Lin Xin turned her head to look at Officer Wu and said, "Is the murderer a prostitute who came here to find pleasure? I can only say that there is a certain probability, and I can’t be completely sure that he is a prostitute. And, don’t forget that the dead woman is coming. He had been sexually assaulted before death, so I think that besides the client, the murderer may be just an ordinary man. When he happened to pass by and saw the deceased woman, he was brutally assaulted and sexually assaulted her, and then he was afraid that the deceased woman would call the police. I exposed myself, so I killed her."

"So, how do you explain those high heels?" Officer Wu asked.

This really puzzled Lin Xin. Judging from the red high heels, there seems to be nothing special, but why would the murderer throw them elsewhere?

Why does he "have a soft spot" for these high heels? But, if he really likes these high heels, why doesn't he take them home?

Instead, after taking the high-heeled shoes from the deceased, and then taking them to the depths of the woods, they were later thrown away.

Lin Xin felt a little confused when she thought of this, and then she sighed and said, "I don't know either..."

At this moment, Officer Wu’s cell phone rang a hurried ring, and he quickly searched out the cell phone. After hearing the police officer’s report to him, he immediately hung up the phone, turned his head and said to Lin Xin, “The identity of the dead is already It was confirmed that it was indeed Peng Jingchun from Longshi."

In fact, Lin Xin already knew it, but when the identity of the corpse was confirmed, she inevitably felt sad.

Before long, their car has reached the door of XX Hotel. When the security guard saw the police car in the Public Security Bureau suddenly driving here, he felt a little flustered. He hurriedly walked into the hotel lobby and informed the deputy manager there.

Lin Xin and the others quickly got out of the car. Miss Tang, the deputy manager of the lobby, walked out immediately and asked with a smile: "Police officers, may I ask if you have anything to do when you come to the hotel? Why not, let's come to the meeting first. Talk in the living room?"

Lin Xin glanced at Ms. Tang and knew that this was a five-star hotel. As the deputy manager, if she let other guests see that the police suddenly came to this hotel, it would definitely cause chaos, so she didn’t wait for them to speak. Lead them to the meeting room first.

Lin Xin naturally understands the hotel’s rules. She bowed her head and said to Officer Yang Cong and Officer Wu: "Officer Wu, please give Yang Cong the car key and let him drive the police car away. Don’t park at the door of the hotel, and don’t affect it. With the reputation of the hotel, it will be easier for us to ask people from the hotel for help in the future."

The two immediately understood. After Officer Wu quickly handed over the key to Yang Cong, he saw him rushing to the door of the hotel again.

Miss Tang took Lin Xin and others to the living room. After closing the door, she sat opposite them and asked with a polite smile: "Police officer, did you come to XX hotel what happened? "

Lin Xin glanced at Officer Wu and nodded slightly. Officer Wu said to Miss Tang: "This morning, we found a female body in the woods on the outskirts of XX in Yang City. The identity has been confirmed. It is a lady named Peng Jingchun. Then, our police also received the news. , I found that Ms. Peng Jingchun had been to your hotel to attend a classmate meeting 3 days ago, so we want you to take out the names and room numbers of all the guests who have stayed in this hotel three days ago to confirm whether Peng Jingchun has ever lived In one of the rooms in this hotel."

Miss Tang changed her face slightly when she heard Officer Wu’s intention to come to the hotel. She thought for a while and said: “Police officer, the names and information of the guests who came to our hotel are kept confidential by us. This is the rule in our hotel. What's more, we haven't had any murders here, so I don't think it is convenient for us to reveal the guest's name and all the information, right?"

Officer Wu frowned and listened to her finish, and some did not know how to respond to her. For a long time, Lin Xin interjected and said: "Miss Tang, the names and information of clients obtained by the police will be kept by us as confidential documents. So, you can rest assured of this. What's more, the deceased is here. I have been to your hotel to attend a classmate meeting recently, so it cannot be ruled out that the murderer may have been here, and even waited for the next prey to appear in this hotel. To tell you, Peng Jingchun was sexually assaulted. Then I was killed by the murderer. Therefore, if you want to protect the safety of other female guests, I think these rules can also be used for us? After all, if there is a murder in your hotel, then your reputation will be bad. Very bad."

Lin Xin utterly finished her words, and she said that Miss Tang was a little scared. She nodded and said: "Okay, then follow the police officer's instructions. I will send someone to stay at this hotel 3 days ago now. List of customer names, information, and guest room numbers that have been used."

After she finished speaking, she immediately stood up and left the living room, leaving Lin Xin and others behind. Officer Wu turned his head and smiled at Lin Xin and said, "Detective Lin is still eloquent, and he can easily send her away and get us a list."

Lin Xin said: "She also said this to keep the hotel guests secret. However, in addition to having to get the list, we have to ask them to pick up the surveillance for us."

"Yeah." Officer Wu responded.

While talking, the door of the meeting room was pushed open again, and Miss Tang walked in with a long list in her hand. She spread the list on the table, and she followed another man behind her. When Lin Xin looked up, it was Yang Cong.

He has parked the police car in a corner.

Miss Tang pointed at the list and said softly: "This is the list of guests 3 days ago, but this is only part of the guest's name, and some of the guest information is still being printed. I'll ask the lady at the counter to pick it up for you. Come here. But police officer, I did find Peng Jingchun's name on the list. Look, is this her?"

Lin Xin and the others hurriedly followed the name pointed by her finger, and saw that the words "Peng Jingchun" were printed on it. When Lin Xin looked at her address later, she saw that she was currently living in the XY community in Yangshi. When she looked at her age, she was the same age as herself, so she nodded and said, "Well, it should be her."

She paused, and then said to Miss Tang, "Miss Tang, can someone give us access to the floor monitoring of the guest room where Peng Jingchun lives?"

After hearing this, Miss Tang immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I'll let someone mention it to you right away."

"Thanks." Lin Xin said briefly.

When she walked out of the meeting room again, Lin Xin took out a small book that she carried with her, and then wrote the names of the male attendees that day on the book, and handed it to Officer Wu and others, saying: "These names are written on it. It is the name of the male classmates who attended the reunion that day. Let’s see if they are all staying in this hotel. Then, we can dispatch personnel to follow them to see if there are any doubts about them. Although this This approach is like finding a needle in a haystack, but we can't let go of a chance to find the murderer. What do you think?"

The three nodded and said in unison: "What Police Officer Lin said is, let's act now."

It is true that such a search method is a waste of time, but this is only the only way. Although the addresses of the residents listed on the list may not be true, it also saves them a lot of time, and it is better than searching for them in a vast database of people.