Chapter 170 I promise you will find it
Because the window was not open and this was the first crime scene, Lin Ting also smelled an unpleasant smell of blood.
Although it's not as nauseating as a cobra, it doesn't smell very good either.
"Good boy, see where the bad guy hides the murder knife." Lin Ting stood still in the room and looked at the Maine Coon cat on his shoulder.
The Maine Coon cat stood on Lin Ting's shoulder and looked around.
'In the small room on the left front.'
Lin Ting and Si Chen arrived at the bathroom pointed by the Maine Coon almost at the same time.
"We checked the bathroom and every small corner, but we didn't find the murder knife."
Lin Ting frowned a little.
This bathroom looks a bit simple. Apart from the sink, there is only a toilet and a shower. There is not even a washing machine or a bathtub. It is almost visible at a glance, and there is not even a place to hide anything.
Unless these things are disassembled and hidden in there.
Si Chen seemed to see through Lin Ting's thoughts and explained, "We've checked everything. There's no sign of disassembly. The thing shouldn't be hidden inside."
"We checked the removable toilet seat and under the bathtub, but we didn't find anything."
Cats shouldn't lie. Since the cat saw it, it couldn't be fake.
Unless the suspect hid the things in the bathroom first, and then found that there was no place to hide, he hid the dagger in his clothes and took it out without being seen by the cat.
Lin Ting obviously thought of this as well.
But both the cat and the cobra said they smelled something rotten.
The cobra came down from Lin Ting's wrist and moved around in the bathroom.
'Ugh.'
"I'm really going to throw up."
"The stench is getting stronger. How could there be something so foul-smelling in a square room? How do bipeds live there? It's not even as good as the forest environment where snakes live."
The cobra swam in front of Lin Ting again and hooked Lin Ting's wrist with its tail.
"Let's go with the snake. The snake will take you to the huge forest where snakes live. Not only is there no smell of snakes, but the air is also very fresh."
"People can rest assured when they follow snakes. Although people are weak, snakes can catch prey and feed them."
Lin's eyebrows twitched involuntarily when he heard what Cobra said.
She was now just thankful that no one else could hear Cobra's thoughts, otherwise where would she put her old face?
"Forget about that idea. Not all rooms have an unpleasant smell. The forest is full of snakes, insects, rats and ants. It's not suitable for humans to live there for a long time. Moreover, eating raw meat frequently is prone to breeding parasites for humans with poor digestive systems, which can be life-threatening."
Cobra said that the unpleasant smell in the room was getting stronger and stronger, and the Maine Coon saw the suspect hiding the dagger in the bathroom. If the dagger was not taken out by the suspect, then there was something wrong with this room.
"Senior, do you smell any unpleasant smell in this room?" Lin Ting wondered for a moment if her nose was broken. Cobra said that the unpleasant smell was getting stronger and stronger, but she didn't smell anything.
Some have only a faint smell of disinfectant.
Si Chen shook his head under Lin Ting's scorching gaze. "I didn't smell anything bad, just a hint of disinfectant."
"Disinfectant, disinfectant..."
Lin Ting whispered and repeated it twice.
Si Chen immediately noticed something was wrong. "The smell of the disinfectant masked the other smells in the room. We were fooled by it, but the animals weren't. I was saying that I'd felt something was strange since entering this room. It turns out the smell of the disinfectant was just too strange."
Lin Ting squatted down and looked at the cobra on the ground, which was looking around curiously. "Can you help me find where the unpleasant smell is coming from?"
"You've found the right snake. I'll find it for you."
The cobra's body moved on the dark floor tiles, and its tongue never stopped moving. Finally, the cobra stopped in front of the tiles next to the toilet.
Woo
'The smell is coming from inside this wall.'
Lin Ting and Si Chen looked at each other and came to the cobra. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't tell that the colors of the bathroom floor tiles were different. The tiles on the wall that the cobra pointed to were a little darker, while the colors of the other wall tiles in the room were a bit lighter, like signs of wear and tear from long-term use.
"I didn't even notice the problem with the wall tiles before." Si Chen stroked the wall tiles, knocking on them occasionally to listen to the sound inside the wall.
After knocking it twice with a little force, the wall tiles seemed to be loose.
Si Chen immediately took out the folding knife hanging at his waist, inserted the folding knife into the gap between the wall tiles, and pried the tiles hard. The tiles fell off instantly.
The moment the wall tiles fell off, you could see that the cement inside was new, as if it had just been processed.
Si Chen looked around the room, and finally picked up a baseball bat from behind the bathroom door and smashed it against the wall. After a while, a huge crack appeared in the wall. There was no light on the other side of the crack, but pitch black, like a black hole. No light could be seen with the naked eye.
But after the wall was knocked through, the unpleasant smell they had not smelled before came through the huge gap, and the air was full of the stench of decay, like the corpses of small animals that had been rotting for a long time in the summer.
Lin Ting was intoxicated by the unpleasant smell.
The Maine Coon and the cobra, who already had a keen sense of smell, immediately ran out of the bathroom after smelling the scent. The cobra even almost slipped and hit the door because there was a little water on its body, but finally managed to run to the balcony window to get some fresh air.
No wonder they didn't smell it, it turned out they were blocked by this wall.
Si Chen took out the flashlight he carried with him and shone it through the gap. The light from the flashlight seemed to be endless.
"Why is there such a long secret passage in this room?" Lin Ting asked in confusion.
"You'll have to ask the original or current owner of the house. Many of these old houses are connected to each other, and this secret passage is likely to lead to another owner's home." Si Chen answered Lin Ting's question while looking at the secret passage.
Through his many years of experience in handling cases, he was certain that the smell coming from was the stench of a corpse, and it should have been there for quite some time, otherwise there wouldn't be such a bad smell.
Si Chen put the flashlight away and called Wu Dachuan. "Dachuan, call the police and have them send someone to break down the wall immediately. Also, contact the original owner of this house to find out whether the secret passage was created by the original owner or Zhang Qian."
Si Chen hung up the phone immediately after he finished speaking.
Wu Dachuan moved quickly, and soon he came with a shovel, a hammer, and police officers to break down the wall.
Lin Ting and Si Chen naturally retreated to the living room, and Lin Ting helped Si Chen check for other clues in the room.
In just an hour, Wu Dachuan and his men had broken down the bathroom wall.
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