Chapter 55: Secret Chamber
Lu Bai quickly pushed the door open, and she saw Li Ziyu standing there trembling, holding the handle.
Li Ziyu looked away and said, "Help me, I have a cramp."
Lu Bai held back his laughter and helped the trembling Li Ziyu up.
[It's over, my image is completely ruined... How can I save it? ]
Lu Bai held Li Ziyu's hand and walked forward slowly. "There is a new case. I have to go there tomorrow."
[New case? The case that Zhang Hai handled improperly is not simple. I want to go and take a look.]
[This knife wound is very serious. Is there anything that can speed up its recovery? ]
Lu Bai helped her onto the bed and covered her with a blanket. "Go to sleep and take good care of yourself."
Li Ziyu had a severe headache. She rubbed her temples and said, "Don't come to me every other day to ask for advice."
Lu Bai poured warm water beside her bed and turned off the light. "I am the captain of the criminal police after all. You look down on me too much."
In the dead of night, a figure was moving through the darkness.
There were few vehicles on the street. A figure jumped over the guardrail, ran quickly across the road, ran into the alley, and disappeared from surveillance.
The lights of the police car illuminated the way to the escape door of the secret room.
As the sun slowly rose, the morning light gradually illuminated the street, and Lu Bai got out of the car.
The police at the scene reported their work, "The person who reported the case said that they found the body while playing in the escape room."
"The on-site forensic doctor initially determined that the time of death was about 12 hours, and the body was hanging in a room in a secret room."
As the police officer was speaking, the two men had already arrived at the crime scene.
Lu Bai looked at the room. Opposite the door was a surveillance camera. She pointed at the camera and asked, "Didn't the surveillance camera find anything?"
The police officer shook his head and said, "This surveillance camera is slanted to the right because there are only three wooden boxes on the left side and the only window is also equipped with a burglar-proof window, so the store focused the surveillance on the right side."
"We checked the surveillance footage and found no suspicious individuals other than the players."
So, if there is no way to confirm the traces at the scene, then this is a secret room.
A murderer who had carefully planned, repeatedly surveyed the scene, and had strong anti-detection capabilities.
"Deer Team."
When Zhang Hai came to Lu Bai, his face was still a little swollen. It should be because he didn't sleep enough in the past few days.
Lu Bai heard the voice and nodded at him, "What was the situation when you came?"
Zhang Hai recalled for a moment, "We came to this room to search for evidence. There was nothing there, but both Forensic Doctor Liu and I smelled the stench of a corpse."
He pointed to the beam, which was now only a loop of rope. The body had been taken back to the forensic department.
"At first, we all thought it was the atmosphere created by this room, but after all, we came into contact with so many corpses, something was getting more and more wrong."
"Forensic doctor Liu asked the store to turn on the lights. When they turned on the lights, we knew for sure whether it was a corpse or not."
Lu Bai listened to Zhang Hai and re-investigated the scene. She walked to the beam where the rope ring was hanging and looked up.
This room is deliberately high, higher than the height of an ordinary house. At this height, no one can hang themselves without the help of tools.
Lu Bai's gaze fell on the three large wooden boxes again. She looked at the marks on the ground and it didn't look like they had been moved.
There were no signs of fighting or blood on the ground. So what kind of tools were used to create such a secret room?
Lu Bai walked to the window in the blind spot of surveillance, and her hand passed through the burglar-proof window to open the window.
Outside the window was a very narrow corridor, barely wide enough for one person to pass through.
Opposite is another room, which also has a window like this one.
Lu Bai asked: "What is that for?"
The police officer replied: "That is a warehouse. We have checked it. There is no surveillance in the warehouse. It is called a warehouse, but it is actually a storage room."
When Lu Bai pulled her hand back, the back of her hand was cut by the security window. She looked at the back of the window in pain.
There is a cut of about five centimeters, and it is very faint because the incision was very small.
Lu Bai looked at the scratch on his hand and waved to Zhang Hai, "Come and take a look."
Zhang Hai looked at the cut carefully. "What did it look like?"
Lu Bai had a different opinion. She shook her head, "It doesn't look like it was cut. It looks like it was cut by something pulling hard. The cut is very smooth."
Lu Bai rolled up his sleeves and said, "Get me a ladder."
She climbed up the ladder and first removed the thick linen rope and the puddle of water stains.
She pointed at the water stains and asked, "Didn't the laboratory record these?"
Zhang Hai scratched his head and said, "Maybe everyone was tired in the early morning and didn't pay attention to some details."
Lu Bai got off the ladder and snorted coldly, "Don't you care?"
For some reason, when Zhang Hai looked at Lu Bai now, he always felt that he could see the shadow of Consultant Li.
It is less frenetic and more calm and meticulous.
Lu Bai turned around and left the scene, "Go back to the police station for a meeting."
The scene has been examined by the Inspection Department, and many useful clues have been brought back to the police station.
According to the time calculation, the forensic doctor should have the autopsy report.
In a closed-room case like this, every second of delay would give the murderer, who has extremely strong anti-detection capabilities, one more second to prepare.
The police station seemed a little disorganized without the rest of the people from Lubai Town.
When Lu Bai walked in, there were some people gathered together chatting.
"You said that Captain Lu took a special leave to accompany Consultant Li. Is this a special relationship?"
"Advisor Li, this is indeed a meritorious service, but there seems to be no precedent for this in the bureau, so it is indeed a bit difficult."
Lu Bai bit her back teeth, suppressing the anger in her heart. She knocked on the door of the Criminal Police Team and asked, "Are you all done?"
Lu Bai's voice suddenly appeared, startling them. They all lowered their heads and returned to their desks.
Zhang Hai also sighed, "I'm going to have a meeting with clues about the locked room case."
Sitting in front of the long conference table, Lu Bai looked at the empty chair next to him and was in a trance for a moment.
Li Ziyu has been sitting in this seat for many days. It seems that as long as she sits here, Lu Bai feels confident.
She took a deep breath. She was the captain of the criminal police team. From the beginning when Li Ziyu was gone, she couldn't rely on anyone.
Zhang Hai turned on his computer. "The autopsy report shows that the deceased had been dead for more than 12 hours. The body was completely stiff and hung from the beam."
His gaze turned to Liu Zhengfeng.
Liu Zhengfeng stood up and walked to the projector. "Characteristics of the corpse: signs of suffocation. The face, lips, fingernails and toenails are bluish purple. The face is swollen. The body spots are dark purple-red."
"Further autopsy revealed that the conjunctiva of the eye was congested and bleeding spots were seen, saliva, semen, urine and feces were discharged, and the tooth roots were light brown-red."
So this can also prove that the deceased did die of suffocation.
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