Chapter 22 The surveillance was cut into several pieces before stuffing it into his mouth...
Before Shen Qingye had time to think about it, there was a slight noise outside the door. He looked back and saw that it was Qin Yilang who arrived.
He was wearing a white coat and holding a box in his hand. He pushed through the crowd and walked over quickly: "Where's the body?"
"Here it is." Yue Lingchuan called out, and watched him squat down, put on gloves neatly, and explained the situation to him, saying, "There was only one knife wound on the deceased's body. The knife must have pierced his heart, killing him instantly."
Qin Yilang listened, his hands moving non-stop, and nodded after a moment: "It is true that the knife wound is fatal."
He said: "Based on the condition of the body, the time of death should be around fifteen minutes."
Shen Qingye paused and turned his head to look at Yue Lingchuan. Yue Lingchuan said at the right time: "It has been about eight minutes since I called Captain Qin. Adding the time it took for the girl to find the body, we should have had two minutes to rush over."
In other words, ten minutes have passed since the body was discovered.
Before Yuan Yuan discovered the body, he had been dead for about five minutes.
Five minutes...
Shen Qingye was lost in thought for a moment. Before he could say anything, he heard Qin Yilang exclaim, "Is there something in his mouth?"
Shen Qingye came back to his senses, and Yue Lingchuan beside him also said: "Yes, I just found it, but I didn't bring anything with me, so it's hard to touch it."
Qin Yilang didn't care at all. He pinched the dead man's cheeks with one hand and inserted his gloved fingers into them. After a moment, his brows slowly frowned.
He moved his fingers slightly and slowly pulled out an object, red and stained with blood, which seemed to be...
Just as Shen Qingye was about to get closer to take a look, she suddenly felt a force behind her head. Yue Lingchuan held her head down and turned it to the side.
Shen Qingye was a little confused for a moment, and looked at him with wide eyes: "Captain Yue?"
She struggled to turn her head away, but Yue Lingchuan covered her eyes with his big hand and said in a cold voice: "Don't look."
Shen Qingye was stunned.
Qin Yilang opened the evidence bag and took out several pieces of bloody meat one after another, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
"Male..." He glanced at Shen Qingye and changed the wording: "Reproductive organs."
Shen Qingye's eyes trembled when she heard this, and she blinked slowly. Only then did she understand why Yue Lingchuan covered her eyes.
The long eyelashes scratched the palm of my hand, making it itchy for no reason. Yue Lingchuan moved his other finger slightly, his face still cold: "Are you sure?"
Qin Yilang glanced at him, put the bag aside, changed into a pair of clean gloves, and stretched out his hand towards the dead man's lower body.
The suit the deceased was wearing today had a slightly longer hem, barely covering his hips. The murderer also deliberately arranged his clothes neatly, and because of the color of the suit, they did not notice it at first.
Qin Yilang lifted the hem of his clothes. The fabric was wet, and it was a dark color that was completely different from the surrounding area. When he unbuttoned his pants, he saw a bright red area, empty.
His voice was clear and cool: "Now I can be sure."
Shen Qingye raised both hands and pulled Yue Lingchuan's hands off, and analyzed calmly: "So, after the murderer killed the deceased, he also cut off his... and stuffed it into his mouth?"
Qin Yilang added considerately: "I cut it into several pieces before stuffing it into his mouth."
Shen Qingye hissed and couldn't help but frown.
Roses again, and this technique again...
She couldn't help but ask, "This can basically be determined to be a murder of passion, right?"
Even if ordinary people have any grudges, they will just kill the person and that’s it. In more serious cases, dismemberment is not impossible. But like now, other parts are fine, only that one place...Except for a crime of passion, Shen Qingye really can't do what he wants.
Yue Lingchuan said: "It shouldn't be bad."
Shen Qingye was shocked: "Mrs. Yuan said that Yuan Zhenghao usually has a good temper, rarely conflicts with others, and has no enemies. Now it seems..."
It's not that he has no enemies. It's obvious that the other party hates him so much that they want him to die in peace.
Qin Yilang also stood up and glanced at the corpse. "I don't know what kind of deep hatred made the murderer choose this method to commit the crime."
"What kind of hatred or grudge is that? Perhaps only the murderer knows." Yue Lingchuan stood up, looked around the room, then looked at Shen Qingye and asked, "You just said that the murderer might have hidden behind the curtains in advance, and waited for everyone to leave before taking the opportunity to kill him?"
Shen Qingye straightened his expression and nodded, "Yes. After the deceased came to the hotel, people gradually entered the room. It would be difficult for her to hide at this time. I am more inclined to believe that she was already in the room."
Yue Lingchuan pondered for a moment, then turned to ask the hotel manager: "When did the groom come?"
The manager thought for a moment and said, "About ten o'clock."
"When did the guests enter?"
"It should be after ten o'clock, when the groom arrived, that the guests started to enter the venue one after another."
Yue Lingchuan walked around the room and asked him, "Your hotel is booked by the Yuan family today, right?"
The manager nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes. The hotel is not accepting outside guests today. The only guests coming in are those related to the wedding."
"Can anyone come in from outside before ten o'clock?"
The manager shook his head: "It shouldn't be possible. In order to avoid disrupting the wedding scene, we have security guards at the gate to prevent outsiders from coming in."
Shen Qingye fell into deep thought for a moment: "The groom entered first, and the guests followed him, so they couldn't find a chance to enter the lounge..."
"Either the murderer managed to sneak in before the groom arrived, or..."
Yue Lingchuan and she looked at each other and said in unison: "Staff."
They both paused for a moment, then looked away in tacit understanding.
"W-what?" The manager screamed, his eyes widened instantly, and he said hurriedly: "Are you saying that our hotel staff committed the crime? No, no, this is impossible?"
"Don't be nervous." Yue Lingchuan glanced at him and said, "It may not be a real staff member."
Not necessarily true...
Could it be possible that it’s fake?
The manager had a sad face and wondered what was going on.
He couldn't help but ask, "Comrade police officer, what should we do now? Should I call all the hotel staff over and interrogate them one by one?"
Shen Qingye shook his head: "When we found him, the deceased had been dead for five minutes. This period of time was enough for the murderer to escape." It is unlikely that the murderer would stay in the hotel after killing someone.
Yue Lingchuan didn't say anything, but it was obvious that he meant the same thing.
The manager felt even more bitter when he saw this. His whole face wrinkled into a ball. He couldn't help but say, "Police comrade, if you need any cooperation, just tell me. I just hope you can quickly solve this case and catch the murderer!"
Yue Lingchuan comforted him: "Don't worry, we want to solve the case sooner than you do."
As he spoke, he walked around the room without stopping. After a moment, he suddenly raised his head and looked upwards.
Shen Qingye stood aside, tapping his arm with his fingers and frowning slightly, always feeling as if he had overlooked something. He saw Yue Lingchuan's actions out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help feeling confused.
above? Why look above?
What's on it?
She raised her eyes slightly and looked up like Yue Lingchuan. There was nothing unusual about the white ceiling and the gorgeous chandelier. Looking around again, all the decorations are exactly the same——
etc!
Shen Qingye's eyes swept across the corner between the two walls, then he looked back suddenly. Suddenly he thought of something, and his eyes wandered.
here?
She paused, and then she saw the man turn his head and ask the manager: "Your hotel should have surveillance, right?"
Shen Qingye suddenly realized.
Yes, monitoring!
She looked back and the hotel manager was stunned when he heard this: "Surveillance?"
"monitor!"
His eyes lit up instantly, and he nodded excitedly, "Yes, yes, yes! There are surveillance cameras!"
He said excitedly: "This corridor is full of surveillance cameras! They were installed last year, but I never used them so much that I almost forgot about them, but they are indeed there!"
Although surveillance is not yet popular, high-end hotels like this one usually install surveillance equipment for the personal and property safety of guests.
Shen Qingye doesn't have much contact with this aspect, and for a moment he didn't even think about surveillance.
But since there is surveillance, things will be easier.
Shen Qingye showed a look of joy, and was about to ask where the monitoring room was, when a faint voice suddenly sounded in his ears:
"it's useless."
The smile on Shen Qingye’s face paused.
The voice was different from Yue Lingchuan's low and lazy voice, and also different from Qin Yilang's cold and distant voice. Instead, it was cold, with a hint of helplessness and a sense of watching a good show. It was very unfamiliar.
Shen Qingye blinked, then realized what he had overlooked.
This is the crime scene.
Since this is a crime scene, there should be something that can speak.
The case happened too suddenly and the atmosphere around her was so tense. She was so busy comforting Yuan's family and looking for clues that she forgot about her abilities.
Just... useless? What does it mean?
Shen Qingye was just wondering when he heard the voice chattering again:
"That person was wearing cleaning clothes and her face was covered tightly. I couldn't tell who she was even when I saw her face to face. How could you tell her through surveillance?"
Shen Qingye's heart paused, and his eyes looked around, finally settling on the big-butt TV with some feeling.
That's it.
She frowned slightly. If it was really like what it said...
"Xiao Shen?" Yue Lingchuan called her, and asked in confusion: "Why don't you catch up?"
Shen Qingye quickly came back to his senses and responded. After hesitating for a while, he trotted after him.
No matter what, she had to go and see it in person.
The TV seemed to chuckle and yawn lazily: "What a waste of time."
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In the monitoring room, the security guard pulled up the video clip around 11:06. Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan moved in front of the computer screen, carefully staring at every detail on it.
At 10:59, the door of the lounge opened and a man came out. Shen Qingye explained, "This is the stylist. He should be the last one to come out."
It turned out to be true. The surveillance footage quickly moved forward until 11:05. There were occasional people coming and going in the corridor, but the door of the lounge was always tightly closed.
Seeing that the time was about to reach eleven and six, the two of them couldn't help but blink.
The time on the screen reached 11:06:37. When the host started the show in the banquet hall, the door of the lounge suddenly moved.
The two of them were startled and looked carefully, they saw the door being opened from the inside, and then a woman of medium build wearing cleaning clothes walked out.
Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan looked at each other and thought to themselves, as expected!
The hotel manager who was watching from the side almost fainted after seeing this scene. It really was a hotel staff member?
They stared at the surveillance camera, trying to make out the murderer's appearance from the blurry image. But the other party was obviously extremely cautious. Not only was he wearing a set of cleaning clothes, he also had a pair of work gloves on his hands. His hair was wrapped tightly with a hat. He kept his head down and walked forward silently.
It was not until she turned a corner that her profile was revealed. Shen Qingye hurriedly called a pause and looked carefully, only to find that she was wearing a mask on her face, and her entire body was covered tightly.
Just like what that TV said.
Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan looked at each other, feeling a little disappointed.
The surveillance video was not over yet. The woman continued to walk out along the corridor, but she did not leave directly. Instead, she took out a broom and a dustpan from a small room at the end of the corridor.
Shen Qingye frowned slightly when he saw her walking all the way from the lounge to the banquet hall, and then stopped in a corner of the hall.
At that time, there were still some scattered guests who had not yet taken their seats, and people occasionally passed by in the aisles. The murderer stood in the corner with a broom and dustpan in his hand, with his head lowered. He looked like a staff member waiting to clean the place, and was not at all conspicuous.
Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan fell silent, probably knowing what she was waiting for.
Sure enough, when the time on the screen reached 11:11, the guests sitting upright in the surveillance video seemed to have heard something and their expressions suddenly became panicked. Immediately afterwards, some people stood up and ran around, while others hurriedly tried to go out.
The hall became chaotic in an instant. The security guard outside the door didn't react in time. He rushed inside subconsciously when he heard the noise, but hurriedly retreated after a moment.
——This is what Yue Lingchuan shouted, asking the security guards to guard the gate and not let anyone out.
But in such a brief moment, the murderer had taken advantage of the chaos of the crowd to move quietly to the gate, and took advantage of the security guard's absence to walk directly out of the gate.
There was only one surveillance camera outside the gate, and everyone watched her enter an alley and then disappear.
There was no movement in the monitoring room for a long time. After a long while, Shen Qingye finally breathed a sigh of relief: "This person is obviously very thoughtful."
Yue Lingchuan's face didn't look very good either. When investigating a case, they are not afraid of the extremely vicious villains, but they are afraid of the murderer who is meticulous and extremely cautious.
Cai Chengyong was one of them before, and now there is another one.
Shen Qingye turned around and asked the manager: "Is this your hotel's cleaning lady? Can you tell?"
The manager said with a bitter face: "This, this picture is so blurry, how can I recognize it?" What's more, he is a hotel manager and cleaning is not his responsibility.
He added: "But this dress belongs to our hotel."
Shen Qingye could see it without him saying it, because the name of the hotel was printed on the back of the clothes.
Yue Lingchuan raised his eyes from the surveillance video, looked at the manager and said, "Go and call the hotel's cleaning staff and the people in charge of this matter first, and see if anyone is missing, or if anyone has lost any clothes recently."
The manager responded quickly and ran out as if he had been pardoned.
Yue Lingchuan looked back at Shen Qingye again and was about to say something when he suddenly heard footsteps behind him:
“Boss!”
Looking back, it was Luo Kaiyang and Jiang Cheng. They were closer and had arrived earlier.
Jiang Cheng asked, "What's going on?"
Yue Lingchuan didn't explain anything to them. Instead, he gave up his seat in front of the computer and tapped the screen with his fingers: "You came at the right time. The murderer left the hotel and went through this alley. Go to this alley and see if there are any clues. Also, take a look at the surrounding buildings to see if there are any other surveillance cameras."
Luo Kaiyang responded, then turned around and left with Jiang Cheng.
They moved quickly and came back in less than five minutes with a bag in their hands.
Luo Kaiyang was slightly out of breath, his face not looking good: "As soon as we left the hotel, we found a puff of smoke coming out of the alley. Brother Jiang and I rushed over and saw this on the ground."
He opened the bag and found inside a half-burned set of cleaning clothes with traces of blood still visible on it, as well as a knife and a pair of work gloves that had been burned almost beyond recognition.
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