Chapter 53: All Very Suspicious (55)
Lan Jin stopped sending messages and called immediately, "What did you mean just now? Why do I feel like something is going to happen?"
Huang Jinghe: "The noises in the hallway are so strange. We just beat someone up and threw him downstairs, and the alarm went off. Could it be that something happened downstairs again after we came up?"
Lan Jin: "It's right that something happened. How could there not be something wrong when we're all locked up together? But we shouldn't interfere in other people's affairs. If there is something, we should just tell the truth. Oh, and by the way, throwing someone down the building was never right. After all, the person was still alive at that time. Let's..."
Before Lan Jin could finish her words, Huang Jinghe said cleverly, "I know, Sister Lan. You can tell me about the first part, but I won't tell you about the rest, starting from when I hit someone with a baseball bat. By the way, Sister Lan, what if that person says you stepped on him? Did you leave any footprints?"
Lan Jin really didn't remember this. "Then just say that after you hit me, I stepped on him, and then we beat him away. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with this man."
Huang Jinghe said, "Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm just worried that if something happens and the police are alerted, and they investigate and the man tells us about this, we'll have a hard time explaining ourselves."
"Relax, it's all said and done. We didn't kill anyone. At most, we just beat him up. And that person started it, so what's wrong with us defending ourselves?"
There was definitely nothing wrong. He just listened to Lan Jin and read too many apocalyptic novels recently, so he made a fuss about it. But if you think about it carefully, the man was still angry before they went home, and the poisonous fog didn't come in. After they went home -
He would never mention the sound of the safety passage door being slowly pushed open.
The noise in the corridor could not be resolved until the next day, so the colleagues on duty that night organized a team and rushed to Building 12.
When the staff passed through two layers of protective curtains and reached the first floor, what came into view was a vast poisonous fog. This concentration was definitely not something that a small mouth could produce.
The leading staff member said, "Divide into two groups. One group will work from top to bottom, and the other from bottom to top. Look for the damage. If you find it, call and let us know."
After that, the team automatically split into two groups. One group took the elevator and went straight to the 30th floor. After arriving at the 30th floor, they first went to the 33rd floor and then walked down one floor at a time. The other group started directly from the first floor and searched up one floor at a time.
However, when the team above reached the 28th floor, they accidentally tripped over a huge object on the ground.
'Ouch.'
'Why.'
"What's that? It's on my leg."
"You're still talking, I almost tripped and fell down the stairs."
The two of them just finished sighing and looked to the side. Wow, that 'big lump' turned out to be a person. Judging from the thick fog, it was impossible for the person on the ground to be still alive.
The two community workers looked at each other, and one of them took out his phone and called the leader. "Hello, we're on the 28th floor now. Someone died here."
While the man was on the phone, another man noticed an open window nearby. He patted the man's arm and pointed to the window. The man immediately passed the message to the other end of the phone, "I think we've found the source of the noise. The window next to this person is open."
"Okay, you guys close the windows first and stay where you are. I'll come up right away. In case there are any gaps below, let the people below check each floor one by one."
"OK."
After saying that, the man hung up the phone. A moment later, the staff member who had just led the group took the elevator to the 28th floor. However, when the three of them gathered together, one of them said, "No, I have a question. Isn't this man awake at this hour of night? What is he doing in the emergency passage?"
"What else can they do? Do something bad." After saying that, the leader called the police.
It was the same group of people from before, and they arrived at Building 12 in a short while.
However, the people on the ground had been infected by the poisonous fog. Although their skin had not yet ulcerated, it was already red and swollen. It was impossible to tell anything just by looking at it. They ordered people to take the bodies back first, and they stayed here to take statements from each house.
When the residents heard that another murder had occurred in the building, they became nervous and scared. After all, the poisonous fog had not dissipated and they could not leave the building, but the murderer had been living in the same building with them. Who knew who would be the next victim?
For a moment, the group was lively again.
Nothing could be obtained from the confessions, because the targets were still the people living alone in the building, and the man's targets could not have been only Lan Jin and Huang Jinghe, so among the large number of victims, the two of them seemed less noticeable.
But one of the police officers didn't think it was right. He said, "Why do I feel that the people who died must have provoked the people on the 32nd and 33rd floors? The man and woman were like that last time, and the man this time is also like that. Could it be that the murderer is the people on the 32nd and 33rd floors, and we've overlooked something?"
Another police officer disagreed. He said, "Although the people on the 32nd and 33rd floors are suspicious, so are the others. The lone woman on the 12th floor, the middle-aged man on the 23rd floor, and the elderly couple on the 5th floor. These are all targets this man has targeted. Why do you think the two on the 32nd and 33rd floors are so suspicious?"
"Just intuition."
"Investigating a case relies on evidence. Intuition is nothing. Can you really capture these two people based on intuition?"
"That's definitely not possible, but I just feel that it has something to do with these two people."
"I know why you think so. Every time something like this happens, it's only these two families that get into conflict with others. And because of this conflict, you naturally assume these two people have bad tempers and might just kill someone in a fit of rage, right?"
The man thought for a moment and then said, "Yes and no, I can't really explain it, but like you said, I have no evidence."
"I think there's nothing suspicious about the confessions of these two households. Everyone has different personalities, and some people just have explosive tempers, but that doesn't mean they're the murderer. On the contrary, the woman in 701 is very suspicious."
The one at 701 was the wife of the male victim in the first murder case, but when it came to her home, almost everyone remembered that she had surveillance cameras. "Her home has surveillance cameras, did you copy them back?"
"No, this woman turned off the surveillance. I checked her phone at the time, and she turned it off right after her husband died and never turned it on again. To be honest, I think this woman is guilty of something. Otherwise, why would she turn it off if the surveillance wasn't a problem?"
"Everything depends on evidence. What you said is possible, but without evidence, it's just speculation. Okay, let's investigate further based on these doubts."
In order to collect evidence, the police ran around their building for half a month, so that not only did the signs of "liveliness" just now suddenly become quiet, but the subsequent large-scale layoffs did not cause much waves in the building.
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