Surprise Hotel

Dang Cang.

After dozens of seconds, the top stopped spinning and fell on the table.

This is completely different from what was expected.

Lu Xing further confirmed that he should be in a parallel world.

He lay back exhausted physically and mentally, his sleepiness gradually rising...

The next day, Lu Xing was awakened by a shift agent.

He washed his face in a hurry and went to the office, where Lao Li was already waiting for him.

"Inspector, the personal relationship between Tan Xianghe, Liu Zili, and Xu Huizhen whom you asked to investigate has been verified. The three do not know each other and no intersection has been found." Old Li reported truthfully.

"Check Tan Xianghe's debt again, Liu Zili's daughter's illness!" Lu Xing rolled his eyes and ordered.

"We checked it together. Tan Xianghe is still in debt and has no money to pay. Our people also ran into the creditor when they went to investigate. Liu Zili's daughter has now left the hospital and went home to recuperate because she didn't have money to treat her."

"That is to say, after Xu Huizhen's death, their two desolate lives did not change in any way?" Lu Xing doubted.

"What change do you want to see? What does this have to do with the case?" Old Li wondered.

Lu Xing explained patiently, “If Tan Xianghe’s debt is paid off and Liu Zili’s daughter is healed, it means that their two urgent needs have been resolved, and it can be deduced that someone has given them benefits and let them Killed Xu Huizhen. However, the truth is not. It seems that the murderer was neither Tan Xianghe nor Liu Zili. The two of them did not lie, and Xu Huizhen’s death was very strange."

Lao Li understood Lu Xing's explanation, but he was even more confused about the case.

"These two people are not, so who else can there be? In the locked secret room, people outside can't get in at all!" Old Li said, shivering suddenly, a flash of anger in his heart, "Could it be true? Is the tavernkeeper claiming his life?"

"Do you believe it? Anyway, I don't believe it." Lu Xing yawned and stretched.

"Can't she kill herself with a wine bottle, right?" Old Li spread his hands.

Lu Xing was startled, his tired eyes suddenly brightened.

Although this statement is a bit nonsense, apart from Tan Xianghe and Liu Zili, Xu Huizhen is indeed the only one left in the secret room.

Lu Xing pondered for a moment, then patted the table and got up, "Go, go to her house."

Xu Huizhen usually rents in a luxury apartment not far from Paramount. This area is very expensive and the corresponding living facilities are also the best.

Lu Xing learned from the renter’s wife that Xu Huizhen had withdrawn the rent the day before yesterday and the house would be sublet to others at the end of the month.

The day before her death, she quit her job at Paramount and retired to an apartment in a busy area. It was obvious that she wanted to leave the city.Or maybe it's the drunk and gold fan who wants to leave the Bund.

What is it that can make a dancer who worships money and is accustomed to the extravagant life determined to leave?

Lu Xing thought about it as he led people to search the room.

The living room is very clean and spotless.This shows that Xu Huizhen loved being clean.

The kitchen is filled with a faint smell of Chinese medicine, and there is still medicine residue in the trash can before it can be poured out.It seems that her physical condition is not very good.

Only a part of the clothes, jewelry and the like are reserved for common use, and the rest are all packed in boxes.

While searching the box, the detective found a letter from it and handed it to Lu Xing.

Through the information between the lines, his conjecture was confirmed-someone was going to elope Xu Huizhen.

That's right, it's not leaving openly, but elopement.

It seems that this dancing girl fell in love with someone she shouldn't love.

"I understand."

Regarding motivation, Lu Xing has the answer in mind.

"What do you understand?" Old Li asked.

"What you said last night is correct." Lu Xing patted him on the shoulder and turned to go out.

"Huh? What did I say last night?" Old Li touched his head, confused.

What he said last night was love killing.

Lu Xing determined that this speculation was correct.It's just that it was not her lover who killed Xu Huizhen, but someone else.

Now, it's only time to work out the modus operandi and lock the suspect.

Lu Xing called a young agent and whispered a few words to him.After hearing this, the agent saluted and ran out quickly.

"Old Li, take the team!"

"Inspector! Is this the end of the search?"

"If you want to search for a while, I don't have any opinion." Lu Xing folded his hands behind his head and walked out of the apartment leisurely. "If you search enough, you will walk with me around."

Upon hearing Lu Xing tell him to walk around with him, Lao Li subconsciously clutched his wallet tightly.

He said that the public money was paid by him yesterday.At this moment, it is the inspector's greedy bug who has committed the inconsistency again.

But what Lu Xing said about walking is really just walking.

The two big men wandered idle on the street, looking east and west, as if they had never felt the fireworks in the world.

On the surface, Lu Xing was relaxed and content, but his deep eyes were full of thoughts.

How was that secret room completed?

Tan Xianghe and Liu Zili are not murderers. How did the murderer enter the room and complete the murder?

The two kept walking all the way, from the busy long street to the cramped alley.

The houses on both sides are in disrepair for a long time, and some brick walls have collapsed.A mason built a new wall outside the house using bricks that fell in the alley.

Lu Xing stopped to observe for a moment, and Lao Li approached him and said mockingly, "The east wall is demolished to make up the west wall. This is the place to be demolished, so doing so is simply unnecessary."

Lu Xing smiled, did not say anything, followed in his mind and said "Take down the east wall to make up the west wall".

The next moment, as if a valve was opened, everything suddenly became clear!

Yes indeed!Demolish the east wall to make up the west wall!How could he not expect it!"

He turned around and ran towards the scene of the crime as if he was beaten up in blood.

"Hey! Inspector... why are you always surprised?" Lao Li muttered and followed.

Lu Xing returned to the secret room.

The blood on the ground has dried up.

Standing in the middle of the room, he glanced around and walked to the wine rack that didn't have much red wine.

Moving the wine rack away, he found a hole drilled by hand in the wall.The small holes are as deep as rice grains and seem to be nailed out.

"Old Li, move this thing away."

Lao Li didn't know what he was doing this for, but he could only follow the instructions of the inspector.

After the wine rack was removed, there were no obstacles in front of the wall.

Lu Xing stroked the nail holes, his frowning brows gradually relaxed.

"I have checked it here. The wall is solid and there is no secret way." Old Li said.

"The point of this secret room is not the secret passages, but the nail holes.

"What do you mean?" Old Li puzzled.

Lu Xing drew a pen from his pocket and connected the nail holes on the wall one by one.Then, a regular rectangle was shown in front of the two.

"What does this shape look like?" Lu Xing turned to ask Lao Li.

Old Li scratched his head, then gave the answer, "Door?"

"That's right!" Lu Xing retracted the pen into his pocket, and the corner of his mouth raised a slight curve, "What a trick to'remove the flowers'! The murderer can think of such a trick, it is indeed clever. Lao Li, if you weren't in the alley just now, you Mentioned this to me, I really can't figure out this case!"

"Huh?" Old Li didn't react for a while, "What did I say?"