Surprise Hotel
Chapter 9 Modalities
The young agent sent to investigate the news hurried back, bringing a key clue to the final word.
Only then did Lu Xing realize that the clues about the case had been hidden by his side.
Yesterday was still regarded as an unsettled murder in a secret room. After repeated encounters, he actually got the clue and completely solved it!This kind of progress had never occurred to him.
"Old Li, did someone ask me for an interview yesterday?" Lu Xing turned his Parker pen, smiling playfully.
"Yes! That beautiful young woman reporter." Old Li smiled.
"The reporter is just a reporter. Why don't you bring the word'beautiful young woman'? It makes me very scornful." The smile on Lu Xing's face gradually disappeared, "I think it's time for us to meet her."
"The newspaper is on holiday today. Is it possible that the detective wanted to ask her..."
"The newspaper is on holiday, then go to her house!"
"The inspector is so courageous! As the saying goes, a goalkeeper can still score a goal. A real man should know the difficulties!"
"You quickly gather a team of brothers and go with me."
"Uh, is this really good?" Lao Li looked complicated.Do you need to take your brother to pick up girls?
"What are you thinking about! Follow me to arrest people!" Lu Xing's words made Lao Li completely dispel evil thoughts.He didn't dare to ask more, and stepped back awkwardly.
The patrol room quickly assembled and blocked the residential building where reporter Xia Nuo was located.
Lu Xing took a few people and knocked on Xianuo's house.
Xia Nuo, who was resting at home, only wore a fluffy nightdress, and her hair was simply tied back with a hairpin.Seeing Lu Xing's arrival, Xia Nuo was very surprised.
"Why is the inspector free today? I'm sorry, today is Saturday, and I don't want to work overtime." She looked at Lu Xing's careless face through a wide crack in the door.
"I'm here to question about Xu Huizhen's death." Lu Xing stared at her, "Ms. Xia didn't plan to let me in? It's easy to get back pain when standing and talking."
Xia Nuo had no choice but to let him in, and languidly walked to the sofa and sat down, "The house is not cleaned up, it's a bit messy. Inspector, please sit down."
Lu Xing did not immediately sit down, but scanned the room.
Clothes were thrown everywhere. Table Mountain was littered with manuscripts, stains splashed by red wine on the walls, and broken glass in the corners of the ground.
Lu Xing's gaze finally fell on the wedding photo on the coffee table. The corners of his mouth raised slightly and he sat down opposite Xianuo.
"Anything to drink?" Xianuo asked.
"No need." Lu Xing shook his head, "isn't your husband at home?"
"He has something to go out." Xianuo said coldly.
"Fight?" Lu Xing asked with a smile.
"Why, the detective is still interested in our married life?"
"I am only interested in you." Lu Xing stared into her eyes.
Xia Nuo retracted his legs unnaturally, "This is a bit frivolous."
Lu Xing smiled slightly, but there was a bit of coldness behind his smile, "You are suspected of murdering Paramount dancer Xu Huizhen and have been locked as a criminal suspect. Please state the facts of the crime truthfully."
He learned these very official words from watching TV shows.
Xia Nuo sneered, "What is the detective kidding? I was an eyewitness that day. When I found that the tavern was making noise to help open the door, the door was locked inside and out. How did I get in and kill someone? The murderer was clearly. Why did one of the two men in there be wronged on my head?"
"Since you don't want to admit it, let me do it!" Lu Xing said sternly, "that night, you fooled the gangster Tan Xianghe, the worker Liu Zili, and the dancer Xu Huizhen into the tavern, and you hid in the dark. I stunned Xu Huizhen. Then I used a handkerchief coated with ether to stun Tan Xianghe and Liu Zili and drag them into the wine storage room. You are very smart. Before you act, your destructive power tavern’s long and disrepaired locks are against Chu. The wine room is arranged. The technique is not very complicated, but you cleverly used the psychological blind zone to create a psychological secret room. I found nail holes on the wall facing the door of the secret room, and connected those nail holes. It is in the shape of a door. You first nailed a fake door on the wall, dragged Tan Xianghe and Liu Zili into the wine storage room, and blocked the original door with a wine rack."
"But this way, I can't get out! Could it be that I was the one who died the night before?" Xianuo retorted.
"Yes, so the woman who was locked up with Tan Xianghe and Liu Zili that night is actually you!"
"This..." Old Li was shocked.
Lu Xing continued, "After they woke up, you faked the identity of Xu Huizhen and guided them to look for the exit in the dark room. Because the door is fake, you can't open it anyway. Tan Xianghe and Liu Zili two People believed that the door was locked from the outside. You proposed to lock the door from the inside, but in fact, the bolt on the door is the bolt of the fake door. The purpose is to create a double secret room and make it more difficult to solve the case. You live nearby. , You believe that almost no one will pass by in front of the old tavern that was deserted at this time, so no one will hear how the three of you shout."
"Tan Xianghe and Liu Zili are very alert. They said they should face the door before they fell asleep, so that any movement would be noticed for the first time. It's a pity that you used ether on them twice, causing them to fall asleep again. Taking advantage of their unconsciousness , You remove the fake door and move it back to the wine cabinet to block the nail hole. In this way, you can get in and out from the real door. You are very careful, because the direction of the real door is reversed, and you are afraid that the two will find out, so you will put their bodies Turned the direction, toward the real door. Tan Xianghe's confession mentioned that someone touched his feet while he was half-wake and half-dreaming, which just confirmed this."
"After rearranging the scene, you dragged the real Xu Huizhen in, put it where you were lying, and smashed her to death with a wine bottle. After all this, you locked the door outside with the fake door go away."
"It turns out that this is what the inspector said about'removing flowers and trees'!" After Lao Li suddenly thought of a question, "But, she has all gone out, how did the latch in the room be inserted?"
"Yes, how did the inspector explain this problem?" Xianuo agreed without a wave of emotion.
"It's very simple. Just push the latch close to the socket when closing the door to create the illusion that the latch is inserted. The next day you return to the scene and pretend to be a passerby to unlock the outside door lock, and at the same time instruct the people inside to latch the door. Open. In the panic, the two of them will not find that the door bolt is not inserted. In this way, this detail loophole will be filled. It has become a seamless double-chamber murder!" Lu Xing looked at Xia Nuo, "If nothing happens, we should be able to find the fake door and blood-stained clothes in your home..."