Chapter 34 Horror Bathroom

The magician was very vigilant and refused to answer, while protesting that Professor Liang used him as the suspect.

The four members of the special case team returned to Su Mei's room. Professor Liang checked the Jiazhou police's inquiry records of the magician. On the night Lan Ke'er disappeared, the magician and his assistant were performing in the theater and did not have time to commit the crime.

Su Mei said: The magician created a proof that he was absent from the scene, and killing people and throwing corpses can definitely be done.

Bao Zhan said: Why?

Su Mei said: Because he is a magician, he can get the ring into an egg, and he can become a living person and make himself disappear.

Hualong said: The corpse was found in the water tank, and the corpse could only be cut open and made out. Is this a magic trick?

Professor Liang said: If it is forced, the murderer can stuff Lan Keer into the water tower. She soaked in the water, and the body is swollen, so she cannot get her out of the entrance.

Bao Zhan said: I can avoid surveillance, kill people and throw them into the water tower, but I cannot guarantee the integrity of the body.

There was a strange murder case in Shanghai, and this real case was changed to a reasoning question on the police academy test paper.

A couple checked in the hotel until they checked out, and their wife never walked out of the hotel. Through surveillance, they found that the husband went out shopping many times, and each time they traveled lightly. Without a backpack, it was impossible to transfer the body. The corridor surveillance showed that the wife did not walk out of the room. The room was on the third floor, with a window facing north, with guardrails installed, and blood was faintly found on the bathroom floor. The police speculated that the wife was dead, but where was the body, and how did the murderer transport the body?

Bao Zhan said that he wrote three answers on the test paper at that time.

1: The murderer bought some dismemberment tools, returned to the hotel, broke the dead into pieces, and flushed them into the toilet.

2: The murderer broke the dead body and carried it on his body, hid it with clothes, and divided it into multiple times to go outside the hotel to throw the body.

3: Most hotels are in the sun, and the northward windows are generally not within the monitoring range. The murderer cuts the body into several pieces, cuts off the flesh, and uses purchased tools to flatten or squeeze the head and torso to facilitate the suffix to stuff the corpse out of the window guardrail, pull it to the roof of the building with a rope, and then hangs the corpse to the surveillance blind spot behind the hotel building, and finally transfer it quietly.

Professor Liang shook his wheelchair and walked to the window to open the curtains. The window of the room where Lan Keer lived was also facing north. Although there was no guardrail installed, the window was stuck and could only open a gap. The human body could not pass through. Lan Keer's body was complete. The police investigation also showed that there were no traces of damage to the window.

Bao Zhan said: None of my three answers apply to this case.

Professor Liang said: Yes, we are now facing the fourth situation.

Hualong said: Anyway, I firmly don’t believe in any theory of ghosts and gods.

Su Mei said: If you don’t believe it, why does it mean that there will be Qingming Festival and you will have to burn paper money?

The head of the Jiazhou police asked how to explain to the media. The special case team could only delay and currently has no more information than the media. The world's eyes are focused on this case. News media from China, the United States, Canada and other countries have made headlines. Many reporters gathered in the Dahlia Hotel, and in addition, they attracted a large number of explorers who were curious about the case, so that hotel housing prices soared.

A few days later, Lan Keer's body was buried, and the police still did not confirm the real cause of death.

This case of global concern has made the special case team feel unprecedented pressure, and various rumors and speculations cannot erase people's doubts. Did Lan Keer commit suicide? murder? or died unexpectedly? How did Lan Keer's body enter the water tower on the top floor? Why did Lan Keer's body disappear for half a month? What is the reason for the strange behavior in Lan Keer's elevator?

Is? If Lan Keer was murdered, who was the murderer? What was the motive for the murderer to commit the crime?

The case was stalemate, and the special case team was at a loss. Although they checked every employee in the hotel again, there was still no progress.

Professor Liang thought of a solution. He summoned the media and some folk detectives who were curious about the case, hoping to work together to make the case a breakthrough. Everyone expressed their opinions and discussed and analyzed the case in the hotel conference room for a whole afternoon. The case was confusing and there were many differences. Professor Liang sorted out some common points.

Lan Keer encountered something that scared her during her lifetime.

Lan Keer died in this hotel.

Lan Keer's clothes were gone, and the naked body was found in the water tank.

A reporter speculated that Lan Keer's clothes might be sucked away by the water tank, the hotel's water supply system is complicated and there are many pipes, so the police did not find it. Where was Lan Keer dead in the hotel? If she was a corridor or rooftop and encountered a murderer, she would likely fight, but there was no trauma on the surface of the body. According to the forensic autopsy, Lan Keer drowned, whether it was suicide, homicide, or accidental death, Lan Keer's death was related to water.

Apart from the water tank, where is there water in the hotel?

Bao Zhan seemed to see a glimmer of light. He pointed to the bathroom and said that this might be the first murder scene.

Hualong said: There is a washbasin and a bathtub in the bathroom. The murderer may have pressed her head in the water and drowned her.

Su Mei said: I noticed that there was facial cleanser in Lan Keer's relics. She first filled the washbasin with water, lowered her head to wash her face, and her face was covered with facial cleanser, and her eyes couldn't be opened. Maybe it was at this time that the murderer attacked her and forced her head to the washbasin. Or even when she was washing her hair, the murderer quietly approached her, and she would not be able to see it at all. The murderer drowned her in the bathtub.

Professor Liang said: How did the murderer enter Lan Keer's room and how did he leave? This is a mystery.

Everyone was discussing the case in the room, and suddenly someone knocked on the door, and the magician and female assistant next door walked in.

The female assistant said: I wonder if you want to appreciate a magic trick?

Hualong said: We are busy and have no time to watch any magic tricks.

The magician said: Then forget it, we originally wanted to perform a wall-walking technique for you to see.

After the magician and the female assistant spoke, they walked out. Professor Liang stopped them and expressed his interest.

The magician said: The magic I want to perform is very simple. You lock the door and I can go through the wall and enter your room.

Su Mei said: How is this possible? You go through the next room, through the wall, and into our room. Is that true?

The magician said: I won’t perform for free for one thousand yuan.

Hualong said: This is a bit too much.

The magician said: I'm talking about US dollars, one thousand dollars.

Bao Zhan said: Can you really do it?

The magician said: Of course.

Hualong said: We are investigating a case, and you must know that we have reason to doubt you now.

The magician said: Whatever, I'm not afraid.

Hualong took out the handcuffs and said with a smile: Maybe you can perform an escape technique, use your hair to open the handcuffs or something.

The magician said: If you want to see me perform the wall-walking technique, I have only one requirement to keep this barbarian away from me.

Professor Liang said: OK, we pay a thousand dollars and I really want to see how you pass through the wall.

Professor Liang asked Hualong to go to the hotel restaurant to prepare supper. Hualong left in disappointment. Only Professor Liang, Bao Zhan, Su Mei were left in the room. The magician and female assistant left the room.

When he arrived at the door, he said: The performance has begun, with an hour limit.

Bao Zhan’s door was locked and the anti-theft chain was hung. Su Mei also closed the window. After careful inspection, everyone thought that the magician could not enter this room with the door locking and the windows closed.

Su Mei said: If this room is the first murder scene, then how the murderer entered will be revealed soon.

Bao Zhan said: Can this magician really do it? If he was a criminal suspect, wouldn’t he fall into the Internet like this?

Su Mei said: Could he deliberately let us sit here and lure us out of the mountain to create a second case?

Professor Liang said: The magician should not be the murderer, he may have to make some hints to us.

While Professor Liang and the other two were discussing, some smoke floated in from the gap below the door. Everyone was a little panicked. I wonder if it was some kind of toxic gas. The room was filled with smoke. Su Mei pushed Professor Liang on the wheelchair and Bao Zhan stood up and wanted to open the door and leave. A burst of laughter came from behind. Everyone looked back and saw that the magician was already standing in the room.

The door was locked and the windows were closed, and the magician suddenly appeared like a ghost.

Professor Liang said: Well, your performance is very successful, Xiaomei will pay the appearance fee later.

The magician said: I have changed my mind and will not charge you money.

Professor Liang asked: Why?

The magician said: Because you are the first audience to spend a lot of money to watch my magic performance.

Bao Zhan said: We need to know how you entered this room, and please cooperate with the investigation.

The magician laughed and said: I had expected it long ago, I will not cooperate with your police.

Su Mei said: It’s not that easy for you to leave.

The magician said: I can come in or go out, goodbye.

Su Mei called the police officer on duty in the hotel lobby, and Bao Zhan mustered up the courage to rush forward to subdue the magician.

The magician threw a smoke bomb on the ground, and it rushed. The thick smoke suddenly rose with the flames. Baozhan hurriedly dodged, and the smoke gradually dissipated. Everyone found that the magician disappeared in front of their eyes, and the doors and windows of the room were still closed well.

News came from the hotel reception desk that the female assistant had completed the check-out procedures half an hour ago and left the hotel early.

Hualong arrived with the police officer, and the magician had left and his whereabouts were unknown.

Hualong said, I said it long ago, I should have scolded this guy, and now I run away?

The Jiazhou police were busy until midnight and did not find the magician. The special case team analyzed that even if the magician was not a suspect, he was probably an insider. He had stayed in the Dahlia Hotel for several months and perhaps discovered something strange about the hotel, and used a magic show to hint to the police with some information.

Before going to bed, Su Mei took a shower. The smoke made by the magician was some powdery substances that splashed on Su Mei's hair.

Su Mei turned on the shower and restrained her inner fear. She didn't dare to close her eyes. This bathroom made her feel scared.

Su Mei simply washed her body, nothing strange happened, and the bathroom was filled with heat. She felt relieved and kept comforting herself. She walked to the mirror, wiped the mirror with her hand, squeezed out the facial cleanser to wash her face. She lowered her head, and vaguely felt that someone was approaching quietly and standing behind her. She hurriedly wiped off the facial cleanser in her eyes, and looked back, there was no one behind her. She exhaled, patted her chest, and continued to wash her face...
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