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Chapter 10 Lost Night

Drop, answer, answer, answer.

Time is passing.

The police divided into two groups. The criminal investigation team gathered people to the cold storage and began to study the methods of cracking the secret room. This group of people tended to have no possibility of committing crimes in the cold storage, and focused on the attacker's methods.

On the other side, the rescued security guard Liu Zhongwei and the aquatic shop owner Zhang Jianhong were not released. After the hospital confirmed that their health was not injured, they continued to supervise as suspects. Zhu Ansheng's footprint hypothesis made the confession of the two people a major suspicion, and the police officer tried to make further breakthroughs in the interrogation room.

What is desperate is that the clock's pointer quietly turned around, and the investigation on both sides also made no progress.

The dual secret room method cannot be cracked, and the two suspects cannot remember anything.

At one o'clock in the morning, Xia Liang received a call from Zhu Ansheng and drove to the vicinity of Tianhe District University of Technology. There is a Shahe Children's Welfare Home here. Two streets are the employee residential community of the welfare home. It is Zhu Ansheng's residence and the location of the "Ansheng Office".

Zhu Ansheng had been waiting at the entrance of the community for a long time. Xia Liang stopped the car and saw that he was holding two sets of thick down jackets and a plastic bag. The down jacket was covered with dust.

Xia Liang rolled down the car window. Zhu Ansheng said:

"I'll drive it."

Xia Liang looked at him for a while: "Brother-in-law, do you have a driver's license?"

Zhu Ansheng was silent for a while: "Don't ask."

“You can’t drive without a driver’s license.”

"My driver's license has been revoked long ago."

"Then you can't drive."

"It's early morning, there will be no police."

"Brother-in-law, I'm the police."

"Then what's the use of me, my brother-in-law?"

Xia Liang looked at him seriously and induced him carefully: "Brother-in-law, it is impossible to break the law by knowing the law."

Zhu Ansheng sat in the passenger seat with an unhappy look on his face, watching the scenery outside the window retreat.

Xia Liang held the steering wheel, glanced at him from the bottom of his heart, and smiled bitterly.

"Brother-in-law, what are you going to the cold storage for?"

“Some things need verification.”

Xia Liang was silent for a while and said softly: "I still think it's not good for us to sneak in like this, right? This matter does not comply with the police force's rules..."

Zhu Ansheng turned his head and looked at him with interesting interest:

"But you came anyway."

Xia Liang stopped talking.

He wants to know the truth. If Zhu Ansheng cannot, then no one can.

The white accord drove into the yellow sand seafood market. The two got out of the car and walked straight into the alley. Zhu Ansheng crossed the blockade line left by the police force, tore off the blocking tape stuck to the cold storage door, put it in the bag in his hand, and pulled the door open with great force.

He motioned Xia Liang to go in, Xia Liang went in, turned around and looked for the switch of the cold storage on the wall.

The incandescent lamp flashed, illuminating the entire cold storage. The next moment, he heard a "pop" sound, and the cold storage suddenly became pitch black.

The humming sound of the refrigerator also came to an abrupt end.

Perhaps it was because of psychological effects, in the darkness, he could feel the chill invading his body. He hurriedly looked at the door and could only see Zhu Ansheng's shadow, and he was also walking towards the door.

"Brother-in-law, have you pulled the switch?"

Zhu Ansheng said "yes" and said calmly, "Don't step on the footprints on the ground", walked into the cold storage, turned around and closed the door.

The light shining in from outside the door was swallowed up. Xia Liang's heart skipped a beat.

With a "bang", the swaying fire lighted up in the dark. The flames of the windproof lighter reflected Zhu Ansheng's pale face:

"Put on the clothes."

Xia Liang hurriedly took the thrown down jacket. He followed Zhu Ansheng around the footprints on the ground and walked deep into the cold storage.

The two stopped in the middle. Zhu Ansheng put on his down jacket, found a place without footprints to sit down, fumbled in the bag for a while, and took out a... ashtray.

There are also pipes, tobacco, matches, and a power bank of 20,000 mAh.

Xia Liang originally thought that the bag was an important tool for investigating the scene, but the result was only these things. Zhu Ansheng's tone was as leisurely as if he was here for vacation:

"Sit down, it should be a long time to wait."

Xia Liang squatted down with his body in his arms, feeling a little uneasy.

"Brother-in-law, what are we waiting for?"

"Wait for the cold storage to melt the snow."

When Xia Liang heard this, he was excited and vaguely felt that he had touched some key points.

Zhu Ansheng continued:

"It takes a lot of energy to calculate the time when the ground starts to tide after the power outage of this cold storage. The most direct way is to turn off the power switch directly and test it once. But the police will not do this, because after turning off the power, everything in the cold storage will tide, which is likely to cover up some key clues and even damage the crime scene. Therefore, we can only come secretly."

Xia Liang said worriedly: "Then if we destroy the crime scene tonight, wouldn't it be a big deal?"

Zhu Ansheng looked at him as if he was looking at a fool:

"Will you just sit and don't move?"

Xia Liang was speechless for a while. He understood what Zhu Ansheng did to bring cigarettes and power banks specifically.

He had already taken out his cell phone leisurely to kill time and sipped a sip of cigarettes from time to time. Xia Liang's cell phone fell into the car, and he could only sigh to his uncle.

He hugged his shoulders and shivered for a while, and he couldn't help but lean on Zhu Ansheng's end.

It was boring to sit foolishly, and he couldn't walk around. The cold storage was so quiet that it was scary. If the claustrophobic patient was locked up, he would probably go completely crazy within half an hour.

Xia Liang suppressed the horror in his heart and urged himself to think to divert his attention. He thought that the three of them were locked in the same place at that time, and it was natural to panic. He could not see the eyes here, and the only light was the faint light leaking from the crack in the opposite door.

His body became colder and colder, and he could not think calmly. He immediately felt that if he was the one who was locked up here at that time, he would definitely be unforgettable to this experience for life.

Xia Liang was stunned and straightened his body:

"Brother-in-law, I suddenly thought of it!"

"Um?"

He was very excited: "You said, if you lock the security guard and the boss in again and feel the feelings of the scene, can they recall more details?"

Zhu Ansheng didn't say anything. After a while, he calmly said "um":

"It's a good idea."

"Brother-in-law?" Xia Liang looked up and was a little surprised: "Why are you so cold? Is there any problem with this idea?"

Zhu Ansheng turned his head and looked at him meaningfully:

"It's nothing. Remember to tell Lao Xing this idea tomorrow. Some things should be done as soon as possible. If nothing unexpected happens, the police should be busy soon."

Xia Liang felt a little negative feeling of expectation and was silent for a while and asked:

"Brother-in-law, what do you think of this case? Can't you tell me?"

Zhu Ansheng slides the screen of his phone, absent-minded:

"It's nothing to tell you. Some things can be deduced."

"What's the matter?"

Zhu Ansheng said lightly:

"Remember I accidentally knocked over a plastic box today?"

Xia Liang had an impression, and he reacted: "You did it on purpose, right?"

Zhu Ansheng nodded: "When you knock over the box, the sound is very loud. Even people who are already in deep sleep will definitely be awakened. Have you ever noticed the height of the shelf? It is about two meters. The door of the cold storage is only 1.8 meters. When you press the shelf against the door and put the plastic box on it, you will never find a plastic box on your head from the outside perspective."

Xia Liang nodded and agreed: "So, this absolute secret room should be established?"

Zhu Ansheng shook his head and narrowed his eyes slightly:

"The weapon at the scene has been confirmed to be a brick on the ground. Suppose the deceased was attacked after Liu Zhongwei and Zhang Jianhong fell asleep. The body was not far from the two, and there was no trace of being dragged and moved. The sound of the brick hitting the skull was quite loud. The effect of the chloroform of the two men had passed, and they were not in a coma. How could they not wake up?"

Xia Liangxin was shocked and widened his eyes:

"You mean... After they fell asleep, they should have been confused by the murderer in chloroform..."

"It should be."

Xia Liang was silent for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he felt:

"If this is the case, maybe this secret room will not be established... The murderer was not outside the cold storage at that time. He hid in the cold storage, using the darkness in the cold storage as cover, and waited until the three of them fell asleep again to attack the victim... And he was observing the situation in the cold storage, and he must have known that there were boxes on the door. As long as he took them down in advance, there would be no sound..."

After murmured for a while, he frowned again: "The problem of the box has been solved, but the situation of the double secret room still cannot be cracked... Wait... At that time, the door outside was locked, and the murderer was inside, so it was impossible to lock the door..."

Zhu Ansheng calmly shook the phone in his hand:

"Yes. In this cold storage, the phone has signals."

Xia Liang swallowed:
Chapter completed!
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