"Number?" Jiang Wan was stunned for a long time, unable to tell where the number was. She looked at Chen Qing and thought for a moment before asking Chen Qing: "What number. Is it related to the number of floors?"
He shook his head, sighed and laughed twice: "In a sense, this case is really related to the entrance to the back room we are looking for.
The people in the foundation are too arrogant, so arrogant that they don't want to come to the human world. But they are looking for the entrance to the human world, but they are unwilling to step in. They are looking for a shitty human world. "
Chen Qing laughed, and most of the sorrow in his heart was relieved.
"What do you mean?" Jiang Wan was a little confused after hearing his words: "What do you mean...unwilling..."
Chen Qing interrupted her and pointed to the outside of the building: "Let me ask you two questions first. Question one: Do you think this building is tall?"
Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment, then nodded immediately.
"How high?"
She frowned and made an estimate: "Maybe... seventy or eighty meters?"
Chen Qing shook his head and said to her with a smile: "It's more than a hundred meters here, almost half the value."
Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment, then replied in a panic: "How is this possible?! This is half the original building area! Such a huge economic expenditure on materials! How could I not have discovered this at the time!"
Chen Qing shook his head again. This time he really didn't understand: "I don't know what happened back then. But I guess it has something to do with the back room."
He was silent for a while, and then continued to ask: "Tell me, at an altitude of tens of meters, how can a construction worker hide it from everyone, bring a body to the site of piling and pouring, and put the body into it.
It's difficult isn't it? "
Jiang Wan frowned. She had actually thought about this problem a long time ago. She took it after dismembering it and conspired with a few people. But no matter which method was used, the goal was too big and it was completely impossible to succeed.
"I don't know." After a long time, she finally gave up.
But Chen Qing immediately rejected her words: "No. You know. You already know." He looked at Jiang Wan and pointed at the sky.
What's the meaning?
She frowned and followed Chen Qing's gesture to look up at the sky. She saw the moonlight, the stars, and... the building that covered the stars.
"Is it...the extra twenty meters in height?"
She looked at Chen Qing, her eyes full of disbelief.
"This is more than 20 meters! The total cost is probably close to one million!" Her voice was hoarse: "This is still one million a few years ago! You..."
But after listening to her words, the smile on Chen Qing's face finally disappeared: "Is it hard to believe? It's almost impossible, right?"
Jiang Wan instinctively wanted to nod, but looking at Chen Qing's appearance, she hesitated.
"But after all the wrong options are eliminated, no matter how impossible or unbelievable the remaining option is, then it is the truth." He looked at Jiang Wan and continued to explain after a moment: "Yes, if It is basically impossible to complete the process of dumping and pouring during the construction of a building.
Unless there is no co-worker around him during the implementation process.
And the best reason to explain this is that they were not at that level at that time.
I think he first made a gap in the wooden boards used for pouring, then entered the mezzanine between floors and broke the formwork, then put the body inside. As the cement on that layer was missing, the cement on the upper layer flowed down, and the pressure caused The body was displaced and moved from the mezzanine to the 'main floor' below. "
Jiang Wan's face turned stiff upon hearing this. She nodded, her fingers trembling a little. She was about to dial the number of the leader upstairs, but hesitated after a moment.
"I wonder if I should inform them?" Chen Qing had guessed it by looking at her actions.
"Yeah..." She nodded: "If I tell them, wouldn't it lead them to the back room?"
"Don't talk about the mezzanine. Or wait until we solve it?" He spread his hands indifferently, and then said again: "Anyway, it's enough to know who the suspect who dropped the case was. It’s not necessary to find the first place where the body was dumped.”
"This is procedural justice..." She seemed a little embarrassed.
"But at least this can achieve good results. To me, it's nothing more than the difference between one plus one and one point five plus zero point five."
He waved his hand and led Jiang Wan into the building: "The location we are looking for should be on the mezzanine. We may have to experiment in the elevator for a long time. Have you notified the property management to open the elevator?"
She nodded and explained: "I've already informed you, but it's late at night after all, and the security guard may be sleeping too. The self-check after the elevator starts will also take a certain amount of time. It should be..." Before she could finish her words, the elevator room happened to be empty. There was the sound of the arrival of the elevator.
"Look? Isn't this a coincidence." Chen Qing smiled and pressed the elevator door button, and the music in the elevator room began to play.
The two boarded the elevator, first pressed the buttons for all floors, and then turned on the timer on their mobile phones.
After the elevator officially started moving upward, Chen Qing started to count down the timer every time he reached a floor. When they completed the twenty-five floors, the timer in Chen Qing's hand also recorded more than 20 times with a slight error. But never a big timer.
He looked at the record in his hand and picked out the numbers that took significantly longer. The time periods of these timings came from: third floor, ninth floor, twelfth floor, fourteenth floor, nineteenth floor, second floor. Twelfth floor.
There weren't many floors that were obviously out of place. He made a rough estimate and figured that there were still some wrong timings on the floors here.
Listening to his thoughts, Jiang Wan was a little confused as to why the mezzanine he estimated would be much lower than this number. You know, the floor heights in this building are all 3.5 meters. If it were based on 20 meters, If you do the math, it must be at least five floors away. .
After asking, Chen Qingcai happily explained to her: "Since the other party wants to make a mezzanine, it will naturally be enough. But in order to be enough, he will definitely not lay it out according to the original size. That is meaningless, and The more floors you add, the greater the risk of exposure.
But an extra high mezzanine floor won’t. "
He looked at the contents of the floor instructions, but he couldn't help but feel a little curious. If someone looked down through the elevator shaft, wouldn't it be easy to find it?
But after thinking for a moment, he was amused by his stupid idea.
People are not stupid.
After he laughed, he contacted the person in charge of the elevator in the property. After communicating with him, they decided on how to control the elevator stop.
It's a simple and crude way, but I have to say, it's very effective.
They pressed the descending floor again. As the elevator index began to slide accordingly, when the elevator reached twenty-two and began to descend, Chen Qing's hand began to press the door door button continuously. At twenty-two, After a second or two on the second floor, his hand had pressed the button more than a dozen times in succession.
The result was obvious. The elevator stopped in a dark, deserted floor filled with construction waste.
The light in the elevator shone outward, and the light barely illuminated the road about two or three levels above the ground.
The floor of this floor is very rugged. Yes, it can be described as rugged. There are more protruding cement lumps here and there than a flat road. There are no wall panels on the entire floor, but it is impossible to see things in the dark.
In that darkness, people always feel like something is staring at them.
In that darkness, almost every space was engraved with two words: "Unknown".
In the darkness, there might be a creature covered in blood rushing towards the two of them in the next moment, and maybe in the next moment, a severed head would roll down in front of their feet.
In that darkness, everything seemed to exist. Broken limbs and blood? Or a rotting, walking creature.
Jiang Wan felt a little scared in her heart. She hunched over slightly, and there were fine drops of sweat on her palms. It was too dark and too quiet outside.
Although this is normal, this place itself is abnormal enough.
She was afraid, and so was Chen Qing.
But in his words, fear always stems from the unknown and lack of firepower.
He took a deep breath and his eyes gradually became firmer.
But he turned to look at Jiang Wan, whose mood was obviously not right.
"There's something wrong with this place." He lowered his voice, as if he was worried about scaring some animal in the dark.
"Bullshit...nonsense..." Her words were trembling, and the fine sweat on her hands had wet the bottom of the pistol's magazine under the pressure.
"Don't you realize that your fear is too serious?"
"This place... is too dark." She gritted her teeth, her teeth trembling.
"Let's go to other floors first." He nodded, his eyes full of fear of this place.
It was so dark that even the light from the elevator was swallowed up on the way.
It was like some kind of creature was waiting for them in the dark, waiting for them to step into a trap.
There is so much wrong here.
The two of them pressed the door-close button. On the way down, the moment the elevator left this floor, they felt indescribably comfortable.
The instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages that has been passed down by human beings for millions of years is always thinking about saving them.
But as the two of them descended, only the ninth floor was left among the previously recorded floors.
But the ninth floor is completely different from here. The layout of the ninth floor has been completed, and there are some signs of decoration in the corridor.
It just looked abandoned.
When they arrived here, the eyes of Jiang Wan and Chen Qing began to become solemn again.
They were already wondering whether it would be more appropriate to end their journey here.
"What they say is true."
He stood in the elevator, feeling infinitely depressed.
He turned his head, looked at Jiang Wan and said, "Maybe we should leave a fire?"
"Are you kidding? My job is to keep an eye on you, okay!"
He smiled, a bit bitterly: "Then go back. See if his grandma is a human or a ghost!"
