A police patrol car parked under a high-end apartment building in the West District of Feiyun City. The detective couldn't wait to jump out of the car like a Pokémon that returned to the Poké Ball after using the escape button.
"Miss Junsha, your driving skills cannot be complimented. We are not chasing criminals. There is no need to drift so much when turning."
While feeling the calm earth with his feet, Hugo pointed out unequivocally: "After seeing your driving skills, I even miss the Thunder Zebra."
"I will prepare you an exclusive car seat that can discharge electricity towards your butt. I hope this can ease your lovesickness." Junsha retorted without giving in. "My driving skills are flawless. Every turn and lane change is perfect." It’s flawless and follows the principle of maximizing efficiency. I’m quite confident about it.”
As she spoke, the police officer cast a questioning look at Bilan and Sera who were getting out of the car.
Sierra closed her eyes and remained silent. Bilan beside her wanted to say something, but before her words came out, she was interrupted by retching from deep in her throat.
"...At least we arrived at our destination in time." Junsha was embarrassed for a while, but Hugo did not pursue the victory. His attention was completely focused on the apartment building in front of him.
It is a typical high-end residential building. The exterior facade of the residence adopts a modern style, and the entire building adopts harmonious neutral tones. Local embellishments use contrast to enhance the details. The entire building is as high-end as a contemporary work of art.
Compared with the narrow alleys Bilan visited before, the buildings here are less pragmatic with straight up and down, white walls and red tiles, and are replaced by minimalist and luxurious stylized designs.
"Wow, this building looks so expensive." Bi Lanyan, who recovered from her dizziness, summed it up concisely and vividly, vividly describing the main features of the building in front of her.
"Based on the income of a senior trainer, such living conditions are not outrageous." Hugo commented.
"This neighborhood is the wealthy area of Feiyun City. It is the product of spontaneous counter-urbanization after Feiyun City developed to a certain extent. The wealthy class were tired of the traffic congestion, crime growth and serious pollution in the city center, and took the initiative to move here. This kind of suburbs are some distance away from the city but bordering each other. In the near future, more middle class and ordinary people will leave the city and move here. The suburbs are becoming more and more self-reliant, and they will be composed of single residents. The function becomes an employment center with various urban functions.”
The police officer did not stay downstairs for long. After saying hello to the policeman standing guard at the door, she walked directly into the building and rolled her eyes at the detective and assistant who were discussing apartment prices and urbanization changes: "You two Villas in the city center are much more expensive than here.”
"Rent and selling price are two different things." The detective argued unreasonably and confidently, but he immediately followed the police officer into the building.
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The four people passed through the first-floor lobby, elevator room, elevator, and floor corridors in sequence, and arrived at the door of the crime scene.
In order to take care of the residents living on the same floor, the police did not open the door to the bloody crime scene. At this moment, there were still two police officers from the forensic department wearing protective hats and gloves busy inside the door.
"It is said that the last person who saw the deceased was the apartment manager on the first floor?" Before facing the scene, Hugo confirmed the final information with Junsha in the corridor.
"Yes, it was six o'clock in the evening. The administrator saw Mr. Greta passing through the duty room and entering the elevator. The route was roughly the same as the one we just walked. Now he has completed the police interrogation. As we can see, Back to work.”
"Did the administrator see any strange people entering the building after that?" the detective continued to ask.
As if she already knew the case well, Junsha immediately replied: "No, all the visitors are residents of this high-end apartment building. If the administrator sees an unknown stranger, he will definitely let him register before leaving."
"So, this entire building can also be regarded as a secret room?" Bilan said naturally, using her palms to trace the shape of the building, "This is also a second secret room filled with residents."
"Although I don't read detective novels very much, Bilan, your understanding of the secret room seems to be a little biased." Miss Junsha kindly reminded, "Countless residents have come in and out of the apartment since last night. This building is a An ordinary high-end apartment building.”
"And we can't completely trust the apartment manager. The old gentleman may have lied about whether to let in outsiders in order to save his job." Hugo added rigorously.
The detective was still pacing at the door of the crime scene. He was not in a hurry to enter the secret room in front of him immediately, but hoped to sort out the existing information before going to investigate the scene.
Junsha thought for a while and had to nod in agreement with Hugo's question: "The apartment manager is already very old. We cannot rule out the possibility of memory loss and neglect of duties..."
"Sir, you may have forgotten the new information discovered by the search team in the morning."
The person who interrupted the speech was Miss Serra. She hurriedly opened her mobile phone and switched the screen to the interface of a certain work discussion group: "The search team made a new discovery three hours ago. They were in the convenience store downstairs opposite. A newly installed surveillance camera was found in the store, which seems to be able to capture footage from the bottom of the building."
"They didn't tell me about this?!" Junsha rarely showed the usual irritability on the face of a police officer.
"Sir, you were the one who told everyone before you left for the detective agency that you were going to do something important and that you should not make phone calls unless there were special circumstances." The deputy said hesitantly, "You were in the police station at that time. After saying this, some colleagues even speculated that you were going to confront the real murderer directly."
Junsha held her forehead with her hands, glared at the detective, and spoke to Hugo word by word with silent lip language.
Hugo understood the lip reading, which roughly meant "Look at the good things you did!" Miss Junsha probably believed that she was in the current situation because of Hugo's willfulness in putting all the credit on herself.
However, he pretended not to see it and asked Serra instead: "Is there anything new found in the surveillance video downstairs? Did the police compare the residents who entered the building with the people who walked out of the building?"
"They are doing this, but it takes time to compare the monitoring. They haven't yet..." Before Sera finished speaking, a new message popped up in the discussion group.
Junsha also looked at her mobile phone. The female police officer who was regarded as a detective by the police due to some unforeseen circumstances took a deep breath and said slowly——
"Surveillance showed that the apartment manager's statement was completely correct. No outsiders entered the building, and no strangers left the building after the incident. All residents who left the apartment building the next day were within the control of the police, and no one attempted to Escape from Feiyun City."
Then she turned her face to Bi Lan: "Miss Assistant, your previous guess was correct. This overcrowded apartment is a second secret room wrapped in a perfect secret room."
