Shen Mian came back to her senses after hearing her voice and smiled reassuringly at her.
She had followed Yin Jinchuan and Wei Duo into the room opposite that day, and she was very clear about the layout and situation inside. Including the corner of the stairs that was separated by a wall from the room, there was no place that could be easily accessed.
What she was just thinking about was another question.
If the case that happened here is similar to the case that Qiao Jiaying said about other people being kidnapped in this scenic spot, there is one thing that is different.
According to what Qiao Jiaying said and the police investigation, the kidnapping of so many people did not attract greater attention. The main reason is that most of those people are not locals and have no connections with family or friends and colleagues. It's relatively subtle. In other words, even if you disappear for a short period of time, it may not attract other people's attention.
In this way, even if someone later discovers that they are missing and calls the police, the perpetrators will have enough time to make various preparations.
But when the young couple who lived opposite her woke up, except for a few large bloody characters on the wall, nothing else happened.
If there is any difference between them and others, it is probably that they are two people, and they do not fit in with those people's choice of kidnapping targets.
Shen Mian thought so and walked towards the corner of the corridor again.
Due to the discovery of the previous B&B, You Nanxing and Wei Duo were checking in that room to see if there was any connection to the outside corridor. At this time, it was Xu Yizhou and another worker who were exploring the corner of the stairs. personnel.
"Miss Shen..." Xu Yizhou heard the footsteps and turned around to see Shen Mian coming downstairs.
Shen Mian nodded to him and asked softly: "Did you find anything?"
"No." Xu Yizhou stared at the wall and frowned. "There is only this large hanging painting on the wall here, but after we removed it, we found nothing special on the wall behind it. Neither the wallpaper nor the connections between the wall, ceiling, and floor were found. What's strange."
To be precise, this was an ordinary wall, which was not consistent with their previous guesses.
"That's it..." She waved her hands to them, asking them to continue doing their own business and leave her alone.
She stared at the wall for a while, then suddenly turned her head to look opposite the wall.
There is also a corner sofa there. There is no bookshelf above it. Leisure books are placed beside the sofa. There is also a colorful landscape painting on the wall, which complements the surrounding furnishings.
Shen Mian looked at the painting, reached out and took out a relatively thin book from the nearby bookshelf, opened it, flipped through it and put it back. He turned to Qiao Jiaying, who had been following him next to him, and asked, "Have you brought tissues?"
"Huh? I brought it."
Although she didn't know why Shen Mian wanted tissues, Qiao Jiaying still took out a pack of tissues from her pocket and handed it over.
Shen Mian took one out, unfolded it, stretched out towards the painting, and placed it on the edge of the frame, but did not touch the frame. She ran the tissue around the edge of the frame and then down.
When she was away from the edge of the sofa underground, the thin tissue in her hand moved slightly.
She stretched out her hand and tapped the template on the back of the sofa with her knuckles, then squatted down and looked at the structure of this small piece of furniture.
Qiao Jiaying looked at her actions with some confusion and said nothing.
She didn't quite understand what Shen Mian was doing, but she also knew that she shouldn't disturb her at this time.
Suddenly, Shen Mian stood up and said to Xu Yizhou and the others behind him: "Please do me a favor and move this sofa away."
Xu Yizhou and her colleague looked at each other and seemed to realize what she must have discovered, so he reached out to push the sofa below. After exerting force, he found that the sofa was not moving at all.
"Is it one piece?" Xu Yizhou observed it and came to a conclusion: "This should be connected to the bookcase and nailed to the wall."
Shen Mian shook his head: "The back here should be empty. The bottom of this wall corresponds to the landlord's storage room, or other spaces. As long as there is a door, there will be some gap, otherwise the door cannot be opened. , the smaller the gap between two different spaces, when the air flow exchanges with each other, it will be forced to pass quickly due to the pressure, causing the air flow to accelerate. You should have heard of the 'narrow tube effect', the principle is similar to that. "
Several people present looked at each other. The name seemed familiar, but they seemed to understand it, but they didn't seem to understand it.
Qiao Jiaying reacted quickly: "So, the reason why the paper towel moved just now is because the wind blew through the gap. It is difficult for the human body to feel the weak air flow, but light and thin objects will be more easily affected?"
"right."
Shen Mian smiled to show encouragement.
After receiving the affirmation, Qiao Jiaying's originally pale face gained a trace of blood, and her whole person seemed to be more energetic.
As a result, everyone else's eyes focused on the painting and the sofa below.
"Did you find anything?" Wei Duo and You Nanxing walked down the stairs at this time.
Several people told them what they had just discovered, and they also focused their attention in that direction. At the same time, they also arranged for two people to go to the storage room and the outer wall below to check the situation.
Fortunately, there are corresponding professional personnel among them.
When the hanging paintings and bookcases were dismantled, a small space that could only accommodate one person appeared in front of them.
Different from the previous situation where it was directly connected to the room on the other side of the wall, You Nanxing tentatively entered through this passage, turned a corner, and quickly retracted his body from inside.
"The connection over there is the place where the air-conditioning cabinet is placed on the back wall of the B&B. You should be able to go out directly from there. Next to it is the ladder used for repairing pipes on the same roof. If you look at it from the outside, if you are braver, you may be able to Go to the balcony railings on both sides." You Nanxing explained the structure he just saw.
"What do these B&Bs want to do?" Wei Duo suddenly felt a burst of anger in his heart: "One and two rooms are like this..."
"I'll have to ask everyone at the B&B." You Nanxing's expression was obviously very ugly.
The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground that Shen Mian heard here should be the sound of someone jumping from the passage outside.
"By the way, why did you think of looking at the wall here? The direction is inconsistent?" Wei Duo suddenly realized and asked Shen Mian.
Shen Mian chuckled softly: "Because I suspect that the young couple who lived opposite me at that time were not actually their original target, but it was just a mistake. Their target was probably me."
Perhaps it was because her expression was so relaxed that the people next to her thought they had heard her wrong when they heard her say this.
"What did you say?" Wei Duo's voice rose a little.
Are her sisters so unlucky... No... What is going on?
Shen Mian didn't realize how much of a bomb she had dropped on the people around her, because she was too calm, as if the person she said almost had an accident was not herself.
"I've actually been thinking about how the young couple opposite me has anything to do with these things. If I take it seriously, they probably accidentally approached the place where the hostages were held before the Moon Worship Festival. , those people may not be at ease with the two of them, so they do something similar to an act of revenge, or to completely cover up their criminal behavior."
However, this inference actually has bugs.
Not to mention that the young couple themselves did not suffer any substantial harm, and they did not meet the standards of those people for kidnapping people. And when the kidnapping was not successful, it was really an unwise choice to write those words on the wall and attract the police.
Unless the other party's target was not the young couple from the beginning, and it was only when they finally wanted to kidnap someone that something unexpected happened. The previous arrangement is irreversible. The price of making a mistake was too high, so I had no choice but to let them go. And scare them away.
Then there are only a few customers in this B&B itself, if the young couple opposite is not their target.
The only person who can meet the other party's requirements is Shen Mian.
"I came to the scenic spot alone. I am used to being alone. I have relatively little communication with other people. I am relatively independent. I am also a single woman and have weak resistance. No matter from which angle I look at it, I actually fit the bill. The other party's standards." Shen Mian chuckled: "And..."
She lengthened her voice a little: "After the police investigation was completed in the room opposite, not long after I left, when I came back here, I found someone knocking on my door. Because a male's name appeared on my phone unexpectedly. The sound caused the other party to realize something was wrong and leave quickly. When leaving, I saw his back going downstairs, but when I looked at the door of the B&B, I didn't find anyone leaving the yard."
"That person at that time probably came out of here..."
Shen Mian also recalled the knock on the door that day.
It was probably Gu Henzhi's sudden sound that made the other party mistakenly think that there was a man with him in the room, so he gave up knocking on the door and left quickly.
Otherwise, she is likely to have face-to-face contact with the other party.
Of course, it’s unclear who was unlucky in that kind of contact, but he did run away without the other party succeeding.
"that person……"
Wei Duo recalled what happened that day, and seemed to remember Shen Mian mentioning it.
However, when they later investigated the B&B, they found nothing unusual, so they could not follow this clue to continue their investigation.
"Actually, you will know that person just by asking." Shen Mian added.
"Um?"
"The handcuffed gentleman waiting outside should be the figure I saw from behind that day. Didn't he mention this when he was there? Maybe your Captain Yin hasn't found any evidence yet, so he didn't I couldn't get him to tell me about it." Shen Mian glanced in the direction outside the B&B.
From a distance, he seemed to be eye-to-eye with the person on the other side of the police car.
After she helped Yin Jinchuan and the others catch the person with a water bottle that day, when they took the person away, she felt that the person's back was somewhat familiar. They are people from the village that the canteen owner mentioned, but it seems to be more than that. After thinking about it, I suddenly realized that the man's back was very similar to the one he saw on the stairs.
The gentleman in handcuffs...
Okay, I just need to name them!
The people present instantly understood what she meant.
So You Nanxing used the intercom to talk to his colleagues at the door of the B&B and brought the man over. Because Qiao Jiaying looked bad, Shen Mian still took her and sent her back to the police car temporarily.
When the young man passed by them, Shen Mian could clearly feel the gaze he was looking at him, seemingly casually.
This look seemed to have more resentment than before. Probably when she appeared here, the other party also realized that she was the guest who lived here.
Suddenly, Shen Mian felt her sleeve being pulled.
He turned to look at the girl next to him who was grabbing his sleeve: "What?"
Qiao Jiaying's lips moved slightly: "Sister Shen, I have seen that person before."
"Huh?" Shen Mian turned his head slightly and glanced at the man's back with his peripheral vision.
Noticing Qiao Jiaying's nervousness, she took him and got into the same car she had just arrived in. It wasn't until she was cut off from the outside world that she asked, "When did you see him?"
"When I was locked up, he once sent me a meal temporarily." Qiao Jiaying replied.
"Are you sure you remember correctly?"
"No, I didn't dare to recognize him at first, but when he passed by us just now, I couldn't remember the mole under his left ear. He actually only came here once. The reason why I I was deeply impressed by him because I was thinking of a way to escape at that time. He suddenly walked in cursing and kept talking from the moment he came in to the time he left. He said what would it be like to let him do a job like delivering food? of……"
"The other guards are very quiet and are not allowed to talk to us. They are probably afraid that interacting with us too much will give us a chance to escape or something else. Because of this matter, he was put in charge there while he was still at the door. People scolded me. So I was very impressed with him."
Qiao Jiaying said while recalling.
"Sister Shen, if I can testify, if I catch him, will I be able to catch that group of people? And... and my aunt..."
As Qiao Jiaying spoke, her fingers touched her pocket involuntarily.
The bank card I just received was lying quietly inside.
Do you want to take care of Henzhi? See you tomorrow~
(End of chapter)
