Hidden accident

Chapter 4

4. Some roads to life and fortune are paved with gravel

The moment he stepped into the hotel room, Liu Jun's two assistants made a series of fatal calls. After connecting the video call, the two began to dislike the hotel accommodation environment endlessly.

"No, no, the photos on the Internet are all deceiving," Jiang Lai, one of the assistants, complained, "I quarreled with the hotel proprietress just because of such a broken room? I can't live!"

Another assistant, Qiu Wei, pushed his square glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "There may be a serial murderer nearby. I'm afraid of death, so I can't live."

Jiang Lai said: "I don't care, I won't go, there are no nail salons, I won't go!"

"Unless the wages increase." Qiu Wei said.

Liu Jun ignored him and threw the phone on the bed. The call was still on, but the other end was still howling. He went straight to the side to pack the suitcase.

Liu Jun has a detective agency, and it has a good name. It doesn't matter if it's a detective or not. Everyone's daily business intention is to take on some work of catching and investigating extramarital affairs, which is easy and quick to make money.

The office plus Liu Jun himself have a total of three people. Jiang Lai is a small girl who loves beauty and dress up. She has fought in close quarters since elementary school, and she can kill people with a single palm;

Qiu Wei is an Internet technology geek. He loves black technology in the past few years and has blown up some houses and cars. He is a frequent visitor to the management office. Surround yourself for a living.

Liu Jun used to be a forensic doctor, and he has been a highly valued backbone of the city bureau's criminal investigation team. As a result, when he was promoted at the age of 30, he was unable to work in a government unit because of an accident. Later, he left and opened his current firm.

The office has also been open for five years before and after, which is a bit of a mistake.

For example, I received an entrustment from a middle school student to find a crush who suddenly dropped out of school and lost contact, and then brought in a gang of human trafficking and drug trafficking;

For example, I finally received the entrustment to arrest San, and finally used Xiao San's assets as an important clue to help the police solve a money laundering and smuggling case...

After coming and going, I gained some fame, and the commissions I received exceeded my expectations one by one.

For example, now, it was entrusted by Liu Jun's friend who was a criminal police officer in the city bureau to follow a suspect.

The suspicion is just the intuition of the criminal police friend, and there is no direct evidence.

Without evidence, the police will be subject to certain restrictions if they want to investigate, and Liu Jun's firm is very suitable for both its professional capabilities and its bold style of taking risks without restrictions.

According to Qiu Wei's complaint: come to be an informant, it's free.

"Forget about free labor, the temperature is [-] degrees every day over there, do you know how expensive it is for me to get a whitening injection!" Jiang Lai was still complaining.

Liu Jun tidied up all the clothes in the suitcase and put them in the closet, and took the toiletries he brought to replace the ones in the hotel bathroom. After tidying up, he was ready to take a shower, and the video hadn't been hung up yet.

Jiang Lai is still counting her monthly expenses in the beauty salon.

Liu Jun sat down on the bed, picked up his phone and waited for a while. When she stopped talking, he asked, "Where have you found Cheng Guosheng's whereabouts?"

"It's not so easy for a long-distance truck driver to find out all the places he has been to." Jiang Lai looked impatient, "Ask a few people who have contacted Cheng Guosheng, but they are not very impressed with this person, saying that he is quiet. Introverted, honest and honest..."

"Of the ten serial murderers, eight of the character traits are quiet, introverted, and honest." Qiu Wei was a "character gun" when he opened his mouth. , wages must be increased.”

Liu Jun ignored him and asked Qiu Wei, "How did you find out?"

Like Jiang Lai, Qiu Wei complained non-stop, as if he was always shirking work, but in fact he never missed the point, never delaying the business.

On the other end of the video, Qiu Wei bowed his head and typed on the keyboard, saying, "I roughly classified the disappearance cases in the public security system across the country, and I was almost blind. In the past three years, there are several routes that Cheng Guosheng often took. 24 disappearance cases have been sent to you. However, even if anyone among the missing persons has an intersection with Cheng Guosheng, it will not prove anything."

Liu Jun bent down and took out the laptop from the suitcase, opened it to read the file sent by Qiu Wei, put the phone away, and in the three video windows, he was the only one who didn't show his face the whole time.

Jiang Lai, on the other hand, had obviously enlarged his window and was arranging his makeup and hair all the time.Qiu Wei was looking at the computer, occasionally turned his head to look at it, and complained that Jiang Lai was fat and didn't look good with glasses.

Liu Jun looked at the file on the computer and ordered: "Xiao Qiu, go meet Xiao Jiang and walk around the address in this missing list."

"The reason is to make a documentary?" Xiao Jiang asked.

"Let Xiaoqiu make a false testimony," Liu Jun said, "a police certificate."

Qiu Weihua said emphatically: "Then the wages must be raised!"

But until the video was hung up, he didn't get the promise of a salary increase.

After receiving the entrustment earlier, they divided into three groups. Liu Jun followed the suspect Cheng Guosheng from a neighboring city to Pingning Port. Jiang Lai used the pretext of filming documentaries of various industries in the city to visit several locations where Cheng Guosheng was transporting goods. More frequent manufacturers, Qiu Wei is responsible for entering the public security system to investigate missing cases.

The commission came from a case investigated by a friend of Liu Jun.

Half a year ago, the street was seriously flooded due to heavy rainfall for several days. When the man who repaired the sewer opened the manhole cover, he found a dead body.

In the end, the deceased fell into the sewer where the manhole cover was overturned. Accident.

However, Liu Jun, a friend of the criminal police, was always puzzled after the case was closed. Why did the road surveillance just break down when the manhole cover was overturned?And when was it covered back by whom?Why didn't you find anyone underneath when you put the manhole cover back on?

He told Liu Jun about the case from the beginning. At that time, the two of them were drinking, and they drank too much. They piled up one after another without thinking about it. After waking up, the more they thought about it, the more they couldn't let go. Call it out.

I wanted to see a reference, but after looking for it, there were no less than ten similar cases in five years.

Sewer pipes, rainstorms, accidents closed, happened in different urban areas, the dead were unrelated, it was a perfect accident, and the only thing that kept them from giving up on the investigation was that these dead people who lived in different places had nothing to do with each other Half of the people in the website recorded that they had contacted a truck driver named Cheng Guosheng.

Employees at gas stations, hitchhiking hikers, porters unloading goods at the pier, bus drivers, highway toll collectors... just passed by passers-by, but they will disappear shortly after meeting Cheng Guosheng , and then was found accidentally falling into the sewer.

There is no evidence, no motive can be found, it is difficult for the bureau to reopen the case, so it can only be handed over to Liu Jun.

Liu Jun followed Cheng Guosheng for a while, and booked this hotel early because Cheng Guosheng's residence was just across the street.

Jiang Lai and Qiu Wei complained about many reasons for refusing to come to Pingning Harbor. In fact, Liu Jun was the last person to take this case.

Too much trouble and no money to be made.

There is no clue, and maybe it just proves that the intuition is wrong in the end. Liu Jun is not a policeman or a forensic doctor, and he does not need to take the necessary responsibility to serve the people.

Once the truth is untenable, someone will go out to find out the final result because of curiosity.

However, Liu Jun really can't get used to Pingning Harbor. His sleep quality has always been very bad, and when he found his bed and encountered such a small room with heavy humidity and a musty smell, it was certain that he would not be able to fall asleep all night.

After reading the materials of the missing cases all night, he went downstairs at dawn, took the tea he brought, went downstairs and borrowed the tea set from the hotel, brewed a pot and drank it, and he finally felt refreshed.

For Liu Jun, Pingning Port is not a suitable place to live, but the pace of life here does not allow him, an outsider, to make a conclusion.

Sister Zhao shouted loudly to her son, to her husband, to the big yellow dog at the door to eat, and the sound resounded across the street.

The streets are full of breakfast stalls, soy milk, fried dough sticks, stuffed buns and rice noodles. The taste is full of flavors, and the market is lively.

Liu Jun and the hotel owner A Jian sat in the lobby and chatted a lot.

First they chatted about tea, and then saw the staff members of the film crew upstairs going out one after another, and then chatted about the film crew.

He said: "I did a search last night and found out that the production team of this film is very powerful. They have won many awards. The protagonist is also a well-known figure. I really didn't pay much attention to it before."

Sister Zhao shouted at the door: "You may have never seen the movie, but you don't know Ji Fanyun. You used to live in the mountains."

"I'm ignorant." Liu Jun smiled patiently.

A Jian continued: "If you stay a few days longer, you can see the world. Making a movie is not something that can be shot with a camera on the actor's face. Look at these people who come in and out all morning. Early preparations, setting up scenes, shooting empty mirrors, and what else to step on the scene, some of them have been here for more than half a year, and they have not officially started shooting. us."

"So it's not turned on yet," Liu Jun asked, "I said that there seems to be no movement upstairs, and the guest rooms are not fully occupied, right?"

"There are still many people who have not come." A Jian said, "Among the actors, only Ji Fanyun came first, and he is also very rare. He looks like he is relying on his face to make a living, but he is actually very capable. He doesn't play around with ostentation and often squats at the door. Chatting with the neighbors who come and go, saying that it is to get familiar with the living environment of the characters, and acting is really not just playing a few expressions in front of the camera. "

A Jian spoke eloquently, holding a small teacup in his hand, smelling the aroma of tea and sipping tea soup, he couldn't hold back his tone when he saw the world.

Liu Jun nodded in agreement. It seemed too abrupt to ask for a room change at this point, but he really didn't know Ji Fanyun as an actor, and he rarely watched movies, so he couldn't make any comments.

However, Liu Jun still has a very special impression of Ji Fanyun, if it is just a one-sided meeting.

Thinking of Ji Fanyun's figure curled up under the heavy rain, and every slight movement of his expression afterwards, Liu Jun commented meaningfully: "This young actor is not simple."

"The future is boundless." Jian said.

Sister Zhao yelled, "Nonsense, my son wants to take the actor's money."

Sister Zhao's ten-year-old son was tying his shoelaces, looked up in a daze, then snorted angrily, and stomped out the door.

"Find time to look at his works." Liu Jun stood up and said, "I'll go out for a stroll."

He came out from the inner room, paused at the front desk in the hall, and said to Sister Zhao, "I'll take a map."

"Okay, take it yourself." Sister Zhao chatted with the person who set up the breakfast stall outside the door.

Liu Jun reached into the front desk, and while taking the map, he pulled out the USB flash drive plugged into the computer.

The USB flash drive was plugged in when he just went downstairs as an excuse to get the hotel business card, and he has been guarding against it all the time, who knows that this family has to live a life running the hotel, leisurely and leisurely, without any vigilance.

As soon as he went out, Qiu Wei's voice came from the Bluetooth headset.

Qiu Wei said: "Boss, you don't have to work so hard if you don't pay for it. You have already chatted with me. If I copy slower, what are you going to talk about? When did you watch a movie and you still talk to me?" People talk about movie actors."

Qiu Wei's cell phone is in hands-free mode, and Jiang Lai next to him said, "Ji, that one, seems to be quite popular..."

On the other end of the phone, Qiu Weihe and Jiang Lai were in a quiet room. Qiu Wei was already typing on the keyboard to search for the film crew. When he said the name of "Ji Fanyun", Liu Jun, who was walking on the noisy street, also said at the same time. : "Ji Fanyun."

"It doesn't matter, I didn't ask the name of the actor." Jiang Lai said, "If Cheng Guosheng is really a serial murderer, and we can't find out his target characteristics and motives for killing, how can we prevent him? The crowd should be quite large, and Cheng Guosheng lives nearby, so is there a potential safety hazard?"

Liu Jun stopped in front of a stall selling braised noodles. It was a clean and tidy stall that he only saw after walking half a street.

He ordered a bowl of noodles and two tea eggs, and when he was packing, he walked forward and looked at all the other breakfast stalls, but he didn't answer Jiang Lai's question.

Jiang Lai didn't care too much, he understood that the answer to the question was "solve it as soon as possible".

The soundtrack of the TV series began to appear in the earphones. As the video played, Jiang Lai and Qiu Wei yelled "Oh oh oh" at the same time, saying that it was Ji Fanyun who grew up watching his dramas.

Liu Jun packed his breakfast and returned to the hotel. Instead of going back to the floor where his room was located, he went up to the fifth floor.

Qiu Wei said on the phone: "There is no one in the corridor, and no one is staying in 507."

Qiu Wei's current computer not only contains the hotel's check-in registration form, but even the monitoring cloud has been tampered with, so that Liu Jun can open the door with the universal room card that Qiu Wei made in advance.

The entire building of the hotel belongs to Sister Zhao and A Jian’s family. The shops along the street on the first floor are rented out, and the second to fifth floors are all hotel rooms.

It has been open for more than ten years, and the decoration style and furniture are very old. The tiled floor, green lattice windows, and retro dressing cabinets are all old, but fortunately, they are well maintained and will not make the occupants feel dirty. old.

And the air upstairs is better, as soon as you enter the door, you can see the sunlight overflowing, unlike the musty smell in the room downstairs.

Liu Jun walked to the window, opened the window with a small slit, and took out his mobile phone to look at Cheng Guosheng's residence on the opposite building through the magnified lens.

The location of the hotel is at the junction of the new district and the old district, and there is an old house on the front. Standing in the room on the other side of the hotel, you can clearly see the winding alleys like spider webs, and Liu Jun entered this room facing the new district. , There are two migrant worker buildings a few kilometers away from the window, most of which are used as dormitories for construction sites in the new district, but they also provide rental housing.

Jiang Lai asked on the phone if he could see clearly and if he should bring a telescope.

Qiu Wei insisted on objecting, saying that if Cheng Guosheng was not the murderer, everyone would violate several laws by doing so.

"In case he is the murderer, someone's life may be buried under any sewer manhole cover in this place." Liu Jun said, took a few pictures of the location before taking back his phone, and said as he closed the window and walked out, "Find a way to let the urban construction Clear the sewer once."

Walking to the door, before opening the door, Liu Jun stopped Qiu Wei's discussion about asking for a salary increase, and asked him, "Is there anyone in the hallway?"

"No." It was Jiang Lai who answered first, and she continued, "There is no unsolved disappearance case in Pinning Harbor. Boss, don't you worry that our hard work may end up being a waste of time."

"Business in vain is the best result." Liu Jun left Room 507, and then walked down the corridor, "Is there anyone staying in Room 510?"

Qiu Wei said, "Yes, that little child star."

The voice sounded almost at the same time as the door opening.

Liu Jun looked up at the surveillance camera in the corridor. When he heard the sound, he turned his head and looked at Ji Fanyun.

As expected of an actor.

Liu Jun has nearly ten years of forensic work experience. He has a good understanding of the human body and is good at using the characteristics of scars to portray criminal suspects. Later, he lost the opportunity to continue this job and tried to take some courses related to psychology. The scope of research shifted to living people.

However, he felt that he might be getting older and lack the motivation of young people to study. Just like his attitude towards life, his desire to study gradually became lazy.

But when he saw Ji Fanyun, he could see something similar to exciting from the expression changes on Ji Fanyun's face, and he wanted to see more, or couldn't help recalling the book knowledge to try to interpret this person.

So, he clearly heard the earphones reminding him that he just needs to explain that he went to the wrong floor, but Liu Jun took off the earphones and said to Ji Fanyun, "Good morning."

He also pretended to come to the door to send care, and said, "Breakfast, do you want to eat?"