There is a well-known scenic spot on the outskirts of Yucheng, called Fangcao Lake. Pan Shaojie opened a resort in Fangcao Lake. It faces the lake water, is backed by green mountains, surrounded by flowers and fields. It has a unique geographical location and is a summer resort. However, mid-May is not the hot summer season, but it is also the off-season for travel, so the hotel business is also in the off-season.

The door of the room No. 8012 is wide open, and several surveyors are taking photos and surveying in the living room to search for physical evidence. Han Feilu stood at the door of the bedroom and saw a face-down corpse lying on the bedroom carpet. The back of his head was smashed, and the plaster was scattered like fragments, and his head was resting in a pool of blood. He is the owner of the hotel, Pan Shaojie, who was found dead in this suite No. 8012 an hour ago. The cause of death was that the plaster was smashed into the occipital bone behind his head.

At this time, two forensic doctors were surrounded by Pan Shaojie's body, and several surveyors were taking photos and collecting evidence in the room to search for traces of objects. Han Feilu raised her wrist to look at the time. It was 8:03 pm, and Pan Shaojie's body was found at 7:12. The criminal investigation team responded to the police and took about an hour to drive from the city to the hotel.

"What day is today?" he asked the busy policemen.

The female policewoman Xiao Zhao was lifting the fingerprint film on the door handle and answered very quickly: "No. 21."

Pan Shaojie died on May 21, just 7 days after Cai Minmin's crime occurred. It is hard not to doubt that there is anything involved in these two murders.

Han Feilu asked a policeman for gloves and foot covers, put it on, walked into the bedroom, stood next to Pan Shaojie's body, and asked, "How long have you been dead?"

The forensic doctor said: "The anal temperature of the corpse is 34 degrees, the corpse spots are in the accumulation period, the color recovery time is 27 seconds, and the corpse zombie appears in the jaw. The time after death is 3 to 4 hours, and the time for death is between 4 and 5 noon."

Han Feilu picked up a piece of gypsum fragment, then looked up at a shelf standing on the porch, which was filled with various ornaments, including glass products, ceramic products, and gypsum products. Except for the panes in the fourth row on the right, there were ornaments on the other panes.

Han Feilu walked to the shelf, touched the empty pane, and a few plaster crumbs were stained on the gloves. It seemed that this was the place where the weapon was placed before. Could it be that the murderer did not prepare the weapon in advance, but instead used the material on the spot? So how did the murderer find a weapon that matched the weight and hardness in the room? If the murderer really used the material on the spot to kill people, then he must be familiar with the interior furnishings of the room.

The living room faces south with a floor-to-ceiling window, and there is a balcony outside the floor-to-ceiling window. Han Feilu walked over and stood in the window and looked out. With the light, she saw the quiet lake water in the distance. He wanted to go to the balcony, but the two floor-to-ceiling windows were locked and needed a key to open. He returned to the bedroom, and the bedroom faces south with a floor-to-ceiling window, but there was no balcony outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and it was sealed. The same is true for the bathroom, with the windows blocked and unable to open. Only the windows in the living room can be opened in the entire suite, provided that they are not locked.

After seeing the layout of Room 8012, Han Feilu walked out of the room and stood in the corridor and found that there were only three rooms on this floor, from east to west, 8011, 8012, 8013. The entire corridor is in the shape of "l", with No. 8012 and 8013 side by side, and the two doors are four or five meters apart. Room 8011 is located in the east direction. You need to turn over the right angle to the east of the corridor to see Room 8013.

Han Feilu walked forward along the corridor, walked to the corner, raised her head, and saw a camera above her head. This camera was installed on a curved wall. The wall on the left side of the corridor was designed as a smooth curve, which was less blocked by the wall than the general vertical corner, and increased the monitoring vision. It is estimated that it was precisely because of this that the hotel installed the camera here. The red light below the camera was on, indicating that the camera was always in working state.

The door of Room No. 8013 was closed, and Han Feilu pushed the door open and walked in. He saw a cleaning car parked in the living room, and there was a sheet and quilt covering that had been pulled from the bed on the ground. There was also a storage rack standing next to the entrance, which was filled with various ornaments. The ornaments placed in each pane were the same as Room No. 8012. The only difference was that there was a plaster image in the pane on the fourth row on the right. The plaster image in Room No. 8012 had been stained with blood and broken into several petals, becoming a murder weapon. He walked in and checked the floor-to-ceiling windows of the living room. The floor-to-ceiling windows were also locked, and the windows of the bedroom and bathroom were also sealed. The layout and display of the room were exactly the same as Room No. 8012.

He walked back from Room 8012, stopped in front of Room 8013, and tried to push the door, but the door was locked. The phone rang, and Gu Hai called: "Captain Han, first floor lobby."

Han Feilu hung up the phone and took the elevator downstairs. The elevator door opened on the first floor. He came out of the elevator and saw 40 or 50 people sitting scattered in the lobby on the first floor. Staff in uniforms were sitting on the west side and guests sitting on the east side. Gu Hai and two plainclothes stood between two groups of people like a barrier.

In just a few short steps, Han Feilu's eyes swept across everyone one by one. Gu Hai handed him a list: "This is the list of all the guests today, including the five people who have checked out."

Han Feilu: "Are there people living in 8012 and 8013?"

Gu Hai: "No one checked in 8013 these two days, there were people checked in 8012, and checked out 4 hours ago. It was him."

He pointed to the name of 'Li Wenjie'. Han Feilu felt a little familiar when she saw this name. She seemed to have heard of it somewhere, but she had never seen this person. "Call out the identity information of Li Wenjie."

He handed the list to Gu Hai and asked again: "Who is the person in charge?"

Gu Hai waved to the group of staff, and a middle-aged woman in uniform came over. Gu Hai said: "She is the manager, named Liu Yazhi. Usually she is responsible for contacting Pan Shaojie directly."

There are many empty sofas in the lobby. Han Feilu picked up the nearest sofa and sat down, saying, "Please sit."

Liu Yazhi sat opposite him, looking nervous. Han Feilu asked straight to the point: "Is it your reception for Pan Shaojie to come?"

Liu Yazhi: "Yes, if Mr. Pan comes over, he will ask the secretary to notify me in advance, and I will prepare the accounts."

Han Feilu: "When did Pan Shaojie come this time?"

Liu Yazhi: "I came yesterday, and today is the second day he stayed in the hotel."

Han Feilu: "He himself?"

Liu Yazhi: "Yes. He said that he came here this time just to relax. He didn't bring an accountant to check the accounts or organize our meeting."

Han Feilu: "When did he come yesterday? Who did he meet these two days? What did he do? He said it all carefully and clearly."

Liu Yazhi did not dare to neglect her body, straightened her back and took a deep breath, and said, "Mr. Pan arrived at the age of 12 noon yesterday. He originally said he wanted to come to check the accounts, but I prepared all the information. Mr. Pan arrived and said he would not check it. Then Mr. Pan asked me to clean up Room 8012. He stayed in the room for the whole morning and I personally delivered a meal to him. In the afternoon, he came out to the swimming pool for a while and then went around the lake and came back. After returning to the room, he didn't go out until the next day."

Han Feilu: "You stop first, Pan Shaojie decided to live in Room 8012?"

Liu Yazhi: "Yes, because that suite has the best view and is quiet, Mr. Pan lives in 8012 every time he comes. So unless it is the peak booking season, I usually leave 8012 empty for Mr. Pan to come and live at any time."

Han Feilu: "I just went to Room 8012 to take a look. Why are the floor-to-ceiling windows locked?"

Liu Yazhi: "Oh, that's because last week a couple took their children in. The child opened the floor-to-ceiling window and ran to the balcony and almost fell off the balcony. The child's parents complained to us that our balcony guardrail was too wide and the child could get out, so we locked the floor-to-ceiling windows these days, replaced all the balcony guardrails before opening them."

Han Feilu: "The floor-to-ceiling windows in all rooms in the hotel are locked?"

Liu Yazhi: "Yes."

Han Feilu: "Who keeps the key?"

Liu Yazhi: "As long as the guest room supervisor has the keys, no one else has it."

In this way, 8012 has no other entrances and exits except the main entrance, which is equivalent to a secret room.

Han Feilu: "You keep talking."

Liu Yazhi: "Just just now, Mr. Pan lives in 8012 every time he comes, right? The next day, Mr. Pan called two people from the real estate company, and one of them seemed to be the female secretary of the boss. Mr. Pan invited them to have a meal in the banquet hall, played tennis for a while, and the few people left. Then the boss returned to the room and never came out again. Until... until I went up to deliver him dessert. After a long time, no one opened the door. I felt something was wrong, so I asked the foreman to take the room card and open the door, and then I saw Mr. Pan--"

Speaking of this, Liu Yazhi shivered and hugged her arm with lingering fear.

Han Feilu: "Who did he call?"

Liu Yazhi: "I don't know what their name is. One of the tall and handsome men has the surname Shao, the female secretary has the surname Zhang, and the other one doesn't remember what their surname is."

Although the identities of these three people are unclear, Han Feilu has guessed the intention of Pan Shaojie asking them to come: it is mostly to sell the land in Sanding Building.

Han Feilu: "They left before Pan Shaojie returned to his room?"

Liu Yazhi: "There is one who is not the one named Shao. He played tennis with Mr. Pan for a while and was sweating. Mr. Pan took him back to his room to take a shower. He left after taking a shower."

Han Feilu: "Are you sure Pan Shaojie was still alive when he left?"

Liu Yazhi: "I'm sure."

Han Feilu: "Why are you sure? Did you also be in Pan Shaojie's room at that time?"

Liu Yazhi pointed at Gu Hai and said, "It was this police officer who said it."

Han Feilu turned her head and looked at Gu Hai: "What's going on?"

Gu Haidao: "The surveillance camera has been captured." As he said that, he made a phone call, "Xuecheng, bring the computer over."

Mu Xuecheng has been staying in the security room to copy surveillance videos. When he received a call from Gu Hai, he went straight to the lobby, sat next to Han Feilu, put the computer on the table, and said, "Boss, I have edited all the shots taken by Pan Shaojie yesterday and today by the camera. On the first day, he did nothing except swimming and walking. The next day, he called three people to eat and play ball with them, and wandered around the hotel. I had already sent the photos of those three people to Xixi, and I could find their information soon."

This girl was a little bit shy. She only placed the computer in front of her and leaned forward, covering the screen with her head for most of the time. Han Feilu couldn't see anything. He pushed Mu Xuecheng's head away, turned the computer to himself, and said, "Fast 8th floor corridor, hurry forward directly to four hours ago."

Mu Xuecheng: "Okay, here, look."

There is only the camera hanging on the curved wall in the corridor on the 8th floor, which can capture No. 8012 and No. 8013 in full. Because the camera is tilted to the west, only the upper half of the door in Room 8011 is in the mirror.

At 14:13 noon, the camera captured Pan Shaojie and a tall man coming out of the elevator. The two entered Room 8012 one by one. Ten minutes later, Pan Shaojie came out of the room and took the elevator to the 5th floor. Ten minutes later, Pan Shaojie took the elevator back to the 8th floor and appeared again in the corridor surveillance. He opened the door with the door card and entered 8012. At 14:43, the door was opened again. The man who had just entered the room with Pan Shaojie came out with wet hair, as if he had just taken a shower. He shook hands with Pan Shaojie, and then took the elevator downstairs. Pan Shaojie did not go out, but just stood in the entrance hall to shake hands with the man. In addition, the camera was not facing the door of 8012, and was restricted by the angle, so Pan Shaojie had only one arm and half of his shoulders.

Han Feilu pressed the pause button and stared at the video thoughtfully, with a faint fire hidden in her eyes.

Gu Hai saw his doubts and said, "This person who did not show up is indeed Pan Shaojie. Look at the back of his hand, there is a tattoo in the shape of a black snowflake on it, which is consistent with the tattoo on Pan Shaojie's back of his hand."

There is indeed a snowflake-shaped tattoo on the back of Pan Shaojie's right hand. Han Feilu noticed it when she first saw Pan Shaojie at the Public Security Bureau. She also saw the tattoo on the back of Pan Shaojie's right hand at the crime scene just now.

To relieve this doubt, Han Feilu continued to look down. At 15:13, the door of Room 8011 suddenly opened. A man wearing a baseball cap walked into the surveillance area, stood in front of the door of Room 8012 and looked around, then knocked on the door and tried to turn the door handle. The door was not locked and the door opened. He quickly walked into 8012.

At 15:15, the door opened again. The man just now came out with a black handbag and trotted into the elevator. Han Feilu pressed the pause again and pointed at the black handbag: "Is this the handbag that Pan Shaojie took into the room just now?"

Gu Haidao: "The color and style are the same. There is no such bag in Room 8012 now. What he took away should be the one that Pan Shaojie just took into the room."

Han Feilu called the female manager Liu Yazhi to her side: "Did this bag be brought by Pan Shaojie when he came to the hotel?"

Liu Yazhi said: "The bag was brought by Mr. Pan himself, but the money in it-"

She realized that she had said the wrong thing, and suddenly she stopped talking, and her face showed a look of hiding.

Han Feilu started watching the video from scratch again. When she heard her speech was vague, she stared at her and said, "I will give you a chance to say it again. If I can't explain it clearly, I'll go back to the police station and talk slowly."

Liu Yazhi: "Mr. Pan asked him to give him 300,000 yuan in cash, so he put it in that bag. I didn't dare to agree, for fear of mistakes when checking the accounts later, but Mr. Pan was anxious, so I discussed with the accountant and moved 300,000 yuan to him first."

Han Feilu keenly captured a word that appears too frequently: "Why do you always make an inquiry? Are you afraid of finding the inquiry?"

Liu Yazhi hurriedly said, "No, something happened to our hotel headquarters a few days ago. The accountant used a fake contract and invoice to privately invest more than three million into a basic account of a bag company, and then ran away with the money. After this incident, all stores began to conduct internal self-inspection, follow the financial system to supplement the procedures, check cash flow, etc. At this critical moment, how dare I embezzle the money for Mr. Pan without authorization?"

This was the first time Han Feilu heard about this. He looked up at Gu Hai, and Gu Hai shook his head, saying that he had just learned about it.

Han Feilu asked again: "Have the accountant at your headquarters ran away with money?"

Liu Yazhi: "Yes, I haven't found it yet."

Han Feilu: "Didn't call the police?"

Liu Yazhi: "It should be reported."

Han Feilu: "Tell me, if Pan Shaojie calls the police, how can I not know? What is the name of the accountant?"

Liu Yazhi: "The surname is Dou, we all call him Accountant Dou. I don't know what his full name is."

Han Feilu reminded Gu Hai: "Go back and check this person in the future."

Gu Hai: "Yes."

Han Feilu watched the video again and pointed to the man who walked out of Pan Shaojie's room with his bag: "Is he Li Wenjie?"

Mu Xuecheng: " Room No. 8011 was booked on the app, and the reserved identity information was a person named Li Wenjie. I transferred his information. After comparing it with the side face of the portrait in the video, it can be basically confirmed that it is Li Wenjie himself."

Detailed information about Li Wenjie appeared on the screen, and a clear ID photo was found in the upper right corner. When Han Feilu saw the frontal photo of this person, she immediately remembered that she had seen this person somewhere and said in surprise: "Is it him?"

No wonder he felt familiar when he saw Li Wenjie's name just now. On May 17, he and Gu Hai went to Tianshang Renjian to visit. That day, not only did he meet the later suspect Feng Danian, but he also left an impression of a weak bartender. The young bartender was Li Wenjie!

Now it seems that the case is very transparent. Li Wenjie was the last person to enter Pan Shaojie's room, and he took a bag of 300,000 yuan in cash from Pan Shaojie's room. All the existing suspicions pointed at him. He was the only suspect who killed Pan Shaojie.

Han Feilu: "Is there any surveillance in the parking lot?"

Mu Xuecheng: "Yes, but the cameras in the parking lot were broken several times, and there were many blind spots. Only the video from the exit captured Li Wenjie's car. He drove a black Tiggo with local license plate number 8721 and left the hotel at 15:20. The camera at the hotel gate captured him onto the provincial highway."
To be continued...