I don't know how long it took before Xu Tiannan woke up from his coma.
It was already dark now. He was struggling to support his body and smelled the smell of disinfectant around him.
The electric shock injury on the back of his neck was still painful. He moved his neck and saw the pager placed on the bedside next to him and the bottle slide hanging above his head. He finally realized that he was in a hospital.
There was a small buzzing sound, and with a "dong" sound, Murong Shui fell off the sofa. She rubbed her eyes and looked around confusedly for a while, as if she was just like Xu Tiannan before she remembered.
Where are you.
"Ah! Boss, are you awake?"
The vibrating sound from the phone kept ringing stubbornly, so she pressed the phone and hurriedly came over and asked: "How do you feel? Is there anything uncomfortable? The doctor said that if you wake up, you need to observe it for 72 hours.
"
Xu Tiannan moved his body and found that there were no other problems except for his arm being a little numb. He asked, "Where is Wen Sibao? Have you caught anyone?"
Murong Shui shook his head, "When we arrived, you were already lying unconscious in the kitchen. But when you were unconscious, Wen Baobao and the others called the hotel's surveillance camera and found that the executioners were indeed what you suspected.
Like that, at least a group of four people."
"One of them is a woman and one of the other three men has unknown physical characteristics."
"The other two are tall, at least 1.9 meters tall, and are good at fighting skills."
"The other one is a fat man, and I haven't found any special skills yet."
"And the last person who didn't show up and was responsible for driving should be the mastermind of the whole thing."
"Let's go back to the command room." Xu Tiannan didn't want to stay here any longer. He sat up and was about to leave, but saw that the other party was still sitting on the small stool, motionless, so he asked: "What's wrong with you?"
Murong Shui thought for a long time and whispered: "Boss, I want to ask you something."
The other party didn't dare to look directly at him when he was talking. Xu Tiannan also wondered when the other party became so strange, so he said: "Ask."
Murong Shuidao: "Do you still remember the accident that happened on Beijing Road? It was the time when the executioner used a tower crane to attack Boss Qian."
"Isn't this just what happened a few days ago? Of course I remember it. What's wrong?"
The other party asked again: "At that time, when I was fighting with that female drug police officer, did you ask me to come over and help you out, and then you could escape and rescue Zheng Jianghu and the others?"
"Well, that's it, what's wrong?"
"Well..." Murong Shui thought for a long time before hesitatingly said: "Boss, we... have been together for two years, right?"
Xu Tiannan laughed and explained: "We have been working together for two years. What do you want to say?"
Murong Shui said: "Well... why did you ask me to rescue you, but you chose to save Zheng Jianghu and his gang by yourself?"
Hearing this, Xu Tiannan was stunned. After a while, Murong Shui asked again: "Since we have been working together for two years, you should know that I cannot lose to that person when I have a weapon in my hand."
The female drug police officer named Xingye, right?"
Xu Tiannan thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, your ability to fight with bare hands may be evenly matched, but I know that you are better at using weapons."
Seeing that the other party lowered his head again and hesitated to speak, Xu Tiannan asked directly: "Hey! What are you doing today? What do you want to say?"
After being silent for a while, Murong Shui took a deep breath and asked a series of questions.
——"In this case, for you who always look at problems rationally, why didn't you let me bring down the female drug police officer as quickly as possible?"
——"You know that I have weapons in my hands, and she will not be my opponent."
——"Then if after I bring her down, it is up to me to rescue Zheng Jianghu and his gang, this is obviously the most efficient approach and the one with the highest success rate."
——"Boss, why didn't you do this then?"
A series of questions made Xu Tiannan's head feel a little swollen, and he murmured an answer after a while.
"Water roots."
"Um?"
Murong Shui was very strange this time. He did not protest against the other party calling him by his full name. Instead, he quietly raised his head, as if waiting for the other party's answer.
Xu Tiannan said: "The situation was too dangerous at that time, I couldn't let you take the risk."
After a moment, Murong Shui lowered his head again, "Why... why?"
Xu Tiannan has always been quick in thinking, but when asked this question, he suddenly became speechless.
Why can't Murong Shui be allowed to take risks?
He really hasn't thought about this issue.
After thinking for a long time, Xu Tiannan said slowly: "Maybe... Strictly speaking, you are my assistant, and the salary I pay you is not higher than the market price. At the same time, I have taken up 8 hours of your working time every day.
There is too much time outside, so it is even more impossible for you to take such a big risk for work, right?"
Murong Shui whispered: "You mean... out of responsibility?"
Xu Tiannan himself didn't know whether this description was accurate, but he did feel that Murong Shui was very different today from before.
But for me now, that feeling of itching and sourness in my heart, which is enough to kill my rationality, emerges from my heart again for some reason.
Fortunately, Murong Shui quickly changed the subject.
"Boss, it's the same today. I hope that in the future work, you won't go to the front line alone again. It was the same last time and it's the same today. In my opinion, this kind of behavior is just like giving away someone's life...
…”
Before Murong Shui finished speaking, the annoying vibrating sound of her cell phone rang again.
The two of them just looked at each other, and neither of them knew how to end the conversation, but Murong Shui's pocket kept buzzing.
"You...you answer the phone first."
Xu Tiannan's throat was dry, so he got out of bed and poured a glass of water, only to find that his slightly trembling palms were sweating a lot, and Murong Shui's impatient voice could be heard faintly outside the door.
"Okay, okay, I understand! Let's talk about it later! I'm very busy!"
Murong Shui hurriedly hung up the phone, only to find that Xu Tiannan had walked out.
"Old, boss..."
Xu Tiannan also felt that this occasion was a bit strange, so he said: "Let's go back to the bureau first."
…
Mobei City Public Security Bureau, task force command room.
When Wen Sibao saw Xu Tiannan arriving, he first did a routine check and found that there was nothing serious about him, so he projected the video he brought back from the hotel onto the big screen.
During the surveillance, a cleaning woman, estimated to be in her fifties, was pushing a hotel-specific multifunctional cleaning vehicle in the middle of the elevator.
This multifunctional cleaning vehicle is about the height of a person, but the cleaning lady placed two buckets on the top of the vehicle. As a result, as soon as the vehicle parked, the aunt's figure was completely hidden from the surveillance camera.
After a while, when the cleaning lady finished cleaning the trash can and left, everything on the surveillance screen was as usual. However, if you look carefully, you can find that the "3f" that previously displayed the floor has been replaced by "17f".
According to the time displayed on the surveillance screen, all this happened around 6:30 this morning, and this time happened to be the time for the entire hotel staff to change shifts. No one would care that the sticker showing the floor here had been replaced by one.
A new one.
Wen Sibao explained.
——“I don’t think the security guard on duty at the hotel can be entirely blamed for the secret change of floor display stickers.”
——"I checked the number of their surveillance cameras. There are at least 8 cameras on each floor, so the entire two walls of the surveillance room are covered with monitors. There are more than 200 monitors."
——"If they didn't follow the screens in the monitoring room and count them one by one, it would be difficult to find out that the stair signs on the third floor had been replaced. Moreover, the replacement of floor signs was an emergency situation at the time, and no one would have thought of it at all.
This time."
——"Thus, this led to the error message we received in the morning."
Xu Tiannan said: "I was stunned by this cleaning lady. You must also know her identity, right?"
Wen Sibao nodded.
——"She is the female murderer in the executioner team. Although she deliberately hunched over in the surveillance, judging from her body shape, she should be the woman who changed the traffic light a few days ago."
——"The murderer disguised herself as a hotel cleaner, and she was still pushing the cleaning truck at the time, so she would not arouse suspicion no matter which floor she went to."
——"Later, we retrieved the surveillance and found that during the time when Boss Qian's elevator stopped, the female cleaning lady still pushed the cleaning cart into the electrical machine room on the first floor."
After saying that, Wen Sibao added: "By the way, before I took people to the third floor to find you, this was the same direction that the cleaner pointed to us..."
"You..." Xu Tiannan sighed helplessly and said: "At that time, the entire restaurant on the third floor was temporarily closed, and a cleaning lady suddenly appeared. Don't you think it's strange?"
To be continued...