civil forensic

Chapter 927: Arresting people and closing the store

Chapter 927: Arresting people and closing the store

Shenghong Building is located in the middle of a small business district. Its back door is a food street consisting of several small alleys, and its front door is a few scattered commercial streets. It is surrounded by similar commercial and residential buildings, as well as several communities or courtyards consisting of single staircases.

The exterior of the building was old, just like the commercial street. The interior decoration was also old and rustic. The elevator was small, broken, and crowded, giving Jiang Yuan a very familiar feeling.

Qinghe City and Ningtai County are also at this level, or in other words, the non-core business districts in fourth- and fifth-tier cities are at this level. It's not that people don't like high-end places, they just give priority to affordable places and then choose places with high cost performance.

Compared with those pure office buildings, pure commercial buildings, or specialized shopping malls with strict requirements, old buildings like Shenghong Building often become the kings in this environment because of their cost-effective and annoying property management, flexible and annoying merchants, high turnover and cumbersome replacement, and dirty and messy but cost-saving environment.

Jiang Yuan followed the chaotic crowd holding milk tea and starch sausages into the lobby of Shenghong Building, and saw a security guard directing the crowd, asking dozens of people to line up in front of four elevators. Then everyone was watching the slow changes of the red-letter floor numbers.

"Let's go to the property management." Jiang Yuan saw this and decided not to try the elevator, as he thought he would not find any evidence in the elevator.

However, the investigation had come to this point. In order to obtain first-hand information, Jiang Yuan still ordered: "Yaowei, you continue to line up the elevators, take a few videos when you enter, and then mark the cameras in the elevators and on each floor. Mark the shops on each floor as well. Those in the lobby are inaccurate."

Jiang Yuan is too familiar with this kind of environment. Although there is a copper name sign in the lobby, the better it is, the higher the property management fee will be. Moreover, there is a production cycle. Many small shops and companies pay to register one, but by the time the property management is ready, the shops and companies have gone bankrupt. The property management makes another fortune!

Shen Yaowei responded and said, "Then I will start from the top of the building and go down, taking notes floor by floor."

"Okay. Let's take the stairs. Contact us if anything happens." Jiang Yuan turned around and went up the stairs through the fire door.

Maki Zhiyang ran ahead in three or two steps and said, "The property is on the fifth floor. Below the fifth floor are all shops, the second floor is a hot pot restaurant, the third floor is a buffet, and the fourth floor is an Internet cafe, but these shops all enter through the front door."

Jiang Yuan said "hmm" and thought as he walked up the stairs.

First of all, Chen Nuan entered this building by herself, most likely by appointment with someone. How did she make the appointment?

Secondly, did Chen Nuan finally leave the building alive? Or did she die inside the building and then be transported out of the building and dumped into the Taihe River a few kilometers away?

Judging from the current evidence, both possibilities exist. It is even possible that the body was carried after being seriously injured. This is the trouble with drowned bodies, as a lot of evidence is destroyed in the water. Of course, the same effect can be achieved with buried bodies, but the physical cost of burying a body is much higher.

"Captain Jiang." In the property office, the criminal police from the Criminal Police Brigade who arrived first were checking their surveillance videos.

"Have you found the person?" Jiang Yuan asked. At this time, no one cared whether they had emotional intelligence or not.

The leading police officer knew what Jiang Yuan meant and shook his head, saying, "The elevator videos in this property are only stored for 14 days and cannot be found. However, there are cameras in some corridors of companies or shops. We have sent people to retrieve them floor by floor."

"Go visit again and see if there are any witnesses." Jiang Yuan's request could only be fulfilled on a whim.

"Yes." The leading police officer immediately made arrangements.

"Is there a list of shops and companies?" Jiang Yuan arranged for Shen Yaowei to look through them one by one, but it did not prevent him from asking for another list from the property. Although the property might have a more complete list, he did not trust the property of such a place.

The property manager quickly pointed to a large table on the wall and said, "This list shows basically all the companies. This is what we show to tenants. Our boss owns the property himself."

The policeman from the nearby police station said unceremoniously: "Now find a piece of paper and write down the companies that are not on this big list, write down the companies that have changed, and then sign. If there is any problem later, I will come back to you."

At this time, all the police are focusing on not trusting you.

The property manager didn't dare to offend the police officers from the police station, so he did what he agreed to do, while explaining something in a low voice.

Jiang Yuan looked at each store one by one, and saw that from the fifth floor, apart from a few households and companies, the majority were restaurants, followed by various nail salons, beauty salons, and script-killing stores... Hmm...

Jiang Yuan's gaze stopped here, he thought for a moment, and then saw an escape room.

Jiang Yuan then asked, "Do some escape rooms now require you to hand in your phone?"

The policeman from the police station immediately reminded the property manager, who muttered, "I haven't played it before..." Tang Jia, who was standing next to him, coughed and said, "I have seen people put their phones in iron boxes before."

The iron box is equivalent to a Faraday cage, which has a better signal shielding effect than removing the card.

Without Jiang Yuan's reminder, Tang Jia asked, "Shall we check all the escape room shops?"

"Two families, bring all the surveillance videos here." Jiang Yuan gave the order and then said, "Send people to the script-killing shops. Do you need to put your phone in the sauna?"

"Maybe there's no signal." This time it was the property manager who answered, and said, "I go there often."

A lot of police came. We are short of clues but not manpower. Police came to check every minute. There was even a script-killing store that was not open, and the owner was called over.

Jiang Yuan and others were not in a hurry to go back and think about it. They just occupied the property's office and conference room and started watching videos on the spot to look for evidence and clues.

It is very likely that Chen Nuan spent her last moments in Shenghong Building. Otherwise, with people's dependence on mobile phones nowadays, unless they are playing something, they must turn on their phones before doing anything.

Chen Nuan's phone was turned off a few minutes after entering Shenghong Building. When she turned it on again, it was in the hands of the murderer. It was just that a long time had passed. Otherwise, Jiang Yuan and others would have sealed off Shenghong Building and conducted a thorough investigation.

Lang Heng, captain of the criminal police detachment, also arrived at the scene soon. When he found that there was indeed a clue, he immediately made a phone call and asked people from two nearby police stations to come over.

When doing business in this kind of commercial street, the police officers from the police station are also very helpful.

The surveillance videos used by several stores are stored for a long time, basically in a loop storage mode, which can be as long as three or four months. The hard drive of the script-killing store that is closed and restarted is even larger, and the storage time is as long as half a year.

Jiang Yuan didn't have to do it himself. He had a group of image detectives who brought their own equipment and checked the surveillance at designated locations.

It didn't take long before the result came out: "We found the person."

"Escape from a secret room. Two people did it together." The police officer who found the video was quite excited.

"Match the faces of the people together." The captain of the Image Reconnaissance Brigade ordered.

After taking a few photos, the information of the man traveling with me popped up.

"22 years old, male, graduated from a technical school, unemployed, has a business license, self-employed..." The police officer next to him read out the relevant information.

"There's something wrong with this escape room store." Jiang Yuan was already sitting next to the computer. He quickly scrolled through the video for a while, then pointed at the screen and said, "Is this NPC asking Chen Nuan to drink?"

"It looks like a wine bottle..." The police officer from the police station looked at him from behind, his expression serious, and said, "I handled a similar case. A clerk at an escape room store asked female players to drink alcohol under the pretext of passing a level. There were also cases where female players who were not good at drinking were made drunk."

"Arrest the people. Close the store." Jiang Yuan came with the special task force. He didn't need to understand too clearly. The current evidence was enough for him to bring everyone here.

(End of this chapter)