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"Ding ling ling!!!" The piercing alarm clock went off at 7 o'clock sharp, startling Liu Bing from his sleep. His shirt was already soaked with sweat, and the sunlight shining on his face made him squint as he got up from the sofa. Liu Bing rubbed his head, still feeling groggy. He sat dazed on the sofa, unable to recall the nightmare from last night, only feeling that he dreamt that Luo Qian wanted to kill him.
"If you're going to be late again, don't bother coming back. Just sleep outside and don't disturb Mengmeng. She has to go to school the next day, you know?" His wife, wearing a rose-colored silk nightgown, walked out of the bedroom and gave Liu Bing a cold look. Mengmeng is Liu Bing's daughter, currently in the third grade, and it's clear that his wife and daughter have become accustomed to his late nights and early mornings due to work. Suddenly, Liu Bing remembered something and walked to his daughter's room. Mengmeng was still in bed, rubbing her sleepy eyes as she looked at him. He then turned to look at his wife standing at the bedroom door, carefully examining her, and suddenly felt that his wife and Luo Qian looked quite similar. Although both of them had pale faces, his wife must have applied thick foundation, while Luo Qian appeared pale and weak without any color in her face.
As Liu Bing walked out of the house, he found that Guorui had already parked the car at the entrance of the residential area. "Bro, let's go. Bao Hua Company has arranged it, and the bureau has also sent people." Liu Bing nodded and got into the passenger seat. The main focus of today's work was two things: one was to investigate the scene where Luo Qian stayed. The murderer must have used the victim's identity to return to the dormitory and must have taken away important evidence. The second was to investigate some related personnel, to see if there were any recent unusual circumstances involving Luo Qian and the people she had been in contact with.
Bao Hua Company's dormitory area is a closed community with only one guard room at the entrance. However, the door to the guard room is tightly closed, and the entrance to the community seems to be just for show. Manager Zhou explained to Liu Bing that since everyone has already been verified when entering the company, there is no need for additional checks when entering the dormitory area. "So, anyone who can enter the company can directly enter the dormitory?" Liu Bing asked Manager Zhou. "Um, yes, that's right. This should be improved. We used to have a guard at the entrance, but later we felt it was unnecessary, so we stopped..." Manager Zhou replied cautiously.
After entering the main gate of the dormitory area, there is a long cement pathway, about 1000 meters long, visible from end to end. On the left side of the path is a cement wall with barbed wire installed on top. Beyond the wall, there seems to be farmland. Every 100 meters or so along the pathway, there is a right turn leading to the adjacent dormitory buildings. Liu Bing silently counted and estimated about 10 dormitory buildings. The first 6 buildings seemed to have 10 floors, with 20 units on each floor facing each other. The remaining 4 buildings were much taller, about 30 floors high, with an estimated 40 units on each floor. Seeing Liu Bing observing the dormitory buildings, Manager Zhou hurriedly explained that initially, when the company had fewer employees, only 6 dormitory buildings were constructed with large spacing between them, and each building mostly consisted of single rooms. Later, due to business expansion, more employees were hired. As the number of employees increased, there was not enough accommodation, so 4 high-rise dormitory buildings were constructed last year.
" Luo Qian lives in which building?" asked Liu Bing.
"In the last one, Building Ten," Manager Zhou pointed ahead to the dormitory building standing tall at the end of the dormitory area. Since it was repaired last year, the exterior walls were still new-looking with its tiled finish, making it appear cleaner compared to the older dormitory buildings in front. It would take about 10 minutes to walk from the dormitory gate to Building Ten. By the time Liu Bing reached Building Ten, he was already a little out of breath, with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. Upon entering the dormitory building, it was discovered that the first floor was actually an open space with several sofas and coffee tables. There was also an automatic vending machine in one corner. The rest of the space was mainly used for parking bicycles and electric vehicles, while employees were supposed to move in from the second floor, with various ways to go up. Near the entrance of the building, there were two elevators that could go straight up, and at the corner after entering the open space, there was also a freight elevator that could go up. Next to the freight elevator was a staircase that also led to the upper floors.
Liu Bing looked at Manager Zhou, who quickly pointed upward. "She lives on the ninth floor, Room 904."
Liu Bing hesitated for a moment, then decided to give up the elevator and chose to take the stairs to the ninth floor. By the time Liu Bing and the others reached the stairwell on the ninth floor, Liu Bing was already panting. Guorui, being young and strong, went ahead and opened the side door of the stairwell, using his foot to keep the door from closing, and quietly waited for Liu Bing. Entering the dormitory corridor from the side door of the stairwell, they found themselves at the end of the dormitory corridor, facing room number 940. Based on the room numbers from 901 to 940, it could be inferred that there were approximately 40 households on each floor of the dormitory. Since each unit's interior area was only about 40 square meters, each unit was adjacent to another. Although it was broad daylight, walking inside the dormitory was still pitch black. Only when they reached a certain spot would the motion sensor lights illuminate, revealing the path ahead.
Due to prior notice, room 904 had already been sealed off. An old man was sitting on a small stool, dozing off when he saw them approaching. He immediately got up and used a key to open room 904, allowing the police to enter one by one. When Manager Zhou was about to follow in to take a look, he hesitated for a moment, but ultimately chose to stand outside the door and peek inside a few times.
After entering room 904, Liu Bing looked around and saw a bathroom to the right. Straight ahead was a desk and a wardrobe. Opposite the wardrobe and desk was a bed placed against the wall. The bed was neatly made with a folded blanket and a pillow. Further ahead was a separate balcony, which required opening a glass door to access. The entire dormitory was very clean, with everything neatly arranged. It seemed that the deceased had not been staying there for a long time, or perhaps rarely stayed there at all. There were some fruits on the desk, but they had already rotted. Then there was a kettle, a wireless router, and a dishcloth, but nothing else. Liu Bing looked into the wardrobe and found a suitcase on the lower level and a few autumn clothes hanging on the upper level. He quickly dragged the suitcase out, and it opened easily as it was not locked. Inside were only two books: "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Sigmund Freud and "Lost Paradise" by Junichi Watanabe.
Liu Bing He quickly flipped through the book, without any notes or bookmarks. Impatiently, he closed the book and threw it into the suitcase...
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