Locksmith

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On the screen of the cell phone, a video was playing.

The video was playing:

A man in locksmith overalls, squatting in front of a door, sneaking something into the lock hole.

It was clear from the video that the door number above the door displayed the number: 1404.

The most critical thing is that the back of the overalls is also printed with 4 big words: Lao Wang open locks.

There was actually someone, who filmed me tampering with the customer's door lock beforehand.

The weirdest thing is that the video's footage, presented a slightly distorted zoomed-in panoramic image.

It was obviously taken through the cat's eye on the door of the room.

Judging from the angle of the shot, it could only have been taken through the cat's eye of Room 1403, which is across the street from Room 1404.

In other words, during the day, when I was tampering with the lock on the door of Room 1404.

The owner of Room 1403 across the street captured the video through the cat's eye.

At this moment, I suddenly had a feeling of being unable to defend myself.

I gulped and asked Team Cai:

"Where did you get this video?"

"The owners of the Juyuan neighborhood WeChat group, a resident two hours ago sent in the group."

Cai did not tell me who the source of the video was.

But the only person I could think of was the occupant of room 1403.

Cai also told me that in addition to this video, the owners' group also had footage of me tampering with door locks on other floors.

The owners' group had already exploded.

And, these videos have been forwarded by many owners to major video platforms.

Combined with the news of the murder on the 14th floor of the No. 4 building in the Juyuan neighborhood, it has now almost become popular news.

I listened to it and marveled, "Hot? So soon!

Team Cai took away the cell phone and stared at me, questioning:

"So, you intentionally damaged the owner's door locks beforehand, and then went to the door to unlock and change the locks for people, which is a business that you painstakingly run?"

Team Cai said while playing all the other videos for me to see.

I was dumbfounded by the question.

Team Cai continued:

"Just now, the police have received several calls reporting that a number of homeowners have reported that they had asked you to unlock their doors for them, and they now suspect that the locks on their homes were all tampered with by you beforehand."

I remained silent.

I was still replaying the videos quickly in my head.

Suddenly, I realized that there was a detail in the videos that they had overlooked!

I hurriedly sat up straight, then said to the three policemen in front of me:

"Comrade police officers, you may have made a mistake, the person captured in the video, is not me."

"There's video evidence. Do you still want to deny it? The clothes you're wearing are the best proof!"

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I continued after a pause:

"The point is, I have proof that the person in the video is not me."

Then I uttered the following paragraph:

"Comrade police officers, in the video, the lower right corner of the back of that person's head by the root of the back of the ear, there is a very small scar, there is no hair at the scar, you guys zoomed in the video to look carefully, you should be able to see it, but I have no scar on the back of my head."

Hearing me finish, Cai team and the other two criminal police officers' faces immediately changed.

Team Cai hurriedly opened those videos again and looked at them carefully again.

Then he came over to me and compared it to the back of my head.

After the comparison, Team Cai completely stopped talking.

He stared at me with an inscrutable look.

I immediately felt a suffocating sense of oppression.

Obviously the evidence I presented worked.

The person who was captured in the video was most likely not me.

......

Seeing that he didn't find any useful breakthroughs from my body, Team Cai left the interrogation room with a sense of resignation.

Team Cai should have immediately switched their thoughts to investigate from other aspects.

After all, I was just a locksmith.

At most, the police could only suspect me of intentionally destroying the locks of the tenants' doors.

As for the case itself, they couldn't insist that it was related to me.

There were many other difficulties that Team Cai was currently facing.

For example:

The identification of the two deceased.

Where did the head of the headless corpse go.

The murderer's modus operandi and hiding place.

Whether the person who shot the video knows more clues related to this case.

Whichever of the above is more worthy of attention than me, the locksmith.

Immediately after Team Cai left, I was told that I couldn't leave the police station just yet.

They said that the case is complicated and has a great social impact.

Need me to stay, convenient to assist them in the investigation.

According to common sense, as the informant and eyewitness, the most they can do for me is to summon me for questioning.

According to the regulations, it can't exceed 24 hours at most.

So I nodded my head and said the word 'okay'.

Even though I was assisting in the investigation, I was accompanied by a special officer the entire time even when I went to the bathroom.

When it was almost dawn, I bumped into two family members of one of the deceased in the walkway of the police station.

The family members were accompanied by specialized police officers.

It was an old woman, and a little girl of eight or nine years old.

The old woman was wiping her tears, while the little girl was crying in the old woman's arms.

"Grandma, is my mom really dead?"

"Grandma, I won first place in the drawing competition. The certificate was sent out today, but my mom hasn't had a chance to see it yet."

"Don't cry, child, don't cry."

......

Through the conversation between the grandparents and the grandchildren, some conclusions can be drawn.

The woman who died in Room 1404 was the old woman's daughter and the little girl's mother.

At the same time, it also confirms that the woman who died in No. 1404 was indeed the owner of No. 1404.

In other words, I did not open the wrong lock!

The old lady recognized me at once.

To be precise, she recognized me in this outfit.

Looks like she's seen the videos too.

"Are you the locksmith? My daughter must have been killed by you!"

The old lady cursed at me and wanted to reach out and hit me.

Luckily, the police officer stopped her.

I didn't make any explanation to the old lady, and I wouldn't blame her.

After all, in the eyes of the family, I was an unscrupulous locksmith who had been present at the crime scene.

I was also standing in front of the families of the victims covered in blood.

It was no wonder the families looked at me like that.

The old lady cried while complaining to the police officer beside her.

The commotion soon attracted more people.

These included Team Cai, who had just returned from outside, as well as one of Team Cai's higher-ups.

The crowd came forward to comfort the old man.

Then, I heard this conversation.

"Bureau Zhao! You have to do right by my daughter!"

"Please don't worry old leader, we will definitely solve the case as soon as possible and return justice to your daughter!"

The old lady wiped away the tear stains on her face, and then clasped this Bureau Zhao's hand tightly and continued:

"My daughter's house is equipped with a surveillance camera, you can go and check the surveillance camera, as long as you look at the surveillance camera, you will definitely know who the murderer is."

When the old lady said this, she looked at me intentionally or unintentionally.

Then she choked and continued, "Only, the monitoring in the house is set up with a password, and the password is only known to my daughter, and now that my daughter is gone, there is only ...... only the trouble of arranging for you guys to have technicians to figure out what to do."

......

Cai team on the side of the hearing, immediately with a few people went out.

And I, too, was brought to the inquiry room again.

What followed was a long wait.

During the wait, I was asked the same questions that had been asked many times before by different officers.

Mostly about some details of the scene.

My attitude was always good.

When they asked over and over again, I talked over and over again.

It wasn't until noon that I met up with Team Cai again.

Team Cai burst into the interrogation room in a rage.

He walked straight up to me, his eyes filled with anger glaring straight at me.

I stood up nervously.

Without waiting for Team Cai to speak, I opened my mouth first:

"Have you cracked the surveillance that old lady said? Did you confirm who the murderer is?"

I didn't expect Team Cai to directly ignore my question.

"Do you remember the first question I asked you in the early hours of this morning? Now I'm asking you again!"

"Your name is Wang Bo? A locksmith?"

I nodded, "Yes."

I gave the same reply as before.

"Bullshit, you kid is still trying to swindle me! The autopsy report has come out, the headless corpse that died in the stairwell is the real locksmith Wang Bo!"

I immediately asked, "The headless body is obviously a female corpse?"

"Don't pretend with me, the headless corpse was only wearing a woman's clothes, you and I already knew that it was a man's corpse, but his head was cut off, and it took us a lot of effort to confirm his identity."

"What's the purpose of pretending to be Wang Bo, the locksmith?"

I spread my hands and didn't say another word.

So much time had passed since the crime.

They didn't confirm the identity of the headless corpse and recognize my identity until now.

It's really slow enough too!