Chapter 1707: Seamless Cooperation
“Huh? ! What is this based on? What does a murder here have to do with us? ! Based on what criteria are we not allowed to leave?”
“You can’t do this. If you suspect someone to be a suspect, bring a court search warrant. If not, please move aside. We don’t want to continue living here.”
“Who the F*CK would want to continue living in a place where a murder has just occurred…”
People with the louder voice shouted out their dissatisfaction; People with the softer voices also muttered their discontent.
The bustling sound was incessant, like a hornet’s nest being poked.
In fact, the action of the hotel forbidding the guests of other rooms to enter and leave freely because a murder happened on this floor was indeed illegal.
These guests were not at the scene of the crime, and the hotel management did not have any evidence to prove that the guests of these other rooms were related to the murder.
All the people who were able to live in the luxury suites of the Dunhill
Hotel were not just ordinary people.
It didn’t take long for them to grab their phones and call their lawyers, family, and friends.
Although it was the early morning of the first day of the New Year, many people had not slept because the Spring Gala had just ended.
Soon, lawyers were driving over to the hotel.
While these guests were arguing with the hotel management, Lu Jin unhurriedly logged into the hotel’s intranet in his room to erase any traces of him checking in.
From the registration records in the lobby to his credit card, to the surveillance video in the lobby, as well as the surveillance video in the corridor on this floor, he had deleted all the marks of his presence.
Perhaps the service staff in the lobby who had registered him had a vague impression of such a person, but it would be strange if that person could remember an ordinary person like him when this place became chaotic later.
The only problem was the key card in his hand.
If the hotel management sorted out all the key cards on this floor, they would discover that the key card in his room was missing.
And this room happened to be next to Is.h.i.+hara Baisan’s room.
If they began to search, the person who checked him in might remember him.
Lu Jin pondered if he should hypnotize the service staff in the lobby when he went downstairs.
Suddenly, the ear-piercing fire alarm rang outside!
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
The sharp sound of the fire alarm instantly reverberated throughout the entire corridor.
The faces of the guests who were confronting the hotel management immediately changed drastically.
“Fire!”
“Fire!”
“Hurry up and run!”
When the fire alarm sounded, the hotel management had no more reason to stop these guests from leaving.
In fact, even if the police came now, they could only run down together with the guests at this time.
The hotel management staff were the first to turn and run down the stairs.
The rest of the guests also ran down the stairs with a whoosh.
Because the elevator would automatically shut down when there was a fire. So no one ran to the elevator.
At the same time, Lu Jin flashed out of the room and ran down after these people.
Just as he went down to the middle floor, the firemen finally came up.
One of them, a big fireman in a yellow fireman’s uniform, rushed over quickly and b.u.mped into Lu Jin, then continued to the run-up.
Lu Jin hurriedly dodged, but he was still knocked down to the railing of the stairs.
However, that person didn’t hit him hard. His back hit the railing, but it didn’t hurt at all.
Lu Jin wasn’t in the mood to argue with this person. He thought that it was understandable that the fireman was rus.h.i.+ng to put out the fire. He just wanted to hurry home.
Finally, he got downstairs. Lu Jin recalled his key card and looked around for the service staff who had checked him in. He tried to hypnotize that person, but when he touched his pocket, the key card was gone!
Lu Jin’s expression changed drastically and quickly looked around.
Some guests had just come down from upstairs. All of them were disheveled. Many were still wrapped in the hotel’s nightgowns and bathrobes.
It was obviously an emergency, and there was no time for them to change.
Although there were not many people on their floor, there were still quite a few guests in the entire building.
For a building like this, if a fire broke out on one floor, all guests on all floors would be evacuated.
Lu Jin squeezed himself into the group of people and calmly looked for the service staff who had checked in for him.
When the fire alarm sounded, the hotel service staff had their own evacuation tasks. They were all working in an orderly manner according to the plan. Lu Jin did not find the person he was looking for.
The first group of firemen who rushed upstairs sprint to the floor where the murder happened.
According to the fire alarm records, the fire started from that floor. The source of the fire should be there.
The tallest firefighter, the one who b.u.mped into Lu Jin, was the first one to rush into Is.h.i.+hara Baisan’s room.
He wore a fire mask and quickly looked around. Then, he entered Is.h.i.+hara Baisan’s bedroom and found the room pitch black.
Holding a high-brightness flashlight, he saw two things besides the dead body that didn’t fit into the luxury environment around him.
A small test tube and a few pieces of yellowed paper that looked like they had been torn from a notebook.
The man did not think too much about it. He quickly walked over to pick up the two things and stuffed them into the thick fire jacket.
Because of the fire alarm, the power in the building had been suspended. Only the backup power in the corridor was still running.
The man exited the darkroom and entered the suite that Lu Jin had just stayed in next door. He casually flipped the tables, chairs, and sofas, making them appear to be caused by someone running out of the room in a panic.
He then used the fire extinguisher to spray the room fiercely, wiping away all the fingerprints and footprints that Lu Jin might have left behind.
After exiting Lu Jin’s room, he carried the fire extinguisher to another few rooms. After doing the same thing, he quickly exited the room.
The entire operation took less than five minutes. The other firefighters were still looking for a possible source of fire in the various rooms. He had already successfully retreated.
He found a remote utility room, took out a folded travel bag, opened it, took off the fire uniform on him, and stuffed it in. Then he carried the travel bag, pretending to be one of the guests, and quickly rushed down the fire escape.
When he came to the lobby, it was crowded. He quickly walked to the place where the lobby registration office was located.
It was also crowded here. The hotel’s service staff was not checking in here at the moment.
He stood at the place where the service staff was registering and threw the key card into the drawer that was used to store the key card before anyone noticed.
At this moment, the sound of police cars could be heard at the entrance of the hotel.
The police finally arrived.
Just as the large group of police rushed in, a few firemen hurried down from upstairs.
“It’s fine! There’s a problem with the fire alarm. There’s no fire!”
“It was a false alarm! A false alarm!”
“For safety’s sake, everyone, please wait another half an hour. It won’t be too late after we’ve checked and eliminated the fire alarm in the entire building for everyone to go upstairs.”
As the firemen announced about the situation upstairs, many people heaved a sigh of relief.
Lu Jin was also paying attention to the development of the situation in the crowd.
When he heard that it wasn’t a real fire alarm, he raised his eyebrows and felt it was a little strange.
Just as he was about to look for the hotel’s check-in attendant, a tall man walked over and said to him in a low voice, “Sir, the car you requested is here.”
Lu Jin immediately became alert when he heard this voice.
This was the voice of the Soviet KGB’s Peter Huo Shaoheng!
He examined the figure of this person. It was clearly the fireman who had hit him before!
Lu Jin understood everything now.
The Committee of State Security (KGB) must have stolen the key card that he had lost, right?
It was Huo Shaoheng.
He grabbed Lu Jin’s arm and whispered, “The key card has been returned. Let’s go, the car is outside.”
Lu Jin heaved a huge sigh of relief.
He saw that the hotel management had also walked to the lobby and started communicating with the police. He quickly followed Huo Shaoheng to exit.
Because of the fire alarm earlier, a large portion of the guests had also run out of the building.
At this time, the hotel’s main entrance did not restrict people from entering and leaving.
He followed Huo Shaoheng out of the lobby quickly and saw that Huo Shaoheng was carrying a travel bag in his hand.
When they walked near the fire truck, Huo Shaoheng took out the fire uniform from the travel bag and threw it into the back of the fire truck when no one was around.
There was a clutter of fire equipment and some scattered fire uniforms.
Huo Shaoheng threw the fire uniform from his travel bag into the middle of the pile of fire uniforms. No one could tell that a fire uniform had just been lost here.
Lu Jin noticed that when Huo Shaoheng did these things, he always kept his back facing the surveillance cameras.
“… you don’t have to be so careful, do you? There’s a fire alarm here, and the power has been cut off.”Lu Jin pointed to the surveillance cameras over there.
Huo Shaoheng said lightly,”… the surveillance cameras in the Soviet Union usually have backup power. Of course, the surveillance cameras in this hotel don’t have backup power, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.”
Lu Jin pursed his lips and thought to himself, so what if he was caught on camera?
With his ability, hacking into and deleting it would be a piece of cake.
However, he had to admit that Peter’s meticulousness was indeed a sign of professionalism.
He stopped arguing and obediently followed Huo Shaoheng through the crowd on the lawn of the hotel building. They walked out of the main door and headed across the street.
There was also a crowd on the other side of the road. Some of them had rushed over to see what happened, some were lawyers, friends, and relatives of the guests that got called, and some were hotel guests that worried about the spread of fire and ran directly to the opposite side of the hotel.
After Huo Shaoheng and Lu Jin left the hotel, they did not walk very quickly. Instead, they strolled casually into the crowd of people on the other side of the road to watch the commotion.
The two of them quietly moved back among the crowd and walked to the back. They looked up at the situation at the Dunhill Hotel for a while before slowly leaving the place.
The two of them walked to the corner of the street. Huo Shaoheng remotely opened a car and raised his chin at Lu Jin.
Lu Jin got into the pa.s.senger seat of the car without a word.
Huo Shaoheng got into the driver’s seat. He stepped on the accelerator and sped away from the place.
They were not the only cars that were leaving the hotel area. So they did not draw much attention.
Lu Jin was full of praise for Huo Shaoheng’s actions, but he also asked curiously,”… how did you know I was here? I was sure no one was following me.”
Huo Shaoheng didn’t answer him, but asked coldly, “Is.h.i.+hara Baisan is dead?”
Lu Jin nodded and smiled, “Guess how he died?”
“Why did you want him to die?”Huo Shaoheng asked again, his mood a little heavy.
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