Chapter 927: Arresting People and Closing the Store

Shenghong Building is located in the middle of a small business district. The back door is a food street consisting of several small alleys, and the front door is a few scattered commercial streets. There are similar commercial and residential buildings scattered around, as well as several residential areas or courtyards consisting of single staircases.

The exterior of the building is old, just like the commercial street. The interior decoration is also old and rustic. The elevator is small, broken, few and crowded, which gives 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 of fourth- and fifth-tier cities are at this level. It’s not that the masses don’t like high-end places, but everyone just chooses affordable places first, and then chooses places with high cost performance.

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

Jiang Yuan followed the chaotic crowd holding milk tea and starch sausage into the lobby of Shenghong Building, and saw a security guard directing the crowd, letting dozens of people line up in front of four elevators, and then everyone looked at the slow change of the red floor.

"Let's go to the property management." Jiang Yuan saw this and decided not to experience the elevator, as he probably couldn't find any evidence from the elevator.

However, the investigation had reached this point, and in order to obtain first-hand information, Jiang Yuan still ordered: "Yaowei, you continue to line up the elevator, take a few videos when you go in, and then mark the elevators and the cameras in the floors. Mark the shops on each floor, too, because the ones in the lobby are not accurate."

Jiang Yuan was too familiar with such an environment. Although the lobby had a copper name sign, the better it was, the higher the property management fee would be, and there was a production cycle. Many small shops and companies registered and paid to register one, but when the property management was done, the shops and companies went bankrupt. The property management made 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 and contact us if there is any situation." Jiang Yuan turned around and went up the stairs through the fire door.

Mu Zhiyang ran ahead in three or two steps and said, "The property is on the fifth floor. The floors below the fifth floor are all shops, the second floor is a hot pot restaurant, the third floor is a self-service restaurant, and the fourth floor is an Internet cafe, but these shops are all entered from the front door."

Jiang Yuan said "hmm" and thought while walking up the stairs.

First of all, Chen Nuan entered the building by herself, most of them had an appointment with someone, so how did they make the appointment?

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

Based on the current evidence, both possibilities exist. There is even the possibility that she was transported after being seriously injured. This is the trouble with drowned bodies. Many evidences are destroyed in the water. Of course, the same effect is achieved for buried bodies, but the physical cost of burying is much higher.

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

"Did you find the person?" Jiang Yuan asked. At this time, no one cared whether he had emotional intelligence or not.

The leading police officer knew what Jiang Yuan meant and shook his head and said, "The elevator video of the property here is only stored for 14 days, and it can't be found. However, there are cameras of companies or shops in some corridors here. We have sent people to ask for them one floor at a time."

"Visit again and see if there are any eyewitnesses." Jiang Yuan's request could only be a matter of luck.

"Yes." The leading police officer immediately arranged to go down.

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

The property manager pointed to a large table on the wall and said, "Basically all the companies are listed here. We show it to the tenants. Our boss owns the property."

The policeman from the police station next to him said unceremoniously, "Now find a piece of paper and write down the companies that are not on this large table, and write down the changes, and then sign. If there is a problem later, I will come back to find you."

At this time, all the police are mainly to not trust you.

The property manager did not dare to offend the police officers of the police station, and did it as promised, and then explained something in a low voice.

Jiang Yuan looked at the houses one by one, and saw that from the fifth floor, except for a few households and companies, the most were restaurants, and then various nail salons, beauty salons, script-killing... um...

Jiang Yuan's eyes stopped here, thought about it, and then saw another 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 an iron box."

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

This time, without Jiang Yuan's reminder, Tang Jia said, "Shall we check all the escape room stores?"

"Two people, bring all the surveillance videos." After Jiang Yuan gave the order, he said, "Send someone to the script-killing store, 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."

There were a lot of police officers coming, and now they were in a state of lack of clues but not lack of manpower. Police officers came to check every minute. There was even a script-killing store that didn't open, and the owner was called over.

Jiang Yuan and others were not in a hurry to go back and think about it, so they wanted to occupy the property's office and conference room, and started watching videos on the spot to find 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 it was turned on later, it was in the hands of the murderer. Now it's just that a little time has passed, otherwise Jiang Yuan and others would have sealed Shenghong Building for a detailed investigation.

Lang Heng, the captain of the criminal police detachment, also came to the scene soon. When he found that there were indeed clues, he immediately called and sent people from two nearby police stations over.

In this kind of commercial street, the police officers of the police station are also very useful.

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

Jiang Yuan does not need to do it himself. A group of people from the image detection team bring their own equipment and check the surveillance at the right time.

It didn't take long for the results to come out: "We found the person."

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

"Match the face of the people together." The captain of the image detection team ordered.

After taking a few photos, the information of the man traveling with him jumped out.

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

"There's something wrong with this escape room store." Jiang Yuan had already sat down at the computer, quickly scrolled through the video for a while, and pointed at the screen, saying, "Is this NPC asking Chen Nuan to drink?"

"It seems to be a wine bottle..." The policeman from the police station was watching from behind, his expression became serious, and he said, "I handled a similar case. The clerk of the escape room store asked female players to drink under the pretext of passing the level. There were also cases where female players who were not good at drinking were drunk."

"Arrest them. Close the store." Jiang Yuan came with a special task force, and he didn't need to understand too much. The current evidence was enough for him to bring everyone here.