Chapter 358 Anti-reconnaissance expert
When he ran into two female police officers head-on, Mr. Fanshan couldn't control the cold sweat that continued to break out on his forehead.
He didn't know Sato Miwako, but he knew Maori Lan.
Mao Lilan is a disciple of the recently popular Manager Lin, and is also well-known in Tokyo.
He knew that this little girl was smart and discerning, and was by no means an easy person to deal with.
"calm down."
"My current disguise is perfect. As long as I don't mess up, no one will find any flaws."
Kenzo Masama is worthy of being a veteran cadre of the organization.
Although he was in chaos just now because of a big oolong, he still regained his composure immediately when faced with the oncoming enemy.
And the fact is just as he thought:
He was now wearing a janitor's overalls, with a mask and gloves covering his head tightly, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.
No one would have thought that the cleaner who appeared in the women's restroom was actually the chairman of Baling Motors.
The same goes for Mao Lilan, who is afraid of him.
Kenzo Masama and Mao Lilan collided head-on.
When their eyes met face to face, he even boldly nodded to the other person and respectfully stepped aside to get out of the way.
This kind of performance makes him look more like an ordinary cleaner.
Then, the two sides passed each other.
One step, two steps, three steps. Until he walked outside the bathroom door, the smart and beautiful forensic girl could not see any flaws in him.
"successful"
Masuyama Kenzo breathed a long sigh of relief.
He knew that he had temporarily muddled through and successfully bought time.
Next, as long as he got out of the hotel as quickly as possible before Suzuki Sonoko was discovered in the compartment, he could escape safely.
Mr. Fanshan thought happily.
But at this moment, he heard such a conversation coming from the bathroom behind him
"Miss Maori, do you feel that?"
"There was something wrong with that cleaner just now?"
The person who discovered something strange was not the Maori lady he was afraid of, but another unknown female police officer:
"The floor in this bathroom is wet, as if it had been mopped just now."
"But the bucket in the hands of the cleaner is clean inside, with no water stains at all."
"Is it really him who cleans the bathroom?"
Kenzo Masama took the bucket out of the utility room and used it as a disguise prop. Because he was pressed for time, he did not bother to pay attention to details such as "water stains".
But such small details were noticed by Miwako Sato:
“Something feels wrong”
"I'm afraid there's something bad behind this!"
"This is just a clean bucket. Maybe it was kept in the bathroom and was not used, and now Mr. Cleaner thought of it and took it away, right?"
Looking at Miss Miwako's suddenly serious face, Mao Lilan was a little puzzled:
"Ms. Sato, why are you so sure that something bad will happen?"
"Uh" Sato Miwako was silent for a while.
Looking at Miss Maori's innocent face, she was really embarrassed to say why she was so vigilant.
"Ahem. This may be the old detective's intuition, right?"
"That's it." Miss Maori believed it stupidly.
She couldn't help but be infected by Sato Miwako's powerful "criminal intuition". She quietly became vigilant and observed this seemingly ordinary bathroom with her eyes.
At this glance, Mao Lilan quickly saw something was wrong:
"Footprints on the floor"
The floor was still wet, and the water-stained footprints left by the trampling were clearly visible:
"It may be complete or incomplete, mostly overlapping, some parts are clear and some are blurred, and the distribution is messy in different directions."
"This is what Mr. Lin said before, the characteristics of the footprints at the fighting scene."
Mao Lilan's expression suddenly became more solemn than Miwako's.
She followed the direction of the water-stained footprints and cast her gaze towards a toilet cubicle with the door ajar.
Then push the compartment door gently:
"Garden, garden?!"
Mao Lilan was shocked.
Sato Miwako was also extremely horrified:
She suddenly turned her head to look at Mao Lilan, her eyes full of shock.
This shock did not last long. Miss Sato, who was vaguely prepared for this situation, reacted quickly in the next second:
"Miss Sonoko, I'll leave it to you to take care of her."
"I'm going after the janitor!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Sato Miwako hurriedly chased her out of the bathroom:
Looking outside, the mysterious cleaner was no longer in the corridor.
"Run away? No."
"In such a short time, he definitely didn't run far!"
Today's wedding ceremony was attended by many high-level officials from the Metropolitan Police Department, so security patrols were arranged at all entrances and exits of the hotel, as well as on the surrounding streets.
As long as they block the entrance and exit immediately, the prisoners can be trapped in this building.
When she thought of this, Sato Miwako immediately picked up her mobile phone and dialed the number of her colleague who was responsible for the hotel's peripheral security.
And the calls made by the police officers to their male colleagues are always answered instantly.
Her colleagues will also meet her requests as soon as possible.
Very quickly, within a few seconds.
A siren sounded inside and outside the hotel.
Police cars on standby surrounded the hotel, and police guarding all entrances and exits of the hotel quickly established a tight blockade.
"Good, now he can't escape."
Miwako Sato breathed a sigh of relief.
She turned back and asked Mao Lilan in the bathroom:
"Miss Mori, Miss Sonoko."
"Sonoko is fine, she just fainted."
Mao Lilan's answer made Sato Miwako relieved:
"That's good"
"The next thing to do is to find the prisoner."
With this thought in her mind, she prepared to quickly run back to the venue to report the situation to her superiors and mobilize more police forces to investigate.
At this moment, a strange smell of burning textiles came from afar.
"That's the direction of the utility room?"
Miwako Sato soon realized something:
"The murderer is setting fire?!"
This is definitely not a good thing.
The murderer set the fire at such a time, probably hoping to create chaos and escape.
Sato Miwako was shocked, and immediately smashed the glass of the fire cabinet in the corridor with her elbow, and hurriedly picked up the fire extinguisher inside.
She planned to stop the fire in time.
But such efforts are somewhat redundant:
This hotel has smoke detectors and automatic fire sprinklers.
The fire had just ignited in the utility room, and the rising smoke triggered the automatic fire protection system.
The fire sprinklers all over the corridor rooms suddenly started working, spraying a large amount of water to every inch of space below.
It seemed like there was a heavy rain in the hotel, and the guests and waiters were soaked in the water.
The fire was also put out.
When Miwako Sato rushed to the bathroom, she could only see a ball of mostly burned clothes with white smoke still coming out and a vaguely distinguishable shape.
"Is this the overalls worn by the murderer?"
"He actually burned the work clothes he used to disguise himself."
Sato Miwako's expression changed slightly:
She was keenly aware that the murderer's purpose in setting the fire might not be, or not just to create chaos and escape.
He wanted to burn the evidence and then sneak into the crowd.
In this way, even if the hotel entrance and exit are blocked, it will be difficult for the police to find the real murderer from the crowd.
"Yes, there is a pistol in the embers."
"If his purpose was to break out of the hotel, he wouldn't have left his self-defense firearms here."
"I'm afraid, the murderer wants to discard all suspicious items on his body, then change his appearance and blend into the crowd."
Such reasoning and reduction is not too difficult for a criminal police officer:
The sound of police cars and police mobilization outside the hotel can also be heard here.
The murderer must have realized that he was trapped in the hotel and could not escape, so he was forced to change his plan and chose to create chaos and hide on the spot.
The murderer must still be in the hotel now, and may even be blocked on this floor, with no time to escape.
Thinking of this, Miwako Sato couldn't help but turn her head and look at the door of the banquet hall not far from the utility room:
Because of the sudden fire alarm and the "heavy rain" coming from the fire sprinklers, the venue was already in chaos.
In such a chaotic situation, I'm afraid no one would notice that someone took advantage of the chaos and hid in the venue.
"Will the murderer be in this venue now?"
"But the venue was full of people from our Metropolitan Police Department. Is he really that brave?"
Sato Miwako frowned slightly, her eyes becoming more solemn.
At this time, Mao Lilan had already supported the sleeping Suzuki Sonoko and slowly followed him from the bathroom:
"Ms. Sato, has the murderer been caught?"
"No. But I have asked people to block the entrance and exit of the hotel."
"The guy wanted to set a fire and escape in the chaos, but fortunately, there was an automatic fire-fighting device in the hotel."
"The fire has been extinguished. He has no chance to escape now. He can only change his appearance and hide in the crowd."
What Miwako Sato said was generally good news.
But as Mao Lilan listened, her expression changed slightly.
She looked at the messy corridor that had been "rained" by fire sprinklers, and the floor covered with shallow water, and her eyes quietly became solemn:
"Ms. Sato, you mean..."
"Like he changed his appearance and hid in the crowd?"
"Yes." Sato Miwako nodded: "The one that was burned was the janitor's overalls he wore."
"As for him, he must have completely changed his face now."
"Then this will be troublesome." Mao Lilan sighed softly:
"The murderer's purpose in setting the fire was not only to create chaos, but also to destroy traces."
"Not only did he use a fire to destroy the clothes he was wearing, but he also used the smoke to trigger the fire alarm and let the fire sprinklers make a 'heavy rain' in the hotel."
"In this way, the footprints and smell left by the murderer on the ground will all be destroyed by the 'rain'."
The more she spoke, the more serious her expression became.
Miwako Sato also faintly realized:
The murderer's counter-reconnaissance ability is very strong.
This is an expert.
"I want to find him from the crowd"
"I'm afraid it's not that easy!"
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