Chapter 79 Lai Fu Hotel

It was two o'clock in the afternoon.

Laifu Hotel.

The storefront was very small; on the left was a long sofa that could seat two people, and directly facing the entrance was the front desk.

All the guest rooms on the three floors above belonged to this hotel.

At this moment, an elderly man in his fifties was fast asleep on a recliner behind the front desk.

Knock, knock, knock.

Chen Mo knocked on the front desk.

"Hey!"

The old man immediately sat up, blurting out, "How many people?"

When he realized what Chen Mo and the others were wearing, he was startled into a jolt.

"Hello, officers!"

"Which room is Xu Dong staying in?"

"This is his photo; he checked in last night."

Feng Tianlei's lawyer was quite reliable; he didn't give them an anonymous SIM card.

And based on the phone number, it was very easy to find information about this person, Xu Dong.

After investigating along the way, they locked onto this Laifu Hotel.

The old man put on his reading glasses, took a careful look, and then picked up the check-in records to look through them.

"This person checked in after nine o'clock yesterday; they are in room 206 on the second floor."

"Officers, did they commit some kind of crime?"

"Our hotel is a legitimate business; we don't have any illegal or illicit activities here."

The old man explained nervously.

He was afraid of bringing unmerited disaster upon his hotel.

Chen Mo did not answer his question but instead asked in return, "After these people checked in, did they leave in the middle of the night? For example, around eleven o'clock at night."

"This... I'm old, I don't remember clearly." He looked distressed.

Chen Mo nodded silently.

At this moment, Long Hao walked in from outside.

"I took a look around; there's no back door here. Did you find out which room it is?"

"206."

Immediately, the sound of footsteps going up the stairs rang out.

This time, a total of ten criminal police officers, including Chen Mo and Long Hao, had come.

If the murderer was truly these debt collectors, then resistance would be inevitable during the arrest.

—Click.

Chen Mo took out the key he had requested from the boss and inserted it into the lock cylinder.

At the same time, he turned the doorknob.

"What are you doing!"

The door opened, and an impatient voice came from inside.

The furnishings in the room were very simple: a double bed, a wall-mounted TV facing the door, and a bathroom on the right. Inside, four people were currently puffing away on cigarettes.

"Police!"

Xiao Zhang walked up to them in a few steps and showed his identification.

The four of them looked at each other.

They didn't quite understand where things had gone wrong to cause the police to show up.

"Why are you looking for us?"

Xu Dong, who was leading them, had a face full of flab, and his two large tattooed arms were very eye-catching.

Meanwhile, Chen Mo had quietly walked to the room's window and was carefully examining the window frame.

"Why we're looking for you—don't you know in your own hearts?"

Xiao Zhang glanced at Chen Mo, then delivered an appropriate taunt without explicitly stating their current intent.

"Because of Lin Dahai?"

"Since you're clear on that, it'll be easy. Are you going to confess now, or will you confess after we take you back?"

Xu Dong's expression darkened, and he glared at his other three brothers.

Damn it! Can't you even handle this little thing well? You even brought the police here.

"We didn't do anything, what is there to confess?"

Xu Dong looked innocent and spread his hands.

"What did you come to Muhe for?"

"For tourism; the scenery here is nice."

Silence...

Under Xiao Zhang's gaze, they finally admitted the purpose of this trip.

"Debt collecting." Xu Dong sighed.

"Lin Dahai, right."

"But he is already dead."

Upon hearing this, the four of them looked stunned, as if they had misheard.

Dead!? Lin Dahai is dead? Didn't we just see him yesterday?

"How is that possible?"

An expression of disbelief appeared on Xu Dong's face.

He looked like he thought the police were teasing him.

"We aren't teasing you. Xiao Zhang, continue asking."

Chen Mo turned away from the window, patted Xiao Zhang on the shoulder, and then left the room.

And Long Hao followed closely behind.

"Did you find anything on the window?"

Seeing Chen Mo shake his head, he then expressed his own opinion: "I don't think it's them. Just as you said, the four of them came to Muhe to collect a debt; Lin Dahai's death doesn't benefit them at all."

During this time, he had also secretly picked up some Micro-expressions techniques from Chen Mo.

Judging by their reactions, he felt these four were not the problem.

"From the perspective of debt collection, that is true." Chen Mo nodded in agreement.

Immediately, he walked to the window on the left side of the second floor.

In his mind, if it was confirmed that the four of them had not left the hotel since checking in, then naturally, the murderer would not be them.

Looking at the window inside the room earlier was to see if there were any signs of climbing out.

The windows on the first and second floors of the hotel could be fully opened.

But from the third floor upwards, they couldn't be fully opened, to prevent someone from accidentally falling and causing unnecessary trouble.

And if the three of them had left through the window that night without using the main entrance, with his forensic trace investigation skills, he would certainly have been able to discover clues.

Even if they had wiped them away, he would still have found traces of that wiping.

But unfortunately.

The window on the left, having been exposed to wind and sun, had a layer of dust on it.

But there were no footprints, nor any suspicious points.

He went to look at the window on the right side of the corridor, and the result was the same as the left side.

"The windows on the second floor and in the room are fine."

"If they wanted to leave the hotel and kill Lin Dahai, they would either have to use the windows of other rooms or use the main entrance. At worst, they could take the roof, though the possibility of the roof is very small."

Long Hao nodded, then turned back into the room, signaling everyone to inspect the windows of other guest rooms as well as the rooftop.

Meanwhile, Chen Mo went up to the boss (the old man).

In fact, ever since they came up, the hotel boss had been nervously following them, never leaving, presumably wanting to understand the situation as much as possible.

If it had nothing to do with their hotel, he could breathe a sigh of relief sooner.

"Don't be nervous."

Chen Mo signaled for him to calm down.

"Were you at the front desk around eleven o'clock last night?"

"Do you remember if any of them went out? Or did you hear any sounds?"