After hanging up the phone, Su He was still worried, so he called Zhou Bing again and told him the whole situation in full detail.
Then he picked up his phone and started recording a video. He took the fire axe down from the wall, went to the prop room door, and smashed the lock open after three hard strikes.
Pushing open the door, a strong bloody smell came out. A man was sprawled on the floor, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. Looking inside, there were two other men with pools of blood under them.
Without going inside, Su He squatted down to check the man at the door for breathing and found that he still had a breath. Su He called emergency services 120 again, then went back to the door.
This was just a small detached building with only one floor. All the rooms had no windows, and the only way in and out was through the front door.
The front door was locked from the inside and the prop room door was locked from the outside.
The truth is simple!
The murderer is myself!
Su He was so anxious that he almost cried. This operation by the system was simply pushing him into a fiery pit.
A double sealed room mystery, the victims were in the prop room while Su He was outside. How did the murderer manage to do it?
While Su He was racking his brains, there was a loud crash as the glass door was smashed open and a group of people rushed in. Su He hid in the corner then hugged his head and squatted on the ground.
That action was so familiar that it astonished everyone.
"Su He, are you okay?" Crazy Bro saw Su He squatting motionless on the ground and reached out to pull him up.
"I'm fine, come squat here with me, don't run around." Su He directly pulled Crazy Bro down to squat with him.
"What's the situation? Why did you lock yourself in?"
Crazy Bro and the others went to the extras' dressing room. When he came out, he heard that Su He had locked himself in the stars' dressing room.
"There's a dead man!" a shriek came from inside at this time, and the group rushed back out.
The police soon arrived.
A cordon was pulled up outside, and Su He was taken away. At the police station, Zhou Bing came and brought Su He to the criminal investigation team.
According to Su He’s emergency call records and video recordings, progress on this case did not go smoothly. In the prop room, two extras were dead while the third man, the prop room manager, had large amounts of anesthetics in his body but was not in mortal danger.
As Su He had said, there was only one exit, which was the front door, but it was locked from the inside. The prop room door was locked from the outside. If it weren't for Zhou Bing knowing Su He too well, he would have detained him right away.
There were no fingerprints on the locks of the exits, only Su He’s fingerprints were on the iron chains on the prop room door. The key to the prop room lock was found in the pocket of the rich playboy clothes Su He was wearing.
The two dead men in the prop room also had large amounts of anesthetics in their bodies. No footprints, fingerprints or hair of Su He's were found...
If the murderer was not Su He, how did the murderer vanish into thin air?
To be honest, the interrogation rooms in the capital all looked higher-end than those in Jinan City. Su He sat properly in his chair answering whatever the police asked, cooperating so obediently that the police woman recording it frowned.
This was her first time encountering such a clear-headed criminal suspect. Finally, when Su He requested to see the case files, the police woman was shocked speechless.
After Zhou Bing stepped out for a bit, he directly handed the files over to Su He despite the police woman glaring with eyes wide open. Captain Zhou actually agreed!
This was absolutely insane, insane enough to open the door to insanity, insanely insane!
In her 8 years of police service, this was the first time she had encountered such a situation. Had Captain Zhou been hypnotized?
The key is in my clothes pocket?
Su He suddenly saw two options appear before his eyes.
"Option 1: Look for clues, assist the police in solving the case. Reward upon completion: Advanced aircraft piloting skills"
"Option 2: Wait for the police to solve the case. Reward upon completion: Advanced tractor driving skills"
Come on, a man who can drive a tractor is super cool!
Su He chose the first one without any hesitation. He had once yearned for the blue skies and longed to fly planes high up in the air. However, failing the high school entrance exam and entering vocational school instead, he had stepped on sewing machines, driven excavators, and flown paper planes with his dorm mates...
Those were fond memories!
“Su He, please be serious!” The police woman saw Su He staring blankly at her and couldn’t help but remind him.
Su He calmed himself down and used a process of elimination. Firstly, he was not the murderer, so the answer floated to the surface - the murderer was someone else!
Seeing Su He lost in thought, Zhou Bing asked, “Su He, did you find something?”
The police had searched the entire building and found no hidden mechanisms or other exits. The only way the murderer could have left was through the front door, which was locked from the inside, something only Su He could have done. Therefore, Su He was the prime suspect, even if he wasn't the murderer, he would be considered an accomplice.
However, after reading Su He’s file, Zhou Bing felt this case was not so simple.
This was Su He’s first time at the filming location, he came at the invitation of a friend and had no connection with the two dead men at all, hadn’t even seen their faces before.
He had no motive for murder. Additionally, the dead men and the prop room manager all had injection marks on them and large amounts of anesthetics in their bodies. The murder weapon was also not found.
There were two dressing rooms at the location, one for extras and one for more important actors. The rich playboy role Su He played clearly met the standards of the important actor room, which was why he appeared there.
Stars highly valued their privacy, so there were no surveillance cameras installed in the rooms or corridors, which greatly increased the difficulty of solving the case.
Since the set was newly built, only the entrance had monitoring that so far revealed nothing suspicious.
“There's more than one murderer!” Su He suddenly said.
“Huh?” The police woman said in surprise, “Are you saying it was a ghost?”
Zhou Bing knitted his brow and motioned for Su He to continue.
“This is a premeditated locked room murder. The murderer made a mistake in choosing the wrong scapegoat!”
At this point, Su He figured out how the murderer had disappeared without a trace.
Why would the key to open the prop room appear in the pocket of the rich playboy clothes he wore?
Since the murderer wanted to frame Su He, he would never put the key in his pocket beforehand because the murderer couldn't grasp Su He's actions. Every step of the elaborate set up couldn't allow the slightest mistake.
The prop room door was locked from the outside, and there were no murder weapons or things used to inject anesthetics inside, so someone left the room after committing murder.
And the front door was locked from the inside, so the murderer must still have been inside but hiding.
There were only three rooms inside, the male dressing room, female dressing room, and prop room.
When Su He entered the male dressing room, the murderer locked the front door from the inside, then hid in the female dressing room.
When the door was smashed open and people rushed in, the murderer blended into the crowd and left the scene of the crime, leaving the key in the pocket of the rich playboy clothes Su He had worn.
But this plan had a fatal flaw - the murderer hiding in the female dressing room had to leave before the police arrived.
To achieve this, there must have been an accomplice waiting outside to coordinate.
Su He directly determined that the man who smashed the glass door was that accomplice, a mere extra with a daily income of only 120 yuan. Would such a person damage the glass door?
Before the glass door was smashed open, those outside only thought Su He was playing a prank by locking the door and didn't know there were dead men inside.
Was there any need to smash down the door under these circumstances?
Next, Su He found two transcripts from the pile and placed them on the table, looking up to say, "Go catch the murderer! Found them!"