Chapter 892
You Hit My Heart
Mr. Walsh of the Blue Maple Group was dead?
It was not known whether the deceased was the older Mr. Walsh or the
younger Mr. Walsh, but a life was lost anyway.
At this moment, Joyce felt cold all over. She felt so cold that her legs
were trembling. She bent down to pick up the phone that fell to the
ground, and her fingers were cold and stiff. She tried several times
before she could finally pick up the phone.
She took another look at the news.
And then she thought about the phone call just now with Otis.
Otis said that the gift he had promised to her had been delivered. Did it
mean that Otis killed Mr. Walsh? Yeah, there was a problem between
her and the younger Mr. Walsh, but did he have to kill him?
How could he? Depriving people of their lives at will was simply vicious,
horrible and incomprehensible.
She stood in the room. Her chest felt so stuffy that she found it difficult
to even breathe.
No, she must go and see for herself what was going on.
She turned her head and looked at Anderson, who was sleeping
peacefully on the bed. She walked up, covered him with the quilts and
gave him another kiss on the forehead.
She just needed to know what happened and she would be back as
soon as she could. It's still early, but hopefully she could make it back
before Anderson woke up.
Changing into a loose, casual dress, she put on a camel-colored coat.
As she walked out of the living room, she saw Luther sleeping on the
couch when it occurred to her that Luther had slept in the living room
last night and she had almost forgotten about him.
Luther was still sleeping, so she walked up and probed his forehead.
The heat was completely gone.
It was also good that Luther was home. If Anderson woke up early, he
could also take care of him.
She opened the apartment door gently and closed it gently as she left,
afraid to wake them up.
She then quickened her pace to the gates and stopped a cab.
"Go to Hotel Dragon,â Joyce said to the driver.
"Hotel Dragon?" The driver raised his voice, "Didn't you read the
morning news? There was a murder at Hotel Dragon. The police must
have arrived and the place is probably sealed off. What are you doing
there? To see a dead person in the morning?"
âYou park nearby and I'll walk in myself. I have something to do." Joyce
didn't say much.
"Okay." The cab driver responded.
Hotel Dragon was in the downtown, not far from Blue Ocean.
Joyce flipped through the news in the car, and there were no new
reports about the case.
The shorter the news, the bigger the event.
She was getting more and more anxious and she had been trembling
all over. She even had goose bumps all over her body, and her
apprehensive heart was pounding.
The driver glanced in the rearview mirror and turned on the heating in
the car, "Miss, you look cold, so I just turned on the air conditioning.
Recently there is a big temperature difference between morning and
evening, so you should wear more when you go out.â
"Thank you." Joyce said politely.
Soon, the cab driver drove the car to the vicinity of Hotel Dragon.
Joyce got out of the car and walked to Hotel Dragon. In front of the
hotel, there were several police cars parked and cars from the forensic
analysis center.
Some people in police uniforms came in and out, and some officers in
white overalls were waiting at the door.
Joyce caught a glimpse of a familiar figure from far away, who was
walking out from inside Hotel Dragon.
It was the younger Mr. Walsh. His right hand was wrapped in gauze.
She stabbed him last time, and the wound must not have healed.
The younger Mr. Walsh, with a disheveled, ashen face, walked out from
inside Hotel Dragon and, led by two police officers, he got into a police
car.
With the whistling of police cars, they then drove away.
The fact that the younger Mr. Walsh was alive meant that the one who
died was his brother.
Joyce sidled up and got in from the back door of the hotel.
Although she did not know which room the older Mr. Walsh was staying
in, she quickly determined that the accident took place on the 18th floor
after she observed the staff who were coming in and out of the scene.
The police did not lock down the entire hotel, since they didn't want to
affect other customers.
Joyce pretended that she lived in Hotel Dragon, and she walked into
the elevator with a natural demeanor.
It so happened that two staff members of the analysis center also
walked into the elevator.
As the elevator doors closed, the two staff members began to whisper.
âIt's strange. I've been doing this job for a few years now, and I've never
seen something like this."
"Yes, with my intuition, it definitely looks like he was killed. The body is
stiff, and he seems to die of breathing paralysis. He should be
suffocated. Like being strangled to death? But we can find no trace of
him being strangled from the neck. Do you think it is strange?"
"More than that!"
"There was almost no trauma to the whole body. Well, there is a wound
on the back of his head, but it seems that he had bumped into the
corner of the bed when he fell to the ground.â
âThe time of death is probably around five in the morning, or maybe six.
Anyway, when I got here, there was still residual heat on the body of
the deceased. Just dead not long ago."
"That's not the most critical issue.â
"What is the most critical issue then?"
"To tell you the truth, I just heard the police say that they had checked
the surveillance. After 12:00 last night, no one had entered the room of
the deceased.â
"I feel horrible when you say that."
âThe truth is just so horrible. It looks like a homicide, asphyxiation. Yet
no one ever entered the deceased's room."
âYou don't mean that it wasn't done by a human being? We have been
doing this job for so many years, and you still believe these unreliable
theories of divine power and weirdness?"
"I don't believe it, but I have to find a reason that can convince me! Can
you explain?"
"I can't. Maybe there's something else we haven't found. After all, we
have only roughly examined the scene. When we return to the center,
we can run a test for the blood composition of the deceased, and then
we can make a final decision.â
"Hmm. Right, but I have a hunch that this is no good. Definitely we can't
find anything."
"Why do you say that?"
"It's intuition, the sixth sense as a forensic scientist. I have been to all
kinds of scenes, and I have seen enough cases."
"Cut the crap. You must not be heard by your boss, or you will be
scolded. Our task is to take samples, and nothing beyond that. As for
the rest, we better just leave it to the professor himself."
"Hmm."
At this time, the elevator sounded a "ding".
After the two staff members left, Joyce also quietly came to the scene
on the eighteenth floor.
The conversation between them just now had caught her attention.
It looked like a homicide, and he died of asphyxiation, but there were
no signs of a homicide.
There was also no sign of any killer coming in or out.
In other words, it was a murder without a killer.
She could not help but think of Stephanie's death, a murder case that
had never been solved.
She quickened her pace and when she came to the yellow police
cordon, she bowed down and got through it and finally got to the door
of the room where Mr. Walsh died, room 1808.
The staff was busy and no one noticed her.
The room was extraordinarily quiet and was shrouded by a death-like
silence.
She glanced inside the room, only to see Mr. Walsh lying on the carpet.
As his face was facing outward, she could see it clearly.
She was so frightened that she took two steps backwards.
Memories that had been stashed for a long time came up like a tidal
wave.
He looked exactly the same as Stephanie when she died!