It seems that the villain is targeting me.

The system's nagging instructions still echoed in my mind [Lock cylinder, lock cylinder is placed in the middle groove, yes, tighten it a little], like a ruthless maintenance worker.

She couldn't help but look back... and then she saw Doctor Chen Xiaoyue dragging Gu Tianjiao to the floor like a dead body, and then pulling a sheet from the cabinet to wrap him up...

It looks more like a corpse!

This is a crime, Xiao Niao tightened the screws with a heavy heart. This is definitely a crime.

She only learned a few minutes ago that Gu Tianjiao was actually kidnapped here.

According to Chen Xiaoyue, she saw someone - judging by her description, it was most likely Lu Yao - dragging the unconscious Gu Tianjiao from the car, packing him up and stuffing him into the trash can, and then somehow, they brought him into the room.

The system was able to check the hotel's surveillance footage from last night, so Xiaoniao was able to quickly reconstruct Lu Yao's modus operandi.

The surveillance video footage was played directly on the bird's retina by the system at 32 times the speed, only capturing the footage where people appeared.

The whole process was actually not complicated, because Lu Yao did not deliberately avoid surveillance, and the camera clearly captured all her activities in the hotel yesterday afternoon.

After booking the room and getting the key, Lu Yao did not go in immediately. She just confirmed the floor where the suite was located, and then left through the back door of the hotel while no one was paying attention.

A few minutes later, she appeared on the surveillance camera again, pushing the hotel cleaning staff's special cart...

It was around this time that she transferred Gu Tianjiao from the trash can to the cart.

Xiao Niao made this judgment because he saw half of an arm stretched out in the video... It was hanging on the ground, swaying, and was occasionally pinched by the wheels, as if it died with its eyes open.

"Hiss..." Xiao Niao couldn't help but take a breath.

Isn't he awake yet? she thought.

Xiao Niao watched with mixed emotions as Lu Yao in the surveillance video impatiently kicked back her arm that had fallen to the ground. She deeply realized that she had been involved in an inhumane crime.

So the heroine in this romance world is set to have an antisocial personality?

This cannot even be described as an outlaw - how strong a mental state does one have to be to do such a thing so calmly and nonchalantly?

She even ordered room service and opened the door right under the waiter's nose.

However, just as the video was coming to an end, the system suddenly made a strange "Huh?" sound.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Niao asked. At this moment, she was seeing the scene when Lu Yao left the room about half an hour ago.

She narrowed her eyes and carefully observed the details in the video. "Hmm... is there something wrong?"

"No," the system's voice sounded hesitant. "It's the hotel's surveillance network... there's a virus in it."

virus?

[Yes, it is a very aggressive virus program. It will

Start, paralyzing the entire monitoring system...]

Tongzi, who was well aware of the hotel's leaky firewall, declared, "By then, all surveillance footage and data will be lost, reduced to unreadable garbled text."

Xiao Niao frowned.

"...was it Lu Yao who did it?"

She herself found it unbelievable to say this, but Lu Yao was indeed the one with the greatest motivation to do this.

She appeared so brazenly under the surveillance camera without even thinking of hiding her whereabouts. Was it because she had a backup plan like this?

Speaking of which, by doing this kind of thing, have she and the doctor become accomplices in Lu Yao's crime to some extent?

"...I'm not sure," the system seemed to waver, its voice growing fainter. "This virus implantation method looks so familiar, it really does seem like..."

"teacher,"

Xiao Niao felt a hand touching his shoulder. He turned around and found that Chen Xiaoyue had been standing behind him without him noticing.

"Are you ready?" The doctor blinked at the bird with a warm look in his eyes. "I'm ready here."

She was a little dazed after hearing these words.

It didn't sound like something you'd say at a crime scene, but rather something two close friends would say about hanging out on the weekend.

Hmm, Xiao Niao thought, this person’s hands are so big, and his nails are trimmed so neatly… He’s worthy of being a doctor.

After a moment of hesitation, she quickened her movements, put the disassembled shell back together, and tightened the last screw.

"I'm fine here too."

Xiao Niao stood up and looked back at the results of the doctor's work.

Hmm... He's wrapped like a mummy, and I feel like he'll be put into the coffin in the next second.

Won't I really suffocate if I wrap myself like this?

Xiao Niao looked at Chen Xiaoyue hesitantly, but then she thought that the other party was a serious doctor and should know better than herself what would cause difficulty breathing.

So, it should be... okay, right?

Xiao Niao took another look at the unidentified strip-shaped object on the floor: Ah, no, there will definitely be nothing wrong.

After all, this is the son of luck. He is as tenacious as a cockroach and is notoriously difficult to kill. His life is harder than stone.

How could covering your face with a mere bed sheet kill someone who is favored by the will of the world!

Xiao Niao was relieved.

"Then let's transport him out of the hotel as we planned," she said.

Things became simple after he was transported out of the hotel. All they had to do was drop Gu Tianjiao off in a conspicuous place, or proactively inform the school that he had been found - of course, it would be best not to alert the police.

Even if the system can block surveillance and remind the bird to erase the traces left behind, once the police intervene, it is still possible to investigate the cause of the incident.

Then, the person to be notified is clear.

"...That's Gu Tianjiao's mother," Xiao Niao muttered to himself, "Zhiqing gave me his mother's phone number when we were still in Taoyuan. I didn't expect it to come in handy now."

It was a good idea to tell his mother about the matter first, because the Gu family's family background and nature meant that they did not like to have anything to do with the police.

After finding the person, even if he learned the truth from Gu Tianjiao, he would most likely not ask the police for help, but would want to rely on his own strength to catch the bird and the doctor.

But because of cognitive impairment, they were unable to find even a single eyewitness.

Let the doctor stay at my house for a while, Xiao Niao thought. Her identity might be quite troublesome...

In short, stay out of the spotlight for a while. Maybe those people will forget about it soon.

Thinking of this, Xiao Niao opened the repaired door panel, walked to Chen Xiaoyue, and worked together with her to lift the Son of Destiny who was tied up like a mummy on the ground.

"Hurry up, there's no one in the corridor right now," the system whispered in her mind. "A cleaner will come to check on the room after midnight."

The two of them had a clear goal and cooperated well. They soon carried Gu Tianjiao, who was wrapped in a bed sheet, to the designated location.

Storage Room.

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This is where the cleaners usually store mops, brooms, disinfectants, detergents and spare sheets.

In addition, there is a stainless steel clothes chute that leads directly to the basement laundry room, as well as a matching garbage chute.

Such a dirty clothes chute is actually a pipe specially used to transport dirty clothes. It is very common in places such as hospitals and hotels, and can efficiently complete the transportation and collection of laundry.

Due to its special nature, this hotel does not rely entirely on guests to make money. The second to fourth floors are entertainment venues, and above that are guest rooms and expensive luxury suites.

If you add up all the floors of this luxuriously decorated building, there are at least twenty floors, so there must be a laundry chute.

Xiao Niao used his back to push open the door of the storage room—perhaps the cleaner was lazy and didn't lock it—

—Walked in backwards.

The entrance to the laundry chute is right on the wall and is very easy to find. The bird noticed its existence at the first sight after entering the door.

"This is it."

As she spoke, she put the person she was carrying down and pulled up the baffles of the two slots to check: "Hmm... the left one should be the dirty clothes chute, and the right one is the garbage chute."

Chen Xiaoyue entered the room later than Xiaoniao. She closed the door of the storage room and used the handle of the mop to clamp the door handle to prevent anyone from accidentally breaking in while she was working.

"How is it? Can we put people in?"

The doctor asked quietly behind her.

Xiao Niao nodded: "Sure, it's just wide enough to fit my shoulders in."

The two of them then stuffed all the dirty sheets and some unused quilt covers accumulated in the storage room into the dirty clothes chute: these things could act as a buffer to prevent Gu Tianjiao from falling to his death.

Afterwards, Xiao Niao picked up a bottle of detergent on the shelf and poured the slippery liquid onto the wall of the clothes chute.

"alright,"

She put down the now empty bottle and took a deep breath. "Next, we'll carry out the plan we agreed on earlier."

"In ten minutes, I'll drop him down the chute. You wait in the laundry room for him to meet me, and then carry him out of the underground passage..."

Things have come to this point, and there is no way to clear yourself of this even if you jump into the Yellow River.

This is a crime outright—a crime that's meticulously thought out, carefully planned, and creative, with its own unique characteristics and style!

Normally, ordinary people would panic when encountering such a situation.

After hearing Xiao Niao arrange the tasks in such an orderly manner, people would have thoughts like "this girl is so scary", and then suspect that she might have some terrible criminal record.

But Chen Xiaoyue is not like that at all.

She listened attentively, carefully taking note of the tasks assigned by Xiaoniao, and occasionally asking for details humbly, looking like a harmonious relationship between teacher and student...

Yes, this plan was basically all thought up by Xiaoniao.

After all, she came from a more economically developed future and stayed in hotels more often, so she could come up with such a strange idea as using a laundry chute to transport people.

"...Anyway, that's probably what we're doing."

Xiao Niao slowly exhaled a long breath and turned his head to look at Chen Xiaoyue.

"Let's get started now," she said, "let's get Gu Tianjiao out before the ward rounds at twelve o'clock."

The doctor nodded solemnly to the bird.

Fifteen minutes later.

Xiao Niao threw the screwdriver in his hand back into the system warehouse and walked out of the hotel lobby.

The [Cognitive Impairment] technique was still working, and no one noticed her presence.

The camera installed on the ceiling also silently turned its angle and did not record the bird's figure.

She walked out of the hotel without holding anything in her hands.

The feeling of standing in the sun again made Xiao Niao feel a little dazed. She squinted her eyes and used her arms to block the glaring and dazzling sunlight.

It's already noon.

Ah, it seems too late to rush back to school, she thought a little disappointedly, I can't have dinner with the little boy...

I hope she can eat well by herself.

Xiao Niao stood quietly for a while, then turned and walked into an alley next to the hotel.

After walking about a hundred meters forward, she saw the doctor who had been waiting there.

Chen Xiaoyue waved at her: "This way."

Xiao Niao walked over to the doctor, who whispered in her ear in a low voice, "...It was brought out. The timing was perfect. I saw it shortly after entering the laundry room."

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Xiao Niao thought: Of course, I was watching the surveillance camera the whole time. I only stuffed the person into the pipe after seeing you walk in... Otherwise, if other staff members saw it, it would be a disaster.

Chen Xiaoyue smiled at her: "You are so amazing, little bird."

Xiao Niao hummed uncomfortably - being praised for things like this always made her feel inexplicably guilty.

"Where are the people now?"

She glanced around and asked in a low voice.

"Oh, I'm lucky. There happened to be something nearby that could be used to pack him up and transport him out," said the doctor.

Xiao Niao subconsciously asked, "What is it?"

Chen Xiaoyue: "Trash can."