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Officer Yoder and his team surged up the stairwell, throwing my front door open with split-second precision."Freeze! Police!"The living room lights flicked on, catching the intruder completely off-guard.He instinctively bolted toward the balcony, but an officer was already there, waiting for him after having already scaled over from a neighboring unit.As the intruder was pinned to the floor, an object fell out from his pocket. I later learned in the interrogation room that it was a small signal transmitter, tuned to the same frequency as the receiver module in the cold storage unit in Unit 402.The man, Pablo Rogers, was one of Alan's henchmen—a gofer tasked with running errands and "taking care of problems".Less than six hours after his arrest, he confessed and spilled everything.As it turned out, Alan was hiding out in an abandoned logistics park on the city's outskirts. It used to be a secondary transit point he'd rented years ago, one that even Freddie didn't know abou
The Day My AC Killed Someone Chapter 9
Officer Yoder said, "Strictly speaking, the cold storage unit was activated remotely. Freddie went down to shut the equipment off, got locked inside, and froze to death. Alan probably meant only to warn Freddie, but things went awry."Of course, Freddie had no idea it was triggered remotely when he froze to death. He just assumed it was because of your AC unit upstairs, which was why he recorded that final message to us."I remained silent for a long moment."And this threatening note?" I asked."Alan is on the run. His phone signal was last traced to the outskirts of the city, and we're still after him. But he must have had a few accomplices before he fled, and one of them likely slipped that note to you.""Why would they want to threaten me?""Because you nearly took the fall for Freddie," Officer Yoder replied. "If you hadn't noticed the irregularity with the floor tiles, the case would have been closed, and everyone would have assumed you turned on the AC and froze him to dea
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I shuddered and immediately called Officer Yoder to arrange a meeting with him.Officer Yoder sat across from me and listened to my account without reacting immediately. He simply asked, "Well, what do you think about it?"I replied, "I'm not sure. But it's definitely not a legitimate wholesale goods business. A friend of mine in the logistics industry told me that real wholesalers wouldn't set up a cold storage unit in a private home. The logistics costs are too high, and the facility wouldn't meet regulatory standards."But with the way Freddie was operating, it looked more like he was—""A middle-person in a cold-chain operation," Officer Yoder finished for me. "Or, to put it more bluntly, a temporary transit point for smuggled frozen goods."He pulled up a photo on his phone and slid it toward me."And you're right. We found 32 cases of frozen meat products with foreign-language labeling inside the cold storage cellar. They had no quarantine certificates or customs documentat
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Officer Yoder remained silent for a long time. Then, he turned to look at me."Mr. Russell, Freddie's death should be ruled an accident, based on the current findings. Your AC unit was merely an indirect trigger. The primary cause lies in the illicit installation of refrigeration equipment and faulty, dilapidated electrical wiring. As far as criminal charges go, you're in the clear—for now."My legs went weak, and I nearly collapsed to the floor."But there's one thing you need to understand," Officer Yoder said, stepping closer and looking me straight in the eye."Even if you had no malicious intent, things would have turned out differently if only you'd just gone downstairs to check the moment you heard his screams."I opened my mouth, but my throat was parched.He was right. I had heard the screams, but I hadn't taken them seriously.But still, that couldn't count toward me as murder. It was simply an accident—an accident so bizarrely coincidental that it was ridiculous.Off
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In less than 20 minutes, several electrical technicians in their work uniforms rushed over with their tools and equipment.They assessed the situation and quickly concluded, "The power lines for Units 402 and 502 were rewired many years ago in the building's old meter box, and one of the main lines was connected in parallel inside the wall."Due to the aging and peeling of the insulation layer in the wall, as well as the continuous high temperature in recent days, the electrical load has surged. The lines have created a weak electromagnetic induction loop.""To put it simply," the technician continued, pushing up his glasses. "The moment the AC unit in Unit 502 is started, a current surge will be generated. This surge passes through the overlapping lines and triggers the relay of the cold-storage compressor in the cellar of Unit 402.""So that means the freezer in the cold storage unit downstairs was activated as soon as I turned on the AC in my apartment?" I asked in disbelief."
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Officer Yoder, who was just about to signal for me to be taken away, stopped in his tracks at my yell. He turned around, his gaze sharp as a blade as he glared at me."You'd better explain yourself clearly, Mr. Russell."I took a deep breath, pulled free of the two officers' grip, and pointed to the wall on the right side of the living room, near the balcony."That corner over there! Look closely at the gap between the floor tiles there. The baseboard next to it shows clear signs of having been patched up. And the color of the floor there doesn't match the rest of the room."The officers exchanged glances with each other. Frowning, Officer Yoder walked over and leaned down to inspect the spot. He tapped the floor tile with his finger, then crouched lower to touch the edge of the baseboard. Then, his expression shifted."Pry it open," he said, his voice low and firm.An officer fetched a crowbar, wedged it along the tile's edge, and pried hard. The tile came loose and was lifted a
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