Butterfly Wishes Series

"Ouch, it hurts." Liang Shanbai clutched his butt and went downstairs to have breakfast with Zhu Yingtai, his exaggerated movements almost made people suspect that it was he and not Zhu Yingtai who was tortured downstairs last night.

"Shut up."

"But I'm really in pain." Liang Shanbai grabbed his hand, "I just want to say good morning to you, nothing else, how can you bear it, how can you do it!"

"Don't be like Ma Wencai." Zhu Yingtai found out later last night that Liang Shanbai had no good intentions from the beginning.He used Liang Shanbai's face when he checked in at the hotel, and what he rented in the hotel was a double bed that can accommodate two people at the same time. He even prepared lubricants and condoms long ago, although the latter was eventually lost to him. He forgot to use it, and all his cunning scheming and damn methods were learned from that old pervert from Ma Wencai!

"Ma Wencai, just wait and see! 』Zhu Yingtai put a big red cross on the word Ma Wencai in his heart.

The breakfast restaurant of Longlin Villa is on the ground floor of the hotel, and there is a coffee bar attached to it. Because the occupancy rate is not high, the corridors and elevators in the morning are deserted. However, when Liang Shanbai and the others went down to the ground floor It was broken.There was a group of people around the check-in area at the front desk, and they were so noisy that they didn't know what they were arguing about.

Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbai looked at each other and took a few steps closer.Someone was asking the front desk, and Zhu Yingtai felt familiar when he heard it, and then remembered that it was the voice of a certain policeman who came to investigate Zhang Weidong's death yesterday afternoon.

"Officer Zhao?" Liang Shanbai also heard it, and lowered his voice, "Could something happen to Lu Xiuquan's group again?"

The two of them pretended to browse the tourist map of Treasure Island placed next to the front desk, but secretly paid attention to the conversation in the crowd.The old police officer's voice was faintly heard amidst the noisy noise: "When did he check in?"

"Just yesterday at 35:[-] noon, it was the pre-authorization time for Mr. Wang's credit card payment."

Mr. Wang?

"Did he mention anything to you? For example, why he came to this island, when he planned to leave, or anything worth noting."

"Mr. Wang said that he is here for inspection. He is very interested in the lighthouse on the island. He has tentatively booked to stay until next Wednesday."

"Did he leave the hotel yesterday and when? When was the last time you saw him?"

"Mr. Wang came down for lunch at one o'clock in the afternoon, and then went out for a while. He came back at about 04:30. He looked very embarrassed at that time. It is said that he was robbed. Later he called A dinner was delivered to the room. At eight o'clock, a waiter saw that the plate had been placed outside the door, and it seemed that it hadn't appeared after that. By the way, he bought a set from us when he checked in. A map of Dragon Island Theme Park."

"That is to say, after seven o'clock in the evening, none of you saw him again?"

"Well, at least our front desk didn't see him go downstairs and go out."

"Does the hotel have a back door?"

"some."

"Will he go out from there?"

""This... If you leave through the back door, our front desk won't be very clear."

"Is there a sentry at the back door?"

"There is an old man who is the gatekeeper, surnamed Yang."

"Take us to have a look."

"Okay, please wait a moment, I will make a call."

Just as they were talking, someone came out of the elevator. It was also Liang Shanbai and the others they met yesterday. It was the police officer surnamed Li.

"There is nothing unusual in the room, clothes and daily necessities are there." He walked over and said in a low voice, "There are burnt paper ashes in the trash can, which have been collected, and the bedding has not been touched. It should be out after dinner. , and never came back.”

"Oh." Officer Zhao pondered, "Xiao Li, you can ask around again to see if anyone has met Wang Linfu at night. I'll go to the back door and have a look."

"it is good."

The crowd gradually dispersed as the police left, and Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbai heard several waiters whispering as they walked.

"It's terrible, I heard that he died on the tallest sculpture!"

"Oh, it's horrible, how could he climb up to such a high place and die there."

"Hiss, don't say it! This place really can't stay anymore, accidents keep happening, I want to resign and go home, no matter how high the salary is, it's useless if I don't enjoy life."

"That's to say, why don't we go and tell the foreman together, we really can't stay in this weird place."

The girls walked past Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbai while chatting, and gradually walked away.

Zhu Yingtai glanced at Liang Shanbai: "Wang Linfu is dead."

"Well, he died in Dragon Island." Liang Shanbai was thinking, "The tallest sculpture should be the Nine Sons of the Dragon God in the center of the square. That sculpture is 880 centimeters high."

"Wang Linfu climbed up and died there..."

Another mystery!

Now that Du Haiyan has canceled the entrustment, at least in Mingli, Zhu Yingtai cannot take drastic actions against that Du Haiying. After careful discussion with Liang Shanbai last night, they decided to go to the ancient lighthouse, Dragon Island and the place where Zhang Weidong died together today. Conduct field research.

One person's thinking is easy to fall into a dead end, but looking at it from another person's point of view, there will often be new results.Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbai agreed that when investigating the Du Haiying incident at the ancient lighthouse, he would only be responsible for providing the most basic information given by Du Haiyan, and Liang Shanbai would be in charge of the investigation. to investigate.

Liang Shanbai laughed and said that they are a couple detective duo. Although Zhu Yingtai thinks this name is terrible, it is undeniable that this is the first time they have teamed up since they jointly solved the Zhujiazhuang incident four years ago.

In the past four years, each other should have grown and changed, whether it is ability or insight, Zhu Yingtai feels that compared to solving the incident itself, perhaps this kind of contest and confrontation itself is more exciting and unbearable!

"The theater."

"Um?"

"Do you think the matter of the Du family is related to the matter of Longzhidao?" Liang Shanbai asked after taking a sip of coffee.His breakfast consisted of ham toast, smoked sausage, double-sided poached eggs, and a plate of fruit, plus a cup of coffee next to him, which made Zhu Yingtai feel a little out of place.Although they came together because of four years of uninterrupted longing and sudden passion, but after all, they have changed in such a long time.Four years ago, Zhu Yingtai guessed that Liang Shanbai's breakfast should be soy milk, buns and the like, and even if it was served with drinks, it would be carbonated soda.

After all, I still missed four years...

Seeing Zhu Yingtai staring at his plate in a daze, Liang Shanbai smiled, and pushed the plate over: "Want to eat? I haven't touched it yet."

Zhu Yingtai looked away, picked a piece of fruit, and asked, "Do you like Western food?"

"I like everything delicious." Liang Shanbai laughed, "Didn't we eat firewood wontons last night?"

It was under the light of the ambiguous wind lamp that I lost my mind unconsciously, let go of those hard persistence, and saw the self-deception of the past four years.

"Yeah." Zhu Yingtai took a sip of millet porridge with some embarrassment.

"Yingtai, I really want to know how you have lived these four years." Liang Shanbai suddenly said softly, he stretched out his hand to cover Zhu Yingtai's hand on the table, the contrast of fair skin and wheat-colored skin in the morning light Incomparably vivid, "To be honest, I am jealous of everyone who met you in these four years, your client or passers-by, they all saw you in these four years, only my almost Blank."

Zhu Yingtai couldn't believe that Liang Shanbai had the same idea as him.

Liang Shanbai sighed, and then laughed again: "But there is no way, these four years have passed, but we will have many four years in the future. Four years, 40 years or even 400 years..."

Zhu Yingtai laughed at him: "Do you think we are immortal?"

"Who knows, if we continue to practice, we might really become immortals, so we can be together forever!" Liang Shanbai said happily, "I warn you, even if I get old and hunchbacked and wrinkled, you Don't dump me again."

forever?Thinking of this unattainable deadline, Zhu Yingtai couldn't help but feel joyful in his heart.

Walking on the road to the ancient lighthouse, Liang Shanbai asked him, "By the way, I don't know if Du Haiyan told you about her family."

"what do you mean?"

"The cause of her father's death and her brother Du Haiying's work as a lamplighter."

Zhu Yingtai recalled Du Haiyan's statement: "According to Du Haiyan, the father of the two brothers and sisters died of illness seven years ago, and Du Haiying has taken over the role of lamplighter since then."

"Well, that Du Haiying also admitted last night. But I have always had a question when I was investigating the Dragon Island incident."

"About the profession of lamplighter?"

Liang Shanbai laughed: "We really have a tacit understanding! According to the legend of Xiao Haiyan, this ancient lighthouse is an ancient relic from the era of Misty Dragon God. The purpose is to screen suitable candidates for going to the island, but I think what Wang Linfu said The construction of the Warring States Period should be more reliable, but in this way, there is an additional question, who built such a lighthouse on such a deserted island during the Warring States Period, and what is the significance? And the lamplighter established under the guise of the Dragon God What's the point of existence?"

"Treasure Island is not on any important shipping route. Except for the twice-weekly ferry, there are almost no ships passing by. If you only consider the problem of crossing the fog, there is no need to build such a large lighthouse now, let alone in ancient times. hour."

"So I wonder if the two things of building a tower and lighting a lamp are more religious than practical?"

Zhu Yingtai nodded, and then suddenly discovered a very strange thing.For a long time, they have received many messages from the island. There is a dragon god on Dragon Island, and the dragon claw is the symbol of the dragon god. If you offend the dragon god, you will send down the dragon's anger. Many strange things happened in the Dragon Island theme park. , all kinds of things, entangled in history, myths and mysteries, but no one has ever mentioned the historical origin of this ancient lighthouse.

"I have searched on the Internet, but there is too little information about this lighthouse. In addition, I was mainly concerned about the affairs of Dragon Island itself, so I didn't pay attention to this lighthouse."

"Then what have you found? It doesn't matter how much."

"Just like what Wang Linfu said, all I know is that this lighthouse existed a long time ago. According to a county chronicle collected by the Blind Mountain Museum, its history can indeed be traced back to the Warring States Period."

"However, during the Warring States period, the vassal states were busy competing for land territories. This kind of island was worthless to them, and most of them were used to exile criminals. It is hard to imagine that someone would go to war and waste manpower and material resources. Build a lighthouse just to navigate a flight that maybe doesn't come twice a week."

"Yeah, it doesn't make sense." Liang Shanbai said, "Although I also find it strange, but I really can't find any more data, maybe..."

"Um?"

"Could it be that some of the princes and kings at that time also heard about the Shenlong treasure, so they came to this sea to find the treasure, and built this lighthouse for this purpose, in case someone came to rob the treasure?"

This is indeed a reasonable speculation, but based on this speculation, it means that the Dragon God's treasure does exist and has been obtained by the seeker.

"If that's the case, why didn't the Mingjin villagers and the Dragon God respond at all, and even allowed the other party to build a lighthouse on their own land?"

"Yes, and if these treasures are passed on, there should be records in history. No matter how bad it is, there must be legends left in Mingjin Village." Liang Shanbai thought, and made a new guess, "Maybe the strength of the other party Powerful, the Mingjin villagers were powerless to resist. After the treasures were found, the other party set up a lighthouse to prevent them from being stolen, but the treasures failed to be transported outside the island in the end. In the end, even the team sent to search for the treasures was also annihilated in the fragments of history. .It's just like……"

"Dragon's Fury that has been annihilated in history?"

"right."

"This explanation makes sense," Zhu Yingtai said, "but if such a thing did happen, there shouldn't be no rumors left in Mingjin Village, because this just shows the existence and power of Dragon's Fury."

"Yeah, it's very strange." Liang Shanbai sighed, "And we seem to have never heard of any legend that any prince sent people to sea to find the treasure of the Dragon God."

"yes."

Guessing that it was impossible to move forward, both of them sighed in unison.

Zhu Yingtai asked a new question: "As far as you know, what is so special about the profession of lamplighter?"

Liang Shanbai replied: "I only know that on this island, the profession of lamp lighting is passed down from generation to generation according to a certain principle."

"In the same household?"

"No." Liang Shanbai thought for a while, "According to past records, there are men and women, old and young. It seems that there is no pattern to follow, but I think this is probably because we are missing Due to partial messages. The selection of real lamplighters must follow certain criteria, because the replacement of lamplighters also has principles.”

"One value every 12 years."

"right."

Zhu Yingtai thought about this long rotation period, and imagined that a villager with the mission of lighting lamps would go to the old lighthouse every night for 12 years, regardless of the typhoon or rain, climb to the top of the tower, and light the lantern room The raging fire in the middle of the sky illuminates a sea where no ships pass through...

Simply incomprehensible!

"Every lamplighter will hand over the task to the next one after 12 years. Since ancient times, it has never changed, but the Du family is the only exception."

Zhu Yingtai remembered the conversation between Du Haiyan and Du Haiying last night, "Du Haiying's job as a lamplighter was taken over from his father. Seven years ago, Du Guoliang died of illness suddenly, so Du Haiying, who was only 15 years old at the time, took over his father's job. It is said that this generation of lamplighters is composed of Du Guoliang and Du Haiying, father and son."

"Hasn't this happened before?"

"It is said that no, everyone who resigned midway lost their qualifications because they made mistakes. You know, people on this island believe in the word dragon's fury."

"Zhu Yingtai thought of Du Haiyan's handsome face with hatred again, she said angrily that the man had beaten her mother before and refused to let her leave the island.

"Du Haiyan said yesterday that the villagers of Mingjin Village on Jinyin Island will never leave this island for the rest of their lives, because they are all servants of the Dragon God, and everything they eat, wear, and obtain is because of the mercy of the Dragon God. Anyone who leaves this island is tantamount to betraying the dragon god and will attract the dragon's wrath."

"But Du Haiyan's mother divorced Du Guoliang 12 years ago, and left Treasure Island alone with her daughter. Wait!" Liang Shanbai thought, "Didn't that be 12 years ago when Du Guoliang just took over the position of lamplighter?" So, maybe Du Guoliang got sick seven years ago because he was disqualified by Dragon Fury? But the time in between is a bit long."

"Perhaps, because Du Guoliang once prevented his wife Lin Suya from leaving, and this is like a kind of failure, so although Du Guoliang suffered a certain amount of dragon's anger, he did not lose his qualifications as a lamplighter, but after he died of illness, This honor was allowed to be carried by his son."

"But when Du Haiying was about to complete this task, he disappeared inexplicably."

"Yes, on his last night as a lamplighter." Zhu Yingtai remembered what Du Haiyan said last night. On the last night of his 12-year tenure, Du Haiying disappeared, and now, a guy who doesn't know if he is a ghost or a person has returned.

"What a mess."

Zhu Yingtai nodded: "It's a mess."

lighthouse survey

The ancient lighthouse reappeared in front of Zhu Yingtai, majestic, towering, and silent.Zhu Yingtai suddenly had an idea that this lighthouse seemed like a speechless person, silently witnessing the life and death that happened on this small island for thousands of years, witnessing those brutal killings and paradoxical bloody incidents .

"If only you could talk."

"Who?" Liang Shanbai looked up, "You mean it? Well, it really looks like a silent witness."

The lock that Zhu Yingtai hung on the door when he left yesterday was still hanging in the original place. It seems that no one has entered this lighthouse since then.

"The lighthouse that must be lit every night, no one seems to light it now."

"It looks like this, the next lamplighter probably hasn't been selected yet." Liang Shanbai hesitated, "But what about the lights we saw yesterday?"

Zhu Yingtai was also stunned. Indeed, they only saw "Guang Dao" yesterday morning, but Zhu Yingtai remembered it very clearly. He and Liang Shanbai walked back and forth on the mountain road twice last night, and they didn't return until midnight. When I arrived at the hotel, I didn't see any fire at all.

Why would someone light up the lighthouse for the ferry in the morning, but at night they don't follow the rules passed down from generation to generation in the village and let the lighthouse be dark and silent.

"Maybe it's because the lighting of the lighthouse at night must be carried out by the lamplighter, so the other party can't exceed the rules." Liang Shanbai gave a very convincing explanation, and then patted Zhu Yingtai, "Let's go in."

They opened the door and went in, and everything was no different from what Zhu Yingtai had seen yesterday afternoon.All the things were still in their original places, and Liang Shanbai easily found the broken locks and repaired door panels that were discarded in situ.

"It's locked inside, and the bottom floor window is three meters high. It's impossible to stand outside, and you can't enter without destroying the door. The door here was opened by the police when they broke in." Liang Shanbai analyzed while watching.

"How do you know it's a policeman and not a Mingjin villager? What evidence do you have?"

"There is no evidence, it can only be considered as speculation." Liang Shanbai said, "The incision is smooth, there are no redundant marks, the opponent's psychological quality is stable, and his strength is not weak. Since the villagers of Mingjin regard the lighting of the lamp as so important, they must not do it. The door panel was dealt with so cleanly, so I can also speculate that it is probably done by the young police officer Li who does not look like a local."

Zhu Yingtai nodded: "According to Du Haiyan's dream, Du Haiying was about to lock the door after he entered, but then he heard a very strange sound coming from outside the door, so he opened the door to look, and called out to ask if anyone was there. .”

"What's that sound?" Liang Shanbai asked, casually opened the cabinet beside him and saw the towel hanging inside, took it out to have a look, and even smelled it.

"It is said to be like the sound of people stepping on puddles or stranded fish slapping the pond."

"Slap-pat-pat?"

"Yes. Du Haiying also used that towel. It was foggy that night and he was soaked from Mingjin Village, so he wiped it."

"No wonder there is a smell." Liang Shanbai put the towel back, "Did Du Haiying see anyone outside the door?"

"No, the fog was thick that night, and no one responded to his words, and then he closed and locked the door."

"Well, there is one doubt." Liang Shanbai wrote it down in his notebook.

"Go upstairs here." Zhu Yingtai walked up first, "Du Haiying carried the lamp oil barrel, while filling the lampstand, lighting the lampstand, and climbing up."

The inside of the tower is still extremely dark, and the weak light will only be slightly brighter when it reaches the corner of the platform because of the tower windows.Liang Shanbai reached the fourth floor and poked his head out of the window to have a look: "It's very high."

"Well, it is absolutely impossible to survive if you fall from here."

"Only Xiao Haiyan will believe that Du Haiying's nonsense." Liang Shanbai sighed and shrank back.

"The upper floor is the lantern room, and that's where Du Haiying disappeared." Zhu Yingtai said, and when he got to the top, he found that Liang Shanbai hadn't followed.

"Abbe?"

"Come on." Liang Shanbai answered from below, and trotted up quickly.

"This is the lantern room." Zhu Yingtai pointed to the recessed lamp socket in the middle, "Du Haiyan's dream lasted until Du Haiying finished filling the lamp oil and adjusted the lens. By the way, he added a piece of something to the lamp oil at the end. "

"thing?"

"It is said to be a long cube like cream, soft and easy to melt. Du Haiyan said that every generation of lamplighters will add this kind of thing to it when they reach their full term. It must have some special meaning." Zhu Yingtai said, Go to the light stand.He took a small plastic bottle and a disposable spoon from his pocket, and rolled up his sleeves.

"what are you up to?"

"Take some samples and go back." He said, and was about to bend down to work, but Liang Shanbai patted his shoulder, "What are you doing?"

"I'll do this kind of rough work." Liang Shanbai said, quickly took out a small box from his pocket, and took out a roll of tape, a knife, a glass bottle, and a keyboard brush from it as if by magic. small brush and a straw.

Zhu Yingtai was stunned: "Where did you get so many things?"

"Since you are a detective, you must have a complete set of clothes." Liang Shanbai laughed, "The straw absorbs the remaining lamp oil and puts it into a glass bottle. The knife and brush are used to dig and sweep in large particles, and the fine particles are picked up with sticky There's a faster way. Look, it's all done."

Zhu Yingtai glanced at him.

"How about it, do you think your boyfriend is very powerful?"

"Humph."

"What does 'hmph' mean?" Liang Shanbai put away his things, touched Zhu Yingtai's face, "Why are you unhappy?"

"I think it hurts my self-esteem." Zhu Yingtai replied honestly. Four years ago, he didn't understand anything, and he had to rely on him for everything. The idiot who didn't even give the door to him has become so powerful now. It's really complicated.

Liang Shanbai was overjoyed, hugged Zhu Yingtai's shoulders, and kissed him big on the face: "Okay, it's not because of you that I became better, and I'm just a little smarter in this respect, and I'm worse than you It's far away."

Zhu Yingtai didn't know whether to laugh or to be mad at his flattery, so he cleared his throat and said, "Du Haiyan's dream is over here, and Du Haiying's matter will depend on you to speculate."

"Oh?" Liang Shanbai looked around. He squatted down and inspected the floor of the lantern room inch by inch, even the corners. "There are no personal belongings or strange traces left." He stood up and looked at it immediately. Go to the small door on one side, walk briskly over and pull the door open.

"The open-air platform, the ladder for maintenance." He walked out with his waist down, first looked down, then squatted down, and looked at the brick railing in front of him from left to right at eye level, and saw the middle section , He stopped his gaze, looked under the railing, and even took out a magnifying glass and a pocket camera out of nowhere.

"Blood handprints, backhand, three fingers on the right hand, the index finger is relatively clear, and the front thumb is almost invisible." He said, taking a picture with the camera.

"I erased the thumb's."

"You." Liang Shanbai smiled, then straightened up, "Du Haiying should have been attacked here."

"Yes, I guess he was stabbed from behind with a knife, and then he was thrown down. But I haven't thought about how the other party entered the tower. This is a secret room, and Du Haiying has been walking around. If the other party wants to enter the tower In the interior, not only must you crack the secret room, but you must grasp the timing and act quickly. The only way I can think of is to come from Dragon Island." Zhu Yingtai pointed to the south, "There is a building on Dragon Island on the opposite side. The height is about 150 meters, and the height is estimated to be about the same as the window on the lower floor. If you launch a rope from there and hang it on the window sill below, I believe that the speed will be faster, and you should be able to come in and kill Du Haiying in time."

While listening to Zhu Yingtai's words, Liang Shanbai didn't know what he was groping for outside the balcony railing.

"How do you grasp the timing?"

"Light." Zhu Yingtai said, "You can see the tricks of Du Haiying's actions from the window. Once the light shines through the fourth window, it means that you can act. Even if there is fog that night, you should still be able to see this light. Strangely enough, however, I found no trace of hooks on the windowsills of any of the lower floors, and I cannot think of any other way by which a man could enter the tower unobserved."

"Why do people have to come in?" Liang Shanbai narrowed his eyes and asked, the slightly raised corners of his lips looked a bit cunning.

"You mean shooting Du Haiying from the opposite side?" Zhu Yingtai asked, "First, guns are not so easy to get in China; Guan's guns fired in the middle of the night on this island, and I'm afraid everyone can hear it; third, even if you shoot Du Haiying, how can you guarantee that you will be killed by one shot; fourth, and the most decisive point, even if this The murderer has the level of a professional killer. If you shoot Du Haiying to death, how can you guarantee that Du Haiying will fall from the top of the tower instead of lying on the railing or falling on the balcony? You know, if it fails, Du Haiying's body will be destroyed. Once discovered, it is easy to track down.”

"First, domestic firearms are really difficult to obtain, but there are many people who love wargame after transforming imitation firearms; second, the silencer device is very difficult to obtain, but the time when Du Haiying disappeared was Chinese New Year, I believe everyone Some people set off firecrackers to celebrate, and it is not difficult to cover up the gunshots; third, even if Du Haiying is not killed by a single shot, as long as he falls off the tower, he must die; fourth, this is a big problem, and I admit that you are right.”

"so?"

"So the opponent didn't use a gun." Liang Shanbai threw out the answer with a smile.

"you mean?"

"Since you have considered using a grappling hook to cross into the tower, have you considered attacking people directly with this kind of thing?"

"You mean, the other party directly aimed at Du Haiying and shot a small grapple hook with a rope. The grapple shot into Du Haiying's chest and fixed it, and the murderer dragged him off the lighthouse from a long distance from the other side?" Zhu Yingtai frowned, " It doesn't make sense, but do you have proof?"

"Touch here." Liang Shanbai pointed to the outside of the horizontal fence.

Zhu Yingtai walked over suspiciously and reached out to touch the outside.The stone bricks seemed to have been hit and torn in several places, leaving holes of various sizes.

"I guess these are traces of previous practice."

Zhu Yingtai's face became ugly: "Doesn't that mean that Du Haiying's death was not only man-made, but also planned for a long time?"

"That's right, I think about Du Haiying's matter, we can move forward to the stage of finding the motive for the murder."

"Wait." Zhu Yingtai said, "But no matter how hard the opponent practices, how can they be sure that Du Haiying will come to this balcony? If Du Haiying has been in the lantern room, it may be very difficult to hit him. After all, 150 The range of meters is considered the limit, and the range is increased in the lantern room, and in this way, his corpse cannot be disposed of.”

"But Du Haiying is standing on the balcony, isn't he?"

"This……"

"How can a person not go home after finishing their work, but want to go to the terrace? Is it to enjoy the scenery?"

Zhu Yingtai suddenly thought of something: "Du Haiyan said that in the longest dream she had, Du Haiying was going to leave after finishing work, but suddenly he stopped, and then he seemed to turn his head slightly .” Zhu Yingtai thought about it.

"Voice!" the two yelled at the same time.

"That's right, only when you hear a strange sound will you turn your head to listen, and then look for the source of the sound."

"That's why Du Haiying went to the balcony, but what kind of sound would that be?"

"Would it still be that 'slap-tap-tap' sound?"

"That's right, in this way, it makes sense for this sound to appear at the earliest time. It was just to attract Du Haiying's attention! That's not a coincidence!"

"But how did that sound come from?"

"Could it be a tape recorder?"

"Then where should the tape recorder be placed? It must be brought into this tower."

Liang Shanbai and Zhu Yingtai sighed, he drew a big circle on the doubtful point just written in the notebook, and added:

1. Conclusion—Murder has been planned for a long time.

2. An important doubtful point - sound.

3. Investigation direction: motive for murder. (Why do you want to create the illusion that Du Haiying is missing?)

Dragon Island Survey

Next, the two went directly westward from the fork in the north of Mingjin Village to the cement road and then went north through Longlin Town to Longzhidao.Because they did not want to attract the attention of the police, Liang and Zhu took a detour and went to check the ancient lighthouse first. The time is now close to 09:30 in the morning, that is, nearly two hours after the police went to Longlin Mountain Villa to investigate. The flow of people has basically dispersed.

Man is a strange animal. Although he is timid and cowardly, he always has a serious sense of curiosity. Therefore, although Wang Linfu's death is described as horrifying and bizarre, Liang and Zhu can still see rare things as they walk along the way. Some people are walking back.Everyone had rich expressions on their faces, discussing their feelings while walking. "It must be the dragon's anger" and "This place can't stay any longer" are the most frequent speeches, and there are also some people who have speculated about the case.

"What was that dead man running into Dragon Island in the middle of the night?"

"How did he climb to such a tall sculpture? Could it be suicide?"

"If it was suicide, how could there be so much blood on the ground? I heard that the blood dripped from the modern mythology area!"

"So it's murder? It's bad luck for the investment side, and the billions are a waste of time."

Liang Shanbai and Zhu Yingtai looked at each other, and they frowned.

There were also inquiries about the police's capabilities, and someone was well-informed about Zhang Dongwei's death yesterday afternoon.

"Just because those few rural policemen can find out the farts, I think they can only talk and spank to scare children."

"I heard that one died yesterday afternoon. It was in the woods next to the village. The deceased was a college student."

"Do these two know each other?"

"This... isn't it going to be another series of deaths?"

"How bizarre!" was the final summation, followed by a shared sigh.

Liang Shanbai and Zhu Yingtai went upstream from the shadow of the forest beside the road, and soon arrived at the gate of Longzhidao.The people had dispersed completely. They stood outside for a while but did not see any other people coming out of it again, and the police car disappeared. It seemed that the police force on this small island was just those few policemen.

Judging that the scene was almost clear, Liang Shanbai asked Zhu Yingtai: "Shall we first take a look at the scene of Wang Linfu's death together, or should you first take a look at the locations of the previous murders on Longzhidao one by one?"

Zhu Yingtai stretched out his hand to Liang Shanbai: "First it's difficult, then it's easy. You first give me the basic information about the Longzhidao murder case in the past."

Liang Shanbai was stunned for a moment: "Why, do you think Wang Linfu's case is easy to solve?"

"I just wanted to give you a moment to digest what was in Officer Lee's handbook."

Liang Shanbai smiled helplessly. He bumped into Police Officer Li on purpose just now in the hotel, because when they met yesterday, he was still facing Zheng Haohan's face, so Officer Li was defenseless against him, so the other party recorded The notebook with the investigation data of Wang Linfu's case fell into the hands of Liang Shanbai.

"I thought I was doing it very covertly." He said with a smile, as if unwilling.

"You can find out what I did in Du's house, why can't I find out about your little tricks?"

Well, Liang Shanbai lamented in his heart, although his lover was at a disadvantage in bed, but you must not forget how arrogant and sharp-tongued this person is at ordinary times, otherwise in the two years of A University How come there are so many men and women who covet him but dare not approach him at all?

"Not yet?"

Liang Shanbai quickly opened his eyes and smiled, and respectfully took out the information he had sorted out and handed it over. This is a stack of tables plus illustrations and on-site photos. It lists the personal information of the deceased, the place of death, A description of the manner of death, etc., with a map of Dragon Island marking the point of death. (Figure 1, Figure 2)

Figure 1: Arranging table of deaths in Longzhidao Organizer: Liang Shanbai

Figure 2