Chapter 66: A Strange Invitation
"I really don't see anything wonderful. Chiko pouted - this self-righteous third-rate detective always said something ambiguous.
The answer lies in this statue. Eric walked up to the statue and patted it on the thigh.
"What?" Chiko circled around the statue, not seeing any clues.
"Remember what I asked you? How did this statue get there? Eric prompted.
Chiko looked at the huge statue in front of him with a blank expression, how did it get here, and does it have anything to do with where Xiao Ke and the others are hiding? If there is any connection, this statue and Leonardo are a behemoth to Chiko, and they should be sent here......
"Send it up—send it down—" Chiko vaguely felt the connection.
"Looks like you're not too stupid. Eric heard Chiko say the key words.
"You're saying that if you find a way to transport this statue, you'll know how Xiao Ke and them escaped?" Chiko's eyes were filled with hope for certainty.
"There's nothing wrong with that. Eric just wanted to reach out and touch Chiko's head, but was frightened away by Chiko's sharp look.
"Did you find that method?" asked Chiko.
"Let's take a look at the statue first, do you know it?" said Eric, sucking his mouth at the statue.
"This statue is supposed to be a Renaissance work, with exaggerated and deformed human movements, complex human movements, and very obscure themes to express, like Michelangelo's 'Mannerism' style. Chiko slowly circled around the statue, carefully considering every detail.
"Did you study art in college?" Erik struggled to hold back a smile at Chiko's comment.
"Does it have anything to do with this?" Chiko still saw Eric's sneer trying to hide.
"Miss Agent, this is a new crime scene, do you think Michelangelo's 'Mannerist' style has any necessary connection with Schoke's absconding?" Eric's eyes finally revealed his original intention.
"You!" Qianzi, who knew that he was despised, suddenly showed a murderous gaze.
"Actually—" Eric immediately shifted the subject, pointing to the statue's sign, "and here's the point. ”
"Prospector......" Chiko said the name of the statue with her lips, her eyes quickly scanning the profile of the statue.
He ...... It seems that a ruler is missing...... "Chiko noticed that the statue's left hand was indeed missing the tape measure made of cowhide sewn in the introduction.
"Is it there?" Chiko ran to the window where Eric had just been looking, and at first glance it seemed to be nothing, but she quickly discovered the mystery. A long tape measure runs vertically down from the window, and the belt is very cleverly placed against the edge of the castle wall, which protrudes outwards with a very regular row of stone carvings, but it can be seen that the carvings are much newer than those along the castle wall.
"I think this is where these huge exhibits were brought up in the first place, and the marks on the edge of the wall are left over from the improvised installation. Eric knew that Chiko had also seen the problem.
"But isn't this a big risk? Even if they succeed in staggering the dragnet search on the second floor, if they encounter agents from the Special Intelligence Division 6 or special operations forces patrolling the perimeter, won't they have lost their efforts?"
"Do you remember the weight-sensing device I was talking about?" asked Eric.
"Hmm, what's wrong?" Chiko didn't react for a moment.
Eric rolled his eyes, patted the base of the statue, and said angrily, "Didn't you notice?"
"The sensor device has been turned off! There are more than two murderers?" Chiko suddenly realized, at first she didn't understand what turning off the weight sensor in the exhibition room had to do with Shook holding Leonardo hostage and escaping, but now she understood that if she didn't turn off the device, the buckskin measure that took the statue would inevitably trigger the alarm. But in the study, Thatch didn't talk about it—did he forget? Or did he think it didn't matter?
"Let's go to the second floor first. Eric saw Chiko's concerns, in fact, this naïve female agent has stood in front of the door of the truth, and what she needs is not the talent of reasoning, but the courage to accept the truth.
By the time the two of them arrived at the room where the buckskin tape measure was hanging, things had once again exceeded Eric and Chiko's expectations. As soon as he pushed the door in, Xiao Ke lay on his back on the floor with a lifeless face, a sharp blade with a cold light in his chest, and a strong unwillingness and resentment in his eyes of death.
"This, how can this be. Chiko smelled the smell of danger, and every cell in her body suddenly entered a state of alert.
"In the center of the room, he was killed with a knife. Eric examined Shook's wound closely, and found only a fatal wound to his chest, and nothing new to his body.
"Professional killer?" Chiko concluded from Eric's expression and the location of the knife. Because in the agent fighting class, the instructor of the special service academy has explained in detail the relationship between the position of the knife and the murderer's means, generally speaking, the fatal wound of the heart can be divided into back penetration and chest penetration, if it is a back penetration, perhaps because the victim is not paying attention to the sneak attack successfully, so that the deceased will not have more fatal injuries on the body, and the chest penetration is just the opposite, the two face each other, the other party will definitely have a certain degree of resistance, if it is not for the sophisticated technique, the attack is fast, it is easy to cause secondary wounds.
"Let's take a look. Eric rushed out of the room on his own.
However, as soon as Eric walked out of the room, two men in black suddenly appeared on both sides of the corridor and quickly attacked Eric. At this time, Chiko grabbed Eric and threw him into the room, smashing a vase in the room with his left hand at the man in black on the left, and slashing a knife at the enemy on the right with his right shoulder. In an instant, the man in black who came from both sides was immediately repelled a few steps.
"We have no ill will. One of the men seemed to have discovered something and hurriedly explained.
"Who are you!" Chiko watched warily from side to side.
At this time, the man in black on the left picked up the phone and whispered a few words. After he hung up the phone, he made a gesture to the man in black on his right, and then said politely to Qianzi, "Director Thatch, please come to the study." ”
"What?" Chiko didn't believe her ears.
"We're Chief Thatch's direct agents, so please come with the detective. "The man in black on the left seems to be very patient.