Volume 6 Ancient Suspicions Chapter 486 The Lone Thief
During the search and exploration of the room, the public security officers found several extremely important items.
One of them is really a pill recipe, and there is also an alchemy record.
After the public security officers made sure that the old man was definitely not killed by him, they handed over the elixir formula and the alchemy record to Ding Sicheng.
After carefully studying the alchemy record, Ding Sicheng basically determined the identity of the old man.
Sure enough, Poplar's guess was right, and the old man was indeed an inverted fighter.
This person has the surname Gongsun, a single name and a Xia character, and people in the inverted fighting world call him "ghosts wander and avoid".
Like Old Man Bai, he is also a lone ranger, and he will only find someone to cooperate with when he encounters a big fight. In those years, the name was so loud, almost no less than the grandfather of the poplar who moved mountains and the sea.
But Old Man Bai has a chivalrous reputation and never easily harms people's lives. And when cooperating with other inverted fighters, Old Man Bai has always preferred to suffer losses himself rather than harm his collaborators.
Therefore, Old Man Bai has an excellent reputation in the inverted fighting world, and everyone who has worked with him has great respect for him. It can be said that once they cooperate, they will be a mentor and friend for life.
Ding Sicheng's father became a lifelong friend because of his accidental cooperation with Mr. Bai.
Gongsun Xia is just the opposite of Old Man Bai, everyone who has cooperated with Gongsun Xia has a grudge against him, and when they see him in the future, they will hide and leave, and they will not have a chance to cooperate with him.
It's just that Gongsun Xia's martial arts are strong and ruthless, even if everyone hates him, but when he encounters a big fight, if he finds anyone to ask for cooperation, people don't dare not agree.
Because once he does not agree, he will hold a grudge or attack by force, or design a frame-up, which will always cause people to ruin and refuse to stop.
Until the early days of liberation, Gongsun Xia contacted a big faction at that time to steal a big bucket, the big faction of the big fight relied on the number of people, and the martial arts of its head were not under Gongsun Xia, in case of a dispute in the end due to the uneven distribution of spoils, he would not be afraid of Gongsun Xia.
In the end, the inverted faction agreed to cooperate with Gongsun Xia.
As a result, none of the five or six elites sent out by the inverted faction survived, and Gongsun Xia disappeared from then on.
The people in the inverted dou world unanimously believed that Gongsun Xia must have coveted the treasures after stealing the treasures in the big bucket, so he killed the elites of the inverted dou faction who cooperated with him, and hid them with the treasures.
The inverted faction was so angry that he used all the strength of the faction to find and search for the trace of Gongsun Xia. and issued a wanted warrant, anyone who provides Gongsun Xia's whereabouts will be rewarded heavily.
At that time, the inverted dou world was already indignant against Gongsun Xia, and in addition, this inverted dou faction was well rewarded, and everyone said that Gongsun Xia still had the treasures in his hand that were dug up in cooperation with the inverted dou faction, so the entire inverted dou world did everything possible to investigate and search for Gongsun Xia's whereabouts.
And not long after that, the public security department carried out the first round of severe crackdowns on the inverted fighting world, and the inverted fighting faction also suffered heavy losses as a result.
But the recourse and search of Gongsun Xia by the people of the inverted fighting world did not stop there, after all, in the hands of Gongsun Xia, there are still legendary treasures of great value, as long as Gongsun Xia can be found, it is no less than digging a super big bucket.
At the same time, Gongsun Xia was also on the first round of the public security department's list to crack down on serious offenders, and was wanted by the first class nationwide.
It's a pity that Gongsun Xia seems to have evaporated from the world, not only has he not shown his face in the inverted fighting world since then, but even his few relatives and friends who are not in the inverted fighting world have never seen him again.
Some people say that Gongsun Xia must have sold the treasures he had gotten in his hands and then smuggled them to foreign countries. However, the facts have not been determined.
"If that old man is Gongsun Xia, then the treasures in his cellar are the treasures that he and the inverted faction worked together to steal and dig?" Bai Yang couldn't help but ask after listening to Ding Sicheng's inference, "But I look at those treasures, it seems that there are no items from the same dynasty!"
"You're right!" Ding Lingling, who was also standing next to her at the time, quickly said, "We have been able to preliminarily conclude that those treasures are not only not items of the same dynasty, but some of them have already been able to determine where they came from! For example, that extremely exquisite wood carved Buddha statue is a treasure from the tomb of King Su that was stolen and excavated in Shanxi twenty years ago. At that time, the tomb of King Su was stolen and dug up, and there were not many treasures lost in the tomb, one of which was a wooden Buddha statue!"
When Ding Lingling said this, she probably saw that there was a question in Bai Yang's eyes, so she handed a magnified black and white photo to Bai Yang: "This is a mural in the tomb of King Su, look at this Buddha picture!"
She pointed at the corner of the photo with her hand, and Bai Yang took the photo to her eyes and took a closer look, and couldn't help exclaiming: "The Buddha statue on this mural is exactly the same as the wood carved Buddha statue!"
"Yes!" Ding Lingling nodded, "You should know that the famous inverted fighting people or inverted fighting sects have certain inverted fighting habits, and even have unique inverted fighting tools, which is the case with Gongsun Xia." Therefore, after the theft of King Su's tomb, according to the traces of the inverted bucket left at the scene, several old experts who were born in the inverted bucket agreed that the tomb of King Su should have been stolen by Gongsun Xia. This is also one of the reasons why my dad was able to identify that dead old man as Gongsun Xia!"
Bai Yang put down the photo and asked, "But since Gongsun Xia has already entered the tomb of King Su, why did he only steal a Buddha statue? With his insatiable personality, he should have removed the treasures in King Su's tomb, right?"
"This is not surprising!" Ding Sicheng opened his mouth to explain, "He is wanted by the public security department, and at the same time he is pursued by the entire inverted fighting world, if he commits another major crime and leaves his unique traces of inverted fighting, it will inevitably attract the attention of the public security department and the inverted fighting world again." Besides, he was alone, and he didn't dare to find anyone to cooperate, and there was no way to take all the treasures in the tomb with him! I estimate that he has been dormant for many years and does not dare to show his head, but as a top inverted fighter, he will inevitably feel itchy after not fighting for a long time, so he will steal and dig up the tomb of King Su, but only pick up a few treasures that he thinks are the most precious as souvenirs. ”
Ding Sicheng's inference is reasonable, after all, there are still many treasures in Gongsun Xia's cellar that have not been taken off. And since he can't get rid of it, if he steals and digs up more treasures, it will only increase the burden.
But Poplar has another idea.
"Could it be that the alchemy furnace and the formula of the elixir were also stolen from the tomb of King Su? The reason why Gongsun Xia didn't steal more treasures was because he thought that after getting the alchemy furnace and the elixir formula, he could refine the elixir into immortality, so he was not interested in other treasures at all?"
As soon as he mentioned this idea, Ding Sicheng's father and daughter couldn't help but look at each other.
Ding Sicheng said: "Your idea can't be said to be unreasonable, but so far, we haven't found any clues that this alchemy furnace is a stolen treasure in King Su's tomb!"
Poplar nodded, and said no more.
Ding Lingling said: "According to the demographic data of the public security department, the old man, that is, Gongsun Xia's public identity is Sun Er, surnamed Sun, and his first name is Er. He is a lonely old man, with no children, no daughters, and no relatives. According to his own account, it was his family and relatives who had died or been separated before liberation, leaving him alone. Because of this, he took a lot of care of him on the street, and some people usually took the initiative to help him carry water for laundry, clean toilets, etc. And since his surname is Sun, it is equivalent to proving once again that he is actually Gongsun Xia! In addition, the police also reported the identification results, proving that those black pills in the alchemy furnace were indeed poisonous, but this toxic ingredient could not be identified for the time being. The strange thing is that according to the formula of the pill, there is no poison in it, if these pills are really configured according to the formula, it is possible that after a long time of quenching, there is a chemical reaction inside the pill, which produces highly toxic substances. Or maybe the poisonous substances in the alchemy furnace entered the elixir. Since ancient times, there have been many cases of alchemists refining pills to kill themselves, but it is not particularly strange. ”
"And what about the cause of the death of this old man, Gongsun Xia, is it because of those pills?" asked Bai Yang again.
"The old man was indeed poisoned to death, and the poisonous substances in his body were indeed exactly the same as the poison in the pills. So the police have determined that the cause of his death was not homicide, but that he had taken a poisonous pill. As for why the toxicity in the pill makes Gongsun Xia's body die without decay, we have to continue to do in-depth research. ”
Ding Lingling smiled when she said this, and said: "Because this forensic doctor is very excited! I think that once the reason why the old man died and did not rot is solved, it is very likely that our country's anti-embalming technology will be pushed forward a great step." ”
Bai Yang was also very happy to hear this, and asked again: "Since the treasure in the cellar is not the treasure that Gongsun Xia killed and the Doudou Elite alone, then where is the treasure he swallowed alone?
"This is also the question I am considering!" Ding Sicheng replied, "I always feel that since Gongsun Xia did not hesitate to commit public anger and kill so many inverted elites, the treasure he swallowed alone must be priceless......
He stopped when he said this, as if he had thought of something.
Bai Yang also thought of a possibility in an instant, and shouted: "Could it be that the alchemy furnace and the elixir formula are the treasures that Gongsun Xia swallowed alone? Gongsun Xia believes that it is the elixir of immortality, and once it is refined, it can live forever, so he will naturally swallow it alone at the cost of killing!"
"This idea makes sense!" Ding Sicheng nodded, "It's just...... His cellar would not have been built more than twenty years ago, for twenty years ago, even if he had been able to make those two exhaust fans, would not have had the electricity to support the rotation of the exhaust fans! It has been more than thirty years since he disappeared, could he have ......lived elsewhere before he moved here?"
Ding Sicheng's last few words were already talking to himself, and Bai Yang and the others didn't dare to disturb his train of thought, just kept quiet and waited for him to think clearly.
After a long time, Ding Sicheng suddenly raised his eyebrows, picked up the alchemy record on the desk, and said: "From this alchemy record, I always feel that there are still secrets in that cellar that we haven't discovered, so ...... Why don't we go to the cellar and have a good survey!"
Poplar Ding Lingling, as well as those who were also in the office but had not spoken silently, agreed to the patriot in unison.
The group of four got out of the office building and went back to Gongsun Xia's house in the alley.
(See Chapter 487 "Inverted Bucket Map")