"Do you have an acquaintance playing the game?" Xiao Zishan followed up and asked.

"Exactly." Sun Chang said calmly, "His shopkeeper and dart master are all small fellow villagers. "It turns out that this Qiwei dart bureau is from Jiangxi from top to bottom, and the dart road is only limited to Guangzhou to Nanchang, Jiangxi. Many of the dart masters in the dart game are also the same brothers of Sun Chang who practiced martial arts in the past.

Whether to ask the dart bureau to intervene, Xiao Zishan did not dare to make his own opinion, after all, the matter involved was important, and after hesitating for a moment, he only said that he would discuss it again, and instructed him to close the front and rear doors first.

Here, the Executive Committee got the news and hurriedly held an emergency meeting -- someone dared to kidnap the traversal! It's tolerable, it's unbearable. They all thought that they should haode give them a little color to see-in addition to finding Ran Yao, a former JCSS, and also mobilizing a few reasoning enthusiasts full of Conan Doyle and Christie, Xi Yaya simply picked up a few five-shot shotguns that he had hidden, some suggested whether to make a few grenades for the natives to taste, and some people were going to make sulfuric acid bombs. In the midst of the turmoil, Ma Qianzhuo stood up and said:

"Can't go so many people."

“weishenme？！” Wang Gong was in a hurry, and when he saw that someone objected, he immediately questioned him.

"In the past, it was a mess, not a help." Ma Qianzhuo said, "It's Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, we are not familiar with it at all, what's the use of going to so many people?" I don't even have a map, so I told you where Mr. Wen is, can you find it? ”

Everyone looked at each other, and this question seemed to be unexpected.

"The affairs of the Ming Dynasty still have to be solved by the people of the Ming Dynasty. To put it bluntly, this matter requires intelligence, as long as you know the whereabouts of Mr. Wen, you can deal with it, whether it is rescued by force, or ransom people with money, it is not a problem. With so many people in a chaotic past, it was not easy for Zishan and Wang Gong to explain to the collaborators over there. ”

"Ransom? You can figure it out. There are already people here who are indignant, "Don't do the soft egg thing!" The words caused a buzz of echo. Although the traversers were full of words: "Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients" and "The ancients were also very powerful", in fact, their hearts were full of the superiority of modern people -- "modern people with developed civilization" compromised with "ignorant and backward ancients", and just thinking about it would seriously hurt their hearts.

"If it can be resolved quickly and safely, compromise is not a good idea." Ma Qianzhuo insisted on his opinion, "Rescue by force, one is not intelligence, and the other is afraid that it will pose a threat to Mr. Wen's personal safety." zuihou," he reminded, "our goal is not to fight the Ming underworld. ”

Ma Qianzhu saw that everyone's mood stabilized a little, and then said, "Let's prepare with both hands." Ran Yao still has to go and check the situation at the scene, I believe that his criminal investigation knowledge is enough. It's not a murder in a locked room, and you don't have to go to the reasoning. ”

Several mystery enthusiasts let out a faint cry of protest.

"In case it is to be solved by force, there is already Beiwei over there, I propose that the sports team send two more people to assist him, it is not easy to show it if there are too many people."

Lin Shenhe squeezed over and said, "I'll go too." The small-caliber rifle of Emei brought it to me. I played with sniper rifles in the United States, and I basically didn't miss a shot at 500 meters. ”

"Okay, you go too."

"That's all there is to it." Seeing that there were still people eager to try, Ma Qianzhu waved his hand to block it, and said to Wang Gong: "You and Zishan said that you still have to use the Liliang of the Ming people as much as possible, and don't be too superstitious about force." ”

"Okay."

The discussion stopped here, and everyone was busy packing up their equipment. Ran Yao brought his camera and criminal investigation record book, originally he still had fingerprint collection tools, but it was useless - Da Ming did not have a fingerprint file to check. The sports team brought three five-shot shotguns, but there were not enough bullets, and there was no time to load new ammunition for a while. Each was equipped with only ten rounds. In addition, some reconnaissance equipment was brought with them: night vision goggles, wireless beacons, and bugging devices would not be available for a while, but voice recorders, microphones, and cameras could still be obtained. As for walkie-talkies, smoke screens, tear gas, gas masks, miscellaneous things, useful and useless, all loaded with two large backpacks.

Ran Yao followed Xiao Zishan and Sun Chang to inspect Mr. Wen's room and the entire courtyard, and drew a few more pictures. Sun Chang was less than a few hours old, and there were several more Australians in the courtyard, who were more surprised than they knew that Master Wen had been kidnapped. Seeing that this new Australian didn't say anything, he just touched his lips in the house and yard, climbed the ladder for a while, and then lay on the ground to look at a small glass mirror, and from time to time took a pen-like thing to smear on the notebook, thinking that this was about the Australian catch - but wondered how the Australian catch came so quickly.

After spending more than an hour of investigation, Ran Yao had already roughly understood the entire crime.

"This is a multi-person joint crime." He briefed the murderous rescue team in the room, where the large square table was erected to serve as a makeshift blackboard, and the blackened rosewood table top was poisoned by lime cakes.

"This is the route where criminals come in." He drew the floor plan of the courtyard on the table, "The courtyard wall here is very high, almost 7-8 meters, and the ladder cannot be entered, it should be a kind of flying claw, there are obvious scratches on the wall heads, and a large number of tiles have fallen. ”

"Is there such a thing as a flying claw?"

"Yes, I've seen some information that there were thefts using such tools as late as the forties and fifties."

"When the criminals came in, they first smoked the servants with incense in the outer courtyard, and then came in and smoked our four comrades one by one, from east to west, and waited outside for some time before calmly searching the rooms.

Then they broke the padlock of the room at the crossing point and tried to pry open the fence, which showed at least three or four signs of iron picking. The signs of wear and tear are likely crude knives or other similar strips of iron.

Zuihou They took Mr. Wen from the coma, and the route was to open the door of the backyard directly.

"Although the traces are not obvious enough, from the footprints extracted from the mud floor and the scratches on the walls of the courtyard, there are at least three groups of footprints of different sizes, and there is another group of footprints outside the courtyard wall, so it is inferred that there are at least four people. The height of the criminals ranges from 1.55 meters to 1.60 meters. They are armed with specialized wall-climbing tools, weapons and comatose drugs and are supposed to be professional criminals.

"There is a rather peculiar phenomenon, that is, one of the four sets of footprints extracted is barefoot. Although it was a common phenomenon for ancient people to walk barefoot. But this is the city of Guangzhou, not a small deserted county, which can be used as a breakthrough for reconnaissance. ”

"Does it mean the people of society who are used to going barefoot?"

"Yes, at least it shows that there are people in this gang who are used to going barefoot, which is unlikely to be a special hobby of a certain person, but a habit shared by a certain social group."

"Who could it be?" Everyone was suspicious.

"I'm not a historian." Ran Yao said helplessly. In fact, there is no difficulty in this case in modern times, and the traces left by this group of people are simply the same as not wearing pants under the modern criminal investigator jishu. It's a pity that this is the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, that is, there are no fingerprint files and no criminal records to check, and he doesn't know anything about the social conditions of this ancient city. Equally useless, the usual methods of handling cases.

Everyone was a little disappointed, thinking that as soon as the professional criminal investigators came out, this kind of scoundrel would immediately show the prototype. It doesn't seem to be the case at all. Modern criminal investigations rely heavily on intelligence materials and archives accumulated over a long period of time.

"What else can you see? Like motivation or something. Xiao Zishan continued to ask, "Is it a deliberate plan, or is it a temporary idea?" ”

"It's a deliberate plan. From the point of view of restoring the entire criminal process: the criminals have a very clear understanding of the situation in the courtyard. There are more than 20 rooms here, large and small, and only the houses that live in them are incense, and I have not found any medicine holes in the windows of those rooms that do not live in people.

"The reason why I use the incense is obviously because I know that you have a strong defensive ability. Otherwise, it really wouldn't be so easy to get hold of - Mr. Wen is a person who carries anti-wolf spray anytime and anywhere.

"And when Bei Wei introduced the situation, he also said that you encountered someone sneaking in a few days ago. This should be a stepping action by criminals.

"As for motivation, it's more puzzling." Ran Yao touched his chin, "Judging from the list of stolen items, it is obvious that they came for property, but just kidnapping Mr. Wen seems to be a purposeful kidnapping." ”

"Do they know the identity of Mr. Wen's Australian maritime businessman?"

"I think I definitely do." Ran Yao pointed to the list of stolen goods, "This group is not only interested in silver, but also your so-called Australian goods - they didn't take a lot of Ming Dynasty soft goods, but stole your shoes, socks, pens and other modern small things." Apparently prepared. ”

"What do you mean?"

"It's not theft, it's not as simple as kidnapping." Ran Yao shook his head, "I don't think kidnapping Mr. Wen may be for the purpose of blackmail. ”

Everyone discussed it in a whisper, but they still agreed to use the liliang of the Ming Dynasty to find out the news. Xiao Zishan called Sun Chang: Call the shopkeeper of the Qiwei Dart Bureau.