The torture technique knows that the only clue now is the peerless painting, and figuring out the peerless painting will also figure out a series of things back then, and he can't be distracted now, after all, there are still many things to solve in front of him - whether He Chenxue's life experience and the green eyes he is looking for are directly related to the whole thing; What is Maffei's true purpose; What are Bai Zhongzheng and the other three going to do.

Of course, the most important point is that the torture technique is now beginning to doubt his master Zheng Cangqiong.

In fact, when the torturer found out that Ma Fei was pretending to be that branch, his first reaction was that this matter had something to do with the master. First of all, if the killer is really that branch, this matter is 100% related to Zheng Cangqiong, because he introduced the person; Secondly, after he found out that the branch was pretended by Ma Fei, he doubted his speculation, and in a short period of time thought that Zheng Cangqiong was not directly involved in this matter, but that branch was stuffed into the team by Zheng Cangqiong, and it almost didn't have much effect, Zheng Cangqiong knew his temper and character, and he definitely knew that he would drive away the branch, and as soon as the branch left, he gave Ma Fei the opportunity to pretend.

In other words, although Zheng Cangqiong did not have a direct layout, it gave Ma Fei a fairly good opportunity to insert.

Later, Yan Gang also asked him, in fact, that was redundant, why didn't Ma Fei directly pretend to be someone else, a person who didn't know the torture technique at all, wouldn't it be a perfect cover-up?

Although he shook his head at the time and couldn't say clearly, he actually knew that it was an agreement between Zheng Cangqiong and Ma Fei, and deliberately let Xingshu know that he was involved in this matter, just like giving Xingshu a psychological preparation. Let's ask, if there is no appearance of that branch, Ma Fei does not pretend to be a fake branch to let the criminal art see through, Zheng Cangqiong later told the criminal art that Ma Fei was the whole bureau laid out with his consent, then there will be a huge gap between their master and apprentice.

Of course, Zheng Cangqiong can also not tell him, but if he does that, the estrangement will become a gap between master and apprentice, which will eventually lead to a break between the two.

Therefore, Zheng Cangqiong's purpose is threefold: first, to clearly tell the criminal art that he also wants to find Qimen, but he is old, and this matter must be handed over to the criminal art; Second, the art of punishment now needs to be tempered to find Qimen; Third, he didn't want to contradict the art of torture.

The torturer actually told Tian Lianfeng that he was afraid, not only because he had experienced the affairs of Heaven and Earth and knew the truth about the cult tragedy back then, but also because he was afraid that the master-apprentice friendship between Zheng Cangqiong and himself would be completely broken all of a sudden.

"Torture, it's here." Yan Gang stood in front of the doorway and shouted the torture technique that he had only known before and walked without saying a word.

There was no reaction from the torture technique, Yan Gang glanced at Tian Lianfeng, Tian Lianfeng muttered: "A few words, lead the way, it will cost 50,000, it's me, I can't figure it out." ”

Yan Gang didn't pay attention to him, he just pushed the torture technique with his hand, and the torture technique came back to his senses, raised his eyes and looked at the doorway and said, "Oh, it's here." ”

"Go inside, go through the building inside, and then pass through one building, and it's Minus 4, which is the other side building." Yan Gang walked inside, saying as he walked, "Be careful around the roof, you have to settle lightly, these are century-old buildings, there was a fire during the Puppet Manchurian period, although it was rebuilt, but I heard that there is a problem with the foundation, and the whole building is unstable." ”

Tian Lianfeng looked at the dark doorway from behind, and there were old furniture all around: "Unstable for decades? ”

"That's the subtlety of the Beyond Tower." Yan Gang stopped behind the courtyard in the doorway, stood on the flower platform, and pointed ahead, "The entire other side of the building is built by attaching to the surrounding buildings, belonging to the building within the building, just like parasitic on other buildings, if the other buildings do not fall, it will not fall, unless a few buildings fall, it will fall." ”

Xingshu nodded: "That's why the other side of the building doesn't have a house number." ”

"Yes, there was no then, and there is no now, let's go." Yan Gang walked into the building in front of him with the torture technique and Tian Lianfeng, carefully walked up to the second floor from the stairs next to him, turned around the corner at the end of the corridor, and then went up the stairs on the third floor, which was considered to have passed through the first floor, and then went downstairs, through the patio house below.

Xingshu looked at the small cistern under the patio house and said, "This architectural style is not from the Northeast, Jiangnan is the most, and the designer is a Jiangnan person?" ”

Yan Gang shook his head: "I don't know, there's no way to find out." ”

Yan Gang led the two of them through the front under the eaves of the porch, and at the same time motioned to the torture technique and Tian Lianfeng to lean on the right, because the temperature has risen in the past few days, close to above zero, so the icicles under the eaves are melting, and if the slightly larger roots are broken, they will crush people to death if they fall.

Passing through another building, the torturer stopped and asked, "No, according to what you say now, we should have reached the other side of the building." ”

Yan Gang shook his head: "The reason why it is called the other side of the building, in the final analysis, is that it is not easy to go, and our current route is like a question mark." ”

Yan Gang said, drawing a "? Pointing to the point below, he said: "This is the doorway, we have to go straight up, from right to left around the outer building, to reach the other side of the central point of the building, because we can't go straight, and we can't go directly to the left." ”

Tian Lianfeng looked at the pattern of the old buildings around and said: "It's really strange here, it's too weird, it's hot and cold, and it's not a dry wind, it's a kind of yin wind that makes people feel particularly uncomfortable and seeps bones." ”

Xingshu motioned for Yan Gang to continue to lead the way, and walked in the middle by himself and said: "The northeast is dry and dry, the wind is also strong, and the sun is fierce in summer, this kind of building can block the daylight, and it extends in all directions, it is ventilated on all sides, there are different passages, and it will be very cool in summer." ”

Tian Lianfeng hugged his arms and said, "Won't you freeze to death in winter?" ”

Xingshu shook his head: "No, in winter, as long as the door is closed, these passages that extend in all directions will be sheltered from the wind, and the wind will not be able to blow in, and the multi-storey structure of the house can also be insulated." ”

Yan Gang said in front: "Yes, there is also heating here, and they are all copper pipes, and these copper pipes alone are worth a lot of money." ”

Continue to walk forward, and finally come to a small door, which can accommodate three people in parallel. Yan Gang stopped, pointed to the locked door and said, "The other side of the building is inside." ”

Xingshu raised his hand and looked at his watch: "From the doorway to here, we walked slowly for forty-five minutes. ”

Yan Gang said: "Ordinary speed, I came here for the first time, and it took me three hours to get here. ”

"You road idiot!" Tian Lianfeng looked at Yan Gang and said, "If it's me, use it to run, fifteen minutes." ”

Torture pointed to the road when he came and said: "Don't be stubborn, let's gamble, you go back now, if you can walk to the door within an hour, I will give you 50,000." ”

As soon as Tian Lianfeng heard it, he raised his feet and walked out: "I'll go out and call you." ”

But Tian Lianfeng walked for a while, but came back, raised his eyes and saw that the two of them were stunned, "Huh", looked back at the place he had walked through, and walked back, not long after Tian Lianfeng came back again, this time he looked at the torture technique and Yan Gang in amazement: "Hit the ghost, this is!" ”

Xingshu shook his head: "The buildings attached to the outside of this building are all the same, I calculated it when I came before, it is roughly divided into four areas, there are about four buildings outside, the styles are not the same, and the deliberate mixing and matching makes people unable to find the right way." ”

Tian Lianfeng frowned and shook his head to indicate that he didn't understand.

Xingshu sighed, took out a notebook and pencil and drew a circle, and said, "This circle is the other side of the building." Then he wrote the letters ABCD around the circle, "These four letters represent the four buildings to which the other side building is attached." ”

Tian Lianfeng nodded. The torture technique also wrote the four characters A, B, C and D inside the circle: "These four characters represent the outer layer of the building built when the building on the other side is built." ”

Tian Lianfeng was stunned for a long time, and only nodded after a long time of understanding: "Go on." ”

The criminal technique erased the four words A, B, C, D, and wrote D next to A, C next to B, B next to C, and A next to D, and then said: "When building the other side of the building, the circle of buildings built more is considered four areas, and the style of Area A is the same as Building A, and so on, the style of the four buildings of A, B, C, and D corresponds to the four buildings of ABCD on the periphery, but when it was built, it was deliberately disrupted, and when you walked in, you remembered that you walked away from Building A, but when you walked around in a circle, Find yourself back in Building A, you think you got lost and started to look for another way, but it's not, because at that time you were not in Building A, but in the circle between the other side building and the outermost digital building, I said it in such detail, can you understand? ”

When Tian Lianfeng was studying there with the paper, he turned around and asked Yan Gang, "Now this house is ownerless, right?" ”

Yan Gang nodded: "Yes, after the liberation, it became an ownerless house, but these buildings outside have owners, demolished in those years, developers can't afford to demolish them, the land is expensive, these old houses are more expensive, and later the government wants to protect these buildings, but it can't be repaired at all, so you can only learn from the British, keep the outer layer of the building, and rebuild the inside, otherwise, these buildings will collapse at any time." ”

"That's good." The torturer took out his tools, picked the lock open in three or two clicks, and then slowly pushed the door open, pushing it carefully, because the sound of the door seemed to fall down at any moment, and the room was also full of holes on all sides, as if there had been a fierce battle here, and someone swept around with a gun, leaving countless bullet holes in the wooden walls.

Xingshu raised his foot and stepped on the plank, feeling quite strong, and then said: "I don't know if I can bear the weight of one more person, 'Hades', don't come in, you and Lian Feng are guarding outside, I'll go in." ”

At this time, Tian Lianfeng got up happily and said, "I understand what is going on in this building, and I also understand this labyrinth...... Hey? When did the door open? ”

Yan Gang blocked Tian Lianfeng, who was about to enter, and said, "The floor will collapse at any time, don't go in, let the torture technique go alone." ”

Tian Lianfeng was dissatisfied again: "You collected the money, 50,000 yuan, you let the employer take risks, you kind of person......"

The torture technique that was already in the room turned around, pointed at Tian Lianfeng and said, "From now on, you shut up for me, if you can't keep it shut, I'll let the 'Hades' help you." ”

Tian Lianfeng glanced at Yan Gang, who was staring at him expressionlessly, raised his hand to cover his mouth, and nodded slowly towards the torture technique.

Torture rolled his eyes at him, and began to observe the first floor of the building—a complete rectangle, with two rooms, but apparently the room on the right was separated by a simple wooden plank, and there was a staircase between the two rooms to go upstairs, and there was nothing unusual about it, the whole room was littered with rotten furniture, and even the only intact cabinet had two holes in it.

"Hades, how many floors does this building have?" Torture asked.

Yan Gang outside the door replied: "I don't know, I just stood there and looked at it and left, I was just curious at the time, and I didn't investigate in detail." ”

"I'll go upstairs and have a look." As he spoke, he walked up the stairs, and as soon as he reached the staircase, he felt a little strange, feeling that the wooden planks at the staircase were very thick and strong, and there was no such clicking sound as the floor before when he stepped on it.

Torture climbed up to the second floor, and found that there were still two rooms, similar to the first floor, and continued to the third floor, still the same, until the attic of the third floor, and found nothing suspicious in the attic rooms. However, just as he was about to leave, he saw something behind the door, as if at the moment of turning around, so he opened the door and found a brush behind the door.

The torturer stepped forward to pick it up, smelled it, the pen tip was all dry, the hair on the pen tip was scattered when touched, and the most important thing was that this brush was not ink, but black paint.

Xingshu picked up the pen and returned to the door, handed it to Yan Gang and said, "This pen is very strange. ”

"How?" Yan Gang didn't understand, he didn't understand this.

The torture technique took it and said: "This kind of brush is sheep's hair, the tip of the pen is slightly longer than the wolf hair used in ordinary writing, and it is thicker, because the ink content is larger, so this is a paintbrush, the brush used in ink painting, and more are also used to write bald brushes to paint, but the fine part of the painting needs to use sheep's hair." ”

Yan Gang nodded: "You mean, there is really a connection between this place and the peerless painting?" ”

"Not sure." Torture looked around, "It's weird here, it seems normal, but I always feel that something is wrong." ”

Yan Gang said again: "But that peerless painting is not an ordinary painting, and there is no single type. ”

"Yes, it's weird on the top, it's a double-layered, a mix of ink and oil." Xingshu frowned, "That's what I find weird, I can't figure it out, I can only roughly identify the time from the paper, there is no doubt that it is a double layer of paper, but I don't know if it is ink painting first, or oil painting first, and the brush I found, the tip of the pen is not ink, but oil paint, black oil paint." ”

Tian Lianfeng on the side wanted to express his opinion, but the torture technique didn't let him speak, so he had to cover his mouth and frown and look at the two of them, looking at the torture technique for a while, and looking at Yan Gang for a while.

Yan Gang thought for a while and said, "Not to mention that the peerless painting has something to do with here, that Ji Dewu also has something to do with here?" ”

Torture nodded, "Do you know what I'm thinking?" I'm thinking, the reason why Ji Dewu was so surprised when he saw that painting, I think it must be because he was frightened and stimulated when he saw this painting somewhere, but there was only one thing that could scare him into that appearance, that is, after the group of people kidnapped him, he cut off his hand. ”

Tian Lianfeng finally couldn't help it, let go of his hand and said, "You mean, where he was held hostage back then, was here?" Is it here to break the finger? ”

Xingshu turned his head to look at Tian Lianfeng, and Tian Lianfeng immediately covered his mouth again.

Xingshu shook his head: "No, the police are not stupid, he broke his hand on the lathe back then, if that group of people faked the scene, no matter how they disguised it, the police would know it as soon as they investigated the scene, so the place where the severed finger was definitely found was where he was found, but the place where he was kidnapped and detained at the earliest may be here." ”

After hearing this, Yan Gang analyzed: "Well, the person who kidnapped him must have prepared a place for him to paint at the beginning, but he didn't obey and didn't paint until he died, so he was transferred out and threatened to cut off his fingers, or kill him, because if they did it to him in the hiding place, they would destroy the studio they had prepared." ”

Xingshu continued: "The reason why I am worried about the destruction and discovery of the studio, I think, there is another reason, that is, this group of people had arrested other painters before Ji Dewu, and that one or more painters were in the studio, perhaps, it was this other building. ”

"Ji Dewu was shocked when he saw the peerless painting, maybe there was an identical painting in this studio, which caused Ji Dewu to immediately think of everything back then after seeing it, so he was frightened, he thought you were the group of people back then." Yan Gang continued to analyze, "Therefore, the group of people invited Ji Dewu here back then, not brought by the mask, and Ji Dewu also knew that this was the negative fourth, and the reason why these people did not trouble Ji Dewu later was because Ji Dewu was crazy and there was no threat to them, and what a madman said could not form an effective testimony in law." ”

Xingshu turned to look at the room: "So, I think the studio that Ji Dewu was invited to back then may be here, otherwise how could a madman be so impressed by Negative Four?" ”

At this time, the torture technique thought of the hard floor under the staircase, looked back at the outside of the house, looked around after walking out, and asked Yan Gang: "'Hades', you say, what floor are we on now?" ”

Yan Gang looked at the ground outside, and the patio house facing the gate, and said, "The first floor! ”

"First floor?" Torture shook his head, "I don't think it's the first floor. ”

"Why?" Yan Gang asked puzzled.

"This is the patio house, surrounded by outer buildings and labyrinths, from the middle of the patio house you can look at the tall buildings outside, even if there is a comparison, you can't know what floor you are on." It's like putting a person in a place the size of a Coke can, placing this jar in a certain high place, and there is a 20-story tall building next to it, and the person in the jar looks at the tall building from the mouth of the can, and the first instinct will think that he is on the ground, and think that the jar is placed on the ground, because the jar is blocked on all sides, and you can't look at the premise that you can't see it at level, you don't know the height you are at, which is sitting in a well and watching the sky. ”

Yan Gang walked to the center of the patio house and looked up, stomping his feet by the way: "You mean, the position we are standing on now is at least the second floor or above?" ”

"Yes, the surroundings are closed, the outer layer is a labyrinth, we are up and down, down and up, we don't know what floor we are on, if we throw you in a building that is closed on all sides, but there are many stairs, you go up and down a few times, and then you say that you are on what floor, you will definitely not be able to tell." After finishing speaking, he pointed to the floor inside the room, "So, I think there must be a secret room down there." ”

Yan Gang suddenly realized: "So, that secret room is the so-called painting studio?" ”

"That's right, but there's a lot of contradiction. ”