Chapter 7: Hidden Connections

Summer has gradually entered the hottest time, which is also the time when light rain is frequent, and the situation of fighting on a rainy night is still lingering in Qin Jian's mind, in a region far away from Chengguang City, where the high mountains are accompanied by streams, and the quiet mountains often cry of wild things, and the streams flow, lapping the riverbank. In the early morning, a little rain drenched the green grass here. Only in the small pavilion, there is a dry place.

It should be six o'clock in the morning, but Qin Jian had already arrived here an hour ago, and he seemed to be waiting for someone.

A week ago, Qin Jian quietly left Chengguang City, and in order not to leak the news, no one knew Qin Jian's movements. Don't give the murderer any leaks to find. In the previous fight on a rainy night, Qin Jian was just angry and let the black shadow slip away in front of his eyes. But afterwards, Qin Jian carefully recalled the scene when he fought with him. Although the opponent's fighting ability is extremely strong, his muscle strength is strange.

Generally speaking, a physique like Qin Jian, in long-term training, should not be too bad in terms of resistance to blows, but when he fought that night, although he was testing at the beginning, he would not be forced to retreat. In the process of fighting him, Qin Jian's arms were blocked and it hurt extraordinarily. This kind of intensity is not something that the average person can achieve. And through Qin Jian's depiction of the first impression of the black shadow, this person's skeleton is not large, and the muscle outline is hidden under the strict black clothes. But it doesn't feel so strong, it's just too tough.

Qin Jian speculated that this person must have taken some kind of medicine to maximize muscle strength within a certain period of time, and minimize pain, coupled with his own fighting skills, so that he could be in the upper hand position for a long time when fighting with others. Qin Jian could feel that this person should have been a martial arts master before, and he should have not had comprehensive muscle training for a long time, so his muscles did not have the same hardness as before. By taking some kind of medicine to make up for this problem, if it weren't for the high-intensity training he had before, which created a superhuman physique, he would definitely not be that person's opponent that night.

Qin Jian learned by asking his master that in China, there is only one person who has top-level research on various drugs, and that is the person Qin Jian has been waiting for - an international pharmaceutical expert, Professor Fu.

Professor Fu has been living in seclusion here since he retired, and ordinary people will not find this place, but it just so happens that Qin Jian's master and Professor Fu have been friends for many years. Regarding Master Qin Jian, like Chu Ming's master, he has always been very mysterious, and even sometimes Qin Jian doesn't know where he is.

The light rain seemed to have stopped, there was no ticking sound, and the surroundings seemed to be quiet. There was no sound other than the wailing of wild things, which was a bit sudden for Qin Jian.

But then, Qin Jian heard a sound of footsteps behind him, he turned around and saw a white-haired old man wearing round-framed glasses and a white gown walking in his direction with his hands behind his back.

Qin Jian knew that the person he had been waiting for was coming, so he hurriedly got up and went to greet the old man:

"Professor Fu, you're here."

With Qin Jian's support, the old man sat down in the small pavilion, raised his hand to support his glasses, and then glanced at the sturdy Qin Jian in front of him from top to bottom and said:

"You're that apprentice of Mountain Eagle?"

After Professor Fu finished speaking, Qin Jian replied: "Yes, professor, I encountered some problems in the process of handling cases in Chengguang City, and after asking my master, my master asked me to come to you. ”

Although Qin Jian is usually a little arrogant, compared to Professor Fu, Qin Jian is more admired, so he doesn't dare to show his cold and arrogant temperament in front of Professor Fu, only respect.

"Your situation, your master told me on the phone, what you are wondering about is not the ingredients of the medicine, but the source of the medicine." Professor Fu said.

"Yes, that's right!"

That's true, what are the main ingredients of the drug, and what the formula is, these are not important to Qin Jian, Qin Jian is concerned about the source of this drug, once the source of the drug is clear, maybe he will find out the true identity of the black shadow that night, and even the murderer of Tang Hong and Gao Bin.

After Qin Jian finished answering Professor Fu, Professor Fu didn't say anything in a hurry, just looked at the wet ground outside the pavilion, as if many memories were reproduced in his mind, like those memories that he didn't want to think about anymore.

"According to your master's previous description, as well as some of the information you stated to me, to be honest, this method of dispensing medicine is not something that ordinary people can do, and moreover, it reminds me of a person!"

After Professor Fu finished speaking, Qin Jian looked at the old man in front of him with wide eyes, as if the question he had been wondering about for a long time would be answered immediately.

"Her name is Mina, and she used to be one of my proudest students......"

【Chengguang City Public Security Bureau】

The three people in the task force except Qin Jian stood in front of the table, and the materials of the three cases were placed on the table, and on the whiteboard next to the table, the ages, occupations, and causes of death of the three deceased were clearly presented on the whiteboard. According to the clues previously gathered, Tang Hong and Gao Bin were killed based on the movie "The Entrance to Heaven", while Robert was killed based on the novel "Blood Rose" by Liu Xuan, who was supposed to be the next deceased. There must be some kind of connection between these three cases, and only by finding this hidden connection can we really crack a few cases and determine whether there is a next deceased, or find the real murderer!

Now, Ling Yu and the others are going to try to find the real connection between several cases according to the previous clues. The first thing to do is to sort out these cases first!

Among the three cases, the first to happen was the case of Tang Hong on July 6, the murderer used Tang Hong's obsessive-compulsive disorder to modify his bill at night, let Tang Hong stay in the store for a while, and then destroyed the camera in the store, on the way to Tang Hong's clothing store, the maintenance worker Xiao Wang passed through a small alley where few people go, and took the opportunity to disguise himself as a maintenance worker, and then had the opportunity to approach Tang Hong, and after a scuffle with him in the clothing store, cut his throat, smooth the wound, and solve it with a knife!

The second case was on July 14, when entrepreneur Gao Bin was covered from behind in a hotel he secretly invested, causing poisoning of blue and white nails in his body and suffocation. According to the information obtained at the scene, the murderer should have known that there was no camera inside the hotel and knew about Gao Bin's habit, so he disguised himself as Gao Bin's date and killed him that day.

The third case happened just a few days ago, on July 20, when the victim, Robert, a famous opera writer and director, died in a secret room in his home. The deceased had a small amount of hallucinogenic drugs in his body, and the murderer used this drug to cause him to temporarily coma, and then cut his throat, and died of excessive blood loss, and the wound was uneven, as if he had been cut many times, but almost every knife seemed to be forced.

According to the identity and cause of death of the deceased in the first two cases, it is almost exactly the same as the plot of the movie "The Entrance to Heaven". It is speculated from this that the murderer of Tang Hong and Gao Bin is very likely to be one person. According to the plot development in the film, the third deceased should be a famous novelist. In reality, it is very likely that the writer Liu Xuan will be the next victim.

But the third deceased was the famous composer Robert. And the knife wound on his body was not as smooth as the wound on Tang Hong's body, it was obviously from the two of them. It does not appear to be related to the first two cases, but there are several connections.

The first is the blue and white nail drugs in Gao Bin's body and the hallucinogenic drugs in Robert's body, both of which are not easily available on the market. The blue-and-white nail drugs in Gao Bin's body also have a large number of other drug ingredients, such as through the combination of a variety of drugs. It can be assumed that the same person is dispensing the two drugs.

The second is the work on which the case is based, Tang Hong and Gao Bin's case is based on the movie "The Entrance to Heaven", but Robert's case does not have any plot of "The Entrance to Heaven". However, according to the information found in Robert's house, the murderer knew that his murder was obvious, but he still worked hard to make a secret room, and disposed of all the fingerprints on the murder weapon and put it in the hands of the deceased, causing the phenomenon of suicide in the secret room.

The murderer should have wanted to express something directly to the members of the detective team. Indeed, about Robert's case, the deceased was an operalogist, and the cause of death was in a secret room, which completely coincides with the plot in Liu Xuan's novel "Blood Rose". In addition, at the door of Liu Xuan's house that night, Chu Ming and Qin Jian saw a black shadow with strange behavior, as well as Liu Xuan's famous novel "Blood Rose" that he carried. Again, this forced one to link the first two cases to this one. Because according to the previous speculation, Liu Xuan will be the next victim, but the death of this victim is related to Liu Xuan's novel.

Suppose that there is a connection between the two murderers in these three cases. The first two cases are based on "The Entrance to Heaven", and the third is based on "Blood Rose", since it is not based on one work, will there be a third work.

For example, the next deceased will be based on another work.

"Robert was killed based on Liu Xuan's novel "Blood Rose", if there will be another deceased, will it be based on Robert's opera?" Shu Xiaoran lowered her head and muttered to herself, not knowing if her assumption was valid.

But this sentence was heard by Ling Yu: "Xiao Ran, what did you say?" ”

"Huh?" Xiao Ran hesitated for a moment and then said, "I'm just guessing, because the first two cases are based on the movie "The Entrance to Heaven", will it be mainly to lead out Liu Xuan, and then follow the crime according to Liu Xuan's work "Blood Rose", if this assumption is true, then once there is the next deceased, will it be based on the work of the previous deceased?" What about one of all Robert's operas? ”

After Xiao Ran finished speaking, Chu Ming and Ling Yu both fell into deep thought, Ling Yu's expression seemed to have received a new revelation, if it was really like what Xiao Ran said, then if there was the next deceased, it was very likely that the crime was based on one of Robert's works.

Because, among the above three deceased, Tang Hong and Gao Bin do not have any famous representative works. Robert is the only one who has a masterpiece, followed by Liu Xuan. Liu Xuan not only has a relationship with the first two deceased people in the plot of the movie, but also has a relationship with the next deceased who committed the crime according to his own works.

From this point of view, it is very likely that the murderer took advantage of this, causing the misunderstanding that the third deceased was Liu Xuan to the members of the detective team, and at the same time protecting Liu Xuan with a large number of police forces, he gave him the opportunity to kill Robert.

"What is Robert's most influential opera?" Ling Yu said to Chu Ming.

Chu Ming flipped through the computer and found some of the personal files about Robert that he had found earlier.

"One of Robert's most famous operas was Lost Heaven in '06, about the murder of a composer." Chu Ming replied to Ling Yu.

But at the same time, Ling Yu's train of thought was interrupted again. First of all, I am not sure whether "Gone Paradise" will be the basis for the murderer's next crime, and secondly, even if it is, the basis for the next crime, there are very few famous composers in the city, and they are not very famous.

Unless! Unless it is!

Ling Yu thought of something seemingly. When she mentioned the composer, she instantly thought of a person, as well as the notes and melodies of those terrifying people, this person was the famous composer who committed suicide by taking poison due to depression four months ago - Condor!

But this is not possible, because Condorm is dead, is the murderer going to kill a dead man? What's the point?

Ling Yu was thinking about it, Chu Ming looked at the relevant information in the first three cases, and couldn't help muttering to himself: ""The Entrance to Heaven", "Blood Rose", "Disappearing Paradise", interesting, if the next victim is really a composer, these works can be turned into a song." ”

"What song?" Ling Yu heard Chu Ming muttering something and asked Chu Ming.

"Oh, I just said it casually."

"Songs? Wait a minute! Ling Yu was dumbfounded, staring blankly ahead.

"Do you remember that horrible nursery rhyme that Condor?" Ling Yu said to Chu Ming and Shu Xiaoran.

"Of course I remember this, at that time, this song had such a big impact, and it was permanently banned by the music scene, who doesn't remember this." Chu Ming said. "Is it really related to this nursery rhyme?" Xiao Ran asked.

"Help me find the lyrics of that nursery rhyme!" Ling Yu said to Chu Ming.

"Okay, but this nursery rhyme may take a little time because it's permanently banned."

In the process of Chu Ming's search for lyrics, Ling Yu was also thinking, if this matter is really related to Kang Duo, or that the murderer's next target is Kang Duo, then what is his real purpose? Why can't you get along with a dead person?

Many mysteries now haunt Ling Yu. Not only did this matter involve Condor, who had been dead for four months, but there were also some doubts in the previous three cases that had not been resolved.

When Ling Yu was puzzled, Chu Ming also found the terrifying nursery rhyme that had been banned, and its lyrics were put on the big screen by Chu Ming:

"The little girl in white wears red heels,

Walking towards Paradise Street with a happy face,

Behind him was a little boy in a dress,

Walk forward hand in hand;

The girl smiled at the boy,

The boy took out the roses and gave them to her,

The two of them don't care about anything,

Hand in hand and walk together;

Blood suddenly stained the white clothes,

The boy was frightened and couldn't speak,

The roses in his hands have been dripping blood,

They didn't go on;

The way to heaven suddenly disappears,

The girl's face turned a little pale,

The boy is going to carry her away forever,

There is only a red heel left,

There is only a red heel left,

And the blood of the little girl. ”

Looking at the nursery rhyme lyrics on the screen, Ling Yu kept thinking about all the previous cases, as well as the works on which each case was based. She locked her eyes on each paragraph of text, on each punctuation point. After that, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth and slowly straightened up.

"Boss, what did you find?" Shu Xiaoran asked Ling Yu.

"I've found the real hidden connection to these cases!" Ling Yu said with a smile, a subtle smile mixed with a calm tone, like a cloud of doubt that had not been cleared for a long time suddenly saw the sky.

"What did you find?" Chu Ming put down the computer and stepped forward, and Xiao Ran also followed.

Ling Yu pointed to the lyrics on the screen: "Come and see! ”

"You pay attention to the semicolon in the lyrics, the three semicolons divide this nursery rhyme into four sections, you look at the words of the previous paragraph, 'To heaven', what do you think of when you see this?"

"The movie "The Entrance to Heaven"!" Shu Xiaoran seemed to understand something, her pupils dilated, and she looked at the screen and said.

Ling Yu then said, "That's right! Ling Yu pointed to the following paragraph and continued, "In the same way, you go on, the words 'rose' and 'dripping blood' in the second and third paragraphs should correspond to Liu Xuan's novel "Blood Rose"! ”

"So, the phrase in the fourth paragraph, 'The road to heaven suddenly disappeared,' should be Robert's opera 'Lost Paradise.'" Chu Ming added.

"Yes, that's it." Ling Yu replied.

In this way, this horror nursery rhyme by Condorus is the real hidden connection between these three cases. The murderer committed the crime according to three works, and at the same time, the three works were based on this horror nursery rhyme!

In this way, Condor, who died four months ago, could really be the next target of the murderer, and the victim in Robert's opera "Lost Paradise" is a composer. Even if the next victim is not the dead Condor, the basis of all the crimes is related to this horrific nursery rhyme, and even if he is not the next victim, even if he is dead, he must have something to do with these cases, or with the murderer.

The undead are deceased, and for some reason they have to pull out the souls of the dead, and they are obviously depressed and leave but they can't rest in peace.

Kang Duo's only relatives before his death were his younger brother Kang Zheng, as well as his wife, his younger siblings, that Xiaomi, maybe there were still some things that Kang Duo didn't know before he died, the next plan, Ling Yu was going to go to Kang Zheng's house, ask about his brother's situation before his death, and find out the real murderer according to the information he had!

It's just that I still haven't heard from Qin Jian!