Chapter 43: Behind the Mask

Chu Ming took the phone, flipped through the address book, and found Ling Yu's contact information.

The phone has been dialed, and it shows that Ling Yu's side has been ringing.

"Hey, what's wrong Chu Ming?"

"Boss, there's something I want to ask you."

Subsequently, Chu Ming explained the situation at the scene in detail to Ling Yu on the phone, and also told Ling Yu the death message left by Li Qing before he died, asking her to decipher the message.

"Huh? After listening to the situation at the scene, Li Qing should have known that he was going to die, so he deliberately left a death message for you to find the truth of the matter. ”

"yes, but we don't understand the meaning of this message at the moment."

"Don't worry, because you are not at the scene, it is difficult to find a breakthrough point just by listening to your narration, but behind a password is often something very simple for us to complicate it, think about it at the beginning, in the case of Yan Fei, there were also many passwords, they may be very superficial things, and you have to be clear about what the deceased thought when he left a message, it may be to save time abbreviation, it may be that the murderer will see it and not write it directly, in short, there is only one answer after all, and the prisoner's mask will be taken down after all."

After Ling Yu finished speaking, the two ended the call.

Chu Ming had been thinking about what Ling Yu had said, although Ling Yu didn't mention too much about how to unlock the current death message, but he also gave himself a lot of tips and suggestions. She told herself not to let her own thinking influence too much and complicate simple problems.

Indeed, the deceased was just a dealer, how could he have a very complicated idea, maybe he just wanted to express the information he saw and the murderer in his own simple way.

Passwords, abbreviations, masks?

That's right! Chu Ming was thinking, just now mentioned that the waiter and the man in black both have metal pattern bicycle plates, according to Mi Lu, there can be no second pair in the world, if it is not for Wang Lun to read it wrong, then is there such a possibility that the two people are actually the same person. And it just so happened that Wang Lun said that when the man in black finished explaining to himself, when it was time for him to gamble his life, he never saw the man in black again, and instead the waiter appeared.

And Mi Lu just told himself about the process of chasing the waiter, judging from his skills, and the ridicule of Mi Lu in his expression, he didn't look like an ordinary waiter.

If the two of them are really the same person, this person is proficient in disguise, plus the hints, abbreviations, and masks given by Ling Yu! So what the "M" in front of the message represents is:

“mask!”

"Mask!" Mi Lu and Xiao Ran listened to Chu Ming's explanation and said in unison.

"Yes, I think what Li Qing may want to express should be that he knows the identity of the man, otherwise the man would not have taken this way to kill her immediately, and the mask can be associated with disguise, the man in black and the waiter are very likely to be a person."

"What about the CT in the back? What does this mean? Xiao Ran asked Chu Ming.

"Also according to the idea of abbreviation, there are many words in English words that are in line with this situation, but we want to think about the words that match the current place, what the dealer is often the easiest to see, and affect his own life, Li Qing wants to express what he sees through these two letters, and it may also be the murderer's purpose to kill himself!"

"What do those two letters mean?" Xiao Ran asked.

“c、h、e、a、t! cheat! Chu Ming replied.

“cheat? Cheat? ”

"That's right, if you contact the current casino, cheating, it's a bad deal!" Chu Ming explained.

The death message left by Li Qing before he died has basically been unraveled, the murderer is a person who is proficient in disguise, and he was discovered by Li Qing when he was out of the old man, and he recognized him, so he will kill Li Qing after changing his appearance as a waiter, which is why he felt strange when he saw the waiter's face at first.

The most important thing is that he actually has that metal pattern bicycle license plate in his hand, which must also be related to the incident of killing Oniyi, which shows that this person may still be a magician! Otherwise, how could you be interested in the magic card of the ghost one!

Chu Ming turned around and looked at Mi Lu:

"Do you know of any magicians in the magic circle who are more skilled in disguise?"

Mi Lu thought about it under Chu Ming's words, to say that disguise itself is a difficult magic, it is necessary to make various masks of human faces in advance, he can disguise himself as a waiter in such a short time, this kind of skill is by no means ordinary people!

"Impossible, how could it be him!" Milou raised her voice a bit. It seems that something comes to mind, but I can't believe it!

"Who are you talking about?" Chu Ming asked.

"Zuo Yi, known as the 'Magician with a Thousand Faces'!"

A magician with a thousand faces?

What is it? The term may sound rusty. Chu Ming and Shu Xiaoran, who were beside Mi Lu, both looked at them blankly, not knowing what they were talking about, or waiting for them to explain.

"He's also a magician?" Chu Ming said to Mi Lu.

"Yes, he's an outcast depraved man in the world of magic."

"How?"

"The magician with a thousand faces, known for his ability to disguise, often relying on other people's looks to go in and out of various occasions, he was originally a magician who performed on stage, but I heard that he was arrested for gambling a few years ago, and he has never seen his magic show since."

"Why is he an outcast?"

"It is rumored that he does not abide by the magician's code, often performs magic that violates human nature, and has repeatedly violated the eight rules of magicians, ignoring the three principles of Suston, so Zuo Yi, a magician with a thousand faces, can almost be said to have no status in the magic world, and it is also known to all magicians, but his magic is not negligible, according to statistics, after every time his magic performance is over, the amount of profit is more than 10 million yuan."

"But what I didn't expect was that Zuo Yi would still appear in Las Vegas, but he was actually addicted to gambling, and he also relied on his magic tricks to make a fortune, which is simply an insult to the magician!" Miru gritted her teeth with hatred.

Shu Xiaoran suddenly said at this time: "If he is a magician, starting from this point, maybe we may know his modus operandi of letting the two of them gamble on their lives!" ”

"You mean, he's magical?" Chu Ming asked Xiao Ran.

"That's right, since he can rely on his magic skills to make a fortune in gambling, he can also rely on his magic to achieve the modus operandi of murder."

Xiao Ran took a breath and continued: "As we mentioned just now, the black man and the waiter are the same person, both of them are disguised by Zuo Yi, a magician with a thousand faces, then he has the best chance to get close to the two glasses of wine that Li Qing and Wang Lun gambled on, and the two of them chose the wine glasses by throwing dice to determine the order, so he couldn't do anything about this, and the only place he had the opportunity to do was to take the opportunity to poison the wine glasses when he handed them to the two of them. ”

Chu Ming seemed to understand something: "Assuming that there is no poison in the two glasses of wine at the beginning, because he has no way to determine who will choose which glass, when the order of the dice's decision comes out, Li Qing first chooses his own wine glass, he takes the opportunity to put the poison in his hand into the red wine when he hands the wine glass to Li Qing, and then hands another cup to Wang Lun, causing Li Qing to gamble and die!" ”

"This may be the case, this trick is simply too easy for Zuo Yi, who is a magician." Milou added.

Things are probably clear, the murderer is also locked on the body of the thousand-faced magician Zuo Yi, and at the same time, according to the metal pattern bicycle license plate in his hand, Mi Lu is sure that he is the murderer who framed Onichi two years ago. It's just that the perfect opportunity just now actually let him slip away.

Right now, I don't know where to find him.

However, looking at the living conditions of Zuo Yi, a magician with a thousand faces, since two years ago, Mi Lu heard that someone had seen the eleven metal pattern bicycle plates in a casino in Las Vegas, and presumably the person they saw two years ago should be Zuo Yi.

In this way, two years ago, Zuo Yi began to go in and out of casinos here in Las Vegas and engage in gambling activities. But as a magician, although he was abandoned by the magic world, the assets he undertook when he was most famous, to say the least, were at least 100 million, he should not be short of money, even if he has some tricks, he will not come to gamble, he can hold a few more games in Las Vegas.

I don't know why Zuo Yi has something to do with the casino, but if someone has seen Zuo Yi in the casino here since two years ago, then presumably since at least two years ago, Zuo Yi has begun to enter and exit the casino here, and there is definitely more than this.

Maybe if you find the previous records of his entry and exit from the casino, you may find some clues related to him.

"Chu Ming, can you do it?" Mi Lu looked at Chu Ming.

"Come with me!"

After Chu Ming finished speaking, he took Xiao Ran back to the hotel with Mi Lu, his computer was still in the hotel room, if he hadn't accompanied Xiao Ran out shopping this time, he would definitely not have left his computer. Who knew it would happen this time.

The matter on the casino's side didn't need them after deducing that Zuo Yi didn't need them, Chu Ming called the owner of the casino and asked him to deal with the scene, originally Chu Ming also wanted to call the local police, after all, this matter has risen to the level of intentional homicide. But when he was about to pick up the phone, Milou shook his head. Then he put down his phone, he could understand Milou's feelings.

After all, it was his only partner who was killed two years ago, and maybe one day when someone close to him encounters this situation, he will choose to do the same.

After returning to the hotel, the three of them sat in front of the computer, and Chu Ming used his computer technology to try to enter the entry and exit records of various casinos in Las Vegas. After he invaded, he really found that there were records of Zuo Yi entering and leaving these casinos within two years, and the number of times was not a few.

However, it is not enough to rely on these to find Zuo Yi's traces, just in case, Chu Ming also investigated the casino in a region of China before Mi Lu came to Las Vegas two years ago, and that casino was also the same casino that Ghost Yi had been to before the accident!

"Milu, what was the day of the ghost accident?" Chu Ming asked Mi Lu.

"The second day of National Day, October 2nd!"

"That's right, you guys come and see this!"

Listening to Chu Ming's words, the three of them stepped forward at the same time, looking at the information on the computer, the casino where the ghost went two years ago also had Zuo Yi's entry and exit records, and the time was clearly marked on it.

"September 25th." Xiao Ran muttered.

"Isn't that exactly the day of the show, the week before the day of the ghost's accident?" Milu replied.

"That's right, that's the time when Onichi went to this casino a week before the accident!"

As they could see, Zuo Yi's name appeared on the records of this casino, and the time marked on it happened to be the time when Oni Yi went to the casino to perform his poker skills, so it can be inferred that if the reason why the magician with a thousand faces killed the ghost a week later was related to the fact that the two of them went to the casino at the same time. According to this line of thought, maybe the ghost one saw something that Zuo Yi shouldn't have seen during the performance. So much so that Zuo Yi would take such a risky approach and kill the ghost on the day of the performance.

He also took the metal license plate from him.

"What is the reason why Zuo Yi has to kill Ghost One!" Mi Lu was asking herself, and she was also asking Chu Ming.

"Did they know each other before?" Chu Ming asked Mi Lu.

"If you know, the thousand-faced magician Zuo Yi was already very famous in China, and there were almost no magicians who didn't know him, but the ghost one is not good, you also know that our original 'Luyi Magic Troupe' was not famous, so I think maybe the ghost knows Zuo Yi, but he is not very familiar, but Zuo Yi must not know the ghost one!"

"Then rule out the possibility that the two of them had a vendetta before."

"If Zuo Yi has to die as a ghost, it is to kill his mouth, will it be because Ghost Yi found something about Zuo Yi when he was performing his card skills, so that Zuo Yi must take the risk and kill Ghost Yi!" Xiao Ran said.

"The reason why I killed Li Qing before was because I was found out of Lao Qian's words, so could the reason for killing Ghost One also be because of it?" Chu Ming suddenly thought.

Mi Lu followed closely and said, "Caught out of the old man? It is because of this possibility, with the kind of card skills of the ghost one, he can easily see that others are in the process of making a thousand mistakes. ”

Chu Ming continued: "Maybe it's for this reason that I saw that Zuo Yi was out of the old man, but he happened to be seen by Zuo Yi, he was afraid that Ghost One would tell him about it, so he decided to do something on Ghost One's thrilling magic on the day of your performance, and take the opportunity to get rid of Ghost One." Chu Mingchao glanced at Mi Lu behind him and asked her:

"When did tickets go on sale for your show?"

"About a month or so before the show."

"That's right, although Zuo Yi doesn't know Ghost One, but after the fact, he may ask the casino owner, or maybe ask others that person is the magic hand Ghost One, and at the same time, he also knows that you are going to perform in a week, so he just made a plan to kill Ghost One."

"Damn! Is it just because the ghost found out that he is out of the old man? Just because of this, he killed Oniichi! Milu was a little excited.

"I guess it's not just because of that."

After Chu Ming finished speaking, Shu Xiaoran and Mi Lu looked at Chu Ming at the same time, they didn't understand why Chu Ming said that.

"I just hacked into Zuo Yi's account, do you know how much he has assets now?"

The two shook their heads, and Chu Ming put the computer in front of the two of them.

"One, ten, hundred, thousand, thousand..... Billion! ”

"How could he have so much money!"

Although it was mentioned before that Zuo Yi was not short of money, they never thought that Zuo Yi's current assets had reached this number.

"Yes, he's not short of money, but he seems to want more!" Chu Ming said.

"What did you say?" Mi Lu asked Chu Ming.

Chu Ming replied: "Before hacking into Zuo Yi's account just now, I also saw several transaction records related to casinos, and it seems that there were such records in the casinos he went in and out. ”

"The records of these transactions have brought huge profits to the casino, and some of them have also entered Zuo Yi's pocket." Chu Ming continued.

Then Chu Ming made a summary: "So, I think, two years ago, the real reason why Zuo Yi killed Ghost One was not only because Ghost One found Zuo Yi out of the old man, but more likely that Ghost One discovered the relationship between Zuo Yi and the casino, the person who manipulated everything behind the casino was Zuo Yi, he was born as a magician, and relied on his own exquisite methods to make each casino have high profits, but Ghost One discovered this phenomenon, Zuo Yi was afraid that the exposure of this matter would cause damage to the interests of both parties, so it was necessary to get rid of Ghost One." ”

"So, after he got rid of the ghost one, he went to Las Vegas to develop, which is called 'Las Vegas', and he can do better trading!" Xiao Ran said.

"I didn't expect that behind the mask of the magician with a thousand faces is actually the culprit of manipulating the casino, the number of small coins can no longer satisfy his inner desire, he is eager to get more money, through his magician's methods, but also to the magic world to declare his magic is strong." Chu Ming said.

"But how are we going to find Zuo Yi now? We have never been able to grasp his traces, and there are so many casinos in Las Vegas that it is impossible to find them one by one. Mi Lu said, it is true, after talking for a long time, they still don't know how to find Zuo Yi.

It's just that Chu Ming smiled at this time.

"What are you laughing at?" Xiao Ran didn't know why Chu Ming was laughing.

Chu Ming replied: "You don't need us to go to him, I'll let him come to us in person!" ”