13. Reasons for solving the case

Where is this? How did I end up here? Tang Peng, who obviously remembered that he should be sleeping soundly in the room, found himself standing in a place he had never seen before, Tang Peng lowered his head and saw that he was stepping on a reef under his feet, and all around him was the sea! Tang Peng was trapped in the middle of the sea like this, there was nothing outside of him and this reef, the sea roared in his ears, and the chill soaked from his heart again and again, Tang Peng closed his eyes and began to think: Is this a dream? If so, what are you going to tell me? What is it? A natural sound slowly came into Tang Peng's ears, Tang Peng's body seemed to be pulled by it, step by step along the song, the sea under his feet seemed to become land, obediently let him step on it, the song became clearer and clearer, finally, on another reef, Tang Peng found the owner who sang the song, and she turned out to be: mermaid! An unbelievably beautiful mermaid! She stopped singing and looked at Tang Peng quietly, the air stopped flowing, everything was quiet, and only one voice surrounded Tang Peng's ears:

"O kind people! The spirits of the sea show you the way.

O greedy man! We will bring him to death!

El Rank's nautical charts! You shouldn't exist.

Where the treasure is, there is also where we are!

The good one who has it will get everything, the greedy one who has it will be destroyed by us! ”

Tang Peng felt strange and was about to ask something, but found that his body was not obedient, getting farther and farther away from the mermaid, and finally propped himself up from the bed, it turned out that it was just a dream......

At this time, there was a sudden urgent knock on the door, Tang Peng just woke up, and he got up a little impatiently and walked over to open the door, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw several people in police uniforms looking at him without saying a word, and an indescribable feeling vaguely surfaced, and the detective's intuition told Tang Peng: Something happened......

"What's wrong?" Tang Peng asked.

"Excuse me, are you the famous detective of Ssangyong Detective Agency: Mr. Tang Peng?"

Tang Peng nodded, and several policemen breathed a sigh of relief:

"That's good, we're the police in charge of securing this cruise ship...... There was a murder half an hour ago, and Chief Wu Wenfei said that you were on the boat and asked us to ask you for help - I wonder if you would like to come with us? ”

Sure enough, Tang Peng frowned, the dream just now came to his mind for some reason, he took a deep breath, cheered up and followed them, along the way, Tang Peng also roughly understood the experience from the mouths of those policemen: A foreigner named Bird died inexplicably after eating a big cake! Although the ship's doctor said that it was poisoned, it was not found to be poisonous in the cake and other foods, and the cake that was the most suspicious was made by someone to celebrate his birthday next week, and that person was Tang Peng's childhood friend, who invited members of the detective agency to board the ship but disappeared inexplicably......

The police formed a circle, blocking the panicked crowd from the periphery, Wu Wenfei looked at the terrifying corpse of Bird on the ground with his eyelids, and then raised his head to look at the ceiling, the expression on his face became serious for the first time, the police under his command noticed that this usually lazy and lazy chief was a little different this time, he exuded a majestic atmosphere, the police subconsciously adjusted their uniforms, and suddenly had the spirit, and they were all waiting for Wu Wenfei's speech, who knew that Wu Wenfei actually shouted, Then he complained as usual:

"! Make no mistake! Why does Lao Tzu die wherever he is? Recently, I often work overtime and don't sleep well, not to mention, and three murders in a row! I finally got a task to defend a luxury cruise ship, and I actually ran into a dead man - why don't you fucking rotten ghost die sooner or later, but die when I thought I could go on vacation and rest! I'm really fed up, just now Cheng Shuai's stupid guy didn't know where to go, now it's only up to Tang Peng to see if he is willing to help......"

The onlookers all sweated for a moment, and looked at this so-called senior police officer with their eyes open, the policemen were even more speechless, and some even had the urge to transfer and not want to follow Wu Wenfei, at this time, another impatient cry sounded from behind the crowd:

"Damn! It's noisy! Wu Wenfei, shut up Lao Tzu! Damn, you can't be quiet when you eat - this little case can be solved in just three days! ”

Everyone was taken aback, and turned their heads to look at the person who spoke, sloppy clothes, arrogant smile, and the pair of sunglasses on his eyes: he was Cheng Shuai! Everyone took a closer look, his still wet clothes were full of food, and there was a chicken leg in his mouth, it turned out that when everyone turned their attention to Bird's corpse, Cheng Shuai ran to the main cabin to eat food and drink sweet wine, he licked his lips through the crowd in a daze, swaggered to the center, someone woke up and looked at this strange man who spoke wildly, and said to him disdainfully:

"Just you? Why? ”

"Hum ham ha-hey, hey!" Cheng Shuai suddenly showed his signature laugh, and confidently stretched out his thumb to himself, "Lao Tzu has three reasons to solve the case!" First, Lao Tzu is a detective. Second, Lao Tzu is a genius. And thirdly, Lao Tzu has a reluctant assistant who can help. ”

Fourteen curses

"Well, wait a minute, do you mean me by that barely passable assistant?" Tang Peng just arrived, and as soon as he came, he heard Cheng Shuai's words.

Cheng Shuai heard Tang Peng's voice, subconsciously found him in the crowd, looked at Tang Peng with a smirk and nodded:

"Of course it's you, don't thank me, you're really barely getting by......"

"Smack", Cheng Shuai was hit in the face by a thrown wine glass before he finished speaking, and immediately his nosebleed flowed, he wiped his nosebleed angrily, jumped up and rushed towards Tang Peng, the two fought again, everyone was stunned, a few policemen who had seen this kind of scene and Wu Wenfei, who had long been numb, didn't feel anything, just thinking that these two people were willing to help, then he could breathe a sigh of relief......

"What's going on? What's going on here? A middle-aged man with a full mouth and beard walked over, but when he squeezed into the innermost part of the crowd, he was stopped by several policemen, he looked at the onlookers, and then looked at the busy police, and shouted to Wu Wenfei: "This police officer, it seems that you are the person in charge, I am the captain of this cruise ship, Li Ya, can you tell me what happened here?" ”

Wu Wenfei yawned, made a gesture of letting Li Ya go, and asked the few policemen who blocked Bird's body to make room for Li Ya to see, Li Ya took a closer look, and suddenly his face was like earth, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, his whole body trembled, and his eyes were full of indescribable fear:

"Again, again...... I warned you, you can't take that chart, you'll be cursed by Elle! You, why do you, why don't you listen......"

"What?" Tang Peng and Cheng Shuai stopped fighting at the same time, and hurriedly ran over and asked Li Ya eagerly, "Please explain it clearly to Lao Tzu!" ”

But Li Ya was already frightened, the whole person was stunned and speechless, and when she was helpless, Xun Qian, who had been silent in the crowd, opened her mouth and said:

"When he said you are referring to three people, they are: my brother Xun Jie, Sui Binxi, and the last person is Bird lying on the ground!"

Everyone was stunned, waiting for Xun Qian to continue, at this time, Wu Wenfei pretended to cough a few times, and ordered a few policemen to send the frightened Li Ya back to the cabin to rest, and by the way, the crowd of onlookers was forcibly invited out, and then most of the police were transferred away under the pretext, and finally only Tang Peng, Cheng Shuai, Xun Qian, Wu Wenfei and a few trustworthy policemen were left at the scene, Zhang Lu, who had not had any expression, was also left behind because of Tang Peng and Cheng Shuai's guarantees, everyone looked at Xun Qian with different expressions, and only heard her say slowly:

"My brother Xun Jie is an explorer, like adventure and investigation of mysterious things, about two months ago, my brother accidentally found half an ancient nautical chart during the expedition, and my brother who was fascinated by it invited Bird, who has studied mysterious things, to investigate together, and that Bird brought a person named Sui Binxi, from his mouth we know that this half of the nautical chart was originally recorded in the place of a huge mysterious treasure on the sea, and, What interests my brother the most is that the place where the treasure is located is rumored to be the habitat of the mythical mermaids...... Then, they investigated the other half of the charts in the hands of a captain named Li Ya, so the elder brother and Bird found Li Ya and asked him to take out the charts and go to sea to hunt for treasures together, but they didn't expect Li Ya to refuse them sternly, and Bird saw that he couldn't convince Li Ya so he tricked his brother into going to sea with half of the chart...... Soon after, however, news of my brother's death came, and I could not find on his body the half of the nautical chart that he had always carried with him and which was more important than his life......

"So, you think that Bird killed your brother, and after guessing that he and Sui Binxi wanted to use some means to force Li Ya to take out the other half of the nautical chart and use this cruise ship to hunt for treasure by the way, he stole our ticket and quietly boarded the 'Elrank' himself." Tang Peng looked at Xun Qian seriously, frowned, and asked her, "Then the purpose of your boat is to avenge your brother or do you want to stop them?" ”

Xun Qian turned her head sideways and didn't answer, Cheng Shuai stopped Tang Peng, turned to look at Bird's body, and then looked at Xun Qian:

"If Lao Tzu is right, your brother's death is exactly the same as that foreigner who is called Virtue, and Sui Binxi's idiot is also missing, so now you are beginning to believe that it was the curse of the nautical chart that killed your brother, and you are very confused...... Is Lao Tzu right? ”

Xun Qian was stunned for a moment, looked at Cheng Shuai in surprise, and then cried quietly, obviously her brother's death hit her hard, Cheng Shuai walked over without saying a word and put his hand on her shoulder:

"Eat ice cream when you're crying, at least it's sweet in your mouth – there's no ice cream here, so you can throw yourself into my arms and cry as much as you want!" I wouldn't mind......"

"Bump, bump", two crisp boxing sounds sounded, Cheng Shuai's head was rewarded twice by Wu Wenfei and Tang Peng, Cheng Shuai immediately pounced, and the three of them fought again, and it took a long time for several policemen next to them to pull them apart......

Tang Peng looked at Xun Qian and sighed, and said to her with a resolute gaze:

"People always think that what they see is the truth, but they don't know what kind of truth is hidden behind this so-called fact - rest assured, there is no curse at all, there is just the truth that we have not found out!"

"Damn, Tang Peng, you're fucking plagiarizing my words again - Miss Xun Qian, leave your brother's affairs to me!" Cheng Shuai patted his chest confidently, and suddenly thought of something, turned his head and asked Wu Wenfei, "By the way, where is Miss Jiang Yuqin, the first discoverer of the corpse?" How many questions do I have for her? ”

Who knows, Wu Wenfei and several policemen looked at him inexplicably:

"Jiang Yuqin? Are you talking about the movie star? ”

"Movie stars? Lao Tzu doesn't pay attention to these ...... The Jiang Yuqin I am talking about is the young lady with a beautiful mole under the corner of her left eye and curly hair, and the kiss between her and Bird was a little strange......"

"That's her, movie star Miss Jiang Yuqin, and she's on the passenger list...... "One of the policemen swallowed and stammered, "but she canceled the voyage due to schedule issues, which means she didn't get on board at all!" Moreover, we are all fans of her, and we have paid special attention to her when the passengers check out, because there are many examples of celebrities who want to spend their holidays calmly and deliberately release holiday news, but we are very sure that there is no her among the passengers! ”

Cheng Shuai and Xun Qian were shocked, because they had both seen Jiang Yuqin with their own eyes in the main cabin, Tang Peng frowned and didn't speak, thinking alone.

"Elle...... Elle is the name of the legendary mermaid......" Zhang Lu, who was ignored, said slowly, "She has the ability to transform into other people's shapes......

At this moment, a man's roar came, and several people hurriedly ran over to take a look, and it turned out that it was Captain Li Ya who made the sound, only to see him sitting on the ground with a cold sweat on his face, pointing to the cabin glass that could see the sea outside, trembling and saying:

Jiang ...... Miss Jiang Yuqin, no, it is something very similar to hers, just now she stood on the sea like stepping on flat ground, and her body quickly turned into bubbles....... She was laughing until she was completely gone......"

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