252. The third hand
The light in Qu Xinhua's eyes was fading little by little, and in the end, there was only a sadness and despair, she lowered her eyes, and said in a light voice: "Did you know that you were poisoned in your body?" ”
"What do you say?" Luo Jinghan asked rhetorically. Qu Xin's body trembled slightly.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart when I heard it, how could I not know the reason that the poison was in his body?
"Then you know that you have been planting that poison for a long time...... Will it die? ”
Luo Jinghan's eyes suddenly became angry, and he shot straight at her like a nail, "If it was my life in exchange for betraying Brother Cheng again and again, I would rather die." Gao Cheng frowned and scolded: "Cold! ”
Luo Jinghan gasped heavily, and slowly suppressed his emotions before he said indifferently: "Don't you still tell the truth about the matter?" ”
Qu Xinhua smiled desolate and raised her eyes, "After I got on the boat, I received her instructions to configure a poison similar to that of the brown and yellow retreat spider, but it must be so poisonous that it can kill people in a few minutes. It took me three days to succeed, and she told me to put the poison in the designated place. ”
"Where?" Luo Jinghan asked.
She was silent, and replied, "It's in the slit in the window of this captain's cabin." As soon as she finished speaking, I subconsciously turned my head to see that the independent cabin was different from others, except that there was a small window on both sides of the hatch and a skylight on the top.
Luo Jinghan asked again: "And then?" ”
But I heard Qu Xinhua say: "Didn't you already intercept my communication with her?" Why do you have to ask me again? ”
"Hah!" A strange laugh came from the side, from a madman, he looked up at the sky, then lowered his head and stepped on the ground, and then sighed twice: "It turns out that someone is guarding and stealing, and it seems that he has come to wronged my family." But you haven't done enough homework, so what kind of spider can be as big as my flower? Our Huahua is a standard Chinese divine spider, how can it be compared to those ordinary products? ”
I listened to the black line on my forehead, gritted my teeth and said, "Crazy, can you shut up?" "Return the Chinese Divine Spider, this cow is bragging ......
The madman gave me an aggrieved look, but he really shut up, and that little look kept looking at me. I didn't pay attention to him, Qu Xinhua's words had already revealed the general situation, she was instructed to make and hide drugs, but she did not poison, and after Chen Yong's death, she was instructed to blame the madman for this murder. Before that, she probably didn't know the man's motive for instructing her to make drugs, because she didn't know that the madman had a flower.
As for the captain's murder, it seems that she doesn't need to do anything more, because someone has already pointed the finger of all the evidence at Ah Man. The purpose of choosing to do this in the captain's room, which is so close to the madman's cabin, is to lure Aman, is it because he saw the scene of the fierce fight between Aman and Gao Cheng before, and thinks that Aman is more dangerous?
But there is a contradiction in this, it stands to reason that Qu Xinhua put the poison in the glass of the designated captain's room, and the information obtained from my painting, the captain should be the murderer of Chen Yong, which means that he is the other black hand arranged by that person on the ship, but why did he die?
I noticed that Takashiro had been observing the crowd with his eyes that had been silent, and he seemed to be looting, the third man!
That's right, in addition to Qu Xinhua, the captain, and the third hand on this ship, who is he? What kind of mask is hidden? There is no way to know, but it is certain that he is among these people.
I suddenly thought of something, according to Zhou Tong, this ship sailed to Lin Ya from outside, and there were usually no ships at that secret pier. Therefore, this group of crew members headed by the captain cannot be formed temporarily. So what is the status of Gao Cheng in relation to this ship and this group of people? Lead or hire?
recalled that when Gao Cheng and Ah Man were fighting fiercely on the bow deck before, Xie Rui gave an order, and the crew members surrounded it. This situation is not like a simple master-employment relationship, but more subordinate. So how did the man who wasn't on the ship buy off the captain and the third person? Or, is there a fourth or fifth person?
After thinking about it like this, I immediately felt that behind those seemingly frightened faces, there were elusive thoughts.
"Ah Rui, take Han to treat the injury first, and the rest of the people will go back to the departments, and prepare to set sail in half an hour."
After Xie Rui answered, he ran over to help Luo Jinghan up, and called someone to help lift him. After the others dispersed, I wanted the madman and Ah Man to go back to the cabin for the time being, but I saw a middle-aged man walk up to me and ask Gao Cheng: "Mr. Chu, the captain has an accident, and the command and dispatch can't be arranged, are you sure that you will set sail in half an hour?" It's very risky. ”
Gao Cheng glanced at him and asked, "Which part are you in charge of?" ”
The man replied: "My name is Zhao Dingwei, and I am the first officer, who presides over the daily work on the deck and assists the captain in supervising the safety and navigation of the ship." ”
"In that case, then you are responsible for arranging the scheduling first. I'll come to the operation room in person. ”
My heart moved, did he mean to sail the ship himself? He also gave the order to stop the ship before, why didn't it take long for him to change his mind, and it seemed that the situation was going to put the captain's murder aside for the time being.
After the first mate listened to the order and went down to make arrangements, Gao Cheng turned his eyes and swept over the madman and Aman, and said lightly and emotionlessly: "No matter what happens in the future, you'd better stay in the cabin, otherwise I will directly throw you off the ship." After saying that, he took my hand and strode away, and only after hurrying back to the cabin did he let go of me, walked to the desk, opened the drawer, and took out a metal disc.
I curiously stepped forward to see that there was an inscription on the periphery of it, but it was already very faint. Questioning: "Is this what you call a nautical compass?" He nodded, "It's time for it to play." ”
"The death ...... Chen Yong and the captain"
He quickly turned around and pulled me again, saying as he went, "I'll tell you more about it when we set sail." ”
When we walked into the operation room, we saw that there were already two crew members in the process of commissioning, and the first mate was also in the queue. Seeing that we immediately greeted us and walked over to tell us about the specifics, he also had something in his hand that resembled an electronic instrument, which superficially resembled a compass. It's just that Gao Cheng is more retro in his pocket.
This is another unknown side of Takahiro that I saw, after the first mate finished speaking, he began to arrange it in an orderly manner, and walked to the console and started to run the buttons without hesitation, and the movements were so skillful that the two crew members were dumbfounded.
The engine sounded, and the ship set sail slowly, the speed changed from slow to fast, and finally to a constant speed. At this time, Gao Cheng instructed the first mate and the chief engineer to check on the situation of other departments, and finally only the two of us were left in the operation room. He looked sideways, "Is there anything you want to ask?" I shook my head, "There's nothing more to ask, I've figured it all out." ”
"Oh?" He raised an eyebrow and dropped a sentence: "Tell me about it." He turned his head and stared at the spot.
I pondered and sorted it out before I spoke: "When Chen Yong died suddenly, you never suspected a madman, because a madman had no motive to kill at all. But all the evidence is leaning on him, and at this time, you will list Qu Xinhua as the object of suspicion. Or, you never really trusted her completely, since Luo Jinghan could know that she secretly let Qiu Yuebai go, how could you know nothing? So you still have her with you, with the meaning of Luo Jinghan, and also the meaning of taking it as a bait to hang out the white moon of the autumn moon. ”
I spoke a long paragraph in one breath, and I didn't see any change in his expression, so I took it as a tacit acquiescence to my judgment. So I paused, and then continued: "I thought that everything was in your hands, and you had already identified the real murderer as the captain even before I drew the picture. Because I may not have paid attention to Zhou Wei at that time because my attention was all on you, but your sensitivity will not ignore the surrounding environment, so you must have seen clearly that one of the people standing on Chen Yong's side at that time was Xie Rui and the other was the captain, which was further confirmed through my paintings. But unexpectedly, in this instant, the captain was killed, and the suspicion was transferred to Ah Man in the same way. ”
At this point, a third person unexpectedly appeared. Gao Cheng may not be shocked, but he gave him the idea of digging people out completely, so he ordered all the crew to stop the ship and arrange for Luo Jinghan to force out the secret of Qu Xinhua's painting to death. This step was carried out in an orderly manner, but when Qu Xinhua revealed what was going on behind the scenes, he immediately changed his mind. I thought about it deeply, and felt that Luo Jinghan had painted Qu Xin, he hadn't intercepted the communication at all, not because his ability had regressed, but because Qiu Yuebai knew them so well, how could he not be guarded?
Therefore, her contact with Qu Xinhua must be top secret and unknowable, and she is also secretly manipulating others on the ship. At this point, Takashiro thought of her motives, and if the goal was not to bring him down, then there was only one possibility: to stop the voyage.
And the captain, as the leader of the whole ship, was in control of the direction until then. Takajo seriously suspected that the captain was slowly shifting his direction before everyone was noticing, so he had to operate it himself, and he didn't plan to use the electronic compass that the captain used before to guide the way. Seeing his cold face at this moment, he knew that he had guessed that he was already ** and ten.
Since he can escape into my thinking space, I won't repeat it later, I believe he has already learned about it.
"Xiao Zhuzi, you are very good at logic and psychological skills now, but there is one thing that you have misanalyzed. What prompted me to set sail at once was not the fear that the hand would stretch out to stop it, but the tentacles were reaching you. It's easy for me to stop this," he said, turning his eyes at me, "just hold on to my weaknesses." ”
I'm that weakness.
But if anything happens to me during this voyage, it doesn't take any effort to cause Gao Cheng to take the path that Qiu Yuebai has always wanted him to take. So these two murders, the deviation of Qu Xin's painting, and the concealment of the third hand, the ultimate goal is me.
Qiu Yuebai or Ah Yue, after they merged, they never changed their determination to make Gao Cheng crazy into a demon. If I don't come, then Gao Cheng will have nothing to be contained, maybe ......<