Chapter 7 Maps in the Mezzanine

Maybe that person is right, the No. 6 archive seems to have hidden too much from me, the information that Liu Ran brought back before, and everything that has nothing to do with Yu Yuan, Lao Zhong didn't show me.

It is conceivable that the importance of that information has determined that Lao Zhong will do everything to help Liu Ran, and for this reason, he will share the information sent by other members with him.

It's all history, they don't want to talk about it, and I don't want to know, so I don't care about it.

At this time, I had retreated to the base of the wall, and in the face of the few people who were slowly approaching, I gritted my teeth and rushed towards them with the file in my hand.

The men reached out in front of me and grabbed straight at the file in my arms, his strength was so great that the muscles on his wrists were bulging.

The rest of the people around me also came around, and I knew that I didn't have the skills of Lao Zhong, so I had to find a way to outwit him.

Seeing that things were about to be snatched away, I lunged at the man and pressed him with all my strength.

This sudden suddenness made him unguarded, and he immediately leaned back to the past, and I took advantage of the situation to roll over and sit up.

Although the movements were clumsy, I was able to finally get rid of the guy's entanglement, but just as I was about to run forward, I was suddenly grabbed by a leg from behind.

Then, several people leaned over together, and the contents of their hands were torn open in our snatching, and a thick piece of paper fell out of it.

When I found the piece of paper, I let it go, picked it up, turned around and ran forward.

In the alley, I ran desperately, the footsteps around me slowly disappeared, and when I looked back again, I saw Liu Ran appear at one end of the alley.

"Hey! The way you run away hasn't changed! After Liu Ran said a playful word to me, he walked quickly behind me.

I shrugged my shoulders and expressed my frustration, because my body was not suitable for this kind of physically demanding work.

They seemed to have just gotten their hands on the file, and they left in a hurry, not even paying much attention to the piece of paper in my hand.

The blank diary is of little use to us, but it is this thing hidden in the mezzanine that we want to find.

This also confirms once again that the providers of this file must be two people.

Uncovered from the piece of paper, folded inside, was a thin drawing, if I guessed correctly, this was the message that the W member had brought back to us - about the origin of Yoo Kyung-chun's death.

It was a cloth silk handkerchief, but for some reason, many places have been damaged, so we have to carefully fold it up again, and ask the repairer to help.

Back at the Forbidden City, Lao Zhong took his things to the restorer and asked them for the time of storage. When they repaired it, they replied that it had been stored for more than 200 years, and that it should have been stored in a dark corner all year round, depending on the degree of detachment on the silk handkerchief.

The broken silk threads on the silk handkerchief are all due to the decay caused by the surrounding environment, and the icons connected by the bright and dark lines have been very blurred, but through the remaining traces, it is not difficult to repair the original appearance.

When the restorer asked curiously about the origin of this thing, the old bell only perfunctorily said that it had been sent from out of town a few days ago, and that there might be some ancient ruins recorded in it, so he asked him to hurry up as much as possible.

The restoration work is going very well and will take about a week to complete. Taking advantage of this time, Lao Zhong went out to buy some things needed for outdoor sports.

But soon after, we received another message, it was the criminal police team looking for us, and when Lao Zhong replied, it was only then that we learned that a person had died a few days ago.

The identity of this person was related to our work, so I was sent to identify the body.

When I saw this man again, I was slightly surprised, he had sent the file to me a few days ago, but now he was lying in the cold morgue.

"Have you seen him?" The policeman in charge of collecting clues saw that I was staring at the corpse and did not speak, so he opened his mouth to ask.

"Yes, a few days ago, he sent me a file. That was the only time I saw him! ”

Maybe as a person who transmits important documents, his identity is more special, at least I have never seen anyone who sends documents to Lao Zhong.

Maybe Lao Zhong knew more about this person than I did, but the result of asking Lao Zhong was the same as mine, and even Lao Zhong had never seen this person, which is why he wanted me to identify the body.

It was originally an unnamed corpse, his identity was blank, and later the police found out from the surveillance that the deceased had been to me a few days earlier.

In the face of all this, this seems to be a coincidence, but I always have a bad premonition, as if all this is being secretly arranged by someone.

The man died of poisoning, forensically identified with a large amount of venom in his body, and died in the early hours of the morning a day earlier.

The body was found in a hotel, and the police initially suspected that it might be a problem with the hotel, but after investigation, the hotel did not provide meals to guests.

The public facilities of this hotel are very incomplete, and there is no surveillance, so the police cannot find the records of the crime scene.

In the end, I had to settle for the next best thing, starting from the nearby surveillance, so the case dragged on for so long, until they found out that the deceased had been to the archives of the Forbidden City, and then asked me to identify the body.

But the result was a little disappointing for them.

The records of the deceased, no matter what the search for, seemed to be blank, without any identification, as if it was a person who appeared out of nowhere, and the purpose was only to meet me and send the file over.

I frowned and asked the policeman again, "Did you find anything else on the body?" ”

Hearing my question, the policeman looked at me suspiciously, "There is indeed something else on the corpse, it is a face!" ”

A few minutes later, we saw a face in the evidence room, a face outlined in red, blue, white, and three-color paint.

"Have you found the source of this face?" I asked them again.

"From the fingerprints on it, we only know that he belongs to the deceased, and there are no other clues."

I looked away, my mind slowly calmed down, and I took the dead man in another direction.

The murderer's purpose may have been to intercept that file, or it was just a step late, and the killer found him after he had already given me something.

Putting everything aside, I could profile this case; The murderer thought that the thing was still in the victim's hand, so he committed the murder and searched for him, but the result can be imagined.

This serves the same purpose as the people we met not so long ago, and even raises the suspicion that they may be together.

In retrospect, the man was indeed in a hurry at the time, and he didn't seem to have much patience to wait for the file.

Thinking of these, I immediately thought of Liu Ran and them.

Related to this file, there are two forces, and I have no evidence to say that the perpetrators are not Liu Ran? Because that night, if she didn't get the file, she would even kill me.

Thinking of this, I felt a chill run in my back.

But this is just speculation after all, there is no substantial evidence, and I can't say much.

When I left, I also left my mobile phone number and said that if there is anything I need, you can call me.

Back in the Forbidden City, Lao Zhong asked me about the deceased, and I briefly said a few words to him, and his guess was similar to mine.

A day later, what happened here was quickly reported to the Inspectorate, including the map that had fallen from the file.

In desperation, Lao Zhong had no choice but to write a report on these incidents, but concealed Liu Ran's affairs, only saying that the map was found from the archives, and the identity of the deceased did not admit that it must be related to the person in charge of the archives.

Soon, an order was given from above to find out what was hidden in a map, and a person was sent to assist us in dealing with clues in the map, and to give clear instructions to find out what was hidden in the map.

This person's name is Chen Haidong, he was born in the armed police, he is five big and three thick, and when we met, he was wearing a blue-green camouflage uniform, and he didn't look very old.

With his joining, this time the matter of finding clues through the map is even more certain.

In fact, the addition of Chen Haidong also made me a little worried, worried that he would let Liu Ran's identity and Lao Zhong's connection with her be discovered.

However, Lao Zhong comforted me and reassured me that Liu Ran had been able to bring so much important information to Archives No. 6 over the years, and it was not as ordinary as I seemed on the surface.

And Chen Haidong, he has very little contact with us, and even like the deceased not long ago, he and we are only meeting for the first time.

After Lao Zhong's comfort, I was relieved a lot, and I didn't worry about anything, after everyone discussed, Lao Zhong sought help from insiders, and naturally invited Liu Ran and Dongfang to join.

Chen Haidong didn't have any opinion, just nodded, and agreed.

When we were ready, we spread out the map, followed the coordinates marked on it, and took a plane to Dali in Yunnan.

When I got off the plane, I was still wondering who would have drawn the map and when it would be done.

Thinking about it, it is most likely Liu Qingchun, but another question followed, if Liu Qingchun had drawn a map to find all the clues a long time ago, why not give it to a few more people, at least leave a copy for his family or Liu Ran, wouldn't it be prepared. It doesn't take Liu Ran to pay so much now to discover this map!

I don't think Liu Qingchun must be a dull person, but at that time, his decision was just to leave all the clues to a "dying man", so his information has only been leaked to the present and discovered by his descendants.

However, he seemed to have his own reasons for doing so, maybe he didn't want Liu Ran to find this place and discover those things that their previous generation had found.

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