Chapter 16: Honkai II: Me and Freedom (No. 16) 2
"But there are still a few things that I haven't figured out. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" the charter continued.
"Is it a modus operandi?" Ye Zifeng looked up at the charter.
"No, the modus operandi is very simple." The charter pointed to the exit of the theater in the distance, "where the prisoner was standing and fired with a pistol, and fired a total of five shots. The prisoners walked in a hurry, and we found five bullet casings at the door. β
The charter picked up a sealed bag from a simple table stacked out of a box, and it did contain five brass eggshells with a burning bottom, and the edge of the shell still had the slight burn marks.
"But I don't think the prisoner was killed with a pistol." Ye Zifeng frowned, "Or maybe it's not someone who killed with a pistol here." β
"Huh? Why? Li Mu said in surprise.
"Did the victim have a muzzle on him?" Ye Zifeng didn't answer, and then asked.
"Five wounds were detected, and warheads were found inside, which were confirmed to indeed match the five shells." The charter continued, "This is indeed a shooting homicide. β
"But look." Ye Zifeng took a step back and looked towards the ground. Five of the remaining six people followed Ye Zifeng's movements and took a step back.
"There was no blood on the ground." The two voices sounded almost at the same time, Ye Zifeng looked up, and the brown-haired girl was looking up at herself, tears flowed in her eyes, not like sadness, but she could see a lot of joy.
"We've noticed that, too." Li Mu nodded, "But is it possible that the prisoner has dealt with it?" β
"When was the body found?" Ye Zifeng asked.
"Six o'clock this morning." Li Mu replied.
"What about the predicted time of death?" Ye Zifeng then asked.
"It's 5:30 this morning." Li Mu looked at the information in his hand.
"In only thirty minutes, how did the prisoner clean up all the blood that should have spilled two square meters?" Ye Zifeng asked rhetorically, "Have you used luminol reagent to detect whether there are blood stains on the stage?" β
"It has been tested, but only the deceased has a fluorescent reaction under him, and nothing else has been detected." Li Mu looked at the report and said, "Oh, by the way, there is also over there, there is a slight blood stain reaction on the backrest of the fifth place in the third row of the audience stage C area. β
Ye Zifeng also opened the information in his hand and looked at it, it is true that there are only these two places where blood stains were detected in this theater, but it is still not possible to determine that the place of death of the deceased is in this theater.
"We need to inspect other floors, we must find the place of death." Ye Zifeng closed the report and put it on the table beside him.
"I'm afraid I can't do this, Mr. Ye." Ms. Xia Yue on the side walked over, holding a cold expression in her hands, "I'm really sorry, you didn't seem to hear what I said just now, so I'll repeat it." β
Xia Yue cleared her throat.
"Please don't interfere with the normal work of employees on other floors because of the investigation of the case, you should know that there are billions of funds flowing in the account on every penny and every side, and every employee is in control of the fate of the company. A company is like a delicate machine, and its employees are like tiny cogs, they may be insignificant, but they are important to the whole. β
"Thank you for your metaphor, Ms. Xia." Ye Zifeng smiled and nodded, but the expression on his face suddenly became cold in the next moment, "But I also want to tell you, Ms. Xia, this case is extraordinary, it is not the employees of your company who died, but the lieutenant colonel officer of the Defense Department, and he is also very important." Why did he come here? I'll have to figure out why you're dying here, and if you insist on stopping it, I have enough reason to think that the murderer is you. β
Everyone present gasped, but Xia Lu's expression remained unchanged. Xia Yue blushed, Ye Zifeng's words were not polite at all, as if he was giving himself an ultimatum, as if he had attributed all the incompetence of the Defense Department to himself. The more Xia Yue thought about it, the more angry she became, but her mind was in chaos, and she couldn't think of any words to refute Ye Zifeng. When you think about it, he seems to be right.
"Without further ado, Ms. Xia's silence means that she is acquiescing." Ye Zifeng nodded, then turned to look at Li Mu, "Give the order, send someone to inspect every corner of this building, it is very important to find the place of killing." β
"It's not just this building." This is Xia Lu opened her mouth to add, "As long as the body can be transported here within thirty minutes, it must be investigated." β
"Have you ever thought about such a situation?" "Is it possible that the deceased came here only with injuries and did not die, and that he came here on his own or with the help of someone else, but then he died of blood loss." β
"Possibly, as long as it's not until a conclusion is reached, anything is possible." Ye Zifeng nodded, "No matter what, let's scatter the hands out first and investigate the surroundings." β
"We're going to lock down the building immediately and no one will be allowed to enter." Xia Lu suggested.
"That's it." Li Mu smashed his left palm, then took out his mobile phone from his pocket and called for reinforcements from the Defense Department. Ye Zifeng walked to Ms. Xia Yue's side.
"I know you must be angry, but there is no way, if the case is not solved, it will not do you ******** group any good, right?" Ye Zifeng bypassed Xia Yue's side, and Xia Lu and Yamamoto Keiichi followed Ye Zifeng and left the theater together.
"Please explain it to me, preferably specifically." Ye Zifeng clasped his hands and looked at the two people on the other side of the table. The eyes of the surrounding customers were on this side, but they were probably attracted by Kei Yamamoto's clown costume.
After the three of them came out of the ******** building, they went to a nearby fast food restaurant, and in addition to talking about the case from afar, it was to solve the problem of breakfast.
The sandwich set in front of the three of them didn't move, Ye Zifeng was thinking about the idea of solving the case, while Xia Lu and Yamamoto Keiichi were thinking about how to answer Ye Zifeng's previous question.
"That, sir." Kei Yamamoto raised his hand and said, "This matter is not actually our own opinion, I said before I came, this matter is strange. β
"Strange? What's weird? Ye Zifeng frowned, "What else do you know that I don't know, right?" β
"Hmm." Xia Lu took it and continued to answer, "The 'outside' of Shanghai is in Sahir. Before Muhammad was killed, he received a letter of unknown origin, which had no stamps, no name and address of the sender, and it was quite rich without giving it. β
"Inside is a million dollars in a letter from Jiang Shang requesting an investigation, saying that we should conduct an investigation." Keiichi Yamamoto said, pulling out a photo from the capital of his clothes. The photo is black and white, and it shows a middle-aged foreign man in a suit, with a black face on his face that makes it impossible to see his real face, "The letter says that this person is called Yuri. Clinton, American, there is no other hint after that, we don't know anything about this man now. β
Ye Zifeng took the photo, and the name in it was Yuri. Clinton's man looked extremely cautious, frowning slightly as he privately surveyed the crowd, carrying a black briefcase in his hand. However, Ye Zifeng is not sure what color this briefcase is, and the color can only be roughly inferred from the depth of the object's color in the back white photo, and this briefcase may be purple.
"Can you tell where this picture was taken?" Ye Zifeng asked Xia Lu.
"We can't be sure, we can see too few references, only the floor tiles." Xia Lu shook her head, with a helpless look on her face, "Such floor tiles are very common in Shanghai, and we don't know where to start." β
"Maybe this person has something to do with this case." Keiichi Yamamoto said guessingly.
"But it's okay, it's more likely." Ye Zifeng pushed the photo back, "Although this man looks familiar, we are now discussing Sahir. The case of the murder of Muhammad. Where did you just go, is there any other reason for calling me here besides this unrelated incident? β
"Yes, Mr. Jiang Banxia hand-picked." Xia Lu would reply immediately.
βsaberοΌβ Ye Zifeng was stunned, "Why do you name me?" β
"I don't know."
"I really don't know?"
"I really don't know." Xia Lu replied with great certainty, "I can eat now, I haven't eaten since the morning." β
"Oh." Ye Zifeng nodded. Xia Lu grabbed the sandwich in front of her and sent it to her mouth, but Ye Zifeng didn't move, bowing his head towards something.
"Sir, you can eat too." Keiichi Yamamoto also picked up the sandwich and took a bite.
"I always felt that something was wrong. I didn't see any blood on the stage, the corpse was placed on top of the blood, and the murderer naturally wouldn't turn the corpse over to wipe it, even if there was only blood stains under the corpse, why did we get to the stage when it was clean and there was no trace at all? Ye Zifeng expressed the doubts in his heart.
"Oh, this one." Xia Lu swallowed the sandwich in her mouth, and then took a sip of Coke, "It's the theater cleaner, before we arrived, the theater cleaner cleaned up the blood stains on the stage." According to himself, he called the police first, and then cleaned up."
"Why, even if you don't have the common sense of criminal investigation, watching TV series should not be destroyed until the scene of the crime, right?" Ye Zifeng was a little angry, "We have a lot of clues, and the posture of the corpse has a lot to do with the way he died. These people are really not enough to succeed and more than to lose. β
"Forget it, don't be too angry, aren't we trying to find a way to remedy it." Xia Lu comforted and said, "Let's wait for the news first, and as soon as the results of the investigation come out, we will know the location of death." β
"There's really no other way." Ye Zifeng sighed and leaned on the backrest. At this time, Xia Lu came over.
"That ......" Xia Lu seemed a little speechless, her hands didn't know where to put them, and her eyes drifted away a little.
"What's wrong with you, you have something to tell me?" Ye Zifeng frowned slightly and looked at Xia Lu.
"Uh-huh." Xia Lu nodded a little embarrassedly, "That, I haven't eaten enough, can you give me your share?" β
"......" Ye Zifeng looked helplessly at Xia Lu, who was looking forward to writing a face full of faces, and couldn't help but smile helplessly, and pushed the plate in front of him forward, "You eat first, I'm not hungry yet." β
"Oh, thank you then." Xia Lu smiled and pulled the plate over, unwrapped the sandwich and ate it in a big gulp.
Ye Zifeng lowered his head again, sorting out the ideas of the case in his mind.
Ye Zifeng is such a person, even if this matter has nothing to do with him, but since he has promised to solve it, he will definitely not give up halfway, and go all out to make Ye Zifeng's style of doing things. Whether it's fighting a war or solving a crime.
I can't say much information I have obtained so far, but I will get a lot of gain by sorting it out.
Time starts at 5:30 a.m. the day. Arab "external" member and Lieutenant Colonel Sahir of the Arab Defense Ministry. The assassination of Muhammad began. Half an hour later, Sahir's body was found in the amphitheater on the twelfth floor of the ********, but the cleaners found the body and called the police and cleaned up the scene. Twenty minutes later, the Defense Department received an order to send an investigation team to the scene, and ten minutes later, the Liancheng Detective Agency received an order to assist and arrived at the scene, and at seven o'clock in the morning, Ye Zifeng was rushed to the scene. The scene consisted of several suspicious points, first, there was very little blood under the body of the deceased. The forensic doctor determined that the cause of Sahir's death was death due to excessive blood loss, and adults will only fall into a coma when they lose two liters of blood, and more will die, and there is no luminol reaction on the stage, which means that the stage is not the scene of Sahir's death, so where was Sahir killed? The second question is, why is Sahir's body in the twelve-story amphitheater of the ********, did Sahir come by himself, or did someone else summon Sahir over? The third suspicion is what happened to the luminol reaction on the backrest of No. 5 in the third row of the auditorium C area, this backrest was once soaked in blood, and DNA identification proved that a small part of the bloodstains were Sahir's, so whose blood was the rest? Fourth, no gun was found on Sahir's body, which was not mentioned in the report, and probably did not be expected by anyone. Fifth, Ye Zifeng suddenly remembered that when he came, Keiichi Yamamoto once told himself that there was an international circus performing in this theater, could there be any connection between the two?
Ye Zifeng looked at the table and folded his hands. Keiichi Yamamoto, who was on the other side, immediately made the same move, and he misunderstood the meaning of Ye Zifeng's action.
"That's right." Ye Zifeng looked up at Keiichi Yamamoto, but saw Keiichi Yamamoto clapping his palms and wanted to bow his head and salute. Ye Zifeng couldn't help but be stunned, "What are you doing?" β
"Oh, nothing." Keiichi Yamamoto shook his head.
"There's one thing I want to tell you."
"What's that, sir?"
"You said there was a circus performing here?" Ye Zifeng thought for a while, "Do you know the schedule of the show?" β
"What do you want to do with the schedule, you want to see a show?" Xia Lu asked, "There was a murder, the show should be interrupted, right?" β
"Is this ......" Kei Yamamoto rolled his eyes, "Sir, don't say it, the performance really hasn't been interrupted." β
"Not really." Xia Lu was surprised.
"Isn't it, I was wondering at the time." Keiichi Yamamoto pinched his chin, "The next performance is at 2:10 p.m. today, but the venue of the performance has been changed to the theater on the 18th floor of the ********, and the content of the performance has also been changed from the original animal taming show to magic. β
"Magic show?" Ye Zifeng lowered his head and thought about it for a while, and then the corners of his mouth showed a sly, "Okay, let's go to watch the magic show together in the afternoon." β
"Watching a magic show?" Xia Lu came to her senses and looked a little excited, "Okay, okay, I haven't seen a magic show for a long time." β
"If you like it, it's fine." Ye Zifeng smiled and nodded.
"But there's a problem, the Defense Department is in a hurry to solve the case, but we have to go to see a magic show." Keiichi Yamamoto looked a little worried, "This will be gossip." β
"No, no, no." Ye Zifeng waved his hand, and then pointed to the propaganda poster on the window, "Have you seen that?" β
"Huh?" Keiichi Yamamoto turned his head to look at the glass window behind him, where he could see the street was covered in a poster.
Announcement of the performance of the Apocalypse International Circus.
The gorgeous visual shock takes you into the fantasy magic country.
On one side is a man dressed in a black tuxedo and a black top hat, with a white-gloved hand lowering his hat to hide his face in the shadows, and in the other hand he holds a magic wand with a computerized crimson gem on the end of the wand that emits a little light. There are two lines of small print underneath.
Show Times:
The first session, ******** 12th floor amphitheater 4:00~6:00 a.m
The second session, ******** 12th floor amphitheater 8:00~10:00 a.m
"The second performance was canceled because of the murder case, which is why Ms. Xia asked us not to interfere with the normal work of other floors, and the cancellation of this performance has caused ******** Group a lot of losses." Ye Zifeng analyzed, "Looking at the performance time again, the first show was from 4 am to 6 am, and the deceased was killed during this period. The report contained a ticket stub for a magic show in one of the deceased's belongings, and he entered the venue, but it was not certain that the deceased had died in the venue. β
"Is there any information about the seats of the deceased?" Xia Lu opened her mouth at this time, obviously entering serious mode.
"No, this is not included in the report, but if the deceased had died in the theater, he would have been in the fifth place in the third row of Section C." Ye Zifeng then lowered his voice and said, "Sahil is not the only 'external' member of the Defense Department who came to Shanghai, if this is an assassination operation against the 'outside', then the next move will definitely be the next magic show." β
Such speculation is somehow untenable. First of all, why do you have to choose to kill people in the mode show? Xia Lu immediately retorted.
(To be continued)