Chapter 13 Hiding leaves in the forest

I have to say that Uncle Chen's data room is really big, according to my visual inspection, not counting the balcony, it covers an area of at least 60 square meters, which is the area of some small apartments. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In addition, there are many bookshelves lined up with various materials and books in the reference room, and I roughly counted them, and there are as many as 16 of them, all neatly divided into two rows. In the middle of the two rows of bookshelves, there is a large writing desk, and Chen Bo's body was previously dropped on the ceiling chandelier not far from the writing desk. Similarly, the key to the reference room, Mu Zihan also found it from the drawer of this desk.

While taking pictures and storing evidence, I took the opportunity to search in this small library-like reference room to see if I could find the content that Chen Bo wanted to talk about before in these complicated books, after all, that was the main purpose of our visit.

Unfortunately, I walked around the reference room several times, almost scanning the books and materials in those conspicuous places, but I didn't find that the name of one of them was related to "butterfly".

Even, the more I looked at it, the more strange I felt in my heart, because most of the books neatly arranged on these shelves could be seen and bought in ordinary libraries or bookstores, and many of them were brand new and had not even opened the covers. Obviously, Uncle Chen hadn't touched them since he bought them. In that case, why was he so nervous about this data room that no one was allowed to approach it?

"Siyuan? You haven't done it yet? Just when I was still puzzled and ready to look for it again, Mu Zihan came to me and asked.

"Oh, that's it." I was stunned for a moment and then replied, "However, I just took advantage of the photo to check most of the books on these shelves and found out that this is the case." I told Mu Zihan about my findings and thoughts, but I found that he laughed instead, and I couldn't help but feel angry. At this time, is he still gloating? I'm kind enough to help him!

"Siyuan, I'm sorry, I'm not laughing at you, I'm just having fun. Because your discovery actually proves one point, that is, Uncle Chen must have hidden very important information in this data room. Probably sensing that I was a little angry, Mu Zihan quickly restrained his smile and explained: "Siyuan, if you are given a leaf, where do you think it is the least likely to be discovered?" ”

"You mean, hiding leaves in the forest?" I seem to understand what Mu Zihan means.

"That's right, the best way to hide a leaf is to hide it in a dense wood." As he spoke, Mu Zihan said solemnly: "And what we need to do is actually like finding that special leaf in this forest." However, the main thing for us at the moment is to find out the cunning murderer first. Otherwise, when the police arrive, the first thing they will do is to cordon off the scene, and then, in a short time, we will not have a chance to look inside. ”

"Why don't you look for it now?" I asked strangely, after all, looking at the heavier and heavier rain outside, it seemed that the police would not be able to arrive for a while. Otherwise, the hour that Wang Xinyan said before would have already exceeded it now.

"It's not that we don't look for it, but if we start looking for it now, it will inevitably destroy this scene. Uncle Chen has always been very good to me, I don't want to affect the progress of the case because of anything, and even if the murderer ends up at large, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life. Mu Zihan said: "After all, if you really want to find it, the first thing is to take down all the books on these shelves and confirm them one by one." ”

"Yes, then do you know who the murderer is?" I nodded in agreement, it is true that Uncle Chen is really good to us, although I have only met with him, but from this only one contact, it can be seen that he almost treats Mu Zihan as his own son. It's no wonder that Mu Zihan was in a mess just now, he actually regarded Uncle Chen as a close relative.

"I can't be completely sure who the murderer is, but I have basically solved this so-called secret room murder method." As he spoke, he took out a few scraps of paper that had been rolled into a slender shape from his open bag, as well as a small piece of broken glass, and squared them on the palm of his hand to show me: "Actually, this is just a little trick to cover your ears and steal the bell." ”

"That's good, I don't think it's too early, the police and ambulances should be almost there, why don't we go down and wait for them first." I proposed. In my opinion, after this second inspection, especially this time Mu Zihan still kept calm, it is estimated that the evidence and clues that originally existed at the scene of this crime should have almost all been mastered by Mu Zihan, after all, he even found such small scraps of paper and glass shards.

"Well, I do need to confirm two things with Wei Hong and Aunt Chen. As long as these two things are confirmed, then the murderer is basically about to come out. Mu Zihan said and closed the door of the reference room again, and began to walk down the stairs, preparing to return to the reception room on the second floor of the villa.

"What two things?" I caught up a few steps, walked beside him, and asked curiously.

"You'll find out in a moment." Mu Zihan smiled mysteriously.

However, things in the world always fail to meet people's wishes, and people are often not as good as heaven, just when we opened the door of the reception room, we found that the reception room should have been full of people, but it was empty at the moment, only Wang Xinyan was alone, still waiting for us on the sofa.

"What's going on?" Seeing this scene, Mu Zihan was obviously taken aback, and asked Wang Xinyan in a reproachful tone: "Didn't you ask you to leave everyone in the reception room and wait for us?" What about people? ”

"What time is it? Detective Muta, even if you don't sleep, others have to rest. And, when it happens again, everyone is exhausted, and what reason do you want me to stop them from going back to their rooms to sleep? Wang Xinyan's aggrieved rebuttal.

Actually, she was right, it was already more than 12 o'clock at midnight, and the police were late because of the heavy rain, so in this case, if someone proposed to go to sleep and rest, Wang Xinyan really had no reason to stop it

Of course, Mu Zihan quickly understood Wang Xinyan's distress, and after sighing depressedly, his mood stabilized, and he looked at Wang Xinyan, who was still with tears, and said, "Look at you, crying like a cat, why don't you go and tidy it up." By the way, who was the first to bring up the idea of going to rest? ”

After all, Wang Xinyan is a young girl, and she was so teased by her favorite lover, she directly lowered her head shyly, and sneered: "How can there be." ”

It seems that because of Mu Zihan's words, the grievances in her heart disappeared in an instant, and then replied in a low voice, "It was Brother Liu who saw that Sister Huijuan couldn't stand it anymore, so he proposed to go to rest", and then hurriedly ran out of the reception room, presumably in a hurry to tidy up her makeup.

Mu Zihan looked at Wang Xinyan's back as she ran away in a hurry, smiled for a while, and then thought and muttered, "Did Liu Chiming propose it?" Strange, since they all went back to their rooms to rest, why didn't we see Aunt Chen coming up when we were in the data room on the fourth floor just now? After all, the room is across the street from the library. ”

However, at this moment, a scream resounded through this villa again, and Mu Zihan and I both heard the owner of the voice from this scream, which was Wang Xinyan, who had just run out not long ago. So, we who were afraid that Wang Xinyan would encounter an accident couldn't take care of anything else, and rushed out of the reception room at once.

(To be continued)