As soon as Chang Qingshan finished speaking, he casually pointed to the cardboard box in the room.

I just glanced there, and I instantly dismissed the idea of finding out the information about Kogoro Mori's bank card inside.

The room was almost completely filled with cardboard boxes, each of which was tightly stuffed with hundreds of papers and manuscripts.

If you really want to find it, you don't know if you will find it in the next year, and the most important thing is that you may not be able to find it from it.

"What, the two police officers might as well be busy here, the information I want has been sorted out, so I'll leave first!"

"Don't go, leave the contact information of the editor-in-chief of your magazine first!" I think that the editor-in-chief of the magazine should back up the information of such popular authors in advance for the convenience of his work in the future.

This time, Chang Qingshan did not refuse, and happily gave the contact information of the editor-in-chief to Liu Hao.

In fact, even if he doesn't give it, we can find it through the public security system, it's just a matter of how much time it takes.

Liu Hao took the opportunity to dial the phone, and Chang Qingshan also held the documents he needed and slowly left the room.

I always felt that something was wrong with this guy Chang Qingshan, anyway, I didn't believe that he would come here at night to sort out the information.

However, the rest of the matter is none of my business now, and the only thing to do now is to find the author named Kogoro Mori as soon as possible, so that we can proceed to the next step of the investigation.

While Liu Hao was on the phone, I was idle, so I checked a few cardboard boxes around me.

The old corrugated cardboard box used to hold the documents has already accumulated a thick layer of ash on the top and around the box, and it looks like these things have been arranged here for some years.

Soon there was the sound of Liu Hao arguing on the side, which was mixed with abuse in various dialects and some words I didn't understand.

It seems that this phone call did not go well, after all, it was not happy to be woken up at night to investigate the matter.

Taking advantage of this gap, I found that in fact, each carton is actually placed in a certain order.

Some are used to store magazine samples, some are used to store rejected manuscripts, and as for the carton where the author's bank card information is stored, I can't find anything.

Didn't the people at the magazine put together a cardboard box for storing the author's information?

At this moment, Liu Hao's side seemed to be in control of the situation, and his tone of voice slowed down a lot.

Through different methods such as coercion and inducement, he finally persuaded the editor-in-chief on the other end of the phone to check the author's information on his behalf.

I was idle, so I simply took out the cardboard box where the sample issues were put out, and flipped through the past sample issues of the "White Night" magazine one after another, of course, the main scope was still focused on the suspense section.

Originally, I wanted to find out if there would be any articles written by Kogoro Mori in the previous issues of the magazine, and I wanted to find more clues from them, but after searching for a whole circle, I found that I didn't get anything.

Previously, the suspense section would serialize a story almost every two issues, and for the sake of the magazine's freshness, the same author would not be used. It seems that as Chang Qingshan said, the author named Maori Kogoro should be a newcomer who has only recently emerged.

According to the number, the magazines with Memories of Murder and Phantom of the Train are the forty-fourth and forty-fifth issues, respectively.

It's just that after looking around a whole circle, I found that it was only up to the forty-third issue at most, and I didn't find the forty-fourth and forty-fifth issues at all.

What's going on? Could it be that because the magazine was about to close down, the sample issues of these two issues were not included in the cardboard box?

But I can't figure it out, every issue of the magazine in the past has been included in it, and the most recently published ones should be better collected, so there's no reason to miss those two issues alone.

I went through all the magazines again, and suddenly a sense of fear swept over my body.

Suddenly, I found that in the forty-fourth and forty-fifth issues of the magazine, I could find exactly the same articles in all the previous issues except Memories of Murder and The Phantom of the Train.

No matter how bad the editorial department is, it is impossible to repeat the previously published article in a newly published magazine, which is undoubtedly a dead act.

A terrifying possibility suddenly rose from my mind, and I hurriedly took out the forty-third issue of the magazine "White Nights", and finally, in the last page of the magazine, I found this passage:

I would like to inform all readers of the past four years for their support and love. Due to sales sake, the magazine will stop publishing and printing from today, and if necessary, the authors of the articles that have not yet been accepted can take them back and continue to use them.

Finally, I wish you all success in your work and good health.

All the staff of the editorial department of "White Night" respectfully

It took me ten minutes to digest a short paragraph. Cold sweat continued to flow down the corners of my forehead, and all the hairs on my body stood upside down.

In other words, the White Nights magazine was only published until forty-three issues at most, and then it was discontinued.

Issues 44 and 45 are not officially published at all! And those two issues of the magazine were obviously printed for the sake of the two articles Memories of Murder and The Phantom of the Train.

Today, I finally understand where that feeling of dissonance came from!

The White Nights Magazine had only been published until its forty-third issue, and according to the time calculation, the magazine should have closed down and cleaned up these things two months ago. Therefore, whether it is the sign at the entrance of the building or the cardboard box in the room, there is such a thick layer of dust.

When I entered the elevator hall before, I noticed that the level of wear and tear of the elevator buttons was slightly different. The level of wear and tear on the third and fifth floors is much greater than that on the twelfth and fourteenth floors.

It is also a partitioned floor, and it is not difficult to conclude from the degree of wear and tear of the buttons that the number of people entering and exiting the fourth floor is much higher than that of the thirteenth floor.

This also somewhat confirms that the White Nights Magazine did close down a long time ago, and in recent times almost no one has been in and out of the thirteenth floor where this magazine is located!

"! Goofy, we seem to be mistaken! Liu Hao finished the phone call, and suddenly slapped his thigh and said loudly: "The editor-in-chief has checked the backup information, and found that there is no submission record of this author named Maori Kogoro, and the White Night Magazine will be closed in the forty-third issue, and the two issues of the magazine in your hand are deliberately forged!"

What's more, there is no staff named Chang Qingshan in this magazine at all! ”

Suddenly, like a bolt of lightning passed through my brain, all the previous thoughts disappeared, leaving only Chang Qingshan's paralyzed cheeks constantly floating in my mind.

Chang Qingshan, Maori Kogoro, Memories of Murder, Phantom of the Train。。。。。 The more I chanted these terms, the more I felt that something was wrong, and Liu Hao on the side even thought that I was stunned, and was still struggling with whether to call the hospital for an ambulance.

Chang Qingshan, Chang Qingshan, Qingshan Gangchang,! Fucked by that bastard!

I suddenly reacted to the fact that the name Chang Aoyama was obviously derived from the slight change of the four characters Aoyama Gosho, who is the author of Japanese anime, and Maori Kogoro is an important character in it.

There can't be such a coincidence in the world, the man with facial paralysis who claimed to be Chang Qingshan just now didn't come here to sort out the documents at all, he deliberately stayed here and waited to tease me and Liu Hao.

"Your uncle, that man just now was Maori Kogoro, no surprise, those two murder articles were written by him!"

Although Liu Hao didn't understand what I meant, he also felt that something was wrong with Chang Qingshan, so he took out his gun and ran out with us.

It was dark in the corridor, because there was no elevator on this floor, and we didn't know where Chang Qingshan was heading.

We ran to the twelfth floor and quickly rushed to the elevator room, just as the elevator had just come to the first floor.

At night, there were not many people in the office building, and if it was unexpected, it should be Chang Qingshan who took the last elevator down. In other words, he is still in this office building.

"! If there is a security guard at the door of the office building or something, maybe I can block him directly. ”