"All the evidence now points to Professor Wang's suicide. But I don't believe it!" Li Xiumei's words were sonorous and powerful, and she spoke majesticly, quite with the momentum of a woman who did not let her eyebrows go.

Xiang Yong used his brain and quickly reasoned based on the available information.

First of all, Wang Jianlong's person should not be simple, so after being disguised as a suicide (in fact, he must have killed him, otherwise the main god would not have issued a task for himself and others to investigate the real cause of Wang Jianlong's death), the official still persevered in the investigation, and sent an official like "Senior Inspector" Li Xiumei.

"Senior Inspector" sounds very high, and in this era that is relatively close to the period of the industrial revolution on the earth, women can sit in such a high position, and their identity and ability are not simple, and they are even several times better than men in the same position.

It shows that the official attaches great importance to Wang Jianlong's death.

So, why does the government pay so much attention to it? Because Wang Jianlong is a high-level technical talent, has important technology, or is participating in the research of a major topic?

After that, there is no way to deduce, the conditions are insufficient.

Xiang Yong carefully inspected the living room, and although he knew that he would not find anything, he still behaved very meticulously, and almost took out his pipe and magnifying glass.

Li Xiumei said a few words from time to time.

"You probably know all about it, but let me introduce you to it. Professor Wang Jianlong, 47 years old, divorced and childless, teaches at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Imperial National Defense University. When he was young, he loved shooting, but now he is fishing, and in recent years he has started collecting antiques. ”

Xiang Yong glanced at it, and there were indeed a lot of ancient objects in the living room, but I didn't know if it was true or not.

"His recent research project is confidential, and I can't tell you about it. It's a big project anyway, but I haven't found any connection between his research project and his death. ”

"According to the information we have received, Professor Wang has been in contact with some strange people in the past two months, which is why our director invited you here. Because he believes that the people of the rivers and lakes often have some strange methods, which are difficult to detect with our modern technology. Although I don't think so, since the director has given instructions, he is happy. Li Xiumei complained.

Xiang Yong nodded as he listened. After the inspection, he walked up the revolving escalator to the second floor, first looked at everything hastily, and then came to Wang Jianlong's study under Li Xiumei's instructions.

The carved wooden door was hidden, and Li Xiumei stepped forward to push the door open and hung the oil lamp on the wall, "Professor Wang died on that chair." He shoved the musket into his mouth and fired a shot. ”

"According to our investigation, the gun was bought by himself the year before last, and there were no other people's fingerprints on it. From the point of view of shooting, it should have been the trigger that he pulled himself. ”

As she spoke, she kept looking at Xiang Yong, trying to get something out of Xiang Yong's expression.

Xiang Yong silently thought, does this era understand fingerprinting and ballistics?

Chen Beixuan interjected: "Since it was he who pulled the trigger, it was suicide, what else do you want to investigate?"

"Professor Wang Jianlong will not commit suicide. Li Xiumei said categorically.

"Why?"

A trace of impatience flashed on Li Xiumei's face, but she still spoke: "From Professor Wang's diary, we haven't found any misanthropic tendencies in him. He hadn't talked to anyone about wanting to kill himself. He is working on a research that, according to collaborating colleagues, is very enthusiastic about the research and is eager to achieve results. He divorced many years ago, has several lovers who have a good relationship, and has been in a very stable relationship recently without any problems. He lives a good life and is not at risk of bankruptcy. His relatives and friends have not died or become seriously ill recently. How could such a person commit suicide?"

Xiang Yong's gaze fell on the chair behind the desk.

The back of the chair was covered with gold-painted cushions, which now had a large pool of black blood on them.

He walked over.

The drawer of the desk was open, and on the desk was a planetar, as well as a simple galaxy orbiter. It can be seen that it is believed that there are 12 planets in this star system, and the 7th is the one in the world, which is not far from the star.

On the desk were spread out manuscripts, with sketches drawn on them, densely scribbled handwriting, and a few traces of dried blood.

Xiang Yong looked down at the wooden chair.

There were also a few spots of blood on the seat of the chair, and a puddle on the solid wood floor.

Judging by the shape, it should have been formed by a bullet splattering through the skull, blood and brain.

Wang Jianlong should have been sitting in a chair and shooting at himself.

Behind the chair was a window, but Wang Jianlong's sitting posture was not very upright at that time. Xiang Yong looked behind him, and unsurprisingly saw a bullet hole in the wall next to the windowpane.

The bullet inside has been removed.

"Is there anything special about the warhead?" he asked.

"It's nothing special, it's an ordinary lead bullet," Li Xiumei shook her head, "The laboratory department has already done the test, and our investigation shows that he bought the bullet himself, and the time of purchase was also two years ago." ”

Xiang Yong pondered for a while, although Li Xiumei was proud and looked down on the "Jianghu people" in her words, she seemed to know everything about the case. gives people the feeling that she really hopes that Xiang Yong and his party can help her solve the case.

"Do you want to check the corpse?" Seeing that Xiang Yong was silent for a long time, Li Xiumei asked.

"Wait a minute," Xiang Yong shook his head, "I think you've already sent the most experienced people to check it." ”

"That's right," Li Xiumei said frankly, "the most experienced forensic doctor has examined Professor Wang's body, and he did not have any signs of coercion before his death, no other wounds except gunshot wounds, no poisoning, no drug abuse." ”

Xiang Yong took a closer look at the room again.

Chen has a strong feeling of an engineering man, simple, messy, with a lot of steel knick-knacks, mixed with some antiques, but the lack of pulse and warmth of things, giving people a very cold tone.

Directly across from the desk is a map of the world.

Xiang Yong first turned the planetary and took a general look at the continental distribution of the planet.

For some reason, this map always feels familiar.

The world has 4 continents, and the land area of the entire planet is about half. If the planet were about the same size as the Earth, then the land area would be much larger than the Earth.

The planetars are relatively rudimentary and do not have too many place names. Xiang Yong walked around the desk and walked to the world map, staring intently.

"Can you Jianghu people also understand modern maps?" Li Xiumei said sarcastically.

Xiang Yong did not ridicule each other, but said humbly: "I don't understand it." Can you show me where we are now?"

Li Xiumei's fair-skinned and delicate finger landed on a point on the map.

"Here, the capital of the Dashun Empire, Nanjing City. ”

The familiar words hammered on Xiang Yong's heart, bombarding more memories.