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Chapter 38 File 2: Parallel Murder Room ([-])
"Because in Tang Ke's heart, my daughter is more important than everything else. Take this power outage as an example. He arrived 10 minutes after the power outage. But it took you two hours, although you don't have a car to spend A little more time, but I'm sure if you really cared about her, you wouldn't keep her waiting two more hours."

yes!I thought to myself that it took me only half an hour to take a taxi from Yongan District, where I live, to Nanhu District, but it took me two hours.Why did I go before, why did I go?My mind went blank and I couldn't think of anything.

"My business is big enough and I have enough money, so I don't need a son-in-law who can make money for me, but a son-in-law who can take care of my daughter wholeheartedly." Xue Jianqiao said sincerely.

"I know that you also like my daughter in your heart, but for her happiness, please leave her!" Xue Jianqiao sincerely asked.

A surge of hot blood gushed out of my heart, violently rushing left and right in my veins, but finally calmed down weakly.

Xue Jianqiao is right, there is no room for a third party in the world of two people, since Xue Rou has already made a choice, why should I be entangled by their side?
"Don't worry!" I raised my glass and drank it down. The taste of the wine was bitter and astringent.

[-]. Bizarre Murder

On the way back, there were lightning flashes in the clouds from time to time, but I couldn't seem to see any light, and it was pitch black everywhere.I stumbled on the road, thinking hard why it took me two hours, why did I use it for two hours? !
I don't know how I got home. I only know that lying in bed is still as cold as if buried in a snowdrift, but my heart is as hot as a fire. Couldn't sleep well all night.

"Get up!" I finally fell asleep, but someone tore off my quilt again. I opened my eyes, but it turned out to be Tang Ke.

"You're here!" I agreed and closed my eyes again. My head was so dizzy that I didn't even have the strength to open my eyes.

"What time is it still sleeping?" Tang Ke grabbed me up, "I called so many times, why didn't you answer?"

"Is there?" I picked up the phone and checked, the signal was indeed restored, and there were several missed calls on it.

"Sorry, I'm so sleepy." I said shaking my head.

"Did you come back very late last night?" Tang Ke seemed to ask with deep meaning.

"Well," I said lightly, "then that netizen came to me again, saying that she was afraid of the dark and asked me to accompany her, but it ended up tossing all night. It's really embarrassing."

"Didn't you stay with Xue Rou last night?" Tang Ke's face changed, looking at his expression, it seemed that he was not happy if he didn't accompany his girlfriend.Fool, fortunately your brother is me, if it were anyone else, you would not be able to wear ten heads of your cuckold.

"Why should I accompany her? She's not a three-year-old." I said indifferently.

Tang Ke stared at me, as if he was too angry to speak.

"Do you know what Xue Rou and I said?"

"Forget it!" I couldn't forget to stop me, "Let's keep your love words for yourself, I'm afraid of being nasty." My control ability is actually not that good, and I'm afraid that I will go crazy immediately after he says something .

"Forget it!" Tang Ke said bitterly, "It's meaningless to tell you, a wolf-hearted person. Let's get down to business. I'm here to ask you for help."

"What's the business?" I asked strangely. I was always the one who made trouble for Tang Ke. I didn't expect Tang Ke to ask me for help one day.

"After I came out of Xue Rou's house last night, I rushed to the Tianyu Meteorological Center, because there was a murder case there! An extremely strange murder case." Tang Ke said with a frown.

"Stranger than that case of wax corpse resurrection?" I asked casually.

"How do you know?" Tang Ke looked at me in amazement and said, "It seems that I never told you about that case?"

"Didn't you say it?" I was also confused, I remembered that Tang Ke told me about the wax corpse case one night, but I couldn't remember which night.

"Is there?" Tang Ke also scratched his head, "Let's take it for granted, but compared with the case last night, the resurrection of the wax corpse can only be regarded as unremarkable."

"Is there such a case?" Curiosity made me let go of my depression for a while.

"There are too many unexplainable things in this case," Tang Ke said with a sigh, "so I have to use your supernatural experience as a reference for me."

"Okay!" I agreed immediately, anyway, I was so annoyed, it would be nice if I could do something to distract myself.

"Let's go!" I jumped up from the bed as soon as I bounced, but I was still dizzy and almost fell down.

"Be careful!" Tang Ke held me up, "Hey!" He pointed at my chest strangely and said, "Why is there blood on your clothes?"

"Is there?" I looked down at the clothes on my body, and there was indeed a line of blood.Strange, when I changed my clothes last night, it was clean, when did it get stained?
"This is a splatter-type blood stain, and the angle is from bottom to top. Didn't you go to kill people last night?" Tang Ke immediately began to conduct professional analysis.

"Are you stupid?" I said angrily, "Are you going to investigate my case or yours? Let's go!"

"Let me take you to the scene of the murder to have a look first!" Tang Ke took me into the police car and drove straight out of the city.

The Tianyu Meteorological Center is located on a hill in the eastern suburbs. Because of the heavy snowfall last night, the mountain roads were covered with thick snow. Although Tang Ke was driving very carefully, the car was still wobbly. Almost slipped into a ditch every time.

"Be careful! A tree fell on the turning road ahead." I reminded him loudly.

Tang Ke walked around the tree carefully, and then looked at me with increasingly strange eyes: "How do you know that a tree fell over there?"

"I don't know." Now I also feel strange, I have never walked that part of the road, how do I know there is a tree?
"Intuition maybe? You know I always have some weird feelings."

"I hope your strange intuition can help me, maybe this case can only be controlled by strange." Tang Ke finally had a smile on his face.

The weather center is built on the highest point of the hill, so we can see it when we walk above the mountainside.After a night of heavy snow dressing up, its appearance is quite different from the memory.

I found myself having a problem again. I had never seen this meteorological center before, so how could it be "very different from what I remembered"?

Tianyu Meteorological Center is a national-level meteorological monitoring center, so there are sentries at the gate and security guards in front of the building.When I entered the door, I subconsciously glanced at the security guard. The security guard's eyeballs moved, and he turned around to look at me.I'm really a little stupid, the security guard is not a wooden man, of course the eyeballs can move!

"The victim's name is Song Zhichang, and he is the chief expert of the Tianyu Meteorological Center. The murder happened at about ten o'clock last night, which is about the same time as the city's blackout." Tang Ke introduced to me as he walked, "The weather at that time There are more than a dozen people on duty in the center working."

"The murder scene is in the main control room inside, and this is the only way to the main control room." I knew that Tang Ke told me all the key information of the murder case, so I firmly remembered it.

The entrance of the main control room has been cordoned off by the police, and two police officers are guarding to prevent anyone from destroying the scene.

Tang Ke asked me to put on gloves and shoe covers like him before entering the scene.As soon as I entered the door, I saw a trace of a human figure drawn on the floor in the middle, which must be the place where the corpse was originally placed.

There was a "swipe" in my mind and some images suddenly flashed across. I saw a dead body lying on the floor. The left hand of the corpse was clenched to the chest, and the index finger of the right hand was stretched out as if trying to point at something, and then a bunch of blood flowers Splashing towards me...

"Uh!" My head was dizzy, and my body couldn't help shaking a few times.

Tang Ke quickly supported me and said, "What's the matter? I don't think you're quite right, why don't I take you to the hospital to have a look?"

"It's all right!" I shook my head and said, "Tell me what's weird about this case."

"The first strange reason is the cause of death." Tang Ke handed me a photo, which was a close-up of the corpse's chest.I saw that the chest of the corpse had been cut open in the middle, and some bruised and purple things could be seen half hidden inside.

"The deceased's chest was dissected once, and the cause of death was severe damage to the heart muscle." Tang Ke explained to me, "It's as if someone grabbed the heart and scratched it alive."

"You mean, the murderer cut open his chest and then scratched his heart?" I said in surprise, if this is the case, the murderer is not only cruel, but also perverted.

"It would be better if that's the case," Tang Ke said, shaking his head. "The problem is just the opposite. After the forensic examination, it is believed that the wound on the chest was caused after death, and the heart had already rotted before that."

"How is this possible?" I blurted out, "If the chest is not cut open, how can the murderer get the heart? Could it be that his hands can penetrate walls?"

"This is the unexplainable place!" Tang Ke said with a wry smile, "Actually, scratching is just a metaphor, and in fact, no fingerprints or traces of hands can be found on the heart. We don't know how to do it." In order to achieve the effect of completely rupturing the heart muscle. The forensic doctors in the bureau are afraid to take charge of this case. The city is reporting to the Ministry of Public Security and applying for the dispatch of national experts. But in my opinion, this matter is either an expert or an expert. can be explained."

"It's really strange!" I gasped and said, "Since the murderer can strangle the victim's heart through the chest, why would he take so much effort to cut open the victim's chest? ?"

"Your idea is perverted, but it's possible." Tang Ke nodded.

"No!" I suddenly found a question, "Why is there no blood on the ground?" If the murderer killed someone here and dissected the corpse, there should be bloodstains all over the ground.

"Judging from the way of dissection, the murderer is at least at the level of a surgeon," Tang Ke explained, "so he must know how to use something like a blood-sucking blanket to suck the blood from the corpse."

"A surgeon came here with dissection tools and a blood-sucking blanket to kill and dissect the corpse. Wouldn't no one see it? Didn't you just say that there were more than a dozen people working at night?"

"This is the second strange place." Tang Ke said solemnly, "There is only one road from the outside to the control room, and there are staff working outside, but no one saw how the murderer got in. of."

"Could there be other passages here?" I looked around, because the walls of the control room were filled with large display screens, so there were no windows at all.

"Where's the air-conditioning duct?" I said, looking at the exhaust window overhead, the way killers usually get in and out in movies.

"There are no traces of people crawling." Tang Ke shook his head and said, "We can basically be sure that the murderer came in through the main entrance, because the entire control room and the passage outside have signs of being deliberately cleaned. The murderer was very careful. Just like a dedicated cleaner, we can't even find a single footprint in such a large space."

"Do you still need to guess? It must have been done by the ghost!" I said without thinking, "Murder, autopsy, and cleaning inside and out, what a battle, unless everyone outside is blind , otherwise how could it be invisible?"

"We are also suspicious," Tang Ke nodded and said, "so last night we brought all the night shift personnel back to the police station for questioning. But they all insisted that they did not see any personnel coming in and out. However, we After checking the duty records that night, we still found the problem.”

"The night shift personnel are constantly monitoring the changes in the satellite cloud image, and they have to make an analysis record in the log every 15 minutes, but none of them made the record from 22:30 to 23:30 that night, and None of them could tell what they did for that hour."

"That's even more true!" I said firmly, "It must be a dozen or more of them working together to kill, and then they worked together to clean up the scene."

"What about the motive?" Tang Ke asked back, "There must be a motive for killing people. Whether it is vendetta killing, love killing, or interest disputes, there is always a reason for so many people to participate in collective murder. After investigation, the deceased died in the meteorological center. Very popular, generally respected by subordinates, and the staff of the weather center have only recently received a collective salary increase. Why would they conspire to murder the dead?"

"There must be a reason, but you haven't investigated it yet." I insisted, because this was the only explanation.

"When the technicians checked the main computer of the center, they found that all the research materials that Song Zhichang had done in the recent period had disappeared," Tang Ke continued, "and the program log had also been modified. The technicians judged that this was a clever hacker. for."

"This may be the key to the murder case!" I said excitedly, "As long as the hard disk is still there, the deleted items can be recovered with the restore program."

"We restored the deleted files," Tang Ke admitted, "but the other party probably expected us to do this, so he encrypted the files before deleting them. This is an encryption method that we have never seen before." , our technicians have been busy since last night and haven't untied it yet."

"Do you think decryption is so simple, just explain it?" I sneered and said, "The current mainstream encryption methods are irreversible, and it is impossible to decrypt in theory. You can only use the exhaustive method, just like a blind cat and a mouse." Just try your luck, if the other party uses a key with more than 1024 bits, then you may not be able to solve it until the next century."

"Well," Tang Ke nodded in agreement, "So this is one of the reasons why I came to you. Isn't encryption and decryption just your strong point as a computer expert? I hope you can help us unlock it."

"I'll give it a try, but I don't guarantee it will work." I cautiously agreed. Apart from technology, decryption also requires a little bit of luck.

"Aside from the computer data, are there other things lost?" I asked again, the more I know about the murderer's intentions, the better it will be for deciphering.

"And this!" Tang Ke handed me another photo, which was a close-up of the deceased's right hand.

"It seems that there used to be a ring here?" I saw an obvious mark on the root of the index finger of the deceased's right hand.

"Yes," Tang Ke nodded and said, "Other colleagues also remembered that the deceased wore a white metal ring before his death. Well, when did you wear a ring?" Tang Ke pointed to my hand and said.

Only then did I realize that I was wearing a shiny white metal ring on my right index finger.My heart skipped a beat, what the hell, when did I wear this ring, why didn't I know at all?
"Maybe it was when I met netizens yesterday..." I scratched my head, and now I have a little doubt that I really went to meet netizens last night.

"Can you show me?" Tang Ke held out his hand to me, and I had no choice but to take off the ring and give it to him.

"This pattern is very special," Tang Ke observed carefully while holding the ring, "Does it have any meaning?"

"I don't know, I have to study it carefully." I took the ring back.I really need to study it carefully. I can be [-]% sure that this ring is not mine. Could it be that a "spiritual event" has occurred on my body?
"Okay, now let's go back to the bureau." Tang Ke said, "We'll finish those encrypted files first."

[-]. The two hours that disappeared
From afternoon to night, I stayed in the computer room of the police station. Although we have not unlocked the key, we have found out the program used to encrypt the file.This is an encryption program that few people have used, because the company that developed it closed down not long after it came out, and now those developers don't know where to go.

(End of this chapter)