No.14 Disciple: Death Puzzle

Chapter 68 New Discoveries

The next afternoon, Zhuo Qingshan and An Youlin sat in the conference room of the Criminal Investigation Brigade and continued to watch the video projected.

Zhuo Qingshan's thoughts were still immersed in the banquet the night before, and An Youlin finally solved the puzzle of the murderer's set in another way.After the banquet ended, Zhuo Qingshan asked An Youlin and Luo Tong about the banquet.

Luo Tong told Zhuo Qingshan that the guests at the banquet were not only related to An Youlin, they would also gather with each other to hold a dinner, and put forward puzzles at the banquet for everyone to answer.Guests come from all over the country. After receiving the invitation, if they can arrive at the venue as scheduled, they will reply to the invitation.

"We once held a dinner party in the old mansion in the south of the Yangtze River, and everyone's costumes will change accordingly."

"That old gentleman who solved the puzzle An Youlin raised, who is he?"

"Famous painting appraiser." Luo Tong added, "He has many identities, but the one related to solving the puzzle just now is probably this."

After returning home, Zhuo Qingshan lay in bed for a long time unable to fall asleep. She didn't want to fall asleep, and she didn't want to wake up to find that the dinner party was just a dream of her own.She squinted her eyes and recalled An Youlin dancing tango with her, An Youlin's sleepy eyes, coordinated dance steps and the inconspicuous scar on her face...

Zhuo Qingshan fell asleep unknowingly.In the morning, the first thing she did after waking up was to check the pale yellow evening dress.Although Zhuo Qingshan later found out that An Youlin ordered the evening dress for her just to solve the case, she was still a little bit secretly pleased.After all, this light yellow evening dress is enough to prove that the experience at the banquet last night was real.

In the morning, An Youlin told everyone the answers to the puzzles at the scene of the Tangning mansion case.It was just an emergency meeting, and not all members of the Criminal Investigation Brigade were present.Although You Tao was not on the list, Zhuo Qingshan saw Guo Junfeng who hadn't seen him for a long time beside Luo Gang.

An Youlin told everyone that the murderer arranged the scene of the Downing mansion case as the scene in the famous painting "Ophelia in the Flowers" created by the French painter Medilon Redon, and showed everyone the photos taken at the dinner party.

Looking at Zhuo Qingshan's outfit in the photo, everyone couldn't help looking at Zhuo Qingshan.Zhuo Qingshan looked at herself in the photo, feeling a little embarrassed.

Immediately afterwards, An Youlin showed the high-resolution photo of "Ophelia in the Flower" to everyone, "This is a chalk drawing, and the main character in the painting is this Ophelia!"

Everyone was staring at this unfamiliar chalk drawing. The blue, green, red and yellow bouquet was quite obvious, but the Ophelia on the right side of the picture was too imagery. We could only vaguely see a woman wearing a flower crown, Wearing pale yellow clothes.

"This painting was created by the painter Redon based on the inspiration from Shakespeare's play "Hamlet." An Youlin began to shake under the projection screen again, "Ophelia is the hero Hamlet's lover. He abandoned Ophelia when he encountered many obstacles in the process of revenge. When Ophelia learned of her father's death, under the double blow of losing her lover and relatives, she went mad and then fell into the water and drowned to death."

The projection screen switched to the bathroom of the deceased Yang Ping's home, and An Youlin continued: "At first, I analyzed that the murderer dragged the unconscious deceased to the bathtub purely because of the stimulation of the water in the bathtub. But according to the murderer's setting for the deceased, I I believe the murderer has already included the important meaning of 'water' in it!"

"Is it just based on this chalk drawing?" Someone asked, "Does the 'water' have other meanings this time?"

"No, it's the same as the clues found in the bathroom. The murderer experienced a negative incident related to 'water' in his early years, but this time we can be more sure that this negative incident is indeed related to 'drowning' !" An Youlin's eyes sank, and his tone was firm, "The analysis of the murderer's abnormal behavior cannot fully apply the clues we found."

"Mr. An, do you mean that the murderer's past has nothing to do with the 'Ophelia' in this painting?" Song Chunming fell into confusion.

"No, the murderer's arrangement of the deceased Yang Ping as a scene in the painting does not mean that she has nothing to do with 'Ophelia'. In other words, the characteristics of 'Ophelia' are likely to be related to the murderer's experience. Coincidentally, the drowned person in the negative event has similarities with 'Ophelia'."

Similarities?Everyone started whispering, and they seemed to have different opinions on the similarities.

Director Zhao Hongjun said to An Youlin: "Mr. An, please tell everyone, what do you think is the similarity between this drowned person and 'Ophelia'?"

"The murderer placed the deceased Yang Ping as a scene in "Ophelia in the Flowers" because the murderer had encountered negative events related to water, and someone drowned to death. What is the identity of this person to the murderer? , we don’t know. However, if the drowned person overlaps with ‘Ophelia’, the drowned person may have lost some emotion and died.”

An Youlin's words aroused everyone's discussion again. "'Ophelia' was stimulated to go mad and drown after losing her lover and relatives. This person who had a profound influence on the murderer probably had a similar experience."

Speaking of this, An Youlin shook his head helplessly, sighed and said: "But there is still the most critical line that is too vague! According to the analysis of the case of the male corpse in Huangyin Mountain, the murderer has the possibility of 'rebirth'." Meaning. So what about taking out the heart and killing Yang Ping? What does it have to do with "rebirth"? What does putting the dead Yang Ping as "Ophelia" have to do with the murderer's experience?"

Zhuo Qingshan shifted her gaze to Guo Junfeng, thinking that he would ask a very constructive question, but Guo Junfeng frowned and fell into deep thought... This was the main process of the emergency meeting in the morning. At this time, Zhuo Qingshan still couldn't Focusing entirely on watching the video, she secretly looked sideways at An Youlin, who stared tirelessly at the video on the projection screen.

"After watching these videos for a long time, I really think that Yang Ping is a violent woman..."

Zhuo Qingshan said this with a guilty conscience, she didn't want the sensitive An Youlin to notice that she was watching him secretly.But since An Youlin heard Zhuo Qingshan say at the banquet last night that she already knew about the Viking Plaza case, An Youlin didn't mention anything about the Viking Plaza case.

Zhuo Qingshan had too many doubts in her mind, and countless "whys" slipped through her mind, but she couldn't bear to hurt An Youlin. In the eyes of a bystander like her, that kind of hurt was too painful. It's hard to accept.

Just as Zhuo Qingshan was distracted by Yang Ping's furious curses, Xu Qingqing suddenly rushed in: "New discoveries! You Tao has new discoveries!"

An Youlin hastily stopped the playback of the video: "What did You Tao go to investigate? What did you find?"

"I don't know yet, it seems to be related to Hongyu Media!" Xu Qingqing explained, "You Tao has already reported to Director Zhao and Team Luo! Tell you two to go to the office..."

A few minutes later, Zhuo Qingshan finally knew a new clue that You Tao had discovered.After An Youlin and Zhuo Qingshan went to Hongyu Media last time, according to the clues provided by An Youlin, You Tao sent people to secretly investigate several people who were related to the deceased Yang Ping's work, especially Yang Ping's Assistant Guo Tong.

And this clue is related to Guo Tong. Although Guo Tong did not show too many abnormal behaviors after Yang Ping's death, You Tao did not give up this clue.When Guo Tong was dealing with the mess left by Yang Ping's death, he also had some contacts with Yang Ping's neighbor Zhou Xiaodong, but such contacts were not frequent.

At the same time, the anti-pornography brigade got a lead on hidden prostitution that had been followed for a long time.According to the informant, there is a very secret high-end club in Xijing City, which provides pornographic services.

It is said that the ladies engaged in pornographic services there are all high-quality, regardless of their figure or appearance, they are all outstanding.

This thread was inexplicably cut off when it was about to be closed some time ago, but it has become active again recently.So the anti-pornography brigade decided to get rid of this lascivious den and close the net as soon as possible.

You Tao has acquaintances in the anti-pornography brigade. When he heard that this clue was related to Guo Tong, who he was monitoring, he asked to cooperate with the anti-pornography brigade.After obtaining the consent of the department leaders of both parties, You Tao pretended to be a prostitute, led by an informant, and took advantage of Guo Tong's appearance in the clubhouse to take out the obscene den in one fell swoop.

Hearing what You Tao said, Zhuo Qingshan couldn't help admiring You Tao.During You Tao's police career, he worked as an undercover drug dealer, and after joining the Criminal Investigation Brigade, he also pretended to be a gambler, and this time he even pretended to be a prostitute.

"Oh, I really didn't expect that when this Guo Tong was caught, he cried like a tearful person." You Tao looked tired, "I kept saying, 'This is my first time. .'..."

You Tao paused, and continued: "At first I thought Guo Tong was also involved in prostitution, but after investigating several members of prostitution gangs, I found out that this matter is not as simple as imagined!"

(End of this chapter)