Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 63 Zhou Tong Detective Series III: Paper Burner (22)
Twelve zodiac locks are said to be invented by Archimedes in ancient Greece. The unlocking code of this lock will change according to the month of the twelve zodiac constellations. To open this lock, you must first establish the innermost ring. Constellation, and then based on this constellation, accurately calculate the positions of the other eleven zodiac constellations. It can be said that the complexity of this lock is extremely rare.Zhou Tong's family was a family of locksmiths from his grandfather until his father became a policeman. Although he did not intend to continue his ancestral business, he is very talented in making and opening various locks. I understand, I can learn it as soon as I learn it, but I know it well.However, apart from some simple records, there is no detailed information about the "Twelve Zodiac Locks". Zhou Tong originally thought that this kind of lock was just something fabricated by troublemakers, and never thought that there would be such a lock in the world.

"What's wrong with you, why are you in a daze?" Ai Chen didn't understand why Zhou Tong had such a huge reaction, she stepped forward and pushed the door hard.

"Did you really see the murderer go out through this door?"

"Yes, let's quickly open this door!"

"You're lying!" Zhou Tong suddenly grabbed Ai Chen's wrist and shouted loudly.

Looking at Zhou Tong's sharp eyes, Ai Chen knew that there was no way to lie to the person in front of her, so she collapsed all of a sudden.

"Please, open this door, otherwise...otherwise we won't be able to get out alive!"

"Who really killed Li Ying?!" Zhou Tong was furious, grabbing Ai Chen's wrist, without any intention of pity.

Ai Chen's wrist was almost broken, and she knelt down on the ground in pain, without saying a word.

At this moment, there were a few "pops", and all the lights in the hall were suddenly turned on.

"You killed her." From one side of the hall, a person slowly came out, it was Chen Xiang's grandmother, the leader of Wuzhai, "If you weren't meddling in your own business, how could she have died?"

"Why did you kill Li Ying?" Seeing Grandma coming out, Zhou Tong's eyes almost burst into flames. He threw off Ai Chen and ran straight for her.

"I advise you to calm down." Grandma looked at Zhou Tong calmly, and then patted her palms lightly.

At this time, a person was pushed out from the side door. This person was tied up and a cloth was stuffed in his mouth.Zhou Tong took a closer look, and it turned out to be Yan Yongjie.But what surprised him even more was that behind Yan Yongjie, there was a fat middle-aged man holding a gun against her back.He had also met this middle-aged man before. He was the director of the Gucheng Public Security Bureau——Pan Peng.

Chapter 23 Big Bang

Yan Yongjie looked at Zhou Tong, but couldn't speak, she struggled and ran to his side.

However, before she could take two steps, there was a "bang" gunshot, and Yan Yongjie was hit on the left leg, and she fell to the ground in pain, with red blood splashing all over the ground.

"I advise you not to act recklessly, otherwise it will be difficult to guarantee where the next shot will be shot." Pan Peng said coldly with a gun in his hand.

Zhou Tong clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth, blood even oozes from the corner of his mouth, he tried his best to suppress his anger and calm himself down.He knew very well that in the face of this group of insane people, if he was a little careless, Yan Yongjie might be killed by them at any time.His mind was running fast, and everything that happened was like a movie flashing before his eyes. He had to find out the truth and solve all the mysteries.

But at this time, Ai Chen, who was left behind by Zhou Tong, crawled to Grandma's feet tremblingly, hugged Grandma's legs, and begged bitterly: "'Candy', give it to me, please, give it to me!"

"What value are you to us? A 'candy' is very expensive, if you want it, you can buy it with money." Grandma sneered and kicked Ai Chen away.

Ai Chen curled up in pain, the drug addiction on her body had begun to attack gradually, her face was flushed, and the corners of her mouth were constantly drooling, she even started to tear off her clothes vigorously, and stroked her skin with both hands.

On the side, Pan Peng's eyes were wretched, watching Ai Chen's almost crazy behavior with great interest.

"What exactly do you want?" Zhou Tong took a deep breath and finally asked.

"This is the right attitude." Grandma cast her eyes on Zhou Tong, "We have spent so much effort just to get one thing, I believe you understand it all."

"There are still many things that I don't know." Zhou Tong heard Yan Yongjie's groans in his ears, and his heart seemed tormented, but he still tried his best to keep calm.

"Aren't you the great detective they talk about? Haven't figured it out yet?" Pan Peng couldn't help laughing contemptuously.

Zhou Tong's expression remained the same, and he was not affected by Director Pan's words, but continued to say lightly: "Everything is under your control now, and I will definitely give you what you want, but I also want to give it to you." To prove something to you."

Pan Peng snorted coldly, but Grandma said impatiently, "Tell me what you have!"

"It was Shi Da who killed Chen Xiang, right?"

Granny nodded.

Zhou Tong frowned slightly, then stared at Grandma, and asked slowly word by word: "It was you who killed Shi Da and Jin Dan, right?"

Grandma didn't even move, like a statue.

"Xuan Jingyi, you were the one who killed them, right?!" Zhou Tong suddenly took a step like an erupting beast, raised his right hand and pointed at grandma, and shouted loudly.

The whole hall became silent under this burst of shouting, and even Ai Chen stopped moving.

"Papa" Grandma applauded rhythmically, "Okay, okay, it really lives up to its reputation."

After finishing speaking, she actually stretched out her hand, grabbed her gray hair, and then pulled it hard, a human skin mask was peeled off, revealing a delicate and beautiful face.

Yan Yongjie, who was injured and fell to the ground, also opened her eyes wide, looking at Xuan Jingyi, she was obviously shocked by this drastic change.

Xuan Jingyi ignored Yan Yongjie who fell on the ground, but walked slowly to Zhou Tong's side, brushed his face lightly with her fingers, then leaned into his arms, and asked, "How do you know?"

"Before I answer your question, can you help her bandage the wound first." Zhou Tong didn't move, letting Xuan Jingyi lean in her arms, just said lightly.

Xuan Jingyi took two steps back slowly, then looked at Director Pan and winked.

Although Pan Peng was very reluctant, he seemed to be more afraid of the young woman in front of him. In desperation, he had to tear off his clothes and bandage the gunshot wound on Yan Yongjie's leg to temporarily slow down the bleeding.

"Now I can say it, but I'm very curious." Xuan Jingyi turned her head, looked at Zhou Tong and said.

Zhou Tong still had no expression on his face, as if he was starting to tell a long story, raised his head, stared at Xuan Jingyi, and said calmly: "You are not Xuan Jingyi, Chen Xiang is not Chen Xiang, and Ai Chen is not Ai Chen The three of you are not the three girls from Daqingzhai at all!"

Ai Chen, who was lying on the ground, heard this, and slowly stood up from the ground, looked at Xuan Jingyi, then turned her gaze to Zhou Tong, and said, "It seems that I don't need to continue acting."

"If I'm not wrong, the real Xuan Jingyi, Chen Xiang and Ai Chen died long ago in an accidental fire. Jin Dan did not lie, the girl who died in his arms was the real Ai Chen, and he His own sister should be the real Xuan Jingyi, who also died in the fire. But when you appeared as Xuan Jingyi, you never thought that Jin Dan would be her brother. It was exposed, so I planned to kill Jin Dan. But it is a pity that you revealed a huge flaw at that time, that is, Shi Da has always used bows and arrows, he will never carry a gun on his body, and it is impossible to send a gun to him You defend yourself. And Shi Da’s sudden spontaneous combustion, according to the results of Yan Yongjie’s autopsy, his body was coated with a strange chemical substance, once emotional, body temperature rises, it will trigger spontaneous combustion, and there is a chance to put this There will be no one other than you, 'Xuan Jingyi', who painted things on him. Shi Da found out that 'Chen Xiang' was not his childhood partner, so he killed him. At the same time, he wanted to prevent you from using me to find' The Book of God's Gu', put the 'Mindless Gu' on me, and kept pretending to be crazy, and even planned to send me to prison to prevent me from recovering my memory, but he couldn't even count 'Xuan Jingyi' And 'Ai Chen' are also fake, that's why you can take advantage of it." Zhou Tong stopped here, glanced at "Xuan Jingyi" and "Ai Chen", and then continued: "As for Wang However, he is also one of the survivors in Daqing Village, and although I was not there when he was killed, it was probably because of what he discovered that you killed him."

"If it wasn't for Shi Da's trouble, 'Chen Xiang''s bitter plan would have succeeded long ago, so why bother us to go to such trouble." "Ai Chen" snorted coldly.

Zhou Tong sighed, and asked, "Is it worth doing this for a 'Book of Divine Gu'?"

"Ai Chen"'s face was suddenly full of sadness, and said quietly: "You have also tried the taste of 'epilepsy', to tell you the truth, we are also controlled by others..."

"You talk too much!" Pan Peng rudely interrupted "Ai Chen".

"Ai Chen" didn't dare to speak anymore, avoided Zhou Tong's gaze, and lowered his head deeply.

"But...but why did you kill Li Ying?" Almost every word Zhou Tong said came out of his throat.

Pan Peng said coldly: "Killing her is just to let you understand one thing, that is, don't doubt our determination, I know you are very resourceful, but this time you'd better do as we said, otherwise we will die Kill Yan Yongjie without mercy in front of you!"

"Xuan Jingyi" stepped forward and urged impatiently, "Although this shot was shot in the leg, if you don't move quickly, she will become disabled even if she doesn't die."

Zhou Tong knew that what they said was definitely not a threat, but he also knew very well that no matter whether they could open it or not, they would have no life to leave, what should they do?While he kept thinking about it, he walked up to the twelve zodiac locks.Zhou Tong stretched out his hand and gently stroked the twelve rings on the door.He suddenly remembered that in a notebook about the "Twelve Zodiac Locks", it was recorded that if the correct unlocking code was reversed, the lock would automatically explode and be destroyed.

"Old ancestor, I hope you didn't lie to me." Zhou Tong prayed silently in her heart, and decided to take a gamble.

"Do you have a pen and paper?" Zhou Tong asked.

"Xuan Jingyi" called a few subordinates and gave some orders. After a while, a pen and paper were brought.

Zhou Tong took the pen and paper and sat cross-legged on the ground without saying a word, like a crazy mathematician, constantly drawing and calculating on the paper, "Xuan Jingyi", "Ai Chen" and Pan Peng surrounded him by his side, but couldn't understand what he was doing.In order to prevent Zhou Tong from playing tricks, "Xuan Jingyi" arranged for more than a dozen people from Wuzhai to guard the surrounding areas.

10 minutes...Two 10 minutes...Three 10 minutes...Zhou Tong's forehead was sweating more and more, his face was also flushed, the pen in his hand kept moving rapidly, and suddenly he heard a "pop" , The pen actually broke.And Zhou Tong let out a long breath.

"The key." Zhou Tong stretched out his hand, looked at "Xuan Jingyi" and said.

"Xuan Jingyi" took out a necklace from her pocket. There was a pendant in the shape of a half moon on the necklace, and there were still some dirt marks on the pendant.

Zhou Tong reached out to take the pendant, then stood up and walked towards the "Twelve Zodiac Locks".

At this time, Yan Yongjie tried her best to "hum". Although her mouth was blocked, her eyes clearly told Zhou Tong that even if she died, don't open that door for them.

Zhou Tong turned his head, glanced at Yan Yongjie, showed his signature smile, and then pushed the half-moon pendant into the groove in the center of the "Twelve Zodiac Locks".

With a "click", the "twelve zodiac locks" were activated, and the first ring of the inner circle protruded.

Zhou Tong started to turn the first ring carefully, and the others watched his every move nervously.

At the first [-]-degree scale, Zhou Tong aligned the Cancer pattern on the ring, and then pressed the ring down hard. With a "snap", the second ring from the inside to the outside followed. popped out.

Zhou Tong didn't hesitate anymore, and then aligned the [-]-degree scale on the second ring with the Gemini pattern.In this way, one by one, he rotated each ring to align various constellation patterns at different angles.

When the No.12 ring popped out, everyone's breathing almost stopped.

Zhou Tong's speed of turning the ring also slowed down significantly. He matched the Aquarius pattern on the center scale, and then pushed the ring in hard.

With the sound of "click", Zhou Tong stepped back a few steps following the sound, and the twelve rings began to rotate.

"Xuan Jingyi", "Ai Chen" and Pan Peng all had smug smiles on their faces.

The rotation of the twelve rings changed from slow to fast, as if they turned into fast-rotating gears, and the originally black half-moon pendant even gave off a faint red light.

"Why isn't the door open? Don't play tricks!" "Xuan Jingyi" stared at Zhou Tong, and Pan Peng also pointed his gun at him.

Zhou Tong smiled all over his face, and said without fear: "Don't worry, the door will open as soon as the ring stops!"

"Ai Chen" looked at Zhou Tong's expression, and there was always a feeling of uneasiness in her heart. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something, and yelled: "There is a fraud!"

"It's late!" Zhou Tong was already prepared, and rushed towards Yan Yongjie.At the same time, the door equipped with the "Twelve Zodiac Locks" made a muffled "boom", followed by a flash of fire, and the entire hall seemed to be shaking.

The door exploded!

The huge impact turned the shards of the iron gate into murderous weapons. People who had no time to dodge were hit by the shards one after another, blood and flesh flew everywhere, brains overflowed, and screams could be heard endlessly.

Zhou Tong hugged Yan Yongjie tightly desperately, pressing her tightly under his body.

However, this is just the beginning. I am afraid that even Zhou Tong himself did not expect that besides the "Book of God's Gu" behind the iron gate, there are also a large amount of ammunition and weapons, and the explosion of the iron gate has become a "Guide". Torch".The powerful shock wave brought the huge red dragon gushing out from behind the iron gate, and the stones on the top of the head fell one after another, and the sky collapsed for a while.This huge military base kept shaking and vibrating, and as the explosion escalated further, hot flames and violent shocks spread from the ground to the ground, as if a volcanic eruption shot up into the sky, and the smoke and dust even covered the entire valley .Even a dozen kilometers away, a violent explosion can be heard.

After the explosion, only ruins remained...

At the same time, at the Physical Evidence Appraisal Center of the Ministry of Public Security, Sun Yaoming, the leader of the special criminal investigation team, held a cup of coffee and looked solemnly at the constantly flashing numbers on the computer screen.

"Group Leader Sun, through computer analysis and restoration, we have recovered some washed-out recordings from the tapes."

"Release immediately!"

The analyst quickly entered commands on the keyboard, the graphics on the computer began to change, a waveform pattern of an audio track began to dance, and a somewhat noisy dialogue came out from the stereo.

"Have you found anyone from Suo Wang's family?"

"I found it... but... there is only one young man who is studying at a university... I don't know if he has the ability..."

"Crackling..." (noise)
"We've already arranged it for you. Use your identity as Ai Chen to find out about his situation..."

……

When Sun Yaoming heard this, he immediately "thumped" in his heart.

"Play that sentence again!"

"Okay." The analyst immediately recalled the audio file.

"We've already arranged it for you. Use your identity as Ai Chen to find out about his situation..."

Ai Chen?Sun Yaoming immediately remembered that Zhou Tong was looking for this person when he went to Phoenix this time.If this is the case, it means that Zhou Tong was completely designed by someone this time!An ominous premonition immediately emerged in his heart.

At this time, suddenly a team member ran in in a panic.

(End of this chapter)