Chapter 477: Detective Chinatown 2
Chapter 477: Detective Chinatown 2 (3)
Dr. Li's death was caused by a "ghost"? !
According to Chris, a week before his death, Dr. Li suddenly found them with a nervous look and said that he was haunted by an invisible ghost.
"An invisible ghost?"
“We can’t see it.”
Chris cooperated and said, "He said there was something swaying before our eyes, but we couldn't see it."
"Is there something wrong with Dr. Li's eyes, such as floaters, visual hallucinations, or retinopathy?"
"He went to the hospital and was fine, but of course we didn't dare to take it lightly and increased the security around him.
After all, there are precedents of other scientists. Dr. Li is our important partner, and his research is very important to us, so we naturally have to protect him well. "
"So when he got into trouble, you just broke in? Didn't you find anything strange at the crime scene?"
Chris shook his head.
"Since you want to protect Dr. Li, he is very important to you, then we are in the same camp. After all, we also want to find the murderer of Dr. Li."
Qin Feng emphasized first, and then continued to ask questions.
"What about the books and materials in Dr. Li's basement and the things in his safe? Is there any useful information in them? And what do those red numbers on the wall mean?"
Chris hesitated for a moment, then said:
"We found Dr. Li's research manuscripts in the basement of his home. They contained his scientific research results and there was nothing special about them.
Of course, there are some special places that we cannot find, after all, we cannot understand the calculation data.
As for the numbers on the wall, we don’t know what they mean.”
“Then there must be someone in your company who can understand data, right?”
Chris nodded, and the camera switched. The next second, a middle-aged Indian scholar was also tied up with double red sticks and sat with him.
"Lee's research manuscript?"
The Indian guy spoke English with a curry-flavored accent. Facing the threat of a knife on his neck, he had no principles at all and decisively told everything he knew.
"It only contains the algorithm content of his 'quantum decryption'."
"Are there any secret codes or other contents not related to 'quantum decryption'?"
The Indian thought carefully for a while, looked at Chris beside him, felt the sharpness of the blade on his neck, and said decisively:
"Yes! Yes! Yes! Li's research notes are in my underwear pocket! You can read them for yourselves."
"You brought that thing out?" Chris looked shocked and angry.
The Indian shrugged helplessly:
"Li's research is too valuable. It would be a waste to just study it in the lab, so I switched the package. You can't understand what's inside anyway."
Well, that does seem like something an Indian would do; they are always so unreliable.
However, this helped Qin Feng and others a lot. They immediately searched Li Zhiyuan's research notes from him. There were some mathematical formulas and symbols on the front that looked like scribbles. Even someone as smart as Qin Feng could only understand a small part of them.
Fortunately, there were several other pages of content at the end of the notes, one of which contained strange numbers that they had seen on the wall of Li Zhiyuan's basement.
However, compared to the mess caused by the flow of paint on the wall, Qin Feng could see it more clearly this time.
1174:21:11、1174:21:10、1174:21:09……
"Is this... a countdown?" Noda Hao said uncertainly.
Qin Feng frowned, "It seems so, but why did Dr. Li write this down in the notebook?"
"Dr. Li seemed to have said before he died that this was a hint given to him by the ghost." Chris suddenly interrupted.
"You mean, this is a ghost number that Dr. Li can see but you can't?" Qin Feng stared at him solemnly.
Chris nodded, but Qin Feng looked unconvinced. "There are no gods or ghosts. They are all tricks. We proletarians are not afraid of any monsters or demons!"
The detectives really couldn't figure out what the countdown meant, so they could only keep flipping through the pages. Then they saw a page with heavily altered words, and they could vaguely see words like "ghost", "quantum", "microscopic", and "God" under the altered marks.
At the very bottom of the page, there was a line of words written in thick, large red marker, but it had not been altered and was so red that it was blinding.
“He’s watching me!”
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, and at the same time, a chill rushed from the coccyx to the top of the head.
The mystery surrounding Li Zhiyuan's "suicide" is becoming more and more complicated.
The completely unsolvable "locked room murder case", the large number of scientists killed around the world, the cutting-edge "quantum decryption algorithm", the invisible ghost and countdown, and "Him" who has been monitoring Li Zhiyuan.
Qin Feng was trembling all over. Tang Ren, who was standing by, saw this and asked about the situation with concern. However, Qin Feng remained silent. Only Noda Hao, who was closely following him on the detective rankings, gave the answer.
"He is excited, the excitement of meeting a worthy rival! As a detective, we are so lucky to encounter such a bizarre case."
As he spoke, Tang Ren saw that all the detectives present had eyes full of interest and excitement, and everyone seemed to be given a shot of chicken blood.
"Mad men, you are really crazy!"
Tang Ren's shouting did not stop the detectives from continuing to devote all their energy to this case.
But what to do next?
"Then Dr. Li's female assistant is missing. Does it have anything to do with you?"
Qin Feng asked another question, and Tang Ren quickly followed up, "Tell me, was he caught by you?"
Chris still shook his head. He couldn't remember how many times he had done so.
"That has nothing to do with us. We even investigated her disappearance, fearing that she had secretly escaped with Li's research results. But we found nothing. It was as if she had suddenly disappeared from this world."
The movie has reached one-third of the way through this point, and all the information about Li Ziyuan's suicide case has been presented to the audience.
The audience was completely fascinated by this case. Compared with the first part of "Detective Chinatown", the second part obviously has more suspense elements.
There are more conflicts of interest, more people involved, more complicated backgrounds, more bizarre murder methods and more puzzling motives. Who killed Li Zhiyuan? Why did they kill him? How did they kill him?
After leaving the small dark room where Chris and the Indian were imprisoned, Qin Feng and a group of detectives began brainstorming, reasoning and analyzing based on the information they had collected.
It is still unknown who the murderer is, and there is no clue about the method of killing, so the most likely breakthrough is undoubtedly the motive for the murder.
As things stand, there seem to be three possibilities.
First, as Sapiens Company said, many well-known scholars around the world have committed suicide or been murdered. There must be a mysterious organization behind this that is committing crimes crazily. Dr. Li Zhiyuan was targeted by them and died at the hands of these people.
Second, Sapiens was lying. Dr. Li's research had made great progress, and the quantum decryption algorithm had huge economic benefits. In order to monopolize the research results and profits, they killed Dr. Li and faked the scene.
Third, as Dr. Li said, "American Horror Story" really happened to him, he was haunted by evil spirits and then died at the hands of ghosts.
"No, there is another possibility.
You have overlooked the identity of Dr. Li’s father. Mr. Li is the leader of the Longqing Society in Chinatown. With his status, he will undoubtedly accumulate some enemies. It is hard to say that this is not a gang vendetta or revenge against his son.”
Noda Hao proposed the fourth possibility, and Qin Feng also expressed his approval.
With so many possibilities, where should we start to solve the case?
Qin Feng, who ranked second in the detective ranking, undoubtedly became the leader of this group of people at this moment. He quickly gave his suggestions and opinions.
"First of all, the line with the smart company cannot be broken, and they have not ruled out suspicion at the moment.
Whether it's to narrow down the possible options or to find the murderer, they must continue to investigate.
So next, someone needs to take Chris, the head of the security department of the Sapiens Company, to contact the firefighters under their supervision and verify the specific circumstances of their entry into the crime scene that night. "
In this matter, special forces detective Buffalo Billy volunteered to take another detective and two red sticks from the Longqing Society, and set off with Chris.
"Regarding the revenge of 'Uncle Seven' Li Le's enemies, Officer Chen, as the armed law enforcement force of New York City, you should be monitoring the Triad organizations, right?
As for the investigation of Uncle Seven's enemies, I'll leave it to you."
New York policewoman Chen Ying said nothing, nodded, and returned to the police station alone to check the internal files.
"What about us?" Tang Ren asked.
“We…we need to find the missing Lin Wanru first.
I personally feel that her disappearance before Dr. Li is definitely related to Dr. Li’s murder.”
Qin Feng looked at Tang Ren and another female hacker Kiko. It was time for the three of them to act together.
"What if she died?" Tang Ren couldn't help but ask.
"For detectives, even the dead can speak." Qin Feng said confidently.
"What about the mysterious organization that is crazily killing scientists? Shouldn't we investigate it?" Tang Ren continued to ask.
Qin Feng now looked at Noda Hao, who had the most presence and had not been assigned any tasks.
The handsome Japanese detective waved the fan in his hand and shook his head helplessly.
"Oh my, you really gave me the most dangerous and difficult task."
"Among us, you are the only one who has access to more extensive information and special information, so I'm sorry to bother you."
Noda Hao looked at him and smiled, "I'm very happy that you trust me so much."
After that, he didn't say anything else. He waved his hand to hail a luxury car and went somewhere unknown.
Next, Qin Feng, Tang Ren and Kiko began to investigate the whereabouts of the female assistant Lin Wanru. Kiko, who had the best computer hacking skills, hacked into the surveillance system of the local government department and retrieved the video footage between her residence and workplace.
During this process, Qin Feng once again demonstrated his amazing memory. He directly asked Kiko to project several surveillance videos onto the screen, and then view them at multiple times. In a very short time, he found out Lin Wanru's route and the location where she appeared in the camera before she disappeared.
It was a route that passed through the block and then entered the subway. Lin Wanru passed this section of road on her way home from get off work and then disappeared.
Qin Feng and the other two also checked out the situation on the scene. This neighborhood was very chaotic. Not only were there no surveillance cameras, but there were also homeless people often seen there.
When the three arrived here, they even saw a homeless man snatching a passerby's cell phone, and the people around him were used to it and had no intention of helping.
"How do we find this?" Tang Ren was a little disappointed, because the chaotic situation was obviously not suitable for preserving evidence.
But Qin Feng didn't think so. After carefully observing the situation at the scene, he quickly found a breakthrough. Using a few US dollars, he got information about Lin Wanru from a homeless man who had been stationed here.
According to the homeless man, he did see an Asian woman crossing the street and hurriedly walking into the subway one evening.
"She didn't come out from the other side of the subway station, so Lin Wanru disappeared in the subway." Tang Ren was very happy that he finally got a clue.
However, New York's subway network is very complex and extensive. Even though Qin Feng and others knew Lin Wanru's route, they did not find any clues along the way.
"This is going to be troublesome."
Kiko sat on a park bench and pulled up New York City government files and historical records on his laptop about subway line construction.
"The New York subway has 36 abandoned tunnels, 12 ghost stations, and the City Hall Loop, which was closed in 1944 due to a rat infestation..."
According to her description, Qin Feng waved his hands in the air, and special effects marked out these routes on the map of New York City. They were as dense as a spider web, covering the entire New York, forming a complex and mysterious underground world.
"The surveillance and Lin Wanru's metro card records show that she last swiped her card at the Lexington Avenue Line, and then she never came out of the subway again.
In recent times, there have been several murders and bodies found on New York subway lines, but none of them were Asian women who matched Lin Wanru’s identity.”
On the monitor, videos of cases in the New York subway were playing. Some of them were shot with mobile phones. In some of them, guys suddenly pushed people off the subway platform, some set fire to blankets on homeless people in the subway, and some showed robberies and fights.
Such a dire situation, coupled with the terrible environment of the New York subway, made Tang Ren couldn't help but frown.
"Stop! Go back 7 seconds here!"
Qin Feng suddenly shouted, pointed at the video on the screen, and instructed Kiko.
The video began to rewind, and Qin Feng and the other two widened their eyes.
They saw a familiar female figure in the corner of the photo taken by a mobile phone. It was the missing Lin Wanru.
(End of this chapter)