"Speaking of which, brother, why are you here tonight?" Du Ruoying asked.

"At the end of the work, I happened to be on the way, so let's take a look."

"It's that simple?"

"Well, it's that simple." Du Ruoxian said, his eyes slowly turned to William.

He couldn't tell her what a strange coincidence he discovered in a murder case he investigated just this afternoon.

The moment Du Ruoxian stepped into the scene, the strong strangeness in the room immediately aroused his vigilance.

In the narrow hallway, the victim was lying on his side in a pool of blood, facing the bathroom, his clothes were half-raised deliberately, exposing his belly button, and his right hand was obviously gestured to his stomach by the murderer after his death .

pointing at belly?

What do you want to express?

Just when Du Ruoxian was confused, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and suddenly noticed that the victim's belly button seemed to be facing a bamboo hat in the bathroom.The bamboo hat was leaning against the corner of the wall, placed very strangely.

When I picked it up, I found that the bamboo hat was very new, so new that I couldn't even find a single hair, it didn't seem like it belonged to the victim.

"Green Ruo Li, green coir raincoat." Police Officer Lu snorted casually, "This guy lived quite leisurely during his lifetime."

Ruo hat? !

bamboo--

A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Du Ruoxian's mind.

He put the bamboo hat back as it was, and looked slowly in the direction its sharp corners pointed——

Sure enough, at the end of that direction, there stood a broken ceramic eagle head.The hawk's head was part of a mural knocked off the wall of the living room, but now it was artificially placed in the corner of the washstand.

Du Ruoxian understood that this is a link game with meaning.

Stomach, Ruo Li, Eagle Head.

Connect the first characters of these three items in turn, that is——

Du Ruoying.

This unexpected answer made Du Ruoxian's heart skip a beat. He immediately mobilized all his thinking power and began to search for and piece together the remaining clues.

Following the direction of the eagle's head, he found an upside-down cup, and the sharp-edged cup handle pointed to a hanging jade pei.Then it is directly above the point pointed by the red line of Yupei, where hangs a bag embroidered with an arrow pattern, and the arrow is slanted downwards, pointing to a pair of boots.

It was as if a long series of complicated knots were suddenly pulled into the key thread, one clue after another, as if it had been arranged in advance, appeared in front of him in an orderly manner.

The toe of the boot pointed to a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, and Huoxiang Zhengqi Water pointed to a piece of wax gourd next to the refrigerator.

As for what this wax gourd refers to, it is a cup lying on the dining table.An empty envelope was pressed under the cup, and the corner of the envelope protruding from the table pointed to a broken J-shaped umbrella handle. The umbrella handle pointed to a bunch of white wormwood, and the white wormwood pointed to the bowl. The location of a small black dot.

Cup, jade pei, bag, boots, ageratum, winter melon, cup, envelope, umbrella handle, white wormwood, bowl, nine black dots.

Put the first characters of each noun together and read it, which is "Pei Yu University Activity Center Umbrella White Bowl Nine"...

The last four words cannot be pronounced fluently. It is estimated that it is the same as the problem of "bamboo hat", and it needs to find its alias to replace it.

So Du Ruoxian took out his mobile phone and searched for Baihao's alias, and sure enough, he found another word - "Baihao".If it is replaced, "Umbrella White" becomes "Umbrella Lou", and its homonym is——

"Third floor"!

Now it all makes sense.

So the meaning of the whole sentence is - "Nine o'clock in the evening on the third floor of the Bei Yu University Activity Center".

But the weirdness doesn't stop there.

At that time, in order to find out what happened as soon as possible, Du Ruoxian locked down the murderer according to the surveillance of the community in just one afternoon, and arrested him. A word game, which he seems to know nothing about.

Considering that there were no other clues at the scene to explain all this, in the end, the police had to close the case as a coincidence.

It may be a coincidence that three or five objects are connected into one sentence, but now there are a total of fifteen objects.If this can be called a coincidence, then he really doesn't know what else can't be called a coincidence.

In desperation, Du Ruoxian had no choice but to continue investigating the matter alone.He decided to follow the intention of the word game designer first, and come to the third floor of the activity center at nine o'clock in the evening to take a look.As expected, he not only met Du Ruoying there, but also witnessed a series of accidents.

In this regard, he can think of two possibilities:

First, someone wanted to kill his sister in front of him, so he left him this killing notice in advance.

Second, someone wanted to tell him that Du Ruoying would be in danger and needed his protection, so they called him in this way.

The former possibility can be said to be very slim, because he has basically understood who the murderer who replaced the prop sword is, but he has not yet found conclusive evidence.But he was convinced that with the courage and intelligence of the murderer, he might not be able to do the difficult task of "leaving a message without a trace at the murder scene", let alone provoking him with the murder notice.

The second possibility is even less plausible.Since it was out of good intentions, why did he use such hypocritical methods? Wouldn't it be more conducive to the accurate transmission of information to directly use anonymous phone calls or emails to tell him clearly?

If neither of the above guesses is correct...

That would mean that behind this word game, there is likely to be an extremely complicated plan hidden, so complicated that he can't figure it out at all.

The only thing he knew was one thing - this planner wanted to involve him, and Du Ruoying was a bait to lure him into the game.

It's a bait, or a trap, so what if you know it?He will always rush to her at the first moment, resist all injuries and eliminate all dangers for her, even if he is destined to die in the end, he will not hesitate at all.

Heh, there was really no room for him to choose.

Of course, he would not allow himself to lose his life in vain, at least he would have to drag the evil master behind the scene to die together.

Thinking of this, Du Ruoxian slowly shifted his gaze to William.

"It's not that simple," Du Ruoying said dissatisfied, "I'm not a three-year-old child, don't try to fool me—tell me, did you receive a threatening letter or something, saying that something would happen to me, so you just Did you come here on purpose?"

Du Ruoxian bit his lower lip, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to admit: "Yes, it's almost like this."

"Sure enough, I knew—"

"Speaking of which, didn't Officer Du want to go to the props room before? How about we go now?" William said with a smile, "If the murderer is caught earlier, Xiaoying's situation will be a little safer."

"A little bit..." Du Ruoying gave him a white look with black lines all over her head.

Although it is indeed "slightly", after all, she has stabbed more than one hornet's nest.but--

Hmph, she doesn't want to admit the bunch of flags he put on her!

However, another situation on Moriarty's side really made her a little worried.Now that the fake news has been released, the other party must have seen it too.She thought she was about to face a hail of bullets, but now she was only replaced by a prop sword.But the opponent, obviously capable of directly blowing up the stage, only threw a string of overhead lights at her on the stage.

If those people are really playing tricks, then she——

I'm actually quite grateful...

Unfortunately, this is simply not possible.

The murderer must be someone else.

At William's suggestion, everyone came to the backstage prop room.In order to avoid suspicion, everyone just stood outside the door and did not go in.While chatting in the corridor, they waited for Du Ruoxian to complete the inspection inside the house. .seven

"I didn't expect your brother to be a criminal police officer. He's so powerful." Liao Jun said to Du Ruoying, "So junior girl, you said that reasoning ability is inherited?"

"Ha...haha, maybe."

"If it's hereditary," William said with a smile, "then Xiaoying must have picked it up, otherwise why the difference?"

...? ! !

"Wait, Will, come with me." She suppressed her anger, reached out and grabbed the hem of his clothes, pulling him away from everyone's sight.

The two came to the corner of the corridor.

"My brother and I are indeed different," she said sternly, "He will never express his reasoning easily without solid evidence. But I don't care about that."

"Oh?"

"So I'll just say it straight - did you send the threatening letter he received? Why do you want to involve him!"

"Why does Xiaoying think I did it?"

"Of course it's a method of elimination!" Seeing his unmoved look, she couldn't help but grabbed his collar, "Who else would have the motivation to do such a thing except you!"

"In the field of mathematics, the method of elimination is not a good method." William smiled warmly. "You must know that the scope of human cognition is limited after all, and the information that can be grasped is hard to be incomplete. Under this situation, what you listed The possibility of coming out does not represent everything."

"But when the dome light fell, didn't you say there were people on it?" she argued, "If someone had cut the hanger with a dagger on it, the dagger would not have been embedded in the wood at all, let alone left on the scene Therefore, there is only one possibility left in this matter, and that is that you are lying. If I want to say, you must have installed a device that automatically launches a dagger on it to create a falling light incident to prove the content of the threatening letter, so as to achieve The purpose of involving him in this matter."

"How about considering several possibilities?" He said softly, "For example, a cat happened to be running over it at that time, so I was wrong."

"You? Lord Moriarty, whose eyes are sharper than a scalpel, could you be mistaken?" Du Ruoying said, her fingers clenched his collar more tightly.

Unexpectedly, following the force of her tugging, William took the initiative to lower his body, and the distance between the two of them instantly narrowed, so close that they could smell each other.

In an instant, her field of vision was completely occupied by his bright red pupils like sunset glow. Those pupils were rich and gorgeous, extremely aggressive, so red that they seemed to burn her retina severely, and even left her alive. His sanity was also burned.

Du Ruoying moved her upper body back a little uneasy, but William continued to approach her relentlessly, until her breath finally started to fluster, and he stopped with satisfaction.

He smiled slightly, and whispered against her reddish ear tips: "Of course, otherwise, why would I be so blinded by you?"

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