Early the next morning, when the team members arrived at the special task force office, they saw an astonishing sight.
However, more than a dozen whiteboards were tilted this way and that, and the ground was a mess. The team leader, Zhao Yu, was lying on his back on top of the mess, soundly sleeping and snoring like thunder.
"Team leader, team leader..." Li Beini put down the newly bought breakfast and hurried forward to check.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Hearing the abnormality, Cui Lizhu also ran over from the duty room. When she saw that she was awake, she immediately let out an ooh and shouted, "Boss! Boss, you are not going to fight with someone again, are you?" ?”
"Oh ah… "
Amidst the noise, Zhao Yu woke up from his sleep and yawned lazily.
"Um… "
Zhao Yu opened his eyes and looked at everyone, but saw Wu Xiumin, Li Beini, Cui Lizhu, Liu Zhanbing and others all present, even Ma Jichun from the Special Service Department.
"Hey? Are...all here?" Zhao Yu suddenly stood up from the ground, his round eyes widened, and he shouted with great excitement, "As long as they are all here! Hurry up, hurry up, come here..."
While shouting, Zhao Yu changed his hesitant look, quickly ran to the front of the office, and turned on the big screen.
Seeing Zhao Yu's excitement, everyone wondered what he was thinking. They hurriedly put down their things and came to the big screen to watch.
As the display lighted up, a map filled with markers of different colors suddenly appeared on it!
"Come on, come on..." Zhao Yu picked up the laser pointer and clicked on the map and said, "Look at it all! Yesterday, I suddenly thought of something important! An expert once said that the truth of crimes is often hidden in those things. Among the seemingly ordinary clues! Look... this one is the entire map of Northeast China, right
"Here... pay attention to those colors!" Zhao Yu gestured, "Based on the work log of the Secret Service Office, I used five colors to indicate the route map of the five experts exploring the treasure! Take a closer look. Are there any characteristics?"
"Huh? This..."
The team members obviously couldn't keep up with Zhao Yu's rhythm. They looked at the map, but couldn't say anything. Only Ma Jichun from the Secret Service thought for a moment and said, "Is it... that the experts' detection ranges overlap very little?"
"Promising!" Zhao Yu pointed at Ma Jichun, "As expected of Li Jing's subordinate! You are right. After I marked out their exploration tracks, I found that the exploration routes of these five experts rarely had any important points. A great place!"
"That's right!" Ma Jichun frowned and reminded, "Experts all work together according to the division of labor in different working groups. Naturally, they avoid searching the same area repeatedly and waste manpower and material resources! Team leader Zhao... you are..."
"Yesterday..." Zhao Yu suppressed his previous excitement, calmed down his thoughts, and said steadily, "Last night, I made a hypothesis! I was wondering whether the murder of the five experts was related to their treasure hunt back then. Related? Did something unexpected happen during their search for the treasure
"So, I want to see if there is any overlap between them through their exploration trajectories?" Zhao Yu pointed at the big screen and said seriously, "Although they are of different ages, if they both explored from the same place, , could it be that this accident happened in such a place
"But..." Zhao Yu pointed to the map again, "I soon discovered that the routes they were looking for were fundamentally different. Even if there were intersections, they were very rare. Except for big cities, I couldn't find a place like 5 I have searched for them all! This... what does this mean? "
"Hmm..." Everyone frowned in confusion.
Cui Lizhu rolled her eyes and said: "Boss, didn't I just say that? Because of the division of labor and cooperation, the survey routes will not be repeated? Stop being so pretentious and tell me quickly, what exactly did you find?"
"Hahaha... Okay!" Zhao Yu's eyes lit up and he said proudly, "The time to witness the miracle is coming! When I found that the routes of the experts rarely overlapped, I was of course very disappointed and thought that I had found the wrong one again. direction!
"However, at this critical moment, guess what? My little universe suddenly exploded! Hahaha..."
Cui Lizhu and Li Beni wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads at the same time...
"I suddenly thought that just because their exploration routes didn't overlap, that's right! Come on, come on..." Zhao Yu turned back and searched for more than ten seconds before picking up the five-digit number written on it from the many whiteboards. The whiteboard with expert information was found and pushed to the center. "Take a good look at it. This is the information about the murders of five experts. How about you think about their investigation tracks? Do you have any ideas?"
Everyone seriously considered Zhao Yu's words, but they had thought about the experts' murder information countless times and found nothing unusual at all!
"The answer is here!" Zhao Yu pointed at Yuan Juncheng's photo, "Actually, the question that has been ignored by us is - truth serum!!! Think about it carefully... why did the murderer use vomiting agent on the experts? Real potion?"
"Veritaserum? Of course you're trying to get information. Do you need to say that? But..." Cui Lizhu still didn't understand what Zhao Yu wanted to say
"Yes! We have been mentioning Veritaserum and wondering, what does the murderer want to know? But..." Zhao Yu clicked vigorously on Yuan Juncheng's picture, "But... we have ignored the Veritaserum itself! We have never thought about this. If the murderer knew what he wanted after using Veritaserum on the first person, then... wouldn't the subsequent cases... wouldn't have happened?"
"Ah!?" After hearing this, everyone got goosebumps. Indeed, their eyes were all fixed on the murderer's problem, but they ignored the murderer's use of veritaserum itself.
"This... So..." Li Beni pondered, "It was precisely because he didn't get the answer he wanted that he killed the people behind him!?"
"Oh... oh..." Cui Lizhu opened her eyes wide and said tremblingly, "I finally understand what the boss means! No wonder you pointed at Yuan Juncheng's photo! Yuan Juncheng was the last person to die, that is to say, the key The problem lies with Yuan Juncheng!!?"
"Yes!" Zhao Yu put his hand behind his back and shook his head. "I guess the murderer only knew that the answer they wanted was related to these five experts, but they were not sure which one it was? So... they just followed the order on the list. , used the truth serum one by one, but their luck was really bad! None of the first four knew about it!"
"Veritaserum acts on the nervous system!" Wu Xiumin said, "Unlike ordinary hallucinogens, it will stimulate the user's peripheral nerves, thus leaving a deep impression on the brain! Therefore, the murderer is worried about using Veritaserum Exposed, that’s why I have to resort to murder and silence!”
"Yes!" Zhao Yu nodded and said affirmatively, "We can be sure of at least two things now: First, the murder of the experts is definitely related to the treasure! Second, the key reason for their murder lies with Yuan Juncheng!"
As he spoke, Zhao Yu pointed the laser pointer at the red marked area on the big screen and said, "So, next, we are going to go through Yuan Juncheng's treasure hunting route again to see what problems he had in the first place! This led to today's killing!" At this point, Zhao Yu sighed heavily and said to everyone, "Everyone, please prepare now! This may be our last chance to solve this mystery. !”
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