I reached out and tried to pull the rope that controlled the curtains, and found that the rope had basically been pulled to the limit by Li Hua, and there were even signs of being damaged. I immediately stopped what I was doing and began to think according to the clues provided to me by Li Hua.
"If that's the case, it can indeed explain a lot of things, but does this 'line' mean what I understand now, or is Li Hua making a double entendre? And this 'person' is a little hard to understand. Damn, you can't speak clearly. I'll ask you when you wake up tomorrow."
I really couldn't figure out Li Hua's way of thinking, so I gave up the idea. At this time, the two police officers who had gone out came back with a pot of the same flowers and said excitedly: "There really is a pot of flowers like this in that room. You are really good at predicting things!"
Pan An walked out of the bathroom and shook his head, "There is no unusual smell. It looks like there are no clues here."
I nodded and said, "Indeed, there are really no clues here. Let's take the flowers back first. What about you two? Do you still want to stay here?"
The two police officers nodded and said, "This is our mission. We will not leave until it is completed."
It's good to have two people watching Ajahn Ban. Although Ajahn Ban has long known that someone is watching him, with the two of them here, at least Ajahn Ban won't dare to do anything rash.
So, Pan An and I left the hotel with two pots of flowers, took a taxi back to the police station, and told Officer Yang and Bai Longfei what had happened here. Only then did they know what had just happened, and it seemed that they were also very worried about Li Hua's safety.
Officer Yang called Bai Qi during the trip, but Bai Qi didn't answer the phone. He was probably dealing with Li Hua's affairs and would be back soon. Bai Qi also said that all of us should stay here and rest today. Officer Yang then asked someone to take Zhang Qishan and me to one of the employee lounges, saying that it was specially reserved for the two of us.
This room is not very big and has two bunk beds. It looks similar to some school dormitories. I was afraid that Zhang Qishan would feel wronged, so I prepared a bed for each of them, but she was not happy and insisted on squeezing together with me. This way of resting is naturally the best for me.
Before we made the bed, someone came in and said that Bai Qi and the others were back. Zhang Qishan and I immediately went to Officer Yang's office and saw Bai Qi sitting on the sofa, smoking with a frown on his face. Ding Yang also said nothing.
"How is it? Is Li Hua okay?"
Bai Qi didn't say anything, but Ding Yang answered me, "He's fine for now. Luckily he fell from the third floor and his legs hit the ground first, so the impact on his head wasn't very strong. But one of his legs is broken, so it will probably take a long time to recover. And now he's in a coma, so who knows when he'll wake up."
"As long as he's okay, it's good. But did he wake up during the journey? Did he explain the 'informant' he mentioned earlier?"
This is the question I want to know the most, but Ding Yang said disappointedly: "No, he hasn't woken up since he got on the ambulance. The doctor also told him to rest for a while and not to disturb us. It's strange. I have been in the special case team for such a long time, why haven't I heard that Li Hua has any informants?"
Bai Qi at the side finally spoke up and sighed, "I don't know either, but this guy always does things in such an extreme way. Maybe he really has an informant. If we can contact Li Hua's informant, maybe we can find out the truth of this case."
I shook my head and said, "I don't think that's the case. When Li Hua said the word 'informer' to us, the interval between them was a bit too long. Maybe it's not a word at all, but just two simple words."
Bai Qi's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he immediately sat up and asked, "What do you mean?"
I organized my words a little, and then said, "If it is two words, maybe Li Hua wants to tell us two things. I just thought of this when I was in Li Hua's room. I just don't know if my guess is correct."
As I was talking, I turned to ask Ding Yang who was standing beside me, "If the blade is swallowed directly into the stomach, will it scratch the esophagus or throat on the way?"
Ding Yang looked puzzled and said, "That's for sure. Such a sharp object will definitely be squeezed when swallowed. But if it gets scratched, I can definitely check it out."
"I know. I still don't believe you? Let me ask you another question. Is there anything that can be digested very quickly, similar to the shell of a capsule?"
Ding Yang obviously didn't understand what I meant. He thought about it carefully and said, "If we are talking about this kind of thing, it can only be the gelatin component of the capsule shell. This thing dissolves in water and can quickly generate protein degradation. Why are you asking this?"
I breathed a sigh of relief after getting this answer. If such a thing really existed, then the first clue given by Li Hua should have allowed me to completely crack it.
"If the word 'informer' that Li Hua mentioned is two characters instead of one word, the first character 'line' should mean to tell us the real way of death of the deceased Song Biao. I didn't understand it at first, but when I saw the curtains in Li Hua's hotel room, I figured out the meaning of it."
Song Biao died because a blade that inexplicably appeared in his body cut his esophagus and trachea, causing massive internal bleeding and death. The reason why all this looks so much like a murder by knife in black magic is because we don't know how the blade inexplicably appeared in Song Biao's body.
In fact, I had thought about this problem before, but my knowledge in this area was so limited that I had no idea where to start. However, Li Hua found the reason before me. That is, if the murderer used something like a steel wire to tie the blades together and let the deceased swallow it, and then pulled the steel wire hard to pull the blades out of the deceased's stomach, this would create the so-called knife-killing murder, and it could also explain why the deceased did not make a sound before his death. Because if the murderer pulled the steel wire too hard, the deceased's trachea would have been cut off as soon as he felt the pain, and he would not have been able to scream even if he wanted to.
But the question is, how did the murderer make the deceased Song Biao swallow so many blades without any harm? The question I asked Ding Yang just now is the only answer I can think of. If the murderer carefully wrapped the blades with something like gelatin in advance, and then forced the deceased Song Biao to swallow them, Song Biao would be threatened, and because the blades were wrapped in gelatin, he could not tell what they were, so he would obey the murderer and swallow the blades obediently. When the gelatin was almost melted in the deceased's stomach, the murderer pulled out the steel wire to kill him, and finally cut the steel wire and left calmly. In this case, because the gelatin had already melted in the body of the deceased, we would not be able to find any clues at all.
After I said my guess, others may not have reacted yet, but Bai Qi and Ding Yang immediately said excitedly: "If this is true, then the mystery of Song Biao's death is completely solved! This murderer is really cunning, he actually killed Song Biao with such a complicated method, disguised as a black magic murder! Ji Wen, do you know who the murderer is?"
I shook my head and said, "I have only solved the word 'line' temporarily. Perhaps to find out who the murderer is, we need to solve the word 'person' as well. No matter who the murderer is, Azan Ban cannot escape the title of an accomplice. I will try to solve this clue tonight. If it doesn't work, if Li Hua wakes up tomorrow, we can let him tell us in person. I have to admit that Li Hua is indeed much faster than me in solving the case this time."
After solving the truth of Song Biao's death, Officer Yang, who was originally very afraid of the so-called black magic, now relaxed a lot. Then Officer Yang said: "I hope you two can solve the case as soon as possible. If someone else dies, my head will explode. You don't know how fierce Song Biao's wife is today. She wants to lift the roof of my small place. As long as we can find clues about the murderer, we can catch Qiongqi. I have asked people to carefully check all the intersections leading to the outside world in Zhongwei City. I believe that this time, we will be able to catch Qiongqi!"
Officer Yang said, and suddenly seemed to remember something. His face gradually became serious, and he whispered to all of us present: "Have you noticed that Yuan Hao is missing?"
After Officer Yang said that, I remembered Yuan Hao and asked immediately, "Didn't he say he was going to rest? Is there no one in his room?"
"No, after you left just now, I went to his dormitory to take a look. He had left long ago. I don't know what he did secretly."
When Bai Qi heard the news about Yuan Hao, his face became gloomy again, and he said slowly: "We should try not to care about what he does, but we just hope that he will not unite with Qiongqi. Please observe him more often. If you find any heinous behavior from him, report it to me immediately. Even if he is the king of heaven, I will bring him to justice!"
After saying that, Bai Qi clapped his hands and said, "Okay, it's getting late now, everyone go back to your dormitories and have a rest. If there is anything, we can discuss it early tomorrow. Ji Wen, you stay, I have something to tell you."
I had already guessed what Bai Qi was going to tell me, so I turned to Zhang Qishan and said with a smile, "Xiaoshan, go back and rest first, I'll be here soon."
Zhang Qishan nodded obediently, turned around and left Officer Yang's office with everyone else. After everyone had left, Bai Qi looked at me with a serious look and said, "I don't believe you didn't see that there's something wrong with Zhang Qishan!"