"I say, it's a little complicated," the director admitted, "but if we don't make a case about Jiang Tiansheng or Li Feng or Ye Fan, or two of them, who are we going to make the story about? ?Russian agent? This Ye Fan is a Russian agent, but no matter what, if he is related to this case, then Jiang Tiansheng must also be among them, because the two of them are each other's alibi. "
"Yes, I understand. But your whole case is like this. First, you want Jiang Tiansheng to be guilty because he wanted his mother's money, and then you say that Ye Fan must be his accomplice because he gave Jiang Tiansheng Provide an alibi. But obviously these two inferences cannot be correct at the same time. Moreover, how did Jiang Tiansheng and Ye Fan know each other? "
"We haven't completed the investigation yet."
"No; but it seems impossible, doesn't it? One is a university teacher and the other is a farmer. How do they know each other? What do they have in common? Also, for Li Feng, you have nothing to put him among them. Which one of them can be connected together. If his story is true, then there is no way to prove that Link did not commit suicide. Then, if you want to prove that it was murder, you must connect Li Feng with the murderer. You Obviously no clues have been found to show that he is related to Jiang Tiansheng or Ye Fan."
"Did Li Feng receive a letter later?" Xia Xiang asked Gu Pengfei.
¡°Not even one since he showed up here.¡±
"As for Ye Fan," the director said, "we will inquire about him soon. He was knocked down and lying unconscious in the hospital. This must have confused his companions. We were also confused before. . It is possible that he has an address in a certain city under a false name, and there are many letters waiting for him there."
"You still insist that Ye Fan must be involved in the case," Zhiqiu protested, "Do you really think that Ye Fan can ride a horse on the beach without a saddle and cut a person's throat with a razor? Cut to the point where the bones are exposed?"
"Why not?" Gu Pengfei said.
"Does he look like him?"
"I have to admit that from your description of him, I feel that he is not a bold person." Xia Xiang grinned, "But you also have to know that Jiang Tiansheng invited me to drink at the bar."
Zhiqiu glanced at his leaning arms and soft body.
"You don't need to beat around the bush," Zhiqiu said coldly, "Everyone knows that your artistic fingers can weave fire sticks into knots. Ye Fan is very weak, his neck is as thin as a chicken neck, and his hands are trembling ." He turned to the director, "I can't imagine that Ye Fan would be a desperado. It was more reasonable for you to doubt me than to doubt him."
The director blinked, but his response was very calm.
"Yes, detective. There's a lot to talk about here."
"Of course. But why did you give up this idea?"
The director¡¯s instinct warned him that he was walking on ice.
¡°Well,¡± he said, ¡°let¡¯s put it this way, it seems too bold. Besides, we can¡¯t find any connection between you and the deceased.¡±
"You still went to investigate. It was really wise, because, of course, I was the only witness to the whole thing at that time, right? And I took those photos, which can prove that I am a very cold-blooded person. Not to mention my previous The personal history is a bit ¨C shall we say, eventful?¡±
"That's it, detective." The director's eyes showed no expression at all.
"Can I ask? Who did you ask about my situation?"
"Your friend." The director said.
"Oh! Do you think my friends will know if I know Link?"
¡°Based on our experience,¡± the director replied, ¡°my friend knows a lot about this matter.¡±
"That's true. So you no longer doubt me?"
"Oh, I no longer doubt it."
"Is it because of my friend's testimony?"
¡°Also,¡± the director said, ¡°it¡¯s also because of our own observations.¡±
"I understand." Zhiqiu looked at the director seriously, but he was the kind of person who didn't react to such looks. Instead, he responded to Zhiqiu with a calm smile. Xia Xiang listened with a straight face and really wanted to award the director a medal for his calmness. He now made an indifferent comment on the passage.
"You and Zhiqiu have been refuting each other's inferences," he said. "Maybe you want to hear what we did this night."
"I'm glad to hear it, Xia Xiang."
"At first," Xia wanted to say, "we searched the deceased's belongings again, hoping to find some clues about Anina or the coded letter. The kind-hearted Sheriff Gu Pengfei assisted us. But in fact, the Sheriff It didn't work at all. He sat there for two hours and watched us search. Every time we checked a certain hole or corner and found that it was empty, he began to swear that he had checked it long ago. That hole or that corner was also found to be empty at that time.¡±
Sheriff Gu Pengfei chuckled.
"We only found one thing," Xia Xiang continued, "that is the dictionary, and it was not found tonight, but President Zhiqiu had found it before. At that time, he was unwilling to concentrate on reasoning, and would rather waste time on On the crossword puzzle. We found that there are many words in the dictionary that have been marked with pencils. When you came in, we were collecting those marked words, maybe you would like to listen. I will pick out a few words at random: There are many others. Can you see any meaning in these words? Some words are religious, but others are not.
The director smiled.
¡°It seems to me that this young guy is also a crossword fanatic. These are long, difficult words.¡±
"But not the longest kind of word. There are a lot of longer words, and Link didn't mark any really long and complicated words. Of the words we found, the longest was rheumatics, which was only ten letters. But in what we found Among the words, they all have two common characteristics, which is very constructive."
"Xia Xiang, what are your characteristics?"
¡°Do any of them have repeated letters in their words, and none of them have less than seven letters.¡±
The director suddenly raised his hand like a primary school student.
¡°Code letter!¡± he shouted.
"As you said, password letter. We think this may be a keyword for a certain password, and based on the fact that there are no repeated letters in the word, I think we can guess what type of password this is. Troublesome Yes, we haven't even finished looking through the dictionary, and we've already found hundreds of annotated words. This forces us to make a frustrating inference."
"What inference?"
"They change the keywords in each letter. The way I think about it, each letter contains the keywords of a letter. These words that Link has marked are the words that he has prepared before, so that when he receives the letter It¡¯s easy to reply when you need it.¡±
¡°Isn¡¯t it possible that this is a keyword that has already been used?¡±
"It doesn't look like it. The coded letters started to arrive in March. I don't believe that he has sent two hundred coded letters since March. Even if he wrote a letter every day, it would be impossible to reach this number. "
"It's impossible to write that much, Xia thought. But if the letter we found on him is one of these coded letters, then the key words must be among these marked words. This narrows the scope."
"I don't think so. I think these words are the key words in the coded letters that Link sends. In each letter, he informs the other party what the key words of the next letter will be. But his companions will do the same thing. , so the key words of the letter on Link cannot appear in these marked words. Of course, unless it is a letter written by Link himself, but this seems impossible."
"We can't even be sure about this," the director said sadly. "The person communicating with Link may happen to use the words that Link marked in advance. Therefore, the password can be any word."
"Exactly. The only help we can get from this is that the code uses English words, so the letter is probably written in English. This is not entirely certain, because the letter may be written in French, German, or Italian Yes, these languages ??all have the same alphabet as English; but anyway, it can¡¯t be Russian, the Russian alphabet is completely different from English, so that¡¯s a bit of luck.¡±
"If this has anything to do with Russian agents," the director said thoughtfully, "then it's incomprehensible that they don't write in Russian. If they write in Russian, that's double insurance. Russian is already quite difficult to understand. , the Russian code is simply a bible.¡±
"Indeed. I have already said that I do not believe in the possibility of this Russian agent. And, most importantly! I cannot connect these letters with the inferences about Jiang Tiansheng."
"What we want to know," the Sheriff said, "is this - this murderer, whoever he is, how did he get Link on the flat iron? Or if it was a Russian agent who got him there? Yes, how did Jiang Tiansheng and his companions know where he was going? The person who invited him to Pingtie and cut his throat must be?Group of people. Then let us come to a conclusion, either it was a letter written by Jiang Tiansheng and his group, or it was a murder committed by those Russian agents. "
"Completely correct."
"And," Zhiqiu asked, "What does Selena have to do with this matter?"
"Ha!" Xia wanted to say, "Now you have said it. This is the most bizarre of all mysteries. I can swear that the girl is telling the truth, and I can also swear that the very unattractive Liang Yihuan is also telling the truth. . The poet would say, little flower in the crack of the wall, I want to pull you out of the crack. If I could understand it, I could tell who the criminal was, but I really can¡¯t understand it. That Who is the bearded man who asked Liang Yihuan for a portrait of a Russian girl, and how did this portrait enter the deceased's notebook and sign it as Annina? The mystery here is too deep, Watson."
"I'm back to my original theory," the Sheriff muttered. "I think the guy was a little insane and slit his own throat, that's all. He probably has a habit of collecting pictures of girls and mailing them to himself. Coded letter.¡±
¡°And it¡¯s mailed from another country?¡±
"Oh, well, someone must have mailed it for him. As far as I'm concerned, we don't have any evidence against Jiang Tiansheng, nor against Li Feng. The evidence against Ye Fan is like a leaky pot. Kong. And the Russian agents, where are they? Your friends have investigated the Russian agents in this country, and the answer is that no Russian agents have been active in this area during this time, and on Thursday, the 18th, all Russian agents All agents should have alibi. Maybe you will say that there are some unknown secret agents, but there are not as many as you think. The national security department is much better informed than ordinary people think. If If Link and his group made any unusual movements, they would have been on their radar."
Xia Xiang sighed and stood up.
"I went home and slept," he said. "We have to wait to get the restored version of the letter. Life is full of dust and boring. I can't prove my inference, and there is no news about Chen Xuanlin. Li Feng leaves That day in the village, he also disappeared, leaving me a message saying that one of my favorite socks was lost in the laundry room, and he had a long debate with the management. Listen, Chief, are you willing to call me? Is it a bet that Link didn¡¯t commit suicide or was murdered by Russian agents?¡±
The director cautiously replied that he was not a gambler.
"What bad luck!" Xia Xiang lamented, "They're all equally boring," he added, regaining his former composure, "I'm determined to break that alibi."
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