sea ​​situation

Lu Ming came to Huamao Hotel in the car of the US Consulate General, and found the general manager with a letter from Sheng Youde.

The general manager is a Frenchman named Henri Fiers, but he speaks Chinese fluently. He should have lived in China for many years.

"You are Mr. Lu. Master Sheng said that he would invite you to investigate this case. We have been waiting for your presence."

Phils stood up from the high back chair, shook hands with Lu Ming first, and then looked him up and down for a while, the expression in his eyes seemed to appreciate his high-end hand-stitched suit.

"The room where Miss Sheng's accident happened has been vacant, right?" Lu Ming asked.

"Of course not. The police station has a seal, so no one dares to enter. Besides, who would dare to live in that room after such a commotion." Firth groaned.

In fact, even if nothing happened to the presidential suite, no one lived in it. The price was too high, and not all foreign devils were taken advantage of by them.

Lu Ming went up to check the seal, but no one had touched it.

Phils tore off the seal, opened the door, and said with a smile, "Mr. Lu, please, I won't go in, so as not to damage the scene."

Lu Ming smiled, nodded politely, and said nothing.

The police station put up a seal to protect the scene, but it was just a formality. On the day of Sheng Muyi's accident, Sheng Youde and others swarmed in and searched the entire room.

His purpose of coming here was just to see the scene of the accident with his own eyes, so that he could have a good idea in his heart, but he didn't expect to find any traces at the scene.If there is really something famous at the scene, it is impossible to hide it from Zhang Ziyang's sharp eyes.

After Lu Ming established the detective agency, he never took on any decent cases. Instead, he helped Zhang Ziyang solve several major cases. Lu Ming has a keen sense of smell and is a natural explorer of secrets. He also has no utilitarian purpose.Zhang Ziyang quickly became popular and became a detective in Shanghai, naturally half of the credit belongs to Lu Ming.

However, only he and Zhang Ziyang knew about the cooperation to solve the case. The two usually discussed and analyzed the case behind closed doors, and no one knew what they were doing.After the case is solved, the two will go out for a drink alone, replay the process of solving the case, and find out what detours were taken in the case.

Lu Ming insisted that Zhang Ziyang keep their cooperation a secret. Although he needed fame to open a detective agency, Zhang Ziyang, who was an official, needed it even more.If Zhang Ziyang became the detective of Shanghai Bund, one case after another would automatically rush to him, and Lu Ming would not have to worry about being idle.

After several major cases were solved, Lu Ming's idea became a reality. Once Zhang Ziyang became famous, his hands were soft on the cases. Now he has become the head detective of the Shanghai Police Station, the ace in the hands of the police chief.

Lu Ming went to his hometown to get married. During this time, Zhang Ziyang also often disappeared, so he gave himself a period of vacation.A month passed quickly.

Lu Ming carefully checked the hanging chain on the door of the suite and the latch on the window, everything was intact and there was no sign of damage.

Then he searched along the wall inch by inch, which was similar to Zhang Ziyang's original search method. In fact, the work of detectives and policemen is the same. Even if Holmes came, the investigation process was similar.

"Hey, I guessed it was you kid, you are back!" A loud voice came, and Lu Ming, who was concentrating on investigating the scene, sat down on the carpet.

"You bastard, the ghost scared you away." Lu Ming immediately jumped up again.

"Isn't this just to say hello to you? You are too timid. If the villains really come in, you won't be scared to pee your pants?"

The two talked, and then looked at each other like tigers and wolves confronting each other, and then they all jumped up and hugged each other.

"Haha, long time no see."

"Long time no see. Haha."

The two were talking, but their hands were not idle.Lu Ming secretly punched a black tiger out of his heart, but Zhang Ziyang quickly avoided it.

Zhang Ziyang hooked his foot, trying to trip Lu Ming, but he failed.

"Haha, each other."

"Assignment, acceptance."

The ceremony for the two to meet is now complete.

Of course, the two don't meet like this every time, but there must be a ceremony, and it's different every time, with a lot of tricks. People who don't know think that the two of them are enemies, and they don't believe that they can entrust each other with life and death. friend.

"I said Zi Yang, what you did is not authentic, you were submerged yourself, why did you have to drag me in?" Lu Ming snorted.

"I don't recommend you. You think you can stay out of it, right? Is it possible?" Zhang Ziyang also snorted.

"Of course it's different. If I handle this case alone in the name of a detective agency, it's better to pay at my own expense instead of being hired. The pressure will be much less." Lu Ming shook his head and sighed.

He thought about what Sheng Youde said to him last night, Zhang Ziyang really couldn't be blamed for this matter, no matter whether he recommended it or not, as soon as this matter came out, it was destined to be the result.

Zhang Ziyang's recommendation is equivalent to the endorsement of the police station, so Sheng Youde can openly hand over the case to him, and avoid unnecessary gossip.

"Master Sheng put pressure on you? Did he ask anything?" Zhang Ziyang asked.

"No one needs to give it, the pressure already exists." Lu Ming smiled wryly.

"That's right, it's like carrying a mountain. I understand it even if you don't tell me. The bureau wanted to seal this case, but I insisted on investigating it, and the Sheng family's silver dollars supported it, so the case was not closed. "

"The police station isn't going to investigate anymore? Are they just letting go?" Lu Ming asked in surprise.

"How else to check? The incident happened in this suite, and the clues should be here. There is nothing but a set of clothes. Magic tricks also need props, but a living person disappeared here, and there is nothing. I Let's see if you have the ability to transform a living person, and transform Miss Sheng back." Zhang Ziyang said with squinted eyes.

"It's impossible to change a living person, I think there must be other reasons." Lu Ming said lightly.

He doesn't believe that in reality, there is really a trick of turning a living person into nothing without the help of props and passages, and then turning them back again.

"Other reasons? What do you mean? Let me know what you think." Zhang Ziyang felt that they had found the special button when discussing the case together.

"I don't have any special ideas for the time being. What I can do now is to collect useful clues, and then find the breakthrough point and find the core of the incident, so that we can get closer to the truth." Lu Ming thought about it.

"You sound good. This case has no clues at all, not even useless clues, let alone useful ones!" Zhang Ziyang yelled.

"What's the matter, did you kneel on the washboard at Cailian's place last night? Are you so angry?" Lu Ming laughed.

"Fuck you, when did I become as useless as you, the calluses on my knees are two feet thick." Zhang Ziyang was anxious.

"I think you want to stop the drums. How come the detective sometimes admits to being cowardly." Lu Ming said with a smile.

"It's another matter. If a person is unlucky enough to drink cold water, his teeth will be stuck. You said that I saw that Shenghe Spinning Mill was booming, so I bought their stocks. Who would have thought that, as soon as I invested the money, I would get out of it." It was just a matter of time, and all the money was wasted in the end."

Lu Ming laughed loudly: "Look at your prospects, what kind of stocks do you play with a salary? That's the place where pigs are slaughtered. Small and retail investors are pigs who are slaughtered."

Zhang Ziyang dreamed of getting rich all day long, Lu Ming thought it was both annoying and funny.

"Wrong?" He immediately recalled and grabbed the other party's collar, "Shenghe Mill and Qianzhuang are not listed, how can you buy their stocks?"

"This..." Zhang Ziyang scratched his head in embarrassment, unable to speak.

"You bought black stocks?!" Lu Ming was really angry.

"It seems to be..." Zhang Ziyang was dumb.

"What does it seem to be? Is it really?" Lu Ming asked, but he already understood it in his heart.

"Even if it is, I don't understand it. Everyone follows suit." Zhang Ziyang muttered.

Lu Ming was so angry that he couldn't speak, he raised his feet, and made a posture of flying his legs to hit the opponent.

The so-called black stock is actually a gambling game. The gamblers imitate the stock market and sell the stocks of unlisted companies, and then a bunch of people buy and sell them in it. It is really lively. It looks like the official stock market. However, it is not the company that sells stocks, but the bookmaker who sets up the bet.

At that time, there were not only black stocks in Shanghai, but also black lottery tickets, Mark Six Lottery, Sixi Lottery, and more. As for casinos, they were everywhere.

"How much did you lose?" Lu Ming took out his wallet as he spoke.

"No, I don't want your money." Zhang Ziyang hastily pressed his hand to open the wallet.

"I made a lot of money through your recommendation, [-] yuan a year, half of it for you. Just this time, it will be gone in the future." Lu Ming laughed.

"Come on, it has nothing to do with my recommendation. I don't get rewarded for nothing. How about this? I'll pay you a thousand oceans, and you can give me this amount." Zhang Ziyang said.

"Okay." Lu Ming took out a silver bill of one thousand oceans and handed it to him.

Zhang Ziyang was also polite, took the money, sniffed it on his nose, and stuffed it into his pocket.Now he is so poor that his whole body is jingling, and his good friend Cailian from Changsan Shuyu, although he doesn't cheat his money, he has no face to go to other people to eat soft food.

He and Lu Ming had a life-threatening friendship, and they were used to spending money freely, whoever had it would spend it.

"Do you have any plans for those two bodyguards?" Lu Ming asked.

Sheng Muyi had four bodyguards, two of them were waiting outside the door at that time, so it was naturally these two who Lu Ming asked.

"I asked, they have no criminal record and are innocent, I don't think so, why do you doubt them?"

"The first suspect should be the two of them, or Sheng Muyi colluded with them, sneaked out after entering, and the two of them gave false testimony for her."

"It doesn't make sense. Why do you think Miss Sheng did this? She can leave whenever she wants." Zhang Ziyang shook his head repeatedly.

"Let's put aside whether it's reasonable or not. We're just discussing the possibility of what happened. One possibility that cannot be ruled out is that Sheng Muyi left on his own initiative, and another possibility is that outsiders bought these two bodyguards and kidnapped or murdered Sheng Muyi."

"It's not that I haven't thought about this possibility, but what do you think of this hanging chain?"

Zhang Ziyang walked over and dialed the chain link.

"This hanging chain can only be hung on the inside, and it can't be hung on the outside at all. I have tried dozens of times and used all methods."

"This is indeed a problem." Lu Ming looked at the hanging chain and felt that he had hit a wall.

"Even according to the two possibilities you mentioned, there must be a person who hangs this hanging chain, and then tries to get out. Since he didn't go out through the door of the room or through the window, where did this person go? ?” Zhang Ziyang asked.

Lu Ming looked at the surrounding walls again, walked over and knocked.

"Don't worry about it, all the walls are solid and there is no interlayer. I have knocked every place, and I have also read the architectural drawings. The walls are a foot thick for thermal insulation and sound insulation, but it is absolutely impossible to do it. There is a mezzanine that can hide people. Besides, even if there is a mezzanine, there must be a door to get in, right?" Zhang Ziyang poured out the results of his hard days of investigation.