After Lu Ming drank a large glass of whiskey, he calmed down a little. Too much alcohol can make people intoxicated, but drinking less alcohol can also have a calming effect.
Although Lu Ming was extremely angry, he also knew that if he didn't calm down, let alone handling the case, he would probably make a mistake, or at least go astray.
"Today Dai Li explained to me the reason why his men showed up at Paramount that day." Lu Ming said.
"What did he say?" Zhang Ziyang asked.
Lu Ming told Dai Li's statement, and then said: "He made a seemingly perfect excuse, but even if I think about it with my toes, I won't believe it."
"Well, there must be something wrong with this matter. What do you think?" Zhang Ziyang asked.
"I can't make a conclusion, but it's definitely not the reason he said. Regardless of these things, I'm just wondering. It must have been done by the Japanese, but you asked everyone at Paramount that day
, how come no one saw a Japanese?" Lu Ming frowned.
"This is normal. Japanese people have short legs, and most of them are bow-legged. They don't like dancing because it's ugly when they're on stage." Zhang Ziyang shrugged.
"That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that if the Japanese did this, where were they hiding at the time?"
"No, you have a preconceived idea. You thought it was the Japanese who did it. What if it wasn't? Or what about other forms? There is no point in taking revenge on the Japanese. The most important thing now is to find Miss Ning." Zhang Ziyang said calmly.
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"Well said, I agree with your idea. Let's overthrow the previous ideas and examine this case from the beginning." Lu Ming said.
"That's right. Haha." Zhang Ziyang clapped his hands repeatedly.
"Let's go back to the Paramount that day. Mingzhu and Miss Ning arrived at 7:30 in the evening. There were not many people dancing in the Paramount at that time. We also checked these people and found that there was no one among them.
One person is suspected of kidnapping, and there are also Paramount staff, band singers and dancers. These people have been carefully checked and no one is suspected of committing the crime." Lu Ming deduced as he recalled the information he obtained from various places.
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"Basically, it's these people, and the other ones are Dai Li's subordinates you mentioned. Only they were not questioned afterwards."
"According to Dai Li, there should have been members of the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party at Paramount that day, but they were not found out after subsequent inquiries," Lu Ming said.
"Your idea is too simple. This is Dai Li's cunning. The reasons he found are impossible to overturn. Theoretically speaking, underground parties are everywhere. No one dares to say that there were no underground parties in Paramount that night.
, there are no labels on their heads." Zhang Ziyang analyzed.
"Well, your analysis makes sense, but from our perspective, we must first crack Dai Li's tricks before we can find what we want." Lu Ming had completely calmed down.
"To be honest, let alone a place as complicated as Paramount, even in a restaurant or a teahouse, who dares to say that there is no underground party? Underground parties may appear in any situation." Zhang Ziyang said.
Lu Ming smiled, it was true, the underground party found no such person but was everywhere. This is the cruel reality of political struggle.
Zhang Ziyang took a sip of whiskey and continued: "I can even say more exaggeratedly that in this room, just you and me, theoretically there may be an underground party."
"Ah!" The wine glass in Lu Ming's hand fell on the table involuntarily, "Dai Li! He's so damn vicious!"
"Dai Li not only has the ability to escape from a golden cicada's shell, but he has also completely aroused your impatience. He is waiting for you to make a stupid move. He has caught your weakness." Zhang Ziyang is surprisingly sober, which may be due to the fact that he is in a situation.
Externally related.
"Well, I understand. Let's not talk about it. There were a few foreigners dancing that day, but they all live in Shanghai all year round. They cannot be the contacts from the Communist International that Dai Li mentioned." Lu Ming said.
Zhang Ziyang nodded and confirmed Lu Ming's statement. The foreigners present that day were indeed all regular customers of Paramount.
"Ms. Ning was found missing around 9:30 p.m. because the bodyguard checked his watch and found that Miss Ning had not come out twenty minutes after entering the bathroom. He quickly asked a dancer to go in and check, but found that there was no one in the bathroom. The bodyguard
They were always guarding outside the bathroom, and no one entered the bathroom during this period," Lu Ming said.
"This means that Miss Ning disappeared during these twenty minutes, and the bodyguard not far away heard nothing." Zhang Ziyang added.
"In this case, the kidnappers must have hidden in the bathroom first, and there were at least two of them, or more." Lu Ming said.
"Why can't it be one person?" Zhang Ziyang asked.
"Of course not. They should have seen that Miss Ning went with Mingzhu. If Mingzhu accompanied Miss Ning to the bathroom at that time, if there was only one kidnapper, the kidnapping would not be possible, because as long as one person shouts, the person outside the door will
The bodyguards will rush in. So I think there will be at least two people, and I don't even rule out three people." Lu Ming said.
Lu Ming believed that his judgment must be better than Zhang Ziyang's.
But when he said this, Lu Ming couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
According to usual habits, Mingzhu would accompany Ning Xiner to the bathroom. The two were always inseparable. However, at that time, Mingzhu happened to be very involved in chatting with an American.
In the past two years, because Mingzhu wanted to learn cryptography, she read a lot of original English books and became more interested in English. Unfortunately, she didn't have many opportunities to speak English, so she was practicing her oral English by chatting with the American that day.
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Precisely because of this, Mingzhu did not accompany Ning Xiner to the bathroom and accidentally escaped disaster, otherwise she would have been kidnapped together.
"Is it possible that the original targets of the kidnappers were Mingzhu and Ning Xiner. It happened that Mingzhu didn't go to the bathroom and they couldn't wait any longer, so they had to attack Ning Xiner alone?" Lu Ming expressed his thoughts.
Zhang Ziyang nodded and said: "This is very possible. Normally, if someone wants to deal with you, they will definitely attack Mingzhu. That is your weakness."
"But we don't rule out another possibility. The kidnappers have concerns. The side effects of kidnapping Mingzhu are too great and may be more than they can bear, so they target Ning Xiner." Lu Ming said.
"Of course this makes sense. We can't be sure of anything until we find the kidnapper. But now that Dai Li has set a trap for you, you must be more careful." Zhang Ziyang said.
"If you reason like this, then the kidnapper must be a woman. Men cannot hide in the women's bathroom for a long time. They have to consider the problems that will arise if they are discovered, which may expose their plan." Lu Ming said.
"Of course they committed the crime in a gang. There may be two or three people inside, and there must be support. They were outside the bathroom window. They destroyed the iron bars on the bathroom window and used the window as an escape route."
Zhang Ziyang thought this analysis was reasonable, so he followed Lu Ming's train of thought.
"But how can they be sure that Miss Ning will definitely go to the bathroom?" Lu Ming suddenly thought of a key question.
"This is normal, right? Dancers like to drink a lot of drinks or beers to replenish their fluids. It's normal to go to the bathroom once or twice a night. Haven't you noticed that the bathroom at Paramount is very busy at night?" Zhang Ziyang laughed.
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"That's not necessarily true. It's summer, and you'll sweat a lot. You'll sweat even more after dancing. Maybe the drinks you drank will be excreted by sweating, and you may not always go to the bathroom. If it's winter, that's it.
It's the situation you mentioned." Lu Ming said thoughtfully.
"You're right. Do we need to check again to see how many of the dancers went to the bathroom that day?" Zhang Ziyang said with a bitter smile.
"Haha, that's not necessary. The level of investigation like this is too low. I just think that if the kidnappers can complete the case so perfectly, it means that they have considered all the situations in advance. They can also think of everything we can think of.
I thought of it." Lu Ming said.
"Well, there is no doubt that the kidnappers were fully prepared. What conclusion did you draw from this?" Zhang Ziyang asked.
The scene of spending all night analyzing the case two years ago reappeared. The two people's ideas for dialogue are gradually coming closer, and a plan acceptable to both parties is about to be produced.