After Li Qianyu said this, he sat aside and stopped talking.
I opened the information she threw over, and there were a few pictures at the beginning, all of which were dead bodies, some lying down, some hanging, all of them looked very scary. If it hadn't been for the broad daylight, it would have been a bit scary.
I couldn't stand it. I waited until the numbness in my scalp passed, then glanced at Li Qianyu and then took a closer look.
Judging from the clothing and background environment, these corpses do not belong to the same era, and the time span is relatively large. The locations where they appear are also different.
The first photo is the oldest. The background seems to be in a gloomy ancient tomb that has never seen the light of day. There are some earthen jars around it. The corpse in the coffin is very fresh and seems to have just been buried. In other words, this photo was taken after the corpse.
Shortly after the burial, was it taken by a tomb robber?
I said to Li Qianyu: "Judging from the clothing, this person seems to be an official from the Ming Dynasty. He was still wearing official uniform when he was buried. The scars exposed above the collar show that this person's head and body were once separated and later spliced back together."
"
The second picture seems to be in a boudoir with blue bricks and white walls and carved window lattice. The antique Jiangnan style water town atmosphere is very strong. In this beautiful environment, a woman hanging from the beam is wearing a Qing Dynasty woman's dress.
She was wearing a huge flag head, and the silk tassels hanging on it were very messy. She stared, stuck out her tongue, and still raised her hands in pain, trying to grab the rope around her neck.
Li Qianyu seemed to be very familiar with these photos and said without even looking at them: "Judging from the shadows on both sides of the hanging woman's body, it shows that her body is still shaking. This photo was taken not long after she was hung."
That person is probably the murderer."
I said "hmm" and looked at the third picture. The background was also a room with strong characteristics of the Republic of China. A green lampshade, a dark red desk, an old-fashioned dial phone and a photo of Sun Yat-sen peeking out of a corner of the wall. This
In the picture, a middle-aged man, dressed in the attire of the Republic of China, had a bullet in his chest and was lying face down on the sofa.
The last photo is of a bathroom. There is a male corpse floating in the bathtub paved with cracked tiles. He is estimated to be in his thirties. The trendy Toto toilet next to it shows that this is a photo taken in
.
"What do you think?" Li Qianyu asked.
I was stunned for a moment and said: "What do I think? What does this make me think? Can you give me a little background story?"
Li Qianyu shook his head and said: "I just want to hear an outsider's opinion without preconceived ideas."
I looked up at her. A layman? Who are you talking about, the girl I fucked so badly? I didn't bother to argue with her, and said: "From the surface, these photos were not taken in the same era. The clothes were from the late Ming Dynasty.
From the Republic of China to modern times, everything is different. The same is true for the background behind it."
Li Qianyu muttered softly and said, "We all know this."
I smiled and said, "I didn't say that, this is just superficial. In fact, the time when these photos were taken is not too far apart."
"What?"
"First of all, the oldest photo here is of this person wearing Ming Dynasty costumes. However, the camera was invented in France in 1837 and was introduced to China around 1846. It would be a pity if this corpse was photographed shortly after death.
The camera hadn't been invented yet."
After a pause, I continued to point to one of the pictures and said: "Look at this hanging corpse. Although it is wearing clothes from the Kangxi and Yongzheng years of the Qing Dynasty, there are many flaws in it. The first one is the hairstyle. You
We know that clothing is easy to deceive, but few people will notice the hairstyle. Before the late Qianlong period, women's hairstyle was mainly "little two-headed hair". This female corpse has a flag head like a small blackboard
The headdress, formerly known as 'big wings', was invented by Cixi, an old lady who was deeply troubled by hair loss. If you don't think it's strange," I looked at Li Qianyu with a strange look and said, "then you must have been inspired by "Returning the Pearl"
TV series like "Gege" that don't respect history have been harmed."
Li Qianyu's face was slightly shy. I smiled secretly. Sure enough, even a woman with such evil intentions could not resist the temptation of Aunt Qiong Yao's sensational dramas. Then he said: "The second thing is the reflection on the window. This
It's obviously a glass window. The use of glass windows in Chinese civilian households only started after the Westernization Movement."
"You even care about the headwear of women in the Qing Dynasty?" Li Qianyu murmured.
"It's just that I used to be very curious and liked to find bugs in TV series. In fact, the biggest flaw in this photo is not the clothes or the glass window, but the woman's movements. You are also influenced by those bloody TV series. Actors on TV
After hanging, if the director still doesn't want her to hang the ball, he will always arrange for her to painfully grasp the rope with her hands, as if she still has a chance to take her head out of the knot. But the actual situation is that the hanged person only needs to lift his feet.
If you leave the cushion, the weight of your body will pull on the cervical spine and cause an instant dislocation. This will cause you to lose consciousness instantly, let alone use your hands to grab the rope."
Li Qianyu said: "You mean this woman didn't really hang herself?"
I nodded and said: "Yes, she must have been wearing a vest and hanging a wire. In other words, there was no pressure on her neck at all. She is just a fourth-rate actor who was trained by who knows which shitty drama school, and she can actually
They used the same tricks from school to fool us. Miss Xiaoyu, this photo is fake. From this point of view, I suspect that these photos are almost all fake deaths and all acting."
Li Qianyu stared at me with wide eyes. If her expression were used to perform hanging, it would definitely be much more realistic than the girl in the photo.
I continued, "This photo that looks like it was from the Republic of China era is even more problematic. The room is not big, and the sofa must be placed very close to the shooting location. When a person is shot in the chest at close range
, the body on the other side is not a hole as big as a gun, but a wound like a bowl. This is because the bullet rotates and tears while advancing in the human body. Therefore, the blood stains on the sofa appear to be too little.
"
Li Qianyu coughed and said nothing.
"And this last photo, the flaw mainly lies in the death condition of drowning..."
"Okay, that's enough," Li Qianyu interrupted me, "I know what you want to say. So according to you, these photos are fake and were taken with specific scenes and actors?"
"It should be. The key point is, why is it so mysterious? What is the purpose?" I lined up the four photos and said, "The focus of these photos is actually the appearance of the same marks around the dead bodies, right? It's this three-ring
Nested mark. When you say this is a curse, are you referring to it?" I pointed to the mark and said to Li Qianyu.
"Yes. When these photos were delivered to me, there was also a piece of paper attached. The text on it roughly means that wherever this mark appears, it means that someone there has crossed the line and a curse will befall him."
"Where's the paper?"
"It was thrown into the fireplace by Mr. Chen. But this piece of paper is made up of words cut from magazines and newspapers, and there is no handwriting visible."
I shook my head and said: "So, someone sent this information to you specifically, meaning that you have crossed the line and they are going to kill you? It also comes with these 'historical old photos' to illustrate the fate of those who crossed the line in the past.
Is this a curse?"
"Yes," Li Qianyu said, "but if you said these photos were forged by people with ulterior motives, then their purpose is to intimidate us."
I wondered, "It's strange. I remember that there was something like this painted on the wall in the secret room of Gu Zhixiong's seafood warehouse at No. 88 Nanle Road."
"What?" Li Qianyu said without knowing anything, "Is it there too?"
"Don't you know? So Boss Gu hasn't been to that warehouse for a long time?"
"It's not clear. At least I don't know. Now that place has been burned down. If you have seen the mark there, this is the third fire related to the mark."
"The third incident?" I said in surprise, wondering whether Mingying, who set the fire, had something to do with this mark?
No, Mingying was not the one who set the fire! She made it very clear that she brought the fire starter, but she was not the one who set the fire.
In other words, in addition to Mingying and Li Yanqing, there was a third person present at the time. And this person may be related to the three-ring nested mark.
Judging from Li Qianyu's expression and words, this person is probably a force opposing them.
I couldn't help but shudder, thinking: Could this person have anything to do with the mysterious organization that guards Qin Shihuang's mausoleum? I put the information aside, tried to sit up, and said to Li Qianyu: "We will talk about other information later. Yes.
Don’t have a car? I want to use one.”
After taking the car keys, I rushed to Nanle Road like a gust of wind. I found a courier company on the road, took a courier note and a parcel box, randomly packed some things in, wrote down a shipping address, and then
The recipient writes: No. 88, Nanle Road, Li Yanqing.
When I got there, I parked the car far away. I walked over and asked, and sure enough, Li Yanzheng was no longer working as a security guard there. I took the package and asked, "Do you know where this Li Yanzheng's home is? I'll send it to him.
."
For work like this kind of warehouse maintenance, you generally don’t find a specialized labor dispatch company. Instead, you find a few middle-aged laid-off workers nearby to do it. There is a high possibility that they are acquaintances. The new guy here
Not aware of the fraud, the security guard gave me Li Yanzheng's address.
I followed the address to find it, but I didn't go to Li Yanzheng's home. I just found an aunt nearby who looked about the same age as Li Yanzheng and said: "Hello, aunt, I am an inspector of the District Education Bureau. I want to tell you something.
I want to make a thorough investigation of my children’s education situation. Can you cooperate?”
The aunt was probably holding back her anger towards the school, so she hurriedly said in Shanghainese dialect: "Oh, you are finally here. The teachers in this school are really bad. Those of us who can't afford the money will not care if the teacher doesn't call us by name in class or after class."
, the children are no longer motivated to learn. How do you think they can be like this?"
"Is this the case? Auntie, don't worry, please speak slowly." I said patiently.
After listening to my aunt talking about a lot of hardships, I found an opportunity and said, "Auntie, I have written down everything you said. Which school is this? I will go and visit it on the spot."