William didn't wait for a few minutes in the cafe when he saw a large group of policemen running into the cafe. After seeing that William was the only male, the group of policemen directly surrounded William.
Well, the person he was talking to on the phone was really cool, but I didn’t cause trouble in France, so why were the police looking for me?
"Mr. William Devonshire?" asked the middle-aged policeman with a beard at the head.
William nodded, "Mr. Police, is there anything I can do for you?"
"Mr. Devonshire, my name is Bezu Fache, the chief of the French Central Judicial Police. When did you and Jacques Saunière meet today? What time did you separate? Where were you from 6 to 8 o'clock after we separated?
"Local" Chief Bezu Fache asked.
William looked at Bezu Fache, and then at the French policemen around him. No one was showing off, and he said helplessly: "We met at this cafe at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and we separated after half an hour. After we separated, I went
I bought two Patek Philippe watches at the Patek Philippe store on the Champs-Élysées, and one of them is in my hand.”
William showed the Patek Philippe in his hand to Bezu Fahy. Bezu Fahy glanced at William's watch a few times and nodded. He was an old policeman and could tell at a glance that the Patek Philippe in William's hand was real. Look at the style.
It's definitely not cheap. Bezu Fache's suspicion of William is lessened. At least if William is the murderer, he will no longer stay outside the Louvre and wait for the police to come.
Bezu Fache motioned for William to continue, "After leaving Patek Philippe, I went shopping at the Eiffel Tower. I met two celebrities from Hong Kong Island who came to France to travel. I chatted with them until 7:30, then walked to the cafe and ordered dinner.
Then at 8:40, when I saw that the professor hadn’t come yet, I called him, and then you guys came.
Mr. Police, can I ask what is going on? Why is Professor Jacques Saunière not here? Is something wrong?"
Bezu Fache ignored William. He first asked his men to ask the waiter in the cafe, and also used the walkie-talkie to instruct the people in the surveillance center to check whether the surveillance cameras on the Champs Elysees and the Eiffel Tower Square had William's video. He waited.
A few minutes later, Bezu Fahey received a reply from the monitoring center confirming that William had evidence of alibi.
Bezu Fache hesitated and said to William: "Professor Jacques Saunière was murdered in the Louvre at about 7 o'clock this evening."
"What?" William was shocked. William stood up in surprise, and the wooden chair he was holding on made a creaking sound.
Bezu Fache and the surrounding policemen were startled by William. They looked at the chair back that was broken by William and swallowed in horror. Everyone felt terrified. How strong their hands must be to break the chair back. What if?
If it is pinched on a human body, the bones will be broken immediately.
William roared and shouted, "Damn it, tell me who did it," and he finally connected with Jacques Saunière. The man died within a few hours, which made him go there to find the secret that Henry told him.
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Then he thought about whether it could be the hostile forces mentioned in the letter Henry left him. Is this someone looking for the secret guarded by the Devonshire family?
Bezu Fache unconsciously touched his wrist and said calmly: "I don't know, I am also looking for the murderer. After entering our inspection, Professor Jacques Saunière used an invisibility potion to write on the ground before he died.
Yours and Professor Robert Langdon's names.
Now that your suspicion has just been cleared, the murderer can only be Robert Langdon. We have found Robert Langdon. I will reveal Robert Langdon's true identity at the scene and catch him in front of the victim's body.
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"You can leave, Mr. Devonshire, but I ask that you cannot leave France for the time being. I need to summon you at any time," Bezu Fache continued.
William would not just leave like this, he also wanted to try to see if he could find any clues on the professor's body.
"Can I follow you to see the professor? I just came to see him from Oxford today. Unexpectedly, the professor was murdered just a few hours after we were separated. I want to see you catch the murderer with my own eyes, and you said professor
Use the invisibility potion to write my name before you die. Maybe I can find something at the scene, officer, and maybe I can be of some help."
Bezu Fache thought for a while, and found that there were indeed William's initials on the scene, which meant that the professor had indeed thought of William before the emergency, and it was better to keep this guy closer to him.
He nodded and said: "Okay, Mr. Devonshire, you can follow me, but I hope you won't disturb my interrogation."
"No problem, I promise not to disturb your interrogation, I'll just watch from the sidelines," William promised hurriedly.
William followed Bezu Fache to the Louvre exhibition hall where Jacques Saunière was killed. It was his first time at the Louvre. He curiously looked at the huge oil paintings around him and asked: "Officer, these oil paintings are...
Is it true? This is the first time I have seen such a large oil painting. It must be seven or eight meters high,"
Bezu Fache looked at William with disgust, he was really a nouveau riche, and asked: "This is the Louvre, do you think these oil paintings are real or fake?"
When William nodded self-righteously, he then looked at these huge oil paintings with a look of obsession, looking at them like treasures, thinking silently in his heart, God, how much are these worth?
Fache looked at William with an idiotic expression and said, "Of course it's a lie. There are so many tourists here every day. They really have been put away long ago."
Damn it, you are such a weak soul. William stared at Fache angrily. This guy is really as hateful as he was on the phone.
Fache laughed and shrugged, it's just a nouveau riche like you who doesn't know how to pretend to understand.
Depressed, William followed Bezu Fache to the professor's body. William was shocked by the professor's appearance before his death.
I saw that Jacques Saunière was naked, with a five-pointed star drawn on his body, and a prominent mark under his left breast. This should be a fatal injury, but why did the murderer place the professor like this?
"God, why did the murderer arrange the professor like this and draw five stars on him? Is this some special ritual?"
Bezu Fache shook his head and said seriously: "You said it wasn't the murderer who did it, but the professor himself."
"What," William exclaimed, "why did he do that? What did he want to express?"
Bezu Fache held a fluorescent flashlight in his hand and shined it on the ground. Only a few lines of numbers and text appeared on the ground. However, before William could see clearly, a report from his subordinates came over Fache's walkie-talkie: Professor Langdon
After arriving, William had no choice but to follow Officer Fache and take the elevator to the ground to see Professor Langdon.
"Professor Langdon"
"Yes"
"Hello, professor, I'm Officer Bezu Fache." After the two shook hands, Fache saw Professor Langdon looking at the pyramid in front of the Louvre and asked, "Do you like the pyramid?"
Professor Langdon said: "It's spectacular"
Fache said with disgust: "It's just a scar on Paris's face."
William looked at Langdon dumbfounded. Isn't this Hanks? Hanks was very famous in his previous life, but for William, who was born in 1998, he had never seen many Hanks movies.
Furthermore, even if you have watched it for more than ten years, you can only remember the most impressive moments, and it is impossible to remember all the details. Which movie is this?
The dazed William was amused by Fache's words. Not all Parisians liked the pyramid in front of the Louvre. Many French people felt that it was right to erect such a modern glass pyramid in front of the ancient Louvre.
The damage done to the Louvre seems nondescript.
"This is William Devonshire. He is a good friend of Jacques Saunière. Saunière just called him from England to Paris a few hours ago. I asked him to come with you to assist in the investigation. Please come here.
Mr. Langdon."
The professor looked at William with an excited expression strangely, and nodded with a polite smile, which was considered a greeting. William remembered that this was the real world, and in order to avoid Fache from doubting him again, he didn't want to talk to Langdon at all right now.
say.
Everyone took the elevator down to the underground floor. Langdon saw an inverted pyramid and said happily: "This is an inverted pyramid. The two pyramids may correspond to each other. They are so special."
To ease the tension, Langdon said as he walked, "I'm just a historian and glyphist. The officer isn't sure I can help."
Fache curled his lips and thought, "I'm not asking you to help. How long have you known Professor Saunière?"
"Not long, we only met once, at an academic seminar," Langdon said, smiling awkwardly as he spoke.
"Is there anything funny?"
"We had great academic differences, and I was shocked when he called me later."
When the three of them walked to the elevator, Professor Langdon looked visibly nervous and said hesitantly, "Can we take the stairs?"
Fache, an impolite guy, didn't care about Langdon's opinion, so he walked into the elevator with William, stared at Langdon, and motioned for him to come in.
Langdon was so frightened by Fache that he had no choice but to walk into the elevator. After entering the elevator, Langdon looked very nervous, his expression was dull, his eyes were glassy, and he couldn't speak clearly. William and Fache looked at each other.
, both of them couldn't help but doubt Professor Langdon.