Chapter 3 Chapter 2 The key is to extract the essentials
I laughed and said, "Bless you, when you look in the mirror, you always see a moth on your nose."
Chen Changqing laughed exaggeratedly: "Ha, Gou Gougeng"
In Vienna, Chen Changqing went according to that address, which was in a very quiet street, with exquisite buildings over a hundred years old on both sides, each with a different shape, and a small yard in front of it , even though the lawn is small, it looks extremely pleasing to the eye because it is very clean.
Chen Changqing was impatient, looked at the house number, found the address, pushed open the wooden gate outside the yard, and the wooden gate drove a series of bells, making a "ding ding" sound.
When he came to the front of the room, the door of the room was opened. The person who opened the door was an old woman with gray hair but ruddy complexion. The old woman was very clean and well-dressed, and her body was also very strong. When she saw Chen Changqing, Slightly surprised.
Chen Changqing first said: "A friend entrusted me to come here and use this key to get something."
As he spoke, he took out the key and the piece of paper with the address written on it by "the damn skinny man".
The old woman nodded when she saw it: "Are you a friend of Mr. Zong He?"
Chen Changqing didn't know who "Mr. Zong He" was, and it must be a pseudonym of the thin man, so he agreed and followed the old woman into the house.
The furniture and furnishings in the house are very old, but they are all well maintained.And tidy and clean.The old woman first asked Chen Changqing to sit down, and Chen Changqing said: "There is an ivory box—"
He was eager to open the box, but the old woman made a gesture and interrupted him: "Please sit down first."
She turned around on her own, searched for a while in a drawer of a cabinet, and took out a transparent plastic clip, in which was a scrap of paper.
As soon as Chen Changqing saw the scrap of paper, he knew what it was for.Because in his hand, there was a hole in the middle of the piece of paper with the address written on it, which was folded in half first, and then torn off at will. Now, the small piece of paper that the old lady took out is naturally for comparison. Let's see if people are really entrusted here.
Sure enough, the old woman went to Chen Changqing, took out the small piece of paper, and put it in the middle of the paper, it fit perfectly and fit perfectly.The old woman nodded: "You are indeed sent by Mr. Zong He—"
At this time, the old woman was a little sad: "Mr. Zonghe said that if someone came with this piece of paper, something must have happened to him, he... what happened to him, sir?"
Chen Changqing said: "You are his—"
The old woman raised her head: "He is my tenant. He rented a room from me, but he seldom lives in it. However, he is a good man, a very lonely good man."
It seemed that the old woman had no idea that this "lonely good man" was a world-famous killer!This key may be able to reveal the secret of the killer's life.
I searched the house and found no boxes. Chen Changqing didn't explain the thin man's identity. The old woman was still saying, "He paid my rent for 30 years at once, so even if he's not here, I still leave the room for him." .”
Chen Changqing thought to himself, the skinny man is really smart, leaving important things here and spending a little money to make a loyal old woman watch over him, that is really nothing more secure than putting them in the bank's vault. It's much more secure.
The old woman asked again: "Mr. Zong He—"
Chen Changqing lied casually: "He's fine, and he's living happily in a ranch in Australia."
The old woman breathed a sigh of relief: "But he once told me that if someone comes, he will be fine."
Chen Changqing ignored it, and said again: "That box──"
The old woman said: "I don't know what box it is, I think it is in his room, I will lead you into his room."
Chen Changqing was quite impatient, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay."
The old woman led him up the stairs, and when she reached a door, she opened it. It was a rather spacious bedroom with curtains on the windows, so the light was very soft. The furnishings in the room were quite simple. A bed, an antique desk--the kind with a semicircular cover that can be pulled down, a line of wardrobes, an easy chair.
The old woman said: "Mr. Zong He said that no matter what kind of person comes, he can use this room as he pleases, please go ahead."
As she spoke, she backed out and closed the door behind her.
Chen Changqing didn't even delay for a second. He first lifted the round cover of the desk, then opened the drawer, and then opened the cabinet. There were still several sets of clothes hanging in the closet, and there was a smell of mothproof pills.
Ten minutes later, Chen Changqing had finished the search process, and there was really nothing to look for. However, there was no "ivory inlaid box" as mentioned in the thin man's will.
Chen Changqing was stunned for a while, thinking about what to do.
He only knew that there was a box like that, but he had no idea how big or what shape that box was.
If the box was rather small, had it been taken by the old woman?
But intuitively, the old woman didn't seem like someone who took other people's things without authorization.So, Chen Changqing began to search for the second time, this time he searched more carefully, and carefully knocked on the wall of the cabinet, and removed the two prints hanging on the wall—the glass etching with thin green strips, which depicts thunder and lightning. The wilderness under the addition looks very desolate and terrifying.
However, after twenty minutes, it was still not found.
Chen Changqing couldn't help being a little annoyed, and muttered a few curses, thinking that this might be the last humor of a professional murderer all his life?Are you kidding someone?Just like before Jin Shengtan was beheaded, he left behind the "secret recipe" that "dried tofu and peanuts taste like ham"?
The mirror box reflected the wooden box's hiding place. When he thought of this, his heart suddenly moved again, and he was awed by it.He thought that the thin man is a killer, so he naturally knows that he can be killed at any time, and the person who can find the will and the key on him is likely to be the one who killed him (this is exactly the case now).So, did he take advantage of human curiosity and take revenge after death?
A box, if there is something strange inside, it is too simple to kill the person who opened the box. At least, there are more than a thousand ways to achieve this goal.
If this is the case, hiding the box in a very secret place, so that people can't wait to open it after finding it, is also a method of psychological tactics.
Thinking of this, Chen Changqing felt a little sweat on his nose. He opened the bathroom door and drenched his face with cold water in front of the washbasin. When he raised his head, he saw the mirror box hanging on the washbasin and the wall. He was stunned for a while.
There is nothing special about the mirror box, but there is a small circle engraved on the upper left corner of the mirror, and the engraved small circle is painted with black, which is very obvious.And in that small circle, what is reflected is a small part of a wall on the left side of the bathroom.
The whole bathroom is covered with white square tiles, and that corner is no exception, but why point it out in the mirror?
Chen Changqing turned around and came to the wall. That part was within his reach. He punched hard on that part twice, and found the sound was a bit hollow, but the tiles did not fall off.
Chen Changqing took out a multi-purpose knife from his trouser pocket with his backhand—he always carries some weird tools around him, and that multi-purpose knife was specially customized by him, and it has a wide range of uses, so it is impossible to check them one by one at this time. The fine watch, when you want to use it, I will introduce it in detail.
He used the small knife to pry that part of the tile, and after a while, he got a tile with a square of 20 centimeters. Sure enough, there was a hole behind the tile, and he also immediately saw that there was a hole in the tile. In the hollow, there is a wooden box, on the visible side, inlaid with oriental ivory patterns!
When he was talking about this, I interrupted him: "Wait a minute, you have thought that the box may be the murderer's revenge after death, so the process of taking out the box may be equally dangerous." Chen Changqing laughed "haha" and said: "Let me tell you an old joke. There was a man whose wife gave birth prematurely and gave birth to a baby at seven months. He was very worried that the child would not grow up—" I sighed, knowing I was talking too much and getting into trouble again.This old joke is really old-fashioned, but at this moment, it is more difficult than anything else to prevent Chen Changqing from finishing it, so I had to take a big sip of wine and listen to him proudly say: "Later, a person told He: It doesn't matter, my grandfather was born in seven months, the man hurriedly asked: Has your grandfather been raised yet? I let out two "haha" laughs, and Chen Changqing said: "Be more gracious. I am alive, which proves that A: I am careful; B has no mechanism at all." To avoid being tricked into opening the box, I snorted: "Please stop talking nonsense."
When Chen Changqing saw the box, he also thought of the point I mentioned, so he removed the rod for hanging the curtains, carefully inserted into the hole, and pushed the box out. The box was not big, about the size of an ordinary cigar box. When the box was about to fall from the hole, Chen Changqing backed up to the door, quickly closed the door with one hand, and shot the pole in his hand at the same time. In this way, if there were some high explosives, nitroglycerin and other things in the box that exploded due to the shock, the possibility of him being injured through a door was naturally very small. After closing the door, he heard the sound of the pole and the box falling together. After a minute or two, there was no movement, and he opened the door again. The box fell on the ground. Chen Changqing went over and picked it up. It was just an ordinary wooden box, possibly an antique, but nothing unusual.The keyhole portion of the box, apparently modified to fit the magnetic key. At this time, Chen Changqing was even more puzzled, because there was really no need for such a wooden box to be equipped with any delicate locks. Even without using any tools, a person with a little karate training could split the box in one fell swoop. open. And in such a box, such a lock is actually installed, which is naturally very strange. The killing method of the "deadly thin man" is famous for using various small weapons and various highly poisonous poisons. The weapons he uses are all made by himself. Craftsmanship, it is too easy to make some murderous tricks in it.
When Chen Changqing talked about this, he looked over at me again, and I said coldly: "I know, your first thought was not to dare to open it by yourself, contact me first, and listen to my idea before speaking." Chen Changqing said: "You arrogant man." I sneered: "Do you dare to say that you have never thought of such a thing?" Chen Changqing swallowed a mouthful of saliva and remained silent for a long while, obviously he hit my point.After a while, he said: "If you can't make a decision by yourself, it's nothing to listen to your friends' opinions." I laughed: "It's nothing at all, if you want to deny it, it's nothing." Chen Changqing waved his hand: "But after all, I came up with a very proper solution, can you guess it?" I said: "What the hell is a proper method? I think there is no mechanism in the box." Chen Changqing said "ha": "You are only half right." He was still waiting for me to guess again, but I rolled my eyes and ignored him. After waiting for a while, he felt that he was bored before continuing.
Chen Changqing's "proper method" is really only someone like him who can think of it. He put a bucket full of water in the bathtub, and then submerged the box in the water. There is a killing device in the box. According to him, if you open the box and spray some poisonous mist, it will naturally have no effect in the water. If you shoot some poisonous needle, the force will be greatly slowed down in the water. Even if it explodes, it's always better. Naturally, before this, he also considered using the safest method to get the box open, such as finding a sealed place, using a mechanical arm to open the box, and so on.But he pursued excitement and wanted to test his courage and judgment, so he adopted his "proper method". Naturally, he was still very careful. Using his utility knife, he sawed a slit in the bathroom curtain rod, embedded the key in it, and then managed to get the floating wooden box out of the water with heavy weights. The object was pressed against the bottom of the bathtub, holding the pole, and inserted the key into the lock hole. Once inserted, the lid of the box flicked up. Because there was a heavy object on the box, the lid of the box was not opened. Chen Changqing used a pole to remove the heavy object on the box, and then the lid was opened. There is really a strange thing inside the box. The space inside is about It is only one-fifth of the size of the box. It is in the center of the box, and the four sides of the space are all very delicate devices. If you look through the water, you can see it very clearly. Among the two devices, there are flashes hidden. There are sharp blue needles, and there is a small iron pipe hidden in it, and I don't know what it is. Chen Changqing felt a little nervous. For a moment, he didn't know what to do, but at this moment, a piece of paper folded into a square floated up in the space in the center of the box. Chen Changqing hurriedly picked it up, opened it, and there was something written on the note, which was written in the handwriting of "terrible skinny man". The note read as follows: "Friend, I am glad that you have the intelligence to find this box and the courage to open it. You will be the right person. The box, if it is not a key, can be opened by the right method." Open it, and all the killing devices in the box will be activated, and it will be absolutely safe to open it with a key. My friend, here is another key, and another address. You must use your intelligence and courage to make another long journey. What you will gain in the end, I can't tell you, but I very much hope that you will not give up. The place you are going to is—" The following is an address, which is a very famous island on the west coast of Malaysia: Penang. After Chen Changqing looked at it, he stayed for a while, then reached into the water and picked up another key, which looked similar to the one that could open the box. Chen Changqing closed the lid of the box, took it out of the water, put the tiles on it again, and then moved the position of the mirror box slightly.That way, that hole won't be discovered again. In that box, there are many devices that can kill people. Chen Changqing took it and found Chen Dao and Liang Ruoshui. In their residence, while chatting, they put the box in the fireplace and piled it up The firewood ignited, leaving only metal objects. The trip to Penang is very important. He called me from Chen Dao. On the phone, he said that he would go to Penang immediately. Although his experience in Vienna was quite simple, he had to talk about it on the long-distance call. It is incomprehensible. The meeting between Chen Changqing, Chen Dao and Liang Ruoshui was a very pleasant experience. When Chen Changqing talked about it, his eyebrows were beaming, and he said: "They are engaged in the research of human brain activity, which is actually similar to the adventure I had earlier. , a lot of connection." When he said this, he showed a mysterious look again.He once said that he would tell me about his adventure only if I begged him, but I didn't ask him, so although he kept blinking, he couldn't come up with any other way. Let’s first look at what happened to Chuang after he left Vienna and arrived in Penang.
Penang is also a very beautiful place, and its airport is even larger than the airport in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.But Chen Changqing had no intention of enjoying the scenery. According to his later statement, as soon as he caught the key, he had a wonderful feeling in his heart, feeling that the key was not only related to a very mysterious thing, but also had a very close relationship with him. Relationship. He also said that his erratic and elusive sixth sense, but it did happen again, can be pushed back to the time when he listened to me about this key.Otherwise, it is considered that he is a person who is practicing "not moving".It is absolutely impossible for my words to touch his heart. Chen Changqing sometimes speaks exaggeratedly, so there is no need to study it in detail, but he is really serious and impatient, and he really feels that this key will have a certain relationship with him, which is believable. As for why a key from one of the top three professional killers in the world was related to Chen Changqing, he couldn't say it. When he mentioned his sixth sense, I once asked this question. We were drinking each other at that time. He stared at him, swung his glass with a "hum", and said: "In the world, even in the universe, Any seemingly unrelated people, things, and things can be related under certain circumstances, and there is a huge invisible force operating and operating this connection." While applauding, I said, "Try to illustrate with an example." Chen Changqing took a sip of the wine: "I just took a sip of the wine. Are the grapes that make the wine related to me? Are the people who grow the grapes, the people who make the wine related to me? Are the people who made this wine glass related to me?" ? But when I drink this wine, they are related to me, why, I can't tell." I couldn't help but look at him differently, because what he said was indeed not easy to refute, so I had no choice but to believe that he did have such a sixth sense at the time. At that time, Chen Changqing didn't understand why he had such a feeling at all. He just felt that this key, the trip to Penang, was very important to him in an erratic feeling. The killer's relics were left in the back alley. So, as soon as he got off the plane, he called a car and went straight to the address left by the "skinny man". He didn't bother to study the places the taxi passed by, but there were some open spaces where a stage was set up, and the gongs and drums were being played, which left a deep impression on him. In less than half an hour, the taxi stopped in an alley, and the driver pointed to the narrow alley: "The place you are going to is in this alley. The car can't drive in, so you have to get off here." Chen Changqing took a look at the alley. The alley was indeed very narrow and very dark. He felt very strange in his heart. The "skinny man" had a good career as a killer. Why put important things in such a place?But then he thought, this might be his cleverness, who would have thought that there was a secret of a big killer hidden in such an inconspicuous alley?Like the streets of Vienna. He got out of the car and walked into this alley. There was a very dilapidated sign on the alley, which said the name of this alley, which was the address left by the "skinny man".As soon as he walked into the alley, he felt that the alley was very strange. Generally speaking, on both sides of a narrow alley, there are naturally unremarkable houses, which must not be where rich people live, and must have all the characteristics of a back alley no matter where it is. But on both sides of this alley, there are quite high walls.It is still a very elegant high wall, with Chinese-style eaves tiles on the top of the wall, that kind of dark gray that is close to black, in the cracks of the eaves tiles, there are various weeds growing, and there are many chalk on the wall. It has peeled off and is covered with a thick, green moss. It was hard for Chen Changqing to imagine what kind of building was behind the high wall. It looked like a temple, or a ancestral hall or a guild hall. Chen Changqing didn't pay much attention, because his destination was that address, and he soon discovered that there was a door in the middle of the alley.It was the only door in the whole alley. The door is quite narrow, painted with dark green and thick paint, it looks inconspicuous, when Chen Changqing stood still in front of the door, sure that he was going to use that key to open the door, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Because the original owner of the key, "Fat Slender Man" is a legendary professional killer, what he will find after entering this door is really unpredictable. Moreover, the high walls on both sides of the alley looked ancient and mysterious, as if they contained infinite mysteries. He reached out and touched the door first, and the tentacles felt cool. The door was made of metal, and it looked very solid.Chen Changqing has already taken the key.That key is not ordinary, it is the kind that is magnetically treated, it is absolutely difficult to imitate, and there must be a lock that has also been magnetically treated to match it.Such cutting-edge products of modern technology do not match this ancient and dark alley very well, giving people a weird feeling.What surprised Chen Changqing even more was that when he was looking for the keyhole in the usual place, he found that there was no keyhole on the door at all. There is no building outside the high wall. There is no keyhole on the door, so what is the use of the key?The metal door was very smooth on the surface, and there was no handle. He pushed hard a few times, but the door didn't move. The sound showed that the door was quite thick, so thick that when Chen Changqing knocked, it felt like he was knocking on a huge safe. The purpose of Chen Changqing knocking on the door was naturally to hope that someone would answer the door, but after ten minutes, he knew that was impossible.At this time, he had only two choices. One was to go out of the alley, go around the high wall, and find another entrance, because the door in the alley seemed to be just a side door, and there should be another main door.Another way is to assume that there is a keyhole in the door, but it is quite hidden, and he will try to find the hidden lock.
When Chen Changqing told me about his experience in detail afterward, he stopped for a while and asked me: "If it were you, Wesley, what would you do?" I thought for a while: "I'll look for the keyhole first." Chen Changqing nodded: "Me too." I said again: "However, even if you can't find the keyhole, you can still look for the main entrance. Therefore, the action of looking for the keyhole should not be too careful, and it will probably not succeed, right?" Chen Changqing nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, I searched for about fifteen minutes, but I didn't find it, so I gave up." I smiled: "That's normal."
Chen Changqing spent fifteen minutes, but failed to find the keyhole on the door, and went through the alley.After he got out of the alley, he discovered that the high walls on both sides belonged to the same row of buildings. For some reason, such an alley was left behind when it was built. (Later, he learned that this is a feature of old Chinese buildings, which actually has the function of fire prevention, and can also make the whole building look less dull.) He went out of the alley, turned right, went around two corners, and came to a fairly wide street. At the same time, he saw the main entrance, which was very large, and there was no door at all. It was just an entrance where people came and went. , going in and out, very lively, completely different from the gloomy alley, Chen Changqing immediately found that it was a market with various stalls, conducting various transactions. The original building no longer exists. It may be a temple because there are still stone steps. At this time, there are many people sitting on the steps, eating all kinds of food bought from the stall with relish. Seeing this situation, Chen Changqing couldn't help being stunned. Apart from the high walls, there were no other buildings in the visible range, and there were only simple scaffolds erected by vendors. Since there are no buildings, even if you open the door in the alley, you can only enter the square where there are many vendors. What kind of joke is "Skinny Man" talking about? The first thing Chen Changqing thinks of is that the "skinny" arranged the key many years ago, for example, twenty or thirty years ago, and in these days, great changes have taken place here. The "thin man" didn't know. But he immediately denied his thoughts. Firstly, this kind of magnetic key is a new technology that has only appeared in the past three to five years. After arranging a very important matter, you must never come to check it out for decades. Chen Changqing knew that there must be a key point that he couldn't figure out.He was mixed in the crowd and walked towards the high wall. When he came to the wall, he found that the wall was full of all kinds of sundries piled up by the vendors, which was very filthy. It was full of oily sewage, and the smell was very unpleasant. And Chen Changqing also saw the door immediately! The door looked fairly new in the alley, but on the other side it looked rusty and worn.Beside that door, there is a pillar protruding about one meter, square, as high as the wall. There are at least a dozen of the same pillars on the high wall, and the pillars can be seen to be made of bricks, because the broken red bricks are exposed on the pillars.The buildings here must have been very splendid back then, but that may have happened hundreds of years ago. Chen Changqing stayed for a while longer, thinking that he had guessed well, even if he opened the door, he would only come here, and there were still many sundries piled up against the door. Those sundries messed up his head and face, the "skinny" joke really hit home.
When Chen Changqing was talking about this, he asked me again: "Wesley, if it was you instead, would you give up?" Looking at his triumphant look, knowing that he will gain something later, who would answer "give up"?Sometimes Chen Changqing became stupid, but he was stupid enough. I shook my head and didn't bother to speak. However, Chen Changqing continued to ask: "Why? I have no brains to move at all." I said: "It's because you don't use your brain, not that you don't have any brains. You only need to think about it for a while, and you will know that the 'skinny man' would not be in the mood to make such a joke. A professional killer, his life is in danger every day. How can you make such a silly joke with others." As I said that, I glared at him a few times, meaning that only people like him would do such boring things. Chen Changqing didn't pay attention, and waved his hand: "Don't speculate, but reason based on the circumstances at that time." I snorted, he was testing me, I thought for a while, and said: "You once said that in the alley, you used to knock on the door for a long time?" Chen Changqing didn't answer, and immediately widened his eyes, showing a very surprised expression.I knew that I had hit the point of the matter, so I didn't say anything, just made a gesture asking him to continue. Chen Changqing sighed for no reason before continuing. What Chen Changqing thought of at that time, separated by a wall like two days, was the same as what I thought. When he was in the alley, he once slammed on the door hard, and felt that the sound was very solid, and the door seemed to be very thick. No matter what, there was a market behind the door, and there were many people there. He knocked on the door for a long time, and someone would definitely hear it and respond, but in fact, when he knocked on the door, there was absolutely no response. This shows that the door in the alley is weird.The door in the alley was not the same as the door in front of him at this moment. If two doors of different shapes are very close to each other and separated by a wall, unless someone can see both sides of the wall at the same time, otherwise, in terms of feeling, they must think that they are the same door. All of this, of course, is the work of "Skinny Man," who made the door look useless, that no one would care if it had been closed for years, and that no one cared how to open it. It's as inconspicuous as trash. And there is naturally another world inside, at that time, Chen Changqing also thought that the mystery is naturally on the protruding stone pillar. The place that a door can lead to is naturally a space. However, a space can be large or small, leading to a mansion, or it can lead to a very small space that can only hold a fist or something. Thinking of this, Chen Changqing was very excited. He immediately went back to the alley and came to the door. When he passed a small stall selling tools, he bought a small hoe. He used the small hoe to knock on the door inch by inch. It took him about half an hour. Fortunately, the alley was very quiet, separated by a wall, like two worlds, no one passed by at all. Otherwise, when people saw Chen Changqing knocking on the door with a hoe, they would definitely think that he was out of his mind. When the small hoe was struck, the sound it made was very solid. Only when it was struck in the lower left corner, near the ground, could there be a different sound.Chen Changqing chose the upper right corner to start typing, so it was not until the end that he found what he was looking for. At this time, he couldn't help laughing wryly, lamenting that good luck made people, if he had chosen the lower left corner from the beginning, then, within about a minute, he would have discovered something. He used his special knife to scrape off that part of the thick paint, and the keyhole was revealed. It looked like a small safe embedded in the concrete pillar. Although this alley is remote, there are always some people coming and going, but no one would ever think that there will be a small safe in such a place, which can be said to be extremely hidden.At this time, Chen Changqing couldn't help thinking of the story of the treasures of the Salt Gang north of the Yangtze River in China. Everyone knew that the Salt Gang had a large amount of gold hidden in Changzhou, but even after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they caused a massacre in Yangzhou— ─The famous "Yangzhou Ten Days" in the history books did not find any gold. Later, people didn't know until a small stone bridge with tens of millions of people passing by every day was suddenly demolished overnight.
When he was talking about this, I interrupted him: "Wait a minute, you have thought that the box may be the murderer's revenge after death, so the process of taking out the box may be equally dangerous." Chen Changqing laughed "haha" and said: "Let me tell you an old joke. There was a man whose wife gave birth prematurely and gave birth to a baby at seven months. He was very worried that the child would not grow up—" I sighed, knowing I was talking too much and getting into trouble again.This old joke is really old-fashioned, but at this moment, it is more difficult than anything else to prevent Chen Changqing from finishing it, so I had to take a big sip of wine and listen to him proudly say: "Later, a person told He: It doesn't matter, my grandfather was born in seven months, the man hurriedly asked: Has your grandfather been raised yet? I let out two "haha" laughs, and Chen Changqing said: "Be more gracious. I am alive, which proves that A: I am careful; B has no mechanism at all." To avoid being tricked into opening the box, I snorted: "Please stop talking nonsense."
When Chen Changqing saw the box, he also thought of the point I mentioned, so he removed the rod for hanging the curtains, carefully inserted into the hole, and pushed the box out. The box was not big, about the size of an ordinary cigar box. When the box was about to fall from the hole, Chen Changqing backed up to the door, quickly closed the door with one hand, and shot the pole in his hand at the same time. In this way, if there were some high explosives, nitroglycerin and other things in the box that exploded due to the shock, the possibility of him being injured through a door was naturally very small. After closing the door, he heard the sound of the pole and the box falling together. After a minute or two, there was no movement, and he opened the door again. The box fell on the ground. Chen Changqing went over and picked it up. It was just an ordinary wooden box, possibly an antique, but nothing unusual.The keyhole portion of the box, apparently modified to fit the magnetic key. At this time, Chen Changqing was even more puzzled, because there was really no need for such a wooden box to be equipped with any delicate locks. Even without using any tools, a person with a little karate training could split the box in one fell swoop. open. And in such a box, such a lock is actually installed, which is naturally very strange. The killing method of the "deadly thin man" is famous for using various small weapons and various highly poisonous poisons. The weapons he uses are all made by himself. Craftsmanship, it is too easy to make some murderous tricks in it.
When Chen Changqing talked about this, he looked over at me again, and I said coldly: "I know, your first thought was not to dare to open it by yourself, contact me first, and listen to my idea before speaking." Chen Changqing said: "You arrogant man." I sneered: "Do you dare to say that you have never thought of such a thing?" Chen Changqing swallowed a mouthful of saliva and remained silent for a long while, obviously he hit my point.After a while, he said: "If you can't make a decision by yourself, it's nothing to listen to your friends' opinions." I laughed: "It's nothing at all, if you want to deny it, it's nothing." Chen Changqing waved his hand: "But after all, I came up with a very proper solution, can you guess it?" I said: "What the hell is a proper method? I think there is no mechanism in the box." Chen Changqing said "ha": "You are only half right." He was still waiting for me to guess again, but I rolled my eyes and ignored him. After waiting for a while, he felt that he was bored before continuing.
Chen Changqing's "proper method" is really only someone like him who can think of it. He put a bucket full of water in the bathtub, and then submerged the box in the water. There is a killing device in the box. According to him, if you open the box and spray some poisonous mist, it will naturally have no effect in the water. If you shoot some poisonous needle, the force will be greatly slowed down in the water. Even if it explodes, it's always better. Naturally, before this, he also considered using the safest method to get the box open, such as finding a sealed place, using a mechanical arm to open the box, and so on.But he pursued excitement and wanted to test his courage and judgment, so he adopted his "proper method". Naturally, he was still very careful. Using his utility knife, he sawed a slit in the bathroom curtain rod, embedded the key in it, and then managed to get the floating wooden box out of the water with heavy weights. The object was pressed against the bottom of the bathtub, holding the pole, and inserted the key into the lock hole. Once inserted, the lid of the box flicked up. Because there was a heavy object on the box, the lid of the box was not opened. Chen Changqing used a pole to remove the heavy object on the box, and then the lid was opened. There is really a strange thing inside the box. The space inside is about It is only one-fifth of the size of the box. It is in the center of the box, and the four sides of the space are all very delicate devices. If you look through the water, you can see it very clearly. Among the two devices, there are flashes hidden. There are sharp blue needles, and there is a small iron pipe hidden in it, and I don't know what it is. Chen Changqing felt a little nervous. For a moment, he didn't know what to do, but at this moment, a piece of paper folded into a square floated up in the space in the center of the box. Chen Changqing hurriedly picked it up, opened it, and there was something written on the note, which was written in the handwriting of "terrible skinny man". The note read as follows: "Friend, I am glad that you have the intelligence to find this box and the courage to open it. You will be the right person. The box, if it is not a key, can be opened by the right method." Open it, and all the killing devices in the box will be activated, and it will be absolutely safe to open it with a key. My friend, here is another key, and another address. You must use your intelligence and courage to make another long journey. What you will gain in the end, I can't tell you, but I very much hope that you will not give up. The place you are going to is—" The following is an address, which is a very famous island on the west coast of Malaysia: Penang. After Chen Changqing looked at it, he stayed for a while, then reached into the water and picked up another key, which looked similar to the one that could open the box. Chen Changqing closed the lid of the box, took it out of the water, put the tiles on it again, and then moved the position of the mirror box slightly.That way, that hole won't be discovered again. In that box, there are many devices that can kill people. Chen Changqing took it and found Chen Dao and Liang Ruoshui. In their residence, while chatting, they put the box in the fireplace and piled it up The firewood ignited, leaving only metal objects. The trip to Penang is very important. He called me from Chen Dao. On the phone, he said that he would go to Penang immediately. Although his experience in Vienna was quite simple, he had to talk about it on the long-distance call. It is incomprehensible. The meeting between Chen Changqing, Chen Dao and Liang Ruoshui was a very pleasant experience. When Chen Changqing talked about it, his eyebrows were beaming, and he said: "They are engaged in the research of human brain activity, which is actually similar to the adventure I had earlier. , a lot of connection." When he said this, he showed a mysterious look again.He once said that he would tell me about his adventure only if I begged him, but I didn't ask him, so although he kept blinking, he couldn't come up with any other way. Let’s first look at what happened to Chuang after he left Vienna and arrived in Penang.
Penang is also a very beautiful place, and its airport is even larger than the airport in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.But Chen Changqing had no intention of enjoying the scenery. According to his later statement, as soon as he caught the key, he had a wonderful feeling in his heart, feeling that the key was not only related to a very mysterious thing, but also had a very close relationship with him. Relationship. He also said that his erratic and elusive sixth sense, but it did happen again, can be pushed back to the time when he listened to me about this key.Otherwise, it is considered that he is a person who is practicing "not moving".It is absolutely impossible for my words to touch his heart. Chen Changqing sometimes speaks exaggeratedly, so there is no need to study it in detail, but he is really serious and impatient, and he really feels that this key will have a certain relationship with him, which is believable. As for why a key from one of the top three professional killers in the world was related to Chen Changqing, he couldn't say it. When he mentioned his sixth sense, I once asked this question. We were drinking each other at that time. He stared at him, swung his glass with a "hum", and said: "In the world, even in the universe, Any seemingly unrelated people, things, and things can be related under certain circumstances, and there is a huge invisible force operating and operating this connection." While applauding, I said, "Try to illustrate with an example." Chen Changqing took a sip of the wine: "I just took a sip of the wine. Are the grapes that make the wine related to me? Are the people who grow the grapes, the people who make the wine related to me? Are the people who made this wine glass related to me?" ? But when I drink this wine, they are related to me, why, I can't tell." I couldn't help but look at him differently, because what he said was indeed not easy to refute, so I had no choice but to believe that he did have such a sixth sense at the time. At that time, Chen Changqing didn't understand why he had such a feeling at all. He just felt that this key, the trip to Penang, was very important to him in an erratic feeling. The killer's relics were left in the back alley. So, as soon as he got off the plane, he called a car and went straight to the address left by the "skinny man". He didn't bother to study the places the taxi passed by, but there were some open spaces where a stage was set up, and the gongs and drums were being played, which left a deep impression on him. In less than half an hour, the taxi stopped in an alley, and the driver pointed to the narrow alley: "The place you are going to is in this alley. The car can't drive in, so you have to get off here." Chen Changqing took a look at the alley. The alley was indeed very narrow and very dark. He felt very strange in his heart. The "skinny man" had a good career as a killer. Why put important things in such a place?But then he thought, this might be his cleverness, who would have thought that there was a secret of a big killer hidden in such an inconspicuous alley?Like the streets of Vienna. He got out of the car and walked into this alley. There was a very dilapidated sign on the alley, which said the name of this alley, which was the address left by the "skinny man".As soon as he walked into the alley, he felt that the alley was very strange. Generally speaking, on both sides of a narrow alley, there are naturally unremarkable houses, which must not be where rich people live, and must have all the characteristics of a back alley no matter where it is. But on both sides of this alley, there are quite high walls.It is still a very elegant high wall, with Chinese-style eaves tiles on the top of the wall, that kind of dark gray that is close to black, in the cracks of the eaves tiles, there are various weeds growing, and there are many chalk on the wall. It has peeled off and is covered with a thick, green moss. It was hard for Chen Changqing to imagine what kind of building was behind the high wall. It looked like a temple, or a ancestral hall or a guild hall. Chen Changqing didn't pay much attention, because his destination was that address, and he soon discovered that there was a door in the middle of the alley.It was the only door in the whole alley. The door is quite narrow, painted with dark green and thick paint, it looks inconspicuous, when Chen Changqing stood still in front of the door, sure that he was going to use that key to open the door, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Because the original owner of the key, "Fat Slender Man" is a legendary professional killer, what he will find after entering this door is really unpredictable. Moreover, the high walls on both sides of the alley looked ancient and mysterious, as if they contained infinite mysteries. He reached out and touched the door first, and the tentacles felt cool. The door was made of metal, and it looked very solid.Chen Changqing has already taken the key.That key is not ordinary, it is the kind that is magnetically treated, it is absolutely difficult to imitate, and there must be a lock that has also been magnetically treated to match it.Such cutting-edge products of modern technology do not match this ancient and dark alley very well, giving people a weird feeling.What surprised Chen Changqing even more was that when he was looking for the keyhole in the usual place, he found that there was no keyhole on the door at all. There is no building outside the high wall. There is no keyhole on the door, so what is the use of the key?The metal door was very smooth on the surface, and there was no handle. He pushed hard a few times, but the door didn't move. The sound showed that the door was quite thick, so thick that when Chen Changqing knocked, it felt like he was knocking on a huge safe. The purpose of Chen Changqing knocking on the door was naturally to hope that someone would answer the door, but after ten minutes, he knew that was impossible.At this time, he had only two choices. One was to go out of the alley, go around the high wall, and find another entrance, because the door in the alley seemed to be just a side door, and there should be another main door.Another way is to assume that there is a keyhole in the door, but it is quite hidden, and he will try to find the hidden lock.
When Chen Changqing told me about his experience in detail afterward, he stopped for a while and asked me: "If it were you, Wesley, what would you do?" I thought for a while: "I'll look for the keyhole first." Chen Changqing nodded: "Me too." I said again: "However, even if you can't find the keyhole, you can still look for the main entrance. Therefore, the action of looking for the keyhole should not be too careful, and it will probably not succeed, right?" Chen Changqing nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, I searched for about fifteen minutes, but I didn't find it, so I gave up." I smiled: "That's normal."
Chen Changqing spent fifteen minutes, but failed to find the keyhole on the door, and went through the alley.After he got out of the alley, he discovered that the high walls on both sides belonged to the same row of buildings. For some reason, such an alley was left behind when it was built. (Later, he learned that this is a feature of old Chinese buildings, which actually has the function of fire prevention, and can also make the whole building look less dull.) He went out of the alley, turned right, went around two corners, and came to a fairly wide street. At the same time, he saw the main entrance, which was very large, and there was no door at all. It was just an entrance where people came and went. , going in and out, very lively, completely different from the gloomy alley, Chen Changqing immediately found that it was a market with various stalls, conducting various transactions. The original building no longer exists. It may be a temple because there are still stone steps. At this time, there are many people sitting on the steps, eating all kinds of food bought from the stall with relish. Seeing this situation, Chen Changqing couldn't help being stunned. Apart from the high walls, there were no other buildings in the visible range, and there were only simple scaffolds erected by vendors. Since there are no buildings, even if you open the door in the alley, you can only enter the square where there are many vendors. What kind of joke is "Skinny Man" talking about? The first thing Chen Changqing thinks of is that the "skinny" arranged the key many years ago, for example, twenty or thirty years ago, and in these days, great changes have taken place here. The "thin man" didn't know. But he immediately denied his thoughts. Firstly, this kind of magnetic key is a new technology that has only appeared in the past three to five years. After arranging a very important matter, you must never come to check it out for decades. Chen Changqing knew that there must be a key point that he couldn't figure out.He was mixed in the crowd and walked towards the high wall. When he came to the wall, he found that the wall was full of all kinds of sundries piled up by the vendors, which was very filthy. It was full of oily sewage, and the smell was very unpleasant. And Chen Changqing also saw the door immediately! The door looked fairly new in the alley, but on the other side it looked rusty and worn.Beside that door, there is a pillar protruding about one meter, square, as high as the wall. There are at least a dozen of the same pillars on the high wall, and the pillars can be seen to be made of bricks, because the broken red bricks are exposed on the pillars.The buildings here must have been very splendid back then, but that may have happened hundreds of years ago. Chen Changqing stayed for a while longer, thinking that he had guessed well, even if he opened the door, he would only come here, and there were still many sundries piled up against the door. Those sundries messed up his head and face, the "skinny" joke really hit home.
When Chen Changqing was talking about this, he asked me again: "Wesley, if it was you instead, would you give up?" Looking at his triumphant look, knowing that he will gain something later, who would answer "give up"?Sometimes Chen Changqing became stupid, but he was stupid enough. I shook my head and didn't bother to speak. However, Chen Changqing continued to ask: "Why? I have no brains to move at all." I said: "It's because you don't use your brain, not that you don't have any brains. You only need to think about it for a while, and you will know that the 'skinny man' would not be in the mood to make such a joke. A professional killer, his life is in danger every day. How can you make such a silly joke with others." As I said that, I glared at him a few times, meaning that only people like him would do such boring things. Chen Changqing didn't pay attention, and waved his hand: "Don't speculate, but reason based on the circumstances at that time." I snorted, he was testing me, I thought for a while, and said: "You once said that in the alley, you used to knock on the door for a long time?" Chen Changqing didn't answer, and immediately widened his eyes, showing a very surprised expression.I knew that I had hit the point of the matter, so I didn't say anything, just made a gesture asking him to continue. Chen Changqing sighed for no reason before continuing. What Chen Changqing thought of at that time, separated by a wall like two days, was the same as what I thought. When he was in the alley, he once slammed on the door hard, and felt that the sound was very solid, and the door seemed to be very thick. No matter what, there was a market behind the door, and there were many people there. He knocked on the door for a long time, and someone would definitely hear it and respond, but in fact, when he knocked on the door, there was absolutely no response. This shows that the door in the alley is weird.The door in the alley was not the same as the door in front of him at this moment. If two doors of different shapes are very close to each other and separated by a wall, unless someone can see both sides of the wall at the same time, otherwise, in terms of feeling, they must think that they are the same door. All of this, of course, is the work of "Skinny Man," who made the door look useless, that no one would care if it had been closed for years, and that no one cared how to open it. It's as inconspicuous as trash. And there is naturally another world inside, at that time, Chen Changqing also thought that the mystery is naturally on the protruding stone pillar. The place that a door can lead to is naturally a space. However, a space can be large or small, leading to a mansion, or it can lead to a very small space that can only hold a fist or something. Thinking of this, Chen Changqing was very excited. He immediately went back to the alley and came to the door. When he passed a small stall selling tools, he bought a small hoe. He used the small hoe to knock on the door inch by inch. It took him about half an hour. Fortunately, the alley was very quiet, separated by a wall, like two worlds, no one passed by at all. Otherwise, when people saw Chen Changqing knocking on the door with a hoe, they would definitely think that he was out of his mind. When the small hoe was struck, the sound it made was very solid. Only when it was struck in the lower left corner, near the ground, could there be a different sound.Chen Changqing chose the upper right corner to start typing, so it was not until the end that he found what he was looking for. At this time, he couldn't help laughing wryly, lamenting that good luck made people, if he had chosen the lower left corner from the beginning, then, within about a minute, he would have discovered something. He used his special knife to scrape off that part of the thick paint, and the keyhole was revealed. It looked like a small safe embedded in the concrete pillar. Although this alley is remote, there are always some people coming and going, but no one would ever think that there will be a small safe in such a place, which can be said to be extremely hidden.At this time, Chen Changqing couldn't help thinking of the story of the treasures of the Salt Gang north of the Yangtze River in China. Everyone knew that the Salt Gang had a large amount of gold hidden in Changzhou, but even after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they caused a massacre in Yangzhou— ─The famous "Yangzhou Ten Days" in the history books did not find any gold. Later, people didn't know until a small stone bridge with tens of millions of people passing by every day was suddenly demolished overnight.