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Chapter 4 Chapter 3 "Nineteenth Floor"

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In the gorgeous bedroom that Mr. Huang prepared for us (this bedroom is so gorgeous that it is far above my own bedroom, the bathroom connected to the bedroom has a warm water pipe flowing under the tiles, the purpose is to make the tiles warm, In order to step on it with bare feet after taking a bath in winter, and not feel cold), I paced back and forth, Bai Su looked at me like that, and laughed: "You have been fooled, what's the use of being angry?" I clenched my fists: "I must find Luo Zhixun!" Bai Su softly said: "Then you go and look for it, don't get angry here, let alone take me for Luo Zhixun!"

I laughed and held her hand: "You are such a good wife. You know how to use appropriate words to stimulate and comfort your husband when he is in adversity." Bai Su smiled coquettishly: "This matter must have become the hottest big news. Although you are anxious to find Luo Zhixun, it is not appropriate to act immediately. Let's talk about it when things calm down." I shook my head: "No, or by then, the police will have found him." Bai Su also shook his head: "I don't think so, this person can actually think of using you, and get rid of you so cleanly, I believe the police can't find him in a short period of time."

I contradicted her: "The police can start an investigation on his wife." Bai Su laughed: "I believe that in terms of helping her husband, Mrs. Luo is the real good wife." I was stunned: "What does this mean?" "You have already told me what happened, I think, if Mrs. Luo never knew why her husband committed the crime beforehand, if Mrs. Luo never knew what her husband asked you before the incident, This is unbelievable.” Bai Su's words made a lot of sense, I couldn't help reaching out my hand abruptly, and slapped heavily on the forehead! When I found out that Luo Zhixun was driving away in a car, I had another chance: I could immediately monitor Mrs. Luo. If the couple were in collusion, then I monitored my wife, and of course it would be easy to get her husband's whereabouts.

But I didn't think of this at the time, so I missed this opportunity. If Bai Su's estimation is true, then of course Mrs. Luo has "disappeared" now. In order to prove this, I immediately made a phone call to the prison, claiming to be a lawyer, and wanted to talk to Mrs. Luo, but the answer I got was a burst of curses, and the last sentence was: "This woman Or has already gone to hell, you go to hell to find her!" The other party put down the phone angrily. Although I didn't get a definite answer, I can also know what happened. In short, Mrs. Luo is no longer in prison!

Moreover, Luo Zhixun's escape from prison must have been discovered. It is conceivable what kind of chaos will ensue after the prison discovers Luo Zhixun's escape from prison. The whereabouts of Mrs. Luo caused a series of cursing, and it can be said that it was her own fault! Bai Su smiled and said: "Let's be here as a 'black' for a period of time. Besides, don't you often lament that you have no time to read books in the past few years? There is a very large-scale collection of books here, and you can get your wish. What are you sighing for?" I smiled wryly: "That's the only way."

We talked again for a while, and when I wanted to take a break, Mr. Huang came again, and he brought a large stack of newspapers, which were the second editions of the evening paper and the daily paper, all of which were based on Luo Zhixun's escape from prison. Theme.After he put down the newspaper, he left in a hurry.Before he left, he told us that an unprecedentedly large search network had been launched, and the police offered a very high reward to arrest Luo Zhixun and me, so it was better for me not to show up. The connection between the two of us. In other words, apart from a maid who could not read at all, only Mr. Huang Lao was in charge of contacting us.

Because the number of bonuses offered by the police is too large, so big that he can't believe any of his cronies. After Mr. Huang left, I opened the first newspaper, and there were shocking big characters: Amazing prison escape case, the protagonist of the mysterious murder case, escaped from prison before execution. The inner text records that when the execution was about to be executed, the prison found that the death row prisoner was unconscious. At first, he suspected that the death row prisoner committed suicide, but then he knew that it was another person, Wei Fengxia, the son of a wealthy businessman named Wei Fengxia, and the death row prisoner had already escaped. The reason why the death row prisoner was able to escape from prison was obviously helped by a man named Wesley.Next came the introduction by Luo Zhixun and me.

In the introductory text of the newspaper, I was described as a elusive person. Fortunately, I had helped the international police in the past. Those things that eradicated gangsters and large-scale criminal organizations were well known in the newspaper industry. When I was with me, the "word of mouth" was not bad. Several newspapers even thought that I might have helped the murderer escape from prison because of the threat of the murderer. Of course, none of the newspapers expected that I was being deceived and helped Luo Zhixun escape from prison. The newspaper also published a speech by Jack, a senior police officer. Jack said that anyone who provides clues to capture Luo Zhixun and me will get a reward of two million yuan. half.

This is indeed an unprecedented huge bonus, and the newspaper also published a photo of Jack when he delivered the speech. His smug expression overflowed the paper. Fell for Jack.Because, if it weren't for the words outside the prison that day, I might not have made the impulsive decision to help Luo Zhixun! Not long after Bai Su and I finished reading all the newspapers, Mr. Huang came again, and this time he brought the second edition of the Evening News.The second edition of the Evening News published that all people related to me were questioned and my residence was also searched. The headline read: Two Couples Missing Together.

Luo Zhixun and Bai Xiuqiong also disappeared. They didn't know where they went. Wei Fengxia was released after being questioned. His car was found on a secluded road leading to the suburbs... All these reports, in the eyes of others, are full of twists and turns, bizarre and interesting, but I am the person involved in these things, and after reading it, I can't laugh or cry. But my embarrassment has not yet reached its peak. The peak was when I watched the police search my residence on TV. After Bai Su and I got married, we used to work together to carefully arrange our residence. Almost every place has our painstaking efforts, but now, we are watching all of this, and it has been destroyed.

I can still bear it, because I am a man after all, but Bai Su can't help it, no matter how strong she is, she is always a woman, and family is far more important than life to a woman. I found that Bai Su's eyes were full of tears, so I immediately turned off the TV: "Everything will be better, we can start from the beginning." Bai Su nodded and shed tears at the same time. I feel that this is neither the time to be angry nor to accompany her to be sad. I am determined to take action immediately. I walked back and forth a few steps, and first listed out the things I need. This list included all the information about Luo Zhixun's case, as well as the necessary cosmetics and so on. The reason why I want all the information about the Locke case is because if I can't go out for a step, then I want to use my time as a black man to study this mysterious case again. Now that I have some understanding of Luo Zhixun and his wife, I believe that if I study it in detail, it will not be like last time, with no results at all. And of course I can't really stay in this mansion, I want to change my appearance and go out for activities. It wasn't until this time that I really believed that the saying "It's hard to be a good man" was very reasonable. I made such a big sacrifice for Luo Zhixun, but now I ended up like this. Isn't it hard to be a good man? Fortunately, Bai Su found such a proper temporary shelter, otherwise, I don't know how embarrassed he would be. Mr. Huang must have prepared it for me overnight, because the next morning, when I was still dreaming, dreaming that I put my hands into Luo Zhixun's neck and forced him to tell why he killed his brother, Mr. Huang is already here. He did bring me all the materials of Luo's case, and not only the records in the newspaper, but also a copy of all the files kept by the police.This is indeed beyond my expectation. I think this is probably because Mr. Huang has acquaintances in the police, or he paid a very high price in exchange for it, and I didn't go into it.In addition to the information, he also gave me a very interesting thing, which is a small bag. This bag is a men's briefcase, but when one is turned over, it is a women's handbag. Although this bag is not big, its content is really rich, like a magician's props, including three sets of extremely thin clothes, folded into a stack, and three masks. These three masks match these three sets of clothes, they are two men and one woman, that is to say, I can transform into three different faces in a very short time, including dressing up as a woman once. In the bag, there are also some small props that are very useful for getting rid of tracking and creating chaos. These small props are very interesting. When they have the opportunity to use them in the future, they will be introduced in detail one by one. Mr. Huang has fulfilled all my requests. For his safety, I ask him to leave immediately, lest people find out that he is harboring us——I have to use the word "harboring" because Bai Su and I, He's the one the police are looking for! That day, I spent the whole day studying the information of the police. At the end of the day, I realized that my expectations for this material were too high.Because it really has no content.The content of this information is poor, but it can't be blamed for the police's ineffective work, and because the protagonist of the case didn't say anything at all. According to the police records, Luo Zhixun had been interrogated continuously for thirty-six hours. If the law did not allow it, the police would definitely beat Luo Zhixun, because during these thirty-six hours, what Luo Zhixun said was, in the final analysis, only It's just three words: I don't know. The police also interrogated Luo Zhixun's wife, Bai Xiuqiong, in a semi-forced manner, but Bai Xiuqiong was a very powerful woman. Her answer made the police feel embarrassed, because she pointed out that the police's questioning of her was illegal. I think the most useful of this information is a report of police officers searching Luo Zhixun's house after the incident. In this report, I found at least a few suspicious points. First, the report said that after Luo Zhixun brought his younger brother back from the South Pacific, Luo Zhixun and his younger brother lived in the same room. Originally, the brotherhood was deep, and after nearly twenty years of separation, life and death, and a sudden reunion, it was not surprising that everyone became more intimate, but the report mentioned that in the room of the two of them, a person was found. A very strange thing.Because Luo Zhixun insisted not to speak, and Luo Zhiqian died again, so there is no way to know who this thing is and what it is for.This thing is made of bamboo. To put it simply, it is just a thick bamboo tube with a length of one foot. Inside the bamboo tube, there are many black particles and a kind of bright red fiber.These two things are stuffed into the bamboo tube one by one, and there is a small hole in the bottom of the bamboo tube, which makes the bamboo tube look like an earthen water filter. This thing may have been brought back by Luo Zhiqian from the islands in the South Pacific, but the pattern carved on the bamboo tube is very special. After research by experts, I don't know what it means. Moreover, it is different from the patterns used by the natives of the South Pacific islands. Also very different. Second, apart from this item suspected to belong to Luo Zhiqian, there is almost nothing else, and he came back alone. Third, Luo Zhixun has the habit of keeping a diary, but after the incident, his diary disappeared. How the diary disappeared is a mystery, because Luo Zhixun was arrested immediately after the incident and did not even go home. No chance, he couldn't destroy the diary after the fact.If he destroyed the diary beforehand, then his killing of Luo Zhiqian was premeditated, but what was his motive? After reading this report, I feel that the bamboo tube of unknown use and the missing diary are the focus of the problem. What also aroused my deep doubts was that Luo Zhixun went to the South Pacific to find his brother, and suddenly he and Luo Zhiqian appeared together, but how and where did he find Luo Zhiqian? Ambiguous. It can be said that no one knows about this except their two brothers.There is only one statement from the yacht lessor, saying that he once rented a very good yacht to Luo Zhixun, and after a few days, Luo Zhixun and his younger brother appeared together. At that time, the society also paid attention to the moving plot of the brothers' reunion. As for the circumstances under which the two brothers reunited, it was actually ignored. I firmly believe that this is also one of the keys. That's what I've gained from a whole day's work, and I'm not discouraged because I have plenty of time, and, as I expected, I've made new discoveries. In the evening, after Bai Su and I had dinner together, I spoke out what I had considered for a long time.I said, "I want to go out and do some activities." Bai Su lowered his head: "Where are you going?" I said: "Not only do I want to find Luo Zhixun, but I also want to start with the investigation of this strange case, so I want to go to the South Pacific Ocean. First, I want to find out how Luo Zhixun found his brother, which is related to his murder. The matter of his younger brother must have a great connection!" Bai Su looked at me with great worry: "Do you think you can leave? The police have sealed off all traffic!" I shrugged my shoulders and said with a smile: "That's all red tape. I know more than a dozen people, and more than a dozen people can use more than a hundred methods to make a person get in and out without anyone knowing it. No documents are required, and no inspection procedures are required." Bai Su sighed lightly and said, "Do you want me to go with you?" I held her hand: "If the two of us act together, then the possibility of escaping the eyes of the police will be reduced by half." Bai Su still didn't want to feel relieved, and said again: "Then, let's go separately and meet up again at the destination?" I smiled wryly: "Okay, let's act separately. I am the one who committed the crime. You are not guilty. It doesn't matter if you fall into the hands of the police, but you still have to put on a disguise and act carefully. Moreover, the two of us Individuals need to find different people to help us get out of the country." Bai Su was very happy that I agreed to her request, she jumped up and down: "I'm going to make some preparations too." I hurriedly said: "I will arrange everything for you!" The first step I want to arrange is that we have two different people to help us get out of the country, but the first step is not working anymore. I contacted by phone those who could help me leave the country, but their answers were almost the same: "Mr. Wei, you are too 'hot', 'hot' to burn your hands, we have received serious warnings and cannot help you , please forgive me, really please forgive me." Once I got seven or eight such answers, I couldn't help being very annoyed.But what annoyed me was not that those people refused to help me. They received serious warnings from the police and dared not help me again. In the end, I was almost done, but I still made a phone call to a man nicknamed "The Nineteenth Floor".He got his nickname because the legendary hell has eighteen floors, but he is the one who should go to the nineteenth floor.The other is that he has a way to change hell from the eighteenth floor to the nineteenth floor. No matter what, he is such a person who has a way for everything.I don't know him very well, just met him twice. It took me several phone calls to find him, and when I said my name, he stayed for a while. Then, he said: "It's you, Mr. Wei, the police all over the world are looking for you!" I smiled wryly: "That's right, I also have the same feeling, so I want to leave this place first, please arrange, I can agree to whatever reward you want." The nineteenth floor hurriedly said: "We are our own people, don't mention the reward." He actually introduced me as "one of my own", which really made me laugh and cry. I want to go to heaven, who wants to accompany him in the nineteenth floor of hell?But in the current situation, I had no choice but to endure it, and it was inconvenient to refute, so I asked again: "Can you do anything?" The nineteenth floor said: "You are too 'hot'──" I didn't wait for the "nineteenth floor" to finish, so I interrupted his topic: "I know this, you don't need to remind me, can you help me, just say it!" After I uttered these few words in a huff, I was hopeless. However, the answer from the 19th floor was beyond my expectation: "I think it is possible, but in a very special way. Do you know how strict the police have been to you? Even ocean-going ships Before leaving, everyone has to have their fingerprints checked to see if they are 'right'!" I smiled wryly in my heart, if the police treated me like this, then Luo Zhixun and his wife would not be able to leave.As soon as I thought of this, my heart skipped a beat, and I hurriedly asked, "On the nineteenth floor, besides me, does anyone else want your help to leave this city? Is there?" The nineteenth floor laughed, and he laughed very secretly! On the phone, I naturally couldn't see what his expression was, but from his laughter, I could hear that he must have something to hide from me and not let me know. I immediately said harshly: "Nineteenth floor, what are you laughing at? Tell me, did Luo Zhixun and his wife leave the country through your arrangement?" The nineteenth floor was still laughing, but his laughter quickly became forced, and he said: "Sir, I think you should stop meddling in your current situation!" It really pissed me off that he should speak to me in such a tone.But my temper never came out on the phone.I decided to wait until I saw him.If he promises me to leave, then I will definitely be able to see him. So, I just typed a "haha": "You are right, what kind of arrangements are you making?" The nineteenth floor paused for a moment before saying, "Now, the only way to leave is to transport you out as cargo, because the police are paying attention to everyone now, but they haven't noticed all the cargo yet." I smiled wryly: "No matter what method, it's fine to treat me as a zombie, what should I do?" The nineteenth floor gave me an address: "Go there and meet a man named Ah Han, you must obey his every word!" I hurriedly said, "What about you? Are we not meeting anymore?" He smiled slyly again: "Us? Is it necessary for us to meet?" I said again: "It's fine if we don't meet each other, but you have to—" But I didn't expect that I was interrupted by him suddenly when I got here, he said: "Okay, I've been talking to you for too long, take a snapshot and do as I ordered." I stayed for a while, and I concluded that the nineteenth floor must know the news about Luo Zhixun. Before I left, I had to meet him. He thought that my situation was not good, so he could bully me. That was a big mistake! I put down the phone, started to put on makeup, and left at the back door of the Huang family's giant house. Just now, the number I spoke to on the 19th floor, I know it is a club number, it is a place where people from three mountains and five mountains gamble. If I go there, I can find the 19th floor. He met me and tried to perfunctory me, but it's not that easy! After I left the yellow house, I walked in the street in a big way. Because of the exquisite makeup, I looked at this moment as a very well-known middle-aged man. Of course, no one would suspect me. Outside, in the streets and alleys, almost everyone was talking about Luo Zhixun's escape from prison, so I got on the streetcar.The driver also chattered to me about his "unique" "insider information", so I had no choice but to listen to it. The car arrived at the entrance of the club, which is a place restricted to members and their friends. I came to the door and stood against the wall. I waited until two other people came in a gorgeous car, and I suddenly waved to them. "Hi, long time no see!" Since there were two of them, they didn't know which one I was calling, so they both smiled and nodded at me, and I walked in with them logically. After entering the club, I am familiar with it, because this is a place I have been to several times. I know that the nineteenth floor likes to play roulette the most, so I walked straight to the roulette room, and I knew where the nineteenth floor was before I could see the figure clearly, because he was yelling loudly! When he yelled loudly, it meant he had won money. When he won, he didn't pay attention to everything around him. He just yelled loudly with excitement, and he didn't even know that I was behind him. He didn't turn around until I placed a hand heavily on his shoulder. Of course he didn't recognize me. When he glared at me angrily, I lowered my head and said in a low voice, "I'm Wesley. If you don't want me to harm you, follow me." He was stunned for a while, and suddenly he yelled strangely as if he had been extremely wronged: "You want me to go with you? I'm going with the wind, let me bet three more times." I shook my head and said, "No." He begged, "Twice, once!" I still shook my head and said, "No, if you don't get up again, you will really go to the nineteenth floor of hell." He sighed and stood up. I kept walking close to him, and when I left the room, he and I went into a lounge together, and he said: "Don't do it too much, I'll fight, it's no good for you." I sneered and said: "You have no chance to make a sound at all. I have a special gun in my hand. What is shot out of this gun is a needle contaminated with poison. This kind of needle cannot kill people, but it can kill people." It will damage the spinal nerves of people and make them paralyzed for life, do you want to try it?” The nineteenth floor sat down: "You know that I don't care about trying, why bother to ask." I said: "I still have to ask, because maybe you are not smart enough, that means you are going to give it a try. Let me ask you, where did you arrange for Luo Zhixun and his wife to go?" The nineteenth floor said: "I... I have never seen them before." I ignored him and counted by myself: "One—two—three—" He hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Slow, slow, how many did you count?" I said coldly, "How much do you think I can count?" The nineteenth floor spread his hands: "It's actually very unwise for you to do this. You know, only I have the power to make you leave the country, and you are dealing with the only person who can help you like this!" I said in a deep voice, "I want to know the whereabouts of Luo Zhixun and his wife. If you don't want to tell me, I will limit you to ten seconds!" As I said that, I slapped him twice hard! (This is really a very unwise action on my part, and I will know later that I have suffered a lot because of it!) The nineteenth floor covered his face: "Okay, as I said, they left yesterday. They were packed in boxes, and they were made of cotton fabrics. They left on the White Camel steamer." "What is the destination?" "It's Timor Island." I took a breath, this is the same as my destination, Timor Island is in the South Pacific, from Timor Island, you can reach many islands in the South Pacific.But at the same time, another question arose in my mind: Why did they go to the South Pacific again? I stood up: "Okay, now I'm going to find that person, you still have to ensure that I leave the country safely, otherwise, you will still suffer, please remember this sentence." I ignored him, turned around and walked away. After leaving the club, I found the person I was looking for on the nineteenth floor.When I got there, a thin man, who claimed to be surnamed Wang, said he could arrange for me. He took me to the pier. In a warehouse, he whispered to several people, and then he handed me a small wooden box and said in a low voice: "There are water and dry food in it, and you will be put in this box." He pointed forward. It was a large wooden box, and this wooden box was used to hold porcelain, because it had been painted with "easy to break, handle with care" and an upward arrow, indicating that it could not be turned upside down. But this wooden box is only one meter cubic, so I am not afraid of being suffocated, because the wooden box is very rough, and there are gaps between the boards for ventilation. However, in such a wooden box, I But you can only sit, which is tantamount to extremely uncomfortable. I shook my head: "Is there no other way?" The guy spread his hands: "No, in fact, you don't have to suffer too much discomfort. Once you get on the boat, you can use tools to pry open the wooden box and walk around at night. If you have enough banknotes, you can even become the captain’s VIP, but you have to be careful before boarding the ship.” I asked, "When will this shipment be on board?" The guy said: "Tonight, you are going to enter the box now, I wish you success." I wanted to ask him some more questions, but the guy couldn't wait to leave.Several workers came to me, led me to a wooden box, and asked me to go in. I had no other choice, so I had to go in, and those people immediately added the lid, and nailed the lid on with a "bang bang", as if I was dead, lying in a coffin, being nailed by someone. Same as the coffin lid!
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