At 8:00 p.m. on June 13, 1938, Li Heng had just eaten dinner in an apartment in Shanghai, when suddenly the director called to say that a murder had just occurred.
Li Heng, the leader of the serious case team, quickly took his equipment and drove to the scene.
According to the neighbors who reported the crime, the deceased was a logic professor with the surname Gao, had a son who was a doctor, and an adopted daughter who worked as an interpreter for a senior Japanese officer.
Li Heng quickly made a division of labor, two assistants and him to investigate the scene, and then sent four people and two groups of soldiers to find out the whereabouts of the professor's son and adopted daughter in two ways.
Li Heng and his assistant He Ying came to the room where the crime occurred, the professor's door was opened normally, the door frame, door lock, and window were not damaged in the slightest, and even the handprints and footprints had no obvious traces. This shows that if he killed, the murderer may be acquainted with the deceased.
The professor was lying on the table, shot in his temple, and holding a pistol in his hand, which could be a suicide or a fake scene, which needed to be judged by strong evidence. On the table was a piece of paper with a suicide statement written on it, which probably meant that he was old and sick, that his son was not filial, that his daughter was greedy for pleasure and had committed adultery, and that he was world-weary and committed suicide. After Li Heng read it, his tense brow did not relax.
Another assistant brought the neighbor uncle who reported the crime.
The detective who tracked down the professor's son, Gao Wei, was reporting that Gao Wei had returned home from work at five o'clock in the afternoon, and that no one had seen him since his colleagues, and that his neighbors said they had not seen him home this afternoon. Professor Gao's neighbors saw that they were talking about the professor's son and added, "His son seems to have been here this afternoon, and I heard two more arguments between the father and son." "Fight for what?" He Ying asked anxiously, "I didn't hear clearly," the old man said, "just listen to Gao Wei's voice is quite high." ”
"Start where Gao Wei left work and seize the time to find his whereabouts!" While issuing instructions, Li Heng continued to ask the neighbor who knew about it: "How is his son?" ”
The old man said that he was quite Sven, but when he started to lose his temper, he would lose his mind, and he had recently been financially nervous because his lover spent money in the social field like water.
"Did he ask his father for money again, and Professor Gao complained and caused him to lose his temper?"
Neighbors said, "Gao Wei used to be a soldier, likes to play with guns, and it is easy to buy guns from the black market." ”
Li Heng did not speak, continued to search the bedroom, the door of the safe was open, there was no trace of violent unlocking, and now all the evidence was in line with the reasoning of the acquaintance's crime.
But even so, Li Heng still did not want to believe that the murderer was Gao Wei, was it necessary for him to kill people and kill his mouth? After all, it is his own father.
"Does the old professor have any valuables in the safe?" Li Heng asked.
Neighbors said that Professor Gao had a precious cultural relic that he had shown him, that is, a volume of the Tang Dynasty Bai Lotte's handwritten "Vajrapani Sutra", which was a rare treasure. Listening to him, he said that his father bought it from a Western devil when the Eight-Nation Alliance entered the North, and he was ready to donate it to the government until a period of political clarity. I reckon that the treasure stolen today should have been the one, and if it was his son, it would have been cruel enough, the son of filial piety! ”
"It's easy to solve the case now," said assistant He Ying, "it must be that Gao Wei wants to be crazy about money, and he will stop at nothing." ”
Li Heng glanced at her, and He Ying hurriedly stopped her mouth.
Just then, detectives looking for Gao Wei returned to report that Gao Wei's body had been found in a Guandi Temple in Xishan.
Li Heng couldn't help but be shocked, could someone want to kill someone and kill his mouth?
The detective also brought a suicide note found on Gao Wei's body, which said that because he was confused for a while, he killed his father by mistake, snatched the treasure and was robbed by others, regretted it before swallowing the gun and committing suicide, rushing to his father's side to atone for his sins.
Suicide again? It's too weird.
Judging by his many years of experience, the murderer risked his life to commit a crime, and generally will fight to the end. Li Heng inhaled a cold breath and sat down without a sound. He had handled cases for more than twenty years, and such a bizarre situation was rare.
"What about the detective who tracked Gao Feng?" Li Heng suddenly raised his head and shouted loudly.
"I've just come," He Ying said, "they haven't found Gao Feng yet, they haven't provided valuable information, so I haven't bothered you." ”
"Reinforcements to another squad to seize the time to find Gao Feng's whereabouts!" Li Heng issued an order.
"Did you see his daughter here today?" Li Heng asked the neighbor.
Uncle said that she had been here at least twice, at lunchtime, and after the crime, she had come before you arrived.
The first time I didn't see her, but I heard her laughter, and her laughter was loud, and I must have heard it well.
The second time I informed her before calling the police, she came over quickly, and she was already gone when you came.
The old man said that the old professor's daughter was not biological, he once went to Henan on a business trip, met an abandoned baby at the station and was left unattended, he took it home and raised her, and later provided her to study in Japan.
Who knew that when she returned from Japan, she coveted pleasure and worked as a translator for Japanese officers, and they paid a high salary, and the old man threatened to break off the relationship between father and daughter, and she still went her own way and refused to pay attention.
At this time, someone overheard someone report that the detective in charge of handling Gao Wei's situation found a suspicious vehicle with a woman in good looks and dressed up.
"What car?" The neighbor asked the old man.
"A blue sedan!" The old man said that it might be Gao Feng, and when she came here just now, she was driving a blue car.
Li Heng immediately ordered them to keep an eye on the suspicious vehicle and not make the slightest mistake.
"Is it possible for Gao Wei's courtesan lady to commit a crime?" He Ying suddenly said, "We don't seem to have considered her or followed her, just in case..."
Yes, Li Heng thought, from the current situation, the possibility of social flowers committing crimes is not high, but what if she covets money and hires murderers to seek wealth and kill people? "Hurry up and send two detectives to check the whereabouts of the social flowers," Li Heng issued a new order.
Although he sent someone to track down the social flowers, Li Heng knew in his heart that the main energy should still be focused on Gao Feng, first of all, she was a major suspect, and second, because if she succeeded, the national treasure was lost to the Japanese, and the loss of the country would be irreparable.
At this juncture, the squad suddenly came to report that the tracking target was missing.
On the way to the tracking, a dozen cars suddenly rushed out of the slash to intercept the tracking vehicle, which was full of young people with hippie smiling faces, who said that they were racing, accidentally crashed, and then the target vehicle disappeared.
Li Heng was suddenly discouraged, and he instructed He Ying to quickly call the director for help, and ordered all the patrol officers on duty to pay close attention to a blue car with a young woman on it.
Time passed minute by minute, Gao Feng did not have a single message, the person who tracked the social flower said that she stayed in her own home, heard the news of Gao Wei's death, she did not seem to be very sad, after hearing the warning signal, she went to the scene to see it, confirmed the identity of the deceased to the police and then turned away. Regarding the deaths of Professor Gao and Gao Wei, she did not know about it.
"What was she doing this afternoon?" Li Heng asked. The visitor replied that she had been playing in Northridge Gardens all afternoon and had been accompanied by friends and had verified that this was indeed the case.
The bell at eleven o'clock had just struck, and another news made Li Heng and the people around him excited. A patrol officer reported the discovery of suspicious vehicles and reported the direction of travel, and eight vehicles have now gone after them.
Li Heng instructed the driver to drive, and he and He Ying got into the car and sped toward the direction of the target vehicle's escape.
The direction in which the suspicious vehicle fled was heading towards the Japanese garrison, and Li Heng suddenly thought that it seemed that there was really a national treasure in her car, so where did she hide after disappearing for so long?
Li Heng's car sped away for more than twenty minutes, but he still did not encounter the tracking convoy, although he could cut the short road to save half the distance, but when he arrived at the intersection, they had long disappeared without a trace.
The driver stopped at the intersection and didn't know where to go.
"Chase after the Japanese garrison," Li Heng said, but the car had just turned around when a gunshot came from the opposite direction. "Chase in the direction of the gunshot," Li Heng immediately asked the driver to turn around.
Soon after the car, there were several gunshots from the far front, followed by a burst of ping-pong gunfire.
"Isn't the direction of the French Concession ahead?" He Ying suddenly cried out. Yes, Li Heng was also a little puzzled, why didn't they flee in the direction of the Japanese army?
Ten minutes later, they came to a place about a hundred meters away from the French Concession, saw Gao Feng surrounded by the police force, raised his hands, and got out of the car. But there was a car parked next to her.
"The national treasure is there," Gao Feng said, pointing to another car.
The police opened the car door and carried out a male corpse from inside, blood still flowing out, apparently killed in the gun battle just now.
Then he searched for a leather bag in the car, opened the leather bag and looked at it, and it was indeed Professor Gao's lost national treasure.
"I am innocent," Gao Feng said, "that man was killed by the group just now, and it has nothing to do with me." ”
When the police were tracking, several cars in front of them fled together, and the shootout just now was that they were shooting at each other, and when the police arrived, other vehicles ran into the French Concession, and the woman was surrounded before she could run.
Li Heng faces Gao Feng alone in the office, he has too many mysteries that need to be answered by this girl.
Gao Feng asked, can you keep information that has nothing to do with the case confidential for me? Li Heng said yes.
She took a sip of water, moistened her throat, and confessed to him what had just happened.
It turned out that Gao Feng was a double-sided spy, she often provided some insignificant intelligence to the Japanese army, and at the same time, through her special position, the Chinese military spied on important information about the Japanese army.
Today at noon Professor Gao's birthday, she and Gao Wei went to congratulate, the father advised Gao Wei to give up the social flower wife, find a girl who is responsible for a good life, Gao Wei was in a bad mood and quarreled with his father for two sentences. She returned to her office in the afternoon and stumbled upon her colleagues planning a joint robbery of the national treasure. She hurriedly contacted a Japanese military official, and after many searches, she was shocked by the clues she found, and she never expected that the target of this gang of bastards was her father.
She wanted to call him first, and just then the phone rang first, and the neighbor uncle called her to say that her father had been killed. When she returned home, she saw that her father's safe was opened, and according to the information she had, this gang of gangsters and traitors had a Background in the Japanese Military, and once the national treasure was snatched, the Chinese police would be difficult to deal with.
So she gave up cooperating with the police and asked for help from a secret organization, the Salvation Congress, with whom she had a close relationship with one of its vice presidents.
The entire operation was planned by a Japanese officer who hired a traitorous "cold-faced killer" Li Biao to carry out the robbery. On the one hand, Gao Feng informed the Salvation Congress of the Information, on the other hand, quickly locked Li Biao's whereabouts, and found that after he robbed, he did not go straight to the Japanese garrison, but ran to the Western Mountains, and she rushed over first.
Coming to the Xishan Guandi Temple, just as Li Biao came out of the temple, he obediently raised his hands when he saw the pistol she raised.
He confessed everything to her: he knew that it would not be easy to deal with the high professor, and if he came hard, it would be difficult to find the treasure, and in the face of resistance, he might expose the action. So he planned a deliberate operation - first kidnapping his son Gao Wei, and then forcing the old man to write a suicide note and automatically hand over the national treasure. Then he came to the Guandi Temple in Xishan to prepare to kill Gao Wei and fake a suicide scene.
Gao Feng asked Gao Wei if he had been killed, Li Biao said not yet, do not believe you to go to see, just when she was distracted, Li Biao flew up and kicked her down, and he flew into the car and escaped. She did not have time to chase, stumbled to the Guandi Temple, and found that her brother had already been killed.
At this time, the brothers of the "Salvation Congress" had already arrived here according to her instructions, and one of the brothers knew Li Biao, and they chased after him. When Gao Feng drove away, she found that a policeman was eyeing her, and she did not want the police to interfere in the matter, so she got rid of the tracking with the help of another group of "Salvation Congress" brothers who had just arrived.
In the following time, a group of them were trying to catch up with Li Biao, and Gao Feng said that he must not be allowed to flee to the Japanese army. Li Biao saw that he could not get close to his destination and could not contact his master, so he had to frantically escape under the attack of others.
Later, the comrades of the "Salvation Congress" set a trap and deliberately let him escape to the Japanese army headquarters, but when he ran to the intersection, he found that there were already people guarding there, so he had to run in the opposite direction.
The opposite direction led to the French Concession, where the "Salvation Congress" was stationed, and when Li Biao ran there, he was greeted by a burst of gunfire.
After the battle, they did not want to encounter the police, because then they would be very troublesome, they had done many assassinations before, so they quickly fled into the French Concession and scattered.