The moment Liu Tianming rushed into the ward, Yuwen and Gu Qing could not help but retreat a little. Although the two of them did not have any contact, the distance between the two of them had already exceeded the psychological safety distance between ordinary people.
The two of them deliberately stepped back, which made Liu Tianming feel a little uncomfortable. However, he still suppressed his displeasure. After all, there were more important things to deal with now.
"Everyone is here?" Liu Tianming pretended as if nothing had happened and walked to the two of them.
"Hmm? What did you find?" Yuwen turned his attention to Liu Tianming.
"The corpse that Gu Qing saw in Pu Yuan's office is gone!”
"Ah?" Gu Qing's eyes widened. Was the clue that he had painstakingly found going to be lost again? "Are you sure it's really gone? You can't see that thing, can you?"
"I really couldn't see, but I used my feet to step on all the places in Pu Yuan's office that I could walk through! Yuwen, what do you think about the disappearance of the body? Could it be that the other party has already noticed that we have found the corpse?”
Yuwen lowered his head and pondered, not answering.
Liu Tianming turned his head to look at Gu Qing." By the way, Gu Qing, do you know a woman called Song Qiaozhi?"”
" No…" Gu Qing shook his head.
"Well, you've only been here for a few days, so it's normal that you don't know her. This woman used to be the finance director of your Teng Long, but she's gone missing now!”
"Missing?" Gu Qing was confused." What does this have to do with us?”
"This might be related to the matter you want to investigate!”Liu Tianming told him about what he had found when he was investigating the files of the retired employees and what he had seen in Pu Yuan's office.
Gu Qing was a little shocked that Pu Yuan had hidden a photo in the photo frame. Although the ordinary employees liked to spread rumors about the boss, the senior managers who often interacted with Pu Yuan privately recognized Pu Yuan as a model husband. Pu Yuan and his wife, Wen Ling, had always been very close. In addition, they had a cute daughter, Pu Yao. Gu Qing had always thought that this family was unbreakable. Who was this Song Qiaozhi who had appeared out of nowhere?
"Because Song Qiaozhi was very beautiful, she left a deep impression on me. Therefore, I recognized at a glance that Pu Yuan had hidden Song Qiaozhi's photo in the photo frame. Actually, it's normal for a company's CEO to have a romantic relationship with a beautiful female subordinate. Even if an unrelated outsider like me found out, it wouldn't be a big deal. However, Pu Yuan's abnormally flustered expression inevitably made people suspicious. In order to calm Pu Yuan down, I told him that he didn't have to take out his wallet to deal with me. If the strange things that happened in the Tenglong Building were made public, it would only hurt the public's confidence in the public security department. It wouldn't do me any good. I wouldn't tell anyone about it for the time being. It gave him a reassurance. Then, I joked that he had a lot of luck with women. Was he hiding a mistress somewhere? Pu Yuan thought that I didn't know Song Qiaozhi's identity, so he relaxed and casually gave me a few perfunctory words. He absent-mindedly talked nonsense about how men understood men. I pretended to be lecherous and asked Pu Yuan if he could introduce this beauty to me. Who knew that Pu Yuan's expression would immediately darken. After letting out a long sigh, he said that this beauty had disappeared and that he would probably never have the chance to see her again. I don't think he's lying. I'm afraid I won't be able to see this beauty anymore. This makes me even more suspicious that Song Qiaozhi's disappearance is related to the economic problems you're investigating. Could it be that Pu Yuan was also involved in this matter? Don't let another Chu Shijian appear…"
Yuwen didn't know that Gu Qing suspected Du Tingtao of corruption. He didn't understand most of what Liu Tianming said, so he couldn't help but ask Liu Tianming.
However, Liu Tianming treated this matter as a little secret between himself and Gu Qing. He deliberately said to Yuwen,""This matter…has nothing to do with you. You don't have to care.”
Gu Qing glared at Liu Tianming and told Yuwen about his suspicion of Du Tingtao's corruption.
" So there was such an episode..." Yuwen muttered to himself and lowered his head.
"This…Song Qiaozhi, the former finance director of Teng Long, why are you so sure that she's missing?”Gu Qing still didn't quite understand how Liu Tianming came to this conclusion.
"It's probably because I've always dealt with vicious cases. My intuition always infers in the direction of human nature's evil.”Liu Tianming pulled a chair over and sat down." I once asked Cheng Shi about Song Qiaozhi's whereabouts, but he didn't know anything either. This doesn't make sense. So, I went back and tried to check the missing person registration form from last year at the primary police station. Sure enough, Song Qiaozhi's parents had reported her missing in March last year!”
"A living person has gone missing. Have you never investigated? It was not until more than a year later that you dug up this matter!”Gu Qing found it hard to believe.
Liu Tianming said with some embarrassment,"I originally thought the same as you. I felt that this was a serious dereliction of duty by the grassroots police station. However, after carefully understanding the reality, I also felt a little helpless. In fact, tens of thousands of people go missing every year. Take Shanghai City as an example. In 2001, the number of missing people registered by all levels of security departments in Shanghai reached 9627…The responsibility of finding missing people was assigned to the grassroots police station. The reason for a person's disappearance was extremely complicated. If it did not involve a criminal case, it was almost impossible for the grassroots police station to allocate police force to investigate missing people. The most the police could do was to enter the information into the internal database. Once there were no clues, they could only put it on the shelf.”
Gu Qing didn't expect the reality to be so unsatisfactory. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she couldn't.
"Actually, it's possible that she's hiding somewhere else, but I keep having this thought in my mind. I keep feeling that…this Song Qiaozhi might have been…clicked by someone because she knew too many financial secrets!”Liu Tianming stretched out his palm and quickly cut his neck.
Looking at Liu Tianming's gesture, Gu Qing felt a chill run down his spine.
"You mean…a woman might have been killed in the Teng Long Building?”Yuwen suddenly became interested.
"Don't mention the fact that you're excited when someone dies." Liu Tianming pushed Yuwen away." You better think about what's going on with your resentment. These ordinary cases should be handled by the police."”
" If someone was really killed in the building and no one knew about it, I'm afraid they would become the wandering soul..." Yuwen said in a low voice.
Liu Tianming and Gu Qing looked at each other. Suddenly, they felt that there seemed to be a breakthrough in the chaotic situation.
" Yeah…Why didn't I think of that…" Liu Tianming muttered.
"But…if it's really as the two of you said, and Song Qiaozhi is that wandering soul, then why did she kill Zhu Ling? Every debt has its owner. Du Tingtao and Pu Yuan were both living well now.”Gu Qing couldn't figure it out.
Yuwen fell into deep thought again. The ward was silent.
"Gu Qing, the other two male corpses that you saw are most likely Pu Yuan's bodyguards.”Liu Tianming broke the silence.
"Ah! Could it be that this wandering soul really wanted to harm Chairman Pu?”Gu Qing also recalled the two bodyguards. He hadn't seen them in the past few days, but he didn't feel anything wrong even if he didn't see them.
Yuwen suddenly waved his hand and raised his head.""If the wandering souls really want to kill Pu Yuan, those two bodyguards don't have the ability to protect their boss.”What he meant was that there was another reason.
"Aiya…I'm getting more and more confused!”Liu Tianming ran his fingers through his hair and became frustrated." What should we do next? Yuwen, make a suggestion."
Yuwen looked at the two people in front of him and said,""Have you really investigated the entire building?”
"Yes! Gu Qing went into the office that he could enter during the day and checked it himself. At night, we went door to door and picked the lock to go in.”Tianming Liu replied.
"The two of you are still the best. I've been in the building for half a year, and there are many rooms that I haven't had the chance to enter. However…could there be some rooms that you didn't notice and missed?”
"This…I can't guarantee that there are no mistakes…It seems that we haven't checked the inner rooms of some rooms.”Gu Qing remembered Du Tingtao meditating in the inner room.
"How about this, Gu Qing use your authority to find the floor plan of the Tenglong Building. We will count the rooms that have been checked and see if there are any hidden rooms that have not been found.”
"Well, that's relatively simple. I think we can find the floor plan at the property management company. I'll go back and ask them for it later.”Gu Qing's leadership status could indeed make many things extremely simple. She did not need to return to the Tenglong Building. She just called the head of the property management company and the other side immediately agreed to send someone to send the blueprint to Gu Qing.
In less than 15 minutes, the floor plan of the Tenglong Building was placed in front of the three of them.
Liu Tianming was impatient and fast. He grabbed the blueprint in his hand and flipped through it. Gu Qing didn't want to fight with him, so he went to take care of Yuwen.
"This…did I take the wrong blueprint? Why didn't it look like the floor structure of the Soaring Dragon?”After a while, Liu Tianming poked his head out from behind a large blueprint.
"What is it? No way, the manager was so careless?”Gu Qing took the blueprint and looked at it with Yuwen.
It was really strange. From the shape of the building's exterior on the floor plan, this set of drawings did indeed draw the Tenglong Building, but the internal distribution structure was very different from the current one.
"Could it be that I mistakenly took the beginner blueprint?”Gu Qing muttered to himself as he flipped through the pages.
Suddenly, Yuwen's expression turned cold. He snatched the floor plan from Gu Qing's hand and stared at it seriously as if he had seen something strange. After staring at it for a while, he suddenly asked,"Do you have a pen?"
Tianming Liu immediately took out a brush and handed it over.
Yuwen began to draw some strange symbols on the drawing. The edge of each symbol just happened to frame the wall lines of a group of rooms. After Yuwen finished drawing one, he turned to another page and then went to draw the drawing of another floor. Just like that, he drew the ninth floor plan in a row. He put down the pen in his hand and said to his two ignorant friends in front of him with sparkling eyes,"So the Soaring Dragon Building was designed to be the Spirit Suppressing Tower!”
Gu Qing and Liu Tianming were both shocked, staring at Yuwen with their mouths agape.
" Look, this floor plan uses the design concept of King Wen's Eight Trigrams. King Wen's Eight Trigrams is the Acquired Eight Trigrams, which corresponds to the Fuxi Eight Trigrams. It is used in the north of Kan, the south of Li, the east of Zhen, the west of Dui, the northwest of Qian, the southwest of Kun, the northeast of Gen, and the southeast of Xun…" Yuwen pointed at the strange symbols on the floor plan and said non-stop," And in the subsequent material use design of the floor plan, Every time it involves critical water levels such as dragons, protective sand, or boundary water, they use a large number of Dongling stones, tiger-eye stones, and lapis lazuli as decorative materials. These are all jade materials that can suppress evil…"
" Alright, alright…" Liu Tianming waved his hand to interrupt Yuwen. He turned to look at Gu Qing," Gu Qing, do you understand?"”
Gu Qing shook his head.
"That's right. I don't understand either. What Eight Trigrams? To put it bluntly, do you mean that if we build the Soaring Dragon Building according to this plan, the Soaring Dragon Building will become a demon-subduing pagoda?”Liu Tianming patted the blueprint.
Yuwen nodded.
"But this is not how the current Soaring Dragon Building was designed!”Liu Tianming shouted," No wonder they released these monsters one after another!”
"Where did this map come from?" Yuwen looked at Gu Qing.
"It's not like you didn't see it. The property management company sent someone over!”
" Did I really take the wrong one…" Yuwen frowned.
"That…If it's really as you said, the Teng Long Building was built to suppress the spirit, then…what's underneath the building?”Gu Qing asked timidly.
Yuwen unfolded the floor plan and pointed at the lower right corner of the drawing, saying,""This person must know what is pressing down on the ground floor that caused the soaring resentment to appear!”
Gu Qing and Liu Tianming both leaned their heads forward at the same time. There was a line of small words written on the floor plan where the designer signed.
City architectural design institute, Wei Renchao.
Gu Qing and Liu Tianming followed the blueprint and arrived at the Municipal Construction Institute. However, the receptionist told them that Wei Renchao had already retired. They wanted to find out Wei Renchao's home address, but no one knew where his home was.
For a moment, Gu Qing and Liu Tianming had no other choice. They sat side by side on the sofa in the reception room, not knowing what to do.
At this moment, a refined middle-aged man in his forties appeared in the reception room.
"Excuse me, were you two looking for Wei Renchao just now?”The man asked Gu Qing politely.
" Yes, yes, you are..." Gu Qing stood up happily.
The man did not reveal his identity and continued to ask,""May I ask why you are looking for him?”
"Oh, it's like this. We have some questions about his architectural design.”Tianming Liu rushed to answer.
"May I know which company you are from?”The man had more questions than Gu Qing and the others.
"Gu Qing, the administrative director of the Teng Long Group.”Gu Qing handed his name card to the man.
The man looked at Gu Qing's name card carefully and finally relaxed."If you don't mind waiting a little longer, I can take you to Wei Renchao after I finish my work.”
After waiting for two hours, Liu Tianming told all the jokes he knew to Gu Qing. The man slowly walked out of the building and got into Gu Qing's Santana.
Under the man's guidance, the Santana drove out of the city and arrived at a secluded village in the suburbs. The road leading to the depths of the village was no longer accessible. Gu Qing and Liu Tianming got out of the car and walked for more than ten minutes before they arrived at a small farmhouse. The middle-aged man didn't knock on the door. He pushed the door open and entered. Gu Qing, who didn't have a mind, followed the man into the small courtyard. Liu Tianming was more cautious. He quickly walked around the small courtyard and confirmed that there was nothing suspicious before he followed Gu Qing into the door.
This was just an ordinary farmhouse in the northwest. It had green bricks, square tiles, herringbone beams, and old-fashioned latticed windows that had turned dark brown due to the wind and sun.
The man walked straight into the main house. As soon as he pushed open the door, he shouted,"Dad, we have guests."
Gu Qing and Liu Tianming were both stunned. They didn't expect this middle-aged man to be Wei Renchao's son.
The man politely led the two into the house. As soon as they entered, a choking smell of tobacco made Gu Qing cough. The man hurriedly opened the window to let the thick smoke in the room disperse.
Only then did Liu Tianming see the situation in the room clearly. Other than a few simple old-fashioned sandalwood furniture, there were no modern household appliances. However, there was a slightly messy drawing workbench in the corner and a huge Eight Trigrams Compass hanging on the wall, which seemed to prove that Gu Qing and Liu Tianming had found the right person.
An old man with white hair was sitting in front of the drawing table. He looked at the two uninvited guests and tapped the cigarette in his hand on the workbench.
"You must be Wei Renchao, Old Mr. Wei?”Gu Qing revealed a charming professional smile.
The old man nodded in a neither servile nor overbearing manner."Are the two of you here for the Soaring Dragon Building?”The voice was loud and clear, making Gu Qing's ears buzz.
Wei Renchao's foresight shocked Liu Tianming and Gu Qing. The man who led them here explained,""My father had instructed that if you are not a guest of the Soaring Dragon Group, you do not need to bring them here.”
Liu Tianming didn't want to be too polite. He took out the floor plan that had been smeared with Yuwen." Mr. Wei, this floor plan is your work, right? I wonder why you designed the Soaring Dragon Building as a Spirit Suppressing Tower?”
Wei Renchao's eyes suddenly lit up." Did you see through my design?”
"No, it was a friend of ours who noticed. His legs are inconvenient, so he couldn't come to visit you today.”Liu Tianming answered honestly.
The light in the old man's eyes dimmed again as he said slowly," It's too late for you to look for me now…"
"Ah?" Gu Qing and Liu Tianming looked at each other. Was it too late?
"Back then, the leaders of the Teng Long Group acted arbitrarily. For some unknown reason, they forcefully abandoned the blueprints I designed and built the current Teng Long Building from scratch. I thought I would never see the floor plan I designed again. I didn't expect that after three years, the blueprints would actually fall into your hands.”Wei Renchao took a deep puff of his cigarette and slowly blew out the smoke from his nostrils.
"We also obtained this set of blueprints by chance. I wonder what Old Mr. Wei said about it being too late. What kind of evil spirit was hidden under the Soaring Dragon Building?”Gu Qing asked anxiously.
"Hmm…since things have come to this point, there's probably no turning back. There's no harm in telling you.”The old man coughed twice and handed the pipe to the man standing respectfully at the side. The man immediately took the pipe with both hands and carefully extinguished the tobacco.
Wei Renchao cleared his throat and said leisurely,""The place where the Soaring Dragon Building is located is the famous Broken Dragon Platform!”
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