Reborn with the Infinite World Panel-Chapter 68: 66th Investigation Bureau 11

Nan Chu moved away from the body, and during the chaos, she took an auction catalog.

She always felt there was something wrong with these paintings.

Nan Chu found a corner and started flipping through the catalog as she waited for the police to arrive.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Li Wenya and her team went to Hou Pu’s office a few minutes later.

Shao Zheng directly opened the computer and checked the Q chat records. In the afternoon, they had only checked Hou Pu’s WeChat chat records, neglecting the Q chat records.

Li Wenya said, "Remember to check the email to see if any emails were sent."

Shao Zheng nodded, first browsing through the chat records, and found H among the recent contacts.

March 3, 2027, 14:13

[Hou Pu]: Gong Guan is dead, for now, I’m handling his matters.

[H]: Then you need to prepare the goods, a distinguished guest has requested it, the client will send you the details shortly.

[Hou Pu]: Okay.

[H]: It’s urgent, it must be ready within a week.

[H]: If it’s not ready, we’ll both be in trouble.

[Hou Pu]: Understood, I’ll get the goods ready and deliver them.

H sent a document with customer requirements, which Hou Pu also received, but the document was encrypted.

The decryption password was in a riddle sent by H.

The riddle was about Xiao An and Xiao Ling playing an escape room game, with the final four-digit password hint as follows:

76987 86978 82037

30216 70310 84326

32146 76986 96886

04129 76877 20349

Xiao An observed for a while, smiled slightly, entered the password successfully, and escaped the room. What’s the password?

Su Xiao observed for a long time and sighed, "I can’t find any pattern."

After a while, Xia Mingyu suddenly said, "There don’t seem to be any 5s in these numbers."

Ke Nian, hearing Xia Mingyu, looked at the riddle again and suddenly clapped his hands, "I know, it’s 0764! Brother Shao, try it and see if it works."

Shao Zheng entered 0764, and the document was opened.

"Why is it 0764?" Su Xiao asked, puzzled.

Ke Nian: "The number 5 never appeared, indicating the password is intrinsically linked to 5. Categorize the numbers greater and less than 5. Look at the greater-than-5 numbers, the first sequence forms a 0, the second forms a 7..."

Su Xiao and the others quickly drew it out, and sure enough!

No one expected the password to be like this.

Then they checked the document.

20~25, Monarch’s organ, AB, 500.

Su Xiao: "What’s this requirement?"

Li Wenya: "AB, could it be blood type?"

Ke Nian: "Feels like it."

Shao Zheng: "Monarch’s organ is the heart!"

He knew this from filming doctor dramas before.

Li Wenya: "Then deducing from this, 20~25 feels like an age range."

Su Xiao: "Then what about the 500?"

Xia Mingyu: "Could it be money?"

Li Wenya nodded: "It’s possible."

"This is about buying a heart." Xia Mingyu clicked his tongue, "And they want a heart ready within a week."

Shao Zheng sternly said, "They’re preparing for murder and illegal organ transplants."

Li Wenya said gravely, "Hou Pu can’t possibly do this alone. There’s definitely someone behind him, or an organization!"

Su Xiao: "Do you think the upper management of Creative Co., Ltd is involved?"

Li Wenya: "That’s unknown."

Ke Nian: "This message was sent five days ago, leaving only two days until a week. Do you think Hou Pu has prepared the goods?"

Su Xiao: "Probably not. If he had, he would have messaged H, but there are no recent contact records."

Xia Mingyu had a different opinion, "I feel he might have prepared it. If not, why hasn’t H been pushing him over the past few days?"

"That feels unreasonable." Xia Mingyu continued, "And in Hou Pu’s chat record, he mentioned he’d prepare and deliver it. Could it be he’s already delivered it and doesn’t need to contact H?"

Su Xiao: "That’s quite possible."

Li Wenya and the others felt that Xia Mingyu’s reasoning was sound and couldn’t argue against it.

The group continued searching but found no other clues.

Li Wenya shared their findings in the group chat so that Nan Chu could also know.

Seeing the messages in the group, Nan Chu thought: Hou Pu’s fatal wound was precisely at the heart.

What a coincidence.

Nan Chu sent photos of Hou Pu’s death and shared her insights in the group chat.

[Su Xiao]: Do you think it’s possible that the organ recipients’ family or friends investigated and retaliated against Hou Pu?

[Shao Zheng]: Very likely.

[Li Wenya]: Nan Chu, have the police arrived?

[Nan Chu]: No.

[Li Wenya]: We’re on our way to the Art Heart Auction House, wait for us, we’ll be there soon.

[Nan Chu]: Okay.

When Li Wenya and her team arrived, the police hadn’t arrived yet.

With the security focused on maintaining order at the auction, they easily entered the Art Heart Auction House.

After seeing them, Nan Chu quietly joined them.

Nan Chu took out the auction catalog she had sneaked out.

"These are the auction catalogs from this auction, and I found something strange about these paintings." Nan Chu said, "Look at the painting numbered 01, ’Dream Girl.’"

"See this spot on the arm, darker than other areas, and this -.- looks like Morse code for A."

"On the girl’s skirt, there are two more Morse codes ..--- and -----, representing numbers 2 and 0."

"The second painting, ’Forest,’ also has Morse code for English A and numbers 1 and 9."

"The third painting, ’Moon and Crows,’ .... English B, numbers 2 and 9."

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All ten paintings have different corresponding Morse codes.

Li Wenya said, "The A, B sound like the list Gong Guan had before, could the numbers be ages?"

Xia Mingyu: "Possibly."

Nan Chu: "I thought the same. As for why they’re on the paintings, I believe the auction isn’t for the paintings themselves, but for the information or people depicted!"

"Auctioning people! Could it be related to human organs?" Li Wenya exclaimed.

Nan Chu nodded seriously: "It’s possible."

Ke Nian: "Before the police get here, let’s look for clues."

The group nodded, then paired up to search for clues.

Nan Chu and Shao Zheng teamed up to search the auction hall, going around the surroundings.

In a corner, Shao Zheng found a bottle labeled with the warning of deadly poison.

Shao Zheng quickly took a photo of it with his phone.

Seeing the bottle, Nan Chu thought: After Hou Pu was stabbed, he didn’t struggle. It must have been due to this poison.

But how did the killer find Hou Pu in the dark and stab him precisely in the heart?

Could they have worn night vision goggles?

If they did wear night vision goggles, it wouldn’t be easy to dispose of them immediately after the murder.

Moreover, entering the auction hall means the bags were checked.

How did the killer get the knife and poison past security? Bought off security or an insider at the auction house?

Or did they scout the auction house in advance and hide the knife and poison on site?

Nan Chu shared her speculations in the group chat to inform the others.