The famous detective in the comic world

Chapter 343 Garden Assassin
It was a dead end.

... But this is not the only dead end in New York.

Shaoyao Building is not too far from here.

Soon, He Nan drove the car nearby and parked beside Liu Hong's car.

Shaoyao Building is directly managed by Xin Mo Gang, and it looks antique.

It is a teahouse——and a theater.

It is one of the few places in New York where you can watch drama, cross talk and storytelling.

...It is not a problem to say that it is the United States.

As the name suggests, the interior is indeed heavily decorated with the theme of peonies.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see the amazing paper screens and inscriptions.

Afterwards, people in costumes can be seen performing on stage.

He Nan didn't know much about drama, but with a few lines of libretto, he could tell that "Spring in the Liyuan" was being sung.

"Peking opera?" Shirley asked He Nan in a low voice.

"Uh...it seems to be a Hunan opera." He Nan was not sure.

"Haha, Mr. He Nan is right, it is Hunan opera." Liu Hong laughed heartily: "You can come and play more when you have time, and you can sit for an afternoon with a pot of rough tea."

"Okay." He Nan nodded, looking at the people around him who were talking in Chinese and with East Asian faces, and then glanced at the tea stand outside the teahouse where there was a large bowl of tea for 10 cents a bowl, and he suddenly felt extremely dazed. The feeling of time travel: "...for a moment, I feel that I am not in the United States anymore."

"Of course, this is a Chinatown, just to give people a sense of intimacy." Liu Hong also sighed a little when he said this: "... But in fact, it is not easy for you to see such a city with Chinese characteristics in China. But those of us Chinese who have gone abroad may think nothing of it at first, but slowly find that we are always outsiders and have always been regarded as different. Therefore, we pay more and more attention to our traditional culture, came to find a sense of belonging... so I started to pay more attention to these old things. They can let you know who you really are and who your ancestors were..."

"...Yes." He Nan stood and enjoyed the opera for a while, looked at the statues of Guan Gong and Sanqing on the side of Shaoyao Building, and nodded, "Where is the crime scene?"

"This way please." Liu Hong continued to lead the way.

After leaving the east gate of Shaoyao Building, you can see a small but exquisite garden.There are many strange rocks, and vigorous pines and cypresses and green bamboos are planted everywhere.In the pool, fat goldfish swim briskly around.

Liu Hong led them all the way to the pavilion in the northeast corner and stopped.

"...The blood has been washed away?" He Nan asked as he looked at the extremely neat gazebo, which was only sealed by a security tape.

"Yes. You can't keep such an unlucky thing." Liu Hong looked at the pavilion, his eyes under the mask revealed anger: "Miss Dong was not here at the time. She was called away by a fake call, leaving behind three The guards are waiting here. When she found out that there was a fraud and came back, two guards were dead, and one was dying, leaving only the final witness certificate... That's why we knew it was Hui Yin's trouble."

"Has your gang dealt with this murderer named Huiyin before?" Shirley asked.

"Some understanding, but not much contact." Liu Hong replied: "We can be sure that this woman is Hui Yin, and that is enough. The murderer also claimed to be so."

"Is it possible that it is someone who forged Echo." He Nan pondered for a moment and asked, "Actually, we have heard that the guy code-named Echo is a male."

"Heh... for this kind of masked character, Echo does not refer to the person inside, but the skin." Liu Hong snorted: "To be precise, it refers to the unique one-eyed helmet and Echo Gloves. You wear them, and you can be an Echo. So it’s not surprising that he’s a woman now. How do you know if he’s been to Thailand.”

Makes sense.

He Nan thought so, and nodded.

Although I still don't think it's possible for these two Echoes to be the same person, it's not a problem to say that this identity depends on the equipment you use to hide your identity.

It's nothing new that masked characters are often replaced by successors.

For example, Robin has produced N.

In the same way, if someone wears Liu Hong's mask, it can also be Liu Hong...

...No, it doesn't seem to work.His identity is not kept secret.At least for Red Stick, this mask has no privacy protection effect.

Thinking this way, He Nan looked at Liu Hong's mask.

I found that the masks of the red sticks are quite special, and each red stick has its own unique shape of the inner demon mask.

He doesn't know if there is any particularity in the origin of the shape.

"Could you tell me the details of last night?" He Nan proposed: "There are all useful materials. For example... the scene photos, the autopsy report, the impact of the camera, the witness records, and the murderer's possible infiltration route and escape direction ..."

"Unfortunately, there are no cameras in the garden." Liu Hong said: "Of course we will provide you with all the information we can provide, but it is true that Echo has never been photographed, and only the deceased who was not directly killed by her has witnessed it. testimony."

"Then do you have monitoring on the road from Shaoyao Building to the garden?"

"Yes. There are surveillance cameras everywhere in the room. Although it is impossible to be crowded everywhere, it is impossible for her to come in without being photographed." Liu Hong pointed to the wall: "The more worrying situation now is whether there is an echo. It may have come directly over the wall. Although it is very high, she may have the ability to climb the wall."

"Well... yes, we have to take it into consideration." He Nan frowned: "Hui Yin used the phone to distract Miss Dong, didn't he? What's the content?"

"She lied about having the bouquet Miss Dong received. So Mrs. White Paper Fan thought it was some blind person who dared to pursue her, so..."

"...Understood." He Nan smiled wryly: "Then the purpose of her coming is not to assassinate Miss Dong? Do you know if she asked the guards something?"

"She definitely doesn't want to kill the white paper fan—even if she wants to, she doesn't have the ability." Liu Hong mentioned this, his tone a little annoyed: "We want to catch Echo alive, just to know what she asked...Damn it, if that brother If I can take a few more breaths, maybe I can tell whether she has forced a confession or not - there must be something very sensitive! Otherwise, why would you ask the gang's second-in-command guard to extract a confession?"

"How long has Miss White Paper Fan been away?" Shirley asked.

"...almost five minutes."

"The time is not too much, maybe they didn't recruit." He Nan comforted him.

"Heh...that would be the best, but you and I both know that they probably recruited." Liu Hong gritted his teeth: "Hui Yin is a Hydra...I don't know if you think Hydra is just It’s only a conspiracy theory, but I want to tell you now that they are real and they specialize in conspiracies. The Demon Gang has always been against them... This organization has a very effective veritaserum, let’s take it Needle, you can answer whatever other people ask you!"

(End of this chapter)