Profiler 3: Crime Ends

Professor Jeffrey is a well-known botanical expert, who teaches at the Southern Campus of the University of California.The two rushed to visit the next morning.

Professor Jeffrey received them warmly, but after hearing Jiao Yang's general introduction, he seemed a little puzzled, "Is it about the 'Death Puzzle' case? But I don't know much about puzzles. What do I want to ask?"

Jiao Yang said: "I feel that the ones on the puzzle are oak trees and red maple trees. These plants, you must know better than us. I want to know,? Are there any famous scenic spots, historical allusions or sayings about these two plants? Myths and legends are fine.”

Professor Jeffrey said: "I have a certain understanding of these plants. I just don't quite understand why they are related to the murder case. The oak tree is a sacred tree in the Omega culture,? Various myths and legends Countless. He is also very practical and has various stories about wine. If we talk about scenic spots, Oak Valley and? Oak Island. Of course, Oak Island is not in our country, but in neighboring Canada..."

"Oak Island, treasure? Wait a moment."

Jiao Yang hurriedly asked, "Is this place well-known?"

"of course."

Professor Jeffrey said: "There are rumors that there are dozens of treasures, large and small, in the OM area. The treasures left by the pirate chiefs on Oak Island are probably among the top few. Besides this, it is our California Grand Canyon. In the book, the legend of the gems and gold left by the gold diggers."

Lu Yuanli said: "Professor, can you give us a detailed introduction? Can you tell me about the legendary treasure on Oak Island?"

Professor Jeffrey said with a smile: "I only heard about these things occasionally, and I know they exist. I don't know the specifics, but I can introduce an old friend of mine, Professor Jones, to you. He specializes in the study of modern His research direction is folklore. A better understanding of such things as treasure legends may be more helpful to you.”

Although they both belong to the University of California, and Professor Jones works at Lu Yuanli's North Campus, Professor Jones is a very famous old professor.It's almost 10:00 pm now, and it's already dark.Lu Yuanli felt that it was inconvenient for the two of them to bother directly, and it would be better to wait for Professor Jeffrey to say hello before going.

Jiao Yang and Lu Yuanli thanked Professor Jeffrey and went back first.

On the way back, Jiao Yang had switched to driving.He told Lu Yuanli that he hadn't started driving this new car yet. Compared with the super configuration of this car, the speed was too reserved. Driving slowly on the road, people might mistakenly think that this car was a Came out to advertise.

Lu Yuanli asked, "Do you think this trip has gained anything?"

"Professor Lu."

Jiao Yang smiled and said, "You are the expert in criminal psychology, shouldn't I be asking you this question?"

Lu Yuanli said sternly: "First, investigations and crimes are your forte. Number one, the criminal method of this case is very strange. Suppose the same person commits the Jigsaw series of crimes, and each of his killing methods is different. Same. I haven’t captured his state of mind except for the criminal marker of the jigsaw puzzle. Now I can’t construct a logical chain at all, so I can’t analyze it. I only hope that by visiting these old gentlemen, I can help us find the murderer. motivation."

Under the arrangement of Professor Jeffrey, they met Professor Jones with Kevin and Blanco the next morning.

Professor Jones is already an old man in his seventies, but he is in good condition and hale and hearty.

As soon as a few people were seated, a young girl came over with four cups of coffee and placed them in front of them one by one.

As soon as Kevin looked up, he saw the girl's shy face and couldn't help but paused. Isn't this Catherine? !

Jiao Yang also recognized it, and raised his hand to greet Catherine, "Hi, why are you here?"

Catherine held the tray in front of her chest and said with a shy smile, "Hi Hugo, Professor Thomas. Two police officers, I am the professor's assistant."

Catherine greeted everyone and withdrew.

Lu Yuanli glanced at Catherine's back, and said nonchalantly, "Professor Jones, I remember that Catherine is a student of the Department of Economics, why don't you use an assistant from this school?"

"Oh, this..."

Professor Jones looked at the door where Catherine disappeared, rubbed his hands together, as if to confirm whether she had gone far, and then said: "I am old, and I have not taken graduate students in recent years. So it doesn't matter which department the students are in. Yes, as long as young people love history, I want to leave this opportunity to those who need it more.”

The implication is that Catherine is a poor student and needs this job even more to complete her studies.Lu Yuanli nodded, "You are right, my thinking is too narrow."

Jiao Yang was a little strange, and didn't understand why Lu Yuanli suddenly mentioned Catherine.

Jiao Yang hurriedly explained the origin. Professor Jones had been prepared for a long time, so he took out a picture album and told them briefly the legend of the treasure on Oak Island in eastern Canada.

The buried treasure on Oak Island is called "The Money Pit", or as the general public likes to call him.

The treasure is said to have come from the famous and notorious Spanish pirate Kidd.Before he was beheaded, he asked to hand over the treasure in exchange for his life, but was rejected by the British government at the time.

At the end of the 18th century, three young men stumbled across it.In the following 200 years, countless people came to this small island to search for it. The deepest dug was tens of meters, and people often found a small broken wooden box, broken porcelain, a piece of incomplete parchment, and even a piece of paper. Some small silverware, gold necklaces and so on.

Although no one has found the so-called treasure so far, even now, there are still people who have not given up and are working hard to find it.

"Incomplete parchment..."

Jiao Yang suddenly jumped up and said: "Then I see legends about so-called treasure maps in both China and the West. It is said that treasure maps in Europe and the United States are all written on parchment. Treasure maps are often incomplete. People can find a piece, but they need to be pieced together to find treasure. The principle of a jigsaw puzzle is similar to this. So, could the implication of a jigsaw puzzle be a treasure map?!"

"possible."

Lu Yuanli thought for a while and said, "But it has to be confirmed..."

"But first we have to confirm that the place shown by these puzzle pieces is indeed this oak island!"

Kevin and Lu Yuanli blurted out a meaning at the same time.

The two naturally looked at each other and smiled, Jiao Yang who was sitting next to him couldn't help being taken aback, isn't he, he was flirting right in front of me!

Kevin took out the copies of the three jigsaw puzzles he had brought, and pointed to the undeciphered first jigsaw puzzle, the dusty cardboard card with only a little shadow of the color block, and handed it over to Professor Jones for identification, " Can you recognize where this belongs on Oak Island?"

"I know the two pieces of the puzzle."

Professor Jones pushed the reading glasses and said: "Professor Geoffrey passed it on to me yesterday. The paintings on it should indeed be oak fruits and red maple leaves. As for this gray one, it's too blurry. I can't figure out what this is..."

"Professor, look here!"

Jiao Yang suddenly remembered that the oak picture book that Professor Jones gave him just now said: "It says that in addition to oak and red maple, Oak Island was once rich in spruce and wild ducks. I think the shape of this puzzle is quite Like a wild duck's tail, don't you think?!"

"This one……"

Professor Jones, wearing reading glasses, trembled and looked at it for a long time, but couldn't confirm it.He had no choice but to say apologetically: "There are only a few faint color blocks on it, and I really can't compare them. How about this, please leave a copy for me, and I will try my best to search in the materials to see if I can find similar ones." pictures for comparison."

"Although I can't confirm it for the time being, the place on the puzzle is Oak Island, but I think that if you think about it in this way, many things will go smoothly."

Jiao Yang said: "I remember, I once read an inspirational story. It said that during the gold rush of the whole people, a German gold prospector could not find gold no matter how hard he tried. In the small inn where he temporarily stayed at night, he looked at himself. Frayed soles and injured feet, he wanted to give up and go home. As a result, when he went out with his luggage the next day, he saw many gold diggers wearing broken shoes, and suddenly thought, why can’t we make a pair Especially strong shoes, to sell these people to make money?

After repeated experiments, this person made high-top thick-soled, durable cowhide shoes, which is the origin of hiking shoes.In other words, things like field boots and hiking shoes were originally worn by treasure hunters and gold diggers! "

Blanco said: "You mean, the shoe prints of the hiking boots that appeared in the third case are the murderer's intention to tell us that he was imitating the gold diggers back then? Then what is the purpose of doing this? For example What does the red dye represent? Also, what does the explosion in the first case have to do with finding treasure?!"

"Yup!"

Kevin was also very puzzled: "The most important thing is, why did you kill people?!"

Lu Yuanli pondered and said: "If the murderer is showing the treasure hunting process, then the presence of explosives can also be explained. Generally speaking, treasure places are either in deep mountains and old forests, or deep in the sea. These places need to be bombed. / It’s not surprising that the medicine clears the way.”

Kevin said: "However, the need to use bombs to clear the way has nothing to do with killing people!"

Jiao Yang said: "Although I can't explain these things now, I think our thinking and direction are right. As long as we continue to investigate like this, we should have an answer soon."

Professor Jones promised to help them find more information about Oak Island, and they left with their own concerns.

After Jiao Yang returned, he began to try his best to search for all kinds of bizarre legends about Oak Island.

The next day, Jiao Yang went to class as usual.At noon, Jiao Yang's lunch was almost halfway through, and Catherine came in a hurry. There seemed to be a lot of people in the cafeteria today, and Catherine turned around, but couldn't find a place.

Jiao Yang waved at her and said, "Hey, Catherine, come and sit down!"

Jiao Yang looked at Catherine's simple lunch, bread and vegetable salad, "Why do you eat so little?"

Catherine looked embarrassed, "I'm trying to lose weight..."

Jiao Yang remembered what Professor Jones said yesterday, and realized that he shouldn't talk about this topic.

Catherine paused and asked, "Are you looking for Professor Jones to find clues to these recent murders in the school?"

The author has something to say: this case is inspired by the legend of the treasure of Oak Island, and has been adjusted according to the needs of the plot.