[Comprehensive crime] The name of the murderer

Tang Sisi sent the police away and locked the door of the dormitory, finally relaxing.

She took the portfolio off the bed, trying to lie down and think about what to do next, but the unfastened portfolio suddenly opened, and a lot of paintings fell off.She picked up the oil paintings drawn by the little girl one by one, and unexpectedly saw a strange scene.

In this stack of still life and landscape paintings, a few pure black works are abruptly mixed in. On the thick black paint, the outline of the building is scribbled with red strokes, which looks very scary and weird.

These paintings must have deep meaning.

She picked out these paintings and found that one of them depicted the hall on the first floor of the orphanage.

Sneaking out of the dormitory, she found the classical screen on the painting as expected.

This glass screen was hidden behind the plaster statue, and no one would pay attention to it. She tried to knock on the glass screen, but she heard a hollow echo.

So Tang Sisi pushed away the screen and immediately found a secret passage.It's just that the ground was pitch black, so she couldn't distinguish things, so she ran into the warehouse behind the small auditorium, found a candle, lit it in her hand, and bravely walked into the passage behind the screen.

Soon, several forked roads appeared in front of Tang Sisi's eyes. She checked the paintings in her hand again and found the correct path from one of them. Guided by the paintings, she successfully reached the last floor of the secret basement.

An iron gate stood at the end of the expedition. The gate was impervious to light, and only a row of finger-high fences were welded to the ground.Tang Sisi bent down to the ground, and was about to look at the situation inside, when a hand suddenly stretched out from the gap in the fence, almost grabbing her hair!

That hand was dirty and scarred, and it was obvious that it had been locked up here for a long time.

"Help me..." a man moaned.

Tang Sisi came back to her senses, climbed a little farther and continued to look, and saw a person lying on the ground facing her. Although that face was full of stains, she could tell that it was the person in the photo Finley showed her just now—— Bad record janitor Alan.There were a few girls' clothes scattered on the ground further away from the secret room, but due to the angle, she couldn't confirm whether there were other people inside.

There is only one bolt outside the secret room without a lock, so as long as the bolt is pulled, the people inside can be released.But Tang Sisi didn't have the courage to do this. She was just a 12-year-old girl, but inside was an adult with a criminal record. God knows why he was locked inside, and she might strangle herself to death as soon as she came out.

Tang Sisi scanned the surroundings and found four deep spots on the ground facing the iron gate, which were where Vivienne placed her easel.So she took off her shoes, took off a sock and put it on her hand, and smoothed out the easel marks and her own footprints on the ground.

Then Tang Sisi put on her dirty socks again, ran back to the hall, and first hid those paintings on the top of the cobweb-covered cupboard on the public shoe rack—if the police find these paintings in the second search, Tang Sisi couldn't explain it.

After dealing with the traces and paintings that might reveal her identity, she braved the torrential rain and ran all the way to Finley, who was collecting evidence outside.

Finley found her and immediately carried her into the police car that could shelter from the rain: "Vivienne, do you have something to tell me?"

Tang Sisi nodded and pointed to the hall.

So Finley and Tang Sisi shared an umbrella, and Nick also held an umbrella. Under the guidance of Tang Sisi, the two found the entrance of the secret passage, and they were both surprised.

Nick asked, "Is anyone down here?"

Tang Sisi nodded.

So Nick said to Finley, "You stay here with her, and I'll go down and have a look."

But there are more dense forks in the tunnel. Except for Tang Sisi who has already walked through it once, it may be difficult for others to find Alan inside.

Thinking of this, Tang Sisi took advantage of the unpreparedness and ran into the secret passage.Nick and Finley hurriedly chased after him.She stopped in front of the last iron fence, leaned aside, and pointed out the hand on the ground to the two people who hurried up.

Finley quickly picked up Tang Sisi, while Nick carefully opened the iron door. It turned out that Alan was the only one in the secret room.There was a large amount of blood on the ground in the room. Judging from the amount of bleeding, it definitely did not belong to Allen alone, but where was the other injured person?

Because he hadn't eaten or drank water for several days, Alan's body was very weak and he had lost consciousness, so it was impossible to answer this question.Nick turned the person over and confirmed that he was still breathing. He took out the walkie-talkie and wanted to call the ambulance personnel, but he pressed it twice but there was no signal.

"You protect the scene, I will call the ambulance personnel down."

Hearing what Finley said, Nick nodded and looked at Tang Sisi: "Thank you, Vivian, you helped us a lot. How did you know he was here?"

Tang Sisi shyly buried her head on Finley's shoulder, and began to pretend to be autistic again...

Finley carried Tang Sisi back to the hall, handed it over to the teacher who came in a hurry, and ordered the others to bring the cordon and pull out a path leading directly to the door at the bottom, and then ordered everyone to bring tools to go down for investigation.

When the police were pleasantly surprised to have a clue, Tang Sisi's mind was in a mess. Liya was still missing, and Alan, who was listed as a suspect by the police, was locked up by Vivian. What is the relationship between Ann?

Following Finley's instructions, the teacher sent Tang Sisi to the activity room on the first floor. Tang Sisi had just helped the police find the missing Alan. The police would definitely talk to her again. She decided to pretend to be autistic.Before the police arrived, Tang Sisi was looking around in the activity room, but was unexpectedly attracted by a newspaper on the newspaper shelf.

Tang Sisi took out the newspaper and was dumbfounded.

This is a piece of "Financial Times" published the day before yesterday. The headline of the financial section is "French Chenault Family Inheritance Dispute Concluded Today." , allowing Chenault Bank to avoid the fate of disintegration.

The person in the newspaper who talked in court was naturally Shen Ming.

There is also the name of the hotel where Ely is staying now, but he is far away in France now, and he will not be able to come here in a while.

Tang Sisi took the newspaper and ran to the front desk of the activity room, used the landline to dial the directory number, and got the switchboard number of Shen Ming's hotel.

Then she called Shen Ming's hotel number again, and said to the front desk in a childish tone: "I want to find Mr. Ely."

"Is there anything you can do with him?"

Tang Sisi knew that this was a public phone, and the police might check the call records and call back, so she continued to pretend to be a child at the front desk of the hotel: "I want to thank him for funding our orphanage."

"Okay, please wait a moment." The front desk did not refuse Tang Sisi's request, and directly transferred the call to Shen Ming's room.

After the other party greeted her, Tang Sisi lowered her voice and asked tentatively, "Teacher Shen?"

"Tang Sisi? Where are you?"

"I—" Tang Sisi was about to speak, but she saw Finley push the door open, so she cut into a child's tone: "I want some oil paints."

Shen Ming on the other side of the phone hesitated for a moment, and suddenly changed into another more relaxed tone: "Okay, you will receive more paints, hey, can you give the number to the adults around you?"

Tang Sisi directly handed the phone to Finley.

Finley felt a little embarrassed: "Sorry, I'm not an employee here..."

"It doesn't matter, I have never sponsored anything for them. Probably because the child is still young and has identified the wrong person. Can you tell me the child's address? I plan to give her something. Fate is really a wonderful thing."

Finley hesitated to say the address and name of the orphanage.

At this time, someone knocked on the door, and the director of the orphanage walked towards Finley: "I heard that you have found Allen, is it true that he kidnapped Leah?"

"It's not certain yet."

"I can assure you that he didn't tell us about his history when he was recruiting, otherwise we would never have put such a person in the orphanage. It's terrible. He lived with my children like this. A long time!"

"You really should check the background of employees more strictly." Finley picked up the news on the table and said, "Do you have a French donor named Ely here?"

"Most of the funds for our orphanage come from Las Vegas, and we have not received any donations from France this year."

"But Vivian just called this European lawyer and asked him to give him some oil painting tools."

"Oh, lawyer... Vivian's painting tools were donated by the local bar association. You also know that Vivian is different from normal children. In her eyes, all lawyers may be the same."

Suspicious, Finley plans to go back and check Ely's background, and she will find out that he is a foreigner who has never set foot on American soil.

Tang Sisi returned to the dormitory after fooling around with the second questioning, but she couldn't sleep. She rummaged through boxes and cabinets all night, and got dark circles under her eyes the next day, but she still didn't get anything. She even suspected that Vivian might be real. Just a simple orphan, not as complicated as she thought.

According to the class schedule behind the door, she still has to learn painting from Mrs. Francis this morning, so when the time comes, she puts on her portfolio and goes to wait in the classroom where she first appeared.

She came a little early, before the teacher arrived, so she took the time to observe the environment of the studio, and then unexpectedly found a cabinet with her name written on it in the small warehouse opposite. There is only Vivian as a student in the studio, so the warehouse has been dusty for a long time and has not been used for many years.

Tang Sisi dug out a few newer paintings from the bottom of the cabinet. Just looking at the black background and red lines, he knew that this thing was from the same series as Vivienne's basement paintings, but this time, the thin and tall lines in the oil painting background It should be depicted as a forest.