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Chapter 25 The mysterious mist

As the prison guard walked out of the high walls and prison with a straightforward manner, I felt like I was reborn. We were taken to a brightly lit prison guard office. There were two special policemen wearing live ammunition and helmets standing at the door. I was stunned and thought why this situation was so serious and serious. Yang Tiangong followed me and was also filled with doubts.

As soon as I entered the office, the situation inside was even more solemn: there were seven or eight policemen in neat uniforms sitting in front of the round table. After a closer look, Ouyang Linna was also inside, with a female policewoman uniform, very heroic.

It took only about half an hour before and after we came out of the morgue. The female police officer concentrated the team so quickly that I had to admire her decisive behavior.

After seeing again, the policeman surnamed Wang, who cooperated with the Chen family to arrest me in this prison, was also among the policemen.

After seeing Yang Tianchao and I come in, Ouyang Linna immediately greeted me and stretched out her hand to me: "Mr. Fang, welcome." After that, she turned around and looked at the policeman named Wang, "Director Wang, Mr. Fang is here, what do you think?"

Director Wang immediately stepped out, walked towards me with a respectful expression, and said, "Mr. Fang, I am really embarrassed. Our work has made serious mistakes. After our careful investigation, we have confirmed that you do not have any illegal or criminal facts..."

In other words, I was acquitted. I looked at the trivial expression of Director Wang, and remembered his arrogant arrogance when he arrested me... Forget it, why should I beg for such flatterers? I shrugged and said, "Why did Superintendent Ouyang fight so much late at night?"

Ouyang Linna smiled mysteriously and said, "We have communicated and contacted each other half an hour ago. Mr. Fang and Mr. Yang, from now on, we hope to get your help! The people sitting here are all elites from the first mystery group of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Shanghai Public Security Bureau. I am the person in charge of this group. Our conversation is extremely confidential. I hope you can work with us to make your own contribution to the country and society."

Her words made people excited, but what purpose was her patriotic ideological education at this time? I saw from the beginning that they were not just about solving bizarre death cases. At the moment, I said: "I try my best to do what I can, but no matter what the result is, I hope that Superintendent Ouyang will not write my name into any of your reports afterwards."

Ouyang Linna and her colleagues looked at each other and said, "You two listen to me first. After the investigation of this series of bizarre deaths has not made any progress in the city bureau's investigation for more than two years, even when our mystery group wanted to give up, I and two colleagues met you. Many of the comrades here are party members, and we are all atheists, but we urgently need any clues at this time! Mr. Fang, for some reason, I think you are very trustworthy. This may be my intuition. Although the truth of the case you explained to us earlier is really hard for us to accept, those Feng Shui and Yin Yang things are almost ridiculous to us when we use them to solve cases by police. However, I am willing to take a gamble."

I nodded, I knew their current mentality. If they could find any clues, they would never believe me. The reality is that they could not even find any clues.

"Mr. Fang, you have great eyesight. You can see that we are not just investigating this series of bizarre death cases. The reason why my two colleagues and I sneaked into the morgue secretly is to tell you the reason. I am afraid you will make you laugh: because many prisoners claim that they have seen 'ghosts' around the morgue, with disheveled hair, ferocious faces, white clothes, those 'ghosts' swayed outside the morgue for a while and then flashed into the morgue. For this reason, some prisoners were frightened and mentally ill." Ouyang smiled, "We sneaked into the morgue just to investigate the 'ghosts', and we were extremely safe.

Keeping a secret to prevent any news from leaking is to catch this "ghost" yourself. We are the people's police. The "ghost" in our consciousness will only be those vicious criminals. They are the devils among the people. We are atheists. We will never believe that there are ghosts and gods. We believe that if the "ghost" in front of the prisoners really exists and we can catch him, maybe everything will come out. Therefore, we either pry into the door at night or lurk around the morgue. Unexpectedly, if we fail to catch the ghost, we will encounter you. Haha, this may be fate."

There was a haunted night around the morgue. I also heard the prisoners mention it in the room No. 314. Unexpectedly, these policemen used this as a breakthrough in the case, and I couldn't help but chuckled. These prisoners lived in the shadow of death and ghosts for many years. They said that they could trust the ghosts when they saw them? Thinking of this, I said, "The police have started catching ghosts. Haha, Superintendent Ouyang, I think you are not that simple, right? Your real purpose may be underground?"

Ouyang sat down, took a sip of tea, and looked solemn: "I'll showdown. We have enclosed three places to search in this township of Nanhui District, about three square kilometers, and this prison farm is our focus of search. The series of bizarre deaths in this prison only conveyed a signal of search. Of course, we are also working hard to solve the case, but we want to solve the case to achieve our most important purpose - we want to find a batch of cultural relics and gold lost by the country more than 60 years ago from the three search points we have enclosed!"

Hearing this, I was shocked and looked at Yang Tiancong, secretly surprised. Sure enough, these policemen had ulterior motives. Their real purpose was far more than just solving a series of bizarre deaths in prison!

"Cultural relics and gold, do they have any direct connection with this series of bizarre death cases?" Yang Tiancong couldn't help but speak.

"I'll tell you some historical materials briefly. After the Battle of Suohu in 1937, Shanghai fell under the iron hoof of Japanese imperialism. During the past four years of fall, the Kuomintang government's gold reserve center, museums, cultural relics centers, and temples were looted by the Japanese army. According to the filing of the Kuomintang government at that time, there were countless cultural relics treasures swept by the Japanese army and were priceless. Most of these cultural relics treasures and gold have been transferred to Japan by the Japanese army, becoming Japan's military expenditure and the collection of various museums. However, according to the views and opinions of many historical materials and the opinions of some archaeologists and cultural relics experts, a considerable number of the plundered treasures were not transported to Japan and remained in Shanghai, but were transferred to the place by the Japanese army. With the defeat and surrender of the Japanese army, a considerable number of the plundered treasures were not transported to Japan, but remained in Shanghai.

Where did those treasures be? It has become an unsolved mystery in history." Ouyang Linna changed her breath and continued, "More than 60 years have passed, and no one can verify whether there are still a batch of treasures left in Shanghai, without actual evidence. Most of them are speculations by historians and cultural relics scientists. These historical unsolved cases were originally only spread in a very small circle, but one day in 2004, several household registration police officers from a police station in Zhabei District discovered some extremely important clues when sorting out a batch of old Shanghai household registration information and archives, and then transferred them to the Cultural and Historical Appraisal Department of our Municipal Bureau. In the end, these clues are somewhat in line with these series of bizarre deaths in prisons. Therefore, our Criminal Investigation Brigade established this mystery group to investigate bizarre death cases and secretly investigate clues about the lost treasures in a very confidential manner."

"What important clues have those registered police officers found?" I was quite curious.

"They discovered the personal archives and information of a Japanese archaeologist who settled in Shanghai in 1935. Because he joined the Chinese nationality at that time, he retained Japanese nationality and maintained close contacts with the archaeological community in Japan. He participated in the Japanese army looting Shanghai cultural relics treasures during the period from 1937 to 1941. Based on his personal diary and some telegram letters, we clearly realized that a batch of treasures remained in Shanghai and were buried in the suburbs of Nanhui!" Ouyang Linna was a little excited when she said this. She should be in her twenties. She was so young and graceful and beautiful, and she was also a senior commander and capable officer of the police department. She was extremely decisive in her work. At her age, it was beyond my expectations that she could be so mature.

It turned out that the data left by this Japanese archaeologist showed that after the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941, the Japanese army was no longer able to cope with the joint advancement of several major fronts. Since then, they have transported the treasures of wealth and treasures plundered in China back to China in batches. By 1943, the Japanese army's decay was becoming increasingly obvious, and they even stepped up the plunder of the invading places. In November 1943, a three-person Japanese cultural relics expert team came to Shanghai. Under the escort of a unit of Shanghai's dispatched troops at that time, a batch of cultural relics treasures were secretly transported to the near Luchao Port of Nanhui, waiting for a Japanese ship to welcome back to China. Unexpectedly, the US and Japanese armies were fighting fiercely in the Pacific Ocean, and the ship was coming.

Halfway through, they were sunk to the bottom of the sea. The three Japanese cultural relics experts and some Japanese troops had to dig a crypt in the suburbs of Nanhui to bury the cultural relics, waiting for the arrival of the next ship. Unexpectedly, the ship never arrived again. As the Japanese army retreated on various battlefields, the aggressive wars they launched could no longer accumulate strength to counterattack. Whether the starting point or end point was Japan's sailing ships, they were almost sunk by the US troops in the Pacific Ocean. They retaliated against the Japanese army's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. In August 1945, Japan was defeated and surrendered, and the three Japanese cultural relics experts who were struggling to guard the treasures of cultural relics in a crypt in the suburbs of Nanhui, waiting for the rescue. In the end, they did not expect the arrival of the Japanese ship...

"The diary and historical materials recorded in the telegram letter of the Japanese archaeologist who settled in Shanghai at that time came to an abrupt end. The whereabouts of those treasures have become historical mystery, and the whereabouts of the three Japanese cultural relics experts are even more mysterious. Through a series of research and judgment, we learned that the treasures must be still near the suburbs of Nanhui, and the series of bizarre deaths that happened at this time made us more affirm our judgment!" Ouyang Linna said this and stood up and stared at me quietly.
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