What Lu Wan didn't know was that when she turned to leave, Bai Mo looked at her with gratitude in his eyes.
It turns out that she believed me...
In addition, Bai Mo also realized another problem.
As Lu Wan said, she came here yesterday not to comfort Bai Mo, but to encourage him! No matter what the reason is, she is here after all, which shows that she really cares about Bai Mo.
Gradually, Bai Mo's eyes became determined. He did not rush to investigate the case, but picked up the pistol and continued practicing.
This is the training plan Lu Wan made for him, and he must complete it on time!
In the days that followed, Detective Bai Mo added another task to his life - investigating the origin of hand-painted paintings.
This is indeed a case that cannot be investigated. There is no information about the deceased or the murderer.
At Lu Wan's suggestion, Bai Mo focused on the physical evidence of contact with the author.
Bai Mo asked the forensic doctor to check the letter Qin Peng received. It only had Bai Mo and Qin Peng's fingerprints on it.
The hand-painted painting is still in the Qing Ning Art Museum, and Bai Mo always felt that the murderer would find a way to get the painting.
The logical basis of this conjecture is Bai Mo's analysis of the author's behavior. The other party tried every means to send the painting to the exhibition, obviously because he wanted to show off his own work, which is a type of expressive personality.
This is very similar to Bai Mo. Bai Mo knows that he is also an expressive personality.
If Bai Mo was really indifferent to fame and fortune, how could he send that sunrise sketch to the art exhibition? However, his purpose was different. He just wanted to use that simple sketch to amaze the Meihai City painting circle.
Back to the topic of hand-drawing, since the other person is an expressive personality, what does he want to express?
If he wanted to express his hand-painting skills, he could have painted beautiful women and landscapes, but what he painted was a death scene.
Bai Mo thought that the other party was not only showing his hand-drawing skills, but also showing his murder scenes, which showed that he was eager to get attention.
From this point of view, Lu Wan helped invisibly by not agreeing to open an investigation. If the other party wanted to attract the attention of the police, what would he do?
If Bai Mo were the other party, he would choose to continue committing crimes, draw another hand-drawn picture, and display it in front of the public.
Time passed day by day, until the weekend Bai Mo found nothing, and no one from the art museum went to pick up the painting.
At this point, Bai Mo gradually lost his original certainty, and he couldn't help but begin to doubt his own judgment.
Bai Mo then went to the art museum to ask for the painting and sent it to Qin Youwei for testing.
After a day of testing, Qin Youwei only found the fingerprints of Qin Peng, Bai Mo and Luan Sanchuan. All three of them had touched the painting, which meant that there was no discovery.
On Saturday night, Yang Lu suggested that Bai Mo take her to watch the sunrise the next day.
This week, the two of them had several WeChat messages every day. Basically, Yang Lu sent several WeChat messages in succession before Bai Mo responded to one.
Yang Lu knew that Bai Mo was still investigating the author of the hand-drawn painting, and had no complaints. She took the initiative to contact Bai Mo this time because she heard Chen Xiaoxiao say that Bai Mo might be ready to give up the investigation.
I don’t know if Bai Mo refused on purpose or if he still missed the hand-painted author. Bai Mo directly rejected Yang Lu’s invitation.
Of course, the optimistic Yang Lu would choose the latter by default. She believed that Bai Mo had not given up the investigation and was still working hard, so he had no time to accompany her to watch the sunrise.
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Monday morning.
Bai Mo arrived at the police station early in the morning and happened to meet Lu Wan when he entered the building.
"Good morning!" Lu Wan took the initiative to greet Bai Mo.
Lu Wan has been observing Bai Mo for the past week. She saw Bai Mo trying hard to investigate the author of the hand-drawing. She knew all the methods Bai Mo used.
Of course, nothing was found.
"Morning!" Bai Mo responded with a smile.
Feeling that Bai Mo was in good spirits, Lu Wan looked at Bai Mo curiously, "Aren't you ready to investigate?"
Bai Mo was not surprised when Lu Wan saw through her thoughts. He nodded calmly, "I have been at the police station yesterday and reviewed all my investigation methods. I have investigated everything that should be investigated. I have tried my best."
"Your mentality of accepting the status quo in a timely manner is quite good." Lu Wan extended his thumb to Bai Mo, "When I encountered the first case where the murderer could not be found, I didn't sleep well for a whole week."
"Haha!" Bai Mo just smiled and turned back his smile at the same time.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly. How could he let it go? He just didn't want people around him to worry about him anymore.
The two walked out of the elevator and came to the police office.
Zeng Hao was leaning on the table by the door, holding soy milk in one hand and steamed buns in the other.
"Mo'er!" Zeng Hao pointed to Bai Mo's workstation with the bun in his mouth, "An errand boy just delivered something, saying it's for you."
"Mo'er?" Lu Wan muttered along with interest, "It's fun to scream."
When Lu Wan looked at Bai Mo, her smile paused. She found that Bai Mo's face became very serious, and his eyes were fixed on his work station.
There was a cylinder half a meter long and about twenty centimeters in diameter placed on the table. The cylinder was wrapped with tape.
Lu Wan couldn't tell what kind of packaging this was for a while.
Bai Mo quickly came to his seat and picked up the cylinder placed on the table.
When Bai Mo saw this cylinder, he immediately thought that it was used to hold picture scrolls. Who would suddenly give him a picture? Bai Mo thought of the hand-drawn author.
After tearing off the tape, Bai Mo opened the lid on one side of the cylinder. As expected, there was a piece of paper inside. He pulled it out and quickly unfolded it.
A hand-painted painting that was as real as a photo appeared in front of Bai Mo's eyes.
"Suck-" Bai Mo was followed by Zeng Hao and Lu Wan. Zeng Hao took a deep breath when he saw the content in the painting.
There is another murder scene in the painting!
From an angle, it looks down. The deceased is lying on a platform like a bed, and the whole person is in the shape of a large font.
This large font is incoherent because there are gaps between the limbs and head of the deceased and the body.
The deceased in the painting was dismembered, his blood spread all over the platform, and his expression was full of fear, as if he had seen the most heart-stopping scene in his life before death.
Without saying a word, Lu Wan slowly knelt down and picked up a small piece of paper from the ground. The piece of paper fell out when Bai Mo unfolded the scroll.
Lu Wan put the piece of paper on the table. The moment Bai Mo saw the piece of paper, his face became even paler.
An icy chill instantly swept through Bai Mo's body, and the strong sense of suffocation made Bai Mo breathe faster. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "It's him!"
Bai Mo often read the letters Qin Peng received these days. He was too familiar with that person's handwriting, so he made a judgment immediately.
There was only one sentence on the note - "Are you looking for me?"
