Is Mr. Bai really dead?

After asking this question, Chen Fan stared at the other person's expression.

Make sure you are telling the truth.

Because this is related to the next question.

Shuangche spoke without hesitation.

"According to our subsequent search at the scene, all the secret guards and bodyguards who accompanied the Second Master that night were killed in the assassination."

"Two of the vehicles were hit hard and fell off a cliff into the sea."

"Second Master was sitting in one of the cars."

"Afterwards, I sent people to the scene to investigate, but all we found were the wreckage of two vehicles and two bodies."

Chen Fan frowned: "This corpse..."

"From the secret guard."

"I met the Second Master on the night of the accident. He had more than a dozen secret guards with him. According to our inference, there were at least five secret guards in the two cars that fell into the sea. In the end, only two bodies were found, and one of them was already completely mutilated."

Chen Fan frowned and asked, "Didn't you find the Second Master's body?"

"No."

"The current was turbulent at the location of the accident, and the car was severely deformed. It is very likely that it was washed away by the ocean current."

Chen Fan asked: "Is there any chance that the Second Master will come back alive?"

Shuangche smiled bitterly: "Sir, the height of that cliff is at least more than ten meters. Let alone sitting in the car, even if an ordinary person jumped there, he would almost certainly die."

"I think the probability of Erye surviving is... very low."

Chen Fan sighed and put the question aside for the time being.

"Tell me, what did the Second Master talk about when he suddenly came to Yangcheng to see you that night?"

This time, Shuangche hesitated for a moment, then looked up at the girl next to him.

"Xiaojuan, please go out for a while."

The girl next to her pouted, turned around and walked out the door.

Chen Fan then looked up at Zhang Shun, who also turned and walked outside.

After there were only two people left in the room, Shuangche looked at Chen Fan.

"Sir, I can guarantee that what I am going to say next is absolutely true, without any lies."

Seeing the other party so serious, Chen Fanjin also sat up a little straighter.

"Back then, the old man of the Bai family established the pawnshop in order to allow us to search for extraordinary people across the country, and also to sponsor the research of various magical and supernatural events..."

Chen Fan nodded, indicating that he already knew the information.

"It's just that after the old man of the Bai family passed away, the position of the head of the family was passed to the second master's father. The Bai family still developed according to the plan set by the old man, and it is thriving and growing gradually."

"But no one, including everyone in the Bai family, knows that the old man secretly passed the position of the pawnshop's helmsman to the second master, and the second master's father."

"At that time, the old master made a rule that the pendant was a token of trust, and whoever held the pendant in the future could become the owner of the pawnshop."

"After the Second Master became the head of the pawnshop, he changed his strategy and used most of his resources to investigate the dirty laundry of the Bai family's competitors, retaining only a small amount of funds and manpower to continue to carry out what the old master had done."

Chen Fan remained silent. Although he already knew what was said, he still maintained great patience.

"About a year ago, something unexpectedly happened at the pawn shop."

"Back then, the pawnshop helped the old man of the Bai family find many strange people and stories. Although the old man was not interested in these people after investigating, the pawnshop still kept their information and names."

"But starting about a year ago, during an accidental investigation, the pawn shop suddenly discovered that all the strange people and things we had found back then were disappearing one by one."

"Um?"

Chen Fan frowned, a little surprised.

Before coming here, Chen Fan was actually prepared to hear any answer.

But 놆놛 never expected to hear such an answer suddenly.

Shuangche didn't notice the change in Chen Fan's expression and continued to tell the story.

"No one paid attention to it at first, because even if you have any special skills, you are still a human being, and humans will grow old, get sick and die."

“So, no one paid much attention to it at first.”

"About half a year ago. During a meeting, someone mentioned this to me."

"Master Yu asked us to investigate in detail what is happening to the people on the list now."

"I found out after checking, and I was really shocked."

Shuangche's eyes widened, somewhat unable to believe it.

"There were probably more than a thousand people on the list back then. But after our investigation, we found that there are only about fifty people left alive."

"Even if we count from the time of the old man, more than 70% of the people on the list were over 30 years old, and only about 5% were over 60 years old."

"Even if there have been cases of old age, illness and death over the past few decades, it's impossible to see so many people disappear in an instant."

"Logically speaking, most of the people on the list should be between the ages of 10 and 60 now."

"But will people of this age really all die in just one or two years?"

"What's even more bizarre is that the deaths of these people were almost all concentrated in the last two to three years."

Chen Fan raised his eyelids.

“Man-made.”

"Yes. It's man-made."

The two cars nodded.

"At that time, the second master immediately issued an order, and the entire pawnshop was put into operation to investigate the truth behind these people's deaths."

"But we have been busy for more than a year and still haven't found any clues."

"The only clue was a pile of nameplates found at the scene of the death of one of the guys on the list."

“There are three words written on it.”

Chen Fan's heart trembled.

"The curtain-puller?"

"Yes, the curtain-puller."

Shuangche shook his head: "Unfortunately, we don't know anything about this curtain-puller. We don't have any clues."

"Until the death of the eldest master in a helicopter accident some time ago, the second master was full of doubts about the death of the eldest master, so he sent the branch in Europe to conduct a detailed investigation."

"As a result, we actually found some clues this time."

Hearing this, Chen Fan's cheeks trembled slightly.

놛 seemed to have guessed something.

Sure enough, both cars spoke in one second.

"The on-site investigation report sent back from the European branch shows that the helicopter crash was indeed man-made. The method used by the mastermind behind the crime is very similar to that of the curtain-puller we have been tracking for a year."

Chen Fan suddenly sat up straight in excitement.

"You mean... the death of the Bai family's master was not caused by the second and third branches of the Bai family?"

"right."

Chen Fan was stunned.

Because all the speculations and inferences that had been made up to that point were completely overturned at this moment.