The Vanished Wife (8)
The players decided that Qin Man and her son would stay at the Jin family's house and keep an eye on Mr. Liang's movements, while the others would go to the housekeeper Wu Yaoyao's house.
Jian Tanxi and the others drove to Wu Yaoyao's house again.
Seeing several people arrive together, Wu Yaoyao forced a smile and said, "Didn't Detective Pan come by earlier? Why are you all here again?"
Jian Tanxi said, "We really have no clue, so we have to visit them again. You won't find us bothersome, will you?"
"No, I'm innocent anyway, no matter how many times you investigate, it will be the same."
Jian Tanxi and the others went inside.
Jian Tanxi deliberately looked around, and then, taking advantage of Wu Yaoyao's inattention, threw a "good person card" at her, saying, "You're a good person! Go and chisel open the outside of your house's walls and see what happens, use this chisel."
Jian Tanxi handed the interstellar triangular pyramid to Wu Yaoyao, who took it blankly and then began to chisel the wall.
The interstellar triangular pyramid was extremely sharp; using it to chisel through walls was a waste of its potential. Although Wu Yaoyao looked frail, she chiseled through it effortlessly.
As everyone watched Wu Yaoyao chisel through the wall, they whispered among themselves.
Xie Wei said, "Jian Tanxi, how long can this 'nice guy' card keep her in check?"
Jian Tanxi said, "There is no fixed time; it will continue until she finishes what I asked her to do."
"I see, so the 'nice guy' card is quite useful."
"However, my previous attempt to use the 'good guy card' on Yu Antai has failed."
"Why?"
"I don't know either."
"Under what circumstances will the 'good guy' card become invalid?"
"It's possible that Yu Antai has been placed under some kind of restriction. The restriction takes precedence over the 'good guy card,' so the 'good guy card' has no effect on him. I encountered a similar situation once before."
"Well, it seems Yu Antai isn't so simple after all. Who exactly is controlling him? And how are they controlling him?"
"I don't know either. The idea that he has other restrictions on him is just my guess, and it may not be true."
Professor Pan asked, "Back then, what did you ask Yu Antai to do using the 'good guy' card?"
Jian Tanxi: "I just asked him to describe the last time he saw Ms. Jin. I thought that after the loan incident, maybe he met with Ms. Jin again and something happened. If he could tell me the truth, I would have another clue. But he didn't say anything."
Xie Wei asked, "Could it be that he hasn't seen Ms. Jin for the past two weeks?"
Jian Tanxi: "But I'm talking about the last time he met Ms. Jin. No matter what, there must have been a last meeting between him and Ms. Jin, right? Even if it was half a month ago, couldn't he just say that?"
Xie Wei: "Yeah, that's really strange...maybe he just feels he has nothing to say?"
"Nothing to say?"
"Yes, their last meeting was probably when he borrowed money. And that meeting wasn't pleasant; Ms. Jin didn't lend him the money, which led to his mother's death. So, his brain developed a protective mechanism that made him try not to recall that scene."
"That's also possible..."
Jian Tanxi felt that Xie Wei's explanation seemed more plausible.
Wu Yaoyao kept chiseling at the wall, and before long, one section of the wall was gone. But there was nothing inside.
Inside the wall was a large sheet of iron, the outer part of which had been completely chiseled away. This sheet of iron seemed quite peculiar, without a single dent, as if the interstellar triangular pyramid had no effect on it.
Jian Tanxi asked, "There are usually no iron plates inside the wall, right?"
Xie Wei: "Houses on Earth generally don't have that, but people in City B might like to use iron sheets to reinforce their walls."
Professor Pan: "This iron sheet may be made of a special material. It has been hammered and struck by the interstellar triangular pyramid, but no marks have been left. Using it to build a wall should improve the stability of the wall."
Jian Tanxi said, "I think so too."
Although they didn't find anything on this wall, everyone held their breath and wanted to see what was in the other walls.
About forty minutes later, all the outer parts of the Wu family's walls had been chiseled off, but there was still nothing there.
Now, the whole house is full of construction waste.
Everyone felt quite awkward.
Xie Wei said, "Why don't we lift up the sheet metal and see what's inside?"
Professor Pan shook his head: "If you keep smashing it, the wall will collapse. Right now, only the outer side of the wall has been scraped off, so it hasn't affected the overall structure of the house."
"All right."
While Wu Yaoyao was still dazed, Jian Tanxi took the interstellar triangular pyramid back from Wu Yaoyao's hand.
After a while, Wu Yaoyao came to her senses.
She was very surprised to see construction debris all over the floor and dust floating around the room. She asked, "What just happened?"
Jian Tanxi explained, "I'm sorry, I used a tool to control you and make you chisel through the wall to check if there were any hidden things in your walls."
Wu Yaoyao was furious: "If you suspect I'm hiding a corpse in the wall, just say so. I'll tear everything down for you to see, as long as you give me the money you've given me for renovating the house. Why did you use props to control me? What are you going to do about the damage I've caused? And what are we going to do with all this construction debris?"
Jian Tanxi said, "We'll help you dispose of the construction waste. As for your losses, we'll compensate you, but not now. We're working for Mr. Liang, and if we find Ms. Jin, he should give us some money. We'll use that money to compensate you then, how about that?"
Wu Yaoyao said, "I know you're from out of town and don't have B City's currency, so I won't make things difficult for you. Just keep your promise after you receive your payment and use that money to cover my losses."
But now, I need to write an IOU first. Also, I won't be handling this construction debris; the three of you will have to move it yourselves. And you're also responsible for cleaning this room.”
Jian Tanxi said, "No problem."
Jian Tanxi was about to write an IOU when Professor Pan said, "Let me write it."
He then quickly wrote an IOU, and the debtor only wrote his own name.
Jian Tanxi and Xie Wei both wanted to add their names, but Professor Pan stopped them: "It's alright, I'm the oldest, I'll take responsibility for anything. Besides, if Mr. Liang gives a reward, it's for all of us detectives, and I can pay him back later. But this construction debris can't be moved all at once, we need to think of a solution."
Jian Tanxi said, "I have a way."
She asked Wu Yaoyao for the location of the garbage station, then activated her "three-dimensional folding" ability, folding the space of Wu Yaoyao's house together with the space of the garbage station. In this way, the garbage station was very close to Wu Yaoyao's house.
The three of them quickly dragged all the construction debris to the garbage station, almost a short distance from one hand to the other.
Then, the superpowers failed, the garbage station returned to its original location, and the construction waste from Wu Yaoyao's house disappeared.
Professor Pan took an eraser out of his bag. Then, the eraser grew to the size of a table. It had a handle on the back for gripping.
Professor Pan grabbed the eraser handle and wiped the ground, instantly cleaning the floor.
Jian Tanxi asked, "Professor Pan, what is this?"
“This is my tool—the ‘most popular eraser,’ which can clean quickly. Just wipe it anywhere and it will clean up all the stains.”
"Great, I'll give it a try."
Jian Tanxi took the eraser, gripped the handle, and wiped the wall, cleaning up the dust.
With this tool, cleaning the house is no longer a hassle.
The three of them took turns cleaning, and it was done in about an hour.
Wu Yaoyao said, "Since it's all settled, I won't hold it against you. I think that no matter what, you shouldn't suspect me. I just had a quarrel with my wife and got fired, but I would never harm her, after all, we don't have any deep-seated hatred. Besides, I'm not short of money."
Jian Tanxi said, "I'm sorry, we were overthinking things today. But we were just trying to find Ms. Jin as soon as possible, so please forgive us."
"It's alright, you'll compensate for the losses anyway, so I won't keep you here."
Having said that, it was impossible to stay any longer.
The three got into the car and drove away.
Xie Wei, driving the car, asked, "Where do we go next? Should we go to Yu Antai's house to break through the wall? Or to Jin Meigui's house to break through the wall?"
Professor Pan said, "Since there were no remains in Wu Yaoyao's house, perhaps there won't be any in the other suspects' houses either. I just thought about it, and if they wanted to hide the bodies, they didn't need to hide them in their own homes, otherwise they would easily be discovered."
Xie Wei: "What if Wu Yaoyao wasn't involved in the murder and hiding of the body, but the others were? Should we break through the walls of all these houses?"
Jian Tanxi said, "It's not impossible... we're already out anyway."
Xie Wei: "How many 'good guy' cards do you still have?"
"5 sheets."
"That's enough. Let's go to Yu Antai's house first."
Professor Pan also felt that it was better to be safe than sorry, so he decided to have all the walls in the suspect's house chipped away to put his mind at ease.
Jian Tanxi said, "But my three-dimensional folding ability can only be used once."
Xie Wei said, "Why don't we look at Yu Antai's walls first, and then discuss whether to go to Jin Meigui's house? Actually, if Yu Antai or Jin Meigui don't ask us to move the construction waste, we won't need to use the three-dimensional folding ability."
"Do you think that's possible? You knock down someone's wall, and then they have to deal with the construction debris themselves?"
"That's true. In any case, it's fine to move construction waste by hand."
So the three of them went to Yu Antai's house.
This time, Jian Tanxi didn't waste any words and directly gave Yu Antai a "good guy" card, telling him to break through the wall.
Unexpectedly, Yu Antai immediately started chiseling without the slightest hesitation.
Jian Tanxi, on the other hand, was not used to it and muttered, "So the 'friend card' works on him after all..."
Xie Wei asked, "Are you sure that 'nice guy' card didn't work on him?"
"Yes...it might be useful, but as you said, he didn't have anything to say about his last meeting with Ms. Kim, which is why he didn't speak."
Jian Tanxi didn't know the specifics of what happened.
Before long, Yu Antai's wall was also completely demolished.
However, the three of them still found nothing.
Inside the walls of the Yu family's house, there were also large pieces of sheet metal, which could be seen by chiseling open the outer wall.
After regaining consciousness, Yu Antai only asked that the construction waste be removed and that he be compensated for the losses.
Jian Tanxi used her three-dimensional folding ability again to move construction waste, and Professor Pan wrote another IOU.
Then, the three of them drove away.
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