radicalducati Chapter 202 Recorder
Chapter 202 Recorder
Chapter 202 Recorder (Part 1)
The book Zhang Shuqiu sent was titled "Top Heiress, Ruling a Trillion-Dollar Empire," and it was signed "Autumn Rain Washes the Wutong Tree," which is quite related to her real name.
Wei Hongsi clicked the link and a prompt to download a third-party app popped up. After installation, he was redirected to the novel page. He first read the synopsis, which was roughly about a wealthy heiress taking over her family's vast business empire.
Click to read the main text. The story begins with the female protagonist studying at a prestigious foreign university, slapping a villain in the face upon graduation, receiving news of her father's death, and then returning home to take over the family business. There are no detailed descriptions of business or management aspects; it's mostly about being underestimated by someone, then making a powerful comeback and gaining a few followers along the way.
It's clear that the female lead's experiences reflect Zhang Shuqiu's own life. Although the opening description of her life abroad is somewhat exaggerated, the details are quite meticulous and have a real-life basis.
Wei Hongsi read about twenty chapters, then returned to the novel's homepage and clicked on the author's information. He had three novels under his name, the other two being "Phoenix Cries in the Nine Heavens - From Concubine's Daughter to Empress" and "This Female Immortal is So Powerful!"
He doesn't read many online novels, and he's never read any female-oriented online novels before. Judging from the titles, these three books seem to follow a similar formula. He also checked the publication dates of the first chapter of each book; they were basically published one per year.
So Zhang Shuqiu returned to China a long time ago and has been making a living by writing novels all these years? Judging from her author status and the popularity of her works, supporting herself is probably not a problem.
Wei Hongsi recalled the contents of "The Story of Time" and then opened two other books by Zhang Shuqiu. He read six or seven chapters of each book, ignoring the plot and focusing only on the text descriptions. He did not find any similarities.
However, writing style can be changed. Good authors can adapt the writing style to best suit the content of their work.
Although the plots of Zhang Shuqiu's three novels are somewhat simplistic and the writing style is mostly descriptive, the language is still quite precise. Furthermore, there's a noticeable difference in her writing style between modern urban stories and her ancient imperial and fantasy tales, demonstrating her solid writing skills.
Of course, it is still far from being comparable to the book "The Story of Time".
Although the book was a fake publication, the writing was very skillful and the novel structure was ingenious. It was in no way inferior to the works of some famous writers. Otherwise, Wei Hongsi would not have been able to read it through without having any doubts.
However, online novels require a large number of daily updates; it's said that mainstream writers update several thousand to tens of thousands of words a day. To maintain such a writing speed, the quality of the writing inevitably declines, and there's no time for the author to refine the text.
Furthermore, it is almost impossible to improve one's writing skills from a low level, but it is not difficult to improve them from a high level. Based on this point alone, it cannot be ruled out that Zhang Shuqiu was not Huajianyue.
The only thing that doesn't match up is Zhang Shuqiu's age.
Although the publication information on "The Story of Time" is fake, it was indeed printed six years ago. Police have confirmed this by examining the paper, ink, and binding. Zhang Shuqiu was only seventeen years old at the time; could she have written such text?
As Wei Hongsi was pondering this, he heard a knock on the door. Someone from the project team came in to report on their work. He put the matter aside for the time being and focused his attention on his work.
After having dinner at the company cafeteria that evening, Wei Hongsi worked overtime with the engineers in the lab. Besides participating in the integration of the GM0.2 device, he also oversaw the follow-up examinations of several patients with "mental pollution" who were confirmed cured, earning him 66 contribution points.
Points can be exchanged for "Recorder Performance (Lv.5)".
It was almost nine o'clock when he returned to his dormitory. While taking a shower, he redeemed the recorder skill and a memory from his childhood gradually surfaced in his mind. He remembered that the person who taught him to play the recorder was Zhang Shuqiu.
This wasn't entirely unexpected. If Uncle Zhang could teach him to play the whistle, he could naturally teach his daughter to play the recorder. The two instruments are very similar, both being whistling instruments that make a sound with a single whistle, making them very easy to learn. In comparison, the recorder, with its two additional tone holes, has a slightly more complex fingering.
After taking a shower, Wei Hongsi sat down at the corner table and pondered for a long time, but couldn't recall any more useful information.
The phone on the table suddenly rang. He looked down, saw it was his older brother calling, picked it up, and answered.
"Are you back in your dorm now?" Wei Hongbo asked.
"Yes, I just took a shower. Are you home?"
"Yeah, things just calmed down. Mom was watching TV in the living room, Dad was reading in his room, and I was in our bedroom."
"Did they find anything?"
"I guess I've gained something."
Wei Hongbo briefly recounted the findings of his investigation over the past three days.
He first contacted the Xicheng police and retrieved the case file regarding Zhang Zishi's accidental death. Through the on-site investigation records within the file...
Photos, videos, autopsy reports, and other materials were used to reconstruct the accident that occurred five years ago.
The circumstances of Zhang Zishi's car accident are remarkably similar to Han Tao's; both involved someone suddenly veering from the sidewalk into the roadway and being struck and killed instantly by a speeding vehicle. The only difference is that Zhang Zishi was hit at night, and the vehicle that struck him was a large truck.
There weren't many pedestrians on the road at the time, but some people still witnessed the whole incident. Based on eyewitness accounts and road surveillance footage, it can be confirmed that Zhang Zishi was walking alone on the road without any companions, and the nearest passerby was more than 20 meters away from him.
Before the incident, Zhang Zishi had taken ten days of annual leave from his workplace, claiming he was going abroad to visit his daughter. After the incident, the police found his plane ticket purchase record; the departure date was the first day of his leave. However, for some reason, he didn't travel and was involved in a car accident on the fourth day of his leave.
The case file also records the investigation team's interviews with some of Zhang Zishi's colleagues. All the interviewees stated that they did not find any mental or other problems in Zhang Zishi.
Wei Hongbo specifically asked his father about this and received the same answer.
So, although the cause of Zhang Zishi's sudden rush into the motor vehicle lane was not determined at the time, no other suspicious signs were found, and the investigation team ultimately concluded that it was an accidental death.
If it weren't for the case of Han Tao's death, Wei Hongbo would also agree with this conclusion.
He remembered that more than a month ago, Wei Hongsi had suggested that the two deaths be investigated together. At the time, he also felt that the two were related, but after reading the case files, he realized that the similarity in the procedures was surprisingly high.
Clearly, neither of these deaths was an accident, and although there was a five-year gap between them, they were closely related.
He also agreed with his younger brother's speculation that the person who signed his name "Huajianyue" was highly suspicious. Even if he was not the one who orchestrated these two incidents, he must have been someone who knew about them.
During the reopening of the investigation into Zhang Zishi's death, Wei Hongbo also learned some information about his daughter, Zhang Shuqiu.
Five years ago, Zhang Zishi died unexpectedly. After receiving the news, Zhang Shuqiu returned to China to handle her father's funeral arrangements. She stayed for about a month before going abroad to continue her studies. She graduated and returned to China three years ago and has been living in the house left by her father ever since.
Wei Hongbo's family originally lived in the same neighborhood as Zhang Zishi's family, but Wei Hongsi moved to their current location after going to university. After reviewing the materials from that year, Wei Hongbo was already preparing to conduct an investigation starting from Zhang Zishi's residence and the surrounding area, so he paid a visit to Zhang Shuqiu.
Zhang Shuqiu recognized Wei Hongbo at a glance and treated him with great enthusiasm.
Although the two hadn't met often before, their families maintained frequent contact. When Zhang Shuqiu was young, Wei Hongbo was already an adult; over the years, he had only become more thick-skinned and resilient, but his appearance hadn't changed much.
It took Wei Hongbo a while to match the slightly plump girl in front of him with the little girl from back then.
He was there to investigate a case, so he brought a colleague with him. After exchanging a few pleasantries, they got down to business.
Upon hearing that the investigation was about the cause of her father's death, Zhang Shuqiu's expression sombered for a moment. She then answered all of Wei Hongbo's questions.
Zhang Shuqiu was not in China around the time of Zhang Zishi's death. Therefore, Wei Hongbo only asked her if she had noticed anything unusual about her father during that period.
Zhang Shuqiu said she didn't notice anything unusual. When she was studying abroad, her father didn't contact her much, only speaking to her once every one or two months on average. As for her father saying he wanted to visit her but ultimately not doing so, she didn't pay much attention at the time, because this had happened before.
Wei Hongbo asked her if she had ever seen a strangely shaped chair at home, about the size of a two-seater sofa, or any other object of unknown purpose.
Zhang Shuqiu replied that her father seemed to have some small items, the purpose of which she did not know, but nothing as large as a chair. The layout of the house had hardly changed over the years, including her father's room, which she had kept exactly as it was back then.
Wei Hongbo looked around her house but didn't find anything suspicious.
The house belonging to Zhang Shuqiu is about twenty years old. It has two bedrooms and a living room, and the area is not very large. The father and daughter each have their own bedroom. People often come to visit. If there were a strangely shaped big chair, it would definitely attract a lot of attention.
Wei Hongbo asked her if she had seen a novel called "The Story of Time" and showed her a picture of it. Zhang Shuqiu said she had not seen it.
Wei Hongbo then asked her if her family often had friends over to play when she was a child. Zhang Shuqiu said that only Wei Hongsi came most often, while other children came occasionally. Her father saw them and reprimanded them once, after which those children stopped coming.
After finishing his visit to Zhang Shuqiu, Wei Hongbo began screening population data in that area to identify potential recipients of Zhang Zishi's memory implantation.
This is a rather tedious task. Based on the current timeframe, it roughly includes people aged 10 to 30, and then it determines whether they lived in that area before they were 10 years old.
Wei Hongbo believes that although the chair wasn't found in Zhang Shuqiu's house, the location where Zhang Zishi committed the act must not have been far away. Otherwise, if Wei Hongsi had disappeared when he was little, or been taken elsewhere by Uncle Zhang, his family would have noticed if it happened too often.
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