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Chapter 32 Music Note Code
In Xiao's house, Luo Fei used a screwdriver to put back the bolt that was broken by Xiaoman's kick.

The little deer couldn't help being curious: "What are you doing?"

"Restore the scene." Luo Fei said as he hugged his shoulders and looked around the room again.

"What did you find?"

"It's just some scattered clues, but if you put these clues together, you might be able to see a complete puzzle." Luo Fei said as he walked towards the bookshelf, and his eyes fell on a roll of tape on the bookshelf.

A lot of things suddenly fell from the bookshelf, which startled Luo Fei.

"Qin Xiaoman! Protect..." Luo Fei was halfway through the sentence, and then he looked around before recovering, and he suddenly wondered why he said that just now.

"Oh." At this time, Xiao Lu struggled to lift a box off the bookshelf.

"What's wrong?" Luo Fei asked.

"I saw that the box was placed so high, so I wanted to take it down to have a look." Xiao Lu said.

Luo Fei stepped forward to check. There was a suitcase on the ground, and the music score and baton inside were scattered and fell out.

"Is this Xiao Lang's music box?" Luo Fei picked up a sheet of music with "The Flower of the Other Shore" written on it.Picking up another sheet, it was "The Flower of the Other Side" again, "It seems that this is not the first time he has received the music score of the Flower of the Other Side."

Flipping through the sheet music, Xiaolu deduced: "So someone has been sending sheet music to curse him, and he finally couldn't help playing a piece, and it turned out..."

"Strange." Luo Fei fell into deep thought.

"What did you find?" Little Lu asked Luo Fei.

"The height and depth of this music box don't match." Luo Fei said as he found a mechanism at the bottom of the box, pressed it, and the bottom of the box popped open, revealing the interlayer. "Sure enough, there is a hidden compartment inside."

"But there's nothing inside." Xiaolu said looking at the empty hidden compartment.

At this time, Luo Fei suddenly saw some white powder in the corner of the dark grid. Luo Fei stuck it up with his fingers and smelled it. "What's this?"

"Will Xiao Lang bring this music box with him during his performances?" Luo Fei asked Xiao Lu directly.

Xiaolu nodded: "He will bring it every time he performs, and never let others touch it, saying that this box will bring him good luck."

"Where are the other members of the orchestra, do they have a music box?" Luo Fei asked again.

Xiao Lu shook his head again and again: "No, only Xiao Lang has it."

"The things that are never allowed to be touched by others, except for the music box, are..." Luo Fei immediately turned around and picked up Guan Er's violin, examined it carefully, and tapped it with his hands.Immediately, Luo Fei found a mechanism on the body of the violin, pressed it lightly, and the body of the violin was opened.

"Wow, the violin also has hidden compartments!" Xiao Lu exclaimed.

Luo Fei stuck some white powder out with his fingers, and nodded: "That's true."

"Thank you, the mystery will be solved soon." Luo Fei hurriedly got up and walked towards the door.

"Can you tell me now?" Little Lu followed closely.

"Now I have to check some information!" Luo Fei said and quickly went downstairs.

The Concession Library, Xiaoman came looking around.Luo Fei poked his head out in front of a row of bookshelves, waved to Xiaoman, and then hurried back.

Xiaoman walked quickly, and saw Luo Fei and Xiaolu flipping through a large pile of foreign language newspapers in a corner of the library.

"I've been looking for you everywhere, what are you two doing in the library?"

Luo Fei didn't raise his head: "Let's talk about your situation first. Have Xiao Lang's blood samples been collected?"

"Yes, Benjamin detected traces of drug tears in it. And you, what did you find?"

"We found traces of tears in Xiao Lang's music box and Guan Er's violin, and suspected that they took advantage of the orchestra's overseas performances to traffic in drugs..." Xiao Lu said.

Luo Fei showed a notebook: "This is the record of the Western Orchestra of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce's overseas performances in the past few years. We checked the newspapers of the places where they performed, and almost every time the orchestra went abroad, there would be crimes caused by tears drugs in the local area. .”

Xiaolu looked around and added in a low voice: "We speculate that there is an underground drug processing factory in the public concession. In order not to attract attention, they never sell drugs in the concession, but use the band of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau to sell overseas."

Xiaoman was alert immediately: "Since you are Xiao Lang's assistant, you are also one of them, right?"

"He just became Xiao Lang's assistant a month ago, so he probably didn't know about it, and if he was one of them, he wouldn't have asked me to investigate the cause of Xiao Lang's death." Luo Fei said.

"However, judging from the amount of drugs, besides Xiao Lang and Guan Er, there should indeed be other people in the drug gang." Xiaoman slapped the table, "I'll apply for an arrest warrant and arrest everyone in the Ministry of Industry and Bureau Orchestra into the patrol room Trial one by one!"

At this moment, everyone in the library looked at the three of them with blank expressions.

Luo Fei and Xiaolu lowered their heads in embarrassment, pretending to read a newspaper.

Concession patrol room, inspector's office.

"I don't agree!" Sha Wei sternly rejected Xiaoman.

"Someone is manufacturing and selling drugs on your territory, don't you just sit back and watch?!" Xiaoman retorted.

"They smuggled drugs overseas and did not hinder the security of the public concession. As for the infighting among the drug cartels, it would be easier for them to kill each other." Javert said in a low voice.

"Inspector, I really didn't expect you to be such a person who has no sense of right and wrong." Xiaoman continued to argue.

Shawei pointed at Xiaoman: "Qin Xiaoman! Do you think the position of the inspector is easy to sit? To handle a case requires police force and funds, and a major case like drugs is involved. Without the support from above, it is impossible for the police station to move at all. And you know that the staff What is the background of the Bureau Orchestra? They are ambassadors for foreign cultural exchanges, and they are the international face of the International Settlement. If it is revealed that the band’s drug trafficking will have an international impact, do you think the higher authorities will allow such a thing to happen?"

Xiaoman lowered her head weakly: "But..."

"Don't say any more, just pretend that the conversation just didn't happen, get out!" Javert slapped the table and stared at Xiao Man, as if waiting for her to go out.

Xiaoman turned around angrily.But beyond Javert's expectation, Xiaoman walked a few steps and turned back, patted the table in front of her hard, and then left quickly!

Javert, who was startled, froze on the spot for a long time.

At night, Room 203, Sullivan's apartment.

Luo Fei and Xiao Lu were sitting in front of the coffee table, while Xiao Man was still walking back and forth very annoyed.

"Damn it, isn't the police just upholding fairness and justice, but they clearly see a crime in front of them, but they just sit back and do nothing." Luo Fei twirled a cigar with his fingers, pretending to be earnest: "Young police detective Ah, the inspector has a problem with the inspector, he did not pursue the matter of stealing the autopsy, which means that he has tacitly allowed us to continue investigating the case, which is already helping us to the greatest extent."

"We can't even ask the suspect for questioning now, how can we investigate?" Xiaoman asked angrily.

"All roads lead to Rome, we still have other clues." Luo Fei said and picked up the music score, "Why did Xiao Lang and Guan Er both play the same piece of music before they died, what is the meaning of this score, and solve this mystery, Maybe the whole case will be solved."

"Maybe they know that they have committed a great crime and want to play a beautiful song to purify their sinful hearts."

Luo Fei and Xiaolu listened, looked at Xiaoman together, and then looked at each other, the cigar in Luo Fei's hand fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Xiaoman immediately explained in embarrassment: "It is possible that a person's words are good when he is about to die."

At this moment, the deer suddenly said: "By the way, I remembered a spy novel I read, in which the spy organization used music to convey information. Could it be that in this music score, there are secrets that only people from drug trafficking organizations can interpret?" message?"

"After I finished playing last time, I always felt that there are a few places that are out of tune?"

Xiaolu nodded: "I heard it too."

"Why didn't I hear it?" Xiaoman looked puzzled.

"You're not sensitive enough to music, you can't recognize subtle pitch differences, and you can't tell the difference between harmony and dissonance between melodies." Luo Fei laughed.

"What does that mean?" Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei, but didn't realize it for a moment.

Luo Fei pursed his lips, and said four words seriously to Xiaoman: "Pentaphone insufficiency."

"Luo Fei!"

"Shh..." Luo Fei stopped Xiao Man and pointed to the score, "These notes are very strange."

"Show me." Xiaolu took the sheet music, examined it carefully, and hummed a few words softly, "The major third here is really strange. If the g sound is raised by another step and becomes a perfect fourth, it will be a perfect fourth." Complete."

Luo Fei nodded: "That's right. And here, there are also problems with the sounds after the d sound. When I play it, I feel very awkward."

"Is it very strange? How could it be the sixth degree?"

At this time, Xiao Man, who was confused, waved his hands again and again: "Wait, what are the third and sixth degrees?"

"We are discussing the consonance of intervals. Consonant intervals will sound more harmonious, and dissonant intervals will be harsher. The major thirds and major sixths we mentioned just now are incomplete consonant intervals. They are used in It's going to be weird in the score."

"Oh..." Xiaoman nodded with a vague understanding.

Afterwards, Luo Fei took a pen and ticked out those few notes on the music score.

"These notes are obviously wrong. Could it be that the message is hidden inside..."

Xiao Lu looked at it: "Mila So La La So, what do you mean?"

"What if it's converted into simplified notation?" Luo Fei said.

"That's 362665. Could it be a phone number?" Deer was a little excited.

"The phone number doesn't start with 362. And I think, since the message is hidden in the score, it should have something to do with the music."

"What kind of relationship is that?" Xiaoman asked.

Luo Fei couldn't think of it for a while, and was a little impatient: "Qin Xiaoman, you don't understand music at all, and you will only interfere with our analysis and waste everyone's time here."

After hearing this, Xiaoman's expression changed.

"I'm just telling the truth." Luo Fei fell into thinking after finishing speaking.

"I'm sorry that I was careless, violent, and impulsive. I dragged down the big detective. You can solve the case without me." Xiaoman rushed out of the door after speaking, and slammed the door heavily.

Luo Fei glanced in the direction of the door.

"She seems to be angry." Xiaolu said, pointing at the door.

"Leave her alone, let's continue." Luo Fei took out a stack of music scores, "I found this from Xiao Lang's music box. See what's special about it."

Xiaolu pointed to the notes circled in red on the music score: "These notes are all circled."

"There are six wrong notes on each score. Although the positions are different, for those who are familiar with the music, they can find these six notes just by playing it once."

"After Guan Er found the music score, he immediately played it again, also to find these notes?"

Luo Fei pointed to a string of numbers below the score and said, "Look, here is a string of numbers, 172643."

"This is Xiao Lang's handwriting." Xiaolu said with certainty.

"Every time he got the music score and unlocked the code, he wrote it down, but before he could write down the code for the last time, he died."

“如果把这份曲谱上的六个错音用简谱标出来，就是2、1、3、2、5、3……对不上啊。”小鹿满脸疑惑。

"It seems that it is not as simple as a simple notation."

"What would that be?"

Xiaolu looked at Luo Fei, and the reasoning of the two reached a deadlock.

At this moment, the 204 room opposite the door.

Xiaoman was beating a sandbag hard to vent her anger.

Room 203 was silent, only Luo Fei's special coffee machine was gurgling and steaming.Luo Fei and Xiao Lu were still thinking hard, drinking coffee one cup after another.

"Morse code, Etebus code, Caesar's phalanx... I've tried all the possibilities, but none of them work." Luo Fei rubbed the bridge of his nose and said.

"I think you may be thinking too complicatedly. Xiao Lang is not as smart as you, so he won't solve such a complicated code." Xiao Lu said.

"The easiest way is to directly convert the roll call on the stave into numbered notation, but it doesn't match Xiao Lang's answer."

Xiao Lu picked up a sheet of music: "Simple notation only has 0 to 7, but look here, Xiao Lang wrote an 8, and here is a 9."

Luo Fei suddenly thought of something, took the music score: "That's right, why didn't I think of it!"

Little Lu hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Luo Fei picked up a pen and paper and quickly calculated.

"What did you think of?" Xiao Lu asked again.

Luo Fei suddenly dropped his pen and laughed: "Hahaha, it turns out to be like this, simple, too simple."

Xiaolu couldn't wait to urge: "Tell me quickly, how did you calculate it?"

Luo Fei looked at Xiao Lu: "You're right, I thought the password was too complicated. It's actually just a numbered notation roll call, but it uses a different base."

Xiao Lu quickly explained: "I'm not good at math, can you explain it more plainly?"

Luo Fei pointed to the numbers on the music score: "Look at this music score, the six wrong sounds are Lai, Duo, Mi, Lai, Suo, Mi, written in numbered notation is 2, 1, 3, 2, 5, 3, but in numbered notation There is a problem, there are only eight digits from 0 to 7, there are no 8 and 9, how to use numbered notation to record all the numbers, the easiest way is to use octal.”

Xiaolu nodded thoughtfully: "I seem to understand a little bit..."

Luo Fei picked up a pen and drew commas to separate the numbers: "Look, 213253, this is actually three sets of two-digit numbers, 21, 32, 53, but these are octal numbers, converted into decimals... 17, 26, 43."

"This is exactly the same as Xiao Lang's answer!"

Luo Fei nodded: "That's right!"

Xiao Lu picked up the last sheet of music: "Then the password on this sheet of music should be..."

Luo Fei picked up the pen again and quickly calculated: "30 22 53."

"It's just a string of numbers, we still don't know what it's useful for," Xiaolu said.

Luo Fei rubbed his beard: "If I'm not wrong, this should be the password of the safe. Since they are a drug cartel, they must have a secret place to obtain drugs. For such a large amount of drugs, it is safest to hand them over through the safe."

Xiao Lu's expression was very eager: "Even if it's the password of the safe, we only know the password, but we still don't know where the safe is."

Luo Fei smiled slightly: "Don't worry, someone will take us there."

(End of this chapter)