Then, Hu Jia recounted the origin of these two sentences. Lü Qingqing sneered; Sixth Master’s calculations were indeed intricate.
He wanted his opponent to unravel a mystery that he himself couldn't solve.
“Is this why he hasn’t made a move against you all these years?” Lü Qingqing asked, as if discovering a new continent.
Huh?
Hu Jia was taken aback. He had never considered this question before.
“You inexplicably disappeared for a week before New Year’s Day and returned unharmed. You, who have no memory, why would they capture you?”
This was a question Lü Qingqing and everyone else had discussed, but no one had found an answer.
“Looking back now, they clearly didn’t intend to harm you, but rather to extract the answers they wanted from you.”
Lü Qingqing pondered. The Morse code that Hu Jia had brought back contained several keywords: shooting, Sixth Master, Tong Meng, Dao Ren, Er Jiu Liu, key.
Individually, each of these keywords made sense. Together, they could infer what Hu Jia was trying to convey.
However, no one had ever considered what these few keywords might represent.
“What do they represent?” Hu Jia asked.
“They represent a hand pushing you forward,” Lü Qingqing said.
Huh?
Hu Jia frowned. “Are you saying this was all his plan?”
Lü Qingqing nodded. “The fact that you had orange peel on you is the biggest suspect.”
Hu Jia thought about it and realized it was indeed strange. Sixth Master, who controlled the Dao Ren organization, was no fool. Therefore, Hu Jia being able to leave with the orange peel was inherently illogical.
Did they not search him?
“Also, you were captured on a Monday, and you had no memory. But when you returned, you not only knew about the key but also Er Jiu Liu. This indicates that during your captivity, you learned some crucial information.”
Lü Qingqing stated that the only person who could have revealed this crucial information to Hu Jia was Sixth Master.
In other words, why would he reveal it to you? You might think he wasn't afraid, as Hu Jia only had a week's memory.
But what if you consider the orange peel as well?
Could it be that during that time, he specifically narrated the entire shooting incident, including some key information?
The purpose was to have Hu Jia take this key information out and thus advance the situation, prompting Hu Jia to search for the clue of the key?
After all, since Hu Jia lost his memory, he had not investigated the shooting case. And there was something important in the shooting case: the key.
The key was hidden by Hu Jia and Mou Ji Xuan. Mou Ji Xuan was dead, and Hu Jia had lost his memory, meaning the whereabouts of the key were known to no one.
To find the key, there was only one way.
Keep Hu Jia alive and help him regain his memory.
Lü Qingqing suddenly understood everything.
Ouyang Wen had always believed that the perpetrator forcing citizens to commit suicide in front of Hu Jia was meant to provoke him and drive him mad.
Now it seemed the perpetrator wanted Hu Jia to be stimulated into regaining his memory.
Secondly, there was the death of Mo Yun. Ma Cong killed him and framed Li Yang.
Li Yongqiang was being eavesdropped on at the training center by Mo Yun, who was now dead. Ma Cong’s reason for the murder was a dispute over money.
At the time, Lü Qingqing knew this was just a pretext, and she thought the perpetrator was framing Li Yang to eliminate Hu Jia’s right-hand man.
But now it seemed Mo Yun and Ma Cong were just pawns.
Because of Mo Yun’s death, Hu Jia would inevitably investigate, and once he investigated, he would find Li Yongqiang and learn that the person who committed the shooting was eavesdropping on him.
Then, according to the perpetrator’s plan, Hu Jia should have realized at this point that the shooting case was unsolved and continued to investigate it.
But unexpectedly, Lü Qingqing appeared and concealed this matter.
Hu Jia continued to live a life where revenge was served.
“Perhaps the appearance of Feng Si was also part of the perpetrator’s plan,” Lü Qingqing thought, increasingly astonished. No wonder the outdoor training changed mountains this year. No wonder Li Hongjiang always seemed to favor Tong Meng. No wonder Tong Hua could be transferred to the judicial department and directly become Hu Jia’s superior.
It turned out that both of them were under Sixth Master’s control.
Feng Si’s appearance finally broke Hu Jia’s period of “peace and prosperity,” and Er Jiu Liu surfaced.
To help Hu Jia and others realize that Er Jiu Liu was Wang Xia, and to help them clarify the relationship between Wang Xia and the key, the Dao Ren sent Tong Meng to erase the words on the wall, thus causing the Wang brothers to turn against each other.
This was also why the Dao Ren sent “knife-wielding men” to guard Hua Yan Village that day. In other words, even if Wang Yan Lin hadn’t killed Wang Yan Gang’s wife, the Dao Ren would have killed her.
Because they wanted to escalate the situation, they wanted Hu Jia and others to learn about the existence of the key through the Wang brothers.
As expected, Hu Jia finally learned about the key.
Based on reality, Hu Jia traced it to Zhang Hang Jiang.
“Do you remember the incident where Zhang Hang Hai was kidnapped?” Lü Qingqing asked Hu Jia, then immediately reacted, “Oh, you don’t remember.”
Hu Jia was speechless. “I have a memo.”
Lü Qingqing chuckled dryly. “I never understood who kidnapped Zhang Hang Hai or why. Now the answer seems obvious.”
Zhang Hang Hai was kidnapped by the Dao Ren organization. The purpose was to make Hu Jia find the real Zhang Hang Jiang and learn about Mou Ji Xuan’s past from him. However, they never expected that Zhang Hang Jiang would also mention the gun-testing master.
Logically, if Sixth Master wanted to know about Mou Ji Xuan’s past, he could have directly approached Zhang Hang Jiang. But he was clever, because he didn't understand Mou Ji Xuan.
For example, if Zhang Hang Jiang said Mou Ji Xuan went to learn swimming, Sixth Master would never have guessed from this phrase that the key was in the secret garden.
But Hu Jia could, because Hu Jia had contact with Mu Chun Ya.
“So, the fact that we were ultimately able to find the key was all arranged by them, and they even paved the way for us,” Hu Jia exclaimed in shock. He never imagined that the truth he had been desperately searching for was actually arranged by the other party. He thought he was getting closer to solving the case, only to realize they were merely using him to find the key.
And most crucially, the key was found, and it was indeed stolen by them.
Damn it!
Seeing Hu Jia’s expression, Lü Qingqing knew what he was thinking.
This was indeed hard to accept, but it was also an opportunity.
“Since they want to use us, why don’t we go with the flow and use them in return?” Lü Qingqing said. On the surface, Hu Jia seemed to have a better grasp of the truth, but in reality, everything Hu Jia discovered was sealed in his lost memories.
In comparison, Sixth Master was closer to the truth. Sixth Master wanted to use Hu Jia to obtain the key, and now he wanted to use Hu Jia to decipher the two verses.
Then Hu Jia would use Sixth Master’s attempt to use him to his advantage, acting according to Sixth Master’s plan. The key had been found, and the two verses would surely be deciphered.
Wouldn’t it be better to let Hu Jia, the cicada, become the oriole that swallows the mantis?