One day, Detective Pighead received a report. A person had died at home, initially determined to be a homicide. The deceased left a death message, which should be related to the murderer.
The note had twelve letters: arranged like a clock face, in clockwise order: SHIPCHAMPION. Next to the letter S, it was written: the brightest place in Tianhe. So, who exactly is the murderer?
A. The deceased's colleague Sola
B. The deceased's university classmate Lǜzi, who works at an advertising company
C. The deceased's university classmate, university table tennis champion Xiao Wang, now a colleague of Lǜzi
D. The deceased's friend, photographer Xiao Wu
E. The deceased's wife Chuan Ling
The deceased worked in the IT industry.
Please deduce who the murderer is.
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In terms of the meaning of the letters, it is probably a flying sports champion. Choose B; only B is a sports champion. The brightest place in the Milky Way is the sun, which is a ping-pong ball, indicating that B is the culprit.
The correct pronunciation is a word I have learned: 'championship' meaning champion. Tianhe is the brightest, seemingly referring to the Cowherd Star and the Weaver Girl Star. 'Cowherd' refers to Xiao Wang, while the 'Weaver Girl' refers to Lvzi related to him. It seems the deceased doesn't directly name Lvzi but uses Xiao Wang as a bridge (someone about to die could still leave so much information, this guy really died slowly—). Does the Cowherd and Weaver Girl analogy imply that Xiao Wang also participated in the crime or was just an innocent bystander? In any case, Lvzi definitely had a part in the killing.
SHIPCOAMPION is a competition, and SHIP is an overseas competition. Only the table tennis champion has overseas competitions, so the murderer is the table tennis champion. Tianhe is the Milky Way, and the brightest place is Centaurus, which is one of the overseas awards for table tennis, so the murderer is C.
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