"Why go to such trouble?" Zhai Jingqiu expressed confusion, "I can understand the crime caused by any factors, but who would spend such complicated thoughts on killing someone? I don't speak for the murderer, but as far as the crime itself is concerned , the more complicated the design, the higher the chance of failure? Except for a guy with real mental problems, who would deliberately do this..."
That's of course because the people were killed by tourists.
The tourists present knew this reason very well, but unfortunately, outsiders could not understand it.
"Mr. Detective, we are not thinking about why the murderer did what he did. Among the three elements, why is the one we least need to pay attention to right now." Lu Ning said.
"She's right." Subobia also said, "I don't care why the murderer did what he did, I just want to know who he is - and then I will make him pay the price."
"In Howard's family rules, revenge is justice." Watanabe Fuchiko glanced at the door, "Mr. Subobia, do you want to exercise this power as a member of the Howard family?"
"I don't need other people's approval. I avenge Felicia. Do I need other people to give me any power?"
"No, I'm just reminding you that if you are not a member of the family and the target of your revenge is a member of the Howard family, then when your revenge is successful, it will also be the moment when their revenge against you begins."
After hearing this, Subobia took a deep breath and finally nodded: "Thanks for the reminder, I will find Mr. Rennix to solve this problem."
Then, Lu Ning checked the status of the room again.
Unlike Huo Yinglong's death, this does not constitute a secret room environment. Although the windows of the house are closed, they are not locked. Even if they can be easily opened from the outside, they are enough to allow one person to enter. Although the door is locked, it can be opened as long as you get the key. Not to mention the one in Felicia's hand, there are several sets of universal keys in the main building. It is entirely possible to sneak one out under the circumstances like last night.
"The style is different..." Lu Ning muttered in a low voice, which was only heard by Watanabe Fuchiko next to her.
After checking out the Lingmu Pavilion, we headed to the Arashimu Pavilion.
Sitting in the car, Lu Ning thought about the previous scene and then asked Rosemary: "There are two questions that need you to answer."
"You say."
"The first question is, the corresponding directions of the Qi Mu Pavilion and the Lan Mu Pavilion and how they correspond to the hexagrams of that location."
"The location corresponding to the Qimoku Pavilion is Qian. Its location is in the center of a forest, an open space in the dense forest. This is the only location in the forest where you can see the sky instead of the branches when you look up. The location corresponding to the Arashimu Pavilion The west side of the island is prone to thunderstorms in summer, and there are even many trees struck by lightning nearby. According to records, there were even two fires caused by lightning strikes in history."
"Hmm... Okay. So for the second question, according to what Mr. Zhai Jingqiu and Mr. Subobia just said, the person who opened the door of Huo Yinglong Gym was Lavender, and the person who checked the situation of Lingmu Hall in the morning was Rosemary. , previously in the main library, Miss Cynthia brought us the information that you first discovered the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Yin Teng, and then went to find her to confirm her safety and inform this information. Since you finally met Su Bobiya returned to the main hall together, your movement trajectory should be the Arashimu Hall on the west side, the Jinmu Hall on the northwest side, and the Lingmu Hall on the east side, why did you take such a long detour?"
"I don't know Lavender's actions. I skipped the viewing hall where Master Enwood lives and the meeting hall of Master Dimitri. I just checked the situation of each building clockwise starting from the west side of the island, and Lavender It started from the Qimu Pavilion. The two of us inspected three annexes respectively."
"But you came back together."
"I can prove this. We met on the road." Subobia said.
"No, Mr. Subbia, if this is really the case, you will return from east to west from the Lingmu Pavilion, and Lavender's car will return from Miss Mayuri Shiroda's Lumu Pavilion in the southwest. Unless you are in the main At the entrance of the museum, otherwise we wouldn’t have met him on the road." Lu Ning said.
At this time, Orlando suddenly raised his hand and put a black pistol against Rosemary's head.
"Huo Yinglong may be wary of his brothers and sisters, but he won't be so wary of his servants, and you don't seem to be much of a threat."
"Please note that our speed does not allow the driver to make any mistakes." Rosemary looked as usual.
"You are very calm, which is no longer the performance of an ordinary servant." Orlando said, "Ah, of course, the servants here seem to have this quality."
"But Rosemary shouldn't be the murderer." Lu Ning said.
"oh?"
"First of all, except for the Yin Teng couple who haven't seen it yet and Escher who hasn't been found yet, we have seen every corpse and the situation at the scene. So if she is the murderer, which crime was she done? We have seen it. It has been deduced before that there is a high probability that there is more than one murderer."
"She was not on duty last night and had plenty of time." Subobia said, "If she really hid her skills, she could at least go to an annex at night."
"Then comes the second question, the question of time. All the murders happened last night, and the two annexes we have visited all have survivors. Mr. Subbia, Mr. Zhai Jingqiu, may I ask you yesterday Did you call the servant to the annex tonight?"
"Of course not." Zhai Jingqiu said.
"In this case, it is also very suspicious for a servant to suddenly arrive in the middle of the night. Mr. Huo Yinglong will definitely interrogate her, and if she wants to see Ms. Felicia, she must go through Mr. Superbia downstairs."
Lu Ning patted Orlando on the shoulder and asked him to put down the gun.
"The maid gets up earlier than us in the morning. Since she needs to help Chef Pan Shen prepare breakfast, she and Bayleaf, who are on duty this morning, have to get up around 5:30 to go to the kitchen, and then there is the daily cleaning. Cleaning work. I asked Mr. Pan Shen before setting off, and Rosemary was indeed assisting him during that time. We had different rest times last night, and the servants rested around twelve o'clock. In her time Speaking of which, there is indeed a possibility of foul play, but even if it is possible, I would prefer it to be in the main house."
"Thank you for defending me, Doctor Lu Ning, but I must state that our servants will never kill each other. You can suspect that I killed Mr. Schlitt, but the death of Ou Baizhi and Iris I also feel very angry. There is no difference between me and Mr. Subobia and Mr. Zhai Jingqiu in terms of anger when someone close to them is killed."
Rosemary's tone seemed slightly cold.
"I returned according to the normal route, and Lavender turned back through another road. In this regard, Mr. Zhai Jingqiu followed the car. Didn't he feel strange on the road?"
Zhai Jingqiu was asked this question and recalled: "Sorry, the road conditions on the forest road below are a bit complicated. At that time, all I could think about was the scene of Huo Yinglong's death, and I didn't pay attention to the outside. By the time I noticed it, the car had already arrived. It’s at the entrance of the main building.”
"It doesn't matter, just go back and ask Lavender again about this kind of thing." Lu Ning waved her hand, she didn't want to cause any trouble at this time.
In this scene, both tourists and characters in the scene may kill people, but the situation at the scene clearly indicates that tourists are more likely to kill people. After all, the scene has a trace of deliberateness, which is the most obvious feature of tourists’ hands-on experience.
The "abilities" issued by the distribution center are abilities with real effects, and visitors also need to ensure the absolute specificity of the abilities. To put it simply, tourists cannot use acquired abilities to accomplish things that can be done without abilities.
For example, if there is an ability that suddenly hangs a rope from the rafters and hangs people, then tourists must not only have an alibi for themselves, but also ensure that no one on the island has the corresponding crime time or crime. ability. Although it is possible to create truly supernatural phenomena by activating abilities in full view of the public, the abilities either have clear observer restrictions or have hidden activation conditions for the number of witnesses. It is basically impossible to do this kind of magic in front of everyone's eyes. thing.
That’s why the scene was made like that, and each one has some seemingly unreasonable points, such as Schritt’s death without evasion even though he had a terrifying expression; Huo Yinglong was killed in the secret room without any resistance; There was no mark left on the bed where Felicia was beheaded.
These are necessary mysteries deliberately set up by tourists.
The car fell into silence along the way, and the atmosphere just now did not disappear so quickly, but Rosemary still faithfully performed her duties and drove the car to Arashimekan.
The west side of the island is a gentle slope with trees on the slope. You can walk down the slope to a mud beach. Arashimekan is just next to the intersection downhill. It is a building made of stone as the main building material. When Lu Ning got out of the car, she also saw a few trees that were obviously killed by thunder. It seemed that the thunderstorm mentioned before had indeed happened.
"Isn't it dangerous to build an annex in a place like this?" Zhai Jingqiu obviously felt guilty for his abnormal behavior after being hit before, and now he began to actively ask questions.
"Because thunderstorms are frequent, many lightning protection measures have been prepared here. The main material of this annex is stone, which is not easily put into danger due to subsequent combustion by lightning. There is no planting of vegetation around the Arashime Pavilion, but placement of Decoration with sculptures and the like reduces the risk as much as possible. Moreover, it is said to be a thunderstorm, but the chance of a thunderstorm hitting here is very small. The trees are too tall and can easily attract lightning, and Arashimekan does not So high," Rosemary introduced.
"Okay, then the remains of Mr. and Mrs. Yin Teng..."
"plz follow me."
With their previous experiences, everyone was mentally prepared for the bizarreness of the murder scene. Even if there were any strange doubts, they thought they could bear it. However, this time the scene once again exceeded their expectations.
"How could this happen?" Subobia looked at the situation inside the door in shock.
Mr. Yin Tengjun was lying on the bed, with his whole body spread out in a "big" shape. A sharp kitchen knife penetrated his chest and went straight to his heart. The blood spurted out stained the surrounding walls with large traces. His eyes were round, his expression was astonished, and he refused to close his eyes.
Even more terrifying is Into Arisa. She was sitting on a chair that had been specially moved to face the door. She was wearing an evening dress that she had not worn at yesterday's family dinner, and she even had makeup on her face. A wine glass was placed on the armrest of the chair. The champagne in the glass had long since lost its bubbles, and the color was much darker. Arisa Into supported her head with her other hand, and sat on the chair with a slightly tilted posture, staring at the door indifferently with lifeless eyes.
Lu Ning and Watanabe Yuanzi stepped into the door and began to carefully inspect the scene. The two soon discovered that this murder was somewhat different from the previous ones.
The most obvious difference is that the murder weapon was not taken away. Junfu Into died of a chest wound, while Arisa Into died from poisoning. The poison could be easily detected in the wine bottles on the table. There were no murder weapons left at the death scenes of Huo Yinglong and Felicia.
The island is rich in resources, so it is not difficult to perform a simple fingerprint extraction process, and there are only a few people there, so even comparing them one by one does not take much energy. The existence of the murder weapon can help people identify the murderer to a certain extent - provided the murderer really doesn't remember to cover his fingerprints.
Other than that, it’s the two people’s attire.
Felicia was wearing pajamas, while Huo Yinglong was wearing daily practice clothes. Both of them were wearing normal clothes. But Juno Into was actually wearing half a diving suit, and Arisa Into's attire, as if she was attending a dinner party, was equally weird. No matter how hard everyone tries, they still can't figure out why the couple put on these two sets of clothes when they came back here. Even if tourists take action, there is no need to make a fuss about the clothes.
I have to say, this is indeed the weirdest scene.
The time of death was also late at night yesterday, and this time there was no other evidence at all. Lu Ning could only find a bag and carefully put away the knife and wine bottle before going back to try to extract fingerprints. After taking photos of the scene, everyone evacuated the Lanmu Pavilion.
By the time the group returned to the main building, it was already around one o'clock in the afternoon. The search team that had gone out had also returned and was eating a late lunch in the hall.
Unfortunately, none of the three teams found Escher.
Just when Lu Ning was about to ask about the route to Lavender, the melodious sound of a violin suddenly came from outside. The rain today was not as heavy as yesterday. The sound of the violin in the rain curtain was melodious and sad, as if mourning the lives that had died. Everyone was stunned for a moment and looked at each other speechlessly.
"Ms. Heart Palace is outside?" Gustav asked in a deep voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly after a harsh noise.
