Within a few minutes of the alarm sounding, everyone in the banquet hall of the annex saw the body of Commander Biluen hanging outside the watchtower of the dungeon not far away.
There was chaos in the banquet hall, and the officers on the scene quickly reported the situation here to Wang's brother Preburn, who was not at the scene, over the phone.
His Highness Preburn's order was quickly sent back, and the situation in the dungeon was immediately confirmed. The cause of Commander Biluen's death must be found out. At the same time, after learning that a large number of invited detectives gathered at the scene, Preburn also authorized Allows detectives to select representatives to assist in investigations.
In this way, Mary, who also became one of the detective representatives, and several other detectives followed the Kingdom police on the scene and left the banquet hall and headed to the dungeon.
This dungeon was converted from a castle. The internal layout was winding and winding. Everyone trotted along an upward staircase corridor and quickly headed to the observation tower.
"It's right in front!"
The leaders were Chief Barry of the Kingdom Police, and Captain Gunnar, the highest-ranking officer of the Guard in the banquet hall at the time.
Gunnar was the young officer who had spoken on the phone with Biluen in the banquet hall before he was killed.
The two men ran ahead, while Mary followed alone at the back, lowering her head in thought.
In just two hundred meters, she had roughly figured out the context behind this incident.
Bi Luen's death is definitely not an accident.
What she said didn't mean that Bi Luen committed suicide. On the contrary, it was the most unlikely possibility and there was no need to even consider it.
At the same time, Bi Luen could not have been killed by "irrelevant people", because his death was a coincidence, a very coincidence.
The sudden prison break, the commander who died in the dungeon, the king's most trusted right-hand man, such a sensitive time...
It was all too much of a coincidence, and Mary never believed in coincidences.
Using coincidences to cover up stories that are bound to happen, isn't this what he's good at?
As an agent of MI6, Mary has been aware of what may happen in this country from the beginning.
Of course, this was not the purpose of her coming to this country. It was just a small, unknown country far away in southern Europe. She was not that free and would spend her energy pointlessly on this country.
But this does not mean that she will completely stand by, because by preventing and exposing this series of conspiracies, she may be able to force out the person who is most likely hiding in this small country at the moment.
Thinking of the young figure that had been blurred in her memory, Mary couldn't help but sigh softly.
She has long since passed her destiny, and there are only two things left in her life that she wants to accomplish no matter what.
The first is to find her husband who has been missing for seventeen years.
The second is to find her best friend who she has only met three times.
Then she might kill him herself.
"Click!"
As she stepped onto another level of stairs, something suddenly hit the sole of Mary's foot.
After retracting her wandering thoughts, she looked down and saw a small curved metal fragment, only the size of the fingernail of her little finger.
She seemed to have seen this metal fragment somewhere...
With some doubts in her heart, Mary subconsciously looked up.
Medieval-style electric lamps were installed at regular intervals on both sides of the narrow ascending corridor, and just above Mary's head, she saw a very slight friction mark on the metal decorative ring of the electric lamp.
She raised her hand and touched it, and found some outer crumbs of the metal decorative ring stuck to her fingertips.
[The scratches are new. 】
After coming to this conclusion, Mary narrowed her eyes and quickly followed the people in front of her, arriving at the top watchtower together.
"Commander Biluen..."
In the small watchtower, the corpse that was originally hung outside the tower has been pulled up. Looking at the face of the corpse, all the previous suspicions in everyone's hearts disappeared.
The man who was hanged was Commander Biluen.
"Commander..." Captain Gunnar looked at Biluen's body in disbelief.
Even if he really saw this scene, he still didn't want to believe that their commander died like this.
Mary only glanced at it and quickly observed the situation at the scene.
There was also a landline phone hanging on the wall inside the watchtower. The receiver of the landline phone fell to the ground. It seemed that Biluen was killed while making a phone call here.
And his last phone call was probably to Gunnar, who was in the banquet hall at the time.
Biluen's body was laid flat on the ground, next to the cane he often held in his hand. Mary also saw it in the banquet hall. It is said that Biluen himself seemed to particularly like to use his cane when reprimanding his subordinates. Hit the subordinate on the back of his hand.
【Um? 】
The back of your hand?
Suddenly remembering something, Mary turned to look at Gunnar who was still sad. One of his hands was wrapped with a bandage, and it seemed that the back of his hand was injured.
As for this cane, Mary noticed keenly that the metal ring on the tip of the cane seemed to be partially damaged and fell off. She squatted down and took a closer look, and then remembered the piece of metal she had just seen on the stairs.
The shape of this metal fragment coincides with the damage to the metal ring on the cane. Is there something wrong with this?
Confused, she looked at Biluen's body.
There were obvious rope marks on the corpse's neck, and the person who strangled him was right next to him.
At the same time, Biluen's neck also had a lot of blood marks left by scratching, and there were corresponding scraps of flesh between his fingernails.
Obviously, he was indeed strangled to death, and he should have struggled violently before death...
But this is completely wrong.
Mary immediately remembered that in the banquet hall at that time, after Gunnar heard Biluen's scream on the phone, he immediately looked in the direction of the watchtower, and she followed closely.
She remembered clearly that Biluen's body was hanging upright outside the tower at that time, without any sign of struggling.
You were talking on the phone one second, and completely strangled to death the next?
This is simply impossible.
The time didn't match up at all, Bi Luen's phone call, the scratching on his neck, the violent struggle before being strangled, and the motionless body that everyone saw at first.
There is a huge logical contradiction here, and the reason for this situation is also very simple.
Someone had a hand in Biluen's death.
With this thought in mind, Mary stepped forward to make a preliminary inspection of the corpse, and then raised the corners of her mouth slightly.
There is indeed a problem.
Biluen's corpse was as hard as ice, especially in the joint areas. Normally, a person's corpse would reach this hardness about an hour after death.
But less than half an hour had passed since Gunnar received the phone call until now.
Even if the process was accelerated by hanging outside the tower, it would not be possible to achieve this speed.
It was obvious that Biluen was dead long before that phone call.
That call was fake.
I overslept, so the second chapter is a little later, so I’ll add it tomorrow (﹃)
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