"Your hair and nightgown are all wet. Is it because of the rain that fell at dawn this morning?"
At the windmill power plant in the back of the annex, Shirakawa squatted in front of Clyde's body and started doing what he was best at.
He lifted Clyde's head with his gloved hands and looked down at the traces of blood on the crushed gravel grass.
"There is a small depression on the back of the head, which is about the same size as this piece of gravel. The depression should be caused by falling from a high altitude, but the amount of bleeding is not normal."
Putting down Clyde's head, Bai Heqing reached out and touched the marks on his neck.
"Judging from the strangulation marks on his neck, Mr. Clyde should have been strangled by the murderer elsewhere, then the murderer moved the body here, and then... dropped it from the air."
Seemingly feeling a little unbelievable, Bai Heqing paused in his words. He raised his head and looked at the three power-generating windmills surrounding Clyde's body.
"Um, Detective Shirakawa..." Kazuhiko Kitakami on the side couldn't help but asked: "When you talk about throwing corpses from the air... do you mean from a windmill?"
Not only him, but the other people also looked at Bai Heqing with disbelief and suspicion.
The three power-generating windmills of the power plant are all over ten meters high. Let’s not talk about how the murderer brought Clyde’s body from the annex to the back mountain. Normal people would not be able to climb up these three windmills. Easy, let alone carrying a corpse weighing dozens of kilograms...
This is simply impossible.
"Even for a strong man like me, this kind of thing is impossible..." Kevin looked up at the height of the windmill, shook his head and spread his hands.
"Perhaps we used some special mechanism?" Mei Ling said with a smile: "After all, wisdom is the essential difference between humans and animals..."
"I always feel like you're caring about me, Sister Mei Ling?" Kevin turned to look at her with a polite smile on his face.
"What I'm more curious about is why the murderer had to bring Mr. Clyde's body here."
Just when the two men were about to quarrel again, the second young master Tone Kosuke said: "This power plant rarely has people coming here. Even if the murderer valued this and wanted to dump the body here, then just throw it on the ground. Isn’t that enough? Why do you have to climb up the windmill and throw it down?”
"Shirakawa said it was dropped from the air, not the windmill."
Mary also raised her head and glanced at the three windmills around her. Seeing that Bai Heqing was observing the corpse again and had no intention of explaining to everyone, she spoke:
"Look carefully, although Mr. Clyde's body did fall in the middle of the three windmills, it still maintained a certain distance from the three windmills.
If the body was really thrown from one of the windmills by the murderer, then the distance between the body and the windmill after landing could not have been more than three meters, unless the murderer was born with supernatural powers..."
"But now, the location of Mr. Clyde's body is more than five meters away from the nearest windmill. This distance is indeed too far..."
Hearing this, Kitakami Kazuhiko nodded and said thoughtfully:
"If it didn't fall from the windmill, could it be that Mr. Clyde's body flew here from the annex and then fell again?"
While everyone was talking, Bai Heqing carefully observed Clyde's injured right wrist.
Unlike Clyde's left hand, his right wrist was fractured inward, and there was a very obvious blood mark on the wrist.
The skin on the back and palm of Clyde's right hand was relatively clean, with no scratches except for a little muddy water from the rain.
In other words, the fracture of Clyde's right wrist was not caused by falling from a high altitude. Otherwise, there would have been corresponding scratch marks on the back or palm of his hand caused by violent friction with the ground.
The fracture of the wrist and the circle of blood wrapped around the wrist may be the key to why Clyde's body "flew" here.
Thinking like this, Bai Heqing looked up again at the three power-generating windmills around him.
If you just want to dump your body, there are many more suitable places on this back mountain than this windmill power plant.
Therefore, the reason why the murderer chose this place must be because it has the necessary conditions to help the murderer make the body fly.
【Um? 】
With eyesight that was different from ordinary people, Bai Heqing suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something tied to the rotating leaves of the windmill on the left.
[It’s a fishing line. 】
Squinting and looking carefully, Bai Heqing quickly recognized the thing.
There are several fishing lines twisted together and wrapped around the windmill blades of the windmill on the left.
[Then why is there fishing line on it? 】
With a slight frown between his brows, Bai Heqing turned to look at the windmill on the right.
He keenly noticed that there was also a circle of twisted fishing line wrapped around the shaft of the windmill on the right.
The two windmills on the left and right were just to the left and right of Clyde's body.
Something suddenly occurred to his mind, and Bai Heqing immediately stood up and walked forward quickly.
This windmill power plant was built on a gentle slope halfway up the mountain behind the annex. The straight-line distance from the annex is about one hundred meters.
Standing on the edge of the power plant, Bai Heqing could clearly see the annex a hundred meters below.
The architectural design of the Ligen family's annex combines Gothic style and ancient Greek style. On the back side of the annex, facing the windmill power plant, there is an ancient Greek-style ornamental colonnade.
Since there is no obstruction in the middle, if someone stands on the viewing colonnade, they can have an unobstructed view of the windmill power plant where everyone is at this time... In other words, they can see the fishing line tied to it. There are two windmills on the left and right.
[I see... What a bold method. 】
Immediately figuring out how the murderer let Clyde's body fly here from the annex, Bai Heqing turned around and said to Mary:
"Mary, I'll go back to the annex to take a look. Please pay attention to this place."
"Don't you need me to go with you?" Mary asked quickly.
Knowing what she was worried about, Bai Heqing shook his head slightly and said, "It doesn't matter, I'm just going back to find some clues and I'll be back soon."
After saying that, Bai Heqing left quickly.
It was already a little late, and he only hoped that he would still have time to find evidence that could identify the murderer.
"It seems that the detective has seen through the murderer's tricks..." Mei Ling said meaningfully when she saw this.
"Isn't that just right?" Kevin stretched and said, "I've been here in the mountains all morning, and I've only had a little breakfast. Now I just hope that Detective Baihe can solve the case as soon as possible so that we can go back to eat. lunch……"
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