Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1072 The Necessary Mystery

"Why do you have to go to such lengths?" Zhai Jingqiu expressed his puzzlement. "I can understand the crime caused by any factors, but who would spend such complicated thoughts on killing? I'm not speaking for the murderer, but as far as the crime itself is concerned." , the more complicated the design, the higher the possibility of failure? Except for the real mentally ill guy, who would deliberately do this..."

That is of course because people were killed by tourists.

The tourists present knew this reason very well in their hearts, but unfortunately, outsiders could not understand it.

"Mr. Detective, we are not thinking about why the murderer did this. Among the three elements of Why, Who, and How, Why is the one we don't need to pay attention to the least now." Lu Ning said.

"She's right." Subbia also said, "I don't care why the murderer did this, I just need to know who he is—and then I will make him pay the price."

"In Howard's family rules, revenge is justice." Watanabe Fuko glanced at the door, "Mr. Subbia, 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 any power from others?"

"No, I just remind 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 you succeed in revenge, it is also the moment when they begin to revenge against you."

After hearing this, Subbia took a deep breath, and finally nodded: "Thanks for the reminder, I will find Mr. Renix to solve this problem."

Then, Lu Ning checked the status of the room again.

Unlike Huo Yinglong's death, this place does not constitute a secret room environment.Although the windows of the house were closed, they were not locked. Even if they could be easily opened from the outside, it was enough for a person to enter.Although the door is locked, it can be opened as long as you get the key. Not to mention the ones in Felicia's hands, there are several sets of common keys in the main hall. It is entirely possible to sneak out with a pair of keys in the situation last night.

"The style is different..." Lu Ning muttered in a low voice, only Watanabe Yuanko who was next to him could hear the voice.

After checking the Lingmu Pavilion, it is time to go to the Lanmu Pavilion.

Sitting in the car, Lu Ning thought about the previous scene, and then asked Rosemary: "There are two questions I need you to answer."

"You say."

"The first question is, the directions corresponding to the Qimu Pavilion and the Lanmu Pavilion, as well as any hexagrams corresponding to that location."

"The location corresponding to the Qimu Pavilion is Gan, which is located in the middle of a forest, which is an open space in the dense forest. In this forest, only this location can see the sky instead of branches. The location corresponding to the Lanmu Pavilion It is the earthquake position, and the west side of the island is an area where thunderstorms frequently occur in summer, and there are even many trees that have been struck by lightning nearby. According to records, there have even been two fires caused by lightning strikes in history.”

"Hmm... ok. Then the second question, according to what Mr. Zhai Jingqiu and Mr. Subia just said, it was Lavender who opened the door of Huo Yinglong's gym, and Rosemary was the one who checked the Lingmu Gym in the morning. You , In the main hall, Miss Cynthia brought us the information that you first found the bodies of the Ito couples, and then went to find her to confirm her safety and inform this information. Since you finally met Suberby Ya went back to the main building together, and your trajectory should be the Lanmu Pavilion on the west side, the Jinmu Pavilion on the northwest side, and the Lingmu Pavilion on the east side, why did you take such a long detour?"

"I don't know about Lavender's actions, skipping the viewing hall where Master Lynwood lives and the meeting hall of Master Dimitri, I just start from the west side of the island and check the situation of each pavilion clockwise, and Lavender It started from the Qimu Building. The two of us checked the three annexes separately."

"But you came back together."

"I can prove this, we met on the road." Subbia said.

"No, Mr. Subobia, if you really checked in this way, in the end you returned from the Lingmu Building from east to west, and Lavender's car returned from the southwest of Mayuri Daida's Luomu Building. At the entrance of the museum, otherwise it would be impossible to meet them on the road." Lu Ning said.

At this time, Orlando suddenly raised his hand, and a black pistol was pressed against Rosemary's head.

"Huo Yinglong might be wary of his brothers and sisters, but he won't be so wary of his servants, and you don't look like much of a threat."

"Please pay attention, our speed does not allow the driver to make any mistakes." Rosemary looked as usual.

"You are very calm, this is no longer the performance of an ordinary servant." Orlando said, "Ah, of course, the servants here seem to have a bit of this quality."

"But Rosemary shouldn't be the murderer," Lu Ning said.

"Oh?"

"First of all, except for the Itos who haven't seen the couple and Escher who haven't been found, we have seen every corpse and the situation at the scene, so if she is the murderer, which case was she committed? We have already seen It has been inferred that there is a high probability that there is more than one murderer."

"She was not on duty last night, and she has plenty of time." Subbia said, "If she really hides her skills, then at least she can go to an annex tonight."

"Then comes the second question, the timing. All the murders happened last night, and there were survivors in the two annexes we have been to. Mr. Subbia, Mr. Zhai Jingqiu, may I ask you last night Have you summoned the servants to go to the annex?"

"Of course not." Zhai Jingqiu said.

"In this case, it is also very suspicious that a servant suddenly arrives in the middle of the night. Mr. Huo Yinglong will definitely conduct interrogation, and if she wants to see Ms. Felicia, she must go through Mr. Subbia downstairs."

Lu Ning patted Orlando on the shoulder and told him to put down the gun.

"The maid gets up earlier than us in the morning. Because she needs to help Chef Pan Shen prepare breakfast, she and Bayleaf, who are on duty this morning, have to get up at around 05:30 to go to the kitchen, and then do the daily cleaning. Cleaning work. I have asked Mr. Pan Shen before departure, and Rosemary was indeed assisting him during that time. Our rest time last night was different, and the servants rested around twelve o'clock. Based on her time It is true that there is a possibility of committing a crime, but even if there is, I am more inclined to be in the main house."

"Thank you for your defense, Dr. Lu Ning, but I have to declare that our servants will never kill each other. You can suspect that I killed Mr. Schreiter, but the deaths of Ou Baizhi and Iris are beyond my control." I also feel very angry. There is no difference between me and Mr. Subbia and Mr. Zhai Jingqiu in terms of anger about the murder of someone close to me."

Rosemary's tone seemed a little cold.

"I returned by the normal route, and Lavender turned back from another road. In this regard, Mr. Zhai Jingqiu followed the car. Didn't you feel strange on the road?"

Zhai Jingqiu was asked this question, and recalled: "Sorry, the road conditions in the forest below are a bit complicated. At that time, all I could think about was the scene of Huo Yinglong's death, so I didn't pay attention to the outside. When I noticed, the car had already arrived It's the door of the main hall."

"It's okay, just go back and ask about Lavender again." Lu Ning waved her hand, she didn't want any trouble at this time.

In this scene, both the tourists and the characters in the scene are likely to kill people, but the situation at the scene is obviously more likely to be tourists.After all, there is a deliberate trace on the scene, which is the most obvious feature of tourists doing it.

The "ability" issued by the distribution center is not only the ability with real effects, but also requires tourists to ensure the absolute particularity of the ability.To put it simply, tourists cannot use the acquired abilities to accomplish things that can be done without abilities.

For example, if there is an ability to hang people with a rope suddenly hanging from the beam, then tourists must not only provide themselves with an alibi, but also prevent everyone on the island from having the corresponding crime time or crime time. ability.Although it is also possible to activate the ability to create a real supernatural phenomenon under the eyes of everyone, but the ability must either have a clear observer limit, or a hidden witness number to activate the condition, it is basically impossible to do this kind of magic in front of everyone's eyes thing.

That's why the scene was made that way, each of which has some seemingly unreasonable points, for example, Schlitter's expression was terrifying but he died without avoiding it; Huo Yinglong was killed in the secret room without resistance; The bed where Felicia was beheaded did not leave the slightest mark.

These are necessary mysteries deliberately set up by tourists.

There was silence in the car along the way, 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, and you can walk down the slope to a mud beach.Lanmu Pavilion is just beside the downhill intersection, and it is a building with stone as the main building material.When Lu Ning got out of the car, she also saw a few trees that were obviously struck dead by lightning. It seemed that the thunderstorm mentioned earlier had indeed happened.

"Isn't it dangerous to build an annex in such a place?" Zhai Jingqiu obviously felt guilty for his abnormal performance after being hit before, and now he began to actively ask questions.

"Because of frequent thunderstorms, many lightning protection measures have been prepared here, and the main material of this annex is stone, so it is not easy to be in danger due to the subsequent burning of lightning. No vegetation is planted around the Arashime Pavilion, but placed Decorate with sculptures and other things to reduce the danger as much as possible. Besides, it is said that it is a thunderstorm, but the chance of a thunderstorm hitting here is very small. The trees are too high to easily attract lightning, and the Lanme Pavilion is not so High." Rosemary introduced.

"Okay, the remains of the Ito couple..."

"plz follow me."

With their previous experience, everyone was already psychologically 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 be?" Subbia looked at the situation inside the door in astonishment.

Juno Ito was lying on the bed, his whole body spread out in the shape of "big". A sharp kitchen knife pierced his chest and went straight into his heart. The blood spurted out stained the surrounding walls with large marks.His eyes were round, his expression was horrified, and he could not rest in peace.

Even more frightening is Ito Arisa.She was sitting on a chair that was specially moved to the position facing the door. She was wearing an evening dress that she hadn't worn at yesterday's family dinner, and even had her face dressed up.A wine glass was placed on the armrest of the chair. The champagne in the glass had long lost its bubbles, and its color also appeared much duller.Arisa Ito supported his head with his other hand, and sat on the chair in a slightly crooked sitting posture, staring at the door indifferently with lifeless eyes.

Lu Ning and Watanabe Fuko stepped into the door and began to carefully inspect the scene.The two soon discovered that this murder was also somewhat different from the previous ones.

The most obvious difference is that the murder weapon was not taken away.Juno Ito died from a chest wound, and Arisa Ito died from taking poison. The toxicity can be easily detected in the wine bottle on the table.And the death scene of Huo Yinglong and Felicia didn't even leave the murder weapon at all.

Bamujima is rich in materials, and it is not difficult to carry out a simple fingerprint extraction process, and there are only a few people, so it does not take too much energy to compare them one by one.The existence of the murder weapon can help people identify the murderer to a certain extent-the premise is that the murderer really does not remember to cover his fingerprints.

In addition, it is the attire of the two of them.

Felicia is wearing pajamas, while Huo Yinglong is wearing daily exercise clothes, both of them are wearing normal clothes.But Juno Ito was actually wearing half a diving suit, and Arisa Ito's attire as if he was going to a dinner party was also weird.Even if everyone wanted to break their heads, they couldn't figure out why the couple would change into such two sets of clothes when they came back here. Even if tourists started, there was no need to make a fuss about the clothes.

I have to say, this is indeed the weirdest scene ever.

The time of death was also in the middle of the night yesterday, but this time there was no other evidence at all.Lu Ning could only find a bag to carefully put away the knife and the wine bottle, ready to go back and try to extract fingerprints. After taking photos of the scene, everyone evacuated the Lanmu Hall.

By the time the group returned to the main building, it was already around one o'clock in the afternoon, and the search team that had gone out had already returned, eating a late lunch in the lobby.

Unfortunately, the three teams failed to find Escher.

Just as Lu Ning was about to ask about the route to Lavender, the melodious sound of a violin suddenly came from outside.Today's rain is not as heavy as yesterday, and the melodious and sad sound of the violin in the rain curtain seems to be mourning the dead lives. Everyone is a little stunned for a moment, speechless.

"Miss Heart Palace is outside?" Gustav asked in a deep voice.

As soon as the words fell, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly after a harsh noise.

(End of this chapter)