Reasoning Notes

Chapter 440 Reasoning Notes 9: The Legend of the Lizard God (48)
According to the current situation, the butler Zhang is very likely to be the one who opened the cage.Or someone had attacked him while he wasn't looking, and taken the key.In short, only by finding him can we find the answer.

However, the gate of the iron cage was left open, and no one dared to act rashly.

The one locked in the iron cage is a man-eating monitor lizard!

Thinking of the shocking scene where the worker was almost eaten that day, Mikaka couldn't help but look around in panic, "You... tell me, is that monitor lizard still inside?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone felt a chill down their spines.

It couldn't have been worse if the monitor lizard wasn't inside.

"We have to be careful." Just as Lin Shan finished speaking, Li Xiaochong, who was very skilled, had already picked up a wooden stick from the ground for self-defense, and put on a fighting posture of Bruce Lee.Behind him, hiding from Mikaka.

"Brother Ah Chong, I'll leave it to you!" Mi Kaka showed great trust.

"Just leave it to me!" Li Xiaochong said righteously.He looked back, saw that Qi Mu was still hiding behind Mi Kaka, and said, "Brother, thank you for your trust."

Qi Mu said calmly: "No, I just think that the lizard will be full after eating the two of you, and it won't be able to eat the third one."

This sentence says...

Why does Li Xiaochong feel like he is going to die?He couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth twice, thinking of where the giant lizard might be hiding and staring at him, he felt a chill in his heart.

But no matter what, someone has to go in and check the situation.Here is his kung fu best, if he does not go to hell, who will go to hell?So, Li Xiaochong closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, thinking about serving the people in his heart, he took the wooden stick and carefully stepped towards the cage, towards the dangerous zone of cannibalism.

The cold night wind blows, rustling the leaves.The iron cage shrouded in darkness makes people shudder.

The giant lizard, where will it hide and spy on this group of people?

on the tree?The corner of the cage, or the grass?

The heavy darkness in front of him perfectly concealed all dangers.

Repressing the fear in his heart, Li Xiaochong walked very lightly and slowly.The flashlight moved cautiously, for fear that if one was not careful, it would alarm the man-eating ancestors.The companions outside the cage watched his actions closely, holding their breath and not daring to speak out.Seeing his back slowly walking into the darkness, everyone couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

Closer, closer.

The iron net of the cage was in front of his eyes, Li Xiaochong couldn't help holding the wooden stick tightly, the muscles of his whole body were tense like a hard iron sheet, suddenly——

"Ah!"

A sneeze sounded behind him, and Li Xiaochong jumped up with a "wow" in fright, and all the sticks fell to the ground.The people outside the cage were also terrified.

what's the situation?what's the situation!
Li Xiaochong looked around in panic, but there was no sign of the monitor lizard.Looking back, darling...it turned out to be Qi Mu's prank.

The troublemaker still rubbed his nose and pretended to be innocent: "I'm sorry, I have a bit of a cold."

real or fake?Anyway, Mi Kaka didn't quite believe it, he squinted, "Did you do it on purpose?"

"Am I that kind of person?" Qi Mu asked back, his eyes sharp as a knife.

Mikaka dared not speak ill of him, so he had to say against his will: "No, you are the most virtuous person in the world."

Second only to Lei Feng.

In short, Li Xiaochong was terribly frightened.He was vigilant around his surroundings, for fear that the sneezing just now would startle the snakes. If the monitor lizard was startled and jumped out, the consequences would be disastrous.Tremblingly, he picked up the wooden stick, took a deep breath, tried to relax himself, and then walked into the cage one step at a time.

The more his body was buried in darkness, the more his mind was gnawed by fear.For some reason, the surrounding air seemed to have become colder, so cold that goosebumps stood on end.

The hand holding the stick trembled slightly in the night.

At any rate, he still had a lonely heart, and the remaining courage prompted him to carefully explore the ground with a flashlight.In the endless darkness, his whole heart was pounding, as if he was walking in hell.The light of the flashlight moved slowly like a little animal in a hurry.

Temporarily, not found.

The surrounding trees seemed to be still, watching his every move.

The flashlight moved to the tree where the monitor lizard had once roosted.It was empty.

Outside the cage, people could only see the faint white light wandering around, and Li Xiaochong's figure could no longer be recognized clearly.

all of a sudden—

"Ah!" A short exclamation came from inside the cage.

People's nerves are tense again.Could something have happened?

But seeing the flashlight froze in place, Li Xiaochong didn't look like he was being attacked.I saw that he remained silent for a long time, stopping like a wooden man.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Mi Kaka couldn't help shouting: "Brother Ah Chong, are you okay?!"

Li Xiaochong didn't make a sound, his figure was still frozen.

The atmosphere became tense.Every second passed more slowly.Without waiting for a response, the people outside the cage couldn't hold back any longer. At this moment, Yu Zhan pulled out his gun, held it in his hand, entered the first-level combat state, and tiptoed in with small steps.

The others followed suit, moving forward cautiously and slowly.

What is waiting for them in the darkness?

The only thing that guides people is the unmoving white flashlight.With every step, people feel that their feet are getting heavier and heavier, as if they are filled with lead... Especially Yu Zhan always feels that there is a force pulling his pants, preventing him from walking forward.So much so that he had to turn around, "Mikaka." He raised his trouser belt unhappily: "You can hide behind me, but please don't pull my pants, please?"

"Oh, I'm sorry." Mikaka let go of her hand in embarrassment.

No way, he is afraid!

Mikaka can't get rid of the psychological shadow of being chased by lizards on the playground.

In this way, the group of people walked forward slowly, until they came to the stunned Li Xiaochong.Yu Zhan patted him on the shoulder: "Stinky boy, what are you doing?"

Only then did Li Xiaochong come back to his senses.His eyes were glazed, as if he had lost his soul.

"Uncle Yu, it's...it's Lao Zhang..."

His fingers trembled and pointed to the ground.

When everyone saw it, it was the body of the housekeeper Zhang!
he died.

The corpse was lying in a pool of blood, a shocking bite mark appeared on the neck, the torn flesh was turned outward, and the blood splashed around like exploding fireworks, as shocking as the disappearance of life.

No one knows what kind of misfortune he encountered during his lifetime and why he appeared in the iron cage.

From the analysis of the morphology of the corpse, Lao Zhang experienced a life-and-death struggle before his death.His clothes are messy, the tuxedo on his body is in tatters, and the fingers of his right hand are bent, as if he is holding something in his hand.

How is this going?Why did the housekeeper, Zhang, die in the iron cage?

More importantly, only Ran Xiao and the deceased have the keys to this iron cage.

"Here is Lao Zhang's key." Lin Shan knelt down and broke the dead man's grip.The key suddenly appeared in front of him.

Since the key is in Lao Zhang's hands, did he walk into the cage without authorization?
uncertain.Mi Kaka thought to himself, it is also possible that the murderer coerced Lao Zhang to open the cage and then killed him.

This possibility cannot be ruled out.

Suddenly, Qi Mu asked Ran Xiao: "Mr. Ran, why did the siren go off?"

The alarm was not sounded when the workers broke in before, but this time the alarm was loud, which is very strange.And Ran Xiao explained that the iron cage has two doors, both of which are equipped with keys and combination locks.And there is a button behind the second iron door.As long as the button is pressed, the alarm will not sound.Before the worker went in last time, the housekeeper Zhang once told him the function of the button.Therefore, it should be that the worker pressed the button, so the alarm did not sound.

But this time, someone who obviously didn't know entered the iron cage.

"So, the murderer just entered the iron cage just now?" Mikaka gave his speculation: the murderer coerced the housekeeper Lao Zhang to this point, but inadvertently triggered the alarm, and before they waited for anyone to arrive, the murderer fled up.

"No." Qi Mu overturned his reasoning.

"Why?" Mikaka was a little unconvinced.

"The time is too short. It took no more than 2 minutes from the time we heard the siren to the time we rushed to the iron cage. The murderer couldn't kill the housekeeper Lao Zhang in such a short period of time before escaping."

"There is another possibility." Lin Shan also joined the discussion. "This is not the first scene of the crime. The murderer killed Lao Zhang beforehand, and then transported his body here."

That way, anyone can pull off the ruse, even if it's just a quick two or three minutes.

"No, this is the scene of the first crime." Qi Mu said.

In fact, as long as you carefully check the situation at the scene, the amount of bleeding from the deceased will tell you that this is the first crime scene.And Lin Shan also agrees with this statement.

"Then how do you think the murderer committed the crime?" Lin Shan seemed to have come to a conclusion, but was deliberately testing Qi Mu's skills.

Qi Mu's face was slightly cold, and he said: "The murderer used a little trick."

"What blindfold?" Mikaka asked.

"It's the sirens."

"Huh?" Mikaka didn't understand.

Qi Mu said that the loud sirens would make people think that the murderer was an outsider.However, what if the murderer knew the inside story of the button?
When the siren sounded, it was not the time of the death of the housekeeper Zhang.

The murderer has been to this cage, twice.

The first time was to kill Lao Zhang.

The second time, it intentionally sounded the cage siren.

The purpose of doing this is to create an alibi for yourself.

Among the people who rushed over just now, there were three people missing—the strange girl in the bamboo hat, Ran Yuxuan, and Ding Lihan.

where are they
"Hey, you guys." Yu Zhan crossed his waist unhappily, lit a cigarette, and took a few puffs. "Don't play detective games here. I'm the boss, you know?!" As he said, he patted the pistol on his waist, meaning something.

Mikaka and the three looked at each other and shut up obediently.

After all, at the crime scene, the police are the real law enforcers.Detectives and the like, to put it bluntly, are unlicensed operators.

(End of this chapter)