Reasoning Notes

Chapter 52 Reasoning Notes 2: The Murder of the Fox Demon (11)
How did the murderer transport the corpse here?Moreover, it is strange that Huang Mingzhu was still alive before we set off, no, it should be said that Huang Wanwan was still on the phone with her more than an hour ago.She was clearly in a city thousands of miles away, but now her body appeared in the straw village.No matter how the time is calculated, it is impossible for her to reach this village thousands of miles away within an hour.

What kind of trick is the magic power of the fox demon—killing people thousands of miles away?

If not, is it the mana used by the fox demon?
No, it should be a mystery that can be solved with scientific theory.

I was lost in thought, looking around from time to time.The ignorant villagers still believed that this was the masterpiece of Master Fox Demon, and knelt respectfully and dared not get up.My gaze continued to move, and suddenly, my gaze froze at a certain angle, and then my spine felt a chill, and my whole body trembled.

On the hillside over there, a figure floated in mid-air.

Yes, float!
I was stunned by this gravity-defying phenomenon.

Isn't one of the magical powers of fox demons to be able to float in mid-air?
I rubbed my eyes desperately, unable to believe what I was seeing.

"Hey! Did you see it just now?" I turned my head and asked Cheng Meini, but she was confused by my question.

"What?"

I looked towards the hillside over there again, and there was nothing there.I'm not sure if what happened just now was an illusion.

For now, forget about it.The most important thing is to get Huang Mingzhu's body down first.My idea was first put into practice by Huang Wanwan.As if he had lost all his strength, he barely stood up with Mu Xiao's support.

He told the villagers that he would pay anyone who helped bring down his daughter's body.Because the price tag is too small, no villagers are willing.The stingy Huang Wanwan finally gritted his teeth and raised the price several times again.As a result, several villagers immediately stood up.After all, this is a remote village, and it is very important for villagers living in poverty to have a considerable extra income.The few villagers who volunteered for Ying finally suppressed the fear in their hearts, stopped the water truck, climbed up and carried the corpse down.It took them a while to finish the job because the body was stuck on the water truck.

The tragic death of the corpse made the faces of the villagers who moved it paler than paper, and some people vomited when they turned around.When they lowered the body slowly to the ground, something fell from the body's arms.Then a figure walked up to the corpse and picked up the dropped thing.

"It's a black invitation letter." Xia Zao'an turned around and raised the drenched invitation letter.Everyone's eyes fell on it and her.

She behaved a little strangely.At least, that's what other people think.But I've grown accustomed to it.From her sharp eyes like a scalpel, I knew that Edison's Show time was next.

"What's going on here?" I asked bluntly.

Edison asked calmly, "What's going on?"

"You clearly know what I'm asking. How did Huang Mingzhu die here? She was alive before we set off, but now she appears in front of us, which is too strange. At least in terms of time, it's impossible! "

"No, I don't agree with you. Although the time is short, it is not impossible." He pondered, his eyes sparkled, and he quickly deduced a possibility, "Perhaps, it is like this. Huang Mingzhu and others As soon as we left, we went out on the back. For some reason, she also came to the Straw Village and met someone who was waiting here in advance. If so, there would be time for that person to kill her and then dump her body in the water. In the car."

"But not long ago, Huang Wanwan was still on the phone with Huang Mingzhu. From the content of their conversation, we can infer that the call is from home, and the call will not exceed an hour!"

According to our inquiries with Huang Wanwan and Mu Xiao, Huang Mingzhu made the phone call because the family pet dog was missing.

"Are you sure she was at home?" Edison repeatedly confirmed to Huang Wanwan.

Huang Wanwan, who was on the verge of collapse, replied weakly: "I think so, she said that she couldn't find a pet dog at home... If she wasn't at home, how could she still say that?"

"Then she called from her home phone?"

"No!" Mu Xiao replied, "Miss called from her mobile phone."

"Calling on your phone?"

"No, no, call Boss's phone. However, Boss's phone is always with me."

"Oh." Edison nodded, then looked back at me, and continued to speak in an orderly manner, "My inference just now is still valid. Huang Mingzhu was already in Daicao Village when she called. She said those words on purpose, It was to create the illusion that she was still at home. We cannot assume she was at home based on the content of the conversation alone."

"But why would she do that?"

"I don't know." Edison shrugged bluntly, "Maybe he was threatened or instigated by the murderer. In short, the murderer must be related to the fox demon. Otherwise, she could not have accurately predicted that Huang Mingzhu's body was on the waterwheel."

I agree with him very much, but there is still a doubt: "Then how did the murderer transport the corpse here? I checked here before entering the village, and found that there is no corpse here. The murderer can only take advantage of us in the fox demon mansion During that time, the corpse was transported here, but such a big move may not escape the eyes of others."

In terms of time, we stayed in the Fox Demon Mansion for about 10 minutes.There were three villagers at the scene of the crime, all of them were not far from the waterwheel.So, how did the murderer escape their sight?

"Then ask the three villagers about the situation in the past 10 minutes." Edison said.

After he walked away, Cheng Meini suddenly approached my face and said, "This poor girl has become so strange, she seems to be a different person." She noticed this.

I could only evade it vaguely: "You don't know, she is just so weird. Actually, I don't blame her, because something happened to her family."

"Eh?"

"Her family was also rich. But her father's company suddenly went bankrupt one day, and she owed a lot of debt. She couldn't stand the blow and became a little crazy. She often fantasized that she was the great detective Edison What! Think about it, Edison is clearly an inventor, don’t expose her later, or you will irritate her.”

"Oh! I am sorry to hear that. I didn't expect the poor girl's experience to be so miserable..." Cheng Meini said sympathetically, and her hostility towards Xia Zao'an seemed to have decreased a lot.She patted me on the shoulder seriously, "Don't worry, I won't expose her."

I didn't expect that she really believed the lies I made up, and I felt dumbfounded.

After questioning, Edison got the testimony of three villagers.The two villagers who played chess sat under the tree an hour ago, and the other villager went to work in the vegetable field half an hour ago.During this time they insisted that no one had been to the waterwheel.But according to speculation, this time period should be the time for transporting the corpse.Moreover, there is only one way to reach the location of the waterwheel, and it must pass through the big tree where the chess-playing villagers are.After much deliberation, the murderer's method of moving the corpse remains a mystery.

Suddenly, a villager who was playing chess thought of something and said: "That strange man, when I was playing chess just now, I saw him passing by with a big bag on his back!"

"Weird? Sack?" we all called out in unison.

"Is that strange man wearing a black hood? When did he pass by?" Edison couldn't control his excitement for a moment.

The villager confirmed his thoughts: "That's right, it's that weird guy wearing a hood. He seems to have passed by not long after we were playing chess...that's about 45 minutes ago."

"He also lives in this village?"

Things are getting weirder and weirder, and the hooded monster we met on the train has actually arrived in Straw Village.Is his appearance just a coincidence?What is even more suspicious is that he was carrying a large sack large enough to hold a dead body.

"He lives in Lao Zhang's hotel!" The villager said, pointing to the man who brought us to the waterwheel just now.

Lao Zhang quickly waved his hands as if to separate the relationship: "Don't think about it, that person is just one of my residents, and I have nothing to do with him."

Is that so?The hooded monster lives in Lao Zhang's hotel, and Lao Zhang is a close servant of the fox demon. It is hard to guarantee that there will be some relationship between the three, but everything is pure speculation at present.

Edison stared sharply at Lao Zhang and asked, "When did that hooded man stay in your hotel?"

"About a month ago, shortly after Lord Fox was revived."

"What's his name?" Edison asked again.

Lao Zhang thought for a while and said, "It seems to be called Gao Donghai."

"Then does he usually behave strangely?"

"That's not true, just like an ordinary guest. The strange thing is that he never took off the hood and never came out to eat. No one has seen his true face."

There is no doubt that Gao Donghai must have some ulterior secret, so no one can let others know his true face.

"Wow!" Suddenly, Cheng Meini shouted behind my ear.She pointed to the side of the inclined road with her finger, and saw a person standing under the wooden house, looking over here, "Is that the hooded monster you mentioned?" This was the first time Cheng Meini saw the hooded monster.

Just as Edison was about to walk there, the Hooded Man flickered and disappeared.

"Go after him," I said, "bring that guy back and interrogate him, and everything will come to light."

(End of this chapter)