Reasoning Notes

Chapter 81 Reasoning Notes 2: The Murder of the Fox Demon (40)
After a while, we found that the water in the creek suddenly rose sharply.The water waves were a little turbulent, and the huge momentum drove the heavy water wheel to rotate slowly.

"45:[-]." Edison checked the time, and a gleam of light suddenly flashed in his eyes, "I remember, in the first murder incident, when we saw the fox demon's thousand-mile killing mana in the fox demon's mansion, we heard I've heard that sound."

"Really?" I thought for a while, and vaguely remembered that there was indeed such a thing.

At that time, when the fox demon was chanting the mantra, this sound did indeed come from a distance.We didn't care, why did Edison care so much about the situation now?
"Maybe we can solve the mystery of killing thousands of miles."

Edison immediately ran to ask the villagers who were working in the vegetable field.

"You said the sound of the flute just now. Every Monday at this time, there is a reservoir on the other side of the mountain that will release water on time, so that the nearby villages have enough water to irrigate the vegetable fields."

After listening to what the villagers said, Edison searched along the small river again.I didn't know what he was looking for, so I followed him in confusion.His eyes kept searching the vicinity of the creek.

"Did I guess wrong?" He said to himself, but still patiently walked to the mountain road into the village.There was a steep cliff beside the mountain road, and Edison suddenly stopped.

"Found it!" he said happily, with joy on his face.

"What did you find?"

"Brother Mi, look!"

I looked down at his fingers, and was so startled that I almost fell into the small river below the cliff.There were a few drops of blood on the cliff's stone wall.

"That's right, Huang Mingzhu's body was thrown from here by the murderer." Edison's tone was very affirmative.

I still have a small question: "But why did the murderer do this?"

"Of course it was to create an alibi."

"Ah?" I became more and more confused, "How to make an alibi?"

"It's very simple. There is one more step. The alibi is considered successful. That is the prophecy of the fox demon. The fox demon once said that Huang Mingzhu's body was on the waterwheel. So we guessed that the murderer moved the body to the By the waterwheel. In fact, the murderer just took advantage of the small river and the opening of the nearby reservoir at 45:[-] every Monday afternoon to release the water, and sent the corpse to the waterwheel through the momentum of the water.”

I scratched my head and asked again: "Even if it is like this, it may not be possible to send the corpse to the water truck smoothly. The corpse may also flow past the water truck."

"No!" Edison threw out his probability theory again, "Although it is not 100%, there is at least an 80% possibility that the corpse will hang on the waterwheel along the water flow."

"why?"

"Didn't you see the water at the waterwheel just now? The water near the waterwheel is much more turbulent, so most of the floating objects will pass the waterwheel, and the corpse is no exception. If you don't believe it, we can do an experiment. Just use a scarecrow as a corpse."

We went out into the field and pulled out a scarecrow.Suddenly, a flash of lightning pierced the night in his mind, and Edison yelled "ah", and the smile on his face deepened again.

"Haha!" he said excitedly, "I see."

"What?" I asked holding the scarecrow.

"Didn't I say that at the scene of the Yuanshen's out-of-body murder that day, it felt like something was missing?"

"Don't you know what's missing?"

"Of course, this is missing!" Edison excitedly pointed to the scarecrow I was holding.

I was still in the fog, and hurriedly asked: "What do you mean without the scarecrow?"

"One scarecrow is missing! This is the mystery of the murderer's disappearance!" He raised his voice an octave and laughed loudly. "That day, when we rushed to the village chief, there were seven scarecrows in the field next to us. But in a blink of an eye , there are only six left in the field. What does this mean?"

Edison looked at me expectantly, as if waiting for my answer.

I immediately opened my mouth wide: "Ah! You mean, one of the scarecrows was pretended by the murderer?"

"Bingo! Exactly!" Edison snapped his fingers, "The murderer killed the village chief... No, the murderer killed the village chief before. It deliberately put on the village chief's coat and pretended to be a village chief in front of us." After turning the corner, it immediately ran to the village head’s corpse at the fastest speed, put on its coat, and then ran into the field, pretending to be a scarecrow.”

"But... how does the scarecrow pretend?"

Edison scoffed at my question immediately: "You are so stupid! Have you forgotten that the scarecrow in this village is different? It is shaped like a real person, and the murderer only needs to put on a coir raincoat to distinguish the real one from the real one. The one we just entered the village At that time, didn’t you think that Doudou in a coir raincoat was a scarecrow? And we were all focused on the village head at that time, and we didn’t pay attention to the authenticity of the scarecrow. As long as we walked over, the murderer would be able to swagger He quickly took off his coir raincoat, walked behind the watching villagers, and pretended to have just rushed over."

Listening to his words, I suddenly became enlightened.

The murder mystery of the so-called out-of-body spirit has finally been solved.

Next, it is a thousand miles to kill.

We threw the scarecrow off the cliff into the creek.Thankfully, the creek didn't lose much momentum.I saw the scarecrow running along the water, and when we got to the waterwheel, we saw the scarecrow hanging on the waterwheel, turning with the waterwheel like Huang Mingzhu's corpse.Edison's reasoning is very reasonable, but the question remains unresolved.

"Even if the murderer used the water to transport the corpse, the mystery of the thousand-mile murder has not been solved. Huang Mingzhu was still alive before going out, why did her body arrive at the straw village at the same time as us?"

"This..." Edison's tone suddenly became very low, as if he sighed, "I haven't thought of it yet."

"There are also flying stones from beyond the sky, Huang Wanwan's clone killing people, and the resurrection of the fox demon..." I explained the mysteries in this case one by one.

Edison was overwhelmed by these resounding mysteries as if stones were being thrown at him, his brows wrinkled in distress.

"Hey! Brother Mi, don't rush me! Didn't I untie the Yuanshen out of my body! Let's talk about the rest slowly." Edison ran away as if fleeing.

I chased after him, unwilling to let go: "Please, Edison, we don't have time. If we don't solve the case quickly, Mu Xiao will be misunderstood as a murderer!"

"Ah?" Edison turned his head while walking, "Mu Xiao is the murderer. Didn't you see it too? He killed Huang Wanwan!"

I was at a loss for words, stopped for a few seconds, and rushed to catch up again: "No, no, this is the murderer's trick. The murderer must have manipulated Mu Xiao to make him kill someone unconsciously."

"Your imagination is so rich!"

This sentence is a compliment on the surface, but actually it seems to be belittling me.

I yelled in dissatisfaction: "What, do you think Mu Xiao is the murderer? Please, the murderer won't be stupid enough to kill in front of so many people! Didn't you say that the murderer is extremely smart? How could he commit suicide? stupidity!"

Edison paused.

"Yes." He pondered for a while, raised his finger and scratched his chin, "If Mu Xiao is the murderer, why is he so stupid? The murderer's previous tricks were impeccable, and he really didn't behave like before. ah."

"That's right!" I echoed eagerly, "So, Mu Xiao can't be the murderer, but a trap set by the real murderer. Maybe that guy is secretly laughing."

"Is that true?" Edison crossed his hands and frowned slightly, "Then how did the murderer manipulate Mu Xiao to kill?"

"Hypnosis kills!" I thought of this and blurted out.

"Hmm... hypnotic murder, there have indeed been such cases, and there have been murderers who used drugs to control the will of others."

"That's right!"

"It may also be that the murderer threatened Mu Xiao with something, forcing him to commit murder."

"That's it!" I said more and more excitedly.

The real murderer must not be allowed to go unpunished!I thought to myself.

But who is the murderer?The only suspicious candidates left are Qi Mu, Cheng Meini, and An Xiaobao... Is the murderer one of them?It seems... unlikely!
Of course, it may be one of the villagers. If this is the case, it will be troublesome. How can we catch a guy who has never appeared on the suspicious person list?

Back at the hotel, there seemed to be no progress in the interrogation of Mu Xiao.

He professes ignorance of what happened, but, on the other hand, insists he is guilty.

"I killed the boss! I killed the boss! I...will accept any punishment, let the judge sentence me to death."

No murderer would behave like this. If it was a real murderer, he would do everything possible to justify himself.

Uncle Meng Jin didn't seem to believe that Mu Xiao was the murderer either. He walked over sympathetically and brought Mu Xiao a cup of hot tea: "You blindly claim that you are guilty, do you know that the consequences of doing so will be serious? You will really be punished. Sentenced to death."

Mu Xiao raised his head, tears were streaming down his eyes, his handsome outline was filled with sadness at this moment.He said: "Anyway, I did kill someone. Even if I die, I won't have any complaints."

"How can you say that? If you are dead, the real murderer will be at large?"

"I..." Mu Xiao bit his lips, and suddenly his voice became louder, which could be heard throughout the hotel, "Yes, I am the murderer, and I did all of this."

Hearing this, not only Uncle Meng Jin, but even Doctor Ma, who was hearing the trial, were taken aback.

(End of this chapter)