Reasoning Notes

Chapter 84 Reasoning Notes 2: The Murder of the Fox Demon (43)
"OK!" The smile accumulated in the corner of Cheng Meini's mouth suddenly bloomed like a winter jasmine, and she finally opened her golden mouth in satisfaction and said, "Doudou said, the secret is that the fox demon is the mountain god."

"Ah? What do you mean?"

"How do I know what it means? That's what Doudou said!"

"The fox demon is the mountain god?" Edison remembered a trivial matter that he had almost ignored. "I remember that when Qi Mu introduced the history of this straw village to us, he seemed to say that the fox demon protected the village."

That's right, I also heard Saiki say that the other day.

In order to confirm, Edison took us back to the hotel and asked Qi Mu to look up historical materials.And Doctor Ma sent Doudou home.Then, we meet again in the lobby of the hotel.

This time, Qi Mu joined in, and a large amount of information he collected was placed on the table.He said to everyone present: "According to the data, many years ago, the villagers believed that there lived a fox fairy who cared for the world here. Therefore, the villagers respected the fox fairy as the mountain god here, that is to say, The fox fairy is the mountain god."

"But..." Uncle Meng Jin raised his hand like a primary school student asking a question, "The history books talk about fox fairies, but what we know are fox demons. One is kind and the other is evil. I can't seem to get in touch with them. ah."

"Oh, that's how it is." Qi Mu explained, "didn't the Japanese devils encounter strange things in Daicao Village during the Anti-Japanese War, and many people died? As a result, the Japanese spread rumors everywhere that there was a cannibal in Daicao Village. Goblin. Just like this, the fox fairy is said to be a fox demon."

"Oh, so the fox demon is still a kind fairy?"

"It should be like this." Speaking of this, Qi Mu glanced at Edison from the corner of his eye.

Can she guess the secret of the fox demon stone statue?

If you guess it, you can solve all the mysteries.Solving the case shows that she does have a daunting talent for reasoning.At that time, he and she will be rivals.And she seemed to have some clues.Qi Mu was so nervous that his palms were sweating, how he hoped that she would not be able to solve this case!

But things didn't go his way.

I saw Edison stood up and said to everyone: "Come on, let's go to the path of the stone statue of the mountain god!"

She knows?The thought stirred uncomfortably in his mind, and he had the worst premonition.

The fog has gradually dissipated, and the exit of the maze is ahead.Edison squatted down slowly, and re-examined the stone statue of the mountain god.

Its eyes are piercing and its lips are slightly parted, as if to state a long-kept secret.As observed before, the stone statue is placed in the wooden fence.The wooden fence after hundreds of years is still very strong, and it is impossible for ordinary people to move the stone statue out of it.

However, Edison's body trembled slightly.He saw faint traces of friction on the bottom of the stone statue, which he hadn't noticed before.He hated his carelessness, and now he had the handle to open the door of truth.

Edison stood up and stretched himself.For many days, the doubts smoldering in my heart finally dissipated slowly like smoke.The air entered his chest cavity, and he felt extremely refreshed and comfortable.

"Finally solved!" He had never been so happy, and then announced loudly, "I already know all the answers to the riddle."

At dusk, a piece of gold sprinkled in the sky, and we watched him reverently like devout believers.

Just as he was about to say something, a police officer hurried over to report to Uncle Meng Jin: "An Xiaobao and Guo Nan have been caught!"

Hearing this, everyone was very excited.

"Now, all the people related to the case are here. Bring An Xiaobao and Guo Nan here. By the way, there are also Fox Demon and Mu Xiao. I want to reveal the true face of the murderer in front of them." Edison's crisp but majestic voice echoed in the mountains and forests for a long time.

A flock of homing tired birds flew over the forest.The sound of their wings beating seems to be the end of this horrible day.

After a while, a group of people were brought to the stone statue of the mountain god.Mu Xiao, An Xiaobao, and Guo Nan stood together in front of the crowd.Everyone was accompanied by a police officer in case they escaped.Of course, Qi Mu is also one of the suspects.

Now, the interrogation begins.

The first question was Guo Nan.He cooperated with the police very well and answered all the questions.He said that the purpose of coming to Daicao Village was because he heard the news of the resurrection of the fox demon.Knowing that the classmate who died many years ago reappeared, of course he wanted to investigate.But because he was brought back to this village by the police as a suspect for investigation, he was afraid that the villagers would recognize him, so he pretended to be a weirdo with a hood.

"So, are you the weirdo with the hood who snatched Xia Zao'an Yupei outside the hotel today?"

Edison guessed right, Guo Nan nodded dejectedly.

Edison asked again: "Why did you grab that jade pendant? Did the fox tell you to do it?"

He guessed right again.

Guo Nan was surprised by this high school girl's ability to predict things like a god. She opened her mouth and said after a long time: "Because the fox demon said that if I can snatch that jade pendant, she will let me go. Otherwise, she will Curse me."

"So you're at her mercy, are you?"

"You also know that the magic power of the fox demon is too scary. I don't want to lose my life."

"You are wrong," Edison told him, "the fox demon has no magic power, she is just an ordinary person."

"No, it's impossible! I've seen it with my own eyes, she can take her head off, and you've seen her fly in front of everyone."

"That's just a trick."

As Edison said, he suddenly smiled strangely, and his head fell off.

"Wow!" The surrounding villagers and Guo Nan shouted in fright.

But Edison quickly returned to normal.He took off his coat, only to see a brace on his shoulder.After Edison's explanation, everyone finally understood the trick of losing their heads.

As for the matter of flying into the sky, Edison's reasoning was similar to the reality—it was nothing more than a dummy made of hydrogen balloons flew into the sky, and the real person escaped through the back door of that room.Then the murderer locked it outside, causing everyone's illusion.

"So, Tang Ziyun is not a goblin?" After listening to the explanation, the fear on Guo Nan's face eased a lot, but he still asked, "Then, how did she come back to life?"

Under everyone's breathless gaze, a sentence came out of Edison's mouth slowly and loudly: "Because, she didn't die at all!"

This sentence impacted the quiet atmosphere of the scene, and everyone gasped.

"what!"

It seemed that he suddenly realized it, but he still had doubts, and Doctor Ma couldn't hold back anymore.Edison was clearly criticizing her mistakes in forensic work back then!She said with some dissatisfaction: "Impossible! If Tang Ziyun didn't die, how could so much blood of hers be left at the scene?"

"I didn't say that the blood wasn't hers."

"Since this is the case, I would like to ask, can a person survive without bleeding?"

"of course can."

Edison's answer made Doctor Ma speechless. Her eyebrows were raised, and her anger quietly grew half an inch.

"Then let me see if you live, you liar!"

"Haha." Seeing Doctor Ma's angry look, Edison laughed for no reason, "Xiaoling..."

"Call me Doctor Ma! You called Xiao Ling!"

Edison spread his hands and was defeated by her: "Well, Doctor Ma, I agree with your words very much, that is, a person cannot survive such a large amount of blood loss at one time."

"That's right!"

"But..." Edison raised a finger, "You have to pay attention to my words, I said one-time."

"One-time?"

"That's right, the murderer took advantage of this common-sense mistake. It's easy for us to mistakenly think that so much blood was shed at once. This is a common mistake that ordinary people make."

"You mean...the blood is..." Doctor Ma's tone softened, probably even she realized that this was indeed a small mistake.

"That's right, the blood was drawn out several times, so that it will never kill a person, at most the body is very weak."

"But...why would the murderer do this?" I wondered about this, and interjected.

Edison turned his gaze to me: "Of course it is to cover up the fact that Tang Ziyun is still alive."

"Why? The murderer couldn't have planned today's murder four years ago, right?"

"I don't know about this either, let the murderer explain it himself later."

"Ah!" Doctor Ma suddenly remembered something and yelled, "Then, whose corpse was that back then?"

"You still don't understand, of course it belonged to Li Qihong. The murderer replaced Tang Ziyun with Li Qihong's body."

Edison spoke more and more fluently.His grasp of the case made someone's heart beat faster. No, it should be said that it was two people: one was the murderer; the other was Qi Mu.

They almost said the same exclamation in their hearts: This high school girl is not simple!
Afterwards, Edison asked Guo Nan another question: "What did you do with the jade pendant you took away?"

Guo Nan said: "I gave the jade pendant to the fox demon."

That being the case, why did Yupei appear next to Huang Wanwan's body again?

This newly emerged mystery is not a problem at all for Edison, who is now quick-thinking.

"Because there are two identical jade pendants." He said, "I believe the murderer is Li Qihong's own son. If this is the case, then it is not surprising that the two mothers and sons have the exact same jade pendant as a token."

The words have come to this point, and the real culprit is ready to be revealed.

Edison's gaze moved 50 centimeters from Guo Nan's body to the left and landed on another person.He pointed at the man sharply with his finger: "You are the murderer!"

(End of this chapter)