Chapter 566

Edward pickers is a master mechanic with exquisite skills in setting, which can be seen from both design ability and parts manufacturing ability. It is simply not the category of black technology, but alien technology.

At the same time, he also has many common points of precision craftsmen.

That's obsessive-compulsive disorder.

All the furnishings and furniture in the mansion are placed in perfect symmetry, and all the books in the study are arranged in the order of the alphabet. What's more painful is that the time displayed by the clock with unclear decimals in his house is completely consistent, even the second hand is the same, and the real minute and second is the same.

Well, in the house of such a patient with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, there can be no second clock whose time is just half an hour faster.

At that time, an Yizhi was just a simple prank and turned up the vertical clock in front of the guest room on the third floor, but he didn't expect that this move became evidence to connect the clues!

When human beings are asked, they will unconsciously recall what they have asked from their minds. This is an instinct, which is difficult to avoid unless they undergo professional and rigorous training.

So when Ann asked what time it was, Countess Lydia recalled the dial she saw at that time, that is, the one in front of the lawyer's room on the third floor.

In other words, when she heard or saw the "Guardian", she did not sleep in the room as he said, but just stood in front of the lawyer's door on the third floor!

In this way, all the confessions about Lydia can be labeled as untrustworthy, and she can even be judged as the murderer.

Deep down, it was exactly three o'clock in the morning. Why did she go to the lawyer's room? Cheating?

No, combined with the old count's presumed time of death, it is likely that he murdered count Acheson at that time! And it's possible that lawyer Abel is an accomplice!

Such speculation not only meets the motive of murder, but also meets the conditions of body dumping.

Not far from Abel's room is the study. At the same time, Abel also knows that there is a secret door that can be opened in the study, which can easily throw his body in after killing.

However, it is still the key issue. An Yizhi has no evidence in his hand.

Or no hard evidence.

The time was not right, and Lydia could argue that she was sleepy and read wrong.

As long as such an argument is made, all the above conjectures will fall like castles in the air.

But

"Did you think of anything?"

Tu Hongyu looked at an and stared at the clock for a long time. He asked.

"See! The way to victory!"

“……”

What's wrong with the second disease?

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It has been said before that there are three places where the killer is most likely to leave evidence after killing: the body, the first crime scene, and the murder weapon.

There are not many clues on the body, maybe, but an Yizhi and Tu Hongyu are not professional forensic doctors, so they can't see it.

According to an Yizhi's speculation, the first crime scene should be in the lawyer's room or in front of his door, but I just looked for it. There was no trace of struggle or fighting. It can be seen that they must have made the old count lose his ability to move at the first time. And in the dead of night in the early morning, they have enough time to slowly sort out and clean up the evidence that may be left at the scene.

Then there's only one option left, murder weapon.

This mansion is a relative secret room. All doors can only be locked inside, that is, no one has gone out since the body was found in the morning!

Unable to go out, which makes the killer unable to dispose of the murder weapon.

The old count died of suffocation and was strangled. Such a murder weapon can't be handled indoors. Burning it will produce a lot of smoke and smell. It's even more impossible to throw it out along the window.

Although the mansion is built in the mountains, it is not close to the cliffs. It is easy to be found by the subsequent police.

Excluding these possibilities, an Yizhi estimated that the murder weapon might have been carried by the murderer or hidden somewhere in the house.

As for where it is, we still need to find it slowly.

They re explored the second floor and the first floor, including the kitchen, warehouse, wine cellar and restaurant. They didn't find it at all.

"Maybe they hid it outside?"

Tu Hongyu suggested.

This possibility is not unknown. The time when the person was just killed was indeed in the house, but after so long, everyone was in a state of free movement. The murder weapon may be taken out of the house and taken outdoors for destruction.

It's just that it's raining heavily outside. It shouldn't be possible to ignite it.

Anyway, whether you are outdoors or not, you should always go out and have a look.

They were at the front door. One took an umbrella and pushed the door out.

Edward's mansion has only such a main building. Behind the house is a well trimmed small garden composed of bushes and some roses, which also shows Edward's obsessive-compulsive disorder.

——Even the garden is a completely symmetrical structure.

They first went to the corner under the window of the study and the lawyer's room. As expected, there was no shadow of any murder weapon.

An Yizhi looked up along the wall and skipped the window of the study. Up there was the tall clock tower. He could see that the outer wall of the clock tower was painted with a layer of old paint, but there were no traces of doors and windows.

Speaking of it, how to get up the clock tower was really a problem. Although he speculated that Edward's treasure was there, he couldn't get it if he didn't go up.

The walls are extremely smooth without any decorative gullies. Even the windows are parallel to the walls without windowsills. Such a wall is the assassin's Creed. When they come, they can only kneel and can't climb up at all. It feels that it's possible unless they let the workers build scaffolds and walk up a little bit.

If you can't go outside, and you can't find the way to the bell tower indoors, it means that there is a secret Road connected with the bell tower, which further supports Ann Yizhi's guess, but you don't know where the secret road is.

Not thinking about the treasure for the time being, Ann shook her head and walked towards the small garden.

There are bushes and rose bushes everywhere. If you want to hide something, it's difficult to find it as long as you throw it in. It's a good hiding place.

The vision passed through the heavy rain curtain. As they walked, they saw a vague outline of the building in front of them. With the closer distance, they found that the outline was actually a very Chinese Pavilion.

Speaking of this era, European and American people like Chinese style architecture, especially some design concepts. Take the Chinese standard moon gate for example. Many new buildings like to add this element. They think it is very aesthetic.

Moreover, the Chinese Pavilion is also very in line with Edward's aesthetics. After all, Chinese architecture is famous for symmetry and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

However, for the two players, it is a bit against the rules to see a Chinese classical Pavilion behind a luxury house with Western Gothic architecture.

Because of its eye-catching, they decided to go to the pavilion first and take shelter from the rain. It was raining heavily and they couldn't even carry their umbrellas.

"That's right"

Tu Hongyu suddenly thought:

"I remember when I explored the warehouse, I found several hemp ropes. Could the murder weapon be mixed there?"

"No, think about the strangulation marks on the old count's neck. They are the marks of flat and long things similar to cloth, not hemp rope. The difference is very clear... I see. It's the same."

Halfway through, Ann immediately understood where the murder weapon was.

As the saying goes, all roads lead to all roads. As long as we find a breakthrough, the rest will be much easier.

"Don't talk half way, will you? It's very urgent!"

"Hehe, you need to think more, Watson."

“……”

Tu Hongyu has a strong desire to hit people!

With the closer distance, the image of the pavilion in their eyes became clearer and clearer, and they also saw

Fall to the ground alone?

The two looked at each other, regardless of the problem of the umbrella, threw it at random and accelerated to run over.

"It's burlik!"

As Tu Hongyu said, the person who fell in the pavilion was burlik, a university lecturer.

His umbrella was thrown aside, and he fell to the ground in a lying down position, holding a red rose folded from the small garden in his hand.

Was it attacked by someone?

On the surface, he had no bleeding or obvious trauma.

Then Ann pointed to see a needle tube in burlik's left leg. There was a translucent liquid in the needle tube. It was estimated that someone stabbed him with this thing, but he didn't put all the medicine in in in a hurry.

Burlik seemed to have not completely lost consciousness. The movement of an Yizhi and Tu Hongyu running into the pavilion made his eyelids tremble slightly, and then weakly opened his eyes.

"Mr. burlik! Who attacked you?"

No nonsense, an Yizhi hurriedly went straight to the topic and looked at burlik's state. I'm afraid it won't last long.

"Yes... Yes..."

There should be some kind of poison in the needle. Burlik felt it was very difficult not to say a word, and his consciousness was far away from himself.

Tu Hongyu helped him up and made it convenient for him to speak.

Burlik pointed his finger under his body and said in a babbling tone:

"Yes... Yes..."

His eyes turned white and he fainted.

Lying in a big slot!

You've been talking for a long time!! Can't you give me a name if you have strength!

It's no use jumping. Burlik has completely fainted and unconscious.

Tu Hongyu stretched out his hand to feel the pulse on his neck and said:

"The heartbeat began to become weaker and weaker. He was dying."

An Yizhi pulled out the needle tube inserted in burlik's left leg. It was a translucent viscous liquid. With an Yizhi's chemical knowledge, he couldn't see what it was.

"Anyway, let's take him back to the house first. There should be a first-aid kit in the house."

For the sake of the victim and the witness, we can only try to save his life first.

With the help of an Yizhi, Tu Hongyu picked up burlik on his back and ran quickly to the front door of the mansion.

Thanks to the copy of the team with Tu Hongyu, if an Yi points to himself, he can't run so fast with a big man on his back anyway.

"Somebody! Somebody, get the first aid kit!"

As soon as she entered the door, Ann pointed and shouted at her throat.

"Mr. Ann? This is... Mr. burlik? What's the matter with him?"

Charlie was just cleaning a decoration in the corridor when he heard Ann's cry for help.

"He was attacked. The prisoner used some kind of poison."

As soon as Charlie heard this, he quickly put down the work at hand, reached out his hand to test burlik's pulse, and looked at his eyelids:

"Please put him on the sofa and I'll get the first aid kit."

Like this, there must be first-aid supplies in the villa in the deep mountains, and the types are complete. After all, it's too far from the hospital. If there is any emergency, I'll do it.

The first aid box was not far away. Charlie came back in a short time, took out a bottle of medicine with unknown label, and found a metal needle tube from the box to give Bellick an injection.

"He needs to be sent to the hospital immediately. The medical conditions here alone are not good."

Charlie's call to Bellick should be the first-aid medicine that can hang his life, but it's only an emergency. The treatment still needs to be done in the hospital.

But that's what I say. Now the mountain is closed by heavy rain, and the police cars can't get through, let alone the ambulance.

"Contact the police again and let them send more people."

Tu Hongyu's voice just fell, and everyone heard a harsh scream