~： The fifth year story 132, the preconceived trap

"……………………I have no idea about this incident at first. If Ette and Severn were not her accomplices, it is hard to imagine that she could kill without taking a step. However, in Severn realized that you were the murderer, and when she wanted to kill you, she said something that made me feel extremely contradictory."

"What is it?"

"She said, you killed Mayor Sykes with a dagger."

"After hearing this sentence, I felt very difficult to understand. In all the killings, the bodies of the victims were cut open in two cases. The axe used for cutting fell on the scene the second time. Burning. Although old Bald was killed, a sharp blade appeared, but my long sword pierced the chest of the corpse."

"Judging that the murder weapon is a dagger is the conclusion I reached by inspecting the corpse. I have never announced this conclusion. However, in the face of axe, long sword, and fire, why does Nana who have never touched a corpse? The dagger that says the correct answer?"

"From then on, I began to doubt her. But her perfect alibi proved difficult for me to explain. At this moment, I suddenly thought of a possibility, and it is this possibility that made my thinking completely coherent. And this possibility is enough to explain the three wrong facts in the timetable I just mentioned."

"Murder, there are two people."

Frankly opened his eyes and opened his mouth slightly. After hearing the answer, she nodded unceasingly. After thinking for a while, she said: "Yes, two people. Only two people can explain this contradiction! Then, the reason why I was framed in the last murder incident was also The ghost of that'second murderer'!"

"…………Ah. The last murder should be like this. First, Nana knocked on the door of Sykes' office. Buddha once said that Mayor Sykes had a mistress outside. I guess this mistress It’s Nana. So it’s not a problem for her to knock on the office door."

Tan giggled, shook his head, and said, "Oh, this is really funny. Father and son grab the same woman? Hahaha."

"... After knocking on the door, Nana waited for an opportunity to let Sykes take a sleeping pill, and then left, playing cards with other people to make an alibi. Because you are a woman and you are not with them, so It is the best way to let you have no alibi, isolate you, and push the charges on you."

"Then waited until the time was almost up, another murderer went forward, took off Sykes' clothes, stimulated the mayor’s **** in a coma, and then assassinated him. In order to make the illusion more realistic, The murderer also left a slight bite mark on Mayor Sykes’s arm."

"Nana estimated that the time was almost up, and she planned to ask someone to accompany you to find a reason to go to the mayor's office. At this time, you happened to be here, so she drove you along. Then, she waited until both **** and alibi If the point is confirmed, you will naturally become a murderer if you don’t have anyone, and you will be a scapegoat.

Pop, pop, pop.

Tan clapped once again, his face full of encouragement. She looked at the idiot, shook her head in surprise, and said with a smile: "Little brother, your judgment is really accurate. Please wash me off the suspicion of murder, but I want to thank you."

The idiot didn't respond to her gratitude. He just walked aimlessly on the snow, and at the same time inserted and pulled his sword in the snow at will, as if thinking about what to say next.

"Finally, one murder case was resolved, so what about the other three? Mrs. Suili, Old Bald, Buddha, how do you explain them? And, who is the other murderer?"

"The answer to another murderer..."

The idiot stuck his sword into the snow and stopped. After thinking for a while, he raised his head and said--

"It's hidden in the fourth incident where the Buddha was killed."

"That thing? Hmm... because all of us were there, but the Buddha was suddenly burned to death. So, the other murderer was indeed the missing Viscount Wang? He killed his son?!"

"No, the result may be the opposite."

The idiot looked at Tan and said word by word--

"The corpse at the time was not of a Buddha at all. It was his father, Viscount Wang."

"what!!!"

"After finding out that there were two murderers, I immediately began to think about who the other person was. At this time, I suddenly thought of the scene of the torture that I saw when I was a child.

"Senag is a lawless border city. Some rich people like to make fun of the poor. They will pour oil on them and light them on fire. Look at that person struggling in the flames and laugh."

"I remember very clearly that for those who were burned to death by the fire, each of them would have a fixed posture. That posture was like preparing to fight a person, with hands in front of them, fists clenched, and both legs bent. . But on the burned corpse, I can't see such a trace at all."

"So, I immediately went to dissect the corpse. Here, there is one thing that you did not know. That is that I saw the Buddha before he died. At that time, the tragic death of Madame Foy was found in the morning. So I didn’t eat breakfast. So the Buddha was eating bread when I went in. I watched him eat a whole loaf of bread with my own eyes. But when I opened the corpse’s stomach, it was empty."

"It was at that moment that I immediately concluded that the Buddha was not dead. Since he was not dead, then he must be Nana's accomplice, the second murderer."

"Wait a minute." Tan reached out and stopped the idiot from continuing. She pointed her finger around her head twice and said, "My mind is a bit messy, wait a moment. You said earlier that you had visited Viscount Wang at the invitation of the Buddha on the evening of the 27th, right? Viscount Wang was still alive, right? And when Mrs. Suili died the next day, we went to see Wang again, but he was still alive. How do you explain this?"

"It's easy to explain."

The idiot drew the sword out of the snow and finally stood still and said, "In fact, Viscount Wang died before I arrived on the 27th. The treasure map you gave him was taken by Nana. That night, it was Nana who was talking to me and the Buddha through the door."

"Wait! There is a problem! You just said that, right? "Dialogue"! Can't you even distinguish the voices of young girls from older men?"

"No. Nana was indeed in the attic at the time. She was in charge of typing, pushing the paper out of the crack in the door, and standing in front of the door to create images of people in the room. But she didn't speak at that time. It was the attic who really spoke. The phonograph inside."

"Or to put it more clearly, it is a phonograph recording the words of the Buddha deliberately lowered his voice and said in a vague tone."

"At that time, although Madame Suili tried to talk to Wang, Viscount Wang just passed the note. Later when Madame Suili left and the Buddha started talking, Nana inside turned on the phonograph and let the Buddha perform a self-directed and self-acted performance. Due to the hoarse voice and the door, I couldn’t tell if it was the same person’s voice. In addition, because I’m an outsider, I’ve never heard Wang’s voice, so it’s easier to hide it. This is the same night. The reason why he suddenly asked me to go to the attic together."

"Then things were much simpler. He went back to the living room and deliberately aroused Madame Suili's anger again and scrambled with her. Because of this conflict, he had an absolute reason to take sleeping pills to sleep. I was surprised at the time, even if it was. He usually takes sleeping pills in his bedroom, lying on the bed. But why does he eat it in the living room in front of so many people?"

"This answer, think about the reason now. Because at that time he only knew whether he was taking sleeping pills or not. I deliberately did this in front of everyone to tell others that I took sleeping pills and it was nothing strange even if I couldn't wake up the next day. ."

"Because his room is on the first floor, he locked the door that night and went out through the window, entered through the door, and entered the attic directly. In that attic, he waited until the day. As he wished, we found out on the morning of the 28th. Mrs. Li’s body, after Old Bald knocked on the door of the Buddha’s room, some people said he was taking sleeping pills and it was not normal. Then everyone mentioned it to Nana, went to the attic, through the door, and proceeded with the Buddha behind. The false proof that'Wang was still alive'."

"That day, the voice coming from inside the door was still hoarse and intermittent. It was panting and looked very uncomfortable. It was impossible to distinguish such a voice. There was no way for everyone to go back to the living room. Then, Nana went back to the living room. Called a Buddha, he pretended to be a victim and appeared in front of everyone."

Tan was silent for a while, then showed a face of awakening again, and said: "That's why you just said that there are three errors in your schedule."