Human beings need a reason to murder their fellow human beings, whether it is for the sake of wealth or hatred, even for the sake of pure pleasure and morbid gratification.

This is what criminal psychology calls the motive for a crime.

Judging from the current situation, everyone present has a motive to commit a crime, after all, one less person can share one less inheritance. But if we add to this the question 'who is in the best interest of the old earl's death?' the number of suspects is instantly reduced to the countess, and at most her lover Burrick.

However, it is not enough to have a motive for committing a crime, but also to have the conditions for committing a crime.

It is not a condition under which the murder can actually be carried out, which can be explained by the 'gang crime', the real problem is the place where the body is dumped.

The old Earl was found inside what appeared to be a 'completely sealed' glass enclosure, knowing that only the lawyer Abel and the two servants and the four Anasta had opened the secret door. The two most suspected murderers don't know the entrance to the secret passage.

Of course, they may have found the information themselves, or they might have gotten the news from someone else's mouth, or they might have simply gotten the information from the old earl's mouth.

But in general, the odds are still relatively low.

Since the two players have spent almost all of their time in the library since they arrived at the mansion, it would have taken a lot of time to find them on their own if someone hadn't told them, which overlapped with the locations of the two players, so it contradicted each other.

In short, those who have the ability to throw the body have insufficient motives to kill, and those who have sufficient motives to kill do not have the ability to throw the corpses.

An Yizhi clicked a few times among the names of various people in the notebook, and thought of a possibility.

Could it be that someone in the confession is lying? Some of them say they don't know each other, but they actually know each other?

It makes a lot more sense when you think about it.

At first, Ann always put Countess Lydia and Buric in the same group, preconceived that the murderers of the gang were the two of them, but if Lydia cooperated with someone else, such as a lawyer. In this way, the motive for killing and the conditions for throwing the body in the secret room are all there, and it is likely to be a lie to say that you don't know each other.

At this point, the thought suddenly became clear, but there was still a problem that could not be avoided no matter what.

Evidence.

He didn't have any evidence, and besides, Lydia + lawyer was just one of the possibilities, maybe it was Lydia + Anasta who did it, and he couldn't even figure out who the suspect was, let alone unravel.

But there is one thing, Lydia definitely can't escape the involvement.

There was no evidence, just a feeling that Ann had lied to Lydia.

An Yizhi thought about this, and the inquiry continued.

This time it was the manservant Charlie, who seemed a little nervous, probably frightened by Ann's casual pull out of the gun, and never dared to look at him.

However, there was nothing wrong with the testimony, and when asked what he was doing at the time of the crime, he would only get the answer that he was sleeping, and there was little progress.

Later, when it came to relationships, he told them that he and his wife, Mary, had just been married for a month, and that soon after their marriage, they had been hired by the lawyer Abel to serve as a servant in Mr. Edward's house. None of the guests they knew except for Abel and had not heard of any rumors.

When asked about Mr. Edward, Charlie said that they had only met Mr. Edward once, in the hospital, and that he had given them some precautions about the mansion, and that they had come here in the lawyer's car, and had been there ever since.

"You said you arrived here in Able's car? Do you remember what car Abel drove? ”

"Remember, he had a black Ford parked right outside the door."

Ford?

An Yi clearly remembered that Abel was driving a Rolls-Royce when he came.

To this, Charlie replied:

"The Rolls-Royce Phantom was the owner's car, and was given to Mr. Abel as a reward for the will-reader and notary."

In other words, two of the cars that are now parked in front of the mansion belong to lawyer Abel.

It is true that the lawyer had come to the mansion first, then left on foot, and finally returned in a Rolls-Royce, which had once belonged to Mr. Edward......

But why?

I can't figure this out for the time being, and An Yizhi feels that it may have something to do with treasure.

One of the most troublesome aspects of this quest is that the clues about the treasure are likely to be intertwined with the clues about the murder, rather than a single line of processing, which requires the player to have the ability to discern for themselves, otherwise they will be confused.

Ann had been very suspicious of Charlie before, because his suspicion was higher than that of the lawyer and Anasta, and lower than that of Lydia and Burik.

The reason, of course, is because of one word.

Money.

As a servant, he certainly didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to inherit a part of the inheritance from the Monopoly, even if it was just an equal part, it would be enough to make him crazy about it.

It's like an ordinary person coming home and suddenly finding that they have an extra million-winning lottery ticket at home, and they are ecstatic.

But this is not all good, if it is not controlled, evil desires will grow in the bottom of the heart.

Wouldn't one less person be able to divide more?

Moreover, from the perspective that the victim is an old earl, he is old and frail, and he is the easiest person to settle except for Anasta, and the others are either young or in the prime of life, so from this point of view, the two servants, Charlie and Mary, are also highly suspicious.

It's just that it's still the same sentence, and there is no evidence.

After Charlie left, the next person to come in was his wife, Mary, another servant.

Her face was pale, as if she hadn't recovered from the shock.

It's no wonder that ordinary people will definitely have a strong mental impact when they suddenly see a corpse, which is a carnival of SAN value if it is placed in the Cthulhu TRPG......

There was nothing wrong with her testimony, which was basically the same as Charlie's, but she did know Anasta and had heard Anasta rumors to be exact.

"It was my work as a maid in another master's house, and I heard from a colleague that Miss Anasta was from Monsieur Edward's Swiss homeland. It was brought back by Mr. Edward when he returned home, and he was temporarily placed in a villa in the city. ”

On the page of the notebook about Anasta he wrote 'from Switzerland', and then Ann pointed and asked:

"What else do you know about her?"

Mary thought for a moment and hesitated:

"I don't know if it's a strange thing......

"Please."

"Miss Anasta was the first to arrive yesterday morning, but I didn't hear the engine of the car and there was no parking outside."

"Are you sure you didn't hear any vehicles?"

"Well, I'm sure I was wiping down my master's clock in the hallway, and when I heard the doorbell ring and looked out the window, I saw Miss Anasta standing in the doorway."

If she didn't take the car, could she have come down the mountain?

It's not a distance that can't be reached by foot, but it takes 40 minutes to drive to the nearest city here, and the walking time can be imagined, and with the strength of Anasta girl, I'm afraid it's unlikely.

But maybe someone drove her to the front of the mansion and then turned back, and there was a possibility that there was also such a possibility.

The more you ask, the thicker the fog becomes.

Although it may have nothing to do with the murder, Anasta is certainly not as harmless as it seems, and must be hiding some secrets.

It's just that......

I'm afraid I can't ask......

Sending off the maid Mary, the last one to be questioned was naturally Anasta.

"Please be seated, Miss Anasta, don't be nervous, we won't ask questions that are not related to the murder."

I thought that Anasta would be nervous, so An Yizhi added a little more, but he didn't expect that people were not only not nervous, but were full of interest.

"Can you show me your notepad? It is said that the police will fill the notepad every time they handle a case, is it true? How many cases have you worked on together? Do you need a warehouse for those case files? I heard that Mr. An, you are a well-known detective, can you tell me some stories about your solving of the case? Are you going to search for clues, can you take me? ”

It's not just full of interest, it's just full of interest!

Before Ann could ask a question, Anasta flashed her eyes wide, and her mouth muttered like a cannon.

"Miss Anasta, you don't seem to be reacting to Mr. Earl's corpse......"

Anasta didn't mean to be frightened by the corpse at all, except for the fact that her face was not very good at first, but now she felt a sense of elation.

"Corpses? I've seen it."

"Yes, you've seen corpses?"

This time it was Ann's turn to be surprised.

"Of course I did, in the books."

“……”

In the book, I have also seen three thousand beauties in the harem! Did the results work!

This girl's brain circuit is really a bit of a problem, and she doesn't think there's anything wrong with her answer at all.

Perhaps, she has strong paranoia?

This is not uncommon, strictly speaking, the second disease is also a kind of paranoia, and An Yizhi and her may have a little common language......

After revealing this paragraph, An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu began to ask about the matter.

"Did you know anyone else before?"

"Except for Mr. Able, everyone else is meeting for the first time."

Anasta's testimony was consistent with that of Able, neither of whom had ever met, but had heard of each other, presumably from Mr. Edward, between them.

"What were you doing at the time of the crime?"

Tu Hongyu asked boringly, this sentence has been asked many times, and the answer is only 'sleeping'. And this time there was a different answer.

"I'm reading."

"Reading a book in the wee hours of the morning?"

Or do you read until the wee hours of the morning?

However, judging from the current contact situation, Anasta does like to read, and carries a book with her almost at any time, whether she gets up in the early morning to read a book or reads until the early hours of the morning, it is understandable.

"Since you're reading a book, have you heard anything or noticed anything unusual?"

An Yizhi hurriedly asked, finally with a different answer.

"Unusual sounds?"

Anasta thought for a moment and said:

"Didn't hear it, no sound other than the footsteps of the Guardians patrolling the hallway."

Guardians again!

An pointed and thought about it, it was likely to be an important clue given by the system about the Guardian, but he had asked a few people, and many people only knew about it, and they didn't know the details, maybe they could find out through Anasta.

"What else do you know about Guardians?"

Anasta looked at Ann strangely, as if to say, 'Does this have anything to do with the murder?' Still, she spoke:

"It's an automatic patrol puppet made by Mr. Edward, it looks very powerful, but it doesn't actually have any combat power, and it won't attack anyone, it just walks according to the established time and route every day."

"Do you know its route?"

Anasta shook her head and said:

"All I know is that it will come out at three o'clock in the morning for a walk, and I don't know exactly what route it will take."

It really didn't sound like it had anything to do with the murder, and An Yizhi just wrote one more item in his notebook, and then he felt a headache.

What does this copy mean?