Edward. Pickles is a skilled mechanical master in the setting, which can be seen from both the design ability and the ability to manufacture parts, which is no longer the category of black technology, it is simply alien technology.

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

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 alphabetical order. What's even more painful is that the time displayed by the countless clocks in his house is exactly the same, even the second hand is the same, and the real minute and second are the same.

Well, in the house of such a severe patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is impossible to have a second clock that is exactly half an hour faster.

At that time, An Yizhi was just a simple prank, and turned the vertical bell in front of the guest room on the third floor faster, but he didn't expect this move to become evidence to link the clues!

When human beings are questioned, they will unconsciously recall the things they are asking about, which is instinctive and difficult to avoid unless they have undergone professional and rigorous training.

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

In other words, when she heard or saw the 'Guardian', she was not sleeping in her room, as he said, but standing right in front of the lawyer's door on the third floor!

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

Thinking deeper, it was exactly three o'clock in the morning, why did she go to the lawyer's room? Cheating?

No, combined with the presumption of the old earl's death, it is likely that it was at that time that the Earl of Acheson was murdered! And it is quite possible that lawyer Abel is an accomplice!

Such speculation not only satisfies the motive for killing, but also satisfies the conditions for throwing the body.

Not far from Abel's room is the study, and Abel also knows that there is a secret door in the study that can be opened, so that he can throw his body into it after killing someone.

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

Or rather, there is no ironclad evidence.

The timing was not right, and Lydia could justify that she was sleeping in a daze and misunderstood.

As long as this is justified, all of the above speculations will fall like a castle in the air.

But......

"Did you think of anything?"

Tu Hongyu saw An staring at the clock for a long time without moving, and asked.

"See! The path to victory! ”

“……”

Did this secondary two disease turn on any bad switches?

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

There weren't too many clues on the corpse, maybe there were, but An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu were not professional forensic doctors, so they couldn't see it.

According to An Yizhi's speculation, the first crime scene should have been in the lawyer's room or in front of his door, but they had also been found just now, and there was no trace of struggle or fighting, which showed that they must have made the old earl incapacitated for the first time. And in the early hours of the night, they had plenty of time to slowly sort out and clean up any evidence that might have been left at the scene.

Then, there is only one option left, the murder weapon.

The mansion is a relative chamber, and all doors can only be locked on the inside, which means that no one has ever gone out since the body was found in the morning!

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

The old earl died of suffocation, strangled to death. There is no way to dispose of such a murder weapon indoors, and burning it will produce a lot of smoke and smell, and it is even more impossible to throw it out of the window.

Although the mansion is built deep in the mountains, it is not close to the cliff, and it is easy to be found by the police who arrive later.

Ruling out these possibilities, An Yizhi estimated that the murder weapon was likely to be carried by the killer or hidden somewhere in the house.

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

They re-explored the second and first floors, including the kitchen, warehouse, wine cellar, and dining room, but they couldn't find it at all.

"Maybe they're hiding outside?"

Tu Hongyu proposed.

This possibility is not impossible, it was indeed in the house during the time when the person was just killed, but after such a long time, everyone is in a state of free movement, and the murder weapon is likely to be taken out of the house and taken outside to be destroyed.

It's just that it's raining heavily outside, and it shouldn't be possible to light a fire and burn it down.

Anyway, when you're not outside, you always have to go out and see.

The two of them took an umbrella at the main entrance and pushed the door out.

Edward's mansion has only one main building, and behind the house is a small, well-manicured garden with bushes and some roses, which also shows Edward's obsessive-compulsive disorder.

- Even the garden is a perfectly symmetrical structure.

They first went to the corner of the wall under the window of the study and the lawyer's room, and as expected, there was no trace of the murder weapon at all.

An pointed along the wall and looked up, skipping the window of the study, and above was the tall bell tower, and he could see that the outer wall of the bell tower was painted with a layer of old paint, but there was no trace of doors and windows.

Speaking of which, it was indeed a question of how to go up the bell tower, although he speculated that Edward's treasure was there, but there was no way to get it if he couldn't go up.

The walls are smooth, without any decorative furrows, even the windows are parallel to the walls, and there are no window sills. Such a wall is that the Assassin's Creed gang can only kneel when they come, and they can't climb it at all, feeling that it is only possible to let the workers build scaffolding and go up a little bit.

If you can't go up outside, and you can't find a way to the bell tower inside, it means that there is a secret passage connected to the bell tower, which further corroborates An Yi's guess, but it is not clear where this secret passage is.

Not thinking about the treasure for a while, An Yizhi shook his head, and the two walked towards the small garden.

It is full of bushes and roses, and it is a good place to hide if you throw something in.

The view passed through the heavy rain curtain, and as the two walked they saw a vague outline of a building appear in front of them, and as the distance closer, they realized that the silhouette was actually a very Chinese pavilion.

Speaking of Europeans and Americans in this era, they are very fond of Chinese-style architecture, especially some of its design concepts. Take the standard moon gate of the Celestial Empire as an example, many new buildings like to add this element, and they think it is very aesthetic.

Moreover, the Chinese gazebo is also very much in line with Edward's aesthetics, after all, Chinese architecture is notoriously symmetrical, and obsessive-compulsive disorder is satisfied.

However, for two players, it is really a bit inconsistent to see a gazebo in the classical style of the Celestial Empire in the back of a mansion with Western Gothic architecture.

It is precisely because of its eye-catching that the two decided to go to the pavilion to have a look, and by the way to avoid the rain, which is so heavy that they can't even carry an umbrella.

"That's right"

Tu Hongyu suddenly thought:

"I remember when I was exploring the warehouse before, I found a few hemp ropes, could it be that the murder weapon was mixed in there?"

"No, think of the strangulation marks on the old earl's neck, which are the marks of a flat and long strip of cloth, not the traces of hemp rope, and the difference is clear...... I see, that's what it is. ”

Halfway through speaking, An Yizhi immediately understood where the murder weapon was.

As the saying goes, as long as you find a breakthrough, the rest will be much easier.

"Don't you talk halfway, can't you? It's very urgent! ”

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

“……”

Tu Hongyu has a strong desire to hit people!

As the distance narrowed, the image of the gazebo in the eyes of the two became clearer and clearer, and they also saw ......

A man fell to the ground?

The two glanced at each other, didn't care about the problem with the umbrella, threw it away, and accelerated over.

"It's Burik!"

As Tu Hongyu said, the person who fell in the pavilion was none other than the university lecturer Burik.

His umbrella was tossed aside, and he fell to the ground in a lying position, clutching a red rose that had been folded from the small garden.

Was someone attacked?

Ostensibly he was not bleeding and had no obvious injuries.

Immediately Ann pointed and saw a needle pierced in Burik's left calf, and there was a translucent liquid in the needle, presumably someone had pierced him with this thing, but he didn't get all the medicine into it in a hurry.

Buric didn't seem to be completely unconscious, and the movement of An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu running into the pavilion made his eyelids tremble slightly, and then opened his eyes weakly.

"Mr. Burric! Who attacked you? ”

No nonsense, An Yizhi hurriedly went straight to the point, looking at the state of Berik, I am afraid that it will not last long.

"Yes...... It's ......."

There must have been some kind of poison in the needle, and Buric felt that it was difficult to say a word, and his consciousness was moving away from him.

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

Buric pointed his finger under him, and said in a whispering tone:

"Yes...... It's ......."

His eyes turned white and he fainted.

Lie down in a big groove!

You've been saying for a long time!! Can't you give me a name at the beginning of your strength!

No matter how much he jumped, it was useless, Buric had completely fainted and was unconscious.

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

"His heartbeat began to get weaker and weaker, and he was dying."

An Yizhi pulled out the needle inserted in Burik's left leg, which was a translucent, viscous liquid, and with An Yizhi's knowledge of chemistry, he couldn't tell 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, I can only find a way to save his life first.

With the help of An Yizhi, Tu Hongyu picked up Buric on his back, and the two ran quickly towards the main entrance of the mansion.

Thanks to the copy that teamed up with Tu Hongyu this time, if An Yi was allowed to point to himself, it would be impossible for him to run so fast with a big man on his back anyway.

"Someone! Come on, get a first aid kit! ”

As soon as he entered the door, Ann shouted at the top of his voice.

"Mr. An? This is...... Mr. Burlick? What happened to him? ”

Charlie was just wiping down a piece of furniture in the hallway when he heard Ann's call for help.

"He was attacked, and the prisoner used some kind of poison."

When Charlie heard this, he quickly put down the work at hand, reached out to test Burlick's pulse, and looked at his eyelids again:

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

There must be first-aid supplies in a villa deep in the mountains like this, and there are all kinds of supplies, after all, it is too far from the hospital, and if there is any emergency, it will be clumsy.

The location of the first-aid kit was not far away, and Charlie rushed back after a while, took out a bottle of medicine with an unknown label, and took out a metal syringe from the box to inject Burric.

"He needs to be taken to the hospital immediately, not because of the medical conditions here."

Charlie gave Burrick a first-aid medicine that could hang his life, but this thing was only an emergency, and the treatment needed to go to the hospital.

But to put it this way, now that the mountains are closed by heavy rain, police cars can't pass, let alone ambulances.

"Contact the police again and ask them to step up their dispatch."

As soon as Tu Hongyu's words fell, everyone heard a piercing scream......