Chapter 710: The Bloodstained Bride (4)
The worries of standing still and taking care of yourself are fruitless and least efficient.
As the saying goes, brainstorming, that's it.
Therefore, An Yizhi decided to go back and discuss it with others, which was better than guessing by himself.
The two of them restored the curtains to their original appearance and closed the windows as well, but the latches could not be closed anyway, and Appletea said that to restore it to its original state, at least a tool such as a piano wire would be needed.
Maybe the murderer used the same method to create the secret room?
Obviously, this can't be.
If the murderer used a line to arrange a mechanism to lock the latch, it would definitely leave traces of the 'line', that is, a sliding dent, but there was nothing on the window, which means that the murderer did not escape from the window.
Find Red and Breeze Bazooka, who are comforting the grieving groom, with the intention of getting the NPC's attention and saying more.
After the four of them converged, they found a secluded alley where no one was nearby to discuss countermeasures.
After listening to An Yizhi and Appletea's narration, Red looked at the humble crime scene map on the notepad, frowned and said:
"There are only two exits, but there is no trace of the murderer passing through, can he still turn into air and disappear?"
Breeze Bazooka Says:
"Ann Yizhi didn't see any blood near the exit?"
"Nope."
In this regard, An Yizhi was also quite puzzled.
After killing someone, no matter how well the murderer prepares, there will inevitably be some blood stains with the amount of blood, and the whole scene is very 'clean', all of which are naturally dripping and splattering bloodstains, and there are no blood stains caused by human scratching or moving.
"Instead of thinking about how the murderer escaped, you should first need to justify the existence of the secret room, right?"
Appletea suggested.
He is right, the biggest difficulty in killing people in the secret room is the formation of the secret room, as long as it is proved that the secret room does not exist, many doubts can be solved. On the other hand, if you don't think about the problem of the secret room, you can directly consider who has the opportunity to commit the crime.
Murders in secret rooms are more often due to the use of suspicions to interfere with the search, or disguise suicide to help the perpetrator escape. This time it's clearly the former, so the best place to start is not the most difficult 'secret room', but who the suspect is.
An Yizhi praised:
"Blind student, you have discovered Huadian."
Apple Tea: "......"
How long do you want to play this meme?
Ignoring the apple tea with a constipated expression, An Yizhi said:
"The suspect must meet two points, have the opportunity to commit the crime and have the motive to commit the crime."
Only one point can be considered a suspect, but then the scope is too large, if it is a real policeman, it will definitely consider this, but there are still some rules to follow in the game, which is what we often call routines.
Therefore, simply listing people who meet these two points can greatly narrow the scope of suspects.
"First of all, the groom."
Rhett says:
"He claimed to accompany the bride to the room to change clothes, stay at the door and wait, and he was the first person to notice that something was wrong, and he had every time to do all this, and the thief shouted to catch the thief, but the motive was ......"
This made Rhett very hesitant:
"If his sad look is acting, then this young man who is a few years younger than me is too scary."
The pain and sorrow from the heart are difficult to deduce, and human beings are also very sensitive to the emotional perception of the same race, which is why the actor is called the relationship between the actor, a young man with only 20 years of life experience at most, can achieve this kind of acting skills, it is simply impossible.
"The element of forced marriage is even more unlikely."
Breeze Bazooka added:
"The natural intimacy of the groom and the bride when they get along just now can only be seen in a real couple, and there is nothing unnatural, and it can be seen that they should be happy with each other."
"There may also be motives that we don't know."
Appletea interjected.
Indeed, players can only be regarded as outsiders after all, and they don't know enough about the NPCs here.
"The other suspects...... I think there's one more, the bride's best friend, the red-haired woman. ”
An pointed to the suspect in the notebook and wrote down the groom in the suspect column and said:
"From the wound marks on the corpse, it can be seen that the murderer should have a great grudge against the victim, considering the age and gender of the victim, the only person who can make a feud is probably love killing."
Women in this era actually have no status, they cannot become strong women like later generations, in fact, they do not even have the right to work outside the home.
Therefore, in terms of grudges, there are not many things that can be considered, and the most likely is love killing.
For example, two women fight for a husband, and the one who loses holds a grudge and waits for the wedding to kill the killer...... How is this Nima like a soap opera?
Not to mention how bloody the plot is, this kind of speculation is not impossible.
In addition to the motive, the red-haired woman also had time to commit the crime, because no one knew exactly where she went when the bride and groom left.
It sounds like the redhead woman is the most suspicious, but there is one thing that cannot be explained, and that is the state of the deceased.
"Those who have the ability to commit crimes do not have sufficient motives, and those who seem to have sufficient motives to commit crimes do not have the ability to ......"
This quote from Breeze Bazooka is a perfect summary.
In terms of size, the bride is about the same size as a red-haired woman, and the strength required to hang an adult on a chandelier is obviously not something that a woman of the same age can do, even if the victim is in a state of coma or anesthesia, it is almost impossible.
Only strong men can do this, but the groom's motivation is far from sufficient......
"What if the murderer wasn't among the two of them?"
An Yizhi suddenly remembered a possibility.
"Look here......"
He pointed to the notepad and said:
"The murderer must have hung the bride on the chandelier before using the letter opener to kill people, regardless of how he managed to do such an unscientific thing as not getting bloodstains, how did he reach the bride's neck?
This is indeed a doubt.
The height of the room is about three meters, the bride is hung on the chandelier, the position of the neck is very high, ordinary people can only touch her neck when they reach out, but touching it does not mean that they can easily go under the knife.
The wound on the bride's neck is straight, and there is a lifting movement, indicating that the knife can only be done at least at the same height as the bride.
It's also a little scary.
Because of this inference, the murderer's height is definitely more than 2 meters, much taller than Tu Hongyu and Red, just like a bear blind.
What's more, such a tall and large man is very conspicuous, how did he disappear without attracting anyone's attention?
"Aren't there any chairs on site?"
Breeze Bazooka asked.
"Nope."
An Yizhi and Apple Tea saw this very clearly, and there was no chair.
"There is no chair, maybe the murderer stepped on it to attack the bride?"
The dresser usually has a matching chair, but it would be strange if there was no chair at the scene, was it taken away by the murderer?
"No, the chair wasn't taken away, it didn't exist at all."
Rhett Says:
"Look at the grass."
The three of them looked out at the grass outside the church, where there were long tables with crisp white tablecloths for the guests to celebrate.
"The types of chairs are not uniform, they should not be enough and borrowed from the church."
As Rhett said, because of the large number of guests, unless you spend a lot of money to order a batch of chairs in a uniform style, you have to borrow them from the church.
"So, the murderer stepped on the dresser to hang the bride and stabbed her?"
Appletea wondered.
"No, the dresser isn't right either."
An Yizhi retorted:
"If the killer had stepped on the dresser, the blood would have left a clear mark on the dresser that someone had been there."
"That's not right, that's not right, what's going on?"
Appletea wasn't good at puzzle-solving, and he clearly preferred the multiverse to the kind of temporary copy that had the nature of puzzle-solving.
"At the end of the day, there's one biggest suspicion that hasn't been mentioned."
Breeze Bazooka flipped through his notebook, which recorded some of the confessions he had just asked:
"Not to mention whether the groom is a murderer or not, the bride is killed in that way, of course there will be a lot of movement, and the groom did not hear any sound while waiting outside the door, even if the bride is in a state of anesthesia, it is almost impossible"
Whether it's hanging people on chandeliers or killing people with letter-opening knives, it's really weird that there's no sound at all.
Everyone was puzzled, and An clapped his hands with one finger and said:
"Let's summarize all the key doubts"
This makes it easier for them to focus their thinking, so as not to get confused by the clutter of clues.
"First, how did the murderer create the secret room."
"Second, how did the murderer kill a person with brutal means without making any noise"
"Third, how did the murderer disappear out of thin air in front of everyone's eyes"
As he spoke, Ann pointed and wrote down these three points on a notepad:
"As long as you understand these three points, all that remains is to ask around about who has the motive and time to kill."
It's easy to say, but how to untie it makes the four of them scratch their heads.
First of all, there is no doubt about the formation of the secret room.
Whether it is the door or the window is completely locked, as for the existence of the secret passage, An Yizhi does not dare to pack the ticket, but even if there is a secret passage, it will definitely not be able to escape the careful search of the police, and the prisoner does not need to use the secret passage to arrange the 'secret room', which will not have any effect of setting up a suspicious array at all, as long as the police follow the clue of 'who knows this secret passage', it is only a matter of time before the murderer is caught.
Second, assuming that the groom is not the murderer, suppose that when the bride enters the room, the murderer hides in the room, such as in the large closet, and waits for the bride to come in before suddenly attacking.
Such an action will inevitably cause the bride to make a sound, even if it is an acquaintance, it will be startled to see it suddenly come out of the big closet, not to mention that if the murderer is tricking the bride into drinking and narcotics, at least there must be a sound of conversation, if it is not for the violent method of murder, the bride will also struggle, and the groom is outside the door, it is impossible not to hear.
Finally, how the murderer disappeared.
This point can be seen as an extension of the first point, think about the situation at the scene of the crime, so many blood stains, no matter how careful the murderer is, will get some of it.
But whether it is a door or a window, there is no trace of the murderer coming in and out, and the infeasibility of using a secret passage to escape has been mentioned before, so I will not repeat it.
According to the current clues, the murderer is an adult man who is more than 2.3 meters tall and extremely strong.
Humans are usually not able to grow that tall unless they are gigantist. And the physical strength of a gigantism patient is far from being able to do such a thing.
Even if the murderer is talented, how did a man as strong as a bear and with a strong bloody aura disappear in front of everyone?