Card Room

Chapter 286 Chapter 6

Wells's body was lying on the sofa, Xiao Lou stepped forward, leaned over for autopsy, and other teammates consciously collected clues in the room.

A man's eyes are wide, and his tongue is half spit out. This is a typical sign of strangulation. His neck had obvious striations, which showed the deepest center and became shallower on both sides. The width of the striations was about three fingers.

In addition, no other obvious scars were found on the body.

Xiao Lou quickly obtained the result of the autopsy. "The cause of death was mechanical suffocation. His shirt had been pulled by violence. Two buttons had collapsed. The murder tool used by the murderer was probably his tie."

Yu Hanjiang frowned at the corpse on the sofa and analyzed, "He should have drank a lot of wine at the party on Christmas Eve. After sending the guests away, he fell asleep on the sofa. Unexpectedly, the murderer went and returned, Ripped his tie, strangled him simply. "

This is a more reasonable guess, because the body has not been traced, and the murderer does not need to strangle Wells before returning him to the sofa.

Wells didn't go back to the bedroom to sleep. He fell asleep on the sofa, most likely drunk.

Therefore, he did not know that his wife had been killed in the piano room on the second floor.

Xiao Lou looked back at his teammates and said, "Are there any clues?"

Ye Qi went over the trash can in the restaurant and said, "The trash can is full of snack bags and various fruit peels, nothing special."

Shao Qingge turned around in the kitchen and said, "There are a lot of drinks in the refrigerator, as well as fresh vegetables and meat that have not been used up. It seems that on Christmas Eve, the couple was cooking meals at home for the guests. . "

Lao Mo went to the side of the restaurant and found a large area of ​​garden outside the floor-to-ceiling window. He tried it. The glass door could not be pushed open. Lao Mo turned back.

Qu Wanyue and Long Sen searched all the cabinets in the living room and found two albums in the TV cabinet. Long Sen took the album to Yu Hanjiang and said, "Yu team, there should be some information about the main characters in the back room."

Yu Hanjiang took it at once, and Xiaolou took a serious look at it.

Xiao Lou's photo album should be a personal collection of male and female protagonists, all of them are single photos before going to college, including photos of their birthdays each year in childhood, as well as important activities in elementary and middle school.

It can be seen from the photos that the heroine Shirley has been learning piano since she was very young, and there are many pictures in the photo album of her holding a trophy after winning prizes in various piano competitions. The hobby of the actor is also an instrument. He studied the violin, and often participated in various competitions as a child.

Although the two did not have much intersection when they were young, one was wearing a suit and the other was wearing a small skirt. The photos looked good together. It's just that there is a lot of blank space in the second half of the album. I don't know whether there are no photos or some of them have been removed?

Yu Hanjiang's second album looked at their college days.

They are not at the same university. Wells studied at the School of Architecture, and Shirley was a student at the School of Music. This was evidenced by two of them taking pictures at the school entrance.

Their first photo was taken on the big stage. Shirley was wearing a beautiful performance gown. Wells was dressed in a handsome black tuxedo. The handsome and beautiful women stood in front of the piano to take a group photo. It doesn't look intimate, it should be just a short while ago.

After that, there were more and more group photos, and gradually started holding hands and hugging.

Yu Hanjiang quickly turned over the group photo of the two and looked for others in the album. Soon, he confirmed the identities of several other people-the ones who took the most photos with the heroes and heroines were the five people invited to join Christmas Eve arty. The names of the five people were written on the back of the photo.

Dr. Simon, an alumnus of male Wells, graduated from medical school. In the photo, Simon is standing in front of the experimental building, wearing a white coat and posing with the male lead. This man is half taller than Wells, with a handsome appearance, wearing silver-framed glasses, and looks gentle.

Jack is also a buddy of the male lead Wells. The two met the college basketball club. There is a photo of them wearing a jersey and holding a basketball. Jack's height is almost the same as Wells.

Susan is a classmate of the leading actor. In the group photo, the two held the golden "design competition trophy" together. It seems that they participated in what competition and won the award. They are regarded as working partners.

Both Martha and Karen are girlfriends of the heroine Shirley. The three girls made funny moves, wearing the same color clothes and carrying the same bag. There were several photos of such girlfriends. The three looked like sisters and had very good feelings.

Yu Hanjiang sorted out these key photos and said, "From the perspective of character relationships, of the five people participating in arty, two men are friends of Wells, two of the three girls are Shirley's girlfriends, and one is Weir University students in Sri Lanka may also be business partners. "

Combined with the five-person graduation photo found in the study room, Xiao Loudao said, "They are students of the same session and graduated in the same year. Seven people dressed in bachelor clothes and took Zhang Ying together, indicating that everyone knew each other and had a good relationship."

The photos can only determine the identity of each person. Who secretly has a relationship with the male or female lead cannot be seen at all. It's not as directional as the photo of Red Heart 2.

Yu Hanjiang said, "Five people may be the killers. Look at the graffiti of the little girl."

A picture was drawn in Lucia's graffiti. On the day of the move, in addition to his parents, a man and a woman came to help. Although the children's doodles are only roughly drawn with colored pencils, their shape is obvious.

For example, the height difference between her parents is the same as in reality, and her father is half a head taller than her mother.

Xiao Lou took out the graffiti and took a closer look, saying, "The man in Lucia's graffiti is half a head taller than her father. From this point, Jack can be eliminated first."

Jack is good at playing basketball. In the photo of the two wearing sneakers, he is exactly the same height as Wells.

Since the little girl has painted the height difference between her parents, she should not have deliberately painted this uncle much higher than her father. According to reasoning, the killer is likely to have been to the villa on the day of the move, to find out the layout of the villa, so as to plan the killing in advance. If Jack had never been to the villa, the suspicion would have been much smaller.

Well, the remaining man, Doctor Simon, naturally became bigger.

His height is just over half that of Wells, and as a doctor, it is more convenient for him to change the cold medicine of the little girl. If the killer was him, he would stab Shirley, strangle Wells, go to the little girl's room and change the cold medicine, and it would be very easy to kill the three of them.

Xiao Lou looked at another woman in the graffiti.

She is slender and wears a long red dress with big curly hair.

The little girl deliberately used a golden brush to draw a wavy line behind the woman's head to represent her hair.

Wells's female classmate Susan, in the photo is capable short ears.

Shirley's two girlfriends, one with long straight hair and one big curly hair-the one with the curly hair is called Karen.

As long as the little girl is not doodle, then you can be sure that the people who helped out on the day of moving were Dr. Simon and Ms. Karen.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other and said, "Is the murderer choosing one?"

Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly. "According to the existing clues, the most reasonable murderer is Dr. Simon. The jewellery collected by the hostess represents an unforgettable person in her heart. The masterpiece" lover "found in the study, and" Dream in the Dream "played by Qinfang "The Wedding", the directionality is obvious. "

Xiao Lou also agreed with the authentic "the man's side, there is no clue that there is Bai Yueguang in his heart, or there are other women □ □ adore him, the key should be Shirley here, her treasured necklace is too suspicious, jewelry The box also says things like 'love your life'. "

So, the killer is Doctor Simon?

The teammates looked at each other, and always felt that the answer would not be so simple according to the bad character of the gatekeeper.

The restaurant's door has not been opened yet. Xiao Lou glanced at the countdown with 20 minutes left and said, "There is still time. Don't rush to a conclusion. Let's look for any mechanism in the room or other clues."

The teammates parted again to find.

After 3 minutes, Liu Qiao suddenly said, "There is still a secret door here."

She was in charge of inspecting the living room just now, but when no useful clues were found, she heard Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang begin to analyze the case. She listened and knocked on the wall with her hands, but she heard the empty sound of "咚咚".

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang immediately stepped forward.

The TV background wall in the living room is very large. The location where Liu Qiao knocked is exactly on the side of the TV wall. The echo of the wooden door is completely different from the marble wall. Looking closer, you can find a small keyhole.

The nail-sized keyhole, if you don't look well, you can't see it at all.

Xiao Lou took a step forward and tried to push it, the door couldn't open. He glanced across the spacious room-living room, dining room, kitchen, all the drawers were checked, and no keys were found. In the drawers of other rooms, everyone should bring along the clues.

Where is the key?

Xiao Lou turned and looked at the center of the living room.

The teammates looked at Xiao Lou's eyes and locked the two-meter-high Christmas tree in the middle of the house.

Xiao Loudao "The key should be in Christmas stockings, let's find it as soon as possible!"

There were many small socks hanging on the Christmas tree. At first everyone thought these were just decorations. Now it seems that the socks are likely to contain the key of another hidden door.

When teammates heard this, they acted immediately.

A lot of chocolate candies were pulled out of the socks on the bottom, and the socks hanging on the top were out of reach of Qi Qi, so they could only resort to tall people. Shao Qingge stretched out his long arm, took off the socks at the highest point, and opened it for a look—it was indeed a key.

Xiao Lou took the key and opened the secret door.

This is a storage room with five beautifully packed gift boxes on the ground. There are many Christmas elements on the wrapping paper, such as snowflakes, Santa Claus, red socks and so on.

Obviously, this is the Christmas present given to the host by the five people invited to the party on Christmas Eve.

Yu Hanjiang said, "The final clue about the killer should be here."

There are only 10 minutes left in the countdown. If no more murderers can be found, this time-limited maze cannot be completed at all. They came all the way, opened the machine and cracked the password. The speed was fast enough, and almost one minute wasted. The gatekeeper should not set the difficulty that cannot be completed.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang glanced at each other and said, "Detach them apart."

The five gift boxes were divided into five people's hands, and everyone quickly removed the beautiful wrapping paper.

However, the moment when the paper was torn open, a scene that shocked everyone appeared—

Five password locks hung on five boxes!

Everyone "........."

Can you drag the square gatekeeper out for a meal?