Classroom 101.
Yang Ye and Gu Liang came back here again.
On July 24, the first case occurred, and after a concentrated discussion, they decided to live in classroom 101 together that night, and then moved the tables and chairs to the corridor together.
In the evening, after everyone voted, they brought toiletries, snacks, quilts and other things, and moved in three tables and matching chairs for everyone to play cards and place snacks and other small things.
At this moment, a podium was still standing in front of the classroom, and a chair was moved to the podium. Both the chair and the podium were covered with blood, and the corpse was placed on the podium.
After Gu Liang's previous preliminary speculation, the real culprit first put the corpse on the chair in order to imitate the movements of the goddess of justice on the Tarot card [Justice]. But then the body fell down by itself and landed on the podium.
As for the other two chairs and three desks, they are still in the classroom. The snacks on the tables and chairs, the cosmetic bags for girls and other things were turned into a mess during the evidence search, but the positions of the tables and chairs remained basically the same as last night.
Gu Liang and Yang Ye carefully checked the desks and chairs placed outside the podium, and reconfirmed that there was no trace of blood on them.
Furthermore, the things that can be used in the classroom seem to be nothing more than two blackboard erasers, chalk, and a plastic ruler.
Whether this ruler could be used as a murder weapon was discussed at the beginning.
But Wu Shengsheng once cut his hand with it, and it was impossible to cut his arm, let alone stab his chest.
Besides, at first glance, there was nothing in the classroom that looked like a murder weapon to the naked eye.
In the end, Gu Liang had no choice but to turn his attention to the corpse.
Going forward, Gu Liang stared at the bloody Tarot cards next to the corpse for a while, then went to the podium and squatted down, and took out the remaining boxes for the Tarot cards.
Gu Liang took out the Tarot cards in the box, flipped through the cards with his slender fingers, counted them, and found that there were exactly 14 cards.
Squeezing the card box in his hand, Gu Liang turned his head to look at Yang Ye: "I suddenly thought of a problem. It was an obvious problem that we ignored. Yang Ye, on the morning of July 23, you give us After class, let's draw tarot cards. After we finish drawing cards, do you know the content of each of our cards?"
"I don't know." Yang Ye shook his head, then thought of something, and asked with a frown, "Do you think...the murderer may have switched the cards on the deceased?"
"Yes." Gu Liang said, "Each of us will check and keep the tarot cards drawn by ourselves. If the real murderer didn't know the cards on the deceased in advance, he would not be able to arrange the deceased into the corresponding cards after killing the person. The appearance of a person on the face."
"For example, the first victim, Zhao Mathematics, was smashed to death with a brick. The rope is not a necessity for the murder itself, but only when the real murderer imitates the way the devil in the Tarot card binds the slave to tie up the body after killing the person. , the tools used."
"It should be impossible for the real murderer to know in advance what the Tarot cards on Zhao Xuexue's body are."
"And if the real murderer finds the Tarot cards from the corpse after killing someone, and then imitates it, it means that his line of action will be—after killing someone, he returns to Ma Qingjie's window to steal the rope , and finally went to tie a rope to the corpse."
"In this way, the murderer will make too many movements, and the probability of being discovered will increase. I don't think he will do this."
"The same is true for the second case. The pointer, scales, and chairs, these three things that can be found in the classroom, can be used to imitate the goddess of justice. But does this 'coincidence' really exist? What if the deceased Tarot cards with inimitable images on them?"
"For example, the [Hanged Man] I drew is an image of a person with his hands tied behind his back and hanged upside down. If you imitate this card, you will also use a rope. But before entering the house last night, the players searched each other. It is impossible for the real murderer to bring the rope in. In this case, how can the real murderer imitate? How can he know that the card on Gu Fuban's body must be [Justice]?"
"In other words, if the real culprit didn't know what the Tarot cards on Gu Fuban's body were beforehand, how could he guarantee that the things in the classroom can be used by him to imitate?"
Yang Ye thought for a moment and said, "There is a possibility that after the murderer decided to kill Zhao Xuexue, when he asked him to go to the flower bed, he asked him what card he had drawn. Zhao Xuexue didn't think too much about it, so he told him directly. I did. But…”
Yang Ye shook his head immediately, and said, "This kind of situation is only suitable for Zhao Mathematics, and it is unlikely for the Gu deputy class."
Gu Liang nodded: "Yes. I think so too. Zhao Xuexue may not be on guard, and the murderer dared to ask him. But Gu Fuban is different. First of all, Gu Fuban has been to the library and knows that last year it was related to Tarot cards. Serial murder case; Secondly, the serial murder case in our class has also started, and the deceased Zhao Xuexue has Tarot cards on his body."
"As a result, Tarot cards are associated with homicide cases. Everyone who is asked about Tarot cards will definitely think about it—why did he ask me at this time, what is my card? He doesn't want to kill me, does he
"So if the real culprit asks Deputy Gu, he will definitely have doubts and refuse to tell him. Of course the real culprit can think of this, so the real culprit actually doesn't dare to ask him, for fear of exposing himself. "
Yang Ye was silent for a while after listening, and said: "If this possibility is ruled out, the real murderer did not know what cards were on the two deceased beforehand. Then, the bloody Tarot cards at the scene of the two murders were brought by the murderer himself. past."
"He made a murder plan, and according to his plan, he chose a tarot card that he could imitate, and then brought it to the murder scene."
Yang Ye looked at Gu Liang and asked, "How many Tarot cards did you count here?"
Gu Liangdao: "14 cards. There are 22 Tarot cards in total. At that time, 8 of our students each drew one card, and there were exactly 14 cards left. Therefore, my real murderer should have replaced the Tarot cards. I have to correct it The real murderer's line of action."
Gu Liang took out his notebook and said while recording: "On the morning of July 23rd, you asked us to draw cards and put the remaining cards under the podium for everyone to see."
"On July 24, the first case occurred. In the morning, when the results of the mock exam were announced and the swearing-in meeting was held, the real murderer had the idea of killing and began to make a plan."
"Perhaps because he knew in advance when Ma Jiejie was not in the house, and knew that there was a rope in her room, so he began to look through the tarot card manual you sent us to find out which card contents could be imitated with a rope. "
"Before going to the cafeteria after class, he should have taken the box of tarot cards by the way, and then found a place to find the card."
"The Hanged Man is a card that obviously uses ropes. I drew it, but he didn't find it. So he made do with the [Demon] card. The slaves on the Devil card are bound by iron chains, and he uses ropes instead of chains, the imagery It will probably be in place.”
"After the murder, the real murderer found the card that the deceased originally owned from Zhao Xuexue, exchanged the demon card with it, and tied his body to look like the slave on the demon card was tied up."
"He put the demon card on the scene, and put the card originally owned by the deceased back into the tarot card box, and finally returned the box to the podium. After the replacement, there are still 14 tarot cards. The rest You won’t find any clues.”
"Did the real culprit take all the cards from the classroom at first, or only some of them, or did he choose a demon card in the classroom, only took this card away, and then only put it back later?" The card that was replaced and belonged to the deceased Zhao Xuexue...these details may be different. But in general, it can't be wrong."
Yang Ye took Gu Liang's words, and said again: "Then corresponding to the second case, we can be sure that there is a logic on the side of the real culprit. He combined the existing tools in the classroom to think about which card can be used. To be placed at a murder scene."
"Chairs, scales, these things are available in the classroom, of course, the card of justice is the most suitable. Although the sword can't be found, it can be replaced by a pointer. So he finally chose the [card of justice] from the remaining 14 cards. After the murder, he left the [Justice Card] at the scene, but took away the Tarot cards that the deceased had originally drawn on the morning of the 23rd, and put them in the box under the podium."
"Yes." Gu Liang half-closed his eyes, raised his chin slightly, and looked at the chair on the podium.
"Counting the time spent hypnotizing Li Xiaoyu alone and letting her steal the key, the murderer may only have about 20 minutes to actually commit the crime. Therefore, he has to find a way to use as few props as possible, and the less things he does, the better."
"After confirming the murderer's logic. Before going any further, let's think about why this chair is on the podium."
"It is true that there may be an obvious reason, which is the Tarot card. The goddess of justice on the justice card, as a god, has to overlook all living beings. But after thinking about it carefully, there are other reasons behind it. And that reason is the most important of."
"Yang Ye, look, our classroom is very high-rise, but the podium is not particularly high. When I stand on the podium, I have to raise my arms completely so that I can use the fan."
"The first possibility is that the murderer is relatively short and cannot reach the fan just by standing on the podium, so he needs a chair. Put the chair on the podium, climb up on the podium, and then step on the chair. The remote was hidden in the fan blades, and he didn't bother to put the chair back in place afterward, so he just put the body on it. It just ended up rolling down onto the podium."
"In this case, girls are more likely to be the real culprits."
"But since the real culprit has the possibility of framing Li Yingwen, the layout must be complete, so this may also be an effect he deliberately created."
"It is not difficult for everyone to find the remote control on the fan through a blanket search."
"Then, through the functions of remote controls and clocks, everyone thought of hypnosis. Finally, through hypnosis, everyone suspected Li English."
"Li Yingying is just smaller than boys, and needs to add a chair to hide the evidence on the fan... By then, Li Yingying will look like the real murderer in every way."
"So, from this point alone, it is not enough to determine who the real culprit is."
"But think along this line, no matter the real murderer put the chair here, just to step on it to put the remote control, or to use the 'height' factor to blame Li Yingying... In the end, he directly put the corpse on it , why exactly?"
Gu Liang turned his head, looked at Yang Ye, and continued: "The first blood card is [Devil], the murderer couldn't find the chain, so he used a rope instead."
"The second blood card is [Justice], and the goddess held a sword. The real murderer couldn't find the sword, so he used a pointer instead. He put the dead on a chair and didn't fix it, because he didn't have a fixing tool, so the corpse Slid off the chair and fell onto the podium, just left blood on the chair."
"I have read relevant analysis reports before. The reason why the serial murder left a special mark on the scene is, on the one hand, because of spiritual paranoia and a sense of ritual, which may be related to religious beliefs; on the other hand, the murderer did so It may be to provoke the police and show off your IQ."
"The murderer of last year's serial murder case had a bloodletting Tarot card at the scene of the murder. There should be a deeper reason behind it."
"But in the case we experienced this year, the real murderer did it purely to imitate the case. He probably just wanted to blame everything on last year's murderer; of course, perhaps because of his high intelligence, he also provoked everyone's intelligence, Or the intentions of the police. But anyway... Judging from these two cases, this time the culprit's obsession with restoring the Tarot cards is not that serious."
"In other words, this time the real murderer's sense of ritual is not so strong. So, logically speaking, he can simply imitate the contents of the Tarot cards. If he can directly put the corpse on the chair, he can also Can make do with imitation."
"Then why didn't he just put him on a chair on the ground, given the time limit for committing the crime?"
"Why did he have to take an extra step to place the corpse on the chair on the podium?"
Yang Ye frowned suddenly. "The corpse was lying on the podium next to the chair, and the goddess on the bloody Tarot card was sitting on the chair. These two phenomena let us infer naturally that the corpse was sitting on the chair at the beginning, but it fell to the podium after death. Up."
"But maybe—the real killer never actually put the body on the chair."
When Gu Liang met Yang Ye's gaze, his eyes shone slightly. "One more point. If the key was stolen by Li Xiaoyu, and the murderer only used the key when throwing the blood cloth afterwards, how did the blood on the key come about?"
"After all, it's time to throw the blood cloth. The murderer must have cleaned his hands. Because there is nothing else in the classroom that can wipe off the blood. So, at that time, it cannot be the blood on his hands." The red key."
"Then it's time to confirm our guess." Yang Ye said this and walked outside. "I'll get a clean cleaning cloth from the next classroom."
Gu Liang raised his phone. "Fortunately, everyone in this script has a mobile phone. You handle it, and I will shoot the whole process."
After a while, Yang Ye returned with a cleaning cloth, while Gu Liang raised his mobile phone to take pictures.
Under the camera, the cleaning cloth wiped off the blood on the chair on the podium little by little. In this way, a trace hidden by blood on the chair surface clearly appeared in front of the two people.
—The chair surface was originally a rectangular thin wood board with four corners, and the two positions on the opposite corners were fixed with two screws.
And now on this plank, between the two opposite corners that were not screwed in, there was an almost straight crack.
Gu Liang took a close-up of the crack, and then a close-up of one of the screws.
The screw is in the shape of a cross.
Yang Ye now took out a bunch of keys and found a key.
This key is used to open the window lock, and the head is actually cross-shaped.
Yang Ye took the key and tried it out, and it fit perfectly, just enough to turn the screws on the chair.
After removing two screws one after another, Yang Ye lifted up the chair and naturally divided it into two triangles.
Yang Ye picked up one of the triangles, and used the angle with the smaller angle and longer side length to compare it with the chest of the corpse. It was basically confirmed that it could constitute a murder weapon.
After clicking save on the video, Gu Liang put away the phone and said, "I want to correct a statement. The murderer stole the key not just to throw out the blood cloth. The key also has the function of dismantling and installing the chair."
"The murderer used half of the chair to kill the person, and the chair was covered with blood. After the murder, the murderer used a key instead of a screwdriver to install two screws on the chair... The blood on the key was produced at this time. "
"After the chair was installed, the blood flowed and spread on the unstable chair surface, just covering the linear cracks on the chair surface. Therefore, the real murderer did not deal with the blood on the murder weapon, but just used the blood Cover up the murder weapon itself."
Yang Ye took out his notebook and recorded: "So, now we can restore the real moving line of the murder. At around 7:50, deep-level hypnosis began. At 7:55, everyone entered deep-level hypnosis. The real murderer hypnotized Li Xiaoyu alone. , leading her to steal the key."
"After getting the key, the real murderer removed the two screws from the chair, put Gu Fuban on the podium, and killed him directly on the podium with a triangular board. During this period, the real murderer used the cleaning cloth as a partition, Avoid getting blood on your clothes. Then the real murderer used the key to put the board back on, causing the key to be covered in blood."
"Then, the perpetrator wiped his hands and the blood on the key with the unstained part of the cleaning cloth, opened the window with the key, threw the cleaning cloth on the playground outside the window, and closed the window."
"Finally, the culprit placed the restored chair on the podium."
"Hmm... wait, I have to add something. In fact, this is a broken chair, with two nails and a cracked board. It's okay for people to sit on, but the real murderer shouldn't be able to stand on it. Put the remote control on the fan."
"The real murderer should have finished all the hypnosis, stood on the podium, hid the remote control on the fan, and then went to kill."
"So, the real culprit put the chair there, on the one hand, to blame the short girls through the element of height. On the other hand, it is to mislead us."
"He doesn't need to deal with the bloody chair at all. We will be misled by the Tarot cards, thinking that the blood on the chair is purely for imitating the card and letting the dead sit on it."
"The real murderer wants us to think that the murderer's line of action is to put the chair on the podium and step on it to hide the remote control. Afterwards, the murderer kills someone. He doesn't want to spend more time moving the chair, but at the same time he wants to imitate the ], that’s why he put the corpse on the chair on the podium.”
"Thus, after we are misled, we will ignore one thing-the chair is not a prop that imitates the Tarot cards, but a murder weapon. The blood on the chair is not produced by imitating the [Justice Card] and placing corpses, but born at the time of murder."
Gu Liang nodded: "Yes, that's right. The real murderer didn't deal with the murder weapon and the blood on it from beginning to end, but showed it to us openly. And that tarot card is the best way to mislead us. tool."
"Such a line of action is very simple and completely logical. The time given to the real culprit is too limited. This is the best choice."
"The blood on the murder weapon can cover up the murder weapon itself. This... is really hard to imagine."
Yang Yedao: "There are two possibilities for the chair that was split in two. First, the murderer was very strong and broke it by himself; second, the chair was cracked by someone sitting on it before it was brought in. "
"If it's the second possibility, let's investigate the situation where everyone moved the chairs last night, and maybe we can find the murderer. Because the murderer must have known about the cracked chair in advance and moved it in on purpose."
"Oh yes, there is another point. The real culprit must be taller. Standing on the podium, he can turn on the fan. This can also be used as an investigation point."
"Well." Gu Liang held up the Tarot card, and said again, "Even if the only murderer cannot be identified today, the choice between the two is still wrong, and we still have another chance. Before the murderer kills tomorrow, he will definitely come to get a Tarot card , and then replace the card of the deceased after killing someone. Let’s think of a way, maybe we can just sit back and wait.”
"Or - there is another way." Yang Ye suddenly said.
Gu Liang asked: "Oh? What way?"
Yang Yedao: "Let's check in the usual way first, for example, take a good look at the timeline of the first day on the 23rd to see if anyone has been to the equipment room so that we can see the instructions of the remote control. Next, it is what I just said, Start with the cracked chair and height data. Finally, I have to check with Li Xiaoyu to see if there is a possibility that someone has multiple skills."
"If the real culprit is too cunning, after all the investigations, they can't be completely locked. Then I will take this box of tarot cards away later, and let everyone enter this classroom to discuss later. The real culprit will definitely pay attention to the tarot cards .If he sees that the cards are gone, he will panic somewhat."
"He lied to us with tarot cards. We can also use tarot cards to set up a trap and wait for him to take the bait."
"Yeah." Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye and smiled faintly, "Smart."
Yang Ye smiled and stepped forward to rub his head. "You played this case so well. The brains are all yours. I have to hurry up and catch up. Otherwise, you won't like me later."
Gu Liang raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "What are you thinking about every day?"
Yang Ye: "You are so good, your boyfriend should also be good."
"Haven't you always been excellent?" Gu Liang said very sincerely.
Yang Ye pretended not to believe it. "You really think so?"
Gu Liang looked at him, thinking that he would never feel inferior, right? The self-abased person is obviously always himself.
He looks like a proud man all day long... Why are you still worried that you don't like him
Then Gu Liang came to his senses.
—How could a person like Yang Ye have low self-esteem, this is a trick to hear himself praise him.
When Gu Liang came to his senses, he half-closed his eyes and said, "Yes, I really think so. You have always been very smart. But..."
Turning the subject, Gu Liang said: "You are so smart, you should use it in the right place. For example, to solve a case. Instead of making fun of me."
"Where are you making fun of you?" Yang Ye quickly held Gu Liang's hand, looked at the person affectionately and said, "I just want to hear Gu Liangliang talk about love occasionally, just to lie to you and praise me."
Gu Liang looked at Yang Ye, thinking that there was a dead body next to him, so it wasn't an occasion to talk about love.
With Yang Ye's temperament, he can think of anything without restraint.
However, although Gu Liang didn't say any love words at the end, he took the initiative to hold Yang Ye's hand and walked out, which can be regarded as coaxing Yang Ye.
"Liangliang took the initiative to hold my hand!"
"Take back the evaluation of you just now. What's smart? You're getting more and more stupid..."
"Then Liangliang likes me more and more anyway."
"..."