The first evidence-collecting meeting is over.
The guests scattered like birds and beasts, looking for new clues separately. For example, Dan's bedroom and library, which were originally private areas not open to the public, are now open to everyone, and you can also talk to the manager, lawyer, nanny and others, and get clues from NPCs.
Jian Jing chose to chat with the manager, trying to reconstruct the deceased's movements yesterday as much as possible.
Also traveling with them were Liu Xiuzhi, Valeria and Ishikawa Keito.
The manager cooperated very well and told me the information: "After the dinner yesterday, the master looked a little tired and wanted to take a rest, so I took him back to the lounge."
Jian Jing asked: "Is this his usual living habit?"
"Yes, the master usually takes a nap in the lounge and goes back to the bedroom to sleep at night." The manager affirmed.
Liu Xiuzhi: "But the body appeared in the study."
"When does he usually use the study?" asked Keito Ishikawa.
Manager: "There is no fixed time. I go to the study when I need to handle work."
"Would he choose to talk to someone in the study?"
Manager: "The master is used to meeting people in the lounge. The study is his restricted area. He likes to stay alone. Even his wife is not allowed to enter casually."
Jian Jing asked: "When was the last time you saw the deceased?"
Guan thought about it and said, "The master likes to drink a bowl of ginseng chicken soup before going to sleep at night. At about 10 o'clock last night, I brought him a bowl of chicken soup, and he was still eating."
"What did the deceased look like? Was he happy, angry, or worried?"
"Seems a little worried," said the manager. "I feel like he's worried about something, but it's nothing serious, you know? Not a big deal, just a common annoyance."
Ishikawa Keito asked: "Who is it related to?"
The manager said, "I guess it has something to do with the young masters and young ladies. When people get older, the thing they worry about the most is their children."
"Did he say that he had something to say to someone yesterday?"
The steward said: "Yes, the master said that he is not young anymore, so we should take advantage of everyone being here to discuss future matters."
Jian Jing asked: "Do you know how he arranged it?"
"No, I don't know. The master doesn't like to confide in us."
The above is the information revealed in the first stage of management.
Then, the others went to find more NPCs, while Jian Jing returned to the crime scene.
Here we must briefly describe the room layout of the cruise ship.
The 7th floor is the guest room area. The 15 guest rooms are evenly distributed throughout the floor. There are elevators and stairs for going up and down. The layout is as follows:
01..02..03..04... ..05..06..07..08 (room number)
... ..Restaurant Area... Stairs & Elevator... Conference Room... ..
09..10..11..12... ..13..14..15..Escape route
The 8th floor is divided into two areas, with the room, stairs and elevator as the dividing line. The left side, divided by the bow, is Dan's private area, and the right side is used for a series of public areas such as conference halls, ballrooms, and banquet halls.
Dan's private area, including his bedroom, living room, study, and lounge, is very large.
... .Viewing balcony..
Bedroom... .Dressing room
... .Living area..Door.
... .Lounge..Door
Study room... ... ... .
... .balcony... ...
It can be seen that the Dan area is transparent from north to south, with large balconies on both sides. At the same time, two different doors distinguish the living area during the day and at night.
The living room is the living room of the bedroom suite. Generally speaking, Dan only goes through this door when he goes to sleep. The rest room and the study are his activity areas during the day. He takes a nap in the lounge and works in the study.
There is a wall separating the two areas. One has to pass through the living room to reach the bedroom and cloakroom, and one has to pass through the lounge to enter the study.
"Any new discoveries?" Kojima Shimo sat on a chair in the lounge, looking at Jian Jing who came in.
Jian Jing told him the truth about the information she had just received from the manager.
Kojima Wataru immediately grasped the key point: "The deceased likes to be alone in the study?"
"Yes, so the first crime scene may not be the study." Jian Jing said.
Kojima Shima checked the partition door between the study and the lounge. It was the type that could be opened at will, but needed to be twisted and locked to be locked.
"If the study was not the first crime scene, why did the murderer move the body and behead it in the study?" Kojima Shigeru asked.
Jian Jing shook her head, unable to give an answer for a moment.
"And the phone call..." Kojima Wataru fell into thought.
Last night, Jian Jing had actually already looked around this area. She pretended to walk around it again and went straight to the bedroom of the suite next door.
There are people outside.
Raj, Linelle, and Kumiko Terauchi were all searching the bedroom area.
Jian Jing asked casually: "Did you find anything?"
Linnell said, "The old man is in very poor health, and he's on a lot of medicine, and he's not doing well, is he, Mrs. Kumiko?"
"Oh, don't ask such a private topic." Kumiko Terauchi waved her hand.
Linnaier shrugged and said to Jian Jing, "I bet the old man must know that she has a lover."
Jian Jing was surprised: "Why?"
"I understand men very well, and I also understand women very well." Linnaier pretended to be mysterious, "Absolutely right."
Jian Jing: “…” If you say so, then so be it.
She looked at Raj again. However, he calmly put the things in his hand back into the distance and said, "It seems that there are no other clues here. I will go to other places to look."
After saying that, he left.
Competition comes a little too fast. Jian Jing sighed silently, not in a hurry to look for it, and sat directly on the single sofa in the living room to think.
The cameraman who was filming the scene interacted with her, saying or writing: "What are you thinking about?"
"Hey, can you talk?" Jian Jing was surprised. She had always thought that the cameraman was just a tool, just following her around and shooting the camera.
Cameraman: "It's a live broadcast after all, you can also talk to the audience about your thoughts. What did you think of just now?"
Jian Jing said: "I was wondering what kind of person Dan is."
Cameraman: "First of all, he is a man."
"He is a man who values blood ties and favors sons over daughters." Jian Jing added, "He has a fortune, but what matters most is that his eldest son is infertile, his daughter is pregnant, his third son killed his wife, his nephew is very good, he is half his blood, and his niece is not bad either, but he is from a different family."
Cameraman: “So?”
Jian Jing asked: "If you were Dan, how would you solve this problem?"
The cameraman cooperated and thought about it: "One more?"
"Linnay just said that he may not be able to afford it. Even if he can do IVF, can he wait for the child to grow up?" Jian Jing thought, "The huge fortune needs an heir. Who is the most suitable choice?"
The cameraman didn't answer.
"Theoretically, the eldest son is the most suspicious. If Dan dies now, he won't be deprived of his inheritance rights." She analyzed to herself, "But I think Dan will still choose the eldest son - this is a deep-rooted idea of the older generation, especially since the eldest son's only flaw is that he is a child. For Dan, whether his grandson is born to the eldest son is actually insignificant..."
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Live broadcast platform, bullet screen area:
[A drama about a wealthy family, a mystery version of The Concubine's Concubine! ]
[My country is doomed to perish…]
[Is Mr. Jian's thinking wrong? Shouldn't we be looking for the suspect now?]
[There is no absolutely accurate direction, and everyone has different research focuses]
[If you want to watch the evidence search, go to another live broadcast room. Why are you talking nonsense about my wife?]
[Searching for evidence is actually meaningless. The program team will only give a motive for the murder, and it is impossible to predetermine the murderer]
[Yes, everyone could be the murderer. The key to identifying the suspect is still at the crime scene.]
[It's really strange who did this]
[I want to know, where is the head going?]
[Why did Teacher Jian try to infer Dan's thoughts?]
…
"What is Teacher Jian trying to do?" Before they knew it, it was already past five in the afternoon. Lao Gao and Ji Feng came back from the scene and started watching the live broadcast.
Ji Feng opened the lunch box and said, "She has no choice. The guests and characters have different personalities. They are playing games and have no reference value to the case. But the deceased is different. Starting with him is the most reliable."
Lao Gao asked with concern: "Is it possible?"
"I don't know." Ji Feng broke open the disposable chopsticks. "Whoever draws the right one will be the murderer. The true character of the participant may not match the role he plays."
"I hope Teacher Jian wins, a million dollars." Lao Gao smacked his lips and said, "What do you think of that guy who paints?"
Monsoon: “Not very good.”
Lao Gao looked at him and tried hard to suppress his smile.
--
In the morning, we acted and watched the scene. In the afternoon, we collected evidence and held meetings. Then we walked around the scene again.
Jian Jing was exhausted and decided to lie down.
She was the first to arrive at the restaurant. She was overjoyed to see the dazzling buffet and immediately took a full plate of steak, chicken wings, fried eggs, seafood fried rice, and did not forget to order a bowl of wolfberry black chicken soup.
The cameraman was shocked: "You eat so much?"
"Don't worry, I won't waste it." Jian Jing took the glass of ice cola and started drinking.
The reasoning game turned into a food show.
She first drank some black chicken soup, the delicious soup warmed her stomach, then had a few mouthfuls of fried rice, carbohydrates were essential, and then started to consume meat and protein.
"Jingjing..." Jiang Baiyan sat down with his salad plate in his hand, looking resentful, "You are so arrogant."
Jian Jing sympathized without sincerity: "On a diet again?"
"Oh." He put the vegetable leaves into his mouth listlessly and cut small pieces of tuna luxuriously. He was reluctant to swallow it all at once and chewed it slowly.
Jian Jing cut a piece of steak and waved it in front of him: "Do you want to eat it?"
"I don't want to." He lowered his head and ate the cabbage.
Jian Jing took the Coke cup and the straw made a "gurgling" sound, which was crisp and pleasant.
"Sorry." She pretended to realize it later.
Jiang Baiyan: "...if you bully me again, I won't tell you any clues."
Jian Jing immediately became serious: "What clue?"
He took out a small notebook: "I asked the NPCs on the ship, and they provided me with some clues."
"The lawyer said that in the past three months, Dan had mentioned the will to him many times, and seemed to be worried about the heirs. He also asked someone to investigate the whereabouts of his third son and the women he had dated.
"The chef said that Dan has an almost demanding diet. All menus are formulated by nutritionists, and he eats a lot of expensive supplements every day. But he never touches them. They are all cooked by grandma, who keeps it secret. And the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter like to eat supplements that help fertility, such as bird's nest and donkey-hide gelatin.
“The cleaning lady said that she had seen Dr. Raj sneak into the deceased’s room.
"The crew member said that he was smoking outside last night and heard the second daughter and her husband talking. They mentioned something like 'property' or 'inheritance'."
Jian Jing: "You are quite efficient."
Jiang Baiyan said modestly: "Not much, not very valuable, many clues are repeated with our evidence search results."
"That's not certain." Jian Jing said, "Operation Dan is very valuable."
In her opinion, the evidence of other people may not be related to the case, only Dan's behavior is directly related to the cause of his death.
She stirred the ice in the glass and said with a smile, "The case is more complicated than I thought. This is going to be interesting."