At eight o'clock in the evening, Jian Jing ended the live broadcast and went back to her room to sleep.
The cameraman stopped her and suggested, "Let's summarize today's investigation."
She thought about it and said, "I have three questions at the moment: 1. Why did the murderer chop off his head when the victim clearly died of suffocation? 2. Is the phone call to the restaurant meaningful? 3. Who did Dan choose as his heir? Is the reason related to witchcraft?"
"I can understand the first two questions, but what does the third question mean?" The cameraman said, "Will the dead choose their successor based on the divination results?"
Jian Jing laughed: "No, what I mean is that people who don't believe in fate have strange ideas. In the past, people believed that giving birth to a girl would bring misfortune, so they drowned them... No one knows what kind of bizarre taboos the Danes believe in."
The cameraman nodded, and the camera shook up and down.
"Miss Jane, do you also think that witchcraft is very important in this case?" Kojima Wataru came back.
Jian Jing asked: "Also?"
Kojima Wataru: "Don't you find it strange? Shadows of witchcraft appeared in more than one person's room. I believe there are secrets behind this family that we haven't discovered yet."
"It's possible," she said apologetically, opening the door. "But that's for tomorrow."
"Please wait a moment." Kojima Wataru tried to stop her, "You haven't searched my room yet."
Jian Jing: “?”
A question mark slowly emerged in her head.
"I have completed the challenge left by Jian Sang. Please complete the puzzle I prepared." He said seriously.
Jian Jing: “…”
For a moment, she couldn't tell whether he was doing this out of his love for reasoning or trying to attract her attention.
"That's not a challenge. Well, although I'm curious about your story and willing to try, it's too late now." Jian Jing declined politely, "Tomorrow."
Kojima Wataru said, "Then I will definitely wait for Jane-san to arrive."
Jian Jing was speechless and kept complaining in her heart: Is there any emotional plot in this script
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Jinwu's office building.
There were dozens of offices, two-thirds of which were already dark, but the rest were still lit, with employees working overtime. Among them, the lights in the president's office were the brightest.
It was obvious that Kang Mucheng had not yet finished get off work.
However, today he was not busy working, but watching the live broadcast.
At this moment, he entered the three words "Kojima Wataru" on the search page and frowned when he saw the results that popped up.
Wataru Kojima is a mystery manga artist, whose representative work is "Haruhi's Mystery Story", which tells the story of the beautiful female detective Haruhi Nakamori solving cases.
However, the protagonist of the novel is not Kasuga-chan, but an otaku. He was hired as an assistant at a detective agency by mistake, and his initial doubts of "how could such a beautiful girl be a detective" turned into admiration of "it feels so good to solve cases with Kasuga-chan".
Are the male and female protagonists feeling the drama? In the currently serialized drawings, the otaku is ready to confess his love.
Check out the comments on Japanese websites:
[Hey, Jian Jing looks like Kasuga-chan]
[Dream Linkage]
[Kojima-kun should be excited]
[What a great combination, I decided to pursue you! ]
[Wow, the beautiful detective girl is so cool]
[Jing-chan is so cool, I’m a fan]
[Kojima-kun refused without hesitation...]
Kang Mucheng turned his head and looked down at the message from Xiaodao She.
The eldest son of the chairman of Huandao Company, he should have inherited a billion-dollar fortune, but he loved comics since he was a child, ran away from home, and completed two niche mystery works in a rented house. Five years ago, "Haruhi no Mystery Story" began to be serialized in a magazine and became one of the most popular popular comics at present.
Japanese… He closed the page.
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Jian Jing had a good sleep and was awakened by a knock on the door by a staff member at eight o'clock the next day.
"Teacher Jian, can I come in now?"
"Wait a minute." She reached for the small mirror next to her and glanced at her face. Nothing was wrong with her. Then she got out of bed and opened the door. "So early?"
It was still the familiar cameraman, with the familiar smile: "Everyone is up now."
Jian Jing waved her hand: "Fifteen minutes."
She closed the door and started to wash and change her clothes.
Open the door and start work on time at 8:15.
Cameraman: “That…”
"Um?"
"There's no movement in Linnae's room."
"What?" Jian Jing was surprised and ran to check.
At this time, several people had gathered in front of Linna's room No. 9. As soon as Jiang Baiyan saw her coming, he came over to share the news: "I haven't seen her today, and the photographer is not here either."
It's normal that people are not in the room, and the photographer is not here either... It's a clear indication.
Jian Jing: "Where's the key?"
"I'm here." The NPC housekeeper came over breathlessly and opened the door with a knife.
Jian Jing couldn't contain her curiosity and was the first to look.
"Tsk." Her tone was very subtle, with a certain expected satisfaction, "Here it comes."
"What's going on?" Uncle Park Min-chul has good professionalism and is always on the front line. He asked, "Do you know if something will happen to her?"
Jian Jing: "The trick of the headless corpse is to have multiple corpses. One corpse is meaningless."
"That's what Jian-san said." Kojima Wataru also squeezed over, looked at the headless female corpse on the ground, and nodded in understanding, "This is getting interesting."
Zhang Xue asked in bewilderment: "Is it interesting? Why do I just feel horrified..."
Jiang Baiyan complained: "Because we are not detectives."
Wu Lie also asked: "Has the case become simpler with one more person dead?"
Jiang Baiyan: "Ah, at least we can eliminate one person."
"Not really." Kojima Wataru corrected, "The murderer who killed Linnae may not be the same person who killed Dan. This could also be a copycat murder."
Jiang Baiyan glanced at him and said, "If it was a copycat crime, why would the first murderer be beheaded? To set an example for the people who followed?"
Jian Jing: "Puff."
"Jingjing, what do you think?" he asked immediately.
Jian Jing was melancholy: "I don't know, I have to read the autopsy report."
She had never realized that the forensic card was so important. She couldn't get any clues from the body, and the amount of information was suddenly cut in half. She was not used to it.
Kojima Wataru, however, has already gotten into the mood and speculated: "This should be the first scene. The murderer tricked Linna into opening the door and then went in and killed the people."
Jian Jing: “Not necessarily.”
Compared to the study, Linnay's room was much more shocking. The sofa, coffee table, and floor were covered in blood and glass fragments. The furniture was also significantly shifted, indicating that a fierce conflict had occurred there.
"However, the two scenes have completely different styles. I'm afraid it's not the work of one person." She watched for a while and seemed to understand something. "This matter is worth analyzing carefully."
The island is of interest.
Turning around, Park Min-chul's uncle had already called everyone to gather and prepare for a meeting.
This time we can skip the alibi because no one is there at home - everyone went back to their rooms to sleep since 10 o'clock last night.
From ten o'clock to six o'clock the next day is the "dark" time, which is used by werewolves to act.
"It's the second day. Does everyone have any ideas?" After the first day of preparation, many guests became active that day, such as Li Kangna, who spoke first.
Ishikawa Keito immediately spoke up: "Is there one murderer in both cases, or two different murderers? If there are two people, did they collude with each other?"
Jian Jing thought to herself: This is a good question.
According to the rules of the game, there is only one murderer. So why are there two murderers? The last European chapter told you that this is a reasoning game based on the setting.
The setting of the European chapter is that there are vampires - the murderers. The murderers can develop their own followers by giving the First Embrace and manipulate them to kill people.
Is this reasonable
Of course it's unreasonable.
But this is the rule of the game in the setting system. If there are zombies in the setting, you have to follow the zombies' rules to reason. If there are psychics in the setting, you have to acknowledge the information of ghosts.
"Let's look for clues about witchcraft today." Jin Lan also jumped out.
"Wait." Park Min-chul opened his notebook and brought up the past, "I have a few questions."
He said: "During the interrogation yesterday, my wife, eldest son, and second daughter all said they had talked to Dan. I want to know what you talked about. Judging from the time, the second daughter was the first one to speak at 8:40. Please tell us first."
Zhang Xue thought for a moment and said, "It's nothing. I just chatted with my father. He is concerned about my health."
Park Min-chul: “Did you mention the will?”
Zhang Xueyan hesitated for a moment before saying, "He said that his health was not good and he didn't know when he would die. He was very happy to know that I was pregnant and asked me to prepare some things."
"Did you say anything about the heir?"
She shook her head and explained, "My father is a very traditional person. He believes that a married woman is like spilled water. Since I'm married, he thinks I'm an outsider. The family property has nothing to do with me."
Park Min-chul accepted this and looked at Kumiko: "Where's the madam?"
Kumiko Terauchi replied: "I just asked him about his plans for tomorrow and about my sister."
"How does Dan respond?"
"He said that if Lan Xi didn't like the person he introduced, it was fine, but she was absolutely forbidden to become a singer or actor." Kumiko Terauchi carefully recounted the scene, "He looked very disgusted."
"But Linnae is a singer. Didn't he appreciate her singing at the dinner the day before yesterday?" Jin Lan was surprised.
Xiaodao said: "Maybe, Dan hates Yumeng instead of Linnai. Jian Sang, do you have any clues to tell us?"
Jian Jing was too lazy to talk about her own broken personality: "There are old magazines in the library upstairs, take a look yourself."
The teacher took note of it silently and turned his attention to the third person.
Li Kangna said: "My father only told me that his health has been getting worse recently. If anything happens, he wants me to take good care of my brothers and sisters. They are my closest blood relatives."
Everyone made another note in their notebook.
"Bloodline," Valeria said. "It seems that Dan really cares about this."
"Most witchcraft is based on blood ties." Li Kangna was born in Singapore and heard a lot of feudal and superstitious legends when he was a child.
Wu Lie: "Should we search Dan's room more carefully? Teacher Jian, didn't you find a secret room in Madam's room? Maybe there is one in Dan's room too."
This statement was unanimously recognized by everyone.
So, a large group of people crowded into Dan's bedroom and lounge, rummaging through drawers and cabinets, looking for the switch of the secret room.
Only a few people didn't go.
Park Min-chul stopped the housekeeper and seemed to be ready to ask something. Kojima Shu went to the library to look for magazines about Yu Meng, and Jian Jing originally wanted to find the secret room, but Kojima Shu directly gave her the key of his room.
The challenge has been thrown in my face, how can I not accept it
She had no choice but to accept the challenge and search Room 12.
When I opened the door, the furnishings were just as I mentioned before, all kinds of pictures, densely pasted on the wall, and the whole room looked like a small darkroom.
Jian Jing squinted her eyes and looked at it for a while, then reached out and tore off a photo.