"Antique? Is it valuable?"
The doctor asked casually while examining the body, and Xia De, who was checking the bloodstains around, also listened. The rain was very loud, so the three of them had to raise their voices when communicating.
Silver cutlery is still a symbol of status in this era. In adventure novels, there are often plots where maids elope with their lovers and take away their masters' silver cutlery in exchange for travel expenses and living expenses. If the silver cutlery is still an antique, it is even more valuable.
"Very valuable. Even a noble like the Earl could own these two sets of silverware as a family heirloom."
Miss Louisa once again demonstrated her "useless knowledge", which she probably learned from another princess.
Xia De turned around and asked:
"That's strange. Didn't the doctor's investigation say that the factory owner was just an agent holding Tobesk's property on behalf of Mercury Blood? He himself should not be wealthy."
Then he looked at the boy's body suspiciously, and he made a conclusion:
"Could it be that..."
"It's hard to say for now, just keep moving forward."
The doctor put the body back in its original position, prayed quietly for the boy amid the sound of rain hitting the glass, and signaled the other two to leave.
After leaving the kitchen, Bloodstain returned to the living room and headed towards the stairs.
There was a very cruel scene on the stairs, with the bodies of the old woman and the middle-aged housewife hugging each other. The sticky blood dripped down the carpet on the stairs, making it almost impossible for the three people to find a place to stand.
After checking, Mr. Schneider found that the two men had no obvious external wounds and the blood seemed to have come from their mouths.
“It’s kind of like a curse.”
Miss Louisa made the judgment and the doctor nodded:
"I also think it was a curse caused by magic. After entering the house, he killed the maid with a single blow, then walked into the kitchen and killed the little boy. When he turned back to the living room, he met two ladies coming down the stairs. He immediately used a spell or magic to make them vomit blood and die... ... The murderer was a ringmaster, there is no doubt about that."
Xia De looked around alertly, hoping something would come out of the darkness, and was startled by the sound of thunder again:
"If there is anything unusual, please remind me in time."
He whispered in his heart.
no problem.
The whispering voice replied.
Probably because the two bodies bled too much, the murderer finally got blood stains on his boots. The blood stains were very faint, and still had to rely on Shade's eyes to distinguish them. The blood stains on the boots only went upstairs, not downstairs.
The two people who examined the body made a new discovery. The doctor found a pearl necklace in the neck of the middle-aged housewife. According to Miss Louisa's on-the-spot valuation, the necklace was worth at least 3,000 pounds.
“This is definitely not jewelry that the factory owner could afford.”
Shade said, and then the three of them continued to walk upstairs.
No one suggested taking away the pearl necklace or the silver cutlery. They were neither robbers nor thieves. Although breaking into the crime scene on this rainy night destroyed the clues, the doctor, writer and outsider all had their own bottom line.
The sound of rain covered the sound of footsteps. The three of them came to the second floor. The bloodstain extended to the inside of the floor. A 16-year-old girl with freckles fell on her back in the middle of the corridor. She looked very similar to the middle-aged housewife on the stairs, and the cause of death was the same as the maid at the door, with a sharp knife piercing her heart directly.
Shad didn't know what to say about this cruel scene. After the examination, the doctor knelt on one knee beside the corpse and prayed for her. Only then did Shad know that Dr. Bill Schneider believed in the righteous God, the Lord of All Things, that is, the God of nature and evil.
The scope of this righteous god's ministry includes "death". When Shad first came to this world, the corpse carrier who carried away Detective Sparrow's body had the holy emblem of this righteous god.
Miss Louisa was already suppressing her anger:
"This is too cruel. Who on earth would do such a thing?"
If they could find the murderer, the blonde would probably show no mercy.
Amid the increasingly heavy rain outside, a group of three people followed the silver moonlight from Xia De's fingertips and entered the three bedrooms on the second floor one after another. The murderer seemed to be looking for something, but there was no sign of stopping.
The bloodstains then led them to the third floor, which was the top floor of the house except for the attic. The window on the third floor facing the staircase was actually open, and the rain blew into the corridor with the wind, blowing the curtains constantly. This scene was particularly strange on this rainy summer night.
"The blood trail extended into the hallway, but another trail extended out and disappeared near the window."
Xia De provided the information he saw.
"After the murderer entered the third floor, he did something inside and then left through the window?"
Miss Louisa, standing behind Shade, inferred that after entering the house, although there was no prior discussion, the doctor always followed Shade and the female writer walked at the end.
The doctor cautiously approached the window and looked out. It was pitch black in the rainy night, and even the lights from the nearby streets could not penetrate the rain. Such heavy rain would wash away the bloodstains, and Shade could not continue tracking from the window.
"Let's go to the third floor first and see what he has done."
The doctor said, frowning and glancing at the windowsill, then winked at Miss Louisa. Miss Louisa immediately understood what he meant, so she wanted to wink at Shade, but she didn't expect Shade to have already shown an expression of "So this is the trick".
The blonde smiled at him. The murderer had obviously underestimated what Shad's "eyes" could see.
Following the blood trail into the third floor and into the study, we finally found the body of the man of the house, Mr. Ponton, who ran a screw factory.
The gas lamp on the study wall was turned off, but the gas table lamp on the table was on, just illuminating the corpse.
Mr. Ponton, wearing a loose home shirt, sat behind his desk, leaning over the table. Shad stood at the door of the study, Miss Louisa went to examine the paper on the table, and the doctor examined the body:
"The cause of death is different from the one downstairs. It should be that his brain was shattered by the brain crushing spell. I noticed the mark on his forehead. This kind of spell is similar to the corpse explosion spell and is very famous. In this way, unless you are a psychic, no one can know what is in the dead person's head. What's on the table?"
"The account book."
Miss Louisa said.
Raindrops hit the window, thunder rumbled overhead, and Shade at the door looked suddenly to the other side of the corridor:
"I think I saw a figure!"
"A figure? Be careful, don't be impulsive."
The doctor frowned and walked towards the study door, wanting to go to the end of the corridor with Shad. Miss Louisa continued to look down at the documents on the desk.
Lightning flashed across the sky, and in the interval before the thunder came, in the study illuminated by lightning, the figure of a man holding a dagger appeared silently behind Miss Louisa.
He raised the sharp dagger towards the writer's back.