"I always feel like that lady has misunderstood something..."
“I think so too… ..”
Finally, after asking the questions, Zhiji Nanxun and Hua Qiong planned to discuss it alone, but for some reason, Annie looked at them with a strange look from beginning to end. Even Zhiji Nanxun felt an indescribable chill from that gaze.
But soon the two of them put this strange thing behind them.
Because there are more important things.
"Sister Shaohua, have you found any clues? You specifically said you found the truth. Are you trying to trick Marshall and Annie into talking?"
“That’s not right.”
“… Eh?”
It's hard to find a confidant. Hua Qiong glanced at her and said with a smile, "I really found the murderer. And the real murderer of this case is actually very daring."
"Very bold..." Hua Qiong opened his mouth and hesitated: "... Could it be Miss Annie?"
"What are you thinking about?"
"The victim's girlfriend is innocent."
Zhiji Nanxun shook his head and continued, "It's that Mo Ning. If I thought there was only a 70% chance of him being the real culprit at the beginning, now it's 100%. But that guy is not without his own quirks. His behavior is very contradictory."
“Why is it one hundred percent?”
Hua Qiong obviously still didn't understand, but Zhiji Nanxun didn't explain, but smiled and said: "Aqiong, I need to remind you something."
"What?"
“It’s just a game.”
Zhiji Nanxun deliberately emphasized his tone: "This is not a real case in reality, and it can't be compared with a real case. At best, this is just a logic game that has limited the murderer from the very beginning. You don't need to be a detective, and ordinary people can solve it if they are careful."
“Eh… ..”
Hua Qiong feels that the ordinary people mentioned by "it's hard to find a true friend" may be different from normal ordinary people.
And it is hard to find a true friend. He smiled unchanged and knocked his head:
"Use your brain."
"Thinking from the perspective of the game, since we came to this town of Taim, and have walked around the entire town of Taim, how many people have we met in total?"
"... .Three."
"Why three?"
Hua Qiong blinked, as if he had realized something: "Because only three are needed, the others are useless NPCs, just like the murderer in the animation is often at the scene, and this case is also the same. From the beginning, the murderer of this case was limited to three people?"
"correct."
Zhiji Nanxun clapped his hands and said, "Annie, the relative of the victim, Sheriff Marshall, and the owner of the manor, Morning, if you only focus on one thing, you will not be able to find the truth, and it will be very difficult, so you need to change your perspective and find a way to judge who is not the murderer..."
"... Then the remaining person must be the murderer?"
Hua Qiong slapped his head and continued, "In other words, Annie and Marshall are innocent?"
Hua Qiong subconsciously wanted to ask why, but after seeing the half-smile on Confidant Hard to Find's face, she swallowed her question back.
no.
How can you keep asking why
Think again!
Hua Qiong took a deep breath, bit his thumb nail, thought quickly in his mind, and whispered: "Sheriff Marshall is indeed the least suspicious. It can be seen that he takes his job very seriously. Such a person is unlikely to kill unless his life and work encounter an unacceptable blow. However, there is no conclusive evidence. What if he and James have some hidden entanglement..."
"... ..ah."
At this moment, Hua Qiong's voice stopped abruptly, and then a light bulb flashed in his mind: "No, there is decisive evidence! Because he didn't kill Annie!"
If Marshall was the murderer, why didn't he kill Anne when he killed James
If you think about it carefully, the reason is actually very simple. Anne may have something that Marshall wants to know, or may have something on Marshall.
But if that was true, why did Annie insist that Morning was the murderer? And if Marshall really had evidence in Annie's hand, why didn't she hand it over after the detective arrived? Even after Zhiji Nanxun deliberately sent Marshall away, she didn't react
Of course, it is also possible that Anne is Marshall's accomplice, but the question is, if she is an accomplice, why would Anne go through so much trouble to invite a detective over
Isn't this contradictory
After ruling out these two possibilities, the answer is pretty obvious:
"Marshall is definitely not the murderer."
"The next is Anne."
Hua Qiong took a deep breath and said, "Compared to Marshall, Annie is more suspicious. After all, it's deep in the mountains and in the middle of the night, and no one knows what happened. But if she is the murderer, why did they hire a detective? And they even designated Mo Ning? What's the logic behind this?"
Hua Qiong thought for a moment and continued, "... Maybe Annie is the murderer, but for some reason she wanted to frame Mo Ning, so she hired a detective to deal with Mo Ning, and that's why she claimed that she saw Mo Ning's face. This can also explain why Mo Ning killed James but not Annie."
At first glance, this seems like a compelling possibility.
But if you think about it carefully,
New problems arise.
"... ..If Annie is the murderer, then what is the motive for framing Morning? Why put the blame on Morning for James's death? This doesn't make sense. There must be a grudge behind framing, but in the conversation with Morning, Morning didn't show any such feeling of grudge at all."
After thinking about it carefully, Hua Qiong still thought that Annie was unlikely to be the murderer.
The only one left is Mourning.
I guess this was the reason why Zhiji Nanxun was 70% sure that Mo Ning was the murderer. So what made him increase his certainty to 100%
"What's the problem, Mo Ning?"
"First, he has connections with Anne and James. Second, he has the ability to commit the crime. But his reason is very similar to Marshall's. Why didn't he kill Anne? He even let Anne see his face. But the difference from Marshall is..."
Hua Qiong's voice stopped abruptly.
What's the point
Although she said it out loud, it was just whatever came to her mind. As a result, her thinking got stuck here and she couldn't think of the reason.
What is the difference between Marshall and Mourning
Marshall didn't kill Anne, and Anne didn't retaliate in the end. She even frantically looked for a detective. The contradiction here made her conclude that Marshall was not the murderer.
Mourning's words...
"For the same reasons as Marshall."
"Mourning didn't kill Annie, maybe because Annie had some evidence against him, so he negotiated with Annie, but Annie didn't want to talk, so he kept looking for a detective and determined that Marshall was the murderer. But the question is, if there was evidence, why didn't Annie hand it over?"
“Wow… ..”
Hua Qiong had a headache. She tried really hard to think about it, but still couldn't come up with an absolute answer. She could only say that Marshall and Annie were less suspicious, while Morning was more suspicious. However, there were still some logical problems that she couldn't figure out even after racking her brains.
"...Sister Shaohua~?"
Hua Qiong had no choice but to look up at the hard-to-find confidant.
Next,
She saw the stunned expression on the face of the man who was so hard to find a confidant.
"Arjun you are actually very smart."
"Huh?"
"I didn't expect you to be able to analyze it this way. Although there is a lot of logic in it, it can be seen that Arjun, you really tried your best..."
"... But it's actually very easy to identify the murderer this time."
“Don’t think about it so complicatedly.”
"???"
Zhiji Nanxun blinked, and finally called up the game panel helplessly: "Arjun, take a close look at the information prompts of this game script."
Hua Qiong opened the game panel as she heard that it was hard to find a true friend.
The game prompt only has one sentence:
Tips: A trick that plays with time, an unsolvable puzzle, a meticulous yet daring murderer, who is hiding in the dark
"... ..ah."
"Although this sounds very impressive, the murderer has actually been revealed long ago. The alibi of that Mo Ning is very perfect, and the time difference is also very good. Doesn't it perfectly prove the trick in the hint? Now that it has come to this, who else could be the murderer but him?"
Hua Qiong: “… ... ... ”
I always feel that the reasoning I racked my brains for before,
It was a wrong payment after all.