Chapter 9: Murder in the Night

Lin Xiuyi had not yet fully fallen into a deep sleep, and after hearing the shout, Lin Xiuyi immediately sat up from the bed, put on his pants and coat, opened the sliding door of the box, and poked his head out to look out.

"Ah...... Save people!"

There was another poignant call, Lin Xiu didn't dare to delay anymore, and people in other boxes also poked their heads out one after another. As soon as Lin Xiu saw them, he immediately instructed them:

"Everyone go back first, maybe something is dangerous, everyone better stay in the box and wait for further news!"

Lin Xiuyi walked briskly towards the source of the shouts, and whenever he encountered anyone on the road who showed his head to see the excitement, he instructed the other party to stay in the box honestly and wait for further news.

The source of the sound seemed to be in the next carriage, Lin Xiuyi opened the next door of the carriage, and saw the young lady Sakurako who was playing the piano in the lounge during the day sitting on the floor, she pointed to the train box in front of her in horror, her body leaned tightly against the wall of the corridor, her eyes were full of tears, and her shoulders were shaking slightly involuntarily.

"What's going on?" Lin Xiuyi asked, as he quickly stepped forward to pick up the frightened Ms. Sakurako, and he subconsciously looked at the box in the direction of Sakurako's finger. But I only saw two snow-white thighs on the floor of the box, and I couldn't judge the specific situation for a while.

"What happened?"

The flight attendant who ran over from the other end of the carriage saw Sakurako who had fallen into Lin Xiuyi's arms, and immediately asked nervously.

I don't know, I'll go first, you'd better let the doctor check this young lady!

As soon as Lin Xiu finished speaking, he handed Sakura to the other party, Sakura glanced at Lin Xiuyi with some nostalgia, and then was helped aside under the persuasion of the flight attendant. At this moment, with the appearance of Lin Xiuyi, those guys who were originally afraid of getting into trouble gathered in front of the door of the box and waited to watch the excitement.

Lin Xiuyi took off his shoes and cautiously walked into the box, only to see a ** woman lying flat on the carpet under the bed, her body was disheveled, and all the sensitive parts of her body were exposed. The woman's neck was tightly wrapped around a bath towel belt, her tongue leaking out, and her eyes were wide open. Lin Xiuyi hurriedly squatted down, loosened the bath towel belt around the woman's neck, and then touched the woman's carotid artery.

Lin Xiuyi, who did not give up, turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone, and then shone on the woman's eyes, and the size of his pupils did not change. He sighed and carefully identified the poor woman, wasn't this the Sakurako's good friend, Erika?

Lin Xiuyi raised Erika's arm and moved it slightly, the deceased's arm muscles were very soft, and the joints were also very flexible, and the time of death should not exceed an hour.

After completing the preliminary inspection, Lin Xiuyi stood up and walked outside the box, and after walking out of the private room, he casually closed the sliding door of the private room. The specific situation here will have to wait until the medical examiner arrives for further processing. What Lin Xiuyi has to do is to ensure the integrity of the site to the greatest extent.

Lin Xiuyi called the flight attendant who had helped Sakurako away just now and explained to him in a low voice:

"Lock this room for now, and don't let anyone in again. The young lady inside has already been killed, and the murderer is likely still on this train......"

"Sir, your identity is ......," the other party asked Lin Lin Xiuyi suspiciously.

"I am the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Division 1 Police Department, Lin Xiuyi, from now on, this case will be taken over by me for the time being. After arriving at Aomori Station, the Aomori Prefectural Police Headquarters will continue to be in charge of the case. As soon as Lin Xiu said that, he took out the police handbook from his jacket pocket and showed it to the other party.

"You're the police department?, it's so much more reassuring to have you, what are we going to do now?" said the flight attendant who was called aside by Lin Xiuyi let out a sigh of relief.

"By the way, what do you want to call it?" Lin Xiuyi asked the other party.

"My name is Megumi Ohno, and I'm the conductor of this train, and I don't even know what to do if something like this happens. The other party said in a depressed mood.

"First of all, tell all passengers not to move around and stay in their own compartments with peace of mind. I'll get them one by one in a minute! By the way, what time does the dining car of this train close?"

Lin Xiuyi suddenly remembered that the entire train was separated by a dining car, and if the dining car was locked after it closed for business, then the passengers in the first half of Cassiopeia would not be able to enter the second half through the dining car. In this case, the first half of the passengers can be excluded for the time being.

"This ...... It's about eleven o'clock in the evening!" Captain Ohno replied to Lin Shuichi.

"That is, two hours ago, right? After the dining car closes, can passengers in the front half of the train still be able to pass through the dining car to the second half of the car?" Lin Xiuyi continued to ask.

"Well, it shouldn't work, because after the dining car closes, we will carefully lock it up, so I'm pretty sure no one will enter the second half of the train through the dining car after that......" Ohno thought seriously for a long time before finally replying to Lin Xiuyi. The restaurants in Cassiopeia are made with precious high-end ingredients, and the quality is almost as good as those in Ginza. Therefore, everyone naturally does not dare to be sloppy in the anti-theft work after closing.

"So, since the restaurant closed, has anyone gotten on or off the bus?" Lin Xiuyi asked solemnly.

"Naturally, no, only a few passengers on this train got off in Aomori Prefecture, and the rest were going to Hakodate, although there was a stop just now, but we didn't open the door......," Megumi Ohno said with great certainty.

Lin Xiuyi thought for about ten minutes, and then said to Megumi Ohno, who looked worried: "Okay, I know, thank you for your help, if you need it, I will trouble you!"

Lin Xiuyi already had a general impression of the structure of the carriage. The entire train is divided into two parts by the dining car in the middle, the first half is mostly ordinary boxes, and the second half has more advanced boxes in addition to public areas such as lounges.

In particular, the ultra-luxury box of the last car can completely enjoy the scenery of the rear of the train, and the box alone occupies almost the entire carriage, so if you carefully count it, there are only ten boxes in the second half of the train starting from the dining car. If the case had not been committed by the staff on the train, it is likely that the murderer was hiding among the passengers in the ten boxes.