Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Hidden Daphnia

"What are you doing!" Chiko stood menacingly behind Eric. At seven o'clock in the morning, Catelyn and Chiko found out that Eric had not arrived in the public reception room as promised, so they went to his room to find someone, only to be disappointed.

"Investigate the case. Eric said lazily, still haunted by Chiko's attitude last night.

"Did you find anything?" Catelyn didn't mean to blame.

"Caitlin, do you knowβ€”" Before Eric could speak, Chiko couldn't help but say, but when she saw Cook behind her, she couldn't help but endure the second half of the sentence - we don't even know who the fool is or where, what a fool's fool it is to act alone at this time.

"Daisy's room found nothing. At this moment, Bailey's rough voice came from the door of Thomas's room.

"Are you sure you've checked it out?" asked Eric playfully.

"Hey, detective, are you doubting my abilities!" Bailey said intimidatingly. At this time, perhaps unbeknownst to Cook, the silent Caitlin was watching his every move.

"Of course not. Eric stood up and thumped his aching back, "But I found something interesting here. ”

"What?" Chiko's anger eased slightly when he heard Eric find something.

"Look at the water stains on the ground. Eric handed a jeweled lens β€” a €1 million world-class artifact from Hudson Castle β€” to Caitlin β€” not a thousand sons.

Caitlyn paused for a moment, took the lens playfully, and observed the water stains on the ground the same way Eric had done so. Although it was a night, the water on the ground was still not dry due to the cold climate. Under the lens, Caitlin saw what appeared to be some speckled creatures in the water. She handed the lens to Chiko, who was a little angry, but couldn't resist her curiosity, and squatted down with the lens to examine Eric's findings.

"It's like some daphnia. Caitlyn asked.

"There's nothing wrong with that. This is the larvae of the daphnia, which is now known to be about 0.2 mm to 3 mm long. I think the water originally contained Daphnia eggs, and because of the temperature in the room, they hatched into larvae after a night. So you can see it clearly with a lens. Eric asked Cook, "Where do you get all the water here?"

"Waterworks. The waterworks behind the town hall hall. Cook explained unhurriedly.

"Then these daphniaβ€”" Chiko also saw the swimming spots, "Could it be that the waterworks have not been cleaned up?" ”

"You just have to compare the water in the barrel to see it. Eric pointed to the broken barrel. Suspiciously, Chiko took the water sample from the barrel and looked through the lens for a few moments, finally shaking her head.

"You mean, the water on the ground doesn't come from this big barrel?" Bailey finally reacted.

"How else do you explain these Daphnia larvae?" asked Eric.

"If that's the case, this isn't the first crime scene at all. Chiko felt that the case had become more complicated.

"More precisely, the so-called Daisy's scream may also be fake, and the Thomas family was not killed at all in the time before and after that scream, so the time of the crime needs to be revisited. Caitlin saw the secret.

"Why?" said Bailey, confused.

Since the water on the ground did not come from buckets, and contained Daphnia eggs, it should have come from the snow or ice outside, and if the killer killed the Thomas family outside, they would freeze their bodies into thin blocks of ice and transport them back to the bar. Wait until the ice melts on his body, and then use Thomas's corpse's head to smash through the bucket in the room, creating the illusion that the water on the floor is coming from the bucket. Finally, pretending Daisy's screams lead us to the scene of the crime. Since Thomas was frozen immediately after the murder of the three people, and the low temperature can greatly slow down the decomposition of the corpse, we judge from the first evidence that Thomas and his family had just been killed. Eric explained the killer's basic methods in one breath.

"So complicated?" Bailey listened blankly, and Eric didn't know how much he understood.

"It's not just complicated, it's very precise. Caitlin frowned.

"That's right, first, you must calculate that the amount of water on the bodies of the three people after the ice melts is close to the volume of the bucket, otherwise too much or too little of the melted water will be seen at a glance. Eric added.

"Also, secondly, Daisy's screams must be calculated when the temperature of the frozen meltwater is close to the temperature of the room, otherwise if the water temperature is significantly lower than the room temperature, it will be debunked on the spot. Caitlin continued.

"What you're talking about is what a human being can do?" Bailey looked incincredulous.

"Don't underestimate the power of people. Caitlyn thought of Kairaz in Hudson Castle, whether it was a knife or an action, it was so precise, was old Pfeivre's men such terrible guys?

At this time, Qianzi couldn't say a word. Although she also thought that the murderer used the method of freezing the corpse to mislead the judgment of the time of the murder, she did not think of the amount of water and the temperature of the water in the mouths of Eric and Caitlin. She glanced at the two of them secretly, and it seemed that the relationship between the two people had surpassed that of herself and Eric at once, but obviously at Hudson Castle, Eric still held her hand unscrupulously, and defended himself against Thatch, and kissed in the stairs......

"How's that? "The voice of Soros came from the stairs. Hearing this, Eric couldn't help but pout in disdain.

"Mr. Mayor, why are you still here, I am here, you can rest assured. With that, Bailey repeated Eric and Caitlin to Soros as they were. This also surprised Eric, who didn't expect this stupid officer to solve the case very well, but his memory was very top-notch.

"That is, the Thomas family was killed somewhere out there. Soros looked out the window and then at Chiko.

"That's right, maybe it's right in front of your office building. Eric deliberately walked up to Soros and blocked his view towards Chiko.

"Really?" Soros clearly didn't care about Eric's provocation. "I hope you can find out why. ”

"Don't mind, Mayor Soros. Chiko grabbed Erik's shoulders and moved him away at once, "He just used a hypothetical joke. ”

"It doesn't matter. It's like an advertising slogan about what clothes says, anything is possible. Soros looked into Chiko's eyes, and Eric wanted to imprint a pair of dark blue circles on his eyes.