Chapter 198, Xiao Ming's death
Because from the beginning to the end of this story, the hunchbacked old man only asks one question, that is, to find out who is the murderer?
On this basis, he also designed a small trap for me, because in the subconscious of people, when everyone is dead, only the one who fakes death is the real murderer, but the fact is that the deceased, including the dead who have died, can still be regarded as one of the murderers.
From the beginning, it creates the illusion that there is only one murderer, and it turns out that there are two murderers.
If it was just like this, it would have been fine, but I didn't expect that after finding out the murderer, I would have to deduce the whole process, which undoubtedly made the difficulty instantly worse.
In the face of my surprise, the hunchbacked old man did not make any explanation, but smiled coldly: "You still have five minutes to ......"
For the threat of the hunchbacked old man's nakedness, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and go up.
Fortunately, there are already results, and it is relatively easy to reason about the whole process in advance.
If I couldn't even find the murderer in the first place, then the sudden increase in difficulty would be tantamount to killing me.
I took a deep breath and began to recall the details throughout the story, then work my way through.
In the case that the murderers are known to be B and C, as long as the connection between the five people is clarified, the whole murder process must not be far away.
First of all, it was A who died first.
All three ADE were stabbed or hacked to death, while C was holding a fruit knife in his hand before he died, with the bodies of D and E beside him.
It is known that D and E died at the hands of C, and ADE died in the same way, so it is basically certain that A also died at the hands of C.
At the beginning of the incident, C killed A out of hatred, which can be seen from the terrible knife marks on A's body.
The next day, B uses dog blood and successfully fakes his death.
Why would B do this?
Obviously, he was pretending to be a dead man to investigate the real culprit.
This can be determined from the final result, where C dies from a * burst and his head is smashed by B.
It can be seen that B pretended to be dead in order to avenge A, which means that B has a very good relationship with A.
So if I put myself into the role of B, after pretending to be dead, how should I find out the real murderer?
The most straightforward way is to blame!
As mentioned in the story, after B faked his death, bloody footprints matching D were found next to his body, so everyone suspected that D was the murderer, so C and E tied up D.
At this time, B can't confirm who the murderer is, and what he does is just a test and observation.
In B's hypothesis, even if D is not the murderer, the real murderer is likely to be exposed in the face of sudden changes.
Sure enough, B's plan succeeded.
Because B's fake death made the real murderer C panic, C only knew that he had killed A, but he didn't know that B was fake death, and in C's perspective, B's death must have been done by someone else.
That is to say, in addition to C himself, among the five people, there is also a murderer hidden.
And because of the clues left by B's fake death, C suspected that D was the real murderer, and in order not to have an accident, or in order to eliminate the threat of D's murderer, C moved to kill D that night.
The final result is that C stabbed D to death on the sofa, and before he died, he stabbed him indiscriminately to satisfy his desire to kill.
As for E's death, judging from the traces on his body, he was cut his throat with a knife and finally bled to death, and there were not too many traces on his body, and E died next to C.
From this, I can assume that C alarmed E in the room when he abused D, so E came to stop him, but in the process of C's fight, C cut his throat with a knife and finally burped.
And C abused and stabbed D to death at the same time, and B, who was faked death, shot his head from behind.
Before they die, both C and D see B who is feigned to be dead, and only then will there be a surprised expression on their faces.
After layer by layer of analysis, the whole process is becoming clearer and clearer.
On the premise that the murderer is already known, it is not so difficult to reason about the connection between the characters.
As always, I thought about my inner speculation and reasoning several times, until the hunchbacked old man reminded me loudly.
"The time has come, have you figured out the whole murder process?" the hunchbacked old man's voice was still cold.
I nodded: "If I guessed correctly, because of hatred or psychopathology, C killed A, because B has a good relationship with A, in order to find out the real culprit, B borrowed dog blood to cause excessive blood loss of suspended animation, and then left D's bloody shoe prints at the scene to test the murderer's reaction." ”
C only knew that he had killed A, but B's death made him very puzzled and even felt the crisis, so in the middle of the night, C interrogated D who was tied to the sofa in the living room, the kind of torture to extract a confession, but in the process of interrogation, E was discovered, so E went over to stop it, and C found a fight, and finally C cut his throat with a knife and bled to death. ”
"After that, C abused D again, and finally stabbed him to death, but at the same time, the fake death B touched C's back and shot him in the head with a heavy object, C and D both saw the fake death B before they died, so they showed a surprised expression, this is my whole reasoning!"
As soon as these words came out, the hunchbacked old man fell silent again.
After a while, he smiled coldly: "Interesting, a little unexpected to me, congratulations, you answered the second question correctly." ”
As soon as these words came out, Tang Yuying and the others breathed a long sigh of relief.
Wang Gang had already given a thumbs up and shouted awesome.
From the beginning of the hunchbacked old man's personal question, I didn't even have a little time to breathe, the questions were one after another, decryption, reasoning, and all kinds of terrifying and dark stories, and the means were endless, even I was a little unbearable, not to mention Wang Gang and them.
In the case of high voltage and high frequency, I can only concentrate and discard all external interference.
Although I solved the second question, I was not happy because there was a third question next.
If you count according to the fact that each question has three sub-questions, there are three puzzles waiting for me next, and everything is unknown between not completely clearing the level, so I am not entitled to be happy or relaxed.
"And one last question, please ask ...... "I try to keep myself calm.
"Very well, the last question is still divided into three short stories. ”
The hunchbacked old man continued: "The first little story, please listen carefully: suddenly one day, Xiao Ming realized that he was living in a fictional ghost story, and it would not be long before Xiao Ming felt that he was going to die, the kind that died miserably.
Xiao Ming was scared, he didn't want to die.
In order to avoid any accidents, Xiao Ming began to inspect the house and found no safety hazards such as gas leaks, water and electricity leaks.
After that, Xiao Ming went to the kitchen again and threw away all the knives, dishes, chopsticks, and anything threatening.
Xiao Ming has a roommate who has just moved in, although he hasn't talked to Xiao Ming much, but after a few hours of tossing, the roommate finally invited a ghost hunting master to his home for safety.
After entering the door, the master sat on the sofa in the living room, closed his eyes and recuperated, and did not say a word.
Xiao Ming was much more relieved, and also sat next to him, motionless.
Time passed little by little, the master had been sitting for a whole day, and after a while, seeing that it was about to get dark, the roommate finally couldn't help but ask, "Master, how is it?"
"No movement yet. The Master's eyes were still closed.
While Xiao Ming was happy, he was also observing the surrounding situation, and suddenly, he saw the small bed in the bedroom.
What if there's a ghost hidden under the bed?
Xiao Ming panicked, rummaged through the cabinets in the living room, found the flashlight, and planned to check the bottom of the bed. At this moment, the master suddenly opened his eyes!"
Speaking of this, the hunchbacked old man suddenly stopped, and only after a few seconds did he ask, "Excuse me, what is Xiao Ming's final result?
For this question, I can think with my toes that Xiao Ming will not end well.
It is very likely that Xiao Ming will be killed because of his actions, but the key point of the question is, why?
Or rather, how will Xiao Ming die?