Just as Lin Lei was about to walk into Daniel's room, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps downstairs, Lin Lei couldn't help but stop, looked back, and found a policeman running forward in a hurry.

The policeman took out a document and handed it to Sheriff George: "Sheriff, this is the material about Daniel that the headquarters inquired about......"

After the previous murder at Cook Hill, Sheriff George rushed here with a large group of people, and at the same time ordered those who stayed at the police station to investigate the background information of the relevant personnel, and now it should be found that Daniel has something suspicious.

Sheriff George opened the material and looked at it with Lin Lei, and the more he looked at it, the more frowning his brows became......

This Daniel is not simple!

It turns out that Daniel is still running a loan shark business!

Both Gibson and Rios owe Daniel a fortune!

However, Daniel's usury is more obscure, and he will not let anyone else know about it except for the parties, which can be regarded as saving the face of the borrower.

Gibson and Rios borrowed $500,000 and $1,000,000 respectively from Daniel, but the debt they were saddled skyrocketed far beyond their means.

Daniel doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all, because although Gibson and Rios can't afford to pay back, they both have fixed property such as houses and manors - with fixed property, everything is easy to say, and if you can run, a monk can't run a temple!

Sergeant George looked confused and asked suspiciously, "Detective Lin, Daniel is a creditor, he has no motive to kill Gibson!"

Lin Lei frowned and was silent.

After a while, Lin Lei glanced up at Daniel's room and said slowly, "Let's go in and ask." It is unreasonable for a debtor to kill the debtor......"

After a pause, Lin Lei seemed to remember something again, and told Sheriff George: "Sheriff George, don't mention the matter of Gibson and Rios owing money in front of Daniel, I'll ask everything." ”

Sergeant George nodded in understanding.

After walking into Daniel's room, Lin Lei saw Daniel sitting on the sofa in the room, holding a cup of coffee, drinking it very comfortably, and didn't seem to care about the police watching him at all.

Seeing Lin Lei and Sheriff George walk in, Daniel put down the coffee cup in his hand, stood up, and said with a smile: "Uh, Mr. Sheriff is here......

Apparently Daniel knew the badge on Sheriff George's shoulder and knew his identity.

Sergeant George nodded slightly, pointed at Lin Lei and said, "This Detective Lin has won the title of 'Detective' in the Interpol community, and this case is under his full guidance, you can answer Detective Lin's questions truthfully." ”

George's words are very interesting, he uses the word "guidance" rather than "responsibility", ambiguous, not only to avoid "jurisdictional disputes", but also to let Lin Lei take the lead in solving the case - anyway, he also has a share of the credit for solving the case, if he can't solve the case, isn't there Lin Lei in front, even Detective Lin can't solve the case, isn't it strange that I George didn't solve the case?

What does Sergeant George think, this case is also a sure way to make money, and when the time comes, it will be handy to write a report to Shangfeng - if you don't say that where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, and the rice guys play thick black, and they are not weaker than anyone at all......

Lin Lei naturally knows these twists and turns - but this is exactly what Lin Lei can't ask for, Lin Lei's goal is to solve all kinds of cases, if every place is limited by "jurisdiction", it is a very troublesome thing.

Since people recognize their title of "detective" and ask for themselves, it is the best - as long as they can solve the case, what credit is not credited is not the focus of Lin Lei's concern.

Lin Lei glanced at Daniel coldly, and asked in a deep voice, "Mr. Daniel, where were you and what were you doing between 14 and 16 o'clock yesterday afternoon?"

This is a routine alibi, and Daniel knows it.

Daniel straightened his throat and said calmly: "During that time, my company happened to have a video conference, the meeting started at 14:30 and lasted until 15:30, and I was connected with the company's employees for this hour, and they could all testify to me......

The round-trip from Cook Hill to the place where Gibson was killed is definitely more than half an hour, and the time spent committing the crime must also be counted, so Daniel should have a "relatively sufficient" alibi - provided that he did not use transportation.

Sheriff George whispered to Lin Lei: "Detective Lin, none of these people's cars are parked at Cook Hill Villa, there is only one sled car in the mountain villa, but the speed is not fast, and it is not faster than a bicycle in the snow......"

Lin Lei bowed slightly, indicating that he understood.

In fact, when Lin Lei came to Cook Hill Villa at about 16 o'clock yesterday, he noticed that there were no obvious wheel prints nearby - at that time, Lin Lei had been worried that there was no one in Cook Hills, so he kept an extra eye, if there were car wheel prints, it proved that there must be someone in Cook Hill.

At that time, no wheel marks were found, and it was absolutely impossible for a motor vehicle to drive in the snow without leaving a trace, and it took a long time for the heavy snow to cover the wheel prints.

In other words, whether it is the murderer or anyone else, the only way to get to or from Cook Hill is to get to or from Cook Hill on foot.

Of course, it is also possible to exclude non-car means of transportation, such as flying machines, which is even more impossible.

Lin Lei lowered his head and thought about it, his brows furrowing more and more.

Now it seems that although Daniel's time proves that it cannot cover the entire 14 o'clock to 16 o'clock, the most critical middle hour, he is in a video conference with the company's employees, which basically tells the problem - Daniel would not have killed Gibson without special circumstances.

Are there any special circumstances?

Or is there any special modus operandi?

Seeing that Lin Lei had been bowing his head and thinking, Sergeant George whispered, "Detective Lin, I will go and implement Daniel's testimony immediately." ”

"Hmm-" Lin Lei nodded slightly.

As long as Daniel isn't insane, there's almost zero chance he'll lie — it's easy to find out, and it's not a single person who is meeting him, and it's not possible for everyone to give him perjury — but it's still important to implement it just in case.

Sheriff George immediately arranged for someone to confirm Daniel's alibi, while Lin Lei took out a piece of gum from his pocket and chewed it unhurriedly.

After a while, Sheriff George finally confirmed the situation, and the company's employees who attended the video conference yesterday testified that Daniel was meeting between 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., and that the company had also videotaped the video conference......

"I know that the current video technology is very powerful, and you can see that the video must not have been tampered with, and I can't be that ......stupid," Daniel said with a smile.

As he said, there may have been people who used to manipulate evidence such as video footage or photos, but with today's technological means, whether there is a PS or video clip, it can be found out in minutes - those photos in the past Conan case are fake, and under the current technical means, they will definitely not be able to escape the police investigation.

"Detective Lin, two people can now be ruled out, Daniel and McGovern. The killer must be one of the remaining Robert, Kelly and Rios, who has been missing......" Sergeant George said firmly.

Lin Lei glanced at Daniel again, and the frown he had previously frowned gradually loosened......

Sergeant George seemed to realize something, and looked at Lin Lei with round eyes: "Detective Lin, are you-"

Lin Lei's eyes flashed, and he quickly returned to normal, and said lightly in a very calm tone: "I have completely solved the puzzle of this case." Sheriff George, you gather everyone downstairs in the hall, and I'll start declassifying. ”

"Ahh

So far, Sergeant George has used that set of criminal investigation methods and techniques commonly used by the police, and he can only exclude Daniel and McGovern, who have alibis-

Not to mention who the murderer is, even the nature of the case is completely unclear!

And the policeman in front of him, named Lin Lei, has three heads and six arms? Or is he extremely intelligent? He knows who the murderer is? And he knows all the mysteries of the case?

Impossible, right......

It took a long time for Sergeant George to come back to his senses, and asked Lin Lei with some doubts: "Detective Lin, Kelly is seriously ill now and it is inconvenient to call her......"

Lin Lei smiled slightly, as if everything was under control, and said lightly: "It's okay - the murderer is not her, it doesn't matter if you call her or not." ”

As soon as he heard Lin Lei say that the murderer was not Kelly, Sheriff George breathed a sigh of relief - Kelly was not the murderer, Daniel and McGovern had a perfect alibi, so the murderer could only be Robert or Reos, who had been missing?

Yes!

Rios is the most suspicious!

He has not appeared in the eyes of everyone, most likely because he is afraid of crime and absconding?

But—

Sergeant George always felt that something was wrong, until Lin Lei got up and walked out the door, he was still there in a daze......

What's wrong?

When Sergeant George looked up, he saw that Lin Lei had already left the room......

At this moment, Sergeant George suddenly knew that something was wrong!

Detective Lin actually, unexpectedly, how could it be - did not allow himself to deploy police forces to arrest Rios!

In other words, in Detective Lin's reasoning, Rios is not a murderer at all!

Otherwise, the capture of Rios must be the first priority, not solving the mystery in this Rausch Cook Lodge!

The murderer, is it really Robert?!!!