Lin Jiangbei sniffed in the air with his nose again, but it didn't feel right. Because he didn't smell West Bryan in the air.

West Bryan came to the old drunkard's apartment at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and from the time of calculation, if the female shoe-shiner really came to the old drunkard's apartment, the time could only be earlier than West Brian. Under the same conditions, it makes no sense that the smell of the female shoe-shiner remained, but the smell of West Bryan did not.

Then there are only two possibilities, one is that the shoemaker came to the old drunkard's house later than West Bryan. This has been ruled out before, since West Bryan found out that the old drunkard was killed yesterday, the old drunkard's apartment is under strict guard, and the guards are still mainly U.S. Marines, and it is impossible for the female shoe-shiner to sneak into the old drunkard's apartment without the eyes of the U.S. Marines.

Another possibility is that the female shoe-shiner stayed in the old drunkard's apartment for a long time, so the concentration of the smell left behind was relatively high. As soon as West Bryan entered the old drunkard's apartment, he found that the old drunkard was dead, and immediately ran out to call the police, so it happened that under the same air circulation conditions, the smell left by West Brian had disappeared, but the smell left by the female shoe-shiner could still be smelled by Lin Jiangbei.

Thinking of this, Lin Jiangbei stopped, turned his head and asked Colonel Price, "Is the living room on the first floor the scene of Leonovsky's death?" ”

"Yes!" Colonel Price replied: "It was on the sofa in the living room on the first floor that Major West Bryan found Leonovsky dead. ”

"Then when you led the team to pick up Major West Bryan, was the scene of the crime altered?" Lin Jiangbei asked again.

"I've asked West Bryan about this." Colonel Price replied, "Since he put a gun against Inspector Shimamoto's head in time, the crime scene still retains the posture he just saw, and basically nothing has changed." ”

Hikonari Shimamoto has always regarded it a great shame that he was pistol-to-head by West Bryan yesterday in front of his subordinates. At this time, when he heard Colonel Price mention this scene again, his big face was flushed, and his eyes glared at Colonel Price.

Colonel Price didn't pay any attention to Shimamoto's reaction, and as he spoke, he reached out and took a brown paper bag from the entourage behind him, took out a stack of photos from it, and handed it to Lin Jiangbei.

"This is a photo of the crime scene that I asked the photojournalists at our headquarters to take yesterday, and you can refer to it." He said to Lin Jiangbei.

Lin Jiangbei picked up the first photo, which was the scene of the old drunkard half-lying on the sofa and dying.

Lin Jiangbei glanced in the direction of the sofa and asked Colonel Price, "What about Leonovsky's body?" ”

"It was transported to Guangci Hospital last night and preserved." Colonel Price replied.

Originally, Colonel Price planned to transport the body of the old drunkard to the Renji Hospital for preservation, but his opinion was firmly opposed by Shimamoto Hikonari. The reason is that Yan Chai Hospital is a hospital opened by the London Club in the United Kingdom, and due to the special relationship between Britain and the United States, it is difficult to ensure that the body of the old drunkard will not be tampered with in Yan Chai Hospital, resulting in the lack of key evidence of the old drunkard's murder.

According to Shimamoto Hikonari's suggestion, the body of the old drunkard was sent to the Baolong Hospital opened by the Germans, but Colonel Price was not at ease. This is because in international relations, Germany and Japan are getting closer and closer, and there is a great tendency to form an alliance. If the corpse of the old drunkard is placed in Baolong Hospital, God knows if the Germans will help the Japanese make a name for themselves on the corpse of the old drunkard!

So in the end, Guangci Hospital became the best choice to preserve the corpse of the old drunkard.

As far as Shimamoto is concerned, the main reason why he agreed to transport the body of the old drunkard to Guangci Hospital for preservation is that Guangci Hospital is a hospital opened by the French Catholic Church in Shanghai and has nothing to do with the United States, and the main reason is that in 1912, President Chang infiltrated Guangci Hospital and successfully assassinated Tao Chengzhang, the founder of the Guangfu Society.

Because of the impact of this incident, President Chang has become the leader of the Chinese government, and Guangci Hospital still dislikes him very much. In the same way, President Chang also dislikes Guangci Hospital very much, and from time to time asks people to cause some trouble for Guangci Hospital.

At this time, the Americans were the biggest support force behind President Chang, so Shimamoto Hikosei was not worried about what the old drunkard would do to help the Americans after the body of the old drunkard was transported to Guangci Hospital for preservation.

From Colonel Price's point of view, although Guangci Hospital has nothing to do with the United States, it is a French-run hospital after all. At least in terms of values, France and Britain and the United States are still on the same line at this time. Therefore, the body of the old drunkard was transported to Guangci Hospital for preservation, and Colonel Price was not worried about what the Guangci Hospital would do to help the Japanese.

Lin Jiangbei didn't know that it was just the preservation of the corpse of an old drunkard, and there was such a fierce struggle between Colonel Price and Shimamoto Hikosei. He was relieved to hear Colonel Price say that the body of the old drunkard had been transported to Guangci Hospital for preservation. With the technology of Guangci Hospital, it should not be difficult to keep the body of the old drunkard in its original appearance within a few days.

Lin Jiangbei walked to the sofa, sniffed lightly, and saw that the concentration of the smell left by the female shoe-shiner in the air had not changed in particular, so he took out a pair of gloves and put them on in a hurry, and then took out a flashlight, squatted in front of the sofa, and carefully checked the sofa.

Soon, Lin Jiangbei found two golden hairs on the back of the sofa.

So Lin Jiangbei beckoned back, and another entourage of Colonel Price immediately stepped up and handed the suitcase in his hand to Lin Jiangbei.

Lin Jiangbei opened the suitcase, took out a pair of tweezers and a magnifying glass from it, and then used the tweezers to pick up the two hairs, came to the window, and carefully observed them with a magnifying glass with the help of the sunlight outside the window.

Two minutes later, Lin Jiangbei finished his observation, and he found that the two hairs were basically the same as the hair of the old drunkard he remembered, both in color and shape.

So he took the photo of the old drunkard's death and compared it, and found that the location of the two hairs was exactly where the old drunkard was half-lying on the sofa and his head was pillowing.

It seems that these two hairs should be left by the old drunkard, as for whether it is right or not, it is very simple, take these two hairs to Guangci Hospital, and compare them with the old drunkard's hair.

Lin Jiangbei reached out and took out a small glass bottle from the suitcase, put the two golden hairs in it, and then sealed it and put it back in the suitcase. Then hold a flashlight and continue to inspect the sofa.

It wasn't long before he found a short blonde hair under the armrest of the couch.

Lin Jiangbei originally thought that this hair was the same as the previous two hairs, and it was also an old drunkard. But when he picked up the hair with tweezers and walked to the window to look at it with a magnifying glass, he immediately noticed the difference between the two.

Compared to the previous two hairs, the newly discovered hair cut off was at a new acute angle, apparently falling from the head of a person who had just had a haircut. And judging from the photos, the old drunkard's hair obviously doesn't look like it has just been cut.

In addition, the surface of the two previously found hairs is very smooth, while the newly discovered hair has a very rough surface and does not look like a natural golden color. Judging by Lin Jiangbei's many years of forensic experience, this hair is definitely dyed hair!

If this hair is not the old drunkard's, then it can be determined that at the scene of the old drunkard's murder, another mysterious figure who had just had a haircut and dyed his hair appeared.

Then the question arises, who is this mysterious person? What is the relationship between the shoe-shiner and the old drunkard? Did the old drunkard kill this man or was the female shoe-shiner poisoned? Or did the two of them cooperate with each other to poison each other?