Chapter 277: How did the ship dock?
After the workers put the wooden boxes into the warehouse, they returned to the dock from the new to move things anew, and Captain Liang secretly stayed. Looking at these neatly packed wooden boxes without any text instructions, Captain Liang was very puzzled. "What's in it here? Why did it take so late to dock and load the goods? The most important thing is that the wharf where the ship is docked now is not a commercial wharf opened by the authorities at all, is it smuggling. Thinking of this, Captain Liang was taken aback.
He found an iron rod and pried open the wooden strips on the wooden box, and the lid of one of the wooden boxes was lifted. After opening the lid, inside the wooden box were rectangular blocks of palm-sized thickness wrapped in yellow paper, and Captain Liang tore open the yellow paper, sniffed it with his nose, and his expression changed greatly.
"Captain Liang, why haven't you slept so late?" A familiar voice sounded from behind him.
Liang looked back, and the captain looked at him calmly, accompanied by two masked seamen.
"Captain, why are you here?"
"I'm inspecting the warehouse with my men, why are you here?" The captain asked.
"Captain, there's someone here smuggling illegal drugs, I just found out." Captain Liang said solemnly.
"Oh, there's such a thing?" The captain looked surprised, he walked up to Captain Liang, looked at the yellow paper that had been opened in the box and asked, "You opened this?" The captain scraped the powder from the white bricks inside with his fingers and rubbed it against his gums, "Well, this batch is good, and the quality is first-class." ”
Captain Liang was completely shocked, "Captain, you, you are actually involved in smuggling these illegal drugs. ”
"How can you say smuggling, you tell me where there is no smuggling in Huaxia these years? In violation of the arms embargo, the authorities secretly imported weapons from Italy, France and Germany. Students smuggled books, large quantities of Red Party literature came from Siberia by tons, warlords smuggled national treasures, and the things of our ancestors for thousands of years were bought with a few golds. That's what they call smuggling, and I'm not smuggling. The captain's tone of voice was completely devoid of the righteousness he had when he talked to Captain Liang during the day.
"Who are these two people?" Captain Liang looked at the two masked seamen.
"They're my henchmen."
"I thought your henchman was your dead first mate!"
"How could that be? Hey, who's talking, who? The captain was surprised by the sudden words.
Wu Jingya walked into the warehouse from outside the door with a sigh, "Yo, I'm busy!" ”
Captain Liang shook the contents of the yellow paper to Wu.
"Sure enough, there is a conspiracy." Wu walked up to the captain in two steps. "It seems that the first mate did not commit suicide, but was killed by you."
"Didn't you say that the first mate committed suicide when you performed the autopsy?" The captain asked.
"At that time, my mind was completely limited by the premise of murder in a closed room. The seaman had been guarding the door, and there was no other entrance to the house, so he must have committed suicide. However... ”
"And yet what?" The captain's eyes widened.
"But I trusted seafarers so much that I forgot the saying that hearing is believing."
"What the hell does that mean?" Captain Liang was confused.
"I had just drunk too much, and I went out to look for him, and when I passed by the first mate's room, I saw the seafarer keeping a wake for the first mate. He has narcolepsy. ”
"What's the disease? How I've never heard of it. The captain and Captain Liang asked in unison.
"Narcolepsy is an occasional sleep problem. We normal people doze off occasionally, but people with narcolepsy can be at any time, and it takes a few minutes to fall asleep. When I woke up, I didn't notice it at all. Wu explained the characteristics of this condition.
"So what exactly causes narcolepsy?" Captain Liang asked.
"It's mainly caused by the abnormal hormone secretion of the human pituitary gland, not why do you ask this? We're not curing anymore. Wu yelled at Captain Liang.
At this moment, the short masked seaman secretly covered his mouth with his hand and laughed twice, and the tall masked man elbowed him.
"Therefore, it is very likely that the murderer used the spare key to open the door when the seafarer was dozing off, and it happened that the first mate had drunk too much at this time, so the murderer was able to kill without making too much noise."
"Hmph, this is just your conjecture, the first mate obviously committed suicide, everyone has seen this." The tall masked man asked suddenly.
"Well, if we commit suicide, we will struggle with the pain before we die, leaving a lot of scratches on our fingernails on our neck. If you don't believe me, you can hang yourself up and try it yourself, and I won't go into too much detail here. The point I want to make is that when I was examining the first mate's fingers, I found a lot of red and broken flesh between his fingernails. So the question is, there is no scar on his neck, and he has obviously scratched someone in his fingernails, so who is he scratching? ”
Captain Liang suddenly realized, "It's the one who held the cable and strangled him from behind." ”
As soon as these words came out, the tall masked man unconsciously touched his forearm. Wu walked up to him and gently pulled up his sleeve, and sure enough, there were several blood marks on his forearm. Wu put his hand behind the tall, masked head, "You're the bartender." Then Wu Cai ripped off his veil, and sure enough, he was the bartender.
"How do you know it's me?" The bartender was no longer the same as before, and his face was cold at this time.
"Just when I was drinking at the bar, Qiangguo touched your arm, and you pulled up your sleeve in pain, and I saw your forearm to confirm my judgment." Wu looked at the wound on the bartender's forearm, "You made it big enough at that time, even if the first mate drank too much, he still resisted so much, you look at these deep and shallow and chaotic wounds." You're too clever to strangle the first mate with the same cable you used to kill Xiao Guan, which seems to be a bit too much. ”
"Wu, didn't we find a scratch on the spout of the first mate's hand at that time? Don't you still suspect that it's the first mate or something? Captain Liang asked.
Wu snapped his fingers, "At first, I thought it was the first mate who killed Xiao Guan, and it was because there were abrasion marks on the spout of his hand, and I thought it was left by him strangling Xiao Guan with a cable." Later, through careful comparison, I confirmed that the scar on his spout did match the belt on the equipment in the computer room. ”
"But why didn't the seafarers who worked with him find out about it?"
"That's a better question than the one just asked. If we want to know the answer, we must first start with what kind of person the first mate is. ”