Act XXI. Accidental deceased
Someone fell off the deck?
Bai Ge's first reaction was this, since the window of the cabin could not be opened, he went directly to the corridor, and quickly ran to the nearest ventilation window, looking at the secluded sea.
The original blue sea was now like a dark monster, devouring everything, and Bai Ge only saw that there seemed to be a figure floating in the water.
"Someone fell overboard!"
Ruan Qingqiu, who was following behind Bai Ge, shouted in surprise when he saw this scene, and at the same time glanced up, there was no one on the side of the ship.
It's late at night.
Looking back, Ruan Qingqiu found that Bai Ge was gone.
"Ahh
She saw that Bai Ge jumped down without hesitation, plopped into the water, and headed towards the person who fell into the water.
"Help, help!"
Ruan Qingqiu shouted, and a crew member on night patrol heard the cry for help, and when he looked at it, he blew the whistle.
"Someone overboard, someone overboard, stop the boat, stop the boat!"
He said over the walkie-talkie towards the bridge.
Woo –
A long whistle sounded, and the passenger ship slowly slowed down on the calm sea, drifting with the current.
Ruan Qingqiu looked at the dark sea with wide eyes, trying to find Bai Ge's trace.
"It's cold!"
The icy sea water gave Bai Ge goosebumps, although he knew how to swim, but it was not convenient to move in this dark sea, he glanced at the direction of the passenger ship, and his figure flashed before the light of the flashlight came.
【Shadow Jump】!
At this moment, the sea was almost completely covered in the shadow of the passenger ship, if it wasn't for the fear of being noticed by others, Bai Ge could even scoop up the person who fell into the water and then jump back with the shadow.
After the shadow jumped, Bai Ge came to the side of the man who fell into the water, however, when he reached out and tried to grab the other party, Bai Ge realized that the man had long since lost his breath.
After a moment of hesitation, Bai Ge directly took the person who fell into the water to make a shadow jump and came to a position close to the passenger ship.
At this time, a huge searchlight was reflected on the water
"Hey, come on!"
Someone on the side of the boat threw a lifebuoy, and since Bai Ge's position was relatively close, he didn't have much effort to grab the lifebuoy tied to the rope.
Ten minutes later, Bai Ge finally returned to the deck, and at this time, he realized that the deceased was actually a boy from one of the several young people who had been drinking and having fun before.
The deceased's face was pale, and there was an obvious strangulation mark on the position of his neck!
"Mr. Yasen, are you alright?"
Ruan Qingqiu put on a thick blanket for Bai Ge, in this cold winter night, it was not so pleasant to come out of the water, if it was replaced by someone else, even if he was not frozen to death in the sea, he would inevitably be seriously ill.
"How do you ......"
She originally wanted to ask why Bai Ge would jump down so decisively to save people, but then she thought of the incident of the monster book.
Mr. Yasin may seem fierce, but he is actually a good man.
I was not wrong!
Ruan Qingqiu thought so.
"He's dead."
Bai Ge didn't notice Ruan Qingqiu's thoughts, and only said to the captain who came over, a middle-aged man with a beard and a uniform.
"He was killed."
Bai Ge was draped in a blanket, and his simple words caused many people to be surprised, and they looked at the other people around them and felt incredulous.
But in Bai Ge's opinion, it was obvious that the man had been strangled to death by some kind of rope, and then thrown into the sea in an attempt to create the illusion that he was missing.
If Bai Ge hadn't noticed his fall, it was very likely that he would not have been found missing until much later, or even tomorrow morning, and at that time, it would have been extremely difficult to find the body in the vast waves of the New Mediterranean, and it would have been almost impossible to find out that he had actually been strangled before throwing his body.
Just then, several young men came to the deck, and they were the same companions who had been with the deceased before.
"Dimitri? How could it be!? ”
One of the women at the front suddenly collapsed, she couldn't cry, and tried to get to the deceased's side, but was quickly stopped by Bai Ge and the rest of the crew.
"What are you doing, why don't you save Dimitri?"
The woman cried out, her gaze fixed on the dead man named Dimitri, looking exhausted.
"He's dead."
Bai Ge said a word, and then came to the corpse.
"Get me a pair of gloves, the ship's doctor should have one, and you can call him by the way."
In fact, when he was in the water, he estimated that he had left a lot of "fingerprints", and some key evidence may have disappeared with the cold and biting seawater, from this point of view, throwing the corpse is indeed a good choice.
Although Bai Ge could completely use the [Faceling] ability to erase his fingerprints, he still said so in order to avoid unnecessary trouble.
"Okay, okay, get him and wake up Hendeck."
The captain was momentarily shocked by Bai Ge's serious attitude, and hesitantly ordered the crew.
Hendecker was supposed to be the ship's doctor.
Bai Ge squatted down, did not touch the corpse, simply glanced at it with [Assassin Vision], and said.
"The time of death should have been no more than an hour, and the cause of death was suffocation, which was obviously caused by the binding of the neck with some kind of object, in simple terms, he was strangled to death."
"About fifteen minutes ago, he fell into the water from above my room, but before that, the deceased should have been killed, and if the doctor had done a forensic autopsy, he would have found that there was no fluid in his lungs, which means that he was not drowned."
"Although the temperature of the body was low due to the cold water, the stiffness of the body did not take more than an hour, and the deceased must have been thrown shortly after being strangled."
"If I hadn't found him, it wouldn't have been long before he sank into the sea and never been found again, and naturally it would have been impossible to discover the true cause of his death."
Hearing Bai Ge's big words, the young men and women looked surprised, while Ruan Qingqiu on the side had his eyes shining, as if he was saying that he was worthy of being my teacher, and he was so powerful.
"Y-Who the hell are you?"
One of the young men, a man with reddish hair, asked.
"Me?"
Bai Ge stood up and clapped his hands.
"My name is Arsene Hercule, and I'm a detective."
"Detective ......"
The man was a little distracted and took a few steps back.
"It should be easy to confirm that this Mr. Dimitri was still drinking with you at suppertime, and that you were leaving, well, after eight o'clock in the evening."
Subconsciously wanted to take out his pocket watch, but Bai Ge soon found that he didn't have it with him.
"What time is it?"
"Eleven, eleven twenty-seven, Mr. Hercule."
The captain hurriedly replied that there had been a murder on his ship, and there was no doubt that it was extremely bad.
"That is, in the course of these three hours, when was the last time you saw Mr. Dimitri after he was killed and left on the ship?"
Bai Ge looked at the young men.
There were two men and three women, and including the dead Dimitri, they looked like three couples.
"We ...... We went back to our rooms after dinner, Dimitri and Chalonia in one room......"
The man with a hint of red in his hair looked at the woman who had been crying hoarsely at the beginning.
It seems that she is Salonia and should be Dmitry's girlfriend?
"I ...... I drank too much, so I went back to my room and went to sleep, and Dimitri said to go find you guys to drink some more, and soon went out......"
The woman, Shalonia, had dark brown curly hair and a faint freckle on her face, but she could tell through her clothes that she was in excellent shape.
"Well, it's true that Dimitri knocked on the door and said he wanted to drink a little more, but I was going to take a shower, so I asked him to go to the bar first, and I'll go later, but when I got there, I found that he wasn't at the bar, so I waited there for a while, and had two drinks with Samwell before going back, and the bartender could testify."
The man with pale blonde curls and glasses said, he looked at Bai Ge, and then continued to speak.
"My name is Kingsley, we are both students in the school city, in the same research room, because we spent the winter vacation together in Dimitri's villa, so we went back to school together."
As for Samwell, it was the red-haired man.
Hearing this, Ruan Qingqiu, who was watching from the sidelines, suddenly clenched his fists and waved it as if he was victorious.
Her previous guess was pretty much accurate.
At this time, more people heard the buzz and came to the deck.
Among them were Song Yufei and other students, she was startled when she saw the corpse, then she saw Bai Ge, she saw Ruan Qingqiu, Song Yufei looked at the young man, and then at her teacher, her eyes were full of strangeness.
"That is, Mr. Dimitri left the room, but did not go to the bar, and was killed......"
Bai Ge looked around and made a simple conclusion.
"If you look at it this way, the man who killed Mr. Dimitri is now on this ship, between us."
His words caused an uproar, although this passenger ship was not fully loaded, but there were hundreds of passengers, plus the crew, there were always two or three hundred people, so many people, how to find prisoners?
"First of all, we have to check the alibi of the five of you, because acquaintances are the most likely to commit the crime, and after that, we will think about it, anyway, this ship will not arrive in Alexandria until tomorrow morning, and we have enough time to investigate clearly."
Bai Ge said, not as if he was distressed by this.
In fact, through the observation of [Assassin Vision] just now, he had basically locked on the prisoner among the remaining five, but simply knowing the result without reversing the process was not enough to convict.
"Mr. Captain, can you help me prepare a relatively quiet room, I need to make some inquiries."
Bai Ge said, glancing at Ruan Qingqiu again.
"You're with me."
"Huh? I? ”
Ruan Qingqiu couldn't figure out the situation for a while.
"You've been with me just now, and you have the fullest alibi, so be my assistant."
"Okay, okay!"
Ruan Qingqiu turned his face away a little shyly and followed.
"Staying together all the time?"
Song Yufei frowned when he heard this.