Chapter 69: Murder in a Closed Room
The protagonist sends a messenger to call them over, and he has been wanting to ask them why they are delaying the wedding ceremony, and now he can finally ask carefully while he is in a hurry.
After listening to the protagonist's question, Roll motions for the protagonist to receive a packet of information containing everything that Roll has experienced in those days.
When the protagonist receives the message packet and reads the data inside, he suddenly finds that the scene in front of him has changed: a slightly convex white white pebble on the ground, surrounded by several Rambo and other male ants, which is clearly the classroom under the "Dongyang City".
The protagonist was startled, and his consciousness instantly broke away from the information package and returned to reality, and the protagonist saw clearly that he was still lying on the silk bed, and the side was rolling, and the god made the king army move quickly around the guard. The sky is cloudy and the wind is getting more and more urgent, and the sun is coming with rain.
The protagonist is a little embarrassed.,It seems that the one just now is the content carried in the information pack.,After reading it yourself, you can see everything he's encountered these days from a rolling perspective.。 The protagonist, who has never received or experienced this kind of packet, is startled by the sudden change in the scene, and his consciousness automatically returns to reality. The protagonist is a little embarrassed, he is too startled, but fortunately he doesn't know his mental activity.
The protagonist reads the packets of information in his mind again with his consciousness. Everything I saw in the underground classroom of "Dongyang City" appeared in front of me again.
In addition to the protagonist and the short-winged male ant who died at the hands of the praying mantis last time, all the 48 newly-born juvenile male ants with wings in the entire "Dongyang City" gathered in this classroom. However, this time they are not here for the class.
The protagonist notices that the old king is lying in the middle of the cobblestone with his feet facing the sky, and no one who sees him will think that he is asleep. Because, his head was cut off and rolled not far away, only the body that had lost his head was facing the sky on its back, and three pairs of arthropods were tightly curled up in front of him.
The old king is dead!
The protagonist can't read his emotions at the time from the rolling information packet, but the image is still very powerful.
Wang's sturdy soldiers were also at the scene, and they slapped Wang's already cold corpse with their tentacles in a slightly dazed manner, as if they hadn't understood what was happening. There was not a single trace of scars or fights on the soldiers.
Roll and all the male ants communicated in panic, they knew that Lao Wang was the only king in "Dongyang City", and the only one in power. He died suddenly, and even these young kings could see that the way of death was abnormal. But the inexperienced young king exchanged speculations and the result was: "Enemy attack, there is enemy attack." ”
It's not that these unmarried flying young males don't have enough IQ. It's just that in their conception there can be no cannibalism among their peers, they can only think of the possibility of an enemy attack, even if it is almost impossible in reality.
But the protagonist is convinced that this is not an enemy attack, but a murder. He didn't expect that there would be a murder in the always harmonious ant kingdom. He had no suspicion that there was something else that caused Lao Wang's death, and that this kind of death with his head cut off was the result of a frequent battle between ants. In the heavily guarded underground nest, no ants or insects can mix in except for the members of the nest. Why would there be ants who murder their companions?
Rolling a little more organized, he asked about the soldier ants. The soldiers said that after Lao Wang brought them to this classroom, he drove them all out and stayed here alone. These soldiers and ants guarded the entrances and exits at both ends of the classroom, and did not find anything unusual, and no enemy entered or left the classroom, but Lao Wang did not come out for a long, long time, and did not summon them. Although these soldiers were puzzled, they did not go in to see what was going on because of the order.
As soon as she entered the classroom, she saw Lao Wang lying on the ground, and after using her antennae to find that Lao Wang had lost his life (oleic acid that symbolized death had begun to appear), she hurriedly sent out a distress alarm, and the soldier ants outside ran in.
Then the worker ants ran all over the nest and told all the males and females the important news.
Although he thought of asking Lao Wang's guards for some information, he was just a slightly intelligent young male ant who didn't know the main points of interrogation and interrogation. Of course, the protagonist is also a half-ass, but he is influenced by modern criminal investigation dramas and comics, and if he is at the scene, he will definitely be able to find more clues and learn more information. But now the protagonist is just reading a packet of information about a scene that has already happened, and he has no way to go back in time, go back to the scene to do something, change something.
Judging from the information that Roll has learned, this is a typical case of murder in a closed room. The protagonist is starting to miss Conan, this guy is an expert on murder in the closed room!
The young males did not communicate with each other, although they had completed all the courses taught by Lao Wang, but before they participated in the wedding ceremony, their qualifications as kings were not recognized by all the ants in "Dongyang City", and even they themselves did not consider themselves to be a king now. Therefore, they could not order any large-scale action from the ants in the nest. Of course, even if they dare to give orders, not many ants will seriously carry them out. For these young kings, soldier ants and worker ants will be happy to obey simple orders that do not involve critical issues, as if the protagonist asks them to dig a hole or carry a vehicle all the way to the main nest. But if it involves major decisions, such as martial law in the whole nest, forming an army to go out, etc., these soldier ants and worker ants will never listen.
Therefore, the male ants discussed and discussed in the classroom, except for the doubts and panic that filled each other, they did not make any effective response. Eventually, the males went back to their nests to rest. That crucial piece of evidence, Lao Wang's detached body with a strong smell of oleic acid, was also thrown into the garbage heap by conscientious worker ants......
This makes the protagonist completely speechless, although the ants are less civilized, and the criminal investigation skills and experience are also lacking, but fools should know that Lao Wang's corpse is the key to solving the mystery of his death, so he was thrown away as garbage by a worker ant! The protagonist is a little wronged by his brothers, and they also realize the importance of Lao Wang's corpse, but some male ants feel that they are not qualified to give orders if they are not kings, and some do not expect that the corpse will be cleaned up by worker ants, and as a result, none of the male ants gave an order to protect the corpse, which led to this result.
After completing the hunting lesson (the lesson where the protagonist encountered the mantis and survived), the males are assigned to a separate nest, which is why the protagonist did not find the nest where the protagonist used to live last time.
In the middle of the night, Roll was awakened by his subconscious, and his tentacles felt the smell of rain - it was raining, which meant that the next day the young male ants had to set off on the road to the main nest for the wedding ceremony.