Chapter 23: The Mystery? (Above)

Mrs. Marple looked at Ziliang...... It seems that he didn't relax for a while.

After a while......

"Yes...... It's me? Then she surveyed and said: "Hehe, you just woke up, I don't blame you, but I have to explain to you, I am an old woman, I have been suffering from rheumatism for more than 20 years, even when I am in a tight position, I can only carry half a bag of flour at most, let alone me now...... So, how could I possibly move Sherlock's body to such a place? ”

Marple is very smart, so she quickly found a simple and direct question, which a fool can think of, and threw it to Ziliang.

However, Ziliang just smiled.

"Of course, you can't move."

"Hahaβ€”β€”β€” looks like you've only woken up now......"

"Hey, I'm not done yet." Ziliang interrupted the other party's words: "I only said that you can't move the whole thing, but you can not move the whole thing, you can move your head first, then your arms, then half of his thighs, and finally ......."

"Haha-" Mrs. Marple smiled and shook her head, "Okay, well, you mean I removed Sherlock piece by piece after amputating it, did you?" ”

Ziliang nodded: "Yes!" ”

"Oh, in that case, there are so many questions involved, where do I have to start, oh, let's ask in chronological order, first of all, how did I amputate him, with a knife? Okay, okay, I know you've been able to name a way to amputate someone with a knife and then make the murder weapon disappear, but ....... I've got somewhere to amputate my limbs, but what about the blood? Don't say I'm cleaning it, we have carpets in our rooms, and there's so much blood, it's not easy to wipe them clean, and even if I can really wipe them clean, I can't handle the smell in the room. ”

"Of course, you can't handle it." Ziliang said: "But there is a premise for this, that is, when the corpse sheds a lot of blood, and if the corpse does not bleed, or leaves very little blood, then the situation is different!" ”

Marple frowned, "What's wrong with you?" Don't you have common sense? There is blood in the human body, how can I not bleed when I amputate my limbs? ”

"In one case, you can." Ziliang said lightly: "...... When it's frozen! ”

Marple stared at Ziliang without shying away from it, as if waiting for him to continue...... And Ziliang, of course, did as she wished.

"Blood is a very amazing thing, although it is 90% water, but a large number of proteins and blood cells make its freezing point extremely high, when the temperature is above zero 10 degrees, the isolated blood begins to gradually coagulate, that is, when the human body temperature is below 10 degrees, the person should almost die...... At minus 30 degrees Celsius, the blood clotting takes less than two minutes, and at minus 100 degrees Celsius, the blood clotting almost instantaneously. ”

"So, you're saying I froze Sherlock?"

"Yes, you froze him, and you don't need any knife to amputate the limb at all, that would be too long for you to waste, you just smash it, I said before, blood is a very magical thing, it will not expand like water in the case of freezing, but will form 'fractured' ice crystals, to put it bluntly, that is, people at low temperatures, will become a kind of similar to' Hollow sculpture, everyone must have seen TV, after people are frozen into ice, falling to the ground will be like porcelain to be torn apart, although exaggerated, but ...... At minus 100 degrees Celsius, if a person is frozen instantly, then the person will indeed become very brittle. So you didn't amputate your leg first, you froze Sherlock and then smashed it. ”

Marple exhaled deeply: "Okay, okay, what you said is the truth, but there is a problem you have to follow the facts, recall, we all saw Sherlock appear when he killed Kudo Shinichi, he was not dead at that time, and he was still hiding, and after Kudo Shinichi died until now, how could I possibly find him, and also kill him, freeze, and amputate his leg?" And the most crucial point, that is, Sherlock was not amputated, he just lay here, a full Sherlock! ”

She pointed to the corpse on the table and said!

However, Ziliang shook his head.

"No, we saw Sherlock, but it's not a complete Sherlock!"

"What...... What do you mean? ”

"Obviously, what you see now is not a complete me, in fact, in our daily life, except in the bathhouse or in the bed, it is difficult to see a complete person, you know what I mean, rightβ€”β€”β€”"

"I ...... I don't know! Mrs. Marple's tone seemed to change slightly.

"Oh, are you still struggling, look at me, now, do you see all of me? No, you just saw my head, my hands, and other than that, they were gone, and all that was left was my shirt, pants, leather shoes, and this damn white coat. Ziliang said unhurriedly: "Let's take a look at Sherlock again, he is dressed similarly to me, but he has changed his white coat into a suit...... What do you think? I see, that is, what we saw at the time of Sherlock was incomplete, he was actually ...... It's just a head......"

"Nonsense!" Marple immediately interrupted Ziliang's words: "Do you want to say that Sherlock only had these parts at that time?" But you can also see that his clothes at that time were not empty, he was very real, and he was not a puppet with only a few pieces of cloth connected together! ”

"Of course he is a puppet, but not just a few pieces of cloth connected together, but also filled in his suit with something that seems to be very real, but it is incomparably light, and can disappear in an instant." As he spoke, Ziliang pointed to the balloons next to the Christmas tree: "Didn't you notice that there are a few of our holiday balloons?" Oh, let me think about it, it's exactly three round balloons, and four long balloons, hehe, if these things are put together, put on a suit, and then press a head on it, do you think, in that kind of light and dark situation at that time, how likely are we to see his figure? Not to mention that there was a flame burning next to it. ”

"Oh, yes, that seems to explain why Sherlock disappeared, in fact, he didn't disappear, we just need to combine the previous modus operandi ...... [Inspector Polo]'s cyanide - [Kaneda Kazuichi]'s fishing lineβ€”β€”β€” [Grudge House]'s amputation - and some balloons we saw when we went out...... Plus, the killing tools you need β€”β€”β€” a small jar of liquid nitrogen, and you're good to go. ”