Six secret rooms
From Jiang Le's point of view, Liang Jingmo's toss is actually unnecessary.
She had vaguely heard the conversations he had had with Yukihiko in the room. When she entered the room herself, she also saw the marks on the heels of the high heels on the floor. There are only three women on this ship, of course she can rule it out herself, and the "maid" probably doesn't have the ability to sneak into the locked room in the middle of the night and stab Chris to death, and just like Liang Jingmo pointed out, committing a crime requires a motive, she didn't know Chris before and had no grudges, so naturally she had no motive.
After this elimination, Wen Ji is actually the only one left in the scope of the suspect. In terms of motivation, if every host was asked by Chris like that, it would be very logical for her, as a mole, to be unable to hold her breath for a while.
If Jiang Le came to handle the case by herself, it would be over at this time to arrest people and interrogate them, what secret room modus operandi is not a trick made up by the murderer herself, as long as the torture is in place, she will say it obediently.
However, Liang Jingmo seems to be addicted to the role of a detective, not only does she have to solve the puzzle to close the case, but also wants her to gather everyone together to listen to his reasoning, and then find out the murderer openly like those detective cartoons...... Jiang Le originally planned to ignore this kind of behavior, which can almost be said to be fun, but she had a special premonition in her heart......
What if he had other thoughts hidden inside?
Judging from her understanding of Liang Jingmo's past, he is really the type to hide a hole card at any time. Although everything seems clear to her now, in the hands of Liang Jingmo, a magician, things can still evolve into anything.
So she summoned everyone to this small conference room to watch Liang Jingmo's "secret room handout" show. Before that, he even made a little special "preliminary preparation" according to Liang Jingmo's requirements, which can be regarded as supporting him benevolently.
At this time, the hosts were sitting here, the expressions on everyone's faces were either curious or contemptuous, but their eyes were all focused on the face of the man standing in front of the stage.
"Everyone knows the current situation, so I won't waste time introducing it." Liang Jingmo stood on the makeshift podium, knocked sideways on the whiteboard beside him to assist in the narration, and said straight to the point, "The biggest dilemma at the moment is the problem of the secret room at the time of Chris's death. The secret room has been systematically expounded in his writings by a writer named John Dixon Carr a long time ago, and let me parrot it here to see if I can solve this difficult problem that lies before us. ”
He made a few quick strokes on the whiteboard, faintly revealing a top-down view of a room.
"When we say secret room, we mean by default, of course, a room with doors and windows closed. To discuss the method of escape, we must first confirm that it is really closed. The so-called low-level settings such as a secret corridor leading to a secret room can't make readers buy it in a third-rate detective story, and naturally it didn't appear in our case this time. The room where Chris died was personally confirmed by the host Yukihiko, there was no secret passage, no secret room, and no one could hide in it when we found the body. I have personally confirmed these contents on the spot since then, and they are completely correct, and I can assume that this room is a complete secret room - then, the rest of the analysis is based on this premise. ”
He smiled and drew a small figure on the outside of the schematic.
"First of all, there is a kind of closed room homicide, the room at the scene of the crime is really completely closed, in this case, the reason why the murderer did not escape from the room is because the murderer was not in the room at the time of the crime. There are several possibilities in this, first, it is not a murder, but a series of coincidences that lead to an accident that resembles murder. For example, before the room was locked, there was a fight, someone was injured, furniture was destroyed, etc., all of which are reminiscent of the scene at the time of the murder, and then the victim was killed by accident and died while the room was locked, but all events were mistaken for the same time. ”
He smiled: "To apply this case, it's like the murderer visited Chris first, and after leaving, Chris locked the door, stabbed himself with a screwdriver, and finally died because of ingesting too much H986 toxin." ”
"Is that the truth?" Jiang Le asked, "Isn't this still the unreasonable speculation at that time?" ”
"It's really just speculation." Liang Jingmo said, "The real answer will naturally emerge after summarizing all the circumstances." ”
He continued: "The second possibility is that it was murder, but the victim was forced to kill himself or stumbled into a death trap. The victim may be lured into, or driven to act by some kind of psychological cue, more often as poison gas from outside the room. Whether it is gas or poison gas, it is possible for the victim to go berserk and slam into the walls of the room, making the scene look like a trapped beast fight, and the cause of death is still a knife wound inflicted on himself. In this case, an overdose of psychotropic drug residues was detected in the corpse, as well as a stab wound on Chris's body that was pricked with a screwdriver, which at first glance seems to be in line with this situation, but everyone has seen it before. ”
He drew a circle around the diagram: "There are no signs of fierce fighting in this room, and this is not like the behavior that someone who is mad enough to self-harm should do." So this possibility, we keep it open for the time being. ”
"The third possibility is that it was murder through a mechanism already installed in the room, which was undetectable, hidden somewhere on top of the furniture that seemed harmless. The design of this trap may be an extension of modern technology, such as a telephone microphone that hides a pistol mechanism, a wall clock that shoots bullets when turned to a fixed time, a sharp blade hidden under a light switch that can cut off fingers, and so on. When we study the various traps, we will find that the locked room can really be considered pediatric, and theoretically the traps can do anything. It's just ......"
He changed his words: "It's just that so far we haven't found a similar mechanism in the room. The setting of automatic attacks with a screwdriver is also a bit too nonsense, and I reserve this possibility as well. ”
Jiang Le frowned, but did not interject.
"The fourth possibility is that it was a suicide, but it was deliberately arranged to be murder. This is by far the most likely speculation. We seem to tacitly assume that Chris was killed, but what if he committed suicide? Stabbing himself with a drug-coated screwdriver in a locked room and dying of heart failure is something he could have done on his own. However, this also raises a problem, and that is motivation. ”
He looked around, his gaze slowly sweeping over each host's face: "A few hours before he died, he found you and offered you each a trade invitation. He clearly had unfinished ambitions, so why did he commit suicide a few hours later? ”
"The fifth possibility is that it was murder, but the mystery was caused by delusion and disguise. For example, when I opened the door, I saw not the victim, but the murderer himself, who was disguised as the victim and left alone in the room. Later, due to the need to investigate the scene, we left there temporarily, and the murderer who found the opportunity pulled out the victim's body and placed it in the predetermined position, and he himself fled. This possibility could exist elsewhere, but not in this case. ”
"Because I was randomly assigned to investigate, and it's entirely possible that I would have personally inspected the body when it was found." Princess Jiang Le scoffed, "If this speculation is true, it means that Xue Yan and I have problems, this is obviously impossible." ”
"That's true, but you don't even have to think about it."
Liang Jingmo smiled: "Don't forget, it's Chris who died, and no one here can pretend to be his corpse." ”
He continued: "There is a sixth possibility, which is a murder, but the murderer did it outside the room, it just looks like it was committed in the room. The most obvious murder weapon in this regard is naturally a firearm, but generally the murderer will not directly use a pistol in order to hide people's eyes, but will use some kind of similar weapon that can be fired instead. Or in some cases, the killer lures the victim to poke his head out of the room, and then stones him to death from the outside, and the victim's body naturally falls into the room, thus forming the illusion of death in the room. In this case, it's ......"
Liang Jingmo drew a circle on the diagram marking the location of the porthole, "Let's imagine the porthole here, if someone shoots a toxin-coated screwdriver into the house from this position, and hits Chris accurately, then we can also disguise the illusion that he was stabbed in the room." Or maybe the man lured Chris to the window and stabbed him with a screwdriver there, and then the frightened Chris fled into the room and locked the window with his hands......"
"Okay, that's enough." Jiang Le suddenly spoke, interrupting him impatiently.
"But as you said in the previous article, with Chris's child-like height, even if he is close to the porthole, the first part of the stab should be the head, why is the last injury so low? So this assumption is still the same as the previous ones, and it doesn't hold. She shook her head, "You're enough, Liang Jingmo, I gathered people and gave you so much time, not to listen to you say such inconsequential things." What about your reasoning? What kind of murderer do you want to point out? Let's get straight to the point! Or ......"
She narrowed her eyes and her gaze became fierce: "You're actually lying to me at all?" ”
"Heaven above, I've always told the truth." Liang Jingmo raised his hands jokingly, but his gaze was bright, "I said that the real answer will naturally emerge after summarizing all the circumstances. Now, it's hidden in the kind of scenario I just assumed. ”
"Combine them and that's the truth of last night's events."
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