Chapter 459: Reasoning in the Tilted House Act 13
"Not only did he lay a thick layer of earth on the cover plate at the entrance and exit of the passage, but also a small section of passage from the bottom of the cover to the first bend was also filled with earth by him, so that if the excavator was sloppy and opened the cover and saw that there was dirt underneath the landfill, he would be deceived by the murderer's trick and think that the passage had not been reopened at all."
"I didn't see the passage below until I dug up the two layers of dirt, because I couldn't be sure if the murderer was still in the lavender villa, so in order to prevent the murderer from using the passage after me, I found that the passage had been dug up and ran away. I filled in the dirt little by little, as it was, as much as I could, and then I walked down the passage all the way deeper. ”
"The farther I walked, the more wrong I felt, the passage seemed to me to be a little crooked, although the surrounding scenery was still exactly the same as before, but I always felt that the direction was a little wrong, when I saw the entrance and exit covered by plants, I understood. Instead of digging the original passage straight to the end, they only dug half of it and then changed direction, allowing the passage to continue inside the mountain. ”
"They completely sealed the original exit, and then dug a slanted arc on the wall of the original passage little by little, so that the passage gradually extended to the position they specified, which was difficult to do, and required careful measurement and calculation, and even the slightest deviation would not work."
"This kind of project is difficult for individuals or farmers in nearby villages to complete without the guidance of professionals, so I think it is very likely that the company will be responsible for the excavation, which makes me further sure that I may really be on the right track."
"The passage is divided into two parts, and the first part has a relatively small curve, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will mistakenly think that it leads directly to the outside of the cliff as before. The plant-covered entrance in the middle of the passage was also a trick, they deliberately made it exactly like the original entrance and exit on the other side of the cliff, and hung camouflaged poisonous snakes between the plants to stop the footsteps of the intruder, but in fact, all this was a fake. ”
"Just go straight through the entrance and you can see the back half of the passage, which is the real way to the Lavender Villa. That part of the curve is very large, gradually sloping downward, leading directly to the foundation of the east house of the lavender villa. ”
"I was very careful and watched every place along the way. Luckily, I didn't encounter anyone until I got to my destination. At the end of the passage, a rock wall blocked my way, and I found the exit overhead, and it was so high that I had to jump to barely reach it at my height. ”
"The exit was covered with a wooden cover, and I pushed it up hard and found that it wasn't locked, and I suspected that someone had just used it, so I stopped and hid and listened. After waiting for about ten minutes, there was still no movement on the cover, and then I mustered up the courage and began to find a way to climb up. ”
"When I entered the house, I found that it was a stairwell, and it was exactly the same as the stairwell I had seen in the house, except with an extra window. I didn't bother to study these things, and ran straight up the stairway, because there was blood on the top of the cover and on the stairs, and it was all the way up, and I ran along the blood trail into the room where Officer Xie and the deceased were. ”
"The scene in the room was horrible, there was blood all over the floor, half of the deceased was hanging on the windowsill and half of his body was lying on the ground. Officer Xie fell straight and face down in a pool of blood, soaked in blood. When I saw it for the first time, I was so scared that I thought I was too late. So I jumped up and shook Officer Xie's body vigorously, hoping that he would react a little. ”
"At that time, I was really a little panicked, I forgot to touch Officer Xie's snort first, and only wanted to shake him awake, and I didn't even think that the murderer might still be hiding in the shadows, watching our every move. Fortunately, Officer Xie was only drugged and didn't really die, otherwise, I really wouldn't have been able to explain to Xiao Yao. When Luo Yifan said this, he put on a look that he could finally relax, and spread his hands, indicating that he was indeed frightened.
He continued: "I originally wanted to ask about the situation, but as soon as Officer Xie came to his senses, he shook me off like an angry lion and rushed straight downstairs. I had no choice but to rush down after him, and when we reached the living room, I saw black smoke coming out of a nearby building, and my first reaction was that someone was burning the house. ”
"Officer Xie yelled at me, there are still people on the other side of the Westinghouse, tell me to hurry up and go to the rescue. While rushing into the lavender field by myself, I didn't pay attention to what he saw at the time, but just looked for water everywhere in the house, and after receiving a full basin of water, I rushed to the Westinghouse, ready to put out the fire. ”
"When I arrived at the gate of the house next door, I found that although the fire was concentrated in front of the gate and window, and the black smoke was very thick, it was not as serious as I thought, and the house was basically unharmed. After I put out the fire at the gate, I rushed in and found that there were four people inside, three of them unconscious on the floor, and one of the women was still awake, and this woman was Ms. Wen. ”
"Ms. Wen sat slumped on the ground, looking horrified when she saw me, still holding the tools for ignition. She piled almost all the fabrics I could see in the windows and doorways, not even the rags in the kitchen and the cushions on the sofa. I couldn't guess what she's doing this for. Just as she was about to ask, she suddenly fainted. ”
"There is no way, I can only let Ms. Wen stay where she is and put out the fire first. By the time I finally finished it, I was already in a mess. Officer Xie returned to the house with the woman he stepped on and fainted at this time, and when he told me that the woman's name was Bai Yun, I was shocked again, so I immediately briefly told me what happened on the periphery and the results of the autopsy obtained by Forensic Medicine Mo. ”
Officer Xie obviously didn't expect things to turn out this way, but he quickly calmed down. The two of us began to discuss what to do next, and although I saw Ms. Wen set the fire, we both thought that she should not be the murderer. Moreover, when I entered the house through the secret passage, I did not see a single person at all, indicating that the murderer could not have escaped from the same way I entered. ”
"After the killer kills the last person, the chances of choosing to flee directly through the gate are slim. So I guess that the murderer may still be in the lavender villa, and there is a trick. In the end, we agreed that Officer Xie would continue to stay in the West Room to check on everyone's injuries, while I would go to the East House to re-investigate, find a way to seal the entrance and exit of the underground passage on the East side of the East House, and then hide in the dark to cooperate with Officer Xie. ”
"Everything should have gone smoothly so far, and we have a good chance of being able to trap the murderer in the lavender villa. But we only noticed the house and the survivors in the house, but we didn't notice the hint that Bai Yun left us. I didn't even glance at the lavender and dirt that had been lifted around me when I rushed back to the East House. This is really a great oversight. ”
"After entering the East House for the second time, I have a few questions, the first is when Fu Zhi was killed? In this regard, I agree with Officer Xie that without prior preparation, a person cannot temporarily divide the corpse into this shape, and still have time to sprinkle the blood of the corpse with the drug. The solution to this problem is either that the murderer has several accomplices working together at the same time. ”
Either the murderer hides the victim in a certain place in advance, and prepares the killing tools and so on, so that when it is time to do it, he can quickly and effectively complete the killing process. The first method of cracking is completely impossible, so I believe that the murderer must have hidden the victim in the house in advance, and the only place that can be hidden is the secret passage I passed through just now, so there will be blood stains on the entrance and stairs of the passage. “
"But there are still uncertainties here, because it is impossible for the murderer to kill the victim in advance if there is a lot of fresh blood left in the room, and it is very difficult to quickly cut the flesh and cut off the bones, and the murderer's action time is less than ten minutes, unless he is a very skilled veteran, it is impossible to do it at all."
"In addition to the time of the murder, the second is the problem of the murderer spilling the drug in the blood of the victim, how can the murderer guarantee that the drug he sowed will definitely make Officer Xie be tricked? The only explanation here is that the murderer must have been staying at the Lavender Villa, who could grasp Officer Xie's every move, and even control his subsequent actions. ”
"The manner in which the last body died was too obvious, and the reason why the killer did not choose to hide or take the body away was because he wanted the police to find the body, that is, to use the body as a decoy to attract Officer Xie. Only in this way can he be sure that the drug will work before it evaporates cleanly. ”
"But this can't be the whole reason, I vaguely felt at the time that the murderer chose such a cruel method of killing, and blatantly left the body in place, and threw out the window, there should be a big doubt about the identity of the body."
"I think that after Ms. Wen returned to China, the Wu Xinghan I saw was already Fu Zhi." Luo Yifan turned to Wen Yuan and said, "That's why he introduced Liu Yunzhao to you, and you can't feel the hatred of the past from him." Ms. Wen, have you ever heard of Wu Xinghan's father after returning to China? ”
"No, in the past few years since I returned to China, I have always wanted to contact him, but I have never been contacted, and I only found Xiaohan's mobile phone number. When I left China, Xiaohan was just a teenager, and it was normal to have some changes when I grew up. Ms. Wen replied.