Chapter 51: Inference
After listening to Shen Fangli's description, Tang Xuancheng was looking forward to meeting with the president of the branch of the Langtian Adventure Group, she wanted to take this opportunity to show everyone her reasoning ability, if she could successfully find out the murderer, not only Shen Fangli would be grateful to her, but also bring a lot of sensation to the entire Panhu City.
On the day of the detective society's first outdoor field trip, Tang set off with a magic camera borrowed from Duan Ruoxian, and when she arrived at the ruins of the Orphin Orphanage, the light was just right to pass through the branches, and the constant chirping of cicadas seeped the smell of the wilderness into the broken ruins in front of her.
The other three members arrived a little earlier than Tang Xuancheng, Shen Fangli and Mu Yunxi held their fingers together and mourned silently in front of the ruins, Liu Yuhan stared at the blackened main building of the orphanage with deep eyes, no one knew what she was thinking. Next to the three members were two other people Tang Yucheng didn't know, a little girl in a pale pink dress was running around the ruins, burning down the broken walls as a hiding place, and a middle-aged man squatted down, touched the loess on the ground, and then snuffed out the cigarette butt in his mouth on the ground.
Tang Xuantang's greeting made Shen Fangli turn her head, smiled faintly at her, and then introduced her to the two strangers around her.
"He is the president of the branch of the Langtian Adventure Group I mentioned to you - Lin Yantian, and the little girl running around in the distance is his daughter Lin Yaoxi. ”
After Lin Yantian heard Shen Fangli call his name, he stood up lazily, turned his head and shook hands with Tang Xuantang: "Miss Tang, I heard that you are the president of the detective club in Miss Shen's mouth, and I admire you very much, after all, there are not many talents with outstanding reasoning ability in the whole continent." ”
Tang Yucheng touched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "You are exalting me too much, reasoning is just my hobby, how can it be compared to President Lin, who has completed countless entrusted tasks." ”
"As long as Miss Shen is a friend, they all have their own specialties, and it seems that Miss Shen is the most attractive person among us. ”
Seeing that Lin Yantian turned the target of praise to himself, Shen Fangli was a little dissatisfied, and pouted: "Hurry up and collect clues, don't delay time." ”
Under Shen Fangli's urging, Lin Yantian began to search the scene of the fire, first came to the ruins of the main building of the orphanage, slowly stepped over the collapsed stone wall, scraped off the ashes left by the flames on the wall with a small blade, and then packed it with a plastic film and sealed it. He asked Tang to follow him and take pictures of every part of the ruins of the main building.
After searching the mainstream ruins, Lin Yantian and Tang Zhencheng came to the dormitory building where the fire broke out again, and when they passed the well in front of the dormitory building, they found that the well water was still sufficient, and no one had touched it. Then the two began to inspect each dormitory, Lin Yantian was responsible for inspecting the boys' dormitory on the first floor, and Tang Xuancheng went up to the second floor to check the situation of the girls' dormitory. During this period, Lin Yaoxi claimed that he would also participate in the investigation, but was immediately pushed aside by Lin Yantian, and he asked his playful daughter not to disturb his work.
Two hours later, Lin Yantian, who had collected some ash samples, and Tang Xuantang, who had taken a lot of photos, came to the crowd and prepared to talk about their inferences.
"How is it?, have you figured out the cause of this fire?" asked Shen Fangli anxiously.
Lin Yantian made a gesture of please, and let Tang Xuancheng say first, so she helped her glasses and said: "First of all, there is no doubt that this case is determined to be an arson case, the flammable materials at the scene are concentrated in the dormitory, if the fire is negligent, it will only be the fault of the children in the dormitory building, but the testimony provided by the police is the fault of the staff, which is obviously not in line with the truth." She handed the photos she had taken to Shen Fangli, Liu Yuhan, and Mu Yunxi, "You take a look at these photos, the traces of burning on the building are very revealing." ”
"It's all a pale gray, a sign of a fire spell. Shen Fangli recalled the scene when she was a child passing by the fire on Qidao West Street, and the only remaining smoke on the building was also this color, "I have long expected this, when I rushed into the dormitory building to search for fishing rods, I found that this flame is special, and ordinary water spells do not seem to be able to extinguish it." ”
"Did you find anything unusual in the process of participating in the firefighting?" asked Lin Yantian.
"No, everyone worked hard to extinguish the fire, but the fire was too big to be extinguished, but luckily, the children were moved to a safe place due to the timely detection. ”
Lin Yantian touched his lower lip, carefully pondered the words "lucky", "timely discovery", and "hard work to participate in the firefighting" that Shen Fangli said, and said solemnly for a long time: "No, you think about the tools used by the staff to extinguish the fire at that time. ”
"What's so strange about this, the only way to extinguish the fire effectively is to cast a water spell. ”
"That's what's weird! Think about it, if it's an ordinary fire, the first thing the firefighters think of is to get water to extinguish the fire, not to cast a spell to extinguish the fire, because chanting a large-scale water spell is not something that everyone can do, let alone a group of low-level staff. ”
Lin Yantian swallowed his saliva and continued: "The place where the fire started was in the dormitory building, and there was a well not far away, but there was no trace of anyone taking water, this information is like telling us that the staff in the orphanage have long known that the flames of the fire cannot be extinguished with ordinary water. ”
"I think it's a little strange to hear you say that, on the first day of the holiday, I could still see a few staff in the orphanage saying hello to them, but they were not seen much on the day of the fire. Liu Yuhan poked Shen Fangli's armpit and said, "Aren't the staff in the orphanage all dressed in maid costumes? ”
Mu Yunxi suddenly thought of something and exclaimed: "By the way, the maid's outfit is a white neckline, but the staff who appeared on the day of the fire is wearing a purple neckline." ”
"Then listen carefully to my reasoning. Lin Yantian solemnly motioned for everyone to be quiet, and when everyone focused on him, he slowed down his tone and said, "Judging from all indications, this fire is an organized arson case, the arsonist first took advantage of the unpreparedness of everyone to cast a special fire spell in the dormitory building, and then hid in a hidden place to maintain the summoned flames, in order to divert everyone's attention, the organization asked some members to pretend to be orphanage staff to participate in the process of extinguishing the fire, so that the real arsonist can escape smoothly." ”
"This person is Hongba, yes, I really didn't expect her to send her own men to deceive us, if I catch her, this revenge will be avenged. ”
Saying that, Shen Fangli told Lin Yantian about the encounter with the Heavenly Zhaojiao sanctioner Hongbao that day, and said that in fact, she had determined the mastermind of the arson case a long time ago, but she couldn't find any evidence.
However, Lin Yantian's attitude was beyond her expectations, he took a puff of cigarette and said lightly: "The woman you are talking about is not the mastermind of this arson case, and can only be regarded as one of the suspects. ”
"Impossible! That day, Fang Li did see Hong Bao passing by the fire scene, according to Fang Li, Hong Bao is the best at using fire, who else would she have?" Mu Yunxi interjected anxiously.
"In fact, what puzzles me the most in this case is the attitude of the police, today the evidence we searched for is so obvious, but the police hastily determined that the fire started by negligence, I suspect that either someone behind the scenes bribed the police, or was instructed by someone to let the police deal with this matter coldly. The cigarette in Lin Yantian's hand bottomed out, he flicked the cigarette ash and lowered his eyes, "The only institution that can control the police station and have the most power is the mayor of Panhu City." ”
Hearing Lin Yantian say this, everyone was so surprised that they couldn't speak, and Lin Yaoxi even gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "Dad, you are so amazing!"
After a long time, Shen Fangli came to her senses and stammered a little, "Wait...... Wait, this seems unlikely, could the mayor be behind this incident? He has no grievances with Dean Lan, why did he send someone to burn down the dean's orphanage?"
"We'll have to ask the director of the Orphin orphanage, and maybe she'll give us a clue. Lin Yantian touched his hair and said, "Can you make an appointment to meet her for me?"
"No problem, Dean Lan currently lives in Silver Fox Village, only a few kilometers away from Haohan Lake, and we may be able to see her if we go over now. Mu Yunxi touched his neckline, "Why don't we set off immediately." ”
Lin Yantian nodded, agreeing with Mu Yunxi's suggestion, he took his daughter's hand and stuffed the collected ash sample into his shoulder bag: "As for what kind of fire spell the flame that caused this fire, you can know by testing the ash sample, as far as I know, the spell fire is divided into five levels, among which Qingyan and curtain flame are difficult to extinguish with ordinary water, and it is estimated that it is one of these two spell fires." ”
The people who completed the investigation of the fire scene called two carriages at the exit of the Haohan Lake road, Lin Yantian, Lin Yaoxi, and Tang Xuancheng shared one, and Shen Fangli, Liu Yuhan, and Mu Yunxi took the other car, and their destination was Yinhu Village, an affiliated village of Panhu City.
With the sound of a horse, the wheels rolled, because the space in the car was a little narrow, Tang Xuancheng had to hold Lin Yaoxi to ride, this noisy little girl was always moving around, pointing to the scenery in the middle of the lake and asking her some inconsequential words, which made her frown and didn't know how to answer.
Now that Tang Xuantang has figured out the reason for the disagreement between Liu Yuhan and Lin Yaoxi, this wild girl, I really don't understand that her father asked her to act as the head of the branch of the Langtian Adventure Group, is it a training for her? Or is it indulgence? But judging from Lin Yantian's expression, he seems to be very convinced that his daughter will have a bright future in the future.
In short, Lin Yantian's reasoning is only professional compared to himself, Tang Xuancheng can't help but sigh in his heart that he is still too tender, and there are still many places to learn.