Chapter Eighty-Eight: Moonlight Murder (10)

Everyone was shocked, including Watson. first followed Sherlock's finger and looked at Lin Xi, and then stared at Sherlock incredulously.

How could Lin Xi be the murderer? Would such a weak and wasted man kill someone? And, what is the motivation? Is it the first time he's meeting Jiang Wentai? Just because his girlfriend liked Jiang Wentai, he had a murderous intention? That doesn't make sense.

"Mr. Sherlock? What are you...... Tell me...... What are you talking about?"

Lin Xi stammered when he spoke, his body was trembling, and he couldn't even make a stern rebuttal.

"You are the murderer, you killed Jiang Wentai."

Sherlock's expression was indifferent, his tone was unhurried, and although everyone was surprised, they were not too much to investigate, because what Sherlock said about the murderer was not himself, that was enough, and there was no need to intercede for him.

Sherlock glanced at Chen Yingjie when she said this, and found that her expression was a little complicated, but she didn't have the anger to defend her boyfriend.

Watson felt very confused, he himself felt that the murderer could only be among Yan Wu and Chen Yingjie, how could it be Lin Xi? It's not scientific.

So he crept over to Sherlock, bent down, covered his mouth, and whispered in Sherlock's ear.

"Sherlock, do you think so?"

Sherlock only smiled slightly, and then spoke in a normal tone, embarrassing Watson, who was biting his ears on the side.

"Yes, the murderer is Lin Xi, there is nothing wrong."

Sherlock was so determined, Lin Xi was a little flustered, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, looking like he was weak.

"You...... What proof do you have?"

Lin Xi yelled at Sherlock, but Sherlock was still calm and responded to his questions in a eloquent tone.

"Of course there is evidence, otherwise how could I be so confident in telling the murderer?"

Sherlock asked Lin Xi rhetorically, then turned around and walked to the window, Jiang Wentai, who was lying on his back, was really a little frightened, he casually picked up the bed sheet that was used as a bunk next to him, covered the whole person with an army green sheet, and then pushed the window open.

"It's 201, right?"

He asked casually with his back to the crowd.

"That's right......"

Lin Xi answered him honestly.

Sherlock then turned, then faced the crowd, and began to gesture with his hands.

"The murderer must only be able to attack from the window of 201, right? Because it's a secret room, it's impossible to get in through the door without a key, right?"

Sherlock said this, and then stopped to ask the group, of course it was true, there was only one key, and in the room, the door was closed, and the window could only be used as the only way to break through.

"Isn't that right? The murderer can also call Jiang Wentai out and let her open the door by herself, and then do it."

Luo Nan, who raised this objection, she felt especially lame when she looked at this detective.

"If you enter through the door, you won't be able to form a secret room, because the key is in Jiang Wentai's jacket pocket, and after the murderer kills someone, close the door, and then put the key into his pocket through his mind?"

Sherlock asked her like this, and Luo Nan was silent.

"And ah, if you enter the room through the door and commit murder, the deceased will resist before they die, right? If you don't resist, at least you'll scream, and there are other people on this floor, will the murderer do this?"

According to Sherlock's understanding of prisoners, if you want to kill someone, you will not easily kill the killer without adequate preparation, not to mention that there is a prerequisite, what about the secret room?

"How can you be sure it's me?"

Lin Xi's tone is very stable now, as if after the first murder is exposed, his attitude has a process from fear to shrewdness, which is too usual, as if he acted it out.

Sherlock continued his reasoning, and at this time everyone dared not underestimate him, after all, his clarity had been fully demonstrated.

"The door is closed, and it is only possible to enter through the window, how can I get in? There's only one way, let him open the window himself."

As Sherlock spoke, he picked up his phone, flipped it open, and clicked on the text message, which was unusually empty.

"That's why the text messages on my phone are emptied. The murderer led the deceased to open the window, and then killed the deceased by surprise, so that the deceased was frightened, and before he screamed, he had already lost his breath, and his pupils were also dilated, and he could not see it."

Sherlock spoke so eloquently, like a storyteller, that it was so brilliant that the rest of the people couldn't help but feel creepy.

"It's no wonder that the deceased has such an expression."

Watson, a medical major, squatted down curiously, carefully observed the face of the deceased, and did not feel sick to his stomach at all, and his psychological quality was really excellent when he studied medicine.

"This is the second floor, about three or four meters away, and there is soft grass below, so it won't be difficult to jump from 202, right?"

Sherlock said in a provocative tone, the blade of the sword pointed directly at Lin Xi, Lin Xi had changed from steady to cunning at this time, this is another gradual process, and the acting skills are superb.

"Oh, how do you get up then?"

"Come up, of course you can come up, Watson, take that out."

The smile on Sherlock's face had bloomed, though Peanut wanted to remind him that "this is not appropriate." But since he can solve the case, it doesn't hurt.

Watson hurriedly took out the things from the military backpack, and at the moment when the things appeared, Sherlock swept towards the group of people with his peripheral vision, and one of them had a subtle look in his eyes, especially when he found that Sherlock was looking at her, he was stunned, and then immediately calmed himself down and threw contempt at Sherlock.

The change is only a brief moment, and Sherlock really feels it, and it catches you!

"This is the barbed rope that Watson and I found in the grass fifty meters away from the temple, it was thrown by the murderer, because the grass is very high, and there is a stone path leading to the temple, so no one will walk in this direction, so this is difficult to find, and then the murderer can come and recover it."

Although Sherlock said this, he was a little unconvinced, because didn't he and Watson just walk through the grass and find the rope......

"There's such a thing...... When did you hide it in your bag?"

Chen Yingjie was curious to ask Lin Xi, because it was not herself who was being identified, she had already regarded herself as an audience to see this case.

Lin Xi didn't answer, and didn't look at her at all, her attitude was indifferent, Chen Yingjie might usually be angry when she was treated like this, but today, she could only go with him.

"You go down to the ground with a rope from 202, then climb to 201 next door, text Jiang Wentai, ask him to open the window, kill him with a dagger yourself, close the window, throw the dagger and rope wherever you want, and recycle it the next day."

This reasoning is flawed, and Sherlock thinks so.

"Yes...... How do you close the window? And, there are a lot of people who can do that, right? Why me?"

Lin Xi's face was no longer good-looking, as if he was about to be broken through the psychological defense.

Sherlock smiled.

"Of course it is."