At this time, the middle-aged crew member, who was still alive in the morning, had a pale face, his eyes were closed, and he was lying on the stern deck soaking wet, motionless. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Under the first aid of the rest of the crew, streams of murky river water kept spitting out of their mouths, but there was still no sign of waking up.

After more than ten minutes, everyone stopped, and could only stand and look at the corpse of the middle-aged crew member, shaking their heads and sighing.

Seeing the little boss who had been rescued until the end, he had no choice but to give up and stood up, Mu Zihan stepped forward.

He put his hand on the middle-aged crew's neck for a moment, then opened the door, opened the other's eyelids to look at them, and finally opened his thin shirt to check it again.

"He's dead." After checking all this, Mu Zihan also got up helplessly and whispered. With that, he let out a long sigh and walked towards the cabin.

And I glanced at the little boss who also looked painful, so I followed Mu Zihan and went back to the cabin together.

It's not that we don't want to care about what happens next, it's that we don't need to care, and even we don't have the right to care. After that, I can only let the little boss and the remaining four crew members handle it themselves.

After returning to the cabin, Mu Zihan didn't say a word, just sat there blankly.

I didn't want to disturb him when I saw him distracted, but seeing that the time for my arrival was getting closer and closer, I couldn't help but become anxious, and began to fidget and walk back and forth in the cabin. Is it really all we have to do to give up?

"Zihan."

"Siyuan."

After a while, I suddenly stopped and spoke, who knows, at this time, Mu Zihan also spoke at the same time.

"You speak first."

"You say."

Once we spoke in unison, the two of us were stunned for a moment, and this strange coincidence eased the originally oppressive atmosphere in the cabin a lot.

"Oh, okay, I'll say it first." I chuckled and said, "Zihan, don't you think the drowning incident of this middle-aged crew member is very strange?" ”

"Well, go ahead." Mu Zihan nodded and motioned for me to continue.

"Let's not talk about why he suddenly fell into the water for no reason, but it was only about ten minutes before and after he fell into the water and was found and rescued. Even a person who can't swim can't drown in such a short period of time. He, an old crew member who has been running the ship for many years, would drown so easily? As I walked around the cabin, I analyzed, "However, you have examined the body just now and made sure that he was indeed drowned, but there seems to be nothing wrong with it." Therefore, I always feel that there is an indescribable sense of contradiction in this whole drowning incident. ”

"Siyuan, you're right, but you haven't thought through enough." Mu Zihan smiled and motioned for me to sit down, and then replied, "That's right, this middle-aged crew member did drown, but who can guarantee that he drowned after falling into the water just now?" Or who can be sure that he drowned in the Mekong? ”

"What do you mean?" Being pulled by Mu Zihan so little, I suddenly thought, yes, the order of "falling into the water" and "drowning" may not be what I imagined, but it may also be the other way around. In other words, it is very likely that he was drowned by someone pressing his head into the water while he was on the boat, and then dumped his body in the river to attract our attention.

In this way, this incident, which is obviously an intentional homicide, will look like an accident that fell into the water and drowned.

"According to what you say, then among the people on the ship now, at least the suspicion of the little boss can be ruled out." After thinking about this, I thought about it and said, "After all, he was with us when the middle-aged crew fell overboard." ”

"Yes, dislike can be ruled out, but it is not completely excluded. Because, so far, we have not been able to determine that the murder of the middle-aged crew member and the missing person of the ship's boss are the same person. Mu Zihan said: "Although the little boss can rule out the suspicion of killing the middle-aged crew, he can't rule out the suspicion of harming the ship's boss." After all, in the case of the ship boss, all the clues point to him. ”

"And the problems don't end there." As he spoke, Mu Zihan paused, as if he was organizing his language, and spoke again after a while: "Through this drowning case, at least one of our previous inferences has been overturned. At the time, we suspected that the other five crew members, except for the small boss, might be in cahoots. However, it now seems that this is not the case, otherwise the middle-aged crew member would not have been killed. This is both good and bad for us now. The good thing is, at the very least, that our situation is not as precarious as we thought. The bad thing is that this whole thing is even more elusive. ”

"Indeed." I nodded in agreement and said, "And if the murderer in these two cases is the same person, that is, the owner of the wooden box, then his motive for murdering the captain of the ship can be explained." But why do you still kill people when the ship is about to land? Doesn't that cause unnecessary trouble? Was there any reason why he had to do it? ”

"Conversely, if the murderers of the two incidents are not the same person, then what is the motive for killing the middle-aged crew member? I couldn't figure it out. I said bitterly: "Murderers kill people for nothing more than fame, profit, and power." Name and power, for these crew members, it is really nothing. Then it can only be a relationship of interest. But what interests did this middle-aged crew member hinder the murderer? ”

Obviously, Mu Zihan also had no way to answer my series of questions, so after I finished speaking, he also lowered his head and did not speak, his face full of solemnity and distress. Then, the whole cabin was silently pin dropping.

Suddenly, the hull of the ship shook and interrupted our musings, and we looked out the window to see that the cargo ship had started again. It seems that the little boss and the crew have already arranged the body of the middle-aged crew member, so they are ready to continue their departure.

"Siyuan, I suddenly thought of something just now." Mu Zihan said with a serious face: "You say, is this possible?" In fact, neither the petty boss nor the crew members are lying......"

I understood what Mu Zihan meant, so before he could open his mouth, I denied it: "How is this possible? Six people, in almost about the same amount of time, passed through the same lot. Five said they saw the ship's boss, while one said they didn't. It could only be that one of them was lying. ”

"That's what I thought. So I've been reasoning along this line. However, in retrospect, I find that this is also possible. Mu Zihan said.

(To be continued)