Chapter 17: The Strange Pendulum Clock
Syllable! The squid in Zheng Hanfei's hand fell directly to the ground, and the squid that had just eaten a few bites was suddenly covered with dust and completely scrapped. Immediately, Zheng Hanfei didn't say a word, directly crossed the side of Nan Ruoxun and his party, and rushed towards Zhong Xian's house, due to the urgency of the situation, he even forgot to call Meng Wu to go with the others.
"Little dream, here you go!" Meng Wu quickly felt Wang Xiaomeng's side from the food stall, handed the hot squid to Wang Xiaomeng, gave him a word, looked at Zheng Han's back that was about to disappear, and quickly chased after him. The enlightenment that has already been experienced once certainly knows what this song represents, which is the coming of death.
Murderer! This time we must not let you escape! Zheng Hanfei and Meng Wu had a common thought in their hearts, the speed increased again, it originally took five minutes to travel, but they were forced to shorten it to two or three minutes, and as soon as they ran to the stairs, they heard a faint sound of banging on the door on the second floor, if it wasn't for their ears already trained, they couldn't catch it.
Zheng Hanfei and Meng Wu glanced at each other, ran to the second floor as fast as they could, and suddenly they saw Ling Hua slamming the door of Haobu's room hard, seeing Meng Wu and Zheng Hanfei coming, Ling Hua was slightly stunned, then exhaled and shouted at them: "Han Fei, Meng Wu, you came just in time, hurry up and come over to help me!" ”
"Why are you here alone? What about Captain Mo Gang? Meng Wu found that Mo Gang was not with Ling Hua, and was a little puzzled, so he was about to bang on the door and asked Ling Hua, "Isn't he with you?" Why is it missing at such a critical time? Do you know where he went? ”
"We'll talk about it later, let's bang on the door first!" Ling Hua responded hastily, looked at Zheng Hanfei, who was already ready beside him, nodded, and shouted one, two, three! Then, the three of them slammed into the door at the same time, making a low noise, and at the same time the door shook violently, although it was not knocked open, but it seemed to be fast, maybe the three of them hit it once or twice, and the door slammed open.
"Again, one, two, three!" Ling Hua yelled again, and the three of them ran out at the same time and banged on the door, and then with a snap, the door opened, and then the three of them heard a sound like glass breaking, and then they saw that the door did not hit the wall with a loud noise as expected, but stopped halfway, as if it was blocked by something.
Fortunately, the gap that was exposed allowed an adult to pass through, so the three of them glanced at each other, and entered the room in order, as soon as they entered the room, they saw that the pendulum clock that was originally next to the door actually fell in front of the door, needless to say, the thing blocking the door was him, and there seemed to be something pressed under the pendulum clock, Zheng Hanfei squatted down and took a look, his eyes were actually wide, and Yu Haobu was covered in blood.
"It's a mobile phone recording again!" Meng Wu put on his gloves, grabbed the mobile phone that kept playing beautiful songs on the bed, pressed the pause button, and the beautiful singing disappeared instantly, and then said, "How is it, can you see how Hobu died?" Are we responsible? ”
"It's not." Zheng Hanfei and Ling Hua put on gloves one after another, first moved the pendulum clock on Yu Haobu's body away, and then Zheng Hanfei checked it and said slowly: "He was already dead before we hit the door, he had two knife wounds in his chest, which were stabbed to death, judging from the size of the wounds, it should be the same murder weapon, as for the time of death, I think it is better to leave it to Qu Menghan later, I am not very good at this kind of thing." ”
Speak of the devil! As soon as the words fell, Qu Menghan rushed to the scene with Nan Ruoxun and Wang Xiaomeng, and saw the corpses covered in blood, the faces of the three girls were a little bad, and Qu Menghan, who was used to seeing corpses, recovered first, and before Zheng Hanfei asked, she put on gloves and walked to the corpse, and waved her hand to Zheng Hanfei at the same time, realizing that you are too squatting here.
The corners of Zheng Hanfei's mouth twitched slightly, stood up, patted his clothes, and then walked to the window, pushed hard, and found that the window was locked from the inside, and what made Zheng Hanfei even more concerned was that there were a few fish scales and some water stains stuck to the glass of the window, which emitted a bright light under the sun.
Interesting. The corners of Zheng Hanfei's mouth hooked up a little arc, beckoned to Meng Wu, pointed to the discovery on the window, and kept staring at Meng Wu, as if waiting for his opinion.
"The windows are locked." Meng Wu didn't care about Zheng Hanfei's gaze, pushed the locked window, then looked at Zheng Hanfei, and said, "And the door is locked from the inside, there is no one else in the house except the deceased, and the key to the room is on the table, that is to say, ......"
"It's still a secret room!" The two replied in unison, "Judging from the water stains and fish scales on the window, the murderer still wants us to think about the mermaid, and it seems that our cover-up has been successful!" ”
The two smiled heartily, and then Meng Wu pointed to the big pendulum clock that had fallen to the ground and had been damaged, and asked Zheng Hanfei, "What do you think of this big pendulum clock?" I'm sure it didn't run to the front of the door for no reason, right? ”
"Its location is a little weird!" Zheng Hanfei pinched his chin and said, "Through the observation just now, I have come to two points, first, this secret room is definitely not formed by your previous methods, not to mention that the door of this room is different from Jiang Duxing's door, the most important point is ......"
"It has no gaps!" Meng Wu seemed to know what Zheng Hanfei was talking about, and replied for him, "Not to mention the string, not even a piece of paper can be transmitted from the house to the corridor through the door, it seems that the door is locked from the house." ”
"The second point is the position of the big pendulum clock you mentioned." Zheng Hanfei continued, "No matter from that point of view, its location is not justified at all, if the murderer is placed there to block the door, then its position is a bit far, it should be close to the door, if the murderer wants me to destroy the pendulum clock, then it is even more unspeakable, why does he want to do this more, just destroy it directly, why do you have to borrow our hand?" So I think this pendulum clock must be some kind of key. ”
"You're saying that a little too early!" Meng Wu pointed out a mistake, "Actually, the formation of this secret room may be very simple, and it is not as complicated as we think. ”
"You mean......" Zheng Hanfei frowned and said a possibility, "the spare key in the living room?" ”
"That's right!" Meng Wu snapped his fingers, "As long as the murderer gets the spare key, the formation of this secret room will not be a problem at all, maybe the murderer put the big pendulum clock in front of the door to complicate us." ”
"It's impossible!" The sound of their analysis was not small, Ling Hua and the others heard it as a matter of course, and then, Ling Hua said to Meng Wu, "Before the crime, I had been staying in the living room, and I only saw some people going downstairs or upstairs, and I didn't see anyone going to the living room to get a spare key at all. ”
"What was Officer Linghua doing in the living room at the time?" Zheng Hanfei asked curiously, "Is there anything in the living room that attracts you?" ”
"It's not!" Ling Hua coughed lightly and said a little embarrassedly, "At that time, I was just eating breakfast, because of yesterday's murder and the explosion at night, I slept very deeply, and Di Luo didn't call me when he woke up in the morning, so I got up very late, so I ate breakfast very late." ”
"That's it!" I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Qu Menghan interrupted the conversation between the three of them and said some clues about Yu Haobu's death, "The deceased's death was not long, about half an hour ago, and now only a few of us are here, everyone else has gone out, I advise you to find out the murderer from the time when the suspects left." ”
"Half an hour ago...... Zheng Hanfei looked at the multi-functional watch on his wrist and said: "The current time is 11:15, which means that the time of death of the deceased is around 10:45, Officer Linghua, since you have been staying in the living room, then you should know the time when those suspects left, right?" Roughly yes, too. ”
"I want to think about it." Ling Hua thought for a while, and recalled as much as he could, "It was 10:00 when I had breakfast, and Zhong Xian was cleaning up the kitchen at that time, and after a while, Zhong Xian walked to the second floor with a plate full of food, I didn't look at the time, but I think it should be around 10:10 at that time." ”
"Plates?" Zheng Hanfei and Meng Wu were stunned for a moment, and then their eyes focused on the plate on the table, judging from the fact that there were still some food residues on the plate, needless to say, Zhong Xian must have delivered food to Yu Haobu at that time.
"It seems to be 10:40, I saw Zhong Ming, Niu Zhen, and Huo Guojia walking downstairs, just about to go out, Niu Zhen seemed to have forgotten what to bring, and pulled the two back to the second floor, and when I finished eating, the three of them walked downstairs again, it was about 10:55, and then I saw Meng Han and the others running out with Zhong Ming, and at 11:00, Zhong Xian walked downstairs, and he was still with Mo Gang at that time, I think they should have gone to investigate the explosion at night at that time."