Chapter 3 I'm Not Your Partner
Bomb in the ...... of man ...... on the body Is it ......
While it's easy to think of suicide bombs, that's not where the problem is. He said: From the point of view of origin.
I think what Mitch meant was that we had the wrong starting point. We should not be obsessed with finding the bomb and finding the extent of the explosion to avoid it. Instead, you should try to find the prisoner first. Finding the prisoner means finding the bomb, and the 'bomb' is on the 'person'.
"Roar~hum-"
A confident smile tugged at the corner of Mickey's mouth.
"As the deputy director of the Department of Occult Research, I hereby order Su Chen and Luo Ling to act with me!! Roar hahahaha!! ”
"Okay...... What are you doing...... There are still three minutes to start studying early......"
Luo Ling said with a frown.
"To find the truth, of course!! Don't talk nonsense! Now there are only three of us in the whole school except for the murderer!! ”
Mickey waved his arms in a rage.
"But...... But ......"
Lorling looked like he wanted to say something.
"No but!!"
Interrupted rudely by Mickey.
Then, Mickey grabbed me and Lorring's wrists and dragged the two of us out. The kitten that had been lying on my lap was now running behind me, trying to catch up with me. And Su Haotian looked at us with a question mark on his face from his seat.
Mitch pulled the two of us to the bulletin board.
Because there are still a minute or two to start the morning self-study, there is no one in front of the bulletin board.
"Mickey, what are you doing here? We've cracked the code! ”
Lorling muttered discontentedly.
Maybe skipping class doesn't make a difference to Mickey, because Mickey is a top hitter. And Luo Ling is miserable, her grades themselves are in the middle of the class, and she is forced to carry out illegal activities by the Department of Occult Research......
"The code has indeed been cracked, but what you have cracked is only the code you copied on the paper."
As he spoke, an unfathomable smile appeared on his face again.
And his words woke me up all at once.
"You mean, we've just cracked the code, and we haven't investigated the code itself, right......?"
I looked at Mickey and waited for his answer.
"Huh? Eh!? What do you mean? ”
Lorling blinked, looking like he hadn't kept up with the two of us.
"That's right! Su Chen is right, hum~~ I'm more and more optimistic about you!! ”
Mickey said in an exaggerated tone, then paused, and continued.
"Supernatural Research Department numberthree Luo Ling, you know what the hint content is given by this two-party password, but there are still many clues on this original two-party password!"
Mickey said as he tore the code slip off the bulletin board.
"The simplest point, handwriting."
I stroked my hand over the kitten that had managed to catch up with me and was panting on my left shoulder.
That's right, you may not think of this at first glance - why do you have to write it by hand when it is a code left on A4 paper for printing?
"Ordinary people will not know these two-party passwords, so it is not ruled out that the prisoner may find someone else to write it. However, as long as the person who wrote can be found, it is estimated that the prisoner will not be far away! ”
"But, Mitch, there are more than 3,200 students in the school, and there is no indication that this code sheet was left by the students...... How exactly are you going to find out? ”
I asked, staring at the cipher watch in Mickey's hand.
It could be left by the teacher, it could be the cleaner, or even the guy who has graduated.
"But there's no indication that this cipher sheet wasn't left by the students, right?"
Mickey smiled meaninglessly again.
I was speechless.
Well...... Although it may be easier to just check the handwriting......
The handwriting on this piece of paper is very neat, so just remove the person who writes the letters with sloppy handwriting. In this case, it is estimated that the workload will be reduced by at least half!
But...... Where does he want to look?
There seems to be no place for us to investigate the handwriting......
"Besides, isn't it just a handwriting check! It's easy, just come with me. ”
Mickey said, leading us upstairs and upstairs...... Eventually, I walked to the door of the student council room.
"That...... That ......"
I muttered quietly.
Mickey, on the other hand, calmly took a wire out of his pocket and slipped it into the keyhole......
"Hey! You're committing a crime! And he also pulled the two of us as accomplices with a righteous face!! ”
Just after Luo Ling was complaining for a while, there was a crisp sound of metal colliding on the door lock......
"Don't worry about those little things!"
Mickey smiled and put the wire away.
The means by which he broke into the house are not mentioned for the time being. But it works. In the Student Council room, there should be a variety of survey sheets collected from students. Among them, there is also a 'fire safety test' of the safety knowledge selection question and answer papers.
Oh, yes...... In that case, you will be able to investigate the handwriting of the students' letters.
But, however, there is still a problem.
"Speaking of which, Mickey, the skull above the cipher table is obviously printed, right? Also, why do the skulls have to be printed out and the cipher code has to be handwritten? ”
I sought his insight.
"The first possibility is the clue deliberately left by the prisoner, and it is better to ask the prisoner whether the clue deliberately left is trying to lead us to the right train of thought or the wrong way of thinking...... The second possibility...... Didn't there be a power outage last night? ”
As he spoke, Mickey squinted at me, meaning you should understand.
Truly...... There was a power outage last night, and Lorling and I both went back to our rooms early to sleep, and I saw her dark circles this morning.
"It's not just the Luo Ling family where you stayed, Zuolu No. 1 University also had a power outage, at 7:13 p.m."
In other words, it is possible that the power went out just after printing the skull, and the two-party password was written down by hand with a pen as a last resort.
If this is the case, it is very likely that the two-party password on this cipher table was written by the prisoner himself!
If there was a power outage last night...... It is also very likely that the prisoner is a person from Zuo Gao, and I remember that when I was in the club department, Mickey once said that in addition to the teacher's office, the political and educational office, the printing room, the director's office, and the principal's office, there is only the student union room in this school. And at seven o'clock in the evening, these places have already been locked. If you want to use the school's internal printer, you must have a key...... Yes...... It's also possible that Mickey picked the lock and got in like Mickey. But then there was no way to lock the door, and the next morning the heads of the various studios would notice something different.
As soon as the door opened this morning, when the first batch of people entered the teaching building, the two-party password had already been pasted on the bulletin board. And last night, when the club activities ended, there was nothing on the bulletin board.
The time of the crime was finalized last night.
That is, there is a high probability that the handwriting was simply forced to do it due to a power outage.
There is a high probability that the letters on the cipher sheet are in the handwriting of the prisoner.
It is highly probable that the inmates are members of the school.
In other words, it is possible to investigate the handwriting of the students, but it is not enough.
Some of the survey forms are required by the school to be filled out, and it is true that the students of these lists have to fill out themselves, but the handwriting of those adults may also need to be investigated.
Mickey is the person...... is really worthy of being the most mysterious man in Zuogao.
I can't help but think so.
"Huh? Speaking of which, the light of this printer is on......"
Lorin looked at the printer in the corner of the student council room.
…… !!
"Mickey, let me ask, do you know what time the call came last night?"
I turned my head to look at Mickey, who was smiling confidently.
"If I'm not mistaken, it should be 3:28 a.m."
After Mickey finished speaking, I walked over to the printer.
The light of this printer is very small, and if you just put something in the door, you will hardly notice the abnormality of the printer.
The best part is that this printer doesn't dissipate heat well, and if you leave it on for a long time, the rear case will be very hot.
I reached out and touched the printer - it was hot, at least for three or four hours!!
"What's going on? Did the prisoner forget to turn off the printer? ”
Luo Ling muttered to herself, but she immediately denied it.
"Also...... Not right either. If there is a sudden power outage in the middle of printing, the prisoner's attention will basically be to find the light source and write the two-party password, and it is very likely that he forgot to unplug the printer! ”
Looks like Lorin gets it too.
Because when a call comes in, the printer works automatically, and even though no one presses any buttons, it's always on. So from half past three in the morning to now, seven o'clock.
Yes...... Although there is no conclusive evidence.
However, it can be roughly inferred that the prisoner was a member of the student council, who remained at the school at about 7 o'clock last night, and used the printer in the student council room to print the code, but at 7:13 the power suddenly went out, and the code table only printed a skull. The prisoner who was in a hurry to fill in the code forgot that the plug of the printer was still plugged in the socket, and after writing the code with a pen, he hurriedly left the student union room and locked the door.
Although it's still those points.
1. The motive of the other party to bomb the school is unknown.
2. The purpose of pasting the two-party password on the bulletin board is unknown.
3. The exact point and scope of the explosion are unknown.
But what does it matter? The prisoners have been largely identified.
The student union of the left high school is the first high school, the second high school, and the third high.
There are only about 30 people in the entire student union.
Among them, there are probably only two or three people with keys!
Among these people, the guy who found the same handwriting as the code table......
Easy as pie!!
"I really didn't expect it to be so smooth......"
Mickey muttered to himself in amazement.
"Hmph~...... Su Chen, if you think about it seriously, you're really powerful......"
Lorling and I listened to Mickey's leaping speech with no logic to speak to.
"I know a lot of things and I know a lot of things, and I have the same flexible mind and high-speed brain as Luo Ling. It's really to my liking......"
"Hey! Hey, hey!! Why did it suddenly become a BL course!! ”
Lorring's complaint interrupted Mickey's increasingly outrageous speech.
Mickey froze, then laughed again.
"Roar hahahaha!! Don't gossip! Let's go! Lorin and my partner!! ”
"I'm not your partner!!"
I decisively denied.
"And, where are you going?"
Before I could finish my sentence, Mickey held up the two sheets of paper.
One is the cipher table just now, and the other is a report sheet with the same handwriting as the letters on the cipher table.