Chapter XXV

"The night is over, Professor Midhoff." Mrs. Smith poured Kurt a full cup of tea, then sat down on the couch on the side, "You should tell me what happened now." ”

The morning light streamed through every window into the house, illuminating the living room of the mansion.

"Why do you want to know?" Kurt asked.

"Half out of curiosity," Mrs. Smith looked at the toolbox at Kurt's feet, "and the other half was, wondering how she died." ”

"The process of death is short, if that's what you want to ask." "A hammer that hits the back of the head," Kurt said. Kelly said that the hammer would move on its own, but it didn't attract the attention of the military. ”

Mrs. Smith lowered her head and took a sip of her tea, waiting for Kurt to continue, but the other man stopped talking, as if deliberately.

"Please continue." Mrs. Smith said, "She died in the bathroom and was dragged to the square to be burned." I don't see the connection. ”

"The connection, Elena," said Kotte, after a slight pause, "is a husband who loves his wife dearly. Until yesterday morning, that bathroom was nothing more than a shortcut. I have to say that Donald's method is very ingenious. If Kelly's condition improves, all he needs to do is lay the tiles and stagger the joints of the wall panels with the texture of the tiles, and the pathway in the wall will be covered up as if nothing had happened, which is exactly what he did yesterday morning. ”

"So in order to take the blame for his wife, he wanted the police to believe that he killed Cecil." Mrs. Smith said, "I don't know, it sounds like there's a lot of evidence to be covered up." ”

"Four to be exact." "The hammer, Cecil's body, Cecil's blood, and the fact that Kelly was able to enter the dorm building." Every day, Donald counts the time, stands outside the bathroom door, and calls Kelly out when there are no students in the hallway. As for himself, according to the daily schedule, he should have been renovating the ceiling recently. Yesterday morning, when Donald walked into the bathroom, he saw his wife, who had killed Cecil. Thinking of taking the blame, he told Kelly to go back the way she came, and then walked from the front of the building to the parking lot. Kylie apparently made it through the few steps outside and made her mark on camera. Donald pushed the bathroom wall back into place, tiled it, and went off the dorm building's fire alarm. When there was no longer anyone in the building, he carried Cecil's body to the break room, and then repeatedly slammed the back of her head into the corner of the table, creating the illusion that the rest room was the scene of the first crime. After that, many people have seen. Cecil was burned in the square, and Donald became the murderer for all to see. ”

"I don't think a lot of things are right." Mrs. Smith said, "For example, there should be blood in the bathroom." Where are the tools to clean the bloodstains? Donald when he appears...... Oh, he was carrying that," she gestured to the toolbox at Kurt's feet, "You mean to say that the box was stuffed with cleaning tools?" ”

"No, there's something else in the toolbox." "That thing fills the entire box and is why Donald doesn't need to clean up the blood." The blood spilled by a person does not disappear by simply wiping it. The most plausible inference is that the bathroom was not stained with Cecil's blood at all. Because of this, Donald immediately thought of a way to transfer the body. ”

"Didn't get it?" Mrs. Smith said suspiciously, "Didn't you say she was shot in the back of the head?" ”

"There was something else in the bathroom at the time." "You put the murder behind you and imagine what that bathroom should look like," Cotter said. While the renovation work was nothing more than an excuse, Donald did work hard all the time. Judging from the age of the roof, the bathroom is probably in disrepair. The cubicles and sinks were all newly replaced by Donald, not to mention the sleek and clean tiles. After all this work, Kelly's condition still did not improve, so Donald asked to renovate the roof of the shed, and he ...... so that the wall powder and paint did not fall to the new floor.

"A plastic sheeting was laid." Mrs. Smith opened her mouth slightly and nodded meaningfully, "So, there are no clever criminal skills at all, there are just a few coincidences with a man who wants to take the blame for his wife." ”

"That man is also one of those coincidences." Kurt looked away from Mrs. Smith's face and said lightly, "He had only one thought at the time, to completely cut his wife off from the whole thing." He didn't even want to involve the hammer that Kelly had touched, so he slammed Cecil's head into the corner of the table. As he entered the lounge, he remembered the gasoline he had hidden earlier. As for the barrel of gasoline, it should be in the small locker next to the sofa. Donald was probably afraid that one day the car would run out of gas, and his stubborn wife would run to the gas station alone. As for the hammer, it should have been taken away and discarded by Kelly. Because she has to take dance lessons, she needs to carry her dancing shoes with her, so she carries at least a handbag when she goes out. After that, you and I both know about it. Donald was supposed to wait for the police to arrive after burning Cecil, but instead he left, to be precise, forced to leave. ”

"Kurt," said Mrs. Smith, "please don't ......"

Kurt lifted his leg and kicked the toolbox on the ground in front of Mrs. Smith. "He's still on there, and he's still alive. Emilia is very precise. ”

Mrs. Smith glanced at the toolbox, then sighed softly. "You know what a carrier is from the beginning." She said.

"That's right." Kurt responded.

"But you're hiding this information from the rest of the team."

"The less he knows, the more uneasy the players will be, and the less reason he will have to kill anyone. Coupled with the presence of people from the military, the mission will not fail. ”

"Even if it were for everyone but Emilia, the death of others could be a matter of moments."

"The results of events have proven that this assumption is not valid."

"But you ......"

"That's right." Kurt adjusted his sitting position, "If there is an accident, logically speaking, someone will indeed die, and I can't stop it." ”

Mrs. Smith got up and sat down beside Kurt. "So, Kurt," she whispered, "we are the same. ”

Kurt looked to the other side of the room and landed his gaze again on the painting with the character "Ω". "Tell me, please, who is the third person?" He asked.

"I don't know what to say." Mrs. Smith responded.

"I have a rough idea of what happened." "You can guess where and when." The girl, Cecil, must have been one of the participants. In addition to her, there are two other people who can't get out of it. But you said that there were three more people who would die. Please assure me, Elena, this third person, you have ample evidence that he or she was indeed a direct participant in that incident. ”

"Have you ever thought," said Mrs. Smith, "that every man does not have equal power to live? ”

"If measured by personal value, I agree." Cotter responded, "Some people can contribute far more than others, and under the premise of limited living space, high-value people deserve priority to survive." However, don't be mistaken, it's not up to you to decide who dies and who lives. ”

Mrs. Smith was about to say something, but Kurt got up and walked out of the living room.