Agnes said without raising her head, "Tell me what you want to entrust me." ”

"It all started with a commission I received a week ago." Vicente said with a sigh.

"It's not good for Mr. Poirot to reveal his commission like that." Agnes asked, raising her head and raising an eyebrow.

"I know, but it's really ......"

Vicente scratched his head a little irritably, sighed, and leaned back in his chair.

Agnes couldn't help but laugh, she glanced at Vicente's messy hair, and said, "Okay, go ahead, I won't reveal it." ”

Vicente took a deep breath and said slowly, "I received a strange commission a week ago to investigate an ordinary crew member on the Silver Rose. ”

"I felt very strange when I received this request, but I accepted it because of the generous payment. However, as I investigated, I realized that things are not so simple. ”

"I followed him for days, and the crew had been wandering among several drug dealers, buying and injecting all kinds of drugs, without the slightest intention of returning to port, nor did I see the rest of the crew on Silver Rose coming for him, as if he had been abandoned by his captain."

"He was in a state of trance almost all the time, and I tried several times, trying to trick him into words, and all failed."

"Until the early hours of the day before yesterday, I found out that the crew member was dead."

There was a pause in his words, as if waiting for Agnes' answer, and as if he was only creating an infiltrating atmosphere, and Agnes just looked at Vicente quietly and did not speak.

"I was the first to find out about his death, and that was the fifth day I investigated him, and the previous few days of investigation didn't yield any results, so I decided to try to question him directly."

Hearing this, Agnes's face couldn't help but be a little strange, and she couldn't help but interrupt Vicente's narration: "Excuse me, has your style of commissioning always been like this?" ”

Vicente's expression looked a little embarrassed, he couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his nose, and whispered, "It shouldn't be important, right......?"

Agnes couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "Okay, it's really not important, you can keep talking." ”

"I climbed into his house through the window and found him lying on the ground with a strange smile on his face, as if he had seen the kingdom of the Mother Goddess. I examined the scene of his death and found that he had died of respiratory paralysis caused by an overdose of drugs. ”

"His death is, you know? I searched for a long time next to his corpse and found only one used syringe. Such a large syringe, a whole tube. Vicente held up his hands and made a guess mark of the size of the syringe, which Angnes guessed based on the distance between his hands that it should be a 60-milliliter syringe.

"He threw all the liquid in it directly into his body? It's just hilarious! Vicente's tone couldn't help but be a little intense.

Agnes raised her eyebrows and asked in a flat tone, "So you think he didn't do it himself?" ”

Vicente nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Because the crew member is already dead, I wrote down the results of the investigation in the past few days and the suspicion of his death in a report and gave it to the client. To be honest, the client's attitude was also very strange, I didn't think I had investigated anything, but the client said that I had done a good job and even paid me more. ”

"After leaving the client's place, I always felt a little strange, so I went to the dock to inquire about the Silver Rose, and learned that the Silver Rose had not been out to sea since returning to the dock, and the captain and crew had not been seen at the docks."

"I felt something was wrong, so I went to the police department to check if there was any news of the other crew members of the Silver Rose, and I learned that the other crew members of the Silver Rose had also died of respiratory paralysis caused by an overdose of drugs in the early hours of the day before yesterday."

Agnes took a sip of her coffee and whispered, "Sounds like it's shutting down." ”

"Yes, but unlike the crew I investigated, the other captains and crew members died together."

Vicente also took a sip of her coffee, looking like she was calming down.

"So I went to investigate the reason for the last time the Silver Rose went to sea, and learned that they were transporting some cargo for Bonnard." Vicente's account is not as detailed as before.

"So, obviously, there is something wrong with the cargo that the Silver Rose has brought back this time." Vicente said, licking his lips.

"I'm going to investigate the Silver Rose, which is still parked in the harbor...... It was a leather drum that was found to be problematic...... It has a light brown eardrum...... And the lingering smell on it......" Vicente's expression was slightly dazed, as if he had fallen into some nightmare.

"Mr. Poirot." Agnes sat up straight and tapped the plate underneath her coffee cup with the handle of the spoon in her hand.

Vicente came back to his senses in an instant, reacting as if he had just woken up from a dream, and leaned back as if frightened, his back hitting the back of his chair, and he reached out to press his heart, gasping for air.

Agnes took a sip of her coffee, quietly waiting for Vicente to calm down.

"I'm sorry, but the things I've been thinking about these past few days haven't been very good for me." Vicente reached out and pressed his temple and exhaled a long breath.

Agnes looked up at Vicente, looked him straight in the eye, and asked slowly, "How did Mr. Poirot investigate the problematic cargo?" You've described the drum in great detail, it sounds like you've seen it before. ”

Vicente's face was a little ugly, he rubbed his fingers on his temples, he focused his eyes on Agnes's eyes, and said, "I found an insider who has seen it, and I know it from his mouth. ”

"Really? This insider escaped the fate of being wiped out? He's lucky. Agnes couldn't help but laugh and said.

Instead of dwelling on this point, she said, "What about after you investigated the existence of that leather drum?" ”

Vicente nodded, and continued: "I know that every time the ship that helped Bonnard deliver the goods returned, he would hold an underground trade fair at Newlin Manor in the name of holding a ball. So I got qualified to participate through some connections, and I hope to find something there. ”

"And what about your findings?" Agnes asked Vicente with a spoon and stirring it in her coffee cup casually.

"While I didn't find what I was expecting, I did find something strange." Vicente said, staring into Agnes' eyes.