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"What are you talking about, lone wolf?" said Rogge's voice, and the High Priest Goethe turned in surprise, as everyone present turned in Rog's direction, only to see him leap onto the stone platform at the edge of the pool, and follow the stone platform to the back of the stake where Mina was bound. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I said that although our suspect would not confess anything related to the case, I had already clarified the whole thing. Rogge paused and looked around the small village square illuminated by the torches, and saw the surprised expressions on everyone's faces.

"You say you've figured out the whole thing?" said High Priest Goethe, pointing at Rogge, "What have you found out?"

More than a dozen priests swarmed up and surrounded Mina, looking at Rogge with wary eyes, and Rogge, who was standing on the stone platform not far behind Mina, laughed when he saw this scene.

He pulled out a cigar from the tobacco pouch and put it on the hat for Lilith to cast a spell to light it for him, while laughing, "High Priestess, if I really want to let Mina go, do you think these dozen people can stop me?"

When the dozen priests heard his words, they looked back at Goethe, who looked at him dumbly for a moment, and then said loudly: "Less nonsense, what do you want to do?"

"I want to restore the whole thing and tell you about it. Rogge turned and walked into the dry pool, jumped on the statue of the goddess in the center of the pool, sat on the water bottle in the statue's arms, took a puff of cigarette and said, "Let's start with that family portrait." ”

He called Lilith softly, and the little furball flew to the head of the goddess statue and fell, turning into a little Lori, and then took out the shrunken family portrait from her body, restored it, and handed it to Antonio according to Rogge's request.

The Knight Commander looked down at the family portrait in his hand, not understanding what its mystery was, and then Rogge spoke: "This family portrait belongs to the Holman family, and in addition to the Holman family, Kane and Mina, there are a man, a girl and a child. ”

"But now, we haven't seen these three people, Kane once said that their whole family is cursed by the god of crows, they won't die, they can't leave the village, so where did these three go?"

Everyone looked at each other suspiciously, and they all turned their eyes to the Holman family, Kane stepped forward and said: "The three people you are talking about should be my wife Sally, our children Jerry and Mina's fiancé Andri, Sally and Jerry died in an accident before the incident, and you know Andri's situation." ”

"In other words, this family portrait was drawn before your family was cursed, right?" Rogge asked with a smile as he looked at Kane.

Kane nodded silently, only to hear Rogge's faint smile, and turned back to Antonio and said, "Captain, please take apart the family portrait." ”

Hearing this, Antonio lowered his head and tried to unwrap the wooden picture frame of the family portrait, and handed the frame to the knight beside him, only to hear Rogge say again: "Please read aloud the words on the back of the drawing paper." ”

Antonio separated the back panel from the drawing paper, and saw a line written on it in Juan Xiu's font, and he read it aloud: "How I wish that our time would always be on that day, but I know that the only thing I can do is to continue to fight against that demon, even if there is no truth in this world, I will resist lies in silence." ”

"The following inscription is from three years ago, and the murder of Mina recorded in the adventurer's diary is five years ago," Rogge said to Antonio, "In other words, the painting was painted after the incident, and Mina drew it based on the family she remembers."

Not only that, but there is obvious wear and tear on the frame, and there are obvious scratches on the back panel of the painting, which shows that the painting is often taken down and then hung again, and why should this be done? ”

"And what does she mean by the rest of her words?" Antonio looked at the words written on the back of the drawing paper in confusion and said, "If the demon refers to the god of crows, how to explain the last two sentences?"

"Don't worry, let's take our time. Rogge took a puff of smoke and looked up at the dark night sky and said, "In addition to this painting, there are several other things in Mina's house: some wild fruits, some great works by famous writers, and some stones. ”

He suddenly looked down at the crowd and said, "You may think that these things seem to be inconsequential, but if you think about it, there is actually a big problem here, and the first question is, if Mina is a cannibal, why does she have wild fruits in her house?"

Hearing Rogge's words, Catherine suddenly remembered those wild fruits, she walked up to Antonio and said to him: "Mr. Rogge is right, we did see a lot of wild fruits, and we also ate a few, not very tasty, but they are not poisonous to eat, Mr. Rogge also said that people who have lived in the forest for a long time know how to distinguish wild fruits." ”

"Catherine is right," said Rog with a smile, "Mina has a lot of these wild fruits in her house, which shows that she knows that they are edible and uses them for food, which is not something that a man-eater can do, and if she is really crazy, maybe it would be better to catch cavemen or harpies and eat them." ”

"Secondly, the books in Mina's room are all famous books, and Mina can casually quote me from these famous people and sayings, the first of which she said to me was from the famous poet Heine of Deiz, and the second from the great Ereusian master Tostät. ”

Speaking of this, Rogge leaned forward and looked at everyone and smiled: "This shows that she has a clear mind, quick thinking, and can quote famous quotes to express herself at the right time, I would like to ask everyone here, you are not crazy, can you do this?"

The people present were silent, many shook their heads unconsciously, and Roger smiled and said: "So, a talented woman who can draw well, who has read a lot of literary masterpieces and can casually quote famous quotes, and who keeps wild fruits at home for food, does not look like a crazy cannibal." ”

"Just by that you can be sure she's not a cannibal?" said the High Priestess Goethe with a sneer, "What about the stones she carried with her? The first time we came here, she threw stones at us, Antonio, you haven't forgotten when you were hit by her stones, have you?"

The knight leader nodded silently, and turned his puzzled gaze to Rogge, who smiled slightly and said: "The high priest is right, stones, this is what I will say next, there are a lot of stones stored in the cabinet in Mina's bedroom, all of which have been selected to have sharp edges and corners, and they can all be used as murder weapons." ”

At this point, Rog jumped down from the statue and strode towards the High Priest, drawing his silver sword from behind his back as he went.

"Don't be nervous, High Priest, I just want to ask you, it's a sword, isn't it?" Rogge smiled as he stopped a few steps away from him, holding the silver arrow in his hand across his chest. Goethe looked at him in surprise and nodded in confusion, and Rogge asked again, "So what can a sword do?"

"You don't talk nonsense, what can a sword do, can you kill, do you need to talk about it?" Goethe glared at him angrily.

"No, High Priest, you're only half right. Rogge smiled and turned around, and the little Lori standing on the head of the statue behind him threw a stone at him, Rogge raised his sword to block it, and the stone was bounced off by the sword and fell to the ground.

"In addition to killing the enemy, the sword can also protect us. Rog turned around and put down the silver sword in his hand and said, "Actually, all weapons are the same, including stones, we only saw that the stones in Mina's hands can hurt people, but we didn't think that she might have stocked up on those stones just for self-defense." ”

"Self-defense?" Antonio and Goethe repeated Rogge's words in amazement, and Rogge nodded solemnly and said, "That's right, when I was in Mina's room with Catherine before, I told her that Mina's house was a little strange, remember, baby?"

Hearing this, Catherine hurriedly nodded to Antonio, who was looking at her, and then looked at Rogge expectantly and asked, "Have you figured out what's wrong?"

"That's right, when I returned to Mina's house just now, and saw the moonlight shining through the door, I suddenly remembered why there wasn't a single window in Mina's house?" said Rog to them with a meaningful smile.

"No windows?" Antonio, Catherine, and the others all looked at each other in amazement, only to hear Rogge continue, "You've all been to that room, and there isn't a single window in the room except for the door and the tunnel entrance, why?"

He did not wait for an answer, but said at once: "Because Mina feared an attack at night, and she was afraid that someone would sneak in or break into her house through the window, she prepared for herself a windowless house, a tunnel from which she could escape directly from her bedroom, and a sharp stone stored in a cabinet in her bedroom. ”

"But if anyone would have scared her so much, she would not have been killed. Catherine looked back at Mina, who was tied to the log, and Mina's pale face was still calm, just staring straight at Rog's back, silent.

"I don't think Mina will give us an answer, but we can put this aside for a moment and talk about the two murders in front of us, and let's talk about the more recent one, which is tonight's one. ”

"I have already told Captain Antonio that the murder weapon that killed the two priests was not a stone, but that the cause of death of the two priests was suffocation by strangulation by the throat with a hard object such as a club, and that they were killed by a sharp object piercing the temple, and that the wounds left on them by the blood-stained stone were not fatal. ”

"So," said Rogge, walking past Goethe, Antonio, and Catherine with a cigar in his hand, and then went around behind them, saying as he went, "why did the murderer go so far as to stone them after killing them, pretending that they were stoned to death?"

"To frame Mina!" cried Catherine.

"That's obvious, isn't it?" Rogge smiled as he turned from behind them, paused to look back at Mina, and said, "That shows that someone has been plotting to kill Mina, that's why she's so guarded, and that explains why she's throwing rocks at us, and she's trying to get rid of us so we don't get left behind." ”

"Who's behind this?" Antonio said angrily to Rogge.

Rogge smiled faintly, pointed to the family photo in his hand and said, "The murderer is in your hands." ”