Chapter 102: The Corpse in the Study (Addition, Ask for Subscription!! )
Fat Orange led the way and led the three of them to an upstairs room.
A large solid wood desk, a cabinet full of books, a leather shield and a crossed sword on the wall... No matter how you look at it, it looks like a study.
And in the chair behind the desk, a corpse lay on its back.
"Sir Antois...."
The corpse's skin was not festering, so it was not difficult to identify the face, and with the bust portrait in the hall, Ma Wei recognized the identity of the other party.
"I stumbled upon a mouse while following him." Fat Orange said.
"Hmm..."
Mavi bent down and picked up a blood-stained handkerchief next to the corpse.
The blood stains left on the handkerchief were strange, not large patches of staining, but only small friction marks, as if someone had wiped something with it.
“Boss!”
The source cried out, pointing to the blackened blood stains on the corpse's chest and saying, "He was stabbed to death!" ”
Although the corpse had begun to rot and turn black, Ma Wei still stepped forward to inspect it, and he used the pen on the table to pick open the clothes on the corpse's chest, and sure enough, he saw a triangular wound.
The wound went deep and at a sharp angle, slicing open the artery of Sir Antois's heart.
But being stabbed in the heart does not mean that Sir Antois has no chance to fight back, as a nobleman who has been on the battlefield, he has also experienced life and death struggles, how could he be killed without resistance?
It is understandable if the death or injury was caused by a firearm, after all, once a bullet hits the heart, not only will it penetrate the past, but the enveloping force can also destroy nearby organs, rendering the injured person instantly incapacitated.
The knife is different, although it is sharp, but the way it stabs directly, the range of damage caused cannot be compared with that of a firearm, and normal people can usually move for a period of time after being stabbed.
Confused, Mavi looked at the rest of the corpse and found that in addition to the stab wound on his chest, there were some small marks left on Sir Antois's fingernails and neck.
Sir Antois had several red fingerprints on his neck, which from the direction of his left hand were supposed to have been left on his left hand, and there were some blood-stained dander in his nails...
His eyes narrowed slowly, and Ma Wei walked around the back of the corpse, as if he understood something.
"He was choked from behind, the tip of the knife was inserted into the heart and died, and the other party was a veteran and very skillful, and Sir Antois could not resist effectively."
As he spoke, Ma Wei recounted the passage of his hair, and he asked the communication to cooperate with him, grabbed the communication by the neck with his left hand, and used a fountain pen instead of a sharp knife, stopping when he stabbed from behind like lightning and approached his chest.
"Sir Antois, whose heart was broken and his neck was choked, could not make any sound, and soon died in his chair."
Ma Wei let go of the communication, pulled out the handkerchief on his chest, wiped the pen a few times, and threw it away.
"The murderer was a very clean-minded and confident man, and in order to keep his blood from getting on himself, he chose to attack Sir Antois's heart from behind rather than the more fragile neck, which was protected by the sternum in front of the heart rather than an exposed neck, and if not skillful, the knife was likely to get stuck. On the battlefield, there are many examples of death due to weapons stuck in the enemy's body and unable to pull out. "Therefore, we generally use the method of slashing to kill the enemy, and even if we want to stab, most of them will choose the abdomen with fewer bones and target the spleen and kidneys." ”
The text was stunned, Ma Wei's understanding of the way to kill people was far beyond his imagination.
"The other party is a top assassin, and he has done this kind of thing more than once."
Putting down the pen, Mavi muttered, "It's strange why did the murderer kill Sir Antois? ”
Sir Antois, who has always been low-key, has a modest personality, and in the three years he has lived in New Russia, he has never heard any rumors about his quarrels with others, and not only that, he is very generous to the peasants in the territory and the servants at home, not only providing bread ovens for the peasants free of charge, but also often reducing the rent, and his reputation has always been good.
To a nobleman like him, he can definitely be called a 'gentleman', and Sir is also everyone's honorific title for him.
You don't need a reason to save people, but you need to kill people.
The murderer went to great lengths to come to the village of Antois and kill Sir Antois, if it wasn't for personal grudges, it was most likely because he wanted to take something...
Just as Ma Wei was thinking, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw Yunia open the desk drawer and take it out...
A non-automatic revolver.
Non-automatic revolvers are unsafe, and before firing, either pull off the hammer cocked in the rear or pull the trigger hard.
If the latter is used, the hammer can still be seen turning backwards when the trigger is pulled, which is delayed, and the user will generally pull the hammer down in advance in order to get the fastest possible shot.
And the non-automatic revolver that Sir Antois kept in the drawer did not pull off the hammer, that is...
He was not hostile to the murderer.
The murderer, most likely, was an acquaintance of Sir Antois.
"Do you like it?"
Ma Wei said to Yunia, who kept playing with the revolver, "If you like it, I'll buy you one later." ”
"Hey, hey, hey..."The communication hurriedly stopped: "Boss, as a father, you watch your daughter play with such a dangerous weapon, if you don't stop it, why do you have to give her a handful!" ”
"Doesn't the goddess need a self-defense weapon?" "Don't treat children like flowers in a greenhouse, otherwise they will be vulnerable when the storm comes." ”
"It's not fun.....
Yunia wrinkled her nose, put the revolver back in the drawer, and said with a look of disgust, "Heavy and big... It's enough for Unia to have a bear! ”
Little bear?
Glancing at the ragdoll bear that Unia was carrying, Ma Wei smiled helplessly, in his opinion, a stone and a wooden stick can be used as a weapon, but a ragdoll bear that is only filled with hard cotton...
Does it hurt to hit someone?
While the three of them were chatting, Fat Orange was squatting on the desk, the vertical Tong Kong was always staring at the corpse, and Xiao Hei on the side was rolling his eyes, trying to lick the eldest brother's hair, trying to lick the blood stains on the eldest brother's body.
"What are you looking at?" Ma Wei walked over and asked.
"Sir Antois's left index finger."
"Index finger?"
Ma Wei turned around and saw that the corpse was pale and weak, and his left index finger, which was as soft as a jellyfish, was obviously a few points thinner than the other fingers.
If you don't look closely, you won't find it at all.
"Sir Antois must have had a ring on his index finger." "Only long-term wear of the ring will leave this mark," Fat Orange said. ”
"But the ring is gone..."
"Eighty percent of the murderers took it."
Why did the murderer take Sir Antois's ring?
Reminiscent of the Rose Monster's move to steal gems from all over the world, it seems that the reason behind it is not difficult to guess.
"Looks like Sir Antois's ring is also some kind of magic prop..."
Ma Wei said in a deep voice: "This curse may also be caused by the murderer. ”
"Is it a member of another church?" Fat Orange asked.
"It's hard to say, if the murderer is not a member of the church...."Ma Wei's eyes flickered, "I'm afraid there is a force we don't know about, collecting magic items." ”