Act Fifty-Nine: The Man Who Didn't Exist
"Is Sherlock Holmes a pure-blooded dragon?" Nono asked casually, sitting on the bed in the room.
"Senior sister! Don't destroy the eucalyptus scene!" Lu Mingfei screamed.
"What's this?" Nono said indifferently, "I've seen it, and there is nothing wrong with this room, so I can move it casually."
"So why are we coming to see this room?" Lu Mingfei didn't care, and sat on the bed.
"Just experience what it's like to be on the spot." Nono shook his feet, "You haven't answered my question yet."
"Hmm...... How so...... Sherlock Holmes is indeed a pure-blooded dragon." Lu Mingfei hesitated to speak, he was a little afraid that his senior sister would be disgusted by hooking up with the Dragon Clan.
"Oh, I'll just say, it's a very powerful dragon, right, otherwise there wouldn't be such an outrageous Nibelungen." Nono didn't react to this, "Travel back to 19th century England, and everyone else would be crazy when I said it."
"Senior sister, why don't you ask me......
"Why do you have anything to do with dragons?" Nuno interrupted him and glanced at Lu Mingfei, "Because I believe in you, you are my boyfriend and the person I love the most, if even I don't believe you, no one in this world will believe you."
"Oh......" Lu Mingfei scratched his head and smirked.
"Alright, stop." Nono jumped up from the bed, clapped his hands, and said energetically, "Let's continue to explore."
"But there is no clue......" Lu Mingfei frowned when he thought of this.
"It doesn't matter if we can't find it, we can stay here for a few days and see if we can have an idea."
"Then can I sleep with you, senior sister?" Lu Mingfei's eyes were shining.
"......," Nono was speechless and tapped him on the head, "Don't think about it all day."
"Okay......" Lu Mingfei lowered his eyebrows.
"But......" Nono walked past him, leaving a fluttering sentence, like a wisp of wind, "I can sleep with you, but I am not allowed to move my hands or feet."
"What?" Lu Mingfei plucked his ears in disbelief, "Senior sister, what did you just say?"
"Don't say a good word twice." Nono hummed a song and went downstairs.
"Hard-mouthed......" Lu Mingfei shrugged, the old wooden floor made a "crunch" sound, he looked at the house number, 217, and in front of him was a narrow and somewhat oppressive corridor.
I didn't care about the environment of this hotel before, isn't it too bad? He frowned, and for a few seconds, he felt that the scene in front of him was familiar.
"No matter." He also followed Nono downstairs.
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"Do you want to stay in a hotel?" The woman sat down at the bar, "Two pounds a day, you're going to live for three days, count five pounds for you."
"It doesn't seem to have any money in this era,...... Lu Mingfei whispered to Nuo Nuo.
"We didn't bring any money out, so we're staying in the room where the murder happened, can you stop taking us money?" Nono asked.
The woman rolled her eyes, probably thinking that no one would want to live in that house, so she agreed, "Okay."
She took out a key from a drawer, threw it to Nono, marked with the number "217" on it, and took out a pen and paper to write something in the notebook. ….
"Breakfast is free every day, lunch and dinner, and a meal of fifteenpence." The boss advised, "It's okay to give you a free stay, but don't spoil the things in my room."
"Okay, thank you." Lu Ming was not resigned, and he was about to go upstairs with Chen Motong, and he couldn't wait to sleep with his senior sister.
"What is the monkey anxious, and it's not night." Nono complained.
"Let's study it." Lu Mingfei smiled, "Senior sister, you have sensed it, there are still many things in the room that we haven't picked up and looked at."
So the two went to the third floor again, and found that the door next to them was open, and a woman came out of it, dressed in a fashionable way, with makeup on her face.
The woman passed by Nono, as if she didn't notice Nono observing her, and went downstairs.
"Senior sister, what's wrong, is there something wrong with that woman?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"I look like I'm about twenty-five years old, I can wear makeup in this era, which means that the economic conditions are not bad, I don't get up until half past ten, I live an irregular life, I dress revealingly, and I may be engaged in a special industry......," Nono whispered, "The problem is fine, but the guests in this hotel are all suspicious."
"Damn, senior sister, you are really a detective, you can see so many things in an instant?" Lu Mingfei said in surprise.
"You're just not observant enough." Nono pouted, "A person's appearance can see a lot of things."
"Should I say that it is the sequelae of profiling......" Lu Mingfei thought.
Nono ignored him, walked to the wooden door of room 217 and checked, the door was not anything special, the lock was not too old, and the switch would not make any sound.
She walked into the room again, and to the left of the room was a single bathroom with a shower head (running water was already available in mid-nineteenth-century London) and a small window inside.
She walked to the window and looked down, there was a vacant lot at the bottom, a few piles of garbage were placed in the corner, Nuno counted them, there were five piles, she and Lu Mingfei didn't count, the woman just now, the man who came out of the restaurant downstairs, the proprietress , then there were two people who didn't show up.
Lu Mingfei kept picking up the things in the room to look, of course, with his level, he definitely couldn't see anything.
"Don't look at it." Nono took off his shoes and sat on the bed, "Now we just have to wait."
"What are you waiting for?" Lu Mingfei asked blankly.
"Wait for dinner."
"Why wait for dinner?"
"Ugh." Nuno sighed and looked at Lu Mingfei with the eyes of an idiot, "I just saw that there are five garbage heaps downstairs, this hotel is very remote, so no one else will throw garbage here, so there are at least four guests in the row of the proprietress and now there are only two."
"When it's time for dinner, there is a good chance that these guests will come to the restaurant downstairs to eat, so we can take this opportunity to take a closer look."
"Oh......" Lu Ming was not embarrassed, he couldn't understand these details at all, so he sat down next to Nuno.
"Help me rub my feet, I'm tired from a day's walk." Nono shoved her foot into his arms.
"Didn't we come in a carriage?"
"Don't talk nonsense, just rub it if you tell it!" Nono glared.
"Okay." Lu Mingfei rubbed the girl's feet while pricking up his ears to listen to the movement outside the door...... It was the only way he could think of it. ….
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At twelve o'clock at noon, before that, Lu Mingfei helped Nuo Nuo rub his feet for about half an hour, and then Nuo Nuo lay in his arms and took a nap for a while, and it was time for dinner.
"Good times are short-lived." Lu Mingfei sighed with emotion and woke up Nuo Nuo in his arms, "Senior sister, it's time for dinner."
"Oh." Nono got up, "I don't feel like I ......'ve slept enough."
"Shhhh Lu Mingfei made a gesture to silence, and just now, he heard the sound of someone walking upstairs.
He went to the door, opened a crack and looked out, and after about twenty seconds, a young man and a woman appeared at the top of the stairs on the third floor.
"Damn, there are really little couples who come here to open a room......" Lu Mingfei couldn't help but complain.
"What?" Nono also came over and peeked with him, "Both of them look young, like they came to London to go to school and live around here."
After a few more minutes, the fat man also came down, and after that no one came down.
"No, there should be another one, isn't it in the hotel or what?" Lu Mingfei said.
"There are two possibilities, that person brought his own food, or he lives on the second floor and we can't see it." Nono opened the door completely, "Let's go down first."
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"This restaurant ......" Lu Mingfei looked at it, saying that it was a restaurant, but in fact, it was
A small room of less than 30 square meters, with a smell of oil smoke wafting all around, the proprietress is serving the dishes.
At this time, there were already five people sitting around the dining table, namely Lu Mingfei and Nuo Nuo, fat men, small couples, and scantily clad women were not there, so they should have gone out.
None of them looked very good-looking, and they must have complained about the environment.
"Haha, hello everyone." Lu Mingfei put on an expression that he thought was very easy-going, turned his head to Nuo Nuo and said, "Senior sister, help me translate, just say that we are private detectives to investigate the murder."
"It's so stupid to report to your home." Nuno shook his head in resignation, "It's better to pretend to be an ordinary person first, and then inquire about the details, as soon as you come up, you say that you are a detective, they will be wary, besides, the murderer is likely to be hiding among them."
"Understood, Senior Sister is really smart." Lu Mingfei suddenly realized.
"Is there anybody?" Nono asked the proprietress "I'm a little hungry, so let's start the meal as soon as there is no one." She said this to find out who was left, so that her words didn't sound very obtrusive.
"There's no one left, you can eat it." The hostess said, also sitting down at the table.
Nuno frowned, there should be another talent, right......
"Are you foreigners?" The girl in the couple spoke first, "You don't look like you're dressed British."
"Yes, we're coming to England...... Travel." Nono was still wondering why there was no one, and casually said, "His name is RioNo."
"That's right." The girl smiled and held out a hand, "Hello, my name is Catherine, are you a couple?"
"Yes." Nono replied, shaking her gently, "What about you?"
"My boyfriend and I went to school in London." The girl said, leaning over the boy with a happy face. ….
"God!" Lu Mingfei pinched Nuonuo's hand at the bottom of the table.
"Awesome." Nono was smug, and then asked the girl pretending to be relaxed, "I heard that there was a murder in this hotel recently, is it true?"
The girl's expression suddenly became a little frightened, "It's true, and it's on the same floor where you live, to be honest, if it weren't for the cheap and close to the school, my boyfriend and I would have changed places."
"Oh." Nuno answered, and did not continue to ask for details, but ate two bites of food.
"The man died a terrible death." The boy in the couple suddenly said, "We live upstairs from him."
"Did you hear anything at the time? I'm curious." The corners of Nono's mouth went up, and he succeeded, young people are generally very eager to share, especially for such a novel thing, they will speak themselves.
"That's when I heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground." The boy struggled to recall the details, "It seems like there are no other sounds."
"What time is it?"
"It's past eight o'clock, I remember this very well, because my girlfriend and I just got up."
"Why do you care about this?" The fat man interrupted impatiently, "It's so unlucky, the police came to ask me before, and now you ask again."
Nono didn't argue with him either, and continued to eat with his head down.
The meal ended quickly in silence, Nuo Nuo and Lu Mingfei were not very happy, and they didn't want to eat delicious dishes in this kind of place.
The fat man shuffled upstairs first, followed by the proprietress who went back to sit at the bar, and then the little couple, and Catherine said hello to Nono as she left.
"I've always had a headache with people I know well." Nono said, apparently referring to Catherine.
"It's alright." Lu Mingfei knew Nuo's character.
"Now we have two clues, first, the eucalyptus time is more than eight o'clock, and second, there seems to be no one else in the room except Statham, of course, the reason why the murderer covered up his footsteps cannot be ruled out."
Nono thought for a moment, "Also, there are only four people in the garbage heap, which I can't quite figure out."
"Maybe the little couple lost it separately?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"It shouldn't be likely," Nono dismissed the idea, "there's no reason to be separated, and we're all living together."
"So what are we doing now?"
"I'll go back to my room and wait for tomorrow." Nono got up, "Let's see if the police can come up with any clues tomorrow."
At this time, the exposed woman pushed open the door and walked in, almost at the same time as Nuno walked up the stairs.
As she reached the staircase on the third floor, the woman suddenly tripped without warning, but it was only about two seconds before she returned to normal and continued walking.
"What's wrong?" Nono asked pretending to be concerned, she sure wouldn't have had a meaningless conversation, because the woman herself had never been in contact with before.
"It's okay, I'm a little sick, I didn't feel well just now, so I accidentally tripped over." The woman looked back at her and smiled with a very superficial smile on her face.
After the woman left, Nuno looked at the place where the woman had just stumbled thoughtfully...... The floor was flat, and there was no reason for a woman to stumble.
"It's a bit of a problem......" she muttered to herself.
"What's wrong, Senior Sister?" Lu Mingfei also came up and asked.
"It's fine." Nono said, walking towards their room 217, the moment he opened the door, a thought flashed through his mind.
"Something is wrong." Nono looked at the house number in the room, "Aren't we on the third floor?" Why does the room number start with two?"
"Uh......" Lu Mingfei felt that his senior sister was a little bit of an occupational disease, "Maybe it's just because this hotel is special?"
"Seeing is believing, let's go to the second floor now." Nono said, turning around and walking towards the staircase.
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