Chapter 80: Serious Murder
The playground of the non-commissioned officer school fell silent, as if a needle could be heard falling on the ground.
Everyone was dumbfounded, it turned out that it wasn't a slip of the tongue, Charlotte was really identifying Milos?!
Milos himself, with a relaxed face as usual, joked to Sanda beside him:
"Mr. Charlotte has a rare humor, should we give him a treat? Hahaha......"
"Do you think I'm joking right now?"
The pain on Charlotte's face intensified, and then she began to reason about the crime.
After August 24th, Milos went to the eastern part of the alchemy material storehouse, and under the pretext of applying for an alchemy potion, he put the candle timer device made in advance in the abandoned debris pile of the warehouse.
At other times, he had stolen the flesh of the tyrannical crocodile from the lax West End and fed it to the Bloodclaw Fire Wolf before Scott entered the sword room.
On the evening of August 27th, while Scott was meditating in the training room, the candle burned to a predetermined time, igniting the device, and a fire broke out in the stock library.
Sanda, who was supposed to be in charge of guarding, was pushed out to put out the fire.
Milos, who was playing shuttlecock in the event building, took advantage of the time to go to the bathroom and used fire magic rays in the corridor to remotely destroy the frost circle that imprisoned the bloodclaw fire wolf, thus witnessing Scott being killed by the mad monster.
That's why Professor Jeffrey said he saw a "burst of flames".
Milos mastered the magic of fire rays, and he was just able to take advantage of the height difference and angle between buildings to destroy the magic circle from the window, so the furniture in the training room would fall with his back to the window.
And when the direction of the investigation is directed at Paul, Milos wants to fuel the fire, so he attacks Charlotte with a long-range attack.
In this case, he felt, Charlotte would easily point the finger at Paul, and that the flesh of the tyrannical crocodile in the clay pot on the windowsill was also placed in Paul's room by Milos.
"But...... How is this done? And yesterday's attackers obviously destroyed the ceramic bottle? ”
Fina wondered.
"I'll answer that later, but I'll talk about why I ruled out other people's suspicions."
The suspicions of Marco, Eugene, Jeffrey, and Sanda are all well ruled out, because the testimony of others can provide alibis.
The reason why Paul was reluctant to cooperate with the investigation was that on the night of August 27, he was not in the quarters of the Mounted Police, but went to the Violet Hotel in the city to taste "desserts".
Charlotte pulls out a small card she found in Paul's room, which is dated August 27.
Those desserts are all tenant peasant girls. At least on the surface, this kind of thing is forbidden by the code, so Paul, as the deputy head of the detachment, is very resistant to the investigation, but he has nothing to do with Scott's murder.
As for Buck......
Charlotte walked over to Buck and rolled up his sleeve again, revealing a mottled wound on his skin.
"I said the other day that the wounds were caused by you walking through the school's forest garden, and you didn't refute it, but actually, you weren't at the school that night, right?"
Buck's face shuddered.
Charlotte smiled, "The students of the Non-commissioned Officer School once said that on the night when the material library caught fire, there was a violent tremor from the southern Pam Meadows to the poachers fighting monsters. I'm afraid that Mr. Buck, who is a shieldsmith, was dealing with ...... as a poacher at that time Tentacle magic vine, right? ”
Barker's face turned pale, and his lips pursed, "You...... How do you know? ”
Of course he Charlotte knew, because Buck was the "shield" that fought with Charlotte that night!
“…… It is impossible for a simple plant to inflict such a degree of wound on the Chosen One, and even green signs of poisoning can be seen on the edge, which is obviously caused by the tentacle demon vine, and the wound caused by a monster of this level is difficult to fake. ”
Charlotte turned around and sighed:
"As a shieldarmer, you have an unusual pursuit of recovery potions, so you did go to the alchemy material library to steal recovery potions for poaching, but you did it the day before, August 26th. Because the visit record just records that you went to the East End that day. ”
Buck concealed it because he knew he wasn't the killer and there was no evidence to convict him. But poaching is forbidden by the code, so he, like Paul, conceals it in order to keep his position as a mounted policeman, and when the limelight is over, the mounted police will find a way to get him.
In other words, the person who set the fire in the East Side and the person who stole the potion are not the same, and Milos tries to confuse the line of sight and mislead everyone into thinking that the person who set the fire is stealing.
Milos retracted the smile on his face and solemnly retorted:
"Although I don't know if Mr. Charlotte made a mistake in his brain and suddenly poured dirty water on me, who is a teammate of White Rose, but what you said is all subjective imagination, and you don't have any ironclad evidence."
Charlotte began to cite evidence:
Three days before the incident, Milos had a visit to the eastern part of the library.
Between the East and West Sectors, there is a heavy metal door, the key of which is kept by the Administrator. If you sneak in private, you can only go to the West End to steal some crocodile meat, and it is impossible to get into the East End.
In the past few days, Charlotte has observed the martial arts building from the windows of the central tower, the activity building, and the quarters of the Mounted Police Corps, and found that only the angle of the activity building can smoothly shoot flame rays into the swordsmanship room, as evidenced by the direction in which the furniture is dumped.
Although Milos had his teammates testifying, he left halfway through and went to the bathroom for a few minutes, enough for him to shoot magic rays.
Charlotte also brought the list of cafeteria banquets in her hand, not long before the crime, Milos had attended his teammate's birthday party, and lit the candles for the device, which was also at that time.
Milos's face was still breezy:
"Stay in the event building, learn fire attribute skills, and attend birthday parties...... These imaginations can be inserted in many teammates. What's more, I'm not the only one who has been to the material library. ”
The other people at the scene also whispered, if you really want to follow this reasoning, isn't Sanda more suspicious? He could have destroyed the circle on the spot, killed Scott, and then ran to put out the fire.
Charlotte said slowly, "Of course...... And one last piece of conclusive evidence – flying shuttlecock! ”
Hearing the words flying shuttlecock, Milos's pupils suddenly constricted.
Charlotte pulled out the broken candle ignition device from her hand, as well as Victor's drawings.
"Mr. Milos has lived in the cadet school for many years and has a rudimentary knowledge of steam mechanics, but you don't know how to make your own parts, so you dismantled the flying shuttlecock to make a timing device. Mr. Victor, a mechanic who often worked for the school, has already demonstrated this with drawings.
And the crockpot in the window of Paul's dormitory, the meat of the tyrannical giant crocodile in it, was put in by you with a flying shuttlecock. Yesterday, I found a small iron hook to hold the meat in place inside the meat that had been accidentally blown up. ”
At this time, Milos's teammates stood up and retorted: "However, if Mr. Milos really dismantled the flying shuttlecock, there should be fewer balls in our activity room, but we count them every day, and the balls have not decreased." ”
Charlotte shook her head and smiled: "Of course he wouldn't be stupid enough to use the flying shuttlecock for the school public, he used the commemorative ball for the championship he won last year!" ”
Charlotte was in the event building to see a commemorative painting of Scott, Milos, and Sanda winning last year's Flying Badminton Festival, and each of them received a commemorative ball engraved with their initials.
"This is the last evidence to complete the chain of evidence, and next, Mr. Victor will restore this flying shuttlecock for everyone on the spot. When the time comes, the name on the ball will be presented in front of everyone's eyes. ”
Charlotte was about to call Victor on the pitch when Milos waved his hand to stop him.
"That's enough."
A touch of sadness appeared on his face, and he smiled bitterly:
"Mr. Charlotte, did you know from the beginning that Buck went to Pam Meadows that night, but still arrested him, just to make me think that your investigation has been deviated."
Charlotte smiled noncommittally: "Poaching is not a small culpability anyway, and his reluctance to confess is his own business." ”
Then, he sighed, "Mr. Milos, you were too eager to blame Paul, so you carried out that sneak attack on the dormitory, but it confirmed my guess as to why the circle was destroyed.
Even if you wait until we find the giant crocodile meat you have put in and then launch a sneak attack to destroy the bottle, it will not help, but I will find the hook on the meat. ”
An inner relief and haggard appeared on Milos's face.
"As a colleague of White Rose, I am convinced of this battle of wits."
Fina looked at Milos in disbelief, her mouth wide open, almost speechless.
"Why, Mr. Milos...... I know better than anyone how much you've longed for Big Scott over the years, how painful you are when you learn of his death, and why ......"
Charlotte looked at the wreckage of the flying shuttlecock on the ground, and couldn't help but sigh.
Scott, Milos and Sanda won the Flying Badminton Festival together last year, what an honor. Who would have thought that what the three good brothers got from cooperating at the beginning, the memory of youth, would become a tool of cannibalism in the blink of an eye.
Milos closed his eyes, his face trembling violently, as if he had fallen into unbearable memories.
"Because...... Miss Aisha, a Cadet Knight, did not die accidentally, but was killed by Big Brother Scott. ”