If you want to say what kind of mood Duanmu Huai is in at the moment, then Lorena's speech can tell the story.

"Huh? Something happened again?? ”

Listen, this "again" is very spiritual.

Moreover, this time there is no need to investigate whether it is the cultist's purpose, the reason is very simple, the victim's body was found behind the cabin, and a strange circular circle was drawn around his corpse——— yes, this is what the cultists did!

Or is your reputation inconspicuous.........

Looking at the corpse in front of him, Duanmu Huai sighed silently, this cultist is really idle and has nothing to do for three days and two ends to find trouble for himself, he originally went to the fog capital for the case of Jack the Ripper. As a result, before I got to the ground, I encountered two cases on the way.

If this is famous, those guys don't just turn around and run away when they see it? What else do you do......... Uh, that doesn't seem right?

After all, there are no fewer similar cases in Detective Conan.

Forget it, it's useless to think about it now.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai retracted his thoughts and looked at the corpse in front of him——— it was Williams, a passenger on the "Full Moon and Stars", who was killed. Woodford. At this moment, there were two women standing beside him, one of whom was wearing a white coat and was Rose, the doctor of the airship. Barnett, another .........

"Who are you?"

Duanmu Huai looked at the other woman standing next to Williams's corpse with a notebook in her hand, she was dressed not like a noble lady, but more like a soldier. And judging by her expression, she doesn't look like someone who is very familiar with Williams.

"I'm Dort. Fisher, a bodyguard hired by Williams. ”

The other party's answer was very simple.

"You're a bodyguard? So what happened when he was killed? ”

"I don't know."

The bodyguard spread his hands helplessly.

"I woke up in the morning and went to the dining room to get breakfast for Williams, and when I got back to the cabin, Williams was gone, and I was about to look for him, when I heard screams coming from here, and then when I got there, I found that it had turned out."

"Oh..............."

Duanmu Huai nodded, then looked at the doctor.

"What did you find? Doctor? ”

Hearing Duanmu Huai's inquiry, Doctor Rose quickly gave her own answer.

"The victim's throat was slit, and this is the cause of death, and it can be seen from the angle and direction of the wound that the victim was facing the murderer at that time."

"Faced? So are there traces of violent confrontation on the corpses? ”

"Nope."

"In other words, the victim faced the murderer and was cut by him with a knife, but he did not resist at all?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai frowned.

"I think it's weird, too, but that's it, of course, if I want to say it's very strange blood."

As he spoke, the doctor pointed to the blood stains on the deceased's body.

"His blood was almost black and clotted more than normal."

"So there's no way to confirm the time of death from that point?"

"If it's an ordinary corpse, it's fine, but this corpse ....................."

Rose looked at the corpse and shrugged her shoulders.

"I'm sorry, I may not be able to help much, if I want to do a test, I don't have the necessary equipment here, and I will have to wait until the Wudu Police Station to conduct further investigations."

At this moment, the captain also came to the scene of the murder, checked the situation, and then sighed.

"Everyone, please gather next, after all, I also want to make this matter clear."

Everyone didn't pay attention to this, and after locking the door, they came to the observation deck, and by this time, everyone, including the captain and passengers, had basically arrived.

As for the facts of the case, it is already clear.

The victim was Williams. Forde, who was killed in the smoking room, slashed his throat with a knife, and then the murderer drew an evil circle with his blood at the deceased's side.

Now the question is, when did the deceased die.

Although it stands to reason that a general autopsy can narrow down the time of death within a certain range through information such as the stiffness of the corpse and blood clotting, Dr. Rose also said that the blood of the deceased coagulates much more than ordinary blood, so there is no way to judge the time of death with common sense.

Then the other way around, first determine when the body of the deceased went to the smoking room.

According to the crowd, in the morning the captain and the navigator Bart and one of the passengers, Arthur, were smoking in the smoking room, and they did not see the corpse at that time——— as for whether there was a corpse hidden in it, it was even more impossible, after all, the smoking room was not decorated at all, it was a clean and empty room, only a few ashtrays were placed on the wall, and there was no place to hide the corpse.

So if anything, for two hours between five and seven in the morning, someone took Williams (or his body) to the smoking room, slit his throat, and drew a circle out of his blood.

Not to mention killing, it takes at least half an hour to draw a magic circle.

At least from the current information, the following facts can be confirmed.

First, at about five o'clock, Captain Carter and the navigator Bart came to the smoking room because they were sleepy on duty at night and wanted to smoke a cigarette to wake up, and then they met Arthur, a passenger who was also a heavy smoker, and the three of them smoked for a while, and the captain and navigator went to work, and according to Arthur's own account, he also went back to his room to rest after smoking.

Then, after six o'clock, Williams' bodyguard Dott went out to bring Williams breakfast—her statement was confirmed by Ethel, who was setting up the dishes in the dining room at the time. By the time Dott had spent about twenty minutes preparing breakfast and returning to his room, Williams was gone.

Then there was another passenger, Fred. Winston goes to the smoking room to smoke a cigarette and finds the body, followed by a loud scream.

It was about seven o'clock.

If Dort, the bodyguard's confession, is correct, then it was after she left the cabin that Williams left her room for some reason, went to the smoking room, and was killed.

Of course, the premise is that her confession is correct, after all, because the doctor can't determine the correct time of the victim's death, then there is another possibility, that is, the bodyguard Dott is the murderer, she killed her employer, and then deliberately went out to make her own alibi under the pretext of getting breakfast, and then came back and dragged Williams's body to the smoking room next door...............

In any case, at least one thing is for sure.

Everyone saw that Williams was alive when he got on the airship.

Other words............... He was killed on an airship.

Then there is only one truth, and the prisoners are among us!

Well, that's right, very simple reasoning.

After all, this is not the same as the previous train, if you insist on it, the people in the train can climb out of the carriage by some means. But airships are different, tens of thousands of meters in the air, the entire cabin is sealed, who can get out?

And the space of the airship is also fixed. At the foreground is a large rectangular observation deck--dining room with sofas and coffee tables on either side of the window, and several dining tables in the middle. There are two doors at the back of the observation deck, and the central one leads to the corridor, which is a straight line with no forks. On the right side of the corridor are seven guest rooms, and on the right are three rooms with crew lounge, crew bedrooms and cargo holds.

As for the two doors at the end of the corridor, they lead to the infirmary and the engine room, which of course are strictly forbidden to outsiders, and the captain will only open the doors to overhaul the airship when it is in condition.

If you want to draw a diagram, it is basically as follows.

Observation Deck - Passenger Room 1 - Passenger Room 2 - Passenger Room 3 - Passenger Room 4 - Passenger Room 5 - Passenger Room 6 - Passenger Room 7 - Engine Compartment.

Observation Deck - Crew Lounge - Crew Bedroom - Cargo Hold - Smoking Room - Passenger Room 8 - Passenger Room 9 - Passenger Room 10 - Infirmary.

The seven guest rooms on the A side belonged to Duanmu Huai, Lorena, four students from the Royal Master's College, and the discoverer of the body, Fred Brown. Winston.

As for the three rooms on the other side, they belong to the deceased Williams. Forde and his bodyguard Dort. Fisher, and Arthur. Lanshel.

At the time of the incident, almost all the passengers were resting in their rooms, only the crew members on the airship were busy, the captain was in charge of observing the course, the navigator was in the crew lounge, and only Ethel, the "maid, was at the observation deck to set the table and prepare breakfast, and according to her, only two people had been to the observation deck at that time, one was Arthur. Lanshel, who appeared at the observation deck before himself and never left, followed by Dort, the bodyguard who came to fetch breakfast for Williams.

For now, everyone was sitting in the observation deck, each in a circle, looking at the others uneasily. There were no idiots present, and they all thought of everything Duanmu Huai could think of. Although I am not sure who the murderer is, at least ......... It's good to stay away from strangers you don't know.

"Knock knock!!"

However, it was not long before the sound of hurried footsteps came, and then everyone saw the captain walk in with a tense face.

"Captain!!"

Seeing the captain appear, the maid Ethel, who was sitting in the corner, hurriedly stood up.

"How's it going?"

"The radio can't be reached."

However, the news brought by the captain made everyone's hearts sink.

"What's going on? Is it the weather? ”

"No, this ..............."

The captain hesitated for a moment, but finally chose to tell the truth.

"The radio seems to have been sabotaged."

"What?!"

Hearing this, the others suddenly couldn't sit still, and even Duanmu Huai raised their eyebrows.

Now, things are interesting.

"What now?"

"Wait, what are we going to do!"

At this moment, everyone couldn't help but panic.

This is understandable, after all, the situation in front of you is more dangerous than a train or a blizzard mountain resort.

To put it bluntly, if you don't feel safe, you can force the driver to stop, then leave the train yourself and go to the wilderness to survive. It's the same with Blizzard Lodge, you can indeed stay in the lodge and wait to die, or you can choose to go out on a snowy day and find a place to dig a hole to hide.

Although the chances of survival are not high, at least there are still them.

But now on the airship, with the Atlantic Ocean below, and 10,000 meters in between, what can you do?

Are you jumping out to feed the fish? Or jump out and feed the fish? Or jump out and feed the fish?

But if you don't feed the fish, do you have a choice?

"Mr. Detective, do you have a way to solve the case?"

At this moment, the young man before also thought of Duanmu Huai again, and hurriedly rushed over and began to ask, while Duanmu Huai thought for a moment and shrugged his shoulders.

"There are no clues at the scene of the crime at the moment, and I can't say unless I carefully examine the body and then search the room."

Indeed, as Duanmu Huai said, in the smoking room at the scene of the crime, there were no clues left, except for the corpse and the strange magic circle, there were only a few cigarette butts.

He is not Sherlock Holmes, and he can tell one, two, three, four, five by the cigarette butt.

There is no murder weapon, and the murderer himself has not left any clues, how to investigate?

He is the god of destruction, the god of pleasure, but not the god of reasoning.

It's not his business!

In fact, Duanmu Huai prefers to be reckless——— that is, to wait for the other party to take the initiative to jump out, and then slap him to death.

Just like fighting flies, it is very difficult to find the flies yourself, it is better to wait for the flies to buzz and fly, and you can immediately lock the position and start to do it.

"Hmph, after talking for a long time, isn't it just that you don't have any skills?"

At this moment, Arthur not far away next to him sneered——— because of an alibi, he was the most sassy one in the group now, after all, when the victim was killed, he had been staying at the observation deck, so he got out early, and he was quite arrogant at this time.

"And maybe you killed someone, after all, you look like a murderer."

"Humph!"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai's face sank, and he glared directly at him, and looking at Duanmu Huai glaring at him, that Arthur wanted to say something, but after feeling Duanmu Huai's gaze, he suddenly didn't mention it in one breath, only felt his heart twitch suddenly, and the next moment with the cold air that erupted from behind his spine, the whole person was even more frightened and his legs were weak, and he collapsed to the ground.

"You, what do you want to do?"

"If I'm a murderer, I'll be the first to kill you, a low-mouthed, arrogant idiot."

Duanmu Huai glared at Arthur again, and then withdrew his gaze, and this time Arthur didn't dare to speak again, he collapsed on the floor tremblingly, his eyes widened in horror, looking at Duanmu Huai, but he couldn't say a word.

At this time, Doctor Rose also stepped forward.

"The man was not killed by this gentleman, I can be sure."

"Why?"

"It's simple."

Dr. Rose looked at the other questioner and explained.

"According to the results of my autopsy, the murderer cut his throat directly in front of the victim, and from the point of view of the wound, the height of the other party and the victim is almost the same, and this gentleman ..............."

As she spoke, Rose looked at Duanmu Huai speechlessly.

"I'm afraid he's going to have to squat for that."

“………………………”

Let's look at Duanmu Huai, and then look at Dr. Rose, and make a gesture......... Well, it seems to be the truth.

"Moreover, I also saw that strange magic circle, which was drawn by a person with his fingers dipped in blood, and judging from the radius and size of the pattern, it was the size of a normal adult man's finger......... So ..............."

Well, understandable.

Hearing this, Lorena also raised her hand curiously.

"Do you mean that the killer was an adult male?"

"Normal adult males."

Out of the doctor's rigor, Dr. Rose still added, and then look at Duanmu Huai——— who this sentence is aimed at, it goes without saying.

In this way, according to Dr. Rose, at least Duanmu Huai, Arthur, and Lorena can be excluded, as well as the maid Ethel, the bodyguard Dot, and the two girls from the Master's Academy.

Then the rest were the other two male students from the master's school, the captain and the navigator, and the discoverer of the body, Fred Winston.

(End of chapter)