"I thought you were a ghost, the weather outside was always gloomy, and it wasn't even night, and there wasn't any light in the stairwell."

"Are you frightened? Mr. Edward. ”

Mill responded, "Almost, because Ian died at the hotel, and before that, I did see a real ghost in the harbor of New Orleans, and combined with Chris's conclusions, I can't help believing it, although my heart keeps beating the drum." ”

"It was a sunny day, just like today." Carat said with a wink and looking at the sky.

"yes, I remember you being naked, maybe only a ghost would do that at the moment, suddenly appearing in a dark corner, and anyone would be scared."

"It was Omar who did it, he had seen the ghost as much as you did, and had used magic to clean her up."

Mir looked at Kra in horror and asked, "He's seen a ghost?" Did he tell you it himself? ”

"Yes." "She fled, and Omar didn't manage to trap her," Kra said. ”

"When?"

"I don't remember exactly, it was before you met her."

"Did Omar see her?"

"He didn't tell me that, but he did say that from behind the ghost it should be a female ghost, with all the features except for the color of her skin, which resembles a black man in the slave market."

Mir thought of the scorched skin in the bidet: "I see, she was probably the same as what happened to Carol, she was cut off. ”

"That's why female ghosts can have other skin tones." Mir tried to overturn Matilda's conclusion: "I don't think that's rebirth. ”

"What's that?"

"Substitution, blame or something."

Mill told her, "Maybe it's a façade, and at this point, even if it can be overturned, I need to preserve the meaning of being born again." ”

"In the case of rebirth, the murderer wants to achieve some kind of purpose, or the method of human sacrifice in witchcraft."

"I've thought about it, and now there is not enough evidence and clues to speculate."

Mill pointed to the window on the second floor of the house and said, "It's like the bottle is a message to us, it exists on the surface, and we don't know what it wants to say." ”

There was a hint of clarity in Kra's eyes, and he nodded and said, "That's right, I can't understand a third of what you said at all, only the murderer knows about it." ”

"You mean to catch the killer first, and then let the murderer explain it all?" Mir felt that Carat was whimsical.

She said, "Hmm... That's a good idea, Mr. Edward. ”

"Oh my God! I don't even know who the murderer is, and we don't know where the murderer is. Mir smiled calmly and said, "Let's obediently crack what the murderer left behind." ”

"Whether it's testing our IQ or something, you know?"

"I understand." Kra pursed his lips and said, "Will there be any luck in the process of investigating clues?" ”

"It's hard to say, luck only exists before danger and death, and as for the investigation of the case, don't even think about it, if you are not careful, it will be easy to make mistakes."

Mir found that Carat really had no talent at all, and under a pair of extreme skins, except for the occasional cleverness, other related talents were basically not available.

Mir glanced at the glare of light and said, "It's time for us to go, Carat, it's almost noon." ”

"We can go find something to eat."

"There's something to eat there for Gaynor, if you don't dislike it."

"I don't mind at all." After she finished speaking, she pointed to the back of the tree trunk: "The carriage is there." ”

In the carriage, Mill recounted to Kra some of the events that had happened to Carl's wife, including the scene of the murder, and the conversation between Omar and Karl.

Cara was stunned as she heard Mir's description, but her opinion was that the incident in the washroom and the second-floor bidet was not the work of the same person.

The death of the maid in the bathroom, as Mill said, is in fact a façade, a deliberate attempt to interfere with the pointing thread of the murder.

Most likely, the latter can also be a façade, a distraction, and whatever it is, the only clue left so far is an extremely suspicious bottle.

Carat was caught in an infinite reverie, believing that she had no talent for solving crimes, but her reverie could be reproduced in Carol's house in the picture described by Mir, and one jagged piece after another flashed through her mind, like some kind of irregular puzzle pieces, putting them all together.

Dirty marks on the floor, the corpse of a maid in the bathroom, charred human skin in the bidet on the second floor.

Clothes, bloodstains, bruises, bite marks, scratches, milky diluted liquid, hair, blood, bottles.

When Kra combined the constellations mentioned by Mir, it felt like they couldn't be matched, there were thirteen shining stars on the chart, and she only got eleven fragments.

"No!"

"What's wrong? Carat? Mir asked with concern as he looked at Carra's horrified expression.

Carat's heart was filled with horror: "I know about a third of what it means. ”

"What?" Mir asked incredulously, "How do you know?" ”

"I—" Cara suddenly began to stammer: "I don't know, I thought about it just now, and inexplicably received eleven fragments of the scene, like some kind of memory fragment, I restored them all." ”

"Do you know puzzles? Monsieur Edward, the kind of thing that develops the intellect of children, the children of the French aristocracy have this kind of thing. ”

"Of course." Mir shrugged his shoulders and said, "What do you want to express?" ”

"As far as I know, there are thirteen stars in the astrological chart of Virgo, and they are connected to each other." "The fragments are eleven," said Carla, "and I thought about the meaning of a third, which should represent the remaining two, two of the three. ”

"Thirteen stars and eleven shards have two copies left." Carat added.

"You're amazing! Carat! Mir exclaimed excitedly.

"Wait a minute." Mir looked at Kra's face and eyes, glanced at it for a long time, and asked curiously, "How did you do that?" ”

Carat looked puzzled and said: "I don't know very well, according to what you said, I have been thinking about it in my mind since then, and the picture presented by breaking into the scene of the murder without warning is simply unsightly." ”

"That's right, the murder weapon for the maid was a Scher's scimitar."

Mir continued: "The same knife used by Omar, you should know that he is in a cell, he can't run out and kill people." ”

"What surprised me the most was Carl's disappearance."

Kra's thoughts lingered on the murder case that Mill had solved earlier: "Is there anything to do with the people Omar killed?" ”

Mir shook his head lightly and said, "The murderer is deliberately related to it in a way, and my idea is that it has nothing to do with the victim killed by Omar, two completely different things. ”

"Omar was appointed to kill them because of the meeting, because of the reds, and they wanted to provoke a more intense war." Mill continued: "This time it was different, it seemed to be inextricably linked to the previous ones, and when the Lover's Eye appeared, I thought that the murderer who appeared later was here to finish the unfinished business. ”

"Isn't that so?"

"No, after Carl's disappearance, I abandoned my original idea." Mill said: "The murderer is trying to make a perfect turn with Karl, using Omar's unfinished business to deliberately give us a chaotic scene. ”

Carat was a little confused: "I still don't understand. ”

"In other words, it's a new murder." Mill explained: "Delina has made a planned change in her approach for the future, and there is no difference in nature, but the final method is different. ”

"It can also be said that Omar has done what Delina has explained, and as for Karl, he is an insignificant person to Omar, and it doesn't matter whether he kills or not."

"Isn't his disappearance the real purpose of the murderer? Maybe it was an accident, maybe it was a deliberate attempt to make him disappear, so that we could have a little disagreement on the clues, and finally lead to a wrong judgment, so that the murderer could prolong the next murder? Carat said.

Mir smiled and nodded, "You can say that. ”

"I'll be glad you found the problem, but it doesn't have any pattern right now, and this conclusion can be kept in your mind for the time being, and maybe when it will be used."

"Thank you." Carat's eyes looked at Mir's smile, and at the moment of infection, she instantly showed a big smile.

"I'm the one to say thank you, Carat." Mir kept smiling and said, "Actually, I want it to be simple. ”

"Are you referring to murder?"

"Yes, the clue is broken, and I can only complicate the simple question."

"Simplicity represents the appearance of the clue, and complexity represents the meaning behind the clue." Carat put away her smile and gradually lowered her head and said, "It's me who thinks about the problem too simply. ”

Then she raised her head and said, "Mr. Edward, I briefly compared the astrological chart with the scene, except for the problem I found, I didn't find anything else, and it didn't match it at all." ”

"You might consider a different direction."

"Changing directions?"

Carat whispered, "I tried, but it still didn't work." ”

"You've overlooked one place, Carat."

Mill told her directly, "Carl's home. ”

"Oh my God!" She was surprised: "I missed it." ”

"You don't have to imagine in your head that there will be errors." "There's one more important thing we need," Mill said. ”

"What's that?"

A bright light flashed in Mir's eyes: "Map, a map of New Orleans, marks the scene of the crime and compares it with the astrological map. ”