16. Carpet search

When Claire and her party were finally able to swagger into Arya's house, the original owner of the room had disappeared as a matter of course, which made Claire regret it, because when the detectives agreed with Lilith, Lilith did not go to Arya's house to investigate the scene, but left in the opposite direction with brisk steps. ~.

"I guess it's going home and sleeping. ”

Claire muttered and continued to look around the room.

Compared to Lilith, who has nothing to lose even if she loses, the detectives are gambling on their reputation to investigate Alia's whereabouts. If the joint investigation of three detectives is not as good as the random search of one person, then the word detective can be thrown away.

The window glass shattered a large piece of it due to Nia's previous fight with the prisoner, and the cold front that poured in from it also blew the music scattered on the ground.

The owner of this room will probably not come back.

"You two, although it is a cooperation, I really can't think of anything that I can do for you to help. ”

After squatting down again and picking up the sheet music one by one, Nia said, "Not hindering each other is already our biggest cooperation, so let's go separately to investigate." Perhaps we could also communicate the results of the survey to each other. So, let me start by telling you what you know so far?"

"It's obvious, the prisoner has just returned to this room and has been in it for a while. Fei, who seemed to be a little anxious, directly snatched Nia's words, "When I first came in, there were traces of snow-melted water on the ground in the house. At the same time as opening the door. The wind outside blew the snow in. After that, it melted because of the heat in the house. ”

"So, Arya came in to get her coat?"

Claire looked at the hanger not far from the door, this is a big room, there is no reason for the hanger to be in the middle of the road, it must be because she was too anxious to take the clothes from the hanger, so she tore the hanger down, "Although they are not afraid of the cold, they run away in this kind of cold weather." Clothes must be a must. ”

"I'm afraid it's more than that. ”

Nia began to look around, "In the nearly twenty minutes between we got into a fight and reached an agreement with our employer, Arya had time to do a lot of things, and it only took five minutes at most to get back here, and jokingly, it wasn't surprising that she planted timed explosives here for the remaining fifteen minutes." ”

No one would have a bundle of explosives for someone else when they fled.

"But, we're all fine now, I think if they come back. It must have taken some time to get busy with something else, like ...... Burn the important Wen JiΓ n. Or maybe it's a discussion of an escape route or something. ”

"Isn't the escape route always ready to be studied? There's no reason to have to go back to the house and study it. "Besides, if you burn the evidence or something, I think the evidence is nothing more than some paper or something, just tear it to pieces and spill it outside." ”

"If that's the case, it saves a lot of effort. ”

Because of the fact that she was wearing too few clothes, Nia kept rubbing her hands, "Then, let's go and look for clues." I died of cold, so I went to the room with a stove on the second floor. ”

Although he didn't think that the suspicions found here had anything to do with Arya's escape, Krell had to start working hard to see the other two detectives, especially Nia, who had always focused on elegance, actually burrow into the extinguished chimney like a reptilian to investigate.

As for Fei, he ignored his poor physical condition, coughing while reaching out and rummaging in front of the brazier that burned only dust.

Claire has to admit that although these two detectives do have all kinds of problems, when it comes to the case, they will completely change their appearance.

Then, you can't be idle.

"Claire. ”

Just as Claire checked the handrail of the staircase for anything unusual, Watson, who was staring at the ceiling with glazed eyes, suddenly beckoned to him, and judging by his silent gestures, he probably didn't want the other two detectives to hear it.

"Hey, everyone said they wanted to exchange information, but you can't do this. ”

Despite saying this, Claire kept her voice down, and the two of them pretended to be checking the ground on the first floor.

"I don't think I can talk to the two of them about it. ”

Watson whispered, "Of course, I can't help it if you insist. ”

"Let's start with what. ”

"When someone passed through the corridor on the second floor, I happened to check on the first floor to see if there was a secret door, but the first floor did not find the situation, but there was a hollow sound from the ceiling on the first floor, most of which were between the first floor and the second floor, and there was a mezzanine. ”

β€œ...... Think about it. ”

Claire said as she ran to the stairs, and after carefully examining the height of the floor, she walked back with a frown.

The wall between the first floor and the second floor does have the possibility of opening a mezzanine, but this mezzanine obviously can't fit a person, and whether it can be stuffed in is a problem, even if it is really stuffed in, it will end up suffocating.

However, on the other hand, if you use it as a natural safe to place something else, then there is no pressure, because excluding the thickness of the wall support, which must be taken into account, this mezzanine can also have at least the thickness of a palm.

However, does this mezzanine make sense? As long as you are a normal person, you should not spend any more effort when you flee, and gamble on the risk of being discovered, and put important information in the secret door, and the information is just that, and there is no pressure to take it with you, so why do you have to go to great lengths to put it in the secret door?

But...... If there was even one chance of this, Arya had put something that could never be destroyed in the secret door......

"Hey, Claire, do you think you should say it?"

"I don't know, but even if we don't say it now, we can't properly investigate the secret door.

The sound of Nia and Faye walking around kept coming from upstairs, and it was precisely because of the noise generated by the mutual investigation that the sound of stepping on the secret door was masked. If it weren't for the fact that he happened to hear footsteps on the second floor, most likely Watson would not have been able to find the secret hidden in this room.

"Anyway, shut up for now. ”

After thinking about it for a while, Claire decided not to tell SΓΉ Fei and Nia about it, "After we leave, we'll secretly turn back and investigate." (To be continued......)