"Salsa Sasa ......"

"Whew.......huhuhu"

In a huge manor, an old man woke up from his room, and the cold wind blowing in from the window made him feel a little uncomfortable.

"Damn, I forgot to close the window again."

Jabüg Fuller was the steward of the manor, and had been working in the manor for decades, at first he was just an ordinary servant, and he was appreciated by the viscount, and this was the owner of the manor, and finally achieved the position of steward, straight now.

Jabgue walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window, wanting to close it and get a good night's sleep. When I closed the window, I was dazzled to find that the moon was exceptionally round tonight.

The curtains were pulled, the rings on the curtains made a rustling sound, and Jabgue faintly heard the sound of the windows being beaten by the wind, and this small matter did not make Jacob suspicious, he felt extremely tired, and he was directly like going to bed.

But as soon as he closed the curtains with his hands and returned to the edge of the bed, he was about to lie down, when he heard a crisp sound outside the room

, woke him up from his original drowsiness.

"What is it again!" Jabug immediately turned on the light, opened the door of the room and walked out.

By the faint light of the room, he observed the situation outside, and soon understood the source of the crisp sound, which was the sound of the window being opened by the cold wind outside.

"It's really troublesome, why is the wind so strong tonight, and there is no rain."

Jabgue complained, and hurried to close the window that had been blown open by the strong wind, and when he had done this, he could finally return to his bedroom to rest.

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"Ahhh—————h

In the morning, Jacob was awakened by a quick, high-pitched scream.

"What's going on?"

He got up in a hurry, and this time, he didn't even have time to change his clothes, and ran out of the door in his pajamas, and saw a large group of servants gathered outside the door of the master's room.

His heart sank, and he hurriedly ran in the direction of the manor's master's room, pushed away the servants crowded at the door, and saw the scene inside.

In the room the various drawers were opened, the clothes were thrown everywhere, the benches were out of their original positions, and in the corner of the room there was a maid dressed in a maid's costume and holding a broom hiding in horror, and not far in front of the maid, there was a man whose clothes were stained with blood and whose face was blurred, and he could only see where the person with a rough appearance was lying.

Jacob, the steward of the manor, had the courage to go up and inspect it.

The face of the man who fell to the ground was covered in wounds and congealed blood, and there was no way to recognize who it was at once, so Jacob had to lean closer and take a closer look.

As a result, it felt more and more familiar, and a face came to his mind.

"Mr. Viscount?" Jacob muttered uncertainly.

Jacob beckoned to the servant outside the door:

"Go and call the Inspector."

It wasn't long before several uniformed inspectors arrived at the scene, and one of them stood up and asked:

"My name is Bill Finn, and I'm the inspector in charge of this area, and I heard about your murder like this, what's going on?"

Hearing the Inspector coming, Jacob came out of the room and replied in an old voice:

"Mr. Inspector, please come in with me, the scene of the crime is inside."

"Okay"

Bill nodded and followed Jacob inside.

I saw the scene that was deliberately protected inside.

"Mr. Inspector, this is the original appearance of the crime scene, we didn't dare to make any action after we found the dead man."

Bill nodded affirmatively, "Well, well done. ”

He occasionally came back to some homicide cases, many of which were discovered by people who did not deliberately protect the scene, and like today, it would obviously reduce a lot of workload.

Jeff, Brady, you go to investigate the scene, I'll examine the body, Bill issued an order to the other two subordinates, then pulled out a pair of black gloves from his waist and put it on, and crouched down next to the body to examine it.

He lifted the corpse's chin and glanced at the features.

The deceased was stiff and had a few spots on his body, and had been dead for some time...... The eye sockets were sunken, the bridge of the nose collapsed, and several teeth were lost, which looked like they were caused by several consecutive blows from heavy objects......

Bill made up his mind simply, then turned to look at the old butler and asked:

"Do you know this person?"

"Know...... He is the owner of this manor, our employer......." The old butler was silent for a moment, and hesitated for a moment before answering.

Bill frowned when he heard this, there was obvious uncertainty in the other party's tone, the investigation of the case does not allow such an uncertain factor, he immediately pointed to a person in the crowd and asked:

"Do you know the deceased?"

The servant who was pointed at trembling stepped forward to look at it, and replied:

"It should be our employer......"

Again, Bill's brow furrowed even deeper, and this time he didn't ask anyone else, but asked everyone out loud:

"Are you not the owner of this manor, or is the body so destroyed that you can't recognize it?"

The second half is actually more resentful, although the corpse is badly destroyed, but some of the deceased's features can still be vaguely recognized.

Considering that most of the servants were ordinary people and rarely had the opportunity to come into contact with this kind of thing, Bill gradually calmed down and asked the old butler to come forward and carefully identify it.

"Do you recognize that?" After a long time, Bill asked urgingly.

The old butler looked more and more like him, but now that he was asked like this, it was completely confirmed that the corpse was the owner of the manor.

"Yes....... yes, he's our employer."

Finally identifying the deceased's information, Bill reached out to the body again for other clues.

The corpse had suffered a heavy blow to the face, and there were similar scars on the back and back. Then he looked around the room, and at a glance he saw the wooden chair lying on the side of the room, already broken, and the clotted blood on the legs of the wooden chair.

"Is this the murder weapon?" Bill stepped forward to pick up the corner of the broken wooden chair and whispered.

In order to confirm this conjecture, he used the corner of the table to draw a pen on the corpse for a while, and finally confirmed that the murder weapon matched the wound.

At this time, Jeff and Brady also finished checking the rest of the room and came over to report the situation.

The first to speak was Brady:

"There are obvious signs of being turned over in the wardrobes and drawers in the room, and some gold pounds and pennies have been found scattered on the floor, but there is nothing unusual in the room."

Then it was Jeff who replied:

"There are obvious footprints on the balcony of the floor-to-ceiling window, and I also went outside to take a look at the forest garden, and there are also traces left by someone passing by......"

Combined with the clues from his subordinates, Bill began to think about the details of the case.

"Combined with the traces of Lin Yuan and the footprints outside the window, it is obvious that someone has climbed over the wall to enter the room, and the messy clothes and open drawers indicate that this person is looking for something......."

"If you look at it this way, it should be that there was a thief in the room, and in the end, the owner of the manor chose to kill people after being discovered, but since ....... is a thief, why don't you take the money scattered underground?"

Brady interjected:

"Could it be that the thief stole what he wanted, or stole enough money, that the scattered change would no longer matter to him?"

Jeff added:

"It's also possible that there was too much movement at the time, and the thief was bent on escaping, and he didn't have time to leave with his things."

"Moving?"

Bill repeated the word, looked at the old butler and asked:

"Did you hear anything at night?"

The old butler recalled for a while, and said what happened last night:

“…… Nothing else. ”

"Shouldn't it?"

Something like a wooden chair can't be fatal with a single blow, and it's not enough to cause a fainting with a single blow, so no matter what, the owner of the manor will let out a scream or cry for help, how could it not be?

Bill didn't quite believe the old butler's feedback, and asked a few more servants, and the answers were all the same, and there was no sound at night except the wind.

After asking around and getting no new clues, Bill had no choice but to resign himself to his fate and try to find other breakthroughs from other angles.

"Let's go out, don't hang around."

After Bill drove the crowd, he commanded Jeff and Brady:

"You cordon up and protect this place, Brady is here to watch, and Jeff and I are going to investigate the traces left by the thief."

With that, the two of them left the room and walked to the garden near the gate of the manor, which was no different from other gardens, it was all ordinary flowers and trees, and it could be seen that the servants often pruned this place.

Jeff raised his hand and pointed in one direction of the garden:

"Where the traces are, it's obvious."

Bill looked in the direction Jeff was pointing, and did see a lawn that had been trampled on.

The lawn was very close to the fence, and it should have been accidentally stepped on by the thief when he climbed in.

The two of them walked in that direction and carefully examined the lawn and the stone wall, and in addition to the traces of trampling on the lawn, there were also obvious climbing marks on the stone wall, leaving a little dirt on it.

This makes sure that someone is coming in over the wall.

Then Bill turned to look at the villa behind him, where the crime took place.

Let's go, let's go outside the villa and see how the thief sneaked into the master bedroom of the villa......

It wasn't long before the two of them walked to the bottom of the villa, and there was a floor-to-ceiling window high above their heads, where Jeff had found his footprints.

Bill took a spin outside the villa and concluded:

"This villa is a typical old-fashioned blue style, with intricate textures, which is easy to climb, and perhaps the thief chose this villa because of this."

"So what do we do now?" Jeff asked.

Jeff has only been a Inspector for a short time, and he has only experienced some small cases, such as which is his first contact, and he doesn't know a lot of things, so he can only ask the experienced Bill.

Bill thought for a moment and gave an answer:

"You ask Brady to ask those servants to see if there are any people who have behaved strangely around the neighborhood recently, and I will go outside and ask the surrounding residents, people like thieves will generally investigate before acting, and it is very likely that some clues will be left."

After arranging the mission, the two went their separate ways, Jeff went to the villa to work with Brady to ask the servant, and Bill went out of the manor to ask the nearby residents.