Thrown on the floor was a bloodstained dagger with a delicately carved handle, and a bloody handkerchief beside the bed.

Charo stared at the scene blankly, not knowing what to do.

Unexpectedly, the general on the ground seemed to have been breathing for a long time, but he suddenly struggled with the last bit of strength and twisted a little, before he lay back on the floor with a "bang", his hands and feet twitched two or three times, and finally he didn't move.

Xia Luo, who witnessed this scene, trembled with fright, and finally shouted: "Murder...... Come on, someone......" and jumped to his feet, knocking frantically on every door, hoping that someone would come out to help him. Unexpectedly, the neighboring room was also silent.

"Oh my God, was Warney killed too?" His legs shook even more. I mustered up the courage to push the door open, but the room was empty and empty.

"The handmaiden was kidnapped...... No, maybe...... Maybe it was an early escape...... Again is possible...... The handmaiden was an accomplice...... Or...... Murderer! Charlot's mind went blank.

He composed, returned to the general's room, and re-examined the scene of the murder.

This time, he discovered some details. The large desk in the room was mostly intact, the keys and wallet on the table were still in place, and there were a few gold coins. He shuddered and picked up his wallet, which contained 13 bills in a 100 yuan denomination.

For a moment, a greed made him involuntarily pull out the bills and stuff them into his pocket. Then he hurried out of the room, rushed out of the house, ran out of the yard in one go, and took the iron gate with him, and rushed into the depths of the street in the middle of the night.

It was drizzling outside, and when the cold rain poured on his face, he seemed to wake up from his sleep, and his kind and honest nature also returned to his mind, and when he recalled what he had just done, he was immediately ashamed: "How could I take the opportunity to do such a thing?"

He stood shivering in the rain.

A carriage came running.

"Stop, stop, take me to the Security Bureau, there's a homicide!"

He came to the security bureau in a panic: "The general was killed, everything in the room was overturned, the money fell next to the body, I picked it up." Charo pulled out 13 bills and described the situation in detail.

The security guard then followed him to the front of the general's mansion and pushed the iron gate, which had been closed by Xia Luo when he ran out, the master was dead, and the maid was not there, and the gate could not be entered from the outside.

The security guard called for a locksmith, and it took a long time to open the door and the door, and rushed to the general's room on the second floor to see, and they all stood there in amazement.

"Hey, you said there was a fierce fight just now, and everything was knocked over, doesn't it seem like that, did you witness it?" The security guard asked Charo in surprise.

Charlo came to see it, and was stunned again.

I saw that all the things in the house were back in place, there was nothing broken or knocked over, the wall clock was hanging properly on the closet, and not even a single fragment of the broken glass candlestick just now could be found, in short, it seemed that nothing had happened in the house.

Xia Luo was confused: "Am I dreaming?" Or is it a drama in front of you?"

"I'm not mistaken, the general is lying in a pool of blood, and the ground is in a mess......"

"What the hell are you doing, where are there corpses here?"

The security guard looked around the room, walked into the bed, lifted the blanket, and it was the general lying quietly on the bed, although he was dead, but his face was peaceful, he was neatly dressed, and he still had the medal that the general had received during his lifetime on his chest.

"Ahh Who is it...... Who made the general like this? Charo was horrified and said, "No, it wasn't like that when I went out, the general was lying in the middle of the floor, with a blood-stained dagger and a handkerchief...... Someone must have been here again and cleaned up the scene, and that person is the murderer! He first hid in a place and came out in the dead of night to commit murder......"

"But aren't the doors and windows properly locked?"

"Yes, he must have sneaked in first, and then ran away after committing the crime."

"You've been in the room, and if the killer escapes, you should be able to see that there's no side door here, right?"

"No, there's only a big iron gate, and the wall is so high that you can't easily climb it."

"Who was the last person to be with the general?"

"The maid Warny, but she also disappeared after the incident."

"Either he was arrested by the murderer, or he went to the street, and these two reasons are inseparable."

"I thought she had been taken away, but her room was neat, and there was no trace of sleeping on the bed, so I could only guess that she had slipped out to play, how could a young girl not be playful?"

"But, didn't you lock the door and the courtyard door yourself?"

"That's what went out before that."

"Do you think the murderer came out of hiding in the dead of night?"

"There's no other possibility."

The security guards have done a meticulous search of every corner of the room, and no clues have been found, who is the murderer? When? By what means? How did it come and go? Did he commit the crime alone or did he have another accomplice? Why cover up the scene?...... These are like mysteries that disturb people's minds.

At 7 o'clock the next morning, the coroner came. At 8 o'clock, a group of people came, including ministers, case prosecutors, detectives, reporters, as well as young men who claimed to be the general's nephew, other relatives, and all kinds of people crowded the general's mansion.

Once again, a meticulous investigation was carried out, and according to Charlotte's recollection, the security guard used white chalk to roughly mark the location of the body and the murder weapon at the scene.

Nurse Mei Ying was also summoned, but she didn't know anything about it, she had already dedicated herself to religion and had no quarrel with the world, but she was also amazed by the tragedy that had happened.

The most striking is the disappearance of the handmaiden Warni.

Mei Ying came forward to defend Hua Ni: I never think that the girl would be a murderer or an accomplice, she saw a job advertisement in 13 days to apply. Her letter of introduction and resume are fine, hiring her was agreed by the general, and after she came, she worked hard, so I would never believe it if I wanted to go out in the middle of the night, she was by no means the kind of bad girl who left the sick general alone and went to have a romantic time by herself. ”

"And how do you explain that she hasn't returned?"

"I've been kidnapped by the murderer!"

Charlotte made a bold assumption, and everyone agreed with him.

"Murder and kidnapping...... This may be the nature of the case......" As soon as the Minister of Security finished speaking, someone spoke later: "Not maybe, but not kidnapping at all." The reality and the results of the investigation are exactly the opposite of your conclusions. ”

Everyone immediately looked at the speaker in astonishment, he was none other than the old detective Wu Changhao. Who else dares to be so "presumptuous" in front of the minister and the prosecutor of the case.

"Oh, it's the old inspector here, have you been here for a long time?" The minister greeted with a smile.

"It's been about two hours."

"Yes, we thought you were still fighting with Bai Lang for the lottery case, and you are also interested in this case?"