Within minutes of the alarm, everyone in the banquet hall of the annex saw the body of Commander Birune hanging from the dungeon's watchtower not far away.

There was a sudden chaos in the banquet hall, and the officers at the scene quickly reported the situation here to the royal brother Preben, who was not at the scene, by phone.

His Highness Preben's order was soon passed back, and the situation in the dungeon was immediately confirmed, and the cause of Commander Birun's death must be ascertained, and after learning that a large number of invited detectives had gathered at the scene, Preben also authorized the detectives to select some representatives to assist in the investigation.

In this way, Mary, who also became one of the detectives' representatives, and several other detectives left the banquet hall and went to the dungeon with the Kingdom police officers at the scene.

The dungeon is a converted castle, with a twisted interior layout that trots down a staircase corridor to the watchtower.

"It's just ahead!"

Leading the way were Barry, the chief of the Kingdom Police, and Captain Gunner, the highest-ranking officer of the Guard in the banquet hall at the time.

Guenner was the same young officer who had spoken on the phone in the banquethall with Birune before he was killed.

The two men were in front, while Mary was alone behind, bowing her head in contemplation.

In this short 200-meter road, she has roughly sorted out the context behind this incident.

It would not be an accident that Birune died.

She didn't mean that Birune committed suicide, on the contrary, it was the most unlikely possibility, and she didn't even have to think about it.

At the same time, it is impossible for Birune to be killed by "unrelated people", because he died by coincidence, very coincidentally.

The sudden escape from prison, the commander who died in the dungeon, the king's most relied on right-hand man, such a sensitive point in time......

It was all too much of a coincidence, and Mary never believed in coincidences.

Isn't it his skill to disguise the inevitable story by coincidence?

As an agent of MI6, Mary knew from the beginning what might happen in the country in the future.

Of course, this is not the purpose of her coming to this country, but it is just a small and nameless country far away in southern Europe, and she is not so idle, and will spend her mind meaninglessly for this country.

But that doesn't mean she's completely on the sidelines, because by preventing and exposing this series of conspiracies, she might be able to force out the person who is most likely hiding in this small country at the moment.

Thinking of the young figure that had been blurred in her memory, Mary couldn't help but sigh softly.

She has already crossed the destiny of heaven, and there are only two things left in this life that she wants to accomplish no matter what.

The first is to find her husband, who has been missing for 17 years.

The second is to find her best friend, who has actually only met three times.

Then, she might kill him with her own hands.

"Click!"

As she stepped up another step, Mary's feet were suddenly struck by something.

Retracting her drifting thoughts, she glanced down at a small curved piece of metal, the size of a fingernail on her little finger.

This piece of metal, she seems to have seen it somewhere......

With some doubts in her heart, Mary subconsciously looked up.

On either side of the narrow ascending corridor, a medieval-style electric light was installed at intervals, and on the metal ring of the electric lamp above Mary's head, she saw a very subtle mark of friction.

She lifted her hand and touched it, her fingertips glued to the outer crumbs of some metal trim rings.

[The scratches are new.] 】

Having come to this conclusion, Mary's eyes narrowed slightly, and she quickly followed the others in front of her, and came to the top watchtower.

"Commander Birune ......"

In the small watchtower, the corpse that was originally hanging outside the tower has been pulled up, and looking at the face of the corpse, all the previous suspicions in everyone's hearts have disappeared.

The man who was hanged was Commander Birune.

"Commander, he ......," Captain Gounna looked at Birun's body in disbelief.

Even if he really saw this scene, he still didn't want to believe that their commander was so dead.

Mary just glanced at it, and quickly observed the situation at the scene.

There was also a landline hanging on the wall of the watchtower, and the earpiece of the landline was hanging to the ground, and it seemed that Biruen was killed while talking on the phone.

And his last phone call should have been to Gunner, who was in the banquet hall at the time.

Birune's body was laid flat on the ground, next to the cane he often held in his hand, which Mary had seen in the banquet hall, and it is said that Biruon himself seemed to be particularly fond of striking the back of his subordinates' hands with this cane when he reprimanded them.

[Huh? 】

Hand?

Suddenly remembering, Mary turned to look at Guenner, who was still grieving, and one of his hands happened to have a strap wrapped around it, and it seemed that he had been injured on the back of his hand.

As for the cane, Mary was keenly aware that the metal ring at the tip of the cane seemed to be partially broken and detached, and she crouched down to take a closer look, then remembered the piece of metal she had just seen on the stairs.

The shape of this piece of metal coincides with the damage to the metal ring on the cane, is there something wrong with this?

Puzzled, she looked at Birune's corpse.

The corpse had obvious rope strangulation marks on its neck, and the neck that strangled him was on the side at the moment.

At the same time, there are also a lot of scratches on his neck, and there are corresponding scraps of flesh between his fingernails.

It is clear that he was indeed strangled to death, and must have struggled violently before he died......

But that's not right at all.

Mary immediately remembered that in the banquet hall at that time, Gounner immediately looked in the direction of the watchtower after hearing Birune's screams on the phone, and she followed closely behind.

She remembered very well that Birune's body was hanging straight outside the tower, without any signs of struggle.

One second you were still talking on the phone, and the next second you were completely strangled?

It's simply not possible.

The time simply didn't match, the phone call, the scratching on his neck, the violent struggle before being strangled, and the motionless corpse that everyone saw at first.

There is a huge logical contradiction here, and the reason for this is simple.

Someone played a trick on Birune's death.

Thinking like this, Mary stepped forward to take a preliminary check on the corpse, and then the corners of her mouth rose slightly.

There is indeed a problem.

Birune's corpse was hard, like ice, especially in the joints, and it usually takes about an hour after death for a person to reach this hardness.

Less than half an hour had passed since Gunner received that phone call.

Even if there were hangings outside the tower to speed up the process, it would not have been possible to achieve this speed.

It was clear that Birune had died long before that phone call.

That call was fake.

I overslept.,Chapter 2 is a little late.,Plus more tomorrow (『)

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