A series of murders occurred in the Red Fort, and everyone spent this difficult night in constant fright, worry, panic, and anxiety. After a night of repeated events, it is finally dawn at the end of the day. As the saying goes, the darkness before the dawn, because the closer you get to the dawn, the darker the world becomes. It was at this darkest moment that Han Daring finally found the door to the dawn.

In the hall on the first floor of the Red Castle, Han Daring raised his voice and told everyone:

"The murder that happened in the Red Fort, the culprit is standing here!"

In the shadows, the culprit who thought that the conspiracy had succeeded and could escape with his whole body suddenly felt a shock in his heart. The original joy and conceit began to waver, but he still believed in his heart that his plan was almost perfect, and now that even the only obstacle had been removed, no one could stop him.

"Steady! That person is just bluffing, just hold steady! It's going to be fine! The culprit kept comforting himself in his heart, hoping to use his strong spiritual power to forcibly suppress the trace of fear in his heart.

The culprit stood quietly on the spot, paying careful attention to the reasoning speech that the tall man in front of him was about to make.

Han Daring stood in the center of the guests and said to everyone:

"Tonight's guests are Chinese, French, British, Japanese, German, everyone has different nationalities and languages, but I believe that you have lived in Tianjin for a long time, so everyone present should be able to understand Chinese, and then I will use Chinese to tell the beginning and end of tonight's case, and catch the culprit hiding in the shadows, if anyone can't understand, Mr. Bai ......"

Saying that, Han Daring looked at Bai Chongwei, and then said:

"He will translate in English!"

Seeing him so solemn, the guests present all became extremely quiet, and the entire hall was silent in an instant, only Carpérez on the side felt that Han Daring had stolen the limelight, but he wanted to hear what Han Daring had to say, so he forcibly endured his words and closed his mouth quietly.

Han Daring paused, and said lightly:

"I originally thought that tonight's small exhibition dinner was just an ordinary banquet on Christmas Eve, but I didn't expect that from the moment Mr. Bai and I came to the Red Fort, we would fall into the trap carefully arranged by the murderer!"

Karperez felt that Han Da'er had too much foreshadowing, he was not like other Jews, he was very anxious, and he opened his mouth and asked:

"Just tell who the murderer is! Don't be verbose! ”

Han Daring said:

"No, it's not that simple, because the first thing to do is to solve the mystery of George Brown's body and the murderer's disappearance in the basement!"

One of the guests asked:

"Didn't Mr. Carr just say that the murderer and the deceased were not in the basement at all?"

Han Daring replied:

"Nope! The murderer and the deceased are indeed in the basement! ”

As soon as Karl wanted to interject, Han Daring stretched out his hand and signaled him not to ask questions and listen to himself. Carl could only swallow back the words that came to his lips.

Han Daring said:

"First of all, I want to tell you how the sound of walking in Western armor, that is, the invisible headless horseman, came from!"

As he spoke, he glanced at the little Jew, and the little Jew took out two strings of silver from behind him, "clicked", and threw them on the ground, which turned out to be two strings of silver knives and forks and silver spoons.

Two strings of spoons and forks are tied with rope and strung together like two strings of keys. Not only that, but there is also a long rope attached to the two strings of cutlery, and the rope is more than ten meters long. It turned out that Han Da'er found these things in the iron door of the basement, in the narrow vents above both sides of the door frame.

Han Dada'er removed the iron grate on the vent and found that the vent was connected with the vents on the walls on both sides of the corridor outside. The murderer put a string on the silver cutlery tied into a keychain. From the vents on both sides of the iron door, it is poured into the ventilation ducts that connect the corridor.

Although the ventilation duct is not enough for people to climb into, as long as the strength is enough and the casting is accurate enough, it is completely possible to throw these two strings of cutlery to the end of the slightly inclined downward ventilation pipe. Just leave the head of the rope connected to the two strings of cutlery on the vent inside the iron door in the basement, pass the rope end through the grate and leave it outside, and then put it back into the grate.

When the time comes, as long as you are in the basement, the rhythmic and gentle pull of the rope, the friction and collision of the two strings of silver cutlery, and the sound of passing through the ventilation pipe, will sound like an invisible knight walking in the underground corridor, and the sound will be from far and near, as if it is approaching the basement.

Han Daring tried to move the knight's armor by himself, and he could still do it with his strength, but the "click" and "click" sound made by the armor was completely different from the crisp metal sound that everyone heard in the underground corridor. After that, Han boldly inspected the two vents, and finally found the head of the rope stuffed into the grate, and found two strings of silver cutlery.

The fixing bolts on the iron grate have already made the murderer file flat, and he can't unscrew it at all, if it weren't for Han Dada'er's skills, who could rely on the dantian internal qi to drag the iron grate down, even if ordinary people found some clues, they couldn't even break the iron grate with the vent.

At this time, the little Jew pulled the rope gently and rhythmically according to what Han Daring said, and the two strings of tableware did make a crisp and pleasant metal rubbing sound, which was exactly the same as the sound heard by everyone present at that time.

Everyone was very surprised when they saw this scene, and then they suddenly realized, in fact, few people had heard the sound of the knight really walking in armor, and everyone was just misled by the message of the knight's armor walking around in the Red Fort, so they mistakenly thought that the sound they heard was the sound of the knight's armor walking, in fact, it was just the sound of silver tableware rubbing.

Karl said without a hesitation:

"So what, you still can't explain how the murderer and the body disappeared! Who is the murderer! ”

Han Da'er frowned and said:

"On this point, in fact, the responsibility lies with me, it is my preconceived notions, and I am deceived by my own eyes! At that time, there was no dead at all, and the murderer himself was the deceased George Brown! ”

Karl said with a cynical attitude:

So George Brown committed suicide and lost his body and head after death? It's ridiculous! ”

Han Daring said:

"Nope! He didn't commit suicide, he did! But he wasn't dead in the basement at the time! ”

Saying that, Han Daring nodded to Lao Cai on the side, and Lao Cai asked a few servants to pass through the second floor from the basement and move down a few large square mirrors with baroque lace and a Roman column more than one meter high that were stored in the basement.

Han Daring covered the mirror with a black cloth, and then only revealed the mirror that was diagonally connected inside, and then asked the little Jew to put his chin on the Roman pillar in the middle of the diagonal of the mirror.

The guests, who had never seen such a trick, were stunned by what they saw, and the little Jew who had just been a completely open-minded man was instantly left with only one head.

When Han Daring saw the two mirrors for the first time in the basement, he thought of this technique. Because this is the usual method used by those who hang out the head of the snake body for exhibition, or the beauty snake exhibition signboard disguise to sell artists. It's just that there was still a mystery that had not been solved at that time.

In a shed, the mirror is placed as a refraction space, the refraction of the mirror is used to cover the performer's body, only the head is exposed, and a bottle or snake body can be placed under the chin.

As for the fact that the nerves of the dead are not completely dead, and their muscles will twitch, these ordinary people may not know, but this performer, George Brown, is completely aware of it because of his professional problems. That's why he performed so realistically, so much so that even Han Dada'er was deceived at that time. The blood on the plaster stake where the head was placed was nothing more than a stain of blood that had been applied beforehand.

At this time, Martin had a question, he walked up to the mirror, and wanted to move the mirror, but after trying several times, it was impossible to move the mirror without making a noise at all, so he asked:

"I saw in the basement just now, the mirror is placed on the wall on the left side of the main room of the basement, and the murderer has to move the mirror to the middle to face the peep of the iron door, deceiving your eyes and making you a witness! But after you witnessed the murder, according to Chen Jiu, who guarded the iron gate, it was very quiet inside, and there was no movement. These mirrors are so heavy that it's impossible to move that far without making a sound! ”

Han Daring smiled at Martin and said:

"Because of this!"

As he spoke, he took out a small square mirror and a folded piece of black cardboard. He quickly restored the cardboard according to the original creases, and the cardboard was folded into a semi-beveled square tube, a bit like the white iron chimney on the stove of the Chinese people, but it was square, and the corners were usually larger at right angles.

Embedded in the square tube at right angles is the small square mirror just now. As long as you look inside the square tube, you can see the scene at the other end of the square tube, but this scene is not directly facing the viewer, but on the side of the viewer. The mirror stuck in the corner of the square tube becomes a point of refraction, and the scene from the side of the viewer is refracted to the mirror and then reflected into the viewer's eye.

So George Brown didn't need to move the mirrors at all, he only needed to stick one end of a square tube made of black cardboard to the inside of the iron door, and then use one of the armours of the knight's armor placed in the doorway as a bracket to support the square tube.

The other end of the tube is facing the side, and then you only need to move the mirror slightly, and then side to the square pipe, and you can perform a dead body with only a human head left. The stone carved pillar that pretends to place the human head is just a gypsum pillar, and it looks very light, as long as it quietly returns to the position of the peephole in the iron door afterwards, it will not make much movement.

From the peephole, do you think the man's head is facing the iron gate, but he is actually on the other side of the iron gate. But the most important point of this technique is that it should not be too bright, because if it is too bright, it will be very easy to goof, and it must be in a dim environment to deceive witnesses.

There was only one equal rope in the basement, but there were several light bulbs connected in series, so George Brown had to remove a few light bulbs beforehand and leave only one light bulb not far away to create a pitch black environment. Then tie the string under the waiting rope so that the only light bulb can be extinguished at a distance, leaving the room dark.

First, he used shouting to attract the guests on the first floor. When the guests went upstairs, he went down to the basement, locked the iron door, and put on a show with everything he had arranged in advance. He turned off the only light bulb he had, and the basement was pitch black. Then when the guests came to the hallway, they performed shouting in the darkness while pulling two strings through the iron grate, and using the two strings of silver cutlery in the ventilation pipes, to make the sound of the knight walking. Then something was slashed through the knight's armor, imitating the sound of a sword, and as for the sound of a human head falling to the ground, it was nothing more than a ball rolled up from rags covering the collection and thrown on the ground.

He stuck his head in the pre-prepared position, and then secretly pulled the lamp rope that was tied to the string. The only light bulb was turned on. After Han Daring's confirmation, there was a lot of discussion outside, and he took advantage of the chaos to pull the rope and turn off the lights. Then, barefoot, try not to make a sound, take off the black paper square tube on the door, and cover the square hole with something.

Then he turned on the light bulb again, took advantage of the noise outside, put on the other light bulbs, lightly packed up everything, placed the plaster post in front of the iron door, turned off the light, and removed the obscuration from the peephole. He must have rehearsed these many times, so he was very proficient. When all was done, he hid in one of the side rooms in the basement.

Everyone present listened attentively, and at this time, it was still the arrogant and conceited Calperez, who asked the topic that many people still wanted to ask:

"So how the hell did he get out of the basement? Is there another secret passage? ”

Han Da boldly shook his head and said:

"Of course not! This George Brown used a unique trick to cleverly leave the basement! ”