When Polpo heard Han Da'er's voice, he became extremely impatient and shouted:

"Who else could he be, could it be this auctioneer, or this old man who is closest, or this short-sighted?"

As he spoke, he pointed his finger at Xu Lingfeng and the old man in the West Village, and continued:

"It's much more difficult for them to get this knife than this Xie An, if a few of them kill someone, how can they put the knife in the vase next to Xie An! Are you, the so-called detective, jealous that I solved the case before you? ”

Han Daring looked around the auction hall and said:

"Not to mention, you have to draw the knife in the dark, and take the mother knife to return the child knife to the sheath without making a movement, but it is impossible to say that you can find Lu Zhengxiong's position in the dark and behead him with a knife!

After all, the position where Lu Zhengxiong was standing was different from the position before the lights went out, even if Xie An remembered Lu Zhengxiong's position before the lights went out, at this time, he came to the stage in the dark and waved a knife, at most he could scratch Lu Zhengxiong, but it was impossible to behead him accurately.

What's more, after beheading, you have to wipe the blood stains while retreating to your seat, which is simply not easy to do!

As far as I know, this auction hall is newly remodeled, and this is the first time it has been used after the renovation, Xie An should not have been here before, and in a new environment, he should be able to do it according to the precise black action you said!

What if you throw a knife into a vase and make a noise, and what if the knife punctures or slams the bottom of the vase? ”

Polpo argued:

"That'...... Then he probably wrapped the knife head in a rag and threw it into the vase, so that it would not make a sound, and the vase wall was so thick, it would not break so easily! ”

Han Daring said:

"Then how did he expect that the auction hall would suddenly go out, and the waist knife was right in front of him, and he happened to know that it was a child and mother knife? What was his motive for killing? ”

Polpodau:

"I heard from Mr. Burroughs Durand that Shea and the deceased had an argument and had a very strong quarrel, is this considered a motive?

As I said just now, he killed at the moment when the lights went out. According to my many years of experience in handling cases, many homicides are not planned in advance, but temporary passion killing, he saw this knife at the time and knew that it was a child and mother knife, so he temporarily started to kill after the lights were turned off, and the lights out just happened to give him the conditions to kill!

And...... Maybe this knife was originally commissioned by him for auction! ”

Xu Lingfeng thought for a while and said:

"Hearing you say this, I suddenly remembered that this knife was actually auctioned by an intermediary, and we don't know who the owner of the knife is, but the middleman said that the owner of the knife seems to be indeed surnamed Xie!"

Burroughs also nodded:

"That's right!"

As soon as Xu Lingfeng's words came out, Han Daring was a little surprised, but at this time, Han Dada'er looked at Xie An's expression again, Xie An looked dazed, it seemed that this waist knife really had nothing to do with him!

Polpodau:

"Mr. Burroughs, please call that intermediary at once and ask him about the owner of this waist knife!"

"Okay!"

Burroughs agreed, and immediately headed for the side door at the side of the auction room, where there was a corridor leading to a storage room with a coded door at the back of the auction room, an office with a telephone, and an equipment storage room.

Han Daring followed Burroughs to the corridor, and when he saw this coded door storage room, he asked casually:

"Are all the auction items stored here?"

"Yes! It will be stored here before the auction and will be removed from the inside during the auction! ”

Burroughs replied.

Han Daring said:

"Wouldn't it be troublesome to move out of the auction items one by one, and to open the combination lock every time?"

Burroughs Road:

"Usually the lots are placed on the long table in front of the auction table, and the valuable lots are always there, but the code door is usually unlocked after the auction starts, and the corridor is narrow and windowless, with only an office and equipment storage room.

When the auction starts, there are people from our auction house watching, and there will be no lost or stolen lots! ”

Han Daring said:

"Can I take a look at these rooms?"

Burroughs was just about to nod his head in agreement, but Polpo also came to the corridor and said to Han Da'er:

"Although the suspect has been found now, everyone here is suspicious before the conviction is made, and you can't just walk around!"

Han Daring said:

"If you're not at ease, you can follow along!"

Polpo turned back to his men to look at Shea, and then followed Burroughs and Han Daring to the office.

The three rooms in the corridor stand side by side, the first door is the code door storage room, the second is the office, and the third is the equipment storage is.

The storage room is in the auction room, behind the auction table, separated by a wall, and behind the storage room is the office, which is also separated by a wall. Separated from the office by a wall at the back is the equipment storage room.

In terms of layout, it is equivalent to the original Earth Hall, which is cut side by side into four rooms: one large, one middle, two small and one room. The largest in front is the auction room, then smaller than the auction room is the code door storage room, and the smallest is the office and equipment storage room.

There are two tube lamps in the office, which are bright and windowless, and the tube lights are dropped on the roof with a thin chain, similar to the tube lights on the top of the auction hall, except that the storage room with a coded door and the office storage room at the back are slightly different, the other two rooms are located on both sides of the roof, and the storage room is arranged in the middle of the corners on both sides. Wires connect the auction room, storage room, office and storage room along the corners of the roof, providing lighting for these rooms.

There are only simple desks and chairs, sofas and filing cabinets in the office, as well as some documents. In addition to the fact that there are a lot of auction items, porcelain paintings and the like, all covered with white cloth, some sculptures because the base is not very stable, so they are wrapped in white cloth, and then fixed on the wall with thin steel wires, and some of the more valuable items are specially stored, lined with cushioned anti-collision boxes.

Finally, in the equipment storage room, there are some tables and chairs, loudspeakers, tube lamp pendants and replacement tube lights, as well as some miscellaneous items, which are neatly stacked.

Han Da'er looked around, and Polpo followed, but the two didn't seem to notice anything.

By this time, Burroughs had finished calling, and Polpo hurriedly asked:

"How? Have you found the information of the owner of the waist knife? ”

Burroughs Road:

"The middleman said that the person who entrusted the auction of the waist knife was a tall and thin man, who was wearing a hat and covering his face at the time, and he only knew that his name was Xie An!"

Polpo smiled smugly and said in a mocking tone:

"How? I guessed correctly! This knife is Xie An's at all! ”

Han Daring kept looking up at the tube lamp, not caring what Polpo was saying.

Polpo added:

"Xie An's knife, of course he knows that this is the Zimu knife, and the killing was premeditated by him! deliberately asked the consignor to bring the knife to auction, in order to provide himself with a murder weapon! Maybe he arranged to turn off the lights, and there must be his comrades at the scene! Maybe it's the missing guest...... It's the one named Lynch! ”

Porpo had just said Lynch's name when one of his patrolmen suddenly came running up and said:

"That guest Lynch has been found!"

Polpo was overjoyed and said:

"Bring it up for interrogation!"

The patrol said:

"Lynch is dead!"

Just now, a few patrols and security guards went around looking for the missing guest Lynch, but in the end, in the basement corridor on the first floor, in the last storage room, Lynch's body was found lying on the ground!

Polpo heard that as the patrols rushed to the scene of the crime on the first floor, Han Daring followed behind without saying a word, he wanted Mei Ruohong to stay and stare at the unusual actions of these people present, but Mei Ruohong wanted to follow him, he could only ask Wang Weihan to secretly observe the movements of these people.

Polpo, Burroughs, Han Da'er, and Mei Ruohong followed the patrol to the hall on the first floor, and at the end of the wall was a small windowless corridor with a toilet and a washroom, and at the entrance of the corridor there was a staircase leading to the basement.

Although the stairs smelled damp as I walked down, the walls were dry and freshly painted, looking like they had just been refurbished and whitewashed.

Come to the basement, a small hallway, with a bright tube light. The front one is the power distribution room, with the door closed, and the front is two storage rooms.

Polpo and the others went directly to the last storage room, and Han Da'er took Mei Ruohong to follow behind, but pushed open the door of the power distribution room.

In the power distribution room, there are bundled wires, distribution boxes, fuses and power-off switches. It seems that the electricity of the entire building is controlled by here.

He carefully observed the wire fuse and knife switch, and found no traces of hand and foot, obviously the whole building was powered off before, not some short-circuit mechanism was set up in advance, but someone manually pulled down the power cut-off knife switch.

At that time, the shape of the knife switch was very similar to the gate knife, and the gate knife connected to the positive and negative poles had a handle on it, and it was necessary to hold the handle and pull it hard to cut off the power or close the switch. If the lights don't go out just now, someone must have pulled the switch to cut off the power supply, and then closed it again not long after that to restore the power.

Mei Ruohong thought that Han Daring was going to examine the corpse, but he didn't expect him to come to the power distribution room first, and saw that Polpo and the others had already walked into the last storage room, and was about to turn around to call Han Daring, but saw Han Daring staring at the handle of the knife gate.

He found something on the handle of the knife, then took out a handroll and wiped it lightly on the handle of the knife, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it, then turned around and handed the handkerchief to Mei Ruohong, and saw that there were still two patrols in the corridor, so he whispered a few words to Mei Ruohong.

Mei Ruohong took the handkerchief and nodded, then went back to the first floor to find Lao Cai, and handed the handkerchief to Lao Cai, and asked him to send someone to send the handkerchief to the Pasteur laboratory, hand it over to his colleagues to help test it, and call the western-style building as soon as he got the results.

Han Da'er also came to the last storage room at this time, only to see that there was some chaos in the storage room, and many boxes of items had been moved or overturned to the ground. Lynch was lying prone in the cargo, with Patrolman and Burroughs standing next to him, and Polpo crouching in front of the corpse to inspect it.

The goods in this storeroom are all stored in alcohol, cigarettes and other items, which are used by the Western-style building to entertain guests. I moved here because the kitchen storage room was a lot of fruit and vegetables, and it was a bit damp. Although this is the basement, it is treated with moisture-proof treatment, making it drier than the kitchen pantry.

Han Daring also walked over to take a closer look, but Polpo said impatiently:

"You can take a look, but don't touch the corpse!"

Han Daring ignored Porpo's words. Just observing this Lynch's actions before he died, I felt a little strange.

Lynch was prone on the ground, his feet spread apart as if he were kicking the ground, and one hand rested on a box of cigarettes, which was a box of American cigarettes. The other hand clenched into a fist, as if hammering the ground.

Polpo also noticed Lynch's clenched fist, and thought that maybe Lynch was holding something in his hand before he died, so he broke Lynch's hand hard, but who knows, he had nothing in his hand. So he let go of Lynch's hand in a dull way.

Han Daring caught Lynch's hand next to him, and although Polpo didn't find anything, he seemed to have found an important clue......