Chapter 18: The Earthquake and the Rain
Shen Mingyu asked everyone not to act without permission, and to go to the toilet or change clothes or something, they had to go together, the murderer was hidden among them, and it would be very dangerous if they didn't do it.
Shen Mingyu decided to ask what everyone was doing last night,
"Everyone, may I ask what you are doing after you went back to your room last night, rest assured, it's not to interrogate you, it's just that everyone is brainstorming, all of us here are suspicious, but it is not excluded that there are outsiders who have been hiding around this villa. Now a lot of it is just preliminary reasoning. Everyone said that they drank alcohol last night, and because they consumed too much physical strength from yesterday's expedition, they went to bed immediately when they returned to their rooms.
Shen Mingyu knew that the murderer would definitely say the same, and he had no thoughts for the time being, and now the murder weapon, motive, and time are not clear, only knowing that Ryuzaki was strangled to death, and the murder weapon must have been thrown off the cliff or disposed of, and the motive was not clueless at all.
Shen Mingyu began to be embarrassed, the murderer must be by his side, I don't know when the rain will fall, and I don't know if the murderer will commit the crime again, now what he has to do is not only to find clues to find out the murderer, but more importantly, to protect the safety of others.
He tried to make a call, but there was still no signal, and the weather forecast predicted that the rain would fall until the next morning at the latest, which meant that they would have to stay here for at least a day and a half.
There is a wave of anger in Shen Mingyu's heart, everyone hasn't gotten together for a long time, this time they were happy to play, but someone killed people at this time, although Shen Mingyu and Long Qi are not too familiar, but after all, they have also gone out to play a few times, Long Qi is also a very good person, very able to enliven the atmosphere, and it is still the people around him, no matter who the murderer is, Shen Mingyu can't forgive him/her, he must find out the murderer with his own hands.
At noon, it was still stormy outside the window, Xiao Qian proposed to help everyone cook and eat, and An Yuping also planned to help, after all, the body is the capital of the revolution, and the meal still has to be eaten.
Shen Mingyu asked everyone to stay in the hall, at least they could take care of each other, and if the murderer wanted to commit the crime again, he couldn't do it in full view.
Liu Shu saw that everyone didn't say a word, and wanted to liven up the atmosphere.
"Don't be lifeless, I know everyone is in a bad mood, but this is not the solution, we have to wait here until the rain stops before we can contact the outside world." After listening to Liu Shu's words, everyone barely squeezed out their faces and began to chat.
Shen Mingyu pretended to chat, but in fact observed the situation of other people. In the evening, the rain was still falling, the temperature was getting lower and lower, and the voltage in the villa was unstable due to the heavy rain, and the heating suddenly cut off.
Xiao Qian proposed to make tea for everyone to drink, and drinking some hot tea can also warm up the body. Xiao Qian and An Yuping were busy making tea in the kitchen, while the others planned to go to the toilet or walk around, after all, it was not a way to sit all the time.
Shen Mingyu told everyone not to be alone as much as possible, and not to go outside the villa, while he himself leaned against the window and thought about things.
After a while, the tea was brewed, everyone returned to the hall one after another, everyone came to the kitchen to drink tea, Shen Mingyu also felt that he needed to drink a cup of hot tea to warm up his body at this time, and also joined the tea drinking team.
After drinking tea, Shen Mingyu felt that his body had become much warmer, but he didn't know if it was because he had tensed his nerves for a day today or didn't sleep well, he felt sleepy, and the others also felt very sleepy after drinking tea, so they planned to go back to their rooms to rest, Shen Mingyu told everyone that something must be notified in time, so he also went back to the room to sleep, he just lay down, he felt that his eyelids were fighting, I don't know why, he was suddenly very sleepy and sleepy, at this time he didn't have any other thoughts, he just wanted to sleep quickly.
At midnight, the lights in the villa were all turned off, and the sound of rain outside was mixed with the sound of wind and thunder, and there was no intention of stopping.
At this time, a person climbed to the window of the room where the three girls were, quietly opened the window and climbed in, the three girls fell asleep, completely unaware of all this, it was Luna who slept by the window, she slept soundly and showed no signs of waking up.
I saw that this person seized the opportunity and directly took out a sharp knife and stabbed it in Luna's heart through the air conditioner, and Luna was killed while still asleep.
The next morning, the two girls woke up to the scene next to them and let out several screams. When Shen Mingyu and the others heard the screams, they didn't care about anything else, and rushed straight to the girls' room.
After coming to the room, Shen Mingyu couldn't help but feel a little cold, Luna was lying on the bed, no longer breathing, and a sharp knife was inserted through the quilt in the heart, and a large amount of blood spread outward.
Shen Mingyu dragged the two girls down outside the door, tried not to let them see the scene inside, and instructed others not to enter the scene at will.
Shen Mingyu examined Luna's body and found that Luna had been killed with a single knife and had no other injuries.
He analyzed to everyone: "Luna should have been killed when she was sleeping last night, the window was open, and a lot of rain had fallen in the window, it was speculated that the murderer should have turned in from the window, and with the light outside the window or a flashlight and other items, he aimed at Luna's heart and stabbed him, and he stabbed the vital point with a knife, Luna's body showed no signs of struggling, it should have been a one-hit kill, and he died before he could react." Shen Mingyu asked the two girls at the door again: "Didn't you lock the window when you slept yesterday?" Xiao Qian replied, "We ...... We were very sleepy last night, and when we came back, we only locked the door and immediately went to bed, Sister Xiao An fell asleep first, and then Sister Luna didn't sleep when I was ready to fall asleep, she should be the last to sleep, but we all felt very sleepy. "Sleepy?
Shen Mingyu pondered. Yesterday, I was suddenly very sleepy, and I wanted to sleep as soon as I lay down on the bed, and He Yuankang snored as soon as he lay down.
He asked the crowd, "Did you all go to bed early last night, did you feel sleepy all of a sudden?" "Everyone was gossiping, and all in all, everyone felt very sleepy last night, and they all fell asleep after lying down for a while.
Shen Mingyu suddenly thought of something, and he said to everyone: "I know what's going on, there is something wrong with the tea we drank yesterday." Someone must have put sleeping pills in it. When the two girls heard that there was a problem with the tea, they immediately explained: "We are making tea for everyone out of kindness, and we won't drug it......"
"I know, I didn't say you did it, but that person is probably one of us, although it's not good to be suspicious...... But that's what I guess. Shen Mingyu said.
"Is it possible that it is an outsider...... Didn't he come in through the window? Tan Yan asked.
"No, it's impossible, if it's an outsider who commits the crime, he will definitely not be able to enter the villa, it would have been a problem for him to climb to the second floor in this stormy weather, and he can't know that there will be sleeping pills in the tea we drink, if someone happens to be awake when he commits the crime, he will be found immediately, and he can't run away, because we are already isolated from the outside world!" Shen Mingyu retorted.
After listening to Shen Mingyu's words, Xiao Qian sat down on the ground in fright, and the faces of the others were also very ugly, and everyone was silent.
Shen Mingyu tried to help Xiao Qian, but Xiao Qian threw herself into Shen Mingyu's arms, trembling all the time, Shen Mingyu could feel her fear, but now he had no clue and understood the technique, but there were still no clues.
He could only touch Xiao Qian's head and comfort her, helping her aside to rest. Shen Mingyu turned to everyone and said, "I will definitely find out the truth, and I will definitely not forgive him for making what was originally a very meaningful trip like this." Shen Mingyu's emotion at this time was more anger.
He came to the window and found that the eaves of the villa were very spacious, which could fully accommodate an adult to crawl, so the murderer could only be one of the four boys, and he himself was definitely not the murderer, and the murderers were only Liu Shu, He Yuankang and Tan Yan, because he slept too dead yesterday, and he didn't pay attention to He Yuankang's situation, only knew that he fell asleep before him, and it was impossible to confirm whether he was pretending to be asleep, and the other two people also claimed that they had been sleeping.
If the murderer had climbed from the eaves and it rained so hard last night, his clothes would have been wet, and he had disposed of them.
Thinking of this, Shen Mingyu planned to search the other two rooms. He explained his thoughts to the crowd and began to search the remaining two rooms, but as you can imagine, nothing was found, the soaked clothes had been disposed of, and there was nothing suspicious about the room except for everyone's luggage and changed clothes.
It's really a typical Blizzard Villa, now you can't call for external help, you can't contact the outside world, you can only rely on yourself, but now there are no clues, and will the murderer commit the crime again, the murderer has committed the crime twice under everyone's noses, and Luna's dead murderer is more direct, completely ignoring other people, or is it full of hatred?
But Luna is just a friend that Liu Shu found, and so is Ryuzaki, does one of us really have something to do with them?
The more Shen Mingyu thought about it, the more he gathered everyone into the hall, and in order to prevent any more incidents, he proposed that at night, everyone would rest in the hall and take turns keeping vigil.
Time passed slowly, and at noon, the rain began to lighten, and Liu Shu proposed to go and see the specific situation of the landslide to see if he could go out directly.
Shen Mingyu denied this suggestion, landslide, no professional rescue team and fire brigade to come, it is impossible to clear the obstacles, and now there is no signal, if you act rashly, in case of any other accident, it will only increase the difficulty, now the most important thing is that everyone gathers together, waiting for the rain to stop, the signal is restored, and then ask for help from the outside world, the food in the villa should be able to last for about two days, although the villa is not strong enough because of the impact of the rainstorm, but at least there is electricity, It's still okay to turn on the light to charge and cook and other low-power use, it's best to go to the toilet together, and then go in turn, and the rest of the people are waiting outside, which is the safest, and the rest of the time everyone stays in the hall, all you have to do now is to persevere.
Shen Mingyu kept pacing back and forth in the hall, he already knew the method of killing Luna, the murder weapon was also left at the scene of the crime, the murderer must have crossed through the windowsill, and gave all the tea sleeping pills in advance the night before, but how did he hide his eyes and ears to administer the medicine?
That night, everyone had a chance to approach the teacup after the two girls had finished making tea, and they didn't pay attention to who drank the tea and who didn't, and who pretended to drink it.
The murderer should have been carefully observed, and he must have made sure that everyone would drink tea and fall into a deep sleep before committing the crime.
Regarding the details of the drugging, Shen Mingyu must confirm it, in addition, Ryuzaki should have been premeditated by the murderer, but Ryuzaki's mobile phone currently has no password and cannot be unlocked temporarily, and the situation cannot be confirmed, the murderer should have taken advantage of Ryuzaki's inattention to the sneak attack, and then pulled Ryuzaki's body outside and abandoned it after strangulation.
Then the first scene should be somewhere in the villa, most likely somewhere on the first floor. If you want to make an appointment in the middle of the night, there must be something important to meet, there is a hall, a kitchen, a toilet, a storage room on the first floor.
If you want to say the right place, there is only the hall and the storage room, and Shen Mingyu decides to go to the storage room to find clues.
Behind the kitchen is the storage room, Shen Mingyu opened the door and the light, and entered inside, the storage room is not big, only about half a room is the size, it is full of all kinds of materials, the place where people can stand is very limited, the corner of the storage room is placed Ryuzaki's body, if Ryuzaki was killed here first, then the murderer should have hidden here first and waited for Ryuzaki to go to the appointment, and then suddenly attacked when Ryuzaki turned his back on him, and finally abandoned his body next to the villa after confirming that Ryuzaki was really dead.
The storage room is small, and if you want to find a place to ambush, then there are only ...... Shen Mingyu looked around and found a shelf in the upper right corner of the room, and there was just a small space in the dead corner for a person to stand.
It should be here, Shen Mingyu said silently in his heart. He crouched down and began to look for useful clues, and sure enough, he found a small cut of thread on the ground, like a part of a rope-like item like twine.
He found a few drops of stains on the ground again, he took out a paper towel and dipped it a little and sniffed it, and found that it was sesame oil.
It's strange, how can there be sesame oil here? Could it be? Shen Mingyu suddenly understood, maybe it was not removed from his body when he was cooking the night before.
Who was cooking the night before? It seems that Liu Shu and Tan Yan helped to do it together, because they are the only ones in this group of people who are more professional, after all, they used to be chefs, and it seems that they served the dishes themselves, so it won't be wrong, the murderer is among the two of them.
Now that the ins and outs of the two cases are clear, the next step is to find out the key evidence, and then point out the real murderer.