This room is divided into an outer room and an inner room, the two rooms are connected by a door with a gauze curtain, the outer room and the inner room are not small, and the decoration is indeed very luxurious and classy.

On the way, Xu Jing had already heard from Zhang Assassin Shi that Princess Ling's master and servant were all killed in the inside, and there was no trace of murder outside.

Xu Jing didn't rush into the inner room, she stood by the gate for a while, then turned to Zhang Tingshi on the side and asked, "Although those guards are not standing guard against the door, they also patrol, don't they smell blood when they pass by this room?" ”

The walls of the inn are not thick, not only is the sound insulation not good, but if there is any strange smell inside, it should be easy to come out.

Not to mention, Princess Ling's master and servant were all beheaded, and just by imagining it, you can know how heavy the bloody qi in the room was at that time.

Zhang Tingshi said helplessly: "Princess Ling's life is exquisite, even if she just lives in the inn, she also has to light incense, not only Princess Ling, but also King Ling."

That morning, when the guards pushed the door in, they said they had smelled a stronger scent of incense than before, almost drowning out the smell of blood. ”

Understood, this must be the hands and feet of the murderer.

In order to prevent them from discovering Princess Ling so early, they were killed.

Xu Jing didn't speak anymore, and walked to the table in the middle of the room, where in addition to a complete set of tea sets, there was also a tea cup that was obviously not the same as the tea set.

Xu Jing gently lifted the lid of the teacup, glanced inside, and suddenly said: "I remember that there were tables at the scene of the first case and the second case, and at that time, their tables were all covered with blood, and it was not the kind of blood that spurted out, as if something with blood had been left on it."

And those two tables are far away from the place where the murderer committed the crime. ”

In the first two cases, the dead were all servants, and the rooms they lived in were not that large, and there was no distinction between the outer and the inside.

But what makes people feel strange is that the table that was originally placed in the center of the room was moved to the edge of the door, and the deceased was killed on the other side of the bed, and the place where the blood was splattered was mainly on the other side of the bed.

Where the table was placed, there was the least amount of blood splattered.

Zhang Tingshi was slightly stunned, he had also learned the details of the first two cases in detail, nodded, frowned slightly, and said: "That's right, this is really strange, the officials in charge of the first two cases all said that on that table, perhaps...... The head of the deceased was once placed. ”

In the first case, both maidservants were beheaded, one of whom had the head next to her corpse, while the other had his head missing.

The head that had been placed on that table could only have belonged to the maid whose head was missing.

In the second case, the head of the maid who was killed near the place where the water was drawn was also near her body, but the head of the maid who was killed in the room was missing.

Zhang Tingshi said: "I don't understand why the murderers put their heads on the table, could it be ...... After he kills someone, he wants to erase his traces, so first put the head he wants to take away in a slightly cleaner place? ”

After all, according to the case file, the murderer was obviously very careful, and no trace of him was found at the scene of the crime, not even a single footprint.

And near each crime scene, there was a blood-stained sheet or quilt, and when he killed someone, he obviously wrapped himself in those sheets and quilts so that his clothes would not be stained with blood spurted out.

Even the maid who was killed near the place where the water was fetched had a thin quilt like this.

Xu Jing was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "There is a possibility." ”

But it is not excluded that there are other possibilities.

She put the lid back on the teacup and walked behind a screen outside.

There, there was a tub filled with water, and there were three wooden barrels stacked up next to it.

The water in the bath bucket was a little muddy, but after so many days, there was still a faint smell of soap coming out of it, which showed that Princess Ling had indeed bathed that day.

When the innkeeper brought the water in, they weren't dead, and the guy was innocent.

After looking at the things in the outer room, Xu Jing walked into the inner room.

The smell of blood in the room was even stronger, and there were blood stains on the floor, on the walls, on the bed, on the cabinets, almost everywhere that had not been completely cleaned up, and by this time, those blood stains were already dry.

On the other side of the bed, it was even more of a mess, almost all the bedding on the bed was torn to the ground, with a thick layer of cushioning, and on those bedding, there was a chair, the back of the chair was facing outward, the other side was next to the bed, and the legs of the two chairs that were forbidden to the bed were each tied with a hemp rope, and the other side of the hemp rope was tightly tied to the bed posts on both sides.

On the ground next to him, a hemp rope and a big knife were thrown at random, which were extremely sharp when they looked at it.

Everything was stained with unsettling blood.

No matter how many times you watch this scene, it makes people shudder.

It's almost like a private ...... Execution grounds.

Zhang Tingshi walked to Xu Jing's side and said with a cold face: "We speculate that the murderer first knocked out the three deceased, and then moved them here, put the person on the chair backwards, his chest was close to the back of the chair, his neck was next to the back of the chair, his head fell down, he fixed the deceased with a rope, and then used a big knife...... Chop off their heads.

Therefore, we can see that there are some knife marks on the back of the chair, which should have been accidentally left by the murderer when he cut off his head. ”

Zhang Tingshi said as he walked to the edge of the chair, pointed out some scratches on it to Xu Jing, and said: "Because the chair and the bed are fixed together, even if the murderer cuts his head, he will not be easily moved and make a sound."

In doing so, the noise is minimized, and even if the head is cut off and falls on the quilt on the ground, it will not make a sound. ”

Xu Jing couldn't help but frown slightly as she watched all this.

The two maidservants who died in the first case were also killed in this way.

And the little guy in the second case was directly pressed to the ground and beheaded, but at that time, the soldiers guarding the servant's room were called by General Han to search the inn, which was noisy and chaotic, even if he made any noise, no one would notice.

Xu Jing immediately looked at the big knife on the ground and said, "That big knife, it can't be brought in by the murderer." ”

Zhang Tingshi also agreed with this, and nodded: "That's right, when they came in, those guards watched, and the rope was forgotten, and it was easy to hide on the body, but the big knife was not something that could be hidden if you wanted to."

Therefore, we speculate that the broadsword ...... Should have been in the room at the beginning.

The murderer knew that King Ling and his party would live in the Full Moon Tower, so they hid a big knife in each VIP room in advance. ”

Zhang Tingshi was quiet, and said with a dark face: "Later, we did find a big knife in several other VIP rooms.

This is also our lack of consideration, we should not be so aggressive in the early stage to package the full moon building......"

If it weren't for the fact that the people in this building were suspected of killing Princess Ling, it would be difficult to move them casually before the case was clarified.

He must have let King Ling and them live in another inn a long time ago.

However, since the murderers have already targeted them, even if they change to an inn, it will not be of much use.

"Even if you didn't wrap up the Full Moon Tower, the murderer could guess that King Ling and his party would stay here."

Xu Jing looked at him and said, "Have you forgotten?" King Ling and the others have stayed in the best inns all the way, and the best inn here is the Full Moon Tower.

And this incident also illustrates a point......"

Xu Jing paused, and said word by word: "The murderer has accomplices, and he is more than one person. (End of chapter)