Chapter 057: The Bloodstained Stone in the Secret Room

The misunderstanding was resolved in the blink of an eye.

As is customary, Hugo directs Bogaman to use the "Bubble Light", and the little penguin blushes but can't release his skills.

It was not until the owner of the umbrella gave up the order with an apologetic face that the poor Bogaman seemed to vomit, and a large amount of foam poured out of his yellow beak, and he was immediately choked and coughed.

Junsha dispelled her doubts, and then concisely introduced the case to the detective who had verified her identity-

"The murder occurred in a high-end apartment building in the west district of Feiyun City, and the victim was stabbed through the abdomen with a stone in a closed room, bleeding profusely and died."

"Stones?" The detective was in a trance for a moment, "Is the victim a practitioner related to financial management?" ”

"It's not." Miss Police Officer replied neatly, "The deceased was a Pokémon trainer, his name was Greta, male, twenty-seven years old before his death, living alone, and good at using rock-based Pokémon. ”

"Please elaborate on the situation." The detective's expression became serious, and he went to work, and he took out his notebook from the drawer, and looked like he was listening.

Bilan, who was taking care of Bogaman, also corrected her attitude, pricking up her ears to pay attention to the communication between the police and the detective.

The loss of a living trainer is not a funny case like "sixty trainers in a row choose otters".

"The victim's fellow trainer could not be contacted, so he visited the apartment, but found that no one answered, out of concern, he asked the apartment manager to use a spare key to open the lock, opened the door of the victim's house, and the body was found at this time."

There is no nonsense in Junsha's explanation, clear and cold.

"Does the apartment manager have the keys to the tenants? Wouldn't there be an issue of privacy or anything like that? As if hearing the dissonant notes of the music, Hugo immediately asked.

"The occupancy rate of the residential buildings there is very low, and the vacant houses are mainly managed by the caretaker, so the keys are not collected in time. In addition, the administrator also had a good reputation, and the residents trusted him more, and no one pursued the matter. ”

The detective showed the same expression, and continued to ask Junsha about the time of death and the condition of the body.

The police officer knocked on her notebook and replied-

"The time of the victim's death was determined to be 12 hours earlier, and the murder weapon that caused the tragedy was, as mentioned above, a large rock in the shape of a cone. The victim was punctured in the abdomen, but did not die immediately, but died of hemorrhagic shock after struggling for a long time, and the medical examiner speculated that the process lasted about ten minutes, so the scene was covered with blood. ”

Serra, the police officer's deputy, seemed to recall what she had seen in the morning, and her face turned pale.

"So, the time of the case happened around ten o'clock last night?" Hugo writes things in his notebook as he writes with his pen in motion, asking for specific details.

Junsha nodded: "Exactly. There were traces of undigested dinner in the stomach of the deceased, and this presumption of death should be reliable. ”

"Now, then, please tell us more about the 'closed room'. I asked directly......" Hugo stared into the eyes of the police officer and spit out four words-

"Is it a secret room?"

"Yes, that's right." Junsha sighed, "It's the kind of secret room you have been hoping for, there is only the deceased in the room, there are no other entrances and exits to the apartment, the doors and windows are all locked inside, and the house is completely closed until the apartment manager opens it." If Mr. Greta hadn't killed himself, then there must have been a wall-piercing weirdo who stoned him. ”

Noticing the confused gazes of Blue and Serra, the detective coughed dryly and explained to the two assistants and deputy—

"The so-called secret room is the abbreviation of the closed room type impossible crime, and it is a classic mystery in mystery novels. This kind of mystery usually sets up an area where no one can enter and exit, and then allows the victim to be killed inside, so that an obvious contradiction arises - since there is no one else at the scene but the deceased, and no one else can enter the secret room at the time of the crime, how on earth was the victim killed? The variety of solutions to this contradiction is the joy of solving the problem of the secret room. ”

After listening to the detective's statement, Bilan scratched her face: "Are you saying that the plot that used to only appear in the novel is now happening in reality?" ”

Hugo sighed and nodded to his assistant again: "In a sense, this is a typical case of the impossible case of a secret room. ”

He seemed a little disappointed by the audience's lackluster response.

At this time, the deputy police officer Serra took the initiative to speak rarely: "Then Mr. Detective, since you know so much about the secret room issue, what do you think about this case?" ”

"All reasoning is speculation until you go to the scene of the crime." Hugo began by stating, "But I wish I could rule out some of the vulgar tricks used in the novel, Miss Junsha, and I would like to ask some more questions." ”

"Of course, we still have time, please feel free to ask questions about this case."

Hugo crossed his fingers and asked his question: "First of all, the most old-fashioned method - are the doors and windows of the secret room really locked?" Many old latches only need to be slapped from the outside to shake them open; There are also many styles of doors and windows that have cutouts or gaps at the edges, and can be opened from the outside by means such as cords. In this way, the crime scene is not a perfect secret room space, and people outside can naturally enter the house to commit murder. Is this a possibility? ”

As if she had been waiting for this question for a long time, Junsha immediately replied: "We have tried, and the locks in the interior are very reliable padlocks, and the windows and door panels are all seamless. Friends of the administrator and trainer can also testify that the doors and windows were locked when they came. Moreover, these two people have never known each other, and there is no possibility of collusion. ”

Undeterred, the detective continued to ask, "Is it possible that there is an internal bleeding chamber?" That is to say, the deceased was actually stabbed with a stone outside the apartment, and then returned to the house to lock the doors and windows, and then he pulled out the stone on his body, and the stone that was originally used as a hemostatic valve was pulled out, and the blood flow suddenly increased, and he died in the secret room. ”

"A colleague has come up with this idea." Jun Sha said, "But that person was scolded by the forensic doctor, saying that neither medicine nor biology allowed such a thing to happen. And there was no blood outside. In addition, the trainer was probably a man of common sense, and did not try to pull out the stone cone stuck in his body, but that didn't save his life. ”

"So is there some kind of mechanism in the room that shoots stones? If such a device exists, the real offender would not have to enter the chamber at the time of the crime, and when the victim triggers the mechanism, the stone will automatically shoot out and execute the baited prey. ”

"We've dug three feet into the apartment and haven't found anything like this." Junsha shook her head.

"Is it possible that it was a long-distance crime?" Hugo asked, "The murderer threw a stone from outside the apartment, which happened to pierce the victim in the stomach." ”

"No way, outside of the doors and windows, there is no place for the apartment to let in the stones from outside."

"Speaking of throwing stones, did the murder weapon detect traces such as fingerprints?"

Jun Sha rolled her eyes at the detective without any image: "It seems that it has become common knowledge to commit crimes while wearing gloves recently, and there are no traces on that broken stone." If there is any information on it, the rock is in the shape of a small stone cone with a small top and a large bottom, and there is no trace of artificial polishing. ”

"Since it's a stone cone, then ......," the detective touched his chin, "and now let's discuss the most obvious possibility - could the stone cone be a Pokémon's ability?" ”