innocence method

10

?The death of the fish is not scary, but rather like a light ink painting with a curious style of painting. The dark red paint is overturned on the custom picture of the sleeping handsome man in white. The death of the fish is particularly fierce and beautiful.

Perhaps that's why no one decided to hinder Jelly or Bird too much from looking at the dead body--over and over again.

——Do you have the right to be in such a place? —They probably all started to think about this question.

Bird, who had already felt very uncomfortable just hearing the word "corpse" in the morning, seemed to be completely reborn.Like a wax figure melting under the sun, Qi saw the tears silently converging into one on the side of her cheek, sliding down and converging again.But maybe because of what happened in the afternoon, the girl stood silently in the corner where she could see the corpse, neither collapsed nor left.

[-]. Dogs, wolves, birds, and cows arrived almost at the same time; to be precise——Seven and the dogs opened the door and saw the cow knocking on the door of the wolf and the bird's house, as if not daring to act rashly alone; the wolf and the bird immediately left the house After getting out, the five of them rushed to the opposite side of the courtyard together—as a result, at the door of the cooking room, they saw the monkey and jelly at the same time retreating a few centimeters from the door rail and looking at the house through an invisible wall.

The cow immediately looked for the pulse with two fingers on the fish's throat, but all he could do was shake his head.

"Both the trachea and aorta were severed. This is undoubtedly a fatal injury."

Qi observed a little.

Birds are sitting.Although he looked upright, the clothes that Wen Shi had worn before he was alive were full of wrinkles.His hands, front and the dining chair he was sitting on were covered with blood spots, blood stains, and blood marks like scratching with four fingers, and the ground was also spattered with blood spots.Bird's neck was in a mess, and it was hard to see how deep and how many times the murderer had cut it. It could only be said that it was bloody and bloody.On the table facing him lay a bloodstained napkin with a crescent-shaped kitchen knife half protruding from it.

"Now...what should we do? You can't say not to touch the corpse...and call the police, right?" Niu panted, wiping the grease and sweat on the bridge of his nose.

"Aren't you a doctor? Isn't it up to you to decide what to do now?" Wolf said.

"Everyone is dead, what can I do!

"Niu, don't panic." Seeing that everyone's emotions were a little out of balance, Qi had no choice but to show his face: "Is it possible for you to analyze the death time of the bird?"

"How many hours?"

"That's up to you!" The wolf was annoyed.

"How would I know? That's the work of a forensic doctor! Even a forensic doctor must have professional tools to judge, and there are none here!"

I'm afraid it's not exactly what Niu said. The words "corpse spots, rigor, liver temperature, and stomach soluble matter" quickly crossed Qi's mind, but unfortunately, none of them came in handy. "So does anyone else have knowledge of this?" He consulted around desperately, but already knew what kind of results awaited.

"I know." Qi thought for a while, and before he could continue, the wolf took over his fault: "Then, everyone——"

"Got, gotta wait!" The wolf was interrupted surprisingly--a cow that had so far been of no use. "Before doing anything else, you need to do a wound examination all over your body. It seems that the fatal injury is the wound on the neck. In fact, there may be other wounds. It may be useful to solve the case later." - The corner of the wolf's mouth Drooping down, Qi hurriedly stepped down the steps for him: "Niu is right, let's do that inspection first. There is an airtight bag here, can you use it as a glove?"

"Me, me?" said the cow.

"I'll do it." Qi held his breath.He raised his head and looked around the room, silently suppressing the idea of ​​telling Jelly and Bird to avoid it.With the help of the wolf, he took off the fish's clothes one by one and put them back on again.

There was a sense of gross sacrilege in doing such a thing to such a beauty—the skin of the fish seemed to be blown apart, and the lavender arteries seemed to flow under the frosty thinness of the skin.

Not sparing any inch of skin, not even the scalp, everyone finally reached a consensus-there was no other trauma on the fish.

"Things like poisoning and suffocation can probably be ruled out, right?" Qi said, "If poisoning or suffocation without causing trauma can be used easily, why bother to cut the bird's neck like this? What? Besides, this injury is unlikely to be caused after death..."

"I agree with this point. Some of the wounds were repaired after death, but that was probably because the murderer was very watery—worried that the fish would not die before making up the wounds; but the fatal few cuts were definitely made while he was still alive. Otherwise, it would be impossible to have such a large amount of bleeding, the wound would not turn outward, and the skin tissue would look the same as the surrounding tissue. Besides, I don’t think the signs of the fish’s struggles are fake.” The wolf squatted down and slightly raised the fish's lower jaw with his thumb to observe.His tone was focused, but some parts of it had lost the ease with which a sheep had been killed.Indeed, this is already the third person who has died under the eyes of everyone, and it is probably not just the cumulative number of people—compared with the mink who has a short relationship with everyone and the sheep who did not leave a word when they were alive, the departure of the fish is really true. It is injected into the human body little by little like a cold preparation.

"The purpose of this experiment from the beginning was to kill people" - this sentence is much more difficult to do than to say.

If the fish is here, the calmness in the voice probably won't be lost in the slightest, right?Seven thought.

"Hmm, she's really professional. I also want to—" Before Jelly could finish speaking, Hou grabbed her hand from behind.Seeing the monkey shaking his head silently, Jelly closed her mouth obediently, although she was confused.

"It is now 7:24, and the time we entered this room is 6:[-]. Now confirm the range of the time when the fish died. When did you last see the fish?" The wolf narrowed his eyes and looked at the monkey. It is because of the impression that the fish finally invited the monkey to talk after the dissolution.

Like a deflated balloon, the monkey was deflated. "I chatted with the fish until about 3:10 p.m. and then I left." "Did anyone see the fish after that?"

No one spoke. "That is, if you're not lying - the last time the fish was seen alive was 3:10pm? Where did the fish go after breaking up with you? And, let me ask, the fish talked to you What? You have to answer cautiously, you know? Now you are the number one suspect."

"What do you mean by that?" The monkey protested with a deep tremor that seemed to come from not his mouth, but from his heart.

"You should know what I mean."

Unfortunately, Seven knows exactly what the wolf is referring to—if the fish was murdered, if not because he revealed some crime of the monkey in a conversation with the monkey, then what? ——Is it just a coincidence that he was killed as soon as he finished talking with the monkey?

But this time, Jelly stopped Monkey and nodded to him.The monkey lowered his head without saying a word.Taking a deep breath of the cold night air, he began to recall.

"'What happened when you were invited to the game'?"

"Yeah, Yu said that he wanted to compare it with his own. I asked him to say it first, but he didn't say anything."

"Hmm..." Qi saw that the wolf didn't seem to be able to figure out anything from it.

"What else?" "Also let me fully tell what I saw and heard on the first day, eavesdropping on Qihegou at night, seeing his jelly and so on... and my thoughts. It seems... also asked Find out about my family situation and the crime I was convicted of? It’s a mess, and I pretended to say that if you don’t mind personal issues, you don’t have to talk about them.”

"What crime have you committed?" the wolf asked cunningly, but—the answer is fraud. Monkeys are not very dull, and even if they are stupid, they will not commit such inconsistencies.After asking this very unnutritious question, the wolf paused:

"Although I know you won't be honest even if you have, let me ask, did the fish find anything in your answer that contradicts the facts you have learned before?"

"I don't know." Monkey answered bluntly.

"Tsk. Is there any place where the fish asked you several times, asked you to repeat it over and over again, or stopped after asking you a certain question?"

"...After what you said..." the monkey said slowly.

"What?" The wolf unconsciously clenched his upper arms.

"The fish asked me a weird question, and it looked very important. Ah——I was shocked," said the monkey, his eyes widened, as if he saw a ghost in the air: "I remembered, the fish asked After finishing my question, I seemed to understand something! Until I left, I was still sitting in the yard blankly...but..." He wrinkled his face in trouble, "...this question is not very important ah."

"Say it, you! I'll judge whether it's important or not!"

"The fish asked me—" Looking around at the people in the room, the monkey's eyes slowly fell on the face of Jelly: "—'Where was I hiding at that time'?"

"Is that when you saw the fish and jelly talking in the yard?"

"That's right—the moment I saw the two of them talking, where was I hiding!"

"'The moment you saw the two of them talking, where were you hiding'." The wolf repeated it again, and Qi really wanted to tell him not to say it.

"Everyone should not be too indulging, it's better to discuss slowly while eating" - Yuzai might say this - Qi thought this way, and opened the refrigerator at hand. "Everyone, anyway, let's eat a little bit—isn't there a TV show called 'The Reasoning Must Be After Dinner'?" What's wrong with him, making a sad joke that doesn't look like himself.

The refrigerator seemed to be a paradise——Qi took out a little at random, but who could eat it at this time.

Ah Mmm.

He turned his head—

Ah Mmm.The dog chomped on the finger sandwich. "Tsk. How can I be full with this kind of food. Hey, heat me up another bag of dumplings!"

"..."

"...that kind of thing isn't here—" Qi went to stop the refrigerator with his hand in mid-air.There is.In addition to the ingredients that everyone praised at the beginning, Qicai noticed that the corner of the library refrigerator was full of sushi, microwave rice noodles, dumplings, paper cup egg drop soup and other eye-popping instant foods—as if it was for this reason The preparations for this kind of time were mediocre, and Qi couldn't help but feel that the organizer of this experiment was full of malice.

"You! Mr. Yu is still dead!" Niu didn't dare to question the dog, and turned his gun on Qi.

"Shut up! You'll be clearer after eating! Hey kid, you can eat it too." After yelling at the bull to be honest, the dog put a box of shrimp dumplings, which were so big and scary, into the person standing beside him. Jelly arms.

Ten minutes later, kitchen knives, napkins, tablecloths, chairs, and the fish itself—everything that could be moved with blood was moved to the infirmary next to it. He casually used a disposable paper cup to scoop up the soup and passed instant steamed stuffed buns to the other party.That guy—thanks to that guy, "Can you pass me the banana over there," Qi struggled to catch the cannonball-like banana thrown by the dog, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth—if it wasn't for the dog, everyone There will be no such moment of comfort.

If I could, I hope this moment never ends.