innocence method

8

?So, just like that, the location of "Gathering Reasoning" was changed to a relatively modest and cozy dining room.Yu and Qi worked together to move about four chairs to make a simple bed, and the bird lay on it—this would not delay the reasoning after participation, but also allow for a temporary rest.Since there were only ten chairs in the dining room, seven had to stand in the corner of the room.

"In short!" Monkey cleared his throat twice with bravado, and said in the opening line:

"After the exclusion just now, everyone separated from last night until eleven o'clock sharp. Anyone who does not have an alibi is a prisoner! Now I will start to exclude suspects based on this!"

"Wait," the wolf interrupted him angrily, "What's the matter with 'you start now'? If everyone decides on the prisoner together in the end, how will the reward be divided?"

The so-called "reward" probably refers to the commutation of sentence.

"Mr. Wolf, why don't you listen to what the monkey said first." The cow suddenly appeared and made muddy mud.That kind of gesture like a fly rubbing its front paws... is not so much for the monkeys in the same group-he is actually fighting for his own rights, right?Fortunately—the wolf snorted and acquiesced: he didn't seem to think that the monkey could solve the matter so easily.

"Then I'll start." The monkey became more and more complacent. "First of all, the time when everyone broke up is about—"

"10:09 sharp!" "30:[-]!" "[-] minutes to [-]:[-]." Several people answered almost in unison, and Qi was surprised that these people paid so much attention to the so-called "important time".

"Then everyone has reached a consensus. Those who don't have an alibi from [-]:[-] to [-] o'clock are prisoners! Now, please report your alibi one by one! Niu, you don't have an alibi, right? "

"You...you mean me? We...we are a team!" Perhaps he didn't expect the monkey to poke his own nose, and the cow stuttered.

"Who cares about you! The rules don't say that people in the same group should bear joint and several liability if the murderer is found out!" Monkey said to the point.

"Then you don't have an alibi, don't you? We were both in the same room yesterday, so no one would believe each other's alibi?" Niu retorted, but then hugged his head angrily. Go to—"Did—you have?"

"Aha. You really pretended to be asleep yesterday! That's right - I came to the gym around 28:[-] last night - the big guy over here and the little guy over there can prove it!"

Is it Qi's illusion, the dog's face is red.

"What did you say?"

The monkey stood up and took a step backwards - thus getting a little further away from the dog. "Everyone," he whistled, as if singing a play, "have you all found out? Get up this morning—the rooms of Qi and the dog have been merged into one."

"Brother... did you plan to use 'something' in the gym to catch the dog yesterday and force the dog to agree to be with you? And you even played milk feeding with that guy. That scene was really touching... ...Although I didn't hear the end, but I said, brother...you have already done it, right?"

"Please hurry up and get to the point." Yu's voice was soft, but his face was stern, but his words were ignored from here on.

"Ah?" Even though Qi grabbed one shoulder, the dog stood up—"Go ahead, you bastard! You've only done it with radishes, haven't you?"

"It's better with radishes than with dogs!"

"Well——" Before Qi could laugh miserably, he heard a voice that he didn't want to hear on this topic—"Do humans and radishes do it?" Jelly said, "It's strange, what kind of things will happen? The child is coming?"

……

"From what the monkey heard, the two of us can indeed provide him with an alibi until eleven o'clock." Half a minute later, Qi cleared his throat.In a series of deafening [email protected]#&￥% just now, he walked towards the monkey, and spit out in a voice that only the monkey and he can hear, "Almost give in, otherwise I can't guarantee [-]% control Stop that guy's actions." This sentence barely stopped the monkey from provoking the dog.

"But..." As if nothing had happened, Jelly poked the corner of her mouth, "Arrive at the gym at 28:8—isn't there still a vacuum of seven or eight minutes since we broke up? Hmm... ..." Before the monkey could argue, she asked herself and answered, "Well, not only do you need to move the sheep up during this time, but you also need to kill him, and then go to the gym...just you, in seven or eight minutes It seems like it’s impossible to do it.”

"'Just you'?—Is that scolding me? If it's killing you, seven or eight minutes is more than enough!" As soon as the jelly was mixed in, the monkey immediately became a mess, "—but seriously, seven That guy is the only one who can kill a person in 8 minutes, but unfortunately both he and Qi arrived earlier than me." He looked at the dog, then at Qi, as if he felt it was a pity.

"For me, I stayed in the courtyard talking with Miss Jelly after eating, until around twelve o'clock, we went to the cooking room to clean the tea set, and then went back to the room together, and parted hands at the door of the room." Fish eloquently explained his alibi.

"Uh-yes! Did you all see that?"

"It is true that we all saw that you two did not go back to the room with us, but who can prove where you went after that? Two people testify to each other, is this not an alibi?" ——Seven thinks the wolf analyzes Makes sense.

"We're not like you. We're not in a group, so we don't have the motivation to protect each other, right?" Jelly puffed up her mouth, and she didn't show any weakness when confronting the wolf who was half a body taller than her.

"Hmph," the wolf sneered, "that's not sure. It's a general trend for two people who don't have a group to form an alliance. And—yes," he said more and more rampantly, "it's also possible that both of you have the same identities. Killer, isn't that more, more, and more beneficial than other groups?"

"I'm a killer, what's the matter?" As soon as the words came out, everyone fell silent.Being slapped in the air by Jelly's confession, the wolf couldn't even smile dryly.

"Miss Jelly, you don't need to be as knowledgeable as this kind of person." Fish gently raised one palm and supported his lower jaw with the other arm.The jelly that had tears in its eyes immediately calmed down.This man... Qi looked at the fish—wasn't he really at least a "Minister of State Affairs" before?

"I've been thinking," Yu said with extraordinary calmness: "Student monkey, that means you crossed the courtyard twice at that time, right? Although I guess you probably used the cover in the courtyard to escape. Our eyes and ears... But, from your point of view, haven't you noticed me and Miss Jelly once?"

"Hmm-haha. Even if you don't ask me, I'll tell you..." the monkey laughed, unable to bear the fish's gaze, and turned its eyes to the sky with its hands on the brim of its hat. "Indeed, I saw it... and when I eavesdropped on Shichi and the dog, I also took a few glances into the yard..."

"What the hell is going on!" As soon as Jelly stretched out his head, the monkey's eyes flicked wildly, moving eastward and westward just to find the girl with her arms crossed looking for his gaze: "That's...that's how I saw someone. La! It’s always there every time I watch it!”

"Hmph...that's about the same." Jelly turned her head in the other direction.

"Why...why are you so angry? I didn't say anything..."

"Humph!"

"Okay, to sum up the above. The alibi for me and Miss Jelly has been proven." Yu smiled lightly, as if he had never been worried.

But Qi really couldn't say that he could also show the calmness he showed.He is very concerned about the next topic.That is to say——

"The one without an alibi!" The relieved monkey poked out his index finger—"It's the three of you!"

Following the monkey's finger, Qi looked at the wolf, the bird, and the cow in turn.

"No wonder I was not allowed to reason at the beginning, isn't it you who turned out to be the most suspicious?"

"Tsk, whatever you say," the "most suspicious" wolf spread his hands wide, as if he couldn't cut through the meat with a hob that was neither cooked nor chewed--I'm playing a hooligan anyway, with a narrow but smiling face Italian blue eyes seem to say - you figure it out? "With that woman, I went to bed yesterday when I went back, and there is no one who can prove my alibi. But you have to remember—" He opened his eyes, and a sneer appeared on his lips, "Your cow didn't either Alibi. I have no objection, but before he can't be ruled out as a suspect, can you make a decision that I or that woman is the criminal?"

The monkey gritted its molars and stopped talking.That's right, making a wrong reasoning is going to be "extended sentence".No matter how narrow the range of suspects is, there are still three people who have time to commit murder.Did the cow commit the crime alone, or did the wolf and the bird collude...or did the bird simply let the wolf do what it did?

Starting from the thinking dimension of an ordinary person, not to mention whether he has a brain or not, it is really impossible to imagine that Niu alone has the courage to take that kind of risk; then the possibility of the latter two situations happening is relatively high - based on the thinking dimension of an ordinary person If you leave.

At that point in time, Seven hadn't even started the cooperation agreement with the dog, and the gears of the game had only just started turning for four or five hours... In that small piece of time that now looks unusually thin, some of these people really Which one, or which few, can be so decisive and so cold-blooded to select the defenseless old man and kill him?Qi looked at the bird. At this time, she was lying on her side on the chair, but she just slightly closed her fingertips and pressed her lips tightly, as if she didn't intend to make any excuses.

"I still have doubts about one thing..." Yu's opening instantly broke the atmosphere in the room that made people unable to stay any longer, and Qi almost bowed his head to express his gratitude to him. "It's... about the murder weapon."

Hey?

"About that, I also don't quite understand." Wolf took Yu's words in a grandiose manner.

"Shut up, uncle! You are not qualified to participate in solving the case now!" The monkey pointed at his nose, but the wolf ignored him at all:

"Speaking of that old man... No matter what you think, that is the murder weapon. Although anything is possible, it is not surprising that some people here do not have a murder weapon and just use their hands." He nodded sarcastically in the direction of the dog, "But it's too strange not to use something right at hand. I've always wanted to ask, where did the murderer hide the murder weapon?"

"Didn't it be disposed of by the organizer together with the corpse?" Niu felt strange.

"Hmm..." Monkey pondered. Looking at him, although he was reluctant, he also felt that what the wolf said made sense: "That's impossible. The only thing that was disposed of was the corpse. Because... the previous Isn't the murder weapon still there?"

previous……?Qi understood that what the monkey was referring to was the remnants of the ballpoint pen that could still be discerned in the sticky black lump on the ground.

"That..." Seven said.

"Since it can't be disposed of...But such a big thing, I didn't find it when I checked the houses before? Shall I check it again!"

"That... I'm sorry!" Qi said in a louder voice, and then hurriedly clapped his hands together to express his apology.Everyone was taken aback by this statement.It's not that Qi's voice is loud, it's probably because the people around him have forgotten his existence because he hasn't spoken for a long time.

"Seventh classmate, what's the matter?" Yu quickly responded.

"The murder weapon you're talking about...does it mean the old man's copper rod?"

Everyone looked at Qi with a reasonable expression.

"In that case... maybe I know where I'm going?"

Crowd: ...

Half an hour later, the misunderstanding was completely resolved.

"I said you can't speak up sooner..." the monkey was still rambling until this second.

"I'm really sorry," Seven said.Yesterday, as soon as he sent the old man back to his room, and after taking him to bed, he lent the cane to the old man with gestures and coaxing.As a result, because of Qi's carelessness, he left the crutch here yesterday after using it, and the old man disappeared this morning before Qi could remember this matter.

"You are so clever. It is hard for me to think of such a method. If you use something more flexible to wind it several times and tighten it gradually with a stick, it is true that even the steel wire can be twisted. What do you use?" The fish asked. said, with sincere approval in his tone.

"Ah, thank you, it's a wet towel." Qi was rather embarrassed.

They're in the gym now, standing in a circle around the strength tester that Seven used so well last night.Only the dog was absent——as soon as he realized what everyone was going to the gym for, he quickly retreated like a stray dog... probably sulking somewhere.

But the tester in front of everyone's eyes is not broken, but the steel wire that fixes the discus is intact—this is why everyone can't find the old man's walking stick today.

What's so weird about this experimental site - this is undeniable by everyone, what's so weird?

The dog kicked a gabion in the courtyard last night, but now the thing sits perfectly where it should be, like a beautiful and eternal clock; the gym, the adjacent infirmary and the cooking room are also The same—steel wires, thermometers, even eaten ingredients, all turned into the same overnight and come back—I'm afraid not.

"—I'm afraid the whole room and courtyard have been switched. Our room is the same, probably the whole building can be disassembled and moved—the reason for changing from a single room to a double room is probably directly Remove the original room and move the new room up. The old man’s cane was probably removed along with the original room at that time.”

"The organizer of this game is really generous!" Monkey sighed.

— After all, it is the judiciary of a country.Seven thinks so.

"Have been working on it for a long time-that thing has nothing to do with the case at all. It's boring."

Because there is no time to commit the crime, it is meaningless to suspect Qi.And so the thread was cut off.

"Big guy, let's wash up today."

"Aren't you going to have lunch?"

"You don't mean to say that you will continue to stick together after dinner, do you?" The wolf sneered to debunk the implied meaning in Yu's proposal.The purpose of this game from the very beginning is to look for opportunities to kill people—some people are indeed killing people now, please follow this rule carefully.

"It doesn't matter if the others are not together. Shall we talk? It's in the yard." said the fish.

"Let me go." The wolf refused the fish.After a long time, he may think, it's a good thing to reject the fish at this time.

"Then, let's talk about it with Seventh classmate?"

"Ah, but I want to see what's going on with the dog first, is it all right?"

"Then another day, let's talk to Monkey first."

"Me? Well... are you going to the kitchen to cook later?"

"As an aid to the conversation, make a little snack."

"...That's not impossible."

At that time, no one other than Qi probably knew that this was the last conversation of one of the two in this life.