A series of images flashed through Tim's mind, the rainy night in Gotham, the reflection of leather shoes, the dark umbrella, the red vortex crashing into the rain...
Tim has never actually seen Professor Schiller kill anyone. He only learned about the grandeur of the previous era from Copot and others. However, his imagination has always been very rich, and his smart brain allows him to perfectly complete certain stories.
detail.
There was only one word swirling in Tim's mind - there is no such thing as a good party.
At this time, he heard movement outside the room. Peter seemed to say something, but soon the footsteps left.
This meant that someone might have come, but Peter could not wait for him at the door for too long and had to leave.
This is just right, Tim thought, it would be troublesome to have someone following him, there are too many things to do.
Soon there was no movement on the balcony. It seemed that Schiller had finished making the phone call. Tim didn't stay there too long. He climbed over the window sill and returned to the house, speculating on where Schiller might have gone.
When passing by the corridor window on the second floor, he saw that as the time got later and later, more and more people came. A car parked at the gate of the farm, and guests poured in through the gate.
We can't delay it any longer, Tim thought. The identity of the cleaner is a good disguise, but it won't take long. Once the banquet officially starts, all irrelevant staff will not be able to stay here, they will be kicked out.
Tim walked a few steps quickly with the mop in his hand, but he saw Harley's figure disappearing in the crowd. Before he could say hello to her, she quickly walked through the hall and ran to who knows where.
Just when he walked out of the door and wanted to go around to the back of the house, he vaguely heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground above his head.
Tim looked up and saw a room on the second floor with half-closed curtains. A figure flashed past in it, but he didn't make any other noise.
Even so, Tim noticed something was wrong. At this time, he was very close to the back door. He picked up the cleaning utensils and ran upstairs quickly. He still fooled the security guard on the second floor with the excuse that it needed to be cleaned, and as quickly as possible
Du came to the door of that room.
The door was unlocked, leaving a small crack exposed. Tim turned his head slightly and looked in, and saw a figure leaning on the bed, covering his stomach with one hand.
Tim took a breath, held everything in one hand, opened the door gently, got in sideways, and tiptoed to the man's side.
This was the big man they saw in the room before. After carefully examining his face, Tim was sure that this was the congressman.
He was unconscious at this time, but it was probably not that he had lost too much blood, but more like he had been anesthetized. Tim checked the wound on his abdomen and found that he had been stabbed. No important internal organs were injured, and the injury was not serious, but so
It will definitely be fatal if you go down.
Tim, who has rich experience in murder cases, immediately realized that the person who anesthetized the congressman and the person who gave him a knife may not be the same person. If he just wanted to stab him, there is no need for anesthesia, and he can be anesthetized, so there is no need.
Stab him.
This was a bit interesting, but Tim didn't have much time left. He immediately took off the congressman's coat, tied it to his abdomen to stop the bleeding, grabbed the cleaning tools and rushed out the door shouting.
"Someone! Come quickly! Someone has been attacked!!!"
The security guard heard the news and rushed directly into the room where Tim was. The congressman was quickly helped out. As expected, FBI agents followed closely, and Tim saw Steve and Jason.
This place is relatively far from the town. Before the ambulance arrived, someone was using a first aid kit to give first aid to the MP.
Tim recalled in his mind the figure he had seen before. He did not look like Schiller, and was probably stronger than Schiller. He searched in his mind for all the people he had seen in the house so far, and was finally surprised.
He discovered that the person who did it might also be an acquaintance he had met.
When he thought of this, he quickly stepped back and blended into the crowd, because Matt came with his students.
Tim lowered his head, but his eyes skipped the trousers of the two of them. Everyone here was wearing suits and leather shoes, and there was nothing distinguishable from their clothing.
Tim paused lightly, walked around the back of the crowd, and came to the bathroom on the first floor near the back door.
In this situation, no one could stab someone with a six-foot-long snake spear. The murder weapon must be smaller so that it can be easily concealed. Tim also checked the wound and it should have been caused by a short knife.
The relatively short weapon will inevitably cause a problem, that is, blood will be stained on the hands. Even if the suit is thick and skilled, the part close to the abdomen cannot be clean.
If there is blood, you have to wash your hands. The crowd came up from the stairs at the main entrance, so it is impossible to take that stairs, otherwise you will be hit. There are two routes you can take, either jump directly from the balcony, or
Just take the stairs at the back door.
But no matter which way you go, there is only one bathroom you can choose, and that is the bathroom near the back door.
Tim walked in, picked up the cleaning sign next to the door and put it at the door to prevent anyone from disturbing him. He looked down at the floor and saw obvious footprints with watermarks.
This is not surprising. It has been rainy recently on the West Coast and the air humidity is also very high. The floor of the modernly decorated stone house is marble. It is almost evening and it is the time when the temperature drops. A layer of water mist will condense on the ground.
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It is very thin and hardly affects walking, but it will leave footprints.
Tim found two footprints under the sink.
If nothing else, this was left by Matt’s student named Larry. His height, weight, and walking posture are exactly the same as the posture of leaning over to wash hands.
Larry stabbed the congressman, then ran away in a hurry, down the stairs on the other side of the corridor, went into the nearest bathroom, washed the blood off his hands, then walked through the corridor back to the main entrance, and walked with Matt from the main entrance.
After climbing up the stairs to the second floor, the movement trajectory and timeline made perfect sense.
The motive for the crime is temporarily unknown, but it is impossible to kill the congressman with this injury. If it was Larry who did it, he could not have noticed that the congressman was anesthetized. If he wanted to kill someone, he could just stab him in the neck.
This shows that Larry did not intend to kill him, and the stabbing could only be to vent his anger.
That's right, Tim thought, it was because Larry found out that the congressman had been anesthetized and knew that no matter what he did, the congressman would never find out, that's why he stabbed him.
Do they two have a grudge? Tim thought of Matt's previous evaluation of Larry. He was obviously a narcissistic person who acted self-centered and had a bad temper.
If the two of them didn't know each other before, it's possible that the conflict arose after they came here.
Combined with the information that Tim had learned before, the congressman wanted to win over this internet celebrity lawyer to build momentum for them. The process of wooing may not be so pleasant, and it may not be an exaggeration to call it a threat. Larry stabbed the congressman in a fit of anger.
But there is another point that cannot be explained, that is, how did Larry know that the congressman was anesthetized? How come the anesthetic took effect just as he passed by, causing the congressman to fall into a complete coma?
Either earlier or later is dangerous. If you go too early, the congressman will not be anesthetized. If your face is seen, you will definitely be the first suspect. If you go too late, the congressman will be awake, so it is impossible to take action.
And why does Larry trust the effect of anesthetics so much? What if the person who administers the drug takes too little and he stabs the person and wakes him up from the pain?
Although he is an Internet celebrity, it is not a simple matter for the other party to become a member of Congress. If he committed the crime just out of passion, there would be too many variables. For the sake of his own career future, he cannot be so stupid.
Then it must have been premeditated, which means that the person who drugged the congressman and the person who stabbed him were in the same group.
As for why they were divided into two people, it was probably to remove suspicion, so that they could make separate alibi. The person who stabbed the person when he drugged him had an alibi, and the person who drugged him when he stabbed him also had an alibi.
Although this little trick can't fool detectives like Batman, it can still fool the FBI if done cleverly.
Who will cooperate with Larry?
Tim felt that the answer was about to come out. Who else could it be besides the teacher of this internet celebrity lawyer?
But Matt is supposed to be a superhero, and he will not commit murder unless the purpose of what he and Larry do is not just to hurt the congressman, but to do some good to the congressman.
Judging from the current situation of the congressman, it is impossible for his life to be in danger. This injury will be fine after a few months of rest. So the master and apprentice Matt just want the congressman not to show up recently?
No, no, no, if that's the case, there's no need to do it at a banquet where people are coming and going. You can do it tomorrow where no one is around. It's safer and less likely to be discovered.
Then I want the congressman to leave here early.
But why?
Tim didn't have time to think too much. He was called over by FBI agents for questioning. After all, he was the first to discover the crime scene.
Since he dared to scream, Tim was naturally prepared. He told the agent without any panic that he was just a cleaner. He came to the second floor to clean and found a door that was not closed. He wanted to remind the other party and looked through the crack in the door.
At a glance, he found someone lying next to the bed, and then he shouted.
The detective did not raise any objections, because after all, the person was not dead, but only slightly injured. There was no situation where the person who discovered the crime scene was the murderer, because the earlier the crime scene was discovered, the higher the chance that the other party would survive.
, the murderer must have hoped to be discovered as late as possible.
But the detective still dutifully asked for some details, and Tim answered fluently and performed flawlessly, so he was not suspected.
Not long after, the ambulance arrived. Tim looked at a group of people putting the congressman into the ambulance, and then looked at Master Matt and his apprentice, who were chatting with the people next to them, and narrowed his eyes.
At this moment, he heard another thump behind the wall, and he suddenly turned his head and looked out the window.
Screams broke the tranquility of the farm.
"Ahhhhhh!!!"
"Someone jumped off the building, someone jumped off the building! Come on! Mr. Lant fell from the third floor!"
