Schiller came to the door of the classroom where the incident occurred.
This is a long corridor, but there are not that many rooms, because the entire floor of the power distribution room is on the left side of the corridor. The power distribution room is very large, so there are only three doors on the left, which are the distribution rooms.
The front and rear doors of the electric room and a door of the utility room.
There are two classrooms on the right side, one is larger and the other is smaller, occupying two-thirds and one-third of the area respectively.
At both ends of the corridor, there are stairs on one side and an elevator on the other.
This structure is very strange compared to modern buildings, but after all, this is a Mercury base, and it is a Mercury base designed by Stark. The full technical content means that it does not contain anything else except technical content.
So the building structure may be a little strange.
The main reason is that this thing is not entirely built for living people. The main force working on Mercury at Marvel is still robots. Most of the rooms only conform to machine logic. The machine logic naturally means that the more straightforward the better, which leads to
The structure looks like this.
People died in the small classroom.
When Schiller arrived, several professors and another group of students were already waiting in the large classroom.
This is not a classroom originally, but a laboratory. The so-called large classroom is the main body of the laboratory, and the small classroom is the observation room, so there is a piece of glass between the two.
Now standing in the large classroom, one could see the situation in the small classroom. Schiller walked through the crowd and walked to the glass, where he saw a humanoid creature with light blue skin dead on the wall opposite the glass.
The cause of death was clear at a glance. There was an obvious penetrating wound on her chest, which penetrated directly into the heart. A large amount of blood flowed from the wound, and the body lay lying in a pool of blood.
That's an Atlantean.
Arthur was explaining the types of people in Atlantis to other students. Schiller listened briefly and found that they could basically be classified into three categories.
The ancient Atlanteans have been completely extinct, but there are indeed some who are similar to the ancient species. They are usually the product of incest marriages. They look similar to humans. Most of them can use the ancient divine power. This part of the population is sparse, maybe
There are only a few hundred in all of Atlantis.
The second type is a mixture of Atlanteans and humans like Arthur. After all, humans have occupied the continent for so many years, and it is inevitable for the Sea Tribe to deal with them. Even if they oppose intermarriage with humans, it is difficult to completely ban people like Arthur.
Mixed species can live both in the sea and on land, and their population is relatively small.
Among the Atlanteans, the most mixed blood between ancient Atlantis and sea people was the most common. When Atlantis sank into the sea, the closest thing to the sunken Atlantis were all kinds of people.
In such a sea tribe territory, it is natural that those who are near the water are first served, and the main residents of Atlantis are such mixed races.
And because most of the indigenous sea tribes look quite weird, the main residents also look like anything, including those with human bodies and fish tails, those with human bodies and snake tails, those with scales, those with gills, those with turtle shells on their backs, and those with blue skin.
Green, yellow, black, purple, it’s so diverse.
The Atlantean who died this time was a hybrid of the Sea Tribe. He had light blue skin and ears that looked like fish fins. However, he did not have a fish tail, but had legs like humans. According to the Sea Tribe
In terms of gender classification, it is a female.
According to Arthur, her name is Bonu, and she happens to be the daughter of a sea general in the territory of his fiancée Mera. She has always had excellent grades and is especially good at controlling water. This time she was also in Atlantis.
He stood out from the big selection and came to Mercury Base to study.
Later, Bruce introduced more details.
The body of the sea tribe is different from that of humans. It is impossible to judge the time of injury through rigor mortis. Even if it is left here all the time, the body will not become stiff.
However, according to Arthur, the blood clotting time of sea people is about twice as long as that of humans. In other words, under normal room temperature, the clotting time is about 20 to 30 minutes.
When Bruce and the others arrived, the blood had not completely coagulated, but it was close to coagulating, which meant that the victim had been killed 20 to 30 minutes ago.
The camera in the room is broken.
It was not caused by external force or damaged parts. Bruce checked it later and found that there was a short circuit in the internal circuit. The failure was estimated to have occurred an hour ago.
In other words, the surveillance in the room did not capture what happened in the room within this hour.
The surveillance outside the room and the surveillance in the corridor and stairwell could only capture the situation at the door of the large classroom, but could not see what happened at the door of the small classroom where the crime occurred.
The surveillance in the elevator can take pictures of what is happening at the door of the elevator and the small classroom, but once the elevator door is closed, it cannot take pictures of the door of the small classroom.
The natural time for the elevator to open the door when it arrives is 20 seconds. In other words, within 20 seconds of the elevator arriving and opening the door, you can take pictures of what happened at the door of the small classroom, but you won't be able to take pictures when you close the door.
Everyone in Schiller's classroom had sufficient alibi, but the remaining half were in Victor's physics class today.
The content of the activity class is to explore pressure and deformation. Victor requires each student to find an object they think is the hardest within 20 minutes after the class starts. The scope is not limited to the classroom.
In other words, students are like the pigs out of the cage. They can go back to the dormitory to get it, go to the laboratory to find it, or even ask the professor for it. In short, they just open the door and disappear.
This level is naturally within the search range of the students, but because it is far away from Victor's classroom, most students do not come here to search.
Since there is a large part, there must be a small part. According to other surveillance cameras, there are still a few people coming over, including the victim Bonu.
The remaining ones are Claude, a student at the Gotham Academy of Magic, Ted, the young superhero Blue Beetle, Gonzalez, a Mexican boy, a pair of Atlantean sisters Lalali, and Jenna's brother
praise.
Now these people have been taken aside alone.
The surveillance on the elevator showed that Bonu got out of the elevator and entered the small classroom. She was the first person to arrive on this floor, but several others were not slow and arrived in the next few minutes.
After hearing this, Schiller had a basic idea.
First of all, there is actually a blind spot for surveillance in this long corridor - when the elevator is closed, nothing can be photographed at the door of the small classroom.
In addition, the camera in the small classroom is broken, so there is no surveillance from the door to the door.
But theoretically speaking, there are no monitoring blind spots.
Because if you come up by the stairs, you will definitely be photographed by the surveillance camera in the stairwell, and if you come by the elevator, you will definitely be photographed by the surveillance camera inside the elevator.
In other words, both ways of going up and down the stairs can actually capture people, and there is no way to sneak into this corridor silently.
Of course, it was possible for magicians to use magic to teleport before, but because some students from the Magic Academy got stuck in the wall because they were not familiar with the terrain of the base and were interfered by other energies in the base, the use of teleportation is strictly prohibited in the entire base.
Although the verbal ban is useless, after all, except for the camera in the small classroom that is broken, the cameras in other places are not broken. If you want to teleport, you must have a starting point, and the camera at the starting point will film you.
There are artificial intelligence stewards throughout the base. Once the camera captures you teleporting, it will alert the police, but no alarm sound was heard within an hour.
However, when the elevator door is closed, the entrance to the small classroom is indeed a blind spot, and there may be other blind spots in the base. This requires all students to provide alibi that they are not in the monitored blind spots.
According to the report of the artificial intelligence housekeeper, all students did not enter any surveillance blind spots during the time of the incident. They were all active under the surveillance of the base and no one was transmitting.
Otherwise, if the surveillance is good, the suspicion of most students can basically be eliminated.
Well, in fact, if the surveillance in the corridors and large classrooms is easy to use, the few people who come to this floor should also have alibi.
But the surveillance camera in the small classroom was broken, and these people had all entered the small classroom.
In fact, it is not a special reason, but because no one is using the classroom on this floor, there is a lot of debris. Most students know this. They feel that there are many things here and they should be able to find something that satisfies them.
So I take turns coming here.
Bonu was the first to arrive, so she went to the small classroom to read it first, and then she went to the big classroom to read it. Maybe she didn't find anything satisfactory in the big classroom, so she went back to the small classroom.
Among the suspects, the Blue Beetle and Atlantis sisters and Jenna's brother Zan left the elevator and went to the large classroom. After browsing, they didn't go to the small classroom at all and left directly from the stairs at the other end.
Claude and Gonzalez followed the same route as Bonu, first entering the small classroom and then entering the big classroom. However, neither of them accompanied Bonu back to the small classroom. Instead, they walked out of the big classroom.
Take the elevator away.
Anyway, to put it simply, no one's route of action completely overlapped with Bo Nu's. Each of them also talked about their ideas for searching for items and the items they found. After inspection, no problems were found.
The timelines of everyone's confessions are also consistent. Meeting or leaving each other can corroborate each other. At the same time, they also match the surveillance footage of the large classroom or corridor.
This means that a famous scene occurred, that is, the secret room murder case.
Some people may want to say, didn't Gonzalez and Claude also enter the small classroom? How can this be regarded as a secret room murder?
But the problem is that after they entered, they left before Bonu. The elevator surveillance camera also captured them getting on the elevator. All their movements after getting on the elevator can be checked, and there is no possibility of going back.
In other words, after they left, this small classroom became a secret room.
Some people may also ask, after they entered the elevator and left, as soon as the elevator door closed, wouldn't the camera in the elevator not be able to capture the entrance to the small classroom? I don't know if anyone went in.
The problem is that the elevator is occupied at this time. If someone wants to enter this corridor, they have to take the stairs. There are also cameras in the stairwell. If someone enters the corridor from here, they will be photographed.
In other words, the scope of the secret room is not just the small classroom, but this corridor and this classroom.
Of course, it is indeed possible for someone to use invisibility magic, but don't forget, there are no ordinary people here. Except for the Mexican guy who is a human, the others have more or less special skills.
Among them, Claude himself is a magician, and just like the principle of the substitute messenger, if someone uses magic at such a close distance, he can feel it.
And he was the last person to see Bonu, which meant that before that, if someone had used magic, he could feel it.
Besides, just like teleportation magic, you also need a place to cast the spell when you become invisible and disappear, and it may cause your activity trajectory recorded by surveillance cameras to be incoherent. If you can see that you disappeared out of thin air for a period of time, you will be immediately detected by the artificial intelligence butler.
Discover.
But all other students did not have such a problem. The images captured by them were all coherent, and they did not appear outside the surveillance range for even a second.
This is interesting, Schiller thought, these cases are much more complicated than he imagined.
Different from the past, the complexity lies not in the state of the corpse, but in the entire timeline process. It has been a long time since we have encountered such a traditional murder case.