[You have been selected as the cleanup personnel of this L1 contaminated area. Please find out the murderer of Bazel Burton and Bazel Chad before midnight. 】
[Fail, you will become the murderer’s next target.]
The mission introduction mentioned very clearly that after midnight, the murderer would recreate the tragedy of the Bazell brothers on both of them.
So, this means that although all this is arranged by a mysterious force, when it comes to the murderer, there is always his own set of logic and reasons. And this set of logic and reasons, as expected, is the same as the murderer of the Bazell brothers.
The motives are the same.
The next focus should be to find the commonalities between him, Arthur, and the Bazell brothers, and then narrow down the scope of suspects based on the commonalities.
First rule out vendetta.
Either these three groups of people have never met each other, or they last met a few years ago, so it is impossible for them to form a deep hatred against the same person at the same time.
But the only thing that Lynn could think of in common was that they were both men, and they all appeared in the same place at the same time.
Many people in the pub have these things in common, but they are of little value.
Immediately afterwards, Linn drew the second key clue from the mission description.
The murderer will kill them after twelve o'clock.
Similarly, this is the result of the arrangement of mysterious forces, and it must contain the murderer's own thoughts for the sake of rationality.
Why did the murderer have to take action after twelve o'clock?
"What are you thinking about?" Arthur, who had no clue, saw Linn deep in thought and wanted to study together.
"Things are a bit complicated, so it's not a good place to talk about it," Lin En said.
"Everyone, step back and lean against the wall." Arthur immediately ordered the drinkers on the second floor to retreat to the corner and put a certain distance between them.
Lynn whispered her analysis to Arthur.
"Do you think there is a reason why the murderer chose to attack us later, as well as the time arrangement? The description of the mission is an important clue?" Arthur has not thought about this aspect.
"I tend to think so. Of course, it may not be so complicated. The mysterious power will simply arrange the murderer to punish us for failure like a random killing." None of Linn's analysis is very tenable.
The evidence supports, "It's just that if it's the latter, it would be too abnormal."
"Do we have anything in common? Could it be that the Barzel brothers are also..." Arthur guessed.
Lynn dashed Arthur's hopes: "Brothers Barzel are just ordinary people."
"Then...according to your analysis, should we try to delay it until twelve o'clock on purpose to induce him to attack us?"
"The mission didn't say that the murderer will kill us immediately after twelve o'clock, which means that we have to be more vigilant every minute and second in the future. Can you do it?" Linn reached out and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Leave it to me.
We really only have three hours."
"The mission shouldn't give us a fatal situation. We may have missed something." Arthur began to recall the details ten minutes before the death of the Bazell brothers.
"Let's start with the basics. When the murderer committed the murder on the stairs on the second floor, in order to ensure that he was not discovered, there must be no one around. You can carefully ask who was the last person to enter the second floor from the stairs before we came up.
"In addition, if you didn't find any sharp objects that could be used to commit murder during the search, it means that the murder weapon is on them. If you search them, there may be surprises." When Lin mentioned the murder weapon, he suddenly remembered Arthur's search of other rooms.
At that time, he took out a knife from his waist. However, he remembered clearly that as soon as Arthur rushed to the stairs with him, he heard the sound of Brother Barzel falling down the stairs.
The doubts that had arisen about his own people receded again.
Arthur agreed: "There are many knives in the kitchen, but it is difficult to confirm whether the murderer used the knife there and whether he put the knife back in the chaos. There is no one in the other rooms. You can go and look carefully.
If there are any clues, I will search them directly and ask about the situation."
"...Okay." Lin En did not refuse this time, turning the wheels of her wheelchair alone and entering the kitchen on the second floor.
There were indeed many knives in the kitchen, some of which were stained with blood.
If it were anyone else, they would probably be helpless in this situation. They would not be able to tell whether the murderer threw it after killing the Barzel brothers, or whether the chef did not have time to wash the food after handling it.
Lynn is different.
As a mystery novelist, his knowledge reserve is quite rich.
Although there is no equipment to test blood in this world, he remembers that there is a difference in the taste of human blood and animal blood.
Sheep blood is smelly, pig blood is smelly, chicken blood is smelly, human blood... is salty and fishy.
Not only does it taste, animal blood is also more viscous than human blood, easier to clot, and darker in color.
He wheeled the wheelchair, approached the table where the knives were placed, and carefully took out several knives with blood stains on them.
Back outside, let the three knives stand in different places to let the smell disperse, so as to avoid mixing the smells that were put together before and affecting judgment.
When Arthur had almost finished asking the drinkers one by one, Linn picked up the knife again to observe and smell it.
"What are you doing?" Arthur came over and asked after finishing his question.
"Tell which knife has human blood on it." Lin En replied.
"How do you tell the difference?"
"Taste, color, viscosity, and condensation speed can all be used as a basis for judgment."
"Is it accurate?"
Linn put down a knife and said two words abruptly: "Earth?"
"Earth? What do you mean?" Arthur didn't understand.
"It's nothing. I mean it's hard to say how accurate it is. I can only try and see if I can break the deadlock." Lin En took the opportunity to test it out and confirmed that Arthur did not come from time travel. The time travel should only happen to him.
On the human body, otherwise he would reply to Arthur, "It would be great if there were anti-human hemoglobin colloidal gold test strips."
"So have you got any results?"
"It should be this one." Linn picked up a fruit knife.
"So powerful?" Arthur admired Linn a little.
Lin En laughed dryly: "It has nothing to do with the taste, color, consistency, or coagulation speed. It's very simple. The fruit knife is used to cut fruits. Do you think it's normal for it to have so much blood on it?"
"Also..." Arthur coughed twice, a little embarrassed.
"And fruit knives are lighter than other knives and are easier to hide and carry - you didn't find knives or sharp objects from them, right?"
"No."
"Then it should be it." Lin En felt a little more sure.
Arthur took the fruit knife from Linn's hand and looked at it repeatedly: "The problem is, even if it is confirmed that this is the murder weapon, how can we find the murderer?"
"It may not be possible to find the murderer, but it is enough to narrow down the scope. It was dinner time when the Bazell brothers died, and there was always a chef in the kitchen. A guest went in and took a fruit knife and put it back. They wouldn't
I don’t know. If no guests come in—"
"The murderer is in the chef!" Arthur interrupted Linn and said first.
"That's right." Linn nodded.
Arthur was so convinced that he quickly found the three chefs and asked them if any guests had been in the kitchen.
What made Linn and Arthur ecstatic and unexpected was...
Alfred Bank, who was initially listed as one of the most suspect men, was one of the three chefs, the drunken one with a depravity value of [120]!
However, when he was almost confirming the murderer in Linn, Arthur unexpectedly pointed at Calvin Dean, who was also listed as the most suspect and had a corruption value of [130], and said with certainty that the other party