Chapter 681 Could it be an acquaintance who committed the crime!
There is no confusion among the books on the bookshelf.
Except for the deceased lying on the ground, no trace of chaos could be seen.
This shows that the deceased did not fight before his death.
So, an acquaintance committed the crime?
Shen Lian came to the corpse.
I saw that the body at this time was facing the ground.
Knife marks were clearly visible on the deceased's back.
The thin clothes were punctured and there were many knife marks.
Blood flowed from the wound and stained the clothes red.
"Time to die."
Shen Lian asked while looking at the corpse.
Han Min hurriedly said: "Wu Zuo said that the time of death was between midnight and ugly last night."
Between Zi Shi and Chou Shi?
From 11 to 1 o'clock in the middle of the night?
Shen Lian nodded slightly and said, "Have you ever asked anyone in the house what they were doing between Zi Shi and Chou Shi?"
Han Min nodded and said, "Everyone has been cross-examined."
"Except for the two nursing homes patrolling at night, everyone else is sleeping."
Shen Lian continued to ask: "How many of them cannot be proved?"
Han Min said: "Basically there are other people who can prove it."
"Um?"
Shen Lian looked at Han Min: "Is there anyone else who can prove it?"
"That Mrs. Han, her husband-in-law sleeps in the study, and she sleeps alone. How can anyone prove it?"
Han Min said: "It's like this. Mrs. Han has been having nightmares these days. She doesn't dare to sleep alone, so she asked her daughter to sleep with her. Therefore, her daughter sleeps with her, and both of them sleep together. You can testify."
"And the other maids and servants all sleep in the common bunk, and they can all prove it to each other."
"There are also two patrolling nursing homes. They can also prove each other."
"So, when it was midnight last night, everyone indeed had an alibi."
Shen Lian listened to Han Min's words and smiled: "This is interesting."
"Some people have no alibi, which is very normal and easy to understand... It is normal to sleep in your own room at night and no one can prove it."
"However, everyone here has an alibi, which is abnormal."
Han Min blinked: "Is it abnormal?"
Shen Lian said: "Don't you think it's too much of a coincidence?"
"Everyone has an alibi. It's as if he knew something was going to happen at that moment, so he first found a proof of innocence for everyone."
Han Min thought for a while and then nodded: "There is indeed something wrong. In previous cases, there were always a few people who did not have alibi."
"But this can't be taken as evidence, right?"
Shen Lian smiled and said: "Of course it cannot be used as evidence. The alibi proves that they are not the murderer. Naturally, I cannot say who is the murderer just because of this."
"If we want to find the murderer, we still need more evidence."
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Shen Lian carefully inspected the body.
At this time, he discovered that the direction in which the deceased was crawling was towards the bookshelf.
Does this prove that the deceased wanted to go to the bookshelf to find a book or other things on the bookshelf?
Then at this moment, someone suddenly slashed him from behind?
Shen Lian looked towards the bookshelf.
I saw all kinds of books neatly placed on the bookshelves.
"The Analects of Confucius", "The Great Learning", "Tao Te Ching", "Sun Tzu's Art of War"...
There are no particularly big problems with the books. They are all the most common but also the most highly regarded books.
These books are easy to buy and there is nothing special about them.
In addition to these books, there are also some small objects on the bookshelf.
There is a small ornament carved from raw jade.
There is an exquisite vase.
There is also a toad with some copper plates in his mouth.
Shen Lian came to the bookshelf and carefully inspected the ornaments, but found nothing wrong with them.
They are all very common ornaments, which may be a little expensive, but there are no secrets like mechanisms.
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes.
He felt that this matter was really getting more and more interesting.
There was nothing wrong with the bookshelf, but the deceased was facing the bookshelf...
Is it because the murderer was a very familiar person to him, so he felt bored while getting along with the murderer, or happened to want to read some book, so he walked to the bookshelf?
Generally speaking, people who do this kind of thing can only show that the relationship between the deceased and the murderer is very familiar.
So much so that you don’t have to take it completely seriously.
After all, if you are simply treating guests, you cannot just pick up a book and read it. After all, it means being impolite.
But for people I know very well, even family members, I don't have this worry at all.
Shen Lian looked into the room again.
He looked emphatically at the window and door.
The window at this time was locked.
Shen Lian came to the window and pushed it. Because it was locked tightly, the window did not move at all.
"Purely a secret room!"
Shen Lian looked at Han Min and asked, "Was this window locked like this last night?"
Han Min nodded quickly: "Yes, the windows and doors are locked."
"There is no other place to go out of this room, so I have no idea how the murderer left after killing someone."
"It is precisely because this case is full of weirdness and I can't find any clues, so I have no choice but to ask Mr. Qin for help."
Shen Lian nodded slightly.
"The doors and windows were locked. How did the murderer get out?"
"Could it be...that there is a secret passage here?"
Shen Lian looked around and found no trace of any mechanism.
He walked out of the door again and stood outside looking at the room.
The front and back of the room are empty.
There are two other rooms on the left and right sides.
He walked directly to the rooms on the left and right.
After entering these two rooms, I took a look at the layout of the rooms.
He thought for a while and said to Han Min: "Go into the study and come to the wall."
Han Min didn't understand what Shen Lian meant, but he still came to the wall obediently.
Then, Shen Lian knocked on the wall.
Boom!
A dull voice sounded.
Shen Lian said: "Did you hear the knocking on the wall?"
Han Min hurriedly said: "I heard it, it's very clear."
"That means there are no compartments..."
Shen Lian went to another room and knocked on the wall again.
Han Min's answer was still a very clear knocking sound.
Shen Lian nodded slightly and returned to the study.
There are open spaces in front and behind, and there are no problems with the walls on the left and right. This proves that there cannot be any hidden passages around the study.
What about the ground?
Shen Lian tapped the ground with his toes as he walked. He walked through the entire room without hearing any sound from under his feet.
He checked the bookshelves again, as well as some moving vases and other objects that might be used as switches.
But in the end, there was still no discovery.
"The agency can be eliminated."
"There was no secret passage, and the doors and windows were completely locked. How did the murderer leave?"
At this moment, even Shen Lian felt the difficulty of this case.
Is it really an impossible perfect crime?
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes.
He looked around the room again, looking for clues that he might have overlooked.
He believed that there could be no perfect crime in this world.
As for the secret room murder, there must be a way for the murderer to escape from the secret room.
So what will this method be?
Shen Lian fell into deep thought.
At this moment, thousands of secret room killing techniques were appearing in his mind.
Secret room murder is a case that was often encountered in detective investigations in previous lives.
And it is also divided into categories and listed as a separate category.
This shows how many secret room killing techniques there are.
Basically, the most important reason for any secret room murder is the method used by the murderer to conceal the possibility of committing the crime.
That is to say.
Under normal circumstances, once you figure out how the secret room was created, you are basically close to solving the case.
However, Shen Lian recalled all the methods related to secret room murder cases that he had encountered and read in books.
But none of the methods are consistent with the case at hand.
Because the case in front of me really gives people a method that is simply impossible to achieve.
Suddenly Shen Lian thought of a case.
That was the first case he solved after becoming the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.
In other words, it was precisely because he solved that case that he became the Young Minister of Dali Temple!
He walked directly outside and found the deceased's wife.
The deceased's wife was thirty-five years old, had fair skin and was very beautiful.
However, there was a touch of blue and black under her eyes, and her face was a little haggard, as if she had not had a good night's rest.
He covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief from time to time, coughing constantly, and his health didn't look good.
These inferences were automatically generated in Shen Lian's brain the moment he saw Mrs. Han.
He looked at the haggard Mrs. Han and said, "Mrs. Han didn't get a good rest last night?"
Mrs. Han sighed: "To be honest with Mr. Shen, I have been infected with wind and cold recently. I keep coughing and feel uncomfortable, so I have not been able to sleep well at night."
"I had a private conversation with my little girl in the middle of the night last night, so I went to bed a little later, so my condition today is even worse."
Shen Lian nodded slightly and looked at the woman beside Mrs. Han who was supporting her.
That is Mrs. Han's daughter.
My name is Han Xin.
Han Xin is sixteen years old, fair-skinned and beautiful, and she has inherited all the advantages of her mother at first glance.
At this time, Han Xin looked at Shen Lian timidly, seeming to be a little afraid of Shen Lian.
Shen Lian smiled and said to Han Xin: "Miss Han, I don't look that scary, right?"
Han Xin hid behind Mrs. Han and said: "My mother said that I am leaving the government and cannot have contact with other men casually."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Han hurriedly said: "Master Shen is different from other men, you don't have to be afraid."
She looked at Shen Lian again and said: "Master Shen, I'm really sorry. My daughter is very timid. After experiencing this incident again, she is even more timid. I hope Master Shen can forgive me."
Shen Lian took a deep look at Han Xin, then smiled and shook his head, saying: "I understand, Mrs. Han, don't worry, I won't care about it."
Mrs. Han expressed her gratitude to Shen Lian.
Shen Lian withdrew his gaze and looked at Mrs. Han again. He asked, "Mrs. Han, when you called the door this morning, did you notice that anyone was missing?"
Mrs. Han blinked and said, "I don't understand what Mr. Shen meant."
Shen Lian explained: "When you knocked on the door, the person who was supposed to appear did not appear. Then when you entered the room, you found that the person who did not appear appeared again."
What Shen Lian said was the method used by the murderer when he solved the first secret room murder.
The murderer was hiding at the door.
Then, as everyone broke into the door and entered, while everyone was shocked by the deceased, he naturally appeared behind them, never arousing anyone's suspicion.
And through this method, the perfect secret room murder was completed.
So is this the case in front of us?
Shen Lian did not appear at the first scene, so he could only learn about it from Mrs. Han.
Mrs. Han thought about it seriously, then she shook her head and said, "I didn't notice this."
"But the people who knocked on the door at that time were the housekeeper, several servants, and the two maids who accompanied me. Except for us, no one else knew about it."
"Then I opened the door. I was panicking because something happened to the master, so I didn't pay special attention to whether there were too many people..."
"But I glanced at the other people in a daze, and I didn't seem to find any extra people."
Shen Lian nodded slightly, not surprised.
After all, in that case, apart from occasionally glancing at other people, I really wouldn't pay special attention to whether there are too many people.
However, this does not prove that Shen Lian cannot investigate the case in this way.
After all, there were a lot of people there at that time.
Mrs. Han cannot name them all.
But others will always remember a few people in their memory.
At that time, by comparing each other's answers, you will naturally be able to determine whether there is an extra person who shouldn't be there.
After two sticks of incense.
Han Min wiped his sweat and came to Shen Lian's side.
He said to Shen Lian: "Master Shen, I have already questioned everyone and compared and contrasted them based on their statements."
"And the result is that no extra people show up!"
"The number of people who originally knocked on the door is the same as the number of people who were there when the body was found after the door was knocked down."
"The number of people has not increased."
Listening to Han Min's words, Shen Lian's eyes became darker and darker.
In this way, the method used in this secret room is different from the Turkic case that I solved in the past.
That would be interesting.
The doors and windows were closed, and no trace of any mechanism was found.
The entire study is a completely secret room.
There are no secret passages or secret doors.
The murderer did not use any special hiding method to hide among the crowd.
How did the murderer leave the secret room after committing the murder?
Shen Lian frowned slightly.
Seeing that Shen Lian was deep in thought, Han Min held her breath and did not dare to disturb him.
At this moment, Han Min also realized the difficulty of this case.
After all, in his mind, any case encountered by Shen Lian would be solved immediately by Shen Lian.
But in this case, Mr. Shen seemed to be experiencing difficulties.
This is enough to show how troublesome this case is.
It seems that my decision to seek help from Mr. Shen was extremely correct.
This is enough to show how troublesome this case is.
It seems that my decision to seek help from Mr. Shen was extremely correct.