Lin Chong felt that it would have nothing to do with the people in the inn. Since this woman stayed alone, she should not be familiar with the people in the inn. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that she wanted to kill him without knowing it.
People also chose to live in the same place as her.
But if that was the case, there was no need for him to do it in the inn. He could go and search Song Fang's room first when she wasn't there.
Killing someone in an inn might get him into trouble, but if he wanted to find something, he had to live nearby. Did he live in another inn nearby? If he just looked at the registered name, Lin Chong didn't think so.
It had no effect, but he still looked at it as a matter of business. But unfortunately, he had never heard of these people at all.
In order to avoid trouble, most people who travel in the world keep a low profile and use pseudonyms when they need to stay in a hotel. After reading through all these names, I did not draw any useful conclusions.
Lin Chong began to understand the feelings of those officials who, for the sake of performance, had to bite the bullet and find the murderer even though they could not solve the case. It was really a big headache. He could also understand why these people wanted to arrest someone and then torture them to extract a confession.
It can satisfy my own psychology to some extent. Look, it's not that I haven't solved the case, I've tried my best.
When Lin Chong was about to have dangerous thoughts, Jonathan provided him with a clue. It turned out that Jonathan also went with him when he went to check the body that day, and he looked at it longer than Wang Chengen.
"Although the knife he used was an ordinary knife, it was still special. He smeared other things on the knife."
"What is it?" Lin Chong and Zhou Ze stared at Jonathan. "It is an aroma similar to that of powder. Maybe because the deceased was a woman, both Zuo Zuo and Wang Gonggong ignored it. It was a very light aroma.
But if you smell it carefully, you will find that this aroma is only present near the knife edge. And I also smelled carefully the rouge that the deceased carried with her and the rouge she used in the room, and there was no such smell."
Lin Chong was surprised: "Could it be that the murderer is actually a woman?" "That's not necessarily true. Maybe some men prefer this lighter scent." Jonathan shrugged.
But the scent was a clue. They went to some of the larger places nearby that sold rouge and gouache. Unfortunately, only Jonathan remembered the smell. It was already strange for three grown men to come to a rouge shop. Not only did they not buy anything,
They have to open the boxes one by one and smell them. The end result is that the three of them are often kicked out before the end of the shopping.
In fact, even if they were not kicked out, they would still have to leave. Jonathan Zhe smelled so much rouge and gouache in one afternoon that his nose had become dysfunctional.
When we returned to the inn, it was already dark. It was dinner time in the inn. Because a murder had just occurred, everyone was on tenterhooks. No one wanted to eat alone in their room, so everyone crowded together in the lobby.
Eating should have seemed lively, but it seemed strange because the atmosphere was depressing and no one was talking.
The waiter came over and asked if he needed to prepare food for them downstairs. Lin Chong waved his hand: "We don't have so many taboos. Let's send it upstairs as usual." The waiter responded and went down to prepare. Lin Chong said while
While climbing the stairs, I complained to Zhou Ze and Jonathan that my feet were about to break.
Zhou Ze smiled and comforted him, but Jonathan kept frowning and suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Lin Chong was startled by his sudden stop.
"I smelled that smell, just now."
"Are you sure? When is it exactly?" Lin Chong was pleasantly surprised.
"It is indeed that fragrance. Although the smell is very weak, I can't smell it wrong. It was just when we were standing in the middle of the lobby."
"Then the murderer is indeed still in this inn!" Zhou Ze lowered his voice, "There are so many people here and it's not the place to talk. Let's go up first and then talk."
As soon as he heard that he had a clue, Lin Chong seemed to be on stimulants, as if he was not the one who said that his leg was going to be broken just now.
When the doors and windows were closed upstairs, Zhou Ze's voice became louder: "Brother Qiao, this is no joke. Are you sure that's what you smell?"
Lin Chong also understood that if what Jonathan said was true, then there was probably a murderer living in the inn now.
He has already killed a person, and he still dares to stay in the inn in full view of everyone, and even goes to the lobby to eat with everyone, completely as if nothing has happened. It can be seen that either he is very confident in himself, or this is the thing
Very important to him.
If he accidentally made him anxious, he might kill again at any time. Lin Chong felt that the direction of his thinking was not necessarily wrong. Perhaps it was precisely because the murderer was also a woman that Song Fang relaxed his vigilance and let him go in the middle of the night.
Come in.
In this way, Mu Xi's hypothesis was confirmed. The murderer was looking for something, and he hadn't found such a thing yet, so he stayed nearby, in this inn.
He began to observe the guests with their female dependents consciously or unconsciously. On the day Song Fang died, there were not many people actually staying in the inn. There were three groups with their female dependents.
A pair of young lovers, a middle-aged couple with two children, both boys are cute twins. There is also one who claims to be a pair of sisters, but Lin Chong feels that sometimes their
The way they talk is more like a master and servant.
It is worth mentioning that this so-called sister, in Lin Chong's opinion, should be a girl who plays the role of a personal maid, and she is good at martial arts. The young lovers also look like a pair of knights in the world, presumably
It is very easy for them to take out an ordinary knife.
The one who seems the most unlikely is the middle-aged couple. Not only do they not know martial arts, they have nothing to do with the grievances and disputes in the world. They are just ordinary people passing by with their children.
Who could it be? Is the murderer a woman or a man? Apart from these people, it is not impossible that others could be involved. The problem now is that there is no evidence to prove that any of them was so close to the deceased that they could open the door without hesitation in the middle of the night.
.There is even no evidence that they know each other.
Lin Chong did not completely exclude men. Among the other people staying at Yuelai Inn, one was a scholar who came to study, and the four were brothers who did business together.
Lin Chong felt that scholars did not have the ability to kill with one knife, and the four big men did not look like perverted murderers who liked rouge and gouache.
And there are four of them. Killers rarely come in groups like this. They are shadows hiding under the light. They are independent.