Wells's body was lying on the sofa. Xiao Lou quickly stepped forward and leaned over to examine the body, while other teammates consciously searched for clues everywhere in the room.
The man's eyes were wide open and his tongue was halfway out, which is a typical sign of hanging. There were obvious strangulation marks on his neck. The marks were deepest in the center and became shallower toward both sides. The width of the strangulation marks was about
Three fingers.
In addition, no other obvious injuries were found on the body.
Xiao Lou quickly came up with the results of the autopsy: "The cause of death was mechanical asphyxia. His shirt showed signs of being violently pulled, and two buttons were broken. The tool used by the murderer was probably his tie."
Yu Hanjiang frowned and looked at the body on the sofa, and analyzed: "He must have drunk a lot of wine at the party on Christmas Eve. After seeing off the guests, he fell asleep on the sofa. Unexpectedly, the murderer came back again.
, tore off his tie and simply strangled him."
This is a more reasonable conjecture, because there are no signs of the body being moved, and there is no need for the murderer to strangle Wells and then move him back to the sofa.
Wells did not go back to the bedroom to sleep, but fell asleep directly on the sofa. He was probably drunk.
Therefore, he did not know that his wife had been murdered in the piano room on the second floor.
Xiao Lou looked back at his teammates and said, "Have you found any clues?"
Ye Qi went to dig through the trash can in the restaurant and said, "The trash can is full of snack bags and various fruit peels, nothing special."
Shao Qingge walked around the kitchen and said: "There are a lot of drinks in the refrigerator, as well as unused fresh vegetables and meat. It seems that on Christmas Eve, the couple cooked and entertained themselves at home.
guest."
Lao Mo walked to the side of the restaurant and found a large garden outside the floor-to-ceiling window. He tried, but the glass door could not be pushed open. Lao Mo turned around and said: "This glass door in the restaurant should require a mechanism to unlock it.
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Qu Wanyue and Long Sen searched all the cabinets in the living room and found two photo albums in the TV cabinet. Long Sen showed the photo albums to Yu Hanjiang and said: "Captain Yu, there should be information about the main characters in the secret room here."
Yu Hanjiang immediately took it, and he and Xiao Lou each took a copy and read it carefully.
The photo album Xiao Lou took should be the personal photo album of the hero and heroine. They were all single photos of the two before they went to college, including photos of their birthdays every year during their childhood, as well as photos of important events in elementary school and middle school.
It can be seen from the photos that the heroine Shirley has been learning piano since she was very young. There are many photos of her holding trophies after winning various piano competitions in the album. The hero's hobby is also musical instruments.
I play the violin and often participated in various competitions when I was a child.
Although the two of them had nothing in common when they were young, one was wearing a suit and the other was wearing a small skirt. The photos looked quite good together. However, there were a lot of blank spaces in the second half of the album. I don’t know if there were no photos in the first place or if they were among them.
Some of the photos were taken down?
The second photo album Yu Hanjiang looked through recorded their college days.
The two are not in the same university. Wells is studying at the School of Architecture, and Shirley is a student at the School of Music. This is proven by the photos of the two at the school gate.
Their first group photo was taken with a big stage in the background. Shirley was wearing a beautiful performance dress and Wells was wearing a handsome black tuxedo. The handsome man and beauty stood in front of the piano and took a group photo. At that time, the two of them still maintained a polite distance.
They don't look close, they must have just met.
After that, we took more and more photos together, and gradually we began to hold hands and hug each other.
Yu Hanjiang quickly flipped through the photos of the two of them and searched for other people in the album. Soon, he confirmed the identities of several other people - the ones who took the most photos with the male and female protagonists were the five people invited to the Christmas Eve party.
There are exactly five people's names written on the back of the photo.
Dr. Simon is an alumnus of the male protagonist Wells and graduated from medical school. In the photo, Simon is standing in front of the laboratory building, wearing a white coat and taking a photo with the male protagonist. This man is half a head taller than Wells, has a handsome appearance, and wears a
A pair of silver-framed glasses, looking elegant.
Jack is also a buddy of the male protagonist Wells. The two met in the college basketball club. There is a photo of them wearing jerseys and holding a basketball in the album. Jack's height is almost the same as Wells.
Susan is a classmate of the male protagonist. In the photo, the two of them are holding the golden "Design Competition Trophy" together. It seems that they participated in some competition together and won the award. They are considered working partners.
Martha and Karen are both best friends of the heroine Shirley. The three girls make funny moves, wear clothes of the same color, and carry the same bags. There are several photos of these best friends, and they look like three of them.
Personally, they are as close as sisters and have a very good relationship.
Yu Hanjiang sorted out these key photos and said: "From the perspective of character relationships, among the five people attending the party, two men are friends of Wells, two of the three girls are Shirley's best friends, and one is Shirley's best friend.
Wells’s college classmate and perhaps a business partner.”
Based on the graduation photo of five people found in the study, Xiao Lou said: "They are students of the same class and graduated in the same year. The seven of them took a photo together wearing bachelor's uniforms, which shows that everyone knows each other and has a good relationship."
Photos can only confirm the identity of each person. Who is secretly involved in an emotional entanglement with the male or female protagonist cannot be seen at all. It is not as obvious as the photo of the 2 of Hearts.
Yu Hanjiang said: "All five of them may be the murderer. Let's look at the little girl's graffiti."
Lucia's graffiti drew a picture. On the day of moving, in addition to her parents, a man and a woman came to help. Although the child's graffiti only used a colored pen to draw a rough outline, the body shape was very obvious.
For example, the height difference between her parents in her painting is consistent with reality, with the father being taller than the mother -
Kissed him halfway up his head.
Xiao Lou took out the graffiti and looked at it carefully, and said: "The man who appeared in Lucia's graffiti is half a head taller than her father. From this point of view, Jack can be ruled out first."
Jack is good at playing basketball. In the photo of the two wearing sneakers, he and Wells are exactly the same height.
Since the little girl drew the height difference between her parents, she probably wouldn't have deliberately drawn her uncle to be much taller than her father. According to reasoning, the murderer probably came to the villa on the day of the move and figured out the layout of the villa so that he could advance in advance.
Planning to kill. If Jack had never been to the villa, the suspicion would be much smaller.
Then, the suspicion of the remaining man, Dr. Simon, naturally becomes greater.
He is exactly half a head taller than Wells, and as a doctor, it is easier for him to change the little girl's cold medicine. If he was the murderer, he would stab Shirley to death, strangle Wells, and go to the little girl's room.
If you replace the cold medicine, it will be very easy to kill three people in a row.
Xiao Lou looked at the other woman in the graffiti painting.
She has a slender figure, wears a long red dress, and has big curly hair.
When the little girl was graffiti, she also specially used a golden paintbrush to draw a wavy line on the back of the woman's head to represent her hair.
Wells's female classmate Susan, in the photo, has smart, ear-length hair.
Shirley's two best friends, one has long straight hair and the other has big curly hair - the one with curly hair is called Karen.
As long as the little girl didn't doodle, you can be sure that the people who came to help on the moving day were Dr. Simon and Ms. Karen.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other and said at the same time: "Do you want to choose one of the two murderers?"
Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly: "According to the existing clues, the most reasonable murderer is Dr. Simon. The jewelry collected by the heroine represents an unforgettable person in her heart. The famous book "Lover" found in the study, and "Dream" played in the piano room
"The Wedding", the directionality is very obvious."
Xiao Lou also agreed: "On the male protagonist's side, there is no clue that he has Bai Yueguang in his heart, or that there are other women who admire him. The key should be Shirley. Her treasured necklace is too suspicious.
There are also words like 'Love you forever' written in the jewelry box."
So, the murderer is Dr. Simon?
The teammates looked at each other in confusion, always feeling that the answer wouldn't be that simple based on the gatekeeper's bad character.
The door of the restaurant has not yet been opened. Xiao Lou glanced at the countdown with 20 minutes left and said: "There is still time, so don't rush to conclusions. Let's look for any mechanisms or other clues in the room."
The teammates split up to look for him again.
After 3 minutes, Liu Qiao suddenly said: "There is also a secret door here."
She was responsible for checking the living room just now, but found no useful clues. Then she heard Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang begin to analyze the case. While listening, she knocked on the wall with her hands, but she heard a "dong-dong" sound.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang immediately stepped forward.
The TV background wall in the living room is very large. The position Liu Qiao knocked on was just on the side of the TV wall. The echo of the wooden door was completely different from that of the marble wall. If you look closely, you can find a small keyhole.
The keyhole is the size of a fingernail. If you don't have good eyesight, you won't be able to see it clearly.
Xiao took a step forward and tried to push the door, but it couldn't be pushed open. He glanced across the spacious room - living room, dining room, kitchen. Everyone checked all the drawers and found no keys. There were no keys in the drawers in other rooms.
, everyone should also take the clues that should be collected with them.
Where is the key?
Xiao Lou turned around and looked at the center of the living room.
The teammates followed Xiao Lou's gaze and focused on the two-meter-high Christmas tree in the middle of the room.
Xiao Lou said: "The key should be in the Christmas stocking. Let's find it as soon as possible!"
There were many small socks hung on the Christmas tree. At first everyone thought these were just decorations, but now it seems that the socks may contain the key to another secret door.
When the teammates heard this, they immediately took action.
A large number of chocolate candies were found in the socks on the bottom. Ye Qi could not reach the socks hanging on the top, so he had to ask a taller person for help. Shao Qingge stretched out his long arm, took off the socks on the top, and turned them over.
Open it and take a look - it is indeed a key.
Xiao Lou took the key and opened the secret door.
This is a storage room with five beautifully wrapped gift boxes of different colors placed on the floor. There are many Christmas elements on the wrapping paper, such as snowflakes, Santa Claus, red socks, etc.
Apparently, this was a Christmas gift given to the host by the five people invited to the party on Christmas Eve.
Yu Hanjiang said: "The final clue about the murderer should be here."
There were only 10 minutes left in the countdown. If the murderer could not be found, this time-limited maze would not be completed at all. They walked all the way, turned on the computer, and cracked the password. The speed was fast enough, and they almost did not waste a minute. Guarding the gate
Players should not set a difficulty level that is impossible to complete.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other and said at the same time: "Let's split up."
The five gift boxes were divided into five people's hands, and everyone quickly tore off the exquisite wrapping paper.
However, the moment they tore off the wrapping paper, a scene that shocked everyone appeared——
There are actually five combination locks hanging on the five boxes!
Everyone: “…………”
Can the guardian of diamonds be dragged out and beaten?