Chapter 404 Sword Dance
Su Xinghuo said: "Receptionist, can you describe the scene when you opened the door in the morning?"
"After going down and using the key to open the door, I heard a rattling sound coming from behind the door. Only then did I realize that the movement of opening the door ripped off the talisman attached to the upper edge of the door frame."
"How long did the noise last? Is it loud?"
"Four or five breaths. It's not particularly noisy, but it's enough to wake up a sleeping person. It can be heard at the end of the aisle."
"good."
Su Xinghuo nodded and said: "Yuan Jia mentioned to me that all the talismans he pasted on the door frame were low-level talismans, the paper was thin and fragile, and the adhesive on the back was very sticky.
Once someone opens the door, the talisman will be triggered.
Before he goes out by himself, he will paste a sheet on the door frame, and let the talisman stick it by himself with the force of closing the door.
Before going to bed at night, I will also paste one. "
"That is to say, someone will not steal the key, open the door, and kill the awakened heir king with the noise of talismans."
The guest of the Prince's Mansion, Sikong Qiu, nodded thoughtfully, "Then how did the murderer do it?"
"There are more than one suspicious points in the room. Please take a look."
Su Xinghuo came to the left side of the big bed, "Due to the strong wind and waves last night, the ship was shaking, Yuan Jia used the four belts hanging on both sides of the bed in order to fall asleep.
He crossed the straps over the bunk and secured himself,
Keep yourself from rocking back and forth and falling out of bed after falling asleep. This design is basically available in the rooms on the upper deck.
In addition, there is a large puddle of water stains on the ground to the left of the bed that has not evaporated completely.
The water stains are mixed with blood, and judging from the dried traces on the edges of the water stains, it has been in the room for a long time. "
"Could it be ice cubes for cooling?"
Businessman Wu Yunjun of Zhou State asked: "The windows of King Si's room cannot be opened. It will inevitably be stuffy at night, so I took a piece of ice and put it on the ground."
"Not too possible."
Li Ang shook his head and said: "The cooling wind amulet on the wall is still in effect, and the temperature in the room has been kept at around 17 or 8 degrees since yesterday, which is cool enough. There is no need to put ice cubes in the room.
What's more, even if you want to put ice cubes, the normal method should be to put ice cubes in the porcelain basin, and then put a towel under the porcelain basin to prevent condensation on the surface of the porcelain basin, wet the wooden floor, and cause mildew. "
"The kettle is on the table far away from the bed, and there are no cups on the bedside table. It is unlikely that Yuan Jia spilled it by himself."
Su Xinghuo shook his head, then pointed to the clock hanging on the wall, "This clock is a vertical cabinet clock, the dial is damaged, and it stays at the correct time.
No signs of being dialed up or dialed back inside. There were many bloodstains on the glass cover.
Nothing that broke the clock was found at the scene,"
"Could it be an agency?"
Singer Shi Yajing said: "I heard that some clocks will pop up a wooden time-telling bird after the alarm time is reached.
Perhaps the murderer modified the clock and set up a mechanism in the clock. Once it reaches the ugly hour, something like an ice throwing knife will pop out and kill the heir king who happened to be fixed on the bed by a belt. "
"It has been checked, and there is no authority."
Su Xinghuo shook his head, "Also, if there is really a violently launched drone inside the clock, then the fragments of the glass cover should be scattered outside.
But now there are many fragments falling inside the clock.
Explain that the glass cover of the clock was damaged from the outside. "
"Could it be that King Si knew that he was going to be killed, so he smashed the clock before he died to remind us of the time when he was killed?"
Talisman Dai Xu muttered.
"Well what's that?"
Fei Lian noticed some brown bright spots on the ceiling, squinted his eyes and asked.
The receptionist explained: “It is common for a ship to encounter wind and waves when sailing at sea. In order to prevent the bed from sliding around and causing harm to passengers, we use screws and nuts to penetrate the wooden boards to fix the bed in place.
As for the lighter tables and chairs, they are fixed with nails.
Your room also has this design. "
There are eight bolts in total, corresponding to the four feet of the bed in the upstairs room.
The captain moved the chair, put it on the bed, and stepped on the chair to turn the bolts. They were all firm and showed no sign of loosening.
Li Ang thought for a while and asked, "Is the upstairs room No. 3?"
The captain nodded and said: "Yes. The upstairs cabins are lined with rooms 1 to 6. Due to the curvature of the hull deck, there is no room 6. The upper floor is the deck."
"Can we go to room three?"
Li Ang asked: "Maybe the residents upstairs heard something last night?"
There was nothing wrong with this request. The captain led the crowd to the upper floor and knocked on the wooden door of Room 3.
"Who is it?"
A middle-aged man with a tall and straight figure and a sling on his arm came out. Seeing everyone was a little surprised, "Captain? Why are you here?"
"This is the sword dancer on the ship, Chen Qiwei. You should have seen it."
The captain introduced.
Chen Qiwei studied under the largest sword dance club in the state of Zhou. Although he is not a body-training martial artist, the sword dance he knows can be said to be as graceful as a dragon, smooth and frustrating, much more handsome than those body-training classmates in the academy.
Unfortunately, a few days ago, there was an aristocratic boy from the Jing Kingdom who wanted to show off in front of the girl he liked. He insisted on challenging Chen Qiwei because of his power.
Chen Qiwei's sword skills were far superior to the opponent's, but due to his power, he had to keep his hands everywhere, deliberately making himself look like a poor move, lost the competition, and was finally hit by the opponent's sword hilt on the wrist, within half a month. Can't perform.
The captain asked: "Can we come in and have a look?"
"sure."
Chen Qiwei nodded, and opened the door to let everyone into the room.
The walls of the room are covered with all kinds of swords, including the Eight-faced Han Sword, the Fish Gut Dagger, the Loin-wrapped Soft Sword, and the Needle-like Thin Sword—passengers can name which kind of sword Chen Qiwei will perform dance.
"How's the wrist?"
The captain glanced at the swords all over the wall, asked casually, went straight to the window, opened the window with the handle, and looked up and down through the window.
"It's okay, the doctor said that it will recover in half a month."
Chen Qiwei paused for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "I just can't exercise strenuously, so I have to eat some island food to relieve my mood."
"Like those mussels, right?"
The captain nodded understandingly. Banzi Island is located in the endless sea, and there are many marine creatures that are not monsters but have some abnormalities in the surrounding waters.
For example, a carnivorous mussel has extremely strong muscles that can break the shells of other types of mussels by vibrating the shell at high frequencies. Mussels the size of a palm can crush even steel.
The residents of the island like to use it for sashimi. Li Ang was thinking about whether he could introduce this species and use it to make a vibrating screen for mining, or an ultrasonic cleaner for cleaning glasses.
Su Xinghuo asked Chen Qiwei: "Chen Jianshi, when did you sleep last night? Did you hear any abnormal noises? For example, someone was hanging down from the deck through a rope. Or the sound of fighting or screaming came from the room downstairs. The sound of a clock smashing."
"Sorry, I fell asleep at about the same time, I don't know what happened."
Chen Qiwei shook his head and said: "As for the sound, because I fell asleep, I don't know if there is any.
Are you investigating the death of the King of Zhou? I heard about it.
May wish to ask the residents of the island?
Last night was the bonfire festival, and many people who stayed on the island were keeping vigil while drinking.
The current Sea Charm uses amulet lights, which are also bright at night.
The residents of the island should be able to see if anyone is hanging from the deck by rope, or throwing any murder weapon into the sea. "
(end of this chapter)