"Antique? Is it very valuable?"
The doctor asked casually while examining the corpse, and Xia De, who was checking the blood around him, followed suit. The rain was very loud, and the three of them had to raise their voices in communication.
Silver tableware is still a status symbol in this era. In adventure novels, maids often elope with their lovers, taking away the master's silver tableware in exchange for travel and living expenses. If the silver tableware is still an antique, it will be even more valuable.
"Very valuable. Even if a noble of the earl's level owns these two sets of silver tableware, they can be used as family heirlooms."
Miss Louisa once again demonstrated the "useless knowledge" she possessed, most likely she learned it from another princess.
Xia De turned his head and asked:
"That's strange. Didn't the doctor's investigation say that this factory owner is just an agent holding Tobesk's property for [Blood of Mercury]? He should not be rich himself."
Then he looked suspiciously at the boy's body, and he made an inference:
"Could it be that......"
"It's hard to say for the time being, let's move on."
The doctor restored the body to its original position, prayed softly for the boy amidst the sound of rain beating on the glass, and signaled to the other two to leave.
After leaving the kitchen, Bloodstain turned back to the living room and walked towards the stairs.
There was a very cruel scene on the stairs. The corpses of the old woman and the middle-aged housewife hugged each other. Viscous blood dripped down the carpet on the stairs, making it almost impossible for the three of them to find a place to stay.
Mr. Schneider checked and found that the two had no obvious external wounds, and the blood seemed to flow from their mouths.
"It's kind of like a curse."
Miss Louisa judged, and the doctor also nodded:
"I also think it was a curse caused by thaumaturgy. After entering the door, I killed the maid with a knife, then went into the kitchen and killed the little boy, and when I turned back to the living room, I met two ladies who came down the stairs, and immediately used spells or thaumaturgy. Let them vomit blood and die...the murderer is a ring magician, there is no need to doubt it."
Xia De looked around vigilantly to prevent something from escaping from the darkness, and then he was startled by the explosion of thunder again:
"If there is any abnormality, remember to remind me in time."
He whispered in his heart.
【no problem. 】
The whispering voice replied.
Probably because of the excessive bleeding from the two corpses, the murderer finally got the boots covered with blood here. The bloodstains are very faint, and it still depends on Xia De's eyes to distinguish them. The bloodstains on the boots only went upstairs, not downstairs.
The two people who examined the body made new discoveries. In the neck of the middle-aged housewife, the doctor found a string of pearl necklaces. According to Miss Louisa's on-the-spot valuation, the necklace is worth at least 3,000 pounds.
"It's definitely not jewelry that the factory owner can afford."
Xia De said, and then the three continued to walk upstairs.
No one proposed to take away the pearl necklace or the silver tableware just now. They were neither robbers nor thieves. Although breaking into the crime scene on this rainy night destroyed the clues, doctors, writers and outsiders all had their own bottom line.
Xia De didn't know what to say to this cruel scene. After the examination, the doctor knelt down beside the corpse and prayed for her. Only then did Xia De know that Dr. Bill Schneider believed in the righteous **** [Lord of All Things], that is, 【The God of Nature and Evil Thoughts】.
The scope of this righteous god's clergy includes "death". When Xia De first came to this world, the corpse transporter who took away the corpse of Detective Sparrow had the holy emblem of this righteous god.
Miss Louisa is already suppressing her anger:
"This is too cruel, who the **** did such a thing?"
If they could find the killer, Goldilocks probably wouldn't show mercy.
Amidst the gradually raging rain outside, a group of three followed the light of the silver moon at Xia De's fingertips, and entered the three bedrooms on the second floor one after another. The murderer seemed to be looking for something, but there was no sign of stopping.
The blood trail then led them to the third floor, the top floor of the house except for the attic. The windows facing the stairs on the third floor were actually open, and the rain was blowing into the corridor along with the wind, and the wind kept blowing the curtains. This scene was especially weird on this rainy summer night.
"The blood trail extended down the corridor, but another blood trail extended and disappeared near the window."
Shad provides the information he saw.
"After the murderer entered the third floor, he did something inside, and then left through the window?"
Miss Louisa stood behind Xia De and deduced that after entering the house, although there was no prior consultation, the doctor had always followed Xia De, and the female writer was at the end.
The doctor approached the window cautiously and looked out. It was pitch black in the rainy night, and even the lights of nearby blocks could not penetrate the rain curtain. Such heavy rain would wash away the blood, and Xia De could not continue to follow him from the window.
"Go to the third floor first and see what he did."
said the doctor, glancing at the window-sill with a frown, and then winking at Miss Louisa. Miss Louisa immediately understood what he meant, so she wanted to wink at Xia De, but she didn't expect that Xia De had already shown the expression of "so it was such a trick".
Goldilocks smiled at him. The murderer had clearly underestimated what Shad's "eyes" could see.
Follow the blood trail to the third floor, turn into the study, and finally find the body of the male owner of the house, Mr. Ponton who runs the screw factory.
The gas lamp on the wall of the study room was off, but the gas lamp on the table was on, just to illuminate the corpse.
Mr. Ponton, in his homey loose shirt, was sitting behind his desk, slumped over the table. Xia De stood at the door of the study, Miss Louisa went to check the papers on the table, and the doctor checked the corpse:
"It's different from the cause of death downstairs~www.mtlnovel.com~ It should be that the brain was crushed by the spell [Brain Smash], I noticed the marks on his forehead, this principle is similar to the spell [Corpse Explosion] The technique is very famous. That way, no one will know what's inside the dead man's head unless he's psychic. What's on the table?"
"Ledger."
Miss Louisa said.
Raindrops hit the window, thunder rumbled overhead, Shad at the door suddenly looked to the other side of the corridor:
"I seem to see a figure!"
"Shadow? Be careful, don't be impulsive."
The doctor frowned and walked towards the door of the study, wanting to go to the end of the corridor with Xia De to have a look, while Miss Louisa continued to look down at the documents on the desktop.
Lightning flashed across the sky, before the thunder came, in the study room illuminated by the lightning, a figure of a man holding a dagger quietly appeared behind Miss Louisa.
He raised his sharp dagger at the female writer's back.