PFC Chapter 287 Confusing
Chapter 287 Confusing
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Looking at the scene in the room, Li Changxiao pinched his chin and muttered to himself.
A quick glimpse last night.
When I saw you again today, you had become a corpse.
And died so completely.
Seeing this scene, the official frowned and quickly pushed open the doors of the other two rooms.
As expected, the fifteen men in black were all dead, and their causes of death were almost identical, they all committed suicide by hanging.
It is really rare for such a strange case to happen in such a small inn.
The official thought it was just a gang murder case, but he never expected that there were fifteen bodies hidden on the second floor. He immediately waved his hand and ordered all the soldiers to guard the inn strictly and not let anyone go out.
This case was extremely suspicious. Li Changxiao and other onlookers were forced back into their rooms by the soldiers, and the doors were locked and they were not allowed to leave.
Li Changxiao and the other two never thought that such a strange thing would happen. At this moment, they were sitting in the room, looking at each other in surprise.
The cook frowned slightly, as if thinking about something.
The official then ordered all the bodies to be laid flat and neatly arranged in the corridor, and sent someone to invite the coroner to perform an autopsy.
The coroner was a middle-aged man. After arriving at the scene, he hurriedly drank a sip of courage-boosting wine and immediately began the autopsy.
There were eight men and seven women who died. They were in good health with intact limbs and had never suffered any serious illness or disaster. Some of them had very good looks and seemed to be enjoying wealth and prosperity. They should not have suffered such a disaster.
Observe further.
The eight male corpses seemed to be of similar age and of medium build. Judging from the appearance of the bodies, their eyeballs were bulging and congested, and the cause of death should be suffocation. However, there were some unreasonable features, such as no sign of struggle on the part of the deceased before suffocation.
This is roughly the initial information we have learned.
The coroner went downstairs again to examine the pool of blood and mud. He had a frown on his face and cold sweat on his forehead. He had never seen such a corpse in his entire life. It was extremely tragic. All the bones and flesh had been chopped into meat paste by thousands of cuts. It was impossible to tell who the victim was.
At this time, a soldier came to report that a furtive man was found outside the Meirenxiang Inn. The official ordered someone to bring him in. He was frightened of his authority and glared at the man. He saw that the man was dressed luxuriously, had a remarkable temperament, and had an arrogant look on his face. He did not look like a criminal.
So the officials asked for his information, and found out that he had some background, but was also closely related to the case, so they took him to the inn.
The officials deduced that there was a high chance that the criminal was hiding in the inn, and it was even possible that everyone in the inn committed the crime collectively!
At this moment, he inferred in his mind:
Fifteen people came to this inn last night.
He ordered an extremely sumptuous meal and accidentally revealed his wealth, which attracted the covetousness of everyone in the inn.
So, at the same time, they had evil intentions and used incense to knock out all fifteen people, and then made it look like they had committed suicide by hanging.
As for the corpse in the lobby on the first floor, he was hacked to death by everyone because he did not share the spoils equally or he regretted it halfway.
Only in this way can we explain the tragic death of this person.
The officials inferred this in their minds and felt that it was reasonable and the truth of the case was about to be solved.
In fact, it’s not his fault.
In today's world, most cases are solved like this. Evidence is only auxiliary. The key is to sound reasonable and rational.
Next, the official interrogated everyone one by one. He did not take everyone in the inn back to the city’s prison, but interrogated them on the spot.
Fifteen rooms were opened at the Xiangmei Inn last night. Excluding those fifteen people, there were about twenty-three people checking in. Including the elegant man who had just been discovered, there were a total of twenty-four people.
Ask one by one.
There were only six people who were the most likely suspects of the crime, and unfortunately, Li Changxiao, Mei Sanniang and the cook were among them, and they were the focus of attention because two men and one woman living in the same room was extremely suspicious no matter how you looked at it.
The key point is that the official asked them to explain the reasons. Two of the men explained that they were poor, while the extremely coquettish-looking woman said that she wanted to play some three-person games. This sentence aroused the official's imagination at the time.
When he came to his senses, he shouted loudly. It was obvious that these three people had something to hide and they had not even coordinated their statements in advance.
The innkeeper also said that the three men behaved suspiciously in the inn and were observing others during meals, and it was obvious that they had ulterior motives.
Finally, after the three were questioned, they were sent back to the room.
Li Changxiao was speechless for a while.
Mei Sanniang giggled and the cook remained silent.
The other three suspects are an old man, a woman and a child.
The old man looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with calluses on his hands. An axe was found in the room. He said that at his age, he was just a woodcutter. The official actually believed him, but not completely, because in this day and age, there are still people in their seventies or eighties who are still alive and well.
"The first woman" is a beautiful woman, well-known in the neighborhood, nicknamed Daoji. She was cheated by a heartless man in her early years, and now she dislikes men, especially good-looking ones. The shopkeeper described that she arrived at the inn almost at the same time as the fifteen people last night.
The woman nicknamed Knife Girl stared straight at Li Changxiao, her eyes filled with murderous intent that was barely concealed, as if she was going to chop him with a knife in the next second.
The things that Li Changxiao has encountered recently are stranger than the last.
The last "little one" was a young man who looked like he was displeased with everyone.
There are six suspects here.
As for the rest, they are not innocent either, but they are less likely to be suspected.
Li Changxiao, Mei Sanniang and the cook decided to make the best of it and wanted to see whether the official could solve the case and how he would solve it.
By comparing the guest list, the officials finally found out that the man who was turned into meat paste was actually a very famous young man in the neighborhood.
He was the last person to enter the inn last night. This discovery somewhat shook his previous guess, and according to previous interrogations, the reason why the elegant man appeared in the inn was to meet the young man who had been reduced to a pulp.
Both of them came from wealthy families and invited each other to travel around the world. The place where they met was this inn. The elegant man arrived in the evening, but had a friction with a table of people in the inn. He was angry and left. For the sake of face, he refused to come back to live there, so he thought of waiting until the next day and returning to the inn early.
But unexpectedly, the old friend was not found, but turned into a pool of meat paste.
With in-depth investigation.
The case, which was thought to be clear, became confusing again.
Fifteen dead men in black.
The young man turned into meat paste.
......
What is the connection between the two?
The official frowned in thought. It was already getting dark after a day of investigation. He was eager to solve the case, so he did not return to the city and stayed at the inn.
All tenants were locked in the house, and the bodies were left where they were.
The proprietress smoked a jade pipe, puffing out clouds of smoke under the moonlight outside the window.
She glanced at the cook. This case...might not be simple.