PFC Chapter 3043 Mercury Notes (29)
Chapter 3043 Mercury Notes (29)
Chapter 3043 Mercury Record (Twenty-nine)
Schiller arrived at the door of the classroom where the incident happened.
This is a very long corridor, but there are not that many rooms, because the left side of the corridor is the distribution room of this entire floor. The distribution room is very large, which results in there being only three doors on the left side, namely the front and back doors of the distribution room and a door to the utility room.
There are two classrooms on the right side, one larger and one smaller, occupying two-thirds and one-third of the area respectively.
At both ends of the corridor, there is a staircase on one side and an elevator on the other.
This structure is very strange compared to modern buildings, but after all, this is the Mercury base, and it is a Mercury base designed by Stark. The high technical content means that apart from the technical content, it does not contain anything else, so the building structure may be a bit strange.
The main thing is that this thing is not actually built entirely for living people. The main force working on Mercury by Marvel is still robots, and most of the rooms only conform to machine logic. The machine logic is naturally that the straighter the better, which leads to the structure becoming like this.
The man died in the small classroom.
When Schiller arrived, several professors and another group of students were already waiting in the classroom.
This is not originally a classroom, but a laboratory. The so-called large classroom is the main body of the laboratory, and the small classroom is the observation room, so there is a piece of glass between the two.
Now standing in the large classroom, he could see the situation in the small classroom. Schiller walked through the crowd to the glass and saw a light blue-skinned humanoid creature dead against the wall opposite the glass.
The cause of death was obvious. There was an obvious penetrating wound on her chest, which went directly through her heart. A large amount of blood flowed out of the wound, and the body lay in a pool of blood.
That was an Atlantean.
Arthur was explaining to other students the types of people in Atlantis. Schiller listened briefly and understood that they could basically be categorized into three types.
The ancient Atlanteans have completely become extinct, but there are indeed some that are similar to the ancient species that have survived. They are usually the product of inbreeding, look similar to humans, and most of them can use ancient divine powers. This population is sparse, and there may be only a few hundred of them in all of Atlantis.
The second type is a hybrid of Atlanteans and humans like Arthur. After all, humans have occupied the continent for so many years, and the sea people can't avoid dealing with them. Even if they oppose intermarriage with humans, it is difficult to completely ban hybrids like Arthur, who can live both in the sea and on land, and have a relatively small population.
Among the Atlanteans, the most mixed-race people are those of ancient Atlantis and sea people. Back then, when Atlantis sank into the sea, the territories of various sea people were the closest to the sunken Atlantis. Naturally, those who are close to the water will get the moon first. The majority of the residents of Atlantis are such mixed-race people.
And because most of the indigenous sea people look rather strange, the main residents also look all kinds of things: some have a human body and a fish tail, some have a human body and a snake tail, some have scales, some have gills, some carry a turtle shell on their backs, and their skin can be blue, green, yellow, black, or purple. It is really varied.
The Atlantean who died this time was a mixed-race of the sea people. He had light blue skin and ears that looked like fish fins. However, he did not have a fish tail, but instead had legs like humans. According to the gender classification of the sea people, he was a female.
According to Arthur, her name was Bonu, and she happened to be the daughter of a sea general in the territory of his fiancée Mera. She had always been an excellent student, especially good at controlling water. This time, she stood out in the Atlantis selection and came to the Mercury base to study.
Bruce then gave more details.
The bodies of sea creatures are different from those of humans, so it is impossible to judge the time of injury through rigor mortis. Even if the corpse is left here, it will not become stiff.
However, according to Arthur, the blood of the sea creatures takes about twice as long to coagulate as that of humans. That is to say, at normal room temperature, the coagulation time is about 20 to 30 minutes.
When Bruce and his team arrived, the blood had not completely coagulated, but it was close to coagulation, which meant that the victim was killed 20 to 30 minutes ago.
The camera in the room was broken.
It was not caused by external force, nor was it damaged parts. Bruce then checked and found that there was a short circuit in the internal circuit. The failure was estimated to have occurred an hour ago.
In other words, the surveillance camera in the room did not capture what happened in the room within that hour.
The surveillance cameras outside the room and in the corridor and stairwell can only capture the situation on the side of the large classroom door, and cannot see what is happening at the door of the small classroom where the crime scene occurred.
The surveillance camera in the elevator can capture what happens in the elevator and at the door of the small classroom, but once the elevator door is closed, the door of the small classroom cannot be captured.
The time it takes for the elevator to naturally open its door when it arrives at the station is 20 seconds. That is to say, you can capture what happens at the classroom door within 20 seconds of the elevator arriving at the station and opening the door, but you cannot capture it when the door is closed.
Everyone in Schiller's classroom had a good alibi, but the remaining half of the people happened to be attending Victor's physics activity class today.
The content of the activity class is to explore pressure and deformation. Victor requires each student to find an object that they think is the hardest within 20 minutes after the start of the class, and the scope is not limited to the classroom.
In other words, the students are like pigs released from a cage. They can go back to the dormitory to get it, look for it in the laboratory, or even ask the professor for it. In short, it will disappear once the door is opened.
This floor was naturally within the students' search range, but because it was far away from Victor's classroom, most students did not come here to search.
Since there is a majority, there must be a small portion. According to other surveillance cameras, there were still a few people who came, including the victim Bonu.
The remaining ones are Claude, a student at Gotham Academy of Magic, Ted the Blue Beetle, a young superhero, Gonzalez, a Mexican guy, LaLali, a pair of Atlantis sisters, and Zan, Jenna's brother.
Now these people have been taken aside separately.
The surveillance camera in the elevator showed that Bonu got out of the elevator and entered the small classroom. She was the first person to arrive on this floor, but the others were not slow either, arriving a few minutes later.
After hearing this, Schiller had a basic concept.
First of all, there are actually blind spots for surveillance in this long corridor - when the elevator door is closed, nothing can be captured at the door of the small classroom.
In addition, the camera in the small classroom was broken, so there was no surveillance from the door to the inside.
But theoretically, there are no blind spots in monitoring.
Because if you come up the stairs, you will definitely be photographed by the surveillance camera in the stairwell, and if you come up by the elevator, you will definitely be photographed by the surveillance camera in the elevator.
In other words, both ways of going up and down the stairs can actually capture people in photos, and there is no way to sneak into this corridor quietly.
Of course, it is possible that magicians used teleportation before, but because a student from the magic academy got himself stuck in the wall because he was unfamiliar with the terrain of the base and was disturbed by other energies in the base, teleportation is strictly prohibited in the entire base.
Although verbal bans are useless, after all, except for the camera in the small classroom, the cameras in other places are not broken. If you want to teleport, there must be a starting point, and the camera at the starting point will take a picture of you.
The entire base is staffed by AI stewards who will sound the alarm if a camera detects you teleporting, but no alarm was heard within an hour.
However, when the elevator door is closed, the door of the small classroom is indeed a blind spot, so there may be other blind spots in the base. This requires all students to provide proof of their alibi that they are not in the surveillance blind spots.
According to the report of the artificial intelligence butler, all students did not enter any blind spots of surveillance during the time of the incident. They were all active within the surveillance of the base and no one was teleported.
That’s why surveillance is so good. It can basically eliminate the suspicion of most students.
In fact, if the surveillance in the corridor and the classroom is working properly, the people who came to this floor should have an alibi.
But the surveillance camera in the small classroom was broken, and these people had entered the small classroom.
In fact, there is no special reason. It’s just that the classrooms on this floor are not used and there are a lot of sundries in them. Most students know this, and they think there are a lot of things here and they should be able to find something that satisfies them, so they take turns to look through them.
Bonu was the first to arrive, so she went into the small classroom to look around first, and then she went to the large classroom to look around. Maybe she didn't find anything satisfactory in the large classroom, so she went back to the small classroom.
Among the suspects, Blue Beetle, Atlantis sisters and Jenna's brother Zan all went to the large classroom after getting out of the elevator. After searching, they didn't go to the small classroom at all, but went directly out of the stairs at the other end.
Claude and Gonzalez followed the same route as Bono, first entering the small classroom and then the large classroom. However, neither of them accompanied Bono back to the small classroom. Instead, they took the elevator and left after coming out of the large classroom.
Anyway, to put it simply, no one's route of action exactly overlapped with Bono's. They each described their own ideas for finding items and the items they found, and after inspection, no problems were found.
The timelines of everyone's statements matched, and their encounters or departures could corroborate each other. They also matched the surveillance footage in the classroom or corridor.
This means that a famous scene has occurred, that is, the closed room murder case.
Some people may ask, didn't Gonzalez and Claude also enter the small classroom? How can this be considered a murder in a closed room?
But the problem is, after they went in, they left before Bono. The elevator surveillance camera also captured them getting on the elevator. All their movements after getting on the elevator can be traced, and there is no possibility of returning.
In other words, after they left, this small classroom became a secret room.
Someone may ask, when they entered the elevator and the door closed, the camera inside the elevator could not capture the entrance to the classroom, and we don't know if anyone went in.
The problem is that the elevator is occupied at the moment. If anyone wants to enter the corridor, they have to take the stairs. There are cameras in the stairwell, so if someone enters the corridor from here, they will be photographed.
In other words, the scope of the secret room is not just the small classroom, but the corridor connecting this classroom.
Of course, it is possible that someone used invisibility magic, but don't forget that there were no ordinary people present. Except for the Mexican guy who was a human, the others all had some special skills.
Among them, Claude himself is a magician, and just like the principle of the Stand User, he can feel it if someone uses magic at such a close distance.
And he happened to be the last person to see Bono, which means that before that, if someone used magic, he could feel it.
Besides, just like teleportation magic, you also need a place to cast the spell when you become invisible and disappear, and it may cause the surveillance footage of your activities to be incoherent, and it can be seen that you disappeared for a period of time, which will be immediately discovered by the artificial intelligence butler.
But all other students did not have such problems. The surveillance footage of them was continuous, and they did not appear outside the surveillance range for even a second.
This is very interesting, Schiller thought, these cases are more complicated than he imagined.
What’s different from the past is that the complexity does not lie in the condition of the body, but in the fact that the entire timeline process has not encountered such a traditional murder case for a long time.