Whispering Poems

Chapter 620

The sheriff and Shad met on the temporarily empty stairs to prevent anyone from seeing Shad.And the tall, slender, shrewd middle-aged man took Xia De's certificate and checked it, and immediately stood at attention:
"What's your problem? Can we help you?"

MI[-] belongs to the establishment of the Royal Army and is not a system with the police.However, when the MI[-] agents are in action, the low-level policemen must provide cooperation. Although the sheriff is higher than the police officer, he is also a low-level policeman.

"This murder is related to what I am investigating. I need to know something about this case and identify the murderer as soon as possible before I can proceed to the next step."

Xia De said that the sheriff was a little embarrassed:
"The case is not complicated. It was originally suspected that it was part of the recent serial murder case of stealing internal organs. That's why so many people were brought in. However, the body is intact, with only a gunshot wound and a knife wound. It should not be recent. that matter."

The security situation in Fort Midhill is really worrying.

"However, there are too many tenants on the fourth floor. At present, we have simply screened the possible perpetrators and screened out 21 possible murderers. If you want to do it as soon as possible."

"Where is the crime scene?"

Xia De asked directly, this kind of resolute approach made the sheriff's trust in him even more:

"In the chamber of the dead."

"Take me to have a look. In addition, temporarily dismiss other people. I don't want too many people to see me."

"clear."

The sheriff asked the police to take the 21 suspicious tenants to another room to wait temporarily.He took Xia De to the room with the "11" metal plaque.

The rooms on the third floor of the Xikar Hotel are a large room divided into small rooms with poor privacy, while the fourth floor is a real single room, but it is as small as the guest room in the Three Cats Hotel.Desks, bedside tables, wardrobes and beds almost fill up the entire room.The room was clean and there was no peculiar smell. The windows and curtains were closed tightly, and the flower-shaped gas lamp on the wall was lighting up at this time.

"What are you doing with the curtains in broad daylight? There is no taller building nearby."

Shade thought to himself.

The deceased was still lying on the ground, but had been covered with a white cloth.Xia De opened it and took a look, the bullet directly hit the heart from the front, which was the cause of the fatality.There was also a knife wound on the shoulder, and it looked like there had been a struggle here before the shooting.

"Look, that's a typical Carson Rick look."

The shrewd looking middle-aged sheriff commented.

"What is his identity?"

"We just briefly checked his luggage and found his identity certificate. Mr. Thales, the innkeeper, also proved that the other party has lived here since the beginning of the Harvest Moon. He claimed to be a businessman from the south and came to Midhill. Fort waiting for a shipment."

Xia De nodded, and then searched the room pretendingly.With that bleeding knife wound, he could actually use [Blood Echo] to find the real murderer directly, but he still has to pretend.

Originally it was just a perfunctory search, but the sheriff behind him dutifully introduced to Xia De, so Xia De also had to pretend to be serious.

The Carson Rik merchant's luggage was very simple, consisting of personal clothes, a few novels, and a Rhodes card.Also noteworthy are tickets to the local "Three Lords of the Stars Club" and a return ticket from Fort Midhill to Carson Rick, included in the book.He has already purchased the ticket for next Tuesday, which is the first day of next month, in advance, presumably he already knows the time to pick up the goods.

"Does the hotel owner know when this person usually goes out and when he comes back?"

Xia De asked again, and the sheriff looked through his notebook:
"He usually goes downstairs for breakfast at [-] and then goes out. Comes back at [-] for lunch and then takes a nap. He usually doesn't go out in the afternoon, either stays in his room or finds someone downstairs to play cards. Dinner in the evening After that, sometimes I go out, and once I go out, I don’t come back to spend the night.”

"Life is easy."

Shad said, and then took out the other party's wallet from the overcoat on the chair.Black leather, looks ordinary.The police hadn't checked this yet, and Shad opened it in front of the sheriff.

Inside were notes and coins of about £3, and several business cards written in Kasenlik, belonging to the deceased himself, the law firm and the warehouse.In addition, there are the train tickets when the other party came to Fort Midhill and a few casino chips.The ticket was punched to indicate it was used, and the chips came from a casino not far from here.

"He goes out every night, doesn't he just go to the casino?"

Xia De muttered, reaching into the other pocket of the coat again, and took out a pair of gray gloves.Checking the breast pocket, this time produced a new-looking pocket watch, a few coins, a handwritten receipt for the pocket watch purchase, and a pen.

Open the watch cover, there is a photo of a woman embedded inside, probably the wife of the other party.

"It looks normal."

Then he casually picked up the fountain pen, brass in color, about as long as Shade's middle finger, but no more than one-third of the thickness.It was okay after a glance, but suddenly stunned:
"Why does this pen look so familiar?"

[Of course it looks familiar, you have used thaumaturgy on it, and you can recognize the trace. 】

This is the pen that Xia De took over from Virgil Cameron on the night of the Dacheng Players final.The pen was later passed on to Gray Gloves' intelligence system by Shad in exchange for 2000 pounds.After half a month, he actually saw him here again.

Pretending to check the pen, make sure that the filaments and paper strips in the cap of the pen are gone.If Xia De hadn't touched it with his own hands, or even used [Breath of Time], even if the appearance of the pen was exactly the same, he would not have believed that there would be such a coincidence.

"Did Detective Sparrow cast some kind of curse on me? Why do I always bump into gray gloves?"

He thought about it in astonishment, but buckled the pen normally on the surface and put it back to its original place.

【There is no such curse on you. 】

So this so-called "merchant" who died was the consignee who received the information from the Principality of Set and came to Punjab Street to pick up the goods.As for the date of receiving the goods, Xia De remembered clearly that it was the last day of this month, which was next Monday.That's why the deceased bought the ticket for the first day of the next month in advance, that is, the next Tuesday; so that the deceased had time to wander around the casino instead of acting like a normal businessman.

"But what does that have to do with me?"

Xia De thought in his heart, stuffed all these things back into his clothes, and then said to the sheriff:

"Let's take a look in the corridor."

He blinked his eyes, trying to forget that he recognized the pen just now, then followed the faint bloodstain left by the knife wound, watched the trace fly all the way out the door, then turned around in the corridor, and turned into the next room on the left .

"The murderer was his neighbor."

Xia De said very calmly, although the police chief was surprised by the reason for Xia De's conclusion, he didn't ask any further questions seeing his calm appearance.

As long as the murderer is found, there are ways to get the other party to tell all the details.

"Who lives on the opposite side of him, and on the left and right sides of him?"

Shad asked standing in the corridor.

"The opposite is a professor of linguistics from the south, Professor Ruhr Higgins. He just lived here last week, and he came to visit Fort Midhill. That professor is also one of the suspects. One, but it doesn't look like a murderer."

It wasn't folklore that disappointed Xia De, but if it was really folklore, he would have to worry about whether this matter had anything to do with the ring warlock.

"However, it's actually a Carson Riker again?"

Shad now looks at all the Carson Rikers as gray-gloved agents.

"There are two people living in the room on the right, Armand Bernhard and his nephew Lester Bernhard. They are also from Carsonrick, and they came to Midhill Castle to join their relatives in the area. This is easy to find out. In addition, the two of them are not on the fourth floor now, they went out in the morning, so the suspicion can be ruled out."

"Bernhard?"

These two names are the names of the two vampires encountered in [Life and Death], so they are definitely not gray gloves agents.

"Fortunately, I went out, so I don't have to meet face to face."

Xia De felt a little grateful in his heart, and then asked:
"What about the one on the left?"

"The one on the left is Mr. Bain Bennett, also a businessman from Carson Rik, who has lived in the hotel for half a year."

Carson Rick again, and happens to be a murderer, so it's possible he was
"It has nothing to do with me."

Xia De suppressed distracting thoughts, emphasized again in his heart, and then said to the sheriff:

"The murderer is likely to be him."

Now that Mr. Bennett is being locked in another room with other suspects. Those people have great opinions and are unwilling to be restricted in their personal freedom, but the sheriff pretends not to hear. Except for Professor Higgins, there are also No one whose status is noteworthy.

"Are there so many foreigners here?"

He pretended to ask casually.

"In winter, the trains passing through Mount West will also be affected and the number of trains will be reduced, so if people need to travel back and forth between the two countries this year, they will choose to do it as much as possible in autumn."

The sheriff said that they opened the foreign businessman's room, and then Xia De pretended to check it again, and easily found a bloody dagger and two pistols of different models under the loose floor under the bed.

"Someone actually went out with two pistols? It turns out that the receiver did not carry a weapon to prevent exposure, and was protected by other people who came here half a year earlier with guns, so the murderer was also. But why did he shoot the internal strife?"

Detective Sparrow knew that there was an important mission in Harvest Moon half a year in advance, indicating that the Principality of Set and Gray Gloves had an early communication, so Gray Gloves might have known in advance that the delivery location was Fort Midhill.But the specific location was not passed on by the "grey-headed eagle" in the Harvest Moon until the goods were obtained by the Principality of Sete.Therefore, it is not a loophole that people with gray gloves can live in the local area half a year in advance.

"After so much trouble, what exactly is the goods being delivered?"

Although this is a question, it has nothing to do with Xia De. Xia De did not investigate, and he can no longer get involved with the spies.

So he didn't show up again, but the sheriff announced to everyone that the murderer had been found.Mr. Ben Bennett, who still wanted to quibble, admitted dejectedly after seeing the evidence that he did it himself:
"I played Rhodes with him. This guy owed me 3 pounds for a week. He said he would pay it back today, but when I went to him, he refused to admit it. I was furious."

For Xia De, who had almost touched the truth, this must be a lie, but he did not expose it.

Mr. Bennett was taken away by the police, and he and the part of the deceased's luggage that could serve as evidence were also taken away by the police.Because he and the deceased had no acquaintances in the local area, he temporarily handed over the remaining luggage to Professor Higgins, who lived opposite Kaserik, for safekeeping, and waited until the police found a contact person before taking it away.

The deceased, the murderer, and Professor Higgins were all from Carson Riker, and the relationship between the three was very good. Shade understood that there were many stories in it, but he still didn't choose to intervene.

No matter what the goods to be picked up are, and whether other people know the information in the pen and can receive the goods after the death of the deceased who owns the pen, it has nothing to do with Xia De.He has enough main professions, detective, ring warlock, Rhodes card player, he can't add identities like double agent to make himself busier.

【Before delivering that information, you also thought the same way. 】

"She" was whispering softly, and the voice was very nice.

"This time it must be true."

【yes? 】

Then it was just the laughter.

(End of this chapter)