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[Su Xinghuo's confession: I was on the island during the day yesterday, and at the beginning of the day, the street crew notified me to return to the Sea Charm.

Originally, I wanted to go directly to King Si, but because I saw Miss Shi Yajing went to him, I read a book in my room.

At about two quarters of an hour in the first day of Xu (8:30 p.m.), I went to room No. 9. King Si seemed to be drinking, and there was an empty bottle of Zuihongchen wine bottle and two wine glasses on the table.

He seemed in a bad mood, first he apologized to me that Zui Hongchen had finished his drink, and then went to the wine cabinet to get some wine. I was worried about his health and asked him to stop drinking.

At this moment, the alarm talisman in the room made a vibrating sound like a cricket—it wasn't that the talisman detected something different, but that the power of the talisman itself was running out.

Yuan Jia took a stack of brand new talismans from the desk drawer, replaced the old ones, and pasted them on doors, windows, bedsides, etc.

I saw that he was drinking, so I asked him if he wanted to sleep on the island tonight—there was wind and waves at night, and the shaking of the boat would make people unable to sleep.

Either I stay in the house and watch him, or send two of his guards over.

He refused, saying that he was still under the curse, so he couldn't go to the island, and he couldn't implicate me. Besides, he didn't trust the two guards very much.

He always felt that it was too coincidental that his elder brother fell off the horse and was injured.

Oh, by the way, he also said that I don't have to worry about him, it's just half a bottle of drunken mortals, so I won't be so drunk that I lose consciousness.

I stayed in Room 9 until around Haizheng (ten o'clock in the evening), and then returned to my own cabin. 】

[Confessions of Sikong Ji and Sikong Qiu: We didn’t visit the island during the day yesterday, and stayed at the end of the corridor, which is next to the receptionist’s desk.

At the beginning of You (five o'clock in the afternoon), I saw King Si coming out of the room, so I followed him to the deck.

At a quarter of an hour in Youzheng (6:15 p.m.), I heard him talking with Wu Yunjun about building a railway in Zhao County.

At three quarters of an hour, we followed Si Wang back to the cabin, ready to do a routine inspection—that is, check whether the doors and windows are damaged, whether there are signs of alien invasion, and so on.

During the inspection process, Dai Xu, the talisman master on your ship, brought over a stack of newly drawn talismans today.

He is a talisman master in Xunyunjing, and the alarm talisman drawn can last for seven days. Every seven days, the power of the talisman fades, and it must be replaced again.

We originally wanted to change the talisman for the king, but we were rejected. He said he changed it himself and asked us to go out.

We had no choice but to do so and left the room before Xuchu. 】

[Dai Xu's confession: I stayed on the island during the day, returned to the Sea Charm at the beginning of the year, and drew talismans in my own room. There are many talisman masters on the Sea Charm, and I am usually in charge of the VIP area. After spending the talisman, I sent the talisman to each room according to the list.

For example, the VIP in Room 1 reserved more Liliang Talismans, and the VIP in Room 5 reserved two Water Swimming Talismans and Shark Repelling Talismans—the couple couldn't swim, but wanted to dive.

By the way, they also asked me to write another insect repellent talisman, saying that I had an impromptu idea during the day and afternoon, and when I returned to the boat to get the drawing board and drawing paper, I heard the rustling sound in the wooden boards of the cabin, and suspected that insects and ants had entered the boat.

I helped to deal with these trivial matters, and at about four quarters of an hour in Youzheng, I went to Room 9 where the King Si was staying, and gave him the talisman.

He was last on the reservation list and I went back to my room after that was done. 】

When it was Li Ang's turn to be questioned, he truthfully answered his one-day experience. He went to the island during the day and went back to the cabin to sleep at night. He had neither contacted Xia Yuanjia nor entered Room No. 9. It can be said that he had the least intersection with the case. one of.

After the interrogation, the results of the autopsy came out.

The captain called all the people involved in the case to Room 10 to show the autopsy report.

The captain said in a deep voice: The autopsy revealed that the cause of the king's death was that his neck was cut open with a sharp weapon, and he was killed within a very short period of time.

According to the degree of digestion of the contents of his stomach, the exact time of his death was exactly at the right time (two o'clock in the morning), which coincided with the time of the clock in the room.

Su Xinghuo pursed his lower lips and said, There are no pinholes on his body, the contents of his stomach are non-toxic, and the bottle of Zui Hongchen is also non-toxic.

Hearing that the wine was not given by him, Zhou Guo businessman Wu Yunjun heaved a sigh of relief, and soon realized that he should make a sad expression at this time, and quickly turned his relief into a cough.

No one cares about Wu Yunjun's mood change,

The guard Sikong Qiu frowned and asked: How do you know that the bottle of wine and the contents in the king's stomach are not poisonous?

I used water and poured it into a wine bottle to get thin wine. Feed the wine to a few boat cats and observe their behavior.

He also fed the digestive residues in King Siwang's stomach to pigs raised by residents on the island, and no signs of poisoning were found.

Su Xinghuo ignored the changes in the expressions on everyone's faces, and said to himself: If it is on land, the inspection methods will be more diverse, but now there is no such condition, so we have to keep things simple.

In short, the alcohol is not poisonous, nor does it have the ability to cause hallucinations—for example, Yuan Jia felt that he was in a great terror that he could not break free, and committed suicide with a knife in the hallucination.

Su Xinghuo tilted his head towards singer Shi Yajing, Besides, I used the steam generated by heating iodine crystals to smoke the wine glass, and only found the fingerprints of Yuan Jia and Miss Shi Yajing.

There was no poison left in the glass either.

The technology of using iodine crystal vapor to reveal fingerprints was invented by Li Ang.

The corner of his mouth curled slightly, feeling a little emotional about the coincidence of the world.

Then our suspicions have been cleared?

Wu Yunjun, a businessman from Zhou State, said hesitantly: The wine I sent is not poisonous.

The problem now is not who is suspected, after all, most of us have entered Yuan Jia's No. 9 room.

The question is, how did the murderer kill Yuan Jia in the secret room, and how did he leave the secret room.

Su Xinghuo walked out of Room 10, opened the door of Room 9, and said in a deep voice, Everyone, please take a look at the situation at the scene.

This door was custom-made by Yuan Jia. It is surprisingly thick and has three locks, requiring three keys to open it.

Yuan Jia told me that he usually carries these three keys with him and puts them under his pillow when he sleeps.

He carefully lifted the pillow, and there were indeed three heavy copper keys under it.

Receptionist.

Su Xinghuo turned his head and said, The spare key for Room No. 9 should still be with you, right?

Here I am.

The receptionist quickly picked up the jingling roulette at his waist, and found three identical keys from it.

Perhaps because he was worried that others would suspect him, he said hastily: I didn't leave these keys all day yesterday, and I didn't lend them to anyone.

Shi Yajing asked in a low voice: Could it be that someone stole the spare key of Room No. 9 earlier and made a copy?

probably not.

Su Xinghuo shook his head, You guys, look at the half of the warning talisman stuck to the door frame.

Yuan Jia was always worried that someone would copy the key to his room, so every time before going out, he would stick an alarm talisman on the door frame with glue.

That way he'll know when someone breaks in.