Male lead, don't be impulsive, it's me [System]

At this moment, there were not too many people gathered in the main hall, a total of 20 people.

Excluding the castellan Ralph, two nobles, Ali himself and the steward, there are a total of fifteen servants in the room, ten of whom belong to the castellan's mansion and are servants on duty in this house tonight, and four of them include Nasi It was Winston's man, and the remaining one was a servant brought by another nobleman.

At present, the only guests in the castellan's mansion are Winston and Geoffrey, except Felaixi who has died. Therefore, the identity of another nobleman is obvious. It is Joe whom Naxi has never heard of. Freeze.

This nobleman who had a bet with Winston was completely opposite to Winston in terms of temperament. He had a pale complexion, very conspicuous dark circles, slightly sunken eye sockets and dull eyes. He was completely an overindulgent face .Geoffrey's servant had the same short black hair as Winston. He stood quietly behind Geoffrey, his half-sagging face was covered by his bangs, and he couldn't see his face clearly, because this man had never spoken. , the sense of presence is almost nonexistent.

I don't understand why Winston would have a bet with such a guy...

Naxi, who slandered him for a while, glanced at Qiao Furui and the black-haired servant standing behind him, and stopped paying attention to him after noticing anything unusual.

Ali's so-called "lie detector bottle" was soon proved to be useless-in fact, it was not a magic tool at all. After uncovering the mystery that the word "magic" can create, it was just a test A very simple trick.

Naxi is very smart. From the moment Ali took out the flask and made a request to them, he vaguely guessed what Ali was thinking, and with the help of the powerful golden finger of the system, Naxi was able to figure it out in minutes. Ali's plan.There is no danger in the belly of the bottle, only charcoal powder is put in it, as long as it is shaken lightly, the charcoal powder will stick to the wall of the bottle. Naturally it was dark.

Ali set up psychological hints for them from the very beginning, using the banner of magic to put pressure on those who have done bad things, and then when the lights were turned off, no one knew who touched the inside of the bottle in the dark. With such a mentality, it is naturally impossible for a person with a guilty conscience to touch the inside of the bottle. Then when the light is turned on again, whoever has clean hands will be the murderer.

The system disdains: [Hmph, this is a trick of the heretics, under normal circumstances this world would not have such a joke! 】Naxi suddenly realized: Search Ga ╮(╯▽╰)╭

The system that was late to the fact that his host had already begun to study foreign languages: [...] With the system's complaints, it is not difficult for Naxi to guess that this is actually the one in Felaixi's body that has been expelled. A heretic once told him that the way to protect the knights was just ineffective against Naxi.

This method ended in failure, but Ali was not discouraged by it. He asked Ralph for another chance to find the murderer—maybe the murderer just saw through the "psychological game" that Felessi had taught him. Maybe he is still among these people?Thinking of this possibility, Ali felt that he could not easily let go of these people in front of him.

Facing a room full of servants, Ralph didn't need to think too much about whether he needed to be sympathetic. On the bright side, if Ali could find the murderer who killed Felaixi, he would be the guardian Even if the knight has saved his reputation, if he can really catch the murderer, there is no need for the relationship to become stalemate.The tactful owner of Zheli City made a decisive decision. It is not a big problem to sell Ali for such a possibility. I believe that with his approval, Winston and Geoffrey will also agree.

Sure enough, the two nobles agreed, but Geoffrey showed a slightly impatient expression, while Winston, who was well-trained, maintained his usual calm.

Ali agreed, and his mind began to run at high speed.

His first thought was to start the analysis from the point of view of interests—among the people present, who could benefit the most after Flessi's death?

Because Flessie's decision to live in the castellan's mansion is entirely a temporary decision. Ralph is a castellan with a good reputation. It's not difficult to be a magician. If Ralph doesn't like Felaixi, he definitely has a better way to deal with Felaixi. There is no need to invite people into the house and kill them. This is too much trouble for him. Ralph's butler is from a family that has served the city lord's mansion in Jerry City for many years. He has been the guardian knight of Felessi for many years, so he naturally knows that Felessi and this family have never had any problems at all. connect.

The two nobles can basically rule out the suspicion. They are not natives of Jerry City. They live in the Lord's Mansion as guests from afar, let alone have any contact with Felaixi.

After analyzing all the way in this way, it is preliminarily judged that all these high-ranking people are not suspected, and the exclusion method from the perspective of interests will not work.

So, what if it was instigated by someone?

Ali thought of this, and asked the first question: "Are there any new servants who have entered the City Lord's Mansion here?"

Although they didn't understand the purpose of the knight asking this question, they still pointed out two people. One was Annie, a maid of the castellan's mansion, and the other was Naxi brought back by the guest Winston for a bet.

The butler was very clear about the origins of the servants in the city lord's mansion, and in a few words, he explained Anne's family background, which couldn't be more ordinary. Anne came from a commoner family who had lived in Jerry City for generations. Annie herself even said that her family had spent several difficult cold winters because of those affordable magic props invented by Mrs. Felessi, and that she felt that she had benefited from Mr. Felessi, and she would never have the idea of ​​harming him; Here, Winston also came forward to talk about the reasons and consequences of his entry into the City Lord's Mansion.

Because Winston used the wording well and concealed the deal between him and Naxi, everyone knew that this quiet young man who couldn't look more like a servant was not a servant at all, but He is a commoner boy who is overwhelmed by Lord Winston's demeanor and generously helps.

As soon as the origins of the two were discussed, it seemed that there was no problem at first glance.

But Ali didn't think so.

When Felaixi's accident happened, he was not in the room—Ali stayed by Felaixi's side for a whole day. Seeing that the situation had stabilized at night, the knight who had been hungry for a day left temporarily to find something to eat. It was only about ten minutes, and I didn't expect to come back and see that Felaixi had died.

Ali forced himself to recall everything that happened at that time.

When he entered the door, he found that something was wrong with Felaixi. It was different from when he left. There was obviously no breath of life in the room.The guardian knight thought that his induction was wrong, and he almost rushed to the bed only to realize that the person he had guarded for so many years was not breathing. He instinctively grabbed Felaixi's hand——

The memory suddenly became vivid here, and he recalled one thing, he touched a touch of cold and wet liquid on the back of Felaixi's hand...it was rainwater!

Ali immediately put together several speculations.

The room arranged for Flessi had only windows for people to enter and exit except for the door leading to the corridor. At the time of the incident, Ali was walking in the corridor to Flessi's room. Before entering the door, Geoffrey who came to visit at night The two master and servant stopped and said a few words, and they were delayed for about half a minute before entering the room.

The wet touch still remained on Felaixi's hand, indicating that the murderer's stay was very short, and he might even have just left before he entered the door!

Out of the door, the only remaining access is the window.

At this time, the people Ralph helped to arrange at the beginning showed their usefulness—five of the ten servants belonging to the Lord's Mansion came with Ralph after the incident. At Ali's request, They helped gather all the servants in the house to the main hall. As Naxi guessed, these five people acted as monitors throughout the process.

As one of the suspects, Annie was cleaning and tidying up the kitchen on the first floor when the incident happened. Not only that, another maid Aya who was with her provided Annie with half an hour's push in the kitchen Proof of working within.

Annie's suspicion was basically ruled out, and the location of the remaining Naxi at the time of the incident undoubtedly attracted the most attention——

His room was diagonally below Felaisi's, and he was alone at the time of the accident.He is said to have been asleep at the time.

"So," Ali swept Naxi's suspicious eyes around, as if trying to find any possible revealing places on him: "Suppose there is such a person who can take advantage of the cover of night and take advantage of my absence. By the side of Lord Lacey, climb up to the second floor from the back of the house, sneak in through the window and kill Lord Lacey, then leave through the window, and hide in his room with the fastest speed to avoid everyone eyes and ears—then this person can only be you.”

I have to say that this Ali is still a little bit good at being blind.

Because the judge had a target to focus on, everyone except Hull retreated to the side one after another, leaving the center of the main hall for the guy named by Ali's words.

It is naturally impossible for Naxi to admit Ali's insufficient but crooked reasoning. For him, it is not difficult to solve the suspicion on himself - as long as he does not admit anything, it is impossible for that knight Find any evidence that he is the murderer.

So, as if sensing the malice hidden in the words in Ali's eyes, the young man stood straight in place without moving, but his face was pale.

Regarding this development, Hull, who seemed to act as his protector temporarily because he was worried about Naxi, frowned, stood in front of the young man and asked in a bad voice: "Just because no one can prove whether Naxi is really there." In the room, he became the object of suspicion? So among so many people present, no one was left alone when the accident happened? You don’t even need to ask others. You don’t think you just want to find someone to take the place of the dead ghost and solve the problem something?"

"Hull back down!" Winston's stern voice resounded throughout the main hall. Seeing that Hull was reluctant but could only step aside, the noble young man turned to Ali: "Naxi is under my guidance. Xia has a preliminary grasp of martial arts, but I don't think he has enough physical strength to climb the back wall of the guest building in the rain at night. You know, the grower behind the guest building is the climbing magic vine—a plant I don’t need to say more about its characteristics, you should be very clear about it, right?”

Although the methods used are different, Winston is obviously protecting his weaknesses in his own way.Naxi expressed his deep surprise that the master and servant would stand up for him, and immediately gave a touch of gratitude to the two of them in his light blue eyes.

At this moment, Naxi suddenly felt a sharp and oppressive gaze fall on him, feeling so damn familiar! ——If it wasn't his illusion, the feeling of this sight belonged to the man who sneaked into his room to tease him that day!

If it weren't for the fact that he is currently being watched by everyone, he will definitely find out the owner of this line of sight and teach him a lesson!However, at this moment, he couldn't act rashly at all, and the owner of that gaze was also very clear about this, so he set such presumptuous gaze on him.

Naxi just felt like a light on his back.

What Winston said was exactly what Naxi wanted to question Ali. Few people knew the method he used to deal with the climbing magic vine. In the eyes of everyone, a thin guy like him was not so big. With the ability to climb the wall to the second floor under the protection of the magic vine.

Ali's next reply made people feel that he was already a little careless. He completely ignored the doubts pointed out by Winston and entered the next stage of inference: "The period between the dispatch and the urgent summoning of the servants to the main hall does not matter. Not long, I assume that if the murderer is this kid, there must be hidden clothes, props and other items he used when he went out in his room or nearby." Ali said, turning to Ralph and Winston: "I ask Search his room."

"I refuse!" Naxi frowned, and immediately became unhappy: "Forgive me, if this knight-lord does this, isn't it tantamount to forcibly placing the murderer on my head?"

Having said that, the more he looked at Naxi's appearance, the more he felt that he was ulterior motives. Ali decided that he must have hidden something somewhere in the room: "Whether it is you or not, we will find out after searching."

Even though Naxi insisted on refusing to agree to this unreasonable search, but because people had to bow their heads under the eaves, Ali felt that he had Ralph's support, and led people into Naxi's room.

After turning all the hiding places in the room upside down, Ali's face became even more ugly.

The facts were completely different from what he had imagined, and there was no clue found in Naxi's room!

The boy who was brought together stood at the door of the room, watching his room from tidy to messy, but still maintained a calm face.After all the people rummaging in the house stopped, he suddenly asked such a question: "Master Knight, I suddenly thought of a question-you seem to have never mentioned one thing...how did the murderer kill you?" Where's Lord Felici's?"