a hundred ways to die

The alarm bell in the ward rang loudly, and the doctor and nurse rushed in through the corridor. The woman at the door stopped talking abruptly, and her face changed from gloating to worried and anxious. Everyone tacitly performed the image of a family member who was worried about the old man's physical condition. .

Gu Mingchen looked at the scene in front of him, then backed out, got on the bus and returned to the cafe, and the old lady left behind a suspense of who rang the alarm bell, no one knew that there was another person who had Be here today.

On the other hand, Shen Yue was trapped in the police station. The police have now basically confirmed that the deaths of the two people may be suicides, but Shen Yue has always insisted that there is still the possibility of homicide, and the murderer may be him. Go, and finally get a lot of news from Xu Lin.

The people from the police station delivered food to Shen Yue, Shen Yue took a look and asked, "Is it seven or eight o'clock now?"

The policeman nodded, and Shen Yue smiled. It turned out that it was already at this point, and he had been here for a day. It was time, it was time to go back...

When Gu Mingchen was sorting out the clues he got today, there was the roar of a locomotive outside, and then Shen Yue pushed open the door and walked in.It seems to have gained a lot.

"came back."

"Well, Xu Lin still refused to let him go, and he didn't want to come to see me. It took a lot of effort to come out." Shen Li turned down the temperature of the air conditioner.

"The low temperature is good for the brain to think." Shen Yue shrugged, making excuses for his shamelessness.

"By the way, I learned the results from the identification department from the police station today. It is true that the two people died of poisoning, but this is not the key point. The interesting thing is that the two people died of two different poisons/drugs. , and the antidote to this poison/drug is in that room."

This is indeed a clue that can overturn all the previous reasoning of the two of them. Both of them had the antidote to the poison/drug. Why did they die in the end? The answer that is most likely to come to mind is that they actually committed suicide. The antidote was nearby, but no one took it, and died in two places.

Gu Mingchen looked at Shen Yue's expression. Obviously, this detective who couldn't bear to be bored was not satisfied with the answer. It was the truth. Shen Yue didn't believe the answer at all. Instead, he came up with an answer that was completely opposite to the police. The homicide case, and the murderer was in that room from the beginning to the end.

"I was still hesitant about this case at first. Judging from Xu Lin's performance, he didn't believe that I might be the murderer at all, which was very different from yesterday's attitude, so I guessed what made him change so much. Later I followed Xu Lin's words and found out about the surveillance video."

Shen Yue took a sip of the coffee made by Gu Mingchen and continued, "The police mobilized surveillance from the hotel, and the final result was that only the Li family and his wife entered that room from the beginning to the end, which basically confirms that if the murderer didn't If you fly over the roof and walk over the wall, you will undoubtedly commit suicide."

Gu Mingchen nodded, "I went to see the environment of the hotel. The outside of the windows is very smooth, and there is no place for anyone to hide or stand on their feet."

"So now there are only two situations. One is that when we went in, the murderer was still inside, and the other is that the murderer used a method that we don't know and secretly poisoned. Later, I proposed the first solution. If I were The murderer, during the time we rushed in, the only person who had the chance to poison was me, so I brought it up, but Xu Lin still didn't believe it, obviously he decided that this was a suicide."

"So, you are sure that there are other clues, and then the poison/medicine news came out."

"That's right, but it's also this clue that makes me sure that this must be a homicide case. The two committed suicide together. Combining their identities, they are husband and wife. The husband and wife chose to commit suicide in the same way at the same time. With similar clues, if the two didn't discuss it beforehand, it's all a coincidence, is it possible?"

Gu Mingchen thought about it for a while, then shook his head, Shen Li continued, "This is the key, two people who are about to commit suicide chose so many of the same ones, why did they use completely different varieties of poisons/medicines, no? Isn’t it strange? When people agree to commit suicide, shouldn’t they choose the same poison/medicine?”

Gu Mingchen grasped something from Shen Li's words, and he also began to sort out his own clues after Shen Li finished.

"I went to the scene of the crime today, and I didn't get much information there, so I went to the old lady of the Li family. The old lady of the Li family is still in a coma, but I know from her family that The old lady of the Li family actually hates her daughter-in-law very much, and the acquaintance of the Li family was itself a mistake, stemming from a so-called contest to choose a commoner princess."

Gu Mingchen took out a photo, which was right at the entrance of the hotel room, "Look, this is the photo I took when I returned to the scene of the crime and entered the door. From this angle, if you see a person lying on the bed, You can’t see the face clearly, there is still a certain distance, isn’t it? So when the old lady first saw the corpse, she behaved very abnormally.”

"At that time, I felt very strange about this person's behavior. When we came out, the old lady of the Li family didn't care about her son at all, but kept letting the police look at her daughter-in-law. This kind of behavior It was too abnormal, so I showed her a photo." Shen Yue looked at Gu Mingchen and smiled meaningfully, seeming to be full of malice.

Gu Mingchen didn't express his opinion on Shen Li's bad idea, he continued,

"Later when I went to the hospital, the old lady was very ill after you saw the photos and found out that her son had died. When I approached her, she was still talking in her sleep, and she seemed very disturbed."

"Isn't that natural? The old lady of the Li family must have something to do with this murder case. She probably knew that her daughter-in-law might have died at that time. Although it doesn't mean that she must be the murderer, at least she must be an insider. "Shen Li clutched his stomach, it seemed that he was a bit strong in the police station.

Gu Mingchen was about to get some food for Shen Yue, then took away the empty coffee cup in front of Shen Yue, brewed two new cups, and placed them on the table.

"Let's watch the case later, let's have something to eat first." Gu Mingchen pushed the bread and coffee in front of Shen Yue.

Shen Yue didn't move, he looked at the thing Gu Mingchen pushed over, and kept tapping his fingers on the table.

"Why don't you give me that glass."

Shen Li's question was very strange and inexplicable, but Gu Mingchen knew that he must have a reason for asking.

"Because the cup was yours just now."

"The two cups are the same, can you tell them apart?"

"Of course, the cup is in my hand, as long as you can tell the left and right."

Shen Yue's face was serious, as if he had fallen into a dead end, it was obviously not supposed to be like this, and it was obviously impossible to take it wrong.

"What did you find?" Gu Mingchen asked, Shen Yue must have thought of something just now.

"If you were a murderer, would you mistake the cup you poisoned yourself in?"

Gu Mingchen shook his head, Shen Yue picked up a photo on the table, on it was a table with two glasses of red wine on it, "The police appraised that the poison/drug that killed two people was in the two glasses respectively. Mouth."

Shen Yue wrote a letter a on one of the cups, "This is a cup with a poison/drug attached."

Then draw a b on another cup.

"A poison/drug was finally taken by the woman, but the antidote was in the hands of the man in the bathroom. The eldest son of the Li family died of b poison/drug, but the antidote was in the cupboard outside."

Gu Mingchen listened to Shen Li's analysis, and the answer was gradually revealed in front of him.

Except for the scene where the victim had no third party at all, it was already known that a murder had happened to Mrs. Li's family, two kinds of crimes.

It suddenly dawned on me that this was a murder case, but there were two murderers, and both of them became victims in the end.

"So they drugged each other. In the end, the two died of two poisons/drugs. The eldest son of the Li family married a woman he didn't want, and the woman probably knew that someone was going to murder him and decided to kill him. Let's start first, so we have a motive." Gu Mingchen confessed his reasoning completely, but found that Shen Yue's complexion did not soften.

"It's not that simple. Both of their drugs are not poison/drugs that will take effect immediately. It is estimated that they chose this purpose at the beginning to allow time for themselves to create an alibi."

"Then…?"

"The murderer will seize the time to inform the murdered of the death news during this period. If two people know that they are going to die, will they stay in different places so peacefully, waiting for death?"

Shen Yue knew, no, because he knew the perpetrator, if he wanted to reap the life, he would announce the person's death in a ostentatious tone, instead of acting like nothing happened, one was sleeping, the other was in the bathroom , ready to... take a shower?

This is what he couldn't figure out. These two murderers seemed to be completely unaware that they had taken the drug, as if they had mastered the antidote, and it was impossible for the two of them to take the poisoned/medicated glass by mistake. Why.

"Actually, it might be the wrong one." Gu Mingchen stood up, and then covered Shen Yue's eyes with his hands.Shen Yue heard the sound of cups and plates rubbing against each other, and then Gu Mingchen put his hand down.

"Guess which one is your cup."

Shen Yue looked at the cup on the table, unexpectedly it was difficult to judge for a while.

"Both people think that what they have in their hands is what they planned, but in fact, it is not. The other person can change it without being known by the owner. After all, once the cup is placed on the table, he is already in it. It’s completely out of your control to a certain extent.”

Gu Mingchen changed the position of the coffee in front of him and Shen Li's again.

I wanted to kill you, so I gave you a cup of poisoned coffee, but the feeling was too deep, and I regretted it in the end, but it couldn't make me see that I wanted to kill you, so I put the coffee on you I changed my position when I knew it, and I had the antidote, so I came to drink the poisonous one. "

Mystery solved...

"The other murderer also had the same idea, so he changed his position again, and the poison/drug returned to its original position. Both of them thought that what they drank was their own poison/drug, and what they finally took was prepared by themselves. Antidote."

This became the complete secret room that Gu Mingchen and Shen Li saw when they entered the room at that time. In this secret room, he did not lock the victim, but two murderers...

"." Shen Yue's cell phone rang, and he took out the cell phone in his pocket, it wasn't his own, but he picked it up on the stairs.

For a moment, the faces of the two became heavy...