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Chapter 8, Case 1 is all waste chapters, a waste of time
Smith smiled slightly and said, "I first came to see James yesterday, and met Mark and Lina at the same time. After leaving at 4 o'clock, I went to the tailor's shop and met Jim for a chat. I walked after Jim and left the tailor's shop. I met Wayne, and after chatting for a few words, I went back. After that, I stayed at my home until this morning."
The timelines of the four people are all finished, and the 'broker' Wayne is still not here.
The bulletin board of the system has been prompted dozens of times, and Jim is about to draw out the report interface.
People finally came.
"Why did you come here? Didn't you hear the prompt?" Jim raised his voice when the man reached the door.
Wayne came in, took a look at Jim, and said softly, "Sorry."
"Sorry? I'm sorry, if it's over, the system rules..." Jim wanted to continue but was stopped by Kang Wenwen.
"Forget it, let him talk about the timeline quickly."
Jim took a deep look at Wayne and said nothing.
Wayne obviously knew the rules of the game, so he said without any nonsense, "Yesterday I first met 'Assistant Jim' at the tavern, and then I met 'Pianist Smith' when I went out. I said a few words on the way, and I came here directly. Find the dead James. Then go home."
"..." is another clean and concise timeline.
Smith winked at Kang Wenwen, his mouth moved but he didn't make a sound.Kang Wenwen was confused.
Jim took out his gloves and said, "You are late. After the evidence collection is over, find someone to ask about the timeline of other people. Let's hurry up and concentrate on collecting evidence."
Kang Wenwen looked at Jim's back and thought that this man was not as grumpy and rude as he looked.Should be a relatively stable player.
Jim and Kang Wenwen were the first to go to the corpse, and the others also tacitly searched for other places.
Just five people are active in this piano practice room, which is really a bit crowded.
Kang Wenwen and Jim turned the dead body over first. The body was already as stiff as a board, so it was very convenient to turn over.
As Kang Wenwen expected, there were no wounds or signs of being attacked behind James, and the wrinkles on his clothes were only caused by lying on the ground.
Since the cause of death could not be seen in this way, the two began to undress the deceased.
There is no wound on the upper body, not even a needle hole.
Jim started to take off his pants. Kang Wenwen wanted to help but saw something black on the fingers of the deceased's right hand.
"Find what?" Jim asked.
Kang Wenwen shook his head, "I don't know if it's useful." He picked up the right hand of the deceased, pinched his index finger and looked at it carefully.
"There were some black things in the dead man's nails, but it was too little to tell what it was."
Jim also looked down at "Is the ink stain not washed?"
Kang Wenwen pursed his lips, and tentatively leaned forward to smell it lightly.
"It feels like it shouldn't be ink."
Jim was not as resistant as Kang Wenwen, he directly took the 'finger' from Kang Wenwen's hand and put it under his nose to take a deep sniff, "It doesn't smell like it, it's really hard to judge."
"By the way, do you think he died this morning or last night?" Smith asked suddenly, and he and Lina were flipping through the desk.
Kang Wenwen was stunned for a moment. James was practicing the piano last night, so the time of death should be after that.
Lina said, "I don't know, but it must have been after nine o'clock last night."
As soon as Lina finished speaking, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at her.
"Why?" Jim asked, putting down the dead man's fingers and looking up.
Lina shook her head and said, "Because James practiced the piano at night, and he practiced until 9 o'clock in the evening every day. He also practiced the piano last night, so he must have died after practicing the piano."
Jim frowned, thought for a while and asked, "Does he practice on time every night?"
This time Kang Wenwen answered him, "Every night, from 7:9 to [-]:[-] on time."
Even if they and Lina didn't tell them about the time when the deceased practiced the piano, they would still ask neighbor Lucy when they visited around.According to the information in the script, Lucy has complained to the butler many times about James practicing the piano at night.
"9 o'clock..." Jim whispered silently. Kang Wenwen saw him look up at the upper right, and then frowned deeper.
"What's wrong?" Kang Wenwen asked softly.
Jim looked at Kang Wenwen and was silent for a while before saying, "No."
Kang Wenwen looked at Jim who was looking down at the corpse, and pouted.It seems that he doesn't believe in himself.
But this is normal, after all, no one knows who is a ghost, and it is better to keep valid evidence for yourself.
I looked up and glanced at the place where Jim just looked up. There was the ceiling, and there was nothing there.
The deceased did not find any suspicious wounds or needle holes from head to toe, so it is only possible that he was poisoned?
Kang Wenwen picked up James' clothes and touched them. There was nothing in the jacket except the square towel that was usually used to wipe his hands.
"Does James alone have the key to this room?" Jim asked.Kang Wenwen looked down and saw that he was holding a key in his hand, and in the other hand he was holding the trousers that James had just taken off, which seemed to be from James' trouser pocket.
"James has the key to the piano practice room, and there is also a key in the flower pot at the door." Kang Wenwen replied.
"The door?" Jim got up and went to the door to have a look, and Kang Wenwen followed.
Walking to the door, Kang Wenwen pointed to a lonely flower pot at the door of the piano practice room.
"That's it. Because James lost the key before, and then he put a backup key here."
Jim squatted down in front of the flower pot, and reached out to pick up the soil inside.After digging twice, a gray-white newspaper was pulled out.To be exact, something wrapped in newspaper.
After opening the newspaper, there was the same key as James.
Smith, Lena, and Wayne all stood at the door and watched.
"Anyone with the slightest intention will know this key." Kang Wenwen said.
"So this is not a secret room anymore, it's okay." Smith patted his chest in relief.
Jim didn't speak, just stared at Kang Wenwen and Lina, "Who among you knows this key?"
Smith raised his hand. "I don't know."
Wayne shook his head, "I don't know."
Jim didn't blink. "I don't know either."
Kang Wenwen shrugged, "I know."
Lina pursed her lips, "I know too."
Lina immediately put her hands on her hips and said in disbelief, "But who can guarantee that you are not lying. It is also possible for your character identities to know from James that this backup key is placed here."
"And the murderer is very likely to use this to push the suspicion on us." Lina raised her chin and Jim stared at each other.
Jim put the newspaper and the key into the soil of the flower pot, clapped his hands and said, "It is indeed possible."
The matter of the key is settled, and the search for evidence is only the end.
Wayne was the first to rest standing outside the room, but Kang Wenwen was very suspicious that he hadn't searched hard, so he swayed in front of the bookshelf twice, took two steps in the room and then stopped.
Then there is Jim and Kang Wenwen, and finally Smith and Lina.
Perhaps Jim was afraid of wasting time, so he didn't even say polite words directly. "The deceased had no wounds or anything suspicious. If there were no trauma, we can only wait for the cause of death given by the system."
Two hours after the incident, the system will send a simple cause of death report to each player.
"There is nothing wrong with the clothes. We have even checked the wrinkles, and they are all regular wrinkles. If you are worried, you can submit an application for on-site recovery."
After the first centralized evidence collection, each player can submit an application for "on-site restoration" to restore the scene to the way it was discovered, but it only needs to consume 1 point.
Jim didn't mention the black unknown object in the fingernails of the deceased, so Kang Wenwen naturally wouldn't remind him kindly.There is only one person who can identify successfully, and the clue is that the more you know, the less others know is the best.
Then it was Smith who said the results of the evidence search.
"There is nothing suspicious on the desk. There are two sheet music, two pens, one on the desk and the other in the penholder, and an ink bottle with the cap not screwed on. The other is a cup of coffee, as Lina said earlier. She sent it. Nothing else," Smith said with a shrug.
"On the bookshelf, apart from the books, there are trophies and awards. There is a locked box on the top floor. There is no key. The three open cabinets under the bookshelf are empty." Wayne, who has been standing by the wall to install wallpaper, said aloud .
Kang Wenwen never thought that he could get effective clues from others, and this so-called "centralized evidence collection" is nothing but the system's hypocritical 'fairness'.It's just that it's too 'worthless'.waste time.
Everyone thought the same as Kang Wenwen, Lina shrugged like Smith, "That's it? Waste of time, let's go."
"Hey, that..." Kang Wenwen laughed dryly and stopped everyone.
"Why, what else do you want to add?" Lina asked with her head raised, her arrogant look was not at all like a "maid".
Jim also looked up at Kang Wenwen, probably thinking that Kang Wenwen was going to talk about the black thing in the dead man's hand.
Kang Wenwen knew what Jim was thinking as soon as he touched Jim's eyes, and quickly waved his hands, "No, I mean. Our role this time, what is James Mike, Mark, Marius... something. Too much My mouth is twisted, I can't even remember who you are. Hmm..." Kang Wen scratched his head meaningfully after hearing this.
"Well, why don't we talk about our game name. It's easy to remember."
Kang Wenwen has always been very concerned about whether the 'wd is--' is a senior or not.
After hearing what Kang Wenwen said, everyone was silent.
Lina pouted and said, "Why is this name so hard to remember, Lina, how cute it is."
Others are actually not willing to say that, after all, after a game, no one knows anyone after the game is over, so it is best not to disturb each other.But if you say the game ID, you can search for yourself.
"Oh, I'm also afraid of confusing you with NPCs. I'm not very sensitive to the names and appearances of foreigners. This... until now I can't tell the difference...you two." Kang Wenwen raised Pointing to Wayne and Jim.
"Indeed, I can't tell the two of them apart." Smith nodded while rubbing his chin. Both of them looked like teenagers and were about the same height.Although the names do not have the same sound, they are still two characters, and the name and the person are always mismatched.
When Kang Wenwen saw someone agreeing with him, he immediately showed his sincerity, "Let me tell you first, my ID name is 'Wen Yiduo'."
"Pfft!" Smith covered his mouth, "You are just Wen Yiduo? When did you come back to life?"
Kang Wenwen rolled his eyes, not knowing how to answer this question.
Smith smiled back, and reported his ID name after laughing.
"I'm a beef brisket."
Kang Wenwen "..."
"Are you still laughing at me? Your name sounds very hungry, okay?"
"Well, I'm from Chongqing, so I like to eat some hot pot with hairy belly, can't I?" The blond 'Smith' spoke a sentence in Chongqing dialect. This wonderful feeling is really hard to express.
"Okay." Kang Wenwen laughed, but he was even more hungry after saying this.Last night, I thought something might happen to James, and I didn’t have a chance to log out to eat something even if I didn’t sleep all night. Now I’m so hungry that my chest is stuck to my back.
This beef brisket... Forget it, let's call him Smith, otherwise I will be hungry when I think of him, and I will drool at the name of him.
Lina shook the hem of her skirt, "I'm Xiaoxiao, this one is more tongue-twisting than Lina's."
Kang Wenwen smiled and said nothing, and it was not to call your name.
Jim also said his ID under Kang Wenwen's expectant eyes, "My name is an alphabet. If you have to call ID, just call me wd."
Kang Wen heard a shock, wd? wd is--
Jim is that guy.
Although he already knew it was Jim, Kang Wenwen still wanted to make up the lie.
Turning to look at Wayne, Kang Wenwen remembered that the remaining name was also strange.
"You are... a dd from the stone...?" Lina turned around and jumped in front of Wayne and said.
"The dll in the crevice of the stone." Wayne seemed to sigh, "The name was entered randomly at that time."
Lina grinned and said, "I see."
Smith said, "Then everyone's name has been said, and they left without anything?"
Lina waved her hand, "It's gone."
Lina and Smith walked side by side first, and Wayne also left the villa immediately after.Only Jim and Kang Wenwen stayed where they were and stared.
The timelines of the four people are all finished, and the 'broker' Wayne is still not here.
The bulletin board of the system has been prompted dozens of times, and Jim is about to draw out the report interface.
People finally came.
"Why did you come here? Didn't you hear the prompt?" Jim raised his voice when the man reached the door.
Wayne came in, took a look at Jim, and said softly, "Sorry."
"Sorry? I'm sorry, if it's over, the system rules..." Jim wanted to continue but was stopped by Kang Wenwen.
"Forget it, let him talk about the timeline quickly."
Jim took a deep look at Wayne and said nothing.
Wayne obviously knew the rules of the game, so he said without any nonsense, "Yesterday I first met 'Assistant Jim' at the tavern, and then I met 'Pianist Smith' when I went out. I said a few words on the way, and I came here directly. Find the dead James. Then go home."
"..." is another clean and concise timeline.
Smith winked at Kang Wenwen, his mouth moved but he didn't make a sound.Kang Wenwen was confused.
Jim took out his gloves and said, "You are late. After the evidence collection is over, find someone to ask about the timeline of other people. Let's hurry up and concentrate on collecting evidence."
Kang Wenwen looked at Jim's back and thought that this man was not as grumpy and rude as he looked.Should be a relatively stable player.
Jim and Kang Wenwen were the first to go to the corpse, and the others also tacitly searched for other places.
Just five people are active in this piano practice room, which is really a bit crowded.
Kang Wenwen and Jim turned the dead body over first. The body was already as stiff as a board, so it was very convenient to turn over.
As Kang Wenwen expected, there were no wounds or signs of being attacked behind James, and the wrinkles on his clothes were only caused by lying on the ground.
Since the cause of death could not be seen in this way, the two began to undress the deceased.
There is no wound on the upper body, not even a needle hole.
Jim started to take off his pants. Kang Wenwen wanted to help but saw something black on the fingers of the deceased's right hand.
"Find what?" Jim asked.
Kang Wenwen shook his head, "I don't know if it's useful." He picked up the right hand of the deceased, pinched his index finger and looked at it carefully.
"There were some black things in the dead man's nails, but it was too little to tell what it was."
Jim also looked down at "Is the ink stain not washed?"
Kang Wenwen pursed his lips, and tentatively leaned forward to smell it lightly.
"It feels like it shouldn't be ink."
Jim was not as resistant as Kang Wenwen, he directly took the 'finger' from Kang Wenwen's hand and put it under his nose to take a deep sniff, "It doesn't smell like it, it's really hard to judge."
"By the way, do you think he died this morning or last night?" Smith asked suddenly, and he and Lina were flipping through the desk.
Kang Wenwen was stunned for a moment. James was practicing the piano last night, so the time of death should be after that.
Lina said, "I don't know, but it must have been after nine o'clock last night."
As soon as Lina finished speaking, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at her.
"Why?" Jim asked, putting down the dead man's fingers and looking up.
Lina shook her head and said, "Because James practiced the piano at night, and he practiced until 9 o'clock in the evening every day. He also practiced the piano last night, so he must have died after practicing the piano."
Jim frowned, thought for a while and asked, "Does he practice on time every night?"
This time Kang Wenwen answered him, "Every night, from 7:9 to [-]:[-] on time."
Even if they and Lina didn't tell them about the time when the deceased practiced the piano, they would still ask neighbor Lucy when they visited around.According to the information in the script, Lucy has complained to the butler many times about James practicing the piano at night.
"9 o'clock..." Jim whispered silently. Kang Wenwen saw him look up at the upper right, and then frowned deeper.
"What's wrong?" Kang Wenwen asked softly.
Jim looked at Kang Wenwen and was silent for a while before saying, "No."
Kang Wenwen looked at Jim who was looking down at the corpse, and pouted.It seems that he doesn't believe in himself.
But this is normal, after all, no one knows who is a ghost, and it is better to keep valid evidence for yourself.
I looked up and glanced at the place where Jim just looked up. There was the ceiling, and there was nothing there.
The deceased did not find any suspicious wounds or needle holes from head to toe, so it is only possible that he was poisoned?
Kang Wenwen picked up James' clothes and touched them. There was nothing in the jacket except the square towel that was usually used to wipe his hands.
"Does James alone have the key to this room?" Jim asked.Kang Wenwen looked down and saw that he was holding a key in his hand, and in the other hand he was holding the trousers that James had just taken off, which seemed to be from James' trouser pocket.
"James has the key to the piano practice room, and there is also a key in the flower pot at the door." Kang Wenwen replied.
"The door?" Jim got up and went to the door to have a look, and Kang Wenwen followed.
Walking to the door, Kang Wenwen pointed to a lonely flower pot at the door of the piano practice room.
"That's it. Because James lost the key before, and then he put a backup key here."
Jim squatted down in front of the flower pot, and reached out to pick up the soil inside.After digging twice, a gray-white newspaper was pulled out.To be exact, something wrapped in newspaper.
After opening the newspaper, there was the same key as James.
Smith, Lena, and Wayne all stood at the door and watched.
"Anyone with the slightest intention will know this key." Kang Wenwen said.
"So this is not a secret room anymore, it's okay." Smith patted his chest in relief.
Jim didn't speak, just stared at Kang Wenwen and Lina, "Who among you knows this key?"
Smith raised his hand. "I don't know."
Wayne shook his head, "I don't know."
Jim didn't blink. "I don't know either."
Kang Wenwen shrugged, "I know."
Lina pursed her lips, "I know too."
Lina immediately put her hands on her hips and said in disbelief, "But who can guarantee that you are not lying. It is also possible for your character identities to know from James that this backup key is placed here."
"And the murderer is very likely to use this to push the suspicion on us." Lina raised her chin and Jim stared at each other.
Jim put the newspaper and the key into the soil of the flower pot, clapped his hands and said, "It is indeed possible."
The matter of the key is settled, and the search for evidence is only the end.
Wayne was the first to rest standing outside the room, but Kang Wenwen was very suspicious that he hadn't searched hard, so he swayed in front of the bookshelf twice, took two steps in the room and then stopped.
Then there is Jim and Kang Wenwen, and finally Smith and Lina.
Perhaps Jim was afraid of wasting time, so he didn't even say polite words directly. "The deceased had no wounds or anything suspicious. If there were no trauma, we can only wait for the cause of death given by the system."
Two hours after the incident, the system will send a simple cause of death report to each player.
"There is nothing wrong with the clothes. We have even checked the wrinkles, and they are all regular wrinkles. If you are worried, you can submit an application for on-site recovery."
After the first centralized evidence collection, each player can submit an application for "on-site restoration" to restore the scene to the way it was discovered, but it only needs to consume 1 point.
Jim didn't mention the black unknown object in the fingernails of the deceased, so Kang Wenwen naturally wouldn't remind him kindly.There is only one person who can identify successfully, and the clue is that the more you know, the less others know is the best.
Then it was Smith who said the results of the evidence search.
"There is nothing suspicious on the desk. There are two sheet music, two pens, one on the desk and the other in the penholder, and an ink bottle with the cap not screwed on. The other is a cup of coffee, as Lina said earlier. She sent it. Nothing else," Smith said with a shrug.
"On the bookshelf, apart from the books, there are trophies and awards. There is a locked box on the top floor. There is no key. The three open cabinets under the bookshelf are empty." Wayne, who has been standing by the wall to install wallpaper, said aloud .
Kang Wenwen never thought that he could get effective clues from others, and this so-called "centralized evidence collection" is nothing but the system's hypocritical 'fairness'.It's just that it's too 'worthless'.waste time.
Everyone thought the same as Kang Wenwen, Lina shrugged like Smith, "That's it? Waste of time, let's go."
"Hey, that..." Kang Wenwen laughed dryly and stopped everyone.
"Why, what else do you want to add?" Lina asked with her head raised, her arrogant look was not at all like a "maid".
Jim also looked up at Kang Wenwen, probably thinking that Kang Wenwen was going to talk about the black thing in the dead man's hand.
Kang Wenwen knew what Jim was thinking as soon as he touched Jim's eyes, and quickly waved his hands, "No, I mean. Our role this time, what is James Mike, Mark, Marius... something. Too much My mouth is twisted, I can't even remember who you are. Hmm..." Kang Wen scratched his head meaningfully after hearing this.
"Well, why don't we talk about our game name. It's easy to remember."
Kang Wenwen has always been very concerned about whether the 'wd is--' is a senior or not.
After hearing what Kang Wenwen said, everyone was silent.
Lina pouted and said, "Why is this name so hard to remember, Lina, how cute it is."
Others are actually not willing to say that, after all, after a game, no one knows anyone after the game is over, so it is best not to disturb each other.But if you say the game ID, you can search for yourself.
"Oh, I'm also afraid of confusing you with NPCs. I'm not very sensitive to the names and appearances of foreigners. This... until now I can't tell the difference...you two." Kang Wenwen raised Pointing to Wayne and Jim.
"Indeed, I can't tell the two of them apart." Smith nodded while rubbing his chin. Both of them looked like teenagers and were about the same height.Although the names do not have the same sound, they are still two characters, and the name and the person are always mismatched.
When Kang Wenwen saw someone agreeing with him, he immediately showed his sincerity, "Let me tell you first, my ID name is 'Wen Yiduo'."
"Pfft!" Smith covered his mouth, "You are just Wen Yiduo? When did you come back to life?"
Kang Wenwen rolled his eyes, not knowing how to answer this question.
Smith smiled back, and reported his ID name after laughing.
"I'm a beef brisket."
Kang Wenwen "..."
"Are you still laughing at me? Your name sounds very hungry, okay?"
"Well, I'm from Chongqing, so I like to eat some hot pot with hairy belly, can't I?" The blond 'Smith' spoke a sentence in Chongqing dialect. This wonderful feeling is really hard to express.
"Okay." Kang Wenwen laughed, but he was even more hungry after saying this.Last night, I thought something might happen to James, and I didn’t have a chance to log out to eat something even if I didn’t sleep all night. Now I’m so hungry that my chest is stuck to my back.
This beef brisket... Forget it, let's call him Smith, otherwise I will be hungry when I think of him, and I will drool at the name of him.
Lina shook the hem of her skirt, "I'm Xiaoxiao, this one is more tongue-twisting than Lina's."
Kang Wenwen smiled and said nothing, and it was not to call your name.
Jim also said his ID under Kang Wenwen's expectant eyes, "My name is an alphabet. If you have to call ID, just call me wd."
Kang Wen heard a shock, wd? wd is--
Jim is that guy.
Although he already knew it was Jim, Kang Wenwen still wanted to make up the lie.
Turning to look at Wayne, Kang Wenwen remembered that the remaining name was also strange.
"You are... a dd from the stone...?" Lina turned around and jumped in front of Wayne and said.
"The dll in the crevice of the stone." Wayne seemed to sigh, "The name was entered randomly at that time."
Lina grinned and said, "I see."
Smith said, "Then everyone's name has been said, and they left without anything?"
Lina waved her hand, "It's gone."
Lina and Smith walked side by side first, and Wayne also left the villa immediately after.Only Jim and Kang Wenwen stayed where they were and stared.
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