Drowning in a sea of ​​moonlight

The other three people at the table all showed different levels of dignified expressions. Edogawa immediately stood up and walked to the door of the restaurant. Seeing this, Dazai got up and followed. Fyodor and I glanced at each other and followed behind them .

After arriving in the corridor, Edogawa went straight to the first guest room, the door was half open.

He stopped, bowed his head in silence.

We stopped behind him, seeing blood all over the ground.

Chat room "brain is empty" (3 people)

When breath becomes air: I heard there's been a murder here, how are you two?Where?

Secret History: In my own room, I heard nothing.

An offering to nothingness: Huh?I'm in the hallway, I want to go to your room to rescue you,... ah.

Alisha stopped in front of me, exchanged glances with me, walked towards the door, glanced inside, then looked away again, with an uneasy expression on her face.

An offering to nothingness: ...this amount of blood.Victims fear...

When breath becomes air: I see it.It can be confirmed that he is dead.

Secret History: I am contacting Powell, she is checking the surveillance, probably on the seventh floor.

An offering to nothingness: Donna, please tell Miss Powell that the accident happened to 7001, and I am with Kaka right now, standing at the door.

It is estimated that he will be caught and questioned for a long time by the marshals who came later.Just don't come out for now.

Secret History: Well, I'll stay in the dark and play by ear.

Edogawa calmly said to Dazai: "Dazai, go and contact Kunikida and Yosano, and ask them to come over as soon as possible, they won't be able to get through soon."

"Okay, Mr. Ranpo."

When Dazai took out his phone and walked to the side, the alarm sounded with electric sound: "Please don't move, everyone, repeat, please stay where you are, don't move—"

"Unfortunately, the alarm was issued too late." Fyodor sighed. "During this time, many people have moved."

Then he looked at Alisha, and put on an elegant and warm smile again: "This one seems to know Mr. Ludwig, may I ask...?"

Edogawa and Dazai also looked over at this time, so I pulled Arisia and introduced them one by one: "Hyonuma Lansi, my classmate. Alan, this is Rodion Romanovich Raskolini Cove, this is Ranpo Edogawa, this is Osamu Dazai."

"We are all friends of Louis. Hello, everyone." Alisha smiled softly and kindly. "It's the first time we meet. My name is Lansi Ice Marsh. I hope you can give me your advice."

I leaned in front of his eyes and said in a soft tone on purpose, at a volume that other people could hear, "Why are you here?"

Alisha also cooperated and said in the same volume: "I wanted to drink with you, who would have thought of it."

At this moment, the marshals and restaurant managers arrived. Before they could expel us, Dazai stopped them first: "Armed Detective Agency, this time we are invited by the owner of the ship. Please allow us to assist in the investigation."

...Turns out he is now at the Armed Detective Agency.No wonder he followed Edogawa without any hesitation just now.

Seeing their unhappy faces, as if they wanted to handcuff us, Fyodor also stood up and said with a smile: "Please rest assured that the five people present were not at the scene when the crime happened. Many of the guests in the restaurant attest to that.”

The leading marshal put on a fierce face and was about to refuse when a phone call came. He listened for a while, then turned his head, and his expression was completely different.

"Your Excellency Edogawa is here, please help us solve this case!"

"You are knowledgeable." Edogawa said with satisfaction, "Tell me about the situation of the deceased."

"He is an employee of a real estate company. He is 32 years old. He boarded a ship in Marseille, France, with his girlfriend. He has no history of major diseases or crimes."

"Oh, let's make a long story short. You just want to say that he has no enemies and no doubts about him?"

"...Yes." The marshal wiped his cold sweat, "From his background, we really didn't find any clues."

"Well." Edogawa snorted noncommittally, "I didn't go in because I was afraid of trouble. Now that you are all here, I can go in and have a look."

"Please!" The marshal nodded and bowed, "Just please wear gloves, so as not to affect the fingerprint extraction."

While Edogawa was searching, Donna sent us surveillance video.

Secret History: 7001-7010

Secret History: This is the surveillance video of ten nearby rooms within 1 minute of the incident.The waiter and the woman went in one after another, and then both came out again. The waiter was covered with a lot of blood.

It seemed that he slipped and fell, and then fell into a coma due to fright, but he woke up from the restaurant's surveillance camera, and there was no serious problem.

At this time, another policeman ran over and said out of breath: "...report sir, the two people just woke up, although they haven't got a complete statement yet, both of them can confirm one thing, Just before entering, the door is completely closed—”

Secret History: I also checked the surveillance video for an hour before and after. 57 minutes ago, this person entered the room alone and closed the door. By 25 minutes, these two people entered, and no one entered or exited during the period.

And this is an inner cabin room, there is no window that can be opened to the outside, that is to say——

"That is to say, sir, this is a case of murder in a closed room."

While waiting for Edogawa to investigate, Donna sent a new message.

Secret History: The woman woke up with a bit of information that might be useful.

Secret History: Victims have behaviors similar to "claustrophic hobbies", often in a daze in various unimaginable places.

Secret history: For example, in the garbage dump, such as various blind spots.

When breath becomes air:  …ah.

An offering to nothingness: ...maybe seeing something that shouldn't be seen.

Alisha and I looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

An offering to nothingness: Let me stand at the door and observe the details of the scene.Maybe you can see something.

When breath becomes air: Mmm.

Not long after, Edogawa walked out of the room, took off the gloves on his hands, and said, "It's a supernatural being."

"What?" The police officer's expression changed in an instant, "This is impossible, we have checked all the guests on board in detail, except for your company, there will be no people with supernatural powers, how did you find out—"

"Oh, do you need me to explain such a simple matter? Do you have any brains?"

Edogawa stomped his feet irritably, "Your inspection seems to be strict, but I can tell you ten ways to avoid it. And this case, unless there is something wrong with your people, it can only be a case of abnormality no matter how you look at it." what the able-bodied-"

"So how did you come to this conclusion—" the marshal was a little excited after being stabbed by him, and asked before he could finish speaking.

"If Mr. Edogawa doesn't want to waste time explaining, let me do it."

Suddenly a gentle voice sounded, like water being poured on a fire, and the slightly stagnant atmosphere in the air eased for a moment.

With a calm smile, Alisha walked up to everyone and stretched out three fingers.

"The so-called secret room murder is nothing more than the following situations? The victim and the criminal are both indoors when the crime is committed, the victim is indoors but the criminal is not, and neither is the victim and the criminal.

If the victim is not in the room, there is no difference in tricks whether the criminal is in the room or not, so they are combined into one. "

Hearing this, I know.

—Ms. Ellery's method of elimination.

"When Breath Becomes Air" and "An Offering to Nothingness" Private Chat

When Breath Becomes Air: Are You Going Thorough To Get Their Attention?

An offering to nothingness: Well, it's also good for getting first-hand information.This situation is quite interesting, Kaka, just watch me continue to perform.

"Let's start with the first case. The way the door is disabled with the electronic card just makes too many tricks against the key impossible.

Moreover, there are no traces of needles, abrasions, water stains, wax stains and other tricks on the walls and doors. Even if the criminals use other more sophisticated techniques and instruments, it will take more time to prepare and it will be more difficult. Conspicuous, it is bound to be spotted by surveillance or passers-by.

Therefore, the method of faking the scene into a secret room by tampering with the door has been ruled out.

"The other cases of this first category are falsification of the time of the crime, such as by forging the voice and video of the victim to make people think that the time of the murder happened later than it actually was, and the murderer pretending to be a witness The incident is believed to have occurred earlier than it actually was.

These can also be ruled out at present, because the surveillance video can prove that the victim is still alive when entering the room, and with current technology, it is impossible to fake real-time surveillance video without being discovered. "

"Here, do you have any questions?"

The marshal was fascinated and said, "No."

Fyodor looked at Alisha with great interest, and Dazai also looked at him, with some inexplicable emotions in his eyes.

"Okay, then I will continue."

Alicia nodded slightly.

"The second category is divided into three categories. First: Arrange mechanical organs in the room in advance. Second: Poison the items in the room in advance. Third: The criminal controls the scene remotely. The third basically only Happening in relatively non-public places such as one's own residence is unlikely on this ship, because both preparation and implementation are easy to be detected by monitoring and passers-by.

Since there is no organ in the room, and the results of the preliminary autopsy just came out, and the victim died of stab wounds rather than poisoning, then these three possibilities no longer exist.

There is also a fourth, more special situation, that is, suicide disguised as homicide.But it's impossible for the victim to inflict as many wounds on himself as deep and so many -- exhausted before it's done -- so that can be ruled out as well. "

"The third category, apart from moving the corpse, is that the victim was seriously injured before entering the room, and died without doing anything after entering the room.

The reasons for the former being excluded are similar to those of the second category, so I won’t go into details. As for the latter, it’s also impossible, because first, the victim’s behavior was normal when he entered the door, and he was even sending text messages. "

"above."

He raised his left index finger and said with a smile: "You understand? Without considering the existence of supernatural beings, all possibilities are ruled out. So, either there are supernatural beings, or—"

"It's the doctors and the monitoring personnel who are lying to us. In other words, there are their ghosts on this ship."

"Crack. Crack. Crack."

Slow and powerful applause came, Dazai looked at Arisia and said, "Wonderful."

Edogawa also embraced his arms, snorted and said, "The analysis is not bad, although there is no need to use the elimination method to explain to such idiots, just tell them that the murder weapon has been transferred away, so it must be a space system power user , that’s it.”

Alisha smiled and said, "It's also because they may still not believe it, so they come to ask this and that. I said it all at once, and let them digest it."

Fyodor also looked at Alisha with a smile, and said in an admiration tone as if reciting poetry: "Your analysis is really admirable. In fact, maybe now we can know who the prisoner is."

He turned away, speaking softly.

"This gentleman. Judging from your expression just now, did you discover something?"

The marshal stared at the past when he heard the words: "What's going on?"

"Ah." The marshal, who was in the center of everyone's eyes, was a little flustered, "I found this in my pocket...but I don't know if it was a prank."

"Needless to say!" the marshal sternly said, "Don't let any clue go! Give it to me!"

After he finished speaking, he snatched the crumpled note from the marshal's hand.

Written crookedly in red crayon:

Dear audience friends, if you want an answer, please come to the performance hall at 6 o'clock in the evening to watch the next performance hahaha! !

The author has something to say:

?: The classification method mentioned by Alisha comes from the chapter "Chamber Tricks" of "Track Category Integration" in Edogawa Ranpo's "Phantom Castle Lord".Rewrote it in my own words.

Well, this chapter pays tribute to detective novels from ancient times to the present~

There is no elementary school student of death, hahaha, I will not comprehensive this article.

There are so many reasoning writers in the Wenye world, how can the secret room murder not come out~ (Although the conclusion is hard to say hhh)

The most rigorous reasoning I have read so far is "The Mystery of the Greek Coffin" (although I have only read such a copy of Quinn so far, the English version of the physical book is too difficult to find!!).

The elimination method and logic of this book are impeccable, and there are also sufficient reversals (the detective has failed several times! The side proves how imprecise it would be if the elimination method is not used well!), strong recommendation!

And I also want to express through this case, in a world full of supernatural beings that you don’t know what they can do, how easy is traditional reasoning to be oppressed hhh as long as there are supernatural beings with unknown abilities, based on the previous All the inferences of common sense are scrapped (cover face

It is one of the few chapters that is not obviously sour.But I just didn't write it. )

In the beginning, Jin and Fei Jia exchanged winks (in fact, they were not sure whether to follow), and later they met the young and tame Arisia. The relationship was obvious, and there was no polite words with him at all, just exchanged a few glances, everything The tacit understanding is beyond words.

What would Zai think when he saw such a scene?

Seeing the last message, I don’t know if you have guessed who the culprit is~~~