Mind Reader III

As if to confirm Ji Yuyang's words, that night, when Song Qi and the others were about to leave for Norton Manor, Shen Yan's call rang.

"What?! The monitoring on the second floor and the third floor are switched?!"

Hearing this conclusion, Song Qi and Long Yao were undoubtedly shocked, but Ji Yuyang finally figured out where the sense of disobedience in his heart came from.

"Think about the functional uses of the second and third floors, and the people who have gone to the second and third floors respectively. The second floor is the guest lounge, and the third floor is the owner's personal activity place. In the video, people who have been to the second floor that day On the first floor are the most important business partners of the owner of the manor, Prince Will and his son, and the owner’s friend Lord Roland, while those who have been to the third floor are Mr. Taylor, Mr. Ryan, Mrs. Morin and Chris. The relationship is so-so. Both Chris and Mrs. Morin went to Norton Manor for the first time, and the room Mrs. Morin entered was the 'second bedroom on the third floor'. It is the first time for a married woman to go to someone else's house, even if she is physically ill. It's uncomfortable, and there is enough rest room on the second floor for her to rest, how could such a distinguished lady go to the master's second bedroom to rest?"

After Shen Yan's remarks, Song Qi and the others noticed that the cameras were placed above the stairs in the corridor, which could illuminate the entire straight corridor, but the corridors on the second and third floors were completely arranged. the same!

"No, it's not exactly the same. Look carefully. The carpet on the left side of the stairs, the carpet on the second floor is a little darker, like a stain that is not easy to find, but there is no such piece on the carpet on the third floor. But in Two minutes after the black screen, the stain appeared on the carpet on the third floor, which is evidence that the video was switched."

This can be seen, what look in your eyes!

Long Yao said, "But the video and the system have not been tampered with..."

"Because they used a relatively primitive method, software manipulation is easy to be detected, so what they moved was the hardware, that is, they switched the electricity connected to the camera on the second and third floors from the line. The 2-minute black screen is by no means Accidentally, it was a small accident deliberately made by someone in the monitoring room when all the people in the small villa were concentrated on the first floor, and took the opportunity to switch back the wrong line within those 2 minutes. When we are concentrated on the first floor, even if the screen goes black for 2 minutes, it won’t affect anyone, because everyone has an alibi.”

Long Yao said, "So that's the case, but no one found out if the wires on the two floors were directly reversed?"

"I think they probably changed it during the line inspection the day before the banquet. Then you can play the video from the day before yesterday, that is, before the line inspection, to see the stain on the carpet, and then compare the day of the incident with that after 11:11. The video should reveal the truth. I think the thief bribed someone in charge of the monitoring room of the manor, and quietly switched the monitoring lines on the second and third floors on the day of the line inspection, so that the images on the second and third floors in the surveillance video were misplaced. After the incident, find a time when everyone has an alibi to make a small accident and then connect the line back to the correct line. Therefore, the time of the incident should be between 7 o'clock and 11 o'clock, and the thief did not enter or exit in the video' Chris in the study on the third floor, but one of Prince Will and Prince Charlie who went in and out of the lounge at the end of the corridor on the second floor!"

"Wait," Song Qi asked, "According to you, on the day of the incident, the surveillance cameras on the second and third floors were switched, but what about their testimony? The owner said that the music box was still there when he entered the study at 7 o'clock, but it was 2 o'clock in the morning. The music box was lost afterwards. But Chris entered the study at 9 o'clock. They should know whether they entered the study on the third floor or the lounge on the second floor, right?"

"The bean curd in your head, I told you that this is a misleading surveillance video! We can put the video back in place and then go through it again."

First of all, the stains on the carpet can prove that the monitoring on the second and third floors has been reversed. The stains on the carpet are actually on the carpet on the third floor. The stains were on the third floor before the circuit maintenance and after 11:11 that night. The stain was on the second floor that day, which means that the camera was replaced after the circuit inspection the day before yesterday until 11:11 on the night of the incident.

Then, after recalling the surveillance video on the day of the incident, we can draw the following conclusions:

在案发时间出入过二楼客用休息室的人有：6点到7点半使用二楼一间休息室一小时的莫林夫人、7点过进入二楼走廊尽头休息室10来分钟的庄园主人、8点过使用二楼一间休息室半小时的泰勒议员、8点半使用二楼一间休息室半小时的莱安议员、9点到9点40分使用过二楼走廊尽头休息室的克里斯。

Since the lounge used by Chris and the study on the third floor are in the same location on the upper and lower floors, the layout of the corridors on the two floors is exactly the same, and the camera can only shoot the corridors but not the stairs, and the stairwells are not. A special camera was installed (unable to capture the situation of going up and down the stairs), which misled the people who watched the video into thinking that Chris had entered and exited the study.

The people who had entered and exited the third floor at the time of the incident included: the owner of the manor, Prince Will and Prince Charles who used the study to discuss business from 5:7 to 7:9, and Roland who used a room on the third floor from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] Lord.

The time period when the music box was stolen was from 7:11 after the owner left the study after discussing with Prince Will and his son to 11:7 before the black screen, and the actual people who entered and exited the study on the third floor during this period were the owners of the manor who came out of the study together after 2:[-] With Prince Will, father and son, no one entered or left the study room until the master entered the study room again at [-] o'clock in the morning.

"Although the people who entered and exited on the second and third floors have figured it out, there are still no suspects," Long Yao asked, "According to what you said, the time of the incident was between 7 o'clock and 11 o'clock after the master and Prince Will and his son left the study. Between the black screen at 11 minutes, no one has been in or out of the study during this time!"

"No," Song Qi answered Long Yao's doubts for Shen Yan, "according to this, there are only two suspects, since no one entered or left the study during this period of time, but the music box did disappear during this period of time , the only ones who have the opportunity to commit crimes are Prince Will and his son."

"How is it possible?" Long Yao didn't believe it, "They came out with the owner of the manor."

Ji Yuyang said, "From the video, it can be seen that the master opened the door, Prince Will came out first, then Prince Charlie, and finally the master came out and closed the door. In this way, the situation in the study is that the master walked in front to replace Wei. Prince Will opened the door, and Prince Will and his son walked behind the owner, and the music box was placed on the display shelf. There was no time to take the music box away when the owner turned his back and didn’t pay attention. It’s ok, anyone can do this small trick. And after delivering Prince Will and his son, the owner closed the door without turning around, and didn’t reconfirm whether the music box was still in the room, so he mistakenly thought that he was at 7 o’clock for the last time The music box was not lost in the study."

Song Qi also agreed with Ji Yuyang's words, and then added, "Look carefully at this part again." He switched the video to when the master and Prince Will and his son were going out, and said, "As far as we know, although this music box is not big, it is still there. It’s a certain size, and it’s impossible for someone like Chris to go in and out empty-handed and with no strange clothes on his body, but you see, Prince Will and Prince Charlie both carried bags at the time, and Prince Will carried a briefcase , Prince Charlie is carrying a satchel. Both bags have a certain volume and can hold things. But Prince Charlie is the most suspected one. Prince Will's briefcase is very flat, and it will definitely bulge if it is filled with a music box , and he walked in front and came out while talking to his master. If he went to pick up the music box, no matter how small his movements were, he was very likely to be discovered by the master. But Prince Charlie, who was walking behind, was different. First, his satchel was relatively It is big, and it will not bulge even if it is installed with a music box. The second is that the body of Prince Will walking in front of him can block him, and Prince Will himself was talking to the owner at the time, which attracted the attention of the owner, so Prince Charlie It will not be easy to be found out if you make a small move for a moment later."

The truth is revealed in this way, but to be on the safe side, I still need to get the video of the day before yesterday to prove it. I only got the records of the day and the next day for the sake of speed, so I still have to go to Norton Manor again, but this time With a clear purpose, it is enough for Long Yao to go alone.Although Long Yao cried and said, Team Song, how can you abandon your teammates? Yuyang, why don't you stay with me? In the end, Song Qi kicked him out of the tent.

What Song Qi needs to start with is to find the person who tampered with the circuit at that time. As for the current number one suspect, Prince Charlie, since Shen Yan is going to meet the person tomorrow, let him hand it over to Shen Yan.

On the other side, after hanging up the phone, Shen Yan asked Gu Lei, "Is there anything else you don't understand?"

Gu Lei said, "Whether those people went to the second floor or the third floor at that time, you can tell if you ask? Why are you still analyzing the video here, making it so complicated?"

"Because we are acting in secret, dear!" Shen Yan explained, "Only the owner of the manor has direct testimony, but he didn't say whether the second or third floor was, he only mentioned the location of the 'study', and he didn't tell us where he came from. After coming out of the study, I went to the lounge on the second floor at the same location as the study, because this move has nothing to do with the study and the music box. And Chris, although I asked him about his movements on the day of the crime during the hypnotherapy for him, But he didn't ask specifically whether the second floor or the third floor was. He only said that he read books in the study room. If I expected it to be correct, there were bookshelves in the lounge on the second floor, so Chris mistook it for a study room. .Others, we didn’t ask anyone and we couldn’t ask, but fortunately, the carpet in the video gave me inspiration, and I didn’t notice the stain at the time, but it felt strange when switching the video on the second and third floors. The layout is exactly the same, and then after switching and looking at it several times, I found a stain on the carpet, although the color is very light, it can still be recognized if you look closely.”

Gu Lei thought for a while, and then asked, "Is it possible that the light caused it to look like a stain? These people are very particular, right? Shouldn't the stained carpet be replaced? Don't they use a ruler to measure it when they set up a dining table?" ?”

"The owner of Norton Manor is not a poor and fastidious countryman, but the most likely situation is that this stain was recently stained. Since there is only a preliminary treatment to catch up with the banquet, and the location is where few people will go. The owner's activity area on the 3rd floor rather than the guest reception area on the 2nd floor."

"Why only suspect people inside? What if someone climbs in from the outer wall?"

"The outer wall is also monitored, and there is a small garden directly under the study window. There were many women gathering there that day, and it was too difficult to climb the wall."

"Then, since Chris is no longer a suspect, how do we change this target next? Chris is bothering you now, right?"

"This is indeed a problem." Shen Yan was also quite speechless, "Chris' state is a symptom of over-reliance on the psychiatrist during the treatment process. Although he cleared the suspect, the next suspect is something he hates." Prince Charlie, if I get close to Charlie tomorrow, Chris will definitely have an eye-catching abnormal behavior. And this will not be good for Chris himself who is recovering... then I will leave it to you, um, just Do it like this!"

"What?" Gu Lei was dumbfounded.

"Tomorrow is the princess's birthday party. I'm going to go with Chris. It's not convenient to take you with me, so you can accept Prince Charlie. By the way, Prince Will will also observe it smoothly."

"I……"

Shen Yan said very seriously, "Brother Lei, you have to believe in yourself! It's just a preliminary inquiry, it's a small case!"

"...Then what are you doing?" Eating, drinking and having fun?

"Of course I have to continue to attack Chris," Shen Yan explained, "Although we now understand that the suspect is Prince Charlie and Chris is innocent, there is still a big question that has not been resolved—why? Will the clues only point to Chris? Even if the replacement of the camera connection lines on the second and third floors was to provide an alibi for Prince Charlie who needed to commit crimes at the time, this video alone cannot prove that Chris is a thief. After all, he came out Sometimes there is no way to hide things in the clothes with empty hands. But the task list we received directly listed Chris as a "theft" suspect, and the private detective hired by the owner of the manor before did not directly investigate Chris. From his investigation, it also shows that Chris is the suspect. This is too strange. Anyone with a bit of a brain knows that Chris didn't take anything when he came out after watching the video, so it can't be called the charge of 'theft', at least Say he hid it, or destroyed the music box completely in some way."

"Someone deliberately used this to pour dirty water on Chris?"

"That's right!"

"But this has nothing to do with our mission, right?" Gu Lei reminded, "We want to find the music box, not solve the case."

"You are so wrong," Shen Yan said seriously, "Nothing in this world exists alone, it is often intertwined. When the music box has no clue at all, you can't give up any doubts. , who knows if the music box caused Chris to be splashed with dirty water? Maybe after deciphering the reason why Chris was splashed with dirty water, the whereabouts of the music box can be found.”

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