Book of the Otherworld

Chapter 307 Prologue Xing Ziyue's Daily Day

This is a high-rise apartment located in the center of New York City. The morning sun shines in from the window, bathing the whole apartment in brilliant sunlight, and also illuminating a slender hand and a head protruding from the quilt. Messy long hair.

As if feeling the morning sun, the messy long hair moved, revealing the face of a childish little girl who looked about eleven or twelve years old.

Xing Ziyue rubbed her eyes, glanced at the sunlight outside the window, just about to get up, when she suddenly remembered that it was already summer vacation and she didn't need to get up early to go to school, so she pulled the quilt and continued to sleep.

However, it seemed that today's cage sleep was destined to be unable to fall asleep, and within 5 minutes of lying down, the phone rang harshly.

Xing Ziyue was very familiar with the ringtone of the phone, it was the exclusive ringtone of the New York Police Department, knowing that the matter was urgent, she had no choice but to pick up the phone.

"Hey! Who!" She asked angrily, her immature voice was somewhat murderous.

Sheriff Richard's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone, "Consultant Xing Ziyue, I'm sorry to bother you. This morning, a murder case occurred in a closed room in Queens. I'm afraid you need to come to help solve the case immediately."

(Damn it, this is already six locked room murder cases at the end of this month. Are these murderers following the trend recently?) Xing Ziyue secretly slandered, but considering that the gang of idiots in the New York Police Department would definitely not be able to solve such a high-end case, Xing Ziyue Ziyue had no choice but to get up from the bed.

"I'll be there in a while." After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.

After washing her face and brushing her teeth, put on a windbreaker and sunglasses, with a leftover waffle in her mouth from yesterday, and stuffed an apple into the pocket of the windbreaker, Xing Ziyue set off from the apartment.

Instead of going to the police station, she drove directly to the crime scene.

At this moment, the outside of the house at the scene of the crime has been completely blocked by the police, and some good-natured onlookers are watching around, and several people from the investigation department are collecting evidence, and there is a tense atmosphere.

Seeing Xing Ziyue approaching, someone greeted her immediately.

"Thank goodness, you are finally here, Criminal Advisor." The sheriff approached anxiously.

"No way, is there a traffic jam on the road." Xing Ziyue stuffed the last piece of waffle into her mouth casually, "Tell me, what's going on?" Xing Ziyue asked while gnawing on an apple.

The sheriff recruited, and the police officer next to her immediately began to report the situation to her.

"This morning, the milkman came to deliver milk in front of this house. Usually, the hostess would come out to receive the milk in person, but she didn't do this this morning. The milkman took a look into the house and remembered that After finding something abnormal, I called the police and opened the door, but the owner of the house inside was dead, and the doors and windows of the whole house were locked from the inside, and there seemed to be no abnormalities."

"Huh, it's interesting, let me see the scene and talk about it." Xing Ziyue said.

Walking into the living room, I saw a woman lying on the ground miserably, her face was covered with blood, she seemed to have been hit by a blunt object, and she was wearing pajamas.

Xing Ziyue walked around twice, and suddenly a faint smile appeared on her face, but the police chief was overjoyed. Usually, if the criminal consultant had such an expression, it usually means that he had discovered the truth.

"I've got preliminary results, gather your people together, and now I'm going to announce my conclusion."

"Yes, yes, I will call someone immediately."

The sheriff said, and soon everyone was gathered, including the neighbors watching, the police officers handling the case, the milkman and so on.

Looking at more than a dozen people around, Xing Ziyue showed a confident smile on her face, "I'm sorry to have everyone gathered here. The reason why I did this is because I want to reveal the truth of this case. This criminal is very serious. Smart, he carefully arranged a murder scene in a secret room, thinking that by relying on this method, he could get away with it. However, he still missed one point—that was me, and no conspiracy could escape my eyes. According to my speculation, that The murderers are among us."

what!The sheriff looked shocked, and everyone also had expressions of disbelief.

"Why do you say that? Could it be that the murderer will stay?"

"who's that person?"

Xing Ziyue's eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, and finally locked on a woman: "That person is you—Linda, the neighbor of the deceased!"

The woman named Linda was panicked, but she still had a strong spirit, "Why do you say I did it?"

"It's very simple. The deceased's name is Lili, which means lily, and you happen to have a lot of lilies in your garden. Lily also means lesbian in Chinese, so it is obvious that you and the deceased are a couple. Today's date is September 9th, 7 plus 9 equals 7, 16 divided by 16 is still four, which means that criminals are related to four, and there are exactly four people in your family, your house number is 4, and 206 times If 2 equals 6, the first letter of the deceased’s name is L, which happens to be the No.12 letter in the alphabet, so who is the murderer? The answer is self-evident.”

"This--"

After hearing Xing Ziyue's reasoning, everyone was shocked - and soon they all became enlightened.

"So that's it! I understand!" A police officer exclaimed, "Consultant criminal, your reasoning is too powerful."

"It's a genius. It's even possible to deduce such a process, and it's so interlocking without any loopholes. It's unbelievable." Sergeant Richard also shouted.

"Sure enough, it's Miss Verdera who is known as the Super Sense Detective!" A crowd of onlookers also shouted.

Others also showed expressions of admiration, some with original expressions, while others were not aware of it, as if they hadn't figured out the reasoning process.

The woman named Linda was shocked at first, and then suddenly laughed, "But you have no evidence, the windows and doors of this house are locked from the inside, why do you think I did it? If I killed the person, how did I leave?"

Hearing Linda's question, everyone turned their eyes to Xing Ziyue.

"It's very simple. If my guess is correct, you should have left through the window of the attic. Sheriff Richard, please ask your police officer to check the window of the attic on the second floor to see if it is open." Xing Ziyue said the answer calmly.

The sheriff immediately sent a few men to inspect the attic on the second floor. Sure enough, the windows of the attic on the second floor were wide open, and there were two obvious bloody footprints, which were Linda's shoes.

Now, the surrounding onlookers and the police all let out admiration.

Linda had a miserable face, "I didn't expect to be discovered, yes, I killed Lily, I didn't want to do this, I hope to break up with her, because I have my family, but she is dead No, she forced me to do this."

After Linda finished speaking, she was escorted to the police station by several policemen.

And today's secret room murder case was finally solved with difficulty.

"Good job criminal consultant, thanks to you this time, otherwise such a complicated case would have been difficult to solve with the power of our police station. You really deserve to be a professional." Watching Linda being escorted into the police car, Richard The sheriff said very gratefully.

Xing Ziyue nodded slightly, "It's nothing, this is what I should do, after all, this is my job, if you really want to thank, buy me a drink later."

"Of course, it's my pleasure."

Ten minutes later, the sheriff and Xing Ziyue came to a nearby bar.

"Cheers to happy cooperation."

"cheers."

"To be honest, I still can't figure out how you did it. Such a complicated case, without your help, I would have no idea at all." The sheriff said with admiration.

Xing Ziyue took a sip of the milk in the glass, "I have no idea about it, maybe this is a talent, a cursed talent, because of this talent, I have seen too many deaths and killings, I have seen too much evil and tragedy." There was a bit of vicissitudes and melancholy in her tone.

The sheriff looked at her in surprise, "Speaking of which, how many years have you been a detective?"

Xing Ziyue counted with her fingers, "It's been five years since I was seven years old."

The sheriff nodded emotionally, "Five years is indeed enough to change a person, maybe you should take a vacation."

Xing Ziyue shook her head, "Forget it, vacation will make me feel relaxed, and for a detective who is on the edge of life and death at any time, relaxation will kill, but sometimes I have some doubts, I Is there any sense in the behavior, after arresting so many criminals, the world still seems to have no change."

Xing Ziyue said in a tone of seeing through the vicissitudes of the world, which formed a strong contrast with her immature face.

However, Sergeant Richard didn't seem to notice this difference, but nodded in agreement, "Indeed, we old guys are still counting on you, as long as you are here, no case is a problem, I heard this There is no problem in the world that you cannot solve."

Xing Ziyue shook her head, "That's not the case, there is still a question that I have been pursuing but can't answer."

"Uh? What's the question?" the sheriff asked curiously.

"This question is - who are my parents, I started to pursue this question six years ago, I traveled all over the world, dealt with enough intelligence agencies in various countries, but found nothing, just to find the answer I just became a detective, but I have a hunch that maybe the answer will appear soon." Xing Ziyue said, drinking the milk in the glass.

"Goodbye Sheriff Richard, I have to go back to do my summer homework." While speaking, he shook the collar of his windbreaker and walked out of the bar.

(End of this chapter)