antique on the run

It was a little girl who was talking, her head just reached Qi Xiao's chest, her bright golden hair was tied into two braids on both sides, she was wearing the school uniform of St. , a little timid, at first glance he is a dutiful and gentle child.

Qi Xiao smiled and said, "Well, I am Mick's uncle. Are you Mick's classmate?"

The little girl seemed a little shy, bit her lower lip, unconsciously grabbed the skirt with her fingers, and said, "Yes, I am in the class next to Mick, and my name is Anna."

Qi Xiao's smile became more gentle, "Okay, Anna, hello. What can I do for you?"

Anna seemed to be hesitant, she opened her mouth to speak, but closed it quickly, Qi Xiao waited patiently, and it took a while before Anna whispered: "Uncle Mick, I just heard you talking to Teacher Helen Talking about Mick and Imazhe, I... I know it's not good to talk about classmates like this, but I think you should persuade Mick to have less contact with Imazhe."

When Imaizhe's name was mentioned, she seemed to be very afraid, and she was very nervous.

Qi Xiao looked at Saiwei without any trace, and asked Anna: "Why do you say that? I heard from Teacher Helen that Yimaizhe has always taken care of Mick. Could it be that Yimaizhe is actually treating Mick badly? "

Anna bit her lip and shook her head. After a long silence, she said, "No, the teachers don't know what Imazhe really looks like. He... he's just a freak."

She seemed to be afraid that Qi Xiao would think she was lying, so she gestured stiffly with her hands and feet: "His arms can be bent like this, like this, completely around the top of his head, behind his back, his legs can be put behind his head, he even You can lie on your lap!"

Listening to Anna's narration, Qi Xiao was skeptical. The movements Anna said had already violated the structure of the human body, how could it happen.

"I remember one time, a classmate in their class put sleeping pills in his water glass in order to punish him. After he fell asleep, he forced him into the podium cabinet and locked him. Then he came to see him the next day. Nothing happened, and said he had a good night's sleep in the desk cupboard."

St. Cameron Middle School dismisses school at four o'clock in the afternoon every day, and does not start school until eight o'clock the next morning. It is hard to imagine how Immajer spent the sixteen hours in the desk cabinet.

"Why can he... like this?" Qi Xiao asked in surprise, "Do you know?"

"Hmm..." Anna nodded, "I heard Yimaizhe say once when he was being bullied by the boys in his class. His father was the head of the circus. He was trained by his father since he was a child, breaking all the bones in his body." He told those boys... that if they bullied him again, he would break their bones and put them in a small black box, so that they could experience this too. kind of pain..."

Hearing what Anna said, Qi Xiao was startled suddenly.

Break the bones and put them in a little black case...

The more Anna spoke, the more frightened she became, her voice trembled, "So Uncle Mick, I don't think Mick should stay with Imazhe, but I can't tell Mick, I can only tell you, these The teacher doesn't know about it, only us students know about it, but no one will remind Mick... You must not say my name, can you? I'm really afraid that Immazhe will retaliate against me..."

Qi Xiao bent down and comforted her: "Okay, don't worry, I will not mention your name to anyone, thank you for telling me this, I will remind Mick to pay attention when I go back, I will replace Mick thank you you."

After seeing off Anna and finally leaving the school gate, Saiwei heaved a sigh of relief and said, "To be honest, I was still wondering why you pretended to be Mick's uncle to contact Teacher Helen instead of directly revealing her As our detective, you can even use Lestrade's name to intimidate and lure you, now I finally understand."

It is precisely because of the existence of such a relationship as "Uncle Mick", that Teacher Helen will not be so cautious when speaking, and Anna will have the courage to come over and give advice if they can get some useful information from their words. .

"This kid, Yimaizhe, I think we probably ignored him before." Qi Xiao said.

Saiwei's face darkened slightly when he heard the words, and said: "Well, indeed, before today, I never thought about him."

In the circus of this era, there is a common performance method. The performer seems to be able to shrink bones, and can pack himself into a small box or jar. Everyone is often surprised by its magic, but they don’t know it at all. This is how it was practiced.

"I used to think that this kind of performance probably made the performers practice hard when they were young when their skeletal muscles were more flexible, just like...their Indian yoga. I never thought that they would have to stretch their bones Break." Saiwei sighed: "It's hard to imagine how much suffering Imazhe suffered when he was a child."

But he was soon sent back to his mother in England by his father, and his father has never appeared since then, which shows that Imaija's body is probably not suitable for the circus business, so he was ruthlessly beaten by his father. abandoned.

"So the reason why the wooden box is made of strong but expensive Irish pine is because when a person is stuffed inside, the natural resistance effect of bones and muscles will try to expand the wooden box and try to prop it open. It's the kind of strong wood that will last."

"And the traces that were artificially cut out in the corner of the wooden box should be the logo of the circus, because the wooden boxes of the circus are performance props, so the logo will not be printed in the center like ordinary commercial boxes."

Qi Xiao paused for a moment, then suddenly said: "Actually, Saiwei, I was thinking, is it possible that Imazhe removed the logo representing the circus not to conceal his identity information, but out of respect for his father and It’s a way to vent all the hardships I have experienced in order to learn circus well.”

Since the wooden box had been soaked in water for a long time, it was very worn, so although Holmes could see that the varnish in the corner had been artificially removed, he could not tell when it was actually removed.

As a detective, the first reaction when seeing this piece of artificially peeled paint is of course that the murderer is hiding some important information, but maybe... that's not the case.

"The reason why he killed Natasha seems obvious." Sai Wei said: "The speculation I said earlier, I just suspected that there were some unusual emotional relationships between Richard and Imazhe, and I didn't take Imazhe Think about the murderer who killed Natasha, but after listening to Anna's words, I can't believe it or not."

The box containing the corpse, the method of killing Natasha, and the reason for breaking Natasha's bones were all explained.

"Including the sentence Conan Doyle left at the end of the fragment, it makes sense now."

——This is probably not a good story, because this kind of relationship is always not accepted by most people.

As a father, Richard Lane had a relationship with his son's classmate, and this classmate was still a boy. Of course, this kind of relationship was very sensational in Conan Doyle's era.

"Imaizhe killed Natasha because of jealousy. The emotional relationship between Richard and Imaizhe did not last long. He quickly empathized with the beautiful and young Natasha, and even made Natasha Being pregnant, all this made Imazhe feel jealous and painful. Especially Richard's accidental death may have intensified Imazhe's hatred for Natasha."

Sewi reasoned quickly, and it seemed that all the questions were clear at once, "Pull out Natasha's tongue because Natasha talked to Richard, and goug out her eyes because she used them to see Richard. Chad, stripped her finger bones because Richard first took an interest in her, probably related to her playing the piano, and took her uterus because there was her and Richard's child in it. As for crushing her Bones... What Imazhe experienced when he was a child made him understand how terrible it is to have his whole body broken, and he probably regarded it as a punishment to be imposed on Natasha."

Sai Wei couldn't help sighing: "I don't know how many terrible things this child has experienced in his childhood, but I believe that the dark side his father showed him must not be as simple as we thought."

Animal protection laws and human rights protection in this era are not as perfect as later generations. Circus animals and humans are often subjected to extraordinary cruelty during training. Therefore, trainers need to have a good understanding of the structure of animals and human bodies, and carry out training and training. Transformation, so that they can show their extraordinary circus skills to the greatest extent.

From the point of view of the forensic doctor, the murderer is familiar with anatomical knowledge. Imazhe should have obtained relevant knowledge and training from his father when he was a child, and even witnessed the process of animal and human anatomy with his own eyes. He hadn't been allowed to do it, or he had only done some relatively simple dissections, so he showed adeptness when peeling off the phalanx, eyes and tongue, but the technique of removing the uterus still showed immaturity.

But anyway, this kid is scary...

Qi Xiao said: "But what you said is just a guess after all. I think the specific reason for him to kill Natasha, I think, can only be found out after finding Yimaizhe himself. What's more... To be honest, I always feel that these clues It came a little too easily."

"……What's the meaning?"

"We were at a loss, weren't we? So we came to the school to find Mick, hoping to get some useful information from him. But Mick was taken back by his mother, and our purpose this time was defeated. but……"

But in a turn of events, Anna suddenly appeared. She told Qi Xiao that Yimaizhe was not a good person, and asked Qi Xiao to persuade Mick to stay away from Yimaizhe.

"I don't know if I'm thinking too much, but every word of Anna can be a very important clue for us to find the murderer, can't it?" Qi Xiao rubbed his aching temple, "I always feel... This clue came too easy and too fast. Either these are fake, or...someone deliberately wants us to know this."

In any case, finding Imazhe as soon as possible is the key.

However, Teacher Helen said that Yi Maizhe had been on leave for a long time and hadn't come to school. Qi Xiao always had a bad feeling.

The author has something to say:

It’s not pedophiles, friends, JJ doesn’t give pedophiles, so I went back and made up an 18-year-old setting of Imazhe... TAT forgive me