sincerity of lies

Ji Xun's feet stopped outside the curtain.

The wind was strong, but the curtains were not completely blown up, because the two curtains were clamped together, which somewhat helped to resist the strong wind, and also kept the curtain that concealed the truth where it should be.

Ji Xun reached out to lift the curtain in no hurry.

He stood, thought for a while, and said, "Where should we start..."

It was wind and rain outside, and there were residents with closed doors and windows around. I wanted to make a little noise so that it would not be eavesdropped by left and right.

"The things on the ship are rich in elements for mystery novels. Snowstorm Mountain Villa, nursery rhyme killings, secret rooms, and poisoning that seems to be random killings.

Or rather, a little too rich.

I've been wondering why the first murder was the Chamber of Secrets.The formation of the secret room is too simple, and there is no need to discuss it at all. What needs to be studied is 'why there is a secret room'.

Combined with the second case, it seems clear that the murderer was arranging some similar scenes to create a terrifying atmosphere of nursery rhyme killings, which in turn caused everyone to panic, thus enabling the third murder to be carried out smoothly.

Yes, the murderer had foreseen the third murder from the very beginning. The "ghost story" is widely circulated, the crew knows it, Mr. Liu knows it, and even ordinary bosses know it under the sharing of women.Therefore, it must be mentioned in the discussion.And when two people died one after another, and the murderer couldn't be found, the panicked people suddenly learned that the murderer was following a "ghost story" to kill people, and there were poisonous killings in it. Meals turned to airtight instant food packages that just happened to go into the murderer's urn, am I right?

——The murderer prepared poisonous instant noodles for them early on. "

There is only the sound of the wind, but no murderer's voice.

But under the curtain, there is clearly an extra pair of feet.I don't know when it appeared, the murderer's feet.

The murderer - the owner of the room - stood quietly inside, listening to Ji Xun's words.

The wind was too strong, and the rain kept pouring on me, making it a little cold.

Ji Xun wrapped up his coat, organized his thoughts, and continued to speak.

He's talking like he's talking to a friend, although his 'friend' is too silent:

"At this time, Boss Lin is dead, and only Boss Jiang and Boss Wu are left.

The murderer wants to kill two enemies at once as much as possible, so he chooses to use a small dose of poison, so that the onset will be slower, and the people who eat before and after the meal will not be afraid to eat their own instant noodles because of the sudden death of the previous one.

So when did the poisonous instant noodles get into the hands of the deceased?

After the death of Boss Lin, everyone lost the space to act alone. The bucket of instant noodles is very large, and it is difficult to exchange them under the nose of the companions.Before that, Boss Jiang and Boss Wu stayed in the room all the time, and they were also not eligible for exchange.

As for the night before, although everyone was groggy after taking an unknown hallucinogenic drug, as long as the door of the room was locked, even with a master key, there was no way to open the suite.And the premise of hallucination is to eat food, what if Boss Jiang and Boss Wu didn't eat it?I don't think the murderer would take such a shocking risk.

To sum up, the instant noodles must have been put in before that night.The pampered bosses will not eat instant noodles unless necessary, and the murderer is not worried that the ingestion of these poisonous foods in advance will affect his murder order.

But at that time there were surveillance everywhere on the ship.

The only ones who could walk into the room unobtrusively were the cleaning staff who were originally in charge of changing the items in the suite——

Today, these people trapped above the cabin are not kept clean, from which two situations can be deduced.[-]. The murderer and the cleaner are accomplices.[-]. The murderer used a certain method, using the unwitting cleaning. "

Having said that, Ji Xun paused.

A one-man show is too boring, so Ji Xun tried to interact with his 'friends'.

"Do you have anything to say? For example, about cleaning?"

The curtains fluttered, and it seemed to be the smile of a 'friend'.When the wind stopped, the curtains fell, and the smiles of friends also fell, and then, a dull voice came from inside.

"Cleaning is innocent."

"Thank you so much." Ji Xun was surprised.

The murderer helped the detective rule out the wrong answer, which is of course surprising.

But if you think about it from the perspective of friends, maybe this is just a common practice to save everyone's time.

"Well - I think so. If the cleaning is an accomplice, then the production dates of the instant noodles of other bosses can be completely consistent." Ji Xun nodded, and continued, "Back to the method. The order in which the unknowing cleaning puts the instant noodles It's unpredictable, and you want to kill specific people based on what happened 40 years ago. It may seem difficult to do, but with the help of your accomplices, it's easy to do by reversing your thinking arrive.

Your accomplices are the blind women who haunt the rooms of every boss on board except the bosses inside.Come and go at any time without arousing any suspicion.

You just need to let the batch of instant noodles that the cleaning takes are all poisonous, and then let these women go through the room of the innocent boss, throw away those poisonous instant noodles, and replace them with non-toxic ones.

Neither the crew nor Mr. Liu's room had instant noodles, which can be seen from the instant noodles they distributed uniformly during the meal, so there would be no danger.

People always pay attention to the place where the case happened subconsciously, and ignore others. Subtracting from the total is more hidden, isn't it? "

Ji Xun came to a light conclusion and continued:

"The third case is all clear up to this point, and it can be learned from it that the murderer must be a crew member who can handle the supplies on the ship, otherwise there is no way to bring the whole box of poisonous instant noodles.

Let's go back to the second case.

The crew members who included the murderer were all at the scene of Boss Lin's crime when the second case happened, and had no time to commit the crime. That is to say, he must have had an accomplice, or created some kind of mechanism.

I've been to the scene, and the environment there is simple.

Decks, blood, missing people.

Compared with the technique, what confuses me most about the second case is actually the motive.

When I realized that the murderer wanted revenge on a specific person, I wondered why a murderer who didn't take advantage of the time when most people were hallucinated to indiscriminately kill innocent people chose a second-floor boarding boss as the first murderer. Second ring?

The dead boss was surnamed Ni, but in his forties, he was not on board.

Could he be a descendant of the crew on board?Or someone involved?

I couldn't find any useful clues in the other party's luggage, but I saw myself in the mirror in the room.

Still wearing the boss's clothes and wearing a silver mask.

Am I not a boss?

But I am clearly not a boss. "

The wind, accompanied by Ji Xun's weird narration, made strange noises again.

The curtains flapped over those feet like batwings.

The black and thick feet, like tree roots, firmly grasped the ground.

"I replaced a boss of similar stature on the ship halfway, because everyone was wearing a mask, and no one knew who it was.

I began to suspect that this missing Boss Ni was not Boss Ni at all.

It was just a middle-aged man with no distinctive appearance after wearing a mask. The last time he appeared was around 8:20 in the morning. He followed Mr. Liu's words and went back to his room. No one has seen him since.

In the testimony of the assistant chef and head chef, he was not found during the search.

He was pretended, the real him should be under the airtight cabin!

The murderer created a missing person out of thin air by using the poor information on and off the ship, and then used the blood on the deck and the sound of "heavy objects entering the water" to give everyone the illusion that someone died in the second case.

Among these three conditions, acting is very simple, and the murderer can do it himself. The time when the crew arrives at the middle hall is staggered with the bosses. He can completely play Boss Ni first, and then play himself.

The bloodstains are also very simple. In the first case, the murderer deliberately cut off Boss Lin’s tongue after killing Boss Lin—this seems to make the atmosphere more creepy. In fact, Boss Lin’s blood can be collected and arranged in advance.Then add some anticoagulants such as sodium citrate to keep the blood fresh at the scene of the crime. These are very easy to get, and there are food additives.

The last is the sound of entering the water, which is the key.

The timing of its occurrence determines when this carefully arranged scene is discovered.

So how to control this time?

It is conceivable that when the murderer hopes to use the "ghost story" to make the third case happen smoothly, he must also hope to use the second case to wash away some of his suspicions.

Therefore, the best time for it to happen, of course, is when the crew has gathered around Boss Liu, and the killer has enough alibi. "

Solving puzzles without anyone's cooperation is somewhat lonely.

But when he saw those motionless feet through the curtain, Ji Xun got some comfort again.

Whether as a murderer or as a friend, the other party is listening to his description carefully through a curtain.

"Speaking of which, all the reasons for the need for a secret room in the first case are finally clear.

A secret room means that the door is locked, which means that Mr. Liu and others need to break in.It was not easy to break open that door. Mr. Liu needed tools and persistent destruction, which gave the murderer a certain amount of space and time to act before entering the room.

With the anti-lock as a sign, the murderer activated the delay device while everyone was paying attention to the door. After a period of time, something would fall into the sea.

It doesn't need to exist in Boss Ni's room, it can be anywhere, as long as the "sound of entering the water" is enough.

In the whole plan, the murderer chose Boss Ni as the pretend target, which was not planned by him at the beginning, because the patrol on the ship was arranged by Mr. Liu. If he went at the wrong time, the blood stains would be discovered in advance by the searchers.

So he chose the room he searched.

He quietly poured blood on the deck as he and his search partner left.The drop of blood appeared to be dripping about one meter away. Apart from being stabbed in the kidney, it could also be that someone poured the mouth of the bottle hanging on the waist to the ground.

No one would remember who the bosses who wore masks in the morning were. Mr. Liu only found out that their surname was Ni after checking the files on the spot.

And the two people who searched Boss Ni's room—"

Ji Xun stopped.

The mystery was about to be revealed, and he looked at the feet.Those feet were still as stable as a rock.

Is the owner of those feet also waiting for this moment?

"Help cook, and head chef.

Plus, the murderer was able to see a suspected cop jump off the first floor, and the cook doesn't live in the same row as the suspected cop, so there's only one option left, you know your accomplice ghost doesn't exist on board , That's why you were so active when Mr. Liu was fishing with Ah Tang, trying to win Mr. Liu's trust before everyone else..."

Ji Xun finally reached out and lifted the curtain.

The clips of the curtains were removed at some point.

The curtains, which were originally unwilling to give in no matter how they fluttered in the strong wind, were as docile as lambs under Ji Xun's hands.

He lifted the curtain, like the final curtain of a stage of truth, the darkness surged upwards, and a thick, tall figure emerged.

He stands behind the veil like a tower.

He is, Head Chef, Ben!

"Maybe," Ji Xun looked at the person, and the words in his mouth rolled over the tip of his tongue, ground his teeth, and finally floated into the strong wind, precariously existing, "I should call you uncle."