Xing's black eyes swept across the messy dressing table, across the open window, across the almost invisible traces of dust on the windowsill, and finally looked up at the spider web in the corner of the ceiling.
A barely perceptible ray of starlight flickered in her eyes.
Then she spoke, and a clear voice followed:
"The murderer is a male, about 1.8 meters tall, and left-handed, because the pry marks on the jewelry box were in a single direction and were applied from left to right."
"When he came in, he was wearing boots, dark brown leather, with worn soles and a small piece missing from the inside of the right heel. He was familiar with the layout of your home and knew that you were not at home last night because of the opera."
"He climbed in through the window. His target was clear, so he went straight for the jewelry box. After he got the jewelry, he did not return the same way, but left through the servants' stairs. A boot print with blue algae mud was found under the handrail of the stairs, which matched the mark on the windowsill."
Xing speaks very quickly and the information is accurate, as if he saw it with his own eyes.
Mrs. Morris was stunned.
"As for the Moon Shadow Stone..." Xing pointed out the window.
"The murderer didn't go far. He needed a safe and familiar place to temporarily hide the stolen goods and wait for the storm to pass before handing the items over to the people who wanted them. The abandoned old lighthouse in Xicheng District has a good view and is rarely visited. There is enough space under the third loose floor tile of the spiral staircase of the lighthouse, and there is a smell of fresh soil that has been turned over recently!"
Mrs. Morris was shocked.
We can also talk about the clues at the crime scene. How did she know where the third loose tile of the lighthouse's spiral staircase was?
Mrs. Morris increasingly suspected that Xing was a liar.
But Sheriff Blanco had no doubt about the clues given by Xing. Then, based on the clues given by Xing, he immediately took the guards and, under the guidance of Xing, rushed straight to the old lighthouse in the West City.
The interior of the lighthouse was dark and damp, and the spiral staircase creaked.
When Sheriff Blanco pried open the third loose floor tile, a small box carefully wrapped in oilcloth came into view!
When I opened it, I saw it was the Moon Shadow Stone that emitted a faint chill!
At the same time, sounds of fighting were heard below the lighthouse.
A tall and thin man wearing dark brown leather boots with blue-green mud on the soles was shocked when he saw that the matter was exposed. He wanted to escape, but was stopped by me. He wanted to attack me, but unfortunately when he came in front of me and punched me, he stepped on moss and fell forward. His head made close contact with the ground and then he fainted.
Sheriff Blanco had no trouble catching the thief.
The reason for the whole case was actually that Mrs. Morris was too high-profile. She often told her friends how precious and beautiful her heirlooms were, so her friends wanted to find someone to steal them.
Returning to the office, Xing sighed, "Another boring day. How can such a small case show my powerful detective ability?"
I was speechless and said, "I think the clues you gave at the scene are a waste of time. You have already predicted the real murderer through astrology."
Yes, Xing’s most powerful ability is not her detective ability, but her astrological magic.
Of course, it is normal to use astrological magic to obtain clues in the current case investigation process, but what I want to say is that Xing's astrological magic is so powerful that no other auxiliary means are needed at all.
Xing smiled and said, "I am a detective now, so I have to handle things in a detective style."
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Mrs. Morris has many friends, and she told everyone about Xing's powerful ability to solve cases.
Within a few days, the fame of Xingxing Office increased a lot, and more and more people came to visit. However, everyone who came here would complain about the environment here at least once.
In response, Xing just smiled and didn't say anything.
After dealing with these visitors, Xing and I continued to live a quiet life.
Occasionally, someone would come to Xing for help, looking for lost items, such as cats, jewelry, children, etc.
For these requests for help in finding things, Xing doesn't need to go out. He can just give the other party the answer and let the other party go back and look for it themselves.
Except for one time when the lost child was abducted, Xing teleported away directly. When she came back, I found out that she had sent the kidnapper to prison.
The child was also brought back safely.
However, this peaceful time did not last long.
A few days later, the doorbell of the Xingxing Office rang, and Sheriff Blanco came in and said, "A large-scale fight broke out in the dock area. The Iron Hook Gang and the Tide Gang fought each other in order to compete for the berth of the freighter. There were heavy casualties!"
When Xing and I arrived at the scene, the dock seemed to be covered in a layer of blood.
The air was filled with a disgusting mixture of smells: a strong smell of blood, the salty smell of sea water, the stench of sewers, the rotten smell of pickled fish from the blown-open wooden boxes, and some strange burnt smell.
The scene was in a mess, as if it had been ravaged by a giant beast, and there were traces of small-scale magic bombings everywhere.
Broken wooden boxes and scattered goods covered the ground.
The dark brown bloodstains spread on the wet ground, shocking to the eye.
Several bodies covered with tattered sackcloth lay quietly in the corner.
The people from the Magic Security Department had already cordoned off the scene. The remaining members of the two gangs were cursing at each other across the cordon, their eyes fierce, as if they would pounce on each other again at any time.
After Sheriff Blanco and we arrived at the scene, he said, "Miss Xing, this scene is too tragic. Seven people died and more than a dozen were seriously injured. Both sides said that the other side first used illegal poisons and curse magic, trying to kill the other side."
Xing nodded, then sighed and said, "I didn't expect someone would actually use curse magic."
The mysterious starlight flashed across Xing's eyes, and soon she had a rough answer to what happened this time.
"It wasn't a gang fight." Her voice was not loud, but unusually cold. "It was murder. A carefully planned massacre with the intention of framing someone."
She pointed to an extremely blurry shoe print on the muddy ground, which was almost covered by explosion dust and mud.
"Size 42, custom-made soft-soled leather boots with a unique pattern on the sole. These boots..."
Xing paused, his eyes sweeping across the gang members outside the blockade who were wearing tattered leather boots or simply barefoot, and said, "It's not something that dock laborers or members of the Hook Gang or Tide Gang can afford. It belongs to a respectable person, someone who is used to walking on clean streets."
There was a flash of starlight at her fingertips, and a clear and enlarged shadow suddenly appeared above the blurry shoe print.
That's projection magic.
"As for the prohibited poisons..." Xing looked at the poisons I had collected and said, "It's monster dust, made from various monster venoms. The other party's goal is to kill everyone here."
"I just didn't expect you guys to move so fast."
Sheriff Blanco said, "Miss Xing, didn't you notify us to come here late at night? Otherwise, we wouldn't know."
The corner of Xing's mouth twitched, and after glaring at Blanco, he said, "Okay, I take it back then. Why are you so slow? It took several people death before you arrived?"
Sheriff Blanco: “….”
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