Chapter 98
Not only that, several other key pieces of evidence were found in this case, including three knives missing from the kitchen knife rack. Two were found in Chef Qin's room, and the remaining one was in Chu's friend's room.
Regarding the question of why the principal did not make any sound when he died, the key evidence was a bottle of sleeping pills.
That’s right, the sleeping pill was found in Lady Ning’s room.
And an ashtray suspected to be the murder weapon of the dean of studies.
After everyone's confrontation and mutual confession, the following clues were obtained:
In addition to wanting revenge for themselves and killing the fake Huan Banzhuan and the real Baiyu, Lin Erdai and Ning Meiren also have motives to kill the dean in order to destroy the evidence in his hands and to stop him from blackmailing them for money.
Lin Erdai said that he had taken a knife, but later gave it to Chef Qin to ask him to help him kill someone.
Lin Erdai's knife and the second knife were both in Chef Qin's room. Chef Qin also wanted to kill someone, but his target was not the dean of studies, but Lin Erdai.
Although Lin Erdai helped him, he never treated him as a human being. Even though he had become the boss, Lin Erdai had always mentally bullied Chef Qin in front of both guests and employees.
Even after the Lin family lost power, the second generation of the Lin family had fallen to the point where they were even worse off than the restaurant owner, Chef Qin, but he still maintained his superior attitude.
Chef Qin, who could no longer tolerate this, decided to kill Lin Erdai in the name of Bai Yu the moment he received the invitation.
He came to Rose Manor for two purposes. One was Lin Erdai, and the other was Bai Yu. No matter whether he was a human or a ghost, since he was dead, he should never appear again, and no one could destroy his peaceful life.
In addition, Chu Haoyou, played by Chu Fan, also has a motive for murder.
Under the day-to-day torment, guilt and mental pressure, Chu Fan gradually split into two personalities. The main personality is Chu Fan's good friend who thinks he is not wrong and firmly believes that if he does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. The other personality turns into an avenger.
He felt that neither the main personality nor those evil people deserved to live.
There was no chance.
Now, with the death of several important figures in the case, the secondary personality has completely awakened.
He didn't want his friend's hands to be stained with blood anymore, so he wanted to complete the revenge for Bai Yu. After killing the other villains, he would also prepare to kill his own main personality to atone for his sins.
Several people came to Rose Manor the night before, but when everyone gathered, it was already late, and because of some quarrels, everyone left unhappily.
Chef Qin was cooking in the kitchen at the time, and Concubine Ning took the opportunity to go to the kitchen and put sleeping pills in the food.
Because of the quarrel, Chef Qin, Lin Erdai and Lady Ning, who knew that there were sleeping pills in the food, did not eat. Bai Yu was also in no mood to eat because he wanted to kill someone. In the end, the only ones who took the food with sleeping pills were the dean of studies and Chu's good friend.
And that night, according to everyone's timeline, if none of them lied, it should have been like this:
Lin Erdai wanted to kill the dean of studies, but he didn't want to do it himself, so he thought of his younger brother again.
Before returning to his room, he said to Chef Qin, "I will come to see you in the evening, and then you go out with me to do something." He did not specify what it was.
Chef Qin nodded in agreement without objection, because this was exactly what he wanted. He wanted to get rid of the person when the second generation Lin asked him to go out that night.
That night, Lin Erdai knocked on Chef Qin's door. Ning Meiren, who lived next door and was also awake and sharpening her knife to prepare for action, heard the sound of the door opening and the conversation next door, and thought it must be made by the two of them.
The two men went out together and both carried knives, but neither of them succeeded in committing the crime because they found that another door was also open.
Chu's friend's secondary personality, which had already changed into a secondary personality and was about to go out and commit a crime, was still talking to a figure in the dark.
The other party should be Bai Yu, who also went out to kill someone.
After hearing the confession of the secondary personality and his words of wanting to kill someone for Bai Yu.
Since someone wanted to take action earlier, there was no need for Lin Erdai to dirty his hands, so he prepared to evacuate. Also because there were other people around, Chef Qin was afraid that he would be witnessed by others if he took action, so he decided to wait for a while.
What Chef Qin didn't know was that Lin Erdai actually saved his life, because during the time he was out, Bai Yu also went to his room and prepared to kill him.
Bai Yu didn't find Chef Qin, and was seen by Chu's friend's secondary personality before, and heard his confession. His already cold heart would not waver, but he returned to the room and prepared to go out later at night.
After all, his plan was to kill people one by one to create an atmosphere of terror, with the crimes ranked from low to high, and he would leave the main culprits who hurt him the most to the last, letting them die in fear, torture, and anxiety.
However, Chu Youyou also took a potion containing sleeping pills. Before his secondary personality reached the dean's room, he fell asleep again under the effect of the sleeping pills. When his main personality woke up, he found himself in the corridor for some reason with a knife in his hand, so he hurried back to his room in panic.
Lady Ning didn't leave until the noises from next door had died down.
But when she arrived at the dean's room, she found him lying in a pool of blood.
There are no loopholes in the murderer's timeline, and it is impossible to guess who he is. During the period between Lady Ning's exit, Chu's fainting, and the return of Second Generation Lin and the chef to the room, anyone could have left the room.
【Cunning, cunning.】
[These murderers are better at hiding than each other.]
[Wait, is there another important clue? ]
The ashtray stained with a trace of blood was found in Lin Erdai's room.
Among the men present, only Lin Erdai and the principal were smoking.
Rose Manor had not been inhabited for a long time, so naturally there were no ashtrays in the rooms, only one in the hall. Everyone still remembered that it was Lady Ning who disliked the second generation Lin for smoking and flicked ashes everywhere.
Lin Erdai was impatient with Lady Ning's nagging, so he picked up the ashtray and went back to his room cursing.
Apparently, Lady Ning also remembered this incident, so she looked at Lin Erdai and asked, "Did you kill the dean with an ashtray?"
Perhaps because he became angrier the more he thought about it after returning to his room, Lin Erdai decided to go out again to confirm whether Chu Youhao really killed the dean.
"It's just that during the previous operation, you handed the knife to Chef Qin, but you didn't have a weapon yourself. You wanted to carry something for self-defense, but you also thought that if the Dean of Studies was still alive, you might be able to deliver a fatal blow. Someone else had already taken action anyway, so even if you took action yourself, the previous person would take the blame for you."
"And the weapon you found was a crystal ashtray that you could hide in your arms and that could also crack a person's skull."
"What you didn't expect is that the dean of studies is really not dead."
"In a fit of passion, you murdered someone, left in a hurry, and rinsed the murder weapon clean after returning to your room. That's why there's not a trace of ash on it, because you washed it."
The camera zooms in, and Lady Ning points at the crystal ashtray in the evidence bag: "However, you were too careless and left a trace of blood in the thin trace at the bottom."
Ning Miaomiao pointed at the dark red bloodstain and said, "We didn't notice it before. Because this ashtray is also red."
Facing everyone's focused gazes, Lin Yi raised his hands and cried out in injustice, "I don't know, really. As for why there's no ash on it, don't forget that my character is a second-generation, particularly arrogant person. I always flick ashes away, not in the ashtray. I just flick them onto the ground."
Thinking of something, Lin Yi suddenly said: "The real owner of this ashtray should be the murderer, and I was framed by the murderer."
[Oh, does this sound familiar to you, brother?]
[Of course I'm familiar with it. It's what our brother Bai left behind. I just don't know if this brother's tricks are just new and effective, or if he's really been framed.]
However, the more anxiously Lin Yi tried to explain, the more people looked at him with a strange look. Ning Miaomiao spoke again and stated her own conclusion: "So my suspect is the second generation Lin."
However, as soon as Ning Miaomiao finished speaking, two voices rang out at the same time: "That's not right."
Huan Xu and Yan Ze looked at each other.
Yan Ze pursed his lips slightly: "You speak first."
Huan Xu narrowed his eyes and smiled faintly: "Assistant Yan, please."
After a moment of silence, the two spoke in unison again, "How about we go together?"
【4 times.】
【Isn't this the fifth time I've lit a cigarette?】
"What, what are you talking about? Stop playing dumb."
[Has no one noticed? This is the fifth time Director Huan and General Xiaoyan have exchanged glances in tacit understanding. Oh, this damn tacit understanding.]
【ah? 】
When the other guests saw Assistant Yan following behind Teacher Dahei, they all expressed the same extreme surprise as when they saw Teacher Xingchen. Only Director Huan seemed less surprised.
After all, Director Huan is the lead director of Guide Dogs, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to know Daikoku's true identity, right?
[It means the detective assistant and the guests are incredibly clever. They can easily come up with the answer to any situation with just a glance. Have you ever considered how much pressure our detective must be under with the assistant and guests' keen observations?]
「Ah, now that you put it that way, it seems like there isn’t much pressure, Daikoku-sensei.」
In the camera, Teacher Dahei looks well-behaved, with confusion written all over his face, ah, no, wisdom.
"Oh, you foolish humans, the detective has already thought of what you thought of."
"Then, Detective, please tell me what exactly is wrong with what the two assistants just mentioned?"
[Teacher Daihei: Woof woof, the assistant will be responsible for translation.]
[Very good, this answer is perfect.]
Huan Xu: "The real murder weapon probably isn't this ashtray."
Assistant Yan: "Maybe he's gone now."
【Destroy the body and eliminate all traces.】
Huan Xu: "When everyone inspected the scene earlier, I wonder if anyone noticed that there was too much blood at the scene."
Assistant Yan: "The secret of the murder weapon should be hidden in here."
[Indeed, when I saw the overwhelming bloodstains, I said the deceased's blood flowed into a large basin, but what does that have to do with the murder weapon?]
A barrage of comments from the Youtianxing IP appeared on the screen, and Huan Xu and Yan Ze spoke at the same time, saying a keyword: "Ice."
"If you use ice to pound a person to death, and then hide the ice between the body and the blanket, the residual heat from the dead body and the blanket will accelerate the melting of the ice."
"Then naturally we couldn't find the murder weapon in the end, because it turned into water and merged with the blood, soaking the bedding."
"This would also explain why the deceased bled so much."
After investigating the crime scene, Huan Xu and Yan Ze did not continue to act together, but went to different rooms separately.
Seeing that the other party agreed with his opinion, Huan Xu raised an eyebrow: "Assistant Yan found other clues?"
Yan Ze nodded. In fact, after inspecting the scene with Huan Xu, he already had some guesses and doubts in his mind.
Wanting to find the answer, he and Huan Xu went to the kitchen separately, where the refrigerator that could cool and store ice cubes was located.
He opened the lower layer of the refrigerator. Because Rose Manor is a homestay, even though it has never been rented out, the refrigerator has always been powered on. After careful searching, Yan Ze found some clues at the bottom of the refrigerator.
Some marks and traces of cleaning and some traces of plastic packaging still remaining on it.
Yan Ze: "In my opinion, the real murderer may have already made up his mind to kill the dean. He even planned to make himself look innocent, so that the murder weapon could not be found, and even had a scapegoat."
"He wrapped the frozen ice cubes he had prepared in advance in a plastic bag and carried it with him. Before the ice could completely melt, he froze it in the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, which had not been used for a long time. During his nighttime operation, he quietly went to the kitchen and took out the ice. The ice solidified again, causing part of the plastic bag to stick to the wall of the drawer. He used his fingernails to pick it off, but because he was operating in the dark, some residue was still left behind."
[So the suspicion that those people who went to the kitchen were the murderers has greatly increased! ]
"Then he went back upstairs, killed the man, and left the ice at the crime scene. The next morning, the tools he used had vanished completely. All he had to do was pretend to be as innocent as everyone else. Of course, these are just my guesses."
Yan Ze looked at Huan Xu and said expectantly, "Time is limited. I don't have time to search other rooms. I think you've found some crucial evidence here."
Huan Xu nodded slightly. "That's what I wanted to say. Originally, I was just guessing, but after what Assistant Yan said just now, my guess is a little more certain."
"Just like Assistant Yan said, if the murderer wanted to carry the ice with him, he should at least have a place to store it. It can't be too obvious for others to see at a glance."
"When we came, there were only two people carrying backpacks: Chef Qin and Lady Ning."
"I found the medium-sized women's bag that Lady Ning was carrying in her room."
"And I found that the bag was actually empty. Ning Meiren had taken out some daily cosmetics and placed them on the table. Perhaps this can be understood as a personal habit."
"Although I don't know much about girls, based on Ning Meiren's personality, she is a delicate girl who cares a lot about her appearance. However, there are only a few cosmetics on her desk."
"I tried to put them back in the bag and realized that even a small, exquisite handbag could still hold quite a lot of things."
"My impression is that she seemed to have a lot of things in her bag when she came."
"Of course, that doesn't mean anything."
"But when I touched the bottom of the bag, I found it was slightly damp. When I held it up to the light, I could see some traces of dye on the lining."
"Considering what Assistant Yan said earlier," Huan Xu turned to look at Lady Ning, "the reason there were so few things in the bag was probably because the ice cubes were inside, and the water probably came from the ice cubes freezing before they were put back into the refrigerator."
"When the zipper is closed, there's no air circulation in the middle of the bag, so when I touch it I feel a slight dampness."
Yan Ze added, "You know Lin Erdai's character very well. You deliberately let him take the ashtray away. The bloodstains on it must have been smeared on you in three minutes. Your purpose was to frame Lin Erdai."
Lady Ning blinked. "Because of recent events, I haven't been in the mood to wear too much makeup. As for the wet marks you mentioned, oh, that's because I accidentally spilled some lotion in there."
[Are you lying? The murderer can lie.]
Is Miaomiao still making a final struggle? Although her reaction was relatively quick, her explanation still felt a bit forced and awkward.
Poor Miaomiao! If it were just Director Huan or Assistant Yan, it might not be possible to convict Miaomiao based on the bloodstains at the scene and the evidence alone. But now that the three parties have confirmed the murderer, they've basically identified her.
Indeed, the key evidence in this round was discovered by Director Huan and Detective Xiaoyan. If it were me, I definitely wouldn't have thought of it. If it were just Director Huan or Detective Yan, the evidence wouldn't be so complete, and perhaps the other guests would have hesitated when voting. Now, I think Miaomiao has passed unanimously.
[The person above is Assistant Yan, not Detective Yan. Hey, give our Big Black Detective some face, understand?]
[Hmm, I almost forgot about the Daikoku Detective. So where is Daikoku Detective now?]
[Heihei, where's the great detective? If you don't come back soon, the case will be solved.]
[Dahei: The little assistant has stolen all the limelight. Okay, okay, let the little assistant take over the votes too. I'm throwing a tantrum and won't be showing up.]
In the subsequent part of deducing the true murderer, two hardcore bosses took the lead. As everyone guessed, the other guests all cast their votes for Ning Miaomiao.
They gathered back in the hall, and before Director Chen announced the news, Teacher Dahei suddenly ran out from behind the stairs holding a phone with a pink case in its mouth.
[Mr. Hei, you're back from playing, and you even picked out a gift.]
Dahei shook his head and handed the phone to Assistant Yan... and Huan Xu who was standing next to him.
Yan Ze withdrew his hand that was stretched out to take the thing as if nothing had happened, and even patted the head of Dahei who came forward to please Huan Xu. Dahei received the praise from his master and wagged his tail even more happily.
【Hahaha, is this so real? 】
I always feel embarrassed for Xiaoyan.
Teacher Dahei said: The poop scooper is bad, Director Huan is good. I like Director Huan and will give the gift to Director Huan.
There was no doubt who the pink phone case belonged to, as there was only one woman present.
Huan Xu looked at the camera as if asking the director behind the screen: "Can I open it and take a look now?"
After receiving a positive answer, Ning Miaomiao sighed under the gaze of everyone, raised her hand and opened the phone with her fingerprint.
The last key piece of information pointing to the murderer was also discovered. On the mobile phone screen, the past browsing history showed Ning Miaomiao's online search for terms on how to kill people without leaving a trace. The page the screen stopped on was "Ice Murder - Disappearing Evidence."
Even without Director Chen's announcement, the result is already in front of everyone.
[Teacher Daihei: Hold your head high and your chest high. Who said I was just slacking off?]
Director Chen: I asked you to be a detective and solve the case, not to steal my job and be the director who announces the answer.
Ning Miaomiao gave the camera a look of uncertainty, "Ah? Oh my god, I think I might go down in history. With all the votes from the guests and detectives, I'm definitely the worst murderer in the history of detectives."
[Hahaha, indeed. After all, no matter how many votes I get, I can't get more than Ning Miaomiao.]
【Not really.】
What else can I do?
Miaomiao didn't receive a unanimous vote. After all, Miaomiao, in her final desperate struggle, cast her vote for the scapegoat, Lin Erdai. If this happens again, and the guest star completely gives up and votes for her, then Miaomiao's history will be broken, and she will be removed from the pillar of shame.
[This is a heartbreaking act, my friend.]
[Actually, Miaomiao can't be blamed. Both her framing of Lin Erdai and her use of ice were quite good. It can only be said that Miaomiao was unlucky, having encountered two high-level players.]
【Hug Miaomiao lovingly. 】
Although they were defeated miserably, the audience response was unexpectedly good. Ning Miaomiao even turned a disaster into a blessing and received more attention. But that's another story.
The fourth episode ended. Because the identity of the mysterious guest in this episode was rather special, after the short skit that restored the truth, Director Chen followed the old rules and added a short clip of about three minutes in length. In the clip, Director Chen, holding the microphone, once again acted as the host.
Director Chen glanced at the screen and said with a smile, "I know everyone must have a lot of questions in their minds right now, so I'd like to volunteer and interview our mysterious Mr. Dahei and his detective assistant. Oh, no, Mr. Shit Shoveler, cross out, I mean Mr. Xiaoyan. And photographer, please edit out the part I said wrong earlier."
Director Chen played a trick. Amidst the barrage of comments of "hahaha" and screenshots to preserve evidence, Director Chen knocked on the door of the backstage studio.
"Come in." Yan Ze's voice came from inside the door.
Before entering the door, Director Chen winked at the camera.
Just, greasy.
[Director Chen, please quickly give the camera to Ms. Xiaoyan so we can clean our eyes.]
In the lounge, Director Chen greeted Yan Ze and Da Hei respectively. Yan Ze and Da Hei's responses were at two extremes. Director Yan nodded lightly in response, which was very consistent with the image of a cold and domineering director in everyone's mind. Teacher Da Hei walked forward naturally and familiarly to greet Director Chen warmly.
[I have a stereotype. I thought the dog raised by a boss was also a domineering dog.]
[Is it possible that only our Daikoku-sensei is different? ]
Director Chen smiled and said, "Would it be convenient for me to take up some of Mr. Dahei and Mr. Yan's time to ask a few questions that I think the audience will be concerned about later?"
Dahei: "Woof."
Yan Ze nodded.
Director Chen smiled and said, "Okay, then I won't waste time and will get straight to the point. First and foremost, the most crucial question is, why did you, President Yan, accompany Teacher Dahei to participate in the program? After all, President Yan, you are a very busy man."
Yan Ze: "No one else in the family is at home." He didn't lie, the old man and Yan Xiaoan were indeed not at home.
There seems to be nothing wrong with Mr. Yan's answer. The others are not here, so he came. But if you think about it carefully, it seems to be a big problem.
Yan Ze seemed to have discovered that there was a loophole in his answer, so after a pause he added: "Dahei is shy."
So he, the master, was the only one who was given the task.
Director Chen lowered his head and looked at Dahei. If I remember correctly, it seemed that Teacher Dahei could "get along" with every actor in the crew at that time, and everyone became friends during the breaks.
However, Mr. Yan is Teacher Dahei's poop scooper. Mr. Yan said that Teacher Dahei is shy, so let's just treat it as if he is shy.
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