Chapter 174 Questions and Talks
After the divination was successful, Dorothy handed the ticket that had been divined to Edrick inside the private room. She then rummaged through the ticket box and found a few more tickets. She then moved the box aside, put away the paper with the magic circle drawn on it, hid herself, and manipulated Edrick to push the door of the private room, and spoke to the two conductors who were guarding outside the door.
"I already have some clues. Now I need to ask some questions to a few passengers in person. Can you please notify them for me and tell them that...some cases have occurred in the first-class carriage and I need to question certain people."
After listening to Edrick's words, the two conductors looked at each other and then replied.
"No problem, detective, go ahead and tell me."
"Thank you for your cooperation. First of all, this is Mr. Harry from seat two, row three, carriage seven. By the way, when you get to the carriage, shout loudly and publicly. It would be best if everyone in the carriage can hear it. If the people you shout at are worried or scared, reassure them and tell them that you are just asking questions. Do you understand?" Edrick said while looking at a ticket in a handful of tickets in his hand, and one of the conductors nodded after hearing this.
"It's clear. I'll go right away."
As he spoke, the conductor walked away along the aisle, and Edrick looked at the other one.
"Excuse me, could you please make me a pot of black tea with two cups? It will be much easier to drink tea while asking questions."
"No problem, detective, go first." With that, another conductor also walked away. After successfully supporting the two conductors, Dorothy, who was hiding under the bed in the compartment, came out again, then took out the magic box from her body, opened it, enlarged the outlet, put it on the bed in the compartment, and then spread out the quilt to cover the entire magic box.
After completing all these preparations, Dorothy slipped out quickly while there was no one outside the private room, ran all the way back to her own private room, and closed the door.
"Huh... Next, come one by one."
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On a speeding steam train, in carriage number seven of the second-class carriage, the conductor came in and spoke loudly to the passengers in the first carriage.
"Everyone, we have just reported some cases in the first-class carriage. A detective has found some clues and would like to consult some of you. Please cooperate. The first person is Mr. Harry in the second seat of the third row."
After the conductor finished speaking, the whole carriage began to become noisy, and the passengers began to whisper about something, and the man named Harry also stood up.
"Excuse me, sir. What happened in the first-class carriage? Why did you ask me to go? I have been staying here the whole time."
The man said this with a hint of uneasiness in his expression, and the conductor spoke soothingly as Dorothy had instructed.
"Don't worry, it's just some simple inquiries, just follow me."
Listening to the conductor's words, Harry packed his luggage and followed with some trepidation. After they left the carriage, a man in black clothes and a black hat, alias Kim, sitting on the back seat couldn't help but look frozen.
"There was a case in the first-class carriage? What case? Was the guy's body found? Or something else? And that so-called detective... where did he suddenly appear from?"
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The man named Harry followed the conductor to the first-class carriage, to Edrick's compartment. After he entered, Edrick asked the conductor to close the door, and then asked the somewhat uneasy Harry to sit down.
"Are you the detective? What do you want to talk to me about? I stayed in my compartment the whole night and didn't leave. Many people can testify to this!"
"Haha, calm down, Mr. Harry, I asked you to come here just to ask a few questions. I know your situation, we can chat for a while and then you can leave.
"First of all, have you ever seen a set of jewelry like this?"
Then Edric described the details of a piece of jewelry to the man, asked him a few questions, chatted with him for a few more words about irrelevant things, and then let him go.
After watching Harry walk out of the compartment, Edrick called the conductor and gave him instructions.
"Please continue to help me call the next person. It's carriage seven again. This time there are three seats in a row. It's a lady named Karin."
"Yes, Detective."
After responding with a sigh, the conductor continued to leave and call for help.
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In this way, people in carriage seven and carriages six or eight on both sides began to be called by the conductor to talk to Edrick. Each person only talked for about four or five minutes before coming back.
At first, the passengers in the carriage were a little uneasy, but after seeing the person who was called in for a talk soon returned safely, they got used to it and began to talk curiously about the detective's purpose and what happened in the first-class carriage.
After several people talked to each other, they concluded from the information inadvertently revealed by the detective during the conversation that this might be a jewelry theft case. It was said that a witness saw the thief running this way.
In the car where everyone was talking, the words being asked spread, and the man in the car who went by the alias Kim snorted secretly after hearing it.
"Hmph...jewelry theft? It seems that the black dog is really missing and has not been found yet. That's right, I couldn't find that guy even with my wall-climbing skills, so how could these ordinary people find him?"
"It seems that there has been another jewelry theft in the first-class carriage. Now an ordinary detective is solving the case. How boring..."
The man thought so, and at this time, the conductor standing at the door of the carriage called out another name.
"Mr. Kim, seat four, row five, please come with me."
After more than a dozen people passed by, the man finally heard his name being called. Without thinking anything, he silently took his belongings and stood up. Then he followed the conductor all the way to the first-class carriage, into Edrick's compartment.
With an indifferent expression, the man entered the private room and the door behind him was closed.
After entering the private room, the man immediately began to look around. This was an ordinary private room. Except for a few places under the bed, all places were in sight. There were no blind spots where people could hide and ambush. The quilt on the bed was covered, but there was nothing big underneath. He checked the situation under the bed with the reflector of the floor-to-ceiling mirror next to him and confirmed that there was no one.
There were no conditions for an ambush. After confirming this, the man felt relieved. He then looked at the man sitting at the table, the detective as the conductors called him, who was now talking to him with a smile.
"Please take a seat, Kim. I will just ask two simple questions. I won't waste too much of your time. Please cooperate with me in handling the case."
Listening to Edrick's words, the man silently sat in front of Edrick and responded indifferently.
"Ask any questions you have."
"Well, I want to ask you, where were you around eight o'clock tonight?" Edrick asked the man in front of him, and the man spoke slowly.
"I was in my own seat in my own compartment and I wasn't going anywhere."
"No, you were in the first class carriage and brutally murdered an innocent man with a dagger. You cut off his fingers and pierced his chest and abdomen. He died from the poison in your weapon."
With a serious expression, Edrick told the man the truth. The man was stunned for a moment, then answered seriously.
"Aren't you working a jewel heist?"
"Haha...that's just a cover my friend. If I'm investigating a murder case, would the murderer come to my door on his own?" Edrick said with a smile, then took out a pistol from under the table and pointed it at the man who was less than two meters away from him.
"Don't move, Mr. Kim. I have sufficient evidence to prove that you killed Mr. Sodod. You will be brought to court to accept the judgment of the Holy Father's justice."
Edrick spoke seriously to the man, and the man was silent for a while with a frozen expression, then spoke naturally.
"Detective, how did you find that guy's body... and how do you know I killed him?"
"It's nothing, just a little luck and a little reasoning. Just surrender, Kim," Edrick continued, listening to the man's answer with a chuckle.
"Reasoning?... You can even deduce this from me. You are really an excellent detective. But detective, you overlooked two things."
"What is it?"
"First, you think I'm an ordinary person, and you think you can kill me with just a gun."
"What's wrong with the gun? Can you be faster than the gun?"
"Secondly, for me, at this distance, the knife is fast!"
As he spoke, a hint of cruelty flashed in the man's eyes. He pulled out a knife from his clothes at an extremely fast speed, stabbed it forward, and in an instant he sent the blade into Edrick's chest. With his other hand, he knocked the gun out of Edrick's hand.
This is the speed of a Black Earth-class "Shadow" Extraordinary.
"You are so arrogant, mortal detective."
Looking at Edrick, whose eyes were wide open and his face was filled with fear, the man murmured indifferently.
To his surprise, Edric, who was stabbed in the vitals, did not fall down immediately. Instead, his frightened expression suddenly relaxed, and an evil smile suddenly appeared on his lips.
"You are so arrogant, Shadow's assassin..."
"What……"
Suddenly, Edric stretched out his hands and grabbed the astonished man's arm that was holding the knife in front of him, making it difficult for him to get rid of it.
At the same time, beside the man, on the ordinary bed, the thin quilt that usually covered it suddenly bulged, and three burly men suddenly jumped out and pounced on the man.
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