Chapter 176 Detective
In the first-class carriage, Edrick was confronting Kim. With the witness of the train attendants and the conductor, Edrick pointed a gun at Kim and began to confess his crimes.
"You are a greedy thief. You saw Mr. Sodod sleeping in his private room and the door was not locked, so you went in to steal. But who would have thought that Mr. Sodod would wake up during this time and have an argument with you in the private room. During this time, you brutally killed him. Am I right?"
"...You're right. That guy wouldn't have died if he had slept quietly. He asked for it!" Kim, who was sitting on the ground, responded. There was a hint of cruelty in his expression as he spoke. His words made everyone else present believe that Kim was the murderer, and a vicious gangster at that!
"Just surrender. You can't escape. You need to pay for your evil deeds, Mr. Kim."
"Pay the price? Humph! Now is not the time for that!"
With a cold snort, Kim looked at the conductor and the driver with a fierce look, then pulled out a small gun from his body, stood up and rushed towards them. From the look of him, it seemed that he wanted to take hostages or take a few people with him.
Kim rushed towards the train attendants and the conductor with a ferocious look on his face. Seeing this, the train attendants looked panicked, but the conductor was quite calm. Facing the attack, he took out a pistol from his waist and pointed it at Kim. Just as he was about to shoot, another gunshot was heard from behind Kim.
"Bang!"
Edrick shot Kim, and Kim's attack was interrupted. She fell to the ground motionless, lifeless, and the conductors and train drivers also saw Edrick.
"I'm sorry, but it seems that the law cannot judge him. Compared to the judgment of the law, I think the safety of your lives is the most important. Regarding the cause of death of Mr. Kim, please ask the police to explain it later."
"Your justice and marksmanship are both admirable, Mr. Detective."
Putting away his pistol, the commander said to Edrick.
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Afterwards, the train attendants calmed the passengers who were frightened by the gunshots, and then cleaned up Kim's body. During this time, the curious conductor found Edrick smoking by the window.
"Dear Detective, thank you very much for helping me find this vicious criminal, but I am also very curious about how you found him through a pile of train tickets. Can you tell me about your reasoning?"
The conductor looked at Edric curiously, and Edric smiled and shook off the ash outside the window before answering.
"Of course, Mr. Captain, please come with me to the crime scene again."
As he spoke, Edrick went to the "crime scene", the carriage where Sodod was. Sodod's body had been moved away, leaving blood all over the floor.
In the room where the crime took place, Edrick squatted down and pointed his finger at a corner by the wall.
"Mr. Captain, please look at this bloodstain here. Is it a little strange?"
Following Edrick's instructions, the driver also looked over, and then found that the bloodstain on the wall was indeed a bit strange.
This small piece of bloodstain is in the shape of normal liquid splashes, but there is one corner that is a perfect square corner. In the square corner there is a small red dot, which looks very unnatural.
"This is……"
“The reason why this bloodstain appears like this is because when the blood dripped down, it happened to drip onto something. Part of it dripped onto the ground, and part of it dripped onto that thing. After the thing was taken away, the remaining drops on the ground appeared like this.
"From the marks on the ground, it seems that this thing has a small piece of paper with square corners and a small hole in the middle. What does this remind you of, Mr. Captain?"
Edrick smiled and said to the conductor, who was also dazed for a moment.
"It's a small piece of paper with a hole in it... It's a ticket! The hole is the mark left by the ticket inspector! The ticket fell out when the murderer was struggling with the victim, and the victim's blood splashed on it. Then the murderer took the ticket, so a bloodstain was formed here.
"That's why you collected those tickets. You wanted to verify the bloodstains."
The captain said this in a low voice, and Edrick nodded with a smile.
"Yes, because you need a ticket to leave the station, so he had to collect the ticket. He was confident that he could conceal the truth by wiping off the blood on the ticket, but he didn't know that blood is something that can never be wiped clean. As a detective, I carry a chemical potion that can detect whether an object has been stained with blood."
Edrick finished his explanation, and the captain continued to nod in admiration.
"Oh... I see. You are able to observe such minute details at the scene, make associations, and finally restore the truth. Mr. Ed, you really deserve the title of detective."
"Nonsense, I set up the entire crime scene myself, and I also made the bloodstains myself, how could I not notice it at a glance if I didn't observe carefully?"
In her own private room, Dorothy, who was controlling the puppet, thought that this so-called "murder scene" was arranged by her, and these traces were created in order to deal with the problems from the conductor later.
"Hearing what you said... After checking the bloodstains on the ticket, you should have known the murderer's identity. Then why didn't you notify us to catch the murderer directly, but summoned other passengers one by one, and finally summoned the murderer?" The conductor continued to ask at this time, and Dorothy had already thought of an excuse to deal with it, and she manipulated Mr. Edrick to answer.
"This is because the murderer is extremely vicious and there are a lot of people in the second-class carriage. I was afraid that if we went to catch him directly and forced him into a corner, he would hurt other passengers. In order to avoid meaningless casualties, I chose this method to call him over. Summoning other passengers was to lower his vigilance."
Edrick finished answering. After listening to Edrick's words, there was a glimmer of light in the driver's expression, and there was a hint of admiration in Edrick's eyes.
"Oh...I see. Did you even consider the safety of other innocent passengers? That's amazing!"
"Mr. Ed, your keen observation, smart wisdom, justice and kindness have opened my eyes today. You are really an excellent detective. I think a detective like you will become famous one day! When we get to Tivian, the reporters will definitely be interested in the story that happened in the car tonight."
The conductor praised Edric generously, and Edric smiled and answered gracefully.
"I don't seek false reputation, I just want to keep pursuing the truth and practicing justice."
At this point, Dorothy wanted Edrick to take out a small pipe and take a few puffs, but after feeling around a bit and finding that he didn't have a pipe on him, she gave up.
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After the conductor explained the vulgar version of the case, Edrick said he wanted to go back and rest. He used the excuse that the table in his original compartment was not good, so he followed the conductor's suggestion and went to the room where he was interrogated to rest. The conductor must have been happy to agree, and even waived the ticket check and agreed to change compartments.
Just like that, Edrick, a ticketless illegal resident, successfully evaded the ticket.
Then, Dorothy threw Edrick into the private room and closed the door, waiting for a while before collecting him. She sat at the table in her own compartment and began to sort out the spoils of this wave of "detective game".
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