Chapter 555: Scope
By faking the murder scene, Dorothy easily obtained the cooperation of the crew members and let Ed mobilize the crew's strength as a detective. Since Dorothy had monitored and investigated these crews from the beginning, she was roughly sure that they had no connection with the secret and could leave safely.
Dorothy recognized the cigarette ashes on the carpet in Room 417 and knew that it was a kind of cigar that was basically only smoked by men. Then she carefully compared and analyzed the slight deformation marks on the carpet and confirmed the footprints of the person here. She inferred the height from the footprints. Finally, she found a male corpse of similar height, stripped it and destroyed its face, and threw it into the room to act as a corpse, and then guided others to find it.
Fortunately, the captain of the ship, William, was a Plitvian. He had heard about Detective Ed, so Dorothy could gain the captain's trust directly as a famous detective. To be honest, the reason why Detective Ed's reputation was able to expand rapidly was largely because of Adele's fame. After the Feiteng Theater incident, Detective Ed followed Adele's star effect and became a well-known detective in Tivian.
After formally obtaining the right to investigate the case from Captain William, Dorothy asked Ed to pretend to conduct a simple investigation of the scene, and then asked Ed to open the door and ask the anxious waiter who was waiting on the other side.
"What's the name of the person in this cabin? I think you have a record of it."
"Yes, yes. The guest staying at No. 417 is named Nicodo Rizzo. He boarded the ship at Russo. His ticket's destination is Mon Carlo."
The waiter told Ed the basic information of the people in room 417 registered on the ship. After listening to this information, Dorothy pondered for a moment and recalled the location of Russo. In Dorothy's impression, it should be a coastal city of Casillas, an island country in the northern part of the Conquered Sea.
After finishing her thoughts, Dorothy asked Ed to look at Captain William beside her, and then spoke.
"Captain, I need to conduct a comprehensive interview with all the people involved in the case. Please prepare a separate room for me and inform the guests around 417 to go to the door of that room. Oh, and call all the waiters in charge of this floor. I need to interview them one by one."
Ed gave these instructions to the old captain, and the old captain responded quickly.
"No problem, I'll be right there, Detective."
Afterwards, the old captain efficiently arranged a cabin for Ed on the first floor of 417. After Ed entered the cabin, he immediately summoned the crew to find and arrange for the guests around 417 and the waiters on the first floor to meet at the door of the cabin prepared by Ed. In this way, Dorothy took Ed to the cabin and questioned the passengers and waiters one by one.
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"What...you are talking about the impression of the person who lives next door to me..."
Inside the cabin, a middle-aged woman in a long dress was sitting opposite Ed's desk. After hearing what Ed said, she couldn't help but start to think and recall. After thinking for a while, she answered.
"To be honest, I don't have much impression of him. Although he lives next door to me, I have never seen him. Every time I go out and come back, I see that the door of 417 is closed. At first I thought no one was there, but who knew that at night there would be noises again."
"Sound? What sound?"
"It's a disgusting sound, like someone is howling in a flood. It's disgusting. I've been on this boat for five days, and he has been howling for a while on three nights. Sometimes it feels like he is grabbing the wall with his hands. God, if he hadn't been quiet enough last night, I would have changed rooms."
The middle-aged woman said this to Ed. Dorothy silently took note of the other party's statement and continued to the next round of questioning.
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"The noise at night? Oh... yes, that annoying weird noise, I could hear it occasionally at night, I thought he was having a seizure, a lunatic. But I didn't expect this guy to be able to quarrel, he's a normal person."
A northern black man wearing a long robe and with slightly darker skin was answering Ed's words across from him, telling his evaluation of his next-door neighbor. Dorothy's expression froze slightly after hearing this, and then she asked Ed to ask immediately.
"Fight? Did you hear someone quarreling with the occupant of Room 417? When was it?"
"This... happened yesterday morning. I went back to my room to get something, and then I heard a quarrel in that room. It was between two men, and they sounded quite angry." The Beiwu man responded to Ed's words. Listening to the man's words, Ed continued to ask questions.
"Do you remember what they were arguing about?"
"I definitely don't remember that. I couldn't understand what they were saying. It was a different language to me."
"Do you recognize the language?"
"This... I'm sorry, I don't recognize it either."
In response to Ed's question, the Beiwu man shook his head. At this time, Ed directly spoke a fluent Faraj language, and then spoke to the Beiwu man who looked a little confused in Beiwu language.
"Is the language and intonation they used in their quarrel similar to the language I just spoke?"
"Uh...it doesn't seem to be..." The Northern Black man responded in surprise. After seeing this scene, Dorothy asked Ed to say a fluent Pritt language, and then continued to ask.
"So is it similar to this language..."
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In the clean cabin, Ed sat in his seat, looking intently at the waiter in uniform sitting opposite him. At this moment, he was following Ed's words and recalling.
"The guest at No. 417... Let me think about it. I do have some impression of him. He likes to drink and always drinks late at night before going back. I have helped him back twice, and he kept yelling during the process..."
"Is that so... Apart from dealing with these, do you remember any abnormal conditions he had?" Ed asked the waiter again, and the waiter began to think seriously after hearing this.
"Abnormal situation... it seems... nothing. If I really have to say something, it's that this guest was a bit unreasonable. On the day he boarded the ship, he insisted on asking us to change his room. The problem was that there was nothing wrong with his room. The place he wanted to move to was also occupied that day. We couldn't move with him. He kept making a fuss for a long time before he gave up. It was very annoying..."
The waiter then went on to say something to Ed. Ed raised his eyebrows when he heard the waiter's words, and then spoke.
"Change rooms? Where does he want to change to?"
"I don't remember that. It was almost a week ago. We have thousands of rooms here, and I switch rooms with other guests every day. I can't rush to change to which room he wanted to change to at that time."
The waiter then spoke to Ed, and after hearing his words, Dorothy remained silent.
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