Wan Zitou's confession was very brief.

She prepared two similar-looking brown sugar steamed cakes at home, one poisoned and the other non-poisoned, and prepared to find an opportunity during the trip to let the deceased eat the poisoned steamed cake.

Then, she would put a bottle of medicinal wine soaked in blackhead in the deceased's luggage. Because blackhead is often used as an ingredient to stew soup or soak in medicinal wine, it is common to eat it by mistake, which is barely acceptable, especially since Jia Yue himself loves to drink.

This is Gan Min's entire plan.

As for the motive for the crime, it is exactly the same as previously speculated, and it stems from Zhou Chang's death.

The girl with the bun said, "If Jia Yue hadn't been so self-righteous, Brother Chang wouldn't have died. He was such a good person, and took care of all of us like a brother. I'm definitely not the only one who wants him to pay the price."

Jian Jing and Ji Feng exchanged glances - if she wasn't the only one, who could the other one be?

She asked, "What did you do after you poisoned him?"

"I didn't have time to do anything." The girl with the ball emphasized, "I was planning to stuff something into him when he was sick, but who knew he was beaten to death? It wasn't me who killed him."

"You didn't go to the dead man's room again?" Ji Feng asked, "How did you deal with the remaining poisoned steamed cake?"

"I didn't need to deal with it," the girl with the ball explained, "He might have been too hungry and ate it all. I saw it with my own eyes."

In fact, her luck was really good. The unpalatable lunch made the dead man hungry, and he ate up the poisoned steamed cake in no time, which saved her from the subsequent handling. The second murderer's actions also allowed her to escape the sin of murder.

Not everyone has such luck and opportunities.

Jian Jing thought about it and asked, "Have you told anyone about this plan?"

She shook her head: "I don't want to involve other people, not even Xiao Wen."

"Have you paid attention to Room 204? Do you know when the deceased went out?"

The girl with the bun hesitated for a moment and said, "I noticed it, but the room opposite was always playing music, and I couldn't hear anything."

Jian Jing thought she was not lying. Repeatedly hitting the head of the deceased requires not only strength, but also a strong motive for murder and psychological endurance.

The hatred of the girl with the bun was not that strong, and after she entered the room, her eyes intentionally or unintentionally avoided the corpse, and she didn't look like someone who could smash a brain.

Direct killing and indirect killing have completely different impacts.

Since Maru chose the latter, given her situation, it is unnecessary and difficult for her to choose the former.

So, who is the second murderer?

High Ponytail is ruled out for the time being - she does not have the conditions to commit the crime, and according to Maru, she has never left the room - the remaining ones are Blonde Hair and Crew, as well as Chai, a reporter who looks like a passerby, and the man with a broken bone.

Because of Maru's behavior, the two companions have two motives.

To avenge Zhou Chang and to protect Maru.

Let's put the former aside for the time being and talk about the second possibility: perhaps, the other party guessed Maru's poisoning plan through clues and thought that she would do it this afternoon, or wanted to act in advance, using the excuse of repairing the car to make an appointment with the deceased and kill him.

From the perspective of time, Blonde Hair and Crew are equally suspected.

To identify who is more suspicious, some other references are needed.

For example, zombies.

"Do you know what happened to the chicken?" she asked the girl with the ball head.

The girl with the ball head was stunned, confusion appeared in her eyes, and she instinctively denied it: "Chicken? It's not me."

Jian Jing smiled soothingly, indicating that she didn't need to be nervous: "I mean, do you know who did it?"

"I don't know, anyway it's not me, and it won't be Xiao Wen, we are not that boring." She said, "If you insist on me guessing one, it's Jia Yue, he is very boring and always likes to make trouble."

This is a new idea. Jia Yue killed a chicken, which further confirmed the appearance of the zombie and added persuasiveness to the car accident in disguise.

But, is it really the case?

At seven o'clock in the evening, Jian Jing and Ji Feng were in the restaurant, discussing the progress.

Jian Jing: "I found the blackhead powder in Gan Min's medicine box."

Ji Feng: "We haven't found the murder weapon yet."

"Neither in their luggage nor in the car?" She couldn't believe it.

Ji Feng held up his hands: "All suspicious objects have been checked with your Luminol, and nothing is found."

She said: "Then I have to suspect the guy with the buzz cut. He may have destroyed the weapon on the way back to the parking lot."

Ji Feng said: "Okay, can we assume it was him and reconstruct the crime process?"

"At 2:20 pm, he and the yellow-haired guy separated and returned to the hotel one after another. He asked the deceased to meet him near the warehouse and killed him, and then returned to the repair site from another path, destroying the evidence on the way." Jian Jing said, and found a big bug, "Instant noodles - where did the instant noodles come from?"

"The only people who knew what Huang Mao wanted were the few people in the hotel at the time." Ji Feng pondered, "The murderer wanted to create the illusion that the deceased was still alive. From this perspective, who is the most suspicious?"

Jian Jing flipped through the notebook: "The man with the ball head, the reporter Chai, the man with the broken bone, and Huang Mao himself."

"The reporter made too many moves." Ji Feng said intuitively, "Although it makes sense, it's really too many."

Jian Jing said, "Around 13:10, the girl with the ball head saw the deceased. The waiter was busy in the kitchen until 13:20. If the deceased came to this area, she should have seen it. So it should be between 13:20 and 14:35."

She counted the reporter's actions: "He went out at 13:40, came back at 13:50, came to us again at 14:10, and left around 14:15. This is too..."

Indeed, reporter Chai had time to commit the crime.

13:20-13:40, 20 minutes, 13:50-14:10, 20 minutes, 14:15-14:35, still 20 minutes.

20 minutes is enough to kill someone. The question is, why did she make it so complicated?

Jian Jing tried to analyze the role of each time period: "The photos and videos can prove that there was no body near the warehouse before 13:50, so she killed the person between 13:20 and 13:40? She hid the body, then came back, went downstairs, and took pictures. Then why did she come to us at 14:10? Shouldn't this be an alibi?"

"No, if she wanted to make an alibi, she should have let everyone find the body in advance." Ji Feng said, "Not every action of hers is meaningful. Maybe it's just to confuse people."

He thought for a moment, waved his hand and said, "Teacher Jian, let's sort out the things we can be sure of first, and put the rest aside and don't worry about it."

Jian Jing agreed, turned to a new page, and wrote a few words.

Poisoning (confirmed to be done by the ball head)

Murder weapon (missing?)

Zombie (???)

Instant noodles (creating 14:35, the illusion that the deceased is still alive)

Umbrella (the rain stopped at 14:30, if the deceased died before then, he should have been holding an umbrella. Who is the umbrella man seen by the man with the fracture?)

"That's right." Ji Feng nodded, "There are too many interfering factors, we should do some subtraction. In my opinion, the previous points are all vague, let's focus on the instant noodles, how about it?"

Jian Jing shrugged, without any opinion.

He clicked on the photo album on his phone, his thoughts clear: "I took pictures of everyone's luggage. The two girls had bread and mints in their luggage, and the two boys had only Snickers in their rooms. According to them, most of the luggage was placed in Room 204 where the deceased lived.

"Reporter Chai's bag contained fruits, Japanese cup noodles, and instant coffee, but the man with a broken bone had nothing to eat. The instant noodles sold in the hotel are all domestic brands, Kangfu and TongX

. But the yellow-haired guy got bagged instant noodles, Shin Ramyun from South Korea. "So, we can be sure that the instant noodles came from the student group. Either they kept a bag for themselves, or the murderer took it from the deceased's room.

"Teacher Jian, do you agree with my analysis?"

She peeled a milk slice and nodded while eating.

"Give me one. "Ji Feng snatched one away rudely and continued, "If he kept it for himself, then the guy with the buzz cut doesn't know, and the two girls don't look alike, so it can only be that the guy with the buzz cut acted it out himself, so there is no doubt that he is the murderer. But let's let him go first and see if there are any other possibilities."

He said, "Suppose the murderer took it from the deceased's room, what would happen?"

Jian Jing pondered, "He must know that the guy with the buzz cut knocked on the door, which rules out the guy with the buzz cut: if he came back and walked through the front door, he would be seen by the waiter, and the back door must pass by our room, but we didn't see him."

"Then there are only a few people left." Ji Feng took over seamlessly, "Here comes the key, he must have the key. "

The hotel uses an old-fashioned lock with only a keyhole on the outside, and the door is locked as soon as it is touched. When the deceased left the room, he must have closed the door unless there was an accident.

But Jian Jing immediately proposed a new idea: "There is another possibility. The murderer was in the deceased's room at that time."

Ji Feng was stunned and said incredulously: "If I understand correctly, you are not saying that the murderer took the key and happened to be looking for something in the room, but that he killed the deceased in the room and then moved the body? How does 204 look like the first scene?"

"I know it's a small probability," she raised her chin, "but we can't rule out the possibility that the murderer stunned the deceased and moved him outside to kill him."

Ji Feng: "It's too much of a detective novel."

Jian Jing: "I'm a writer." "Sure enough

, you still hate me. "He was speechless and amused," I was wrong, I was a bad talker, please forgive me, okay? Let's talk about business."

"This is the most insincere way a man can admit his mistake." She sneered, "Who hates you, I'm just filling in the gaps."

Ji Feng: "..."

He wisely changed the subject: "Suppose the murderer has the key, but when we found the body, the key was in the deceased's pocket - he must have a chance to return it."

Jian Jing pondered: "After 2:35 pm and before 4 pm, the only ones who left were Huangmao and reporter Chai. "

Huangmao has two branches. One kept the instant noodles for himself, lied, or didn't keep any. After killing someone, he took the key and took the instant noodles, pretending to be in his room.

Reporter Chai took more actions and there are many possibilities.

"Now we have two suspects." Ji Feng said, "Teacher Jian, pick one, and let's continue to try our luck."

She said, "To verify Huangmao's statement, we have to go to the toilet... If you want to go, you go, I don't want to go anyway."

"Okay, let's act separately. "

Ji Feng went upstairs, but Jian Jing didn't move and continued to think.

If reporter Chai was the murderer, how did she do it?

13:20-13:40 First time period, 20 minutes

13:40-13:50 At the crime scene, no dead

13:50-14:10 Second time period, 20 minutes

14:10-14:15 Borrow something from Jian Jing

14:15-14:35 Third time period, 20 minutes

14:35-15:20 Must put away instant noodles

15:30 Go to the kitchen to return

the key The timeline of putting away the instant noodles and returning the key is very reasonable. Because she cannot be sure when the body will be found, she needs to return it as soon as possible.

Therefore, if she killed someone in the first or second time period, it makes no sense not to return it in the third time period, but wait until Huangmao comes back - she can't predict Huangmao's knocking on the door.

So it can be inferred that 14:15-14:35 is the most likely time for the murder.

But this presented a big problem.

How did she do it?

If she went down from the emergency exit on the second floor and went directly through the back door, she would have passed by the door of 205, but Jian Jing never saw her coming again.

If she went down the stairs, went through the main door to take a detour, or passed by the restaurant, went through the kitchen door, or went around to the back door, she would have been seen by the waitress.

She only saw reporter Chai come out once, and she only went to the toilet at around 13:00.