Chapter 225 Two Possibilities



Melanie had no idea.

She asked in confusion: "Why would someone want to kill me?"

Jian Jing asked: "Do you have a grudge against someone? Or, who would benefit from your death?"

Melanie shook her head: "I don't know Karl, August is my friend, and I don't know you...anyone. Mary..." She hesitated and shook her head again, "Although she didn't approve of our marriage, I only met her after coming to Bana, and I didn't have much contact with her. The same goes for George."

Jian Jing was also puzzled.

This case is really strange, and there is almost no obvious motive. Generally speaking, murder is nothing more than for profit, revenge and emotion.

After Melanie's death, according to the law, her estate will be inherited by Leo. But Leo is a wealthy man, why would he kill his wife, unless he was on the verge of bankruptcy and bought a multi-million dollar insurance policy for his wife.

In addition, there is the rumored curse of killing his wife - this is unbelievable, right?

Holen is more complicated, he may have problems with Melanie, or he may secretly hate Leo.

"Have you known Mr. Holen for a long time?" She verified her conjectures one by one.

Melanie smiled slightly, and even at this moment, there was still a kind of breathtaking beauty: "Yes, Auguste and I are good friends. He introduced me to Leo."

Jian Jing asked carefully: "How is your relationship?"

"August is a good friend, but..." Melanie said tactfully, "He is not suitable to be a husband. Leo is the opposite. Although he doesn't know how to say sweet words, he is exactly what I want, a responsible, loving, and gentle husband."

Jian Jing examined her expression, not missing any clues. But Melanie's eyes were calm and her tone was relaxed, without any trace of lying.

"What about Mr. Hollen and Leo?"

Melanie thought for a moment and said, "August is a proud man. He has big conflicts with his family. Sometimes, it is difficult for everyone to understand him, but Leo can. They are very loyal friends."

"What about Carl?"

"I'm not familiar with him." Melanie apologized, "Actually, Kimberly and I haven't seen each other for several years. About a year ago, she emailed me saying that she was married, but planned to have a travel wedding instead of holding a wedding. I just sent her my blessings. This is also the first time I met Carl."

Jian Jing asked, "Has Kimberly talked to you about him?"

Melanie recalled, "She said Carl is very good, caring, and a considerate husband, but his work is not satisfactory and his financial situation is a bit tight."

At the end, she couldn't help but fall silent. After all, if she wasn't poor, Kimberly wouldn't have borrowed the necklace from her, and she wouldn't have died if she hadn't borrowed the necklace.

Jian Jing understood her look, thought for a while, and asked, "So, from the time Leo and the others left the lounge to the power outage, no one else knew that Kimberly was wearing the necklace?"

Melanie hesitated, then said, "I don't think so. It was just a whim - maybe Carl can guess it?"

Jian Jing nodded slightly.

Although all the clues now point to a manslaughter, it is not 100% certain that the target is Melanie.

If someone witnessed or guessed that Kimberly would borrow the necklace, it could be that she used the previous poisoning incident to make people mistakenly think that she wanted to kill Melanie again, misleading the direction of the investigation.

Then the biggest suspect is Carl.

The husband is always the first to be suspected.

However, speaking objectively, Carl should not have chosen this method to kill Kimberly. Melanie said that the biggest problem for them was financial constraints, which showed that Kimberly didn't have much money.

The motive of inheritance was not valid.

Moreover, buying a murder insurance was like engraving the word "murder" on one's forehead, and it was also difficult to get the insurance premium.

There must be some parts of the case that have not been discovered.

For example, the singing.

"Can you describe to me what you and Kimberly did after the power outage?" Jian Jing asked.

"After the power went out? We, we stayed in the room for a while." Melanie tried to recall. "The room was so dark, and there was singing - I mean, the sound of the wind that sounded like singing, you've heard it too - Kimmy was very angry and said that she must catch Mary this time - she always thought that Mary was causing trouble - so we went out.

"Someone was walking towards us, and I heard Kang's voice... Then everyone came over, and Kimmy suddenly screamed, and I felt her pressing towards me, and I thought she fell..."

She narrated in a confused manner, which was similar to what others said.

Jane asked quietly: "Can you tell how many people were there?"

"Kon, Si, and August were all there, and I heard their voices."

"Can't see how many people there were?"

"Of course, it was too dark. "I didn't notice anything," said Melanie.

Jane Jing wanted to ask about the singing again, but there was a knock on the door. Turning around, Leo was standing at the door, apologetically interrupting their conversation: "Jane, it's already eleven o'clock, Melanie needs to rest, can we talk about it tomorrow?"

Melanie quickly said: "I'm fine, it's okay, Jane did it for Kimmy."

"Don't say that, I'm disturbing you." Jane Jing stood up tactfully, "Your body still needs it, have a good rest."

But Melanie suddenly sat up, took her hand, and asked hopefully: "You will find the person who hurt Kimmy, right?"

"I will do my best. "Jane Jing held her hand.

Melanie finally smiled with relief, and relaxed back on the soft mattress. In a moment, she fell into a light sleep.

Leo tidied the quilt for her, dimmed the lights, and closed the door quietly.

Jane Jing was still not far away, standing in the dim corridor, as if waiting for him.

"Jane, is there something wrong?" Leo maintained the so-called gentlemanly demeanor and asked politely.

But beyond the words, his body language was expressing strong resistance - don't ask me, don't get to the bottom of it, Kimberly is dead, it's a pity, but I only care about Melanie.

She smiled, pretending to know nothing, and said softly: "I want to say good night to you. "

Instantly, Leo's tense muscles relaxed, and his tone became more sincere and gentle: "Good night, go to bed early."

Jian Jing waved her hand and turned to go downstairs.

Rest? No, no, no, she seemed to have drunk a cup of espresso and was in high spirits.

The statement has been recorded, and the next item to be done is, of course, to investigate the scene.

She wants to test the time required to walk from the changing room to the stairs.

Under normal circumstances with the lights on, it takes 50 seconds.

Then turn off the lights in the corridor on the second floor, delay a little, and walk slowly by groping, about 3 minutes up and down.

From the smoking room to the stairs, it takes about 3 minutes.

From Carl's room on the third floor to the stairs on the second floor, 5-6 minutes is more reasonable. From the simple and quiet room to the downstairs, plus listening to music in the room, it takes about 7 minutes.

Normally, it takes 7-8 minutes to get from Mary's room on the first floor to the kitchen and then to the second floor. Although she later had candles for lighting, it took 10 minutes to find the candles.

In short, Leo's behavior was abnormal, Carl and Mary had problems with their timing, George was invisible the whole time, and Hollen's confession was the most reasonable, but unfortunately no one could corroborate it.

Conclusion: A lot of things to think about.

She went back to her room, ran hot water to take a bath, and picked up the small notebook on the bedside. She took an essential oil bath while thinking.

First of all, it can be confirmed that there were three different things that happened in the castle.

1. Poisoning with thrice-darkness

2. Threatening with corpses

3. Poisoning with cyanide

So far, she thinks the first and third cases are similar, both of which involved poisoning, while the second case involved using corpses to threaten people, which had the best horror effect without causing any actual harm.

However, from another perspective, the appearance of the corpse and the cyanide poisoning were both in a dark environment, accompanied by singing. This was not the case when the dinner was poisoned for the first time.

Was it done by different people, or was one of them a smoke bomb?

The pen tip moved around the three lines for a moment, and drew two horizontal lines on the last line.

Poisoning, no matter what, was the most serious case, and the search for the murderer must start from this case.

Jian Jing decided not to pay attention to the previous things for the time being, and concentrated on thinking about the whole picture of Kimberly's murder.

Several people have problems, and it is impossible for everyone to be the murderer.

In the absence of finding a motive, the only way is to use the dumbest method and eliminate them one by one.

She bit the pen and stood up suddenly. The water droplets stained red by the bath ball splashed and slid down on the ancient tiles, outlining winding and strange lines.

A flash of inspiration passed by, and her heart was touched by something, but when she wanted to grasp it, it disappeared in an instant, leaving no trace.

Strange, what did I think of just now?

Jian Jing wondered for a while, but to no avail, so she had to wipe off the water droplets, put on her home clothes, and knocked on the door leading to the next door.

This room is the same as the one Kimberly and Carl lived in before. In addition to the main door leading to the corridor, there are side doors connecting the two rooms. There are bolts on both sides and they can be locked.

It took half a minute for the door to open. Kang Mucheng was surprised and worried: "What's wrong?"

"I still have some questions." Jian Jing kept turning the pen in her hand and looked around. "Are you asleep?"

"No, sit down."

Jian Jing sat in the armchair by the window and adjusted herself to a comfortable sitting position: "I have a lot of questions that I can't figure out."

"For example?" Kang Mucheng had already put on a posture of listening. Jian Jing

pondered, "Did Leo have a motive to kill Melanie?"

"No." Kang Mucheng said without hesitation, "You don't know Leo. He is a very serious person. If he regards someone as a friend, he will give all his loyalty, and love is no exception. Besides, why did he want to kill Melanie? They are getting married soon."

"Love can also lead to murder." She stuck to the point, "A man's possessiveness?"

Kang Mucheng paused. This didn't seem to be a topic suitable for them to discuss. But he tried his best to get rid of all the distracting thoughts and asked, "Are you talking about jealousy or betrayal?"

Jian Jing: "Both."

He still shook his head: "Leo is a kind person."

"Okay." Jian Jing did not pursue it relentlessly and changed the subject, "Can you recall all the details of what happened after the power outage?"

Kang Mucheng tried his best to cooperate: "Leo went out first..."

Before he finished speaking, she interrupted him: "Mr. Kang, slow down, he went out, do you remember which direction he went?"

Kang Mucheng was stunned and thought: "Direction? It should be to the library, right?"

"No, no, where you are is about 2 minutes away from the stairs. In the dark, the library and the lounge are opposite each other, separated by a corridor." Jian Jing described, "It takes at most half a minute from the lounge to the stairs."

She said, "If Leo really went to the library, there is a 90% chance that he would meet Melanie. Even if he didn't meet her, shouldn't he have called her first? Think carefully, where are the footsteps going?"

Kang Mucheng pondered in silence. Jian

Jing would have said nothing, but after this analysis, he couldn't be sure.

At that time, after Leo rushed out of the door, where were the footsteps going... where were they going?

"To the right of the dressing room is the library and lounge, and to the left is the smoking room. Is it the left or the right?"

Kang Mucheng frowned and shook his head, "I can't remember. The singing was very loud at that time. I was listening to the song and didn't notice where he went."

Unexpectedly, Jian Jing suddenly sat up straight and asked for confirmation: "The singing was very loud? Are you sure?"

He said: "I am sure of this, what's wrong?"

Jian Jing supported his head and muttered: "Strange, it's really strange."


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