At half past eight, Kang Mucheng arrived at the office on time. He immediately turned on his computer and entered the live broadcast platform of "The King of Reasoning".
At nine o'clock, the live broadcast room was opened. The network was stuck for a while, but fortunately, he quickly entered the live broadcast page.
He found the simple and quiet "4" and clicked on it. He
frowned at first sight.
What is she wearing? It's flashy.
But when he looked at her expression again, his hanging heart was slightly relieved. Under the high-definition camera, the simple and quiet face was shining and looked great. The sequins hanging on the eyelids were illuminated by the sun, flashing like the scales of a mermaid.
She followed the crowd to the study room with expectation and excitement.
The camera zoomed in and everyone saw Dan's body. He fell to the ground, the carpet was soaked with blood, but his head was missing.
"Ah!" Jin Lan'er screamed exaggeratedly, pretending to faint on the spot.
In comparison, Jiang Baiyan was much more dedicated. His face was full of fear, but there was a subtle flash in his eyes. His eyes quickly swept across the faces of everyone, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Wu Lie also contributed his performance, with a complicated expression. It was hard to tell whether he was shocked or something else.
"Dad!" Li Kangna expressed his emotions through actions. He ran to the corpse and looked at it helplessly: "Oh my God, is this, is this really my father?"
Jian Jing thought more than he thought.
Was the headless corpse she saw last night the headless corpse now?
If the body was real, then everything would be easy. The human features are so obvious. With her observation skills, it would not be difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.
But now it is a fake.
The fake is wearing Dan's clothes. Can it prove that it is the person from yesterday?
She is just like her own character, confused and unsure of anything.
"Ahem." Since the plot has been introduced, she is too lazy to play the brainless girl anymore, and goes straight to the point, "Who knows medical knowledge, come and examine the body."
The Indian boy Raj drew the role of the doctor.
He obviously had no acting skills. He took the note from the staff and began to read: "According to my judgment, the deceased is an elderly male, and his situation is consistent with Mr. Dan's."
"Compliance does not mean it is him." Jian Jing was very cautious. The easiest thing to do with a headless corpse is the identity of the deceased. "What about the cause of death?"
Raj: "...We need to identify it before we can know."
Subtitle: The script has not been received yet.
Jian Jing's mouth twitched slightly: "Then what can we know?"
Raj said bluntly: "The murderer is among us."
"Say something valuable." Korean uncle Park Min-cheol entered the room and fumbled the dummy's body. "He doesn't seem to have any other wounds on his body. Turn it over and take a look."
"Don't you try to find fingerprints?" Jian Jing asked.
Park Min-cheol said, "We have all been in contact with Dan. No matter who we find, we have a reasonable excuse to explain."
"Okay." She shrugged and joined the search.
"Senior, you and Miss Jian really have a good understanding." As a popular boy band idol, Liu Xiuzhi has participated in similar variety shows and is relaxed. "It feels like a couple."
Jian Jing: "..."
The bullet screen popped up densely.
[Kimchi country is rough! Don't covet my wife~]
[Teacher Jian's face is full of rejection]
[The goddess is too miserable, the luck of the lottery is not good]
[Jing Bai's party expressed regret, Xiaobai, you don't fight for your courage and draw the third place? ? ]
[Refuse to ship CP, Teacher Jian is the only one who is beautiful]
[This is a mystery program, stop playing with romance, it's annoying]
Seeing another wave of blood and gore, Kang Mucheng immediately turned off the barrage.
The network seemed to be a little smoother.
The guests began to search the scene, but apart from the locked safe and a landline phone, there were no clues worth paying attention to.
The safe could not be opened, so they could only focus on the phone.
Liu Xiuzhi pressed the redial button and made the last call.
"Ding-ling--"
There was an automatic recorder on the other end of the phone: "Hello, this is a restaurant, the call is connected--"
"Restaurant?" Everyone was extremely surprised.
"This was done by the murderer." Uncle Park Min-chul pushed up his frameless glasses and made a firm judgment.
Jin Lan'er: "Why?"
"The call was made at 11:47." Uncle Park showed the attentiveness of a journalist. "I remember when we ended at 10 o'clock, the restaurant was also preparing to close. Dan should be very clear that no one in the restaurant would answer his call at this time. And if he needed anything, he could just find the butler."
The NPC butler said: "Yes, the master will call my room whenever he needs anything."
The others looked at each other and said, "So, the murderer called a number that would never respond, just to cover up the fact that Dan called him?"
"Not necessarily." Ishikawa said, "Maybe he wanted to create the illusion that the deceased was still alive at 11:47."
"Makes sense." Many people agreed.
But Jiang Baiyan looked at Jian Jing and asked, "Jing Jing, what do you think?"
Jian Jing thought about it and said, "It is indeed unreasonable for Dan to call the restaurant at nearly 12 o'clock. But it is too early to speculate on the hidden story of this number now."
"Do you have any other guesses?" The mystery cartoonist, Kojima Shigeru, who had not spoken, cast a glance at him.
Jian Jing looked over. Kojima Shigeru is very young, and it is said that he is only in his twenties, but he has drawn the most popular mystery comics in Japan. His appearance is a little unkempt (of course, the makeup artist has done a basic styling for him), his trimmed hair is still messy, and his eyes behind the glasses are always half open and half closed, as if he is not very energetic. In
a word, he has the temperament of a otaku detective.
"It's more of a guess than a conclusion," she said frankly. "From the bloodstains at the scene, the amount of blood loss was too small."
Kojima Shigeru nodded immediately. "I think so too. If this was the first crime scene, there wouldn't be only this much blood. When the head was chopped off, the pressure of the blood vessels would spray blood everywhere."
He pointed his finger and said, "There are two possibilities. First, the victim's head was chopped off after death. Second, this is not the scene of the first crime. This is probably why Jian Sang didn't dare to hastily confirm the problem with the phone."
"Yes." Jian Jing half squatted down and carefully observed the phone. The landline phone in the study is very large, and it is not a microphone keyboard style. The dial pad is just a very ordinary one. "If the murderer had a conflict with the deceased and pressed a button accidentally, or left something behind..."
"Is that so." Kojima Wataru walked back and forth, constantly observing, "The dial pad was wiped very clean."
Park Min-chul slowed down and followed the train of thought: "The murderer may have deliberately made a call to wipe off the blood or fingerprints to confuse our vision. He may have made a call during the fight, and then made another call at random to cover up the real time of death."
Others: "..."
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Bullet screen area.
[Oh my goodness, the live broadcast lasted less than an hour and there was already a fight between gods]
[There are so many possibilities for a phone call]
[Wow, this is great]
[Why can't it be a wrong call...]
[What if the deceased is hungry and wants to eat instant noodles (funny)]
[According to my intuition, this phone call must be a cat call]
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After a heated discussion, the guests found that there was a big problem with the phone call. But there are too few clues at present, and it is impossible to judge at all.
Jian Jing urged Raj (the staff member behind him): "Hurry up and perform the autopsy. The body is the most important evidence."
"The time of death." Kojima Wataru said, "This is the most important."
Raj said seriously: "The earliest result can be obtained is at 2 pm." Jian Jing
: "...Okay."
Park Minzhe said: "We can sort out the alibi first."
So, all the guests gathered in the restaurant and narrated their movements last night one by one according to their numbers.
"Everyone, I think." Ishikawa Keito, who is older and has the highest social status, expressed his opinion, "We need to know the last time we saw Dan."
Li Kangna also asked: "Has anyone seen Dan after the dinner ended at 8 o'clock?"
The air was subtly silent.
Park Min-chul suddenly smiled and went straight to the point: "As far as I know, more than one person has seen Dan, but no one wants to be the first to speak. This is completely understandable. It would be troublesome if you become the first suspect."
"Park-san, are you willing to be the first?" Kumiko Terauchi spoke unexpectedly. Park
Min-chul said, "I think it would be better to do it in order."
Valeria, who drew number 1, nodded gracefully: "Okay."
She thought for a moment and began her own narration: "After eight o'clock yesterday, I played cards with Ishikawa, Suzy, and Teacher Wu. At nine o'clock, Xue'er came to replace me. I went to the deck to get some fresh air and returned to my room at half past nine."
No. 2 Liu Xiuzhi.
He said, "I played cards until half past nine, then met Miss Jian, and returned to my room to rest at ten o'clock."
No. 3 Raj.
He said, "After dinner, I was wandering around the cruise ship. From 8:30 to 9:15, I was reading in the lounge. Oh, by the way, I also saw Jane and Mr. Li."
No. 4 Jian Jing.
She paused for a moment and tried to narrate calmly, "Well, I did a lot of things from 8 to 10." After a brief pause, she hinted euphemistically, "Probably just chatting about life with some people of the opposite sex."
The other guests laughed at the same time.
Only Kojima Shigeru wrote it down in his notebook very seriously and asked, "Who were they?"
"Mr. Li, Mr. Liu, Xiaobai."
"What's the reason?"
Jian Jing said indifferently, "Private matter."
No. 5 Wu Lie.
He said, "I started playing cards at 8:40 and ended at 9:30."
"What did you do before that?"
"Walk to digest the food."
No. 6 Terauchi Kumiko.
She was very into the role: "I went to the room to visit my husband. He said he wanted to be alone for a while, so I went back to rest for a while. At about nine o'clock, I joined everyone to play mahjong."
No. 7 Andre.
"I played mahjong until nine o'clock, but I lost too much and quit." He said, "Ms. Terauchi changed my position."
No. 8 Jin Lan'er: "I am very interested in mahjong. I kept playing on the table. It ended at nine forty-five and I went back to my room to rest."
No. 9 Linnaier: "My throat was a little sore, so I went back to my room to rest very early. Oh, at nine o'clock, I asked the restaurant to send me bird's nest."
No. 10 Jiang Baiyan: "Playing mahjong. I left for a few minutes at eight fifty and talked to Jingjing for a few words."
No. 11 Park Minzhe: "I wandered around on the cruise ship and returned to the room at nine fifty."
No. 12 Kojima Wataru: "Learning to play mahjong."
No. 13 Li Kangna: "At 9:10, I went to see my father and talked to him about something. At 9:30, I left and went back to my room to rest."
He added: "At 8:20, I met Miss Jian."
Jian Jing supported her head and showed an expression that she couldn't bear to look at.
No. 14 Ishikawa: "I played cards until 9 o'clock, and went to rest because I couldn't hold on any longer."
No. 15 Zhang Xueer: "After dinner, I went back to my room to rest for a while. At 8:40, I talked to my father about something. At 9 o'clock, I replaced Leah and played cards with others until 9:30."