The first evidence-collecting meeting was over.
The guests dispersed and went their separate ways to look for new clues. For example, Dan's bedroom and library, which were originally private areas that were not open to the public, are now all accessible. You can also talk to the housekeeper, lawyer, nanny and others to get clues from the NPCs.
Jian Jing chose to chat with the housekeeper, trying to restore the deceased's movement route yesterday as much as possible.
Liu Xiuzhi, Valeria and Ishikawa Keito were also traveling with him.
The housekeeper cooperated very well and informed the information: "After the dinner yesterday, the old man looked a little tired and wanted to rest, so I sent him back to the lounge."
Jian Jing said: "Is this his usual living habit?"
"Yes, the old man usually takes a nap in the lounge and goes back to the bedroom to sleep at night." The housekeeper affirmed.
Liu Xiuzhi: "But the body appeared in the study."
"When does he usually use the study?" Ishikawa Keito asked.
Butler: "There is no fixed time. He goes to the study when he needs to handle work."
"Will he choose to talk to people in the study?"
Butler: "The old man is used to meeting people in the lounge. The study is his forbidden area. He likes to stay alone. Even his wife is not allowed to enter at will."
Jian Jing asked: "When was the last time you saw the deceased?"
The butler thought about it and said: "The old man likes to drink a bowl of ginseng chicken soup before going to bed at night. At about 10 o'clock last night, I sent him chicken soup, and he was fine."
"What did the deceased look like at that time? Was he happy, angry, or worried?"
"He seems a little worried." The housekeeper said, "I feel he is worried about something, but it's not serious. Do you understand? It's not a big deal, just a common worry."
Ishikawa Keito asked, "Who is it related to?"
The housekeeper said, "I guess it's related to a few young masters and young ladies. When people get older, the most worrying thing is the children."
"Did he say that he wanted to talk to someone yesterday?"
The housekeeper said, "Yes, the old man said that he is not young anymore, and he wants to take advantage of everyone being here to have a good talk about the future."
Jian Jing asked, "Do you know how he arranged it?"
"No, I don't know. The old man doesn't like to tell us about family affairs."
The above is the information revealed by the housekeeper in the first stage.
Then, the others went to find more NPCs, and Jian Jing returned to the scene of the crime.
Here we must briefly describe the layout of the cruise ship's rooms.
The 7th floor is the guest room area. The rooms for 15 guests are evenly distributed throughout the floor. There are elevators and stairs in the middle, and you can go up and down the floors. The layout is as follows:
01..02..03..04.....05..06..07..08 (Rooms)
.....Restaurant area...Stairs & elevators...Conference room.....
09..10..11..12.....13..14..15..Escape passage
The 8th floor is divided into two areas, with the stairs and elevators in the middle as the dividing line. The bow on the left is Dan's private area, and the right is used for a series of public areas such as the conference room, dance hall, and banquet hall.
Dan's private area, including his bedroom, living room, study, and lounge, is very large.
....Viewing balcony..Bedroom
....Dressing
room..Living room area..Door.
....Lounge..Door Study
..........
....Balcony......
As you can see, Dan's area is transparent from north to south, with balconies on both sides. At the same time, two different doors distinguish the living areas during the day and at night.
The living room is the living room of the bedroom suite. Generally, Dan will only go through this door when he goes to sleep. The rest time and study are the activities during the day, taking a nap in the lounge and working in the study.
There is a wall between the two areas. You must pass through the living room to reach the bedroom and cloakroom, and you must pass through the lounge to enter the study.
"Any new discoveries?" Kojima Shigeru sat in a chair in the lounge and looked at Jian Jing who came in.
Jian Jing told him the information he had just received from the housekeeper.
Kojima Shigeru immediately grasped the key point: "Does the deceased like to be alone in the study?"
"Yes, so the first crime scene may not be the study." Jian Jing said.
Kojima Shigeru checked the partition door between the study and the lounge. It was a type that could be opened at will and needed to be twisted and locked.
"If the study was not the first crime scene, why did the murderer move the body and behead it in the study?" Kojima Shigeru asked.
Jian Jing shook his head and could not give an answer for a while.
"And the phone..." Kojima Shigeru fell into thought.
Last night, Jian Jing had actually seen this area. He pretended to walk around again and went straight to the bedroom of the suite next door.
There are people inside too.
Raj, Linelle, and Kumiko Terauchi are all searching the bedroom area.
Jian Jing casually asked, "Did you find anything?"
Linelle said, "The old man is in poor health. He takes a lot of medicine, and he's not doing well, right, Mrs. Kumiko?"
"Oh, don't ask such a private question." Kumiko Terauchi waved her hands.
Linelle shrugged and said to Jian Jing, "I bet the old man must know that she has a lover."
Jian Jing was curious, "Why?"
"I know men and women very well." Linelle was mysterious, "Absolutely."
Jian Jing: "..." If you say so, then so.
She looked at Raj again. However, he stuffed the things in his hand back as if nothing had happened, and said, "It seems that there are no other clues here. I'll go somewhere else to have a look."
After that, he left.
Competition comes a little too fast. Jian Jing sighed silently, but she didn't rush to look for it. She sat directly on the single sofa in the living room and thought.
The cameraman who was following her interacted with her and spoke in Chinese: "What are you thinking about?"
"Hey, can you talk?" Jian Jing was surprised. She had always thought that the photographer was just a tool, a camera that followed her.
Cameraman: "After all, it's a live broadcast, you can also talk to the audience about your ideas. What did you think of just now?"
Jian Jing said: "I was thinking about what kind of person Dan is."
Cameraman: "First of all, he is a man."
"A man who values blood ties and favors sons over daughters." Jian Jing added, "He has a huge fortune, but his eldest son, whom he values most, is infertile, his daughter is pregnant, his third son killed his wife, his nephew is very good and has half of his blood, and his nephew is also good, but he is from a different family."
Cameraman: "So what?"
Jian Jing asked: "If you were Dan, how would you solve this problem?"
The cameraman thought about it and said: "Have another child?"
"Linnay just said that he may be powerless. Even if he can have a test tube baby, can he wait for the child to grow up?" Jian Jing thought with her head tilted, "A huge fortune needs an heir, who is the most suitable choice?"
The cameraman did not answer.
"In theory, the eldest son is the most suspicious. If Dan dies now, he will not be deprived of the inheritance rights." She analyzed herself, "But I think Dan will still choose the eldest son - this is a deep-rooted idea of the older generation, especially since the eldest son's only defect is the child. For Dan, whether the grandson is born by the eldest son is actually insignificant..."
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Live broadcast platform, bullet screen area:
[Wealthy family drama, reasoning version of The Concubine's Intentions! ]
[My kingdom is going to fall...]
[Is Teacher Jian's thinking wrong? Shouldn't we look for suspects now? ]
[There is no absolutely accurate direction, everyone's investigation focus is different]
[If you want to watch the evidence search, go to another live broadcast room, why are you talking about my wife?]
[Evidence search is actually not very meaningful, the program team will only give the motive for the murder, it is impossible to predict the murderer]
[Yes, everyone could be the murderer, the key to locking the suspect is still at the crime scene]
[I'm really curious about who did it]
[I want to know, where did the head go?]
[Why does Teacher Jian want to infer Dan's thoughts?]
...
"What is Teacher Jian trying to do?" Unknowingly, it was already past five in the afternoon. Lao Gao and Ji Feng went to the scene and came back to watch the live broadcast.
Ji Feng opened the lunch box and said, "She has no choice. The personalities of the guests and the characters are different. They are just playing games and have no reference value to the case. But the deceased is different. It is most reliable to start with him."
Lao Gao asked with concern, "Can it work?"
"I don't know." Ji Feng broke the disposable chopsticks, "It's not that whoever draws the lottery is the murderer. The true personality of the participants may not match the role identity."
"I hope Teacher Jian wins, a million dollars." Lao Gao smacked his lips and said, "What do you think of that painter?"
Ji Feng: "Not so good."
Lao Gao looked at him and struggled to hold back his smile.
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Acting and watching the scene in the morning, searching for evidence and holding meetings in the afternoon, and then walking around the scene again.
Jian Jing was exhausted and decided to lie down.
She was the first to arrive at the restaurant. Seeing the dazzling array of buffets, she was immediately delighted and immediately took a full plate of steak, chicken wings, fried eggs, seafood fried rice, and didn't forget to order a bowl of wolfberry black chicken soup.
The cameraman was stunned: "You eat so much?"
"Don't worry, I won't waste it." Jian Jing took a glass of iced Coke and started eating.
The reasoning game turned into a food broadcast.
She first drank a sip of black chicken soup, the delicious soup warmed her stomach, and then had a few bites of fried rice, carbohydrates are essential, and then started to eat meat and protein.
"Jingjing..." Jiang Baiyan sat down with his salad plate, resentful, "You are so arrogant."
Jian Jing sympathized insincerely: "Are you on a diet again?"
"Ah." He put the leaves into his mouth listlessly, and cut a small piece of tuna luxuriously, unwilling to swallow it all at once, chewing slowly.
Jian Jing cut a steak and waved it in front of him: "Do you want to eat it?"
"No." He lowered his head and ate the heart of the vegetable.
Jian Jing took the Coke cup and the straw made a "gulp" sound, which was crisp and pleasant.
"Sorry." She pretended to be slow to realize it.
Jiang Baiyan: "...If you bully me again, I won't tell you any clues."
Jian Jing immediately became serious: "What clues?"
He took out a small notebook: "I asked the NPCs on the ship, and they provided me with some clues."
"The lawyer said that in the past three months, Dan has mentioned the will to him many times, and he seemed to be worried about the heirs. He also asked people to investigate the whereabouts of the third son and the women he had dated.
"The chef said that Dan has almost harsh requirements on diet. All menus are formulated by nutritionists, and he has to eat a lot of expensive supplements every day. But it never passed through his hands. They were all cooked by the old lady, mysteriously. There are also the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter. They both like to eat supplements that help fertility, such as bird's nest and donkey-hide gelatin.
"The cleaning lady said that she had seen Dr. Raj sneak into the deceased's room.
"The crew member said that he was smoking outside last night and heard the second daughter and her husband talking. They mentioned something like 'property' and 'inheritance'."
Jian Jing: "You are quite efficient."
Jiang Baiyan said modestly: "Fortunately, it is not valuable. Many clues are repeated in our search results."
"That's not necessarily the case." Jian Jing said, "Dan's actions are very valuable."
In her opinion, the evidence of others may not be related to the case, but Dan's actions are directly related to the cause of his death.
She stirred the ice in the cup and said with a smile: "The case is more complicated than I thought. This is interesting."