Forty-one close to the truth
Just about six hours ago, Menecchi, who was still telling everyone that he was not the murderer and did not kill the driver here, that is, his cousin Lasha, was lying on the ground like his driver's cousin...
The only difference is that Lasha's death was caused by an explosion, while his death was caused by the dagger inserted in his chest - but immediately, the dagger was held by a slender wrist and pulled out.
"What's wrong?" Alan, who was standing beside him, immediately asked. In front of all of them was a young girl who was checking the deceased without any fear. Since there was no fingerprint-checking technique in this world, she didn't care about it and didn't wrap it with anything, so she pulled out the dagger on the other person's chest with her hands.[]
Then he took a look and put it aside, and then began to twist the wrists and ankles of the body...
"The corpse has begun to become stiff locally, but it is certain that Menecchi's death time is less than half an hour before we appeared." After confirming the softness of the corpse, Rorona said that people will start to become stiff within 30 minutes to 2 hours after death, and to be sure, they only have the size of the diffusion range.
From this local perspective, it is probably because the corpse stiffness effect has just begun... that is, it is to die a little more than half an hour ago.
"Is this true..." Allen murmured from the side, without any doubt, because he knew that when playing with creatures, the alchemist was even comparable to the undead magician - the difference was only ** and corpses.
"Half an hour is really enough for just escape!" Pupkin said with a frown, as if he was dissatisfied with Rorona's answer - 30 minutes was enough to get a guy who was at the end of the train to return to his room from the skylight, and then be fully prepared to be absent!
It can be said that under this answer alone, the autopsy conclusion seemed meaningless, and for a while, everyone around him seemed a little depressed.
"Then now that the autopsy has been completed, it's time to do the following routine." But without caring about their various thoughts, Rorona wiped her hands with a hand towel beside her and stood up - I don't know when this unimaginable girl has become the dominant part of this incident?
This is a situation where even the other passengers next to him didn't understand it at once... but it was nothing serious.
"What?" Mark asked in confusion.
"Of course, let everyone talk about what they were doing at that time?" Rorona replied naturally.
At the same time, after thinking about it, he spoke first.
"Well, let me talk first. After dinner, I stayed in the room to sort out my mind. The lights in the room were on and I didn't go out through the door... As for going out through the skylight of the room, Alan can prove this. After all, if you are walking above, you can feel the sound of walking in the two adjacent rooms."
"Yes, I can be sure." Alan on the side nodded in agreement under the confirmation of others' eyes, and then continued to say: "As for my words, I found that Rorona didn't sleep too late, so I talked to her. Then we realized that Mr. Rasmark might be attacked tonight, so we decided to go to his side together..."
"Yes, I was preparing the ingredients I would like to use tomorrow one day. Lord Puppkin, who entered the kitchen first, got the wine and Rorona and Allen who came in behind, could testify for me. Then what happened." Rasmark, who was standing beside him, also confirmed the answer.
"Yes, it's true... As for me, I spent the whole night drinking in the lounge." Pupukin continued to nod, and finally added: "I'm the only one."
"...I'm so scared. At night, I locked all the doors and windows in the room that might have been entered, and I went to bed." Next came Sims.
"Well, so do I." Jer.
"Is this true..." After hearing the answers of these people, Rorona couldn't help but cover her face - as she thought, these people who had acted alone in the previous time could not provide any useful information that they could ask for suspicion.
"Then it's your turn." Then he said it, but the person who spoke was Mark who first discovered this and arrived here, and was also the person who had the greatest hope in Rorona's words to him.
"This... I came here just because I might not be able to use the driver Lasha, and I would have something useful!" Mark said this, rubbing his fingers with embarrassment - but then it attracted the contemptuous gaze of everyone around me.
"Talk about the key points!" Rorona urged her unhappy. She had no interest in whether this guy was a professional disease criminal!
"However, when I was rummaging through driver Lasha's drawer, I heard footsteps coming from next door. That was amazing! I thought the matter was exposed, and I was caught by Pupukin and Brother Ger, so I was so scared that I retreated directly into Lasha's bed!" Mark recalled and began to say slowly.
"But fortunately the man seemed to just go to find Menecchi, and then I continued to run out to 'treasure hunt'!" He continued to recall and said.
"However, after a while, the footsteps came again, scaring me to hide under the bed again... But strangely, he did not leave as I thought about, but rather from the distance of the footsteps, he was walking towards the damaged cockpit."
"But soon he returned to Menecchi's room! Then I heard the sound of the vase falling, and began to realize something was happening and rushed over!"
"After I pushed open the door of Menecchi, that is what you saw, and I also saw him on the ceiling skylight! He was wearing black clothes... and I immediately chased after him, but what was even more strange was that when I leaned out of the skylight and looked out, I could no longer see any strange figures." After saying that, Mark, finally nodded and confirmed, increasing his affirmation.
Sure enough, this guy was the only one who could really provide any detailed elements... Rorona suddenly realized and began to ponder.
"Is that true... You didn't see the murderer's true appearance and even body shape, and the opponent's movement speed seemed to be extremely fast and his purpose was clear? Even if you stick your head out of the skylight, he might have successfully escaped, or used some hidden method." But soon, she came to this conclusion.
"Well, that's probably it!" Mark immediately nodded to confirm.
"..." For a moment, everyone was silent - although what Mark said was very detailed, and compared to their words, at least some useful information was heard, unfortunately, there was no element that could make their eyes shine.
At this time, the dawn of dawn once again penetrated the thick clouds, penetrating this endless and panic--for everyone in the car, it was a tired night, both in body and in heart... and also a night of fear.
"It's enough. Let's go back to your room to rest. Even if you are alert to not sleeping, it will only give the murderer another chance." Looking at the guys in front of you who showed varying degrees of fatigue, Rorona nodded and said.
"It's true, so we'll go back to the room to rest." Pupkin also said it in agreement, of course, no objection was made to others - in their opinion, there was no real safe time in this situation, but in comparison, it would be more at ease during the day.
At least they could fall asleep a little... for this reason, they all walked towards their own room.
"Then I'll go back to the room too..." Alan also said so, but just as he was about to leave, he found that Rorona was still standing there without any action of leaving.
"What's wrong?" He couldn't help but ask in confusion.
"No, there is just something else to confirm." Rorona replied lightly.
"Something else confirmed?"
"Yes, although the situation at the crime scene in front of me is almost clear at a glance, I vaguely feel that if there is really a breakthrough point, then the only way to find it here." Rorona continued to answer calmly, and at this time she had already begun to check other decorations in the room.
"Then you deliberately put them..." Allen finally said it in a daze
"Yes, they were deliberately trying to escape." Rorona said without any concealment: "Because the prisoner is undoubtedly among them! If you want to find out that there are clues that he has mistakes, then at least you must avoid searching in front of him, otherwise it will be meaningless if he realizes it at the same time."
As I said this, I had already started looking.
"Is this what..." Allen said suddenly, and squatted down, looking for any clues, while the atmosphere suddenly became silent.
"What's wrong? Are you not going back to rest?" Rorona asked with some surprise.
"How do you say it, because I'm very curious too!" Allen said this, rubbing his nose, and what he said seemed a bit natural: "No matter how you say it, they are all men, if you are just waiting for you to find out the truth, wouldn't that be too inferior?"
"Is this so? It's a meaningless idea... Instead of doing this, it's better to keep your energy and avoid the appearance of the third dead." Rorona said helplessly, shook her head, and continued to pay attention to every small position in the room.
"Whatever you say!" Allen shrugged, but immediately realized what the other party said before.
"But you said... the third dead? Will the murderer continue to commit the crime?"
"Who knows? It can be said that he killed Menecchi for granted, because if he doesn't want to expose himself, he must kill Menecchi. This can be said that it has nothing to do with his main purpose. And the only one who is really related to his purpose is probably the first driver Lasha who died..." Rorona said casually, his hands moving non-stop.
"No matter what kind of grudge he and Lasha have, what I really can't understand is why he killed Lasha by destroying the train power furnace. Of course, this method of fake accidents is probably one of his reasons, but it is definitely not the main purpose!"
"After all, if you want to kill such an unprepared person, there are millions or even more perfect methods! Moreover, since he stopped the train, he would undoubtedly be trapped here. Whether he killed all the people in the train or some of them, he would be suspected by the people who came next - as long as he could survive!"
"So this is something I can't understand. Why... why... why can this guy trap himself here without caring, just to kill people, so he doesn't even want to live? Or does he have other ways to survive after killing everyone in the car?" Rorona stopped as she finished speaking.
"..." For a moment, even Alan next to him showed an unimaginable expression.
"But no matter what, these are not what we need to consider now!" Rorona said and exhaled like giving up: "What I can really be sure of at this time is that he has been so busy stopping the train. This means that there will be no doubt that the person he wants to kill will be Lasha, but there will undoubtedly be a second one!"
It is hard to imagine that the others were still wandering between them because the murderer was there, but this guy was constantly approaching the truth? It seemed that this was the reason that those guys who were supposed to be adults unconsciously followed her arrangements.
"Is this true? But when you talk about it, how did you think so much?" Allen couldn't help but ask curiously.
Such words made Rorona stop moving suddenly.
"Because... I'm curious." He said this.
"curious?"
"Yes, didn't you say it before? For example, I can't understand why he was trapped here even by himself. It's exactly this idea that I want me to find out!" Rorona thought for a moment and said this.
"Well... it's probably a common problem for alchemists? Or maybe it's just my bad habit of not wanting anything that goes against my wishes!"
"Is this true?" Allen said, pulling the corners of his mouth. In fact, he felt that the reason for the other party was more like the latter...
Although Menecchi is the driver's deputy, and his room with Lasha is twice as big as Rorona and Allen's, with the efforts of the two of them, even if they are careful, it doesn't take too much time to find it completely.
However... there is nothing they think is OK!
Under such a result, Rorona couldn't help but show a disappointed expression, but in fact she didn't have much hope. After all, humans do not have to show flaws.
"What a pity. It seems that this is just an ordinary crime scene, leaving no strange traces." Allen said regretfully, yawning - he is still a little tired now.
"Well, yes, it seems that the murderer killed Menecchi in a very neat way, and even no accidents happened." Rorona had to accept this helplessly.
He exhaled and said, "But forget it, this is a matter of course. After all, Menecchi is just an ordinary person with no combat power. Since he is so unprepared, he will not have too many resistance and opportunities."
"Then...just be here?" Allen suggested, and he was really sleepy at this time.
"Yeah." Rorona replied, moving a chair from the side and standing on it. At the same time, she pointed to the car window beside her: "Let me close the sunroof first, so that the wind blowing in will mess up the scene... I'll leave the one over there to you."
"Ah..." Allen replied, and walked towards the window.
"Bang!" Rorona, standing on the chair, stretched out her hand and pulled down the open skylight with force. However, after a sound, the skylight that should have been closed seemed to be blocked by something.
"Strange." Rorona frowned.
"What's wrong?" Allen asked in confusion.
"Can't you close it?" Rorona said to herself, then opened the half-closed skylight that could not be completely closed, but when she looked at the thing that stuck the window and made it impossible to be completely closed, she couldn't help but be stunned.
"Is this... a nail?" She said so unexpectedly, and what appeared in her eyes was a nail nailed to the windowsill of the skylight - it was not stable, but it was not relaxed to nail on the edge of the skylight, preventing the skylight from closing normally.
But suddenly, Rorona jumped off the chair as if she suddenly thought of something, and this behavior immediately aroused the doubts of Allen next to her.
"What's wrong?" Looking at this scene, he couldn't help but approach and asked.
But Rorona seemed to have encountered something extremely important without answering him. Instead, she walked to the corpse of Menecchi, who had already begun to stiffen on the ground, and then, in Alan's unexpected gaze, she removed the position of the corpse that should have been kept at the scene but could not be moved.
After the corpse that was hard at first was removed, the clean ground stained with blood and without any debris below it.
"No, I just didn't expect... it would be like this." Seeing this, Rorona couldn't help but suddenly reveal a strange expression.
Chapter completed!