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Chapter 18 Misleading (1/2)

Maybe I should buy a pair of sunglasses.

Donald has been thinking about this after the first activating his spiritual vision ability. His ability has obvious factors and is difficult to use casually. With a pair of sunglasses, there is a barrier to cover and there is room for room for dealing with him.

The conversation was divided into two parts. From the first step of entering the mouse-catching shop, Donald quietly sprinkled some trace powder on the ground, and did not let the other two people see it.

Listening to the ears is false, and seeing to the eyes is true.

This sentence cannot be said to be absolutely correct. After all, sometimes what you see may be an illusion. However, Donald still trusts his new abilities and the search powder at the moment. He wants to see if there are any traces of rat groups on the ground in the mouse-catching house.

The conclusion is... there are, but not many!

While following Sherlock, Donald's eyes were lingering on the ground where the traced powder was sprinkled. The footprints of rats did exist, coming and going, twists and turns, but there were only a few lines horizontally and vertically. Rather than signs of movement of the group of rats, it was better to say that they were visiting foreign mice when the night was quiet.

Judging from this clue alone, the mouse catcher should be without suspicion. After all, if he really controls a large number of mice, there is no reason why this will be the case on the ground.

"It's better not to go out in the past two days. We may have to come to you. Of course, I will prepare the compensation next time I come."

Sherlock, who had learned the important information, had a brisk pace. He had the address of the plumber in his hand. He believed that the case would turn around soon. Donald finally withdrew his gaze and turned around and closed the store door.

The footsteps went away, and the mouse-catching man lifted his arched body upwards and sat on the wooden chair behind him.

"They should not come, but two people who should not come... It's okay. The reason why these two ordinary people can get to this point proves that their hands were not clean enough before. Those guys may be more difficult to deal with. It's time to change places."

He bent his fingers and tapped the tabletop, took out a piccolo from the drawer under the workbench and put it in his mouth, and blew it gently. There were dozens of iron cages in front of him, and there was no noise.

This time, it was also a vain!

**

"The plumber has set up his own plan at Ebul's home in the name of repairing pipes. This must be the case. He first figured out the condition of the pipes in Ebul's home, and then arranged for the rats he controlled to come in and steal through the rat hole. In this way, even a hundred locks on the main entrance are useless."

After leaving Bonley District, Sherlock shared his views, while Donald touched his stomach, and the pointer on the pocket watch showed 3:30 pm.

When I lifted the curtains next to the carriage, the sunlight outside was still fierce, but it also showed a tendency to be prosperous and declining. Dusk was about to come soon.

"I haven't eaten lunch yet, do you need to find a place to buy some?"

"When I catch the prisoner and have a big meal, I will keep my stomach first."

Donald was a little hungry, but Sherlock had no idea of ​​stopping and resting.

The plumber lives in a place that is not short from Bonley District. It took nearly twenty minutes to stop in the street where he is.

For ordinary houses, Sherlock went up and knocked on the door first this time. He didn't wait too long. Soon a little girl came out to open the door.

"Is Mr. Sell at home?"

"At that time, my parents are at home."

The little girl's answer confirmed the plumber, which is Sel's location.

"We have something to do to find your father. We are working. Can you tell him for help and let him come out?"

In any case, the little girl has no guilt. Even if something bad happens, she will not leave a shadow on the child.

"Donald, do you feel something is wrong?"

When the little girl entered the door again, Sherlock suddenly asked without looking back.

"Well! This is the smell of barbecue sausage!"

The family is preparing dinner, and the meaty smell is a sensitive thing for Donald, who has been eating bread for two days.

Of course, this is just a little bit of humor. Donald knows what Sherlock wants to express. If this is the plumber's home, then as a potential suspect in the thief, where does he control the mice?

There is no doubt that the creature rat is no less than some ferocious beasts for women and children, and a group of rats pass by their daughters and wives with a pile of jewelry?

The scream could probably lift the roof, and nothing could be hidden at that time.

If he was controlling somewhere outside, it would be a little troublesome. Catching him does not mean you can ask for the treasure location, and as long as they do not have clear evidence that Sel controls the mouse, the latter just needs to deny everything, and they will have no choice but to do nothing.

There is no stolen goods or evidence. They are not the police station who can apply for a search warrant and take it back for a trial. Private detectives have no right to arrest others. The role they play is to find the murderer and arrest or shoot him or die on the premise that the evidence is conclusive.

Note the premise: The evidence is conclusive!

"Two gentlemen, do you have a job to look for me?"

Sell ​​appeared at the door and the first glance of Donald's eyes froze.

The plumber in front of me was wearing a work clothes that I had not had time to take off, and there were some stains on my hands and cheeks.

The face was honest and honest. Seeing the clean and tidy two people, they smiled embarrassedly and hid their dirty hands behind them.

Is this theft who controls a large group of mice to steal jewelry in most of Ebel's warehouse?

"Mr. Sell, we are private detectives, and are recently chasing Mr. Eble's home...a watch stolen. We noticed that you had entered Mr. Eble's home a few days ago. What did you do in his home?"

Sherlock spoke very quickly, and obviously, he realized something.

"I didn't steal anything. That day, the pipes in Mr. Elb's kitchen were blocked and asked me to repair them. I promised that I just repaired the water pipe!"

Sel was a little nervous, and the word order was inconsistent.

"And what? Regarding pipelines, have you broadened the pipeline?"

"Yes, I did widen the sewage pipes at Mr. Eble's home."

It admitted so easily...

Sherlock's face was not very good-looking. The widening of the pipeline was the key point of the case. It was the passage where the mouse sneaked in. Sel admitted so easily, it was very likely that he didn't know the meaning of this matter at all!

"Who asked you to widen the pipeline at that time? Didn't you clean up the blockage? Why did you do it in vain?"

"I am a mouse catcher. I remember very clearly that a dead mouse was found in the sewage pipe at that time. It was the pipe it blocked. I originally cleaned it and was about to leave, but the mouse catcher told Mr. Eble that if the pipe was not expanded, there might be mice that would crawl in and block it inside. Then Mr. Eble asked me to expand the pipe and change it to three sections of the pipe before it was completed."

Oops, I was cheated!

The plumber is simply a smoke bomb thrown by the mouse catcher, deliberately using words to guide them to think in this direction.

The mouse entry was indeed based on the sewage discharge pipes expanded by the plumber, but the mouse catcher was the one who caused this!

"When you were repairing the pipes, what were the mouse-catching people doing?"

"He? He was carrying some tools to install iron cages around the house... I really only cleared and widened the pipelines, and left after I finished it. It has nothing to do with me if I have theft of things."

Sel still cares about being treated as a thief and constantly reiterates himself.

"I understand, thank you for your cooperation, Donald, let's go."

There is no time to explain at this time. The most important thing is to catch a criminal. The mouse-catching man deliberately conceals his behavior. This alone can almost determine his identity.

"Damn it, the criminal was deceived by the first case... Thinking about it now, he did not answer my question before, but asked back directly, just to seize the initiative in his words and let us follow the rhythm of his conversation, and was unknowingly led to the pipeline issue. Now it was a tragic thing. The two of us just now shocked us. He deceived us. When we left, we would definitely transfer immediately. Now we can only hope to get there... Sir, whether we can be faster is related to Mr. Eble's jewelry!"

"This is your first time receiving a commission?"

Staring at Sherlock's mature and capable vicissitudes of life, Donald felt a toothache and began to wonder if there was any problem with his eyesight.

His vicissitudes of face, his sighing stubbornness, and his delicate temperament... Such a face looks like a tried and tested old detective, but he is actually a newcomer.

Now, one is a new detective, and the other is a "memory missing person" who has only been through time. He has only a few understandings of the customs and cultures of the world. He received a commission of 15 gold pounds at the beginning. He was still a cunning hunchbacked man facing the criminal.

The brave man hadn't even beat Slime yet, so he went straight into the Demon King Castle...

"Sherlock, I don't think it's too sad. Don't you think that although our case handling process is a bit tortuous, isn't it smoothly confirmed the thief? If it were an ordinary policeman, how could it be faster than us? We just lack experience and were taken advantage of by the mouse-catching man."

Even if he was upset, he would blow what he should blow, otherwise his boss would be embarrassed and angry. After all, he was just now swearing in the car that he had found the murderer.

In fact, what Donald said is not wrong. If a normal policeman comes to deal with this case, not to mention anything else, Donald dares to guarantee that a rat steals jewelry, and ordinary police will never imagine that Donald dares to guarantee it.

This is not a smart or not, but a fixed pattern of thinking, just like we never think about whether the water cup is open to speak or the cat at home jumps up and punches ourselves (it is still possible to scratch twice).

The mouse catcher also didn't expect that the two young men who came to fight with him would be two young men. They accidentally hit the key point, that is, the fact that the mouse steals jewelry.
Chapter completed!
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