Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 622

2022-01-27

Chapter 620 Pickers

Sheriff and Shade meet on the temporarily empty stairs to prevent Someone saw Shade. And the tall, thin, shrewd-looking middle age person took Shade's documents and checked them, and immediately stood at attention:
"What's the matter with you? Can we help you?"

MI6 belongs to the Imperial Family army establishment, and the police is not a system. But when MI6 agents are in action, low-level police officers must cooperate. Although sheriffs are higher than police officers, they are also low-level police officers.

"This murder is related to what I am investigating. I need to know something about this case and identify the murderer as soon as possible before I can take the next step."

Shade said that the sheriff was a little embarrassed:
"The case is not complicated. I originally suspected that it was part of a recent serial murder case of stealing internal organs, so so many people were brought in, but the bodies were intact. , there are only gunshot wounds and a stab wound, it should not be the recent incident."

The security situation in Midhill Fort is really worrying.

"However, there are too many tenants on the fourth floor. We have just screened the people who are likely to commit the crime, and screened out 21 possible murderers. If you want to do it as soon as possible."

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"Where is the crime scene?"

Shade asked very directly, this swift and decisive approach further strengthened the sheriff's trust in him:

"In the deceased's room."

"Take me to see. Also, remove the others temporarily. I don't want too many people to see me."

"Understood."

The sheriff asked the police to take the 21 suspicious tenants and temporarily wait in another room. He took Shade to the room with the "11" metal plaque.

The third floor of the room at the Sikar Hotel is a large room divided into small rooms with poor privacy, while the fourth floor is a real single room, just as small as the room at the Three Cats Hotel. Desks, bedside tables, wardrobes and beds almost fill the room. The room was clean and odorless, the windows and curtains were closed, and the flower-shaped gas lamp on the wall was lighting at this time.

“What do you do with curtains in broad daylight? There is no taller building nearby.”

Shade thought to himself.

The deceased was still lying on the ground, but covered with a white cloth. Shade opened it and glanced at it, and the bullet went straight into the heart, which was the cause of death. There is also a stab wound to the shoulder, which appears to have been a fight before the shooting.

"Look, that's the typical Carson Rick look."

The shrewd looking middle-aged sheriff commented.

"What is his identity?"

"We just checked his luggage roughly and found identification. Mr. Thales, the inn Boss, also confirmed that the other party was from I lived here at the beginning of the harvest month, claiming to be a merchant from the south, and came to Midhill fort to wait for a shipment."

Shade searched the room, then pretended to be in the room. With that bloody stab wound, he could actually use [Echo of Blood] to find the real murderer, but he still had to pretend.

Originally, it was just a perfunctory search, but the sheriff behind him dutifully introduced him to Shade, so Shade had to pretend to be serious.

The Carsonrick merchant's luggage was very simple, only his personal clothes, a few novels and a deck of Rhodes cards. In addition to this, it is worth noting a ticket to the local "Star Three Lord's Club" and a ticket to return from Fort Meadhill to Carson Rick in the book. He actually bought the ticket for next Tuesday, the 1st of the next month, in advance, thinking that he already knew the time to pick up the goods.

“Does the inn boss know when this person usually goes out and when he comes back?”

Shade asked again, and the sheriff flipped through his notebook:
“He usually Go downstairs for breakfast at 8 o'clock, then go out. Come back at 11 o'clock in the morning for lunch, then take a nap. I usually don't go out in the afternoon, either stay in my room or go downstairs to find someone to play cards. After dinner at night, there are I go out sometimes, and once I go out, I don't come back for the night."

"Life is simple," said Shade, before reaching for the other from the coat over the chair. wallet. Black leather, looks very ordinary. The cops haven't checked this yet, so Shade opens it up in front of the sheriff.

It contained about £3 notes and coins, and several business cards in Kasenric, from the deceased himself, the law firm and the warehouse. Apart from this, there are also train tickets and a few casino chips when the other party came to Middlehill Fort. The ticket was punched to show that it was used, and the chips were from a casino very close to here.

"He goes out every night, doesn't he just go to the casino?"

Shade whispered, put his hand into the pocket on the other side of the coat, and took out a pair of gray Gloves. Checking his chest pocket, he took out a pocket watch that looked new this time, a few coins, a handwritten receipt for the purchase of the pocket watch, and a pen.

Opening the watch cover reveals a picture of a woman, presumably his wife.

"It looks normal."

Then he picked up the pen, brass-colored, about as long as Shade's middle finger, but not as thick as one third of the middle finger. There was no problem after a glance, but suddenly dumbfounded:
"Why is this pen so familiar?"

[Of course it is familiar, you have used Mystic Art on it, and you can recognize the trace. ]

This is the pen that Shade took from Virgil Cameron on the night of the Ayutthaya finals. The pen was later passed on to Grey Glove's intelligence system by Shade for £2,000. After a small half a month, he actually met here again.

Pretend to check the pen and make sure the filament and strip of paper inside the cap are gone. If Shade hadn't touched it with his own hands, or even cast [Breath of Age], he wouldn't have believed that even if the pen looked exactly the same, there would be such a coincidence.

"Did Detective Sparrow cast some kind of curse on me? Why do I always bump into the gray glove?"

He thought in shock, but the seemingly normal will Buckle the pen and put it back in its place.

【There is no such curse on you. ]

So the so-called "businessman" who died was the receiver who received information from Seth dukedom and came to Punjab Street to pick up the goods. And the date of receiving the goods, Shade remembers very clearly, is the last day of this month, which is next Monday. Therefore, the deceased will buy the tickets for the first day of the next month, that is, next Tuesday; so the deceased will have time to hang out in the casino instead of acting like a normal businessman.

"But what does this have to do with me?"

Shade thought, stuffing all these things back into his clothes, and said to the sheriff:

"Let's take a look at the corridor."

He blinked his eyes, trying to forget that he recognized the pen just now, and then followed the faint bloodstain left by the knife wound, watching the traces fly all the way. Go out, turn around in the corridor, and turn into the room on the left next door.

"The murderer is his neighbor."

Shade said calmly. Although the sheriff was surprised by the reason for Shade's conclusion, it was not much to see his calmness. ask.

As long as the murderer is found, there are ways to get the other party to tell all the details.

"Who lives across from him, and to his left and right?"

Shade asked from the corridor.

"Across the street is a professor of linguistics from the South, Professor Ruhl Higgins. He just moved in last week and came to visit and exchange at Fort Midhill. The professor is also one of the suspects, but he doesn't look like a murderer."

Shade was a little disappointed that it wasn't folklore, but if it was folklore, he would have to worry about it. Does it have anything to do with ring warlock in the end?

"But, it's actually a Carson Rik again?"

Shade now looks at all Carsen Riks like agents with Grey Gloves.

"There are two people in the room on the right, Armand Bernhard and his nephew Lester Bernhard. They are also from Carsonrick and come to Midhill Castle. It's to go to the local relatives, which is easy to find out. In addition, the two of them are not on the fourth floor now, they went out in the morning, so the suspicion can be ruled out."

"Beinha Virtue?"

These two names are the names of the two vampires encountered in the [Life and Death], so they are definitely not the agents of the Grey Gloves.

"It's good to go out, so I don't have to face each other."

Shade felt a little fortunate, and then asked:
"Where's the one on the left?"

"On the left is Mr. Bain Bennett, a businessman from Carson Rick, who stayed in the hotel for half a year."

It's Carson Rick again, and It also happens to be the murderer, so he may be
"It has nothing to do with me."

Shade suppressed his distractions, emphasized again in the heart, and said to the sheriff:

" He is most likely the murderer."

Now that Mr. Bennett is being held in another room with other suspects, those people are very opinionated and do not want to be restricted from personal freedom, but the sheriff will When I didn't hear it, except for Professor Higgins, there was no one who was worth noting.

"Are there so many foreigners here?"

He asked casually.

“During the winter, the trains passing through the West Carr Mountains will also be affected and the frequency will be reduced, so if people have something to go back and forth between the two countries this year, they will choose to try to do it in the fall.”

The sheriff said, they opened the foreign businessman's room, and then Shade pretended to check again, and easily found a blood-stained dagger and two different pistols under the loose floor under the bed.

"Actually someone went out with two pistols? so that's how it is the receiver didn't bring weapons to prevent exposure, and was protected by other people who came here half a year in advance with guns, so the murderer was also. But why shoot the infighting?"

Detective Sparrow knew that Harvest Moon had an important mission half a year in advance, indicating that Seth dukedom and Grey Glove had an early communication, so Grey Glove might have known in advance Pickup location is at Fort Midhill. But the specific location, until the goods were obtained by the dukedom of Seth, was passed on by the "grey-headed eagle" in the harvest month. Therefore, it is not a loophole that people with gray gloves can live in the local area half a year in advance.

"So much trouble, what exactly is the cargo delivered?"

Although this is a question, it has nothing to do with Shade, Shade has not explored, he can no longer be involved with the spies relationship.

So he did not come forward, but the sheriff announced to everyone that the murderer had been found. Mr. Ben Bennett, who was still trying to make a quibble, after seeing the evidence, admitted that he did it himself:
"I played Rhodes with him, and this guy owes me 3 pounds for a week. I was supposed to pay it back today, but when I went to him, he didn't admit it, and I was furious."

For Shade, who almost got the truth, this must be a lie, but he Not pierced.

Mr. Bennett was then taken away by the police, and he and the deceased's luggage that could serve as evidence were also taken away by the police. Because neither he nor the deceased had acquaintances locally, he temporarily handed over the remaining luggage to Professor Higgins, who lived opposite Carson Rick, for safekeeping until the police found a contact before taking it away.

The deceased, the murderer, and the Higgins professor are all from Carsonrick, and the three of them have a good relationship. Shade understands that there are many stories in it, but he still does not choose to intervene.

It doesn't matter what the cargo is, and whether after the death of the deceased person who owns the pen, whether others know the information in the pen and whether they can receive the cargo, it has nothing to do with Shade. His main occupations are enough, detective, ring warlock, Rhodes card player, he can't add the identity of double spy and the like to make himself even more busy.

[Before passing on that information, you thought the same thing. ]

"She" was whispering softly, and the voice was very nice.

"It must be true this time."

[Really? ]

Then there was only the laughter.

(end of this chapter)