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"Well, it should be said that a prisoner escaped from the dungeon..."
After being held by Mary's hand, Belinda paused and explained, "But don't worry, Miss Mary. The guards will be dispatched soon. There will be no danger in the annex."
"prison Break……"
Without paying attention to Belinda's comfort, Mary turned her head and looked at the castle dungeon just two hundred meters away from the front of the annex, her expression gradually becoming solemn.
Is this an unexpected coincidence? Or is this the beginning of their plan?
The voice on the radio continued to sound, and the officers in the annex seemed to have received orders. The officers who could speak foreign languages began to shout loudly to calm the restless situation in the annex. At the same time, they blocked the entire annex and prohibited anyone from entering or leaving.
The alarms and broadcasts had stopped, and the situation in the annex was gradually under the control of the officers. The detectives, who did not speak the same language, returned to their previous seats and communicated with each other in low voices.
"Jingle Bell!"
However, at this moment, a phone suddenly rang in the banquet hall.
Mary turned around and saw that the sound came from the landline on the wall. Hans, who happened to be next to the landline, answered the call immediately.
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be of very distinguished status. After answering the phone, Hans's expression became extremely frightened and at the same time a little embarrassed.
"Step aside!"
At the same time, an officer suddenly pushed the door open and walked in, speaking Andrews.
The officer was young and handsome. He was also wearing the uniform of the guard. His hand seemed to be injured and was simply bandaged with gauze.
"Captain Gunna!"
Seeing the officer, Hans' face immediately showed a look of being saved, and he quickly shouted in Andre's language: "It's Commander Birun's call!"
Without saying anything, the officer called Gunna immediately stepped forward and took the call.
He listened to what Birun said on the phone and seemed to say something in reply. Then suddenly, an extremely miserable voice came from the phone.
"Ugh!"
"What?!" Gunna's expression seemed to change. He looked up at the dungeon outside the villa with an extremely terrified expression on his face.
Mary followed his gaze and saw a corpse hanging outside the watchtower of the dungeon that was converted from the castle.
Judging from his figure, it seems to be Commander Birun?
Chapter 203 Two Things in Life
Just a few minutes after the alarm sounded, everyone in the banquet hall of the annex saw the body of Commander Birun hanging outside the dungeon watchtower not far away.
There was a sudden chaos in the banquet hall, and the officer on the scene quickly reported the situation to the king's brother Preben, who was not present, over the phone.
His Highness Preben's order was quickly passed back, and the situation in the dungeon must be confirmed immediately. The cause of Commander Birun's death must be found out. At the same time, after learning that a large number of invited detectives were gathered at the scene, Preben also authorized the detectives to select some representatives to assist in the investigation.
In this way, Mary, who also became one of the detective representatives, and several other detectives followed the kingdom police on the scene to leave the banquet hall and go to the dungeon.
This dungeon was converted from a castle, and the interior layout was winding. Everyone trotted along an upward staircase corridor to the watchtower.
"It's right in front!"
Leading the way were the chief of the Kingdom Police, Barry, and Captain Gunna, the highest-ranking officer of the Guard in the banquet hall at the time.
Gunna was the young officer who had spoken to Birun on the phone in the banquet hall before he was killed.
The two of them ran ahead, while Mary followed alone at the end, with her head down, thinking.
In this short two hundred-meter journey, she had already roughly figured out the context behind this incident.
Birun was dead, and this could not be an accident.
What she meant by this sentence was not that Birun committed suicide. On the contrary, this was the most unlikely possibility and there was no need to even consider it.
At the same time, it is impossible that Birun was killed by an "unrelated person" because his death was a coincidence, a very coincidental death.
A sudden jailbreak, the death of the commander-in-chief in the dungeon, the king's most trusted right-hand man, at such a sensitive time...
It was all too coincidental, and Mary never believed in coincidences.
Isn't it what he is good at, using coincidence to cover up a story that is bound to happen?
As an MI6 agent, Mary knew from the beginning what might happen to the country in the future.
Of course, this was not the purpose of her coming to this country. It was just an unknown small country far away in southern Europe. She was not so idle that she would waste her energy meaninglessly on this country.
But this does not mean that she will just sit there and do nothing, because by preventing and exposing this series of conspiracies, she might be able to force out the person who is most likely hiding in this small country at the moment.
Thinking of the young figure that had been blurred in her memory, Mary couldn't help but sigh softly.
She has already passed the age of 50, and there are only two things left in her life that she wants to accomplish no matter what.
The first was to find her husband who had been missing for seventeen years.
The second was to find her best friend whom she had only met three times.
Then, maybe, she would kill him herself.
"Crack!"
When she stepped onto another flight of stairs, Mary's foot was suddenly hit by something.
Recovering her wandering thoughts, she looked down and saw a small curved piece of metal, only the size of the nail of her little finger.
She seemed to have seen this piece of metal fragment somewhere before...
Feeling a little confused, Mary looked up subconsciously.
On both sides of the narrow ascending corridor, there was a medieval-style electric lamp installed at intervals. On the metal decorative ring of the lamp above Mary's head, she saw a very subtle mark of friction.
She raised her hand and touched it, and found some outer debris of the metal decorative ring stuck to her fingertips.
【The scratches are new.】
After coming to this conclusion, Mary narrowed her eyes slightly, and she quickly caught up with the people in front of her and came to the top watchtower together.
"Commander Birun..."
In the small watchtower, the body that was originally hanging outside the tower has been pulled up. Looking at the face of the corpse, all the previous suspicions in everyone's mind disappeared.
The man who was hanged was Commander Birun.
"Commander, he..." Captain Gunna looked at Birun's body in disbelief.
Even though he really saw this scene, he still didn't want to believe that their commander had died like this.
Mary just took a look and quickly observed the situation on the scene.
There was also a landline phone hanging on the wall inside the watchtower, and the receiver of the phone was hanging on the ground. It seemed that Birun was killed while making a phone call here.
And his last call should be to Gunna who was in the banquet hall at that time.
Birun's body was laid flat on the ground, next to which was the cane he often held in his hand. Mary had seen it in the banquet hall. It was said that Birun himself seemed to particularly like to use this cane to hit the back of his subordinates' hands when scolding them.
【Um? 】
The back of your hand?
Suddenly remembering something, Mary turned her head to look at Gunna who was still grieving. One of his hands was wrapped in a bandage, and it seemed that the back of his hand was injured.
As for the cane, Mary keenly noticed that the metal ring at the tip of the cane seemed to be partially broken and fallen off. She squatted down and took a closer look, and then remembered the piece of metal fragment she had seen on the stairs just now.
The shape of this metal fragment matches the broken metal ring on the cane. Is there any problem here?
Confused, she turned her gaze towards Birun's body.
There were obvious rope marks on the corpse's neck, and the rope that strangled him was right next to him.
At the same time, there were a lot of blood marks on Birun's neck left by scratching, and there were corresponding skin and flesh fragments between his nails.
It was obvious that he was strangled to death, and he must have struggled violently before his death...
But this is totally wrong.
Mary immediately remembered that in the banquet hall, after hearing Birun's scream on the phone, Gunna looked towards the watchtower at the first moment, and she followed him and looked over.
She remembered clearly that Birun's body was hanging straight outside the tower without any signs of struggle.
He was on the phone one second and was completely strangled to death the next?
This is simply not possible.
The timing didn't match at all, Birun's phone call, the scratching on his neck, the violent struggle before being strangled, and the motionless body that everyone saw at first.
There is a huge logical contradiction here, and the reason for this situation is very simple.
Someone had played a role in Birun's death.
Thinking of this, Mary walked forward and took a preliminary look at the condition of the body, then the corners of her mouth slightly raised.
There is indeed a problem.
Birun's body was very hard, like ice, especially in the joints. Normally, a body would reach this hardness about an hour after death.
But from the time Gunnar received the call until now, less than half an hour has passed.
Even if being hung outside the tower accelerated the process, it would still be impossible to reach this speed.
It was obvious that Birun was dead long before that phone call.
That call was fake.
I overslept, so the second chapter will be a little late, and I will post the update tomorrow (﹃)
Chapter 204 Solving the case at the speed of light
Mary got two important clues from Birun's body.
The first is the approximate time of Birun's death.
The second is the fake phone call that Gunnar received.
Birun had already died before talking to Gunna, so how could Birun, who was already dead at that time, make this call?
Mary was curious.
She took another close look at Birun's body.
His expression was painful, and there were a lot of scratches on his neck, as well as marks left by the rope...