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Suddenly, Mary tilted her head and looked at the mark again, then nodded slightly in sudden realization.
She was careless before, there is something wrong with this mark.
The marks of strangulation were below the throat of Birun's neck and were relatively horizontal, which were not the marks that would be left on a person who died by hanging.
Because if the person died by hanging, the marks from strangulation are often on the throat and the direction should also be upward.
This means that Birun was not hanged to death. He was strangled to death with a rope long before he was hung outside the tower.
Judging from the marks of strangulation, the murderer must have strangled Birun to death with a rope from behind.
Interesting, strangled the person and then hung the body outside the tower? How did the murderer do this without worrying about being noticed by the people in the annex? Was the murderer in the dungeon at the time?
Suddenly Mary remembered the electric lamp with scratches on its metal ring that she had seen in the staircase corridor.
After closing her eyes and thinking carefully, Mary suddenly lifted up Birun's coat and took a look at the belt around his waist.
If that was the case, then Birun's belt would be the most likely place.
And the fact was just as Mary expected. There were also very obvious scratches and damage on the back of Birun's belt, as if some thin wire had tightened and rubbed this part.
What's even stranger is that there are some black and red stains on Birun's shirt near these scratches.
[I see. This is a bold but flawed tactic.]
At this moment, the murderer's method was completely cracked. Under the thick sunglasses, Mary looked at one of the people in the watchtower.
But she didn't expose it immediately because she needed evidence.
She stood up and walked over to take a look at the light inside the watchtower. She also saw similar fine scratches on the metal ring of the light.
Then she walked out of the watchtower and continued down the staircase corridor, and found that the metal rings of the lamps along the way all had similar fine scratches, which was exactly in line with her speculation.
As for the piece of metal fragment that she stepped on before, Mary picked it up and took a look at it this time. She found that there were some black and red stains on the outside of the fragment, which looked like solidified liquid.
【This is one of the important pieces of evidence. 】
Carefully collecting the fragment, Mary continued to walk down until she was out of the staircase corridor and in front of the dungeon door.
This dungeon castle has a long history, and its gate is made of wood. Mary looked at the wooden gate, trying to find something special on it.
In her speculation, this door was actually the most critical step for the murderer to complete this series of plans.
Therefore, there must be some mechanism left here that the murderer did not have time to deal with.
Finally, somewhere on the inside and above the gate, Mary saw a nail that was not completely driven in.
This is a useless nail. There is no point in nailing it here. Its only use is to help the murderer complete his method of disguising himself as the victim.
Logically speaking, the murderer should have retrieved the nail from the moment Birun's body was found.
But unfortunately, the murderer had neither time nor opportunity, because while forging an alibi for himself, the murderer was forced to act with the crowd, and there was no right opportunity for him to retrieve the nail.
Mary looked away and walked out the door.
There was a small river outside the dungeon castle. Mary walked along the outside of the castle until she reached the bottom of the watchtower. A few steps away was the flowing river.
Looking up at the watchtower above, Mary followed the direction of the stream and walked along the riverside. After walking a hundred meters, she finally found what she wanted.
It was a piece of cloth washed up on the shore, one meter wide and two meters long, with tiny holes in two corners.
One side of the cloth is black, and the other side is a brown-yellow color similar to the exterior of the castle.
Mary reached out and picked up the cloth, along with the thin thread wrapped around it.
The string was very strong and very long. Mary spent a long time by the river pulling it together before she could collect all the string.
At the very end of these thin lines, there is a wooden sign tied to one side.
[It's ready now. ]
Mary felt that finding this was enough, and the next step was to find the murderer.
Holding these things, she turned back to the dungeon, and returned to the watchtower along the staircase corridor. At this moment, the detectives here were still discussing the truth behind Birun's death, while Barry, the chief of the kingdom's police, leaned aside with his arms folded, watching the scene coldly.
After taking a look at Captain Gunnar who was also discussing with the detectives, Mary walked straight to Barry and asked:
"Captain Barry, may I ask if the Royal Police have caught the prisoner who escaped from prison as announced in the broadcast?"
The translator beside him repeated Mary's words in Andrewian, and then Barry replied: "Don't worry, the police are searching and they will catch him soon."
"Ah."
Mary nodded, and Gunnar, who was discussing with the detectives, subconsciously looked at her after hearing her voice.
This glance happened to make him see the piece of cloth and the circle of thin thread in Mary's hand, and an extremely shocked expression immediately appeared on his handsome face.
At this moment, Mary turned her head to look at him, and their eyes met. Behind Mary's sunglasses, Gunnar seemed to see her playful eyes.
Why? Why did those things appear in her hands?
"Okay everyone, no more discussion."
As Gunna looked at her with doubt, Mary suddenly called out to everyone.
"I have found the murderer of Commander Birun."
After the translator repeated this sentence, Barry's remaining right eye looked at Mary unexpectedly.
Not only him, but the other detectives, officers and police officers in the watchtower also looked over with the same look.
Only Gunna seemed to be distracted by the two things in Mary's hands, and he was extremely nervous.
Without doing anything unnecessary, Mary looked directly at Gunna under everyone's gaze and said:
"The murderer is you, Captain Gunna."
I'm so sleepy, I'll update tomorrow (﹃)
Chapter 205 Remember to change the electronic lock next time
"Sir..."
In the special cell in the castle dungeon, the old man who was squatting in the corner and chatting with Karasuma Ying suddenly stood up and walked tremblingly towards the kingdom police outside the cell.
"What's the matter with you?"
Standing outside the cell, the kingdom police looked at the old man warily and asked in Andrews.
"Ah, it's not me, it's that little girl..."
The old man smiled slightly. He put his hands behind his back and walked towards the royal police. He also replied in Andrews:
"The girl wants to ask you something, sir, but she can't speak Andrei, so she troubled an old man like me to ask for her..."
Listening to the old man's words, the kingdom police glanced at Karasuma Ying.
Feeling his gaze, Karasuma Ying, who had already stood up, just blinked her big eyes and looked at him with a smile.
"What do you think she wants to ask?" Looking at the old man who was still walking towards him, the Kingdom Policeman was a little nervous but not panicked.
The reason was very simple. He was outside the cell, while the old man and Karasuma Ying were both inside the cell, and there was an iron fence between them.
With this iron fence there, no matter whether these two people have any conspiracy or not, as long as he keeps a certain distance, they will not be able to succeed.
"It's nothing. The little girl just wants to ask when she can go out." The old man had already walked to the iron fence, and was looking at the Kingdom police opposite through the iron fence with a dim gaze.
"Tell her that matters like this are up to Commander Barry to decide. There's no point asking me." Feeling a little creepy at the old man's gaze, the kingdom police replied nervously.
"That's it..."
The old man nodded, and at this moment his hands, which were originally behind his back, suddenly moved, as if he was picking up something.
The old man's action immediately aroused the high alert of the Kingdom Police. He frowned, subconsciously grabbed the baton at his waist with his right hand, and shouted:
"What are you doing?! Get your hands out… Ugh!"
However, before he could finish his words, a stone suddenly flew out from the side and hit him on the head with incredible precision. The violent impact forced him to faint on the spot, and he fell straight to the ground.
"What an amazing little girl! You can throw so accurately..." Seeing this, the old man turned around, looked at Wu Wanying, and laughed.
The kingdom policeman was knocked down, and he also lowered his hands which had been behind his back.
In fact, there was really nothing in his hands and behind his back. His previous series of strange actions were all to attract the attention of the kingdom police completely to him, thus creating opportunities for Karasuma Ying's sneak attack.
Judging from the results, the cooperation between the two was very successful. The young policeman thought that he would be fine as long as he stood outside the cell, but he didn't expect that Wu Wanying could accurately hit his head with a stone from ten meters away.
This castle dungeon is hundreds of years old. The building is gradually aging, and no one has cleaned it for years. As a result, a lot of small pieces of gravel peeled off from the walls have accumulated on the edges and corners of the cell, providing the most important weapon for Karasuma Ying's sneak attack.
"Fortunately, I played the game of throwing sandbags when I was a kid."
As Wu Wanying spoke, she quickly walked to the cell door lock. She raised her hand to remove the hairpin on her head, pulled out the wire, straightened it, and inserted it into the door lock through the keyhole.
"Little girl, you can actually pick locks?" The old man was quite surprised when he saw her actions.
"Well, when I was a kid, I thought there was a thief who loved stealing gems who was very good. Influenced by that thief, I learned some skills. Of course, I can't open every lock..."
While explaining, Wu Wanying kept probing the door lock with a wire.
It didn't take long, and with a "click", the cell door lock opened.
[Successful. 】
After removing the lock, Wu Wanying successfully opened the door. The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and she suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in her heart.
See, you want to trap her in this prison?
Remember to change the electronic lock next time.
After a moment of pride, Wu Wanying turned to look at the old man behind him and the other prisoners imprisoned inside.
Seeing that she actually opened the cell door, the eyes of many people behind her suddenly lit up, but soon, the light in their eyes quickly went out.
"Little girl, aren't you leaving yet?" the old man looked at Wu Wanying and asked.
"Old man, you..."
"Are you going to ask us to leave together?"
Seeing through Karasuma Ying's thoughts at a glance, the old man laughed strangely again.
"Hehehe, don't think too much. Even if we really escape from this dungeon, what can we do? Can we escape from the palace and this country? We will just be caught by our Holy King again. It's meaningless..."
Having said this, the old man drove Wu Wanying out, then bent down to pick up the lock on the ground, closed the cell door, and locked it again.