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"Even for a strong man like me, this kind of thing is impossible..." Kevin looked up at the height of the windmill, shook his head and spread his hands.
"Maybe some special mechanism is used to do it?" Mei Ling said with a smile, "After all, wisdom is the essential difference between humans and animals..."
"I always feel like you are hinting at me, Sister Meiling?" Kevin turned to look at her with a polite smile on his face.
"I'm more curious about why the murderer had to bring Mr. Clyde's body here."
Just as the two were about to start arguing again, the second young master Tone Kosuke spoke up, "Normally, there are very few people coming to this power plant. Even if the murderer wanted to dump the body here because of this, couldn't he just throw it on the ground? Why did he have to climb up the windmill to throw it down?"
"Baihe said it was dropped from the sky, not from the windmill."
Mary also looked up at the three windmills around her, and saw that Baihe Qing had started to observe the corpse again and had no intention of explaining to everyone, so she said:
“Look carefully, although Mr. Clyde’s body did fall between the three windmills, it subtly maintained a certain distance from the three windmills.
If the body was really thrown from one of the windmills by the murderer, then the distance between the body and the windmill after it landed could not have been more than three meters, unless the murderer was born with supernatural powers..."
"But now, Mr. Clyde's body is more than five meters away from the nearest windmill. This distance is really too far..."
Kitakami Kazuhiko heard this, nodded, and said thoughtfully:
"If it didn't fall from the windmill, could it be that Mr. Clyde's body flew here from the annex and then fell down?"
While everyone was talking, Bai Heqing carefully observed Clyde's injured right wrist.
Unlike Clyde's left hand, his right wrist was fractured inward, with a very obvious circle of bloodstains on the wrist.
The skin on the back and palm of Clyde's right hand was relatively clean, with no scratches except for some mud and water from the rain.
In other words, the fracture of Clyde's right wrist was not caused by falling from a high altitude, otherwise there would be corresponding scratches on the back of his hand or the palm caused by the intense friction with the ground.
The broken wrist and the bloodstains wrapped around it might be the key to why Clyde's body "flew" here.
Thinking of this, Baihe Qing looked up again at the three wind turbines around him.
If you just want to dump the body, there are many suitable places on the back mountain than this windmill power plant.
Therefore, the murderer chose this place because it must have the necessary conditions to help the murderer make the corpse fly.
【Um? 】
With his extraordinary vision, Baihe Qing suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something tied to the rotating blades of the windmill on the left.
【It's fishing line. 】
Squinting his eyes and looking carefully, Bai Heqing quickly recognized what it was.
On the blades of the windmill on the left, several fishing lines are twisted together and wrapped around them.
【Why is there a fishing line on it? 】
With his brows slightly furrowed, Bai Heqing turned his head and looked at the windmill on the right.
He keenly noticed that there was also a coil of twisted fishing line wrapped around the shaft of the windmill on the right.
The two windmills, one on the left and one on the right, were just on the left and right sides of Clyde's body.
Something suddenly occurred to his mind, and Bai Heqing immediately stood up and walked forward quickly.
This windmill power plant was built on a gentle slope halfway up the mountain behind the villa, about a hundred meters away from the villa.
Bai Heqing stood on the edge of the power plant and could even clearly see the villa a hundred meters below.
The architectural design of the Tone family's annex combines Gothic and ancient Greek styles. On the back side of the annex facing the windmill power plant, there is an ancient Greek-style ornamental colonnade.
Since there is no obstruction in the middle, if someone stands on the viewing colonnade, they can have an unobstructed view of the windmill power plant where everyone is at the moment... or in other words, the two windmills on the left and right with the fishing line tied to them.
[I see... this is a really bold method. ]
After instantly figuring out how the murderer had gotten Clyde's body from the annex to here, Shirakawa Qing turned around and said to Mary:
"Mary, I'm going to go back to the annex to take a look. Please keep an eye on this scene."
"Don't you want me to go with you?" Mary asked quickly.
Knowing what she was worried about, Bai Heqing shook his head slightly and said, "It's okay, I'm just going back to look for some clues and will be back soon."
After saying that, Bai Heqing left quickly.
It was already a little late, he just hoped that he could still find evidence to identify the murderer in time.
"It seems that the detective has seen through the murderer's tricks..." Mei Ling said meaningfully when she saw this.
"That's perfect, isn't it?" Kevin stretched and said, "I've been on this mountain for the whole morning and I only had a little breakfast. I just hope that Detective Baihe can solve the case as soon as possible so that we can go back for lunch..."
Chapter 432 Fishing Line is the Magical Artifact of Ke Xue
At the windmill power plant on the back mountain, except for Kurahashi Motoaki and Oiri Sumiko who initially returned to the annex to prepare lunch, and Shirakawa Kiyoshi who was looking for evidence, the rest of the people stayed in the power plant temporarily, gathering in groups of three or four, chatting and killing time.
The two young masters of the Tone family stood together and discussed something in a low voice, Feng Shui master Mei Ling and Kitakami Kazuhiko chatted with each other, and Mary walked forward and stood side by side with Kevin who was standing at the edge of the power plant.
"Oh? Detective Mary? Do you have anything to ask me?" Seeing Mary, Kevin asked very directly.
"Well, I do have some questions to ask." Seeing that the other party was so direct, Mary did not beat around the bush and nodded directly.
"It's okay, just ask whatever you want to ask. I will tell you everything I know." Kevin said with a smile, his tone cheerful.
"I'm just a little curious. Mr. Kevin doesn't seem to be sad about Mr. Clyde's murder? I remember that you seemed to have accompanied Mr. Clyde to this island, right?"
Kevin and Mei Ling, one of them accompanied Clyde and the other accompanied Yang Douxin to this island.
“Well, that’s what I said, but actually the relationship between me and that old man isn’t that good. To put it bluntly, it’s just a normal employer-employee relationship.
I am a reporter outside. I used to have some friendship with old man Clyde. I heard that he came to this island to inherit a large inheritance, so I begged him to come with me..."
After hearing his explanation, Mary thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "You said we had some friendship in the past...do you mean in the army?"
"Oh?"
Kevin looked at Mary in surprise when he heard this, but soon smiled with relief.
"You're really a detective, you even noticed this?
Yes, I also served in the army before becoming a reporter. At that time, Mr. Clyde also served as my commander for a period of time, and that’s when we met..."
"Come to think of it, Mr. Kevin should also know how to use gunpowder, right?" Mary asked meaningfully.
"Ahem! Well..."
Turning his head and glancing at the few people not far behind him, Kevin made sure that they were not looking at this side, then he raised his finger and quickly whispered:
"Shh! Keep your voice down. If this gets out, people will definitely suspect that I blew up the bridge... Please, Detective Mary, I don't want to be arrested without knowing the reason."
"I'm just asking casually, Mr. Kevin, don't be nervous."
Looking at him, Mary said with a smile.
"Please rest assured, we will definitely find the real murderer."
"Well, you are really reliable. I will leave it to you."
On the other hand, after returning to the annex, Shirakawa Qing immediately went to the ornamental colonnade at the back of the annex that he had seen before.
【Here. 】
Just like strolling in an ancient Greek temple, Bai Heqing walked past the long ochre-colored pillars and finally stopped in front of one of them.
On the outside of the pillar, there are two traces that appear to have been left by some thin wire entangled and rubbed.
【Two.】
Standing next to this pillar, Bai Heqing looked up and could just see the two windmills that were constantly rotating on the power plant on the back mountain not far away.
The situation was consistent with what he had previously speculated.
Last night at midnight, the murderer first set up a small mechanism here.
Using this pillar as the center point, the murderer twisted several fishing lines into two strands and tied them to the two windmills at the power plant on the back mountain a hundred meters away.
Of course, the murderer did not tie them directly, but folded the two pre-prepared fishing lines in half with the pillar as the center, and finally tied them tightly on the shafts of the two windmills.
In this way, the two fishing lines are wrapped around the two windmills respectively, and will circulate repeatedly between the pillars and the windmills as the windmill shafts rotate.
The two scratches on the pillar were caused by the repeated friction between the two fishing lines.
After preparing the trap, the killer went to Clyde's room, tricked him into opening the door and strangled him with fishing line.
Afterwards, the murderer brought Clyde's body to the pillar again and tied the two fishing lines tightly around Clyde's right wrist.
In this way, the two fishing lines, pulled by the constantly rotating windmill, also pulled Clyde's body and slowly flew towards the power plant on the back mountain.
As Clyde's body was pulled up the back mountain, the two fishing lines that were originally driven by the two windmills to rotate in two directions had now completed another circle.
But because they were all entangled around Clyde's wrists, the two fishing lines that had reached the critical point were stuck here, and Clyde's body was also suspended in mid-air.
The fractures and bloodstains on Clyde's right wrist were also caused during this process.
But this situation should have lasted only a short while.
Soon, the fishing line broke because it could not withstand the huge pulling force from the windmills on both sides, and Clyde's body fell to the grass below, forming the scene that everyone saw this morning.
As for the two fishing lines, apart from the end tied to the windmill which is difficult to clean, the end wrapped around the pillar of the annex will soon be washed away by the water flow, making it almost impossible to find it again.
Thinking of this, Bai Heqing sighed softly, turned and walked towards Clyde's room, hoping to find some clues there.
Clyde's room was still the same as he and Mary had seen it last night, with almost no changes.
Even the glass of red wine that had been on his table last night was still there.
Bai Heqing walked forward, squatted down, and took a closer look at the glass of red wine.
There was no stain on the rim of the glass, and the glass of red wine had not been touched at all, just like when he left last night.
He poured the red wine but didn't drink it all night. Was it because he forgot about it, or was it because the murderer came to kill Clyde shortly after he and Mary left?
"Detective Shirakawa?"
Suddenly, an old voice sounded behind Baihe Qing. He stood up and looked back, and saw the old butler Kurahashi Motoaki standing at the door.
"Butler Kurahashi? Is there anything wrong?" Bai Heqing looked at him and asked.
"Ah, I was thinking that since Mr. Clyde has been confirmed to be murdered, I wanted to come over and lock this room... Where's Detective Shirakawa? Are you looking for some clues?"
"Well, unfortunately, this room is too clean and there are no valuable clues."
"That's it..."