darkest personality

Chapter 241 241. Murder in the Guest Room

Bai Ye tried to push the middle door twice, but there should be latches on both sides of the door, and the opposite side was locked, so it couldn't be pushed open.

So he turned around and walked towards the corridor, ready to try to pass through the door in the corridor.

After opening the door and going out, the corridor outside was not lit, and it was illuminated by the lightning flashing outside the window at the end.

A damp chill filled the corridor, and Bai Ye smelled a fishy smell that couldn't be dispelled from the air.

There are three glass windows on the right side of the corridor, and the guest rooms are uniformly arranged on the left side of the corridor. Counting from front to back, Bai Ye is arranged in the first room, Professor Derby is in the second room in the middle, and the last room is that Inhabited by a strange servant who smells like fish.

If you go straight along the corridor to the end, turn right and you will pass a covered bridge of about ten meters. The master bedroom of the head of the house, Walred Izer, is located in a pointed house opposite the covered bridge.

"Since the guest rooms are connected by a door in the middle, the rooms in the middle row should be able to communicate with each other?"

Bai Ye thought so while groping for the door of the middle guest room against the wall.

The distance between the doors of the two rooms was less than ten meters, and he quickly came to the door of the middle room.

"Huh? The door is not closed?"

The door of the guest room was ajar, revealing a dark gap. There was no light in the room, and it seemed that the curtains were drawn tightly, and nothing inside could be seen through the crack of the door.

Bai Ye was already full of doubts, and was about to open the door to see what happened inside.

But at this moment, a bolt of lightning happened to flash across the sky, and the lightning illuminated the entire corridor pale. Instinctively, Bai Ye's peripheral vision seemed to catch a figure standing at the end of the corridor.

He immediately turned his head to look in that direction, but unfortunately... the light of the lightning was very short, and it just happened to be dark again at this time, and he just couldn't see the situation at the end of the corridor carefully.

Then, a huge thunder seemed to explode on the ceiling, making people's heart beat suddenly tight.

"Someone was spying on me not far away just now!"

Bai Ye is maintaining a cautious posture at the moment, and his sensory sensitivity has been improved. He has just clearly captured the feeling of being spied on.

"Who could it be? What does he want?"

Judging from the distance and location, the fishy-smelling servant is very likely. Of course, Valrid who lives across the covered bridge cannot be ruled out...

"Let's check what happened in Professor Derby's room first."

……

Bai Ye pushed open the half-hidden door, and before he entered, a strange smell came to his nostrils.

After a little discernment, he found that the smell was mixed with a fairly obvious fishy smell, and there was also a faint smell of blood.It smells weird because of the mixing of the two temperatures.

"It seems that the servant came in here."

The fishy smell alone is enough to illustrate this point.

Bai Ye opened the door of the room to the maximum, improving the darkness of the room a little.

One of the windows in the corridor was facing the door of the middle room. At this time, there was lightning flashing outside, and the lightning provided Bai Ye with a very brief illumination again.

The room seemed to be flickered by the flashlight on the mobile phone. Although the range of exposure was very limited, Bai Ye could still clearly see the big bed in the corner of the room. The elderly Professor Edward Derby was lying in a sideways posture. On the bed, his eyes were wide open, his mouth was slightly open, and his expression showed a look of horror.

"Dead? Murdered?"

After the lighting effect of the lightning disappeared, he groped in the dark room with his memory, grabbed a box of matches on a desk in front of the window, and used the matches to light a portable kerosene lamp next to him.

There was finally some light in the room that wasn't too bright.

The size of this guest room is slightly larger than Bai Ye's room, and there is not much difference in furnishings. The only difference is... There is a middle door on the left and right walls of the room.

Professor Edward Derby was lying sideways on the big bed, with one foot sticking out of the bed.

There was an obvious knife hole in his heart, and the blood stained the surrounding shirt red. He clasped his hands on his chest, as if he was trying to stop the bleeding after being injured.

But the murderer's knife was very deadly, and he lost all possibility of survival with one knife.

In reality, Bai Ye did not work as a police detective, and his ability to solve crime scenes was very limited.

He looked around and found no murder weapon, nor did he see the sculpture that Professor Derby begged from him.

"Did the murderer kill to take the sculpture?"

but……

When Bai Ye handed over the sculpture to the professor, he was the only one in the professor's room, and the doors of the other two rooms were also closed. The murderer probably didn't know that the professor had a bottle of sculpture in his hand.

"The murderer's motive was not for the sculpture, so taking away the sculpture may have been his temporary intention."

Of course, unless there were other people hiding in the big house, the murderer was only among the three—if you count Valrid's mad wife.

"The most suspect is that servant."

The smell of fish in the room directly raised the servant's suspicion to the highest value, and the servant's room was next to the professor's room, and there was a middle door between the two rooms.

"Middle door?!"

Bai Ye thought of something, got up and walked over to check the middle door leading to the servant's room.

"The latch here has been pulled out, indicating that this door has been opened."

"The servant knocked on the middle door and came in. After killing someone and taking the sculpture, he went back to his room through the middle door, and then locked the door from the opposite side?"

He cautiously put his ear against the door and listened for a while, only to find that there was no sound from the next room.

He stretched out his hand and pushed the middle door, and the door was actually pushed by him!

……

"By the way, if he returned to his room the same way after the murder, then there is no need to open the door leading to the corridor from the professor's room, right?"

Wouldn't it be better to make this room a secret room that can only be entered and exited from the servant's room than to leave an entrance for Bai Ye to come in and investigate?

Is this servant still trying to clear himself of suspicion?

Please, there are only three people in this house, and the other two are less suspicious than the servant, and they can also prove each other's absence. The servant's approach is completely superfluous.

unless……

"The servant came from his room to the professor's room through the middle door. After killing someone and taking away the sculpture, he left through the door leading to the corridor."

There are only two directions to go outside the corridor. After he goes out, he will either go left or right.

Bai Ye remembered that just before entering the door, he had caught a glimpse of a figure standing at the left end of the corridor out of the corner of his eye.

"No mistake, that figure should be the murderer!"

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(End of this chapter)