Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 522 Unexpected Technique

"How could this be? If so, who would have killed Ah Zhu?" Conan asked suspiciously.

"It was actually these things that killed Ah Zhu." Li Canghai took out a blank piece of paper and unfolded it.

Everyone looked at the paper and found that there were some bamboos and hemp ropes drawn on the paper, and they were puzzled.

Li Canghai said: "I found these things in the bamboo forest opposite Ah Zhu's room, a bent bamboo, a bamboo half as tall as half a person, and a bamboo cut open from it, and these hemp rope."

"These are just ordinary bamboo hemp ropes, there is nothing special about them?" Conan knew what he found in the bamboo forest, but in his opinion, those things were the most common and common things. related to the murder.

"That's right, it's precisely because these are the most common things that they won't attract everyone's attention, because no one would think that these things actually killed Ah Zhu." Li Canghai said deeply.

Everyone looked left and right around the piece of paper, but they shook their heads without any clue.

"Actually, I was able to figure out the killing methods of these murder cases, largely because of Brother Nan. If he hadn't taken me out to relax, I wouldn't have figured it out." Li Canghai said.

"Me?" Conan froze for a moment, feeling a little baffled.

"That's right. At first I was also at a loss. No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't figure out the connection between these things. I just found a split bamboo in the bamboo forest when I was investigating. The door of Zhu’s room was just a little strange at that time. I didn’t figure out the key to it until today when I saw a juggling performance in the town.” Li Canghai said.

Conan touched his chin and stared at the paper intently, but he still couldn't see why, so he frowned and asked, "What's the key to this?"

Li Canghai said: "Brother Nan, you should still remember that when the girl performed empty-handed catching arrows, that arrogant man took out some parts and formed a crossbow on the spot?"

Conan nodded, and pondered: "Of course I remember this. Could it be...is that so?"

Conan's eyes instantly became dignified, and his expression looked quite surprised.

Li Canghai knew that Conan had already figured out the key point, so he nodded and said, "Yes, just as Brother Nan thought, the murderer used these to make a simple yet powerful crossbow."

"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?" Zhang Wenyuan touched his nose and asked suspiciously.

Li Canghai didn't remember to answer everyone, but clapped his hands, and several servants came in with some bamboo sticks and other things.

"These are the models of the things I found in the bamboo forest. Maybe if this is the case, you will understand better."

As he said that, Li Canghai bent the bamboo strips, tied them with hemp rope, and placed the cut bamboo with the section facing up, and quickly assembled a simple small crossbow.

Everyone looked and saw that the bow and crossbow were all made of bamboo and hemp rope. The split bamboo was the launch trough, and the bent bamboo was tied with hemp rope to store power. There was a small gap under the launch trough, and the gap fell down. The rope is connected with the rope used for accumulating power, and is wrapped around the bamboo erected behind.

The whole bow and crossbow is simple in shape, but only a few hemp ropes are used, but it exerts the effect of force to the extreme, which can be said to be ingenious.

Li Canghai had studied physics in his previous life, so he had some understanding of 'force', but even so, he had to experiment more than ten times in the room before he successfully combined these irrelevant things into a crossbow.

Looking at the bow and crossbow on the table, everyone was amazed and wondered whether a crossbow made of such crude things could really be used?
Li Canghai saw the doubts in everyone's mind, so he ordered someone to find a chopstick, put it in the groove, looked at everyone, and said, "Now, everyone can see how powerful this crossbow is."

As he spoke, Li Canghai hooked lightly with his fingers, several hemp ropes moved at the same time, and they were released from the bamboo at the back automatically. The bamboo chopsticks in the groove rushed out instantly, and inserted into them with a swish. Among the fruits on the fruit plate opposite.At the same time, the crossbow also collapsed directly.

Everyone was shocked at the same time when they saw this, they froze on the spot, staring dumbfounded at the broken crossbow, speechless for a long time.

"Brother Li, what's going on?" Conan asked in surprise.

Li Canghai said indifferently: "Pull the simple longbow made of bamboo into a full moon, then put the launching slot on it, and then block the full moon's hemp rope with bamboo, set up the mechanism, wait for the mechanism to start, and place it in the bamboo slot The bamboo joints in the middle of the crossbow will be smashed away. And the whole crossbow is built on balance, so after exerting force, it will fall apart in an instant and be scattered anywhere in the bamboo forest. In this way, there will be no Some people thought that the weapon used to kill Ah Zhu was actually a simple crossbow."

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Such an exquisite killing method is simply unimaginable!
"Wait a minute, I'm a little puzzled. Even if the murderer set up the crossbow as you said, how did he set up the mechanism? How did he know when A'Zhu opened the door? Also, what about the painting next to A'Zhu? What happened?" Conan asked.

"In the bamboo forest, in addition to these things, I also found a puddle of water at the organ message. If we guessed wrong, it should be ice water. The murderer tied ice cubes to the rope that triggered the organ message, and then calculated When the time is right, the mechanism will be triggered after the ice melts to a certain amount. And the painting will fly out at the same time as the bamboo knot that killed A'Zhu, so when you kill A'Zhu, the painting will appear on the Beside her." Li Canghai paused, frowned and said, "As for how the murderer calculated that Ah Zhu would open the door at that time, I think the murderer informed her in advance and asked her to open the door at a specific time! "

"Although this plan is feasible, there are many uncertain factors. If the ice cubes melted earlier, or if the melting speed of the ice cubes slowed down, or if Ah Zhu didn't open the door, the murderer made this series of arrangements. Isn't it a failure?" Conan asked thoughtfully.

Li Canghai nodded, frowned and said: "From these, the murderer should be very familiar with Ah Zhu's living habits. He knew that Ah Zhu would ask the maid to boil medicine at that time, so he made these. Besides, these It's not very eye-catching, even if there are all kinds of accidents as you said, but who would have thought that a piece of bamboo can be used as a murder weapon?"

(End of this chapter)