Conan, but the winery

"Due to the need to investigate the murder of Chief Barry, I need to enter the King's bedroom to investigate a little. I wonder if you can provide me with this convenience?"

"No." However, Ole rejected her immediately, shook his head and said, "Detective Mary, this is the bedroom of His Majesty the King. Not just anyone can enter. Please go back..."

Having said this, Ole walked straight to the door, took out the key from his pocket and was about to open the door and go in, while the guard soldier beside him had no intention of stopping him.

Seeing this, Mary behind him spoke again, "Butler Ou Lei, can you allow me to go in with you?"

"What?" Ou Lei was stunned for a moment, and his hand stopped opening the door.

"Out of consideration for the safety of His Majesty the King, it is indeed inappropriate for me to go in alone, but if you, Butler Ou Lei, are with me, I think I won't have such concerns, right?

If you are really worried, Butler Olei, you and this guard can monitor me while I investigate the King's bedroom. How do you think about this?"

"No, this, that..." Hearing her words, the expression on Ole's face suddenly became a little nervous.

"Please rest assured that I will not stay in the king's bedroom for too long. Five minutes will be enough." Mary spoke again, looking straight at Orel.

For a well-trained veteran agent, five minutes is enough time for her to conduct a relatively thorough search of a room.

"Uh, well, I..."

However, under Mary's gaze, the expression on Ole's face gradually changed from nervousness to panic.

"I, I suddenly remembered that I have some things to do. Sorry, Detective Mary, I'll take my leave first..."

After saying this, Ole turned around and left quickly as if he was escaping, and soon disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Seeing his obviously problematic reaction, Mary's eyes behind her sunglasses gradually became sharper.

But immediately, she retracted her gaze and looked at the guards who were doing their duty beside her.

It’s not a big problem. Although she can’t enter this room, she can get what she wants from other aspects.

"Sir, can I ask you a few questions?"

"I can answer within the scope of my duties!" the soldier replied righteously.

"Is the king's bedroom guarded 24 hours a day?" Mary asked.

"Yes!"

"Who was in charge of the guard from last night to this morning?"

"It's been me from twelve o'clock last night until now!" The soldier's tone was quite proud, but the dark circles under his eyes seemed a little thick.

"So, since last night, do you remember who has entered this dormitory?"

"Uh...Captain Barry came in at midnight last night!"

Hearing this expected answer, Mary nodded slightly.

"Besides Commander Barry, is there no one else?"

"Yes! Until this morning when Butler Olei went in to deliver breakfast to His Majesty the King, no one had entered or left the King's bedroom!"

"When did Commander Barry go back?" Mary continued to ask.

"Uh..." After a pause, the soldier replied, "No, Commander Barry has never come out since he went in..."

[Have you never come out since you went in? ]

In other words, the king's bedroom in front of us is very likely the first scene where Barry was murdered...

"Is there any other entrance or exit to the king's bedroom?" Mary asked again, thinking of this possibility.

"No way! This door is the only entrance to the King's chambers!"

"Butler Ou Lei, did you encounter anything strange when you came in this morning?" Mary asked again, thinking of Ou Lei's abnormal reaction before.

"Uh, no..." After recalling it, the soldier shook his head.

"Did he come in alone with the tray?" Mary asked leadingly.

"Ah, no, Butler Orei always uses a cart when delivering meals to His Majesty the King," the soldier corrected.

[So, you can hide things in the cart, right? ]

In her mind, Mary quickly organized a series of thoughts.

On the other side, after the kingdom police arrived, Wu Wanying left the corner of the courtyard where Barry's body was.

She returned to the castle, but instead of going to the King's bedroom to meet Mary, she turned and went to Barry's office on the other side of the castle.

As the highest officer of the kingdom's police, Barry has a room in the King's Castle that he can use for his office.

Because of Barry's murder, there were now guards at the door of this office.

However, with Hans's signal, Karasuma Ying entered the room smoothly.

Wearing a coat, Karasuma Ying quickly scanned the interior layout of the office.

The desk and bookshelf are very tidy, without any unnecessary decorations. The whole room looks very simple, which fits the general impression of a "serious old police officer".

But in this meticulous cleanliness, there are a few slightly out of place places.

First of all, in the corner of the room, there was a large four-door refrigerator, which made Karasuma Ying a little strange.

There wasn't even a water dispenser in this room, so how could there be a refrigerator? Could it be that this old police officer also had a hobby of drinking iced wine?

Curious, she walked over and opened the big refrigerator.

The refrigerator was completely empty. There was no food, nor the chilled wine as she had expected. Behind one of the doors, there was only a bottle of mineral water and several ice trays for freezing water.

Several bottles of mineral water were missing. Wu Wanying seemed to have thought of something and reached out to touch the ice cube trays.

The coldness instantly reached her fingertips, and she pulled back her hand to look, her hands were covered in ice fragments.

Squinting her eyes slightly, she turned around and looked at the floor in the middle of the room, where there was a light green wool carpet.

No matter from which angle she looked at it, Wu Wanying felt that this carpet looked a bit abrupt.

First of all, the area of ​​the carpet. Compared with this office, the carpet in front of me looks a little small.

It covered the floor like a muscular man wearing a baby's red bellyband, which looked out of place no matter how you looked at it.

Secondly, there is a large area of ​​dark red, almost black, in the middle of the carpet.

She walked forward, squatted down, and reached out to touch the large dark red area.

It is wet.

She seemed to know how Barry died...

He committed suicide.

Chapter 235 Focus on Doubts

In Barry's office in the King's Castle, Wu Wanying squatted beside the small carpet in the middle of the room, stretched out her finger and touched the dark red area in the middle of the carpet.

Feeling a cold and damp touch on her fingers, Wu Wanying withdrew her hand, and her fingers were stained with some faint dark red liquid.

After sniffing it and rubbing it on her fingertips, Wu Wanying finally came to a conclusion.

The dark red color on the carpet is human blood, and it is human blood that has been mixed with a large amount of water and can no longer coagulate on its own.

Wu Wanying pinched one corner of the blanket and lifted it up, and used her other hand to rub the floor under the blanket and the floor outside the blanket hard.

[The proportion of dust outside the blanket and under the blanket is basically the same...]

Looking at the almost identical dust stains on the two fingers, Wu Wanying stood up and turned to look at Hans who was standing at the door behind him.

"Mr. Hans, how long has this carpet been in Chief Barry's office?"

"Ah, I'm not sure about that. After all, I belong to the guard team, and I seldom meet Chief Barry on weekdays. This is also my first time in his office today..." Hans replied with a smile.

The Kingdom Police and Guard of the Kingdom of Andrew are two completely different departments, and because the relationship between the two highest commanders, Barry and Birun, has always been bad during their lifetime, the two departments usually have a disharmonious relationship.

"Oh, right……"

Suddenly thinking of something, Hans reached out and pulled the guard standing outside the door in, and asked, "Let me ask you, how long has this carpet been in Commander Barry's room?"

"Uh, Captain Hans, I don't know about that either..." the soldier shook his head and replied.

"Normally, there is no need to stand guard in Chief Barry's office, and we are not allowed to enter..."

"How often is the room cleaned?" asked Karasuma Ying.

"The bedrooms of the royal family or other nobles in the King's Castle are cleaned by maids every day. However, for special rooms like Chief Barry's office, they are usually cleaned once a month by a dedicated person. I remember the last time it was cleaned was more than half a month ago..."

"More than half a month?"

After hearing the soldier's answer, Karasuma Ying looked at the carpet in the middle of the room again.

This carpet does not belong in this office.

The reason is simple. The last time this office was cleaned was half a month ago. If this carpet had always been in this office, the dust and stains under and outside the carpet could not be so evenly distributed.

In other words, this blood-stained carpet, which looks a bit out of place, was most likely temporarily moved to this office by someone.

"Mr. Hans, can you take me to see the maid who first discovered Commander Barry's body?" Uramaru Ying looked at Hans and asked.

She has basically collected all the clues in this office, and she even has a general idea of ​​how Barry was murdered and his motives for doing so.

Thinking about it carefully, Barry's murder today was not without warning. He suddenly called her yesterday and not only said a bunch of inexplicable words to her, but also deliberately told her the secret of Andrew's royal secret treasure, the sapphire, through some hints.

At that time, Barry's behavior was actually a little abnormal, but Wu Wanying was shocked by the secret of the blue sapphire at that time, so she didn't notice it...

With a slight sigh, Wu Wanying followed Hans to a maid's lounge in the castle. There were also two guards standing in front of the door of the lounge.

At this time, more than 20 young maids in maid uniforms were crowded in the lounge. They were all ordered to return to the lounge and wait after their younger brother Preben ordered martial law in the King's Castle.

Hans opened the door of the lounge and called to a young maid inside.

"Esther, come here for a moment."

"Yes Yes!"

A little nervous, the maid named Esther quickly stood up after being called and walked to the corridor under the worried gazes of her companions.

"Please, is there anything I can help you with, Captain Hans?" Because Hans spoke English, she also asked in English.

"You were the first to discover Officer Barry's body this morning?"

"Yes, it is."

"What happened then?" asked Wu Wanying.