The Crime Scene and the Eyewitness

Under the guidance of Sanji, everyone came to the wedding room of Great Shaman

Nothing was touched in the bridal chamber. The blood splattered on the floor, the broken windows, and the messy bed were all exactly the same as last night.

Luo Jun led everyone around the house in a pretentious manner, but in his mind he was counting the number of times the dice would be used.

Today's number of times has been used up. Although the difficulty of the previous two clues was as high as 100, Severity Coefficient was only five times. A total of only 1,000 experience points were given. There are still more than 700 experience points left before the upgrade... After thinking about it, I can't use the dice to find clues today.

Really, for such an important matter as investigating a case, there is no need to give a task or something...

But then I thought about it, the deadline for investigating the case is before the burial the day after tomorrow, and there is still one day tomorrow. According to Wildlands Underground Trial Grounds's experience last time, Dice's missions are only released at the last moment. Even if the mission is released, it will have to wait until at least tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Luo Jun stopped being anxious and walked around the room a few times, pretending to look around, and finally asked Officer Zhang: "Officer Zhang, can you tell me what you found at the scene, so I can sort out my thoughts."

As the saying goes, there are specialties in the profession. Even if Luo Jun really gave birth to a head like Sherlock Holmes, without professional knowledge, it would be impossible to compare with the old head catcher who has been investigating cases for more than ten years.

Lord Lu's instructions, coupled with the previous performance of finding important clues in the morgue, made Officer Zhang respect the young Young Hero Luo very much, and responded cooperatively, "There was no fighting at the scene. Traces, Great Shaman was killed with one blow. According to the bride, the murderer suddenly climbed in through the window to kill. After being discovered, he directly broke through the window and escaped. It took less than half a stick of incense to escape, so there were no traces of the murderer at the scene."

"A Li, right?" Luo Jun walked forward. "We are just asking a few questions, and we won't disturb you too much."

As the only witness to the entire murder, and the person who will be buried with Great Shaman the day after tomorrow, the bride has been firmly controlled, so it is not difficult to see her.

"I have told you everything I really know..." the bride said aggrievedly, "I really don't know anything. The man in black suddenly rushed in, killed the adults, and then planned evil things against me. Later... everyone saw it later."

The bride shook her head. "After the man came in, he didn't say a word..."

Luo Jun learned this from the criminal investigation dramas he had watched before, but when he heard it in Officer Zhang's ears, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up. "Young Hero Luo is really experienced... It's a pity. We checked carefully and there are no abnormal fibers left on it..."

"Madam!" Sanji saluted. "These people were brought by Fifth Elder to investigate the assassination case of Great Shaman. They would like to know some information from Madam."

"This is a bit strange. Are clothes so strong?" Luo Jun asked tentatively.

The bride still shook her head. "No..."

Sanji told several Southern Borderlands Warrior to take a good look at the scene, and then led everyone to the side room.

"I already know it after going through it. What I want to ask are some details." Luo Jun looked at the bride. "For example, when the murderer committed the crime, did he make any sound or say anything, such as 'I want revenge' or something like that?"

"Normally speaking, such a rough escape through the window will leave traces." Officer Zhang nodded. "But it is estimated that the clothes worn by the murderer are made of special materials. They may be some kind of protective soft armor, which is very tough, so there are no fibers left..."

"What about when he tried to do evil things to you later?" Luo Jun asked, "You didn't even make any laughter or anything like that?"

Luo Jun doesn't think that she was sad for Great Shaman's death, but more probably because she was fearful for being buried with him.

"That's right..." Luo Jun nodded and came to the broken window. "The murderer broke through the window to escape. Are there any fiber residues from the clothing on the stubble of the wood?"

"This is the bride's residence. From last night to now, she has not left the house. The doors and windows are also guarded by special personnel to prevent her from escaping." With that, Sanji led everyone to the door, negotiated with the gatekeeper Southern Borderlands Warrior, and then opened the door and entered.

"That's it..." Luo Jun didn't know if this was reasonable. He could only nodded vaguely and looked out the window. "It's a bit cloudy today and the sky is a bit dark. So, let's come and see the scene tomorrow... How about we go and understand the following situation with the bride first?"

"As for the murderer's state when he left, many guests saw it and can testify." Sanji added, "But when he came in, only the bride saw it."

Luo Jun took a look and saw that the bride was still wearing last night's wedding dress, with exquisite makeup on her face. However, unlike her bright appearance when she received the bride yesterday, she now looked a little haggard and tired. She took off the gold and silverware on her head and put it on the table. She probably had been carrying too much burden...

"I have already said everything I know..." the bride warned, "If you don't catch the murderer, why are you torturing me, a dying person..." As she said this, she covered her face with a handkerchief and began to sob.

Noticing someone coming in, the bride who was sitting in the room suddenly stood up with a horrified look on her face. "Who are you?"

Obviously, she hasn't changed her clothes since last night, and probably hasn't had a good rest either.

"He had his face covered and was dressed in black, and he never made a sound..." Luo Jun frowned and said, "Then can you be sure whether he is a boy or a girl?"

Sanji who asked this question found it funny, "Would a woman intend to molest a bride?"

"That's not necessarily true..." Luo Jun said to himself that you bunch of locals have only heard of several genders. "You think, if the murderer really wanted to molest the bride, why didn't he just knock her unconscious? A Li has no power to restrain a chicken. A master who can assassinate Great Shaman and escape completely. It only takes a moment to knock her out. Is there a possibility that the murderer wants to deliberately mislead us and make you think she is a male?"

After listening to Luo Jun's analysis, Sanji couldn't help but be stunned. He thought for a while and said, "It's possible. The suspects we have targeted are all men. We have never suspected women..."

"So hurry up and make it up... then add them to my list of things I want..."

Next, several people asked the bride some questions, but they kept repeating the same few sentences over and over again. They basically didn't understand any of the questions, and they kept making random comments, so they couldn't get any useful information.

Seeing that it was getting late, several people left the bride's room.

At this time, a Southern Borderlands person came over with a thick stack of paper and handed it to Sanji. On it was the list Luo Jun had requested before.

"This pile is the guests who came here last night; this pile is the servants present; these are the suspects who have been controlled; and this pile is the list of all Luo Yue Clan people in Yunzhou City that was just transferred." Sanji handed the materials to Luo Jun: "You just mentioned that the suspect may be a female. I will report to Fifth Elder and conduct an immediate search and investigation. I will compile a list of female suspects tomorrow morning."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Luo Jun took it with a smile and looked through it briefly. He found that the list of guests and servants alone included hundreds of people, and Luo Yue Clan had two to three thousand people, both men and women. As for the key suspects, there were twenty-two in total, all of them men.

"How are you sure they are suspects?" Luo Jun asked.

"They are all people who have had a quarrel with Great Shaman and have murderous motives." Sanji said, "Great Shaman takes concubines. Such enemies will naturally not invite them, so there are no suspects among the guests... To be honest, I think it is unlikely that the guests committed the crime. You'd better start investigating these twenty people."

Luo Jun wonders who committed the crime, but the dice will decide. "Where are they now?"

"Everything is under control... Do you want to interrogate me now?"

"No need... it's getting late. Let's go back today to sort out the clues and investigate in detail tomorrow." Luo Jun waved his hand. There was no dice count today, so it might not be useful to ask. It would be better to wait until the zero count is refreshed and verify it first.

"By the way, I want to take these lists away for research..." Luo Jun asked, "Maybe they will be lost or damaged by then... Do you have a backup?"

"What I'm giving you is a backup. Fifth Elder gave me the order." Sanji said, "Don't worry. As long as we can catch the real culprit, we can burn these lists without any problem!"

Luo Jun thought to myself, then I feel relieved, nodded, and collected the list.

When other people solve a case, they first look for clues and evidence, and then slowly deduce the suspect. Luo Jun is different. They first lock in the suspect, and then work backwards to find out the clues... How can I put it, they are all to solve the case, and we reach the same goal through different paths.

Saying goodbye to Sanji, the group of people left Southern Borderlands Council Hall and returned to the human realm of Central Plains. Officer Zhang took people back to Governor's Residence to return to life, and Luo Jun and others went to the Hundred Rivers Sect's branch.

"Isn't it just a list this time?" On the way, Hou Song couldn't help but ask, "What Water of Truth are you talking about? Don't you have to put your fingerprints on yourself and tell the truth to be effective?"

"Oh, that... it's all used up..." Luo Jun spread his hands.

"Used it?" Tie Jingang and Liu Si also widened their eyes when they heard this. "It was just the last time that it was used up?"

"It's not much to begin with..." Luo Jun shrugged. "It's enough to support that one time."

To be honest, Luo Jun also thought about asking Fifth Elder to find all these suspects and verify them like they did in the prison, but after getting to know them a little bit, he gave up the idea. I won't talk about the two dozen suspects, Great Shaman Taking concubines is a big deal. There are hundreds of people attending the wedding banquet. There are too many Southern Borderlands people, and there are many Southern Borderlands high-level people. It may not be that easy to gather together to cooperate with the verification. Plus these thousands of extra Luo Yue Clan people...

It would be time-consuming and labor-intensive to test them all, and it would be a toss-up of thirteen moves. It would be a good thing if I caught them in the end. If I didn't, I would have wasted my time and might have let the real murderer escape...

"Then... why do you want the list now?" Tie Jingang asked in confusion, "There are other Law Treasure, can you find the real murderer just by looking at the list?"

"There is no such convenient way." Luo Jun smiled and shook his head, "The main reason I asked for the list was to stabilize Southern Borderlands people, give them hope, and make them think that we have Mysterious Power, and it is only a matter of time before we solve the case."

"I was also worried that there was no progress in our investigation and that they would do something drastic in anger."

"Of course, the results are good so far. We have found a clue pointing to that Luo Yue Clan. Fifth Elder's energy is temporarily focused on that."

"But... even if we are stable today, what will we do if we can't get the results tomorrow?" Hou Song worried. "Without the help of the Noble Phantasm, how can we find the real culprit?"

Luo Jun knocked on his head. "Fuck this!"

"Ah?" the three of them said in unison, "Are you really planning to rely on reasoning to solve the case?"

"Isn't there some basic information about these people on the list?" Luo Jun said with a smile, "Stay up late tonight and take a look, maybe I can find some clues... Also, I didn't find nothing today. In addition to the clues about poison, I also found another suspicious point."

(End of chapter)