Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

"Ah...how did I reason..."

Dorothy was a little stunned by the conductor's question. She hurriedly manipulated Edric to look at the conductor, and based on the result, she made up the reasoning process.

"Mr. conductor, your face and hands are a little darker, and the part under your collar is a little whiter. This phenomenon will not happen when you work on the train. This proves that you have worked in the scorching sun for a long time. What other work do you do under the sun, and your current identity is the captain of the car, so it is unlikely that you were working as a worker or a farmer in the past.

"As soon as you came over, I saw that your temperament was firm and extraordinary, and that you had the spirit of a soldier. When you first saw such a bloody and terrifying corpse, your expression was calm and unmoved, which proves that you have seen many people. A similar situation. In addition, you also said the model of the pistol used by the victim, which proves that you are familiar with the weapon.

"So, I judge that you are a soldier, a soldier who has worked in the Yan area. Among the overseas colonies of our kingdom, only the continent of Ufeiga meets this requirement. It is not so easy for ordinary soldiers to take up the position of train conductor after retiring. , so you are more likely to be an officer."

After a lot of effort, Dorothy finally let Edrick reverse the reasoning process based on the results. During the reasoning process, even unreliable factors such as temperament were moved out. Fortunately, she had seen Sherlock Holmes and others before. Reasoning works, knowing how to make up some bridges.After the so-called "reasoning" was over, there were incredible conversations among the crowd, and the train conductor nodded again and again.

"Ah... yes, yes, I did serve as a second lieutenant in Uffiga, Mr. Ed, please forgive me for doubting your ability rudely before, and now the crew is willing to do their best to help you track down the murderer."

'Phew...it's finally settled. Others get the result through the reasoning process, but here I know the result first and then make up the reasoning process. Is this also a detective?But it is much easier to deduce the process after knowing the result. '

Relieved, Dorothy continued to manipulate Edric to answer.

"Then, please help me collect the tickets of all the passengers first."

Chapter 170 Three Divinations

In the dark night, the huge steam train continued to speed forward. It did not stop at the supply station on the side of the road as originally planned, but continued to gallop forward, heading for the city far away from the track.

In a certain wide second-class carriage, countless passengers sat on rows of seats, quietly moving along with the train, waiting for the arrival of their destination. As the night was getting dark, many Passengers have already started to close their eyes and meditate, and some have gradually fallen asleep.

Among them, there was one passenger who couldn't close his eyes and fall asleep anyway.

This is a man dressed in black, wearing a black hat, and a small bag at his feet. His skin is slightly pale, his expression is serious, and his face is thin with the outline of a skeleton.

This man was the Wallwalker lurking on the train, and he was the culprit who killed Sodod and snatched his transshipment items.Having completed the task, he is waiting for the train to stop, and then he can use his ability to escape from the train through the wall and return to the association.

Originally, before the attack, the man had already lurked in Youqiang and went to the conductor's room to check the timetable. He was sure that the train would stop at a small station in a town for supplies in twenty minutes. He took the opportunity to get off the train, but it had been more than half an hour now, and there was no sign of the train stopping at all, which made the man suspicious.

'Didn't that mean the car would stop soon?Why hasn't it stopped now, is there an accident?Could it be that the guy is still making trouble?Impossible, a captain of the An'in sub-bureau still can't undo the poison of the red silk spider. '

The man thought of this in his heart, but when he thought about it, he seemed to have never seen Sodod's body from the beginning to the end. After he escaped in smoke, he also wandered around the wall and searched for a long time in the nearby carriage. He searched all the first-class compartments silently, but he couldn't find them all. Because he had consumed a lot of spirituality in resisting the detection before, he had to stop the search after his spirituality was exhausted. Dead, which made him a little uneasy.

Faced with this situation, he can actually choose to jump off the car.And the general speed of steam trains in this world is about 60 kilometers per hour. The man is not a "cup" Extraordinary. If he jumps directly like this, the only thing that can protect him is a layer of hardened skin that is barely about the size of an apprentice. This comes from his "stone". His auxiliary spirituality, but the barely hardened skin at the apprentice level is not enough to help him jump off the car at this speed safely.

If he jumps out of the car, a man who is an Extraordinary can save his life, but he will definitely be injured. What's more important is that in the wilderness, the traffic is inconvenient, and he will be in trouble if he is injured. So for a man, jumping out of a car is a He can wait for the next stop if it's not necessary at all, he doesn't believe that this train won't stop, he just needs to wait patiently.

Excluding the defeated Sodod, this car is a group of ordinary people. If he is spiritual enough, he can kill them all. Of course, he upholds the nature of an assassin and does not want to attract too much attention. He will not do this, and he does not want to Too conspicuous to choose the second class.

Just when the man made up his mind to continue waiting, he suddenly heard a movement in the carriage. Looking around, he saw several conductors questioning the passengers one by one. It looks like it is collecting the passenger's ticket.

'Collect tickets?What is this conductor doing?You don't need to collect the ticket if you check it, right? '

The man thought of this, and at this time, the conductor also received the ticket from him.

"Please show your ticket, sir, we need to keep it for a while, and then it will be returned to you."

"What do you collect tickets for?" The man asked directly, and the conductor immediately answered.

"Don't worry, sir, it's just a detailed inspection. Our bus captain suspects that someone has boarded the bus with a fake ticket."

Hearing what the conductor said, the man didn't say much, and handed out the ticket silently like the others. After the conductor took his ticket, he thanked him and continued to accept it.

……

"Mr. Detective, all the tickets are already here. According to your request, we have already written the corresponding seat number on the tickets. We have also helped them make up for those who don't have tickets and put them inside, including all of us. The work badges of the crew members are also included."

On the corridor of the first-class carriage, a conductor stood in front of Edric holding a box, which contained a box of tickets.

"Thank you, everyone, these tickets will be an important clue for my reasoning."

After receiving the ticket from the conductor, Edric said with a smile, after hearing what he said, some conductors and conductors around him were a little puzzled.

"Mr. Detective, I'm curious, what kind of reasoning needs these things? Can you find the real culprit just by relying on these tickets?" the driver asked Edric, who was quite mysterious Reply.

"Hehe... I can't tell you about this right now, well, I need a little time to analyze and reason now, and I need to be alone.

"Well... Let me think about it... The table in my private room is a bit uneven, so I'll change to this private room. It's okay, Mr. Coach."

While speaking, Edric pointed to a private room next to him, and the captain replied without thinking.

"Of course no problem, I wish you a smooth reasoning."

"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Commander."

While speaking, Edric carried the box into the private room, then closed the door, and turned on the lamp, then put the box aside and took out a large piece of paper from his clothes and spread it out on the table. On this piece of paper is drawn a complex magic circle meaning "enlightenment" and "lamp".

But at this time, Dorothy, who had been hiding under the bed beforehand, came out directly, and whispered in her mouth.

"Deduction and reasoning...reasoning a ball... how can reasoning be as useful as divination?"

Yes, Dorothy is going to use divination to find the killer. Although the killer can sneak into the wall and wander around, it needs to consume spirituality, and it is impossible to stay in the wall all the time, so under normal circumstances, he must be in the car. Disguised as other passengers on board, Dorothy asked the conductor to collect the tickets of all passengers, of course there are his, and this will be the medium of Dorothy's divination.

Dorothy asked Edrick to lay out the paper with the magic circle drawn on it and put the box on it, then Dorothy walked over by herself and took out the storage of three gold coin-shaped "lamps" and put them in the French on the battlefield.

Divination can accomplish many things, but due to different methods, different divinations have different restrictions.The pendulum can only be used for divination.Coins can only be used for divination.The cane can only be used for divination.Dial divination is divination of time.And none of this would work if you were looking for the murderer.

The pendulum needs a complete and accurate large map, which is not available on this train.Dorothy doesn't have enough spirituality to use coin divination to try one by one. The same is true for the cane. It can't use the cane unlimitedly to find the direction to find people slowly.The dial is not directly professional.

So at this time, a new method of divination will be used. This method of divination is called divination, commonly known as drawing lots.

After the preparations, Dorothy prepared a sufficient amount of "Enlightenment" and "Lamp", confident that it would be enough to defeat the opponent's anti-divination defense.

The divination started, and Dorothy reached into the box on the magic circle, stirred a bunch of tickets back and forth, and finally pulled out one after stirring for a while. At the same time, she consumed 1 point of "Enlightenment" ", a gold coin on the table also became dim, which means that the other party has no anti-divination on him, and Dorothy only consumed the lowest spirituality to divine the other party.

'No anti-divination?Being a black rank is pretty shabby... No, the two bone makers didn't have any anti-divination before. Should it be said that this is the normal state of the black rank?Sure enough, that guy Luhe is too rich... Rich beyond the average black level. '

Dorothy complained inwardly, but thinking about it, Luer is about to be promoted at the peak of the Black Order, and has his own career, which is not comparable to other Black Orders who are wage earners in the big association.

Don't think about other things, Dorothy looked at the ticket she drew out, on which was the name of the ticket holder and the train number written on it by the conductor according to Dorothy's request. The train tickets of this era do not pre-determine the seat number .

"The seventh car has five rows and four seats... Kim Cook..."

Chapter 170 Question Four

The divination was successful, and in the private room, Dorothy handed the ticket obtained by the divination to Edric, then doubled in the ticket box, found a few more tickets, and then moved the box aside, Put away the paper on which the magic circle was drawn, and after hiding it, he manipulated Edric to push the door of the compartment, and said to the two conductors who stayed outside the door.

"I already have some clues, and now I need to ask some questions to a few passengers face to face, please inform them for me, just say... some cases happened in the first-class compartment, and I need to ask a specific person. "

Listening to Edric's words, the two conductors looked at each other, and then replied.

"No problem, Mr. Detective, just tell me."

"Thank you for your cooperation. First of all, this is Mr. Harry in the seven-carriage with three rows and two seats. By the way, you should shout loudly after you get to the car. It is best for everyone in one car to hear it. If you are afraid, just appease them and ask them, understand?" Edric said, looking at one of the tickets in his hand, and one of the conductors nodded after listening.

"Understood, I'll go right now."

Saying that, the train conductor walked down the aisle to the distance, and Edric looked at another one at this time.

"Excuse me, can you make me a pot of black tea here? I need two cups. It will be much easier to ask questions while drinking tea."

"No problem, Mr. Detective." As he said that, another conductor also walked away. After successfully dismissing the two conductors, Dorothy, who was hiding under the bed in the box, got out again, and then she was on her body. He took out the magic box, opened it, enlarged the entrance and exit, placed it on the bed in the private room, and then spread out the quilt to cover the whole magic box.

After finishing all the preparations, Dorothy slipped out quickly while there was no one outside the private room, ran all the way back to her private room, and closed the door.

"Huh...then, come one by one."

……

The speeding steam train, in the No. [-] compartment of the second-class compartment, the conductor came inside and spoke loudly to the passengers in the first compartment.

"Everyone, some cases happened in the first-class compartment just now. A detective found some clues and wants to consult some of you. Please cooperate. The first one is Mr. Harry, who is in the third row and second seat. "

After the conductor finished speaking, the whole carriage started to commotion, and the passengers began to chatter about something in a low voice, and the man whose name was called Harry also stood up.

"Excuse me, sir, what happened in the first-class compartment? Why did you ask me to go? I've been staying here all this time."

The man spoke with a hint of uneasiness in his expression, and the train conductor also spoke soothingly as Dorothy explained.

"Don't worry, it's just some simple inquiries, just follow me."

Hearing what the conductor said, Harry packed his luggage and followed them nervously. After they left the carriage, on the back seat, the man in black and wearing a black hat, whose alias was Kim, couldn't help but stare.

'A case happened in the first class carriage?What case?Has that guy's body been found?Or is it something else?And that so-called detective... Where did it suddenly appear? '

……

A man named Harry followed the conductor to the first-class compartment, Edric's private room. After he entered, Edric asked the conductor to close the door, and then greeted Harry, who was a little uneasy, to sit down.

"You are that detective? May I ask what you want from me? I have been in my car tonight and have not gone there. Many people can testify!"

"Hehe, don't be impatient, Mr. Harry, I just asked you a little question, I am very clear about your innocence, we can leave after a little chat.

"First, have you ever seen such a pair of jewelry?"

After that, Edric described the details of a piece of jewelry to the man. After asking him a few questions, he chatted with the other party for a few insignificant words, and then let him go back.

After watching Harry walk out of the private room, Edrick summoned the conductor to give instructions.

"Please continue to call the next person for me. It is also a seven-car carriage. This time there are three seats in a row. A lady named Karin."

"Yes, Mr. Detective."

After responding, the conductor continued to leave and call for people.

……

In this way, people in the seventh car and the sixth and eighth cars on both sides began to be asked by the conductor to talk to Edric, and everyone came back after talking for about four or five minutes.

At first, the passengers in the carriage were a little uneasy, but they got used to it after seeing the person who was called to talk quickly returned unharmed, and they started talking curiously about the detective's purpose and what happened in the first-class carriage. whats the matter.

After several interlocutors interacted with each other, they concluded from what the detective had inadvertently revealed in the conversation that it might have been a jewel theft, and that eyewitnesses were said to have seen the thief run off in this direction.

In the car full of discussions, the words of the people being asked were spread, and the man in the car who was aliased as Kim snorted secretly after hearing this.

'Huh... jewel theft?It seems that the black dog is really missing and hasn't been found yet. That's right. I couldn't find that guy even by walking around the wall. How could this group of ordinary people find it.

"Looks like another jewelry theft happened in the first-class carriage. Now an ordinary detective is solving the case. It's really boring..."

The man thought so, and at this moment, the conductor standing at the door of the carriage called a new name.

"Mr. Kim, five rows and four seats, please come with me."

After more than a dozen people in a row, the man finally heard himself being called. Without thinking about anything, he silently took his belongings and stood up, then followed the conductor all the way to the first-class compartment, Edric's private room.

With an indifferent expression, the man entered the private room, and the door behind him was closed.

Entering the private room, the man immediately began to look around the situation. This is an ordinary private room, except under the bed, almost everything can be seen at a glance. There is no blind spot where people can hide from an ambush. The quilt on the bed is It was covered, but there was nothing big under it. He checked the situation under the bed with the reflector of the floor-standing mirror beside him to confirm that there was no one there.

There was no condition for an ambush. After confirming this, the man relaxed a little, and then looked at the man sitting by the table, the detective that the conductors said, and he was talking to him with a smile at the moment.

"Please sit down, Mr. Kim. I will just ask two simple questions. It won't waste a lot of your time. Please cooperate with me in handling the case."

Listening to Edric's words, the man silently sat in front of Edric, and then responded indifferently.

"Ask any questions."

"That's right, I want to ask you, where were you at around eight o'clock tonight?" Edrick asked, looking at the man in front of him, and the man spoke slowly.

"I'm in my own place in my car, not going anywhere."

"Wrong, you were in the first-class carriage, and you brutally killed an innocent man with a dagger. You cut off his fingers and pierced his chest and abdomen. He died from the poison on your weapon."

With a dignified expression, Edric told the man the truth but the words, the man stared blankly, and then answered seriously.

"Aren't you working on a jewel theft?"

"Hehe...that's just a cover, my friend, if I'm investigating a murder case, will the murderer come to the door by himself?" Edric said with a smile, and then took out a pistol from under the table and pointed it at the other side. He was less than two meters away from the man.

"Don't move, Mr. Kim, I already have sufficient evidence to prove that you killed Mr. Sodod, and you will be brought to court to accept the justice of the Holy Father."

Facing the man, Edric said seriously, while the man kept silent for a while, then spoke naturally.

"Mr. Detective, how did you find that guy's body...and how did you know that I killed him?"

"It's nothing, it's just a little luck and a little reasoning, let's catch Mr. Kim." Edric continued, and the man answered with a smile.

"Reasoning... I can deduce all of this, you are really an excellent detective, but Mr. Detective, you have overlooked two things."

"whats the matter?"

"First, you think that I am an ordinary person, and you actually think that you can kill me with a gun by yourself."

"What's the matter with the gun? Can you be faster than the gun?"

"Second, for me, this distance is fast!"

As he said that, a trace of cruelty flashed in the man's eyes. He pulled out a small knife from his clothes at an extremely fast speed, stabbed forward, and sent the blade into Edric's chest in an instant. The other hand also knocked out the gun in Edric's hand.

This is the speed of the Extraordinary of the "shadow" of the black soil step.