Chapter 3069 Mercury Notes (Twenty-Nine)

Chapter 3043 Mercury (Twenty-nine)

Schiller came to the door of the classroom where the incident happened.

This is a very long corridor, but there are not so many rooms, because the left side of the corridor is the power distribution room of this entire floor. The power distribution room is very large, which results in only three doors on the left side, namely the front and back doors of the power distribution room and a door of the utility room.

There are two classrooms on the right side, one is larger and the other is smaller, occupying two-thirds and one-third of the area respectively.

At both ends of the corridor, there is a staircase on one side and an elevator on the other side.

This structure is very strange compared to modern buildings, but after all, this is the Mercury base, and it is also a Mercury base designed by Stark. The full technical content means that in addition to the technical content, it does not contain anything else, so the building structure may be a little strange.

The main reason is that this thing is not actually built entirely for living people. The main force of Marvel working on Mercury is still robots. Most of the rooms only conform to machine logic. The machine logic is naturally the straighter the better, which leads to the structure like this.

People died in a small classroom.

When Schiller arrived, several professors and another group of students were already waiting in the large classroom.

This was not originally a classroom, but a laboratory. The so-called large classroom was the main body of the laboratory, and the small classroom was the observation room, so there was a piece of glass between the two.

Now standing in the large classroom, you can see the situation in the small classroom. Schiller walked through the crowd to the glass and saw a humanoid creature with light blue skin dead by the wall opposite the glass.

The cause of death was clear at a glance. There was a very obvious penetrating wound on her chest. The wound directly penetrated the heart. A lot of blood flowed out of the wound, and the body fell in a pool of blood.

That was an Atlantean.

Arthur was popularizing the types of Atlanteans to other students. Schiller listened and basically classified them into three categories.

The ancient Atlanteans have been completely extinct, but there are indeed some similar to the ancient species left. They are usually the product of close relatives marrying. They look similar to humans. Most of them can use ancient divine power. This part of the population is sparse, and there may be only a few hundred in Atlantis.

The second type is a hybrid of Atlanteans and humans like Arthur. After all, humans have occupied the continent for so many years, and the sea tribes are bound to deal with them. Even if they oppose intermarriage with humans, it is difficult to completely prohibit hybrids like Arthur. They can live both in the sea and on land, and the population is relatively small.

Among the Atlanteans, the hybrids of ancient Atlanteans and sea tribes are the most. Atlantis sank into the sea, and the closest to the sunken Atlantis were various sea tribe territories. Naturally, the first to get the moon is near the water. The main residents of Atlantis are such hybrids.

Because most of the indigenous sea tribes look strange, the main residents also look all kinds of things, with human bodies and fish tails, human bodies and snake tails, scales, gills, and turtle shells on their backs. The skin is blue, green, yellow, black, and purple. It is simply a variety.

The Atlantean who died this time was a mixed-race of the sea tribe, with light blue skin and ears that looked like fins, but without a fish tail, but with legs like humans. According to the gender classification of the sea tribe, she was a female.

According to Arthur, her name was Bono, and she happened to be the daughter of a sea tribe general in the territory of his fiancée Mera. She had always performed very well, especially good at controlling water. This time, she also stood out in the Atlantis selection and came to the Mercury base to study.

Then, Bruce introduced more details.

The bodies of the sea tribe and humans are different. It is impossible to judge the time of victimization through rigor mortis. Even if it is left here, the body will not become stiff.

However, according to Arthur, the blood of the sea tribe coagulates for about twice as long as that of humans, that is, at normal room temperature, the coagulation time is about 20 to 30 minutes.

When Bruce and his team arrived, the blood was not completely coagulated, but it was close to coagulation, which means that the victim was killed 20 to 30 minutes ago.

The camera in the room is broken.

It was not an external force damage, nor was it a damaged part. Bruce then checked and found that there was a short circuit in the internal circuit. The time of the failure was estimated to be an hour ago.

In other words, the surveillance in the room did not capture what happened in the room within this hour.

The surveillance outside the room and the surveillance in the corridor and stairwell can only capture the situation on the side of the large classroom door, and cannot see what happened at the door of the small classroom at the crime scene.

The surveillance in the elevator can capture what happened at the elevator and the door of the small classroom, but once the elevator door is closed, the door of the small classroom cannot be captured.

The time for the elevator to open the door naturally when it arrives at the station is 20 seconds, that is, within 20 seconds of the elevator arriving at the station and opening the door, what can be captured at the door of the small classroom can be captured, but it cannot be captured when the door is closed.

Everyone in Schiller's classroom has sufficient alibi, but the remaining half of the people are attending Victor's physics activity class today.

The content of the activity class is to explore pressure and deformation. Victor requires each student to find an object they think is the hardest within 20 minutes after the class starts, and the scope is not limited to the classroom.

That is to say, the students were like the pigs that had been released from the cage. They could go back to the dormitory to get it, go to the laboratory to find it, or even ask the professor for it. In short, they just opened the door and disappeared.

This floor was naturally within the students' search range, but because it was far from Victor's classroom, most students did not come here to search.

Since there was a majority, there must be a minority. According to other surveillance cameras, there were still a few people who came, including the victim, Bono.

The remaining few were Claude, a student at Gotham Magic Academy, Ted the Blue Beetle, a Mexican guy Gonzalez, a pair of Atlantis sisters Lalali, and Jenna's brother Zan.

Now these people have been taken aside separately.

The surveillance on the elevator showed that Bono got out of the elevator and entered the small classroom. She was the first person to come to this floor, but the others were not slow either. They arrived a few minutes later.

Hearing this, Schiller had a basic concept.

First of all, there was actually a blind spot for surveillance in this long corridor - when the elevator door was closed, nothing could be photographed at the door of the small classroom.

In addition, the camera in the small classroom is broken, which means there is no surveillance from the door to the door.

But theoretically, there is no blind spot for surveillance.

Because if you come by the stairs, you will be photographed by the surveillance in the stairwell, and if you come by the elevator, you will be photographed by the surveillance in the elevator.

In other words, both ways of going up and down the stairs can actually capture people, and there is no way to sneak into this corridor quietly.

Of course, it is possible that magicians used magic to teleport before, but because students of the magic academy were not familiar with the terrain of the base and were interfered by other energies in the base, they got stuck in the wall, so teleportation is strictly prohibited in the entire base.

Although verbal prohibitions are useless, after all, except for the broken camera in the small classroom, the cameras in other places are not broken. You have to have a starting point to teleport, and the camera at the starting point will take a picture of you.

The entire base has an artificial intelligence butler, and once the camera captures you teleporting, it will alarm, but no alarm was heard within an hour.

However, when the elevator door is closed, the door of the small classroom is indeed a blind spot, so there may be other blind spots in the base, which requires all students to provide proof of their absence in the surveillance blind spots.

According to the report of the artificial intelligence housekeeper, all students did not enter any surveillance blind spots during the time period of the incident. They were all active in the surveillance of the base and no one was teleporting.

Otherwise, how can we say that the surveillance is good? This can basically exclude the suspicion of most students.

Then, in fact, if the surveillance in the corridor and the large classroom is good, the few people who came to this floor should also have proof of absence.

But the surveillance camera in the small classroom is broken, and these people have entered the small classroom.

In fact, there is no special reason, but because the classrooms on this floor are not used, there are a lot of sundries. This is known to most students. They think there are many things here and they should be able to find something that satisfies them, so they take turns to come here to look.

Bo Nu was the first to arrive, so she went to the small classroom to look, and then she went to the large classroom to look. Maybe she didn’t find anything satisfactory in the large classroom, so she went back to the small classroom.

Among the suspects, Blue Beetle and Atlantis sisters and Jenna's brother Zan went to the large classroom after leaving the elevator. After searching, they did not go to the small classroom at all, but went directly from the stairs at the other end.

Claude and Gonzalez followed the same route as Bono, first entering the small classroom and then the large classroom, but neither of them accompanied Bono back to the small classroom, but took the elevator after coming out of the large classroom.

To put it simply, no one completely overlapped with Bono's route of action. They each also talked about their own ideas for finding items and the items they found, and no problems were found after inspection.

The timeline of everyone's confession also matched, and they could corroborate each other when they met or left each other, and they also matched the surveillance footage of the large classroom or the corridor.

This means that a famous scene has appeared, that is, the closed room murder case.

Some people may say, didn't Gonzalez and Claude also enter the small classroom? How can this be considered a closed room murder?

But the problem is that after they entered, they left before Bono. The elevator surveillance camera also captured them getting on the elevator. After getting on the elevator, all their movements can be traced, and there is no possibility of returning.

In other words, after they left, this small classroom became a secret room.

Then someone may ask, after they entered the elevator and left, once the elevator door closed, wouldn’t the camera inside the elevator not be able to capture the entrance of the small classroom? It is also unknown whether anyone entered.

The problem is that the elevator is occupied at this time. If someone wants to enter this corridor, they have to take the stairs. There are also cameras in the stairwell of the stairs. If someone enters the corridor from here, they will be photographed.

In other words, the scope of the secret room is not just the small classroom, but this corridor with this classroom.

Of course, it is indeed possible that someone used invisibility magic, but don’t forget that there are no ordinary people present. Except for the Mexican guy who is a human, the others have more or less some special skills.

Among them, Claude himself is a magician, and just like the principle of the stand user, if someone uses magic at such a close distance, he can feel it.

And he happened to be the last person to see Bonu, which means that before that, if someone used magic, he could feel it.

Besides, just like teleportation magic, you also need a place to cast the spell when you disappear, and it may cause the surveillance footage of your activities to be incoherent. It can be seen that you disappeared for a period of time in the middle, which will be immediately discovered by the artificial intelligence butler.

But all other students do not have such problems. The footage they were filmed by the surveillance is coherent, and they did not appear outside the surveillance range for even a second.

This is very interesting, Schiller thought, these cases are much more complicated than he imagined.

And unlike in the past, the complexity is not in the state of the body, but in the entire timeline process. It has been a long time since we encountered such a traditional murder case.