Mystery: Start with the Reader

After much hesitation, the man still agreed to give the entrustment, and briefly explained the ins and outs of the matter to Abner.

His name is Sean Scudder, and he was originally the manager of a certain maritime trading firm. However, due to a series of unlucky incidents and a sudden strange disease on his son this year, this gentleman has lost his job. Depleted savings, even sold ancestral property.

This trip to Backlund by boat was also to find a better doctor to treat their son Allen. Unexpectedly, shortly after departure, Allen's condition suddenly deteriorated.

When the Scudders were helpless, the man who yelled just now took the initiative to say that he is a very capable pharmacist, as long as he is willing to pay 10 pounds, he will concoct a potion to make Allen recover.

Mr. Scudder thought this man was a liar at first, but seeing his son's pain that seemed to be unbearable, he finally took out the last of his savings and asked the man to prepare a soup.

The soup was very effective at first, and it didn't take long for Alan to feel no pain after drinking it, and he even fell into a rare and peaceful sleep.

However, not long after, when Mrs. Scudder, who stayed in the cabin to take care of Alan, went to the bathroom, Aaron turned blue and had difficulty breathing. Before Mrs. Scudder who hurried back called My husband stopped breathing completely.

Hearing this, Abner glanced at the fat pharmacist who was still yelling and blaming him, and thought: Just from Mr. Scudder’s description, this man really looks like a liar who sells fake medicines and overturns his car... But through my observation and analysis, the grievance on this person's face does not seem to be fake. And although he made a big fuss, he didn't panic, obviously he had a clear conscience or was sure to get away.

"Can I go and see the scene where Allen died?" Abner asked Mr. Scudder after thinking for a moment.

"I'm afraid this requires Mr. Captain's consent..." Mr. Scudder said with some embarrassment.

"It's okay, I'm very good at 'persuading' others to agree with me." Abner said with a smile.

After walking with Xio for so long, her majesty as an "arbitrator" has naturally been analyzed and successfully imitated by "Pure White Eyes". Although the effect is not as good as Xio's own use, it is enough to deal with ordinary people.

Sure enough, under the influence of Abner's convincing charm and sufficient majesty, the captain, Mr. Matt, "happily" agreed to his request and brought them to the cabin where Aaron was.

After entering the cabin, Abner carefully observed the ten-year-old boy on the bed who held his neck with his hands, his face was bruised and swollen, and his mouth and nose were bleeding, and he did not miss any clues.

This looks more like suffocation than drug poisoning? However, some drugs can also cause suffocation effects, but it is not certain whether it is.

Abner thought of this, and while investigating and collecting evidence in the room, he quietly used breath extraction to extract a copy of the different remaining breaths in the room, and then analyzed them separately, hoping to see if extraordinary power intervened.

The little boy's own breath...the Scudders' breath...some sailor's breath...the smell of some nut crumbs...this is medicine...huh?

Soon he discovered that the bowl containing the medicine that the apothecary had prepared was marked by extraordinary erosion.

Really? Abner was a little surprised. He didn't expect that a murder case that he intervened on a temporary basis would involve the Extraordinary. He glanced at the fat pharmacist who was guarded by security personnel outside the door, and then analyzed the remaining Extraordinary aura.

This drug...does have the effect of analgesic and eliminating human disease. It seems that the fat pharmacist is really a "pharmacist"! However, the child's death should really have nothing to do with him...

While thinking this way in his heart, Abner used the ability of "Scene Retrospect". Immediately afterwards, he saw that the boy named Allen's painful expression had obviously faded after taking the medicine, and it might be because he had consumed too much energy.

Soon fell asleep.

After that, another scene appeared. Mrs. Scudder, who was taking care of her son, went to the bathroom. The little boy Allen opened his eyes, and took out a nut from his pocket that seemed to have been treasured for a long time and put it in his mouth. At this moment, the passenger ship jolted violently. Allen was caught off guard by a nut stuck in his trachea. He coughed hard and beat his throat with his hands, trying to cough out the nut, but unfortunately it didn't work, and he eventually suffocated to death...

At the end of the traceback, Abner was a little speechless. It turned out that Alan was stuck to death by such a small nut after a long time of trouble? Hey, I don't know if he is too unlucky, or the fat pharmacist is even more unlucky.

However, he soon had a new thought: Could it be too coincidental? And I always feel like there's something I'm missing here.

Abner carefully examined the listed clues again, but still found nothing new.

He thought for a while, and just to be on the safe side, he opened the "Pure White Eye" again.

This time, Abner found a vague aura at the tip of the right finger of the little boy Allen. That's what he didn't extract when he extracted the breath before.

This breath gives me the feeling that the personality is not high, but the sense of existence is so weak... Is this a remnant of the extraordinary way to naturally restrain the ability of investigation or divination?

Abner frowned, analyzed those slight auras in the "Pure White Eye" state, and then used "Scene Retrospect" again.

The picture unfolded slowly. The little boy Allen was playing with a simple gold coin in his hand, but his illness quickly made him lose interest. He subconsciously rubbed the surface of the gold coin with his fingers and wiped off a black and red stain. go down.

As soon as the scene changed, the little boy boarded the boat, and soon became ill. Just when he felt that he was about to die, a fat pharmacist came to him and gave him a side drug. The medicine worked very well, and the uninterrupted pain in the past year miraculously disappeared, and Allen, who hadn't slept well for a long time, immediately fell asleep easily.

The scene turned again, and after Allen was stuck to death because of eating nuts, a drop of blood oozed from his mouth and nose happened to drop on the gold coin that slipped out of the boy's pocket at some point, forming blood stains again.

At the end of the retrospective, Abner had a general idea of ​​the incident, and he couldn't help sighing secretly: The scene retrospective of the 'vip' version is really different from my own 'civilian experience' version.

But how did the little boy Allen get that gold coin?

First, Abner simulated a blindfold, and when he pretended to detect the traces on Allen's body, he put the inconspicuous quaint gold coin that rolled down on the edge of the bed into his pocket without anyone noticing it.

Since he had analyzed its function with the "Pure White Eye", he knew that gold coins have no negative effects under normal circumstances, so Abner dared to directly use them.

Then, he walked back to Mr. Scudder, considered his tone, and said, "Sir, I have something to ask you."

Mr. Scudder, who had been staring at Abner's movements, quickly replied at this moment: "If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Did you find any clues?"

"There are some discoveries..." Abner nodded, opened the "Pure White Eye" to imitate Hugh's "majesty", and asked, "I hope you can tell me whether your family has always had bad luck recently What happened? What was it? Since when?"

"How do you know?!" Mr. Scudder's reaction was extremely violent, and he himself immediately discovered this, took a few deep breaths hastily, and asked, "What does this have to do with Aaron's death?"

This is because I don't want to say it from the bottom of my heart... And this will to resist the skills I simulated...

Abner frowned secretly, changed his strategy in a flash, and said with a smile, "Don't get excited, Mr. Scudder. I have indeed discovered something, but I need the witnesses of the captain and other distinguished gentlemen on board."

After finishing speaking, he asked the captain, Mr. Matt, who was also in the cabin, if he could find one or two authoritative gentlemen. Mr. Joseph, and Mr. Caron, a shareholder of Backlund Coim.

Since the "Mate" is not that kind of luxurious passenger liner, even if it is a first-class cabin, there are no gentlemen from the real aristocratic and business class. These two are already very respectable and powerful gentlemen.

Mike Joseph of the Daily Observer? Isn't this the reporter Sherlock will meet at the Kragg Club in the future? Came across here.

And I also know another Caron, that is, he bought the abandoned manor of the Dill family in the outskirts of the North District. At that time, Hugh and I hid in the storage room and eavesdropped on the whole process of his buying a house.

Abner looked at the two gentlemen who came to listen calmly. The former was close to thirty years old, with sparse eyebrows, rather rough skin, and unusually obvious pores. However, his facial features are not bad, his blue eyes are especially charming, coupled with two beautiful mustaches, he has a somewhat mature charm.

The latter is about fifty years old, tall, slightly fat, with broad and high shoulders, and looks as if he is about to bow. He was wearing a typical Loen-style formal suit and tie, looking like an elite businessman.

After the two and Abner introduced each other, Abner turned back to the topic. He first told everyone about the difference between drug poisoning and suffocation death, and then dug out the broken pieces of nuts from Allen's pocket under the eyes of everyone. Then he lifted the little boy's body, adjusted his strength, and slapped him hard on the back. The nut that had stuck Allen finally fell out of his trachea, flew out of his mouth, and fell on everyone. in front of you.

Because the nuts fell off, the little boy Allen's bruised and swollen face seemed to have recovered a bit, but he had been dead for too long, and even if the trachea was unobstructed, his life could not be saved.

"This is...we bought it for Allen the day before boarding the ship! He even hid one and didn't eat it..." Mr. Scudder blurted out.

At this moment, Abner turned his head and asked Mrs. Scudder, who had dull eyes, "Do you remember when you went to the bathroom?"

"I remember... At ten o'clock in the morning, I only stayed in the bathroom for 5 minutes." Mrs. Scudder recovered and replied dumbly.

Captain Matt also slapped his hands at this moment, and said: "There was a big wave at ten o'clock, I remember it was shaking..."

Everyone at the scene was a little stunned when they heard the words, and then looked at Alan on the bed regretfully, feeling that his luck was really bad.

At this time, a sneering murmur suddenly sounded: "I said that it has nothing to do with me. You have been too unlucky all the time. Now it seems that I am right!"

Everyone in the room frowned when they heard the sound, feeling that it was too much to say and disrespectful to the deceased, so they followed the reputation, only to find that the person who spoke was the pharmacist who seemed to be the suspect, and they were relieved.

He was almost wronged, so he was naturally upset, but his self-cultivation was too low. Most people think so.

Only Abner looked at the pharmacist thoughtfully, and thought:

Rather than ridicule, it's more like reminding the Scudders... This way of speaking is still a "pharmacist"...

He couldn't be Darkwell from the Life School, could he?