Chapter 13: Murder in a Locked Room

  After seeing the tripod incense burner, Hua Lang smiled faintly and then came to the window to examine it carefully. Finally, he found a hair at the window, which was very black and had good elasticity.

  When Hua Lang discovered this, he laughed and said: "I knew it wasn't a night ghost killing people, it was just a locked room murder."

  Wen Meng didn't understand, but at this time, Hua Lang had already pulled her towards the living room.

  As soon as they entered the living room, Hua Lang hadn't even opened his mouth to speak when Wen Yidao immediately asked: "Where did you two go? Don't you know we're discussing business?"

  Hualang hastily cupped his hands and said: "I'm just investigating the murder of Wen Guan's family."

  At this time, Fang Baiyu sneered: "Wen Guanjia was obviously killed by the ghost of Luo Tong. What's there to investigate? What we need to do now is to find a way to eliminate Luo Tong's ghost and let him reincarnate as soon as possible."

  Seeing Fang Baiyu like this, Hua Lang sneered and said: "Fang Shaoxia has been traveling in the Jianghu for so many years, but he actually believes in ghosts and gods. It's really disappointing. I'm here to tell everyone that I already know how the murderer killed."

  "Murderer? You mean there's really a murderer?" Wen Yidao asked excitedly, and as long as there was really a murderer, he wouldn't be too afraid.

  Hualang nodded and said, "That's right, there is indeed a murderer. When we first entered Wenming's room, I felt something was strange. On such a hot day, why did Wenming close the window? Wasn't he afraid of the heat? Thinking this way, I suspected that the window might have been closed by the murderer..."

  The young man hadn't finished speaking when someone suddenly asked, "But the window was locked from the inside. If there really was a murderer, how did they manage to escape and then lock the window from the inside?"

  The man asked this, and the others followed suit. Hua Lang smiled faintly: "Next, I'll tell you how the murderer did it." He took out the hair and incense burner he found in Wen Ming's room and placed them on the table. Looking at everyone, he said: "It's actually very simple. To lock the window from the inside, all you need is a strand of hair, an incense burner, and a piece of incense. After the murderer killed the person, they escaped through the window and tied one end of the hair to the incense and the other end to the window latch. When the incense burned to the hair, the hair broke, and the window latch naturally fell, closing the window."

  After hearing Hualang's words, everyone was surprised, and after the surprise, they also believed what Hualang said, it's just that none of them were willing to admit it.

  At this time, Wen Meng excitedly asked: "How did you think of the murderer using this method to create a locked room murder?"

  Hualang smiled faintly: "It's simple, the incense burner is used for burning incense, and burning incense requires placing it at the head of the bed. However, this incense burner was found on a table under the window. This doesn't seem to make sense. I examined the window and found a strand of hair. The method of creating a secret room became clear."

  Everyone sat down again, but no one was willing to speak. After a long time, Wen Yidao looked at Hualang and asked, "What do you think is going on?"

  Hualang sat down beside the living room and said, "It's definitely someone who killed Wenming without a doubt. This person's knife skills are excellent, and the blade is extremely thin, which would cause the wound on Wenming's neck. Moreover, the murderer killed Wenming several hours ago, not just now, because I found livor mortis on Wenming's body. Livor mortis is formed when blood cannot circulate after death and accumulates, and it takes several hours to form livor mortis."

  "What's going on with that miserable scream again?" Wen Yidao asked in puzzlement.

  Hualang thought for a moment and said: "I think it should be the murderer who wants to draw our attention, so he shouted on purpose."

  After everyone heard what Hualang said, they all nodded in agreement. At this time, one of them stood up and asked: "If someone killed the head of the Wen family, who was the murderer?"

  Hualang picked up a cup of tea and took a sip, saying: "It must be someone from the Wen Mansion, without a doubt. The killer had at least an hour between committing the crime and shouting loudly. If it were an outsider who stayed in the mansion for over an hour, they would definitely be discovered. But if it were someone from the mansion itself, that would be much easier. Who would suspect someone from within?"

  Wen Yidao immediately stood up and ordered after hearing Hualang's words: "Let everyone in the mansion come to the living room, I want to verify their identities one by one."

  At this time, Wen Yidao suspected that Luo Tong had sneaked into the Wen Mansion as a servant to take revenge and was waiting for an opportunity to kill someone, so he gave such instructions.

  It wasn't until all the servants had arrived that Wen Yidao inspected them one by one, only to find that none of them were suspicious individuals, which left him somewhat perplexed. Hualang said the murderer was someone from the mansion, but after checking everyone in the mansion, he didn't see Luo Tong anywhere.

  Everyone saw Wen's fruitless search and began to worry. At this time, Fang Baiyu cupped his hands and said: "Uncle Wen, Luo Tong was forced by you to fall off the cliff twenty years ago, I'm afraid he was on the verge of death. Even if he didn't die, it's unlikely that he would have the ability to take revenge. So, I wonder if it might be Luo Tong's descendant or successor who wants to avenge him?"

  Fang Baiyu said this sentence and then looked at Hualang, asking: "Do you think so?"

  Fang Baiyu's attitude was very arrogant, but Hua Lang didn't mind, and smiled: "What Young Master Fang said is correct, it's indeed possible."

  Now that Hualang has acknowledged the possibility, the murderer must be one of these Jianghu Xiaxia or Hualang himself. Originally, no one suspected Hualang, but with just one finger, he could make someone sit in a chair and not get up. Everyone thinks he's a master and is deeply hidden, so it's only natural to suspect him.

  Fang Baiyu then said: "The murderer's knife skills are exquisite, it seems that he has already received the true transmission of Kuai Dao Luo Tong, so we can investigate from the skilled knife users."

  Everyone nodded in agreement, but after agreeing, those who used knives as weapons felt uneasy.

  At this time, there were more than a dozen young heroes sitting in the living room. Among these young heroes, only two used knives, but their knives were very large and thick, and their martial arts skills were clear, so they didn't have the ability to kill Wen Ming.

  After excluding those two people, Fang Baiyu smiled faintly: "Now among us, the only one who uses a knife is Yin Wuchuang."

  Everyone nodded, the knife method of Huainan Yin's family is unique in the Jianghu, this is what they all know, and the rumors in Jianghu say that Yin Wucheng's knife method is even better than his father's, with a feeling of surpassing the master. If Yin Wucheng wants to kill Wen Ming, he absolutely has the skills for it.