Chapter 17 Colston's Statement (Part 1)

Note: The part framed by [ ] in this chapter is the inner complaints of Detective Scofield.

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After a few minutes, the knock on the door sounded again, and it was still Dumpty's voice outside the door, "Sir, Master Colston is here."

"Please come in." Scofield replied.

The door opened, and Odetta appeared at the door with Master Colston.

After the two entered the house, Colston sat down without hesitation. After all, this was his home, and Feng Bujue and the police had already taken over the guests.

"Sorry, we want to talk to Mr. Lovecraft alone." Feng Bujue said to the hostess, "Can you please go out first?"

"This..." Odetta looked at Colston with an inquiring look, and the latter nodded to her.

Odetta hesitated for a moment and walked out the door. Before she left, she seemed to remember something and turned back to say, "Uh... Officers, butler Henderson has woken up and the doctor said he is fine. It's getting late now. If possible, I would like to ask Oliver to prepare dinner."

"I have no objection." Scofield said.

Feng Bujue looked at Colston. The master didn't seem to have any objection, so he replied, "Then I'll trouble you, ma'am."

After Odetta left, the door was closed by Dunpudy again, and three people were left in the room.

Scofield still sat in his original position, while Feng Bujue began to walk slowly around Master Colston.

"I'm sorry to bother you again and again at this time." Feng Bujue said.

[Well... the opening remarks are exactly the same as before. ]

"It doesn't matter. You are also responsible." Colston replied neither servilely nor arrogantly.

[Hey... It's too strange that even the answer is the same. Only the tone is different, and the content is exactly the same! But... the next sentence should be different, because Colston has already sat down, so Mr. Feng can't say "please sit down" again. 】

"I'll get straight to the point." Feng Bujue continued, "The murderer is someone in this villa, right between us."

[Hey! After skipping that sentence, he used the exact same line again! 】

Colston's expression did not change. He just replied calmly: "Who do you suspect?"

"I did think of some hypotheses." Feng Bujue said with an embarrassed look, "But before I am completely sure, I want to hear your opinion first."

[This script is memorized by heart! I can also ask according to this routine! 】

Colston raised his head, met Feng Bujue's eyes, and said coldly: "Do you want me to accuse one of my family members?"

"Not all of them are family members." Feng Bujue said, "Henderson, Oliver, Barton, Powell, none of them are named Lovecraft."

"In my eyes, they are family members." Colston replied, "I don't want to believe that any of them is a murderer."

[Oh... this old man is quite humane. 】

"People with motives to kill Dennis. Can't you think of any one?" Feng Bujue asked.

"Yes." Colston replied, "It's you."

[The guest has turned the tables. 】

"Me?" Feng Bujue said, "Oh? Hehe..." He sneered, with an expression that deserved a beating, "What is your basis?"

"There is no special basis." Colston replied, "It's just that you are a person of unknown origin. I heard from Carol that you suddenly appeared on the road halfway up the mountain to stop the car. Isn't this suspicious? Maybe you are just a fake detective. In fact, you are a killer or something. After killing my son, you use the identity of a detective as a cover to point the spearhead at other people. This is just right to clear the suspicion."

While the other party was talking, Feng Bujue had slowly walked to the desk, picked up the booklet on the table and silently flipped through it. Until Colston finished speaking, Brother Jue did not respond. He just continued to turn the pages with his back to the other party.

"Are you listening?" Colston said again after nearly ten seconds of silence.

"Ah? What? Are you done?" Feng Bujue turned around and opened his eyes wide. A mean look on his face.

【Hey... You obviously heard it, but you pretended not to listen... Well... But this should also be a way to anger the other party. 】

"Sorry, I started to ignore you when you said 'there is no special basis'." Feng Bujue continued, "With this sentence at the bottom, the rest of the content is basically nonsense."

"Humph... young man." Colston sneered, "If you want to irritate me, isn't it ridiculous to use a childish trick like 'pretending to ignore'?"

"After making a prolapsed reasoning, you are actually unhappy because there is no audience..." Feng Bujue responded with a similar sneer, "It seems that I overestimated you before..."

[Just curse! And swear! Who was the one who said a lot of handsome things five minutes ago and emphasized to me that I should "not lose my demeanor" in the end! 】

"Let me tell you what real reasoning is!" Feng Bujue's eyes were stern, staring at Colston and said, "Swear in the name of grandpa! The mystery has been solved!"

[I said... I feel like some strange lines have been mixed in... By the way, who is your grandfather... Also... you have already ruled out Colston as a suspect on the grounds of "inconvenient legs and feet", right? ...The next step is undoubtedly to make casual remarks to slander him... Doesn't it matter if your grandpa doesn't stay safe during the evening? 】

"What exactly do you want to say?" Colston asked, glaring at Feng Bujue.

"You are the murderer!" Feng Bujue pointed at Colston and said in an imposing manner.

"Are you crazy? Do you know what you are talking about?" Colston was not a womanizer like Carol. He was very calm and turned to look at Schofield next to him, "Detective, this Are you really a detective? What is your police’s attitude?”

Feng Bujue didn't care what he said, he still went his own way: "I have solved the mystery of the secret room... When the door was locked, the murderer used a weapon such as a steel wire to kill Dennis, and then jumped out of the window. He pulled it out, and then used the murder weapon to lock the window from outside the house." He raised the pamphlet in his hand, "You told Officer Mark that Dr. Powell took your blood pressure one hour before the incident, and you have been doing it since. Stay alone in your room to rest. In other words, you have enough time to sneak to the guest room on the first floor, kill someone, leave the house, discard the weapon, and then return to your room.”

After hearing this, Colston thought for a few seconds, "Is this your reasoning?" He snorted coldly and stamped the floor with his crutches, "Then please tell me a person who has difficulty walking without crutches. , How to kill someone with a steel wire? How to climb out of the window?" (To be continued...)