amaotonovel Chapter 3047 Mercury Notes (33)
Chapter 3047 Mercury Notes (33)
Chapter 3047 Mercury Record (Thirty-three)
After completing his reasoning, Schiller continued.
"I must admit that without any inspection of this alien weapon, I cannot speculate more about its specific capabilities, so I am assuming the most difficult scenario."
"That is, the Blue Beetle does not have the ability to become invisible, nor can it pass through metal walls made of special materials. It cannot directly modify the memories of those who know the truth, nor can it control human activities."
"If there were no such restrictions, it would be much easier to solve this case. For example, if I could become invisible, I wouldn't have to worry about blind spots. If I could pass through walls at will, I wouldn't have to run away. If I could control others at will, I wouldn't need to use projection. I could just control Zan directly and delete or modify his memory later."
The other students naturally understood as well. Now that the truth was a black box, they could only guess. Schiller had obviously assumed the weakest scenario for Blue Beetle.
If he emphasized that it can control people and modify their memories, then it is possible that Zan did not faint in the utility room at all, but was controlled by it to go through the entire process and then had his memory modified by it.
In other words, projection does sound magical, but it is actually the method Blue Beetle will take if it is relatively weak.
But no matter which case it is, the logic is relatively smooth.
However, there was still a student who had a question about the motive. He looked at Schiller and asked, "Professor, I can understand that Blue Beetle needs a scapegoat to divert everyone's attention so that he would not be noticed, but why is it Zan?"
Many people also have this question. In fact, it would be much easier to frame Claude and Gonzalez. After all, they were the last witnesses and had been in the classroom with Bono twice respectively. It would not be so troublesome to frame them. Why would Blue Beetle go so far away?
This is indeed what Schiller is good at. He said: "You only see the case itself, but not the outside of the case."
"Zan's ability is to turn into water, and Bono is the best at controlling water. Without knowing the truth, what do you think their relationship is?"
The students understood immediately.
In fact, Bonu's ability is just right to restrain Zan. According to Zan himself, this is also true. If there hadn't been interference from others, Zan would have been controlled by Bonu and would not have had any ability to fight back.
Moreover, this restraint has nothing to do with the degree of effort; it is purely a matter of way of existence. That is to say, no matter how hard you try, there is a natural enemy in this world that you can never defeat, just like a mouse meeting a cat. In the eyes of these talented students, this is very despairing.
Based on this fact, it is natural to think that the relationship between the two cannot be harmonious, and maybe Zan would kill just to get rid of his natural enemy.
Other people do not have such a strong conflict of interest with Bono. Even if there are some verbal conflicts in daily life, they do not involve fundamental interests, and the correlation is not strong.
Even though Schiller's analysis was very coherent, the students were still a little skeptical after thinking about this.
Because Bonu's existence itself threatens Zan's life, anyone would have doubts in their heart. This is an irreconcilable contradiction, and the motive for taking action is indeed sufficient.
Therefore, it is understandable that Blue Beetle chose Zan to frame him. This shows that its ability to collect intelligence is very strong and it has an understanding of the abilities of most students.
Naturally, some students also raised questions: "After committing the crime, why didn't the blue beetle just leave? It is an alien creature and it is not incapable of adapting to space. It can just fly to an alien planet and no one can do anything to it."
Schiller explained: "Why did Blue Beetle attack Bono? Bono's growth trajectory in Atlantis is clear and traceable. She has no secrets. What is there about her that is worthy of an alien weapon to attack her and then fly away?"
Schiller had made it very clear, and the students understood almost immediately. Someone said, "So actually, Bonu is not the key. She might just be unlucky. It doesn't matter who comes here today. Blue Beetle wants to create chaos."
"But that doesn't explain why it stayed." Someone immediately retorted: "Wouldn't it cause even greater chaos if the murderer wasn't caught?"
"This proves that the Blue Beetle was also used," a student said immediately, "and the person who used it must have known its relationship with Ted. He knew that if the Blue Beetle was left behind, there would be a possibility of directly dismantling the Blue Beetle to get the truth. The investigators would most likely choose to do so, and Ted would have a conflict with the investigators."
"Conflicts between students will not have much impact, but sharp conflicts between students and teachers will cause the greatest chaos and may even cause the school to fall apart."
Schiller couldn't help but sigh: "These students are really smart. They understand everything very quickly."
At this time, Arthur also raised doubts. He said, "Although it makes sense, there is no evidence after all. I also need to give Atlantis an explanation."
"Then let's ask the greatest detective in the world." Schiller turned to look at Bruce.
Bruce said: "There is no evidence, but there is a life."
Before Arthur could frown, the door was pushed open and Bono walked in.
All the students screamed in fear and backed away, and Schiller was almost pushed against the wall by them.
"Quiet! Quiet, don't panic! She's not a ghost!" Clark shouted at the top of his voice.
"That's right, she's not a ghost, she just came back to life from the dead," said Bruce.
The students screamed even louder.
Diana rolled her eyes at Bruce, and together with Clark, she maintained order. It took them a long time to get the students to quiet down.
Bruce crossed his arms and said, "I am an angel after all. How could I watch someone die in front of me? So I summoned her soul and put her body back. Fortunately, you Atlanteans are made of water, otherwise I would not be able to sew such a broken heart together."
Arthur pulled Bonu over and saw that the clothes on her chest were still torn, but there was no problem with her skin and internal organs. It was obvious that she had not undergone surgical sutures, but had healed herself with water magic.
Now that the victim has been resurrected, what evidence do we need? Isn't it enough to just listen to her oral statement?
However, the part about herself in Bonu's account was similar to Schiller's description. The only problem was that she did not see clearly what attacked her.
She could only feel that she was attacked, then controlled and unable to move, and finally a stream of water pierced through her chest. As for what exactly it was, if she could find it, she would not have died tragically.
This means that even if the dead were resurrected, there would not be enough evidence to convict Blue Beetle, and it did its job very cleanly.
But at this time Schiller raised a question: how did the surveillance camera in the small classroom break?
The rooms on both sides of the corridor are symmetrical, but there is no camera in the utility room, and the camera in the small classroom broke down an hour ago.
And from the content of the surveillance camera, it seemed that the light suddenly went dark. After checking the camera, it was found that there was an internal circuit short circuit, but it was unclear how the short circuit occurred.
But no matter how the short circuit occurred, if someone reaches out to this surveillance camera, it will inevitably leave some traces, especially since there is a camera every few steps in this base.
In other words, the case that could reveal the murderer's flaws was not the death of Bonu, but the destruction of the camera.
It is even possible that because destroying a camera is much easier than killing a person, the murderer's plan would not be as rigorous and more traces might be left behind.
Sure enough, the smart housekeeper and the students conducted a comprehensive analysis of the surveillance footage from 24 hours or even two days before the camera was destroyed, and finally found the key evidence.
The reason was that Diana made a physical training plan for everyone. She also knew that Ted could not control the Blue Beetle, so the plan she made for Ted was based on human standards.
However, this standard is something that most professional athletes cannot sustain, and Ted was even trained to the point of ecstasy.
Probably because Ted had attended a physical education class last night and was sweating all over. Being a clean person, he couldn't wait to go back to the dormitory to take a shower, so he went directly to the bathroom next to the gymnasium.
This bathroom is a public bathroom. Clothes and other things are locked in the cabinet outside, and people go in naked.
There was no need for Ted to take Blue Beetle into the shower, so he locked Blue Beetle in the closet along with his clothes and went in to take a shower.
This locker room was actually converted from other rooms, so there are cameras there too. However, Blue Beetle was staying in the closet, so the cameras outside shouldn't have been able to capture it. Checking the locker room's surveillance footage also revealed no signs of Blue Beetle entering or leaving.
So if there is no trace of the Blue Beetle entering or leaving the cabinet, it is naturally assumed that the Blue Beetle is staying in the cabinet. The Blue Beetle took advantage of this and directly used the projection function to pass through the partitions of the cabinet, moving from room to room in the cabinet to the blind spot of the surveillance camera, and then left the cabinet and disappeared.
As a result, isn't it a coincidence that Clark was also taking a shower at the time. Of course, he didn't pay any attention to the Blue Beetle at that time, so he didn't know that the Blue Beetle was running around in the closet.
However, there was a camera placed by Bruce on his clothes.
Blue Beetle thought that there were blind spots for surveillance under the surface of the cabinet, so he ran around in there recklessly, but he didn't expect to be captured directly by the camera on Clark's clothes.
Of course, just capturing it running around in the cabinet doesn't mean anything. The key point is that the blue beetle short-circuited the camera as it walked by, and the way it short-circuited was exactly the same as the camera in the classroom.
This proves that the Blue Beetle can interfere with cameras or at least carries something on its body that can short-circuit camera products.
Although this is not direct evidence, it can be used to convince Ted to hand over the Blue Beetle to them for inspection. The only difference is that this time they are not trying to crack the program, but to find out what it uses to short-circuit the camera.
From Bruce's professional point of view, this kind of thing should be external, and Blue Beetle cannot control it very well, otherwise it can be turned on when arriving at the destination instead of driving it all the way.
Sure enough, just below the blue beetle's abdomen, everyone found a purple cube no bigger than a fingertip.
Even though the energy inside had been exhausted, Schiller could feel that the power once stored in it and the curse on himself had the same source - the witch Circe.
Bruce: Clark, let me explain!
Clark: Thanks to you my brother!