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Pigeon flaw

Arthur was a well-known antique dealer in Bulan Town. He had a friend named Blake, who was a professor of zoology and botany at the university.

By IversonPublished 2 years ago 10 min read

Blessing coins

  Arthur was a well-known antique dealer in Bulan Town. He had a friend named Blake, who was a professor of zoology and botany at the university. On this day, Arthur and Blake had an appointment to drink together, and the meeting place was set at the Cross Flower Club.

  Arthur booked table eight in the corner at the club. He was drinking whiskey while waiting for Professor Black. At this time, Albert, the owner of the pet shop, came over and sat across from Arthur. He played with a coin in his right hand, snapped his fingers with his left hand, and shouted at the bar, "Emma, give me a bottle of beer."

  Arthur smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Albert, I've reserved this table. I'm waiting for a very important guest."

  "Oh? Is there someone here?" Albert seemed to have just spotted Arthur and was taken aback. The coin fell on the table by accident, turned around a few times, and stopped in front of Arthur.

  Arthur's eyes lit up as he stared at the coin. Judging from the engraved year, it was an ancient coin. At this time, the proprietress Emma came over with a beer and greeted Albert to change the table.

  "Let Albert chat with me for a while, I'll treat this beer." Arthur motioned Emma to put down the beer, then picked up the coin, and while secretly observing it carefully, he pretended to be A casual look asked, "Albert, when did you start to like collecting coins?"

  "I don't have the time!" Albert grabbed the beer, took a few sips, and said, "I picked it up under the cherry tree when I was passing through the woods just now. If you like it, I'll give it to you. I don't want to owe you a favor, it's my beer money!"

  There is a forest in the south of Bu Lan Town, and there is an ancient cherry tree in it. The locals believe that the ancient tree is spiritual, so they often use stones to knock coins into the tree to pray for blessings.

  Arthur was overjoyed because it was a genuine ancient coin. Albert didn't realize its value at all, and he finished his beer and left with a smile.

  Maybe there is more than this ancient coin on the tree? Arthur thought to himself, seeing that there was still a while before the appointed time, he decided to go to the woods first. He took care of Emma, and when Professor Black arrived, he asked the professor to go to the woods to find him.

  Killer bee

  Soon, Professor Black came to the club as scheduled, went straight to table eight, stared at the glass and beer bottle and muttered to himself: "Arthur only drinks whisky, never beer. Besides me, he invited others?"

  "It's Albert from the pet shop. They happened to meet, and they only chatted a few words." Emma explained, "Arthur left a quarter of an hour ago, and he said he wanted you to go to the woods to find him."

  Professor Black walked along the riverbed and found a dead black pigeon by the river. It was a purebred black King Kong racing pigeon with several scratches on the inside of its wings, and its body was full of yellow viscous liquid, exuding a strong odor.

  Perhaps out of occupational sensitivity, Professor Black packed the pigeons in the membrane bag he carried with him and wanted to take them back to study. At this time, he suddenly heard a terrifying cry, followed the sound, and saw a man stumbling out of the woods with a swarm of black wasps behind him. Hundreds of wasps made a "humming" roar, chasing and attacking the escapees. The escapees fell to the ground, struggled in pain, and eventually collapsed by the river, exhausted. After the swarm stopped attacking, it flew towards the woods like a dark cloud.

  Professor Black was in shock, and while calling the emergency number, he quickly approached the injured person. That's Arthur! His whole body was red and swollen, and his clothes were covered with yellow viscous liquid, exuding a strong odor, just like the dead Black King Kong.

  When the ambulance arrived, Arthur was already dead, and it was initially determined that he died of bee venom. You know, wasps, also known as killer bees, are extremely aggressive. Professor Black was surprised because wasps don't attack humans for no reason... He entered the woods and found Arthur's relics under a cherry tree studded with coins: a magnifying glass, a claw hammer and a A chisel, a huge wasp nest hangs from the crown of the cherry tree.

  Black thought that Arthur might try to pry out the coins embedded in the cherry tree, which provoked the wasps to attack, but he clearly asked him to meet at the Cross Flower Club, why did he suddenly come to the woods alone to find coins?

  Black King Kong

  Arthur's beautiful young wife, Sophia, was not saddened by the sudden death of her husband. In the dim night, Sophia sat alone in the dark living room, holding a glass of red wine, thinking about her thoughts. A man quietly entered and hugged Sophia from behind. Sophia put down the red wine, stroked the furry arm, and said coquettishly, "Dear Albert, I guessed you would come tonight, so I left the door for you."

"My little darling, you are such a flirtatious witch, you can guess everything."

  "I also know that Arthur didn't die in an accident, but you did it on purpose, right?"

  Albert smiled triumphantly and told Sophia the crime with a good smile. Albert, a former beekeeper, was familiar with wasps' keen sense of smell, vengeance and aggression. When he discovered a huge wasp nest on a cherry tree, he had an idea. Arthur likes ancient coins, and because of body odor, he has the habit of spraying Amber Empire perfume. Amber Empire perfume is not cheap, and only Arthur in town will spray it every day without hesitation. Albert's plan was to first make a tool like pliers on the top of the fishing rod, and then clamp Black King Kong, which had been sprayed with Amber Empire perfume, and let it attack the honeycomb on the cherry tree. After the wasps came out in full force, he let go of the Black King Kong and let it escape. This has caused the swarm to have an illusion that as long as the smell of Amber Empire perfume appears, the hive will be attacked.

  On the day of the crime, Albert found Arthur drinking alone in the club. He thought the time had come, so he lured Arthur to the woods with a valuable ancient coin and carried out a murder plan.

  "Albert, you are so shrewd!"

"Haha, the plan is perfect, I have destroyed the fishing rod and perfume, the evidence has disappeared, there is nothing to worry about anymore, it's just a pity that my ancient coin and the black diamond were confiscated by the police, and my black diamond, It never came back after the last release."

  "You exchanged an ancient coin and a pigeon for Arthur's family property and me, and you made a lot of money from this deal."

  Landscape stone

  The mysterious death of his friend made Professor Black uneasy. Back in the laboratory, he immediately examined Black King Kong. The pigeon fell to the ground and died because of a wasp attack on its eyes. The liquid on its body was bee venom, and the strong odor was accompanied by a scent of perfume. Black immediately contacted the police, and it was identified that the pigeon and Arthur were attacked by the same swarm of wasps, and the perfume on their bodies was the same brand - Amber Empire. This must not be a coincidence. In order to solve the mystery, Black and the police went to the pet store to visit Albert.

  When Blake and the police came to Albert's house, he was leisurely feeding a black king Kong, and he mixed some broken pebbles

  Miscellaneous in food boxes. Next to the pigeon cage is a small hammer and a mutilated landscape stone.

  Albert was helpless about Arthur's accident because of the ancient coins he gave him: "Because of my ignorance, I lost an opportunity to make a fortune; and because of that coin, I caused a fatal accident, I'm sorry."

  "No, that was murder, we have a new clue." Officer Yarlin took out the evidence bag, which was the dead Black King Kong. He told Albert that the Black King Kong was found by Professor Black by the river. The professor also said that no new chisel marks were found on the cherry tree, indicating that Arthur was only looking for ancient coins with magnifying glass, and did not chisel the tree. Therefore, there is another reason to provoke the wasp attack. The wasp has a keen sense of smell, and the professor suspects that someone used the black diamond sprayed with Arthur's same fragrance to attack the hive, trying to make the wasp hostile to that particular perfume smell. The murderer then lured Arthur to the hive with ancient coins, and let him be buried in the vengeful attack of the wasp.

  After listening to the police officer's call, Albert looked nervous, but he quickly calmed down, because he was very sure that he had cleared the evidence, and he had left no flaws except for the dead pigeon. And a dead pigeon, what? When asked if he was the owner of the dead pigeon, he immediately denied it.

  At this time, Blake, who had been observing the pigeons, asked, "Why are there pebbles in the pigeon food box?" Albert thought this was a good opportunity to change the subject, so he explained solemnly: "Pigeons have no teeth, food Enters the esophagus and is stored in the muscular stomach, and after it swallows the stone, the stone is also stored in the muscular stomach and rubs against the food in order to grind the food."

  "I know, this is the special digestive system of pigeons." Professor Black played with the hammer and landscape stone in his hand and smiled slightly.

  Officer Arlin also smiled knowingly, and Black asked: "Mr. Officer, if the police dissect this dead pigeon and identify the stones in its muscles and stomach, they can confirm whether the stones in its stomach came from this mutilated landscape stone? I think the marks on the edge of the stone should be made by this hammer!"

  When Albert heard this, he felt weak in his legs and fell to the ground...

"Haha, the plan is perfect, I have destroyed the fishing rod and perfume, the evidence has disappeared, there is nothing to worry about anymore, it's just a pity that my ancient coin and the black diamond were confiscated by the police, and my black diamond, It never came back after the last release."

  "You exchanged an ancient coin and a pigeon for Arthur's family property and me, and you made a lot of money from this deal."

  Landscape stone

  The mysterious death of his friend made Professor Black uneasy. Back in the laboratory, he immediately examined Black King Kong. The pigeon fell to the ground and died because of a wasp attack on its eyes. The liquid on its body was bee venom, and the strong odor was accompanied by a scent of perfume. Black immediately contacted the police, and it was identified that the pigeon and Arthur were attacked by the same swarm of wasps, and the perfume on their bodies was the same brand - Amber Empire. This must not be a coincidence. In order to solve the mystery, Black and the police went to the pet store to visit Albert.

  When Blake and the police came to Albert's house, he was leisurely feeding a black king Kong, and he mixed some broken pebbles

  Miscellaneous in food boxes. Next to the pigeon cage is a small hammer and a mutilated landscape stone.

  Albert was helpless about Arthur's accident because of the ancient coins he gave him: "Because of my ignorance, I lost an opportunity to make a fortune; and because of that coin, I caused a fatal accident, I'm sorry."

  "No, that was murder, we have a new clue." Officer Yarlin took out the evidence bag, which was the dead Black King Kong. He told Albert that the Black King Kong was found by Professor Black by the river. The professor also said that no new chisel marks were found on the cherry tree, indicating that Arthur was only looking for ancient coins with magnifying glass, and did not chisel the tree. Therefore, there is another reason to provoke the wasp attack. The wasp has a keen sense of smell, and the professor suspects that someone used the black diamond sprayed with Arthur's same fragrance to attack the hive, trying to make the wasp hostile to that particular perfume smell. The murderer then lured Arthur to the hive with ancient coins, and let him be buried in the vengeful attack of the wasp.

  After listening to the police officer's call, Albert looked nervous, but he quickly calmed down, because he was very sure that he had cleared the evidence, and he had left no flaws except for the dead pigeon. And a dead pigeon, what? When asked if he was the owner of the dead pigeon, he immediately denied it.

  At this time, Blake, who had been observing the pigeons, asked, "Why are there pebbles in the pigeon food box?" Albert thought this was a good opportunity to change the subject, so he explained solemnly: "Pigeons have no teeth, food Enters the esophagus and is stored in the muscular stomach, and after it swallows the stone, the stone is also stored in the muscular stomach and rubs against the food in order to grind the food."

  "I know, this is the special digestive system of pigeons." Professor Black played with the hammer and landscape stone in his hand and smiled slightly.

  Officer Arlin also smiled knowingly, and Black asked: "Mr. Officer, if the police dissect this dead pigeon and identify the stones in its muscles and stomach, they can confirm whether the stones in its stomach came from this mutilated landscape stone? I think the marks on the edge of the stone should be made by this hammer!"

  When Albert heard this, he felt weak in his legs and fell to the ground...

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