The young scholar who once had great ambitions and always longed for classical love fell quietly at the door of Ou Xiameng's dormitory.

An alloy rope about a meter long was wrapped around Liang Zhichu's neck, hanging loosely.

There was a circular strangulation mark on his neck, which penetrated nearly two inches into the flesh. The edges of the strangulation mark were purple-red, and spreading outward were purple-black bruises. His eyes were wide open, his pupils were dilated, and the whites of his eyes were

The mucous membranes around the eyes were flushed with an oozing red color.

Ou Xiameng looked at it from a distance, seemingly in disbelief and a little scared.

She didn't have many interactions with Masahito Matsuda, and they didn't speak more than 300 sentences in three years, mostly work-related.

Therefore, when Matsuda Masahito died yesterday, although he described it as miserable, it did not have much impact on her.

In the age of the universe, sudden death is not uncommon, not to mention that the small-scale war between humans and compound-eyed people has not stopped. In the distant Virgo super galaxy cluster, the super-large-scale war between humans and compound-eyed people is happening every day and every moment.

is happening.

Even the Andromeda Galaxy, which has been turned into an ironclad empire and turned into a logistics base, is still disturbed from time to time.

Ou Xia dreamed of many deaths, but he lived with her day and night, and acted as his right-hand man in work in a down-to-earth and diligent manner. Yesterday, in order to protect the people who still lived on his side, he died quietly.

It was difficult for her to accept the reality.

"He was strangled to death."

Nur Ahong squatted down, opened Liang Zhichu's mouth again, and saw the tongue with several bloody marks bitten by his teeth, and said so.

As he spoke, he raised his head and stared at Cissetta with a scrutinizing gaze.

Cissetta was coming over at this moment, half-crouching on the ground, with sad eyes.

He trembled with his hands and wanted to pull Liang Zhichu's collar, but he pulled back.

Suddenly feeling Nur Ahong's gaze, he raised his head, and the sadness on his face was gradually replaced by great grievance and anger.

"You killed it! You killed it!"

Ciceta suddenly fell into a rage and tried to strangle Nur Ahom's neck.

Bang!

His head suddenly turned black, and in an instant he rushed forward and fell to the ground with a thud.

Behind him, Samantha Swann was holding the barrel of the ion beam gun with both hands, breathing heavily.

…

Fifteen minutes later, Cisseta Roy slowly woke up.

He tried to move, but it was difficult to even bend his fingers. His combat uniform had been modified by Nur Ahong and turned into a restraint tool to restrain prisoners.

There is still a dull pain in the back of my head, from the severe whipping just now.

Her vision gradually returned, and Cicetta saw her situation clearly.

This is the prison at the lowest level of the base. It was originally designed to hold compound-eyed intruders or dangerous species with research value on J919. However, it has never been used in the past. I didn't expect it to be occupied for the first time.

Come in and be himself.

He was sitting on an iron chair, with his hands trapped on the armrests of the iron chair by curved shackles.

Directly opposite, sitting behind the interrogation table were Nur Ahom, Ou Xia Meng and Samantha.

At one end of the interrogation table, the alloy rope that strangled Liang Zhichu was placed in a transparent polyethylene bag.

"Are you awake?" Nur Ahong in the middle asked in a deep voice.

Cicetta turned her face away and did not answer.

There was a brief silence in the room for about ten seconds. Ou Xiameng broke the deadlock, "Ciceta, whether you admit it or not, we all want to know what you know, what happened last night, and why do you identify the team leader?

Is he the murderer?"

Only then did Cicetta react, and slowly raised her head, "There is no other reason, because I know it was definitely not me. Then among all the people, the only one who has the strength to strangle Brother Liang is the team leader. As for killing

As the murderer of Matsuda Masahito, only the team leader and I had the authority to shoot. I have been suspicious of the team leader since yesterday. But I didn’t expect you to be so mean. In order to avoid suspicion, you didn’t use a gun when you killed the second person. You used a gun instead.

There’s a rope.”

Nur Ahong said angrily: "That's nonsense! Then tell me what my motive is!"

"Motive? Motive again! Who knows what your motive is? I want to know too! Maybe you were just locked up in this base for too long and went crazy? Maybe you were infiltrated by the Compound Eyes? Or maybe you are simply just

Where is a dummy?" Cicetta was even angrier than him.

Ou Xiameng spoke, "Ciceta, what you said is still just an inference based on your assumption that he is not the murderer. From the perspective of the team leader, assuming that he knows that he is not the murderer. So first

You must have been the one who fired the gun that day, and the next day you chose to strangle Liang Zhichu with a rope because you were unable to use a firearm. This is obviously more likely."

After Liang Zhichu's death, she finally stopped focusing on scientific research and began to try to use her wisdom to find the real murderer. "Yesterday, Liang Zhichu told me that he trusted you. But now it seems that we have not

It was a huge mistake for you to imprison him in time."

Having said this, Cisseta finally regained his military nature, gradually calmed down, and was no longer easily controlled by emotions.

He took a deep breath and said, "Whether you believe what I say next or not, it is a fact that I have seen. Last night, after you all had a rest, Brother Liang came to see me. He asked me seriously

, was it me who did it? I looked into his eyes and told him firmly that it was not me. Then he left. I regret it now and should not have let him go back alone. Sigh."

Hearing this, Nur Ahong, Ou Xiameng, and Samantha looked at each other, but there was only lingering fatigue in their eyes.

Samantha slowly picked up the bag containing the alloy rope from the side and said in a hoarse voice: "Stop quibbling. This rope has your fingerprints on it."

"What!" Cicetta was shocked, "This is impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible. This is not even a fingerprint formed by grease, but the cuticle of your finger caused the surface deformation on both sides of the alloy rope, leaving a solid fingerprint. In the base, the body is strong enough to leave a solid fingerprint on the alloy surface

Fingerprints, and you are the only one who has this power. Even if your combat uniform cannot be used, your strength as a professional soldier can still achieve this effect. We have compared it when you were unconscious, and it matches your fingers perfectly.

."

"this……"

Cicetta's pupils dilated and she was completely dumbfounded.

Nur Ahong stood up and said, "Okay, the interrogation is over. Whether you admit it or not, we already know that you are the real murderer. Just wait for the trial in the military court."

The iron door closed behind him, and the three people outside sighed.

The three of them did not feel relieved after solving the case, only the melancholy of the unknown future remained.

Only Cissetta can manually control the ship, but he is the murderer, so safe evacuation becomes a luxury, and the only option is to wait for external rescue in the base. However, the communication has been unable to be restored, and no one knows what is going on outside and where the rescue will be.

The time will come.

Moreover, there are no professional soldiers, no smart weapons, and the energy shield outside the base has already closed itself. Among the remaining three, only Nur Ahong has some fighting ability. Ou Xiameng and Samantha basically fight against the five scum, and the base

The security force has been reduced to the extreme. Once attacked by the aggressive native species on J919, something may happen at any time.

…

The remaining three people returned to the base hall. Ou Xiameng asked for the alloy rope from Samantha and observed it carefully.

After a long time, she said: "Actually, I still have a doubt. Look at these very shallow marks, they should be Liang Zhichu's teeth marks. It means that when the rope was wrapped around Liang Zhichu's neck, it was not strangled below at first, but was pulled down.

He bit it. Although Cicetta could not use the combat uniform, with his strength and skills, how could he give Liang Zhichu the chance to bite the rope? In other words, if Cicetta really exerted enough strength to leave fingerprints on the surface of the alloy rope

With the power to leave fingerprints, Liang Zhichu should have started from his mouth and his head was strangled directly from there. His head would have been cut off."

"this……"

Nur Ahun pondered.

However, Samantha quietly glanced at Nur Ah Hong and said tentatively: "Is it possible that there is actually a fourth person in our base now?"

"This is impossible!" Ou Xiameng and Nur Ahong said in unison.
Chapter completed!