Start with the Readers Chapter 74: Gold coins and pharmacists

After much hesitation, the man still agreed to give the entrustment, and briefly explained the ins and outs of the matter to Abner.

His name is Sean Scudder, and he was originally the manager of a certain sea trading company, but due to a series of unlucky events and a sudden strange disease on his son this year, this gentleman has lost his job. Working, nearly depleting savings, even selling ancestral estates.

The purpose of going to Backlund by boat this time was to find a better doctor to treat their son Allen. Unexpectedly, shortly after departure, Allen's condition suddenly deteriorated.

When the Scudders were at a loss what to do about it, the man who yelled just now took the initiative to say that he is a very capable pharmacist, as long as he is willing to pay 10 pounds, he will concoct a potion for Allen recovery.

Mr. Scudder felt that this man was a liar at first, but seeing his son's pain that seemed to be unbearable, he finally took out the last of his savings and asked the man to prepare a soup.

The decoction was very effective at first, and Aaron didn't feel any pain after drinking it for a long time, and even fell into a rare and peaceful sleep.

However, not long after, when Mrs. Scudder, who stayed in the cabin to take care of Alan, went to the bathroom, Alan turned blue and had difficulty breathing. When the wife called her husband, she completely stopped breathing.

When Abner heard this, he glanced at the fat pharmacist who was still yelling and blaming him, and thought to himself: Just from Mr. Scudder's description, this person really looks like a fake drug dealer. A liar... But through my observation and analysis, the grievance on this person's face does not seem to be fake. And although he made a big fuss, he didn't panic, obviously he had a clear conscience or was sure to get away.

"Can I go and see the scene where Allen died?" Abner asked Mr. Scudder after thinking for a moment.

"I'm afraid this requires Mr. Captain's consent..." Mr. Scudder said with some embarrassment.

"It's okay, I'm very good at 'persuading' others to agree with me." Abner smiled.

Having been with Xio for so long, her majesty as an "arbiter" has naturally been analyzed and successfully imitated by "Pure White Eye". Although the effect is not as good as Xio's own use, it is enough to deal with ordinary people .

Sure enough, under the influence of Abner's convincing charm and sufficient majesty, the captain, Mr. Matt, "happily" agreed to his request, and brought them to the cabin where Little Allen was.

After entering the cabin, Abner carefully observed the ten-year-old boy on the bed who held his neck with both hands, his face was bruised and swollen, and his mouth and nose were bleeding, not letting go of any clues.

This looks more like suffocation than drug poisoning? However, some drugs can also cause suffocation effects, but it is not certain whether it is.

Thinking of this, Abner seemed to be investigating and collecting evidence in the room, and at the same time quietly used breath extraction to extract a copy of the different remaining breaths in the room, and then analyzed them separately, hoping to see if there was any extraordinary power involved.

The little boy's own breath...the Scudders' breath...some sailor's breath...the smell of some nut crumbs...this is medicine...Huh?

Soon he discovered that the bowl containing the medicine that the apothecary had prepared was marked by extraordinary erosion.

Really? Abner was a little surprised. He didn't expect that a murder case that he intervened on a temporary basis would involve the Extraordinary. He glanced at the fat pharmacist who was guarded by security personnel outside the door, and then analyzed the remaining Extraordinary aura.

This drug... really has the effect of analgesic and eliminating human lesions. It seems that the fat pharmacist is really a "pharmacist"! However, the child's death should really have nothing to do with him...

While thinking this in his heart, Abner used the ability of "Scene Retrospect". Immediately afterwards, he saw that the boy named Allen had taken the medicine, and his painful expression had obviously faded away, which may be due to the exhausted physical strength. Too much, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

After that, another scene appeared. Mrs. Scudder, who was taking care of her son, went to the bathroom. The little boy Allen opened his eyes, and took out a nut that seemed to have been treasured for a long time from his pocket and put it in his mouth. It was at this moment that the passenger ship jolted violently. Allen was caught off guard by a nut stuck in his trachea. He coughed hard and beat his throat with his hands, trying to cough out the nut, but unfortunately it didn't work, and he eventually suffocated to death...

At the end of the backtracking, Abner was a little speechless. It turned out that Alan was stuck to death by such a small nut after a long time of trouble? Hey, I don't know if he is too unlucky, or the fat pharmacist is even more unlucky.

However, he soon had a new thought: Could it be too coincidental? And I always feel like there's something I'm missing here.

Abner carefully examined the listed clues again, but still found nothing new.

He thought for a while, and just to be on the safe side, he opened the "Pure White Eye" again.

This time, Abner found a vague aura at the tip of the right finger of the little boy Allen. That's what he didn't extract when he extracted the breath before.

This breath gives me the feeling that the person is not high, but the sense of existence is so weak... Is this a remnant of the extraordinary way to naturally restrain the ability of investigation or divination?

Abner frowned, analyzed those slight auras in the "Pure White Eye" state, and then used "Scene Backtracking" again.

The picture unfolded slowly. The little boy Allen was playing with a simple gold coin in his hand, but his illness quickly made him lose interest. The stain was wiped off.

As soon as the scene changed, the little boy boarded the boat, and soon became ill. Just when he felt that he was about to die, a fat pharmacist came to his door and gave him a side drug. The medicine worked very well, and the uninterrupted pain in the past year miraculously disappeared, and Allen, who hadn't slept well for a long time, immediately fell asleep easily.

The screen turned again, and after Allen was stuck to death because of eating nuts, a drop of blood seeping from his mouth and nose happened to drop on the gold coin that slipped out of the boy's pocket at some point, forming blood stains again.

At the end of the retrospective, Abner had a general idea of ​​the incident, and he couldn't help sighing secretly: The scene retrospective of the 'vip' version is really different from my own 'civilian experience' version.

But how did the little boy Allen get that gold coin?

First, Abner simulated a blindfold. When he pretended to detect traces on Allen's body, he put the unremarkable ancient gold coin that rolled down on the edge of the bed into his pocket without anyone noticing it.

Since he had already analyzed its function with the "Pure White Eye", he knew that gold coins have no negative effects under normal circumstances, so Abner dared to use them directly.

Then, he walked back to Mr. Scudder, considered his tone, and said, "Sir, I have something to ask you."

Mr. Scudder, who had been staring at Abner's movements, quickly replied: "If you have any questions, just ask! Did you find any clues?"

"I have made some discoveries..." Abner nodded, opened the "Pure White Eye" to simulate Hugh's "majesty", and asked, "I hope you can tell me, is your family doing well recently? There are always bad things happening? What are they? When did it start?"

"How do you know?!" Mr. Scudder's reaction was extremely violent, and he himself immediately discovered this, took a few deep breaths hastily, and asked, "What does this have to do with Aaron's death?"

This is because I don't want to say it from the bottom of my heart... And this will to resist my simulated skills...

Abner frowned secretly, changed his strategy in a flash, and said with a smile, "Don't get excited, Mr. Scudder. I did make a discovery, but I need the captain and other dignified gentlemen on board to make an investigation. Witness.”

After finishing speaking, he asked Mr. Matt, the captain who was also in the cabin, if he could find one or two authoritative gentlemen. Mr. Mike Joseph, a journalist, and Mr. Caron, a shareholder of Backlund Coim.

Since the "Matt" is not that kind of luxurious passenger ship, even if it is the first class, there are no gentlemen from the real aristocratic and business class. These two are already very respectable and powerful gentlemen.

Mike Joseph of the Daily Observer? Isn't this the reporter Sherlock will meet at the Kragg Club in the future? Came across here.

I also know another Caron, that is, he bought the abandoned manor of the Dill family on the outskirts of the North District. At that time, Hugh and I hid in the storage room and eavesdropped on the whole process of his buying a house.

Abner looked at the two gentlemen who came to observe calmly. The former was close to thirty, with sparse eyebrows, rather rough skin, and unusually obvious pores. However, his facial features are not bad, his blue eyes are especially charming, coupled with two beautiful mustaches, he has a somewhat mature charm.

The latter is about fifty years old, tall, slightly fat, with broad and high shoulders, and looks as if he is about to bow. He was wearing a typical Loen-style formal suit and tie, looking like an elite businessman.

After the two and Abner introduced each other, Abner turned back to the topic. He first told everyone about the difference between drug poisoning and suffocation death, and then dug out the Crumbs of nuts~IndoMTL.com~ Then he lifted up the little boy's body, adjusted his strength, and slapped him **** the back. The nut that had stuck Allen finally fell out of his trachea and came out of his mouth Fly out and fall in front of everyone.

Because the nuts fell off, the little boy Allen's bruised and swollen face seemed to have recovered a bit, but he had been dead for too long, and even if the trachea was unobstructed, his life could not be saved.

"This...we bought it for Allen the day before boarding the ship! He even hid one and didn't eat it..." Mr. Scudder blurted out.

At this time, Abner turned his head and asked Mrs. Scudder, who had dull eyes, "Do you remember when you went to the bathroom?"

"I remember... At ten o'clock in the morning, I only stayed in the bathroom for 5 minutes." Mrs. Scudder recovered and replied dumbly.

Captain Matt also slapped his hands at the moment, and said: "There was a big wave at ten o'clock, I remember it was shaking..."

Everyone at the scene was a little stunned when they heard the words, and then looked at Alan on the bed regretfully, feeling that his luck was really bad.

At this time, a sneering murmur suddenly sounded: "I said that it has nothing to do with me. You have been too unlucky all the time. Now it seems that I am right!"

Everyone in the room frowned when they heard the sound. They thought it was too much to say and disrespected the deceased, so they followed the reputation, only to find that the person who spoke was the pharmacist who seemed to be the suspect, and they were relieved.

I was almost wronged, so I was naturally upset, but my self-cultivation was too low. Most people think so.

Only Abner looked at the pharmacist thoughtfully, and thought:

Rather than ridicule, it is more like reminding the Scudder couple... This way of speaking is still a "pharmacist"...

Could he be Darkwell from the Life School?