"Okay, you can get up now."
Attorney Joe's words brought Lisa back to her senses.
The policeman pretending to be a corpse hurriedly got up from behind him and asked excitedly .
"How was my acting?"
The guy seemed to be really looking forward to asking it.
"Very good."
Lawyer Joe said . Meanwhile Lisa could see the smile on his face. But looking at Clark at the side, his expression was very gloomy.
"What's going on?"
Lisa asked.
This time, Max stood up very consciously and explained.
"Actually, the whole modus operandi is very simple, everyone present can see it clearly, only you don't know the situation yet."
"Stop talking nonsense, tell me quickly. "
Lisa said annoyed.
"Okay."
Max stopped being mysterious and began to explain directly.
"First of all, I have to correct my identity. In the reenactment of the case just now, the role I played was not Drake, but a fake Drake. Actually, at this time, the real Drake is already dead."
"What!?"
Lisa was taken aback, but soon, she thought of something.
Max opened the case file, pointed to the photo of Drake on it, and continued:
"As you can see, the deceased was bald. As for us normal people, when we perceive strangers, we first focus on 'characteristics'.
For example, in the first meeting, the characteristics of 'big nose', 'mole on the face' and 'missing a front tooth' account for almost 90% of our first impressions of strangers. And bald head even more so , is one of the most representative ones!
So at that time, when I was in the dark, nervous, and drunk, if there was another bald headed man , wearing Drake's clothes, pretending to be the dead, and using words to induce me, then I will most likely regard it as the same person as the bloody corpse the next day!"
Speaking of this, Lisa also nodded, because this possibility is indeed extremely high, and it can even be said to be inevitable.
"Then under the premise of (Drake is not Drake) , many things will be explained. First of all, it is the door lock.
This door has two locks inside and outside, double secret room, this is true . But this is all based on the fact that 'people inside and outside the door will not take the initiative to open the lock'. If Drake was pretending to be an accomplice of the debt collectors that night, then he could have put a lock on the ground in advance, wait until I wake up, and then stage a play in front of me, this couldn't be simpler."
After speaking, Max looked at Lisa who had already caught up with his train of thought and continued.
"Next, for my words to be more in line with the records in the case file, so I will just repeat it in a narration tone. "
" In fact, I personally prefer the lock. The lock was placed next to Max in advance. The reason for it is that these people's plan is to let Max discover the lock and lock the door by himself, because in this way, the secret room will be more convincing. After all, the murderer locked the lock himself. So that night, when the people outside the door came to open the door, they deliberately locked it
They made sounds like 'the stick resting on the ground' and 'the door bolt shaking'. In fact, they were putting pressure on Max to quickly pick up the lock and lock the door. But they didn't expect that Max was so cowardly.
I was so frightened that I didn't move at all.
But it's okay, because the sounds of those sticks and door bolts are also reminding the fake Drake of the time. So after the fake Drake confirmed that this Max is a coward, instead of Max, he himself directly picked up the lock and locked the door. These were all for Max to make him think that this warehouse was a secret room. In fact, the key was always in the fake Drake's pocket."
Speaking of this , Lisa was also thoughtful .
"Then, after Max fell asleep, the fake Drake inside the door opened the inside lock with the key in his pocket, and the debt collector outside opened the outside lock, so this warehouse is not a secret room at all !"
"That's right . After the door is opened, everyone can just move in the dead real Drake's body."
At this time, Lisa suddenly raised a question:
"But, this is too risky, because no one can be sure whether Max is sleeping at this time, even if he is asleep, how can we be sure that he will not wake up suddenly? After all, there will always be some movement when opening the door and moving things, just in case" "
"No, not in case! These people are sure that I won't wake up!"
Max said.
"Why?"
Lisa asked.
"Because of ether."
"Ah?"
"This is my guess."
Max picked up the case file and pointed to his own testimony on it .
"I once said in my testimony that my head hurts, but due to the amount of alcohol I drank the day before and another blow to the head, my headache seemed quite normal.
But I suspect. I actually inhaled ether or other drugs that made me unconscious that night, but ether is easier to get, so I am more inclined to it.
The side effect of ether is that after waking up, the head will hurt, but this side effect is covered by the pain of the sap in the back of the head.
In addition, after the crime, the forensic doctor will only be examining the corpse, no one would have thought that it was not the deceased who was poisoned, but me, the 'murderer'.
So the fact that I was unconscious became a matter that no one knew about. "
Max said while shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh, it's ridiculous , This kind of assumption has no basis at all, it's just your own wild thinking."
Clark, who had been silent on the side, suddenly said with a sneer.
Max smiled:
"Indeed, this is just my assumption, but it is not without some evidence."