Chapter 2 Egypt Island, USA 2

Four days later, on the night of August 15, 1986, the body of a famous American was found on Cape Villain, which stretches out into the Gulf of Mexico. The scene is the lonely rocky island in front of Cape Villain. Surrounded by the rough waves of the Gulf of Mexico, on this small island with a diameter of only 500 feet, there is a circular tower more than 30 feet above the sea. On the seventh floor of the topmost circular tower, a body was found , It is said that he is a well-known big chaebol in the United States. At dawn on August 16, Dexter Cotton of the New Orleans Police Department and Nelson McPhelan of the FBI came to check on the body after receiving a report, and they couldn't help screaming.

The upper body of the deceased was kept in a strange posture, with the right hand forward and the left hand backward, as if swimming freely. What was even more strange was the dead man's eyes. The two eyeballs were bloodshot and lifeless, as if they were about to fall out.It was the expression of wonder at what had happened to him so unbelievably, and the fear at the time was frozen forever in that expression. The cause of death was drowning.His entrails were filled with seawater, but the surface of the sea was nearly forty feet below the circular tower! The corpse and the scene discovered in August 1986 were full of difficulties, making it impossible to know where to start.The two US police officers have not encountered such a distressing case.

The topmost floor of the circular tower was sealed off by a solid iron gate.Although the iron door opened to the inside, when it was locked, the iron door was close to the door frame, and there was not even a gap for a thread to pass through.Because there are sealing strips on the four sides where the iron door and the door frame are in contact. The iron gate has no keyhole, and there are only two places where the gate can be sealed.One is a latch that slides horizontally and horizontally, and the other, on the upper part of the iron door, is a small latch that can be inserted upward into the ceiling.The horizontal latch has another handle, which is exposed on the outside of the iron door through a gap, so the latch can be pushed and pulled from outside the door, but the latch that is pushed upwards indoors can only be manipulated indoors.

If it is a horizontal or downward latch it is possible to make a secret chamber by using wire or wire, but an upward latch is not possible, not to mention that there is no gap around the iron door. There are two ventilation holes in the wall of the room some distance from the door, both of which are inlaid with barbed wire.Even the insect-proof screen curtain cloth is fixed on the inside with screws, leaving no gaps.There is no running water in the room, so no plumbing or anything like that. There was also a small window in the room, which was inlaid with thick glass embedded with iron mesh, and the small window was quite far from the spiral iron staircase outside, so it was impossible to do anything.

What is the use of such a secret room?The deceased had drowned and could not have been a suicide.Why do you need to make this room into a secret room? And if the chamber was the murderer's, by what means were the two bolts on the door fastened? There are other clues about the case.At about ten o'clock in the morning on the 15th, three people in front of the iron door of the secret room heard the voice of the victim inside, "I have a terrible headache, let me sleep for a while." Moreover, until the night when the body was discovered, the secret room was under full view. , No suspicious people were found around, at least from the outside world, nothing unusual happened in the room on the top floor.

The morning of August 15th was sunny and sunny. In broad daylight, such a big man died in the tower. It must be mentioned that on the night before August 15th, someone saw a monster under the circular tower: two big wolf-like ears protruding from both sides of the cheeks, round eyes, and opened to the cheeks. Big mouth.If such a monster appeared in the dead of night, it must have come up from the sea.