"I see." Sydney nodded her head and then frowned tightly. "You just said that Mr. Dodson had stepped on a banana peel in front of his office door, fallen, and died on the spot. Was it a little too coincidental?"
At these words, Julien was stunned.
Quickly, he reacted and narrowed his eyes. "Go on."
Sydney nodded and continued, "Look, you thought Mr. Dodson or Mr. McDaniel was most likely to be your teacher, but in fact, the one you preferred was Mr. Dodson, not Mr. McDaniel. Moreover, you and Mr. Dodson had already chosen each other and even arranged the date for a party. Why was it so coincidental that he stepped on a banana peel the day before the party? Most importantly, how did the banana peel appear in front of his office? Although things like bananas are very common, banana peels cannot be found everywhere. Normal people would not throw these things around, let alone at the door of a university professor's office. There is obviously something fishy about it."
She looked at Julien's increasingly tense face, paused for a few seconds, and then said, "Now even the main roads are cleaned frequently. It is impossible that there is no one cleaning a teachers' office building."
"Are you trying to say that the banana peel that Mr. Dodson stepped on was thrown there by someone on purpose?" Julien's hands were slowly clenched on the table.
Sydney looked at Julien's gradually icy expression and slowly said, "Yeah, I do have this suspicion. After all, Mr. Dodson's accident happened too coincidentally. It was right the day before the party, and that banana peel was very suspicious. I don't think it was an accident... It was highly likely a conspiracy. Of course, this is just my guess. Maybe it was really an accident."
As soon as Sydney's words came out, Julien shook his head. "No. Maybe your guess is right, and that was a conspiracy."
Sydney's eyes widened.
Julien narrowed his eyes and said, "Back then when Mr. Dodson's accident happened, I wasn't at school but at the Flint Corporation, and I didn't know about it until the next day. We arranged to have a party that day. However, when I went to Mr. Dodson's house, I learned that Mr. Dodson had passed away and that his body had been cremated. Also, the police had closed the case, saying that it was an accident. Because of this, I never thought that Mr. Dodson's death might have other reasons, and I always treated it as an accident. I never thought much about it until you just said that there was something fishy about Mr. Dodson's accident. Only then did I realize that there was indeed something wrong."
As Sydney said, why did Mr. Dodson's accident happen right on the day before that party?
And it didn't make sense why banana peels would appear at the door of an university professor's office.
He went to the top university in the country. The students there were all well-educated. They would not litter.
Neither would the professors in the office building.
And Sydney was right about the cleaning work. Even ordinary main roads would be swept frequently, and it was usually clean.
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