"Mr. Kijima, I would like to ask you, where were you and what were you doing before three o'clock?" Tang Ze looked at Kijima Minoru and asked.

"Well..."

Hearing Tang Ze's words, the gloom in Kijima's eyes flashed away, and then he smiled calmly and said, "I just did some chores."

"Miscellaneous matters?" Tang Ze chuckled. "Is it trivial matters? Or is it a serious matter involving murder?"

"Why are you talking nonsense?" Kijima said in a bad tone, "Can a criminal just frame someone so casually?!"

"And Detective Maori also saw the photos sent by Editor Umeda with us." Ishikawa also quickly defended his friend: "This can't be fake."

"I can prove this." Maori Kogoro also said: "I did see the text message that Ms. Umeda sent at that time."

"As for text messages, as long as there are photos, it is enough to use Ms. Umeda's phone to send text messages after killing her. It cannot be confirmed that it is the real person." Tang Ze shook his head and denied this evidence.

"What about the forensic doctor?" Nakamura Yoko looked at Tang Ze and said, "Didn't the forensic doctor determine the time of Ms. Umeda's death before? Are you trying to say that the forensic doctor made a mistake?!"

"Your question is a good one, but you've overlooked one point."

Tang Ze shook his head, looked at the grim-faced Kijima, and chuckled, "Could it be that Mr. Kijima tampered with the corpse, delaying the rigor mortis, causing Cheng Shijun to misjudge the time of death?"

"Are you saying that the actual time of Miss Umeda's death doesn't match what the corpse shows?" After hearing what Karasawa said, he understood the look of surprise on Inspector Megure's face.

"Yes, that's the truth."

Tang Ze sighed slightly and said, "When a person dies, he becomes a dead object, and the changes in his body are not as difficult to change as those in a living person.

Before we were called to the scene, I believe Ms. Umeda's body had been kept in a cold place to delay the onset of rigor mortis after her death."

But when Tang Ze finished speaking, the next moment, Mikijima couldn't help but sneer as if he heard something funny.