"I never thought that after listening to you for so long, I would only hear such a farce."

Mikijima looked at Tang Ze angrily and said, "This is simply impossible!"

"Oh? Why is it impossible?"

Tang Ze looked at Kijima Minoru with a playful look and said, "Are you trying to say that you, Mr. Ishikawa, and Ms. Nakamura were in the room together when you saw the body?"

After hearing what Tang Ze said, Kimura Miyabi's face, which was originally full of anger, suddenly became ugly. He didn't expect that what he wanted to say would be taken the initiative by the other party.

What this means is naturally self-evident.

"But we entered the room together, and Ms. Umeda's body was already in the room at that time."

After hearing what Tang Ze said, Ishikawa Jiro, who didn't understand the connection, questioned: "How could Kijima move the body in that situation?"

"Are you really sure that what you saw is what happened?" Tang Ze looked at the two of them and asked meaningfully.

"What do you mean?" Yoko Nakamura was a little confused.

"What I mean is that what you saw wasn't a corpse, but a puppet the same size as Ms. Umeda, dressed up as a clown."

Tang Ze ignored the increasingly grim expression on Kijima's face and changed the subject, "After all, who was it that suggested turning tonight's engagement celebration into a masquerade party?"

"It was the editor-in-chief who suggested it," Jiro Ishikawa answered truthfully.

"Then may I ask you two, did the director personally come to negotiate with you?"

Tang Ze looked at the two of them and said, "After all, you are the protagonists of this party. I think even if Editor Umeda is usually overbearing, he would not fail to ask for your opinions on such a matter, right?"

"This..." Ishikawa sensed something was amiss and said hesitantly, "It was Mr. Kijima who informed our editor-in-chief of the decision..."

"There's no point in you saying this now," said Mikijima, his face filled with impatience. "Editor-in-Chief Umeda is dead, there's no way to verify the truth of what you're saying!"

"That's true. After all, as a suspect, I won't believe anything you say."

Tang Ze retorted to Kijima, then looked at him and asked, "By the way, Mr. Kijima, did you know that there's an earthquake sensor installed on the gas stove in the kitchen of this room?"

"Earthquake...sensor?" After hearing what Karasawa said, Kimura's eyes were confused and uneasy for a moment.

That was his instinctive reaction after things went beyond his expectations.

"It seems you really don't know." Tang Ze said while looking at Takagi. The other nodded and quickly brought out the ingredients on the gas stove from the kitchen.

"Detective Sato, since you're more knowledgeable about cooking, could you please describe the situation inside the pot?"

After hearing what Karasawa said, Sato Miwa opened the lid of the pot and showed the others what was inside: "Ms. Umeda should be planning to make beef stew.

However, judging from the situation in this pot, not to mention the difficult-to-cook beef, even some of the side dishes were not cooked through.

It's impossible to make it to the five o'clock party in this situation."

"That's about it."

Tang Ze took out his phone and pulled out a photo, "This is the pointer of the gas stove switch. It shows "low fire" on it, right?

This also proves that Ms. Umeda prepared dinner in time with the start of the party.

I guess she intended to simmer it slowly over low heat, but the earthquake at three o'clock triggered the sensor and the fire was automatically extinguished.

But strangely, Ms. Umeda did not relight the fire.

Or rather, there was no way she could light the fire again, because she had already been killed by Mr. Kijima at that time!"

After hearing what Karasawa said, Mikijima was extremely angry and said, "How stupid! I want to go back!!"

But before he could take a step, the fat body of Inspector Megure stood in front of him like an iron wall, "Sorry, Brother Tang Ze, you haven't finished speaking yet, I can't let you leave!"

Miki Kimura's eyes trembled as he looked at Inspector Megure who was putting huge pressure on him, and in the end he did not dare to leave.

"Mr. Kijima, I believe that before you met Mr. Ishikawa and the others, you first came to Ms. Umeda's house and killed her from behind, right?"

Looking at the angry Kijima, Tang Ze smiled nonchalantly: "In order to make us think that Ms. Umeda was killed shortly before you arrived at the room, you placed the body on the cold balcony to delay the rigor mortis.

Then you use the prepared puppet to switch the person and create a scene where the other person appears to have been killed.

I think the reason you didn't turn off the gas stove before you left was so that when Miss Umeda was discovered, the beef stew would still be cooked, so as to create the impression that she had just been murdered?

Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes. An earthquake occurred around 3 o'clock today, and the gas was automatically shut off by the earthquake sensor.

But you didn't know about the earthquake sensor, so you met up with Mr. Ishikawa as planned and went to the clothing rental shop.

And while you were changing clothes, you used Ms. Umeda's phone to send text messages to create the illusion that she was still alive, and then used Ms. Umeda's identity to have everyone's phones deposited in the store.

But what I really admire is your psychological tricks after that, which completely deceived Ishikawa and the other two into thinking they had really seen a corpse."

"Psychological...method? Seeing the corpse..." After hearing Tang Ze's words, Ishikawa and his girlfriend looked at each other, and their expressions became complicated as if they thought of something.

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