Chapter 2176 2187 [Teammate is more suspicious]

Being suddenly involved in a murder case, the receptionist was obviously a little nervous, but she still took a deep breath and tried to recall:

“If you want to go to the swimming pool, you can only go through the corridor next to me. After our front desk received the order to block the swimming pool and search for the necklace, we stopped here and persuaded ordinary guests to go back.

"After that, apart from the two security guards, Mr. Sakaki, the manager, and Ms. Oiso... I mean the younger Ms. Oiso who is still alive, no one else came in or out except these five people."

As she was talking, she suddenly remembered another thing, and looked at Jiang Xia and whispered, "By the way, before the deceased Miss Oiso acted alone, you guys also went in there."

Suzuki Sonoko looked embarrassed: "..." As expected, she shouldn't have used her privileges outside. She just used her face to bring people in to watch the treasure hunt at the bottom of the pond of the Oiso family, but she didn't expect that this would be her retribution.

Inspector Megure also rushed over, and when he heard this, his eyes reflexively fell on Judy: In other words, this suspicious foreign friend has also been in there?

Judy: “…”

Did she really look that suspicious?

As she thought about it, Judy quietly looked at her temporary team:

An excellent assistant who has helped the police solve countless cases.

A high school girl with an innocent face and a pure aura.

A daughter of a consortium who can bankrupt countless people with just a flick of her finger, without having to kill anyone herself.

Add in a first grader who can’t even beat a chicken.

Judy: “…”

...Forget it, just suspect it. We have to find something to do for these stupid policemen who can’t find the murderer.

Now, according to the Tokyo police's way of judging people by appearance, if the person who sneaked into Jiang Xia's side was not me, but Akai Shuichi...

Judy recalled the temperament of the FBI ace, and couldn't help but imagine the scene in her mind where Shuichi Akai was surrounded by a group of police officers as soon as he showed up, ready to be arrested and taken to jail at any time.

Judy: “Pfft.”

...Although this shouldn't happen, I really want to see how Shuichi Akai would respond if he were treated as a suspect by the police.

Inspector Megure, who was secretly staring at her: "?"

What is this English teacher doing? He actually laughed arrogantly at this time. Is he provoking me? !

When the two forces were fighting secretly.

The passerby detective was working hard nearby. Jiang Xia asked the front desk: "After the deceased acted alone, has anyone returned to the swimming pool?"

The receptionist thought for a moment and said, "The first person to come back was our manager. He was worried about Miss Oiso being alone in the pool, so he went back to check on her."

Another receptionist who had read many murder reports in Jiangxia added quite professionally: "My phone just received an email at that time. I was slacking off while replying to the email and my manager saw it. I was very nervous for a while. Let me take a look..."

She took out her phone and quickly found the exact time: "It was 12:05."

Jiang Xia nodded and asked the hotel manager: "What was the situation of the swimming pool when you went in?"

Hotel manager: "Ms. Oiso was concentrating on finding the necklace in the water. She didn't see me at first, so I was able to protect her. But when she saw me, she thought I was an eyesore and told me to get out."

The receptionist tried hard to recall the second person to enter the swimming pool. After a moment, she looked at her fiancé and said, "I remember now. It should be Mr. Zuo Juan."

The fiancé said, "She searched for a long time in the water by herself. I thought the progress was too slow, so I wanted to help her. But when we got to the swimming pool, I found that Yongmei was not in the water.

"I thought she went to the bathroom, so I waited in the pool for a while, but no one showed up. I thought Yongmei had found the necklace and left, so I left too."

Jiang Xia looked back at the front desk.

The front desk clerk was worried: "Because it was an emergency period, there was no need to register, so we don't know when Mr. Saki left. But... by the way, I remember that the living Ms. Oiso left at 12:54! Because at that time, she happened to ask me about the time."

Asking about the time alone sounds a bit suspicious.

Sister Oiso quickly explained, “Because my sister said she would have dinner at the restaurant, and she is not a person who likes to change her schedule, so my brother-in-law asked me to go to the women’s restroom and locker room to see if my sister is there.

"I went to look for her, but there was no sign of her at all, and there was no one in the swimming pool. I was a little scared of the empty room, and my sister didn't show up. I was worried that my phone showed the wrong time, so I went to the front desk to reconfirm."

The three people's statements all sounded reasonable, but one thing was certain - not counting the body itself, all three of them had spent some time alone in the swimming pool. Moreover, the estimated time of death was between 12 noon and 1 o'clock, and the three people happened to be in this range, so they were all suspects.

Motives are useless, alibis are useless.

Inspector Megure's head was full again. But this time he made a new discovery. He stood at the front desk and looked towards the swimming pool along this 10-meter-long corridor. There was indeed only one way to enter the swimming pool, but there were restrooms and changing rooms at both ends of this corridor.

If the body had really been hidden for a period of time, it was most likely hidden in these two rooms with a lot of cover.

"But why did the murderer hide the body first and then throw it back into the swimming pool?" Suzuki Sonoko thought of the body floating under the water before. She raised her hands to hug herself, touched the goose bumps on her arms, and muttered, "It's really inexplicable."

The two receptionists said, "After the other Miss Oiso went in, she confirmed that there was no one in the women's locker room and the restroom. Then we knew that Miss Oiso was really missing. After that, we hurriedly notified the manager and other waiters, and we all looked for her everywhere, but we couldn't find her.

"It was not until an hour later that someone in the pool suddenly screamed and called the police, and we learned that Miss Oiso had died in the pool."

The scene at that time was still fresh in everyone's memory. At this moment, the security guard who was closer to the swimming pool remembered something. He hesitated and said, "Not long before the body was found, I seemed to hear a strange noise. It was like... like someone spit out a huge bubble."

After he finished speaking, he also felt a little strange and scratched his head awkwardly: "Maybe I heard it wrong, maybe someone was flushing the toilet."

Jiang Xia looked thoughtful and said, "No, that should be correct."

Inspector Megure was shocked: "Who is the murderer?"

Jiang Xia said seriously, "To be on the safe side, according to the police tradition of solving cases, we should clean up the swimming pool first and then refill it with water, and do an experiment."

Inspector Megure: “…Ah?”

(End of this chapter)