Ayako had to attend a high-level meeting tonight for work, so the two of them had already agreed in advance to eat separately.
After slacking off for a day, Tang Ze went straight to Yukihira's place for dinner. After dinner, he planned to go home directly, but he didn't expect to receive a call from the police saying that someone fell from the upstairs and was suspected of suicide.
Murder cases are never trivial matters. As the superior of the scientific research team, even if he does not participate in the case, he will be notified every time a case occurs.
After hearing that Chiba happened to be nearby at the time, he felt that this suicide case was most likely a murder, so he contacted the Metropolitan Police Department and drove there.
"I heard you are the person involved?"
Wearing white gloves, Tang Ze walked into the cordon and first checked the body of the deceased. Then he went to find Qianye and said, "Tell me about the situation at that time."
"Well, after work today, I took the tram here to have dinner with a friend, and then I planned to walk home to lose weight."
Qianye led the way in front and couldn't help but sigh after hearing Tang Ze's words: "But when we got here, we suddenly heard a loud noise of something heavy falling.
But this sound was very strange. It was not the sound of a hard object hitting the ground, but rather more like a muffled sound.
Out of my criminal professional habit, I had a bad feeling at the time because it sounded too much like the sound of a living thing falling.
Just as I was about to check the situation, the apartment manager nearby ran out into the street in panic with a broom, shouting "Help" and saying someone had fallen to the ground.
Then I followed the administrator to this somewhat remote alley to check on the situation, and I found that the deceased was no longer breathing. The time was exactly 8 o'clock in the evening."
As for what happened later, Chiba learned from the apartment manager that the deceased was Mr. Miyasaka who lived in room 503 of the apartment.
However, because Chiba happened to arrive at the time of the murder this time, in order to prevent the murderer from escaping before it was committed, he asked the landlord to get the spare key.
After hurriedly asking his friends to call the police and keep an eye on the scene, he went straight upstairs to the deceased's room.
When they arrived at room 503, Chiba first pulled the door, and after finding that it was locked, he started knocking.
As expected, no one responded in the room. Just at this time, the landlord also brought the key and he quickly opened the door.
But after opening the door, he did not enter the room because the room was locked with a second chain.
Looking through the gap in the door, Chiba could only see the strong wind from the balcony blowing up the white curtains.
Originally he didn't plan to close the door directly, but suddenly he heard the sound of something falling to the ground in the room, which made him decide to go into the house immediately.
So he asked the landlord to bring tools to cut the chain.
"At this time, I heard sirens coming from below, so I asked the administrator to go down and bring people up, while I went into the house to check alone."
Qianye led Tang Ze into the deceased's room and said, "I was also afraid that the criminal was still in the room at that time. It would be bad if the administrator was in danger.
But unfortunately it was a false alarm. It was the sound of a can being blown away.
I then went to the balcony and saw the deceased right below.”
At this point, Qianye pointed to the beer can on the floor of the apartment and said, "Look, this is what made me think there was someone else in the house at the time. It turned out to be a false alarm, just an ordinary suicide case.
There is also a suicide note written by the deceased on the computer over there."
Tang Ze looked at the laptop on the desk next to the balcony. There was only one line of words in the Word document on it: "I don't want to live anymore - Miyasaka Yuichi".
"Have you investigated the basic information of the deceased?" Tang Ze asked after reading the suicide note on the computer.
"Because we know the identity and address of the deceased, the investigation in this area is relatively easy."
Chiba took the criminal handbook and looked through the records and said, "The deceased's name is Miyasaka Yuichi, an investment consultant who was doing quite well for a while.
But I heard that it has been going downhill recently. About two months ago, I moved into this kind of apartment.
According to the administrator, when he first moved here, he drove a nice foreign car, but recently the car disappeared, and he often sees gangster-like people coming to his house to collect debts.
Upon hearing this, Tang Ze nodded, but did not doubt the information.
After all, judging from the overall environment of this apartment, it looks high-end, and the other party’s house is also well decorated. It can be seen that the other party should have been quite wealthy at the time.
As for the fact that someone came to collect the debt and the car he used when moving was lost, these were all indirect evidence that his current situation was not very good.
"Detective Tang Ze, this must be suicide," Qianye said, "After all, after the body fell, I hurriedly said a few words and then went to the deceased's room.
There was no one in the elevator of this building at that time. Later, the landlord used it to pick up the key. When I went up the stairs, I didn't see anyone coming down.
At the same time, the room was closed and both doors were locked.
In this case, there's no other possibility except that the deceased was locked inside."
Chiba's analysis is also reasonable.
Because the door chain is very short, it is impossible to reach over and lock it, and then close the door to create a secret room. This means that if you want to hang the door chain, you need to go inside the house.
Since the door chain and the ordinary door lock are both in a closed state, the only possibility is to close it from inside the house.
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