"What!?"
"So, Shibasa Mitsuko lied about this?"
After receiving this news, everyone present frowned again.
From the previous series of clues, the more they investigated, the more they felt that the deceased committed suicide. However, Mitsuko Shibasa's subsequent series of actions, coupled with this lie, made people increasingly suspect that the other party was the criminal.
After all, among the three people who had contact with Murakami Takaki on the day of the incident, the other party could be said to have the strongest motive and was the one who would be most beneficial to Murakami Takaki after his death.
Now, the original plan to change the search direction and investigate suicide or accident was shelved and turned into an all-out search for Mitsuko Shibasa.
But even so, Yumi Miyamoto was a little depressed after the meeting.
"What's wrong, Yumi?" Sato Miwako said, hugging her friend. "Hasn't the investigation policy changed from accident and suicide to investigating Shibasa Mitsuko? It's been carried out as you wished, so why are you still so unhappy?"
"There's no hope." Miyamoto Yumi sighed, leaning on the table. "Everything that needs to be investigated has already been investigated. Even if we suspect Shibasa Mitsuko of murder, what's the point? Without evidence, we can't arrest her."
Speaking of this, Miyamoto Yumi slammed the table fiercely, "Damn woman, what method did she use to kill Mr. Murakami!"
As she spoke, she turned to look at Tang Ze who was still lost in thought and said, "Detective Tang Ze, have you found anything?"
“Not at this time.”
Tang Ze was sitting in front of Miyamoto Yumi. He came to his senses after hearing what she said, turned around and shook his head slightly. "Apart from the lie about the sleeping pills, there's nothing else suspicious about him."
"Damn it! Is there really no evidence at all?"
As Miyamoto Yumi spoke, she took out a manuscript from the drawer of the table below and flipped through it roughly, muttering, "This fake! The cheesy title! The soulless work!
No matter how good the writing is, without the infusion of soul, it will always be just a copy!!”
Yumi Miyamoto's complaints burst out like a machine gun, but Tang Ze's attention had already been attracted by the pages of the book that Yumi Miyamoto was constantly turning in her hands.
The moment the image was reflected into the brain through the retina, it was as if a flash of lightning passed through the mind. All the fragmented information of the case seemed to be connected together by this lightning of inspiration in an instant, forming a perfect truth!
"Oh my god, I actually missed such information." Tang Ze slapped his forehead, stood up suddenly and rushed out the door.
Seeing this, Miyamoto Yumi and others looked at each other in surprise and hurriedly followed.
………
"Um... may I ask what you want to talk to me about?"
Inside the Murakami Takaki family mansion, the female protagonist Shibasa Mitsuko, who was currently at the center of the news storm, looked at Tang Ze and the others and said politely, "Please hurry up, I have a lot of things to deal with next..."
"Ms. Shibasa, you're actually aware that Mr. Takamura takes sleeping pills to fall asleep, right?"
Tang Ze's words made Shibakusa Mitsuko stunned for a moment, and then she said with a confused look on her face: "What are you talking about?"
"Come on! The doctor who prescribed sleeping pills for Mr. Murakami at the hospital saw your face on TV and remembered that you had gotten the pills for him a long time ago!"
Miyamoto Yumi looked at Shibakusa Mitsuko with a hostile expression and said, "Are you still pretending to be stupid even now?!"
Upon hearing this, Shibasa Mitsuko was silent for a moment, bit her lip, and finally said, "It was the teacher who told me not to tell anyone about him taking sleeping pills.
He didn't want anyone to know that he needed sleeping pills to fall asleep."
"Then why didn't you tell us after Mr. Murakami passed away?" Miyamoto Yumi asked suspiciously, "And you were still hiding it until just now!"
"Because this is the agreement between Mr. Murakami and me." Shibakusa Mitsuko looked at everyone and explained, "Now that Mr. Murakami has passed away, I should abide by the agreement with him even more."
"I see, is that so..."
Hearing this, Tang Ze nodded, then as if remembering something, he quickly walked to the desk and handed over the light novel "The Heartbeat Mystery of the Rich Lady and the Famous Detective" and asked, "Is this the last book you saw the teacher reading before you left?"
"Yes, that's right." Shibasa Mitsuko nodded without hesitation, "This is it."
"Then may I ask Miss Chai Cao, have you read this book?"
Tang Ze flipped through the book casually and saw a two-dimensional character that looked like himself, with an evil smile on his face and lifting the heroine's chin. He couldn't help but close the book with a frown on his face.
What the hell? Isn't the woman the rich one? Why am I being treated like a boss?
"I haven't read it." Just when Tang Ze was frowning, Shibakusa Mitsuko shook her head and replied, "This is a book the teacher bought. I haven't read it."
"Then do you want to read it? This is the last book the teacher read before he died."
"Huh? Why?"
Just when Shibakusa Mitsuko was confused by Tang Ze's action, Tang Ze had already handed the book to her, "Please read it."
"Ha... I understand..." Mitsuko Shibasa nodded and took the book, then carefully picked up the book and started flipping through it with her left hand.
"Stop!" Tang Ze looked at the other party's hand that was suspended in mid-air and looked at the confused Shibasa Mitsuko and asked, "Excuse me, what are you doing now?"
"Huh?" Shibakusa Mitsuko shook her head blankly, "You didn't do anything..."
"You just chose to switch hands, right?" Tang Ze looked at him and smiled. "The book was originally in your left hand, but now you're holding it with your right hand and turning the pages with your left. Why?"
"Huh?" Shibasa Mitsuko looked at the book in her hand, turned another page in confusion and said, "Because I want to turn the page."
"But you use your left hand to turn the pages, right?" Tang Ze smiled, a prey caught in the trap. "Why is that, Shibasa Mitsuko?"
"Because the font of this book is horizontal." Mitsuko Shibasa gestured back and forth on the book.
"Bingo!" Tang Ze snapped his fingers and looked at Shibakusa Mitsuko, who was confused and uneasy because of his words, and smiled, "Books with vertical layout or books with openings on the right are usually turned with the right hand.
However, this book is formatted horizontally, and the opening is also facing left, so it is more convenient to support the spine with the right hand and turn the pages with the left hand."
"Eh? What on earth do you want to say!?"
Feeling that something was not right, but not understanding the situation, Shibasa Mitsuko said angrily, "If you keep doing something weird like this, I'm leaving!!"
"Inexplicable?"
Tang Ze looked at Shibakusa Mitsuko with a half-smile and said, "It's better to say that the inexplicable person is you!"
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