Yue Er on the side was still chattering, and now the conversation had moved from their childhood to junior high school.
As they were about to reach the high school, Tang Ze quickly interrupted his monologue and asked, "Yue Er-san, you live in Room 2415 on the 25th floor, right? I wonder what you were doing during the time of the incident?"
"Ahh... I don't have an alibi for that time. The night the old man was killed, I was alone in my room writing songs.
But I didn’t kill anyone! How could my brother and I kill someone? You must have made a mistake!
As expected, after questioning Yue Er, nothing was found, and the other party also had no alibi.
"This is troublesome! The two brothers must have known who the culprit is." Gao Mu scratched his head, "If they didn't do it, then it must have been done by the other party. They must be protecting each other.
It's even possible that two people committed the crime together, but as long as we can't identify the culprit, we won't be able to arrest them."
"Let's go ask Miss Xia Xi first, maybe we can get some results."
……..
"I still can't believe that it was one of Yang Yi and Yue Er who killed Saburo..." Xia Xi said as tears streamed down her face. "Saburo treated them both as his own sons..."
"My condolences, Miss Xia Xi. You were staying in room 2610 on the 26th floor yesterday, right? That's right next to Mr. Li Xin, right?"
Tang Ze said soothingly, "No matter how subtle it is, was there anything unusual last night?"
"No...there's nothing special..." Xia Xi Sayuri thought for a moment and shook her head, "Yesterday, Saburo, Yoichi, Yue Er and I had dinner at around nine o'clock in the evening.
Afterwards, because Saburo had an article to be written for a monthly magazine, he returned to his room... But I didn’t expect that would be the last time I saw Saburo..."
After saying this, Xia Xi Sayuri could no longer hold back her tears. It was too tragic for a woman who was about to get married to lose her lover just before entering the wedding hall.
These are the three people involved in the case, and the suspects have been narrowed down to two of them.
The calm and peaceful elder brother Yoichi and the self-willed younger brother Yueji, two brothers with completely different personalities, one of them is definitely the criminal.
"There's no other way. Let's go back to the crime scene again." Tang Ze frowned and thought, "I always feel like something is missing."
Tang Ze and Officer Takagi took the elevator to the 26th floor where the victim was killed again, but this time they were not in such a hurry to rush to the crime scene as before, which allowed Tang Ze to make a different discovery.
Not far from the elevator, there is a flower arrangement made of lavender and Miscanthus. Although it is a bit strange, the style is very beautiful. Needless to say, it is also Yue Mengliu's flower arrangement.
"Officer Takagi, are the sunflowers you were looking for before also placed in the same location on the 25th floor?" Tang Ze asked, pointing to the flower arrangement not far away.
"Ah, yes, I asked someone, and the sunflowers at the crime scene were placed in the same position as the flower arrangements on the 25th floor." Although Takagi didn't know why, he still answered.
"That's strange... Why didn't the murderer use the pot of flowers on the 26th floor, but deliberately took the sunflower?" Tang Ze touched his chin and pondered.
"It's quite strange. I wonder if there is any purpose behind it." Takagi agreed.
"Forget it, don't think about it anymore, let's go to the escape route."
The two came to the escape passage again. When they opened the door, the howling wind made it difficult for Tang Ze to push it open.
After all, this is the 26th floor, so there will naturally be strong winds.
"Officer Takagi, please go to where the body fell."
When he returned to the crime scene again, the first thing that Tang Ze thought of was the testimony about fingerprints after the forensic class collected evidence. So in order to verify the reasoning, Tang Ze asked Takagi to cooperate.
"Huh?"
Upon hearing this, Takagi turned his head, but saw Tang Ze frowning and thinking. He shook his head helplessly and walked straight down.
When Takagi stood at the place where the deceased had fallen, Tang Ze, who was standing there, could not see Officer Takagi at all.
"Is it really not visible..."
In this spiral stairwell, there is a turning platform in the middle of each floor, and this platform forms a blind spot with the platform of the escape door.
And this is exactly where the deceased's body was found. If you don't go down a few stairs, there will be no way to see the victim's appearance!
The way the deceased died is also of great concern. Although he was stabbed in the back of the neck, it was not the direct cause of death. Instead, he died of blood loss due to continuous bleeding within the next hour.
"Wait? So the murderer is...?"
Tang Ze frowned in thought, but the doubts in his heart increased, "What on earth did I overlook... Why did the murderer take such an unnatural action...?"
For a moment, Tang Ze seemed to be trapped in a dead end. He had a premonition that if he collected the last fragment, he would be able to break the wall in front of him!
But before that, I felt like I was outside the gate at the end of a maze, but I didn't have the key to open the gate.
As I was lost in thought, time slipped away and it was already afternoon.
"Hey, Tang Ze, have you found anything?" Seeing Tang Ze pondering in the hotel lobby for several hours, Takagi asked expectantly.
"There are some, but there is still a clue missing, a clue that connects everything together." Tang Ze stood up and stretched his body which was a little stiff from sitting for so long.
"I still haven't studied enough." Tang Ze sighed helplessly: "If I had enough ability, I'm afraid this case would be solved quickly..."
"Let's go, let's go eat first and think about it later." Gao Mu comforted him, "There's nothing anyone can do about this situation. Don't put too much pressure on yourself."
"Eat? So early?" Tang Ze asked doubtfully, "It's only almost six o'clock now, right?"
"Ah, it was Miss Xia Xi who invited us to dinner." Gao Mu explained a little embarrassedly: "She said that she had made an appointment with Mr. Xin to have dinner tonight, but who knew... Miss Xia Xi was not in the mood to eat.
Because the ingredients are all freshly imported and cannot be cancelled after ordering, she saw that we were busy with Mr. Xin's case and asked us to accept it..."
"Officer Takagi, this seems a bit against the rules..." Tang Ze said helplessly: "We are still investigating the case. Accepting invitations from relevant parties..."
"That's what I said..." Gao Mu said helplessly with a bitter face: "But the waiters have started serving the food... It will be difficult for us not to go..."
So, you, a nice guy, really don’t know how to say no! !
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