"You found a job online?" Officer Megure frowned. "Tell me about the details."
"I'm so unlucky that something like this happened to me."
Shimizu Masataka lay on the quilt with an irritated look on his face and said, "I was surfing the Internet when I saw this message with good conditions.
My job is to come to this room at five o'clock and take the jewelry on the table to the park in front of the station.
This was basically the job description. Since the pay was very generous, I was very happy at the time that I got the commission.
Who knew something like this would happen..."
"You kid, don't think you can be suspected of anything by just talking nonsense!"
After hearing what the other party said, Qianye took the initiative to put on a stern face and scolded Shimizu Masataka: "You must have killed Miss Umeda for money!"
"no!!"
Hearing Chiba scolding him as if he were a criminal, Shimizu Masataka excitedly shouted back, "When I came into this room, the woman dressed as a clown was already dead!!
I was terrified when I saw that scene, afraid of being suspected of being the murderer, so I ran away."
Faced with Shimizu Masataka's words, everyone was skeptical, but Tang Ze trusted what he said about 80% to 90%.
It was obvious that the other party was a "scapegoat" created by the real murderer. It was also very unusual that he did not leave the crime scene after taking the jewelry, but waited in a nearby park.
Tang Ze was basically certain that the other party was really hired by someone, and it was not a fabricated story.
As the authenticity of Shimizu Masataka's statement could not be verified, the case temporarily came to a standstill.
Although they did catch the most suspected criminal at the moment, when Tang Ze pointed out the abnormal behavior of the other party not leaving but staying in the park in front of the station, Chiba and others who had previously identified the other party as the criminal became a little unsure.
After all, what Tang Ze said does make sense.
After killing someone, ordinary robbers will definitely run away with the property in the hope of avoiding criminal searches.
After all, after something like this happens, criminals will search the surrounding areas, and the risk is too great to stay nearby with the stolen goods.
But Shimizu Masataka did not run away at all. If the other party was really a robber and murderer, it would be a bit abnormal.
Of course, although the case has temporarily come to a standstill, the search of the room is still ongoing.
Everyone was holding their breath, hoping to find more clues, hoping to make a breakthrough in the case.
Tang Ze naturally also activated his super sense of smell, and when all kinds of messy smells entered his nasal cavity, Tang Ze suddenly opened his eyes.
He walked towards the kitchen and saw the iron pot sitting on the gas stove.
There was no need to open the lid to check; the smell had already told him that there was beef stew in the pot.
But that's not the point.
Tang Ze touched the iron pot with his hand, but the imagined heat did not reach his fingertips. Instead, a hint of coolness came from his fingers.
This pot of beef has already gone cold.
Just now, when he was exploring the smell in the room, he noticed the unusual smell of the beef in the pot.
Perhaps someone with the same super sense of smell might not be able to notice this, but Tang Ze, who is proficient in cooking and cooks frequently at home, quickly noticed the subtle difference in the smell coming from the pot of beef.
He looked down at the gas stove under the iron pot and found that the knob was pointing to low fire.
"That's weird. The switch is clearly on low flame, so it should still be on."
Conan naturally noticed Tang Ze's actions. After leaning on the drawer and touching the iron pot, he realized the abnormality.
"If that's the case..."
Tang Ze put Conan down from the drawer, then squatted down and opened the cabinet under the gas stove. Then a look of understanding appeared on his face: "As expected."
"Eh? What are you talking about? What is this?"
After hearing what Tang Ze said, Conan couldn't help but look into the cabinet. He found that in the cabinet under the gas stove, in addition to the pots and pans, there was also a pillar and a square instrument connected to the gas stove above.
"Anyone who cooks regularly knows that this is a gas earthquake sensor."
Tang Ze explained, "Neon is a country with many earthquakes after all. This device is designed to automatically shut down the engine in the event of an earthquake to prevent gas leaks and secondary dangers."
"I heard from the apartment manager that Ms. Umeda seems to be very afraid of earthquakes. This device was installed at Ms. Umeda's request. It will automatically shut down when the earthquake intensity reaches about level three."
Miwako Sato, who was standing nearby, overheard their conversation, walked over, lifted the lid of the pot, looked at the beef stew inside, and shook her head regretfully: "It's all cold. I guess they forgot to light the fire again after the earthquake at three o'clock."
But after hearing what the other party said, Tang Ze and Conan on the side denied this statement in their hearts at the same time.
Rather than saying that the other party had forgotten, the two of them were more inclined to believe that the other party had no way to light the fire again.
That is to say, when the earthquake occurred at three o'clock, Miss Umeda had already been killed.
The criminal did not anticipate that an earthquake would occur at three o'clock, and Ms. Umeda had just installed an earthquake sensor, which led to the current situation.
However, this speculation has a biggest loophole, which is the estimated time of death.
Asanami judged that the body was found between 4:30 and 5:00. If Miss Umeda was injured at 3:00, then rigor mortis should have set in when they arrived at 5:30.
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