Chapter 1336 1344 [Principle of Killing]
"So that's how it is."
Inspector Otaki has experienced too many murders recently, and his brain, which was already slow to begin with, has become even slower.
Hearing Jiang Xia say this, he did not think much about it. When he looked at Vodka again, the suspicion in the police chief's eyes disappeared, leaving only a trace of disappointment: there are a lot of people thinner than this man in sunglasses on the street, so this clue is really not of much reference value. It would be easier if it were the other way around... But he could only remember this feature first.
Vodka glanced at the policeman out of the corner of his eye and found that the policeman's gaze on him changed from full of suspicion to calmness. He did not feel relieved at all. Instead, he became tense with a sense of crisis.
Vodka: “…” Uzo said he was not a suspect, and the police believed him so easily.
…What if, on the other hand, Uzo said he was a suspect?
As a member of the organization, even if you are just "suspected", you face the risk of being silenced - it's just that this method is too straightforward and lacks artistic sense, so Wuzo doesn't use it often. And if one day, Wuzo abandons his principles...
Vodka shuddered all over, as if he had already seen that terrible future.
He pushed his sunglasses silently, and decided that next time when he was alone, he would stay as far away from Uzo as possible, and always pay attention to the opponent's position when approaching, determined not to let the mistake of tonight happen again.
…
As Vodka silently filled in his blank knowledge about ouzo.
Next to him, completely different from what he had imagined in his mind, detectives and police officers were diligently working on solving the case.
Although a large group of witnesses who were out shopping at night were unable to see clearly who the figure was who escaped from the crime scene in the dark, there were still many clues left at the scene due to the presence of an enthusiastic detective.
Soon, Inspector Otaki received other extremely useful information.
"You saw the crime scene at 7:30 and called the police immediately. The victim on the ground was already dead by then." Inspector Otaki looked at the contents he had just written down in the notebook and confirmed with several people, "And before that, around 7:10, when you left the hotel, did you see the victim on his way out?"
Jiang Xia nodded.
Inspector Otaki breathed a sigh of relief: "Then the matter is very clear. The time of death of the deceased was between 7:10 and 7:30. The murder weapon was a prop used by the crew for filming..."
He turned to his subordinates and said, "Call the crew here and ask them who has no alibi during that period!"
…
The hotel is not far from the shrine.
Soon, a group of people from the crew arrived near the shrine. They looked at the bodies on the ground with expressions of fear, shock, or panic.
After listening carefully to the relationship between the crew members, Inspector Otaki slapped his forehead and suddenly had an idea:
"The murder knife was taken from the crew, and the bloody words left by the deceased read 'コマイヌ', which refers to the stone statue at the entrance of the shrine. Combining these two points, the identity of the murderer is very clear. At the same time, the only person who has connections with the crew and the shrine is the assistant lady who lives in the shrine!"
"...Me?" Douyuan Taeko was stunned, her face unsightly, and she waved her hands repeatedly, "I did leave for a while, but that was only to go home and get something."
Next to her, her fiancé, the assistant director, stepped forward and stood in front of her: "Miaozi would not kill anyone!"
Kinoshita Yoko was familiar with them and testified in a low voice: "When we went out to buy things just now, we not only ran into the deceased who was leaving the house, but also ran into Taeko at the gate - she had an alibi."
“…”
Mao Lilan looked at Inspector Otaki, tilted her head in confusion, and whispered to Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko: "I don't know why, but the way this police officer solves the case looks very friendly."
Jiang Xia looked at Inspector Otaki and nodded slightly: ...he has some of the charm and style of Kogoro Mori.
"...Oh, so there is an alibi. Sorry, there were too many people in the crew and I got it mixed up." Inspector Otaki cleared his throat embarrassingly and changed the subject.
He turned to urge his subordinate who was checking the murder weapon: "Extract the fingerprints as soon as possible!"
The subordinate shook his head in embarrassment: "Inspector, there are no complete fingerprints on it - judging from the general traces, someone has wiped it specifically."
As a professional who is often responsible for cleaning up, Vodka glanced at the knife and snorted: The murderer is such a stupid waste - isn't it better to just take the knife away and throw it into the riverbed far away than to wipe it and throw it at the scene? Without this knife, the murderer's range is infinitely expanded, unlike now, the murderer is immediately locked in among the crew members... No, wait.
Halfway through the criticism, Vodka suddenly realized: This was probably not something the murderer could control himself, but he was somehow hinted and influenced by Uzo through some channels that were imperceptible to ordinary people, so he deliberately left the knife at the crime scene.
——Otherwise, if the police really go out and cast a wide net, and then fail to solve the case for a long time, it would be too unpleasant to watch as a murder drama, and Uzo would not allow this to happen.
Vodka: "..." In addition, when the murderer left the knife at the scene, he certainly didn't think "someone asked me to leave the knife behind", but he thought he left the knife "on his own"...
As he thought about it, a possibility emerged in Vodka's mind.
——Could it be that the murderer wanted to use this knife to put the blame of “murderer” on other people in the crew?
"..." No wonder there are so many actors and actresses this time, so many that he can hardly remember them all. It seems the plot is quite complicated...
Next to him, Inspector Otaki's eyes accidentally swept over Vodka, and he was stunned: this trainee detective was thinking so hard, and from time to time he showed an expression of "I see!"... He is worthy of being an assistant recognized by Jiang Xia. Although it is still unknown what "Mr. Yamada" has deduced, at least his attitude is correct.
…
After all, Inspector Otaki is a police officer who often works with Hattori Heiji, and he has a lot of experience in how to get along with detectives.
At this moment, thinking of the two detectives next to him, he calmed down and decided not to make random guesses anymore. Instead, he gave the detectives more information and waited for them to give him the answers.
So Inspector Otaki organized the notes in his notebook and began to check everyone's alibis:
"During the time I mentioned just now, the people who were not on the set and were alone... huh? There were only two people - only this assistant who went out to hang out, and the actor who didn't live with others and stayed in the hotel alone. Can you tell me what you were doing at the time?"
(End of this chapter)
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