Chapter 15171525 [Busy Fishing Line]
"That's good." Jiang Xia always felt that Inspector Yasa seemed a little guilty, but he was too lazy to expose it, so he just continued:
"After killing Mr. Nanjo, the murderer turned off the lights on the 7th floor, and then used the black insulating tape to stick a black pattern from the bottom of the window upwards, which was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. The 7th floor was not low, and the light was dim, so when looking up from the downstairs, it looked like a human figure.
"Then find another fishing line and pull the other end of the fishing line to the elevator car. After the elevator reaches the 7th floor, tie the fishing line firmly in the gap between the elevator car and the elevator door. Then pull the fishing line all the way to the office on the 7th floor, wrap it around the light switch at the door, and finally pull the fishing line to the window and tie it to the insulating tape you just applied.
"After these are arranged, as long as someone below presses the elevator button, the elevator will go down from the 7th floor. The fishing line is pulled by the elevator car, first the light switch in the room is pulled, the light turns on, and then the upper end of the insulating tape attached to the window is also pulled down by this force.
"Just like that, the 'figure on the window' that was taped up was pulled apart from top to bottom. Looking up from the outside, it looked like a person who had been leaning against the window walked towards the door and fled hastily after the light was turned on."
"After the tape was completely detached from the window, it was pulled toward the closed elevator door by the fishing line. The tape spool was stuck outside the door, and the fishing line broke. The unrolled tape would remain upstairs, forming the appearance we saw when we came up just now."
“…”
Inspector Yasa was confused by what he heard. He only felt the fishing line tangling around and around, looking very busy. He was unable to judge whether what Jiang Xia said was right or not.
However, he looked around at his subordinates and found that several smart ones showed expressions of sudden enlightenment, so he realized that this was feasible.
"I see. I completely understand." Inspector Yasa cleared his throat and said calmly, "But to be on the safe side, we still need to conduct a field experiment. You guys, collect the evidence and reconstruct the scene to see if this is feasible."
Several young police officers nodded and ran out quickly.
Of course, Inspector Yasa didn't have to do such trivial things as experiments.
He went over the lines in his mind, but the tangled mass of threads still seemed irritating.
Since the experiment would be done soon, Inspector Yasa simply stopped thinking about this detail and paid attention to other issues: "Wait, if that's the case, then what about the gunshots that appeared on the 6th floor not long ago? According to your plan, isn't that a waste of effort?"
"This is indeed an unnecessary action, and it probably caught the murderer by surprise." Jiang Xia pointed to the tape Conan found:
"The murderer prepared a tape with the sound of gunfire in advance. After killing Mr. Nanjo with a gun with a silencer, she went to the 6th floor and played the tape in a recorder.
"In the recorded tape, there was a blank period of more than 10 minutes before the gunshot. The murderer took advantage of this gap and dressed up as 'Death God Jinnai' and appeared in front of us, making us think that 'Death God Jinnai' shot and killed Mr. Nanjo when we chased him downstairs."
"The 6th and 7th floors. From the perspective of the lower floors, it is indeed difficult to tell which floor the murderer fired the gun on. And in this way, after getting rid of us, the murderer can blend in with us and create an alibi."
"……I see."
Inspector Yasa nodded. To him, this was easier to understand than those overly sophisticated techniques.
He thought about it and suddenly understood: "The murderer didn't chase you at that time. And to successfully disguise as 'Death God Jinnai' to get rid of you, you must have good skills. There seem to be very few people who meet these two conditions. Wait, in other words, the murderer is actually..."
Inspector Yasa recalled the testimony just now and his eyes fell on the door.
Nanjo Hayato's agent was standing there quietly, listening to their reasoning, with his hands wrung tightly.
"Is this Miss Yoshino?" Inspector Yasa pointed at her. When Jiang Xia nodded, he turned to look at his agent. "I remember you said just now that you are a stuntman? To do this job, you must have very good physical fitness and must be able to run very fast."
The agent's eyes flickered, as if she was thinking desperately about something, but the sudden turn of events was so sudden that she didn't know how to refute it for a moment.
In the tense atmosphere, Jiang Xia continued, "The second gunshot occurred because we stayed here too long. The recorder here is set to automatically replay after playing a tape. Miss Yoshino may have just come into contact with this machine and is not familiar with it, so she did not cancel this function.
"So an hour later, when she came down to retrieve the fishing line tied to the top of the elevator under the pretext of packing up the projector, the tape happened to turn back to the position where the gunshot was recorded before.
"Gunshots were heard from the 6th floor, and 'shooting' happened again.
"This was beyond her expectations, so Ms. Yoshino had to hastily take out the tape, hide it casually, and then rushed back to the stairs and lied to the people rushing down that she saw the 'Death God Jinnai' shooting at her."
The young police officer who was listening with his ears perked up suddenly realized: "No wonder there was no smoke detected at the location where he fired the gun - I was wondering, if it was blown away by the wind, how could it be blown away so thoroughly."
Inspector Yasa glanced at him dimly: Humph, you are just a hindsighter. Why didn’t you dare say it in front of the detective just now to give the London police some face!
Yoshino Satomi didn't expect that such a sophisticated technique could be restored as if it were actually seen.
She said in panic: "But you don't have a certificate..."
"As for evidence, you probably didn't have time to throw the fishing line far enough. And the clothes disguised as 'Death God Jinnai' and the gloves used for applying the tape... Due to time constraints, these can't be hidden too far away. Draw a line from the point where 'Death God Jinnai' disappeared just now to this building, and search along the way. It shouldn't be difficult to find those things."
"In addition, there is the real time of killing." Jiang Xia looked towards the door and saw Conan, who had a low sense of presence, running back.
As soon as he entered the door, he found that as Jiang Xia was looking at him, everyone else was also looking at him. Conan was stunned, and then he guessed what the topic had reached.
As a fake kid, he certainly wasn't afraid of being watched by everyone, and he said naturally, "I just went upstairs to check, and there was indeed a piece of paper with blood stains on it among the stack of papers on top of the fax machine!"
(End of this chapter)
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