Chapter 1994 2002 [The boss’s thoughtful advice]
Although Inspector Megure is not very good at reasoning, he has been a police officer for many years and feels that he is very good at observing suspects.
So ever since he handed those emails to Hashimoto Maya, he had been secretly observing the expression of this suspicious guy.
——I thought I would see the resentment of being blackmailed, the joy of the blackmailer dying, and so on. However, after staring for a long time, and almost staring at Hashimoto Maya's face to the point of tears, Inspector Megure still couldn't find the emotion he was looking for.
Instead, I only saw some shock and fear.
Inspector Megure: “…” Scared?
Hashimoto Maya came back to her senses, quickly managed her expression, and smiled awkwardly: "Because that piece of land is a foundation built in the sea, I have never been to such a place, and I don't know the specific price of that piece of land... I didn't expect that he would want to cheat me so much."
When Inspector Megure heard this, he suddenly realized where his fear came from: "If he asks for that price, will you really give it to him?"
Hashimoto Maya nodded with lingering fear: It was just a little bit, and the person hanging by the neck there might be him.
Inspector Megure: “…” This guy is such a sucker, foreigners are so easy to cheat.
Fortunately, the man failed to deceive. However, thinking about this, Inspector Megure softened his attitude towards this unfortunate guy: Could it be that the murderer is really not Hashimoto Maya?
However, what needs to be investigated still needs to be investigated. We cannot let him off the hook just because he was almost ripped off.
Officer Takagi took the young police officers to run errands, and a lot of information had been delivered to Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia flipped through the files and asked Hashimoto Maya, "According to the clues provided by Mitsuhiko, you appeared in the screening room around the time the deceased died. According to what you said, you first came to the cinema to discuss with the deceased, but changed your mind immediately after opening the door, so you left. Is that right?"
Hashimoto Maya nodded: "After I left, I went straight to the cafe across the street and stayed there." My alibi is very solid!
Jiang Xia was a bit puzzled: "I don't think you are the murderer, but you see, there are not many surveillance cameras in this cinema, and the few remaining ones were almost all destroyed by the deceased. There are no surveillance cameras in the coffee shop you mentioned either - from the cinema to the coffee shop, you will pass the first floor of the mall, where there are surveillance cameras, but they didn't capture you passing by. Did you go up through the emergency passage? Why didn't you go through the main entrance but took a detour?"
"?!" Inspector Megure was stunned and looked carefully at the pile of messy information in Jiang Xia's hand.
Just now, when Officer Takagi came back with the evidence, he actually hesitated for a moment, and then gave the information to Inspector Megure - after all, he was his nominal superior, and he had to give him some face occasionally.
Inspector Megure took it and flipped through it. All the fragmentary clues made him feel overwhelmed, so he just flipped through it and quickly handed the information to Jiang Xia.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Xia saw the problem at a glance.
The laxity he had shown towards Hashimoto Maya just now suddenly disappeared: "Are you deliberately trying to avoid surveillance? Or were you not in the cafe during that time, but were committing murder in the cinema?"
Hashimoto Maya: “…”
When the police shouted at him, his murderous instinct came out, but he had to suppress it with difficulty. Hashimoto Maya racked her brains to make up an excuse: "When I entered the theater, I found it a bit chaotic. I thought Mr. Zhang Tian might be busy, so I wanted to go home. But when I got to the intersection, I thought I was free, so I went into the nearby shopping mall to wait for him. Because I think this mental journey is unnecessary to talk about, it only takes a few minutes, so I will skip it."
This is a lie.
He didn't dare to go far.
The reason why he didn't go through the main entrance of the mall and wasn't captured by the surveillance cameras at the main entrance was, of course, because he was deliberately avoiding surveillance! Which member of an organization would wander around under the camera? Avoiding surveillance is completely an instinct engraved in their bones.
...But now, even this instinct has become a flaw that puts him in trouble.
Hashimoto Maya's eyes went dark: He thought he had completely disguised himself as an ordinary citizen, but now he found that there were many flaws. But... couldn't Uzo remind him in a more normal way? This way of reminding was too scary!
…
With Jiang Xia's doubts, the police were not so convinced when Hashimoto Maya explained it again.
Maya Hashimoto began to sweat again, trying hard to find evidence that she had not killed anyone.
At this moment, Jiang Xia closed the information in his hand, handed it to Inspector Megure, and then looked at Hashimoto Maya: "I roughly know who the murderer is."
Memu Police Department: "!"
Hashimoto Maya: “?!”
...Why are you looking at me and saying this? Don't look around! You are a famous detective, you can't be defeated by Wu Zuo's little trick! You must be able to find the real murderer instead of slandering a poor worker.
However, Jiang Xia seemed not to hear the cry in his heart, and continued calmly: "The murderer should be..."
Maya Hashimoto: “It’s not me!”
Jiang Xia: "Mr. Projectionist."
Hashimoto Maya: “?”
Jiang Xia looked away and his eyes fell on the projectionist's shocked face: "You were the one who killed him."
“…”
There was a moment of silence in the room, and everyone's emotions were in turmoil, with murderous intent rising and falling.
Hashimoto Maya came back to her senses a few beats late and blinked slowly: "?"
He had seen many cases solved by Jiang Xia, both on-site and in replay. In the past, he had done this in order to reasonably avoid Wu Zuo by controlling the movements of Wu Zuo's mortal enemy. But now, because he had failed to avoid Wu Zuo, getting close to Jiang Xia became his new job and he could not fool around.
Because of this, Hashimoto Maya clearly knew Jiang Xia's process of solving cases: arrive at the scene → observe clues → after looking at all the clues, use his terrifying brain of unknown structure to process them slightly → complete the entire process of the crime and find out the real culprit.
In other words, the moment Jiang Xia said "the murderer is XXX", it meant that he had actually found all the clues. But Hashimoto Maya remembered that just now, after Jiang Xia questioned him, he didn't go anywhere, didn't look anywhere, but immediately said who the real murderer was...
"This means that before asking me about the surveillance, Jiang Xia already knew the real murderer!" Hashimoto Maya felt as if there was a railway in his heart every day, one track was Uzo, the other track was Jiang Xia, and he, the innocent train, could only be stuck in the middle, clattering:
"Now that he knows who the real murderer is, why is he still asking me so many questions? He must be testing me again!
"This famous detective is so hard to fool. I thought he agreed to let me work in the detective agency because he had some initial trust in me, but... who said Jiang Xia has a good temper and is easy to get along with? He really hurt me a lot."
(End of this chapter)
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