Chapter 2035 2043 [Go ahead! Watson]
Anyway, now that everyone is here, the next step is to start looking for the murderer.
Not long after, the police obtained the floor plan of the entire maze from the staff of the Mirror House, and marked the approximate locations of the six people in the house at the time of the incident.
"There are staff guarding the entrance and exit, and they will notify you if you see any guests coming in or out." Sato Miwako handed the information to Jiang Xia with a familiar look:
"According to their testimonies, from the time the buzzer alarm sounded, that is, from the time the deceased was attacked, to the time the body was found, no one else entered or left the building."
"In addition, according to the testimony of enthusiastic residents nearby, the two staff members did not leave their posts."
Xun Zhengwan was very angry at the murderer and listened attentively, which was unusual for him.
Hearing this, he actually understood what was meant: "So the murderer is among the five of us?"
Sato Miwako didn't expect that this man had only known Jiang Xia for two days and already had the potential to become a detective. She nodded in appreciation.
Then Xun Zhengwan looked at Jiang Xia and muttered quietly, "It's not me, nor those three lovely ladies. Isn't it obvious who the murderer is?"
Curacao: “…” You are quite good at reasoning.
Miwako Sato: “…” I never expected that Jiang Xia would be suspected of being the murderer one day.
No one took this seriously, but as a police officer, he couldn't let go of any clues: "Why are you sure that the murderer is not the three companions of the deceased?"
Xun Zhengwan couldn't be sure either, but: "I believe they are not!"
Miwako Sato: “…” It turns out that not everyone is suitable to be a detective.
Jiang Xia seemed to have the same idea. Because the next moment he turned to Hashimoto Maya and pushed out the person who was trying to reduce his presence: "What do you think?"
Maya Hashimoto doesn't want to see anything.
But he was ordered to work undercover beside the detective after all. When asked by Jiang Xia, he had no choice but to stand up and stare at the floor plan posted on the wall.
People with poor spatial sense may be confused after just a few glances at this kind of maze diagram. However, Hashimoto Maya seems to be able to adapt well.
Like a poor student who was taken to the blackboard by the teacher to solve a difficult problem, he racked his brains and decided to write as much as possible and answer whatever he could think of.
His eyes fell on a prone matchstick figure: "Is this where the body is?"
Jiang Xia nodded.
Hashimoto Maya: "This seems to be a dead end. The only entrance here is right next to the exit of the entire mirror house. The closest ones to here are... uh, you and Tatsumaru."
Fortunately, Jiang Xia doesn't kill people, otherwise it would sound a bit suspicious.
Jiang Xia didn't seem to care about this and calmly gestured for him to continue.
Hashimoto Maya had no choice but to say: "The place where you and Makimura Akemi collided is the only way to the location of the deceased. Everyone else who wants to come here must pass you. During that time..."
Jiang Xia: "No one else passed by me during that time."
Hashimoto Maya: "..." What are you admitting? Doesn't this make you even more suspicious?
Next to him, Xun Zhengwan also heard something wrong and shot a sharp look at Jiang Xia: "So you are the murderer?"
Jiang Xia did not rush to explain as he had imagined. Instead, he said calmly, "I have a solid alibi."
Xun Zhengwan frowned: "What proof?"
Jiang Xia looked at him.
Xun Zhengwan was stunned for two seconds, and suddenly came to his senses - when the alarm sounded and the deceased was attacked, Jiang Xia was standing next to him and really had no time to attack.
The so-called "solid alibi" turned out to be himself!
Xun Zhengwan: “…” Damn, I really want to help this detective prove it, can I deny it?
Jiang Xia seemed to be able to read people's minds: "You can deny it, but then you won't have an alibi."
"..." Xun Zhengwan wiped his face silently, "I can prove that we were indeed standing together at the time, supervising each other, and we had no chance to attack that beautiful lady."
Miwako Sato looked at the positions of other people on the map. "But if that's the case, no one would have had the time to commit the crime. Could it be that our investigation was going in the wrong direction? Did the attacker kill the victim and then throw him from the top of the mirror to the other side? I remember seeing a similar case before."
Jiang Xia: "The gap between the mirror and the ceiling is not big, it's hard to fit a person in - but since you have nothing to do, why not investigate the condition of the ceiling around the body? Maybe you'll get something unexpected."
A forensic police officer passing by said: "…" What do you mean they are idle? They are very busy, they are still collecting evidence for the previous case.
But after taking a look at Jiang Xia, the young police officer sighed and thought of how much time this detective had helped them shorten. What else can we do? Let's investigate.
…
While the police officers were busy collecting evidence, Jiang Xia was certainly not idle either.
The police found the three friends of the deceased and asked them one by one about the relationship between them and the deceased, and once again verified their respective locations at the time of the incident - after all, there was no surveillance inside the mirror house, and the locations marked on the map were all provided by them, and there was no guarantee that one of them had lied.
The first person to be asked was the little cannonball who hit Tatsumaru in panic. Faced with the sudden death of her friend, Makimura Akemi burst into tears: "I, I have known Yuan since high school. We have been friends for nearly ten years. How could I possibly kill her? You are really going too far!"
She raised her head with tears in her eyes, but found that the spectators, from the detective to the police, were all calm. They were not moved by her long friendship with the deceased at all, as if it was normal for people who had known each other for ten years to suddenly become enemies.
Makimura Akemi: “…”
She had no choice but to wipe her tears and said, "Instead of asking me, you might as well ask Mika. I remember that Mika's boyfriend was taken away by her. She has always been resentful towards Xiaoyuan because of this matter."
police:"……"
As expected, backstabbing between friends is the most real, so soon, they went to find Hanawa Mika, the mature woman who was queuing in front of Jiangxia and the others.
"Me? How could I possibly do such a thing?" Hanawa Mika shook her head helplessly. "It's true that there were some unpleasant things between Madoka and I, but the boyfriend incident happened a long time ago. To be honest, I didn't have much affection for that ex. Not long after that, I got a new boyfriend. I've put this matter behind me for a long time."
After Hanawa Mika finished speaking, she held her chin and thought for a while. She felt that the police knew about this past event because it must be one of her friends who was trying to divert the blame.
...I don’t know which “friend” it is.
It seems like anyone could do it.
In that case, I might as well say whatever I want to say.
There was a gleam in Hanawa Mika's eyes, and she tapped the table with her fingertips: "Instead of investigating me, why not ask Hena."
(End of this chapter)
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