Chapter 2039-2047 [Case Closed]
The staff lounge is next to the Mirror Room.
A group of people returned to the Mirror House. Jiang Xia led them in through the exit and stopped at a fork in the road.
He pointed to a road nearby and said, "This is the fork in the road where the body is. If you want to see the body, this is the place you must pass through now."
"Indeed." Inspector Megure was puzzled, "So what?"
Jiang Xia stopped talking and went to see Hashimoto Maya.
Hashimoto Maya: “…”
Thanks for the training, but I really don't want to be a detective.
...Unfortunately, as an undercover agent assigned next to the detective, he couldn't say this.
Anyway, she had just been photographed by reporters and her presence had already reached the highest level. Hashimoto Maya wiped her face and started thinking with a desperate attitude.
Then he continued with what Jiang Xia had just said, "The exit can be clearly seen from here, so after tourists reach this point, they usually leave directly from the exit. On the contrary, no one would go to the dead end where the body is."
Curacao clapped her hands silently, as if she was convinced by his reasoning. The others didn't hear her make a sound, but when they saw someone clapping, they followed suit and clapped.
The reporters were also infected by the atmosphere and took two more photos of Maya Hashimoto.
The mascot in the distance moved its head, sneered, and let out a laugh that could be described as gloating.
Hashimoto Maya: “…”
There really isn't a single good person in this organization!
Jiang Xia gave the new assistant enough room to play, and then continued with a concealed attitude: "In other words, the place where the body is located is a very good hiding spot. As long as there are no guests who are too curious and don't want to leave even after reaching the exit, the fact that there is a body in the mirror room will not be exposed.
"The murderer must have researched the maze route here beforehand. After choosing a hiding spot, she put on a disguise and entered the mirror maze with the deceased.
"When the two met, the murderer found a way to lure the deceased to the blind spot and killed him. After confirming that the deceased was dead, she rummaged through the deceased's bag and hurriedly left in disguise.
“The killer then only had to discard his windbreaker and top hat in a nearby public toilet, then hurried back to the Mirror House in his original appearance and queue up to enter.”
“When she entered the field again, she did not go to the exit, but quickly came to another location.”
Jiang Xia led a group of people through the maze and finally stopped at another dead end.
Inspector Megure was already dizzy: "Where is this?"
Curacao and Amuro Toru looked across the mirror and vaguely understood something.
Jiang Xia tapped the mirror with her fingers and said, "Behind this mirror is where the body was before. There is a gap between the top of the mirror and the ceiling. The murderer only needs to throw the buzzer alarm that she took from the victim's bag just now through this gap, and it will be triggered immediately.
“The sudden sound of an alarm in a closed scene and the fact that the buzzer alarm is activated by impact can make people mistakenly believe that the time of the crime is the time when the alarm sounded.
"The five people in the museum were attracted by the alarm and came to the dead end where the deceased was. It takes the longest route to reach the scene from this location, plus the time it takes to enter the door. The murderer should be Akimoto and that lady, who were the last to enter the museum and the last to arrive at the scene."
Akimoto and Na were like being hit by a hammer, and their whole bodies froze.
Hashimoto Maya was no less surprised than her.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." If I remember correctly, this Miss Akimoto has a job. The only one without a job among the four people is Makimura Akemi.
So he had always believed that Makimura Akemi was either the deceased or the murderer, and he had been secretly guarding against this woman... Who knew that he guessed wrong again.
...I'd better stop making random guesses in the future and be on guard against everyone equally. Fortunately, Akimoto and that guy didn't intend to attack innocent passers-by, otherwise I might have been caught in the trap.
Not only Hashimoto Maya, but everyone else's eyes were also focused on Akimoto Wona for various reasons.
Akimoto and Na wanted to argue, but she didn't expect that she was photographed by the detective assistant when she went out, and now even her windbreaker hat and gloves were found. Thinking of the possible evidence left on it, she could only clench her fists and grit her teeth and said, "I killed him."
Hanawa Mika was shocked: "Could it be that you really are holding a grudge against me because of that recruitment exam..."
Akimoto Hana suddenly glanced at her: "So you reported my motive to the police?"
Hanawa Mika: “…”
She smiled awkwardly with her hands covering her lips: "Well, I was just talking about something and happened to mention it..."
Qiu Yuanhe laughed tiredly and sneered: "Forget it, anyway, I was planning to let you take the blame for me before, and I just told you Zhu Shi's motive for murder."
Makimura Akemi: “???”
The already plastic friendship has completely withered.
However, Makimura Akemi had previously revealed Hanawa Mika's motives and roughly knew what her friends were thinking at the time.
Therefore, instead of resentment, curiosity and doubt prevailed. She looked at Akimoto and said, "But you passed the exam and got the job offer, didn't you? It's so hard to find a job, why do you have to sacrifice your future?"
"Because I can't forgive her!"
Qiu Yuanhe clenched his fists tightly, his face full of anger: "Her father is the president of a bank branch and has business dealings with my father. Or to put it more clearly, her father is holding the lifeblood of my father's company.
"I have always given in to her since I was little, but I don't want to give in to her again when it comes to work, which is a matter of life and death. So when I was interviewed by Toyo TV a while ago and Xiaofeng Yuan and I became competitors, I still performed according to my own strengths and didn't give in at all.
"It was a brutal exam where only one person would be accepted out of nearly a hundred people, but I was confident that I could pass it with my ability. My broadcasting level was on par with Xiao Fengyuan's, but I also knew French and English. I was very sure that I would be the final winner.
"I was so happy about getting a new job that I didn't notice my father's unhappy face when I went to the interview. He encouraged me in a complicated tone, but I thought he just didn't sleep well at night, so he looked listless.
"After that, I won the exam, but my father's company went bankrupt due to a lack of funding. After he fell ill, I learned from his employees that it was because the bank where Xiao Fengyuan's father worked refused to provide financing.
"Before the exam, President Xiao Feng personally approached my father and said that the condition for the financing was that I should turn down the interview and make way for his daughter. But my father did not agree."
(End of this chapter)
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