Chapter 2178-2189 [Case Closed]
The sudden noise startled everyone. The two security guards were stunned for a moment, and then they said excitedly: "That's the sound. We heard it once before!"
After the ripples in the fish tank calmed down, a person stood up in the water.
Inspector Megure looked at his subordinate who was soaked like a drowned rat and was extremely shocked: "Takagi? When did you go there?!"
Officer Takagi wiped the water off his head and picked up the fish tank. He looked at Inspector Megure and was a little bit unbelievable: "I was under the water the whole time. Did you really not see me just now?"
"Yeah." Inspector Megure scratched his head, feeling like it was haunted. "You didn't sneak over there while the fish tank was floating?"
Officer Takagi, who had been lying in the upside-down fish tank for a long time, said: "Of course not!"
"I see." Judy pushed up her glasses and understood. "Although both water and air are transparent, their refractive indices are different. If you look at them from an angle close to perpendicular to the interface, the light will be reflected back like a mirror, so people on the shore can't see what's in the fish tank.
"Officer Takagi was hiding in an inverted wide fish tank just now, so that no one could see him from the shore. The only angle from which he could be seen clearly was from nearly directly above, but this swimming pool is quite spacious, and no one could reach that angle unless they could fly."
As Judy spoke, her voice trailed off - she noticed Jiang Xia was looking at him.
For some reason, this was obviously a harmless high school student, but Judy felt uneasy when he stared at her: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "..." Suddenly I realized that you are also quite suitable to be a detective assistant.
As soon as I finished praising her in my heart, Judy stopped talking.
Jiang Xia: “…”
He had no choice but to continue: "The murderer only needed to make up an excuse to the deceased after returning to the swimming pool alone, such as 'I saw the necklace here', so that the deceased would take the initiative to dive down. It is difficult for a person to struggle in the water, and the sound of calling for help cannot be heard too far. The murderer took the opportunity to unplug her oxygen, and then with the help of the deceased's own weight, pressed her into the swimming pool and drowned her.
"The murderer then took out the fish tank and fishing line he had prepared in advance. He brought the victim to the center of the bottom of the swimming pool and curled her up so that she was completely covered by the glass fish tank.
"After placing the fish tank, the murderer used fishing line to go around the drain holes and hooks on both sides of the pool and pressed the fish tank firmly to the bottom of the pool. After doing this, he returned to the fish tank, reached under the edge of the fish tank, and opened the oxygen cylinder on the deceased.
"The air released by the oxygen cylinder quickly filled the fish tank, and the person in the fish tank became 'invisible' in the swimming pool. This can confuse the time of death, create an alibi for oneself, and create the illusion that the deceased 'accidentally died while diving'."
Officer Gao Mu nodded as he listened, and suddenly felt something was wrong halfway through: "But I remember that the fish tank used by the murderer was broken, and it broke near the edge of the swimming pool, not in the middle."
Jiang Xia looked at the hotel manager and said, "Then we have to ask Mr. Toyoshima."
Everyone was startled at first, and then they immediately understood what this sentence meant. The receptionist and security guard standing next to the hotel manager stepped back and looked at their boss with a little fear.
The fiancé was also shocked. He hesitated and said, "I have been with Mr. Toyoshima almost all the time since the body appeared. He should not have had time to move the fish tank underwater. The only time he went into the water was to rescue Yongmei with me. At that time, he was holding the oxygen cylinder and had no hands free to take other things."
Jiang Xia: “So I took it with my feet.”
fiancé:"?"
Jiang Xia: "You were looking at the corpse and calling her loudly, so you probably didn't have time to pay attention to your surroundings. It was then that Mr. Toyoshima quietly adjusted the position of the fish tank with his feet so that its opening was facing upwards, then he put one foot into the tank and dragged it to the shore behind you.
"When we were about to reach the shore, while everyone was looking at the body, Mr. Toyoshima used the oxygen tank in his hand to smash the fish tank into pieces to prevent anyone from thinking of its real purpose. Breaking things underwater doesn't make much noise, and everyone was shouting 'Miss Oiso' at the time, so he succeeded easily.
"There was a person dead in the swimming pool, and the police would probably drain the water and take a closer look when they came to investigate. The murderer knew that the sink was difficult to hide, so he simply stepped on the debris and let it cut his foot. He then exposed the incident from the perspective of the victim to reduce his suspicion."
Manager Toyoshima finally had time to interrupt. He moved his lips and said, "Certificate..."
"After cutting the fishing line and making the body appear in the water, Mr. Toyoshima had to quickly retrieve the section of fishing line that crossed the pool to prevent others from seeing this conspicuous line and guessing its purpose. In order to reduce the volume of the line and make it easier to hide, the murderer needed to roll the line into a ball. Although the fishing line is very thin, fingerprints can be left on the flat surface formed by rolling it together."
Jiang Xia said: "In addition, for safety reasons, the fish tanks in this hotel are all flat. The rectangular fish tank used in the crime needs to be prepared separately, and your purchase record can also serve as evidence. Of course, the most important thing is the necklace that the deceased lost. You should have secretly taken it off when you were helping her apply sunscreen. The necklace has a trivial structure and it is easy to leave fingerprints in places you don’t notice…"
"Okay, stop talking!" The hotel manager was annoyed by his long string of words, "I killed him!"
Suzuki Sonoko had read too much gossip and thought that the murderer was either the deceased's fiancé or her sister, and the old manager was just there to make up the numbers.
Unexpectedly, the one who was just there to make up the numbers turned out to be the real murderer.
She sighed for a moment and was a little curious: "Why did you kill her? Was it because you were afraid that she would kick you out of the company?"
After a pause, she muttered again: "That's not right. She just said today that she wanted to drive you away. You stole her necklace before she said that."
Conan looked at her with admiration: After just one or two months of not going to school together, Suzuki Sonoko actually learned how to reason!
Next to him, the hotel manager took a deep breath after hearing what Suzuki Sonoko said:
“I didn’t want to help her celebrate her birthday, especially in that suite.
"I have a much younger sister, my only relative. A while ago, my sister and her husband came to me and said they wanted to stay in the suite for a night to celebrate their three-year-old son's birthday.
"That is the hotel's iconic room, located on the top floor, with floor-to-ceiling windows on all four sides. At night, you can see the starry sky and the entire downtown street scene. On my nephew's birthday, it can also clearly enjoy the nearby fireworks display."
(End of this chapter)
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