Chapter 2382 2394 [Murderous Intentions within the FBI]
Although it was not convenient to take notes now, Shuichi Akai still quickly and skillfully compiled a list of suspects in his mind.
A second later, he suddenly fell silent: "..." Why does the thickness of the list, which was finally reduced in the past few days, seem to be increasing again?
This thought went around in his mind and was quickly put aside by the ace agent: the FBI had sufficient manpower in Tokyo this time, and his colleagues were sitting around doing nothing, so they might as well take action and conduct more investigations, which would also be a kind of experience.
And if just by spending this effort, we can catch some clues about that person, this deal is simply a great deal.
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When the FBI members felt an inexplicable chill on their backs.
In the bank, the case is still being solved.
——Although the lobby manager blamed everything on the mysterious man whose existence was unknown, it seemed that the detective did not think that this "heroic employee who acted bravely to help others" was innocent.
Jiang Xia: "That phone is just one piece of evidence. There is another thing."
He suddenly turned to Akai Shuichi and said, "Sir, I remember from the surveillance footage that the lobby manager once gave you half a bag of candy?"
Shuichi Akai pulled his mask and nodded quietly.
After all, he was someone who had experienced many cases. Before Jiang Xia could ask more questions, he had already taken out the half bag of uneaten candy and handed it over.
Jiang Xia didn't answer, but just looked back. The gloved forensic officer next to him immediately understood. He quickly stepped forward, took the bag of throat lozenges, put it in the evidence bag and examined it carefully: "Is this also one of the evidence?"
Jiang Xia responded: "Before the robbery, the lobby manager gave this bag of candy to the gentleman with a cold, and also..."
He walked a few steps towards the most chaotic part of the scene and pointed to a pile of wrapping paper among the messy tables and chairs: "This is what the criminals threw away."
Inspector Megure took a closer look out of curiosity: "This...wait, this also looks like the wrapping paper of throat lozenges, and there's only half a pack?!"
Although he hasn't fully figured out what happened, this coincidence has already given Inspector Megure a vague premonition.
Jiang Xia nodded: "This is a very common brand on the market. A quick observation will reveal that the half bag of candy given by the lobby manager to the gentleman and the half bag of candy wrappers in the criminal's pocket are actually the same brand - to put it more precisely, they may even be the same bag of candy."
He motioned Officer Gao Mu to replay the surveillance video and said as he watched:
"From the surveillance video, the criminal had some unusual behavior. After coughing a few times, he began to reach into his pocket - this action should be to find the throat lozenges that he had put in his pocket before.
"But maybe his throat was really uncomfortable, or maybe he was too bored waiting outside, he had already finished the half bag of candy, and now he could only feel an empty package.
"So he threw the package away in annoyance, and then suddenly something occurred to him, and then he sat on one of the stools that had clothes on it and started reaching down and groping around."
Officer Sato looked at the surveillance footage that Jiang Xia had paused, and suddenly discovered something: "This coat draped over the back of the chair... seems to be the lobby manager's clothes?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "The criminal's action was not to steal, but to find the lozenges in the lobby manager's pocket.
"From this point of view, since both parties had a slight cold, they had divided the lozenge equally when they were discussing the robbery plan. The criminal remembered this, so he searched the lobby manager's pocket, but the lobby manager gave the other half of the lozenge away, so he didn't find it."
At this point, the fake detective raised his head and looked at the two pieces of wrapping paper: "The gaps between these two pieces of paper should fit together perfectly. In addition, if they were careless when discussing the robbery plan and did not use gloves to cover their fingerprints..."
Akai Shuichi wearing gloves: "..."
He turned around as if nothing had happened and covered his hands: wearing gloves was nothing special at ordinary times, but in connection with this case, this outfit suddenly seemed suspicious.
"He uses various 'accidental' cases to make his target appear suspicious and eventually lose the trust of the police... It seems that this is one of his favorite methods." Akai Shuichi was secretly alert in his heart, "Judy is a lesson for me. I must be careful in similar matters."
"By the way, I don't know how the school festival is going over there. Judy's plan is indeed innovative, so I didn't object. But now, the protagonist of her script, 'Dr. Shinde', is trapped here..." Akai Shuichi frowned as he thought about it.
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When the Fbi was distracted.
Next to him, the lobby manager looked at the evidence in front of him, his lips trembling slightly: "In fact, this candy belongs to that god..."
"Don't blame everything on the mysterious man!" Officer Sato couldn't stand it anymore, so she interrupted, "Giving away mobile phones and candies, how can you call him a mysterious man? Just call him Santa Claus - listen to what you are saying, there is no logic at all."
Inspector Megure is an expert at playing the bad guy: "If you confess now, you still have a chance to get leniency."
The lobby manager tried hard to make up a story, but he seemed to have no inspiration. Being stared at by so many policemen, he was in a stalemate for a while, but he finally gave up and fell back into the chair behind him.
"I never thought that a detective could reconstruct the situation as if he had seen it with his own eyes."
The lobby manager wiped his face with a bitter smile and said, "Yes, just as he said. This morning when I was discussing the robbery plan with Saeki, he kept coughing and made my throat itchy, so he broke the candy bar and gave me half of it.
"We met in a casino. Although we had different professions, our life trajectories were surprisingly similar. We made a small profit by luck at first, so we couldn't help but invest a lot of money, and then started to lose a little. In order to make back the lost money, we gradually put all our assets on the line.
"Of course, none of the money was returned to us. We went from having assets to being penniless. Then the casino owner introduced us to loan sharks. In order to pay off the huge interest, we had no choice but to plan this case."
As Vermouth listened, she gradually fell silent: "..." According to Uzo's hobbies and habits, shouldn't you get to know another casino victim, and then the three of you go to the casino owner's or loan shark's home as guests, and then the casino owner dies suddenly after the visit?
"There is something fishy about today's case." Vermouth thought to himself, "This must have been specially adapted by Uzo to prevent Xiaolan and I from being on the same stage, or to harm Akai Shuichi.
(End of this chapter)
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