Chapter 2748 2760 [Tokyo Horror Show]
Inspector Megure sighed: "This criminal is lucky. If there hadn't been a power outage, he might have been caught on the spot by enthusiastic people."
Jiang Xia pointed at the body leaning against the escalator and said, "Our luck is not bad. At least the deceased made an effort to leave a death message. We don't have to look for a needle in a haystack in this building."
The brown paper bag that the deceased was holding in his arms was empty. Inspector Megure stared at the three symbols "OXΔ" on it and scratched his head: "But what does this mean?"
Before I could come up with anything, a young police officer ran over and said, "Mr. Jiang Xia, the call records on the victim's phone show that half an hour ago, he had a call that lasted 1 minute and 31 seconds. Comparing it with the time of death, it should have been shortly before he was killed."
"Really?" Jiang Xia took the phone from the evidence bag and pressed the call back button naturally. "Then let's see who he called."
As soon as he finished speaking, a series of eye-catching ringtones rang out among the crowd.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and a social animal with a high hairline immediately became the center of everyone's attention.
"?!" The office worker hurriedly took out his cell phone and hung up the call instinctively.
The ringing sound disappeared and he breathed a sigh of relief. However, the next moment, several shadows fell on him.
"..." The office worker raised his head stiffly and found that a few strong men had appeared around him.
Inspector Megure and several of his men surrounded him and asked sternly, "Were you the one who was talking to the deceased half an hour ago?"
Social animal: "..."
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"Although I did call him, I definitely didn't kill him. You must believe me!"
The office worker wiped the sweat off his forehead, hesitated for a moment, and chose to tell the truth: "Recently my boss found out that someone in our company had embezzled public funds. Because I am the general affairs director of the company, this matter finally fell on my head. My boss ordered me to find the scoundrel within a week.
"I really didn't know where to start, so I went to a detective agency that was said to be very good at this kind of business. The deceased Nakajo Katsunori was the detective who was responsible for helping me investigate this matter."
Jiang Xia: "Why did you meet in a crowded and noisy shopping mall like this?"
The General Affairs Director sighed, "Because I have to work overtime today - our company is on the 8th to 11th floors of this building. I thought I would go back to the office as soon as I got the results of the investigation, but who knew... Alas."
Jiang Xia nodded: "The brown paper bag in the deceased's arms is empty, and the investigation report inside must have been snatched away by the murderer. Combined with the phone call you made earlier... the murderer this time is most likely the person who embezzled public funds - he was aware of the deceased's investigation of him, and because he didn't want to be exposed, he chose to snatch the information and kill to silence him."
"I see." Inspector Megure asked the office worker opposite him, "Who do you think is the guy who embezzled public funds?"
The General Affairs Minister smiled bitterly and said, "If I knew, would I still spend a lot of money to hire a detective? But a few days ago, Nakajo gave me a list of suspects. At that time, he had just started the investigation and could only determine a rough range of suspects."
As he spoke, he dug into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper that he had looked at many times: "It's all here."
Inspector Megure and Officer Takagi looked over and saw fifty or sixty names densely packed on the paper.
Two policemen: “…”
Judy raised the corner of her mouth silently: "..." It turns out that not only the FBI, but the Tokyo police are also suffering the same pain... Having said that, since they have a common enemy, both sides should obviously work together to eliminate Uzo first. However, in reality, the police have caused a lot of trouble for the FBI.
Thinking about the experiences of herself and her companions, the corners of Judy's mouth gradually became less upturned.
Beside him, Officer Takagi's smile also disappeared. He looked at the list that was so long that it made his scalp numb: "Inspector, this..."
"..." Inspector Megure patted his shoulder and said, "We police officers cannot be afraid of difficulties - investigate! We must find the outlaw who committed the crime on the spot!"
Officer Takagi: "..."
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This kind of murder that happened in public must be handled urgently. Except for Officer Takagi, other police officers were also busy for a while.
Fortunately, this busy work brought some results. Not long after, new information was delivered to Jiang Xia: "We checked the three blood symbols on the brown paper bag. There are fingerprints of the deceased on the blood words. These symbols are indeed left by the deceased, not by the murderer to confuse people."
"In addition, according to the testimony of eyewitnesses, the detailed time of death of the deceased was a few seconds before the power outage in the building - they said they saw a man wrapped in a coat and wearing a black knitted hat stabbed the deceased with a knife, and then the surroundings fell into darkness."
"Poof!" Judy's tea spurted out again: A man wearing what?
A head popped out from the edge of the table. Conan put his hands on the edge of the table and looked up at her: "Teacher Judy, what's wrong with you?"
"..." Judy smiled. "Nothing. I just thought the power outage was too coincidental. It was as if someone had turned on the lights for the stage change."
The young police officer looked at the two deserters with dissatisfaction, cleared his throat and continued to report to Jiang Xia and Inspector Megure:
"The crime scene was right next to the escalator. The victim did not die on the spot after being stabbed. The two people fought for the brown paper bag.
"After the power went out, Mr. Nakajo fell to the ground leaning against the escalator. The murderer came up and took out a stack of documents from a brown paper bag, then fled upstairs."
The few people left the place of questioning and returned to the escalator. As the young police officer said, a trail of blood dripped and extended, and finally stopped at the entrance of the escalator.
"In other words, the deceased actually left those three symbols at the bottom of the escalator. He then sat down on the elevator steps, and as the elevator moved, his body was carried upstairs."
As he was talking, Inspector Megure sighed, "This witness is too patient. If he had shouted a few more times, the murderer might have been trapped in this place."
The young police officer said helplessly: "He said he thought it was a suspense and mystery show hosted by a TV station."
Judy: “…” Do you have many shows like this in Tokyo?
Inspector Megure didn't care about the witness's mental journey anymore: "No matter what, the most urgent task is to find the murderer from the 58 suspects... Tsk, what does this OXΔ mean?"
Suzuki Sonoko had been thinking about it for a long time. When she heard him ask, she couldn't help but answer: "Could it be some kind of mathematical symbol, 'X' means 'multiplication'?"
Judy laughed: "You mean, the deceased wanted to hint to us that the murderer was a mathematician?"
(End of this chapter)
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