Chapter 2812-2824 [Pull the Shell by the Hand]
"?" Inspector Megure didn't know what the shoes had to do with the murderer, but since it was Brother Jiang Xia who asked, he still wrote down the clues honestly and marked the key points.
Then he looked at the man in a suit who had been to the balcony: "What about you? Why were you standing next to the corpse when everyone came?"
The man in the suit thought for a moment and said, "I should have come before 5 o'clock, because the deceased and I had an appointment to meet at 5 o'clock."
The security guard was like a ruthless surveillance: "The time this gentleman arrived at the lobby was exactly 4:58 pm."
"Look, I didn't lie." The man in the suit smiled at the police, and then said, "Just like what Mrs. Jingben said just now, I came here today to borrow money from Jingben.
"When I arrived, Jing Ben was changing into his sportswear. I asked him to borrow money in a subtle way, but he rejected me directly.
"My company couldn't survive at this rate, so after I left his house, I went to the rooftop. I climbed over the railing and stood outside."
Mumu Police Department: "???"
What do you want to do? Live your life well and don't cause trouble for the police!
The man in the suit sighed: "I wanted to commit suicide at that time, but when I saw the ground was so high, I didn't have the courage to jump down, so I climbed back to the rooftop."
Inspector Megure: "..." Fortunately, fortunately...
Man in suit: "I leaned against the railing, quietly looking at the scenery in the distance, thinking about life. But not long after, I heard Mrs. Imoto's shrill scream coming from the other side of the building.
"I was startled by the noise and hurried back to the Imoto family's house to check the situation, but Mrs. Imoto was not in the house. I could only see a foot on the balcony. I walked over curiously... and then I found that Imoto was dead."
Inspector Megure: "..." If this experience is true, it is really thrilling...
He glanced at the man who almost committed suicide, hesitated for a moment and did not ask any more questions, but turned to the last person among the three. He asked the man with a mustache who lived on the fifth floor: "What about you?"
"Me?" The man with the mustache was bewildered. "I do have a motive, but I was not in the building when the murder happened."
The security guard flipped through his notebook and read: "Mr. Terazawa left at 4:50 pm. He came back at 5:12, around the same time as the detective."
The man with the mustache breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the security guard gratefully: "You see, I don't have time to commit a crime."
The security guard did not accept his grateful look and stabbed him in the back coldly: "But I remember when Mr. Terasawa left, he said he was going to practice golf and he was carrying a golf bag... Playing golf takes a long time, so why did you come back so early?"
"You kid." The corner of his mustache twitched slightly. "People's ideas and plans change. Isn't that normal? I was just being polite and you took it too seriously... After all these years, don't you know who I am? I'm easily indecisive. What's wrong with not wanting to play golf?"
Seeing that someone was about to start a quarrel again, Inspector Megure tried to break up the quarrel: "Okay, okay, since you were definitely not in the building at the time, then you should just stay aside for now."
This is what it means to be free of suspicion.
The man with the moustache moved aside as if he had been pardoned, leaving space for the police captain to perform.
Inspector Megure looked at the remaining two people again, hesitantly: "As for you, one of you must have lied.
"--For example, Mrs. Jingben, you said that after you came here, you went to the bathroom first. But in fact, you may not have gone to the bathroom at all, but killed the deceased in those two minutes, and then screamed, pretending to be just an ordinary witness.
"For example, Mr. Dohashi, you said that you went to the rooftop after being rejected by the deceased, but maybe you were just hiding on the balcony at that time. The balcony had a blind spot, so Mrs. Imoto, who came in later, didn't see you, and after she went to the bathroom, you picked up the flower pot and killed the deceased."
The two were stunned.
"Wait, I didn't lie!" After coming to his senses, the man in the suit said hurriedly, "Didn't Mrs. Jingben also say that when she came here, there was only a pair of shoes at the door - I must have gone to the rooftop by then."
"Don't worry." Jiang Xia suddenly said, "Tell us in detail about your experience on the rooftop. Perhaps this can help us find evidence that you were not present when the murder took place."
"Okay." The man in the suit sighed and tried to calm down. "It's a pity that there was no one on the rooftop when I went up there, otherwise I could have asked that person to prove it for me... But it's strange, there was no one there, but I heard some strange noises at that time."
"What sound?"
Man in suit: "It should be a 'clang!' sound of metal collision with an echo. Hiss, come to think of it, the place where the sound came from seems to be the balcony of this room."
Jiang Xia: "Only one sound?"
The man in the suit tried hard to recall, and suddenly realized that the detective seemed to understand him better than he did: "It wasn't just one sound! There were similar sounds afterwards, but the volume seemed to be slightly smaller."
"That's right." Jiang Xia walked towards the balcony and when passing by the "New Doctor", she took out the pen from her pocket.
Soon he stopped beside the railing and tapped it with the metal part of the pen cap.
There was a clang sound.
The man in the suit was stunned for a moment, then said excitedly: "Yes, this is the sound quality!"
Vermouth touched her empty handkerchief bag: "..." Tsk, she quite liked that pen... Now that it has been touched by this kid, it seems she has to change it, otherwise there is no guarantee that there won't be some unfortunate mechanism secretly added to it.
Inspector Megure followed him to the balcony and looked at the place where Jiang Xia was knocking. Suddenly, he realized something was wrong. He leaned over in surprise and looked closely at the railing: "Why are there two gaps? It looks quite new. This... shouldn't be knocked out of a fountain pen, right?"
...Or is it that Brother Jiang Xia has been hitting people so many times that he has become so skilled that he can use a pen to break the railing?
"Of course it wasn't a pen that hit him." The person he was imagining interrupted his fantastic thoughts, "It was the murderer's weapon."
“?!”
Inspector Megure reacted for a moment, and suddenly became surprised: "Brother Jiang Xia, do you know who the murderer is?"
Jiang Xia raised his hand and pointed at the abandoned building opposite: "Go over there and you'll know."
A group of people: “……?”
…
The murderer who died on the balcony here was actually related to the rooftop dozens of meters away opposite.
It sounded unbelievable, but since it was Jiang Xia who suggested going there, Inspector Megure waved his hand and rushed over with his men.
Soon, the group arrived at the rooftop of the opposite building.
(End of this chapter)
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