Chapter 2962 2974 [Detective Hashimoto Maya]
The long-haired woman glanced at Jiang Xia and snorted, but her voice barely returned to normal. She tidied up her messy hair when she got home and muttered, "Although it's the same idea, you're still more pleasing to the ear. Okay, then I'll tell you, from 2 to 3 pm... During that time, I should be watching a movie in the theater."
Officer Takagi asked, "Who did you go with?"
The sofa buyer curled his lips and said reluctantly: "Just me."
Officer Takagi: “Hmm…” If that’s the case, then the situation seems a bit suspicious—for example, this lady accidentally killed someone near a furniture store, so she stuffed the body into a sofa, then bought the sofa and asked someone to move it to her home so that she could deal with it later…
But of course, this is just one of the possibilities - in any case, the most urgent thing is to go to the second-hand furniture store first. If there is surveillance there and the person hiding the body is captured, it would be great.
With this in mind, he temporarily stopped questioning the sofa buyer and called the police officer who had gone to the furniture store.
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Not long after, the owner of the furniture store rushed over after hearing the noise.
"This sofa." The boss looked at the fabric sofa that had fallen to the ground. "I remember that we just bought it back yesterday afternoon."
"You sold it right after you bought it?" Mao Lilan occasionally liked to go shopping in second-hand stores. When she heard this, she couldn't help but ask, "After recycling this kind of second-hand furniture, don't they need to be sorted and cleaned before they can be put back on the market?"
The store manager scratched his head awkwardly. "That's the theory, but when we were unloading the goods, Miss Hosono happened to pass by and fell in love with this sofa at first sight. The sofa itself was very clean and looked like it had only been used for a few days. She was anxious to use it, so she bought it on the spot and asked us to send the sofa to her home as soon as possible.
"Since the buyer said so, we gave her a break and didn't do anything. After unloading the rest of the goods on the truck, I immediately sent someone to deliver the sofa."
After a pause, the store manager suddenly remembered that this was a murder case and quickly added, "It was definitely not our people who killed the person! The store loads and unloads the goods in groups of two, and they supervise each other. There are also surveillance cameras installed in the parking lot. There was no time to commit the crime or hide the body."
Officer Gao Mu recorded these situations one by one, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper. After asking the store manager, he couldn't help but move closer to Jiang Xia and whispered:
"Could it be that the seller killed someone and hid the body, then sold the sofa anonymously? Then she rushed to the furniture store and bought the sofa back at the right time - this way, even if she was discovered while handling the body, she could say that the sofa was second-hand and thus clear herself of suspicion."
Suzuki Sonoko listened at the side, gradually confused by the bodies being sent out and back. She tapped her swollen head and said, "But in this case, wouldn't it be better to let the second-hand furniture store sell the sofa to someone else? In this way, when the police investigate, they will only check the new buyer and seller, and won't find her who anonymously sold the sofa. Wouldn't she be safer?"
Officer Gao Mu shook his head, recalling many past experiences: "Although we cannot confirm the identity of the deceased for the time being, with the publication of wanted notices and advertisements in the future, the source of the corpse may be found out, and by following the deceased's interpersonal relationships and interests, it is likely that the real culprit will be found.
"Compared to this, the murderer would definitely prefer to completely dispose of the body, making the deceased 'disappear' rather than dead. But this method of disposal usually takes a long time, and there is also the risk of being discovered during the disposal process, so she bought herself an insurance policy for disposing of the body by buying and selling sofas."
After saying that, Officer Takagi looked at Jiang Xia expectantly, waiting for the famous detective's comments.
But after receiving his gaze, Jiang Xia looked to the other side: "Mr. Hashimoto, what do you think?"
Hashimoto Maya: “…”
He looked back with mixed feelings: Thank you for your cultivation, but it’s not really necessary. I would rather squat quietly in a corner by myself…
"No, that's not right! I can't think like that." Hashimoto Maya suddenly realized the thought halfway through his mind. He pinched his thigh quietly and braked manually:
"Jiang Xia's trust is beneficial to my work. At times like this, whether I like it or not, I must respond immediately to consolidate the trust relationship between the detective and the assistant."
After convincing herself in her heart, Hashimoto Maya cleared her throat and followed Officer Takagi's words, offering some insights that a second-rate detective should have:
"I'm not sure, but if you think the buyer is a suspect, you can send someone to visit her home and ask if any neighbors heard any strange noises that might have been caused by a murder at the time of the victim's death, which was between 2 and 3 this afternoon."
Officer Takagi was stunned: "Near her home? You think the deceased died in Miss Hosono's home?"
"I just think the deceased may have died in the murderer's home." Hashimoto Maya pointed to the body not far away:
"The deceased was not wearing shoes, and the shoes were not dropped. As early as when the body rolled out of the sofa, I saw her shoes placed next to the body, not on her feet. If the murder was done outdoors or in other public places, this should not be the case. So the deceased must have died in a place where she needed to take off her shoes to enter."
"I see!" Officer Takagi's eyes lit up: No wonder Jiangxia's detective agency finally hired Mr. Hashimoto instead of Mr. Yamada who appeared earlier - judging from the level of reasoning alone, Mr. Hashimoto is indeed stronger.
He immediately arranged for the young police officers to conduct a visit and investigation. After arranging the tasks, he could not help but say to Hashimoto Maya with admiration: "I wish I could be as sharp as you. Have you ever done any training to improve your reasoning ability?"
Hashimoto Maya shook her head modestly: This has nothing to do with reasoning ability. It's simply because I have had too many targets for silencing in the past, and I have helped the cadres clean up many scenes, so I have accumulated experience.
Unfortunately, this kind of training cannot be passed on to the police in front of him, let alone Jiang Xia who is standing next to him. The lawless maniac quickly changed the subject with a guilty conscience: "Also, the seller is also very suspicious - let the store manager find the receiver of this sofa and ask him who he bought it from. Even if the other person covers his face, at least we can tell whether it is a man or a woman."
Officer Takagi's eyes twitched as he recalled a painful experience not long ago: "..." No, it's actually quite hard to tell the difference between men and women... But Mr. Hashimoto is right, we should investigate, what if we can find some clues?
He nodded, picked up his phone and started contacting those colleagues who had gone to the furniture store.
(End of this chapter)
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