Chapter 3128 3140 [Uzo's Live Theater]
Officer Yokomizo did not expect to be stopped by Jiang Xia. He was stunned at first, and then his heart moved, and he was overwhelmed with excitement and nervousness as if he had accidentally entered a spy movie.
He glanced at the door stealthily and asked Jiang Xia in a low voice, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with Miss Shirai? Is she going to help the murderer?"
“…”
Jiang Xia was silent for a moment for the officer's imagination, then shook his head: "It's another matter. Find a few technicians to check the signal in the room where the crime scene is located."
Officer Yokomizo was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Jiang Xia said solemnly: "After discovering the murder, I asked several lawyers who entered the room to record the crime scene and preserve the evidence.
"I checked the footage before you got here. One of the clips went over the ceiling—there was something odd about the smoke alarm there. Like… there were cameras installed."
Officer Yokomizo: “?!”
Installing cameras secretly in hotels is undoubtedly illegal, but it continues to happen despite repeated bans.
But now, this illegal act has taken on another meaning: "So, it is very likely that it captured the scene of the murder?!"
Although secretly filmed footage is illegal evidence and difficult to use directly, with this video, we can accurately grasp the murderer's movements. Using it as a reference to look for other evidence will definitely be more effective.
"Besides..." Jiang Xia touched his chin and muttered to himself, "I always feel that what happened tonight is a little strange - I just met the dead female lawyer for the first time, and she actually took me back to the room, and suddenly got involved in a murder case and died, and there happened to be a surveillance camera in that room... Oh, I hope everything is just a coincidence."
Officer Yokomizo felt as if a conspiracy was forming when he heard these words: "Could it be that you solved too many cases and touched upon the interests of some guys? - Don't worry! We have many technical experts in our headquarters. We will definitely be able to follow the clues and catch the guy behind the surveillance and get to the bottom of the matter!"
…
Officer Yokomizo called the technical department on the spot.
After the communication, he went out and found Curacao. The two pretended to have just returned from the police station and went upstairs together.
"Officer Yokomizo? Ms. Shirai?" Eri Kisaki saw the two people walking down the stairwell at a glance. She was a little surprised at first, but soon understood the reason why Curacao came back. She just nodded at her without asking any more questions.
Then the Queen of Law turned to Officer Yokomizo and said, "The evidence in the room has been collected by your forensic officers - can I go in and take a look?"
Officer Yokomizo looked at this powerful lawyer who was highly admired by Jiang Xia and nodded: "Of course."
Kisaki Eri borrowed a pair of disposable gloves from him and put them on.
Mao Lilan looked at her fully armed appearance and was a little surprised: "Mom? What are you doing..."
Kisaki Eri was half talking to her, half sorting out her own thoughts: "There are three strange things.
"First of all, Attorney Usui was strangled to death by a telephone cord, and that cord was detached from the landline in this room. If the murderer had killed someone on impulse, he would have pulled the cord quickly and violently, and the landline would have been tilted by the huge force, or even dropped to the ground. But you see."
She pointed to the bedside table. "The landline was placed exactly where it was, barely moving. This shows that the murderer was not impulsive when he killed. On the contrary, he calmly and deliberately unplugged the phone line, and then used it to strangle Miss Usui to death. In other words, this was definitely not a murder in the heat of the moment, but a long-planned murder."
Hibiki Eri: “The second weird thing is that when we called Jiang Xia’s phone earlier, his phone was connected at first, but it was quickly turned off.
"And the weird thing is, when we found Ms. Usui, Jiang Xia's phone suddenly turned on again.
"The phone was very close to the door, so we clearly heard its ringing tone and realized that Jiang Xia was in Ms. Usui's room at the time."
"Don't you think that this placement is very deliberate? - Obviously, if the murderer is Jiang Xia, then what he should do is to do everything he can to cover up the fact that he has been to Miss Usui's room. Instead of turning on his phone and placing it by the door after killing someone, and then attracting other people in.
"No matter how you look at it, this is a shameless frame-up."
"The third point is Jiang Xia's hand. I just heard from the forensic officer that it should have taken no more than an hour from the time Ms. Usui died to the time we found the body.
"The murder weapon was a very thin telephone wire. Judging from the depth of the wounds on Ms. Usui's neck, if the murderer was Jiang Xia, then when we entered the room, he must have had corresponding marks on his fingers.
"But I saw it clearly just now. His hands were clean, without any marks."
Officer Yokomizo felt mixed emotions as he listened to her clear and logical words.
——When he sees someone making this kind of reasoning, he would feel very impressed.
But now, for some reason, he had an indescribable strange feeling in his heart, as if he had known that things would turn out like this and that Kisaki Eri would make such an inference.
"It's like a God's perspective that has been spoiled." A sense of déjà vu suddenly surged in Inspector Yokomizo's mind.
——The police downstairs already knew who the murderer was, and were just waiting for the real murderer to be caught. At the same time, everyone upstairs was still working hard to find the murderer.
The two periods of time seemed to be subtly offset in an unscientific way.
"It's like a stage. Reality is reality, but something completely different is happening in the enclosed area." Officer Yokomizo felt a little strange, and then his conscience pricked. He muttered to himself, "Lawyer Hime is trying so hard to reason, but I can't tell her anything... But there is a reason for this. In short, everything is for solving the case!"
"When she finds out that Jiang Xia is really innocent, she will definitely be very surprised."
A police officer quickly calmed down and continued to perform his job.
…
Eri Kisaki didn't pay any attention to the police officer next to her.
As a lawyer who had handled many criminal cases, she had long since conceded that these police officers were just a figurehead, so she soon began to collect clues on her own.
The room was not big, and it didn't take long for Kisaki Eri to arrive at the desk.
She looked around and her eyes quickly fell on a stack of notes: "This notepad... a page has been torn off, and the tear is not neat, it must have been torn off roughly."
(End of this chapter)
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