Chapter 3153 3165 [Suspect]
Arai's body was quickly taken away by the police.
Seeing that the matter seemed to have come to an end, the three fishermen scratched their heads and said, "Then shall we go back first? We still have to go fishing tomorrow morning."
"Why are you replying?" Inspector Yokomizo frowned at the fishermen's lack of interest in solving the case. "I still have a lot to ask you."
"Still asking? We've already told you everything we know." The three fishermen frowned. "You don't really suspect us of being the murderer, do you? Didn't the female student just say that we were eating in the restaurant, so we didn't have the time to sneak out and kill someone!"
Inspector Yokomizo refused to give in. "Didn't the male student also say that you arrived at the restaurant at different times? The three of you arrived separately. We haven't determined the exact time of death yet. Who knows if you killed the person first and then went to the restaurant to keep the appointment?"
"Besides..." After experiencing the God's perspective last night, Inspector Yokomizo once again rekindled his strong interest in reasoning, and excitedly caught up on a lot of mystery novels during the day.
Now, this last-minute effort seemed to have paid off. He looked at the three people opposite him suspiciously: "Besides, you just left the hotel and immediately found a body half-sunken and half-floating in the sea in such a large area in the dark - no matter how you think about it, this is too suspicious."
After he finished speaking, he saw Jiang Xia nod slightly, as if to show his approval. Inspector Yokomizo suddenly felt like he had been given a shot of cardiotonic. His back straightened, his chin raised higher, and his voice became more confident and louder.
Vodka, who was observing secretly, said: "…" Is that so? You are so happy just because Wu Zuo gave you some recognition. If he really praised you, wouldn't you immediately serve him like this? Humph, stupid and dangerous policeman…
However, Inspector Yokomizo's confident look was indeed more intimidating than before. The three fishermen on the opposite side were choked by this question and their voices became quieter.
After a moment of silence, the dark and tall fisherman explained: "The reason why we were able to find him so quickly was that at the appointed time, we waited for a long time but didn't see Huang Juan. So at around 8 o'clock, we called him."
"A little after eight? What time exactly?" Inspector Yokomizo had been a detective for many years after all, and realized that this could be an important clue. "Did you get through on the phone?"
"The call went through, but unfortunately no one spoke on the other end, and the call was quickly disconnected - but during this time, we heard the sound of the waves very clearly."
"That's why we went to look for him along the beach. And this road is the shortcut from his home to the hotel."
Seeing the young police officer holding a notebook to record the phone calls, the red vest added: "We have looked for him more than once. Before this, I also called him two or three times - I called him once when I arrived and was waiting for someone, and called him a few more times after Yuta arrived. Unfortunately, none of them answered."
Yoshizawa Yuta in the blue vest scratched his head and said, "Actually, I also called him before arriving at the restaurant.
"Although Huang Juan agreed to keep the appointment, he always goes back on his word. I was really worried that he would stand us up, so I wanted to remind him to come before dinner starts - otherwise, when the time is up, he might not come when he sees that he is already late.
"Unfortunately, my call also failed to go through, and he did not show up for the appointment. However..."
The man in the blue vest looked down at the place where the body had just been and shook his head with mixed feelings: "I never thought that he didn't come because he was dead."
Inspector Yokomizo touched his chin, still looking doubtful: In addition to the fact that the three fishermen themselves were suspicious, there must be some other reasons involved.
——If the murderer is among these three fishermen, then if we investigate carefully, we will always find some clues. But if the murderer is not them, but someone else...
Looking at this beach with almost no surveillance, Inspector Yokomizo felt a headache coming on. He did not want to easily rule out these three people who had both motives and time to commit the crime.
So he didn't say anything, but turned around and told his subordinates: "See if the deceased has a mobile phone and check the call records in the phone."
The young police officer had already sorted out the various items on the deceased's body. When his superior asked him about it, he took out a mobile phone and said, "Yes. This phone was stuck in the fishing net. It must have fallen out of the deceased's body."
As he spoke, he lowered his head and pressed twice, and said in surprise: "It has been soaked in water for so long, but it is still turned on! The performance of this phone is really good, and this old-fashioned phone is made of solid materials..."
"What are you talking about during working hours? Let me see it." Inspector Yokomizo grabbed the phone and opened the address book. At the same time, he lied to the three fishermen next to him, "If I find out that any of you are lying..."
"Then you better look carefully, don't miss it and then blame us." The red vest snorted, "See, my phone is behind Yuta."
Inspector Yokomizo pressed the buttons uncomfortably, checking the illegible characters on the narrow black and white half screen: "According to the call records, Mr. Yoshizawa Yuta made the call at 7:02 p.m."
The fat man in the blue vest nodded and took out his phone: "I have the corresponding records here."
Inspector Yokomizo looked at the man in the red vest again: "Mr. Shimojo made three calls at 7:47 pm, 8:03 pm, and 8:18 pm."
Red Vest nodded in agreement.
Inspector Yokomizo: "The last call was from Mr. Nezu Shinji at 8:41. This was the only time the call went through."
The three fishermen nodded together.
Inspector Yokomizo pressed his eyebrows together and tried to reason based on the existing clues: "This means, uh, this means that the call was either answered by the deceased or the murderer!"
The dark and tall fisherman couldn't help but sigh: "Didn't we talk about this a long time ago?"
"Haha, really." Inspector Yokomizo scratched the back of his head awkwardly, "But don't you think this is a bit strange - why didn't you answer the previous calls and only answered this last one?"
"Who knows?" The fishermen said impatiently, "Anyway, when the last call was answered, we all had an alibi - the three of us are not the murderer!"
Conan and Hattori Heiji didn't care about the three suspects' roars. Anyway, they were surrounded by police and couldn't leave for a while. In comparison, Inspector Yokomizo's doubts were indeed the key.
——Why didn’t you answer the first few calls and only the last one?
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Thanks to the big guys for the [monthly tickets] (σ≧▽≦)σ.
(End of this chapter)
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