Chapter 3218 3230 [Capable General]
Unfortunately, Officer Inoki did not think it was a coincidence at all, he just felt that the witness appeared at the right time.
He hurried forward and asked the enthusiastic passerby who seemed to have seen the deceased a while ago: "Who are you?"
"Hmm? Me?" The old man in his seventies, smoking a pipe, turned around slowly. "I'm the boat owner who rents the boat to Lawyer Tachibana. My last name is Inuyama. Look, I own that boat rental shop."
"By the way, you look like a policeman?" He looked up at the tall police officer in front of him, and remembered something a little late:
"Come to think of it, I just lost a small boat. Oh, the same kind of boat you just salvaged. Now that you're here, why don't you help me find it?"
"What?!" Officer Inoki wasn't really a pig. He intuitively felt that the lost ship might have some connection with what happened today. He asked excitedly, "Tell me more about the lost ship!"
"Hmm?" The old man was somewhat puzzled by the policeman's sudden change of attitude. He took a puff of his cigarette:
"It wasn't a big deal. A guy in a red baseball cap ran to the dock, untied my boat and drove away without saying a word. There were a lot of kids there. It wasn't even a boat robbery. It was robbery."
"Red baseball cap?" The two high school girls were quite sensitive about their appearance. When they heard this word, they immediately remembered:
"Speaking of which, when we were walking the dog on the cape, we saw a fishing boat passing by, and the person on the boat was wearing a red baseball cap!"
Suzuki Sonoko touched her chin and suddenly realized: "So John was barking at the boat not because he wanted to play with it, but because he smelled the scent of a thief? - Puppies are indeed the natural enemies of criminals!"
Officer Inoki quickly asked, "Do you remember where he came from and where he was going?"
Jiang Xia looked at the sea in the distance and raised his hand to gesture: "From there to there, we were at that position at the time. Because we were blocked by the cape, we couldn't confirm where he rowed to later."
The old store manager puffed on his pipe and looked in the direction he pointed, thinking: "Over there... seems to be the place where these policemen just rescued people."
Officer Inoki tried hard to imagine what they were talking about, and gestured carefully to trace the route: "Mr. Tachibana's boat sank there, and the boat driver also passed through that area... Could it be that the boat thief collided with Mr. Tachibana's boat when he was escaping, and his life jacket fell off in the collision, so the body that was fished out was not wearing a life jacket?"
"But..." Mao Lilan hesitated, "We saw the man in the red hat passing by when we were walking the dog, and Mr. Tachibana's boat capsized two hours later. We saw the capsized boat sink with our own eyes when we called the police."
"I see." Officer Inoki blinked and awkwardly withdrew a guess. He cleared his throat and said again, "But, no matter what, that man sounds a bit suspicious. If we find him, maybe we can get some new clues."
Beside her, the old maid hesitated to speak: "Um, the man in the red hat you mentioned, he seemed to have come to the villa to look for Lawyer Ju, about... about two months ago!"
Officer Inoki: "!"
He quickly took out a notebook and a pen: "Tell me in detail."
The old maid recalled: "People who come to see Lawyer Ju usually wear suits and ties, very formally, but that man was wearing a red baseball cap at the time - and not long after he arrived, he and Lawyer Ju got into a violent argument... Unfortunately, I didn't dare to get close to eavesdrop, so I didn't hear clearly what they were arguing about."
"Is that so?" Officer Inoki stroked his chin, his eyes becoming sharp:
“If the man in the red hat who quarreled with the deceased two months ago is the same person today, then the matter is very simple - he must have long harbored a grudge against the deceased and knew the deceased’s habits, so he made this plan to attack him while he was fishing.
"In order not to reveal his identity, he did not rent a boat, but stole one directly. In this case..."
He looked at his subordinates and waved his hand: "Go find it! We must find the stolen ship. There may be some important clues on it!"
The old store manager muttered quietly: "When you finish your investigation, remember to return the boat to me. I've already suffered a lot from having one of my boats sunk..."
…
The police began to search busily for the boat that was stolen by the man in the red hat.
This matter couldn't be resolved in a short time, so Jiang Xia and the others returned to Lawyer Ju's villa.
Before leaving, Jiang Xia handed Officer Inoki a business card: "If there is any progress, remember to contact me, or you can come to the villa directly to find me."
"That's great!" Officer Inoki was worried that this case would be difficult to solve. Now that there was a case-solving accelerator delivered to his doorstep, he was so happy that his wrinkles were smiling. "I will come to your house as soon as I find a clue!"
Curacao looked away in dismay: "..." Just a few hours after coming into contact with Uzo, another police captain has become a lackey. The speed of this transformation is simply outrageous... It seems that not only in Tokyo, but the police in all regions should be vigilant in the future.
We returned to the villa, had some snacks and rested for a while.
When it was completely dark, a guest finally showed up at the door.
Jiang Xia walked over, opened the door, and as expected, saw the tired Officer Inoki.
Officer Inoki came over with an identification report. His face was a little serious. "The results of the identification are out. Sleeping pills were detected in the body of the deceased. Before his death, he probably fell into a deep sleep because of the sleeping pills."
Next to him, a police officer with a thin face said, "In addition, there are no scars on his body, let alone signs of taking drugs - that is, we cannot rule out that the deceased swallowed sleeping pills and then jumped into the water to commit suicide."
Hearing some noise at the door, Conan came over to eavesdrop: "?"
——You couldn't see the suspect with such a big red hat, and you actually said that he committed suicide by taking pills. You must be an undercover sent by the organization!
Officer Inoki sighed, obviously helpless about what his colleague said, but this was indeed a necessary procedure.
He then asked, "Did the deceased have any thoughts of suicide before he died?"
"Of course not!" In order to break up the possible conspiracy, Conan threw a tantrum like a child, "When that uncle went out to fish, he said he would catch a big fish for us to eat - I want to eat fish, I want to eat the big fish that uncle caught!"
Curacao: “…”
In order to ensure that the stage that Wu Zuo had carefully laid out would not be hastily closed with an "accident", this little lackey really worked hard. He was so good at guessing his superiors' intentions, no wonder Wu Zuo seemed particularly satisfied with him...
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