Chapter 3263 3275 [High-end Pistol]
While listening to Officer Takagi's introduction, Jiang Xia lowered his head and looked at the gun in front of him.
It was just an ordinary gun, not as famous as Akai Shuichi's, nor as exquisite as Calvados's. But it was the right thing not to pick it up.
...But this gun is quite powerful, and it is more imposing when fired than the Calvados one.
...But why do you need power? You don't need to use it to kill people.
I was muttering to myself when Officer Chiba next to me brought something over: "In addition to the pistol, we also found a towel nearby."
Although it was normal to drop a towel in a place where people lived, this towel had a noticeable burn mark on it, which looked a bit strange.
Jiang Xia came back to his senses and took a look: "It should be the thing that the murderer rolled around the pistol when he fired the gun to eliminate the gun smoke reaction."
Kudo Yukiko poked her head out from behind him: "It can also be used to reduce the noise of gunfire!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "Let's send the gun for inspection first, and gather the people here to check their alibi at that time."
Hibiki Eri also said, "Remember to compare the bullet in the body of the deceased with the bullet that appeared under the pillow along with the threatening letter. In addition, it is still unknown whether the towel played a role. We still need to investigate the gunpowder smoke reaction."
As she spoke, she had already instructed the butler to bring everyone in the villa to the living room so that she could ask them questions.
Looking at this decisive female lawyer, Inspector Megure nodded habitually at first, but then was stunned: "..." Wait, who is the police?
"Haha, don't mind it." Seeing the speechless look on the police officer's face, Kudo Yukiko smiled and explained to her best friend, "Eri has to take this seriously - after all, for her, this matter involves 10 million yen."
Inspector Megure looked bewildered: "...10 million?"
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Maori Detective Agency.
A dark cloud snow cat was lying quietly in the corner. In the pitch-black environment, after covering its four white paws with the action of "lying down", it completely blended into the darkness.
Originally, I just wanted to lie here to see if there would be any interesting commissions during this period, and to prevent the detective from choking to death after vomiting while drunk... But until now, neither of these two things has happened. I only saw the mustache detective tied to the sofa wake up, crawling like a bug, and shouting "Toilet!" in a panic.
As time passed, Kogoro Mori's struggle became more intense.
But Eri Kisaki could never allow someone behind her to continue to make trouble while she was solving the problem in front. The rope was tied tightly, and in the end, Kogoro Mouri was unable to struggle out of the divine net. Instead, at a certain moment, his movements froze and his eyes lost their spirit.
“…”
The nose of the eating cat moved slightly, and it realized belatedly that it had discovered something.
After a moment's silence, it silently stood up, squeezed through the window to the balcony, and then silently pushed the floor-to-ceiling window with its claws, blocking the polluted air in the room with a sense of public morality.
…
The tragedy that occurred in the Maori Detective Agency did not affect the harmonious crime scene in the distance.
Soon, everyone in the villa was called to the living room one by one and began to be questioned by the police.
Jiang Xia glanced around, paused for a moment at the twin sisters in the corner, and then said to everyone: "As you can see, Mr. Fujieda was shot in the audio-visual room just now and unfortunately died - where were you before and after the shooting, and what were you doing?"
The servants were whispering to each other, obviously still not recovering from this shocking news.
The old butler looked around and took the lead, saying, "After noticing the master's abnormality from the surveillance video, I looked for the spare key as you said, and then I went to the audio-visual room as soon as I found it."
Mrs. Suhua was wiping tears beside her: "I went back to my room and called the police - my phone was thrown on the bed."
Hibiki pushed her glasses and suddenly remembered something: "But from the time you said you were going to call the police until the police arrived, I didn't seem to see you?"
——At that time, she suddenly discovered that the head of the Fujieda family had died. The scene was in chaos and she had no time to pay attention to where everyone was.
But now think about it, if Mrs. Suhua was at the scene at that time, she would have screamed a long time ago. How could her presence be so low?
The person being questioned did not speak, but Jiang Xia answered her question: "During that time, Mrs. Suhua was definitely not at the scene."
Mrs. Suhua said confidently: "Because after I called the police and the ambulance, I stayed in my room the whole time, so of course you couldn't see me!"
"Stayed in your room?" Officer Megure's eyes suddenly became suspicious. "You mean, after you saw your husband being shot on the surveillance camera, you didn't go to the scene, but stayed in the room alone?"
Mrs. Suhua pursed her lips and said, "Of course! There's a gunman at my husband's place! What if I rush over and that man shoots me too!"
"Uh..." Inspector Megure's thoughts paused, and he suddenly realized that what he said actually made sense - although he was used to the heroic behavior of detectives who rushed forward when they heard gunshots, he had to admit that Mrs. Suhua's reaction seemed to be more in line with ordinary people's common sense.
Mrs. Suhua continued to attack: "And when my husband was shot and fell, I was watching the surveillance in the monitoring room - Jiang Xia, these two people, those two people, and the housekeeper, they can all prove it for me!"
Inspector Megure looked at Jiang Xia for confirmation: "Really?"
Jiang Xia nodded.
"Right!" Mrs. Suhua wiped her tears and straightened her back proudly as if she had found a powerful ally.
Then she suddenly turned around and pointed at Fujieda Shigeru angrily: "Compared to me, my brother-in-law is more suspicious! No one reads those crappy books he wrote, but a few minutes before my husband was shot, he said he wanted to write a novel and 'returned to the room' alone! - Who knows if he was really in the room during that time, or if he secretly ran away and beat my husband to death!"
Fujieda Shigeru said quickly, "I did leave the monitoring room early, but when Mr. Jiang Xia and the others were running to the audio-visual room, I heard the noise in the corridor and hurried out to meet them. After that, when we arrived at the door of the audio-visual room, we heard two gunshots in the room! How could I stand at the door of a locked room and kill someone in the room in front of Mr. Jiang Xia and the others?"
Inspector Megure looked at Jiang Xia again and found that Jiang Xia nodded again - Fujieda Shigeru was not lying either.
"This..." Inspector Megure scratched his head, "Since you were all next to Jiang Xia when the gunshot happened, could the murderer this time be another servant?"
(End of this chapter)
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