Chapter 3264 3276 [Ally]
As he said this, Inspector Megure looked behind the butler. Such a large house could not be managed by an old butler who was over 70 years old. Therefore, in addition to him, the Fujieda family also hired several maids, and they were all called here at this time.
"Before the incident, when Jiang Xia and the others were in the monitoring room, Mr. Fujieda was shot and fell to the ground. Afterwards, a group of them rushed to the audio-visual room where Fujieda Mikio was. When they were standing at the door, two more gunshots were heard from inside..."
Inspector Megure looked at these maids, and while organizing his thoughts, his eyes gradually became sharper: "In other words, everyone who didn't have an alibi during this period is a suspect!"
The old housekeeper, Mrs. Suhua, and Fujieda Shigeru are not included in this scope, so the only ones left are these maids.
Masumi Takamori was still distracted. When she looked up, she saw the policeman staring at her and seemed to be saying something. She acted as a good listener and said "Oh" in agreement.
Naoko Torimaru: “…”
"?" Inspector Megure was also stunned, but quickly recovered, "I mean, what were you doing during that time!"
Takamori Masumi looked confused: "We were chatting... Wait, why are you asking this? Do you think we are suspects?"
Inspector Megure's eyes twitched: "..." Was all his long speech just now in vain? ? ——This woman actually dared to be distracted at the murder scene! Suspicious, this is very suspicious!
Next to her, Naoko Torimaru looked at the policeman's suspicious eyes, and a stone in her heart seemed to fall to the ground: It's here! The unexpected situation has finally arrived... This situation of being suspected must be the work of "that person".
Although she still didn't know the other party's fundamental purpose, Torimaru Naoko seemed to have a direction to fight. She took a deep breath and prepared to come up with the prepared speech. However, at this moment, a chaotic noise suddenly sounded in the corridor.
"Inspector!" Officer Takagi poked his head in excitement, "We caught a suspicious man in the yard!"
As he spoke, he and Officer Chiba worked together to pull a short, fat, middle-aged man wearing a light-colored knitted hat into the house.
"It's him!"
After showing off the spoils from their inspection, the two policemen secretly looked forward to it: if they could catch the murderer right away before he gets far away, they could skip the reasoning and go off work directly!
Thinking of "getting off work", the two subconsciously looked at Jiang Xia.
Then, the detective told me a piece of bad news that would shatter my dreams: "Rather than a suspicious person... this seems to be the gardener of the Fujieda family."
"..." The two policemen looked at each other, then looked at the short and fat man they were holding in the middle, "Gardener?"
The old butler nodded and said, "This is Mr. Doi. He has been working in this family for decades."
"But..." Officer Takagi scratched his head, looked down at the gardener, and asked in confusion, "Just now we asked him who he was, but he refused to speak. If he was someone from Fujieda's family, then wouldn't it be enough for him to just say it?"
The old housekeeper said helplessly: "Since the young lady passed away half a year ago, Mr. Doi has always been like this. But he just doesn't like to talk, and has never done anything to hurt anyone! You must have misunderstood."
Jiang Xia nodded: "From the surveillance video, during the time of the incident, Mr. Doi was pruning the garden in the yard."
"Oh, yes! There are surveillance cameras." Inspector Megure slapped his forehead and realized that he had actually forgotten this important thing - in the wealthy families that had encountered cases in the past, there were often no surveillance cameras, and he subconsciously ignored this kind of high technology.
But now that we have discovered the problem, we must of course remedy it as soon as possible. Inspector Megure waved his hand nonchalantly: "We have almost checked the crime scene, let's go to the monitoring room."
As they spoke, a group of policemen and detectives rushed to the monitoring room.
Naoko Torimaru, who had prepared a lot of lines and was about to tell them, looked at their backs and said, "......?"
…
Soon, the surveillance footage before and after the incident was retrieved.
"Oh? There really is that gardener!" The screen was split into several parts, which made him dizzy. Fortunately, the detective kindly pointed it out for him. Looking over there, Inspector Megure soon found the gardener in the picture.
"Unfortunately, he was only there a while ago, and then he ran out of the picture. Only the flashlight beam was still flickering back and forth on the edge of the surveillance..." Inspector Megure was a little disappointed with this half-baked alibi. However, speaking of surveillance...
"With so many surveillance cameras, not a single one can capture the murderer?" Inspector Megure looked up at the surveillance footage scrolling on the big screen. "That guy is too lucky."
Jiang Xia shook his head: "When it comes to killing people, you can't just rely on luck. Every moment of seemingly good luck may be hiding behind sweat and hard work."
Inspector Megure was startled, feeling that something was a little strange: "Sweat and hard work?"
Jiang Xia: "What I mean is that it's not a coincidence that the murderer was not captured on camera - that person must have been familiar with the locations of all the surveillance cameras and their shooting areas, so he could avoid appearing in the picture."
The maids who followed a few beats later had now arrived at the door of the monitoring room.
Naoko Torimaru listened to Jiang Xia's words with no expression on her face, but her heartbeat slightly quickened, and she felt a tremor as if she had mentioned something that shouldn't be mentioned: "..." Jiang Xia suddenly said this, it must be because he noticed the presence of "that person" in this matter.
Unveiling the mystery of her boss in front of the police, and then catching him from behind the scenes and exposing him to the sun...it's really exciting just to think about it.
But unfortunately, as a manipulator, Naoko Torimaru knew clearly that Usa hid much better than her. Even if she knew what he was doing, she couldn't produce any evidence to do anything to him.
Naoko Torimaru: “…” Jiang Xia must have noticed this, so she didn’t point it out directly. She only used these words to subtly remind those stupid policemen.
Instantly, a sense of mutual sympathy welled up in her heart. Torimaru Naoko looked at Jiang Xia and felt as if the whole villa was covered by darkness. Only she and Jiang Xia could see through the cover and see the truth behind it.
Just as he was sighing, he heard the exquisite-looking female movie star next to Jiang Xia mutter, "Since she is an insider and has no alibi during that time...then the only one left is the maid at home."
Naoko Torimaru: “!”
(End of this chapter)
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