Chapter 3329 3341 [Support]
"Is it the gap here?"
The fence on the top of the mountain was still relatively intact, so the police quickly located the gap.
Officer Sato turned on his flashlight and shone it on the ground.
This small platform has a flat cement road in the center, and further out is a circle of pristine soil.
In the flashlight beam, two intersecting bicycle tracks clearly appeared on this seldom visited land.
Inspector Megure came over and carefully looked down. He nodded quickly: "This direction is exactly where the deceased fell."
Officer Sato looked at several college students: According to her experience, the "helpful passers-by" that Jiang Xia met by chance were often not as helpful as this high school student thought, and there were always one or two hateful murderers with evil intentions hiding among them.
Thinking of this, she looked at the remaining three people suspiciously and asked cautiously, "When you came to the top of the mountain, didn't you notice any strange traces here?"
"We did find out," Fangoto sighed, "but who could have imagined something so serious would happen? Plus, since we didn't run into Taimi on the way here, we figured this railing must have been damaged by someone else who arrived earlier."
Officer Sato frowned and wanted to ask more questions.
But at this moment, on the road below, Officer Takagi shouted from afar: "Jiang Xia! Inspector! And Mr. Amuro! - We found the bicycle that the deceased was riding!"
He pointed to the dense bushes outside the guardrail. "It's stuck in these branches. It was so dark that it wasn't easy to spot. Just now, when Tanaka drove over, his headlights flickered, and the metal piece on his bicycle reflected the light, so I saw it."
"Really?" Inspector Megure said excitedly after hearing the first good news of the night. "Great! This is important evidence—bring it up here and let these college students identify it."
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Not long after, the diligent Officer Takagi drove the car and brought a colleague to personally deliver this important piece of evidence to Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia looked at the tattered bicycle and nodded: "It's indeed the same style."
The three college students were clearly more authoritative in this matter. After identifying the bicycle, they said with certainty, "Yes, this is the bicycle we brought!"
Hearing what they said, Officer Takagi moved the bicycle to the gap in the fence and pressed hard on the mud half a meter away from the rut with its tire.
"The pattern is the same!" Officer Takagi reported. "The fence must have been punctured by this bicycle."
"So that's how it is." Inspector Megure had a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly felt as if he was possessed by Jiang Xia. All the clues were easily connected into a clear straight line in front of his eyes.
The police officer stroked his chin and recounted what he had “seen” in a deep voice: “Miss Taimei is impatient and competitive. In order to reach the top of the mountain before all of you, she rode her bicycle and rushed up alone while you were cooking.
"Because she was so excited, she didn't brake in time after reaching the top of the hill - and unfortunately, she went over the railing and fell onto the road below."
"Due to the large drop, Miss Taimei fell onto the winding mountain road below, bounced a bit on the ground, and bounced over the guardrail with her bicycle."
"All that remained on that stretch of road was the wooden fence at the top of the hill, and Miss Taimei was hanging in the bushes outside the fence along with her bicycle."
At this point, he turned to look at the college students and sighed sympathetically: "When you ran over that wooden stake and got out of the car to check, your poor classmate was hanging quietly in the bushes a few meters away."
"After you left there and took the RV up the mountain, gravity caused Miss Taimei's body to slide down, eventually breaking free from the bushes and landing on a winding mountain road further down."
"That's why, although her death was clearly between 5 and 6 pm, you didn't see her when you went up the mountain around 7 pm."
Having said that, Inspector Megure looked back and felt that he was simply a genius: the corpse disappeared like magic when it should have appeared, and then suddenly appeared in the middle of the road when it shouldn't have appeared - such a complicated puzzle was actually solved by him.
And this perfectly explains why the deceased seemed to have bled so much, but there were not many bloodstains at the place where the body was found - because her blood had already dried up on the tree.
"Is this the joy of solving a mystery?" Inspector Megure suddenly understood why his fellow detectives were so enthusiastic. "Although the thinking process is painful, the pleasure of connecting everything in an instant is extremely satisfying. However..."
"Why am I suddenly able to reason?" Inspector Megure always felt that something was wrong. He muttered to himself, "Am I so good? This is not like me."
His adult rationality quickly made him alert to this abnormality.
Thinking of this, Inspector Megure's eyes moved slightly, and he quietly drifted towards Jiang Xia: "Brother Jiang Xia, what do you think? Was I right or wrong?"
Brother Jiang Xia seemed a little slow today, but after half a minute, I finally received the look he was desperately sending.
The high school detective cleared his slightly hoarse voice and concluded, "What the officer described is exactly what the murderer wanted us to believe."
Memu Police Department: "?!!"
Seeing his expression, Jiang Xia thought for a moment and said, "It shows that the inspector has a good grasp of the criminal psychology and accurately guessed what the other party wanted to express. Hmm... It's worth learning from."
"..." A middle-aged police captain moved his toes, his face flushed: "That's enough, no need to help me smooth it over. Brother Jiang Xia is really a good man..."
Fortunately, Inspector Megure had lost many people before, and he was experienced in "reasoning errors", so he quickly adjusted his mentality.
He casually brushed aside what had just happened and followed Jiang Xia's correct line of thought, "In other words, all of these clues were carefully fabricated by the murderer?"
"That's about right." Jiang Xia nodded. "It's a very clever technique, but unfortunately there are still some flaws. For example, this wasn't the deceased's first time here. She often went up the mountain with the club before. She should have known when to brake. She wouldn't have made such an awkward mistake as 'breaking the railing and rushing off the cliff.'"
"Besides..." He walked to the gap in the railing and glanced down, "Let's not even talk about whether a fall from this height would generate enough elastic force to bounce someone out of the railing—even if she did bounce out, the impact of her head hitting the ground would probably leave a corresponding mark.
"But in fact, there are no signs of humans falling from a height on that road."
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