Chapter 3333 3345 [Seedlings and Seedlings]
Jiang Xia cleared his throat and spoke in a voice that had briefly returned to normal, "After killing Miss Taimei, the murderer placed her body on the roof of the RV. Then, as long as they were climbing up the mountain, they could have the body fall to the ground at a specific location, creating the illusion that Taimei had fallen through the railing from the clifftop."
"Also, the real first crime scene should also be on the roof. The murderer only needs to find a random excuse—like there's a stain on the sunroof—to get Miss Taimei to climb up to the roof and help clean it up.
"Then, while Miss Taimei was busy cleaning the skylight, the murderer quietly approached her from behind and hit her on the head with a blunt object, such as a stone, killing her."
As he spoke, Jiang Xia came to the driver's seat of the RV, raised his hand and pressed a button.
There was a buzzing sound, and the sunroof slid smoothly and closed completely.
At this moment, everyone who was staring at it was shocked to find that as the skylight was extended, a black line parallel to the window frame was drawn on the inside of the window.
The black line was very straight, but not smooth. It was thick in some places and thin in others, as if it was drawn with an ink pen... Speaking of which, why would someone go to the skylight just to draw such an ambiguous straight line?
Everyone looked at the line blankly, trying to guess its role in the entire murder case.
At this moment, a flashlight beam lit up and shone towards the skylight.
"No, this isn't black, it's red and black." As the light grew brighter, Officer Sato's heart skipped a beat as he recognized it. "This is blood! The blood that flowed when the victim was killed!"
Jiang Xia nodded. "When Miss Taimei died, she was hit on the head by a rock and was bleeding profusely. She was cleaning the car window at the time, so her blood naturally flowed onto the window."
"The murderer cleaned it up immediately, but unfortunately, the blood stuck in the window gap could not be completely cleaned away."
"Enough, enough! Stop saying such creepy things." The yellow-haired guy clicked his tongue and interrupted him.
The university student looked at Jiang Xia and pressed, "Didn't you just say that the murderer managed to drop the body in a specific location while climbing the mountain? Now, tell me, the three of us were in the car at the time, all within your field of vision. How did we manipulate the body so that it 'happened' to fall in the exact right spot?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fanhe Takuto looked at him suspiciously. "Come to think of it, I remember when we were going up the mountain, you got startled by a wooden stake on the ground and braked suddenly, causing me to hit my head... Could it be that you pretended to be scared by the stake just to throw the body over the guardrail and let her fall on the winding mountain road below?"
"Of course..." Huang Mao said angrily, "Of course not! - You guy, you actually pretended to be innocent while trying to pin the murder on me. I didn't kill anyone!"
"As for braking suddenly, don't forget, this mountain road has several sharp bends. I was driving fast, and I would have turned sharply at every turn. In this case, the body must have been thrown off as early as the first sharp turn. How could it have waited until I braked suddenly to fall to the ground?"
He was about to say that judging from this, there was probably no body on the roof, but when he saw the blood streak on the skylight, he had to change his words: "...Even if there really was a body on the roof, she must have been fixed with tape or rope or something, and there's no way I could have thrown her off by braking suddenly - just give up and don't try to throw the dirty water on me!"
"Tape or rope?" Yoshida Ayumi suddenly remembered something and whispered, "I remember the deceased's sister's belt had a lot of small pieces of rope tied to it."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya recalled the length of those small leather ropes and couldn't help scratching his head: "But they are less than 20 centimeters in total. Such a short line is simply not enough to tie up a living person."
Jiang Xia: "One of those leather ropes had a knot at the end."
"Huh?" Inspector Megure was a little surprised. "That's a hand-tied knot? I thought it was just another trend... But how are you supposed to secure the deceased with such a short rope?"
Jiang Xia pointed at the skylight. "There's a tiny gap between that red blood line and the window frame. This means the skylight wasn't completely closed when the murderer attacked the victim, but was only slightly open."
"Knot, slit..." Officer Sato pieced the pieces together in his mind for a moment, and suddenly understood something:
"After killing the victim, the murderer put the knotted string from her belt into the window crack.
"Then, if we just go back into the RV and close the sunroof, the deceased's belt will be caught by the window. And if the body is lying on its side behind the sunroof with the waist as the center, then even if the damper is opened, it will not be immediately visible to the people in the car."
Jiang Xia nodded. "That's right. This shows the murderer was very well planned and had prepared for today's murder long ago. If the skylight hadn't been left cracked beforehand, then he would have had to keep opening and closing the window while committing the crime."
"But sometimes, cutting corners can leave hidden dangers. If it weren't for this small gap, the blood streak on the skylight wouldn't be so easily visible."
Toru Amuro glanced at him, speechless: "..." That's what he said, but in fact, even if the murderer ran a few more times, he would still find it - you didn't even look carefully at the skylight just now, but you could still tell there were bloodstains on it. It seems that you had already deduced the murderer's method through other clues.
"Didn't you expose it right away, waiting for that little detective to discover the truth?" Amuro Toru felt strange yet somewhat relieved to see that the nation's young seedlings were nurturing new seedlings. "But this habit of seeing through the truth but not revealing it isn't a good one. What if we run into a serial murder case? The sooner we discover it, the sooner we can avoid more danger."
Nearby, Jiang Xia, who was leisurely reasoning while sipping his coffee, paused and continued, "In other words, it wasn't the sudden braking that caused the deceased to fall onto the road, but the 'opening the sunroof' action."
"I see." Inspector Megure slammed his palm and looked at the two college students. "I remember when you went up the mountain, you opened the skylight to watch the fireworks. That's when the body fell, right? Who opened the skylight at that time?"
Huangmao's face turned pale: "Yes, it was me...but it was these two who asked me to open the skylight!"
Tiantang Qinghua's expression wasn't looking good either: "We just want to share that beautiful scene with more people."
"Um……"
Each of the three people has his own reasons, and it seems that they can all find their own way at certain times.
Inspector Megure hesitated for a moment, but finally moved his eyes and looked at the yellow-haired man.
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