Chapter 3363 3375 [Case Closed] Ask for monthly ticket ()
Mao Lilan has gradually found the feeling of being a detective. In addition, Jiang Xia is right next to her. With such a famous detective here, any mistakes can be corrected on the spot without worrying about serious consequences.
Thinking of this, she took a deep breath and methodically answered the questions from the crowd:
"If he just takes a little more at a time, he can survive for two or three days without having to come to the store to steal every day."
"As for why some game cartridges were lost... Although this gentleman has been living on the roof of your convenience store, with no worries about food and drink, and even toiletries available locally, there are always some things that the store can't solve.
"Like getting a haircut and showering—if he neglects his appearance for too long and ends up looking unkempt like a homeless person, he won't be able to mingle with the customers and leave the convenience store. He'll end up living on the roof of the convenience store for the rest of his life.
"So, in order to avoid completely losing his social status, he needed some money to take care of himself, in addition to food and drink. The game cartridges that were lost in the store must have been sold by him."
The store manager looked at this and that, thinking it was all pure fantasy. "The total number of lost game cartridges isn't too small. He keeps going in and out of the restroom, doesn't anyone suspect anything? If he went in and went straight to the ceiling, the customers outside would probably think someone was occupying the restroom and come to complain to me... Ah!"
Halfway through his speech, he suddenly thought of something and showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.
"That's right." Mao Lilan confirmed his guess, "He must know this, so he usually pays close attention to it."
"Every time he used the restroom, or 'went home', he would ask the person behind him to go first, so that he would be the last one in line and no other customers would wait outside for him to come out.
"As for the store clerks, even if someone saw him go into the restroom, the busy clerks wouldn't deliberately wait there to see when he came out.
"As for 'going out', that's even simpler - just go out of the bathroom when no one is there and blend in with the other guests.
"He exchanged the game cartridges for money, ate the food, and used the stolen batteries to pick items from the shelves in the dark after the store closed."
Jiang Xia returned to the bathroom, opened the door, looked at the ceiling, and pointed to the skeptical store manager: "Seeing is believing, see for yourself."
The store manager came to his senses, ran in quickly, looked up, and saw that a board had indeed been lifted from the ceiling of the toilet.
——Usually, the guest living on the ceiling would carefully cover up his traces and put the board back in place after leaving.
But this time, because of the sudden "fire", he obviously did not have the leisure to do so. Instead, after leaving the ceiling, he rushed into the encirclement at the fastest speed.
The store manager stared at the opened board, thought for a moment, and called a nimble male clerk over: "Go up and take a look."
The male clerk nodded, stepped on the toilet, and flipped onto the roof.
Outside the toilet door.
Judy watched this scene and glanced at the middle-aged man next to her with her peripheral vision: "..." If there was a body hidden on the roof, then this case that was about to end would be another story.
"Wait, what was I thinking! Why am I helping him write a script?" Judy came back to her senses with a start and secretly pinched herself:
"It's better not to have this kind of thing happen... And think about it rationally. In this kind of weather, if there really was a body on the ceiling, it would have been smelly by now. There's no way the people in the store were completely unaware of it."
"But what if it's a dried corpse that's been dead for many years?"
“…”
After thinking seriously for a few seconds, Judy came back to her senses.
After a long silence, she took a deep breath and pressed her head painfully, trying to curb her uncontrollable thoughts.
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When an FBI agent struggles to fight against corruption and manipulation that doesn't exist.
In the restroom, the male clerk who climbed into the ceiling gradually adapted to the dim light in the ceiling.
He looked around with surprise. "There are so many food packaging bags and empty takeout containers in here! It's almost full!"
Store manager: “…”
With all the evidence, the truth was clearly before his eyes. No matter how absurd it was, he had to admit: for such a long time, there had indeed been an "invisible person" living in his store.
"This guy is too outrageous..." Then, the store manager remembered that he had mistaken Nanakawa Aya for a thief before, and he wondered:
"But why does he always choose to steal when Qichuan is on duty? Do they have a grudge? Is he trying to frame someone?"
Mao Lilan complained, "That's because Xiao Xuan takes her work most seriously. When goods arrive at your store at night, other employees will just pile them up in the warehouse and leave them for colleagues who come to work the next day to sort them out. Only Xiao Xuan will sort out the goods on her shift that night.
“Most of the time, goods are piled haphazardly in this narrow room, which blocks the toilet door and prevents the tenants on the ceiling from getting out.
"Only after Xiao Xuan sorted out the goods did a passage appear here, and the real thief had the opportunity to sneak from the toilet into the store and start shopping."
Suzuki Sonoko nodded as she listened, and poked the cardboard box next to her, but who knew that the box actually moved a little - it was filled with daily necessities and was very light.
Suzuki Sonoko was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something suspicious: "Speaking of which, since these boxes can be moved by the clerk, then the thief must be able to move them too - if the door is blocked by cardboard boxes, he can get out by just moving the boxes."
After saying that, she waited for Ran Mouri to give a sharp answer, and then ended the incident cleanly and neatly, and was promoted to "Detective Xiaolan".
However, unlike what she expected, Mao Lilan was stunned for a moment and did not tell the reason. Instead, she scratched her forehead in confusion and said, "Yeah, why?"
Suzuki Sonoko: “…”
Xiaolan! Cheer up! This is the crucial moment of the final round!
Fortunately, at this time, the detective who had temporarily retreated to the second line came online.
Jiang Xia began to patch the roof skillfully: "Being able to live on the roof for such a long time without being discovered by others shows that this 'tenant' is a very careful and cautious person.
“It’s certainly not difficult to move a cardboard box, but if a clerk notices that the box has been moved and then associates it with the thief’s route, then the risk of him being exposed will increase significantly.
"Rather than taking such a risk, it's better to only do it when you can avoid touching the cardboard box. That's why he steals every time Nanakawa-san is on duty."
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Thanks to the big guys for the [monthly ticket] (σ≧▽≦)σ.
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