Inside the cordon, the burnt, dark car wreckage was piled in the open space.
And around him, Okawara Shoji was taking Kamei Naoki's younger brother Kamei Kuji, conducting investigation and evidence collection.
After controlling the situation, Officer Megure approached the only insider, Takayama's girlfriend Kaori Mobe, for questioning.
"What happened?" Officer Megure looked at Kaori Mobe and asked, "Did you see clearly what happened?"
"have no idea!"
Kaori Mobe's boyfriend died, and she seemed very excited at the moment, "We went to a convenience store to buy things together.
Then he got in the car with his things first, while I bought some more snacks before checking out.
But as soon as I went out, I found that the car was already on fire!"
"I'm afraid there's a fire inside the car."
After Okawara Shoji checked the car, he heard the conversation of several people and walked over and said: "I just checked the car and found that it seemed that there was no burning gasoline at all and it exploded."
"In addition to that, we found this."
Hisashi Uyei said here and took out a matchbox: "In recent times, there have been continuous small fires nearby.
Police Chief Gong of the Fire Department has been paying attention to this case, and he found matches dropped at the scene.
And we just discovered that the matchstick left at the scene is consistent with the match in the trunk of the deceased's car."
"In other words, it is possible that the deceased Chong Shanda was an arsonist?"
Police Officer Megure Tangze couldn't help but frowned when he heard this: "Now the arsonist has been found, but this person is dead.
After all, why did the car suddenly catch fire?"
"It must be a will-o'-the-wisp!"
On the side, Yoshikawa Shizuko didn't really believe the rumor when she originally learned about this title from Koshimizu Nanatsuki.
But as I saw a ball of flame quickly igniting a garbage dump in the morning, and then I saw a car explode and burn a person to death, I suddenly started to become superstitious.
Yoshikawa Shizuko looked at the puzzled Officer Megure and said quickly: "That little girl told me that many people were set on fire here during the Edo period.
If that person is an arsonist, will it be the revenge of those innocent souls who were burned to death?"
"How is this possible? It's too outrageous."
Officer Megure on the side glanced at Nanatsuki Koshizui, with a speechless look on his face: "Crime Koshizui, you are also a researcher after all, how can you spread such superstitious legends?"
"This is not what I am spreading, it is what is being spread on the Internet. I just repeated it to Aunt Jingzi."
While several people were talking, Tang Ze looked at the burning car wreckage and was also thinking deeply.
First, he ruled out the possibility of the other party committing suicide.
After all, judging from yesterday's contact, the deceased did not look like someone who would commit suicide.
If the fire started inside, that means someone set the fire inside the car.
Although the car exploded, many things could still be seen inside the car because the fire was put out in time.
The first thing that can be determined is that the flames basically move upward, and the original ignition point is below the most severely burned part.
After inspecting the car, we found that the most severely burned part of the car was the driver's ceiling.
Although the driver's seat did not catch fire, the seat part was severely burned.
Tang Ze looked at the flower-patterned seat below. This cute style obviously didn't match that little gangster from Chongshan.
In other words, there is a high probability that this seat cover was bought for him by his girlfriend.
The material is acrylic. This material does not spontaneously ignite but is flammable. It is not self-extinguishing and is the best fire starter.
And this means that the fire probably started in the seats under the ceiling.
In addition, Karasawa remembered Kaori Moebu's behavior when he met the other party yesterday, and opened the passenger storage compartment with his gloved right hand.
As expected, it contained deodorant spray and cigarette butts.
Seeing this, Tang Ze seemed to think of something, and walked towards the burnt body, and found that the deceased's cowboy pants were very badly burned.
Seeing this, Tang Ze simulated the scene in his mind when Chong Shanda was burned to death.
Because the flames travel upward, if it is assumed that the cigarette fire ignited the seat cover or coat, then it stands to reason that it should start from the upper body and not the trouser legs.
What can prove this is that the driver's seat floor was not burned.
But here's the strange thing. Even though the flames didn't spread to the bottom, why were the legs of Chongshanda's jeans burned so badly?
Tang Ze looked down again and found that the other party was still wearing leather boots.
"What are you talking about!"
While Karasawa was deep in thought, Kaori Moebu shouted angrily: "Why should I kill my boyfriend!"
"But when I just visited, someone testified that you had a big fight inside the convenience store," Takagi explained.
"We quarrel every day because of his smoking. This is nothing at all. On the contrary, it proves that we have a good relationship. What do you know!"
Kaori Mobe looked at Takagi and mocked disdainfully: "You don't understand this, I'm afraid you don't have a girlfriend!"
"Takagi is reluctant to quarrel with his girlfriend." Koshizui Nanatsuki smiled narrowly when he heard this: "It's not too late to fall in love~"
Takagi's face instantly turned red when he said this. Kaori Kaori, who was standing by him, was stunned when he saw this momentum, and changed his mind towards Takagi: "Hey~ I didn't expect you to be unexpectedly popular. Are you the gentle type?"
"Okay!!" Takagi heard the words of Kaori Mobe and shouted in embarrassment: "We are questioning, please be more serious!"
"But I'm really not a murderer!" Kaori Moebu said anxiously: "I don't need to kill my boyfriend!"
Speaking of this, Finance Ministry Kaori pointed her finger: "If I have to say it, that aunt is more suspicious!
When my boyfriend and I entered the convenience store, she had a big fight with my boyfriend."
"That's because that person was throwing cigarette butts around again!" Yoshikawa Shizuko was shocked when she heard Kaori Mobe's words, and quickly explained: "Yesterday, the cigarette he flicked almost hurt Miss Koshimizu, and today he flicked it without extinguishing it. Cigarettes, of course I want to talk about him!
He did it on purpose. He knew that I was sweeping the floor here every day, so he deliberately wandered in front of me and threw cigarettes!"
"Ms. Yoshikawa, that's why you killed him, right?" Officer Megure looked at Shizuko Yoshikawa and said, "Because you found out that he was an arsonist, so you had murderous intentions!"
"Are you kidding? If I knew he was an arsonist, I would call the police and ask him to compensate for my losses!"
Shizuko Yoshikawa said angrily: "He bought a batch of goods from my convenience store and he burned them all, and I lost a lot of money!
What's the point of killing him? It's the business of arresting him and making compensation!"
"Yes, it makes sense"
After hearing Yoshikawa Shizuko's words, Officer Megure was also convinced by the other party's reasons. After all, he only lost a batch of goods, and he would not go to a place where he would kill people.
If the arsonist can really be caught, it is obviously in his interest to make the other party pay.
Looking at the two women in front of him, Officer Memu really had a headache. He really didn't expect that the two related women had no motive for murder.
So who on earth set up such a vicious plan to burn Chong Shanda to death?
Although I have some doubts, judging from the situation at the scene, I did not see many directional mechanisms.
However, the circumstances of Chong Shanda's death were still a bit strange. Tang Ze felt that there was a layer of veil between him and the truth, but he couldn't see it clearly at all.
At this moment, a strong wind roared past from below, blowing the water and messing up Qi Tsuki's hair.
"It's really annoying. Why is there such a strong wind all of a sudden?"
While Koshimizu Nanatsuki was arranging his hair, he looked at his feet and found that it was not a concrete floor, but standing on the vent of the iron mesh.
"There should be a subway passing by just now."
Jingzi Yoshikawa heard this and said with a smile: "This is where the subway vents are. If the subway passes by, it will be windy."
Tang Ze also subconsciously looked at the subway vents, only to find that there were actually cigarette butts at the edge where the iron mesh met the ground.
This immediately caught Tang Ze's attention, and immediately a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, causing the "gauze" in his mind to be lifted off in an instant.
'So that's what happened!'
Tang Ze looked stunned, then frowned slightly and looked around to find evidence.
After all, his conclusion may be somewhat different from the past, so there must be sufficient and strong evidence.
And soon he saw a camera placed above the door of the convenience store, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Officer Megure, I already know who is the culprit that caused all this."
Tang Ze smiled and said: "But in order to prove this, I still need the video of the convenience store."
"Eh?"
Officer Megure was surprised when he heard this: "But Takagi has just checked the convenience store's camera, right?"
"That's right."
Officer Takagi also nodded with a puzzled look on his face: "Actually, when I first started investigating, I had already checked the convenience store's surveillance video.
Because their convenience store had been robbed before, they specially used high-definition video, but I didn't see the culprit?
Some just show the victim smoking there and then entering the convenience store."
"That's because this "prisoner" is a little different from what you imagined."
Tang Ze smiled and said: "But fortunately this camera is high-definition, otherwise the evidence may not be so clear."
Speaking of this, everyone followed Tang Ze to the convenience store again and watched the video in the store again.
"I remember the scene of the victim before the crime was at this point in time."
After Officer Takagi entered the time period from memory, the video footage was quickly retrieved.
It was clearly captured in the video that Chong Shanda was smoking a cigarette.
"Miss Finance, you should have shouted something here, right?" Tangze asked, pointing to Chong Shanda who was responding to something on the screen.
"Yes, I told him to stop smoking and go to the convenience store to buy something." Kaori Mobe nodded.
"Pay attention here. After Mr. Chongshan responded to your words, he threw away the unfinished cigarette."
After Tang Ze paused the video, he pointed at the cigarette he was holding in his hand and about to throw away in the screen: "Looking at the length, there's probably half of it left unsmoked."
"Then what?" Officer Megure asked in confusion.
"Pay attention to his position. He was standing in the ventilation duct of the subway." Tang Ze pointed at Chong Shanda's feet: "Look clearly, he threw the cigarette directly into the ventilation duct."
Because there was still half the length of the cigarette, the cigarette did not fall along the gap, but got stuck directly in the gap, while Chong Shanda walked towards the inside of the convenience store.
After Tang Ze's reminder, everyone did not look at Chong Shanda. Instead, they stared carefully at the cigarette that fell on the ventilation duct.
"The cigarette butt didn't go out, but became even bigger than before?"
Officer Takagi quickly noticed something strange about the cigarette, and quickly asked: "Why is this?"
"Because it is a ventilation duct, there is always a weak airflow below."
At this moment, Koshimizu Nanatsuki also understood the whole story of the case, and he suddenly explained: "I guess Mr. Takayama mistook it for a sewer manhole cover."
"Based on that person's habits, he doesn't care about anything." Koshimizu Nanatsuki complained: "Yesterday, he flicked a cigarette butt on me."
"You have also seen that it is a grid-shaped manhole cover. It is inevitable that there will be fallen leaves or garbage piled underneath. Some people will even fold flyers into slips of paper and stuff them in."
Tangze said: "The flame of the cigarette became stronger just now because of the ventilation airflow.
After Mr. Chongshan threw away his cigarette, he was unlucky enough to catch the subway passing by.
The burning cigarette was blown onto his pants. Although he quickly shook it off as he walked, the sparks remained, leaving his pants in a smoldering state.
Because Mr. Chongshan is a long-time smoker and the smell of cigarette smoke is very strong, neither he nor the finance lady who went shopping with him could smell the subtle difference in odor."
"I just realized now that there was a little smoke coming out of his pants!" Officer Megure exclaimed, "Brother Karasawa, your observation skills are really sharp."
"I also discovered it after anticipating this possibility." Tang Ze waved his hand modestly: "If I had to look at it myself, I wouldn't have discovered it after just one look."
"But if your pants are on fire, you should feel it even if you can't smell it, right?" Shizuko Yoshikawa asked in confusion.
"That's logically true, but he's wearing leather boots."
After Tang Ze replayed the video, he pointed at Chong Shanda's shoes: "The part where the cigarette was lit happened to cover ordinary leather boots, so he didn't notice it at all.
After that, he and his girlfriend went to a convenience store to buy something. The breeze brought by walking not only did not extinguish the smoldering flames on his pants, but actually made them last longer.
Afterwards, he returned to the car early because he and his girlfriend had an argument about his smoking, so he took out the deodorant spray his girlfriend bought to remove the odor.
But he didn’t expect that this move would directly lead to his death!”
This chapter has been completed!