The photo that Tang Ze found was slightly different from the other photos.
Not that it’s about the content, but the other paintings are all taken from close range, but only this one seems to be taken from a distance below.
But it’s understandable depending on the location.
After all, this is on the rooftop of an apartment, and the place where Takahiro Three Bridges was painted was on one side of the wall of the elevator machine room.
"We just installed the door lock last week."
The building manager led the three people to the bottom of the spray painting and said: "In the past, anyone could come up freely, but I didn't expect those guys to be so bad."
Speaking of this, the building manager seemed very angry, "Look, it's turned out like this. The advertisements for leasing above have been affected, and I got scolded a lot. It's really irritating."
There is a large "Advertising Recruitment" billboard erected above the elevator machine room, which seems to be an important source of income. However, this happened to the customer before the negotiation was completed. It is no wonder that the other party was scolded.
The words of the building manager also explained why this photo was the only one from a distance.
The reason why I couldn't come up to take pictures was because the administrator was scolded after discovering graffiti on it. After that, he sold the lock and locked the door on the rooftop.
As for ordinary people, it is really impossible to come up.
"I wonder if you still remember the date of the graffiti and the date it was started?" Tang Ze waited until the building manager finished complaining and asked again.
I remember that I discovered the graffiti on Saturday, so I must have sneaked in on Friday night. During the weekend, I installed a door lock on the small rooftop door.
"Thank you, very useful information,"
After Tangze bowed slightly to thank him, the other party smiled and said in return: "It would be the best if I can help you, so I will go down first, please help yourself."
After the building manager left, Karasawa looked at Kogoro Mori and asked, "Detective Mori, it must have been last Saturday when that mysterious woman came to ask you to entrust her?"
"I'm not jealous, that's it." Mouri Kogoro nodded and said, "What's wrong? Did you find anything?"
"Yes, when I heard you say that, I thought of such a possibility."
Tangze took two steps forward, came to the edge of the rooftop and looked into the distance: "That mysterious woman may have witnessed Gao Hongsanqiao painting here."
"Witnessed?" Takagi asked doubtfully, "But didn't she say that she had never seen the owner of the painting?"
"Do you still remember Detective Mori's description? The other person said, "It fits the band's style very well, so I just want to find a man who can draw."
Karasawa reminded: "If Detective Mori did not add a subjective description, but just recited what the other party said, it would prove that the other party had seen the other party. At least she saw that the other party was a man."
"I didn't add a subjective description." Mouri Kogoro said seriously after thinking about it: "The other party did say that at the time. I can confirm this."
"Then if that's the case, don't you think it's strange?"
Tang Ze asked back: "The mysterious woman clearly said she didn't know who painted it there, but she said the other person was a male. In other words, the other person lied. She actually witnessed the person who painted it."
"I just thought at the time that the other person might be guessing that the person who painted the picture was a male."
Mouri Kogoro scratched his head and said with a smile: "After all, when you look at illegal graffiti, it looks very rebellious. It feels like something that boys in their early twenties like to do."
Hearing this, Tang Ze couldn't help but roll his eyes. Sure enough, it still smelled familiar...
Mouri Kogoro's usual brain-based reasoning helped the prisoner find reasonable excuses to make up for all the suspicious flaws.
As expected of a man who was once complained by Officer Memu that "cases involving him are like walking through a maze." With his ability to make up his mind, someone who didn't know better would have thought that he and the criminal were in the same group.
"Then if that's the case, why didn't the woman tell Detective Mori that she saw the other person here?"
Takagi wondered: "The other party clearly paid a generous sum of money and asked Mr. Maori to find the owner of the painting, but he refused to provide any information.
This seems a bit contradictory, not to mention such important information."
"Even if it is a contradiction, if it happens, there will be a reason."
Karasawa looked at the building opposite and said meaningfully: "Perhaps the other party did something with a guilty conscience and was afraid that after telling Detective Mori this location, some clues would be discovered.
But on the other hand, for some reason she had to find the Takahiro Three Bridges, so she deliberately concealed the location and adopted such a contradictory method."
"Then what is it that must be concealed?" Takagi asked impatiently.
"We still need to investigate this."
Tangze shook his head, looked at Takagi's slightly disappointed eyes and smiled: "You don't really think that I know everything, do you? I just know a little more than you do. I am not omnipotent."
"Forehead…"
Takagi smiled awkwardly when he heard this. He also noticed that as long as he was investigating the case with Karasawa Criminal Investigation, he seemed to be less willing to use his brain.
'This is not a good habit...' Takagi secretly told himself in his heart to change this bad habit of giving up (work), thinking (tools) and testing (people) when working with Tangze Criminal.
"That's it for today. I think we have to rely on the Metropolitan Police Department for the rest."
Karasawa didn't know what Takagi was thinking. He looked at Mouri Kogoro and thanked him: "If the other party really saw something here that scared him and ran away, then I think he should have called the police.
Let's go back and investigate the police call, and thank you Detective Maori for your help."
"It's all trivial matters." Mouri Kogoro waved his hands and said seriously: "I will also investigate from other directions and try to find that hateful woman as soon as possible!"
After beckoning Takagi out of his daze, Karasawa and Mouri Kogoro said goodbye and took Takagi back to the Metropolitan Police Department.
After parking the car and going upstairs, the two of them walked directly towards the forensic department.
"Here we come." Uncle Demi said hello when he saw the two people pushing the door open. With a strong step, he rolled his wheelchair to the computer: "I have found what you asked me to look for."
Karasawa had already asked Takagi and Uncle Demi to contact him on the way, so the two of them no longer had to spend time on preliminary investigation work and could just get to the point.
"I have troubled you all this time, Uncle Demi." Tang Ze thanked him.
"Nothing, it's just a matter of duty." Uncle Demi took out a piece of information from the computer desk: "This is the call record of the deceased."
After taking it, Tangze sifted through it and clicked when he saw the "110" number in the record: "Sure enough, I called the police. So it seems that something did happen that night."
"The time was one o'clock in the morning on Saturday, but the administrator's testimony was consistent."
Takagi glanced at the time on the alarm call and speculated: "It is estimated that Takahiro Sanbashi sneaked to the rooftop on Friday night and painted until one o'clock in the morning on Saturday.
But at this time, he seemed to have witnessed something horrific, so he ran away in a hurry before finishing the painting, and then called the police."
"That's about it." Tang Ze nodded and said, "It seems that the prisoner is not his ex-boyfriend."
"It's indeed not the case. That guy Kusaka Takeyama was just saying cruel things. On the day of the incident, he was drinking with friends in a nightclub until midnight. His alibi was captured on the surveillance video."
The door of the forensic department opened, and Miwako Sato stepped in: "How did you two get it there?"
"It's been a great harvest." Takagi said and briefly recounted their findings to Sato Miwako.
"That is to say, we only need to listen to what Takahiro Mihashi said in the alarm record. Then we can confirm what happened to him and the motive for his murder?"
Miwako Sato's eyes lit up and she quickly looked at Uncle Tomi, who smiled and took out a CD and put it into the CD-ROM drive: "It has been prepared for a long time."
"As expected of Uncle Demi, he does things neatly." Takagi praised.
"You brat, you know how to talk." Demi laughed and cursed, then turned on the audio, and soon the three of them listened to the police call made by Takahiro Mihashi before his death with serious faces.
""here has…"
"Hello, how can I help you?"
"That's it, I'm sorry, it was a typo..."
After the conversation reached this point, he hung up, leaving the expectant Officer Takagi and Sato Miwako disappointed.
"That's it?" Takagi said in shock: "Uncle Demi, you didn't finish copying the audio, did you?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Demi said angrily: "That's all the content in the entire audio!"
"But, but this is too..." Sato Miwako's face was full of doubts: "It's too perfunctory."
It's no wonder, judging from the panicked tone of Gao Hongsanqiao's words as soon as the call was connected, it was obvious that he was planning to call the police after encountering something.
But as soon as the conversation started, he immediately stopped talking. How could it not be depressing?
"that's enough."
After listening to Takahiro Mihashi's call to the police before his death, Karasawa was indeed not as disappointed as the two of them. Instead, he smiled and said: "Now it's confirmed, he definitely witnessed a crime on that rooftop."
"Can..."
"You want to say why he called the police, but then hung up the phone and chose to conceal the matter?"
Karasawa looked at Sato Miwako and prompted: "But think about what he was doing at that time?"
"Painting on the wall..." After Takagi finished speaking, he immediately came to his senses, "So that's what happened. When he saw the unknown criminal behavior, he immediately wanted to call the police.
But when the call was connected, he suddenly realized that he was also doing something illegal.
If discovered, he would also be arrested for building damage, which is why it turned out like what we heard."
"So that's it." Sato Miwako suddenly said: "That's why he was so scared that he packed up his things and ran away. I didn't expect that the painting was not finished because of this reason..."
"Yes, that's it." Tang Ze looked at the two people and said, "And more than that, while he witnessed the incident, his own existence was also discovered because of that billboard."
"Billboard...ah, those lights!" Takagi, who had been to the scene, immediately reacted, "Because of that billboard, it's very bright there at night!
Even if you can't see a person's face, you can still tell whether they are male or female by looking at their body shape.
So when the mysterious woman took the picture during the day, I had to conceal my identity and went to the Mori Detective's office, saying that I wanted to find the man who painted the picture!"
"As for the reason, there is only one reason, and that is to kill people and silence them."
Karasawa's face was stern: "Then, based on the information provided by Detective Mori, they lurked near Takahiro's Mihashi home until he got off work and killed him directly."
"Wait a minute, you mean them?" Sato Miwako keenly noticed Karasawa's words and her face condensed: "Isn't the murderer the same person?"
"If it was that woman who took action, it would be impossible for her to kill a young and strong man so silently, right?"
Tang Zedao: "Even in a one-on-one situation with a man, without professional training, it is very difficult to kill a man without making any sound."
"I have to go to this step to silence them. It seems that Takahiro Sanqiao really witnessed an extraordinary scene."
Takagi said with a serious expression: "But there are so many buildings that can be seen from the rooftop. Even if you can only see the direction of the painting, there are still several buildings.
Which room and who did it, we don’t even know!”
"Then mobilize manpower and conduct door-to-door searches!"
Sato Miwako said firmly: "Compared to catching criminals like looking for a needle in a haystack, it's just that the difficulty of searching these buildings is not at the same level!"
"This is indeed a difficult problem, but it is not impossible."
Tang Ze laughed meaningfully: "We only need one person to know one premise. They must kill all the insiders who are detrimental to them before the matter is exposed!"
"But there are no insiders now." Takagi said doubtfully, "The insiders have been killed and silenced."
"Then we can just create another insider."
Karasawa smiled and said: "But this is something that our criminal department is difficult to do, but if Detective Maori is willing to help, it will be very simple."
"Eh?" After hearing Tang Ze's words, Takagi and Takagi couldn't help but look at each other.
They never thought of anything that detectives could do that criminals couldn't do.
After all, in general, criminals with law enforcement powers can do more than detectives.
While the two of them were curiously taking pictures, Karasawa took out his cell phone and dialed Mouri Kogoro's number.
After some communication, Mouri Kogoro on the other end of the phone readily agreed to Karasawa's plan. After hanging up the phone, he directly dialed another person's number:
"Mr. Sandao, I don't know if you have time now. I have an urgent order that I would like to entrust you with..."
This chapter has been completed!