Suddenly being involved in a murder case, the front desk lady was obviously a little nervous, but she still took a deep breath and tried to remember:
"If you want to go to the swimming pool, you can only go through the corridor next to me. After our front desk received the order to seal off the swimming pool and look for the necklace, we stopped here and persuaded all the ordinary guests to go back.
"After that, except for the two security guards, Mr. Sasaki, the manager and Miss Oiso... I mean the younger Miss Oiso who is still alive, except for the five of them, no one else came in or out."
As she was talking, she suddenly remembered another thing, looked at Jiang Xia and whispered: "By the way, you guys also went in before the dead Miss Oji acted alone."
Suzuki Sonoko looked embarrassed: "..." Sure enough, she shouldn't use her privileges outside. She just showed her face and brought people in to watch the Oiso family's treasure hunt at the bottom of the pond. Who knew that this would be repaid in this world.
The Mumu Police Department also rushed over. When he heard this, his eyes reflexively turned to Judy: In other words, this suspicious foreign friend also went in?
Judy: "..."
Does she really look that suspicious?
While thinking about it, Judy quietly looked at her temporary team:
An excellent helper who has helped the police solve countless cases.
A high school girl with an innocent face and an aura of purity all over her body.
A rich man from a consortium who can bankrupt countless people with just a few clicks of his fingers, without even needing to kill anyone himself.
Add in a first grader who can't even beat a chicken.
Judy: "..."
...Forget it, just be suspicious, you have to find something to do for these stupid policemen who can't find the murderer.
Speaking of which, according to the Tokyo police's method of judging people by their appearance, if the person who sneaked into Jiang Xia was not himself, but Akai Shuichi...
Judy recalled the temperament of the FBI ace, and couldn't help but picture Akai Shuichi being surrounded by a group of police officers as soon as he showed up, ready to arrest him and put him in jail at any time.
Judy: "Pfft."
...Although this shouldn't be the case, I really want to see how Akai Shuichi would respond if he was regarded as a suspect by the police.
The Mumu Police Department who was secretly staring at her said: "?"
What is this English teacher doing? He smiles arrogantly at this time. Is this a provocation?!
When two forces secretly fight each other.
Passerby detectives were working hard nearby. Jiang Xia asked the front desk: "Has anyone returned to the swimming pool after the deceased acted alone?"
The front desk thought for a while: "The first person who came back was our manager. He was worried that Miss Oiso was alone in the swimming pool, so he went back to take a look."
Another receptionist had read many murder reports in Jiangxia and added quite professionally: "At that time, I just received an email on my mobile phone. I was trying to reply to the email but the manager saw it. I was worried for a while. I took a look.
…”
She pulled out her phone and quickly found the specific time: "It was 12:05."
Jiang Xia nodded and asked the hotel manager: "What was the situation in the swimming pool when you entered?"
Hotel manager: "Miss Oiso was looking for the necklace in the water. She didn't see me at first, so I was able to protect her. But when she found me, she thought I was an eyesore and told me to get out."
The receptionist tried hard to remember the second person who entered the swimming pool. After a moment, he looked at his fiancé: "I remember, it should be Mr. Zuo Juan."
The fiancé said: "She was searching in the water alone for a long time. I thought that the progress was too slow, so I wanted to try to help her search together. But when we got to the swimming pool, I found that Yongmei was not in the water.
"I thought she went to the bathroom, so I waited in the swimming pool for a while, but no one was there. I thought Yongmei had found the necklace and left, so she left too."
Jiang Xia looked back at the front desk.
The front desk was worried: "Because it was an emergency period and there was no need to register, so we don't know when Mr. Zuo Juan left, but... By the way, I remember that the living Miss Oiso came back at 12:54! Because
At that time, she happened to ask me about the time."
Asking for the time alone sounds a bit suspicious.
Sister Oiso quickly explained: "Because my sister said she would eat in a restaurant, she is not a person who likes to change her schedule, so my brother-in-law asked me to go to the women's restroom and locker room to see if my sister was there.
"I went looking for her, but I couldn't find her at all, and there was no one in the swimming pool. The empty room made me a little scared, and my sister never showed up. I was worried that my phone showed the wrong time, so I went to the front desk.
Confirmed again."
Each of the three people's statements sounds different, but one thing is certain - excluding the corpse himself, all three of them spent some time alone in the swimming pool. And the estimated time of death is from 12 noon to 1
At this point, all three of them happened to be in this range, and they were all still suspected.
Motives are useless, alibi are useless.
Police Officer Mu Mu's head swelled again. But this time he made a new discovery. He stood at the front desk and looked along the 10-meter-long corridor towards the swimming pool - there is indeed only one way to enter the swimming pool, but this
There are restrooms and changing rooms at both ends of the passage.
If the body had really been hidden for a period of time, it was probably hidden in these two rooms with many shelters.
"But why did the murderer hide the body first and then throw it back into the swimming pool?" Suzuki Sonoko thought of the body floating under the water before, raised her arms to hug herself, touched the goose bumps on her arms, and muttered, "It's simply inexplicable.
"
The two receptionists said: "After another Miss Oiso entered, because she confirmed that there was no one in the women's locker room and restroom, we knew that Miss Oiso was really missing. After that, we hurriedly notified the manager and others
Waiter, we all looked for him everywhere, but we couldn't find him.
"It wasn't until an hour later that someone suddenly screamed and called the police in the swimming pool that we learned that Miss Oiso died in the swimming pool."
The scene at that time was still fresh in everyone's memory. At this time, the security guard who was closer to the swimming pool remembered something. He hesitated and said: "Not long before the body was discovered, I seemed to hear a strange noise. It was like... just
It was like someone had spit out a giant bubble."
After saying that, he felt a little strange himself and scratched his head awkwardly: "Maybe I heard wrong, maybe someone was flushing the toilet."
Jiang Xia looked thoughtful: "No, it should be right."
The police immediately asked: "Who is the murderer?"
Jiang Xia said sternly: "To be on the safe side, according to the police's tradition of solving crimes, clean up the swimming pool first and then refill it with water as an experiment."
