Last night, when I met Rum in the restaurant of my choice, in order to prevent Jiang Xia from being spotted and taken away by the second-in-command of the evil organization, Toru Amuro reminded Jiang Xia to "be a little restrained" and not to show too much edge.
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In other words, it was actually just a one-time reminder.
...Who would have thought that Jiang Xia has been remembering it until now, and is always "converging".
…
However, after thinking of this, Toru Amuro quickly understood.
——This is normal.
After all, Jiang Xia doesn't know Rum and doesn't know the real reason why he "wanted to restrain himself" last night.
Maybe at that time, Jiang Xia just thought that Amuro Toru was in a hurry to catch up with the mission and didn't want to cause trouble on the road, so she reminded him like that.
…
After thinking about it, Toru Amuro raised his head. He and Jiang Xia looked at each other for a moment with slight doubts and no hint of sadness, and most of the romantic and tragic scenery in their minds collapsed.
"..." Could it be that he was overthinking it? Jiang Xia didn't actually know Tadokoro Toshiya's sister, and this murder was just a coincidence?
...Well, to be on the safe side, I have to ask my subordinates to check the specific situation, such as whether there is any evidence of contact between Jiangxia and Kaori Tadokoro, or conversely, evidence of no contact with her.
Toru Amuro made an extra note on the task list in his mind and planned to send this new task to his subordinates later.
After thinking briefly, he found an excuse to lift the seal on Jiangxia: "There are no reporters or police here now. Just follow your usual habits to solve the case."
"good."
Jiang Xia nodded. He seemed to have no special ideas about whether to solve the case or not, and whether to restrain himself or not. He looked like a subordinate with a good temper...not like a subordinate who secretly plotted to kill two people for a year.
Scum, by the way, the mastermind behind letting a psychiatrist who he didn't like go to jail.
While talking, Gunda Ikumi noticed two people muttering next to them in low voices.
She observed for a moment, and although she couldn't hear clearly what the two said, she found that Jiang Xia was looking at Toshiya Tadokoro, one of the three suspects.
Gunda Ikumi was stunned for a moment and said keenly: "Have you found the murderer?"
"That's right." Jiang Xia said, "Although there is no evidence yet, I probably know the method."
As he spoke, he looked at the map on the table and pointed to the collection room:
"The traces of snow show that no one has passed by on the roof and balcony. So at present, the murderer's sequence of actions seems to be to first take out the cypress wooden nail from the collection room, and then take it through the hall to the study. Killing in the study
After the death, a wooden nail was driven into his heart...
"But in fact, the order may be reversed.
"For example, first steal a real cypress dowel, and then put an imitation of it in the collection room. After showing us around the collection room and making us think that the real 'cypress dowel' is still in the collection room, we can look for
With an excuse - such as delivering food or something like that - go into the study, take out the real wooden nails that were hidden in advance, and use them to nail the body to the cross after killing someone.
"As long as you find an excuse later, such as checking whether the doors and windows are locked, and taking the opportunity to go to the collection room and dispose of the fake cypress nails, you can cleverly reverse the action steps in other people's eyes and create a sense that 'the murderer is
He first stole the wooden nails and then killed others, thereby clearing himself of suspicion."
... After solving the most critical problem, the rest is not difficult to figure out.
Even though Toru Amuro wandered off for a while, he was able to follow his train of thought seamlessly: "The thin piece of wood you asked me to take a picture of is a disposable device used to get stuck in the window lock - I guess it was just now
On the second floor, we could see two parallel indentations on the weather shield of the collection room window. Now it seems that someone put a ladder across the collection room and corridor, climbed to the collection room window, and opened it to look like
Locked ventilation window, used garden pliers or something like that, swapped cypress dowels from there."
"Yeah." Jiang Xia nodded, "After the murderer kills the person, he can leave through the corridor normally. As for the secret room in the study, it was probably arranged using the projector that was moved to the door - stretching the film and bypassing it
If the clothes hanger is stained on the locked twist film, you only need to start the projector, the film will be pulled and recycled by the machine, and the door will automatically lock... Put the deceased in the shape of an executed vampire, and then use the projector to shine on the deceased.
Masking moved the projector to the door and used it to create the true purpose of the secret room."
"..."
In the living room, everyone digested these sentences silently. Different from the question-answer, appendix and explanation that other detectives loved to use, Jiang Xia really seemed to be reading from a script when solving the case, and a series of concise techniques were poured into their ears.
...the listening experience is not very good.
Some people understand, and some are still confused.
But in short, no matter whether they understood the whole process or not, everyone caught the key words.
——Although Jiang Xia never said who the murderer was from the beginning to the end, there were words such as "such as delivering food" and "such as checking whether the doors and windows were locked", combined with everyone's actions tonight...
It seems to be very obvious who the murderer is.
A group of people looked at Toshiya Tadokoro one after another with complicated expressions.
Jiang Xia also looked over.
...Unless Tadokoro Toshiya was so arrogant that he didn't wear gloves when he committed the crime, if he had been tougher, the case might have been fooled successfully - the imitation wooden peg, it can be said that he likes the cypress wooden peg, his imitation toy
; He originally used the ladder and pliers, and it didn't matter if he took them out to repair the roof late at night. The house was prone to problems in the snow... In short, everything depended on his own desire for survival.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard Tadokoro Toshiya sneer, looked at Jiang Xia, and shook his head:
"You said one thing wrong.
"I made that person look like a vampire, not just to cover up the secret room methods, but also because - he is indeed an ugly, damn vampire!
"If he hadn't bribed the attending doctor in order to extend my ghostwriting time and asked him to only perform conservative treatment... my sister would not have died at all!"
Jiang Xia: "..." He is a cheerful person.
Just as he was thinking about it, he seemed to have heard the words of confession, and the shikigami on Tadokoro Toshiya's calf fell like a piece of paper that had completely lost his mind.
Jiang Xia: “…”
...Well, this is also a refreshing ghost.
Speaking of which, isn't it afraid that Toshiya Tadokoro will meet an eloquent lawyer in the future and be released due to lack of evidence? The tacit trust between the murderer and the deceased is really amazing...
...Anyway, Shikigami picked it up.
As a passing psychic, Jiang Xia quickly stopped thinking about it.
He used the action of warming his hands to take the shikigami held by the ghosts, and put the shikigami into his pocket. He planned to find a time when Toru Amuro was not watching him to sign it, and then he could take back the shikigami at will.