Lin Hai stared at the locker where the corpse was hidden, his eyes full of confusion.

Noticing his strange expression, Ota asked, "What did you find?"

Lin Hai did not answer, but suppressed the confusion in his heart and asked the police officer in charge of investigating the scene a few questions.

The first question: the cause of death.

Answer: Wound in the abdomen, blood loss and death.

The second question: the time of death.

Answer: Judging by the body temperature, when the body was found, it should have just died.

The third question: the state of the body when it was found.

"If you're referring to the first scene, I'm afraid you'll not know until the end of the inquiry. The officer hesitated for a moment, then said, "I have here the photo I took earlier......

He said and looked at Masao Ota.

Ota Masao waved his hand: "Give it to him." ”

The chief spoke, and the police officer no longer hesitated, took out a few photos and handed them to Lin Hai.

……

Lin Hai flipped through the photos.

Seeing the face of the deceased clearly, Lin Hai let out a "huh".

"What's wrong?" asked Masao Ota.

"This person. Lin Hai pointed to the man in the photo and said, "To be precise, his face looks very similar to a man I have seen before." ”

"Who's that person?" Masao Ota became excited, and his intuition told him that this was a very important clue.

"It's a barbecue stall owner who sells charcoal-grilled herring, and his stall is not far from here......"

Ota Masao asked clearly, and immediately sent someone to go, and after a while, the good news came from the walkie-talkie that "someone had caught".

Rather than grabbing, it was better to find, or more accurately, the stall owner didn't change places at all.

Ota Masao held the walkie-talkie and looked at Lin Hai inquiringly.

Lin Hai knew what he meant, shook his head and said, "There's no need to bring people here. ”

Masao Ota nodded and asked the stall owner to be taken directly to the hotel for interrogation.

"It's really yours, and the case has been solved so easily!" Masao Ota was overflowing with excitement.

"What do you want?" Lin Hai rolled his eyes and said, "That person can't be a murderer, if he wants to kill someone, how can he come out of the stall?"

Ota Masao patted his head, embarrassed and annoyed, and secretly scolded: Datian, Datian, no matter how earnest you are to solve the case, you shouldn't even forget such a simple truth!

If the stall owner is really a murderer, it means that he has left the stall, but there are people on the street, and there are shops on the left and right, and he left the stall for no reason, it is impossible for no one to notice, is this not a clear proof of conviction for the police?

……

Lin Hai continued to look at the photo.

The man was dressed in a light gray patterned gown and hakama, and his chest and abdomen were completely red with blood, and other places were also stained with mottled blood.

Lin Hai looked at the close-ups of the whole body, half of the body and face, and there was only one thing that made people care-

The man's left hand is clenched, and his right hand is open.

After carefully looking at the photos from all angles, Lin Hai returned the photos to the police officers and looked back at the locker.

There was a lot of blood in the locker, and there were obvious traces of smearing, as if to hide something.

Lin Hai took a closer look and found no useful information.

He turned around and asked, "Do you think it's possible that this is the scene of the crime?"

"It's hard to say. ”

One of the officers shook his head and pointed in the direction of the bathroom, saying, "We also found blood stains in the bathroom, and there was also a luminol reaction on the floor from the bathroom to the locker." ”

"So the killer killed someone in the bathroom and then dragged him here to hide?"

Lin Hai felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it for a while.

He thought about it and decided to take a look in the bathroom.

The bathroom is not small, with a shower and a three-metre square bath.

The water in the bath has been emptied.

"Is there a discovery in there?"

"Nope. There was a blood reaction around the bath, but no murder weapon was found in the bath. ”

"Hmm. ”

Although the police were sure that there were no clues left in the bath, Lin Hai went down to the bath and checked along the edges and corners.

Ota Masao followed him into the bath, but after walking two steps, he suddenly slipped on his back and fell to the ground.

Lin Hai was startled by the bang behind him, and when he looked back and saw Masao Ota on all fours, he couldn't help but think of a creature called Rolling.

The others weren't funny, they were all terrified.

"Vigilant, are you okay?" Takashi Uesugi and another police officer hurriedly jumped into the bath and reached out to help.

"Slow, slow, oops...... Let me slow down! really, what bastard is littering in the bath!"

Masao Ota sat on the ground, humming and rubbing his waist.

Lin Hai's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "What is it?"

"I don't know, it's a bit awkward to step on, you can look for it. ”

Ota Masao said, also hunched over and slowly stood up, touched the back of his buttocks, and couldn't help but curse again.

……

Soon, what almost caused Masao Ota to die in the line of duty was found.

"What is this?"

Ota Masao looked at the small object that Lin Hai was holding in his hand, because the light relationship was not real.

"It's not a wine glass, it's a small piece of bamboo. ”

A small section of bamboo, about three centimeters long, does look a bit like a small sake cup at first glance.

Lin Hai glanced at Ota Masao, and then asked Takashi Uesugi for a plastic evidence bag and solemnly put it in.

"Is this important?" asked Masao Ota, glaring at the police officer in charge of inspecting the bathroom.

The officer bowed his head.

Regardless of whether this thing is related to the homicide or not, causing the boss to fall in public is the most serious work mistake.

Lin Hai looked at this group of people and shook his head helplessly. Probably because the threshold is too low, the work ability of the Japanese police is really not flattering.

Seeing that Ota Masao was about to scold the street, Lin Hai hurriedly said: "I have general eyebrows. ”

Ota Masao held back his words when he came to his lips, choked for a moment, turned around and asked Lin Hai: "Do you know who the murderer is?"

"How could it be. ”

Lin Hai shrugged his shoulders and said: "It's just a guess, as for whether it is as I thought, I will only know after looking at the results of the inquiry in the end." ”

……

Ota Masao drove the car and rushed to the hotel with Lin Hai in a hurry.

Along the way, he kept probing, but Lin Hai was always reluctant to say what he thought on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

The interrogation venue provided by the hotel for the police is located on the 18th floor, with a banquet hall outside and a conference room inside, which is convenient for the police to question everyone separately.

I took the elevator up to the eighteenth floor and walked into the banquet hall, where Hikaru Utada rushed up and couldn't wait to get the news from him.

Lin Hai kept silent about the case and asked Hikaru Utada: "Where is Kyoko?"

"It's lying on my stomach over there. ”

Hikaru Utada pointed, and Lin Hai saw Kyoko lying on the dining table half dead.

Lin Hai stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Ah, Hysan...... Ahem......"

As soon as Kyoko opened her mouth, she coughed.

Hikaru Utada explained, "Kyoko was taken aback at the time because ...... So ......"

Hikaru Utada whispered an explanation in Lin Hai's ear, and Lin Hai couldn't bear it so he didn't laugh out loud.

It turned out that Kyoko was about to change clothes, and when she opened the cabinet door, she suddenly saw the corpse, and she was so frightened that she turned her back on it.

What's so funny about that, you ask?

The funny thing is that the reason why Kyoko turned her back on her anger was because she wrapped her breasts too tightly in order to wear a kimono......

"Poof!hahaha......"

Lin Hai still couldn't hold back in the end, and laughed.

Kyoko looked up, glanced at him resentfully, and then buried her head in her arm—

Oh my God, Hai Sang knows about this kind of mess, shouldn't he think I'm stupid?

……

"Are young people nowadays so rude?"

Koshiro Matsumoto scolded with a gun and a stick.

Lin Hai hurriedly apologized. It is indeed rude to laugh on such an occasion.

Koshiro Matsumoto snorted coldly, and his face did not ease.

Lin Hai felt strange, when they met before, his attitude was still very friendly, how could he seem to rob his daughter at this time?

……

Just then, the door to the conference room opened.

Ai Yazawa walked out of it and smiled at everyone reluctantly.

Seeing Rika following closely behind Yazawa Ai, she glanced at everyone, and then walked straight to the front of the Ota police officer, and said, "The police are right, everyone has asked, this is the inquiry record." ”

Rika Inomi handed a wad of paper to Masao Ota.

"Is there a conclusion about the murderer?"

"Not yet. ”

"Hmm. ”

Ota Masao nodded, beckoned Lin Hai over, and then stuffed the inquiry record to Lin Hai.

"You take a look and see what you find?"

"Vigilant!"

"Wait a minute!"

Rika and Koshiro Matsumoto shouted in no particular order.

Rika glanced at Koshiro Matsumoto and nodded for the other party to speak first.

Koshiro Matsumoto got up directly from the chair, walked up to Ota Masao, and said unceremoniously: "Your Excellency is doing this, I'm afraid it's not in accordance with the rules, right?"

Rules, rules, rules!

The corners of Ota Masao's eyes twitched, and he said politely: "Lin Jun has cooperated with the Metropolitan Police Department before, and I believe you have heard of his ability." Personally, I think that in order to solve the case as soon as possible, and in order not to waste your precious time, it is necessary to ask him to help analyze the case. ”

"You say that you are not suspicious?" "Koshiro Matsumoto said aggressively.

"Uh......"

Ota Masao found that he was indeed in a hurry, and he knew that it would cause strong dissatisfaction with this famous kabuki artist, so it was better to call Lin Hai to the conference room to communicate privately.

Koshiro Matsumoto's aura honed by his years of stage experience is very strong, and Masao Ota has to admit that the pressure in the face of his forced gaze is even greater than when facing the most vicious criminals.

Despite this, Ota Masao was unwilling to publicly admit that he was wrong, and gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, although there has been no formal questioning, I can be sure that Lin Jun is not suspicious." ”

"You'll have to ask to find out. ”

Koshiro Matsumoto said and turned to Lin Hai: "Don't mind if I ask you a few questions in front of everyone, right?"

"Absolutely. ”

Lin Hai is not afraid of shadows, what is there not to say to people.

He responded with his mouth in his mouth, helped Koshiro Matsumoto move a chair, did it to the opposite side by himself, and said frankly, "You may ask." ”

Koshiro Matsumoto sat down across the horse and said straight to the point: "I noticed that you were the last to come out of the teahouse, what were you doing before?"

It's straightforward enough.

Lin Hai said: "That's the case, I ...... at the time"

Such and such.

Lin Hai told the story of his attack as it was, except for Hikaru Utada, who had already heard about it, most of the others didn't know about it, and they let out a burst of exclamations when they heard it.

After Lin Hai finished speaking, Koshiro Matsumoto's expression did not change at all.

Matsumoto said with a straight face: "In other words, you have been alone in the room all the time, and there is no alibi?"

"Do you suspect that I killed someone?"

"Can't you?"

"Of course, but you're obviously mistaken. ”

Lin Hai called Kanda Laimiko over and said, "Kanda-san, you can prove that I was with her at the beginning. ”

Kanda Laiweizi said: "Yes, I can prove that Lin Jun came to me at that time...... Something. ”

She didn't mention anything specific, and then quickly said: "Later, I had something to do temporarily, so he waited for me in the room, so I ......"

Koshiro Matsumoto interrupted her and said to Lin Hai, "So you still can't show an alibi. ”

Lin Hai smiled: "I called her over for another matter. As he spoke, he asked Kanda Ramiko, "Did you see anyone else after you went out?"

"Hmm. ”

"So I would like to ask, can I sneak into the women's locker room without anyone noticing?"

Kanda thought for a moment and replied, "No." ”

She explained to Koshiro Matsumoto: "From Lin Jun's tea room to the women's locker room, you need to pass through the door of the tea house, and if everyone is at the door, it is impossible for him not to be found if he passes by......"

When Kanda came to explain to Miko, Lin Hai was not idle.

He asked for a piece of paper, drew a nine-square grid on it, and marked Arabic numerals from 1 to 9 in order from left to right and from top to bottom. Then, Lin Hai wrote the words "women's locker room" and "men's locker room" above "2" and "3" respectively, and wrote "main entrance" below "8".

"Although the area of each tea room is different, the interior of the tea house is generally like this. ”

Lin Hai drew a circle on the left side of the "No. 1" grid with a pen and said, "This is the room I was in at that time. ”

Use a pen to thicken the vertical line between "1" and "2": "This is sealed." In other words, if I want to go to the women's locker room, I need to go around the corridor counterclockwise in the order of '14789632'. As Kanda-san just said, everyone was here at the time—"

Lin Hai drew a circle on "8" and continued: "So, it is impossible for me to sneak into the women's locker room without being noticed. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Hai drew a circle on the right side of the "6" grid and said to Koshiro Matsumoto: "It's you, you were in this tea room before, right?"

"You suspect me of being a murderer?" said Koshiro Matsumoto, grimacing.

Lin Hai said-for-tat: "What, can't you?"

Originally, it was Matsumoto who questioned Lin Hai, but it turned out to be the object of questioning, and even what the two of them said was similar to what they had just said.

"How could I do something like that!"

"Prove it, then. ”

Lin Hai pressed step by step: "I'm curious, why didn't you leave after I said goodbye to Kyoko?"

"It's rare to come to the tea house once, so naturally you have to finish drinking tea before leaving. ”

"You don't seem to see Mr. Ichikawa Somegoro?"

"The dog went first. ”

"Oh......" Lin Hai smiled meaningfully, "In other words, you don't have an alibi either?"

"You!"

Koshiro Matsumoto was angry, then took a deep breath, calmed down his anger, and said expressionlessly: "Mr. Komatsu can testify for me." ”

Lin Hai followed his line of sight and looked at the proprietress of the tea house.

Yes, Mr. Komatsu is a woman.

Hearing the two mention themselves, Mr. Komatsu walked over, she was dressed in a kimono, with tall clogs under her feet, and her steps were not fast.

Lin Hai took the opportunity to glance at the inquiry materials in his hand.

Kyoko Komatsu, a native of Kyoto, 33 years old, is the owner of Shochiku-an (the name of the teahouse) and a well-known geisha.

Kyoko Komatsu still had a miserable white makeup on her face and her hair was messy, and she seemed to be quite frightened.

She walked over and saluted the two of them.

It wasn't until Koshiro Matsumoto asked him again that she spoke: "Yes, I can prove that Matsumoto-sensei has been in the room all the time. ”

"Is that really the case?"

Lin Hai looked at the inquiry materials in his hand and said, "I noticed that when you introduced the situation in the store, you said that because there were few customers in the store at that time, the waitresses went to eat?"

"Yes. ”

"What about you?"

"I've been in Matsumoto-sensei's room......"

"Perjury is a legal responsibility. Lin Hai interrupted her and said, "I remember that when we returned to the store, you greeted us personally, and besides, the waitress who served me tea later, I also met in Matsumoto-sensei's room before, that is, there was someone else who was waiting by the side at that time, can you tell me who she is?"

Without waiting for her to speak, Lin Hai continued: "It doesn't matter if you can't say it, just find all the hostesses and ask, you say yes?"

Kyoko Komatsu pursed her lips and suddenly said apologetically to Koshiro Matsumoto, "Matsumoto-sensei, I'm really sorry......"

Lin Hai looked at Koshiro Matsumoto, who had an ugly face, and asked, "Is there anything Matsumoto sensei want to say?" Could it be that the deceased was in your room at the time?"

"Nonsense!"

Koshiro Matsumoto flicked his sleeves and said, "I was the one who made Mr. Komatsu not have to care about me!"

"That's weird. Lin Hai asked puzzledly: "How can a distinguished guest like you have no one waiting for you? Besides, if you stay alone in your room, can it be that you are meditating and participating in meditation?"

Koshiro Matsumoto heard the sarcasm in Lin Hai's tone, snorted, and his face darkened.

Still, he didn't seem to have any intention of answering.

Kyoko Komatsu seemed to know something, but looking at her appearance, she would rather die than say more.

The pin drop could be heard in the banquet hall, and everyone looked at this side, thinking in unison - could it be that Koshiro Matsumoto is really a murderer?

This...... It's appalling!

"Ahem!"

Ota Masao broke the deadlock with a cough, and he said to Koshiro Matsumoto with a straight face: "Mr. Matsumoto, you may have something difficult to hide, but if you insist on not explaining the reason, we have to put you on the list of suspects and take you back to the police station......"

"No way!"

An anxious voice suddenly came from the entrance of the banquet hall: "Zhaoxiao, Zhaoxiao didn't kill anyone!"