370. Second Advance Letter
Leaving the Plains House, Officer Twilight and Officer Shiratori are silent with each other.
This trip to them can be regarded as knowing some things, and it will also help solve the case. But who exactly the murderer is still no progress.
Seeing that Shiratori was not in a good state, Officer Twilight patted him on the shoulder, "This kind of thing is normal. We may wish the truth to be revealed, but for others, the dead are dead, and the living are alive. ”
They want to make the deceased's crimes public so that the world can see his face, but for the other side, maybe it's not so worthwhile
"In these days, there are too few people who can not care about other people's eyes."
"I know." Shiratori nodded, since he came to the Metropolitan Police Department to join the company, he has seen too many joys and sorrows.
Seeing that he had adjusted his mentality, Twilight returned to the topic, "Let's go back to the case itself, what do you think?" ”
According to the Hirahara family, Hirahara Otoko has a withdrawn personality and rarely talks to her family about school. I suspect that the person who did this was probably a classmate or friend who knew about these things and wanted to avenge her. ”
Twilight nodded, he thought so, too, "I can only ask one by one......"
The police searched for three or four days in a row, and Officer Takagi, who came every day, was about to get acquainted with the students in the classroom downstairs.
But even so, the case has not progressed.
Kamikawa stood by the window, watching Sato and Takagi leave school, and Osamu Hoshino stood next to him, also looking downstairs, "Your idea seems to have come to naught." ”
It's been three or four days, and the police haven't made much movement except for coming to the school from time to time.
"It's probably hindered, this kind of thing is actually quite normal." Kamikawa was quite calm, and he was not surprised by this result.
"Are you going to do something?"
Kamikawa shook his head instantly, "No, what I want to do has already been done." ”
For the dead, only the living care about what the living do.
"You can do something if you want." With Hoshino Shu's ability, casually spreading some vague things on the Internet is enough to blow a whirlwind.
Hoshino Shu snorted lightly, and he didn't know whether to say it or not.
……
Gao Yuandian put away the newspaper he had bought from the newsstand, his eyes sinking terribly.
For four days, he didn't see what he wanted to see in any news media.
He didn't want to wait any longer......
The sunset in the sky slowly set, and he turned his back to the sun, and the setting sun stretched his shadow long.
At the same time, in the same envelope, the Metropolitan Police Department received a notice letter again. Unlike the first letter, which was written in plain text, this letter contains numbers that make people completely unclear.
- Condemning the Pig
Everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department stared at the notice letter in silence, and the atmosphere in the office was eerily quiet. In the end, it was Sato who angrily slapped the table, interrupting the eerie silence.
"Damn! Isn't it enough for this guy to kill someone! And a second one? What did he think of himself? ”
The convicted pig? Oh, on what basis did he convict him!
Takagi wiped his sweat, not daring to touch Sato's moldy head at this time.
Shiratori is not as angry as Sato, he is one of the few calm people. He stared carefully at the words on the paper, trying to read between the lines.
"The first sentence is easy to explain, but what does the latter mean?"
The end, Hongxia, does it mean the evening?
Fire? Wronged souls? Asking for your life? Since he calls himself a convicted pig, what did his target commit?
A samurai with a sword? Is it a place name or something else?
And that number? What is the meaning?
Compared with the first advance letter, the difficulty of this advance letter can be said to have risen in a straight line. It gave him the feeling that the first letter was deliberately made for them to guess
If the first letter is deliberately made for them to guess, then the second letter can be called a provocation!
Did the police let him down?
Thinking of this, Shiratori laughed to himself. Where do they need the police to explain to a murderer?
Officer Twilight sat in his chair, his brow furrowed, "What do you guys think about this puzzle?" ”
"Uh, do you want to ask Mr. Maori" This kind of difficulty is completely beyond their ability to solve!
Officer Twilight stared at the subordinate who was talking with dead fish eyes, "What are you doing with your brains when you always ask for help from outsiders?" ”
It's okay to find Maori for things that aren't right, but now they don't even think about it, and they want to ask outsiders for help without even working hard, so what kind of police are they doing? Just let the detective be the policeman!
The officer shrank awkwardly into the crowd. It's really that Maori Kogoro has solved too many cases, so he subconsciously wants to ask outsiders for help if he has any difficulties
This mentality is really bad
Officer Shiratori took out the first notice letter and compared it with the second one, and the two letters were stylistically identical.
If we infer from the first letter, the second letter should also contain four important contents: time, place, person, and crime.
"The first and second sentences should refer to time, and according to the content, the third and fourth sentences should be crimes, and this crime is related to fire"
Sato carefully compared the contents of the two sheets of paper, "If you extrapolate from this, the string of numbers is either a location or a person. “
Shiratori nodded, "Judging by the format, it's more likely to be a character." It could even be important information like a name. ”
"XXX, are you ready?" Takagi mimicked the message in the letter and read it, thinking that such an inference was indeed correct.
"Then look at it this way, the fifth sentence should be the location." Sato held his chin with one hand, "Is it something as iconic as an aster flower?" ”
"I think so. The term samurai is most likely something like an exhibit or a statue. ”
"But there are too many samurai statues in all of Tokyo," Takagi felt his head start to hurt, and the amount of work was almost deadly!
"Maybe we can try to investigate in the direction of the fire," Shiratori gave some useful advice, "If the target of the gangsters is related to the fire, then we can find out something from the case of the fire in recent years." ”
"That's it!" Officer Twilight said, "The crime that the gangsters said is the last day of the month, and we still have time!" ”
Wonderful!
(m.d. = )