Chapter 40: Worthy of the Elder Brother
"It's possible that all three of them are lying, but the odds are too small, Officer Twilight."
"Because the prisoner could have done this murder with someone else as an alibi, all that was needed was a sloping floor."
Mito Yue also stopped selling Guanzi, and said directly: "First of all, the prisoner killed the victim Mr. Rokudo Sazane with a blunt object, and the blunt wound can be disguised as the injury caused by the typewriter, and then began to set up the scene. ”
"He created an unstable state for the stable cabinet, so that the cabinet could fall to the ground and smash on Mr. Liudao Zuozhen's body, creating a situation as if Mr. Liudao accidentally knocked down the cabinet."
As a qualified compliment, Officer Twilight immediately cooperated, "But in this case, how can you make the typewriter fall right on the top of Mr. Liudao Zuozhen's head?" This must require a rigorous and careful arrangement. ”
Although it was a compliment, Mito Yue felt that Officer Twilight's compliment was too natural: "Actually, just put the typewriter directly on top of the victim's head, the only thing that needs to be adjusted is the direction in which the cabinet falls, so that the cabinet can be smashed on Mr. Rokudo, and this can be done very easily." ”
“………… I see, I see. Realizing that he had asked a foolish question, Officer Twilight's face flushed slightly.
"And it's very easy to control how long and at what angle the cabinet will fall after Mr. Zuo Zhen's death."
"It can also be done with a car toy that can be controlled remotely, with ropes and supports, but here, our inmates use water and sugar cubes."
"Put a small sugar cube under the corner of the cabinet, and then create a stream of water above the sloping floor, when the water flows to the corner of the table, the sugar cube will be dissolved by the water, and then the whole cabinet will be dumped, and because of the dissolution of the water, the sugar cube will also disappear without a trace, but as long as you taste it a little, you can find that the water under the cabinet is sweet."
"The water above the sloping floor is tasteless."
"Officer Twilight has already checked this."
Naturally, Mito Moon doesn't taste the water on the ground by himself.
Officer Twilight duly showed the two bottles in his hand: "We have obtained these two samples, which will be used as important physical evidence in this case." It's a murder! ”
Things get complicated once it goes from an accidental death case to a criminal case, and as the police department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, he has the authority to ask the three suspects present to assist in the investigation.
"Sugar cubes?" Wataru Takagi asked like a curious baby, "Can Sugar Cubes withstand the weight of a cabinet plus a typewriter?" ”
"Of course you can, although most people have the impression that Fang Sugar will crush when it is pinched, but if a few sugar cubes are added together and a wooden board is covered on top, even if a tonnage person like Officer Dusk sits on it, the sugar cube can withstand it."
Officer Twilight, who was also shot while lying down, scratched his head innocently, is he really fat? It seems that Mrs. Alu also said the same thing about herself.
"Mrs. Liudao should have a sugar cube at home, right? After all, Mrs. Liudao has the habit of drinking afternoon tea with friends, some people like tea ceremony, some people like British black tea, not everyone likes unsweetened tea ceremony, sugar cubes must be a must. ”
Hearing Mito Tsuki's mention of Lady Rokudo's name, Officer Twilight immediately stared at Lady Rokudo with suspicion, he was now completely convinced of Mito's reasoning ability, if Mito said that the prisoner was Lady Rokudo, he would not be suspicious at all.
And because of emotional problems, Mrs. Liudao is fully suspected of killing Liudao Zuozhen.
The motive and the modus operandi are there!
"You suspect me of being a murderer?" Mrs. Liudao has a pair of good-looking eyes, but these good-looking eyes will also make people feel a strong sense of depression when they look at others.
"That's all I said."
"And the murderer, of course, is Mr. Ryota Rokudo, right?"
Hearing Mito Moon aim at Ryota Rokudo, everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department immediately became nervous.
Wearing glasses and polite Liudao Liangtai, he pushed the frame of his glasses: "Oh? Your reasoning is interesting, but it would be reckless to suspect that it was me, and it was not only me who knew that the floor on the second floor was sloping, but my mother also knew why you should conclude that I killed you. ”
"Because only you have the time to commit the crime, Mrs. Liudao's words are with Mrs. Hosokawa and others during the time you killed Mr. Liudao Zuozhen, and only you know in advance that Mrs. Hosokawa will come to the house for afternoon tea today."
"If only your mother is the one who testifies for you, then this kind of related witness is too weak, so you are targeting Mrs. Hosokawa, who came here for afternoon tea as originally planned."
"After killing Mr. Rokudo Sazane, you waited for Mrs. Hosokawa to arrive, and after Mrs. Hosokawa arrived, you pinched the right time to let the water flow down the sloping floor."
"That way, even if you don't use a modern electronic timekeeping device, you should have tested it beforehand, so everything went according to your plan."
"The water eroded the sugar cube according to the predetermined time, the cabinet fell, the sugar was dissolved by the water, and the scene was arranged by you seamlessly, without flaws."
Mito suddenly seemed to remember something at this time: "Its practical ice cubes instead of sugar cubes are also an option, but it is already winter, the temperature is low, the ice cubes are not easy to melt, and affected by the temperature and a variety of problems, you can't accurately control the melting speed of the ice cubes, in case the melting is too slow, Mrs. Hosokawa leaves after the guest, and your arrangement will be in vain." ”
Officer Twilight next to him immediately raised his head and touched his throat.
He was just about to ask [why don't you use ice cubes], but he didn't expect that Brother Mito had already seen through what he wanted to ask.
It's really worthy of being a Mito brother.
After listening to the simple method, everyone present could not help but look at each other, but the slightly sweet water on the ground was the most tangible evidence.
But after saying this simple technique, Mito Moon still frowned in his heart.
He can deduce the perpetrator and see through the modus operandi.
But these are just tricks, and there is no direct evidence such as fingerprints pointing to the prisoner.
The only way to pin my hope is on the conscience of the prisoner, like a confession that falls on my knees and hits the floor with my hands and weeps bitterly.
But whether his words can have the same immediate effect as in the anime, Mito Moon himself has no bottom in his heart.
After a long silence, Rokudo Ryota pushed his glasses and said, "Where did you start to get suspicious?" ”