When the three of them walked to the door of the gymnasium, Zero suddenly stopped, and instead of continuing towards the gymnasium, he shouted to the students around the gate, "May I ask you, did you see any suspicious characters coming in and out just now?" ”

The students scattered at the entrance of the gymnasium are either because the air in the gymnasium is too stuffy to breathe, or because the game is over and ready to leave as a team, in short, there is a lot of mobility, and there are basically few students who stay at the door all the time.

Therefore, although there are many people who want to solve problems for beautiful women and gain the favor of each other, there is no one to talk to for a while, because almost no one has seen any suspicious characters.

After about ten seconds, seeing that no one answered, Zero was about to give up the question, and when he entered the gymnasium, a boy suddenly jumped out and shouted, "I! I've seen suspicious characters! ”

"Oh?" When I heard someone say that I had seen a suspicious character, the most excited thing was not Zero, but Otaki, who was in the police department, "Tell me, what does a suspicious character look like?" ”

"I couldn't see anything at all, because the man was wearing kendo armor and a mask on his head. And strangely, he also carried a full bag of protective gear on his shoulder. ”

As the name suggests, the protective gear bag is a bag specially used to hold protective gear, and the boy just said that the other party's protective gear is worn on the body, so the protective gear bag should naturally be empty, but in fact, the protective gear bag is very full, which is indeed quite strange.

Heiji felt that he had grasped the crux of the case, and said: "It seems that that person is undoubtedly the murderer, the other party is fully armed, and the body is packed in a protective bag, so that the body can be transferred to the swimming pool without being seen with a straight face!" ”

Otaki pondered for a moment and said, "But if the other party is wearing a mask, it still can't be confirmed who it is, it seems that I will have to ask those four people later to see if there is a possibility of transferring the body alone." ”

Either way, it's an important piece of information. Later, Zero asked the crowd, "Do you have students from Shinriku University here?" ”

When a school participates in a competition, it is naturally impossible for only five contestants to come, such as ordinary department members, club managers and others must also be present.

About three seconds after Zero's words fell, a boy raised his hand weakly and said, "I—I'm a student at Shinnai University." ”

Looking at the boy's appearance, he should be a freshman, and the whole gives people a very shy feeling.

Despite the arrival of the police, most people inside and outside the stadium were unaware of the killings, let alone the specific identities of the victims. Therefore, the boy didn't understand why the beautiful woman mentioned Shinnai University, but after hesitating, he still came forward to respond.

Zero, Heiji, and the Otaki Police Department walked up to the boys, only to hear Zero ask the other party: "You know Atsushi Torumi, does he have any holiday with the other students of your kendo club?" ”

Although this question has already been asked by the Otaki Police Department Hakamata and others, Zero feels that it is necessary to ask other students of Shinnai University as well, after all, it is clear to listen to it at the same time.

However, after listening to Zero's words, the boy's face was nervous and he didn't say a word. Seeing that the seniors do have contradictions with other seniors, but this is all a matter of their own community, how can they easily say it to outsiders.

Seeing that the other party was hesitant, Zero made a look at the Otaki Police Department. Otaki understood, took out the police officer card from his pocket, and said, "I'm a police officer, and that classmate is involved in a case and needs your testimony, please answer this girl's question just now." ”

The word "police" still carries a lot of weight for ordinary college students, and after seeing that the boy's face changed a few times, he still didn't dare to refuse the police's request, so he replied in a low voice: "I always thought that Hakamata-senpai had robbed his girlfriend, so I held a grudge against Hakamata-senpai." Since the fall of love, the attitude towards training and competition has become very casual, and even often drinks before the game, resulting in abnormal performance in the game, which causes the team to lose the game. For this behavior of the predecessors, Hakamata and others have been dissatisfied with him for a long time. ”

When the three of them heard this, their eyes lit up, they already knew that Tarumi and Hakamata were entangled because of a girl, but it was the first time that Tarumi had delayed the game because of drinking, and the four of them really had something to hide. In this way, it is not impossible that one of the four killed him because he was dissatisfied with the fact that he was dragging down the group. This is far-fetched as a motive for killing, but it is also a reason.

Zero asked again, "Did you drink today?" ”

"Hidami Senpai had already started drinking when he arrived at the gymnasium in the morning, but fortunately, Hakamata Senpai and others played well, and they all won the morning games one after another. However, I saw that my predecessors were still drinking at noon, and it seemed that I was already drunk, and then I saw that my predecessors suddenly disappeared. ”

Zero nodded, and didn't ask any more, but continued to walk towards the gymnasium.

Otaki Heiji followed behind Zero, and the Otaki Police Department said to Zero: "If you kill someone because of a sense of collective honor, then not only those four people, but all the students of Shinnai University need to be listed as suspects......"

As for Otaki's words, Zero did not express an opinion. Heiji originally seemed to want to say something, but seeing that Zero was silent, he remained silent after thinking about it.

The three of them entered the gymnasium and made their way to the warehouse.

"This warehouse is too clean, and there is no sign of death at all." Seeing the scene in the warehouse, the brows of the Otaki Police Department furrowed again. If this was the first scene, judging by the injuries on the victim's body, there should have been a lot of blood stains left here, but there was not a trace of blood in the entire warehouse.

After discovering the body, Otegawa went to call an ambulance, Mizuya went to call the police, and Kaguchi came to inform Hakamata, and then went to the warehouse with Hakamata and Heiji. During this time, someone may have time to move the body to the pool, but there is no time to clean up the scene.

"Is there anything unusual about this warehouse?" Otaki took two turns around the warehouse, "Except for the fact that there is no blood, there doesn't seem to be anything strange about it." ”

Heiji said: "Just because you can't find blood, it's already very abnormal." ”

Zero also walked around the warehouse, and after making sure that there was nothing else unusual, he turned his gaze to the jump box in the center.

Zero thought for a moment, and then directly moved the top cover and the upper two layers of the jump box, revealing the situation inside the jump box.

"This—This is!" Looking at the inside of the jump box, Otaki and Heiji both showed shocked expressions.

I saw a man wearing a uniform, mask, and protective gear lying inside the jump box, covered in blood.

The name plate displayed on the big hanging is - Hakamata.

(Vertical: A protective gear to protect the crotch and hips, divided into three vertical belts, the left and right two are small verticals, and the middle one is a large vertical.) Players usually put their names on the big hangs to distinguish their identities)

After Otaki was surprised, his face sank like water: "This is Hakamata, how did he get killed?" How did you get hidden here? Those stupid subordinates can't even watch a few college students! ”

"Calm down, Otaki Police Department." Zero said, "If you take off your mask and take a look, it's just a dummy." ”

When Otaki heard this, his mind calmed down a little, so he took out a pair of gloves and put them on, and then uncovered the mask.

As Zero said, the man in the gown, protective gear, and face shield was a dummy. And if you look closely, it is not blood that is stained on its body, but blood-red paint.

"W-What the hell is going on?" Otaki was a little confused.

And Hattori on the side seemed to understand something, thoughtfully.

"Just now we all thought that the murderer was wearing protective gear and a face shield, and carried the body in a protective bag to the swimming pool, but in fact we were all wrong." Zero was also thinking about it and said, "The person wearing the protective gear and the mask and carrying the protective gear bag is not the murderer, but Atsushi Orumi." ”

"W-What did you say!?" Otaki was stunned by Zero's words, "Isn't Atsushi the victim of Tatsumi?" ”

Just as Zero was about to continue reasoning, Heiji preemptively said, "I think it should be like this, at first the Kaguchi and the others saw here not a corpse, but just asleep. ”

"Sleep, asleep?" Otaki felt that he was getting more and more confused.

"That's right, just asleep." Heiji continued, "We already learned from the students of Shinnai University that Hirumi was in a state of drunkenness at noon, so it was normal for him to be drunk to the point of falling asleep, or it was possible that he was directly put with sleeping pills in the alcohol he drank. After falling asleep, the killer carried him to the warehouse and placed him diagonally next to the jump box, and placed the stolen katana beside him, applying red paint to his clothes. After completing these arrangements, the murderer left the warehouse and came here with the others, pretending to have just found a pink. Due to the dim light inside the warehouse, the other two except the killer saw the paint as blood. After that, the three of them either called the police, called an ambulance, or notified others, which also meant that all three of them could take time to return to the warehouse alone. After the killer returned to the warehouse, he opened the lid of the jump box and woke up Hirumi, claiming that Hakamata had been killed. When Tarumi saw the dummy with Hakamata's name in the jumping box, the Japanese knife next to him, and the 'blood' on the dummy and his body, he really thought that he had found a Japanese sword in a drunken state and hacked Hakamata to death, thus splattering a lot of blood on his body. ”

Otaki continued to ask: "But, whether he killed himself or not, don't you know?" ”

"All said, he was very drunk at the time. In the case of drinking fragments, the memory is already vague, and the murderer says some misleading words, which may make Hakamata mistakenly think that he really killed Hakamata. Heiji said as he looked at Zero, for fear that she would rob her of her words.

Zero Zicai disdains to grab the stubble of the level, this dummy is the key element in drawing all reasoning, and it is himself who brought them to the warehouse and found this dummy, so that his first merit in this case cannot be escaped. In this case, Hattori likes to talk about it, let her say it, and it just happens to save himself saliva.

I only heard Heiji continue: "Tarumi must have panicked when he thought he had killed Hakamata, and the murderer should have prepared a mask, protective gear, and spare clothes. So the murderer asked Tarumi to change into a spare gown, put on protective gear and a mask, and put the Japanese knife as the murder weapon and the 'bloody clothes' that he took off into the protective bag. So, Tarumi left the warehouse 'fully armed' with the protective gear bag on his shoulder. After that, the murderer took Tarumi to the shower room, took out a Japanese sword from the protective gear bag and killed Obimi, then took off his protective gear and put the protective gear and katana into the protective bag. The killer then turned on the shower head and poured hot water over the drooping corpse. And the murderer was very likely to have blood on his body at this time, and most of him changed his clothes and put the bloody clothes in the protective gear bag. As for that protective bag, it is very likely that it was hidden or thrown away by the murderer. ”

At this point, the reasoning is complete, but there is still a key problem that has not been solved.

I only heard Otaki ask, "So, who is the murderer?" ”

"I don't know that yet, but the bag should still be hidden in a corner of the gym or thrown in a trash can, and just finding the bag should be able to get the killer's fingerprints...... If the murderer was not wearing gloves when committing the crime. But even without fingerprints, if the bloody clothes can be found, the murderer's DNA should be extracted. ”

Otaki answered, and prepared to go out and tell his subordinates to find the protective gear bag.

At this time, Zero stopped him: "If you expect the murderer to be not wearing gloves, you are taking chances." As for the bloody clothes, as long as the murderer let the clothes be rinsed with hot water, he could not extract DNA, which may be one of the reasons why he chose to commit the crime in the shower room. Well, Mr. Otaki, when we get back to the pool, you'll claim that we haven't found anything in the warehouse, and you won't have to keep an eye on the four of them. In order to ensure that the whole murder plan is not revealed, the murderer will definitely take the opportunity to return to the warehouse to deal with this dummy, we just need to wait for the rabbit in advance, hide in the warehouse, and wait for the murderer to appear and arrest him. ”

Otaki nodded and agreed to Zero's suggestion.

Heiji also felt that Zero's suggestion was feasible, and after thinking for a while, he said: "But as far as this warehouse is concerned, there can only be one ambush at most, and if there are too many people, it will be easy to be discovered, so I will ambush here!" ”

"No, it's too dangerous, the people who are in ambush can only be the police!" Of course, Otaki would not agree to Heiji's suggestion.

And while Heiji and Otaki were arguing, Zero was talking to someone on the side on his mobile phone.

Heiji glanced at Zero, although he felt that it was a little inappropriate for her to call at the moment, but he didn't think about it that much, and just tried to persuade Otaki to involve himself in the action.

Otaki and Hattori didn't back down from each other, and after arguing like this for a while, Kazuha suddenly ran into the warehouse and grabbed Heiji's wrist: "Heiji, the game is about to start, hurry up and go back to the competition!" ”

"Didn't I say I would take charge of the case first!"

"Don't talk nonsense, Zero told me just now, the case has been solved, at least you are no longer needed."

Only then did Pingji realize that he dared to love Lingzi who was talking to Kazuha just now, and couldn't help shouting at Lingzi: "Jintian Yilingzi, you calculate me!" ”

Zero showed a touching smile and waved his hand at Heiji: "Hattori-kun, you can play with peace of mind." Come on, Fight! ”

Fight, your sister, Fight, Hattori wanted to say something more, but he was forcibly pulled away by Kazuha.

"It's really worthy of being a classmate of Kaneda, and he actually thought of letting Kazuha deal with Pingji." After confirming that Heiji was taken away by Kazuha, Otaki said to Zero, "Okay, Kanedaichi-san, let's go rest too, and then I'll leave it to our police ......."

"Yes, let me arrest the prisoner next!"

Otaki: ∑ (っ°Д°; )っ

"No, Kanedaichi-san......"

"Don't worry, I'm very good!" Zero looked at Otaki with determination in his eyes.

In the end, the Otaki Police Department still failed to persuade Zero to give up the idea of ambush, so he had no choice but to agree.

After that, the Otaki Police Department returned to the swimming pool, asked his subordinates to withdraw the supervision of the four college students, and continued to investigate in the shower room with other police officers. Of course, the other police officers didn't know that the Otaki Police Department was pretending to be investigating, and they were all serious about their work.

Zero has been hiding behind the jump box, waiting for the killer to appear. At this time, the jump box has been restored, and the top cover has been re-covered.

My own speculation should be correct, the murderer will return to the warehouse to deal with the dummy, but I hope the other party doesn't come too late, otherwise I won't have to wait for boredom to death......

After more than ten minutes, a person quietly entered the warehouse.

I saw that the other party opened the jump box, took off the protective gear on the dummy one after another, and put it into a big bag he brought.

Evidence get!

"Let's get caught!" Zero walked out slowly from behind the jump box, pointed at the other party and said sharply.