"It's really 11 people." Kudo looked at the elevator in the surveillance, and on the evening of the incident, there were 11 residents standing in the elevator of the apartment, including me and Chiyoko, and the number of people carried by the elevator was also 11 people, but the elevator sounded an overload alarm, and there were no obese people in the elevator, but it sounded, and I think it must have been this abnormal phenomenon that caught Kudo's attention.

"Didn't you notice at the time?" Kudo looked at me.

"I noticed it, but I didn't think too much about it, at most I thought it should be a malfunction." I replied.

"If you can ignore it normally, but it was the day of the crime, and there was a murder in the apartment that night, how can you ignore it? And you've been checking for so long, and no one has noticed. Kudo's face showed displeasure, he had never allowed any mistakes in the case, which showed that he thought that this clue was very important, and perhaps the murderer used this elevator to realize his plan to kill in the back room.

"Elevator?" Watanabe looked at us in surprise.

"So, the murderer's method of entering the scene of the crime has something to do with this elevator?" Nakamura holds his jaw.

"Well, it must be related, but we don't know how the killer did it." I say.

"Could it be hidden on the top of the elevator, because there is an extra person standing on the top of the elevator, so the elevator is overloaded." Watanabe said.

"Stupid, even if the murderer is on the top floor, he still has to enter the deceased's house, but we just don't know how he got in." Nakamura glanced at Watanabe.

"Chief, do you have any ideas?" Watanabe looked at me hopefully, and I usually gave a coherent answer, but this time I shook my head.

My eyes fell on Kudo, who was looking at the white paper on the table and thinking about something, what seemed to be drawn in circles on the white paper, I stepped forward and saw a few lines of small print written on the paper, "The whole walk... Elevator overload... Slow pace..."I blinked, and the three clues were circled by Kudo with a black pen, and he suddenly opened his eyes at this moment, and the premonition in my heart was faintly enlarged, and sure enough, he smiled, like a student who had solved a difficult problem.

"I see." He looked at us, "I already know how the murderer entered the murder scene." ”

We looked at Kudo, and for a moment it seemed as if the air had stopped flowing, and we could say that we racked our brains to think about this case day and night, and hoped to solve it, but when this case was suddenly about to be solved, we still said "I know" with such an understatement. "We all felt a little unreal, and we couldn't believe that the truth of such a difficult case was suddenly known, and we didn't even have any psychological preparation, but the person who said this was Kudo, he was Kudo, and he said that if he knew, he must have known.

We didn't speak, quietly looked at Kudo, waiting for his words, at this moment Kudo stood in front of our door, behind him was the sunset that was about to fall obliquely, but at this moment standing in front of us he was so dazzling, exuding a bright light, as if instead of the sun, it became the hope of the city, this prosperous bright and dark city.

"The deceased, Ms. Chiyoko Suzuki, traveled to a restaurant a few kilometers away that day, but instead of taking a taxi, she chose to walk, and she walked very slowly, which must have been impressive."

I was stunned for a moment and nodded, and at that time I also asked if Chiyoko was not feeling well.

"There were only 11 people in the elevator, but the elevator was overloaded with an alarm, and Ms. Suzuki was murdered at her home, but we don't know how the killer entered Ms. Suzuki's home. If you take these clues apart and look at them individually, you won't have a little idea, but if you connect them together, you will have a result for a long time. ”

"How the hell did the murderer get into the scene?" Watanabe couldn't wait to ask.

Kudo's gaze suddenly fell straight at him, like a glowing sword, so sharp, so shiny "We have not been able to grasp the murderer's whereabouts, and even Zhiga, who lives next door, has not been able to notice the murderer, but in fact, the murderer has been standing in front of Zhihe, but Zhihe You didn't find out, because the murderer is a person with dwarfism, and he has been hiding in Chiyoko's floor-length dress." ”

The air in the room was still still, but everyone, including me, could clearly hear the clear trembling sound in their hearts.

"The dwarfism murderer must have controlled the deceased very early and hid in the deceased's skirt, which is why the deceased's pace was so slow, so the elevator was overloaded, so we couldn't find the trace of the murderer entering the scene, but now I really want to uncover it, the murderer didn't actually use a clever method, he just swaggered into the door, and he was still under your gaze." Kudo said and suddenly looked at me, his eyes gloomy like a muzzle, "Congratulations, why didn't you find out?" If it's someone else, I can understand it, but you're congratulating, you're the dawn of hell, how can you not notice it at all? If you could tell she wouldn't die at all. ”

I lowered my head and said no more, except that I felt as if my heart had really been pierced by a bullet, and I couldn't breathe in pain.

We quickly screened all the dwarfism patients in Osaka, and there were very few people with this symptom, so the difficulty of the screening was very small, and the colleagues in the bureau were excited to go out, but only Kudo sat in his position and didn't say a word.

"What's wrong? Isn't the truth already known to you? I asked.

"I just remembered that there is one place that we have overlooked, and this can be said to be very important to this case, that is, how did the murderer leave? We know how he got into the scene, but after killing someone, the deceased has already been killed, and how did the murderer leave? ”

My pupils suddenly dilated, this is a fatal question, we know how the killer entered the scene, but we ignore how the murderer left? If we can't solve this problem, this case is still unexplainable, and it is still the same as before, and it is very likely that this is not the truth, because once the truth is revealed, all doubts will be solved naturally.

"Are all your previous assumptions wrong?"

"No, it must be right, I have confidence, it's just that the murderer is not that simple, he is more defensive than I thought, I must have something I haven't discovered." He frowned, this was the second time he had frowned since he came here, and I rarely found a case that bothered him so much.

"There must be something I haven't discovered, what is it?" He whispered silently.