Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Murder in the Secret Room (25)
Kudo's doubts are not in the eyes of other policemen, because since they know that the murderer is a dwarfism patient, then they only need to find the murderer to naturally know the truth, but Kudo doesn't think so, he locks himself in a dark room all day long, thinking day and night, some people start to say that Kudo is brainless, saying that he is a bookworm, and he really treats the case as an exam to solve, because in the eyes of most policemen, the truth is not the most important, as long as the murderer is caught, the natural truth is also known.
However, Kudo's words left a deep impression on me, and I believe that I will never forget it in my life: "You don't know the truth, how can you be sure that the murderer you caught is really right?" ”
I asked him at the time, hasn't the murderer been deduced by you? He immediately frowned, "I'm sorry, my head is too messy, this sentence is the first old policeman I took after work to say, I have always believed the truth, but maybe it's really me who is too brainless, not all the time theory is so important, sometimes practice is the key to solving problems." ”
When I was about to say something to comfort him, he suddenly cheered up and said, "But I won't give up, because I'm actually such a brainless person, sometimes the case is really a problem in my eyes, I exist to solve the problem, and such a murderer he gave me a problem, I am very excited, even if the murderer is caught, I have to rely on myself to solve this problem, if I have the opportunity I want to talk to this murderer, because there is no doubt that he must also be a rare genius, but he went in the wrong direction, congratulations, The truth hasn't been fully revealed yet, which means you still have a chance, our gamble is still there, come on, don't let me down again. ”
I turned and walked to the door, and the moment I left the room, I turned my head and looked at Kudo sitting in his chair again, he was so dark, lonely, like a boat sailing on a stream, struggling to guard his truth in the rough waves, why did it seem so bleak?
June 6 at 12 p.m.
I drove from the police station to the apartment, and in the last few days we have investigated all the dwarf patients in Osaka and still made no progress, and we speculated that maybe the murderer was not from Osaka, but most likely from out of town, which made it more difficult, but it was nothing compared to before.
I parked the car and got on the elevator, and when I thought of Kudo's reasoning, my heart throbbed violently, and when I came to the 26th floor, I found a woman standing in front of my house, and I recognized it, it was Tomoe.
"Hello." I smiled at her.
"I heard that I already knew who the murderer was, so I came to ask." Yuhui said.
"We don't know who the murderer is, but we just need that the murderer is a person with dwarfism, and we will be able to arrest the murderer soon."
"Oh." Yuhui breathed a sigh of relief, but she quickly frowned, "Dwarfism? ”
I asked Tomoe to go downstairs for lunch, and by the way, while waiting for the elevator on the way, I told her the truth about Kudo's reasoning.
Yuhui was very surprised, and soon her eyes instantly turned red, "My sister suffered such a thing before she died, she must have been tortured." ”
The elevator door opened, and there were a lot of people standing inside, and I stood in with Yuhui, and the elevator sank smoothly, during which Yue kept her eyes red, perhaps because she remembered her sister who was also taking the elevator at that time, how much torture she had endured at that time, I took out a tissue and handed it to her.
But I suddenly turned around and quickly grabbed someone's hand, and in his hand was holding a mobile phone, which was aimed at the bottom of Tomoe's skirt, and I noticed him from the very beginning when I entered the elevator, because he kept sticking to Tomoe, and even knocked me away during the process.
The door just opened, at this moment, the man wearing the mask revealed a fierce look in his eyes, he pushed down Yuhui hard, Yuhui let out a panicked scream, I hurriedly held her up, the man rushed out of the elevator in an instant, after I helped Youhui, quickly chased out, very desperate, as if burning the blood of the whole body.
I had to catch him, not only because I was a police officer, but also because I thought his object was Tomoe, a woman who looked very similar to Chiyoko, and I absolutely couldn't tolerate her being offended even in the slightest.
I chased so hard that I was amazed at how fast I could run, I hadn't run like this in a long time since I left school, and even though I had won sprint championships before, it was in high school, and I didn't expect to have such a terrible explosiveness now.
The man in front of him stopped running, he stopped, and it was obvious that he couldn't run anymore, but in the blink of an eye he pulled a knife out of his pocket, and the sharp light shone through my pupils, and then he rushed towards me.
I quickly dodged his sharp knife and punched him in the face, his mask fell off, revealing a young face that I recognized, he was also a resident of the apartment, he gritted his teeth in anger and stabbed me again.
My brow furrowed as his knife sank into my arm, and I took his hand and grabbed his knife in such pain that I threw him to the ground, and finally I handcuffed him.
Watanabe quickly arrived at the scene, colleagues put the young man in the police car, Watanabe looked at the injury on my arm in shock, and hurriedly rushed to send me to the hospital, I waved my hand and refused him, planning to return to the police station to deal with it simply, I looked back at Tomoe, today's lunch must not be eaten, apologize to her, she thanked me again and again, and waved goodbye to me.
In the car, I checked the mobile phone of the young man who committed the crime, and found that his mobile phone contained a large number of indecent photos, all of which he had taken secretly, and when I looked down, my pupils suddenly twitched, because I found the face of the man under the skirt in one of the photos.
The young man called Ueshima, he confessed that he had been secretly photographing women's skirts for a long time, and on May 15th, he also stood in the elevator, secretly photographed Chiyoko's skirts, and found out that amazing thing, and then there was a murder in the apartment, and when the police were at a loss for this case, he already knew the truth, but Ueshima was afraid that the police would know about his secret photography, so he chose to remain silent.
We looked at the man in the picture, it was a man with a sharp beak and monkey gills, with a very thin face and very small eyes, like an ugly mouse.
This is a major discovery for our police, we have a photo of the murderer, and soon the murderer's face will be transmitted to the police stations everywhere, and the murderer will definitely come out behind the scenes soon.
It's just that Kudo is still obsessed with figuring out how the killer left the scene, and he doesn't show much concern about our progress.