Chapter Seventy-Three: The Murder in the Secret Room (1)
I stretched, today's class is finished again, it's time to get back to reality, tomorrow morning there is still the class teacher I am most afraid of, I can't be late.
But suddenly there was a dull knock on the dark wooden door, could it be that another guest came? It's rare, usually there are up to two guests at night, but the little ghost has said before that there may be more than two, okay.
"Please come in." I sat up straight and said, but when it comes to the little ghost, where the hell has he gone? Although he has been paid every day, why do I always have a bad premonition, I used to have a premonition of his existence in reality and dreams, but now why can't I feel his existence a little? Forget it, what are I worried about in my first civilian, he is the Grim Reaper, what can threaten him?
It was a man in formal attire, and the solemn expression on his face and the movements he made when he saw me make me conclude that he was international.
"I'm Kawaki, please advise." After bowing, he sat down in his position solemnly, and the bright demeanor made me frown slightly, and soon my heart trembled, because I saw the police manual slightly exposed in his pocket, and I was secretly shocked, the same profession actually let me meet twice in one night, and they were both guardians of the country, policemen.
This time he must have met a strong opponent, and I vaguely guessed the outcome this time.......
I sighed and slowly picked up the pen in my hand, the light fading into the flames of the furnace, which kept ringing in the darkness.
My name is Kawaki Zhiga, Chinese New Year's Eve is thirty-three years old, living in Osaka, Japan, a police officer in Osaka, graduated from the Metropolitan Police Department Police Academy with the first grade in the school, and currently serves as the section chief of the first section of the search section, specifically responsible for dealing with some unnatural death cases, simply put, homicide cases, and in the past few years of my tenure, I have been given a lot of nicknames by the outside world, "the end of unsolved cases", "the natural enemy of crime", "the dawn of hell".
I live in a 35-storey building called Shiba Yuan Apartment, and I live on the 26th floor, and I suffer from a slight fear of heights, and every time I look out of the window, I feel a little weak, and no one would have thought that the "dawn of hell" would be afraid of heights.
Not long ago, there was a headless murder case, the murderer brutally cut off the head of the deceased, which caused a great hindrance to the progress of our investigation, which means that it takes a long time to confirm the identity of the deceased, and the more time passes, the key evidence of the case is likely to disappear.
But in the end, I solved the case, because I found that the location of the deceased's beheading was a little strange, the normal decapitation location should be above the neck, below the jaw, but the murderer not only cut off his head, but also cut off his neck, and after an autopsy, we learned that the real cause of his death was mechanical asphyxiation, that is, suffocation death caused by external forces.
This is a very unreasonable thing, the deceased has multiple knife wounds on his body, it can be seen that he has scuffled with the murderer, and it can be seen that he has the upper hand, and the murderer with a sharp blade has an absolute advantage, but why did the murderer change the way of killing when he was about to stab the deceased to death.
The reason why it is unreasonable to say it is because people are in a fight, their heads are in a vacuum, and they only have the idea of killing each other to protect themselves, and it is difficult to make such a change in that emergency situation, so what made the murderer put down the knife and strangled the deceased with both hands?
And the answer was finally revealed by me, that is, in the fight, the murderer's finger was bitten off by the deceased and swallowed into the throat, the murderer threw down the blade in a hurry, held the deceased's throat to death, and did not let him swallow the finger, and then after the deceased suffocated, the murderer took out a sharp blade and cut the deceased's throat in order to take out his own finger, for which he did not hesitate to cut off the deceased's entire head, in order to confuse the police.
We then conducted an investigation of people with handicapped fingers, and soon succeeded in apprehending the murderer, and the headless murder case that caused a lot of trouble in the city was solved, for which I received the highest praise from the Metropolitan Police Department.
I was finally freed from the intense investigation and I was given a few days off to rest at home and make up for the sleepless nights I had had.
It's the weekend, I woke up late in the evening, the weather was a little cool, the yellow clouds outside the window were so tired, I was a little hungry, I put on my slippers and went downstairs to the convenience store to buy some fast food and drinks.
When I came back, I stood in front of the elevator door with a plastic bag and waited, and there were several residents standing here waiting in front of the elevator door. "Mr. Kawaki?" The quiet voice sounded in my ears, and I turned my head to look at the woman walking in front of me, and my eyes lit up.
The woman who greeted me was Chiyoko, she was a woman who had just moved here, she lived next door to me, I didn't know much about her, I only knew that she was a single mother, she had a five-year-old son, named Shota, and on the first day she moved here, Chiyoko came to visit my house, and the little boy with a fleshy face stood beside her young mother obediently, bowed to me, and carefully handed me the bento made by Chiyoko.
"I'm Chiyoko, who lives next door, and I just moved here today, so please advise me in the future." The scene when I first met Chiyoko still echoes in my mind.
"Oh, it's Chiyoko, I just bought a lot of food at the convenience store, would you like to have some." I lifted the bag in my hand.
Chiyoko smiled and shook her head, that smile was like the sun in early spring, which made my heart flutter a little, Chiyoko was wearing a floor-length dress today, her black hair was melodious on her shoulders, she looked very young with dignity and elegance, I don't know her age, anyway, she must be younger than me, when I looked at her, my face was a little hot, and I secretly regretted why I came out dressed like this.
That's right, as you can imagine, I love Chiyoko, and when I first met her, looking at the warm smile on her face and smelling the fragrance wafting from her body, my heart beat pounding at that moment.
I didn't tell anyone, as if it was something shady and nothing to do, because Chiyoko didn't have a husband, and when she once asked me to go to her house to help her fix the light bulb, I asked her vaguely, and she said that she had a failed marriage, and now she lives alone with her son, and often feels that life is very hard, but every time she sees her lovely son, she can always rekindle her hope for life.
Maybe I'm afraid that when others find out, they will see the look of surprise on their faces, as if they have seen something incredible, yes, almost everyone thinks that the dawn of hell that has been buried all day solving cases is impossible to have such thoughts as children's private affairs.
I habitually open the window every morning when I get up, because it was when Chiyoko took Shota to school, and every time I saw their mother and son walking side by side in the morning light, I was secretly a little distressed, and I decided that I must silently protect the two of them and not let them both be bullied by anyone.
The elevator door opened with a dingdong, we entered the elevator, the sound of hurried footsteps sounded again, and several residents hurried over, and when everyone entered the door, the elevator suddenly made a screeching sound, the elevator was overweight, and the uncle who finally came in smiled awkwardly and exited the door, the door was successfully closed, everyone showed a light smile, but only I noticed that the number of people on the introduction column was 11 people, and just added the uncle exactly 11 people.
After the elevator reached the 26th floor, I walked out the door with Chiyoko, she walked a little slowly, and it seemed that people were a little uncomfortable, "What's wrong?" I asked with concern.
"It's okay, I'm tired after a day of work." She replied, "I think it's because I'm raising a child alone, so Chiyoko has to work overtime on weekends."
"Wait, are you going to cook dinner for Shota again?" I asked, frowning.
"Well, that's why I'm tired." She smiled.
I gritted my teeth and said, "Come over for dinner in the evening." When I came to the door, I said goodbye to Chiyoko, and my brow furrowed again as I watched her advancing figure.