"The murderer is really a terrible person." Kudo said, "The general closed room murder case, on the surface, seems to give us the first reaction of the police is a suicide case, as we analyze the case layer by layer, the thoughts of others gradually stabilize in our minds, but this case, the murderer made us form the idea of killing him at the beginning, as we went a little deeper into the case, one by one the blindfolds were revealed, but we had the idea that this case was a suicide, because this is the conclusion we reached after exploring deeply, but in fact this is homicide, Therefore, this murderer is very terrible, he did the opposite, hiding the illusion of suicide inside, leaving the fact of his murder outside the surface, we think we have discovered the truth and walked out of the trap set by the murderer, but in fact we have not yet come out, and the flat land that crawled out of the abyss is still the murderer's trap. ”

"So, the broken hole in the window explains that the murderer is trying to create the illusion that the deceased committed suicide, but we are still confused at the moment." Watanabe scratched his head.

"The murderer didn't give us a chance at all, he is a perfect crime." Nakamura sighed.

"Nope." Kudo spoke firmly, with resolute confidence in his eyes, "There is no absolute perfect crime in the world, as long as you do something, you will definitely leave traces in this world, not to mention that there are so many traces left by murderers at the scene, we must have ignored something if we didn't make progress." ”

"A very important thing, this thing is very important, very deadly." He repeated, his eyes scanning every nook and cranny of the house, like an eagle looking for prey.

Listening to Kudo's words, I looked around the room and frowned.

June 3, 8 a.m.

It's been three days since the agreed time with the police department.,The police department reprimanded me on the phone.,And asked me to hand over everything about the case to Kudo.,The society is very dissatisfied with our Osaka police.,Some people even organized a demonstration in front of our police station.,It should be even more dissatisfied with the murderer.,But what kind of mood will the murderer hiding behind the scenes feel when he sees this scene in front of him? Is it proud? Or is it rejoicing, or is it pain?

Many colleagues in the bureau have lost confidence in the case and have gradually become less motivated, and even Nakamura and Watanabe rarely take the initiative to talk about the case when they get together, and only one person is still the same as when he came, he is Kudo, and he has an endless burning motivation for the case, as if he is really like a moth that pounces on the fire.

I closed the window, picked up my briefcase and walked out of the house, taking the elevator as usual, only to see a familiar figure in the lobby downstairs.

"Shinzawa." I opened my mouth and stepped forward.

"Oh, congratulations!" Kudo's eyes lit up when he looked back and saw me, he was wearing a very formal suit today, with his not very tall height, he looked like a young man who had just started working, and next to him stood the manager of the apartment, looking like he was going to do something together.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I'm here to investigate surveillance."

"Surveillance? Hasn't Watanabe already checked? ”

"I want to check where the deceased went before he died, didn't the deceased go to work that day? However, according to my investigation, the deceased did not go to work that day, and it should be said that the deceased never went to work on weekends, so I would like to check where the deceased went after he left home. ”

"Really? How so? I frowned, and it was clear from here that Chiyoko had lied to me.

I entered the monitoring management room with him, and through the monitoring we saw that Chiyoko went out and walked to the street on the left, Kudo immediately got up and prepared to walk out the door, and before leaving, he turned his head and said, "Congratulations, I'm going to investigate, you go back to the bureau first." Then, without waiting for me to answer, he disappeared into the hallway.

In the evening, Kudo returned to the bureau, his suit had been taken off, and there were traces of sweat on his white shirt, he sat in his position, picked up the water cup on the table and drank it without saying a word, Nakamura was stunned for a moment as soon as he walked in, but he didn't have time to speak, because Kudo had finished drinking, I knew that this was the wolfberry tea he made for himself, and he had begun to recuperate according to his wife's instructions, because he didn't have time to drink at work, and he finally came back but was drunk by Kudo.

"Oh, sorry senior." Kudo hurriedly got up to apologize, Nakamura hurriedly waved his hand, he picked up the cup and went out to fetch hot water to make another cup.

"Why have you been around for so long, have you found anything?" I sat down next to him and asked.

Kudo looked very tired, he took a few breaths, looked at me and said, "I found out her whereabouts, she went to a high-end café a few kilometers away alone, opened a private room, and then went to a high-end western restaurant to eat at five o'clock, and also opened a private room, and then returned home, the reason why I checked for so long is because she walked the whole time and didn't take any transportation." ”

I looked at Kudo and wondered, "Why?" ”

"I don't know, anyway, what I can be sure of is that she must not be trying to save money, she can even go to a café and a Western restaurant alone to open a private room, and she must not be short of this money." Kudo said, his brow furrowing, it was the first time I had seen Kudo look confused.

He blinked suddenly, as if remembering something, and stood up.

"What's wrong?"

"I seem to have overlooked something, when I checked the monitoring in the morning, I remembered that the number of people riding in the elevator in the monitoring should be 11 people, and the carrying capacity seems to be 11 people." He recalled, I was stunned, I couldn't help but admire his observation and memory, because when I checked the surveillance, I was also in the surveillance, so Kudo paid attention to it, but it was only those few seconds.

"I'm going back to the apartment, let's make sure." Kudo got up and walked quickly to the door, I immediately followed, and when I went out, I accidentally collided with Nakamura who entered the door, and as soon as he didn't hold it steady, the cup that had just been brewed in his hand fell to the ground again.

"Where are you going?" Nakamura asked suspiciously.

I didn't have time to answer him, because looking at Kudo's hurried figure, I felt that he must have discovered something.