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"The deceased, female, name Chiyoko Suzuki, 29 years old this year, a company employee, was found dead in her home by neighbors at about 9 o'clock tonight, and the neighbors broke down because of the sudden fire in the deceased's house, and her son was found dead, Shota Ito."

"Blackened sockets, table lamps, electric fans were found on the floor of the scene, and we found a lighter next to the coffee table, and it was preliminarily judged that the fire should have been caused by this lighter, and no fingerprints were found on the lighter."

Inside the room, a police officer wearing a hood is carefully collecting evidence with a camera, and Watanabe is holding a report book and is carefully elaborating.

I sat on the round soft stool, looking at Chiyoko on the ground who had stiffened, until now I still can't believe that everything in front of me is reality, the impression of the woman with a smile as bright as the sun is like this forever asleep, dignified and elegant she is now completely skinless, my fists slowly clenched, and my body gradually began to tremble.

"If you want a lighter, it's a homicide." My subordinate Nakamura said.

"Well, we found a lot of oil stains on the carpet and on the body of the deceased, through the examination of the two deceased, we found that Chiyoko's head was suspected to be caused by heavy metals, but this degree could not cause the death of the deceased, it should be the murderer who knocked him unconscious, and then poured oil on the carpet and the deceased's body, and then lit it with a lighter, and the body of the deceased Shota was burned the most, so we found obvious strangulation marks on his intact neck, and extracted fingerprints on it, I judged that Zhengtai should have been strangled by the murderer and then burned. Watanabe looked at the corpse on the ground and continued.

"So why did the murderer set fire? It's not easy to spot. Nakamura said.

"Because this can destroy the traces of the crime, the murderer must have left a lot of evidence of the crime when he committed the crime, so he chose the easiest method of destroying evidence, but the murderer may not have expected the deceased to be found so quickly, and thanks to the section chief, we were lucky to extract fingerprints from the neck of the deceased's son." Watanabe replied.

"Anyway, this is the section chief's neighbor, but why hasn't the section chief been talking?" Watanabe looked at me suspiciously, silent.

"So when did the murderer enter and leave the deceased's house, has the surveillance side checked it?" Nakamura then asked.

"After inspection, we found that two hours before the incident, there was a power outage on the floor where we were located, so the monitoring of the corridor outside the door was paralyzed."

"Power outage? So the surveillance didn't capture the murderer at all? That is, we don't know when the murderer entered the door of the deceased's house," Nakamura frowned.

"No one was here during that time." I suddenly spoke, met the eyes of the two of them, and said in a deep voice, "I came back at the convenience store at six o'clock, met the deceased downstairs, and after returning home together, because the sound insulation was very poor, I could hear the sound of the door opening next door clearly, and I didn't hear any sound of the deceased's door opening." ”

"In other words, no one left the house after the fire." My eyes suddenly zoomed into Watanabe.

Watanabe was stunned for a moment and then nodded, "Yes, after the call, the monitoring was restored, and I didn't find out from the surveillance that anyone had left the deceased's room." ”

"What?" Nakamura's eyes widened in surprise, "What if you didn't notice that it was the section chief, but in fact, the murderer left before the monitoring was restored?" After all, residents notice a fire a few minutes after a call, and it takes time for a fire to spread. ”

"Impossible." I shook my head, "One is that I was sure of my ears, and the other is that I was not the only one who heard the sound of glass breaking after the call, I didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now I can confirm that the sound came from this room." "I looked up at the shattered floor-to-ceiling window in front of me, and now in the big hole that had broken out, the cold wind was rushing in, coming from the abyssal darkness of the night, and making a devilish howl, blowing on our faces like sharp blades.

"So the killer was still in the house after the call, so how did he get in and leave?" Nakamura said with a glare.

I stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, the cold wind getting more and more biting, and looked at the sky beyond the hole, "All clues indicate that the murderer left from this hole, but we all know that this is impossible, because this is the upper floor of the 26th floor. Therefore, the murderer committed this murder in a place where there is no heaven and no earth, that is, there is no heaven and no earth. ”

"So," Nakamura looked at me.

I turned around and looked at Nakamura and Watanabe, "That's right, this is a case of murder in a closed room, and we've met a fierce rival." ”