Chapter 120: The Illusion of Time
"What?" The surprised Ota Katsu stood up directly from the sand, and several girls next to him looked at the inconspicuous fireplace in the corner of the living room in horror, never dreaming that it would be such a result.
Because in the morning, everyone searched room by room, not even the kitchen closet, but in a place like a fireplace, who would have imagined that it could be used to hide corpses.
Under Suzuki Ayako's pale face, her lips trembled slightly: "Chikako's body is really in the fireplace?" ”
Ogata was in anticipation of everyone's surprise and consternation, and he looked at everyone who cast suspicious eyes, and said slowly, "I have a large number of black granular objects on the membrane and scalp of the corpse, which I have determined to be carbon, and these carbons should be the same as the black patches on the surface of the inner wall of the fireplace. ”
"In addition to this, I found carbon in the ears and nostrils of the deceased. It is definitely not accidental contamination of this carbon, but an intrinsic contact caused by being in a nearly enclosed space. The cut wound on the head and neck of the deceased should be seen, and under my autopsy test, it was determined that the angle of entry of the fatal wound was not a top-down swing, but a sliding cut from the left to the left because in a small space, there was simply not enough distance to swing the knife. ”
Although everyone doesn't understand Ogata's words, one thing is clear, and that is that Chikako's body is indeed in the fireplace.
"I need Katsu Ota's help to get Chikako's body out of the fireplace. Because the changes in the corpse are very fast, especially in special circumstances, it will have a direct impact on the subsequent detailed post-mortem work. ”
Okatsu looked at Katsu Ota, who had an ugly face and a look of resistance, with a smile.
"Do you really want me to help?" Ota Katsu cried with a sad face, he wanted to wave his hand and refuse, but there were so many girls watching in front of him.
Ogata nodded earnestly, "Don't worry, you just need to climb up to the chimney on the top of the fireplace and untie the rope that holds the corpse." ”
"Want this handsome guy to climb the chimney?" Katsu Ota wonders if Ogata is deliberately manipulating himself, because it is definitely a thing that damages his image.
"You're the only one here who is the most athletic, so I'm please."
Hearing Ogata's words, Ota Katsu subconsciously looked at Kakutani, who had a beer belly, and Ryoichi Takahashi, whose belly was already able to hold a baby, it was true that among these men, only his own body was the most proportionate
Katsu Ota took a flashlight and used a ladder to lie down on the chimney near the second floor, because the roof of the villa is not designed to be parallel, so the chimney is only directly above the living room, and the position of the guest room on the second floor is on the same level
Both Ogata and Katsu Ota's mobile phones remain on the phone, and the two can communicate directly.
"I've reached the top of the chimney." Katsu Ota's voice ran out of Ogata's phone.
Ogata said to him, "Use a flashlight to illuminate the inside of the chimney and find something like a rope." ”
"Oh." Ota Katsu answered, and then there was a murmur on the phone.
Ogata turned back to Ayako Suzuki and Ran and said, "You'd better be prepared for a while. He was worried that the headless female corpse was too shocking for these girls who were still in school, so he hurriedly reminded him.
"Got it, cousin." Xiaolan nodded obediently.
Just as Sonoko and her sister were about to make a statement, a shrill scream suddenly came from Ogata's phone.
"Really, really there are corpses," Katsu Ota stammered, panicking out loud into his phone.
Sonoko and Suzuki Ayako's skin was crisp, and their faces changed slightly.
"See the ropes?" Ogata asked calmly.
"See," Katsu Ota replied nervously and apprehensively.
With his phone in hand, Ogata walked over to the fireplace and swooped in, using the light of his phone to see the rickety corpse less than a meter above the ground, just avoiding the distance that people could capture directly from the outside to the inside.
"Cut the rope."
"Okay." The other party replied in a hurry.
With the cooperation of the two people, Ogata picked up the female corpse with his hands, and he didn't want to trouble anyone, but after falling from a certain distance, the corpse would cause some impactful damage.
The entire living room is unusually quiet, and in the footage of Hiroki Kakutani's camera functioning, Ogata appears with a headless female corpse in his hand
Looking at the clothes on the corpse, as well as the figure, although it was terrible and uncomfortable, everyone recognized that this was Chikako Ikeda, who was still drinking and chatting with them last night
Chikako Ikeda's body is found, and Ogata's body is stained with a lot of black ash and looks a little wolfy, but his self-confidence completely obscures these things.
Seeing Ota Katsu returning, Ogata thanked him and returned to the topic.
"The body of the deceased was found in the fireplace, and I think everyone is curious why the head was found in such a place, apparently in the woods on the outskirts of the mountain."
Everyone's eyes or expressions verified Ogata's statement.
"Let's take a look at the deceased's head, and I have observed that on the outside of her scalp, we can see that some of the pores are visibly constricted, because the deceased is still in a certain state of excitement or tension at the moment of death. And people who are killed in a normal state do not have these conditioned reflexes."
Ogata stepped aside and gently brushed the head around the round scalp with his gloved hands, allowing everyone to see the details. Because there are some things that are just spoken with the mouth, and the person who hears them will not be convinced, thinking that it is nonsense, but seeing it has the purest perception.
"This also shows that the excitement and nervousness of the deceased before death is due to something, someone, or something"
Ogata suddenly asked Ayako Suzuki, "Miss Suzuki, did you see the deceased at five o'clock in the morning?" ”
"Yes, she was lying in bed, and I went to help make breakfast after I washed up. Because she had some wake-up gas, I didn't wake her up. Ayako Suzuki replied truthfully.
Ogata sighed, "That's why it's misleading about the time of death, leading us to think that Chikako Ikeda was killed after five o'clock in the morning. ”
"Really?" Everyone looked at Ogata suspiciously.
"It's hard to understand why the murderer split the body into two parts, the main body and the head, and maybe everyone thinks that the murderer just wanted to satisfy the perverted murderer**, and cutting off Chikako Ikeda's head is probably out of hatred, and after her death, vent his anger."
"Actually, it's all psychological stuff that doesn't have any real meaning."
Ogata's tone began to thicken: "But I want to tell you that this is a technique of time illusion In Miss Suzuki's narration, we have established one thing, and that is that she could not be sure whether Chikako Ikeda was alive at the time. ”
"You mean"
For a moment, Ayako Suzuki shuddered while the others looked at the head in horror.
"That's right, after the murderer, the murderer put Zhijiazi's head on the pillow and kept it sleeping, and the quilt should be filled with some clothes or pillows and other things, maintaining the sleeping appearance that the head and the human body have not left."
"What Miss Suzuki saw was not the living Tomoko Ikeda."
"It's the head we found in the woods."
Ogata's voice echoed through the living room, and everyone shuddered.
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