"Am I right? Host: Miss Xueding? ”

In the lobby of the State Guest House, this male figure that suddenly appeared slowly turned his head to look at Xue Dingyao behind him.

“…… Huh? ”

It seemed that he didn't expect to be named, Xue Ding was stunned for a moment, and only came back to his senses after a while, raised his hand and pointed to his face, with an incredible look on his face.

"This ...... Mr. Detective, you say I'm the murderer of Mr. Todo? ”

"That's right, it's you." Nodding his head, the tone of the male figure was extremely certain.

"Well, Mr. Detective, are you mistaken?"

After being stunned, Xue Ding had a lovely smile on his face.

"I've been with everyone during the event, leaving and coming back together, how can I have time here......

"I've made this very clear just now."

The male figure interrupted her words and said directly: "The murderer used the little trick of the spotlight to delay the time for the corpse to stiffen, so as to mislead the judgment of the time of death.

Therefore, the scope of the murderer should not be limited to the staff who stayed in the lobby of the State Guest House during the event, but should be determined before the start of this banquet and after the deceased Mr. Dongtang entered the State Guest House.

During this period, all the relevant staff of the State Guest House who were present were suspected of murder. ”

"Even according to Mr. Detective, the guests in the hall at the time must have been suspicious, right? Wasn't we all in the hall? Xue Ding asked rhetorically without showing weakness.

"No, the guest can't be suspicious."

Shaking his head slightly, the male figure raised his hand and pressed the brim of his hat, and continued to explain:

"I went to the staff behind the scenes to ask that the banner hanging the deceased in the air was controlled by the authorities in the control room on the second floor of the State Guest House.

The studio on the second floor is not open to the public, and only the staff at the State Guest House have the keys to enter and exit.

This means that the method of killing the deceased and hoisting it in the air with a banner to temporarily hide the body can only be done by the staff at the State Guest House. ”

"Even if that's the case, shouldn't those people in the background be more likely? Why do you have to say it's me? I've been in the hall all the time during the party! Haven't been to the second floor at all! Xue must have asked loudly.

"It seems that this is indeed ......"

Hearing her words, some detectives on the stage nodded subconsciously.

"Miss Yuki, Lady Igarashi, and the deceased, Mr. Todo, they were already in the hall before the banquet officially began.

Especially Miss Xue Dingyao and Mr. Dongtang, I remember that it was only after the banquet officially started that the two of them went to the back of the stage to prepare.

Even if Miss Xue Dingyao was the murderer, she probably wouldn't have time to complete the series of actions of killing Mr. Todo, tying him to the banner, and then going to the studio on the second floor to raise the banner.

After all, there was less than ten minutes between Ms. Igarashi's welcome speech and Miss Yuki's coming on stage......"

"On the contrary, this little bit of time is completely sufficient." The male figure explained: "I have already asked from the backstage staff before, and the lifting of the banner is handled by the staff on the second floor, and there is no need for Miss Xue Ding to operate it herself.

According to the original plan of the event, the banner would not be displayed until everyone returned to the hall after the event, so the banner had not yet been raised at the beginning of the event.

Therefore, Miss Xue Ding only needs to kill the deceased Mr. Todo before going on stage, and then tie his neck with a banner.

When the allotted time comes, the staff on the second floor will naturally raise the banner. ”

"Well, that means that at the beginning of the banquet, Mr. Todo's body was lying on this stage, right behind this curtain?"

Some detectives listened to the analysis of the male figure and couldn't help but turn pale.

"That's right, that's what happened." The male figure smiled and nodded, as if he had no respect for life.

"Wait!" At this time, Xue Ding was about to speak again and asked loudly, "Mr. Detective! Let's just assume that what you say is true! So why does it have to be me? There are quite a few people who can do these tricks, right? Why do you think I did it?! ”

"The reason is very simple, I have already asked the staff in the back, after the banquet officially began, the rest of the staff went to the control room on the second floor, and only Miss Xue Dingyao was still behind the stage at that time, and the deceased Mr. Dongtang."

"But it's possible that they colluded to deceive people, right?! There was no surveillance in the guest house, so who knows where they were at the time?! ”

"You're really not giving up......"

Looking at her increasingly excited appearance, the male figure shook his head lightly and sighed, he put on his gloves and stepped forward, picked up one of the deceased's hands, and pulled out a thin blue fiber thread between the fingernails of the deceased's corpse.

"In the ten fingernails of the deceased's body, there are more or less blue fiber threads, and these cellulose do not match the brown clothes on the deceased's body.

This is not a coincidence or accident, the deceased had fiercely resisted in the process of being attacked and killed by the murderer, and it is obvious that these blue fibers in the fingernails of the deceased are important evidence left in the fingernails of the murderer after he scratched the clothes on the murderer's body in the process, and Miss Xue must ......"

As he spoke, the male figure stood up, turned his head to look at Xue Ding, who happened to be wearing a blue kimono and was already pale, and asked with a smile:

"Why don't we wait for the police to come and identify it, I think these blue threads found in the fingernails of the deceased must be the same as the material of the kimono on your body......"

"Snow Sets ......"

Kiyoko Igarashi turned her head to look at her with a sad look on her face.

"Could it be that the murderer is really you?"

"Even if it is, even if it ......"

Kiyoko Igarashi didn't respond, and it seemed that the reason for being watched by everyone's suspicious eyes was that a thin layer of sweat had oozed from Yuki's forehead.

But even so, she is still trying her best to refute the reasoning of the male figure.

"Even if those blue threads are made of the same material as my kimono, what does that prove?

The kimono I was wearing was not mine, and in the dressing room at the back of the State Guest House, there were many kimonos of the same material! How can you prove that it must be this kimono on me?

What's more! You clearly said that Mr. Todo broke the murderer's clothes before he was killed......

But the kimono I'm wearing is still intact! Aren't you contradicting yourself?! How do you explain this?!

You don't mean to say that I can take advantage of the few minutes before I go on stage to run back to the dressing room and change into a kimono after killing Mr. Todo, right?! No kidding! This is simply not possible in terms of time! ”

"His reasoning wasn't wrong."

In the midst of Xue's incomparably excited roar, a calm voice suddenly sounded.

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(End of chapter)