Chapter 018: The Real Criminal

"Is that detective slapping a swollen face and playing Kirbymon?" The development of events was too unbelievable, and Bilan couldn't help but question.

"That's not the case, Detective Hugo solved the whole case beautifully in the end." The junior Douzi shook his index finger like Pokeby and said inscrutablely.

Bilan propped her arms on the table, pressed her index finger to her head and thought for a long time, and finally lost the battle, so she had to ask the girl in front of her: "I really don't know what's going on, please tell me." ”

"Hehe, let me tell you!"

Obviously she is not a detective who solves the case, but the girl with a high ponytail is very proud, and she drinks the remaining fruit tea in the cup in one go, and continues to tell the story.

It turned out that after the detective gave up the commission fee, he immediately turned his head to investigate his employer. It doesn't matter if you don't check it, you will find a lot of information when you check it.

"What is it?" Bilan's curiosity was aroused, and she leaned forward, looking forward to Douzi's next steps.

"That rich man's favorite Pokémon is actually a tyrannosaurus from the Hoenn region!"

Fortunately, Sister Xiaolan didn't drink coffee at this time, otherwise she would definitely squirt out the drink in her mouth.

"I also thought that this rich man's kidnapped Pokémon was a small and cute Pokémon like Bao Ding and Pen Cai Monster...... I didn't expect it to be a tyrannosaurus with a reputation for its violent temperament......" she said dumbfounded.

"It's amazing, a little bit of hiding the information in the event can cause this kind of earth-shaking effect. In some novels, this seems to be called 'narrative trickery', which is a deliberate play on words by the narrator who takes advantage of the blind spots of the receiving party. ”

Douzi played with the noun he learned out of nowhere, and was happy that he had deceived Sister Xiaolan.

However, in the latter's glare, she finally added: "This trick has not only deceived you, Xiaolan, in fact, the information that the detective got at the beginning, and the first thing I heard when I first entered the rich man's house, are also the same as the previous story." ”

"That rich man deliberately withheld information?"

"Exactly. The detective gradually found clues in the investigation of the case, so he deliberately admitted failure, gave up the commission fee, and began to investigate the rich man himself as an innocent and neutral person. ”

"That's ...... so"

Like the trend of the case, Bilan's view of the detective gradually reversed, and the figure of the man who walked out of the room with a fire extinguisher in his memory seemed to be a little more calm and chic than before.

"More powerful is yet to come. It was only a few days before the detectives put together all the information they had gathered. In that country house, he first pulled out several copies of the airline's itinerary records and asked the rich man why he had traveled to Hoenn three times and twice. He also took out a voice recorder, which recorded the confession of the clerk of the bodyguard company that the rich man had previously hired - the person in the recording confessed that the rich man went to Hoenn to poach a large Pokémon. ”

"Poaching!" Blue was shocked by the latest revelations, "Is the target of the poaching the tyrannosaurus?" ”

"That's right." Douzi snapped his fingers gorgeously, "It turns out that the rich man didn't officially take in the Tyrannosaurus, but kept the Tyrannosaurus in a cage as a collectible item in a huge room in a villa that didn't see the light of day. According to the rich man's own confession, he thought that there was nothing in the world of interior decoration comparable to placing a living super powerful dragon Pokémon, so he took his bodyguards to Hoenn to capture one and put it in a gorgeous cage to watch it every day. ”

Bilan recalled the actions of the Rocket henchmen who had ravaged Guandu in the past, and couldn't help but angrily spit out a two-word comment: "Scum." ”

Douzi nodded sympathetically and continued the story: "Then the detective started reasoning in front of the rich man and me, and the scene was really exactly the same as the reasoning part in the climax of a crime movie!" ”

"The rich man didn't kick you out?"

"Of course, but I sneaked back into that conference room again." Douzi smiled.

Bilan took a deep breath and decided not to complain about the behavior of her juniors for the time being, and asked, "What did the detective say at that time?" ”

"The detective said he actually saw the whole picture of the incident from the very beginning of the case — from the moment he saw the first ransom letter."

The real story is this: a young man who lives near the villa where the rich man hid the Wyvern, witnesses the evil deeds of the rich man imprisoning and imprisoning the Wyvern, and after the rich man leaves the villa, he sneaks into the rich man's home, finds the key to the Wyvern's cage, and releases the Pokémon.

The Wyvern was free, and in an instant it broke through the window pane and flew off into the distance, leaving the rich man forever.

Originally, this commendable act of righteousness and courage should have come to an end, but the young man who let go of the Tyrannosaurus look at the rich man's goldfully decorated villa, and his heart rose with evil thoughts.

He found a pen and paper in the rich man's study, wrote the contents of the ransom note on it, and left the note in the now empty cage containing the Wyvern.

The detective said at the time: "On the first threatening letter, the extortion money was only a million dollars, which may be a huge amount in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of a rich man of the level of a real estate tycoon, it is a drop in the bucket, and it is impossible for a skilled kidnapper to start without knowing the financial situation of the extortion target." Therefore, it can be concluded that the person who wrote the ransom letter was a rookie kidnapper, and even the whole crime may have occurred on a whim. ”

The detective also said that he later knocked on the side of the rich man under the pretense of chatting, and finally began to believe that the rich man, who was the client, actually had a ghost in his heart, and the reason why he hired the detective instead of the police was because he was afraid that his poaching crime would be exposed.

So here's the problem. What can happen between a super noob in the kidnapping world and a poached Pokémon?

Until this time, Hugo was not sure, because he did not know if the other party was strong enough as a trainer to forcibly take away a tyrannosaurus.

"So there's the day the detective watchman bench?" Bilan asked.

"That's right, the detective said he didn't actually see the moment when the suitcase disappeared. As soon as the little paws of the Pokémon that used to "dig holes" stuck out of the ground, the detective recognized the type of Pokémon - it was an ordinary black-eyed crocodile. Therefore, the person who wrote the threatening letter must be a rookie. ”

Douzi, who aspires to be a director, tells the story with magnificent ups and downs, and vaguely seems to see the detective himself talking eloquently.

"It's impossible for a trainer with this black-eyed crocodile to kidnap a poached Pokémon - the detective makes a split second. In this case, he who let go of the rich Pokémon is actually not a bad person in essence, and it seems to be a good direction to let the rich man who is really involved in poaching crimes suffer a little. ”

"So the detective let the rich man's million be taken by the kidnappers?" Blue's eyes widened in disbelief.

This is another reason why the detective insisted on refunding the commission fee given by the rich man. That Detective Hugo once said: Detectives have to do more than just solve the case, when to solve the case, how to solve it, this is the focus of the detective. ”

"So what did the detective mean at the beginning when he said 'the real culprit has been punished'?" Bilan thought of a detail and cautiously asked her junior.

"As you can imagine, the real culprit is not the young man who wrote the ransom letter, but the real estate tycoon who committed the crime of poaching wild Pokémon!"

Bilan finally understood Douzi's evaluation of the detective, and couldn't help but sigh: "In this way, that detective is indeed somewhat reliable......"

Then, when the young man sent the ransom note for the second time, the detective realized that the time had come for him to act. It is evident that the intimidator did not grasp the mercy of the detective, but became more and more greedy, and if he continued to let him taste the fruits of his unearned gains at this time, he would undoubtedly let a good young man go to the end of crime. ”

Therefore, he asked to see the rich man, confessed what had happened before, and hoped that the young man would be properly punished by the rich man's hand. Presumably at that time, the detective used the matter of reporting the poaching of the rich man as a lever to blackmail the other party, right? Blue speculated.

"It's worthy of Sister Xiaolan, that's it!" Douzi said adoringly.

"'It's worthy of Sister Xiaolan', you have said it countless times today." Bilan smiled bitterly, and then looked out the window at the Yuqi Mansion, was that where she was about to stay? Thinking of the detective's story, she couldn't help but look forward to her future sojourn in the United District.

Probably, it won't be boring, right?