Perhaps the detective's caution made him reluctant to reveal his address, or simply to avoid the driver being too surprised to see the mansion of the Hasu Mansion, the detective got out of the car a block away from his residence.

After getting out of the taxi, Hugo threw the white coat that he could no longer wear into the trash can on the side of the road, and then stretched a big lazy waist, and taught Bilan detective knowledge as if he was chatting about family life-

"The most undesirable thing in reasoning is to put aside a proven conclusion and start anew. It's easy to fall into a mistake that I call a 'common sense trap'. ”

Passing by the dazzling shop windows on the side of the street, the detective who took off his white coat and left a black shirt on his body talked as if no one was around, and his image was much cleaner than usual.

"People always like to follow intuitive thinking to string together some simple facts, and then use this filter to deduce more information they like, so as to ignore all the evidence of the owner that is not good for the conclusion. But such speculation is not synonymous with the real truth. And if the detective's misunderstanding falls on the suspect, it will turn into an extremely vicious frame-up. ”

Blue nodded knowingly, but after all, she was still relieved, and simply told Hugo that "the apartment manager may be the culprit".

I thought I would be ridiculed by the detective, but Hugo shrugged his shoulders indifferently, looking surprised-

"You mean the Administrator? Well, he's really doing some shady business. He really didn't have much sympathy for the dead Mr. Greta. In my list of suspects, he's probably not as suspicious as another Sandstorm teammate. ”

"The other partner refers to the one, the first person to notice that Greta is missing, and the last person to arrive at the scene of the crime with the Administrator?" The girl couldn't help but ask.

"Naturally."

The black-shirted detective nodded: "The closer the companions, the more likely it is that the most tragic arguments will break out; The more closely related the community of interests, the more likely it is to inspire the most life-and-death bloody fight. Moreover, if it is a gift from a partner who gets along day and night, wouldn't the victim naturally take it back to the apartment by himself? ”

Bilan's eyes widened: "Ah, I didn't think of this, it's really possible." ”

"It's impossible!"

Hugo held his forehead with one hand and regretted the assistant's easily wavering performance: "Miss Blue, if you just guess, there are as many motives as there are for the crime. What the detective has to do is to constantly eliminate those illogical options, and repeatedly revise his suspicions based on the newly discovered evidence, and finally lock on the real murderer. ”

"So what to do?"

"Let's take the suspicion of the apartment manager as an example. It seems to me that if the person who deliberately murdered Greta was the janitor, there is a contradiction in the case that cannot be ignored. The detective said in an understated tone.

"What contradiction?" The girl has already had her appetite hung up, and is anxiously waiting for the following.

"The paradox is that the old man could have done the crime a little more thoroughly. For example, he had every chance to sneak out of his pocket and aim at the flower pot while the other first spotter ran to call the police, and unknowingly retract the ball from the Sun Coral God. If we do this, even if we and the police are lucky enough to find something strange in the flower pot, we will not be able to grasp the specific traces of the other party's hands and feet. ”

The detective touched his chin, then added, "Of course, if the murderer is another partner of the Sandstorm team, such a contradiction also exists." The possibility that the first discoverers were the murderers is therefore almost ruled out, and unless there is new evidence to explain this contradiction, then they cannot be the perpetrators of the crime. ”

"Will they simply forget? Missed an opportunity because of an oversight? Blue questioned logically.

"Bilan, you don't have much experience with murder cases, but what I want to tell you is that a well-planned murder like this, a murderer who is bent on killing and hiding traces of the crime, will never forget such an obvious finishing touch."

"Is the secret room always the product of compromise......" Blue recalls Hugo's lecture notes in front of the door of the crime scene.

"Not bad." The detective snapped his fingers and said sarcastically, "The compromise of this chamber is that it is so perfect that the real murderer can't even get the murder weapon out of the chamber, which is ironic." ”

"But how do you find the real culprit among the residents of the building?"

Hugo buttoned his cheeks, showing a somewhat embarrassed expression, and just arrived at the courtyard door of the Yuqi Mansion, he stepped forward first, opened the door with the key, and said to Bilan with the back of his head—

"Actually, the moment I entered the scene of the crime, I discovered the reason why the murderer had murderous intent towards the deceased. At that time, I didn't even notice the oddity in the pot. ”

"Huh?" Bilan's jaw almost dropped, "At that time? But why didn't I and the officers who had investigated the scene see anything? ”

"You're just watching, and I'm watching."

The front door of the small courtyard was opened, and Hugo turned the key ring in his hand a few times like a handsome man, and bowed down to make a "ladies first" invitation posture.

"In the four prompts I gave before, you probably have analyzed the meaning of the words 'gift' and 'neighbor', right?"

"That's right." The girl followed the detective into the Hasu Mansion, "There was a 'neighbor' who gave the deceased a flower pot with a killing mechanism as a 'gift', and that's what you want to say, right?" ”

"Yes, that explains how the Chamber of Secrets came about. And in the last two words, I hinted at the murderer's motive for committing the crime. ”

"Rocks" vs. "Interests".

"The motive for the crime was a 'conflict of interest' caused by 'rocks'?" Bilan followed the detective into the Yuqi Mansion, sat down on the sofa in the hall, and casually made a guess.

"Who's to say it isn't?" The detective smiled narrowly, "This is the killing intent of the rock and the intertwined interests, this is the information I observed from the door of the crime scene." ”

"Speaking of which." Bilan suddenly raised her smartphone, and the mobile device with a light blue shell reflected a faint light under the fluorescent lamp, "I actually took a photo of the crime scene on my own initiative, this shouldn't be illegal, right?" ”

"It doesn't matter if the police officers don't stop it, and besides, there was no real body at the scene."

It seems that the girl's capture business has been polished very maturely...... Hugo pouted and waved his hand, he really didn't care.

He reached out and took the phone, stretched out the panoramic photo inside, and said to the owner of the phone, "Look here, have you seen the daily necessities here?" ”

Bilan leaned her head in front of the phone: "What, isn't this an ordinary cleaning tool?" ”

"And here, do you see the floors and furniture? How does it feel? ”

The assistant had no idea what the detective was paying attention to, and could only answer honestly: "The floor is of unpretentious stone tiles, and the furniture is not stylish, and it looks stubby and bulky." ”

"And this door, notice its width and height." Hugo shifted the scene to the distant bedroom door.

"Hmm, it should be a bigger circle than the normal room door, probably used to let large Pokémon enter and exit freely, right? Not! Wait a minute! ”

Blue finally noticed something unusual, and as if it had set off a chain reaction, she immediately understood the common meaning of the objects that Hugo pointed out—

"Hugo, I see! Mr. Gritta's Sandstorm team is full of large Pokémon, and if you want them to move freely in your apartment, you have to enlarge the door, prepare sturdy stone tiles, replace the furniture with the most durable models, and sweep the tools—"

Hugo nodded in agreement with Azure's reasoning, and took over by the way: "The cleaning tool is to be able to clean the dust caused by Pokémon "Blowing Sand" at any time. Although the special dust generated by the characteristics will naturally dissipate, as a rock-based and ground-based Pokémon, those elves themselves have a heavy dust, not to mention that Greta has cultivated six of them, and if they are not cleaned up again, this apartment should have been dusty for a long time. ”

"But the room we saw was very tidy...... "Blue muttered.

This shows that the owner of the house is very diligent in housework, and the bald broom in the photo can be used as evidence. But his most used tool should be this electric vacuum cleaner. Probably based on his habit when buying furniture, he did not use those small but delicate silent vacuum cleaners, but used this model that seemed to have a lot of power, presumably to clean up the dust in the house in time. ”

"Wait, that's still not right." The girl found something strange in the detective's reasoning, "If he is so troubled by dust, why are all the doors and windows locked when we arrive at the secret room?" ”

"Of course, in order to prevent the smoke and dust from drifting outside, this trainer has raised Sandstorm Team Pokémon for so many years, and naturally has experienced various complaints between neighbors, and there are still people downstairs who have to dry clothes on the balcony, and Greta, who lives on the upper floor, of course, must lock the doors and windows so as not to cause trouble to the residents below."

"But he's still getting in trouble, isn't he?" Bilan had already vaguely seen the truth of the matter, and she sighed, as if accepting an unacceptable reality.

Why is this office so full of such regrettable truths?

"Bangiras weighs two hundred kilograms, and the Pangrock is two hundred and sixty kilograms, and the other Sandstorm elves don't weigh much less than these two figures. Such a Pokémon is active in the house, and the downstairs naturally has to endure thumping noises all day long. Greta also uses a high-powered vacuum cleaner every day, and the noise is even louder under the echo of the enclosed room. ”

Hugo shook his head helplessly, as if sorry for the dead Mr. Greta: "If I were a resident of that downstairs house, if I were faced with constant noise all day long, I might have been so troubled that I would want to kill." ”