"Why was this warehouse abandoned? Can you tell me the reason?" Suzuki Sonoko asked. This was one of the things Qing Shuijing wanted her to understand.
"Can I not answer this?" Reika Kuramoto looked away and replied.
"Please! Miss Kuramoto! This is really important!" Suzuki Sonoko raised her hand to hold her shoulders again and begged.
Seeing her like this, Reika Kuramoto sighed softly, organized her words, and said:
"Actually, this is not a secret in our company. Last year, one of our breeders... became the president's mistress."
"well?"
"It's a very old-fashioned story, just like the ones on TV. She thought the president would divorce Mrs. Mieko, then marry her and make her the new 'Mrs. Moriyama'.
But how did she know that the president was a romantic person, and he had a relationship with her with the mentality of toying with her from the beginning... So it was no surprise that it didn't take long for her to be fucked by the president who was tired of playing with her. Abandoned.
In the end, she was so frustrated that she hanged herself alone in the warehouse. She must have brought the blame on herself...
Because it was a suicide, the police closed the case quickly. This incident did not cause any sensation. If there is any change, this warehouse, which was quite convenient at first, has been abandoned. We need to get cleaning tools. They all go to the control room on the first floor of the aquarium, which is quite troublesome..."
"Sorry, Miss Kuramoto..." Seeing Kuramoto Reika's sad expression, Suzuki Sonoko was also a little affected.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Is there anything else you want to ask?"
"Well, there is one last one." Nodding, Suzuki Sonoko asked: "Who came to the aquarium first this morning?"
"Usually it's the breeder, and I happened to be the first one here today," Kuramoto Reika replied.
"So this morning, Miss Kuramoto, did you notice anything special? Anything is fine, as long as you think it's different from usual."
"Is there anything special? It doesn't seem like... Ah, by the way, someone shut down the aquarium's monitoring system last night, and then... the long hook in the control room on the first floor got wet. Does this count?”
"The long hook is wet? Is this weird?"
"Yeah." Nodding her head, Kuramoto Reika explained: "That long hook is usually used to clean the debris in the sink, but because the sink was cleaned yesterday, we didn't have it all day yesterday. After using it, it has been kept in the control room.
But when I came to the aquarium this morning, I found that it was covered with water, which felt a little strange.
Because if the security guard patrolling last night had used it, then the water stains on it should have dried up long ago.
But it would be wrong to say that someone had used it this morning, because when I came to the aquarium this morning, no one was in the aquarium yet...! "
As she spoke, Reika Kuramoto's face turned pale. She seemed to suddenly realize something, stood up suddenly, and quickly left the rock field.
"Huh? Miss Kuramoto?"
Seeing Kuramoto Reika walking away by herself, Suzuki Sonoko was a little confused, but she didn't catch up. After all, she had already asked all the questions Qing Shuijing wanted her to ask, and now she wanted to give Kuramoto Reika's answer again. Tell your brother-in-law.
"..."
"I think Ms. Kuramoto must have known the murderer's method of hiding President Moriyama's body and was anxious to preserve the evidence." After listening to Suzuki Sonoko's description, Shimizu said with a smile.
"Huh? It sounds like brother-in-law already knows who the murderer is?!" Suzuki Sonoko asked excitedly.
After she finished speaking, Suzuki Ayako and Mao Lilan, who were just listening quietly, also looked at Qing Shuijing curiously.
"Well, I understand. The murderer is indeed among the three suspects."
"Brother-in-law! Tell me quickly!"
"Shizu-kun." Suzuki Ayako gestured to the police who were still distressed not far away, her meaning was obvious.
"Um."
Nodding to her, Qing Shuijing organized his thoughts in his mind and said:
"The first is President Moriyama. The reason why his body is in that strange posture is indeed deliberately done by the murderer. Of course, this is not an evil ritual, but the murderer had to do it.
Yesterday afternoon... I personally speculate that it was after four o'clock, that is, during the time when the neutralizer was sprinkled in the aquarium tank and all the keepers left, the murderer and President Moriyama came to the aquarium one after another. The rock pit on the second floor of the museum.
Here, the murderer who had some clues about President Moriyama first pushed him off the rock field when he was not prepared. After teasing him, he lowered the rope and pulled him up.
The tears on President Moriyama's clothes and the scratches on his knees and elbows were all caused by this.
Of course, the reason why the murderer did this was not to humiliate President Moriyama, but he had to do it, just like killing a fish alive. Only by allowing President Moriyama's body to undergo enough exercise, the murderer could Confident enough to fool the police during the autopsy. "
Killing alive is a fishing term. The general idea is that after the fish is caught, if the fish is allowed to jump around, the stiffness of the fish after death will appear earlier, which will greatly affect the meat quality of the fish. Therefore, in order to maximize the To ensure the deliciousness of fish meat, it is a way of saying that you choose to kill it immediately after catching it.
This situation would also be the same if it were changed to a human being.
In the process of pushing President Moriyama down the water tank, and finally making him climb up hard along the rock field with stick-slip neutralizer, President Moriyama's fully exercised body had accumulated a lot of fatigue substances.
If he were killed suddenly at this time, under the influence of these fatigue substances, President Moriyama's body would inevitably develop rigor mortis faster than normal, thereby misleading the police in judging the time of his death.
This would be difficult to detect without a more professional and detailed autopsy. Fortunately, due to various reasons, there are very few forensic doctors in the Japanese police community, and many times they do not even conduct autopsies on the bodies of the deceased.
"In other words, the police's previous conclusion that President Moriyama was killed between one and three o'clock yesterday is wrong. The real time of his murder was actually four days after all the keepers left the aquarium. Between o'clock and five o'clock."
Qing Shuijing smiled and told the three people beside him this inference.
"Of course, the murderer did this not only to disguise his alibi, but also to leave the rock field, and this was also his biggest flaw."
"Leave the rock field?"
"Well, the rock field here is divided into two large blocks on the left and right. The nearest distance between them is about 1.6 meters. When the keepers were cleaning the water tank yesterday, there should be a pedal here to facilitate their going back and forth. But I think when Ms. Kuramoto left after get off work yesterday, she probably put the pedal away.
For a normal adult, it would not be a problem to jump this distance even without pedals, but unfortunately, the murderer could not do it.
So after killing President Moriyama, the murderer took President Moriyama's body and hid in the abandoned warehouse. Due to the special nature of this warehouse, the murderer was not worried that anyone would discover him.
He waited until Miss Kuramoto and the other breeders were off work before leaving the warehouse with President Moriyama's body. Using the rapidly stiffening body as a stepping stone, he successfully returned from the rock field on the left to the rock field on the right. field.
Finally, the murderer disguised President Moriyama's body, threw it into the sink, and left the aquarium. As for the method of disguising the body, I think Miss Kuramoto will give us the answer soon.
So, you should all know who the murderer is now, right? "
Qing Shuijing finished her words and turned to look at Technical Minister Takashi Yaguchi, who was standing among the police, using a cane and having a disabled leg.
[Okay, the detective game ends here, now it’s time to find the person hiding behind you. 】
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