"Am I right? Host Xue Ding wants a lady?"
In the lobby of the guest house, the male figure suddenly appeared and slowly turned his head to look at Xue Dingyao behind him.
"……Eh?"
As if he didn't expect that he would be called out, Xueding was stunned for a moment. After a while, he came back to his senses and raised his finger to point at his face, with an incredible look on his face.
"This... Mr. Detective, do you think I am the murderer of Mr. Dongtang?"
"Yes, it's you." Nodding, the male figure's tone was extremely certain.
"Well, Mr. Detective, did you make a mistake?"
After being stunned, Xueding showed a cute smile on his face.
"I was always with everyone during the event. I left together and came back together. How could I have time to be here..."
"I just explained this very clearly."
The male figure interrupted her and said directly: "The murderer used the spotlight trick to delay the rigor mortis, thus misleading everyone's judgment of the time of death.
Therefore, the determination of the scope of the murderer cannot be limited to the staff who stayed in the lobby of the Guest House during the event, but should be before the banquet started and after the deceased Mr. Dongtang entered the Guest House.
During this period, all staff present at the guest house were suspected of murder. "
"Even if Mr. Detective You said this, the guests who were in the hall at that time should also be suspected, right? Weren't we all in the hall at that time?" Xueding asked without showing any signs of weakness.
"No, the guests cannot be suspicious."
Shaking his head slightly, the male figure raised his hand and pressed the brim of his hat, and continued to explain:
“I specifically asked the staff behind the scenes before that the banner hanging the deceased in the air was controlled by a mechanism in the control room on the second floor of the Guest House.
The studio on the second floor is not open to the public, and only the staff of the Guest House have the keys to enter and exit.
This means that only the staff in the guest house can successfully complete the method of temporarily hiding the body after killing the deceased and hanging it in the air with a banner. "
"Even so, shouldn't the possibility of those people in the background be greater? Why do you have to say it's me? I was always in the hall during the banquet! I never went to the second floor at all!" Xueding Ask loudly.
"It seems to be true..."
Hearing her words, some detectives on the stage nodded subconsciously.
"Miss Yukisada, Ms. Igarashi, and the deceased Mr. Todo, they were already in the hall before the banquet officially started.
Especially Miss Xueding and Mr. Dongtang. I remember that they only went to the back of the stage to prepare after the banquet officially started.
Even if Ms. Xueying is the murderer, she may not have enough time to complete the series of actions of killing Mr. Totou, tying him to a banner, and then raising the banner in the studio on the second floor.
After all, there was only less than ten minutes between the time Ms. Igarashi finished her welcome speech and the time Ms. Xueding came on stage..."
"On the contrary, this time is completely enough." The male figure explained: "I have asked clearly from the backstage staff before. The raising and lowering of the banner is the responsibility of the staff on the second floor, and Miss Xueding is not required to go there. Do it yourself.
According to the original plan of the event, this banner would not be displayed in front of everyone until everyone returned to the hall after the event. Therefore, when the event first started, this banner had not actually been raised yet.
Therefore, Miss Xue Dingyao only needs to kill the deceased Mr. Dongtang before going on stage, and then tie his neck with a banner.
After the stipulated time, the staff on the second floor will naturally raise the banner. "
"This, this means that when the banquet started, Mr. Todo's body was actually on this stage, lying behind this curtain?"
Some detectives couldn't help but turn pale after listening to the male figure's analysis.
"Yes, that's the thing." The male figure smiled and nodded, as if he had no respect for life at all.
"Wait!" At this time, Xueding spoke again and asked loudly: "Mr. Detective! Assume that what you said is true! Then why does it have to be me? Anyone who can do the techniques you mentioned There are quite a few, right? Why do you think it was me who did it?!"
"The reason is very simple. I have already asked the staff at the back. After the banquet officially started, the rest of the staff went to the control room on the second floor. The only one who was still behind the stage was you, Miss Xueding. , and the deceased, Mr. Dongtang.”
"But it's possible that they colluded to deceive people, right?! There's no surveillance in the guesthouse, so who knows where they were at the time?!"
"I really don't want to give up..."
Seeing her increasingly excited look, the male figure shook his head slightly and sighed. He put on his gloves and stepped forward, picked up one of the deceased's hands, and pulled out a stick from between the fingernails of the deceased's body. Thin blue fiber threads.
"There are more or less blue fiber threads between the ten fingernails of the deceased's body, and these fibers do not match the brown clothes on the deceased's body.
This is no coincidence or accident. The deceased put up a fierce resistance when he was attacked and killed by the murderer. It is obvious that the blue fiber threads in the fingernails of the deceased were the clothes he scratched on the murderer's body in the process. Finally, the important evidence left in the cracks of his fingernails, Miss Xue must be..."
After saying that, the male figure stood up, turned to look at Yuki 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 the blue fiber threads found in the nails of the deceased must be the same as the material of the kimono you are wearing..."
"Xue Ding..."
Igarashi Kiyoko turned to look at her with a sad look on her face.
"Is it really you who is the murderer?"
"Even if, even if..."
Igarashi Kiyoko did not respond. It seemed that it was the reason why everyone was looking at her with suspicion. A thin layer of sweat had already appeared on Xu Dingyao's forehead.
But even so, she still tried her best to refute the male figure's reasoning.
“Even if those blue fiber threads are made of the same material as my kimono, what does that prove?
The kimono I'm wearing is not mine. There are many kimonos of the same material in the changing room behind the guest house! How can you prove that it must be the kimono I'm wearing?
not to mention! You clearly said that Mr. Totang scratched 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? !
Are you trying to say that I can take advantage of the few minutes before going on stage to kill Mr. Todo and then run back to the dressing room to change into a kimono before coming back? ! Do not make jokes! This is simply impossible in terms of time! "
"His reasoning was not wrong."
Amidst Xue Dingyao's extremely excited roar, a calm voice suddenly sounded.
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(End of chapter)
