"The murder and burning of corpses is such a big case, how come there are only so few people at the scene to be arrested?"
Outside the lively scene of escorting the murderer into the police car, Hugo asked puzzledly to Junsha, who was standing aside and arranging the thunder zebra's mane.
"Insufficient manpower." Junsha, who had just solved a major case, was not happy and spat out four words with a dark face.
"Oh?" The detective suddenly cheered up from the exhaustion of finishing the case and began to ask questions to the police officer. "Have the police also noticed the unusually high crime rate in Feiyun City this month?"
"We are exhausted! This morning alone, the Public Security Department handled four trainer fights. Many police officers were injured, and their partners were also seriously injured. Other departments in the police department also had injuries. In a similar situation, all kinds of vicious crimes are almost flourishing, and everyone is extremely busy."
The police officer couldn't help but collapse a little when she thought of the mountain of to-do items in the police station.
"Also, Hugo, how long are you going to hide the truth of this case?"
"So you're still struggling with this." The detective's exaggerated expression of sudden realization was particularly irritating in Junsha's eyes.
"Not only is it confusing, since you suddenly said to me, 'By the way, the prisoner is in the hospital,' I have been confused about the whole thing!"
Junsha began to ask the detective a barrage of questions: "Why is this prisoner a woman? Why did she have to come to the hospital to take away Ku Bao? Why did Ku Bao suddenly launch a sneak attack on the police? And besides that There are so many questions outside, I can’t understand them all!”
Hugo became shy and scratched his head: "Actually, for the detective, after solving the mystery, the whole case begins to become boring. I always feel that it is really boring to retell such obvious facts to others. A crappy show with too much self-awareness..."
"Stop being so boring! Tell me the answer right away!"
Junsha and the thunder zebra beside her glared at the detective, especially the latter, with an even more terrifying intensity. There was a vague electric light dancing between the two white lightning-shaped manes above her head.
Surrendering to the power of his police officer partner, the detective finally began to answer.
"To solve this case, the most valuable clue we have is the police call that was full of lies. It was through this call that I sorted out the whole case."
"But as you said, that phone call was all lies."
"Lies can also be the key to the door to the truth." The detective shook his finger inscrutably, "We might as well think about it this way. Since the prisoner went to great lengths to report a false police report, then the phone call must contain information that is beneficial to the real murderer. information."
"Because her purpose is to lead the police into a misunderstanding?"
"Exactly." Hugo raised his eyebrows happily, "Then please think back, at the beginning of the case, what misunderstandings did the police make because of this phone call?"
"First of all, we mistook the body for death due to a battle accident... No, even without a phone, we would have fallen into this misunderstanding when we saw the ground full of battle marks..." Junsha recalled. "The misunderstanding that the other party actually used the phone call to get us into was probably to deliberately make us confuse the identity of the murderer and the deceased."
"Yes, the misunderstanding caused by the phone call mainly focuses on the misleading of the identity of the deceased. It makes you believe that the person who was killed was the gangster who used Kubao, not the college student who used Chaozhuo."
"The purpose of burning the corpse is exactly for this purpose!" Junsha suddenly realized, "If we just burn the corpse, we can't confuse the two."
"Everything that passes must have traces; everything that is concealed must have a reason; everything that is revealed must have a purpose."
Hugo raised his index finger and continued.
"The real purpose of the prisoner is to let you chase the college students who are all over the city and ignore those who have the characteristics of small gangsters. This arrangement is undoubtedly beneficial to the murderer himself, so from here on, I I added some assumptions into my reasoning—according to the opposite principle of phone calls, I assumed that the prisoner was a gangster and the victim was a college student—this was a step forward in logical reasoning, but it did help me find the truth. "
"That's ridiculous." Junsha shook her head, "It's impossible for the police to catch criminals in this way."
"This is deductive deduction under reasonable conditions." Hugo replied nonchalantly, even a little proudly, "This is also one of the reasons why the profession of private detective exists."
"So, what happened next? For what reason did the prisoner kill the deceased? What happened between Ku Bao and Chao Chao Zhu?" Junsha continued to ask.
The detective stretched, as if he had completed the hardest work, and was about to enter a field he was familiar with.
"Similar to the relationship between the prisoner and the victim, the relationship between Ku Bao and Chao Chao Pig has also been inverted."
"Eh? Eh?"
"To put it simply, the gangster and the college student once exchanged their Pokémon. It was precisely because of this that the fried pig belonging to the gangster attacked its owner and was eventually abandoned by the gangster. It is precisely because of this that the pig belonging to the college student Ku Bao resisted the attack of Chao Chao Pig for the gangster, and the gangster as the murderer went to the hospital to collect the victim's spirit."
Hugo raised his index finger: "Only by exchanging this explanation with elves can all the information found at the crime scene be sorted out."
Seeing that Junsha was still puzzled, the detective reminded: "This is also what the murderer tried to conceal on the phone. She didn't need to mention the two types of Pokémon in detail, but she still explained it in detail - —Based on the experience gained from previous reasoning, this is another misunderstanding set by the murderer."
Junsha was stunned.
"Going back to the case, after the gangster exchanged Pokémon with the college student, for some unknown reason, the gangster who had already exchanged Pokémon began to have a strong hatred for the college student - this reason was probably related to Cool Leopard. So she prepared He grabbed a dagger and gasoline, tried to kill the other party, and then got back the cool leopard that originally belonged to him."
The detective seemed to have entered a certain state, and talked endlessly as if he had witnessed the entire case with his own eyes.
"On the day of the incident, she invited the college student to the entrance of the sewer through her mobile phone, stabbed the college student to death with a dagger, then took away Kubao's Poke Ball, poured gasoline on the college student's body, and prepared to wait for his face, fingerprints and other physical information After they were all burned, the bodies were thrown into the sewers - that was her original plan."
The story in front of her was so unbelievable that Junsha temporarily forgot to judge the authenticity of the reasoning and followed the detective's words and asked: "Then something unexpected happened?"
"That's right. There's folly and surprise in any crime." The detective says the line again. "She accidentally took the Poke Ball she got from the Fried Pig with her."
"Eh? Stir-fried pig?"
"The gangster's assassination happened in an instant. Chao Chao Pig had no time to stop it. In the poke ball, he watched the college student who had been kind to him being raised by his new owner stabbed through the abdomen with a dagger. Next, the new owner took a dagger. He took out a container filled with gasoline and started pouring it on the deceased..."
Hugo's words were plain and lengthy, but they seemed to take Junsha back to the time of the crime, as if she felt the same as what happened to the fried pig. A burst of irreparable grief strangled Junsha's heart.
"The emotions of grief and anger made the fried pig break away from the shackles of the elf ball, and the orange-red pig monster appeared next to the corpse burner in the emerald red light. The female gangster was stunned by this sudden accident and could only look at the black hooves The claws are about to hit me..."
"Then what happened?"
"Ku Bao also broke free from the Poké Ball and came on the stage to fight with Chao Chao Pig. The traces of the live battle were left at that time. The winner of the battle should be Ku Bao, after all, it still has the command of its trainer... In short, in the end , the fried pig who was fighting alone was defeated and fell into a state of near death."
Junsha was in a daze, wanting to refute something but couldn't find any basis.
If you think about it carefully, all the conditions at the scene are completely consistent with the detective's reasoning, but how does this explain the fact that the female gangster did not escape after finishing the crime, but ran to the hospital?
"You must want to ask why that gangster ran to the hospital instead, right?" the detective asked empathetically - but because his guess was too accurate, Junsha felt a little scared.
"My reasoning was stuck at the trash can. But after listening to the case you sorted out, I finally figured it out."
"Using 'instead' in this place is very offensive to me." Junsha retorted with an unhappy expression.
The detective ignored the officer's complaints and continued to explain the case.
"That's because a new situation occurred at the time of the incident - although the winner of the one-on-one battle was Cool Leopard, it was by no means unscathed. Instead, it was probably when it was resisting the first round of the Chao Chao Pig's raid. He was already severely injured trying to protect his master.”
Junsha's expression turned serious as she imagined Ku Bao sacrificing his life to protect his murderous master. The mystery of the case is gradually becoming clear in the detective's explanation.
"Although serious injuries are very common in Pokémon battles, if the injured Pokémon is left untreated and a kind-hearted person passing by sends Cool Leopard to the Pokémon Center, Cool Leopard will inevitably be in danger. And if you yourself If you send it to the elf center, it will definitely be registered, and if the body is found, it will definitely be suspected. So there is only one strategy left for her."
"Then why she called the police..."
"That's right, it's to save Ku Bao." Hugo replied simply.
"In order to save her partner, she gave up her more elaborate original plan, and instead used the trick of replacing her identity with the faceless corpse, and improvised a messy lie. At noon today, the murderer dialed into Feiyun City The police station, told the phone call that was all lies - it’s a shame she could come up with the idea of using a mobile phone app to turn into a male voice... Then, the murderer took back the Poké Ball from the unconscious Fried Pig and threw it together with the gasoline bottle Into some trash can in the distance - she must hope that the fried pig that caused such a big mess will die quietly like this."
"I still don't understand something." Junsha raised her hand like a student and asked, "Why did the murderer go to the hospital to pick up Ku Bao in person? She should be able to escape alone."
"Because Cool Leopard is her only Pokémon." The detective sighed.
"Killing is a very dangerous thing. If the murderer had other Pokémon besides Cool Leopard, she would have brought them with him on the day of the crime. And at the crime scene, we only found the Pokémon fighting between Cool Leopard and Chao Chao Pig. Traces - this shows that she only has this one Pokémon. If she abandons Cool Leopard, she will be completely alone..."
Hugo looked up at the sky that had been swallowed up by darkness and sighed.
"In this world, traveling without a single Pokémon requires considerable awareness and courage. I understand this very well."
