The misunderstanding was resolved in an instant.
As usual, Hugo directed Pogaman to use "Bubble Light". The little penguin suppressed his blush but couldn't use the skill.
It wasn't until the owner holding the umbrella apologetically gave up the order that the poor Pogaman seemed to be vomiting, with a large amount of foam pouring out of its yellow beak, and it suddenly choked and coughed.
Junsha finally dispelled her doubts, and then introduced the case to the great detective who had confirmed her identity in a concise and concise manner——
"The murder occurred in a high-end apartment building in the West District of Feiyun City. The victim was stabbed through the abdomen with a stone in a closed room and died of massive bleeding."
"Stone?" The detective was confused for a moment, "Is the victim a practitioner related to financial management?"
"No." The police officer replied neatly, "The deceased was a Pokémon trainer. His name was Greta. He was male. He was twenty-seven years old before his death. He lived alone and was good at using rock-type Pokémon."
"Please explain the situation in detail." The detective's expression became serious and he entered working mode. He took out his notebook from the drawer and looked attentive.
Bilan, who was taking care of Bogaman on the side, also corrected her attitude and pricked up her ears to pay attention to the exchange between the police and the detective.
A live trainer lost his life. This is not a fun and funny case like "sixty trainers in a row choose water otter".
"The victim's fellow trainer couldn't contact him, so he went to visit, but found no one answered in the apartment. Out of concern, he asked the apartment manager to use the spare key to unlock the door and opened the door of the victim's house. That's when the body was found of."
There was no nonsense in Junsha's explanation, it was clear and stern.
"Does the apartment manager have the residents' keys? Isn't there any privacy issue?" Hugo immediately asked as if hearing discordant notes in music.
"The occupancy rate of the residential buildings there is very low. The vacant houses are mainly managed by the administrator, so the keys are not collected in time. In addition, the administrator has a good reputation. The residents trust him, and no one pursues this matter."
The detective showed his original expression and continued to ask Junsha about the time of death and the condition of the body.
The police officer tapped her notebook and answered——
"The time of death of the victim was determined to be 12 hours ago. As mentioned above, the murder weapon that caused the tragedy was a large cone-shaped rock. The victim's abdomen was pierced, but he did not die immediately. Instead, he died of blood loss after struggling for a long time. Shock, the medical examiner speculated that this process lasted about ten minutes, so the scene was covered in blood."
The police deputy Serra on the side seemed to recall the scene he saw in the morning, and his face turned pale for a while.
"So, the case occurred around ten o'clock last night?" Hugo asked for specific details while writing something in his notebook with his pen flying.
Junsha nodded: "That's right. There are traces of undigested dinner in the stomach of the deceased. This presumed time of death should be reliable."
"Now, please tell me more about the 'closed room'. I'll ask directly..." Hugo stared at the police officer's eyes and spit out four words——
"Is it a secret room?"
"Yes, that's right." Junsha sighed, "It's the kind of secret room you've longed for. There is only the deceased in the room, and there are no other entrances and exits to the apartment. The doors and windows are all locked internally. Before the apartment manager opens them, This house is completely closed. If Mr. Greta did not commit suicide, then there must be a weirdo who can walk through the wall and kill him with a stone."
Noticing the confused looks in Bilan and Sera's eyes, the detective coughed dryly and explained to the two assistants and deputies——
"The so-called secret room is the abbreviation of secret room type impossible crime. It is a classic mystery in mystery novels. In this kind of mystery, an area that no one can enter or exit is usually set up, and then the victim is killed inside. This creates an obvious contradiction - since there is no one else at the scene except the deceased, and it is impossible for others to enter the secret room at the time of the crime, how was the victim killed? In response to this contradiction, The various solutions to the problem are the fun part of cracking the secret room problem."
After listening to the detective's explanation, Bilan scratched her face: "Are you saying that plots that originally only appeared in novels have now happened in reality?"
Hugo sighed and nodded to his assistant: "In a sense, that's true. This is a typical locked room impossible case."
He seemed a little disappointed by the lackluster response from the audience.
At this time, deputy police officer Serra rarely took the initiative to speak: "So, Mr. Detective, since you know so much about the secret room issue, what do you think of this case?"
"Before going to the crime scene, all reasoning is speculation." Hugo first declared, "But I hope to rule out some of the vulgar tricks used in the novel. Miss Junsha, I would like to ask some more questions. "
"Of course. We still have time. Please feel free to ask questions about this case."
Hugo crossed his fingers and raised his question: "The first is the most old-fashioned method - are the doors and windows of the secret room really locked? Many old bolts can be opened by just tapping them from the outside. ; There are also many styles of doors and windows with hollows or gaps at the edges, which can be opened from the outside using means such as strings. In this way, the crime scene is no longer a perfect secret room space, and people from outside can naturally enter the room. Commit murder. Is this a possibility?"
Junsha seemed to have been waiting for this question for a long time and immediately answered: "We have tried it. The indoor locks are all very reliable padlocks, and the windows and door panels are all tightly sealed. The administrator and the trainer's friends can also testify, The doors and windows were locked when they came. Moreover, these two people were strangers to each other, so there was no possibility of collusion."
The detective was not discouraged and continued to ask: "Is it possible that it was an internal bleeding chamber? That means that the deceased was actually stabbed by a stone outside the apartment, and then returned home and locked the doors and windows, and then he pulled out the stone at this time , the stone that was originally used as a hemostatic valve was pulled out, and the blood flow suddenly increased, so he died in the secret room."
"A colleague proposed this idea." Jun Sha said, "But that person was scolded by the forensic doctor, saying that neither medicine nor biology allowed such a thing to happen. And there was no blood stain outside. In addition, the training The master should be a person with relatively common sense and did not try to pull out the stone awl stuck in his body, but this did not save his life."
"Then is there some kind of mechanism that shoots stones in the room? If there is such a device, the real prisoner does not have to enter the secret room when the crime occurs. When the victim triggers the mechanism, the stone will automatically shoot out and execute the prey that took the bait. "
"We have dug three feet into the apartment and found no such device." Junsha shook her head.
"Is it possible that it was a crime committed at a distance?" Hugo asked again. "The murderer threw a stone from outside the apartment and hit the victim in the stomach."
"It's impossible. There is no place in the apartment for foreign stones to enter outside of the doors and windows."
"Speaking of throwing stones, were there any fingerprints or anything like that on the murder weapon?"
Junsha rolled her eyes at the detective without any image: "It seems that committing crimes while wearing gloves has become common knowledge in society recently. There are no traces on the broken rock. If there is any information on it, the rock is small on the top and large on the bottom. The shape of the stone cone has no trace of manual polishing.”
"Since it is a stone cone, then..." the detective touched his chin, "Now let's discuss the most obvious possibility - could the stone cone be a skill released by a certain Pokémon?"
