Perhaps it was the detective's caution that made him unwilling to reveal his address, or simply to prevent the driver from being too surprised by seeing Yuqi's mansion, the detective got off the car a street 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 roadside. Then he stretched out and imparted detective knowledge to Bilan as if chatting about everyday things——
"The most undesirable thing in reasoning is to throw away the proven conclusions and start a new one. This is very easy to fall into a misunderstanding, which I call the 'common sense trap'."
Passing by the dazzling store windows on the street, the detective took off his white coat, leaving only a black shirt on his upper body and talked as if no one was around. His image was much neater than usual.
"People always like to follow intuitive thinking to connect some simple facts, and then blindly use this layer of filters to deduce more information they like, thus ignoring all the host evidence that is unfavorable to the conclusion. But such speculation It cannot be equated with the real truth. And if the detective's misunderstanding falls on the suspect, it will turn into an extremely vicious frame-up."
Bilan nodded as if she had some understanding, but she was still uneasy after all, and simply expressed her suspicion to Hugo that "the apartment manager might be the culprit."
He expected to be laughed at by the detective, but Hugo shrugged indifferently, as if he was not surprised——
"Are you talking about the administrator? Well, he is indeed doing some shady business. He does not have much sympathy for the dead Mr. Greta. In my list of suspects, his suspicious The level is probably not much higher than that of the other partner in the Sandstorm Team."
"Does the other partner mean the one who first noticed that Greta was missing and finally arrived at the scene of the crime with the administrator?" The girl couldn't help but ask.
"Of course."
The detective in the black shirt nodded: "The closer the companions are, the more likely it is that the most violent disputes will break out; the more closely related the community of interests is, the more likely it is to trigger the most life-and-death fights. Moreover, if we are partners who get along day and night. Wouldn’t it be more natural for the victim to bring a gift back to the apartment with it?”
Bilan couldn't help but widen her eyes: "Ah, I didn't expect this. It is indeed very possible."
"It's impossible!"
Hugo put his hand on his forehead and felt sorry for his assistant's easily swayed performance: "Miss Bilan, if we are just guessing, there are as many types of criminal motives as there are. What the detective has to do is to constantly eliminate those illogical options. And based on the newly discovered evidence, he repeatedly revised his suspicions, and finally identified the real murderer."
"So what exactly is to be done?"
"Let's take the apartment manager's suspicion as an example. In my opinion, if the person who deliberately murdered Greta was the doorman, there is a contradiction in the case that cannot be ignored." The detective said in an understatement. said in a tone.
"What kind of contradiction?" The girl was already intrigued and was waiting anxiously for the next chapter.
"The paradox is that the old man could have carried out the crime more carefully. For example, he could have taken advantage of the other first discoverer to call the police, quietly took out the Poké Ball from his pocket and aimed it at the flower pot, and put the The sun coral was retracted into the ball without anyone noticing. If we do this, even if we and the police are lucky enough to discover something strange in the flower pot, we will not be able to grasp the specific traces of the other party's manipulation."
The detective touched his chin and then added: "Of course, if the murderer is another partner of the Sandstorm Team, such a contradiction will also exist. Therefore, the possibility that the first discoverer is the murderer can almost be ruled out. Unless there is new evidence that can explain this contradiction, then they cannot be the murderers."
"Did they simply forget? Did they miss the opportunity due to negligence?" Bilan questioned logically.
"Bilan, you don't have much experience in murder cases, but what I want to tell you is that in such a well-planned murder case, the murderer who deliberately planned to kill and hide the traces of the crime will never forget such obvious finishing touches."
"Is the secret room always the product of compromise..." Bilan recalled Hugo's secret room handout in front of the crime scene.
"That's right." The detective snapped his fingers and said mockingly, "The compromise of this secret room is that it is so perfect that the real murderer can't even take the murder weapon out of the secret room, which is really ironic. "
"But how did you investigate the real culprit among the residents in the building?"
Hugo pressed his cheeks, showing a somewhat embarrassed look. He just arrived in front of the courtyard door of Yuqi Residence, so he took a step forward, opened the door with the key, and said to Bilan with the back of his head -
"Actually, the moment I entered the crime scene, I discovered the reason why the murderer wanted to kill the deceased. At that time, I didn't even notice the strangeness in the flowerpot."
"Huh?" Bilan's jaw almost dropped in shock, "At that time? But why didn't the police officers who investigated the scene before and I see anything?"
"You're just watching, and I'm observing."
The front door of the courtyard was opened. Hugo turned the key ring in his hand a few times like a cool man, and bowed in a "ladies first" gesture to invite in.
"Among the four tips I gave before, you have probably analyzed the meaning of the words 'gift' and 'neighbor', right?"
"That's right." The girl followed the detective into Yu Qi's residence. "A 'neighbor' gave the deceased a flowerpot with a murder mechanism as a 'gift'. Is this what you want to say?"
"Yes, this explains how the secret room came into being. And I hinted at the murderer's motive in the last two words."
"Rock" and "Profit".
"The motive for the crime was the conflict of interest caused by the rock?" Bilan followed the detective into Yuqi's residence, sat down on the sofa in the hall, and made a casual guess.
"Who says it's not?" The detective smiled narrowly, "This is the murderous intention intertwined between rocks and interests. This is the information I observed from the doorway of the crime scene."
"Speaking of this." Bilan suddenly raised her smartphone. 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 should be Isn’t it illegal?”
"It doesn't matter if the police officers didn't stop it. Besides, there was no real body at the scene at that time."
It seems that the girl's capture business has been very mature... Hugo curled his lips and waved his hands, looking really indifferent.
He reached out to take the phone, zoomed in and out on the panoramic photo inside, and said to the owner of the phone, "Look here, do you see the daily necessities here?"
Bilan put her head in front of the phone: "What, isn't this a very ordinary cleaning tool?"
"And here, do you see the floor and the furniture? How does it feel?"
The assistant lady had no idea what the detective was drawing her attention to, so she could only answer honestly: "The floor is made of plain stone tiles, and the furniture has no style. It looks short, thick and bulky."
"And this door, please pay attention to its width and height." Hugo turned the scene to the bedroom door in the distance.
"Well, it should be larger than an ordinary room door. It is probably used to allow large Pokémon to enter and exit freely, right? Hmm! Wait!"
Bilan finally discovered something unusual, and as if it triggered a chain reaction, she immediately understood the common meaning of the objects pointed out by Hugo——
"Hugo, I understand! Mr. Greta's Sandstorm team is full of huge Pokémon. If you want them to move freely in the apartment, you must enlarge the door and prepare a sturdy door. Stone floor tiles and furniture must also be replaced with the most durable models, and cleaning tools must be-"
Hugo nodded in agreement with Bilan's reasoning and continued: "The cleaning tool is to clean up the dust caused by the Pokémon "Sand" at any time. Although the special dust generated by the characteristics will naturally dissipate, as rock-type and ground-type Pokémon, those Pokémon have heavy dust on their bodies, not to mention that Greta has trained six of them. If they neglect to clean up, This apartment should have been filled with dust for a long time. "
"But the room we saw was very neat..." Bilan murmured.
"This shows that the owner of the house is very diligent in doing housework. The bald broom in the photo can be used as evidence. But his most commonly used tool should be this electric vacuum cleaner. Probably based on his habits when buying furniture, he did not use those Instead of a small and exquisite silent vacuum cleaner, I used this model that seems to have a lot of power, presumably to clean up the dust in the house in a timely manner.”
"Wait, this is still wrong." The girl discovered something strange in the detective's reasoning, "If he is so troubled by dust, why were all the doors and windows locked when we arrived in the secret room?"
"Of course it's to prevent the smoke from spreading outside. This trainer has raised Sandstorm Pokémon for so many years. Naturally, he has also experienced various complaints from neighbors. There are people downstairs who want to dry their clothes on the balcony. , Greta, who lives on a high floor, must of course lock her doors and windows to avoid causing trouble to the residents below."
"But he still caused trouble after all, right?" Bilan had vaguely seen the truth of the matter, and she sighed, as if she was accepting an unacceptable reality.
Why is this office so full of regrettable truths?
"Bangelas weighs two hundred kilograms, and Pangea weighs a full two hundred and sixty kilograms. The weight of other Sandstorm team elves will not be much lighter than these two figures. Such Pokémon are in the house During the activities, the downstairs naturally has to endure the banging noise all day long. Moreover, Greta also uses a high-power vacuum cleaner every day. Under the echo of the closed room, the noise is even more unbearable. "
Hugo shook his head helplessly, as if he was sorry for the dead Mr. Greta: "If I were a resident of that house downstairs, if I faced the constant noise all day long, I would probably be troubled. Wanting to kill people."
