After leaving the open-air bar and saying goodbye to Delt, Douzi also separated from the two detectives. She was going to check on N's condition.
After the prince of the plasma group learned about the explosion, he began to feel depressed and depressed, and occasionally uttered dangerous words to himself. This made the warm-hearted girl of vitality a little worried and could not leave it alone for a long time.
Hugo and Bilan went to the scene of the explosion in the afternoon.
At this time, there were far fewer police personnel stationed at the scene. Bilan sent out a variety of monsters, and this easy-to-use purple plasticine started to show off its tricks. In a few moments, it attracted the police officers staying behind, and the two of them entered the old power plant site as if they were taking a walk.
However, the power plant is now just a ruin that has been completely cleaned, and even the smell of gunpowder smoke after burning has been completely washed away by the rain.
In the center of the explosion, everything was covered up by rubble and broken walls. The two searched for a long time, but did not find much useful information.
Perhaps more evidence could be found by digging through the ruins, but although Hugo was an excellent detective and his search methods were not weak, he could not operate a scientific search team by himself. If the biting land shark borrowed from Zhulan is still there, maybe we can try to dig it out.
However, not to mention that the earth dragon has teleported back to the backyard of Shenhe Town, can Hugo really find new evidence if he can really spend so much time plowing through the ruins?
You know, corpses are always the most important evidence in a murder case, and the green-haired prince said that the police had taken away all the elf corpses at the scene and disposed of them. Rather than wasting time on this kind of thing, it would be better to investigate the Pokémon cemeteries and crematoriums in Riwaki City.
The two of them ended up spending the whole afternoon doing some meaningless things. This can be regarded as the daily ecology of the detective industry——
The approximate scope of the explosion was measured to confirm that the fire was indeed caused by an explosion in the factory, and a schematic diagram of the internal topography of the power plant was redrawn.
After completing these tasks, the exhausted Bilan and the detectives concluded today's investigation and officially called it a day.
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7 p.m.
Button, button, button.
In an ordinary hotel in Liyong City, Bilan knocked on the door of the single room where Hugo was staying, and heard a lazy response——
"Is it Bilan? You can come in directly, the door is unlocked."
The girl was in a daze for a moment and became cautious unconsciously.
Before opening the door, Bilan even tidied up her clothes. She hadn't taken a shower yet, but she was still wearing the same casual clothes she had during the day, but she just put her sunhat in her room.
Just when she was about to use the reflection of the house number to straighten her bangs, Bilan suddenly realized that her behavior was a bit ambiguous, but then she remembered that the two of them usually lived in the same house, so it would be too pretentious to start tweaking at this time...
With her mind spinning, Bi Lan forced herself to open the door.
But the moment he walked in, the slightest feeling of ambiguity completely disappeared - everything in front of him was so familiar, it was like returning to the living room of Yuqi Mansion!
In the small single room, what caught the eye was the white coat hanging on the coat rack. The little flame monkey and Bogaman who were taken out this time each held a tree fruit to add to their meal, eating with gusto.
At this time, the detective was just as he was thinking about the case in Yuqi Mansion, wearing light home clothes and squatting on the table opposite the bed without any image. He was using his elongated stick to move a pile of papers spread out on the bed.
"These are news clips cut from recent newspapers in Lichong City. They record interviews with passers-by who discovered the incident and interviews with factory employees."
Hugo stood upright on the table, shook the swinging stick slightly, took it back and threw it into his pocket, then turned to Bilan who had just walked in and introduced——
"The accounts of passers-by were almost all the same - first they saw factory employees evacuating from the factory one after another, then they heard a loud noise, and then thick smoke and fire began to appear from the factory, and more and more fire began to appear. It became more and more violent until firefighters and police appeared and began to try to put out the fire - all of which were basically consistent with the testimony described by Delt. The factory employees all admitted that it was the factory director who urged them to leave the factory. After everyone left the factory, the horrifying mid-level concussion sound erupted."
"This seems to be information that has been confirmed a long time ago... Were you just studying this just now?"
Bilan was a little surprised. Wasn't this still going around in circles around known facts? Did the detective have such a big fight on the bed?
"Of course there are more than that. The ones on the sheets actually have many follow-up reports about the case."
"Follow-up report... Are you investigating the activities of the Liyong City Police Department?"
The keen detective assistant understood Hugo's thoughts in seconds, and his eyes alertly turned to the pile of papers spread out on the bed.
The familiar sound of snapping fingers sounded from time to time——
"That's right! Bilan, I discovered an amazing fact among these reports!"
Hugo raised his eyebrows happily——
"Reporters used cameras to capture the scene after the explosion. Please see, there are pictures of a large number of police cars blocking the scene, groups of police officers starting to maintain public order, and firefighters rushing down from the fire trucks. The scene of the heroic rush to the fire, and the explosion scene with billowing smoke - did you notice anything wrong from it?"
"Uh... there are no Pokémon escaping from the factory?"
While quickly browsing the information in his hand, Bilan answered subconsciously.
"No, this is not abnormal. The factory director gave priority to taking care of human employees, causing the elves to be trapped in the fire. This is one of the situations that may happen. You are just inferring the facts from known private intelligence. If N and Delt We were not told about the deaths of the elves, and this clue does not exist at all.”
The detective waved his palms vigorously——
"Bilan, for detectives who value strict logic, it is not a good habit to rely on the testimony of individual witnesses. Evidence that cannot speak is the cornerstone of trustworthiness. In this incident, there is a very awkward detail ——I mean those things that are more conspicuous, more common, and more unreasonable! Those are the distortions in reality, and those are the real contradictions that cannot be ignored! "
At this time, the chestnut-haired girl had already read through all the notes that Hugo had laid out. As the detective said, they were all photos and interviews before and after the crime.
Apart from the photos, there are no bloody words or phrases about the Pokémon factory dying in the interviews. They are just sentences from passers-by and reporters describing the situation at the scene.
No near miss, no casualties - this is the most repeated statement in the interview, as if the explosion was just a fireworks blooming in the city.
Bilan re-read an employee interview and asked in an uncertain tone: "The abnormality is that the factory director William discovered the signs of the explosion in advance? The explosion was so sudden and violent. The biggest doubt is that he was able to save all the employees without falling to the ground. .”
"We have already discussed it on the ship. The factory director is indeed suspicious. But we cannot accuse him of murdering all the elves under him just by relying on the evidence that he saved the entire factory employees. . The investigation must be down-to-earth, involving contradictions, evidence, reasoning, deduction, and the truth. Only by completing these indispensable processes can we confront the murderer with confidence. Don’t think about challenging the world BOSS as soon as you leave the Novice Village—now, pull out The sword with the best quality in the village will receive a roar of applause from the audience."
"What kind of metaphor is this..." The girl muttered.
Hugo always liked to talk about very ordinary things impassionedly. But if we omit the speech he gave before revealing the truth and use the simplest words to explain the incident, it only takes a few lines.
The girl closed her eyes and reorganized what the detective said tonight.
Explosion...police...passers-by...employees...cries of people...flames shooting into the sky...police cars...firefighters...reporters...
The cheers of the audience...the spectators around the explosion site...the movements of the police station...the distortion...the lack of reality...
As if inspiration struck in an instant, the girl saw the weirdness and weirdness in the newspaper clippings.
Just when she was about to blurt out——
"It's missing, the siren, right?"
The girl and the detective turned around at the same time and saw a blue heart bat flapping its broad wings outside the window glass of the narrow single room!
Under its black bat claws, a figure dressed in white hangs.
A young man wearing a black and white cap with green hair appeared under the bright moonlight.
