"Mattress!"
Hoshino Sora and Mouri Kogoro were shocked, and then they looked at the bed in the room in unison.
"Could it be..."
"Could it be..."
Upon seeing this, Officer Henggou followed their gaze to the bed in the middle and reacted, "Do you suspect that these things fell out of the mattress of this bed?"
"The possibility is very high. Officer Henggou, can you lend us a pair of gloves?" Hoshino Kong's eyes brightened and he became excited, "Let's move the mattress and check it out."
He had always believed that the bullet holes on the doors and windows were made in advance, but except for the deceased's forehead, there were no bullet marks anywhere else in the house. However, after being reminded by Officer Henggou, and based on Holmes' famous saying, then The truth is coming out!
Officer Yokomori did not hesitate, and immediately asked for two pairs of spare gloves, and handed them to Hoshino Sora and Mouri Kogoro. Then he first lifted the sheets, and after Hoshino Sora put on the gloves, he grabbed the mattress. He stood up and placed his long face sideways on the open space aside.
Kogoro Mouri and Officer Yokomori inspected the mattress one by one. Soon, Officer Yokomori exclaimed: "Here, there is a hole here!"
"This position..." Hoshino Sora was on his side, so he saw it quickly. After seeing it, he immediately rotated the mattress ninety degrees so that the wide side of the mattress touched the ground, "This height , it’s the same height as the bullet hole in the window!”
Mouri Kogoro took a closer look and looked at the bullet holes in the doors and windows with Officer Henggou. They nodded in unison, "Yes, they are indeed consistent."
"Haha, uncle, what I said is right. Someone made this bullet hole in advance. The reason why it didn't leave any bullet marks in the room is because it was blocked by a mattress!" Hoshino Sora was very excited, finally proving his feeling. He's reasoning was correct, "I'll move the mattress over, and you guys go to the balcony to see if it can overlap!"
As he said that, he held one end of the mattress, walked to the balcony, and said to the police officers who were investigating and taking photos: "Please give way."
Mouri Kogoro and Officer Henggou immediately opened a glass door that had not been shot, came to the balcony, and watched the mattress get closer to the target position.
Officer Henggou took out his flashlight and commanded: "Move about twenty centimeters to the left... Okay, it matches, it matches perfectly!"
After so many clues surfaced, Maori Kogoro immediately began to think about it in hindsight, "I understand, the previous gunshot was a trap. This was a carefully designed murder case to make us mistakenly believe that the gunshot was fired." Mr. Sunaoka was killed only after the gunshot, but in fact, he had already died before the gunshot. The murderer wanted to create an alibi!"
Seeing that Henggou still didn't know much about the case, Mouri Kogoro immediately briefly told the ins and outs of the matter.
After finishing speaking, Officer Henggou understood, "So, it was to create an alibi. In this case, it is impossible for an outsider to commit the crime. The murderer may be one of the three people with the deceased!"
"Yeah." Mouri Kogoro nodded loudly, "At that time, the screenwriter Mr. Tahara and the director Mr. Nagatsuka were both in the restaurant. Only Ms. Tanigawa helped the drunk Mr. Sunaoka back to the room, and I was receiving a call from Mr. Sunaoka. Then, I heard the sound of gunfire... huh? Wait, before the gunshot sounded, I received a call from him, which means that he was still alive at that time! So the only person who could kill him was not there at that time. It’s Ms. Tanigawa from the restaurant!”
"Oh? Phone number?" Officer Henggou raised his eyebrows, "Is this true?"
"Yeah, he wanted to invite me to the room for a chat, and then he said in shock, 'Wait a minute, what is that?', and hung up the phone as if he found something wrong. I think he must have discovered it. Miss Tanigawa wanted to attack him, so he hung up the phone in a hurry." The more Mouri Kogoro thought about it, the more he felt that his reasoning was impeccable, "Yes, that's right!"
"Wait a minute, uncle, if you say so, Miss Tanigawa killed you when your call was interrupted, then what about the gunshot? I remember that the gunshot rang soon after you ended the call, and the direction was still in Outside the cliff behind the restaurant, so how did she kill people while making noise on the other side?" Sora Hoshino put the mattress on the bed, and after hearing Kogoro Mouri's reasoning, he couldn't help but ask questions.
"Uh... this is simple. If I guessed correctly, there must be a timing device installed on the mountain opposite. As long as the remote control is pressed, a gunshot will sound." Mouri Kogoro forcibly patched his reasoning.
"Ah this..." Hoshino Sora was dumbfounded. What he said didn't seem unreasonable, "But if it really happened, Ms. Tanigawa killed someone, pressed the remote control, then returned to her room, and then walked to the balcony. Talk to us...Uncle, don't you think it's too late? How long did it take from the time we heard the gunfire to the time Miss Tanigawa asked us on the balcony? Is there even a minute? In such a short time, Can you communicate with us like you don’t know anything about it?”
At this time, a police officer from the Forensic Division came over and reported to Henggou Hui: "Officer Henggou, there was only one fatal wound on the deceased, which was the wound on the forehead. There was no scorch mark from the wound. The bullet entered the brain and the head was damaged. Judging from the relatively clean appearance, the murderer should have shot from a long distance."
"I think something should be used to replace the firearm and fire the bullets, and this kind of thing should be relatively silent." Hoshino Sora said.
"Is it an air gun?" Officer Henggou guessed, "Well, an air gun can indeed kill people, but it will not cause scorch marks on the wound. If the murderer is Ms. Tanigawa mentioned by Mr. Mori, then after she killed someone, she still She had to put the glass shards collected in advance at the feet of the deceased, and then return to the balcony of her room... Time was indeed a bit tight. Was there really only one minute between the time she appeared on the balcony and the time the gunshot rang out? ?”
"Absolutely. We walked to the edge of the restaurant and looked around. After saying a few words, she appeared on the balcony and asked us." Mouri Kogoro recalled, "This time was indeed very short, but maybe she was specifically targeted. Have you practiced?"
"We need more clues now to support the reasoning!" Hoshino Sora scanned the crime scene and said, "Since the murderer made these arrangements, he must be trying to create an alibi, so we might as well put aside the current situation for the time being. If you find clues, follow the murderer’s logical train of thought, and you might find something.”
"At least, we can stabilize the murderer first and make him think that he has predicted our operation, and then when he is most relaxed, we can reveal the truth all at once and observe their expressions. I think the murderer's expression will definitely change. "
"In addition, during this time, people can quietly search the three people's rooms to check whether there are any equipment that can fire bullets such as air guns. I think such equipment must be too late to deal with in such a short period of time. .”
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