Chapter 7 fourth quarter

The search continues as planned. From eleven o'clock in the middle of the night on the 16th to one o'clock in the morning on the 17th, did any suspicious people appear near Minatogawa's house?The staff of the forensics department kept turning around the murder weapon and footprints.Judging from the depression of the dog's skull, it can be roughly inferred that the murder weapon was a hammer with a diameter of two centimeters.This can be considered to be the same weapon used in the previous three dog killings.Exactly the kind of hammer carpenters use, very common. Twenty-two centimeter sneakers are very suspicious.Twenty-two centimeters is too small for an adult.In terms of standard size, twenty-two centimeters are just the shoes of senior elementary school students.Nowadays, children's feet grow very big. It is not surprising that elementary school students wear twenty-three or four centimeters.

Could the murderer be a child? If a student was wandering the streets late at night with a hammer and the police caught him, they would intervene immediately.If he is sneaking and dodging, then his range of activities can only be limited to the streets and alleys near his home.The harsh reality is that the crime scene was first in Setagaya Ward, then in Nerima Ward, third in Shinjuku Ward, and fourth in Suginami Ward.This is not within the reach of primary and middle school students. The child's statement was denied, and then the image of the "dwarf" emerged in people's minds.The "Land No. 1" who robbed Itami Department Store

Isn't it perfectly possible to wear 22 cm shoes? Pinghe immediately transferred the investigation records of the scene where the Itami Department Store was robbed.It's a pity that the survey record clearly stated that the robber's footprint was 25 centimeters long. As soon as the possibility of "Di No. 1" committing the crime was ruled out, the theory that women committed the crime began to rise. Could it not be that the murderer was a woman? Aren't women's feet too small? Also, the weight of the prisoner can be inferred from the footprints left inside the wall of the Minatogawa house.The sag of the soil is another evidence.The criminal jumped off the fence, and his weight can be determined to be about forty-five kilograms.Considering the combination of 22cm shoes and 45kg weight, there are only petite women except children.

Of course, if it was really a woman, she must be very young, about twenty years old at most. If it is a middle-aged woman or an old woman, wouldn't it be too noticeable to walk around the street wearing sneakers? It's not that there are male adults with a foot of 22 centimeters and a weight of about 45 kilograms, but there are too few of them. In front of Hiraga's eyes began to shake the figure of a young woman with a hammer in her arms, wandering the streets late at night.She's wearing sneakers, and it's entirely possible she'll wear them with overalls. The height of the wall of Minatogawa's house is about two meters.The woman's figure was light, and she jumped onto the wall with a few clicks.Then jump into the inner courtyard.Then the Shiba Inu came to her side with its head bent and ear-to-ear, and she took out the hammer and beat the dog to death in one fell swoop.

It was almost like a gloomy ghost. A report titled "The Criminal Is a Young Woman" was published by several well-informed newspapers. The citizens fell into a great panic.The dog was originally raised to guard the door, but now it was crushed to death silently.People are starting to keep their dogs indoors overnight. The dog was not used to the life of confinement and barked in the middle of the night out of irritation.The barking of the dog caused the owner to panic.As a result, the 110 alarm call of the Metropolitan Police Department rang non-stop all night, and everyone was screaming that the girl who killed the watchdog broke into the door.

Popular panic is the easiest way to fuel rumours.There are all kinds of rumors. Many people are saying that the ghost girl killed the watchdog.There is no young woman at all, it was a witch, so the dog has no ability to resist, it can only tremble. After a closer look, the ghost woman's statement turned out to be related to a white dog shrine near the top of Mount Shinano in Nagano Prefecture. The origin of the White Dog Shrine can be traced back to the time when Wu Zun conquered Eyi.During that expedition, Takeru traveled to the foot of Mount Tsukuba in Hitachi, Mount Ashigara in Sagami, and Shuzoriya in Kai, and then he came to the Bingbing Ridge.From Yanbingling to Misakaling in Tianlongchuan, which is now Shinanoling.In Misaka Ridge, the evil spirit of the land turned into a deer, trying to stop Wu Zun's advance with black magic. Wu Zun was furious, biting garlic, and spat fiercely on the deer's right eyeball.The deer rolled on the ground in pain, and the sky was instantly clouded with thunder, and Wu Zun and his party lost their way.At this time, a white dog ran quickly, killed the deer, and took Wuzun across Misakaling to Mino Country.

It is said that the local people sealed the evil spirits bitten to death by white dogs in the vat, and asked the wise and eminent monks to write a dharma post to seal the mouth of the vat and bury it in the ground.They were afraid that the ghost's soul would revive in the forty-ninth year after death, so they carved a statue of a white dog out of granite and put it on top of the tank, and built a shrine to worship the white dog. Two months ago, the statue of the white dog in the White Dog Shrine had its teeth and tail broken by someone.That night, the manager of the shrine heard a mournful howl from deep in the ground.He was so frightened that he fell to his knees and repeatedly recited scriptures to avoid evil, but the ghost girl still recovered.The revived ghost girl rushed out of the White Inu Shrine and flew eastward on a black cloud.

Now that the ghost girl has recovered, it is natural to take the dog as the target of revenge. She was hit by Wu Zun in the right eye with garlic, and now she stabs the dog's throat in return. A certain weekly magazine sent a reporter to the White Inu Shrine for an interview.The manager of the shrine not only confirmed the legend, but also described to the weekly reporter the image of the ghost girl he saw with his own eyes that night: the hair is thin and long, the face is pale and daunting, and the eyes are shining with blue light, chasing the soul. Looking around in a daze, two nostrils are upturned, and one mouth is surprisingly large, and the corners of the mouth extend to the ears.The administrator said that when he saw the respectful face of the ghost girl that night, he was so frightened that he lost his mind and couldn't move.The administrator also showed the weekly reporter the stone statue of the white dog.The stone statue looks old, but the teeth and the chipped tail are actually new.

Reporter's interview has been published.He said vividly that when the ghost girl regained consciousness, the stone statue of the dog toppled from its base, and as a result, broke its teeth and tail. The reporter's interview caused a sensation in the whole society.All of a sudden, reporters from various newspapers and publications flocked to the event.Then, amulets with the words "Shirainu Shrine" printed on them were sold like flying.The old shrine was full of tourists and onlookers. These people further turned the absurd rumors into facts with a nose and eyes, and the administrator of the White Dog Shrine also took this opportunity to make a small windfall .

Pinghe racked his brains on this matter.He clearly knew that if the criminal who killed the watchdog was not caught, the rumors would not be eliminated, and the prestige of the Metropolitan Police Department would decline day by day.However, the murder of a dog is more accurate than the murder of a person.Because motives are harder to pin down.Murderers, generally speaking, mostly lurk among the friends or confidants of the victim.As for killing dogs, it cannot be called a "criminal" under normal circumstances. The situation is completely different.The 22cm feet, the 45kg body, and the 2cm diameter murder weapon are the only clues.

The 110 calls continued to call the police, and police cars were cruising the streets like a shuttle. Fortunately, only the White Dog Shrine.