Chapter 35 Chapter nine

Everyone hurriedly carried him to the bed with Yingyue, began heart massage and artificial respiration, and arranged for manpower to prepare the ventilator. After completing the connection between the man and the machine, Hongo was transferred to the next door. Bed in Room Eleven.Brainwaves and heartbeats are there.The man in white just now seemed to be a doctor. He kept shuttling between Room 10 and Room 11, taking care of Yingyue and Hongo. "And then?" It was Mercury C who spoke, "Hongo should have published his reasoning too, what's the result?" Facing this unusual violent element, the remaining members of Angel Rabbit were silent for a moment, and then Fukushima finally regained the feeling of being the leader and began to explain to us.

"Well, this is a bit long to say. Besides, I'm not used to this kind of speech like Hongo and the others, so I may be upside down, so I'll briefly summarize it. First, we should start with this question , 'Why does the incident always find a detective?' "Actually, wherever our Angel Rabbit Troupe goes, we are inexplicably involved in murders or unimaginable things. This often appears in mystery novels, right. For example, a university club or research club, in short, a certain A specific small group will encounter some incidents every time they travel. It just so happens that there is a famous detective in this small group, who can often see through the mystery and solve the incident. Our Angel Rabbit Troupe really encountered such things in novels Unsurprisingly, we also encountered such an incident in Pineapple House this time. Everyone was talking about it again, why do we always encounter this kind of thing, and then we came up with an answer. Maybe we...maybe All famous detectives have the same idea, anyway, our Angel Rabbit Troupe must not have been involved in these many incidents by accident."

Behind Fukushima, nearly half of the members of the Angel Rabbit Troupe gathered around Hongo's bed, waiting quietly.The remaining half must be surrounding Yingyue's hospital bed in the next room. Fukushima continued: "Just now, Lord Erliu asked me not to waste time, so I will only pick the important ones. Anyway, I can't explain in detail. In March seven years ago, we were at Tangnong Children's in Xixiao Town. The murder incident that happened during the rehearsal of the hall was the first incident encountered by the Angel Rabbit Troupe. This is what the victim looked like when he was found." As he spoke, Fukushima took out a photo.A large white plate was placed on the table in the photo, and on the plate was a naked male corpse sitting with his knees hugged.There is also a knife on the side of the big plate, which makes people have the impression of killing and eating corpses (see Figure 18).

"This is a photo taken by Kawai Ichiyo, a member of the Angel Rabbit Team, who was the first to discover the victim. This corpse on a large plate was secretly moved in from outside the house in the cold winter. At first, we thought This was a trap set to conceal the time of his death, but Hongo pointed out that it was a feint. In fact, the murderer installed a disc-shaped ice cube under the plate and threw it along the frozen passage outside the house like curling. It is pushed out in the same way to make it move at a high speed. That is to say, the murderer did not move the victim to the cold outside to delay the time of freezing after death. On the contrary, he slid it in to melt the ice at the bottom a warm interior."

Fukushima still has a lot of photos and documents at hand. "The next incident happened in April of the same year. The location was in two side-by-side buildings named Xixiao Apartment in the vicinity of Xixiao District, Xixiao Town. This time the murderer still used the scam of moving the corpse. The murder incident It happened on the fourth floor of one of the seven-story apartments. After the murder, the murderer moved the body to a room on the fourth floor of another building adjacent to it. Of course, this was to create his own alibi, so the murderer did not It is possible that he carried the corpse on his back to complete the transfer. He used long poles, steel wires, pulleys and rocket belts to create an aerial mobile device for the corpses. First, install long poles on the roofs of two apartment buildings and connect them with steel wires. Then use pulleys to move them Connect with another steel wire, hang along the wall to the fourth floor, and finally let the corpse carry a self-made rocket belt, and connect it to the steel wire hanging to the fourth floor. The rocket belt mentioned here was used in the Los Angeles Olympics The kind of rocket launcher on the back. Its principle is to fly by decomposing hydrogen peroxide and ejecting oxygen and water vapor. Because of this rocket launcher, the body will not hit the outer wall of the apartment after being thrown out of the balcony by the murderer , but was hung by the steel wires on the roof to complete the conical flight. Moreover, after the corpse departed from the balcony on the fourth floor, the pulley on the roof also started at the same time, and the corpse was sent to the apartment next door along the deliberately inclined steel wire. So the corpse Just...Of course, the most important thing is the calculation of speed, such as where the body must go when the block is flying between the apartments, how to speed up the block when passing there, etc. The murderer carried out these processes precisely In the end, he managed to make the corpse achieve S-shaped flight relatively smoothly, and transferred it to the apartment next door. Finally, he pulled the corpse together with the pulley and put it into the fourth-floor balcony of the target."

Fukushima took out another diagram of the operation of the trap for us to see (see Figure 19). "After the murderer completed the production of the alibi, he replaced the gas cylinder on the corpse's back with a new one, followed the same steps in the reverse direction, and put it back in the original apartment room. In order to prevent someone from Hearing the sound of the rocket launcher and looking out the window, the murderer still used the reverse S-shaped route during the second operation." Oh, I think, I haven't encountered this kind of trap using physics knowledge.

Fukushima went on to tell the third incident. "The third incident happened in the same year when we had our summer training camp. In the hotel where we were staying, there was another murder. It happened in the cultural hall in the Taniotome district of Nishixiao Town. People call that building 'Square house'. Because it is a very peculiar building, the whole building is composed of nine regular hexahedron rooms arranged in a pattern of three horizontally and three vertically. These rooms are very simple huts. The room is equipped with eaves and corridors, which can barely be used as a normal building. In fact, this building was originally composed of nine completely independent huts, probably because of the gradual increase in group tourists, in order to make it easier for the huts to come and go. Let’s add those eaves and corridors later. Back to the topic, on one night of our training camp, the murder happened. This time, the murderer used the trap of visual illusion. There are four corridors in total, two horizontal and two vertical, and there are entrances and exits at both ends of each corridor... For the convenience of description, these entrances and exits are now named 'North A', 'North B', 'East A', ' East B', 'South A', 'South B', 'West A', and 'West B'. At the time of the crime, members of the Angel Rabbits standing outside of 'North A' by the river saw through the glass on the door Across the hallway, the victim lying in front of the open 'South B' door, and a dark figure that looks like the murderer. Then, the murderer carried the victim on his back and fled to the right as seen by the river, which is the west side of the building , so Hebian also turned to the west side to track. But he did not see the murderer, nor did he find the body of the victim. Hebian walked to the door of 'West B' with his mind full of doubts. Seeing the opposite side of the corridor, the door of 'East A' was also open. It was strange that the body he had witnessed just now was lying beside the open door. At this time, the murderer had disappeared. It turned out that the murderer pretended to flee to The west side lured him to follow, but actually fled to the opposite east side. This was what Hebian thought at the time. However, this possibility was denied by several members of the Angel Rabbit Troupe standing inside the gate of 'South A'. Because the few people standing at 'South A' didn't see anyone passing by with a dead body on their backs, and one of the members of the Angel Rabbits was still leaning against the door, so the murderer couldn't possibly hide under the door glass and walk past. This proved impossible to escape from the east side (see Figure 20).

"Later, Hongo Taxi saw through this murder trap using a large mirror. Actually... If you number the rooms from the upper left corner like this, the murderer is between 'Room Four' and 'Room Eight' , placed a large mirror reaching to the ceiling at a slant. Yes, that is to say. The victim and murderer seen in 'North A' by the river are not actually at the entrance of 'South B' at the other end of the corridor, but At the gate of 'East B', the reason why the murderer moved the victim from there to 'East A' was to lead the river to 'West B', creating the illusion that the murderer disappeared (see Figure 21).

"The careless Kawabe didn't realize that the door he thought was 'South B' opened and closed in opposite directions until he listened to Hongo's explanation." Before Fukushima finished speaking, he stood by the river next to Hongo's bed and protested: "Hey, I have reflected on it many times." The members standing around smiled. Fukushima also chuckled, and continued: "In Hongo Taxi Taxi Incident Records, Incident No. 4 occurred in the early autumn of the same year, when it just entered September. When the body was found, the victim's neck The body from the chest to the thighs was taken away by the murderer. I also prepared photos of the scene here, but it is too cruel, so please confirm it through this simple explanatory picture (see Figure 22).

"Although Hongo finally exposed the underground organ trading syndicate lurking in Nishixiao Town, the murderer took away the victim's neck and carcass with another meaning. That's because the victim himself wanted to sell his breasts and genitals Covering up. The murderer disintegrated the victim after suicide in order to fulfill the victim’s wish. The cutting of the neck has two deep meanings, one is to hide the traces of the victim’s suicide by hanging, and the other is to hide the murderer’s body. intention. As for the reason for doing so, I will not explain it here for the time being.”

Without taking a breath, Fukushima began to explain another incident. "Next is the fifth incident. This time the quadruple murder took place in the Tanokura District of Nishixiao Town. According to the order in which the remains were discovered, the victim A who was discovered successively was cut from the armpit to the flank. , victim B was cut from the waist to the hip, victim C was cut from the side to the waist, and the neck of victim D was also cut with a slanted knife. The most distinctive feature of this incident is that the four victims also It was cut in two. Because this scene is too cruel, please take a look at the sketch (see Figure 23). "The police have been debating whether the murderer was left-handed or right-handed, but Hongo Taxi Taxi ignored it and found one of the four victims who was different. That was the victim D. Hongo Note that the hands of victims A, B, and C were not cut off. That is to say, the three victims were hanged upside down, and their hands were drooping. On the contrary, victim D if If it is hung upside down, the drooping hands will form an obstacle, making it impossible for the murderer to cut off the neck. Although arranged like this sketch, the cut sections of the four victims will form a certain regularity, but if D is excluded If this is the case, it may turn this regularity into pure chance. The murderer cut A first. When cutting B, the edge of the knife was slightly misaligned. When cutting C, the edge of the knife was misplaced again... Compared to this misalignment, it is more In line with reality, it should be that the murderer, who has some kind of obsession or blind worship mentality towards the "one clean break", used B and C to adjust his incision to the best position. Although the victim D was mixed in at this time, making the police The order of the victims has been adjusted, and finally a continuous slash emerges, but if there are only three victims of ABC, they should still be arranged in the order of discovery... Thinking of this, what Hongo pointed out is of course It was the intervention of the imitator. Afterwards, it was confirmed that Hongo’s idea was correct, because the genuine serial killer armed with a Japanese sword hijacked the acquaintance of the victim D, who was also the imitator in this case, and hung him upside down. When he was about to make a clean break, Hongo came to the scene and arrested the murderer... The profession of being a detective really gets the limelight." After speaking, Fukushima glanced at Hongo who was lying on the bed. "However, he can be too pushy at times. If he had kept his usual goofy look, he might not be what he is now. Well, let's move on to the next incident. The next killing happened seven years ago In the winter of that year, it was in Tangnong District of Nishixiao Town, and because of the social issues involved in this incident, it was almost reported nationwide. Before the situation became so serious, it was Hongo who successfully resolved it. The incident is as follows .A man was killed, and a blood book with suspected information about his death was left at the scene.” Fukushima found the photos and let us pass them on.It was a black-and-white photo of a man lying in a pool of blood on the ground, and next to the man, a red ribbon sign and the words "STOPAIDS" were drawn.The red ribbon is the symbol of the International AIDS Prevention Organization (see Figure 24). "But as a near-death victim, he left too many words, and the police autopsy results showed that the victim was indeed HIV-infected, so media personnel have expressed that they want to treat this incident as serious discrimination. However, Hongo discovered the hidden information at a critical moment. In the death message left by the victim, the three characters 'にしの' written in hiragana were hidden (see Figure 25) .” "Don't think about it, these three characters are of course the murderer's name. After the murderer discovered that the victim had written his name, he processed the death information. The reason why the murderer 'Nishino' knew the red ribbon didn't seem to be because Discrimination, but a high degree of concern about the AIDS issue, and 'Nishino' also knew that the victim was an AIDS-infected person. Therefore, thanks to Hongo's quick resolution, redundant media reports were successfully prevented." After speaking, Fukushima sighed. "Yeah, it seems to be quite hard to solve a case. Hongo always handles those cases with a relaxed face, so I always thought it would be easy to just relay it, but it seems I was wrong. This job is really Tired. Well, in the second year, that is, six years ago, in 2000, the Angel Rabbit Troupe moved their headquarters to Tokyo. So the following events have nothing to do with us or Hongo. Instead of Hongo It was Mr. Curry who appeared on the stage, and the first incident he encountered was the exchange killing incident not long after New Year's Day. After B who wanted to kill A and D who wanted to kill C met, the two parties agreed that B would kill Dead C, D kills A, in order to create alibi and conceal the motive of the crime. Immediately after Mr. Big Laughing successfully solved this incident, imitation crimes appeared again... However, is this situation considered imitation crimes? What? As I said just now, the double murder incident based on the previous concept of exchange murder happened again immediately. The so-called exchange murder means that after A is killed, B will be the first to be suspected, and after C is killed, B will be the first to be suspected. In other words, the premise of this crime is that both parties have very obvious motives for killing. However, in the imitation crime that occurred immediately, murderer B’s intention to kill A, and murderer D The killing intent towards C is very secret. Moreover, both murderer B and D here commit crimes according to their own killing intent, that is, B killed A, and D killed C. What they did was to It was disguised as an exchange killing. When A was killed, B obviously had no alibi, but D had an unusually conclusive alibi. When C was killed, the opposite was true. B had a suspicious alibi, and D had Deliberately not preparing their own alibi. They took advantage of 'the exchange killing just happened not long ago, they couldn't imitate it immediately' and 'but the murderer couldn't have killed without preparing an alibi for himself at all, and Nor did they have the motive 'these two mental disorders to engage the police. This is what detectives often refer to as 'misleading'. In the end, let the police, provoked by B and D, bent on crushing their alibi What the investigators woke up to was Mr. Big Laughing, and when he solved this incident, he prepared two ladder diagrams (see Figure 26) in order to compare it with the first incident. "The vertical line indicates the motive, and the horizontal line indicates the person who committed the crime. It's a very clever picture, isn't it. After solving the two double homicides, the victim of the next incident is Mr. Big Laugh himself. And the stage where the incident happened This is here... However, it was not Pinea House at that time, but a cuboid building named 'Natsugawa Villa' before it was converted into Pinea House. The building has two floors, and the first and second floors are respectively lined with twelve Each room is connected by a passageway similar to a unit house... The owner, Natsugawa, is a local landowner and politician, and has built many strange-looking houses in Nishixiao Town. In fact, the "square house" just mentioned 'It was also donated to the town government by Mr. Nazugawa after it was completed. The same is true for 'Natsugawa Villa', because only Mr. Mitamura used it as a studio at that time, and no one else lived in it, so it was opened in 2000. In March 2008, Mr. Santuancun was able to purchase the ownership of the land and the house at a very low price. Shortly after the owner of the "Naizuchuan Villa" changed hands, Mr. Dabaxiao was injured on the head here. Of course, Dabaxiao Mr. did not die, but lived until today, but the depression he suffered from was caused by the head trauma at that time. It seems to be called traumatic depression. And, at that time, he rushed to the "Natsugawa Mountain Villa" The doctor here is treating Mr. Big Laughing." As he spoke, Fukushima waved to the middle-aged man in white who kept going back and forth between Sakurazuki and Hongo's room. "This doctor is currently working at Akahoshi Hospital in Takefu City, and he also visits Xixiao Clinic twice a week. He is a classmate of Mr. Sakai Yoshihiro and Mr. Mitamura Saburo, who is also a good friend of the two, and his name is Taniguchi through."

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