Chapter 32 Section 1

Three days had passed since the confidential letter arrived at the Shimadzu Police Station.Although it is possible to know where the confidential letter was sent from the postmark, etc., there is no evidence to pinpoint the sender.There were also no clues on the letter paper or envelopes. It is not an option to detain Hongchang all the time. When the task force was about to lose their temper, a criminal policeman found an important witness. On the day of the incident, two female junior high school students had been to the cemetery.The school they attended was 200 meters east of Zhenxian Temple.That day they slipped out of school during self-study class, fooled around outside for a while, and were bumped into by the teacher on the way back to school.No matter how the teacher asked, they just refused to answer honestly why they left school without reason.The anxious teacher checked their belongings and found a cigarette case. After further questioning, they admitted that they were smoking in the cemetery.Both are students with bad conduct.

They knew that Sugai Masaki was killed in the same cemetery, but they did not testify because their parents did not want the world to know about their daughter's bad behavior.The school does not want to make such a disgraceful thing public. "What's more, my daughter said she didn't see anything. In this case, I don't think I can help even if I come forward as a witness." Said the mother of one of the two students. The criminal police are well aware that there are many cases where evidence and witnesses simply disappear. The police learned about them because the criminal police who were inquiring for clues in the local area heard about them by accident.Rumors about them are rampant, and they are mainly circulated among junior high school students. From this point of view, the source of the news may be themselves.

As the mother said, two junior high school girls insisted they saw nothing.They are said to have gone to the cemetery, making sure no one was there before lighting a cigarette.They seemed displeased, saying they didn't do it often. However, after detailed questioning, it was discovered that they had actually witnessed something extremely important.When they took a shortcut back to school past the cemetery wall, they saw the crucial black plastic bag.The two remember saying at the time: "Someone actually came to this kind of place to throw garbage." From this, it can be confirmed that the insider of the confidential letter is true.

"From what time to what time did you stay in the cemetery?" the detective asked. "We arrived at the cemetery at about 11:40. I don't think we stayed for long, about five to ten minutes." One of the girls answered, and the other agreed. "Let me ask you again, was there really no one there?" "Yes, not a single one." The eyes of the two are very serious. "If this is the truth, our inference will be completely overturned." Xixi puffed up his chest and sounded like a bell.Yong Zuo feels that as long as the case progresses, he will show this attitude.

"If you believe their testimony, no one approached the cemetery between 11:40 and 50, then when did the murderer hide the crossbow in the black plastic bag in the cemetery? ?If it is before the two girls show up, you must hide it before 11:40. In this way, considering the distance between Guasheng’s house and Zhenxian Temple, you have to leave around 11:25 am at the latest There. But," he raised his voice again, "among the guests who visited Guasheng's house that day, no one met this requirement. It is understood that the female relatives who went early in the morning stayed in the house until the afternoon, and their husbands It didn't show up until after half past one. How do you explain that?"

The room was silent.People were not intimidated by the aura of the police department, but they were all lost in thought, trying to explain this incredible fact reasonably. Yong Zuo is equally puzzled.It was later that Misako saw Akihiko leaving through the back door.That being said, Akihiko was not the one who took the crossbow. Impossible, he could not have nothing to do with this murder. Yusaku felt that no matter how hard he tried to deny that Akihiko had anything to do with the murder, he couldn't find a proper explanation. "Unless," Watanabe said euphemistically shortly afterwards, "there is an accomplice. That is, someone who stayed inside gave the crossbow to an accomplice who was waiting outside."

His tone could not be said to be full of confidence, but this inference did make sense, and several detectives nodded as if in agreement. "Anyway, that's how it happened. That person stayed in Guasheng's house, pretended to go to the bathroom and left the table, went to the study to steal the crossbow and arrows, then sneaked out of the house, and handed them over to his accomplices waiting outside. Go back inside the house as if nothing happened, right? How long will this series of actions take?" "About... ten minutes." Watanabe answered with his eyes closed as if calculating the time in his head.

"Ten minutes, it's a long time. If I leave the table for such a long time, I always feel that someone will be impressed." But there was no rumor among the guests that anyone had been absent for a long time. "Besides, I think it is very difficult to perform this series of actions without being discovered by anyone. Even if you can enter the study without being discovered, you can go in and out of the mansion with a large bag? There is a problem with the logic of this kind of thinking." The views of the West are also reasonable.No one refuted, and the room was once again shrouded in a breathless silence.

"In this way, is it not a guest, but a member of the Guasheng family?" Watanabe expressed his opinion on this point. "Has anyone in the Guaran family ever acted suspiciously?" West asked. "Let's sort it out." Watanabe stood up and wrote on the blackboard the actions of everyone in the Guasang family that day.At first glance, no one can take away the crossbow.However, what Watanabe wrote last left everyone present stunned.Yusaku also thought about it, wouldn’t he?! "Isn't there one?" West also sighed. "Because it was too early and this person had an alibi at the time of the incident, we have not noticed it so far." Watanabe said in an analytical tone, "Besides, this action should not have come from my own will. "

"On the surface, it really wasn't out of my own will, but it's easy to pretend that's the case. Is there any motive for killing?" Watanabe asked the people present, but no one answered. "Okay. Then, let's reorganize this person's actions, maybe find out some clues, and then investigate the relationship between this person and Masaaki Sugai." "This person's accomplice...or the person who did it directly, who could it be?" a criminal policeman asked. "Since he is an accomplice to the murder, he should not be someone who has no acquaintance with him. Let's first list the related people who don't have an alibi, and then find out the relationship between them one by one." Xixi ordered clearly.

"Can I interrupt for a moment?" Before the Western voice finished speaking, an unusually loud voice came out from a little distance away.Everyone followed the prestige, and the person who raised his hand was Oda, and Yusaku felt inexplicably uneasy. "What is it?" West asked. Oda looked around the room, and said, "I have a very interesting discovery about the suspect..."