Chapter 10 Section 3

In front of the two-story apartment where Kosugi lived, Kusanagi handed Yukawa a pair of white gloves. "I have already obtained permission from the section chief to let you into this room. I hope you can analyze the case theoretically. Besides, I don't think there is much to investigate. But before touching the things inside, I still wear a Go for this." Yukawa nodded and put on his gloves. "It's very important not to leave fingerprints. Just now you said that you think there is nothing to investigate, but I don't think so. Maybe you have to re-investigate this home."

"I don't think the ghost incident has any intrinsic connection with this case." "You will understand in a moment. Let's go in." Yuchuan said. Soon after Kosugi was arrested, Kusanagi came here once, only to interrogate Yamashita Tsunehiko who was still looking after the house. What Yamashita said was consistent with Kosugi's confession. The room was still littered with beer bottles and bags of snacks and refreshments.It seems that the room was tidied up before leaving the mountain, and today the room is relatively tidy, and the white Persian cat seems to have been returned to the owner.

"It really feels like a bachelor's room." Looking around the interior without any decoration and lack of interest, Yu Chuan said with emotion. "I learned from Yamashita and Hosoya that he doesn't seem to be very popular with women, and he hasn't even dated the opposite sex. I heard that he doesn't get nervous only when he talks to female athletes, and they usually talk about sports. .” "It's like an antique. There was no such man in the sports club before." Tang Chuan said with a wry smile.Both he and Kusanagi have participated in the Teito University Badminton Club.

"So, Hosoya and the others were all surprised that Kosugi would be so obsessed with the barmaid. They said that it might be because he has always been resistant to women, so he is so determined to pursue the person he likes, yes I feel the same way.” "The opportunity for Xiaoshan to meet the victim is because he went to that bar?" "According to Xiaoshan's confession, that's the case. He just entered the store on a whim, and this may also be destined." "Destined?..." Tang Chuan entered the room while shaking his head slightly.The first thing that caught his attention was the stereo system on the cabinet.

"This set of equipment is good. It is a new model just released last year. Although it is simple in appearance, it is said that the accent effect is very good." After speaking, he plugged in the power, pressed the play button of the CD, and listened to the music flowing from the speaker Melody, Yukawa's eyes widened in surprise. "This guy is surprising enough. Isn't this song "The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest"? It doesn't match his sports at all." "Don't worry about this for now, just think about how to solve the mystery of ghosts."

"Ah, don't worry." With a slight smile on Tang Chuan's face, he looked at the cabinets in the kitchen. To be honest, Kusanagi had no idea why Yukawa suddenly became interested in the ghost incident. It seemed that it had something to do with the wound on the victim's wrist, but he couldn't think of the specific relationship. Based on past experience, Kusanagi knew that it would be better not to ask questions rashly on such occasions. After looking over the first floor, the two went up to the second floor.On the second floor, there is a room with six tatami mats and a room with four and a half tatami mats.The four-and-a-half-sized room is used as a bedroom, and there is only a small wardrobe in it.There are some old quilts in the closet.Another western-style room is a studio, where computer desks, desks, chairs, etc. are surrounded by bookshelves, on which there are several file folders with labels on the backs of the folders, which say "Professional Baseball", Entries such as College Football, Track and Field, and sports folders such as Figure Skiing, Fencing.

"It seems that there is no badminton. It seems that badminton is suitable for second-rate sports." Tang Chuan said. "Let's not talk about that, what's the use of looking here. Xi Gu saw the ghost of the victim on the first floor, so let's go down and do the experiment." Hearing what Kusanagi said, Yukawa stared at him with widened eyes behind the lens. "Hey, experiment? What experiment?" "How do I know this. But isn't that why we came here? For example, the experiment on the illusion of eyes..." "Wow, that's amazing. I didn't expect you, who hate science so much, to say that?" Yukawa patted Kusanagi's shoulder and walked out of the room.Then he went down the stairs.Kusanagi followed behind him while savoring the taste of being teased by him.

Returning to the living room on the first floor, Yu Chuan stood facing the window. "It's only a few meters away? I originally thought that he might have seen the dry miscanthus as a ghost, but at such a short distance, he shouldn't be mistaken. Have you checked the eyesight of that Xigu?" "I've confirmed it, both naked eyes are O.7." "O.7..." Yu Chuan whispered to himself. Classical music continued to stream from the stereo.Kusanagi wanted to turn down the volume a bit, so he turned the knob to the left, but the speaker immediately made a noise.

Tang Chuan looked at him. "Ah, I just wanted to turn the volume down a bit..." Kusanagi explained. But Yu Chuan ignored him, went straight to the stereo, and adjusted the volume knob himself.Every time he twisted it, the speaker would make a "crackling" noise. "Kusanagi, do you have a picture of Kosugi?" "I don't have it now." "What kind of man is Xiaoshan? From what you said, I think he is a rough man." "Yes, to put it bluntly, he is a relatively rustic person." "What about the hairstyle?" "A small crew cut with no distinctive features."

"Oh." Tang Chuan nodded, then moved the corners of his mouth, revealing a meaningful smile. "What's the matter, is there any doubt about it?" Kusanagi asked. Yu Chuan looked around the room again, with a thoughtful expression.Finally, his eyes returned to the stereo, and he nodded deeply. "Kusanagi, it seems that this case may need to be searched again from the beginning." "What?" Kusanagi opened his eyes wide, "Could it be someone else is the real culprit?" "No, the prisoner may not change. However, the nature of the case may change completely."

"nature?" "Judging from the current situation, it should be an impulsive killing, right? But is this the real situation?" "If it's not impulsive killing, it's premeditated murder. How is this possible?" Kusanagi said with a smile. "Is there such a careless premeditated murder? It's all revealed at once." "I told you just now that no matter what this person Hosoya saw, the murders happened at the same time is nothing more than an amazing coincidence. But on the other hand, you might as well try to think about whether there is something hidden behind those amazing coincidences. What is inevitable? This is common sense in the scientific community. So let’s assume that both the appearance of ghosts and the occurrence of murders at that time were premeditated. And I find that such assumptions are usually more logical.” Tang Chuan Said affirmatively, his eyes revealed the firmness of a scientist. "logic?" "After listening to your introduction at the beginning, there are a few things I don't understand. The first is that the victim let Xiaoshan into the room. No matter how pestered by the other party, I don't think a young single woman will let a man she doesn't like Let him into his room. So I think Kosugi entered the room by force." "But in that case, the victim will scream for help, right?" "I don't think she has a chance. Xiaoshan plays rugby, right? It's not difficult for him to cover the opponent's mouth, grab the key, and break into the opponent's room, right? At least it's much easier than persuading the opponent to enter the room. If He didn’t resort to force, he just used drugs.” At this point, Tang Chuan nodded as if affirming his words, “Yes, he used drugs, so the wound on her wrist can also explain Got it." "I won't call it Bai anymore. What does it have to do with the wound on my wrist?" "This is the second point that I didn't figure out. In daily life, would someone accidentally cut their own wrist? If it wasn't careless, it could only be explained as an attempted suicide. But from your description, I I don’t think Nagai Kiyomi is this type of woman.” "and then?" "It sounds more reasonable to say that Xiaoshan did it. He tried to cover up Qingmei's death as a suicide. If he used drugs before entering the door, the other party would lose consciousness first. When he cut the other party's wrist, he would not There will be resistance." "But in fact, he strangled the other party to death." "That should be caused by his calculation error. For example, the blood vessel was not cut off. As far as I know, suicide by cutting the wrist is very difficult to do in reality." "It's true. People often say that they cut their wrists and caused a mess, but in the end they just cut the superficial skin. Maybe they were hesitant when cutting their wrists." "Then, while he was dealing with the scene, the victim woke up, and Xiaoshan strangled him to death in a panic—how about this reasoning?" "Well," Kusanagi replied in a low voice, "but if that's the case, there should be some blood at the scene, right?" "It must have been cleared by Xiaoshan. You policemen must also think that she was strangled to death, and there was no blood investigation at all." "This..." Kusanagi thought to himself, maybe it is. "These are the grounds for premeditated murder. It goes without saying that the reason why Xiaoshan didn't tell the truth is because he knew that if he was also arrested, the crime of impulsive homicide would be lighter." It is not difficult to understand when it comes to this.It is true that premeditated murder is punished more severely. "That is to say, the appearance of ghosts is not accidental?" "It should be so." Tang Chuan replied with a straight face. "But it was because of the appearance of the ghost that Kosugi's crimes were discovered." "So," Yukawa said, "the way things are in the world, it's not going to go exactly as planned." "What's going on? Explain to me quickly." "After clarifying the content of the premeditated murder, this will naturally become clear. The first thing you should consider is the motive for the murder. In the case of intentional murder, there must be a strong motive." "Haven't we already investigated this aspect? The relationship between Kosugi and Nagai Kiyomi is the relationship between the customer of the bar and the waitress, the man who woos and the woman who is wooed, and there is nothing else." "Are you sure you haven't missed anything?" Tang Chuan asked.Although he had a smile on his face, his tone was a bit sharp, "You said that the victim owed a lot of money before his death. Would you please investigate this further? In addition, there are cats and housekeepers for him. " "The cat and the housekeeper? What's the matter with them?" "On the night when the incident happened, there was a foster cat in Xiaoshan's house, right? So when he suddenly had an interview task, it was necessary to hire someone to help him look after the house. Is this really a coincidence? I think it's worth investigating again. " "You mean, these are also planned by Xiaoshan?" "If the ghost's appearance was planned, then maybe it is." After speaking, Tang Chuan adjusted his glasses with his middle finger, "No, it should be said, it is undoubtedly planned!"