Chapter 2 chapter 2

The murder scene was a two-room house in an apartment building.No matter how you look at it, the living room has more than 14 square meters, and the rest of the Western-style rooms feel quite spacious.Kaoru Utsumi thought of her own room, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: Although they are both women, living alone is really different.Having said that, I always feel that my room is too narrow, maybe it is mostly because of neglect of cleaning.She can't remember the last time she turned on the vacuum cleaner. But the room in front of him was clean and tidy.There are two round cushions on the high-end sofa, and the surroundings of the TV and the bookshelves are also neatly arranged.Especially the fact that there is nothing on the dining table is unimaginable to Kaoru.

Of course, the floors are also spotless.There is a vacuum cleaner next to the glass door leading to the balcony. It is estimated that it will be used to clean the room every day.The only thing that feels incongruous is a pot left next to the vacuum cleaner, with the lid open, and the lid rolled to the TV. Kaoru thought, maybe she was preparing to cook at that time.She thought about it and looked in the kitchen: there was a bottle of olive oil next to the sink; aluminum bowls, kitchen knives, and small plates were placed in the drainer; tomato peels were thrown in the triangular corner by the sink.

She opened the refrigerator door, and the first thing she saw was a large plate of cheese mixed with tomatoes, with a bottle of white wine lying across the plate. Kaoru thought, maybe she was planning to drink wine with others that night. The resident of this house is Jiang Dao Qianxia, ​​30 years old, who works in a bank.Although judging from the photo on the driver's license, she gave the impression of being gentle and demure, but when Kaoru stared at the photo, she suspected that she belonged to the category of both strong and shrewd.Even if you have a round face with slightly drooping outer corners, you don't necessarily have to be a good person.

She returned to the living room, where several criminal policemen were running back and forth on the balcony.Kaoru decided to wait for their actions to come to an end before launching his own investigation.She is very clear that it is not possible to get more useful clues by surveying the scene earlier. At the same time, she thinks that this anxious psychology of scrambling for the first place has a sense of immaturity like a big boy. Kaoru approached the closet next to the wall.Next to the closet is a bookshelf with several magazines on it.After glancing at the bookshelf, she reached out and opened the drawer of the closet.There were two photo albums in the drawer, and she put on her gloves and opened them carefully.One of them looks like photos taken when attending a colleague's wedding, and the other contains photos taken when attending receptions and company parties.Almost all photos are with women, and none are with men.

Just when Kaoru closed the photo album and put it back in place, and closed the drawer, the senior Kusanagi Shunpei came back with a dull expression on his face. "How?" she asked. "It's hard to say." Cao Sha said and grinned, "I think it was a simple suicide by jumping off a building. After all, there were no traces of fighting in the house." "But the gate wasn't locked then?" "I know that." "I think, if you just stay at home, you should lock the door." "But assuming that the deceased was already in a state of mind about committing suicide at that time, it is very likely that he did something different from the usual behavior?"

Kaoru looked at the senior detective and shook his head, and said, "I think, no matter what mental state you are in, some habitual behaviors will not change. Opening the door to enter the house, closing the door and locking it should have become a habit long ago." "Not everyone will be like this, right?" "I think that every woman who lives alone will do this." Kaoru's tone was a little tough. After hearing this, Kusanagi closed his mouth with a displeased face.After a while, he seemed to have regained his emotions, touched his nose and said, "Then tell me your point of view. Why didn't the deceased lock the door?"

"The reason is very simple. Because someone left the room without locking the gate. That is to say, there was another person in the room at the time, probably the dead woman's boyfriend." Cao Sha raised his eyebrows and said, "This reasoning is really bold." "Really? Have you checked the refrigerator?" "Refrigerator? No." Kaoru walked into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator door, took out the plate of cheese mixed with tomatoes and the bottle of wine, and brought it to Kusanagi. "I'm not going to say that a woman who lives alone will definitely not drink by herself in her own home, but if she just enjoys it alone, no one will arrange the platter so delicately, right?"

Cao Sha frowned, scratched his head, and said: "The police station in the jurisdiction heard that there will be a meeting to discuss the case tomorrow morning. Then you can show your face together. It is estimated that the results of the autopsy should come out by then, so we will Let's discuss it after the results come out." After that, he waved his hand as if to repel flies in front of him. Just when Kaoru was about to leave the room following Senior, she saw a cardboard box on the shoe cabinet in the hallway, and she stopped putting on her shoes because of this. "What?" Kusanagi asked her.

"what is this?" "Like takeout." "Can I open it and have a look?" The cardboard box was also sealed with tape. "Don't touch it casually. Anyway, people from the police station in the jurisdiction will come to check." "I want to see it now. Can I just say hello to the police station in the jurisdiction?" "Neihai," Cao Sha frowned, "don't do such outrageous things. You are already a showy person." "Am I very pushy?" "No, that's not what I mean...I mean, everyone is watching, so please restrain me a little bit."

Although unconvinced, Ke Xun nodded.It will not take a day or two to force her to accept these incomprehensible things. The next morning, when Kaoru came to the Fukagawa Police Station, Kusanagi was already waiting for her with an unhappy face, and his boss, Mamiya, was also with him. When Mamiya saw Kaoru, he said hard work to her with a serious face. "Chief... why are you here?" "I was called here. The case has now been transferred to us." "our side?" "There is a suspicion of homicide in this case. A murder weapon that was believed to have been used to hit the victim's head was found in the room. It is estimated that this place will become the collaborative investigation headquarters."

"Weapon? What weapon?" "It's a pot with a long handle." "Ah." Kaoru recalled the pot that rolled down on the floor and said, "It's that thing..." "There was a small amount of the victim's blood on the bottom of the pot. The murderer probably pushed her off the balcony after knocking her to death or knocking her unconscious. It was really cruel." While listening to Mamiya, Kaoru secretly glanced at Kusanagi.Kusanagi turned his face to the side, avoiding her sight, and coughed heavily. "Is the murderer a man?" Kaoru asked Mamiya. "There is nothing wrong with that. This kind of murder is not something a woman can do." "Is the only murder weapon found so far?" "There are traces of fingerprints being wiped in the house. On the handle of the murder weapon, on the table, and on the doorknob." "From the fact that the murderer wiped the fingerprints, this shouldn't be a robbery, right?" Because if it's a burglary, the robber should wear gloves. "It can be roughly determined that the acquaintance of the victim did it. And the murder weapon was picked up casually. In addition, the wallet and bank card have not been touched. The only thing missing is the mobile phone." "The mobile phone...does it think that if you investigate the communication records, it will be bad for you?" "If that's the case, it's really stupid." Kusanagi said, "The call record, go to the telephone company and it will be clear immediately. This behavior is equivalent to telling us that an acquaintance did the murder." "The murderer was at a loss at the time. After all, it didn't look like a premeditated murder. You go to the phone company to get the call records, and investigate carefully one by one with the male as the center." Mamiya concluded. Shortly after, a search meeting was called.At the meeting, the witness information was mainly reported. A searcher who was over fifty years old and in charge of on-site investigation said in a calm tone: "After the deceased fell from the balcony, there seemed to be a lot of people gathered around the apartment, but no one witnessed any suspicious persons. Shima Chika lived on the seventh floor. Residents on the sixth floor heard the noise, looked down the window, and immediately went out to take the elevator. When the residents on the sixth floor entered the elevator, there was no one else in the elevator. If someone If Ejima Chinatsu had been pushed away and fled immediately, then the elevator would not have stopped on the seventh floor. Besides, there is only one elevator in this apartment.” There was also discussion about the possibility that the killer used an emergency escape staircase to escape.However, the investigators of the Shenchuan Bureau pointed out that the stairs of the apartment were not only located on the same side as the scene of the fall, but also hung from the outside.If the murderer had taken the stairs at that time, he would have been exposed to the eyes of onlookers. The biggest mystery at the moment is where the murderer disappeared after pushing the victim down. "There is another possibility." Mamiya Lan commented, "Suppose the murderer is a resident of the same apartment? Then as long as he returns to his home after the murder, he will not be seen by anyone." After listening to the opinion of the head of the first search section of the Metropolitan Police Department, everyone nodded in agreement.