Chapter 37 Section 8

Three days after Kaoru took Hazuki to meet Yukawa, Toshikazu Uui, Mase Kimiko's boss and lover, was arrested.It didn't take long for him to surrender because the police had already found gold bars from the ceiling of Zui's room. Uui had previously heard that Kimiko had said that Nohira Kashiko had hidden gold bars in the Buddhist altar, and he had evil thoughts in his heart. The reason was that he had embezzled the company's public funds before, and he had to make up the difference as soon as possible. At this moment, he heard from Kimiko that Nodaira's eldest son's family was going to leave home for a few days, and he felt that this was a golden opportunity.

Not long after Kimiko met Nohira Kashiko, Uui came to Nohira's house, saying that his subordinates were causing trouble for him, entered the other's house, and strangled her from behind when Nohira Kashiko was not paying attention.But Tui did not take the gold bar away immediately, but closed the door and left with the key.As for the reason, Uui said that although he knew that there was a gold bar hidden in the altar, he didn't know where it was hidden, so he planned to sneak into the house after dark to look for it.And when he left Nodaira's house, he threw dog food mixed with poison into the dog's trough.Of course, he did this to prevent the dog from barking again the next time he sneaked in.

In the dead of night, Uui drove to Nodaira's house.He stopped the car a little further away and entered Nohira's house again.The dog was motionless and appeared to be dead.After entering Nohera's house, it took him a while to discover the mechanism behind the Buddhist altar. He stuffed the ten-kilogram gold bars hidden inside into his bag, walked out of the house from the entrance with the bag in his arms, and locked the door. Although his plan had been going well up to this point, something unexpected happened just as he was walking towards the gate and intending to flee the scene.

"It is said that the dog that seemed to be dead at the time suddenly bit him." Xun said, "That dog was really persistent, and it was already dying from eating poisonous dog food. But it still intends to fulfill its mission as a watchdog. We policemen have to learn from it." "Where did you bite him?" Tang Chuan asked. "Right ankle. It is said that at that time, Sui shook his foot desperately to break free. After that, the dog seemed to have exhausted its last strength and did not move anymore. At that time, Sui thought that if he left it like this, maybe The police would find themselves in the blood on the dog's teeth, so they threw the dog's body away."

"Is it badly hurt?" "It's so heavy that I can't even walk with a limp." "It's really difficult to hide such a deep injury." "Teacher, your suggestion also helped us a lot. You said that the murderer should have been bitten by a dog - this reasoning is really wonderful." After the forensic department re-investigated the dog's corpse, they detected human blood from the dog's teeth, and after investigating the surroundings of Mase's mother and daughter, Sui surfaced.After confirming that the blood DNA was consistent, the police issued an arrest warrant.

"If an ordinary girl deduces the real murderer, then she must have quite solid evidence in her hands, and the matter is related to the dog. So I think the murderer may have had contact with the dog at the time, and I asked her about it. What kind of impression did that dog have. At that time, she said that the dog was very fierce, as if it was ready to jump up and bite people at any time, so of course I also thought that she might actually know that the murderer was bitten by the dog. So In this way, the murderer's behavior of hiding the dog's body can be explained." "I went to see Hazuki this morning, and she said that the day after the murder, Tui had been to their apartment. She saw with her own eyes that Tui was bandaging the wound, which was obviously bitten by a dog. But after all, she had been taken care of by Tui before, and she understood the relationship between him and her mother, so she couldn’t speak out. And if she found the dog’s corpse there, she planned to report it to the police anonymously.”

"Has she been there before?" "It is said that when Sui Jing ran over the neighbor's cat with a car before, she dragged the body there to throw it away, and she always remembered this incident in her heart." "I see. Indeed, it is not easy to find a suitable place to dispose of cat and dog corpses." "Fortunately, Ye Yue told us the truth, so it is convenient for us to write the report. By the way, I have something to ask you. I wonder if you would like to answer it." "What's up?" "Why didn't you use the experimental device for prospecting at that time? I think with your ability, teacher, you will be able to wake her up and stop believing in the pendulum?"

Hearing her words, Yukawa stared at her face, sighed and shook his head. "It seems that you still don't quite understand science." Kaoru couldn't help feeling a little surprised, "Why?" "The purpose of science is not to deny those things that are mysterious. She is actually talking to her heart through the pendulum. What matters is her conscience, and it would be a happy thing to have a prop in her hand to show where her conscience should direct her, so we shouldn't interfere with it." Kaoru looked at the serious Yukawa with a smile on his face.

"Teacher, don't you think that it would be great if you really have this kind of prospecting technique?" Without saying a word, Yu Chuan raised one eyebrow meaningfully, and reached for the cup of coffee.