Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

At noon, Yatabe arrived at Kyoto Station. Yatabe set up two investigation plans, and finally decided to investigate from Kyoto first.It's fun to take the Shinkansen from Hamamatsu, but the case of Miyoko Sawada is the beginning of "Mioka's murder".He had to go to the scene of the Sawada Miyoko case first. He was not very familiar with Kyoto, and he was afraid of getting lost by bus, so he still chose a taxi. He originally wanted to go to the K Hotel first, but then he thought about it, he might not gain much from going there, and finally decided to start the investigation from Demachiyanagi Station.

As soon as he got out of the air-conditioned taxi, he was immediately surrounded by the summer heat.The tyrannical sun of midsummer hangs in the sky.White clouds piled up on the top of Mt. Hiei, like building blocks. There is no shade in the square in front of the station, and it is completely exposed to the sun.It was very dark under the roof of the opposite house, in stark contrast to the strong light.There is a grocery store across the square.According to the investigation materials provided by Kyoto, on the evening of June 27, Masahiro Mioka, who was barefoot and wearing shoes, came to this store to buy a pair of socks.There were no customers in the store, and the owner, in his fifties, wore shorts and sprayed the road with a hose.His head was sweating—Kyoto is a basin, and summer is always extremely hot.

Yatabe got on the train bound for Kurama.The air conditioner was turned on in the tram, and the cool sweat slid over the skin.It happened to be a Saturday, and there were many children in white shirts and shorts with backpacks and bug traps in the car.The posters hanging in the carriage swayed back and forth amidst the noise of the children. "If you want to exercise in summer, go to Mount Kurama! Camping in the forest!" Yatabe looked up at the green poster. Mioka, who drowned in Dam Lake, had a poster in his pocket that said "Go to the cool Kurama Mountain in summer! Goma for health and evil!".

Inside that poster is a pair of socks.Did Mioka stuff it into his pocket after returning to K Hotel?Mrs. Ajika said that those socks were indeed Ajika's.The pair of socks he bought at the grocery store in front of Demachiyanagi Station were worn on the corpse's feet. Why should he buy a new pair of socks?Why did he carry the old pair of socks with him when he had already put on new ones? After he returned to K Hotel, he found that the socks he wore at the scene of the crime were in his pocket, and these socks became a symbol of his crime.So when he threw himself into the river, he put the symbol of his sin, that is, the pair of socks, into his coat pocket as a funeral object.

That's what Yatabe told Section Chief Yamazaki at the time. However, he had to overturn his conclusions.Ajika did not commit suicide.He was driven to the bank of the dam lake and pushed into the Tianlong River in the rain. The socks Ajika wore to the crime scene were not in his pocket when Ajika returned to the K Hotel.He must have left his socks at the scene of the crime at the Momijisou Hotel, so he came barefoot to the grocery store in front of Demachiyanagi station and bought a new pair of socks. After Ajika got on the Shinkansen, he suddenly saw this pair of forgotten socks.Someone wrapped the socks with a poster and put them where Mioka could easily see them.He hurriedly stuffed the paper packet into his pocket—it would be bad if someone saw it.Wei Gang believes that this is "evidence" that he stayed at the murder scene.

So, who brought Ajika's socks out of Room 208? The reason why "he" wanted to wrap the socks with the poster of Mt. Kurama was to tell Mioka that he knew that Mioka took this train to go to the scene of the murder in Kifune.It's a form of psychological coercion.The mastermind behind the scenes wants to drive Ajika crazy. Someone intentionally put Weigang into a state of neurasthenia, then killed him, and disguised the case as "suicide".Those who saw Mioka at Lake Green Pavilion and Futamata Hiryukaku in Kanzanji Onsen, as well as all the waiters, emphasized Mioka's strange behavior to the police.Yatabe almost fell for it.

If the small bag with socks appeared in the Shinkansen carriage, it means that the person who put the small bag and Mioka were on the same train. In the tram car where Yatabe is, the children put their backpacks and bug-catching tools on the luggage rack above their heads—that is, on their "own territory." Yatabe stared at the scene in front of him and looked again and again. When Mioka got off the train at Hamamatsu Station, he forgot to take the golf bag from the luggage rack.When he saw the socks, he was so scared that he forgot his most precious golf bag.This means that the socks must be placed where Mioka can see them, around his seat...

The hotel is also very dark during the day. "Welcome." A man in his thirties with a bow tie was sitting at the narrow counter, and he glanced down at Yatabe. "Is there a room?" "Have." Ribbon looked towards the entrance—he was looking for Yatabe's companion. "My companion will be here later." "this way please." He turned and found the key to the empty room from the large pile of keys.He didn't even ask Yatabe's name.Ribbon holds the key and leads the way for Yatabe.The room is air-conditioned. Mioka's situation is the opposite of Yatabe's - the woman arrives before him.

The love hotel is empty during the day.The two turned right at the corner."I like this room," Yatabe said of the bow on the front. "what?" Bowknot stopped at the door of Room 208.He lowered his head, dumbfounded. "This room?" "Can't you? There should be a lot of vacant rooms, right?" "No, no, there's nothing wrong with it...it's all right, it's all right..." He bent down and put the key in the lock. The man stepped into the room first, Yatabe. "When your companion comes, I will tell her the room number."

"OK." It was the same for Ajika, the receptionist told him about Room 208 where the woman was. Ribbon showed Yatabe the location of the refrigerator and the bathroom.He said "please have a good rest" and turned to leave the room. "This is for you..." Yatabe took out two thousand-yen banknotes. "This is really embarrassing." Butterfly bowed her head.His hair was thin and his face was rather round. "I came here on the evening of June 27th, were you on duty that day?" June 27, that is, the night of the incident. "No, it's the first time I've seen you. You should be my colleague."

"Really? His attitude is also very good. If he is here, I really want to see him." "he's resting today." "Oh? Isn't he on duty today?" "No, he's been in poor health for the past two days and is resting at home." "Oh, this is really... He was quite energetic when I came here. When did he get sick?" "Two days ago." "Is his house near here?" "It's in the area of ​​Kamigamo. I went to see him once this morning. There's nothing serious about it, but I'm too busy with work and tired." "Well, I wish him a speedy recovery." "thanks." Butterfly looked at Yatabe in surprise, with a puzzled look on his face: Did he choose room 208 on purpose?Or by chance? The staff closes the door.Yatabe did not sit down.In an unfamiliar room, no one could immediately settle down.The staff member who was on duty the night of the incident called in sick.He must have been sick from the endless police questioning.Since his colleague just went to visit, it means that he did not escape. Yatabe took out the "Floor Plan of Room 208 of Momijiso Hotel" drawn by the Kyoto police from the suitcase.He held the map in one hand and checked the situation in the room with the other. Open the paper door in the eight-fold living room, and there is a six-fold large bedroom.Two closely connected quilts were spread out on the floor.The bedding was covered with a brown bed cover, made of the same thick fabric as a bed cover in an ordinary Western-style hotel.There is a desk lamp by the pillow, and an ashtray, everything you need. Then he went to the bathroom to look again.Coming out of the eight-fold living room is a slender wooden floor room, with a washroom next to it.The wooden floor room is also a dressing room, and there is a bamboo basket for dirty clothes.Yatabe opened the glass door.The bathtub is so small that it seems impossible for two people to take a bath at the same time.There are two faucets on the wall, one for cold water and one for hot water.Of course, there is no water in the bathtub now, and the light blue tiles are dry and bright. When the local police inspected the corpse under the quilt, they found that the corpse was still warm.There are only some faint corpse spots on the back.The autopsy report also used the plaques as one of the main bases for judging the time of death.Yatabe crossed his arms and stared at the bathtub thoughtfully, like a tile-laying craftsman. There is a telephone in the room.Yatabe turned the dial and tried to dial a "0".There is a reaction.That's great, the telephones here are the same as in ordinary hotels, they are all straight-through, no need to go through the terminal. He took out his notebook and confirmed the name of the leader of the sixth team of the first search section sent by the Metropolitan Police Department on a business trip.He dialed "0" first, then "03 (Tokyo area code)" and the number of the police station. Not long after, a familiar voice came from the receiver. "I really troubled you a few days ago." After the two exchanged pleasantries, Yatabe said, "I'm sorry, the thing is like this. When Ajika Masahiro got off at Hamamatsu Station on the 28th, didn't he forget his golf bag on the Echo?" Green car on the main line?Later, Rixing Construction sent someone to the lost and found office in Tokyo to collect it.It seems that this matter was arranged by the Dashi Road Construction Minister of Sunstar Construction.Could you please ask the lost and found office where the golf bag was placed in the luggage rack of the seat number?That train departed from Shin-Osaka and arrived at Hamamatsu Station at 9:24 in the morning. Mioka said he was in the No. 12 car.It would be even better if we could find out what the person sitting next to Mioka looks like..." The leader of the sixth team took down what Yatabe said and repeated it to him. "That's right, that's it." "Okay, we'll check." "It's too much trouble for you in your busy schedule." "We also troubled you to check a lot of things in the past two days." "Where, where, we didn't help at all... By the way, how is the investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department going?" "That's it." Yatabe felt that the group leader's voice suddenly darkened a lot. The Metropolitan Police Department did not link the dead body Yanagihara Kosuke found on the roof of the Shenbang Building with Mioka's "suicide".Both sides have their own management, and there is no need to be wary of the other party inquiring about the progress of their own investigation. "If there is any news, I will call your police station." The team leader said. "Ah, I'm in Kyoto now." "Huh? Kyoto?" "I will go to various places to investigate. If you have any news, just contact Section Chief Yamazaki of our department." After speaking, Yatabe put down the receiver. He sighed softly.Just when I wanted to smoke, I found that there was no sunlight in the room, only the electric light was on.It turned out that in order to take care of the privacy of the guests, the hotel closed the windows and drew the curtains. Yatabe put the cigarette he had drawn back into the box and stood up.He drew the curtains of the living room and opened the glass windows. The summer sunshine instantly filled the room, as if someone had sprinkled a large piece of aluminum powder in the room. The sun shines through the branches in the yard.Yatabe took the "floor plan", took the shoes from the door, and walked down to the corridor wearing the shoes. There is a brick wall on the front.The floor plan says that the wall is 2.1 meters high, and it looks like it is indeed that height. The dark green slope on the opposite side seems to be pressed against the white brick wall. The distance between the wall and the hotel buildings (including room 208) is about ten meters.It has become a small backyard, with some trees planted here and there.Most of the trees are near the hotel, and there are no trees next to the walls.If there are trees next to the wall, thieves can climb into the wall through the branches, so the hotel did not plant trees near the wall. The total length of the wall is about 30 meters. The south side forms two right angles, and the extended north side bends towards the west side to connect with the building.The reason why it becomes a right angle is that the east-west wall is built along the path leading to the back mountain, while the north-south wall is built along the path facing the river, as marked on the plan. The trees that line the side of the building are fir, maple, oak, oak and more.Each tree is not particularly tall.Grass grows on the ground.There is no rockery or pond, so it is not an elegant courtyard, but only borrows the scenery of the slope of the hillside outside the wall. Yatabe walked back and forth in the open space-like backyard.The yard was untended and cleaned at first glance.The corners of the building were piled with fallen leaves and garbage blown by the wind. In the grass near the roots of the oak tree lay two short straws.Yatabe picked it up and took a look, feeling that it seemed to have fallen from the mat.In order to protect the trees from being frozen to death in winter, a layer of straw mats will be rolled on the trunks. Maybe the straw is left in winter.It must be very cold in winter in this area.But now it is July, and the winter straw is still in the grass, which shows that no one takes care of the yard. When Ajika ran away, did he climb over this wall?Usually even if you jump up hard, it is difficult to catch the top of the wall.However, people will display their supernatural powers in critical moments.This has also happened in previous cases investigated by Yatabe.While Yatabe was checking the wall, there was a sound of glass windows opening. He looked back and found that someone had opened the window on the second floor and a head poked out.It turned out to be the front desk employee just now.The two looked at each other, and the male employee didn't smile, but looked nervous, maybe he was guarding against Yatabe's escape over the wall. Yatabe walked back to the room slowly.Can not be misunderstood.As soon as he entered Room 208, the windows on the second floor were closed. After finally coming to the room where the incident happened, Yatabe decided to take a bath in the bathroom to wash off the sweat from his body. Before undressing, he turned on the faucet in the bathroom.He turned on two faucets at the same time, putting hot water on one side and cold water on the other. There is almost enough water.Yatabe took off his coat, shirt, and socks in his room, and his underwear in the dressing room in front of the bathroom, and put them in a bamboo basket.Miyoko Sawada and Masahiro Mioka must have entered the bathroom in the same way. Yatabe turned off the faucet and sat in the bathtub.This bathtub is quite spacious for one person, but it seems a bit narrow for two people.No way, the practicality of this bathtub design is too strong.In his mind, he thought of naked men and women crowded in the bathtub... The middle-aged Yatabe did not indulge in delusions, but began to think about the details of the case of Miyoko Sawada. Why did Ajika leave his socks in the room?I had already taken off my coat, trousers, shirt and socks in the living room just now.The bamboo baskets in the dressing room are small, and there are fixed wardrobes in the living room where clothes can be hung on hangers.When taking off the pants, I took off the socks by the way.That is to say, socks and pants should be put together. So when Ajika wears pants, he should wear socks.No matter how anxious he is, he will never forget to put on socks. Are Ajika's pants and socks off in different places?That's why he forgot to put on his socks when he was in a hurry to escape. Did Ajika put the socks in the bamboo basket?The trousers were on the hanger, but the socks were in the basket, so he ran away barefoot, maybe he didn't even remember where he left the socks—this was Yatabe's experience. Then, why are Ajika's socks put in the bamboo basket alone? Perhaps Mioka took off his socks and went into the bathroom to check the temperature of the bath water.He might have adjusted the flow of the faucet as well. But is that really possible?Miyoko Sawada entered Room 208 earlier than Mioka.It should be Miyoko who came first to release the water. Besides, even if Miyoko waited for Mioka to come and take a bath with him, she should be the one who checked the water temperature and adjusted the water flow—this kind of thing is usually done by women. Yatabe stepped out of the bathtub and let the faucet continue to run water.It didn't take long for the water in the tub to overflow and onto the floor.There was a drain hole in the corner of the tiled floor, but it was small, and the hot water formed puddles on the tiles.White steam filled the bathroom.As long as the bathroom door is open, the steam will escape. When the staff used the spare key to open the door and entered Room 208, Miyoko Sawada in the bed had become a corpse, and the prisoner had long since disappeared.Her body was still warm.The forensic doctor judged that she died four to five hours before the autopsy, based on: "The body temperature is seventeen five degrees." The cooling condition of the corpse is related to the air temperature, and also related to whether the corpse is indoors or outdoors-in the case of indoors covered with a quilt, it takes ten to twelve hours for the corpse to cool down. Assuming that when the autopsy was performed, Miyoko Sawada had been dead for five hours, but her body temperature was still a bit high at "17 degrees 5". What if Miyoko Sawada didn't wait for Mioka, took a bath first, and got under the covers?Suppose she died before Mioka came? Later, Mioka heard the sound of water in the bathroom and thought she was taking a bath.So instead of paying attention to the bedroom, he took off his shirt in the living room and ran to the bathroom to peek.At that time, he took off his socks in the bamboo basket in the dressing room and walked into the bathroom.Why?Because Mioka called her, but she didn't answer.The experiment just now proved that at the time of the crime, the hot water in the bathtub must have overflowed, forming a pond on the tiles.The bathroom is filled with white mist - so Ajika thinks the naked woman is blocked by the mist.So he wanted to scare her.Of course, Ajika thought it was Kinya who was taking a bath. However, there was no one in the bathtub.Mioka stumbled out of the bathroom.At this time, he didn't need to put on socks, so he forgot them in the bamboo basket. He looked at the dark bedroom and found that "Jin Mi" had already entered the bed.She seemed to be fast asleep, motionless. At this time, Ajika took the same action again—he deliberately didn't wake up the woman, but changed into a bathrobe and got into the bed next to the woman, trying to scare her.Men and women who have a good relationship often engage in such pranks. Unexpectedly, there was a dead body in the bed.And it wasn't Kaneya who died, but Miyoko Sawada.She is the female secretary of the Economic Research Institute on the fourth floor of the Shenbang Building. Wei Gang often goes there and knows Sawada. Ajika was startled, and hurried out of bed.He hurriedly put on his clothes, he was so embarrassed that he had long forgotten that his socks were still in the bamboo basket.The socks weren't in the living room, he didn't see them.If you don't run away quickly, you will be discovered, so hurry up! How would he explain it if someone found out?He came to a love hotel to date a woman.A man and a widow lived together in the same room, and he once changed into a bathrobe and got into the bed next to the deceased—no one could prove that he had nothing to do with the case. Even if he can prove that he has nothing to do with the case, his situation is still embarrassing.There is no choice but to run away—— Yatabe finally uncovered the mystery of the "forgotten sock" and clarified the clues of the case. Miyoko Sawada was not killed by Mioka.The real culprit is someone else.He had planned long ago that Wei Gang would come to room 208 after he strangled Zetian.What called Mioka out of the hotel was a phone call from Karino Onsen geisha Kinya.Then what is the relationship between Jin Mi and the real murderer? Think again. At about 8:20 that night, Miyoko Sawada came to the front desk and said to the staff: "My companion will be there later." Then she entered Room 208. Where did the prisoner who killed Sawada before Mioka arrived come from, and how did he escape? Did he climb over the two-meter-high fence, sneak into Room 208, kill Zetian, and then climb over the wall to leave? wrong.Miyoko Sawada arrived at the front desk at 8:20 p.m., and Mioka arrived after 9:00 p.m., with only forty or fifty minutes between them.Is this enough time for the criminal to commit the crime and escape? Possibility is not impossible, but that would be too hasty.In less than an hour, Ajika arrived. The prisoner knew when Mioka came to Room 208.Why?Because at 8:30, Ajika called back to Hotel K from outside, asking if anyone called him after he went out.At that time, the staff at the front desk of the hotel told him Jin Mi's message - "I'll wait for you at the Hongyezhuang Hotel." Before going to the Hongyezhuang Hotel, he and Jinmi had made an appointment to meet somewhere.But Wei Gang didn't see Jin Mi, so the meeting time of the two was postponed.Everything was planned by the prisoner. The results of the police investigation showed that Jin Mi had never been to Kyoto in those few days, so it is no wonder that "Jin Mi" did not show up as scheduled. And Miyoko Sawada also came to Hongyezhuang Hotel at 8:20 under someone's signal.That's when she told the hotel receptionist: "My partner will be here later." Miyoko Sawada certainly did not expect that her "companion" who would show up later would end her life.This shows that the "companion" is likely to be her lover.She is waiting for her lover in Room 208.However, what came was not a lover, but a murderer.Maybe the lover was the murderer, or someone used some kind of trick to let the murderer sneak into the room... However, the forty to fifty minutes before Mioka's arrival also included the time when Miyoko Sawada was in the bath.In other words, the prisoner watched Zetian take a shower, change into a bathrobe, and get into bed before strangling her to death.In this way, the time for the murder is even shorter. Something is wrong.No matter how you think about it, this inference is not natural.Yatabe racked his brains, but he couldn't think of a reasonable explanation, but he always felt that the answer was on his lips, but it was a little hazy. "Ah, are you going back now?" Yatabe took the key and walked to the front desk.The fat front desk clerk looked at him in surprise.Just now he was looking down on Yatabe from the window on the second floor. "Well, no one came after waiting for a long time, so let's go. Check out." "Ah, so..." The staff bowed their heads and worked for a while. Yatabe walked out of the hotel and came to the main road leading to Kurama.He crossed the road and walked into the path from the south to the west of Hongyezhuang Hotel.On the right is the wall of Momijiso Hotel.Here was one of the two right angles he had seen from standing in the courtyard. Walking across the small bridge and flowing water is the slope of the hillside, and there is a trail for walking below.Going north along the small river is the long wall of Hongyezhuang Hotel.Here's another right angle.There is a path next to the creek and the wall, which is exactly the same as the floor plan.If the prisoner who killed Miyoko Sawada came in from the backyard and escaped from the backyard, then he should have climbed over the wall on this path. Yatabe stood on the bridge, looking at the nearby terrain.Everything is exactly as the floor plan shows. He looked down at the creek.A small frog, unable to swim, was spinning and drifting down the current.The water of the clear river is very strong, because the bottom of the river has a steep slope. I see!Yatabe shouted in his heart.He turned around and looked at the frog in the river. Miyoko Sawada didn't die in Hongyezhuang Hotel.She was strangled to death outside the hotel, and then moved to Room 208! Miyoko Sawada was killed outside Room 208, and was moved into the room after her death.Afterwards, Mioka came to the room and found the body of Miyoko Sawada lying under the blanket... So, who is the woman who came to the hotel reception at 8:20 (50 minutes earlier than Mioka), said to the staff, "My partner will be there later", and walked into Room 208? Yatabe walked across the small bridge, instead of walking towards the slope of the hillside where the walking path is located, but walked a few steps along the embankment and sat on the grass by the river. In front of me is the river that the little frog floated just now, about five meters wide.Opposite is the wall of Hongyezhuang Hotel, which is about two meters high.Yatabe compared what he saw with the investigation data of the Kyoto police in his hand.Lush maple trees, fir trees, oak trees, and oak trees protruded from the fence. They were the trees that Yatabe saw when he was wandering around the backyard of the Momiji Hotel just now.Over the top of the tree, I could see the second-floor windows of the white building and the brown curtains. Room 208 is blocked by a wall, but it should be under the window directly opposite. Yatabe was sitting on the grass on the river bank with a cigarette in his mouth.He didn't even notice that the cigarette fire had gone out.He rested his head on his hands, lost in thought. Before, he always thought that the woman who came to the front desk was Miyoko Sawada.She went into Room 208, used the bathroom in the room, changed into a bathrobe, got under the covers in the bedroom, was strangled to death, and then Mioka came to the room—this was what he had speculated before. However, if Miyoko Sawada had died long ago and was moved into Room 208, it would be another woman who walked into the room from the front desk. Yatabe looked at his notebook.On it was written the information provided by the investigators from Kyoto when they came to the Tianlong City Police Station. 1. At around 8:20 p.m. on June 27, the victim Miyoko Sawada came to the front desk of Hongyezhuang Hotel.She said "my companion will come later" and was guided by the staff to Room 208. 2. Hongyezhuang Hotel is a so-called "love hotel". There are only the front desk and rooms inside the hotel, and the lights are also deliberately dimmed. 3. The dialogue between myself and the investigators in Kyoto: Question: "It takes a lot of courage for her to go to the front desk to open a room alone as a woman?" Answer: "It is reasonable to say that this is the case. Most of the female guests talk with their heads down." Question: "Where is the victim, Miyoko Sawada?" Answer: "The staff said she was the same way, and kept her head down when she spoke. The staff got used to it, so they took her to room 208. After opening the door with the key, he handed her the key at the door. Then we went back to the front desk.” Q: "Did the staff not enter the room?" Answer: "Because Zetian came alone, he didn't go in." Question: "Is the door of the room also dark?" Answer: "Yes, the corridors are very dark." Question: "Did the staff see the woman's attire?" Answer: "I see it clearly, because the lights at the front desk are quite bright. He said it was the suit left in Room 208." That's right.Yatabe, who was holding a notebook, nodded. First of all, the front desk staff thought that Miyoko Sawada, who died in the room, was the one who took her to Room 208 at 8:20. Most of the women who went to the love hotel to open a room lowered their heads.Moreover, the lights in the corridor were dim, and the clothes left in room 208 were the same as those of "Miyoko Sawada" witnessed by the staff. The "Miyoko Sawada" seen by the staff is actually a counterfeit.She deliberately wore the same clothes as Miyoko Sawada, so she must be an accomplice of the prisoner.The front desk employee took her to the door of the room but did not enter the room.Was Miyoko Sawada's body already in the room at that time? No, the answer should be no. First, Room 208 was chosen by the staff.If Miyoko Sawada's body was in the room from the beginning, then the mysterious woman should have offered to ask for room 208, but she didn't.She followed the staff to the room.Not so coincidental, unless the staff member is also an accomplice of the prisoner (the probability of which is basically zero). Second, there is no trace of outsiders prying open the doors and windows of Room 208.If there is, the Kyoto Police Department should find out during the on-site investigation.They even detected the fingerprints, how could they miss such obvious signs of prying doors and windows?It is impossible to make such a low-level mistake. Third, when the mysterious woman left, she did not pass by the front desk.She escaped from elsewhere. ——Based on the above three points, it can be inferred that the steps of committing the crime are roughly as follows: 1. At around 8:20, a mysterious woman dressed as Miyoko Sawada came to Hongyezhuang Hotel, led by the front desk staff to Room 208. 2. The staff opened the door with the key and left.The woman took the key, entered the room, and opened the window.The corpse was not moved in from the front door of the room (because then it would need to go through the front desk and corridor), it could only be through the backyard.The mysterious woman opened the glass window facing the backyard. 3. The woman sent a signal, and the accomplices waiting outside the wall took immediate action. With the help of the woman, the accomplices climbed over the wall and moved Miyoko Sawada into the house. 4. The mysterious woman escaped from the backyard with the body carrier, or hid in the dark to monitor the development of the situation.Although they were able to close the glass windows, the windows could only be locked from inside the house, so the windows were not locked at that time. 5. After Weigang found Miyoko Sawada's body, he opened the glass window, climbed over the wall and fled in a hurry.In this way, no one will know who opened the lock of the glass window. ——The above are the steps of the crime Yatabe speculates, so there shouldn't be any major problems. The steps are conjectured, but there are two major problems with this criminal method: time, and a certain "process". Just now, Yatabe saw a frog floating in the river while spinning. He had a flash of inspiration and shouted in his heart: I understand! After Miyoko Sawada's body was moved into the room, the prisoner soaked her in a bathtub with hot water.The prisoner responsible for moving the body cooperated with the fake Sawada to take off Miyoko's clothes and carry her into the bathtub.Hot water warmed the body.Then they took the body out, put her in a bathrobe, and tucked her into a bed to keep the body warm. During the autopsy, the temperature of the body was 17 degrees 5 degrees. It is reasonable to say that the body should not have such a high body temperature four to five hours after death, but the "bath" and "bedding" can make this temperature possible.In this way, the time of Miyoko's death became "9pm to 10pm on the 27th". However, this time of death is based on the testimony of the front desk staff: Mioka came to Room 208 around nine o'clock.In other words, Miyoko Sawada must have been killed after "Murderer Mioka" walked into the room, so she must have died after nine o'clock. But things are different now.The new conclusion drawn by Yatabe is: Miyoko Sawada was moved into Room 208 of the Hongyezhuang Hotel after she was killed in another place (an undiscovered murder scene). In other words, the time when she was strangled to death was much earlier, and it must have been several hours earlier than "nine o'clock in the evening on the 27th". As for the exact number of hours, it is still unclear. The prisoner put the body in a hot bath, allowing the cooled body to rewarm in order to confuse the forensic doctor's judgment of the time of death. Yatabe sat on the earth embankment, pulled out a few grasses and threw them into the river.His mind was racing.Under the impact of the current, the short grass spun and drifted downstream. If Miyoko Sawada did not die in the room of the Hongyezhuang Hotel, but was moved into the room after her death, it means that her death time was much earlier than the forensic doctor and the professors of the public university affiliated hospital speculated "Nine to ten o'clock in the evening on the twenty-seventh". In order to shorten the death time estimated by the forensic doctor, the prisoner warmed Miyoko Sawada's body with hot water in the bathtub, and then stuffed her into the bed to maintain her body temperature.After death, body temperature drops.In order to prevent the body from cooling down and shorten the time of death, the prisoner used the "bathtub and bed" trick. Normally, the body will cool completely ten hours after death.Of course, the rate of cooling depends on the climate, indoor or outdoor conditions, etc. "Three to four hours outdoors with light clothing" is the standard time for a dead body to cool.Miyoko was killed on June 27, when the outdoor temperature was very high.It takes at least eight to ten hours for the corpse to cool completely, right? Moreover, when the corpse was moved into room 208, it should not have completely cooled down.After soaking in the bath and tucked into the quilt, the body temperature was still maintained at 17.5 degrees during the autopsy, which means that the body still had a temperature of 67 degrees before taking the bath.According to the weather in June, it can be inferred that Miyoko Sawada stayed outside for five to six hours after her death.In other words, the murderer killed Miyoko Sawada outdoors, and after five or six hours, moved her body into Room 208, let her take a bath, and then stuffed her into the bed.Adding the four to five hours before the autopsy, Zetian had been dead for at least ten hours. However, there is one problem left unresolved in Yatabe's reasoning: corpse spots. Three hours after death, the body began to show plaques.Faint spots had already appeared on the back of Miyoko's body.The corpse lies on its back under the blanket, and the blood sinks under the action of gravity, which will naturally form congestion (corpse plaque) on the back. But her body spots are very shallow, which makes Yatabe puzzled.People who have been dead for ten hours should have more bruises on their backs and deeper, dark red spots. If the corpse is placed on its stomach, plaques will appear on the front of the chest, abdomen, etc. Even if the corpse is placed on its back later, the plaques on the front will not disappear, but new plaques will form on the back. However, Miyoko Sawada's body spots only appeared on the back, and the color was very light.This does not match the "ten hours" time of death that Yatabe speculated. There is a solution to this dilemma.As long as this method is used, only shallow corpse spots will appear on the corpse.The frog spinning in the river just now provided Yatabe with inspiration. But now, Yatabe has doubts about this method. Miyoko Sawada was murdered outdoors.The time she was moved into Room 208 should have been the time when the fake Zetian entered the room—that is, at 8:20 p.m.And Mioka came to the hotel around nine o'clock, the interval between the two was less than an hour.And when Mioka entered the room, Miyoko's body had already finished bathing and put it in the bed, so the bathing time for the body would not be very long, only thirty minutes at most. In just 30 minutes, can we use the method that Yatabe speculated to avoid the corpse spots? Yatabe folded his feet that were spread out on the lawn, put his chin on his knees, and arched his back in thought.