Chapter 43 Chapter Eighteen

As Kono said, he took out an item from his bosom cautiously, "It's this wallet." Upon closer inspection, it was a very high-end double-fold wallet, decorated with yellow metal parts, which looked bulging. "This wallet fell on the way that guy was escaping. It was pitch black, and I didn't see the face of the gangster clearly, but it happened to fall under the streetlight at the back door of the bathing place, and I just saw it. I think it must be That guy was flustered and accidentally dropped it." Driven by curiosity, we carefully examined the wallet, and after carelessly taking out the contents of the wallet, we couldn't help being dumbfounded.There was no expected business card or ID that could imply the identity of the owner in the wallet. Instead, it was full of banknotes, and they were ten-dollar bills so new that they could almost cut their fingers, about five hundred dollars.

"In this way, the gangster just now may be the gentleman with the suitcase. If it is really him, it is not surprising that there is so much money in the wallet." An indescribable thought churned in my mind, but for a while, I One can only guess at these obvious possibilities. "But this is too strange. If he is the murderer, then why did he run back? Looking at the way he turned around and ran away immediately, I think it is definitely not a criminal policeman, it must be someone related to the crime, but even so, it is inevitable It's too unreasonable." Kono said while thinking.

"Did you not see the face of the gangster at all?" "Well, he slipped away in a flash, feeling like a bat flying through the darkness. I have this impression, it must be because the other party is wearing a kimono. He should not be wearing a hat. He looks very big and petite, It’s really unbelievable, my impression is very vague. He ran out of the courtyard along the lakeside, and he should have run into the opposite forest. The forest is very deep, even if he chased him in, he couldn’t find anyone.” "The suitcase gentleman (surnamed Matsunaga) has a fat body, does it look like him?"

"I'm not very clear, but it doesn't look like it. My intuition tells me that apart from us, there is a third party that we don't know about this incident." Kono's tone seemed to be vaguely aware of something, and I felt an inexplicable chill.I was so infected by his emotions that I even agreed with him in my thoughts.Is there a terrible conspiracy hidden in this case that no one knows yet? "Perhaps left footprints." "Not necessarily, the weather has been sunny these days, the soil is very dry, and the courtyard is covered with weeds, so no footprints can be seen at all."

"Then, the current wallet is the only clue. It would be great if the owner could be found." "That's right. As soon as it dawns, let's go out and inquire immediately, maybe someone will recognize it." Then, we talked about this exciting discovery almost all night.I was entirely motivated by the curiosity of a child who likes ghost stories and wants to see scary things, but Kono seems to have a strong interest in detecting crimes, and his unusually keen judgment can be seen everywhere from his words. In any case, we are the discoverers of the murder, and we have also witnessed the important clues in the peeping mirror-the trembling hand of the murderer and the scar on the back of the hand; in addition, what happened tonight, plus the real physical evidence of the wallet , We have all kinds of clues that the police don't know.This fact cheers us up.

"If we can find the murderer ourselves, we must be very satisfied." Because I didn't have to worry about the peeping mirror anymore, I was a little carried away, and I rushed ahead of Kono, blurting out such bold words presumptuously.