Chapter 7 6. Giant Handprints

The on-site inspection after the arrival of the Bo Yue police department, and the autopsy procedures of the procuratorate who arrived later, are omitted here because the whole process is trivial and boring, and only a few facts that must be told to the readers are listed. First of all, under Yucun's reminder, everyone discovered that an expensive diamond had disappeared from the secret cabinet of the deceased Futian.It was a classical rose-cut diamond purchased by the manager of the Yucun store in the European gem market. It weighed more than ten carats. Fascinated by its noble brilliance, Fukuda begged his brother Yucun to transfer it to him at the original price.The original price was at least tens of thousands of yuan, but this precious gem disappeared without a trace with Futian's mysterious death.

Second, a huge bloody handprint was left on the patterned wallpaper in Futian's bedroom.Bo Yue is worthy of being a seasoned criminal policeman, and he found important clues ignored by the patrol and Tamura Erlang without any effort. "Why didn't we notice?" Jiro blamed himself with a face full of surprise, and Hayoshi replied with a loud laugh: "Because the position of this handprint is too high. Generally speaking, when people are close to the wall, they are used to propping their hands lower than the eyes, so when looking for clues, it is easy for everyone to ignore the place above the horizontal line of sight. Even in the Searching over and over again on the ground, not paying attention to the ceiling, not even paying particular attention to the walls. According to my friend wisely, it is a kind of psychological blind spot. We have been in a similar blind spot through inattention, Committed an irreparable mistake. Besides, the handprint is not only precisely located on the line of the lampshade, but also intertwined with the pattern of the wallpaper, which is extremely difficult to detect at first glance."

Even so, the location of the handprints is really weird.The handprints are higher than the five-foot tall Tamura Jiro or the Boyue police department can look at, and they have to fully stretch their arms to barely reach them. How can they leave handprints at such a high place? No, compared to this, the facts discovered next are even more astonishing.According to Bo Yue's measurement, the blood handprint is unusually huge, at least one and a half times the size of an ordinary person.The police and Yucun father and son couldn't help but gasped and looked at each other.How can ordinary humans have such huge palms?

Although they didn't blurt out the imagination in their hearts uncontrollably, everyone present couldn't help but let their minds paint the image of a giant in their minds.Judging from the height of the fingerprints, the murderer is at least seven feet long, and his palm is one and a half times the size of an ordinary person. "It must be something wrong. How can that kind of monster freely enter and exit the tightly locked room? And the bigger the body, the more impossible it is. It's really unpredictable." Everyone at the scene tried their best to dispel the frightening fantasy in their minds, but this idea was not completely unreasonable, and the third clue soon confirmed this.

Before and after the arrival of the court party, the evening reporters from the social departments of various newspapers flocked to the Futian Mansion in no time, rushed into the scene of the crime aggressively, and tried their best to dig out exclusive news.And one of the reporters, relying on his keen news instinct, sniffed out an important new piece of evidence, and promptly notified the Bo Yue police department. (The reporter relied on this credit, and finally successfully obtained the most detailed details of the crime.) The Fukuda Mansion is located in a secluded area on the outskirts of the northwest of Tokyo. There is a vast open space outside the private passage in front of the door.This open space connects with ordinary roads, that is, at the end of the road dedicated to Futian’s residence, there is a temporary shack where rickshaw drivers have been forgotten by the times.That night, an old single driver slept in a broken house wrapped in a blanket.The astute reporter went to visit the old coachman and asked him if he had noticed anything unusual.

When the crime happened, the old driver had just returned home from a long-distance pulling task, wrapped himself in a blanket, and fell asleep.Since he was entering a state of unconsciousness, it is difficult to say for sure, but after listening to the reporter's reminder, there seemed to be such a lump in his memory - the old coachman answered truthfully. "I've never seen a man that tall in all my life. Of course, I couldn't see his face at all. The man loomed in the darkness like a monster, galloping from the house, and then disappeared. You can’t see your fingers in this area, and he disappeared after running half a town away. Because it was so bizarre, I thought I was dreaming at one time. But since there is a murder, maybe he is the murderer.”

After receiving the report from the reporter, Bo Yue called the old coachman into the house for further questioning, and learned that the man was a big man about seven feet tall, wearing a light black cloak, and his face was probably covered with a black patch. Cloth, so completely unrecognizable.The old coachman didn't notice whether the seven-foot man was carrying luggage, and he had no other clues. So far in the investigation, regardless of the fingerprints or the eccentric man in the dark, everything is more like ambiguous ghost stories or sleepwalking, which makes everything unreliable in the eyes of the authorities who pay attention to evidence.Compared with believing that there are monsters, they are more inclined to return to the incident itself, and focus on troubleshooting the visible and tangible doubts in front of the fact that the door is closed. In this case, it is not completely unreasonable to suspect the servants in the house .

Therefore, the police strictly questioned the scholar, wife, two maids, the driver, and the six assistants repeatedly. They even checked the belongings and suitcases, but they could not find anything suspicious, nor did they find any stolen items among their belongings. The diamonds, the final interrogation will be nothing like this. Assuming that this crime was purely murder for money, but the killing method was cruel and the head disappeared, there are still many situations that cannot be explained from these two points.Everyone present believed that the main purpose of the murderer was to kill people, and the diamond was just a passing order. Then, why did this murder happen?It must be that Futian had too deep a grudge with others and was killed by his enemies.However, Yucun, the elder brother of the deceased, insisted that his younger brother had never had any enmity with anyone, and that among his friends, whether directly or indirectly, there was no giant man with a height of seven feet.The servants and mother-in-law who have worked in Fukuda's house for many years also supported Yucun's statement.

Even Bo Yue, the experienced devil police department, has never handled such a mysterious and bizarre case.Who is the murderer?What is the motivation?What is the reason for Dudu cutting off the head and taking it away?Why play the flute and scatter wild chrysanthemums after the murder?How did the criminals sneak into the closed bedroom and how did they escape?The whole case is chaotic and unclear, and the clues are impossible to imagine. It must be said that the clues that the police currently have are nothing but ghost stories and fantasy stories. "It seems that this case really belongs to Akechi Kogoro's field of expertise."

Bo Yue thought secretly in his heart.So, he simply returned to the Metropolitan Police Department, and when it was dawn, he immediately called the hotel where Akechi stayed by Lake S, urging him to return to Tokyo as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, after talking with the hotel owner on the phone, Bo Yue couldn't help feeling uneasy.The boss said that Akechi took the scheduled train back to Tokyo yesterday, but didn't the Futian family car that went to Ueno Station to meet him return empty?Ahhh, the famous detective disappeared between S station and Ueno station.Did the accident happen on the train, or on the platform at Ueno Station?In any case, Zhizhi must have fallen into the trap of gangsters and was deprived of his freedom. What happened to him might be even more terrible.

The Criminal Department of the Metropolitan Police Department tensed up and down for this case.The criminal minister, the heads of each department, and even the director all had this strange thief in their minds.Although there were no clues, they still tried their best to formulate a feasible investigation plan, but the investigation on this day made no progress. On the 18th of the next day, that is, the morning of the second day after the murder, another unprecedented incident occurred. The unheard of strange incident severely slapped the embarrassed authorities.