Chapter 10 Chapter Six

The trainee detective Tomura Ryuhei had difficulty considering the truth of the secret room at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, so he tried to watch the case from another angle, thinking about why the murderer killed Tajima Goro on the truck. The cargo box of the truck while driving is the stage of a charming murder drama.If you are a mystery writer who is invited to write a short story with hundreds of manuscripts on the theme of impossible crime, you should be happy to choose this kind of place as the stage.But for those who actually commit crimes, this is certainly not an ideal stage.Not only dangerous but also noticeable.The wind resistance and the vibration of the car are also very difficult for the murderer.There really is a murderer in reality, did he deliberately choose this space as the scene of the murder?Liuping is very concerned about this.

Liu Ping, who was thinking in this way, had a possibility that should be considered of course. "Yeah, in other words..." "What's wrong? What do you want to say?" Kang Zi frowned in doubt, and Liu Ping told her the reasoning that had just dawned on him. "Could it be that Tajima was killed when he left Yanglanzhuang? In other words, he in the box-shaped bench was a corpse from the beginning, and you were ordered to carry the box containing the corpse without knowing it. Yes, it must be so! " Solving cold cases in this way seems like a side-track, but criminals often choose side-tracks.In this situation, the perpetrator was of course Mrs. Oyamada Kyoko.This is nothing surprising, love disputes can easily become the seeds of tragedy, Mrs. Kyoko killed her lover Tajima Goro.Liuping was smug about his reasoning, but the other two were downcast in disappointment.

"I see. I understand why you questioned this possibility, but you are wrong. Tajima voluntarily got into the box in front of us, and it wasn't that the box was filled with corpses from the beginning." "Well..." Is this also wrong?Because Liuping is full of confidence, the sense of disappointment is also strong, but he cannot give up easily. "I can't believe it. Can you explain the situation at that time? After all, I was watching outside, and I didn't know what happened in Yanglanzhuang. In the end, what is the relationship between you and Mrs. Kyoko and Tajima Goro who was killed?"

"Oh, can't you see it?" Yasuko explained as if the truth was simple and easy to understand: "Simply put, I am a 'shipper', Kyoko is a 'customer', and Tajima is a 'cargo'. That's the relationship." "Is that so... can you explain in more detail?" "I really can't do anything about you." Kangzi further explained: "Kyoko had a tryst at Yanglanzhuang just now, and the tryst was Goro Tajima. And the detective wanted to take a picture of this scene. The detectives mentioned here are you. You understand all this?"

Liuping silently nodded with a look of "Of course I understand". "Kyoko noticed that someone was watching, so she called me and entrusted me to help her lover escape secretly." "Wait a minute, Samsung Cargo will accept this kind of commission with just one phone call?" "No, Kyoko and I are old friends. She knows that I'm running the goods, and thinks that as long as she asks me, she can send Tajima away smoothly. Of course, I won't charge no money just because I'm a friend. It's a special price. We discussed it on the phone plan."

"The plan you discussed is to let Tajima get into the box bench to pack up and move away?" "Yes. There is a box-shaped bench in Yanglanzhuang that can hold a person, so I used it. We plan to let Tajima get into the box and send it to Samsung Express. He will take another car from the back door get away." "So that's the case. With this approach, I can only follow up to here." "How about it, it's a great battle, right? I thought of it." Kang Zi proudly puffed out his chest. "That's it, my son and I drove the van to Yanglanzhuang."

"Did you see the living Tajima Goro in Yanglanzhuang?" "Well, of course. Tajima got into the box in front of us, and Kyoko watched the scene. Cover the box and complete the escape preparations. My son and I picked up the box from both sides and carried it onto the truck. You saw it too, right?" ? I was worried that the bottom of the box would be crushed, but luckily nothing happened.” "Yes, I did see it with my own eyes. The box you were carrying seemed to be heavy, and I knew immediately that there was someone in it. As a result, it was the last time I saw Goro Tajima alive."

"That's what it looked like, but we could still hear it on the cargo bed. There was a 'please drive safe' sound from inside the box bench after it was put in place, so I'm sure it must have been alive." "Then the truck drove away, and I rode my bike to follow..." The issue has thus returned to the initial stage.Obviously no one approached the cargo bed, but who killed Tajima Goro on the truck bed while it was moving?No, the impossible situation remains the same. At this moment, Keitaro, who had been listening silently until now, suddenly spoke. "Wait a minute. Come to think of it, only one person got into the bed of the truck?"

"Huh? Didn't you draw a conclusion just now? There is no one on it... ah!" Liuping couldn't help screaming.The only person who stayed in the cargo bucket, and who has been a blind spot so far, who has not been the focus of the issue.This person's name flashed across Liuping's mind like lightning. "That's right, it's Tajima Goro himself! He's the only one who stays on the bed of the moving truck. Ahh, I should have thought of it first, why haven't I thought of it yet?" "What are you talking about?" Kangzi looked surprised, and Liuping waved his hands to explain.

"This is suicide, suicide! Generally speaking, if a body is found in a secret room, the possibility of suicide should be considered first. The body of a truck traveling at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour can also be described as a secret room. If this is the case, of course suicide should be considered possibility." "Suicide?" Kang Zi shrugged and pointed at the blood-stained box. "In your eyes, does that look like suicide? Tajima huddled in such a small box and cut his own throat to commit suicide?" "Yes, it's possible with a smaller knife. After Tajima cut his throat with this knife, he threw the knife out of the container with the last of his strength. He opened the box lid from the inside and threw it away. Then, with all his strength The strong Tajima curled up weakly, and just happened to be put in the box to die, and the lid of the box was closed naturally, and we found out soon... Am I wrong?"

Ryuhei looked to Keitaro for agreement, but Keitaro shook his head slowly and retorted disdainfully. "Ridiculous. The affair has not been exposed, so why commit suicide in someone else's car?" "Oh, no, that's what I said, but everyone has their own secrets... Besides, in the end, it was you who said that first? You said that only one person got on the back of the truck, so I thought you were talking about Tajima... ..." "I didn't mean Tajima committed suicide. There was another man in the cargo box." "Is that so... who is it?" "It's you, it's you!" Keitaro pointed at Liuping's nose. "When there was a car accident at the intersection just now, you flew into the cargo bed. In other words, apart from the dead Tajima, you were the only one who got into the cargo bed while the truck was driving." "..." What, that's what happened. Liuping shook his head helplessly.It seems that because of the long discussion, this person forgot what he said at the beginning. "So, this aspect was overturned at the beginning, right? When I got into a car accident and flew into the cargo box of the truck, Goro Tajima was already dead." "No, this statement is not correct. It should be that when my mother and I got out of the car and ran to the cargo compartment, Tajima was already dead." "Huh? Isn't it the same?" "No, it's not the same. I mean Tajima was probably still alive in the box when you fell on the cargo bed." "..." "You chased the truck with your bike and jumped into the truck. Tajima, who was shocked, should have looked at the situation from the box-shaped bench. You took the opportunity to quickly cut his neck with a knife, and then threw the murder weapon far away, pretending to fall down. I can't move in the cargo bucket, and I was discovered by my mother and me. In other words, this is your high-level murder, right?" High-speed murder?It turns out that there is such a method.Keitaro's unexpectedly sharp accusation made Ryuhei admire, but now is not the time to admire.Liuping will become a murderer if he doesn't refute. "Are you kidding me? If this is the case, I did the car accident on purpose? I deliberately hit the truck for the sake of killing people at high speed? Is it just a joke to not move? Impossible, I am so painful that I can't move." "But you are quite energetic now, are you alive and kicking?" "It hurts...my, my back...knee..." "What are you pretending to do!" Keitaro scolded Ryuhei angrily, and turned to look at his mother. "Mom, how is my reasoning? Is what I said this time fairly accurate?" "Well, it sounds like the most credible reasoning so far, and it's worthy of my flesh and blood." Even the capable Yasuko said the same, Liuping panicked. "Wait, wait! Mommy Blonde!" "Who are you calling the blond mother! Don't call me casually!" "Holding, I'm sorry, I accidentally got too excited... But please don't even deceive you. Think about it carefully, there are many flaws in the theory of high-speed murder, right? It's just because the reasoning so far is like a sieve, so I feel that the bottom is open. The bucket in the hole is amazing." Liuping shouted dissatisfiedly, and walked to the box-shaped bench on the cargo bed again. "Look at the sea of ​​blood around the box-shaped bench. After a car accident, is this the state of the cargo tank? If I killed him at high speed, it means that I killed him and became like this a few seconds later. This is impossible. What's more, even if he I can't even slit my throat instantly by poking my head out of the box...huh?" At this time, Liuping suddenly saw something unexpected.From the opened box, the dead body of Goro Tajima was visible, with blood stains in one place on the back of his head.At first, I thought it was blood from the neck, but judging from the location, it shouldn't be.So far, everyone has only paid attention to the neck injury, so they have not noticed it. "Slow, slow, please look at this corpse. If you look carefully, you will find that there is also a small injury on the back of the head." Yasuko and Keitaro showed puzzled expressions, looked into the box together, and made unexpected sounds at the same time. "Oh, it's true, and it doesn't look like a knife wound." "Well, it's supposed to be a contusion. A hit to the head with a mallet or something." "Right!" Liu Ping boasted of the new clues he found, as if showing off his victory. "There are two wounds, one on the neck and the back of the head. That is to say, the victim was probably hit hard on the back of the head by a hard object, and then his throat was cut with a knife. This is the correct order. How, this is impossible. Attack at high speed, right? No matter how high the speed is, it is absolutely impossible to attack two parts with different weapons in an instant." In this way, Liuping proved his innocence.However, the discovery of the contusion on the back of the head also perfectly eliminated the suicide argument advocated by Liuping.It is impossible to imagine that the deceased committed suicide by hitting the back of the head hard and then cutting his throat. In this way, Tajima Goro's death did not seem to be the work of Liuhei, Yasuko, Keitaro, Mrs. Kyoko, or others, nor could it be imagined that Tajima committed suicide. The murder case was completely unsolved.The discussion between the three of them couldn't solve this outrageous situation, it was just a waste of time. "Really, there is no other way." Kang Zi sighed as if the time limit had come. "Anyway, since it's such a strange situation, the police are still clueless, so we don't have to worry about being identified as suspects. Keitaro, you can call 110 to call the police. I'll contact Kyoko to explain the situation here." The two took out their mobile phones at the same time and made calls separately.Seeing this, Liuhe finally recalled the person he had completely forgotten until now.That being said, he was still monitoring Mrs. Kyoko at Yanglanzhuang, so he had to report what happened here.Wait, it's not necessary, is it?No, it was necessary.Well, there must be. Liuping took out his mobile phone and dialed Ukai's number. "Ah, Ukai-san? I'm Tomura. Um, um... where do I start..." Liuping was a little hesitant. In contrast, Yukai on the other end of the phone said this without hesitation. "Speak the code word first."