He Ma asked the forensic officer: "Can you find out what this liquid is?"
"If you think it's critical evidence, you can ask for it and we'll take a sample and test it."
He Ma: "Okay, let's take a sample, before this is done."
"Understood." The forensic officer immediately turned around and took out absorbent paper from the evidence collection toolbox, and began to absorb the water on the ground.
He Ma asked again: "Can I see the photos of the dead at the scene?"
"Now? Even if the unannounced visit is quick, it will be washed out at night."
Asano exclaimed, "Didn't you use Polaroid to take the photo?"
"Polaroids are not clear enough, how can I use Polaroids to take photos of the scene?"
He Ma: "So I can't see the photos of the scene now? Then how can I find the clues on the corpse?"
The witness handed the writing board he was holding to Kazuma: "Come on, let's imagine it with written descriptions."
Kazuma frowned, and at this time Juda Detective said, "I saw the scene, so I can explain it to you."
He Ma: "Then tell me, what is the posture of the owner lying here?"
"He was lying sideways on the ground like this." Detective Ju Tian gestured directly with his hand, "The wound is on the side, and the main artery just happened to be broken, so the blood flowed so exaggeratedly."
He Ma: "So this mark was caused by the owner lying here?"
"Yes, the head is in this position. The owner's son is lying here, also sideways, and then the mother is in this position. The midline of the three bodies just forms a triangle."
He Ma: "Are you sideways too?"
"Yes."
At this time, Asano suddenly touched the back of his head and said: "The blood of the three people is all gathered together, so they should be able to be companions on Huangquan Road."
He Ma: "Sure."
Asano looked at Kazuma: "We absolutely want to catch the murderer and comfort the dead."
"That's natural, why did you say this suddenly?" He Ma looked puzzled, "Have any of your relatives been killed and the case has not been solved?"
"No. I just suddenly felt emotional, why?"
"Rather than lamenting these things, let's take a look at the noteworthy details at the scene." Kazuma said as he patted Asano's head with a knife, "I'll go and see the other rooms."
Detective Iida said, "If there's nothing else, I'm going to search for the missing weapon with my partner."
He Ma: "Wait a minute, what does the murder weapon look like?"
"Looking at the shape of the wound, it looks a bit like a bayonet."
"Bayonet?" He Ma frowned, "This weapon is a bit surprising."
"The team should be more familiar with it. The thugs of the Fuqing Gang like to use a foreign military stab with a bloodletting groove. But this time, this wound does not seem to have a bloodletting groove. Then I will go."
"Come on, search for the murder weapon." Waving with Ma, he left the living room at the murder scene and walked towards the bedroom.
There was a bookcase in the bedroom, and He Ma looked through the books on the bookcase curiously.
"Edogawa Ranpo... This guy is actually a reasoning fan..."
Talk to the horse.
The readership of mystery novels in Japan is so huge that it can make mystery novelists become national best-selling authors.
It is precisely because Japan has such a huge group of fans of mystery novels that it can support the publishing market of Benge School reasoning.
Benge School reasoning very much rejects the use of text narratives to interfere with readers' understanding of the case. Many Ben Ge School reasoning works are like puzzles given to readers by writers. People who are not interested in puzzles find it boring to read.
The Japanese reasoning writers that Kazuma likes, like Keigo Higashino, are not original reasoning writers, and they all like to play tricks on narrative.
But judging from the books on the bookshelf, the owner of the house is a fan of Benge School mystery novels. He has bought a lot of Ben Ge School's works, and seems to have subscribed to Ben Ge School's reasoning magazines.
Many of the works published in these reasoning magazines are like riddles for magazine audiences, and even letters from readers analyzing the case will be published.
He Ma was flipping through a magazine when a uniformed patrolman came over to announce: "The editor of the resident of room 101 has arrived."
He Ma: "Eh? Do you want me to meet this editor?"
The patrolman had the words "Otherwise" written on his face, and He Ma could only nod his head: "Okay, I'll come. Where are they?"
"Upstairs, room 101."
"Okay, I'll go up right away."
Talking with Ma, he waved to Asano who was looking at the cosmetics of the hostess in the house: "Let's go."
"This hostess uses very young cosmetics." Asano said to Kazuma, "Just looking at the cosmetics collection on the dressing table, I would think she is a female high school student."
He Ma: "Can you see it?"
"Yeah, some cosmetics are advertised for young girls. For example, this lipstick is advertised as 'encounter first love'. A housewife with a ten-year-old child wears lipstick that meets first love. No matter how you think about it, there is something wrong."
He Ma: "Are you familiar with cosmetics?"
"Very familiar, I'm a handsome guy." Asano declared proudly, "Whether you use it for yourself or give it to a girl, knowledge about cosmetics is essential."
At this moment, Kazuma wanted to order Asano to shave his head. He just can't stand handsome guys boasting.
He Ma: "How many girls do you have?"
"Not many, I am more specific, there are only three now."
He Ma smiled slightly: "Humph, not as many as me."
In fact, there are more Asano, after all, Hema has only sung Tamamo so far.
But Takashi Hanabou was forced to spread rumors all day long.
Asano complained: "It's too much, it's too much! You actually challenged me in my field of expertise!"
"Shut up and follow."
Saying so, Hema strode out of the gate, and greeted the forensics who were still collecting evidence when passing the living room: "I'll go up and listen to the testimony of Room 101."
"Thanks for your hard work," the witness said loudly.
He Ma went out of the gate, turned to the side, and then went up the stairs made of welded iron plates.
Asano was stunned: "There is no rain shelter for this ladder. It will be very inconvenient during the rainy season."
Kazuma: "Renting a house in Shinjuku for 50,000 yen a month is enough."
Shinjuku is the center of Tokyo. Although the Plaza Agreement has not yet been signed, the land price is already very expensive—even more so after signing the Plaza Agreement.
Renting a 1LDK in Shinjuku for 50,000 yen a month can't complain at all.
Climbing up the steps with the horse, the dilapidated iron staircase issued a shrill scream.
"Isn't this ladder too long?" Asano was speechless, "Fortunately, I'm relatively light. The police department added your weight to the point where it can't breathe. You should lose weight."
"I am a martial arts practitioner, and the heavy chassis is good for stability," said He Ma.
As soon as we reached the second floor, the door of Room 102 opened, and the resident shouted angrily, "Who is it? Can't you be gentle?"
He Ma quickly took out the police badge.
The resident of 102 was embarrassed: "Uh... Interpol Sang, no, it wasn't you just now."
"Investigate the first section of the Kiryu and Ma police department, this is my partner Asano. Are you a resident of 102?"
Hema glanced at the sign at the door of 102, it said "Xicheng".
Mr. Xicheng said angrily: "You can tell if you can't see it? How can I come out of the room if I am not a resident?"
He Ma arrived at the door of 102, took a look inside, and found that the room was in a mess, and there was a bucket in the middle of the room.
And the room smelled like air freshener.
He Ma: "Is it right for you to report the roof leak to the landlord?"
"Yeah, you'll know if you don't see it? I always keep two buckets, one in the living room to catch water, and the other for daily use. If there is a heavy rain and typhoon, I may need to use both buckets."
"After you reported the repair, the landlord didn't say when it will be repaired?"
"He said, 'in a few days', every time in a few days. I think he just thinks that he doesn't have to worry about renting this dilapidated house, and he doesn't want to repair it at all!" Mr. Xicheng said viciously.
"So you have a personal conflict with him." He Ma said.
"I had an alibi last night. I arrived at the bar at ten o'clock, and I drank until four o'clock in the morning. The bartender and customers in the bar can testify to me! After the bar closed, I went directly to work to deliver newspapers, My co-workers can also testify to me!"
He Ma nodded: "Understood."
Mr. Xicheng stared at Kazuma for a few seconds, snorted, and closed the door with his hands.
Asano frowned and said, "I don't like this guy, it feels like he's provoking us. 'You can't solve my puzzle, stupid policeman'."
He Ma: "He is bald."
"ha?"
"Did you notice? He has a layer of nylon at the base of his hair, obviously a wig."
"Damn it, did you notice all this? Awesome!"
"Go to 101." He Ma said.
The person who opened the door to Kazuma in Room 101 pointed at the person in the room as soon as he saw the police badge and said, "My editor is here! Ask him where I wrote yesterday! I really wrote the manuscript all night." !"
The people in the room stood up, bowed to Kazuma, and then handed over their business cards: "I am the editor of Fuji Study, and I have come to urge the teacher's manuscripts every day recently."
He Ma: "What time did you leave here yesterday?"
"I took the last tram home yesterday."
"Oh, it's very late. Did you hear any movement at that time? For example, the sound of the air conditioner running."
and Ma asked.
Some people in Japan believe that using root and perseverance to fight against the heat is good for the body, so even if there is an air conditioner at home, they will not turn it on until they can't stand it anymore.
The editor tilted his head and recalled: "It seems not."
He Ma immediately turned to the writer: "Can you remember when the air conditioner was turned on?"
"I... I fell asleep lying on the table at the end of the code. I still left traces of my saliva on the manuscript paper! The traces of saliva can prove my words!" The writer said hysterically.
Asano smiled wryly, "What's the use of proving this? You still don't have an alibi, teacher."
"I... I really didn't kill the landlord's family! Although I usually quarrel with the landlord's family because they watch TV at home too loudly, but I don't want to kill them! It's the guy from 102, he said I'm going to stab the landlord to death several times!"
He Ma: "Are you sure?"
"Yes! All the residents have heard him yelling like this. He is the most suspicious! You go and catch him! And he is a rotten person who doesn't know what his job is. He often hangs out in the bar until four or five o'clock before coming back, come back Sometimes it's going to be loud!"
He Ma frowned: "Did you hear him making any noise this morning?"
"No, I really fell asleep while finishing the draft."
He Ma: "Do you know what time you went to bed?"
"I don't know... but I remember, around three o'clock I heard the cat outside the house meowing, so I looked at my watch!"
Hema jotted down the contents in the police handbook: the air conditioner was off at three o'clock.
"Thank you for your cooperation. Please make sure you stay where we can find you at any time. I wish you a happy coding today."
The writer looked like a discouraged ball: "How can I type now! I really didn't kill the landlord's family!"
The editor also stepped forward and said: "The teacher can't even bear to kill fish. I don't think he would do such a thing."
He Ma: "We will find out the truth, don't worry. Please trust the police."
The writer was already crying: "The next step is that you are going to punish me. The Japanese police like to torture me the most. My life is over..."
He Ma: "No, please trust the police. Maybe the Metropolitan Police Department does have some bad detectives, but I will find out the truth."
"You look like a bad detective too, with a sloppy face." The writer closed the door after finishing speaking.
Kazuma glanced at Asano: "My face is full of flesh?"
"It's not bad, there are not as many criminal policemen who look like jibes in the right group." Asano said.
Shrugging his shoulders, he turned and walked up the stairs.
"What's next?"
"Turn around outside the scene, and then go back to the headquarters to wait for the autopsy report." He Ma replied.
**
Detective Iita rushed into the office of the first section with the practice report, looked up and saw Kazuma who was still in the office, and strode over: "The autopsy came out. It was beyond all our expectations."
He Ma: "What's wrong?"
"The time of death was seven or eight o'clock this morning, much later than we expected."
He Ma was speechless: "Did you die in the morning?"
"Yes, the cause of death was excessive blood loss.
"Then the previous speculation will be overturned. The owner's mother-in-law entered the room before ten o'clock and found the body. If he died at seven or eight o'clock, it happened to be working hours, and this apartment happened to be located on a road with a lot of traffic. On top of that, people who live in several nearby apartments are going to work.”
Detective Iida wrote the new time of death on the whiteboard: "Go and visit the nearby residents, maybe someone saw the murderer!"
He Ma: "Have the photos of the scene been developed?"
"It's been developed." Iida detective's partner Kameyama handed a file bag to Kazuma.
Hema took out the photo and observed the dead carefully.
"Sure enough, there are water marks." He whispered.
Detective Iida came over curiously: "What water marks?"
"Look near the wound of the corpse, there are obvious traces of wetness. Something wets the clothes of the deceased first, and then the blood flows out."
Guishan Criminal Police looked through the autopsy report: "Ah, the forensic doctor also found that there was unusual moisture near the wound, and the muscle tissue had mild frostbite..."
He Ma: "It's an ice skate. Someone stabbed three people with an ice skate, and then turned on the air conditioner to heat it up. After the ice skate melted, a lot of blood would flow out."
"But it shouldn't be, the three of them showed no signs of resistance at all, ah, wait a minute!"
Detective Iida stood up abruptly: "Mr. Landlord has been troubled by insomnia for a long time, so he takes sleeping pills. Look here, the ingredients of sleeping pills have been detected on the three people in the room.
"But why did the child and the landlord's wife take sleeping pills? Could it be that the murderer invited the three of them to drink tea first, which contained sleeping pills, and waited for the three to fall asleep before committing the crime?"
Hema pursed his lips: "Yes, Mr. Landlady fell asleep after taking sleeping pills, but Mrs. Landlady couldn't explain it. Don't they usually like black tea before going to bed?"
After talking, He Ma laughed awkwardly. It's not good to play this kind of embarrassment at this time.
Jutian detective asked suspiciously: "Why is it black tea? Does it have something to do with the case?"
"Don't worry, I've got my head spinning. So, what's going on?"
The four of them looked at each other in blank dismay.
Asano picked up the detailed forensic report of the forensic department, turned it over and said, "Why don't we start from other places? Maybe the forensic department found the murderer's hair from the scene?"
He Ma: "As a landlord, he often has to receive guests. He can explain whoever's hair is found in the room, and he can't specify a certain person."
Detective Iida sighed: "I think it's better to cast a net to investigate, maybe we can get some clues from the people who go to work."
He Ma: "If it was an ice skate murder, it is likely that the murder happened at night, and then the prisoner used the timer function of the air conditioner to set the time for the air conditioner to automatically turn on, and then went to create his own alibi."
"Then how do you explain that all three of them took sleeping pills?"
Hema pouted: "I don't know. Maybe the landlady cheated and wanted to have an affair, so she gave sleeping pills to the husband and the child on purpose? Then the lover came and gave her a cup of black tea with sleeping pills. She fell asleep after drinking it, and then The three were brutally murdered."
Ju Tian snorted: "You are too nonsense. A lover suddenly ran out..."
Asano: "The lipstick used by the landlady's slogan is 'meet your first love'. She is an old woman, and she should use cosmetics for skin care, anti-aging, water retention, etc., but she uses sweet ones that only young girls would use. cosmetic!"
Guishan detective frowned: "Is it because of this that the landlord's wife has an extramarital affair?"
He Ma: "This is a way of thinking. Give sleeping pills to the child in order to have an affair, and then make out with the extramarital partner in front of her husband. It's a lot of fun, this lady."
Detective Iida: "This is all inference, what about the evidence? We're going to talk about the evidence!"
"Go and visit, if there is really an extramarital affair, the landlady will definitely buy men's products." He Ma said.
"She is a woman with a husband, and he would have bought men's products." Jutian Detective reminded.
"Then she bought the items, but couldn't find them in her home, and gave them to her lover. In addition, the mold of ice skates is also a starting point. This kind of mold is not common."
Detective Iida nodded: "That's true. Judging from the shape of the wound, the ice skate should be in the shape of a bayonet. This kind of mold can either be modified by ourselves or ordered from the manufacturer."
"Then tomorrow we will start with these two lines."
"Tomorrow?" Detective Iida looked at Kazuma, "You're in the first search section, and you still want to go off work normally?"
"No, it's already seven o'clock, we don't get off work, the places we visit have to get off work." He Ma spread his arms.
Detective Iida was stunned: "That's right. That's fine, get off work. Remember to come early tomorrow! Remember, I am the commander of this search operation!"
"Got it." Hema waved.
**
The next day, as soon as He Ma arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department, Detective Jutian ran over and said, "I found the mold for the ice skates, and I just sent it to the forensics department. I'm going to go there. How about you?"
He Ma: "Let's go! Where's your partner?"
"That idiot is probably still in the tender land of women. Didn't your partner come too?"
Kazuma glanced at the desk given to Asano's family in the corner of the office yesterday.
I don't know who would have thought of moving a school desk to use Asano's desk, which looked very out of place with the entire search class.
He Ma: "Let's go."
Detective Iida nodded: "Let's go."
After a while, the two rushed to the forensics department, and He Ma saw the wooden mold at a glance.
"wood?"
The witness nodded: "Yes, wood. The interior is polished with sandpaper, and the maker is an expert in carpentry."
He Ma immediately remembered the contents of the household information.
"The residents of 102 have worked as carpenters." He Ma said.
"That alone doesn't prove it's him. Any fingerprints or something on it?"
"No." The forensic officer shook his head, "I wiped it carefully, but I couldn't find anything."
He Ma leaned closer and smelled it: "It smells like air freshener."
"Hey, is there any?" The witness was shocked, and leaned closer to smell it, "No!"
"Yes, I have a good nose." He Ma replied, "Take a good test, there must be some residue. I remember this smell, I also smelled the same smell in Room 102."
At this time, Asano hurriedly ran over, and when he saw Kazuma, he complained loudly: "Kiryu Police Department, you should meet up with your partner and start investigating again!"
He Ma: "You came just in time, let's catch the criminal."
The detective Iida was shocked: "Catch annoying people? Don't make trouble, it's very troublesome to apply for an arrest warrant, unless you can catch the current criminal."
Kazuma smiled at Jutian: "Anyway, as long as the criminal pleads guilty, the Japanese police can arrest him, right? Therefore, it is faster to confront the criminal directly than to investigate in a down-to-earth manner. I learned it during the investigation of the Yuan Robbery case."
In the 300 million yen robbery case, He Ma Quan relied on forcing the prisoner to force the palace, but in fact he had no evidence at all.
Therefore, he deeply realized that the Japanese police attached great importance to the confession of prisoners.
As long as the prisoner confesses his guilt, the Japanese police can convict people with very little evidence.
Therefore, compared with investigation, the most important thing is to break the criminal's psychological defense and let him confess.
Unexpectedly, in a detective novel, it is actually true.
He Ma strode out of the forensic department and went straight to the elevator.
Now Mr. Xicheng is delivering newspapers, and the distribution center where he works has long been familiar with Ma.
He took the car and took Asano straight to the destination.
Then he was unfortunately blocked halfway.
No police lights and sirens is his eternal pain.
The point is not to use the crepe shop's equipment to record a siren. Police cars with sirens must be registered, and unregistered cars that sound their sirens indiscriminately will be punished with shoes.
Finally, at the place where Xicheng worked, He Ma found out that he was off work.
After struggling for a long time, he and Ma finally found Xicheng at a pachinko shop.
Xicheng glanced at Hema: "It's detective Sang, I have nothing to tell you, my alibi is perfect!"
He Ma: "But you concealed the fact that you had an affair with the landlady, didn't you?"
Xicheng's hands froze when playing pachinko.
"What's the matter?" Xicheng said loudly, "Is there a rule that you can't engage in married women?"
"The landlady would give her son sleeping pills every night in order to have an affair with you. Then the night before yesterday, you put sleeping pills in the wine you brought, and after drinking it, you stabbed the landlord's family with three ice skates. "
"You accuse me, do you have evidence?" Xi Cheng interrupted Kazuma.
He Ma laughed and said, "Of course I have. This is a photo from the scene."
Hema took out the photo and showed it to Mr. Xicheng.
"Did you notice that Mr. Landlord's posture is different? He woke up halfway, and then held the ice blade on his chest. At this time, the ice blade that had already melted partly broke off, and Mr. Landlord also bleeds to death early."
Xicheng said angrily: "What does that have to do with me? I drank all night that night and delivered the newspaper the next day! I have an alibi!"
"You didn't. Because the real time of the murder was before twelve o'clock that night. As for the evidence..."
He Ma reached out and took off the wig on top of Xicheng's head: "It's here. I noticed before that the edge of your wig is a bit uneven here, why?"
Mr. Xicheng who had his wig removed suddenly panicked: "You! Give me back the wig!"
He Ma held up the wig high, because the others were taller, even if Xicheng stood up, there was no way to get the wig back.
"Answer me, why is the edge of your wig a bit uneven? Usually this kind of wig will be made to look like real ones! But I knew you were wearing a wig the first time I saw you, your bald man!"
Xicheng became angry from embarrassment: "The quality of the wig is just not good!"
"No! I think the quality of this wig is quite good. You tore the wig during some violent actions! You are so precious wearing this wig. I guess the person who gave it to you is very nice to you. Is it important? As long as you investigate, you will probably know who gave you this wig!"
"Go and check!" Mr. Xicheng shouted.
"Also, I was in your room and saw a fashion magazine for women." Hema stared at Xicheng, "I saw it the moment you opened the door yesterday! 'Meet your first love', this slogan was written in the magazine On. I think you bought that lipstick once, but you can't find it in your room."
"I often give things to women I meet in bars, and I have to read more fashion magazines before I can talk about flirting! You don't know how to flirt, do you?" Xi Cheng said stubbornly.
"You probably don't know that these luxury items are all numbered to prove their dignity. You just need to check which one you bought." Asano interrupted suddenly, "And that number is Write it on the bottom of the box."
Xicheng was stunned.
He Ma continued: "Also, I smelled the air freshener in your house. Could it be that you had some smell that you wanted to cover up that day? Like the smell of blood."
Xicheng: "After the murder, my house was searched by the police immediately!"
"Yes, of course you will be searched. But the smell you want to cover up is not the smell that actually exists, but the smell in your heart!" He Ma said loudly, "By the way, the mold you throw away also has a fresh smell. The scent of the spray. The forensics department will prove that it is the same scent as the one you sprayed at home!"
Kazuma suddenly raised his voice: "Xicheng-san! Confess!"
Xicheng was taken aback by Kazuma's sudden increase in volume, and after a while he said tremblingly, "The landlady and I are just having fun."
Hema shouted angrily: "Confess your criminal facts! Don't go around the corner!"
"I confess. I didn't take it seriously at all, but the landlady suddenly told me that she wanted to go with me. Can you imagine? An old lady, and I'm still a young man, she actually wants me to marry her!
"So I decided to break up, but the landlady said that if I broke up, I would tell him, Mr., and then kick me out of the room. The landlord was very violent and beat me many times. I was on good terms with the landlady, but In order to avenge him!
"I didn't expect them to be the same! They bullied me together! So me, so I decided to take revenge on the two of them!
"I read a detective novel in my landlord's house, and there was a secret room where ice skates kill people, so I decided to follow the above practice."
He Ma sneered: "You are so naive, modern criminal investigation has been greatly developed long ago."
"I wear gloves, so I didn't leave fingerprints! And I often go in and out of the landlord's room, and I would have left fingerprints and hair!" Mr. Xicheng said, "I saw this method in a magazine. And the magazine said Even with police dogs, there is no way to smell the problem."
He Ma was speechless: "What are these detective magazines doing?"
"But I didn't expect to meet a police detective who was as witty as in a magazine." Xi Cheng looked at Kazuma, "You saw the magazine in my room just by looking at it. It's amazing."
"My eyes are sharper." Hema shrugged.
At this time, the siren sounded from far to near, and a police car stopped in front of the pachinko shop where Hema was. After a while, the criminal police officer Juda rushed in and said to Hema: "Where the molds were discarded, someone saw someone who seemed to be from Xicheng." , The Metropolitan Police Department has issued an arrest warrant... eh?"
He Ma: "He has already pleaded guilty. However, it seems that I don't need to force the palace anymore."
Xicheng looked shocked: "How could I be seen? I am obviously the least crowded in the morning..."
"That's what Skynet is all about." He Ma patted Xi Cheng on the shoulder, "Go in and repent."
Asano was speechless: "Wait a minute, the arrest warrant was issued because some witnesses saw Xicheng, so what is our credit?"
Hema took out the tape recorder in his pocket: "Here it is. The whole process of my interrogation is here."
Iida Detective: "Kiryu Police Department noticed the ice skates crime and noticed the smell on the mould, which is already a great achievement. Saijo Saburo, I announce that you will be arrested for murder! You can keep silent..."
Kazuma suddenly interrupted Jutian Detective, and said loudly: "You have the right to remain silent, but every word you say will become evidence in court. I'm sorry, I'm just for saying this. police!"