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Qing Musong glanced at the emergency passage and said, "Does that mean that the only entrance and exit is that elevator?"

"Yes." Maruta Ayumi replied, "There are no taller buildings around than this apartment. And every window of this apartment is covered with iron bars, so there should be no way to climb to the top floor through the window."

Qing Musong thought for a moment and ordered, "First, check the footage captured by the elevator monitor to identify the people who entered and exited the top floor."

Upon hearing this, Aihara Yoji immediately responded: "Yes, I understand."

Then Aoki Song ordered: "Maruta, go find all the people related to the rooftop vegetable farm."

"Yes!" Maruta Ayumi replied, and then quickly went to find the relevant person.

"Come to think of it, I always feel that the posture of this body is very strange." Kogoro Mori said while thinking, his chin in his hand as he looked at Takehiko Nakamura's body.

Upon hearing this, Qing Musong immediately asked, "What's strange?"

"This posture..." Maori Kogoro thought about it and finally remembered it. He hurriedly said loudly: "This, this could be... Inspector Aoki, does this body look like it is pointing its index finger at its own face?"

"If you put it that way, it's not impossible to see it. But it's also possible that he slipped and fell and ended up in this position," said Aoki Matsu.

Maori Kogoro took a closer look at the corpse, and then immediately asked in a serious and anxious manner: "Xiaolan, the last time we met those people who rented the rooftop vegetable farm here, who else was there besides Ms. Mejiro?"

"Well..." Mao Lilan thought for a moment and said, "There are also Mr. Taguchi Shinichiro, a company employee, and Ms. Inoue Marie, a female employee. There are only these two people."

Maori Kogoro was very excited when he heard this and said to Aoki Matsu: "Inspector Aoki, some of these people have names of facial parts in their names."

"Ah!?" Qing Musong was stunned when he heard this. How come he didn't see that?

Maori Kogoro said seriously: "Ms. Mejiro is the eyes, Mr. Taguchi is the mouth, and Mr. Nakamura may have wanted to point out the name of the criminal with his face before he died."

Aoki Matsu was speechless after hearing this. What kind of evidence and reasoning is this? "We can't determine who the criminal is just based on this alone. What's more, given the current position of Mr. Nakamura's hand, we can't tell where he is pointing!"

"Ah!" Upon hearing this, Kogoro Mouri hurried over to take a closer look.

The direction of Nakamura Takehiko's finger was exactly between his eyes and mouth, making it impossible to tell the difference.

Before the relevant personnel came over, Aoki Matsu inspected the entire rooftop vegetable field.

Then I found something strange - there were broken red brick fragments scattered in the vegetable fields and on the roads between them. In addition, the support of a cherry tomato plant had fallen down.

This is very strange.

Because the vegetables grown in these four vegetable fields were of different qualities, but they were all cleaned up very cleanly by the four people, so how could there be red brick fragments? And this thing should not appear in the vegetable fields!

What's more, the cherry tomato whose support fell over was, strangely enough, the one in the middle. If it was due to wind or something, the cherry tomatoes on the edge should be the most likely to fall over.

Qing Musong picked up the red brick fragments nearby and placed them on the road. Because the fragments were quite large, about six pieces in total, they looked like one brick.

Try your best.

These red brick fragments were pieced together into one piece in Qing Musong's hands, but unlike normal red bricks, this one had a hole in the middle.

Seeing this, Aoki Matsu looked at the place where the cherry tomato pillar fell, then looked at the place where Nakamura Takehiko's body was, and the place where the towel fell on the ground. He was surprised to find that these three locations were actually in the same straight line, and then he instantly understood the murderer's modus operandi.

[I see! But... who could be the murderer? ]

This case is a bit strange. We have solved the modus operandi but have not found the suspect yet.

"Inspector, the relevant person has been summoned." Maruta Ayumi came over and reported.

Upon hearing this, Qing Musong immediately said, "Let's go to the reception room of the apartment."

When we arrived at the reception room, Mejiro Misa, Taguchi Shinichiro, and Inoue Marie were already sitting inside waiting.

Seeing Aoki Matsu and the others coming over, Mejiro Misa asked cautiously, "What exactly do the police want to see us about?"

Aoki Matsu looked at the three and said, "Mr. Nakamura died in the rooftop vegetable field this morning."

The three of them were very surprised when they heard this.

"Hey!" Inoue Wanlijiang asked to confirm: "Is it the old man who caused the trouble?"

Hearing this, Mejiro Misa subconsciously covered her mouth with her left hand and said, "This way, our vegetable fields will be peaceful too."

"I finally feel relieved," said Shinichiro Taguchi.

[Ah, this... how bad is the reputation! ]

Qing Musong blinked his eyes. Didn’t these three people realize the seriousness of the matter?

After hearing that Nakamura Takehiko had died, I got over my initial shock, but then my expression completely turned into one of joy and happiness. Really...

But judging from what Kogoro Mori said, the old man Takehiko Nakamura is indeed quite hateful. In the world of science, if people like him don't die, who else will die?

"Detective Mori, these are the three people, right?" Aoki Matsu looked at Kogoro Mori and confirmed with him.

Another classic three-choice.

"That's right!" Maori Kogoro responded, "When I came to the vegetable fields a few days ago, these people said that Mr. Nakamura always loved to cause trouble and they felt very troubled. Ms. Mejiro's field was flooded by him, Mr. Taguchi's insect net was torn by him, and Miss Inoue's field was thrown weeds by him."

When the three people were named one by one by Kogoro Mori, their faces suddenly changed.

"Besides that." Maori Kogoro looked at the three of them and said, "He must have caused you three a lot of trouble. Maybe your hatred for him grew deeper and deeper, and finally..."

"Wait." Mejiro Misa reacted at this time, opened her eyes wide and asked: "Was that old man killed by someone else?"

Taguchi Shinichiro also reacted, frowned, looked at Aoki Matsu and asked: "You don't suspect that it was us, do you?"

"We haven't identified the suspect yet. You are our contacts. We just want to ask for some information for reference." Qing Musong looked at the three people and explained, then asked: "Mr. Nakamura's estimated time of death is around 10 am. Where are you three and what are you doing? Please tell us?"

Hearing what Aoki Matsu said, Maruta Ayumi quickly took out a pen and a small notebook and prepared to take notes.

"Please start with Ms. Mejiro, who rents the field diagonally opposite Mr. Nakamura," said Aoki Matsu.

Mejiro Misa was startled when she heard this, then she looked at Aoki Matsu and replied, "Because I originally worked in the office on the first floor of this building, and I had some accounting work that I hadn't finished yesterday, so I came here to work overtime on the holiday. I came around 8:."

"So where were you at 10 o'clock?" Aoki Matsu asked.

Mejiro Misa answered, "Because around 11 o'clock, I made an appointment with Xiaolan and the others. They would come to help me harvest vegetables, so I stayed in the office until 11 o'clock."

"Can anyone prove this?" Aoki Matsu asked again.

Mejiro Misa lowered her head slightly and said a little depressed: "Today is a holiday, so there is no one else in the office except me."

Maori Kogoro approached Aoki Matsu and whispered, "Ms. Mejiro works in this building, so she can come to the top floor at any time. Is the finger of the corpse pointing to the eye?"

Aoki Matsu was speechless after hearing this, but Maori Kogoro was still thinking about his unscientific/scientific reasoning.

So Aoki Matsu ignored him and said, "Next, can Mr. Taguchi, the employee of the company that rents the field next to Mr. Nakamura, please answer?"

Taguchi Shinichiro replied, "I went to the daily necessities shopping center alone this morning to buy fertilizers. Actually, I was planning to go to the vegetable fields in the afternoon."

"Is there anyone who can testify?" asked Aoki Matsu.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Taguchi Shinichiro thought for a moment and said, "If the clerk at the shopping mall still remembers me... Oh, I still have the receipt!"

Taguchi Shinichiro took out his wallet, pulled out a receipt and placed it on the table. "This is it."

Maori Kogoro quickly took it and took a look, but...

"This is a receipt from 11 a.m. It can't be used as an alibi." Kogoro Mori looked at Shinichiro Taguchi with a serious face and said.

Taguchi Shinichiro was very disappointed when he heard this, "No way!"

Seeing this, Maori Kogoro whispered to Aoki Matsu, "Could the message before death refer to the mouth?"

Aoki Matsu naturally didn't believe this, and turned to look at the last person, "Finally, please ask Miss Inoue, the female employee who rented the field in front of Mr. Nakamura, to explain."

After hearing this, Inoue Wanlijiang organized his words and said, "Because I don't have to go to work today, I got up late."

"What about at 10 o'clock?" asked Aoki Matsu.

"I don't know." Inoue Wanlijiang put his left index finger on his lips and said distressedly: "I only remember that I was watching TV and in a daze after waking up, but no one can testify for me because I live alone."

Maori Kogoro came closer and whispered, "Ms. Inoue is the resident on the floor below the top floor, but her name doesn't have any characters that indicate a certain part of the face."

[Marie Inoue lives one floor below the top floor! ]

Aoki Matsu's eyes lit up, and when he thought of the murderer's modus operandi, he had an idea in his mind, but he said to Maori Kogoro: "So far, no one has a clear alibi."

After thinking for a while, Qing Musong looked at the three people and said, "Three of you, please go to the scene and cooperate with our police to inquire about some related matters."

Hearing this, Mejiro Misa couldn't help but turn her head to look at the two people next to her and complained, "The old man who caused trouble is dead and is still causing trouble for the people around him!"

Upon hearing this, Taguchi Shinichiro also complained: "Whether it was an accident or murder, it was all his own fault."

Inoue Wanlijiang also complained: "It would be fine if he hit his head and died, but he ended up getting us involved. How annoying."

Upon hearing this, Aoki Matsu immediately looked at Inoue Marie. If he remembered correctly, he did not tell the three people in front of him what the cause of Nakamura Takehiko's death was. He just said that he was dead. Then how did Inoue Marie know that Nakamura Takehiko died from hitting his head?

Just as such an annoying old man like Takehiko Nakamura died, the police came to inquire about the situation.

Even if we guess that Nakamura Takehiko was murdered, there are many ways to commit murder, most of which are strangulation, stabbing with a knife, hitting with heavy objects, and pushing from a tall building.

To be honest, death from "hitting the head" is really rare.

Inoue Marie said earlier that she had been in her room, but she also accurately described how Nakamura Takehiko died.

There is only one possibility - she is the murderer!

Miss, you blew yourself up!

Just evidence?

Her words alone cannot be considered as evidence. Even if they have a recording of the suspect's questioning, Inoue Marie can say that she was just talking nonsense.

As soon as she reached the roof, Maruta Ayumi's cell phone rang.

After he answered the call, he said a few words, then whispered to Aoki Matsu, "Inspector, that phone really belongs to Mr. Nakamura. At around 10 a.m., he received a call from an unknown number. It seemed to be from a prepaid card phone. We don't know who called yet."

[No need to guess, it must be Inoue Marie who called, but the other party used a prepaid phone, so there is no way to track it. ]

After thinking for a while, Aoki Matsu said, "To be on the safe side, Maruta, go and investigate the phone call."

"Yes!" Maruda Ayumi responded.

As soon as Maruta Ayumi left, Aihara Yoji came running over and said, "Inspector! The surveillance footage recorded by the elevator monitor has been confirmed. Mr. Nakamura went up to the top floor at 9 a.m., and no one else went up to the top floor until Detective Mori came up at 11 a.m."

Aoki Matsu was not surprised at the result at all.

Since it was a premeditated murder, the murderer would naturally consider the elevator surveillance camera and would definitely not let the surveillance camera capture him.

Hearing this, Mejiro Misa looked at Aoki Matsu and asked, "Officer, now we can go, right?"

Hearing this, Qing Mu Song turned to look at the three people, and his eyes fell on Inoue Wan Li Jiang. "Ms. Inoue, which side is your house on?"

"Ah!" Inoue Marie didn't expect Aoki Matsu to ask this. She felt guilty and suddenly became nervous.

Seeing this, Qing Musong asked again: "Ms. Inoue, please answer my question."

"My home is this way." Inoue Banrie pointed in a direction, which was exactly the direction of the towel that fell on the ground alone, and also exactly on the straight line where the murderer "committed the crime".

"Ms. Inoue, I have a question for you." Aoki Matsu looked at Inoue Marie and said, "How do you know that Mr. Nakamura died from hitting his head?"