The Advent of the Infinite King

"Yes." On the other side, in the office on the seventh floor, Xie Chen said into the phone in the voice of Mori Kogoro: "Actually, the murderer didn't disappear from the murder scene at all, because she wasn't there in the first place."

Police officer Mumu was surprised: "What? He wasn't here in the first place?" After that, he pressed the hands-free button of the phone so that everyone could hear it.

Xie Chen said: "While our group of people were running desperately in front of the building, in fact, Mr. Nanjo had already been killed by that murderer."

Police officer Mu Mu asked: "But didn't Xie Chen and the others clearly see the shadow of the murderer from the window on the seventh floor?"

Xie Chen said: "That's just a trick deliberately designed by the murderer."

Officer Mu Mu asked, "What method?"

Xie Chen said: "I think I can demonstrate it to everyone soon. Please, please invite everyone to come here on the seventh floor, and please help me prepare a roll of insulating tape and a fishing line."

Chapter 180 Eight is not in the plan

Afterwards, everyone gathered in the office on the seventh floor. Mori Kogoro sat on the sofa, while Xie Chen hid behind the sofa.

Xie Chen cleared his throat and said, "Now that everyone is here, we can start."

Officer Meguro nodded and sat down on the side sofa.

Xie Chen continued: "First of all, after the murderer killed Mr. Nanjo, he turned off the fluorescent lights in the room, and then used insulating tape to stick a black shadow that looked like a human figure from the bottom of the window."

One police officer turned off the light, and another police officer used insulating tape to stick a human-shaped black shadow on the window according to Xie Chen's statement.

"Then, use the fishing line to tie the gap between the top of the elevator inside and the outside elevator door tightly, and then use this fishing line to pull it all the way down to the office on the seventh floor, and wrap the fishing line around the switch of the fluorescent light. One lap."

Xie Chen paused for a moment, waiting for the police to finish the work.

After the police officer finished all this, Xie Chen continued: "Then pull the fishing line down to the side of the window, and tie the last remaining paper loop of the insulating tape. Officer Mu Mu, use the walkie-talkie to notify the police officer downstairs to press the elevator."

Police officer Mumu responded, took out the walkie-talkie and gave instructions.

Xie Chen said: "Whoever wants to rush to this scene, if they press the elevator button from the first floor..."

As soon as the voice fell, the fishing line pulled the switch, and the fluorescent lamp suddenly lit up, and everyone exclaimed.

Xie Chen said: "Looking up from the outside at this time, the part of the window covered by insulating tape will not reflect the fluorescent light, and it looks like a person standing there from the outside."

"After the fishing line is tightened by the elevator, the tape on the window will be torn off, and from the outside it looks like a shadow of a person disappears."

"The roll of tape was pulled outside again at this time, until the roll of tape was blocked by the elevator door, and the fishing line was broken by the weight of the elevator."

Everything was going according to what Xie Chen said, and everyone couldn't help sighing that the famous detective really deserved his reputation, but some people still raised questions.

"But..." the TV crew said, "What about the gunshots at that time."

Xie Chen replied: "The gunshot is the sound recorded by the murderer on the tape in advance."

Police officer Mu Mu wondered: "The voice on the tape?"

"That's right." Xie Chen said, "The murderer killed Mr. Nanjo with a pistol equipped with a silencer."

"After doing the elevator trick just now, I used the escape stairs to go to the sixth floor, and then put the tape recording the gunshots into the tape recorder to play."

Officer Mu Mu touched his chin and said, "From the bottom of the building, it's really hard to tell which floor the gunshots came from."

Xie Chen said: "About 15 minutes of the tape with the gunshots was left blank. The murderer used this blank time to appear in the park dressed as a death squad."

"Then lead us to the front of the building and jump into her trap. At this time, everyone is running in this direction, and we can create an alibi for her to hear the gunshots."

"Brother Maoli." Officer Mu Mu interrupted: "Wait a minute, so the murderer is..."

"Yes." Xie Chen said decisively: "Among us, Miss Yoshino Satomi is the only one who can devise this method."

All eyes immediately turned to Satomi Yoshino, who shrank her pupils suddenly, lowered her head deeply, and stared straight at a certain place on the floor, neither defending nor refuting.

From the beginning of Xie Chen's reasoning, she gradually developed despair, her eyes were straightened, and her fingertips trembled. It's just that everyone was listening to Mori Kogoro's reasoning just now, and no one noticed that's all.

"But..." Police Officer Mu Mu asked, "What is the purpose of the second gunshot?"

Xie Chen said: "I don't think the gunshot was in his plan, it's all because Ms. Satomi didn't notice that the button for automatic recall hadn't been pressed yet."

"Because in her plan, the recording was originally recorded as a volume of 10 minutes, so the same gunshots will be heard again an hour after the incident."

At this time, Miss Satomi went to the sixth floor to prepare the projector, and took off the fishing line on the elevator by the way. At this time, gunshots rang out in vain. "

"She was frightened and hid the tape in a panic, and lied to us when we arrived,"

Yoshino Satomi had cold sweat on her forehead, and it was slowly flowing down her cheeks. She gritted her teeth and couldn't go on like this, so she raised her head and said loudly, "You have no evidence at all."

The tone was so hasty that even she herself felt that it was a little too hasty.

"Of course I have evidence." Xie Chen said: "Officer Mu Mu, please read the faxed draft now."

Police officer Mu Mu walked towards the fax machine, Xie Chen continued: "I think there should be some traces on one of the pages of this manuscript, because when Miss Satomi committed the murder, this fax happened to be transmitted page by page. office."

Police officer Mumu flipped through the fax, and found that there was a lot of blood on the middle page, "Indeed."

Xie Chen said: "The time marked on this blood-stained fax is the real time of Mr. Nanjo's death when he was killed by Miss Satomi."

"Nine fifty-nine." Police Officer Megure said.

Satomi Yoshino stared blankly at Kogoro Mori, and took a step back subconsciously.

Xie Chen said: "It was about 15:[-] when we heard gunshots in front of the building. In fact, Mr. Nanjo was killed [-] minutes before that."

Yoshino Satomi remained silent, feeling the eyes of others, she lowered her head again, clasped her hands in front of her lower abdomen, her fingertips turned white.