Chapter 678: The Incident at the Masuo Family

April 4, Sunday, morning, Hachioji City, Tama New Town District, Masuo Katsura House.

Masuo Katsura's house is a three-story single-family building. He opened the door and led Officer Sato and Officer Takagi into the room. He pointed to the stairs and said, "Officer, please go upstairs and I'll look for it in the lobby." .” Said and ran to the hall.

"Okay," Officer Sato said, "let's go, Takagi." He ran upstairs, and Takagi immediately followed.

Conan also walked into the room. When he was about to catch up with Katsuo Masuo, he suddenly felt the wind. Looking in the direction, he found a circular hole on the window glass. Looking carefully, it happened to be on the edge of the window lock. , is it an external offender?

At this time, Katsuo Masuo screamed in the hall. Police officers Takagi, Sato, and Conan ran to the scene together, and found Katsuo Masuo sitting on the ground in front of the door, pointing forward with trembling fingers, following him. Looking in the direction he pointed, a woman was lying motionless on the ground to the right of a bicycle-style exercise machine, with a knife stuck in her back, and her back was dyed red.

There is not much furniture in this room, except for the Japanese-style table in the middle of the room and the cabinet beside the table, there are only two bookshelves, one small and one large, from the wall on the left side of the entrance. The big bookshelf is less than one meter away from the bicycle type. The exercise machine, the left side of the exercise machine is a long platform.

Officer Sato immediately ran forward to check, while Officer Takagi was going to call an ambulance.

"No need," Police Officer Sato said, "The photographer should be called."

"Photographer, photographer!" The three police officers Takagi were taken aback.

Officer Sato scanned the hall, then said to the floor-to-ceiling curtains, "Come out, the person behind the curtains."

"Pa..." Following the applause, Oda Nobute, Oda Sakurako and Oda Haruko came out, and Oda Haruko was holding a portable video recorder.

"Officer Sato, what a wonderful performance." Oda Nobute laughed.

"Miss Shine, why are you here?" Officer Sato asked.

"We took the order to investigate the bank robber incident on Friday." Haruko Oda said, "Your police are really not trustworthy. You just let two gunmen run away with money under the watchful eyes of the public. Until now Not caught."

Seeing Officer Sato's face change, Oda Sakurako quickly stopped her and said, "Haruko!"

"I'm telling the truth." Oda Haruko said.

Taking a breath to suppress his anger, Officer Sato asked, "I'm asking about the affairs here. What's the matter with this dummy?"

"Dummy!" The three police officers Takagi were taken aback, Masuo Katsura's face turned pale.

"This is a trap set by a certain guy. I didn't catch the prey, but I accidentally fell into it." Oda Nobue looked at Masuo Katsuo and laughed.

"What are you talking about," Masuo Katsura exclaimed, "Why are you in my house, where is my wife?"

"Don't you understand? We were hired by the consortium behind your bank to investigate you," Oda Haruko said.

"Suzu, the Suzuki Foundation!" Masuo Katsura's sweat came down.

"As for your wife, she is currently recovering at the Hachioji Municipal Hospital," Oda Sakurako said.

"What's going on here?" Police officer Sato wanted to get the portable video recorder in Haruko Oda's hand, "Let me see what you guys filmed."

Oda Sakurako stood in front of Officer Sato, "Sorry,

Officer Sato, this cannot be shown to you. "

"Well, why don't you come and reason while you have time, Officer Sato, Officer Takagi?" Oda Nobute laughed, "Just pretend that it's Mrs. Masuo who fell on the ground."

"Inference?" Officer Sato said, "Okay."

"Then, if you don't mind, I'll join too." The Shiratori Police Department added in.

"Of course I don't mind, Police Department Shiratori, no, it's the police department," Oda Nobue said with a smile, "I heard that you have been promoted to the police department, congratulations."

"You're welcome." The Shiratori Police Department said with a smug smile.

"Sakura, the one in Kyoto has long been the police department." Oda Haruko asked with a smile.

"Cough, cough!" Police Department Shiratori choked on the saliva.

At this time, Maori came in with Hattori and Yamazaki, looked at the situation in the house and asked, "Who is dead here?"

Glancing at the camera, Yamazaki took a few steps to the side.

"It should be Mrs. Masuo." Shiratori Police Department said.

"This is a dummy, Police Department Shiratori." Officer Takagi reminded.

"Dummy?" The Shiratori Police Department and Mao Li were surprised.

Officer Takagi talked about the matter for a while, and then talked about the reasoning game.

Sakurako Oda smiled and said, "Officers, please remind me that you'd better participate, especially Officer Sato and Officer Takagi."

"A reasoning game?" Maori said angrily, "Then I'll go first."

"There will be a bonus, Mr. Mori." Haruko Oda smiled.

"Cough!" Maori immediately changed his words, "This game sounds interesting, I'm ready to join." Then he asked, "Well, Miss Chunzi, how much bonus will there be?"

"It depends on how much lost gold can be recovered in the end." Oda Sakurako said with a smile, "The Suzuki Foundation will use the percentage as the base."

"Hundred, percent!" Maoli's saliva flowed down, and then quickly sucked it back, and then said, "Then let's start. First of all, the three of you who have been wandering around Mr. Masuo's house recently."

"Wrong, Mr. Mori, how could we be discovered." Haruko Oda smiled.

Oda Sakura said with a smile: "We live in three families next door to him, and there is a lot of rent attached."

"That's right." Molly said shyly.

"The victim was Mrs. Masuo, and the murder weapon was the knife on her back. This part happened to be the back of her heart, and she was killed with one knife." Officer Sato said, "I think the time of the victim was probably when Mrs. Masuo screamed, that is, Said Masuo Madam was attacked from behind by someone while talking on the phone."

"It should be while using this exercise machine while talking on the phone. There is no telephone landline here. She must be afraid of a sudden call while exercising, so she took the extension phone." The White Bird Police Department stepped forward and looked at the exercise machine. , "The recording switch on the exercise machine has been turned on." Then he said, "Ms. Masuo called Takagi today and said that she would go to the Metropolitan Police Department to report about the bank robber incident, and she said to Takagi on the phone 'Yes The previous policeman', so this is a purposeful killing of Mrs. Masuo, in order to prevent her from telling the police about the clues about the bank robber, that is to say, the murderer should be the bank robber."

Officer Sato said: "Ms. Masuo once grabbed a prisoner's mask during the bank robber incident. Although it is not clear in the video whether Mrs. Masuo saw the prisoner's face, she may have known some characteristics. For example, the mole around the mouth, so the prisoner thought that she had seen through him, so he came to kill him to silence him."

"No way? Didn't the prisoner kill her then?" Maori asked.

"Because the wife of the Megure Police Department who happened to be present, Mrs. Megure saw Mrs. Masuo's fierce resistance, and was afraid that the gangster would attack her, so she took the initiative to replace her." Shiratori Police Department said, "The gangster may be afraid of killing the hostages. The nature of the incident changed, so instead of doing it, we did it after the fact."

"But, isn't this very strange?" Police Officer Takagi asked, "Since it was aimed at Mrs. Masuo, when did the gangster come? If they came before the call, they should have done it before. If After that, how do you know she was on the phone with the police?"

"It's very simple. The murderer first went to other rooms to confirm that there was only Mrs. Masuo in this room, and then came back to attack Mrs. Masuo," Maori said. "At that time, Mrs. Masuo was on the phone. As for the content of the conversation , I think if the lobby is open, it can be heard in other nearby rooms." Then he said to Oda Nobue, "Is this the case? When Mrs. Masuo was on the phone by bicycle, the murderer came in and took the opportunity to sneak into her room. Killed her behind her back."

"It's a good guess," Oda Nobue smiled, "but in fact, please look at the big bookshelf behind the exercise machine."

"Bookshelf?" The Shiratori Police Department opened the curtain of the bookshelf and found that it was empty inside, only a few brackets, and then found that there were red marks like blood on the top frame, so they asked uncertainly, " This is?"

Oda Nobue said: "There is no doubt, it is really Masuo Madam's blood, and it is definitely not painted by us."

"Please let me see." Hattori stepped forward to take a look, then opened the small bookshelf next to it, and found that it was full of books.

"Hold me and look up." Conan said to Hattori.

"Okay." Hattori picked up Conan, let him look at the top of the big bookshelf, and then asked, "How is it, is there that thing?"

Looking at the piece of blood-stained tape and the thumbtacks on it, Conan laughed, "Yes, there are."

"What are you doing?" Molly asked. "What's on there?"

"I've always wondered, Mr. Masuo should have seen this dummy when he came in, no, this corpse." Hattori laughed, "But why didn't he make a sound? Because he wanted to change the scene." Then opened He opened the cabinet under the long table, revealing a pile of messy books.

"Could it be that these books were originally on the bookshelf?" The White Bird Police Department picked up a book and found some blood stains on it. Dummy, no, on the body. These books didn’t have time to be placed on the shelf, so they were stuffed in the cabinet.”

Maori said: "In other words, Mr. Masuo, you helped him up, so you are the murderer."

"Cough! Mr. Mori, the murderer may have lifted this bookshelf before leaving, in order to confuse the police." Haruko Oda laughed, "Mr. Masuo just lost his mind from fright."

"Okay, Haruko." Oda Sakurako stopped.

Officer Sato asked, "Miss Shine, stop going around in circles. What's going on?"

"I'm sorry," Oda Nobue said. "Others don't have to play this reasoning game, but you and Officer Takagi must continue to play. The reason is that Officer Matsumoto will tell you when you go back."

"Officer Matsumoto!" Officer Sato and Officer Takagi were taken aback.

"Okay, both of you, please continue to reason." Oda Nobute said. "One more reminder, please treat this as a real scene."

Seeing that Officer Sato and Officer Takagi had no breakthrough for a while, Conan reminded: "Hey, why is the knife horizontal?"

"It goes without saying that there are bones on the back. This kind of knife is in this part, and only a horizontal knife can penetrate it, and it can kill people." Shiratori Police Department said.

"Wait," Police Officer Takagi said, "If the knife is horizontal, and if the bookshelf is lying on the corpse, is that okay?" He said and put the books in the cabinet on the top shelf of the bookshelf, and then I took out a few thin ones and exchanged a few thick ones, making the books in the bookshelf stretched, and then pulled out the knife from the dummy and stuffed it into the gap between the top of the book and the frame of the bookshelf.

"Are you kidding me? How can you kill people like this? Eh? Wait a minute," Police Department Shiratori touched his chin and said, "If the bookshelf falls down and sticks into someone's body, it might really be able to kill people." Then he asked, "But how? Let the bookshelf fall down?"

"The answer should be on the top." Police officer Sato moved a chair over, stood up and looked at the top of the bookshelf, "This is the tape and thumbtacks." Then he jumped down, "Then the line should be here." He said and went Next to the exercise machine, he drew a knotted fishing line from the shaft and pulled it to the top of the bookshelf, "In this way, as long as Mrs. Masuo steps on the exercise machine, this bookshelf can be pulled down, and the knife can be inserted into your body."

"But that's not right," Shiratori Police Department said, "Although there is a bookshelf full of books next to that bookshelf, so it won't fall in other directions, but the more you step on the car, the harder it is, and the victim should find out. .”

"This kind of sports car has a lot of resistance, and when the wire is rolled in, the resistance is even greater, and this kind of movement generally maintains a constant speed, so when Mrs. Masuo is distracted on the phone, she will still subconsciously use force to maintain a constant speed. So much so that it finally pulled down the bookshelf behind him." Police Officer Sato said, "That is to say, the person who called Masuo to distract Mrs. Masuo, you are the maker of the incident."

"Hey, hello, Mrs. Masuo is not blind, so how can she not see such a long fishing line?" Mao Li asked, "And you can see the knife right there, right?"

"What about adding this?" Conan took out a sign from the cabinet, which said "Target 2kg".

"By the way, if you put this on top of the knife," the Shiratori Police Department put the sign on top of the knife, "if you don't pay attention, you won't see the knife at all."

Police officer Takagi said with a smile: "And Mrs. Masuo is probably highly myopic."

"And I don't like wearing glasses to exercise, so as not to drip sweat on it." Officer Sato said with a smile.

"So that's how it is," Mori said, "Then the culprit in this incident must be Mr. Masuo, he knows about Mrs. Masuo."

"So, the whole incident should be like this." Shiratori Police Department said, "After Mr. Masuo set up the trap, he went to the Metropolitan Police Department to call back to make an alibi, and then came back to change the scene. Although other policemen arrived first At the scene, if you see bookshelves and books lying on the ground, it can easily be interpreted as a dispute between the prisoner and the victim, and the adhesive tape and thumbtacks can also be understood as being prepared for the weight-loss brand, but the fishing line must be recycled, so you always Let’s get rid of Sato and Takagi.”

"After you pry out the thumbtack and take out the fishing line, then put the thumbtack back to its original place. During this process, the tool for prying the thumbtack must be stained with blood," the White Bird Police Department searched in the cabinet under the long platform, and found it in the corner. I found a small screwdriver, "It looks like this is it."

"You, how do you prove that I have used it." Masuo Katsuo shouted.

Maori smiled and said, "Although we can't prove that you have used it, someone can."

Glancing at the camcorder in Haruko Oda's hand, Katsuo Masuo was immediately discouraged.

Police Department Shiratori asked: "Then, Mr. Masuo, why did you kill your wife?"

Masuo Katsuo said: "For, for the insurance money, I bought a high amount of insurance money for her, so I gave my wife to..."

"Please, you lied too badly." Hattori smiled, "It must be that your wife found out who the bank robber is and has something to do with you, so she blackmailed you. And the reason why they changed hostages at that time , not because of fierce resistance, but because she is the wife of the mastermind."

"So that's how it is," Maori said with a smile, "The manager of the bank and his friend teamed up to rob his own bank store. Of course the plan will go smoothly, but unfortunately, when the plan is going on, your friend will happen to go to the bank with your wife Take them as hostages, and what's even more unfortunate is that your wife recognized your friend right away, so she dared to resist fiercely."

"It seems that this is correct." Shiratori Police Department said, and then asked, "Mr. Masuo, why did you rob the bank store you manage?"

"Hey." Masuo Katsura sighed, "It's not because I need money, it's all forced by Kayo, I'm just the store manager, I just manage the bank store, but she thinks I'm opening a bank and spending too much. In order to satisfy her I used to use my power to do some private work, and after she found out, I became even more presumptuous, and this time she blackmailed me again, so I planned to kill her."

"That's how it is." The White Bird Police Department said.

Masuo Katsuo said to Oda Nobue: "Can you tell me what happened? Why didn't Kayo die? You know, I have done many experiments and I am sure that I can kill with one blow."

Officer Sato said: "Miss Xinhui, the incident is now resolved, you can tell me why you want me to participate in this reasoning game."

"The incident is considered resolved, but please wait a little longer." Oda Nobute smiled wryly.

"What the hell are you doing?" Officer Sato asked.

"Testing a new technology," Oda Sakurako said, "transmitting the image here wirelessly to a distant place."

"Uh, the distance you're talking about isn't where the Metropolitan Police Department's manager Matsumoto is?" Officer Takagi asked.

"It would be great if it could be that far away." Oda Haruko sighed.

"It's nearby." Oda Nobue said, "But I'll give it to Matsumoto administrator later."...