Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Zuo Xiong Haozhi stopped him and said, "But, but that guy, if you just go in and disturb him, he will be angry..."

Kiba snorted coldly: "The young boy must have overslept in there..."

As he spoke, he reached out and turned the doorknob, pushed the door open, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Come out, Nagase! Come on and play for me!!"

"?!"

After seeing the scene in the lounge, even Kiba and Sasuma Hiroyuki, who had experienced many bloody battles, shuddered and showed fear in their eyes. What they saw was Nagase Baota, who was leaning against the wall opposite the door with his head down, wearing a pair of loose shorts, with a bloody hole on his bare chest and abdomen, and covered in blood! From the large bloodstain and blood line on the wall above his head, it can be imagined that he was standing at first, and then he collapsed because he was unable to support his body.

"Nagase?!" Kiba screamed, strode forward, stretched out his trembling hands, grabbed Nagase Hyouta's shoulders and shook him hard, "Hey, cheer up! Nagase?!"

At some point, Xiao Ai had walked in. She held Nagase Baota's pulse and held it for a while before saying, "It's no good. There's no pulse..."

"What?!" Kiba screamed, and he turned to Sakuma Hiroyuki who was standing outside the door in a daze and yelled, "Hurry, hurry up and call an ambulance and the police!!!"

"Ah, okay, okay!" After being yelled back to his senses by Kiba, Sakura Hiroyuki quickly responded and left in a hurry.

Kiba's eyes bulged, his face twitched as he shouted angrily: "Asshole... who the hell... who did this..."

"Shh!" Xiao Ai suddenly spoke up to signal Kiba not to speak, "Did you hear any strange noises?"

"What?" Kiba asked in surprise.

Outside the door, the two staff members who had just stopped Xiao Ai from going to the toilet kept their mouths shut with fear on their faces.

Xiao Ai frowned slightly, listened to the strange noise, and walked towards a few luggage bags placed casually in the corner of the room.

"Well, the sound came from this bag..."

Xiao Ai stopped in front of a dark blue bag, took out a handkerchief from her pocket, wrapped the zipper of the bag, and with a swish, Xiao Ai opened the zipper of the bag, revealing the items inside the bag that were making slight sounds.

"A hidden camera? From Nichima TV?!"

Ai wrapped the camera with a handkerchief and took it out of the bag. Turning on the LCD screen, Ai called up the previously recorded video. Kiba walked behind Ai, squatted down and looked at the camera in his hand, and said in surprise: "Could it be that it recorded the murderer..."

Xiao Ai stared at the image on the LCD screen without blinking.

In the picture, Nagase Baota entered the room, made a phone call, stood up and did some warm-up exercises after the call ended, and then the murderer appeared. When the masked murderer appeared on the screen, Ai was shocked beyond words, "This, this... person?!"

……

At the same time that Kiba and others discovered Nagase Kyouta's body, the atmosphere at the wrestling competition venue at Kokugikan was getting very intense.

"Werewolf—werewolf—"

"Werewolf, come on!!"

"Werewolf, I support you!!"

As soon as he came out of the wrestlers' entrance, the audience's shouts of "Werewolf" were heard non-stop. The applause and cheers were endless. The enthusiastic audience sitting near the entrance even stood up, crowded in front of the railings of the entrance, stretched out their arms and waved them vigorously. Some even wanted to shake hands with the wrestler they supported, Werewolf.

The wrestler werewolf, wearing a wolf mask, a large red and black cape tied behind him, his muscular upper body exposed, and tight trousers on his lower body, walked towards the wrestling ring with steady steps in the beam of light emitted by the searchlight on the top of the venue. His muscles as hard as granite could be clearly seen with the texture of the muscles as his body moved.

When the werewolf finally walked to the wrestling ring, he raised his strong arms and swung them vigorously to the left and right. Then he pulled the elastic rope on the wrestling ring with his right hand, jumped high up, pushed hard on the side of the ring with his left foot, twisted and straightened his body, and jumped onto the high wrestling ring. His series of movements were full of strength and beauty, and the whole process was simple and smooth. All the spectators present immediately became enthusiastic and cheered.

The werewolf stood on the wrestling ring, raised his arms high, and held his wolf head high, proudly accepting the audience's admiration.

Time passed by minute by minute. When the werewolf took off his cape and was ready to face the challenge, the wrestling competition organizing committee received the news that Nagase had an accident. In desperation, the person in charge of the organizing committee walked onto the wrestling stage with a microphone in hand. The person in charge stood in the center of the wrestling stage and bowed to apologize to the audience, then said in a deep voice: "I am very sorry to have kept you waiting for so long... The challenger of this competition, Nagase Baota, encountered an unfortunate incident and cannot participate in the competition, so we have to terminate this championship.

......"

At this time, a staff member ran up to the werewolf and whispered a few words to him. Then the werewolf asked two more questions, and the staff member nodded affirmatively.

When they heard that the tournament between Nagase Baota and the werewolf was cancelled, the audience in the stadium immediately shouted excitedly: "What?!", "No way~~", "Is this a mistake?!"

On the wrestling ring, the aloof werewolf's true face hidden under the mask took on a gloomy look.

After receiving the report, Detective Takagi and his team rushed to the crime scene and immediately started the investigation.

"The victim was Nagase Hyouta, 25 years old, a professional wrestler..." Takagi Wataru reported to Inspector Megure.

Inspector Megure looked at Nagase Hyouta's body and murmured: "A wrestler..."

"Ah..." Detective Takagi sighed and said, "He is a popular wrestler whose strength has greatly increased recently."

Chapter 4: Choose one from classics?

Officer Mu stroked his chin and said, "It seems he was stabbed to death..."

"Yes..." Detective Takagi looked at the work record book in his hand and reported: "He was stabbed three times in the back, chest and abdomen. The last stab was in the chest, which was the fatal wound..."

Officer Megure raised his eyebrows, turned his head and looked at Detective Takagi and asked: "Huh? How do you know that the last knife wound to the chest was the one?"

Detective Takagi quickly replied: "Ah, this... this is the video we watched before the police officer came, so..."

"Video?" Officer Megure asked in confusion, "Is it a burglar-proof camera?"

Before the police arrived, Kiba, who had changed into sportswear, answered: "No, it was a hidden camera installed here by Nichimi TV, which has the rights to broadcast Teito wrestling! They probably wanted to secretly film Nagase's performance before the championship... When competing at the Toudou Kokugikan, Nagase always did warm-up exercises alone in this room before the game..."

"..." Officer Megure stood up and said to Detective Takagi: "Show me the video tape as well."

"Okay, this is it!" Detective Takagi quickly took the camera with the Nichiuri TV logo from a policeman nearby and handed it to Officer Megure.

Officer Megure took the camera and turned on the LCD screen while saying, "Then this matter is solved! The video tape should have recorded the murderer, right?"

Detective Takagi smiled bitterly and said, "Well, that..."

“Oh, I got it!”

Officer Megure stared at the video on the LCD screen in astonishment, "Ah, it's a wolf?!"

Blinking hard, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Oh, it's the wolf's mask?"

"It's Werewolf!" Detective Takagi explained, "He's the most popular masked wrestler right now! He's the winner of the gold belt! He's competing with Nagase for the title tonight... It's stipulated that if Werewolf loses, he'll reveal his true identity. The mask is at stake in this competition... He's never lost while wearing a mask..."

Officer Megure frowned and said, "In other words, in order to protect his title and keep the secret, this masked wrestler killed Nagase before the match, and did not notice the existence of the hidden camera..."

"Ah, this..." Detective Takagi was about to explain when a voice interrupted him: "Officer Megure, this is not necessarily true!"

Detective Takagi and Officer Megure were stunned for a moment and looked down at the owner of the voice at the same time.

"Everyone in Teito wrestling except Nagase seems to know that there is a hidden camera in this room, and anyone can become a werewolf by wearing a wolf mask!"

"Ai-chan?" Inspector Megure widened his eyes.

Ai put her hands behind her back and reasoned calmly: "So, the murderer is the werewolf himself? Maybe it's a wrestler who is similar in size and wants to frame the werewolf?"

"A wrestler with a similar body shape?" Inspector Megure asked in surprise.

Ai nodded: "Yes, because the murderer in the video is about the same height as Nagase!"

As she said that, she turned to look at Kiba who was standing beside her: "The wolf man and Nagase are about the same height, right?"

"Ah... yes." Kiba nodded in response.

Xiao Ai added: "And this room is off-limits to non-staff members! If you want to kill a professional wrestler, only a professional wrestler can do it! Also, the murder weapon, the knife, the murderer's gloves, and sportswear have been found in the toilet next door and have been sent for identification. Please don't worry!"

"Yes, yes..."

Officer Megure looked at Xiao Ai in silence, pretending to cough twice, and turned to Kiba and said, "Then Mr. Kiba, go and call the werewolves and wrestlers with similar physiques to him over here!"

"Okay, okay..." Kiba responded slowly, then turned and walked out of the room to call for help.

Detective Gao Mu finally had time to ask Xiao Ai: "Xiao Ai, why are you here?"

Ai pouted and said childishly, "Ah, when I wanted to go to the bathroom next door, there was a lot of noise here saying that Nagase would not come out of his room, so I came to check!"

Officer Megure squatted in front of Ai and said unhappily: "That's not it. I'm asking who brought you to the wrestling arena? Brother Maori?"

"Of course it's me, Inspector Megure!!"

Maori's voice sounded behind Inspector Megure.

Officer Megure looked back and saw Maori leaning against the door with his arms folded across his chest. He said to him seriously, "Okay, officer, show me too! It's said that the videotape recorded the crime scene!"

Inspector Megure nodded, and the camera was placed in the middle of the long table in the room. Then he and Mori sat on two folding chairs respectively, and Detective Takagi stood behind them half bent over. The three of them gathered together to study the videotape that recorded the murderer's crime process.

In the video, Nagase Baota was sitting on a folding chair and said to the door: "Huh? Why is it you..."

Inspector Megure stared at the camera and said: "The murderer entered the room at this time..."

In the video, Nagase Baota stood up, spread his hands and chuckled to the person who entered the room: "Hey, there's nothing to talk about before the game... Are you going to lose to me on purpose?"

When Nagase Baota finished saying this, there was a slight thud, and then the screen shook.

"Hmm?" Mao Li raised his eyebrows, "The picture shook a little bit just now..."

Detective Takagi guessed: "Maybe the murderer's foot touched the bag containing the camera..."

Nagase Baota said: "I should have said it before, I will play seriously tonight... After saying this, he turned around and walked towards the wall.

At this time, the murderer's lower body appeared in the videotape. It can be seen that the murderer was holding a gleaming dagger tightly in his right hand behind his back.

Inspector Megure said: "Well, the knife is already in hand..."

In the video, the murderer stabbed Nagase Baota's lower back with the dagger in his hand when his back was facing him. Nagase Baota let out a scream.

"He stabbed me in the back first..." Detective Takagi said with a frown.

Mao Li looked at the video and continued: "Then he stabbed me in the abdomen face to face..."

Inspector Megure frowned and said: "Ah, the victim seems to want to say something..."

"But my mouth was covered by the murderer, so I couldn't say anything..."

In the videotape, Nagase Baota, with his eyes wide open and sweating in pain, had his mouth covered by the masked murderer's gloved left hand. Nagase Baota suddenly stretched out his trembling left hand and grabbed the murderer's mask.

"Ah, caught his mask!!" Detective Takagi shouted.

Xiao Ai added, "So, the bloody mask found in the toilet was torn about ten centimeters below the right eye!"

Inspector Megure's eyes suddenly lit up: "Then, maybe the murderer's face..."

At this moment, a "bang" sound was heard in the videotape, drawing Inspector Megure's attention back to the camera.

"And then the final blow to the chest..."

Maori frowned: "Why is that guy shaking his head? Is he looking for something?"

At this moment in the videotape, the murderer took a step back, shaking his head, and accidentally hit the folding chair behind him, then fell backwards on his back, flying towards where the camera was.

"Ah, I bumped into the chair... I bumped into the camera... I bumped into it?!"

Officer Megure also shouted excitedly, "Okay, stand up right where you are!!"

Detective Takagi also widened his eyes and stared at the image on the LCD screen without blinking: "In this way, we can see the face from the scratched part of the mask..."

To their great disappointment, in the picture, the murderer wearing a wolf mask sat up with a dagger in his hand, his face turned to the left.

"What?... The left side of his face was intact..." Officer Megure said depressedly, "Then he just stood up and walked out..."

Mao Li frowned and said, "But if a person covered in blood walks around like this, someone will definitely see him, right?"

Detective Takagi then remembered an incident: "Ah, yes... a young wrestler saw a man with blood all over his sportswear and a sports towel covering his head entering the toilet when he came out of the toilet. He thought it was a senior who had just finished a fierce competition, so he didn't pay much attention to it."

Officer Megure rested his chin on his hand and said thoughtfully: "So that's how it is... Just prepare another pair of sportswear in the toilet in advance, put it on and come out of the toilet as if nothing happened."

He stood up, turned around and looked at the bloodstains left by the deceased on the wall and the ground, and asked: "So, what is the estimated time of death?"

Gao Mu quickly replied: "The exact time is not clear, it is probably the climax of Mr. Kiba's game..."

He accidentally saw the camera on the table and said happily: "Yes! Three minutes after the murderer left, we heard the audience cheering after Mr. Kiba won! You can hear a little bit..."

Inspector Megure immediately leaned over to the camera and listened. Indeed, he could faintly hear the cheers.

"So, the time of the crime is..."

"Around 7:20..." Kiba's voice appeared in the room, taking over the conversation from Inspector Megure.

Inspector Megure and others were stunned for a moment, and then they turned their attention to Kiba and four other people who had just walked in from outside.

Kiba said: "Officer, I have found all four people who are similar in size to Nagase. Please let me know if you find the murderer... It's settled, officer."

After looking deeply at Inspector Megure with his sharp eyes, he turned and walked out of the room.

When Officer Megure was looked at by Kiba, his hair stood on end and he said, "I know..."

Kiba came out of the room and closed the door. A cordon had been set up outside the room where the crime was committed, and a large number of media reporters were blocked outside the cordon. When the media reporters saw Kiba coming out, they immediately became excited.

“Ah, it’s out!!”

"Mr. Kiba!! I heard that Nagase was killed. Is that true?!"

"Are the four people who just entered suspects?!"

"Please answer, Mr. Kiba!!"