Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Seeing the woman's embarrassed expression, Maori hurriedly said: "The car is right next to me, and there is this kid next to me... I'm not a bad person. I don't know if you are familiar with me. I am the famous detective Maori Kogoro. Can you help me?"

"Detective?"

The woman looked at Maori carefully and felt that he was indeed familiar. She looked at Xiao Ai who was smiling innocently beside Maori, and after thinking for a while, she opened the door and said, "Come in."

"Sorry to trouble you."

Maori and the others walked into the lobby of the villa and saw a big dog following the woman. Xiao Ai asked curiously, "Are you the only one living here, big sister?"

"Ah."

Just as Xiaoai was looking around, Mao Li contacted Xiaolan by phone.

"Yes, the car stalled on the way... Huh? We have to wait until tomorrow? Ah... Well, it's really not safe to drive in such heavy rain."

"How is it?" Xiao Ai saw Mao Li hang up the phone and asked, "Can't Xiao Lan come?"

"Well, they said it was raining too hard and it was dark, so it was dangerous. Besides, I didn't feel comfortable letting them go out in this weather."

"That's true..." Xiao Ai nodded, "Let's go, uncle, we'll spend the night in the car..."

"Well," the hostess called Mao Li hesitantly, "I... to be honest, I called the police earlier... because of the heavy rain, they said there was nothing they could do..."

"What's wrong?" Maori saw that the hostess seemed to have something to say.

……

The vault in the villa's basement.

Maori asked the hostess and Ai to wait outside, and walked into the dim secret room alone.

A strange man was lying on the messy floor, having been dead for a long time, and there was a bad stench in the air.

The scene looked like a homicide. There were impact marks on the forehead of the corpse, and corresponding bloodstains were on the sharp corner of a small box. It seemed that the person was knocked unconscious. As for the real cause of death, the preliminary judgment was that he died of suffocation.

The room at the scene, which was supposed to be the vault, was almost completely sealed once the thick iron gate was closed. According to the hostess, she came to the villa a month later and found the dead man after opening the iron gate.

It seems that he was most likely attacked and knocked unconscious and then locked in the vault.

"He has been dead for 3 days. The cause of death was suffocation..."

Maori checked the body with a flashlight and continued to observe the scene. There were no valuables stored in the vault. There were documents and some sundries on the two rows of shelves. There were manuscripts scattered on the ground, and a piece of paper was tightly held in the hand of the deceased, which seemed to be a death message.

In addition, it was strange that there was only one slipper at the scene, and the other one originally belonged to the deceased but was now missing.

"Uncle..." Xiao Ai frowned at the door and looked at Mao Li who was investigating, "What's going on inside?"

This case has nothing to do with them, they just happened to...

"Excuse me, do you have a camera?" Mao Li turned around and asked the hostess, "We need to verify the scene before investigating."

"Well," the hostess thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "There is a room upstairs for Mr. Tenno. Maybe he brought a camera with him."

"What is your relationship with Mr. Tenno?" Maori asked puzzledly.

"He is a magazine editor and I work as a writer. We share this house because of our work," the hostess explained. "I come here to work at the end of the month, and when I'm not here, Mr. Tenno uses it as a villa."

"Aren't we lovers?"

"No, although we have known each other for a long time, it is only limited to work." The hostess paused and asked, "Do you want to go to Mr. Tianye's room to take a look?"

"it is good."

Mao Li followed the hostess upstairs and his eyes narrowed involuntarily.

Although it was not good, he still felt that there was something wrong with the hostess and she was very likely the murderer of Mr. Tenno.

Of course, this is just his feeling and guess, and the exact situation still needs to be investigated.

It's not a very complicated case. If we look for more details and clues, the truth should be revealed...

"Excuse me," the hostess asked with concern, "Mr. Tianye's incident should be an accident, right?"

Mao Li shook his head: "It's hard to say, the scene looks very likely to be a murder case."

"Eh?" The hostess laughed dryly, "But you just said he died of suffocation..."

"If someone is locked up, it's a murder case."

"No way? Actually, there was a time before when Mr. Tenno was looking for something in the vault and the door was closed for some reason. I was there at that time, so I immediately opened the door for him."

"is it?"

Maori didn't say much. Compared with the criminals he had encountered in the past, the young woman in front of him was too naive. He hadn't found any evidence yet, and with only a few clues, it was already so obvious.

"But this time, Mr. Tenno had a scar on his forehead from being hit hard. Someone must have hit him with the small box on the floor. There was blood on it..."

"But," the woman was confused, shook her head and smiled, "It's impossible..."

"Why isn't it possible?"

"When I came, the vault door was locked. Only Tianye and I could open that door. No one else could open it." The woman tried to explain.

Maori looked at the woman again, and Ai also looked at the woman.

It sounds like the woman locked Tianye in the vault, but Tianye was injured by a severe blow for some unknown reason.

A normal person would think that the criminal would attack Tianye first and then close the vault door, rather than closing the vault door first and then thinking about how to attack Tianye...

The only people who think the latter are psychopaths or murderers.

"This is the room." The woman did not notice the suspicion of Mori and the other man, and took Mori directly to Tenno's room on the second floor.

There was a suitcase on the desk inside. Mao Li opened it and took a quick look. After finding the camera, he carried the suitcase downstairs and returned to the basement vault.

Although he is a special adviser to the Metropolitan Police Department and has even higher authority and freedom than the police in solving cases, he still cannot be careless. Now that the police cannot come for the time being, he has to act as a forensic officer.

After taking a lot of photos and making sure that every corner was captured, Maori picked up a piece of manuscript paper held in the dead man's hand.

There were some pictures drawn on the front of the wrinkled manuscript paper, but the back was blank. I didn't know what Tianye wanted to express. There were so many manuscript papers on the ground, why did he choose this one...

……

In the living room of the villa, Maori and the hostess sat face to face on the sofa, while Xiao Ai was playing with a big dog while thinking about the case.

"Excuse me, what's your name..." Maori said to the hostess.

"Ah, my name is Chiba Koishikawa," the woman responded and quickly handed a book beside her to Maori, "This is the novel I wrote, a comedy novel for girls."

"Chiba Koishikawa? Hmm? Big sister, you are Chiba Koishikawa?" Xiao Ai at the side came to her senses from her thoughts and took over the novel and said, "Sister Xiao Lan really likes the novels you write! I have read almost every one of them!"

"The sister Xiaolan she is talking about is my daughter." Maori explained on the side.

The woman chuckled shyly: "Thank you, actually my writing is pretty average."

"By the way, Miss Chinami, do you think it is possible that Mr. Tenno came to the villa with someone three days ago?" asked Maori.

"I'm not sure about that either," Chiba Koishikawa asked in confusion, "Why do you say someone is with Mr. Tenno?"

"I just looked at his luggage." Maori placed the items in the suitcase on the coffee table one by one.

A stack of receipts from three days ago that clearly showed that they were traveling with someone, a condom, and a notebook with a dating arrangement written on it...

Maori twitched his lips.

This Dian Yehuaxinde is really amazing, he actually has so many women.

Looking carefully at the notebook, there was an arrangement on it for a date with a woman codenamed "C" three days ago.

The murderer was too careless, and the clues he left behind were too complicated for even a rookie detective to understand, let alone a famous detective like Maori.

"Who do you think this woman C might be?" Maori continued to ask.

"Is the other person a girl?" Qianbo pinched his fingers nervously and asked back cautiously.

"Here are condoms. If there are no accidents, it should be a female," Maori said, looking at the woman, "Speaking of which, if C stands for name, then Chiyo, Chiba... your name Chinami will also work."

Chiba Koishikawa's eyes wandered, and she nodded stiffly, "That's right."

Maori has basically confirmed that the woman is the murderer, but he didn't say it directly.

There was still a lack of key evidence, and this woman didn't look like the kind of person who would commit evil for no reason. Mao Li hoped to induce this person to take responsibility for the crime through hints...

Maori shifted his gaze away from the woman's face and studied the manuscript paper that Tenno was holding, which seemed to contain the message of death.

"Mr. Tenno should have left the criminal's message on this piece of paper, but..."

Maori flipped through the manuscript in his hand. There was a cartoon on the front, and nothing on the back.

"This is the manuscript of my new work," Qianbo crossed her fingers, becoming increasingly restless, "It's a comedy novel for girls called 'The Sunset of Yasunari University'..."

"Are those on the floor of the vault all original manuscripts?"

"Well, Mr. Tianye might be looking for my manuscript..."

"Why did he grab this one?" Mao Li looked at the cartoon on the manuscript carefully. "What is this picture about?"

"The main character, a dancer, fell and got injured, and was saved by a spy passing by... This novel is a love story between a dancer and a spy," the woman said somewhat embarrassedly, "It's unrealistic, isn't it? I only know how to write unrealistic things like this... I'd better not read it anymore, I'm so sorry."

"Boom!" The thunderstorm outside the house never subsided, and the rain kept pouring down outside the living room window.

Maori let out a sigh and put down the crumpled manuscript paper, noticing that the big dog was playing with slippers nearby, which looked quite interesting.

Thick yellow hair, when nothing is going on, it just sits there obediently, well-behaved and quiet, just like the loyal dog Hachiko...

Maori tried to wave his hand, and the big dog immediately ran to the sofa with its ears twitched.

"What kind of dog is this? It's quite big."

"A famous American dog breed, its name is Manguno."

"Manguno?" Maori stretched out his hand, and the big dog cooperated by also raising its front paws to shake hands, but it seemed as if it had walked in the rain, and its paws were dirty.

"Excuse me," the woman stood up and said, "I'll get you a towel..."

"It's okay, it's okay." Maori turned around and saw Ai looking like she knew it a long time ago. He smiled bitterly and retracted his arm, but the big dog chased after him and tapped his paw again.

"Boom!" There was another burst of lightning and thunder, and the lights in the villa suddenly went out, leaving only the light from the fire in the fireplace.

"What happened?" Chiba Koishikawa's voice trembled.

"It's just a power outage," Mao Li looked outside and said, "Maybe the power line is broken..."

"This is terrible," Chiba Koishikawa was not used to the darkness, and she sighed and left the sofa, "I'm going to sleep first. Call me if you need anything."

"it is good."

Mao Li watched the woman walk out of the living room, then turned to Xiao Ai and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"Ah, I found something." Xiao Ai nodded, "This mistress..."

"Well, it shouldn't be wrong..." Maori took the candlestick and put it on the coffee table in the living room, then found the novel "The Sunset of Yasunari University" by Chiba Koishikawa and read it. "It was Miss Chiba who locked Mr. Tenno in that vault."

Chapter 197 Fifteen Minutes of Silence

Even if Maori didn't observe too carefully, he would have discovered that there were clues everywhere in the villa, and all the clues pointed to Ms. Chinami Koishikawa.

For example, if you take a quick look, you will find that Chinami Koishikawa's luggage is still in the living room. The footprints on the floor show that this woman has just arrived at the villa and went directly to the basement as soon as she arrived.

All these indicate that Chiba Koishikawa knew that Tenno was imprisoned in the vault, and it is very likely that she was the one who planned this case...

Outside the living room, Chinami Koishikawa was leaning against the wall. When she heard Maori's voice, her eyes widened at first, then she pursed her lips silently, turned around, went upstairs and walked into her room.

Although she said she wanted to go to bed, she actually couldn't sleep at all. She was just afraid that Maori would continue to ask questions.

Originally, she just wanted Maori to confirm the accident scene on behalf of the police, but it backfired. The famous detective saw through her crime in one go...

Why did they come to borrow the phone... Why did I agree to them...

Chiba Koishikawa huddled at the head of the bed with her knees hugged, silently looking out the window where thunder was rumbling, and just watched the leaves rustling in the wind and rain.

In the living room, Maori became increasingly engrossed in reading a book. By the time the wall clock rang a few times, he had unknowingly finished the entire novel.

Although it is called a novel, most of it is actually comics, just like the original manuscript held in Mr. Tenno's hand.

"Is it so late?"

Maori looked at the time, put down the book with a little tiredness, and found that Xiao Ai was curled up and fell asleep on the sofa next to her. Since this little girl became an elementary school student, her living habits have become more and more like those of an elementary school student.

Maori yawned and looked at the big dog who was still quite energetic. He had been sitting next to him since he started reading. When he saw Maori looking at it, it immediately wagged its tail.

Maori smiled, ignored the big dog, and continued reading the novel.

The content of the novel is just as Chinami Koishikawa said, it is a love story between a dancing girl and a spy from beginning to end. The manuscript that Tenno is holding is just a fragment of the book, and no message can be seen at all.