Chapter 138: Unbelievable Murder in a Closed Room
Chapter 138: Unbelievable Murder in a Closed Room
Song Hongyi's bedroom has two windows. They are not the old-fashioned wooden grille windows that open up and down, but hinged glass windows that open left and right, both facing the direction of the courtyard.
Lin Ze walked over and pushed it open, carefully examining the windowsill, especially the bricks and stones on both sides of the windowsill.
There is no trace.
If someone had come in through the window, even if they knew kung fu, it would be impossible for them to leave no trace.
What's more, as Ersong Dacheng said, this place is patrolled day and night, so it is basically impossible for someone to sneak in without being noticed.
Ersong Dacheng carefully checked Song Hongyi's bed and the cabinets in the bedroom again.
He opened a low cabinet, which was filled with bottles and jars, cups and bowls.
Before Song Hongyi was transferred to this courtyard, he had relatively free movement.
This guy likes to study porcelain. Whenever he has nothing to do, he goes to Liulichang. He doesn't know whether it is real or fake, but he buys a lot of things.
I couldn't bear to throw it away when I moved, so I brought it here.
Ersong Dacheng carefully examined each piece of porcelain, but still found no problems.
He took off his white gloves and frowned, "How strange, could it be that Mr. Song really committed suicide?"
The two men found nothing and returned to the gendarmerie headquarters.
Ersong Dacheng was unwilling to give up and applied to check the sealed items at the scene.
That is the porridge that Song Hongyi drank and the note.
As for Song Hongyi's body, it had been taken away for an autopsy and they could not see it.
Kitahara Ransuke sent someone to take them to a room where the things were kept.
Ersong Dacheng and Lin Ze went to see the note first.
This is a piece of paper about two fingers wide and three inches long, with a line of pen writing on it, and the handwriting is quite good.
"Those who are traitors must be killed." Ersong Dacheng recited softly.
Then he turned around and said to Lin Ze: "Mr. Lin, this doesn't make sense. If Mr. Song committed suicide, why would he leave this note? It's obvious that someone poisoned Mr. Song and left the note in a special way to create panic and threaten those who cooperated with the Imperial Army."
Lin Ze nodded.
He thought that Old Song must have poisoned himself. As for the note, Old Song was originally from the south. He did this on the one hand to hinder the investigation of the gendarmerie headquarters, and on the other hand, as Nisong Dacheng said, to deter traitors.
A staff member came in and said to Nisong Dacheng, "Captain Nisong, we have done a handwriting identification. By comparing it with Mr. Song's previous notes, the words on the note were indeed not written by Mr. Song, and Mr. Song has never used this kind of ink. This is a kind of ink called Pelikan, made in Germany."
Ersong Dacheng looked confident, "As expected! Mr. Song definitely could not have committed suicide! The reason why he covered up the scene so perfectly was to mislead our investigation. I will request a large number of manpower to conduct an investigation. Everyone who approached Mr. Song's residence last night is a suspect!"
Lin Ze frowned, feeling a little confused.
Where did Lao Song get this note?
Also, if Old Song wanted to commit suicide, why would the headquarters go to the trouble of giving me the order to eliminate Song Hongyi?
He walked over, put on gloves, and took the note from Ersong Dacheng's hand.
When a traitor must be killed...
When a traitor must be killed...
I always feel like I've seen this handwriting somewhere, but I really can't remember where, so I just stop worrying about it.
In any case, Lao Song's plan succeeded, he was dead, and the entire gendarmerie headquarters was busy preparing for his death.
I wonder if Tomoko Shimouchi succeeded?
Nisong Dacheng was convinced that a murderer had sneaked into the scene and began to study the bowl of porridge.
He looked at the bowl of porridge carefully and asked, "Have you tested the remaining porridge?"
"Captain Nisong, there is indeed poison in the porridge. It is cyanide. The lethal dose is small and the death rate is fast. The deceased must have died from this."
Lin Ze put down the note and turned his gaze to the bowl of porridge on another table.
To be precise, there were two containers on the table, one was a pottery jar and the other was a porridge bowl. Presumably, after the gendarme cooked the porridge, he put it in the pottery jar. The mouth of the pottery jar was relatively small, which could keep the porridge warm. Then Song Hongyi poured the porridge out of the pottery jar and drank it.
Unfortunately, he died after drinking just two sips.
The two communicated for a while but found nothing new, so they had to return to Kitahara Ransuke's office.
Kitahara was talking on the phone angrily.
"Bakayar! Tell them to destroy all the newspapers right now! They are not allowed to sell them, not even one is allowed to be circulated! Foreigners? Not even foreigners! Foreigners are not allowed to publish articles like this!"
After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone and complained, "These reporters are so omnipresent! They just want the world to be in chaos. Song Hongyi just died and there's already news over there. Damn it!"
In fact, there is no need for reporters to report it. The truth will soon come to light. The gendarmerie headquarters is so busy that anyone who is interested will soon know what happened.
Some senior officials of the maintenance association have started to panic. Even the special mayor Yu Jinhe took a day off and did not go to work today. It seemed that he was really scared.
"Dacheng, Lin Sang, have you found anything?"
Nisong Dacheng stood at attention, "Kitahara-kun! I think Song Hongyi didn't commit suicide. First of all, he had no reason to commit suicide. If he was an undercover agent, wouldn't it be better for him to continue lurking? Why did he choose to commit suicide? Secondly, the note found at the scene was not from Song Hongyi's hand. This also proves that there must be another person who appeared at the scene and put the note on the table after confirming Song Hongyi's death. As for why he left no trace, I think this person should know martial arts. When we were outside the Great Wall before, didn't we often capture some rebels who could easily jump over the high walls?"
Kitahara Ransuke nodded.
He also didn't believe that Song Hongyi committed suicide. Just as Nisong Dacheng said, if Song Hongyi committed suicide, then what was he trying to do? Wouldn't it be better to stay hidden?
Kitahara Ransuke also wondered whether Song Hongyi committed suicide to cover up some secret plan.
But in his opinion, this doesn't make sense at all. The only action Song Hongyi had ever participated in was to capture Li Mengna and kill her. The rest of the time, he just wrote articles to guide public opinion. What kind of plan could this be?
Looking at Kitahara Ransuke who was puzzled, Lin Ze suddenly realized a problem.
The Military Police Headquarters is still unaware of the fact that Song Hongyi introduced Shimouchi Tomoko to Ikei Yuto, but they were present at the time.
So the question is, why is Song Hongyi so sure that he will not tell Kitahara Ransuke about Shimouchi Tomoko?
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