Chapter 278 The Murderer Is Among Us
The two dead people in the storage room had a companion. Coincidentally, the three people knew each other and came to the fishing trip together.
"How could this happen..." Izu Takeshi sat on the sofa with a dazed look on his face, his head lowered, and his whole body looked dim.
"Even Professor Kirito was killed... Is it my turn next?" A look of horror appeared on Daigo Sakano's face.
The three people who were killed were all traveling with him. According to common sense, the next one would probably be either him or Izu Takeshi.
"But in this case, the murderer should not be among us." Reporter Nanami Ishida suddenly said.
"No, it's too early to draw conclusions like that," Yuya retorted.
Those who didn't know the truth looked at Youya in surprise.
"What are you talking about!" Sakano Daigo shouted, "Miss Hanye was murdered and this time, weren't all of us present?"
"Don't you think this is even more strange?" Yuya asked back, "It's as if the murderer is deliberately leading us to notice that everyone in the three cases has an alibi."
He has discovered that since Han Ye Meihuo was murdered, the murderer has been guiding them intentionally or unintentionally, but other people didn't seem to notice it.
"Boy, do you think the murderer is among us?" Izu Takeshi suddenly raised his head and looked at Youya angrily.
Yuya looked him in the eye without fear and said slowly, "That's right."
Izu Takeshi leaned back slightly, showing a shocked expression, and glanced at the people in the room with suspicion.
Those who were seen by him showed uneasy expressions.
"That's enough, stop talking nonsense," Sakano Daigo's voice was faintly tearful, "Three people have died now, I really can't stand it! I don't want to die!"
"Do you have any evidence to support your statement?" Ishida Nanami asked Yuya. It seemed that, apart from the people who were traveling with him, she was the only one who knew that this young man was a detective.
She was willing to believe Yuya, and being able to witness a famous detective solving a case with her own eyes could be used as news material.
Youye took a deep breath and said, "The reason why I am so sure is because I have solved the method by which Miss Han Ye was killed. Therefore, I am sure that the murderer is among us."
"What?!" Everyone looked at Youye in surprise.
"You solved it? You mean, the murderer is not from outside?" Sakano Daigo asked excitedly, "Then why didn't you say it earlier? If you had said it earlier, Doctor Wuying might not have been killed!"
Youye was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry... I only solved the trick, and I don't have direct evidence to prove who the murderer is. In order not to alert the enemy, I wanted to investigate secretly, but I didn't expect the murderer to be so murderous that he killed three people in less than two nights."
"So, who is the murderer?" Daigo Sakano asked anxiously.
You also shook his head: "I just said, I just solved the murder method, I didn't confirm who the murderer is..."
"You guy! Are you kidding me?!" Sakano Daigo was angry. He rushed up and grabbed Yuya's collar and wanted to hit him.
"Calm down." Youye frowned, raised his hand and twisted it gently to pry his hand off.
Daigo Sakano showed a painful expression and looked at Yuya in surprise and doubt. How could this young man be so strong?
"So, you said that you have solved the method of Miss Han Ye's murder. How did the murderer do it?" Izu Takeshi asked.
Yuya glanced at him and said, "This has something to do with time."
"Time?" Izu Takeshi looked puzzled.
Youya glanced at the clock on the wall and said, "I will fully demonstrate the murderer's methods to you tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Please do not act alone tonight to avoid giving the murderer an opportunity to take advantage of you."
"Hey, can't you just say it directly?" asked Sakano Daigo dissatisfiedly.
Yuya shook his head: "There's no point in saying it now... Inspector Shiratori, let's go check the cabin first."
Shiratori Renzaburo nodded and told everyone, "Don't act alone. If you really can't do it, just stay in the living room tonight. When the storm stops tomorrow, the police station will send someone over."
After saying that, he chased Youya out.
The other people in the living room looked at each other, sighed, and went back to their rooms. However, they also followed Shiratori Renzaburo's advice and did not act alone.
Miyano Shiho returned to her room and got two coats, then went to the cabin and found Yuya and the others.
"Yuya, it's cold at the beach at night, put on more clothes." Miyano Shiho handed the coat to Yuya, and then gave one to Shiratori Renzaburo, "Inspector Shiratori too."
"Thank you." The two thanked him and put on their coats.
"How is it, have you found anything?" asked Miyano Shiho.
Yuya nodded, squatted down and picked up two wires on the ground: "This wire was cut by someone, probably when the lights suddenly dimmed."
Miyano Shiho widened her eyes slightly: "Could it be that the murderer was in the cabin at the time?"
Yuya nodded: "It's possible."
Miyano Shiho recalled the scene at that time, and then raised her own question: "But at that time, we all saw that there was only Doctor Wuying lying on the ground in the wooden house. Such a small place can't hide a second person, right?"
Yuya glanced around the cabin and it was just as Miyano Shiho said, the cabin was not big and everything could be seen clearly at a glance. It was impossible to hide it from being seen by outsiders.
"Brother Kamiya, look at this." Shiratori Renzaburo suddenly shouted.
Youya hurried over and saw a slightly bent steel pipe.
"What is this?" Youya wondered.
"Steel pipe." Shiratori Renzaburo said, touching his chin.
"···I can see it. Why is it bent like this?" Youye frowned. If it was Kirio who put it here, it would be impossible for her to bend the steel pipe like this with her strength.
There are no signs of rust on it, so it should not have been picked up from outside.
He squatted down and looked at the steel pipe carefully, and suddenly found some sawdust on both ends of the pipe.
Why is this thing there? Is this steel pipe used to support something?
Thinking of this, Youye looked around the wooden house, and soon he found a slightly damaged hole on the ground.
"This is..." Youye touched his chin, suddenly thought of something, stood up, closed the wooden door, and then started searching behind the door.
"Sure enough, there are traces here too..." Youye murmured.
"Brother Kamiya, what did you find?" asked Shiratori Renzaburo.
Miyano Shiho also came over curiously.
"Look," Youye took the steel pipe and took a look at it. He poked one end into the hole on the ground and found that it was just enough to fix it. Then he pointed at the marks behind the wooden door and said, "This steel pipe should have supported the wooden door at that time."
Shiratori Renzaburo measured the length of the steel pipe and was surprised to find that if the steel pipe was not bent, it could just support the wooden door at this position.
"No wonder. I was a little surprised at the time that you couldn't kick open the wooden door. It turned out that it was propped up by a steel pipe." Miyano Shiho suddenly realized.
Yuya nodded: "I'm afraid the murderer did this on purpose to prevent others from breaking in through the door. But he didn't expect that I was so strong that I even bent the steel pipe."