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Chapter 466 The Truth About the Murder Case

"Yes! Such a thing is indeed possible!"

After listening to Shinichi's explanation, Police Officer Mumu couldn't help but suddenly realized.

"Officer Meguro, there is blood in the cardboard box."

While explaining, Shinichi opened the box and checked it, then pointed to the blood stains inside the box and said.

"Ah."

Police officer Mu Mu couldn't help but nodded seriously.

"However, according to this statement, everyone who came here at that time may have committed the murder, but it is still impossible to prove that Ms. Meimei is the murderer... Kudo, the most important thing is that you have evidence that can point to the murderer?"

Officer Megure asked again.

"Yeah, you've already said that, so what evidence do you have to prove that I killed Hua Lian?"

Mimi looked at Shinichi with fierce eyes and said.

"That's something I've never figured out before."

Shinichi couldn't help saying:
"Since the prisoner sent a threatening letter and wanted to threaten Miss Hualian, why did Miss Hualian die on the weapon she was carrying in the end? Theoretically speaking, it is impossible for the prisoner to face Miss Hualian with a dagger empty-handed." Right? So, I suspected Miss Hualian's cause of death before, thinking that the murderer forged Miss Hualian's real cause of death."

As he said that, Xinyi also had no choice but to recall the matter of asking Gao Yuan to retrieve the video before, and then continued:
"But when I found out that Miss Hualian was indeed killed by that dagger, I realized that my reasoning had reached a dead end."

"In that case, then you have no evidence..."

Hearing this, Meimei couldn't wait to speak out, but Xinyi answered immediately:

"However, when I found something behind the pillar, I realized that the murderer was armed."

"what!"

Police officer Meguro hurriedly asked:

"Kudou, what the hell is it?"

"It's mercury!"

Shinichi suddenly said:

"Behind that pillar, Mr. Wise and I found some mercury. I think the murderer put the mercury into an empty paint bucket here and used it as a weapon. But in the end, the murderer didn't He successfully used this weapon to kill Miss Hualian, but in a dispute with Miss Hualian, he just took away the other party's dagger and killed her."

"Mercury? Where is the mercury now!"

Police officer Mu Mu hurriedly asked.

"It's in that wooden box!"

Shinichi pointed to the wooden box where Amano Shoichi used to put the puppets and said:

"In Mr. Amano's puppet, there is a mechanical puppet that can do somersaults and go down the stairs alone. There is a tube inside the puppet's body, and the center of gravity of the puppet can be changed by the slow movement of mercury in the tube. This puppet uses this A kind of mechanism to realize the action of somersault alone."

"Oh--"

The voice was drawn out in surprise, and Police Officer Megure showed a reverent expression towards Shinichi.

"When I saw the mercury remaining on the pillar, I guessed that the murderer should have taken the mercury out of the puppet as a weapon..."

"But this is more proof that Amano is the murderer!"

Meimei can't help but say.

"So, what did you sneak here just now?"

Xinyi suddenly said:
"You want to destroy the evidence left on the puppet after the police leave and before anyone notices the evidence you left?"

With that said, Shinichi continued:
"Besides, Miss Meimei, don't you know? Mercury is a silver-white liquid metal, but it can evaporate at room temperature. It is easy to evaporate into the air at room temperature and cause harm. It starts to evaporate at 0°C. Then A large amount of mercury was taken out of the puppet, and you, who faced the mercury directly, should have inhaled a lot of mercury vapor... Compared with liquid mercury, the vapor of mercury is more poisonous!"

Hearing this, Shou Meimei suddenly widened her eyes, a little at a loss.

"About whether you have inhaled mercury vapor, you only need to check to know. And if Miss Hualian's body can also be found that she has inhaled mercury vapor, it will prove that you all had close contact with mercury at that time! "

Shinichi said the most crucial point.

"Meimei... what he said... is it true?"

At this moment, Mei Ling, who had been standing beside her, looked at Mei Mei in disbelief and said.

In this regard, Meimei seemed to be struggling for a moment, but in the end she smiled wryly as if resigned to her fate:

"Obviously, it's all Hualian's fault..."

"What, what..."

Seeing Meimei's confession, Meiling panicked and froze in place.

"It was Hua Lian who took the mercury out of the puppet, poured it into an empty paint can, and planned to use this as a weapon to kill me, and then used those three cardboard boxes to hide my body... In this way, as long as Put the mercury back into the puppet, and the murder weapon will disappear, and my death will become an unsolved case..."

Meimei said disappointedly:
"She said, 'Since you want me to die, I can only let you die first'... I just... in the process of fighting with her, I accidentally killed her with her dagger... ..."

"So, you turned around and used the tools she prepared to act out such a play?"

Hearing this, Shinichi couldn't help asking.

"kindness……"

In this regard, Meimei nodded:
"I was so flustered at the time... After I temporarily hid her body, I didn't know what to do, but my mother told me that Hua Lian was gone. I had no choice but to pretend to be looking for her. While thinking about what to do...Finally, I thought of using the contents of the threatening letter..."

"no!"

At this time, Amano, who had been silent until now, finally spoke:

"That's not the case! Hua Lian's body was made that way by me!"

"what!"

In this regard, police officer Megure and others couldn't help but shouted loudly.

"At that time, Hua Lian, who was stabbed by a dagger, escaped from the elevator room and came to the corridor, just in time for me to see... But at that time, Hua Lian had already died... I saw Meimei panicked. , this is..."

Amano said hysterically.

"That is to say, Miss Meimei killed Miss Hualian by mistake, but you happened to meet her. In order to protect Miss Meimei, you tied a kite string to Miss Hualian's body, pretending to kill according to the threatening letter?"

Inspector Mumu asked seriously.

Amano nodded, lowered his head and became silent.

Seeing this, Police Officer Mumu couldn't help but sighed, then looked at Shou Meimei, and asked:

"But why did you change that letter into a threatening letter? If it wasn't for that letter, none of this would have happened, would it?"

"Because...whether it's the honors she won on the stage or Amano...all of these belonged to me in the first place!"

When Meimei said this, her expression suddenly became ferocious.

"What? It's yours?"

Police officer Mumu was surprised.

"Yes."

Meimei nodded:

"Because I was the first to step into the world of beauty contests. But no matter what Hua Lian does, even if she enters the industry later than me, she can catch up with me in an instant and then surpass me... This is the case with the violin, the piano, even Beauty pageant also..."

(End of this chapter)