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At this moment, he was standing with his back against the door, holding the door handle with one hand, and looking at the boy with the other hand making a "please" gesture. The smile on his face could even be said to be a little flattering.
"Well, Officer Baihe, take care."
And the boy gave him that gentle smile again.
"Thank you."
After saying that, the boy walked out.
Because the door was not wide, and Mr. Muraki was standing at the door with half of his body tilted sideways, the distance between the boy and him was inevitably very close when he walked past him.
【Um? 】
It was at this moment that the boy suddenly smelled a faint pungent smell coming from Mr. Muraki.
Chapter 630 There is something wrong with this family
【Um? 】
Just at the moment when he passed by Mr. Muraki, the boy suddenly smelled a faint strange smell coming from Mr. Muraki.
The strange smell was a bit pungent but not strong. It drifted away with the wind in an instant, and the boy almost thought that there was something wrong with his sense of smell.
Stopping, the boy turned to look at Mr. Muraki who was standing right by the door, his eyes narrowed.
He looked Mr. Muraki over again.
The shirt and pants on his body were clean, but full of wrinkles, as if they had been washed and dried and then stuffed into the closet for several days, and then hurriedly taken out and put on.
The exposed skin was normal, and with the boy's sharp eyesight, he couldn't see anything as if the skin was covered with something as if he hadn't taken a bath for a long time.
Rather, it looks quite clean.
"Officer Shirakawa?" Mr. Muraki was stunned and looked at the boy with some confusion.
"Statue of a statue?" Xiao Wuhuan, who was following the boy, also stopped and looked at him in confusion.
The two detectives inside and outside the door suddenly became serious at this moment. Having followed the boy to solve cases for a long time, they naturally understood the signals expressed by some of the boy's actions better.
Generally speaking, in this situation, the boys are ready to catch someone.
Although they didn't know what the boy had discovered, it didn't matter. They just caught him because the boy never made mistakes anyway.
However, this time the two detectives' guess was wrong.
The boy looked Mr. Muraki over carefully under his puzzled and nervous expression, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Mr. Muraki, please have a good rest. If you really feel unwell, go to the hospital as soon as possible."
"Ah? Ah, ok, ok, thank you Officer Shirakawa for your concern..."
Mr. Muraki was somewhat overwhelmed by the boy's concern and was stunned for a moment before he quickly nodded and smiled.
"Then Officer Baihe, take care. I'll leave Xing and Xingzi's affairs in your hands. If you have any other questions, please come and see my wife and me. Take care..."
Without another response to him, the boy walked straight into the police car parked outside.
"drive."
"Stickman, what happened just now?" Xiao Wuwan asked hurriedly as soon as he got into the police car, and the other two detectives also pricked up their ears when they heard his voice.
Not only she, but also the two detectives noticed the strange atmosphere just now, but they didn't dare to ask directly like Kogumaru did.
"I suspect there is something wrong with this family."
The car started slowly, and the boy sitting in the back seat spoke directly without hiding anything.
He lowered his head, frowning slightly. His words startled the little Karasuma sitting next to him. He asked incredulously:
"You don't suspect that they killed their daughter, do you?"
"Mr. Muraki was very nervous when he first met me. This is not normal."
"In their eyes, you are a police officer after all. Even if ordinary people are a little nervous when they see a police officer..."
"He wasn't like this when he saw me this morning." The boy interrupted Karasuma slightly.
He had met the Muraki couple at the cemetery this morning, but he only asked them some simple questions in the morning and let the couple go home first to wait for the police's follow-up investigation.
At that time, neither Mrs. Muraki nor Mr. Muraki showed any nervous reaction when they saw the boy.
But just one morning had passed, and when Mr. Muraki saw him again, he suddenly became extremely nervous for some reason.
In the conversation in the room just now, Mr. Muraki was very cautious when facing the boy from the time he appeared to the time he left, which was in stark contrast to his reaction in the morning.
"No wonder you tried to stop me from drinking the tea he handed to me. Did you suspect that there was something wrong with him then?"
Xiao Wuhuan seemed to be thinking about what he said.
"When they went to see Kyoko-san's body this morning, did they show any unusual reactions? For example, they weren't surprised at all, or they weren't sad at all?"
Recalling the plot in the detective mystery novel he had read before, Kokarasuma hurriedly asked.
"Surprise is hard to judge," the boy explained.
“After all, we were the ones who called to inform them to come for the autopsy, which allowed them to be mentally prepared in advance. Therefore, they did not show too much surprise after seeing their daughter’s body with their own eyes. This is also a normal reaction.
As for the sadness and grief... the couple did have a strong reaction at the time, and it didn’t seem like they were pretending.”
"In other words, I was overthinking it. They didn't actually kill their own daughter..." Upon hearing this, Kougamaru looked thoughtful again.
How could anyone pretend to be grief-stricken after having tortured and murdered their own daughter? Even if they could, how long could they do it?
Xiao Wuhuan did not forget that when he first saw Mrs. Muraki, the area around her eyes was red and swollen.
It was obvious that Mrs. Muraki had been crying all morning.
Although Mr. Muraki did not have such a strong reaction, he also looked exhausted, as if he had lost his soul.
The couple were both very obviously grieving the death of their daughter.
"Just now when I was leaving, I smelled a strange smell on Mr. Muraki."
At this time, the boy spoke again.
"This smell is very special and a bit pungent, but it's not the body odor that comes from not washing for a long time, nor is it like the smell of cigarettes or alcohol. At the same time, it's completely different from the special stench that comes from long-term accumulation of garbage..."
The boy paused here.
"After all, I still haven't figured out where that smell comes from."
Having been active at various crime scenes for a long time, the boy has been exposed to a variety of different environments and has a clear understanding of those common smells associated with humans.
But the boy had no impression of the special pungent smell that Mr. Muraki had just emitted. He even tried to carefully recall the smell of highly decomposed human corpses he had seen before, but found that it did not match at all.
【There must be something wrong with that strange smell. 】
The boy made a judgment in his mind.
If the strange smell alone wasn't enough to make him think this way.
But if you add to that the nervousness that Mr. Muraki displayed throughout the entire time he saw the boy again, and the fact that he was wearing clothes that were obviously changed in a hurry... this was enough to make the boy suspicious.
The story behind this family is definitely not that simple, but the boy is not sure whether it is related to the murder of Kyoko.
Chapter 631 I Think It's Him
After leaving the Muraki family, the boy and Kokarasuma came to the "Hanada family" again.
The Hanada family is the family of the classmate who was bullied by the deceased classmate Anzi to the point of jumping off a building and committing suicide.
According to what the boy learned, the Hanada family seemed to be a single-parent family. Mrs. Hanada died early, and only Mr. Hanada and his daughter were at home.
A few months ago, this classmate Hanada committed suicide by jumping off a building. After Mr. Hanada went to the Muraki family to ask for an explanation but failed, he lived alone in this house and drank all day long.
The Hanada family's house is similar to the Muraki family's, both are old Japanese-style houses. Because of its remote location, there are only a few small neighbors around.
By the time the boy and Xiao Wuhuan arrived here, it was already getting dark.
"Mr. Hanada."
Just like before, the boy walked up and knocked on the door, followed by Kokarasuma and two other detectives.
There was no response from the room.
"Mr. Hanada, are you there?" After waiting for a while, the boy used a little force and knocked on the door again.
However, there was still no response from inside the house.
"Wooden man, there seems to be no one in there..." Xiao Wuwan said.
Frowning slightly, the boy did not try to knock on the door again, but reached out and turned the doorknob.
"Crack!"
To his surprise, the door opened directly after he twisted it.
[The door is not locked?]
Blown by the air flow, the door slowly opened towards the inside of the house, revealing the dark and gloomy corridor behind the door.
In an instant, the boy had a bad feeling in his heart.
He did not rush in, but turned to look at the two detectives behind him.
"Leave one person to watch the door, and the other person to go find all the neighbors around here. I have something to ask them."
"Yes." One of the two detectives immediately turned around and left.
After giving the order, the boy took out a pistol from his windbreaker pocket and directly opened the safety under the shocked gaze of Kogumaru.
"You, you, you always carry a gun with you?!"
Xiao Wuhuan's eyes widened as he looked at the boy's skillful movements. It was obvious that this was not his first time using a gun.
"Just for self-defense, stay outside or follow me."
With a casual reply, the boy opened the door and walked in.
"Wait, wait for me! I want to come with you!" Xiao Wuhuan hurriedly followed.
The two walked into the house, and the boy first glanced at the shoe cabinet at the entrance.
In the shoe cabinet, there are various styles of men's shoes, including several pairs of obvious women's shoes, but the only key thing missing is - men's indoor slippers.