Chapter 976 The Hidden Mistake
On the way to Minegishi Tamami's room, Yuya asked casually, "Come to think of it, why didn't Inspector Yamato go to the scene with you? Aren't you always together?"
As she walked, Yui Uehara explained, "He said that there was one thing he had to confirm before tomorrow's press conference, so he went to investigate with Inspector Morobushi. It seems that they were both involved in the Red Dress Woman incident before."
Several people came to Minegishi Tamami's room and searched it, but they found neither long hair, kitchen knife, nor wet clothes.
There were no signs of moisture or mud around the windows.
Yui Uehara concluded, "It seems that the person who attacked Ms. Sumika was not Ms. Tamami."
Conan also said: "The same is true for Mr. Renda's room on the second floor that I just checked. In addition, there are no signs of moisture in the entrance or corridor."
Yui Uehara pinched her chin and analyzed, "Yes, I originally suspected that one of them attacked Miss Sumika. So, it is possible that Miss Sumika directed and acted it herself?"
Yuya denied, "It shouldn't be. The knife wound on Ms. Sumika's back was cut very cleanly, and from the angle, she wouldn't have been able to leave that kind of scar herself."
Uehara Yui was full of doubts: "So who attacked Ms. Sumika?"
"In this case," Sera Masumi closed the window and looked through the glass at the forest outside that was shrouded in heavy rain, "The murderer is very likely not in the villa..."
Yuya continued: "There really is something lurking in the forest..."
Conan: "Waiting for a chance to attack us!"
"Boom!" Suddenly, a pale light flashed outside the window and a loud thunder exploded out of nowhere.
Uehara Yui's pupils suddenly shrank, and she seemed to see a pair of blood-red eyes in the forest staring at her.
"Ah!" Uehara Yui screamed, staggered backward, and suddenly bumped into the wall and fell down.
Yuye and the other two looked back in surprise, all with speechless expressions.
Shira Masumi quickly comforted him, "We were just joking!"
Youye shrugged helplessly: Come on, you are a policeman after all, how could you be scared by such words?
They just felt the atmosphere was right, so they said those words together, but they didn't expect that it would scare Uehara Yui.
Sera Masumi approached Uehara Yui and asked with a smile, "By the way, you just said you had something to ask us, what was it?"
Speaking of business, Yui Uehara immediately put away her frightened expression and said seriously, "What I want to ask is, since you are here to investigate the strange incident that happened in this villa before, you should have detailed information, right?"
Sera Masumi nodded and said, of course there was. When she first arrived here, Aki Sumika gave her the relevant video materials.
Masumi Sera spread the photos on the table. Yui Uehara took a quick look and found that they were indeed strange things, and they all reminded people of the woman in red.
Suddenly, she pointed at one of the photos and asked, "Why does this photo look old?"
Sera Masumi took a look and explained, "That was a photo taken twelve years ago of a classmate of the people in the living room, before Satoko disappeared, right?"
She pointed to the girl in the middle wearing glasses and said, "This girl is Satoko who drowned in the swamp."
Yui Uehara frowned slightly. She picked up the photo and looked at it carefully for a while, then said, "That's strange. The girl is wearing a beige cardigan, right?"
"But when the girl's body was found, she was clearly wearing a long red coat!"
"What?" Yuye and the others looked surprised.
Yui Uehara revealed another piece of information, which was that the people who found the murder weapon, the kitchen knife, in the swamp where Satoko drowned three years ago were Inspector Yamato and Inspector Morobushi, who were still training at the police academy and on duty at the police station at the time.
The two of them often quarreled about this matter afterwards.
Inspector Yamato believes that the bones he and Satoko found were not those of the woman in red; however, Inspector Morobushi holds the opposite view.
Uehara Yui spread her hands, with a helpless expression on her face: "Later, when the identity of the bones was confirmed to be the woman in red, Inspector Moruobushi put on an expression that was just as I expected, but Xiaogan couldn't accept it at all."
"Xiao Gan?" A strange name suddenly popped up, and Sera Masumi was stunned.
Yui Uehara immediately reacted and explained with a blushing face: "That refers to Inspector Yamato. He and I are childhood sweethearts, so sometimes I just call him that out of habit."
Huh? Youya raised his eyebrows. Uehara Yui's look made people curious about the development of Uehara Yui and Yamato Gansuke's relationship.
However, considering Yamato Gansuke's tsundere personality, I'm afraid he still has a long way to go.
"Well," Uehara Yui quickly brought the topic back on track, "They are looking for the first police officer who arrived at the scene fifteen years ago. Now he has resigned and is concentrating on running the small steel ball shop."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yamato Gansuke called.
On the phone, he told Uehara Yui that there was a serious error in the report fifteen years ago, that is, the first police officer who arrived at the crime scene was slashed by the woman in red and then escaped.
But in fact, the policeman was so frightened by the blood-stained face of the woman in red that his legs went limp and he didn't even chase her. The woman threw a kitchen knife at the policeman and ran away.
Hearing this, Youye's expression became slightly serious: If the woman in red had thrown the kitchen knife away and escaped, and then fell into the swamp and died, she would not have had the time and opportunity to pick up the kitchen knife.
So why was the kitchen knife found at the edge of the swamp three years later?
Could it be that there was a third person at the scene at that time?
The four of them returned to the living room, and Ren Tiansheng asked as soon as he came up: "Have you found out anything? The murderer who killed Bo Gu, and the one who attacked Cheng Xiang?"
Just as Uehara Yui was about to say something, Youya raised his hand to stop her, then looked out the window. Everyone was a little confused and looked in the direction he was looking.
But it was pitch black outside and it was raining heavily, so I couldn't see anything.
"Speak up?!" Ren Tianshenfu shouted anxiously, "What happened?"
Youya raised his hand and made a quiet gesture: "Don't worry, I have found the truth about these two things."
"Really?" Everyone looked at Youya.
Minegishi Tamae asked in fear, "Who is it? Is it the woman in red hiding in the forest?"
Yuya said in a deep voice: "Didn't Officer Uehara say that the woman in red had died fifteen years ago, and her body had turned into bones."
"Then, who is that?!" Minegishi Tamae asked sharply.
"First of all, I want to correct one thing," Youya raised a finger, "that is, the person who killed Mr. Bo Gu and the person who attacked Ms. Cheng Xiang are not the same person."
"What?!" Everyone was shocked and looked at Youye in disbelief.
"Not... the same person?"