Genius Detective Chapter 545

Lu Baoqiang lowered his head. "We ordered the j.a.panese to kowtow that day. When they left, Fujiwara scolded us. My j.a.panese isn't good, but I could still understand that they were cursing us. I had also drank a lot that day. I was thinking that these Little j.a.pans came to our country and still dared to be defiant, so I went below their apartment and scolded them. Then I vomited heaps! After vomiting, I sobered up and left."

Chen s.h.i.+ said, "Didn't you say that you had sent Old w.a.n.g back?"

"Yeah, when I met Old w.a.n.g, he was buying soda in the kiosk. I helped him back, and then I went to the Internet cafe."

"Did Old w.a.n.g know that you had vomited?"

"He did!"

Lin Dongxue wrote down his statement. Chen s.h.i.+ said, "I hope you've told us the truth this time."

"I swear that this is absolutely the truth!"

Before leaving, Chen s.h.i.+ looked at the murky Internet cafe behind them. "Young man, let me give you some advice. It's your leisure time that decides who you'll become in the future. If you really plan to surpa.s.s w.a.n.g Baoqiang, then you should practice your acting when you're free."

After leaving the Internet cafe, Lin Dongxue said, "It's rare to hear you advising people."

"Everyone has a time when they were young and had a dream, but because they were young, they felt that they had a long time to go, and let time slip away."

"Did you have a dream when you were young?"

"It's been realized."

"What?"

"Bringing a beauty home!" Chen s.h.i.+ smiled.

They didn't go to look for Old w.a.n.g. After all, they didn't have enough evidence. However, Old w.a.n.g was now the number one suspect.

After two days of investigation, they found out that Old w.a.n.g had once purchased a large number of j.a.panese language textbooks online and had also pa.s.sed a j.a.panese language proficiency test. In addition, he had also sold his family house, but the whereabouts of this money are unknown.

Chen s.h.i.+ felt that it was time to invite Old w.a.n.g over. Therefore, w.a.n.g Ying sat in the interrogation room that afternoon.

Before the interrogation began, a policeman came in and asked Old w.a.n.g to change into a pair of slippers and measured his foot size with a ruler. His feet were the same size as the footprints left at the crime scene. The shoes on his feet were exactly one size larger.

Chen s.h.i.+ and Lin Dongxue sat down in front of Old w.a.n.g. Chen s.h.i.+ picked up a photo. "Old w.a.n.g, this is the shoe print we found at the crime scene. The size is the same as your feet. How do you explain that?"

"What's there to explain?" Old w.a.n.g said slowly. "There are men wearing size 40 shoes all over the streets."

"However, according to your friends, you had a pair of leather shoes before this, and the shoe prints were very similar to this one. Nevertheless, we didn't find them during the investigation, how do you explain this?"

"I have nothing to explain."

"Your alibi has already been overturned. No one can prove that you were sleeping in the dormitory that day."

"I drank three taels of alcohol that day. Everyone knows how much I can drink. I was totally drunk after dinner that day."

"Really?"

"It's true!"

Chen s.h.i.+ stood up and paced in front of him. Old w.a.n.g kept rubbing the back of his hands nervously. Chen s.h.i.+ said, "Let me tell you a story. An unsuccessful featured extra met a j.a.panese person on the drama set. He had planned to go to j.a.pan to develop his career. That j.a.panese person was willing to help, but he said that immigration to j.a.pan was very difficult, and that it took a lot of money. The featured extra obediently gave money to him and the other party kept dispelling his doubts with promises. One day, the j.a.panese person's friend exposed his lies with a sentence. The speaker had said it unintentionally, but the listener understood. The fooled guy was also at the scene. He welled up with rage at the time. Once the party ended, he went to argue it out with the j.a.panese person. On impulse, he killed the other party as well as the j.a.panese's friend.”

"After killing them, he was very scared. He went to the warehouse to find a cycle rickshaw, but he accidentally saw the j.a.panese officer costumes. He remembered what had happened at the party that day and that it was September 18th the next day. Therefore, he developed a plan. He dressed up the two bodies and made them look like j.a.panese officers who were apologizing for their sins. That night, the murderer called up his roommate and pretended to urinate near the abandoned bodies. Thus, they became the people who reported the case!”

Old w.a.n.g listened as cold sweat dripped down drop by drop. He kept rubbing his hands on his legs.

Chen s.h.i.+ stared at him. "The murderer's criminal technique wasn't very clever, and the way they tried to s.h.i.+ft the focus really underestimated the police's observation skills. Sitting here and listening to our story, what step do you think our investigation has progressed to? You still have a chance to confess now!”

Chen s.h.i.+ was just bluffing. In fact, they had no key evidence at all. However, interrogation was like playing mahjong. The other party doesn't know what tiles you have.

Old w.a.n.g, in Chen s.h.i.+'s view, wasn't a suspect with high mental fort.i.tude.

Old w.a.n.g swallowed and said calmly, "I can provide a clue. That night, Lu Baoqiang went to the crime scene. I never said anything about this the entire time."

"Really?" Chen s.h.i.+ sneered. "Where's the crime scene?"

"It's just under the j.a.panese's hom-" Old w.a.n.g suddenly widened his eyes and looked up at Chen s.h.i.+.

Chen s.h.i.+ sneered. "I didn't seem to have mentioned the location of the crime scene, so how do you know about it?!"

After a brief silence, Old w.a.n.g broke down. He cried while covering up his face, "I didn't want to kill him. It was that j.a.panese who scammed me and then pretended as if he was the victim. I couldn't handle my anger!"

Lin Dongxue let out a sigh of relief and the police outside were secretly excited. The suspect was finally about to speak.

Chen s.h.i.+ handed Old w.a.n.g a cigarette. He took it with a trembling hand and lit it. Chen s.h.i.+ returned to his seat and looked at him quietly.

Halfway through the cigarette, Old w.a.n.g said, "Tamura and I have known each other since 2014. At that time, he asked me for directions. We had a language barrier, so we communicated with each other by writing on paper. We talked for quite some time. He had come from j.a.pan and was a featured extra. He looked particularly… lecherous. He was very suitable for acting as an officer in anti-j.a.panese dramas and soon found a crew who was willing to hire him. Then, he mentioned me to the a.s.sociate director, so I also joined the cast. In the show, we were enemies who were out to kill each other, but off the set, we were like brothers. He didn't understand anything in China. I helped him a great deal. Later, during a holiday, he said 'w.a.n.g-san, nihon e ryokou s.h.i.+masu ka?', and asked me if I wanted to go to j.a.pan to have fun. I have never been abroad, so I agreed!”

"I went to j.a.pan to have fun for a few days and I felt it was pretty great. Especially the streets full of Chinese cuisine. What did they sell? Pot-stickers, mapo tofu,  shredded pork with green pepper. I wanted to laugh. Weren't they just home cooking? I said that even I could make them. At that time, I was thinking. I wouldn't get anywhere as an extra in China. If I went to j.a.pan to open a restaurant and earned money, I could bring my family over and that wouldn't be too bad. Tamura found out what I was thinking. He said that immigrating to j.a.pan was very difficult, but there was a way - To get married. He said that he had a younger sister named Tamura Yukari who was severely paralyzed and bed-ridden. If I married her, I would be able to immigrate over. At the same time, his sister would have someone to look after her.”

"I refused at the beginning. I may not be a great catch, but how could I marry a disabled person? But Tamura came up with a medical diagnosis report and said that his sister wouldn't have too many years left to live. If I married her, she'd pa.s.s away after a few years. I'd also successfully became a j.a.panese citizen. Then I met her. Although she was disabled, she didn't look bad, she had a nice voice and she was educated as well. To be honest, if she weren't disabled, I wouldn't be able to find a woman like this in my lifetime, so I agreed…”

1. A tael is a Chinese unit of weight measurement. It was standardized to 50 grams in 1959.

2. Kanji is a j.a.panese writing system with ideograms (or characters) adapted from Chinese characters. Kanji const.i.tutes as one of the two systems used to write the j.a.panese language, the other being the two indigenous kana syllabaries (hiragana and katakana).

3. 'San' is an honorific. Can be translated as “Mr.”, “Mrs.”, “Ms.” etc. It's gender neutral.

4. Would you like to travel to j.a.pan?