Chapter 177

Without wasting any time.

After understanding these pieces of evidence.

Hoshino Ki went to the home of the last girl alone.

He told the girl's parents that he was the girl's classmate~ here to show his concern.

The girl's parents didn't think much of it and let him into the house.

The girl's parents said the girl was supposed to come home on Friday night.

To help her parents, who were off on the weekend, feed the cat.

Now the couple was immersed in grief.

Compared to the ordinary questions asked by ordinary detectives.

Hoshino Ki only asked if there was anything unusual about the cat in the couple's home.

The result he got was no.

Hoshino Ki deduced.

The girl disappeared after coming home to feed the cat, so the girl's home was the crime scene.

He came to the girl's room.

As a result, the body of the girl who had been missing for two days was lying on the bed.

The murderer didn't care about being exposed and sent the body back.

The parents chose to call the police in a panic.

Hoshino Ki had played different professional roles in the simulation.

The combination of his roles as a psychologist and a criminal police officer allowed him to be as if helped by a god and handle things with ease in the process of solving cases.

He had acquired a natural ability for psychological empathy in solving cases.

Based on the crime scene.

Hoshino Ki could reconstruct the criminal's crime process.

He would construct a virtual crime scene in his brain.

Directly substituting himself into the case.

Thinking about problems from the murderer's perspective and committing the crime.

Through this ability, Hoshino Ki deduced that the girl had been strangled by the murderer.

But Sato Miwako, who arrived, said there were traces of being bitten by a wild beast on the girl's wounds.

She said the girl had been bitten to death by an unknown wild beast.

Hoshino Ki rejected her view.

The wounds were deliberately left by the murderer to confuse the public.

Sato Miwako had just received the report and rushed to the victim's home.

After arriving at the crime scene, she found Hoshino Ki standing next to the body.

Looking at him, it seemed like he was thinking about something.

Sato Miwako paused slightly.

Hoshino Ki's figure instantly merged with the him in her dreams.

In her dreams, he always solved cases in this way.

She was dazed for a while.

Then she shook her head to keep her thoughts clear:

“What are you doing here?”

“She is my classmate!”

That was the fact.

The person lying on the bed was indeed Hoshino Ki's classmate from the same school.

A classmate went missing, and he came to investigate.

Very reasonable.

“So you came to help us solve the case?”

Sato Miwako walked to Hoshino Ki's side:

“What did you see?”

Hoshino Ki looked at Sato Miwako and said:

“She was strangled to death...”

Sato Miwako leaned close to the body.

She saw the obvious animal bite marks on the body.

“Then how do you explain the wounds here?”

“This looks more like something bitten to death by a wild beast, right?”

Hoshino Ki closed his eyes.

Entering into case psychological empathy...

Still in this room.

The murderer was Hoshino Ki.

He saw Hoshino Ki walk behind the girl, grab her neck, and press her onto the bed.

The bed made a sound.

Followed by the sound of the girl struggling crazily.

Hoshino Ki's arms were thick and powerful.

But the girl's arms were tender and slender.

She tried her best to pry Hoshino Ki's arms but couldn't break free.

Not long after...

Her arms fell powerlessly.

Seeing that the girl no longer had any reaction.

Hoshino Ki loosened his hands and packed her up to take her away.

He arrived at an abandoned factory.

He placed the girl's body on the table.

He used a knife to cut open the girl's skin.

He took out the parts inside her body.

Her parts had problems.

Empathy ended.

Hoshino opened his eyes.

He looked at the girl's body with his pitch-black eyes:

“Her lungs have problems!”

“How do you know?”

Sato Miwako looked surprised.

It wasn't that she didn't believe Hoshino Ki.

But this method of solving cases, she had seen in her dreams...

And the person who solved cases using this method was Hoshino Ki.

“Guessed it!”

Sato Miwako's eyes froze!

Hoshino Ki turned and left...

Brushing past Sato Miwako.

The scene in her dream surfaced in her mind again.

“Why can you solve cases so quickly and accurately every time?”

“Tell me the truth, do you have some unspeakable case-solving technique?”

“Tell me quickly!”

Sato Miwako grabbed Hoshino Ki's shoulder.

“Secret!”

Hoshino Ki responded to her coldly.

Memory ended!

After Sato Miwako reacted, she instantly turned and chased after him...

But Hoshino Ki's figure was already gone.

Hoshino Ki already had a clue about the murderer.

Waiting for the police to find out the truth and catch the murderer would take forever.

And he didn't want to explain or contact the police too much.

Like Conan, relying on a mouth to make the murderer cry and repent?

Too much effort...

Hoshino Ki couldn't be bothered to waste his breath.

Just do it directly!

The murderer was clearly a serial killer, and also a mental patient.

He killed the victims and then sent them home.

He did something to the original wounds.

This caused the body to be gnawed by animals.

This also left the police and the victim's family with the wrong judgment that the victim was bitten to death by a wild beast.

As for why the murderer went to such great lengths to send the body back.

This was clearly him expressing his apology.

The murderer felt that he had let the deceased down.

He was very sad about this.

And the reason for the murderer's sadness was that he couldn't express his love to the victim.

Love?

What kind of love?

The deceased didn't suffer any violation.

So his love was definitely not an ordinary form of love.

The girl's lungs had problems, which clearly didn't suit his wishes.

It seemed the murderer only liked to pick victims who were in good health.

Hoshino Ki followed the trail and went straight to the factory.

Through the factory employee register.

He discovered that everyone had registered their full identity information.

Only one worker was left who hadn't filled in their contact information.

Through the oral accounts of other workers.

This worker did indeed have a daughter.

After Hoshino Ki showed the photo of the last victim to the factory workers, he learned.

The worker's daughter was identical to the 8 victims in both appearance and figure.

At this moment...

Hoshino Ki's phone rang.

He took out his phone from his pocket and swiped his finger lightly.

The screen showed an unknown number.

With a tap of his finger, Hoshino Ki answered the call.

As soon as he answered the call, an anxious female voice came through.

This voice sounded familiar:

“Hoshino-kun, you were right, after further testing by the medical examiner, the victim was indeed strangled to death.”