Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 497 The prejudice in people’s hearts is like a mountain. No matter how hard you try, you can’t move it!
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Hearing Officer Megure's scolding and noticing the undisguised dissatisfaction on his face, Officer Shiratori's body stiffened slightly, and he bit his lower lip, struggling internally.

On the one hand, he did not have any solid evidence to support his suspicions; on the other hand, he found it difficult to let go of his jealousy and suspicion of Bai Ye.

At the same time, he also knew that his repeated suspicion of Bai Ye had made his superior, Inspector Megure, very dissatisfied.

In fact, the other party's scolding now was undoubtedly an ultimatum to him and the last chance left for him.

If he had not seized this opportunity and continued to insist on his own way and stubbornly stick to his own opinions, then, without having to think too much, he could foresee that his days in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department would not be easy in the future.

After all, in this incident caused by jealousy, he not only completely offended the famous detective Bai Ye, but also earned himself a bad reputation in the industry for being unreasonably suspicious and petty, which made his colleagues in the third investigation department more or less have some opinions about him.

This can be seen from the fact that those police officers who used to get along well with him now look at him with somewhat strange eyes, as if they are re-examining his character.

Not to mention, now even his kind and generous superior, Inspector Megure, has a lot of opinions about him.

As his colleagues and superiors all have a bad impression of him, he will probably encounter obstacles at every turn in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, if not having a hard time making any progress.

After all, the most important thing about the police profession is teamwork and mutual trust. Once you lose the trust of your colleagues and leaders, you will inevitably encounter many obstacles in the process of performing tasks and investigating cases in the future, and in many cases it will even be difficult to carry out your work smoothly.

Although he knew it, he was reluctant to let go of the grudge in his heart and accept Bai Ye.

Moreover, now that things have come to this, it is too late for him to regret.

Because, Inspector Megure and others no longer have any good feelings towards him, and Sato Miwako, the flower of the Metropolitan Police Department, has nothing but disgust towards him, and her resistance is evident in her words.

Even if he chose to "let go" Bai Ye at this moment, there was no way to restore the already broken interpersonal relationships and damaged reputation.

Thinking of this, beads of sweat gradually appeared on Officer Shiratori's forehead. His eyes wavered between Byakuya and Inspector Megure. The balance in his heart swung violently between reason and emotion, and he didn't know how to choose.

After a long time, he slowly raised his head with a hint of determination in his eyes.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Bai Ye, I still think you're suspicious. After all, with your intelligence and rich experience in criminal investigation, it's entirely possible that you could come up with some tricks to confuse and deceive everyone, right?"

One step wrong, step by step wrong.

Since there is no way back, the only thing he can do now is to go down the path of death and darkness.

Maybe, after completely nailing Bai Ye to death, other people will be able to understand his "painstaking efforts", and he will have a chance to restore his image in the heart of Sato Miwako, the flower of the Metropolitan Police Department.

"Officer Shiratori, you have been suspicious of me and have some prejudices against me from the beginning. No matter how much I explain, I am afraid it will only make things worse and deepen the misunderstanding."

"After all, prejudice in people's hearts is like a mountain. Even if you work a thousand times harder, you can't move it even a little bit."

Bai Ye glanced at Officer Shiratori, whose face was uncertain, and shook his head gently: "Compared to this, Officer Shiratori, since the police even have the video footage near the Beihua Cinema, I think there should be video footage in the car when Moriya Teiji was escorted to the prison? Why don't we take a look at the video footage of Moriya Teiji's murder? Maybe we can find some new clues from it."

Hearing this, before Officer Shiratori could react, Sato Miwako raised her eyebrows, then walked to her workstation with her long legs, took out a USB flash drive from the drawer, and handed it to Bai Ye.

"Bai Ye, this is the video recording of the incident."

To be honest, she now really wanted to beat up Officer Shiratori, her colleague who had repeatedly made things difficult for her man.

But unfortunately, she knew she couldn't.

After all, not to mention that if she takes action, other colleagues will stop her at the first moment, and her superior, Inspector Megure, will also be disappointed in her. Even her husband will not want to see her vent her anger at the cost of his own future.

Gently taking the USB drive, Bai Ye nodded at her, then inserted the USB drive into the computer and clicked the mouse.

The next moment, a video appeared in front of his eyes.

In the video, at the beginning, the van was still driving on the road, but soon the vehicle stopped.

Then, a large group of people surrounded the van and tried to break through the police defense and get into the van.

Seeing this scene, Bai Ye raised his eyebrows slightly, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and then he clicked the mouse lightly, the picture paused, and the actions of everyone in the video were frozen.

Staring at the frozen scene, Bai Ye watched silently for a while, then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Brother Bai Ye, have you discovered anything?"

Noticing the expression on his face, Inspector Megure's eyes lit up and he quickly came over expectantly.

However, Bai Ye did not directly answer his question, but threw out a new question, "Inspector Megure, Miwako, what can you see from this?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's faces turned dark.

Damn it, here it comes again.

What do you see?
If they could figure out something, they would have solved the case long ago. Why would they need to ask a private detective for help? Thinking of this, except for Sato Miwako who obediently got in front of the computer and watched the video carefully, Inspector Megure and the others couldn't help but glared at Bai Ye with helplessness on their faces.

"Brother Bai Ye, we have reviewed this video many times, but we haven't found much, so if you have any findings, just tell us."

He wanted to see something.

It’s a pity that genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration, but sometimes that 1% inspiration is more important than the 99% perspiration.

Sometimes, even if you put in 99% effort, but you don’t have that 1% of talent, you still can’t become a genius.

Just like him, although he is an old detective who has been working for many years, he really has no talent in solving cases. Otherwise, when solving cases, when he meets a famous detective like Kudo Shinichi, he would not take the initiative to provide the other party with the clues he has collected with great difficulty, and place all his hopes of solving the case on these detective brothers of his.

There is no other way, it’s because his reasoning ability is not good, so he can only find a way to seek external help.

"Yes, Mr. Bai Ye, if you have any findings, just tell us!"

"We didn't find much? Does that mean we still have discoveries?"

Bai Ye raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes deep: "I wonder what you found, Officer Megure?"

Only if he knew the police's progress could he act more conveniently. Otherwise, if the police's findings conflicted with his "discovery", it would be troublesome.

Of course, given the trust that Inspector Megure and others have in him, even if there is a conflict in the findings of both parties, the police will only suspect that they have gone in the wrong direction, and will not suspect that he is behind it.

But it’s better to avoid these “mistakes” if possible.

After all, in the Metropolitan Police Department, besides Inspector Megure, Sato Miwako and other people who believe in him, there is also Inspector Shiratori, the 'thorn' who dislikes him in various ways!
Before Inspector Megure could reply, Inspector Shiratori, who had been looking down and was not sure what he was thinking, raised his head and spoke first, "This is a secret of our police. Mr. Byakuya, you are a detective and you don't need to know it. Instead, you should tell us what you found out."

"Shiratori! Brother Bai Ye is not an outsider, there is no need to hide these things from him!"

Hearing this, Inspector Megure glared at Inspector Shiratori with dissatisfaction flashing in his eyes.

This is a police secret and the detective doesn't need to know it?
A certain coral-headed police officer really has no problem talking without any pain in his waist!
If someone really has the ability to solve a case, no matter how much the other person brags, he won't say anything.
But the key question is, does anyone have it?

No, he did not!
If it weren't for the fact that the case had not been solved and the murderer of Moritani Teiji had not been found, would he have sought help from people other than the police?
As a result, a certain Coral Head Police Officer not only doesn't want to worry about his police officer, but now he is trying every means to push Bai Ye, the powerful foreign aid, away?

It seems that the pressure from above is not on you!
Taking a deep breath and suppressing the dissatisfaction and anger in his heart, Officer Megure ignored Officer Shiratori who had an ugly expression and turned his gaze to Bai Ye at the side. "Brother Bai Ye, in fact, the police did not find too many clues. After all, the death of Teiji Moriya was not discovered until he left the cinema. By the time we secured the crime scene, it was already more than half an hour after Teiji Moriya was killed."

After such a long time, even if there were any clues that were unfavorable to the murderer who killed Moritani Teiji, I am afraid that without the need for the murderer to deal with it personally, it would have been destroyed by the group of "fans" who surrounded the van and prevented the police from moving forward.

At this point, Officer Megure paused, his face somewhat gloomy, "Besides that, although the entire process of escorting Moriya Teiji was recorded, the crime scene was so chaotic at the time that the entire video was a mess. Even if we wanted to screen out suspicious people from it, we had no clue for the time being."

"Is that so? I understand."

Bai Ye touched his chin, thinking, "Since the police haven't found anything yet, I'll tell you what I found first."

As he spoke, Bai Ye supported the desktop with one hand, bent down to grab the mouse, then clicked on a scene and showed it to everyone, "Please look, at first glance, this group of 'fans' surrounding the van are chaotic and disorganized, but as long as we look carefully, we can find that there are three people at the left rear of the van. Their positions seem random, but in fact, they form a triangle formation, surrounding the van, well, to be more precise, surrounding Moriya Teiji in the van."

"Although the three of them pretended not to know each other, they exchanged glances with each other frequently. This was not like what would happen when ordinary people were in a panic. Instead, it was more like an organized and premeditated action."

After that, he zoomed in on the picture and pointed out the three suspicious figures.

When everyone heard this, they all looked in the direction Bai Ye pointed. Officer Megure couldn't help but narrow his eyes. After a careful look, he said, "Brother Bai Ye, are you saying that these three people might be the murderer or related to the murderer?"

Bai Ye didn't say that he didn't think those three people were suspicious, but after Bai Ye's pointers, the more he looked at those three people, the more he felt that there were big problems with them, so suspicious that he had to pay attention.

Sato Miwako frowned slightly, as if she was thinking about something, and then said: "Bai Ye, it is indeed a bit strange when you say that. Under normal circumstances, everyone should be doing their own thing when they come here to block the enemy. Why would they stand and communicate so deliberately?"

That formation and frequent eye contact clearly indicated that the three people pointed out by Bai Ye were most likely arranged in advance and not simply the behavior of fans.

Bai Ye nodded slightly, and then continued: "Yes, their behavior pattern is different from others, which is suspicious in itself. Therefore, this is most likely an organized behavior."

Miwako Sato also joined the discussion: "If they are really the murderer or accomplice, then their behavior is too bold. Aren't they afraid of being noticed by the police?"

"That's where they're cunning."

Bai Ye raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes were somewhat deep, "They are mixed in the crowd, and on the surface they look no different from other fans, but in fact they are carrying out specific tasks with the help of other people's cover. This concealment makes it easier for them to act in the chaos, and it is also more difficult for them to be discovered by the police."

Hearing this, Inspector Megure's face looked a little heavy.

This was not only because they were angry at the three men for being so arrogant in committing the crime in front of them, the police, but also because, such a long time had passed since the crime, and they had searched three departments, but no one suspected those three men.

At the very least, if Bai Ye hadn't given them advice this time, they wouldn't have suspected those three people at all.

(End of this chapter)