Ke Xue: An outlaw, a maniac who sets out to usurp the throne! Chapter 123

As Jiang Heng and the others spoke, they quickly arrived at the crime scene.

Although a few days had already passed, the crime scene was surprisingly well-preserved.

The white outline drawn by the police due to the body was still there…

However, probably because Hashimoto was crushed to death by a pile of steel bars—the shape of the white line looked nothing like a human figure.

Still, Jiang Heng and the others had already seen the photos in the case file, so there was no need to rely on the white outline to visualize it.

What was surprising, however, was that unlike the imagined empty construction site, there was a rather fair-skinned person on the construction site above…

This “fair-skinned” didn’t mean the person was handsome. It was just that it was genuinely difficult to find someone on a construction site who wasn’t tanned.

Even Ken Yamamoto, the project manager, was so dark he was almost comparable to Amuro Tooru!

And the person up there… looked very fair, clearly not someone who worked in construction.

“Is that guy also from your construction site?” Kogoro Mouri frowned, glancing at him.

“Ah? Yes!” Ken Yamamoto subconsciously nodded. “That’s our site engineer, Izumi Jiro.”

“Isn’t construction temporarily halted here?” Jiang Heng narrowed his eyes and asked.

“Construction is indeed not allowed, but to catch up with the schedule—we let Izumi Jiro come first to do some measurement work; it won’t damage the scene anyway…”

Ken Yamamoto rubbed his head, feeling inexplicably guilty.

Then, Ken Yamamoto led Jiang Heng and the others directly towards the construction site above.

“Manager Yamamoto, these are…?” Izumi Jiro frowned, glancing at Jiang Heng and the others.

“Oh, they’re lawyers, here to investigate the previous murder case…” Ken Yamamoto shrugged, casually saying, “How are your measurements going?”

“No problems.” Izumi Jiro shook his head. After taking a deep look at Jiang Heng and the others, he simply left a sentence and departed. “I’ll go back and check the blueprints for final confirmation.”

“Alright.” Ken Yamamoto nodded. He then turned and pointed to a spot not far ahead. “That’s where the steel bars were placed before.”

Ken Yamamoto stopped in his tracks, clearly having no intention of going over there…

Jiang Heng and the others naturally didn’t mind and walked towards the large hole themselves.

“Ran, you don’t have to come over. Just wait for us here~.” Jiang Heng turned and looked at Ran Mouri.

“Okay.” Ran Mouri stood in place.

Kogoro Mouri… also quietly stopped, even stealthily moving to a more secluded spot.

Mainly, Kogoro Mouri was afraid of heights!

Although this area was only about two or three stories high from the ground, there were no railings outside!

Just a slight turn of the head, and the corner of his eye could catch sight of the ground below… This environment was too much of a challenge for Kogoro Mouri’s heart!

Ran Mouri didn’t notice Kogoro Mouri’s state; instead, she looked at Jiang Heng and Eri Kisaki with concern. After all, a construction site looked like a very dangerous place…

“It looks like the steel bar fell from here.” Jiang Heng directly squatted beside the irregular large hole, deep in thought.

“Yes.” Eri Kisaki nodded. Then, she squatted down with Jiang Heng.

However, for some reason—after arriving at the scene, Eri Kisaki felt that something was not quite right…

Meanwhile, Jiang Heng had already raised his hand and was simply measuring the entire edge of the large hole.

Whether it was a quality issue with the wooden boards or just a coincidence, this large hole didn’t destroy the entire construction site. Instead… at the edge of the hole, there was even a full foot-and-a-half-wide section of intact wooden board remaining.

If one was brave enough, it was even enough to walk from one end to the other… Seeing this, Eri Kisaki couldn’t help but feel curious. However, she didn’t speak to disturb him.

Soon, Jiang Heng walked around the large hole. He then leaned over the edge and looked down.

The distance from the ground wasn’t high here; he could still clearly see the position of the white line at the bottom…

“Jiang Heng, be careful, don’t fall!” Ran Mouri raised her hand to her mouth, looking at Jiang Heng with concern.

“Don’t worry.” Jiang Heng waved his hand.

“Jiang Heng, have you found anything?” Eri Kisaki couldn’t help but ask. (For exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

“A little, the position is wrong.” Jiang Heng nodded. He directly raised his hand to gesture at the large hole and the position of the white line below…

“Hmm?” Eri Kisaki’s eyes showed a moment of confusion. However, after looking up and down several times, Eri Kisaki couldn’t help but narrow her eyes.

“It’s not right… If the steel bar fell from here, logically speaking—it should be very difficult to hit the victim at the location where he died.”

Although the steel bar itself was almost cylindrical in shape—it was impossible for it to remain completely still after landing.

However, the trajectory between the steel bar’s point of impact and its final resting place… was actually quite easy to discern!

Even if the police didn’t have a detailed report, just looking at the photos, one could see the problem.

“Yes.” Jiang Heng nodded. He then squatted down again and pointed to the edge of the entire large hole: “And—the breaking of this large hole is also not quite right.”

“Is there a problem?” Eri Kisaki was a bit slow to react.

“It looks more like it was deliberately smashed open.” Jiang Heng shook his head. “If I’m not mistaken, the maximum diameter of this large hole should be even shorter than the steel bar…”

“Unless the steel bar was stood upright, or directly smashed down at an angle—otherwise, even if the steel bar really fell through this hole, the crack in this hole shouldn’t be this shape.”

Hearing this, Eri Kisaki couldn’t help but frown. Of course, to make the most accurate judgment, it would be best to have data to support it…

Therefore, Jiang Heng and Eri Kisaki went directly to Ken Yamamoto to ask him for information about the steel bars.

Ken Yamamoto naturally wouldn’t remember such things. However, after just sending a message, Ken Yamamoto quickly got the answer.

Indeed! The maximum diameter of that large hole was about ten centimeters shorter than the length of the steel bars on the construction site…

Compared to the steel bar, this length difference was actually not very large. However, if the steel bar was to fall horizontally through the large hole—even if this length difference was only one centimeter, there shouldn’t be no crack at the hole’s edge…

Coupled with the direction of the hole and Hashimoto’s body, it could at least be concluded that the steel bar that killed Hashimoto did not fall from this large hole!

Thinking of this, Eri Kisaki couldn’t help but glance at Jiang Heng.

Although Eri Kisaki had been hoping that Jiang Heng would find a flaw when she decided to seek him out, she hadn’t expected Jiang Heng to discover a crucial point as soon as he arrived…

With the previous method of committing the crime being overturned, even if there were Yamanaka Shujin’s fingerprints at the hole’s edge—it was entirely possible to argue for Yamanaka Shujin’s innocence.

“Moreover, the location of the fingerprints… was itself at the edge of the hole.”

“To be honest, as long as Yamanaka Shujin had passed by there, it would be possible for him to leave fingerprints.” As if thinking of something, Jiang Heng turned to Eri Kisaki and said.

Hearing this, Eri Kisaki was stunned for a moment, somewhat not understanding Jiang Heng’s defense method.

Mainly, Eri Kisaki was more adept at defending her clients by finding the truth.

As for Jiang Heng… he didn’t necessarily find the truth, but—his entry point always seemed to be finding problems with the evidence that proved the client’s guilt itself!

Of course, this doesn’t mean that this defense method is problematic. On the contrary, this method is inherently very suitable for helping clients get acquitted. The only problem is… it inevitably gives people the feeling that Jiang Heng is being sophistical!