Ke Xue: An outlaw, a maniac who sets out to usurp the throne! Chapter 124

Ran Mouri, on the other hand, had no reservations: “So… Mr. Yamagami was really framed?”

Eri Kisaki came back to her senses and nodded subconsciously. “Yes… From the current situation, the police’s previous assumption about the murder method is simply not valid.”

“If this goes to trial, both I and Jiang Heng can easily defend Yamagami Shujin as innocent.”

Eri Kisaki was still relatively conservative and didn’t directly state that Yamagami Shujin wasn’t the real culprit. After all, there was another possibility… Yamagami Shujin was indeed the killer! He just used a different method.

Apparently, Ken Yamamoto, the project manager, didn’t interpret it that way. “Then… if Yamagami Shujin isn’t the killer, isn’t the murderer still on the construction site?”

As he spoke, Ken Yamamoto couldn’t help but shiver. Before, he had thought others were overreacting. Now… with the “truth” revealed, he couldn’t help but feel a chill.

“Don’t you believe in ‘if you don’t do anything wrong, you don’t fear ghosts knocking on your door’?” Kogoro Mouri looked at Ken Yamamoto suspiciously.

“Well… just thinking that there’s a murderer around me still makes me instinctively afraid,” Ken Yamamoto swallowed and said righteously.

“However—” Kogoro Mouri couldn’t help but rub his chin. He frowned and asked, “If the rebar didn’t fall from that large hole, where did it fall from?”

“Considering the position of Hashimoto-san’s body…” Jiang Heng’s gaze fell directly on the edge of the construction site. “If it slid directly from this platform, it’s very possible!”

“Huh?” Eri Kisaki and Kogoro Mouri subconsciously turned to look at the edge.

“So, the killer just stood here and pushed the rebar down?” Kogoro Mouri frowned, a little hesitant.

“Unlikely…” Eri Kisaki shook her head. “So much rebar, without the aid of tools—”

“Trying to get that much rebar down at once and coincidentally hit Hashimoto-san…”

“The difficulty is too great; it’s almost impossible.”

“What if they used a crane?” Kogoro Mouri frowned. “I remember the case file stated that there was a crane parked here at the time of the incident…”

“The killer didn’t use a crane!” Ken Yamamoto shook his head without hesitation.

“Hm? How do you know?” Kogoro Mouri looked at Ken Yamamoto suspiciously. “Could it be… you’re the killer?”

(beai) As soon as he said this, Kogoro Mouri immediately received helpless looks from Jiang Heng and the others.

“I’m not the killer!” Ken Yamamoto stomped his foot. He said irritably, “That’s entirely because—”

“If the crane is turned on, the sound is very obvious.”

“Even if no one saw it, it’s very likely someone would have heard it…”

“Oh.” Kogoro Mouri nodded casually.

“Actually, when I first came up, I noticed a problem.” Jiang Heng shook his head and directly took over the conversation.

“Did you find anything?” Eri Kisaki asked eagerly.

“Hmm… level, the horizontal direction of this platform seems to have a tilt angle.” Jiang Heng gently raised his foot and tapped the platform beneath him, narrowing his eyes.

“What do you mean?” Ran Mouri looked a little confused.

“Do you have… anything spherical?” Jiang Heng mused.

“I do!” Kogoro Mouri unhesitatingly pulled a small steel ball from his pocket.

The next second, Eri Kisaki’s face immediately darkened. Seeing this, Ran Mouri couldn’t help but clench her fists: “Dad—”

“Cough cough, if I said I didn’t know how this little steel ball got on me… would you believe me?” Realizing something was wrong, Kogoro Mouri couldn’t help but rub the back of his head, looking embarrassed.

“Business first.” Eri Kisaki “hmph”-ed and directly took the steel ball from Kogoro Mouri’s hand, handing it to Jiang Heng.

After receiving it, Jiang Heng immediately squatted down and placed the small steel ball on the inner edge of the platform. Almost the instant Jiang Heng let go, the steel ball slid towards the outer edge of the platform at a visible speed. Just as it was about to fall, Jiang Heng caught it back…

“So, this is a slope?” Eri Kisaki narrowed her eyes, feeling like she was getting close to Jiang Heng’s meaning.

“Impossible!” Ken Yamamoto instinctively retorted. After all, some areas of the construction site have level requirements. Especially platform locations involving safety…

“If you want to confirm, just get a level and measure it.” (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!) Jiang Heng shrugged, saying without hesitation.

However, the result was already obvious. After all, even on flat ground, a spherical object like a small steel ball would be difficult to keep perfectly still. But the speed at which that small steel ball slid just now was clearly abnormal…

Involving construction site safety issues, Ken Yamamoto dared not be careless. After a brief hesitation, he directly took out his phone and contacted Izumijiro, who was here before, to come over.

In just a few minutes, Izumijiro rushed over with a level. After learning Ken Yamamoto’s request, Izumijiro froze. However, he couldn’t find a reason to refuse and could only silently test it…

“How are the results?” Ken Yamamoto looked at Izumijiro eagerly.

“This platform… indeed has a slope.” Izumijiro swallowed, a little hesitant. After thinking about it, he didn’t dare to falsify the data…

“Huh? How is that possible?!” Ken Yamamoto couldn’t help but frown.

“So, the rebar that killed Hashimoto-san slid down automatically because of the slope?” Kogoro Mouri clapped his hand, saying as if enlightened.

“But those rebars… were transported up two days before Hashimoto-san’s death.” Ken Yamamoto couldn’t help but frown, a little hesitant.

“The rebar is heavy; as long as the offset angle is controlled well—”

“It can perfectly stay on the platform.” Jiang Heng shook his head. “When the incident occurs, perhaps only a small mechanism… can make the rebar slide down easily.”

Eri Kisaki subconsciously nodded, adding the rest of the sentence. The next second, Eri Kisaki suddenly turned to look at Izumijiro. “Mr. Izumi, I remember when we came, you were doing a safety inspection here, right?”

“So, you didn’t detect the level problem here?”

“I—” Izumijiro’s pupils involuntarily constricted. The next second, he sighed. “Alright, I admit, I didn’t check properly at the time.”

“After all, my girlfriend just broke up with me, and I really couldn’t settle down…”

“Izumijiro!” Ken Yamamoto roared in anger. “Do you know how serious safety hazards are? And you still dare to be careless!”

“Your bonus is gone, and I will report this matter!”

Thinking of the dead Hashimoto-san and the lingering regret left by this platform… Ken Yamamoto felt completely unwell.

“Sorry, I will take responsibility for safety.” Izumijiro lowered his head, his attitude of admitting fault seemed quite good.

With the inspection here almost done, Jiang Heng and the others quickly bid farewell to Ken Yamamoto…