"It's... it's terrible." Kurosawa was still taking deep breaths. "Oh my God, The most terrible ghost films are inferior to this. Why this happened in a peaceful era."
"Do you think she … committed suicide?"
Victor felt his throat was still burning, and his voice even trembled. He looked at the spot where Pearl jumped down, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind.
"You think she is murdered?"
Kurosawa got Victor's doubts. They tried to adjust their emotions, then walked back to the hotel together and sat down next to the police, pretending to be normal.
"Hey, where have you two little guys gone?"
"In the toilet." In the detective cartoon, the protagonist always said he was in the toilet, but he actually went to the spot. It proved that adults won't be aware of kids.
The police joked, "Don't look outside. Oh God, that scene is not suitable for you children at all. It's scaring. Be obedient. Don't go."
Victor said in his heart that they had already gone to secretly see it, but ostensibly, he still pretended to be a good boy and said cleverly, "Fine."
Kurosawa began to skillfully talk to the police. "Sir, are you going to finish the case soon?"
In the face of the little boy's serious eyes, the policeman wanted to laugh. "Hey boy, do you want to be a small detective? Well, this case may be a suicide, and we'll make a conclusion after we go up for investigation."
Kurosawa pretended to be yearning. "Wow, it sounds so cool! Thank you, sir!"
"Have you seen too many Sherlock Holmes?" The policeman patted Kurosawa's head. "But I think you're very clever. Maybe you can try to be a detective when you grow up."
"Then I can do with my partner."
Kurosawa stretched out his hand and pulled Victor over. "Look! He is Holmes, and I am Watson. Do we two look like a pair of detectives?"
Others thought they were just kidding, so they felt pleasant. But they didn't know Victor and Kurosawa were disguising.
When the police went to search for evidence in Christie's room again, Victor and Kurosawa also did their respective work, one to the front desk and the other to the security room. Later, when they returned to the room, Kurosawa gasped. "I got it."
"The height where they stayed is the 20th floor. The highest floor is the 21st floor. If Pearl had fallen from the 20th floor, there would be a parabola."
Kurosawa started to calculate and then handed the final result in front of Victor. "However, in fact, I visually inspected the distance from her landing place to the entrance of the hotel building. There was no parabola trajectory, which proved--"
Victor frowned and continued the sentence. "She is very likely to land vertically."
"Yes!" Kurosawa made a finger ring, "You're right! Jumping from the inside to the outside will create a parabola trajectory, unless she jumps down vertically. But I think it's impossible, for it is inconvenient to jump like this."
People who really want to commit suicide by cutting their wrists will choose the sharpest knife, for it is convenient and quick.
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