Chapter 1978: 1978【Talent Skills】
Chapter 1978 1978【Talent Skills】
Conan tried to piece together the clues in his mind.
Before he could think of anything, the surprised voice of the young police officer suddenly came from downstairs: "Is this blood? This is blood!"
Jiang Xia walked around to the balcony and looked downstairs. That was the place where the crime happened. It was usually dark, but at this time it was brightly illuminated by street lights.
The place where the body once lay was marked with a white circle on the ground, and two or three meters away from it, Officer Takagi and the junior police officer gathered together and looked at something on the wall.
“Let’s go down and have a look.”
Jiang Xia turned around and went out, and when he opened the door, he saw a familiar face. Maya Hashimoto stood outside, as if still hesitating whether to enter the house.
Conan was startled and raised his voice: "Brother, are you following us?"
Maya Hashimoto: "?!" How can you use a sneaky word like "stalking" to taint someone's innocence!
Hehe, the insidious colleagues are starting to fight among themselves.
But after all, he is still a child, so it is normal to be impatient. Little did he know that the more anxious he was, the easier it would be to arouse Jiang Xia's suspicion.
Maya Hashimoto hit the child's head hard in her heart, while showing an innocent smile belonging to an ordinary citizen, and said to Jiang Xia: "I saw you going out, so I wanted to come over and see if I could help. But this is someone else It’s hard for me to go in directly…”
As he spoke, he glanced at Conan, trying to use inadvertent little moves to draw Jiang Xia's attention to Conan and remind him that this child had broken into the door at a young age. At first glance, he was a child raised by an outlaw. , completely different from law-abiding citizens like myself.
Conan: “…?”
Is it an illusion? He seemed to smell tea.
…
The three people came downstairs while talking.
Although the area was cordoned off, with Jiang Xia there, they managed to sneak in just by brushing their faces.
Police Officer Takagi heard the footsteps and was originally worried that someone was watching the fun and breaking in here. Unexpectedly, when he looked back, he saw that the person coming was Jiang Xia.
He was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and happily took the initiative without waiting to be asked: "We just found some blood stains on the wall, which is probably the victim's blood."
It was too late, he wanted to get off work.
Jiang Xia: "What a coincidence, we also found blood stains on the broken window on the fourth floor. It should be the blood of the same person."
Officer Takagi was stunned for a moment: "Fourth floor?"
There were bloodstains on the wall at the scene, but I could barely understand it: maybe he had read too many cartoons about the murderer, and after knocking the person out, he swung the murder weapon coolly and threw the blood onto the wall.
…But what’s going on with the blood on the fourth floor? It’s so high, so how much effort does it take to get it up?
A figure gradually appeared in his mind: the strong man at the dinner party.
However, at this moment, Jiang Xia stared at the blood on the wall, and suddenly pointed to the rooftop: "There should be blood stains on the railings there. Can you find someone to go up and have a look?"
“?!”
Officer Takagi had no suspicion and immediately sent two people to go to the roof to collect evidence, and the other two people to go to the room on the fourth floor. Maya Hashimoto's heart skipped a beat. Officer Takagi had been running around and didn't know Jiang Xia's whereabouts, but he had been following Jiang Xia - Jiang Xia had never been there at all. The light on the rooftop was so dark that it was impossible for him to see the railings on the rooftop clearly from such a distance.
…How did he know there was blood there?
"I really thought of a stupid question." Maya Hashimoto slapped herself on the forehead and answered herself loudly, "How else can I know? - Jiang Xia is a detective! He must have deduced it, so it doesn't matter. Ask, otherwise it’s impossible for him to arrange it, hahaha.”
Conan observing secretly: “…”
What's going on with this mixed race pretending to be a foreigner? My mental state doesn't seem very optimistic.
Having said that, this rapid switching between sadness and joy seems more and more like Mr. Okiya in London.
…
Jiang Xia went downstairs to catch up with the children running around late at night, took a walk around, and brought back enough clues.
When he returned to the dining room on the 5th floor, he saw that the police investigation had come to an end. The police department was struggling with the several suspects in front of them for a long time, and an idea flashed: "Let's go to the police station with me first." Take the notes."
Keeping the suspicious people busy first will prevent the murderer from destroying the evidence, so they have time to investigate slowly!
“All of you are going? But we have classes tomorrow. We are going to the police station at this hour. What time will it be when we get back!”
College students don’t seem to be very cooperative.
The Mu Mu Police Department comforted him while quietly looking at the door, and then he was surprised to find that Jiang Xia, who disappeared midway, was back.
And bring wonderful good news.
“I think I know who the murderer is.”
Memu Police Department: "!"
Once the detective is willing to speak, the case will be solved quickly. Jiang Xia didn't give in. He turned around and saw that the four suspects were standing side by side in a row. He raised his hand to the other side and pointed out one of them as if playing cards: "The murderer should be the owner of the house."
The owner of the house was startled and suddenly raised his eyes to look over, filled with murderous intent.
Hashimoto Maya saw his excited look and glanced at him. Judging that the man had no weapons, he consciously stood next to Jiang Xia, intending to act as a bodyguard when the murderer rushed over excitedly, actively building up the detective's trust.
Unfortunately, there may be too many police officers in the house, so the owner did not give him a chance to show off. He only shouted: "You don't want to spit on others!"
Jiang Xia skillfully skipped arguing with the suspect and looked out the window: "When I went out just now, I found that the window of the apartment directly below was broken, and the window fragments, the wall near the deceased, and the rooftop handrail of the building directly above These three seemingly unrelated places 'happened' to be stained with the blood of the deceased.
“This is proof that the murder weapon has been moved at these three points - the murderer does not need to go downstairs. He only needs to stand on the fifth floor to inflict blood on the head of the deceased from a distance.
"Before the incident, the murderer organized a drinking party that started at seven o'clock tonight, and then deliberately did not make an appointment with Masami Kusaka. He put a note in his locker, used the name of the deceased to invite the person out, and told him that today After ten o'clock in the evening, we will meet downstairs opposite.
"Before everyone came to the appointment, the murderer tied two pieces of fishing line to the rocks and used a slingshot to launch the rocks to the roof of the building opposite. Afterwards, he rushed to the building opposite and tied the two pieces of hanging lines together, making a It became a noose that was difficult to see with the naked eye.
"Then night fell and the wine party started. At around nine o'clock, the murderer used the pre-recorded voice of Mr. Kusaka to fake an incoming call. After answering the phone, he pretended to be Mr. Kusaka and sent a message to the deceased, asking the deceased to also Go and wait downstairs opposite.
“When the deceased came downstairs, the owner of the house left the living room on the pretext of rushing to report, entered the house next to him, and began his air assassination operation.”
(End of this chapter)