Chapter 2415 2427 [Adding Trouble to the Sniper]

Mao Lilan looked at the figure of her childhood friend running away, picked up the juice and took a sip silently: I don’t know why, I always feel that this back view is a bit similar to the one I saw in the amusement park before... and if I remember correctly, this guy has disappeared since the day in the amusement park until now.

"It must be an illusion." Mao Lilan put down the juice cup and dragged another dessert closer. "The environment here is completely different from that of the amusement park. I shouldn't encounter what he called 'difficult cases that require long-term follow-up investigations'. Anyway, I'll just wait... What did he want to say just now?"

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The originally spacious corridor became crowded because of too many onlookers.

Inspector Megure didn't expect that this group of well-dressed business people would be so courageous when eating melons. He wiped his sweat and commanded his subordinates anxiously: "Set up a cordon and don't let anyone in!"

As he was speaking, he saw his men all stepped aside, making way for a spectator to come in.

"?" Inspector Megure's forehead jumped, but he didn't have time to get angry. He was suddenly stunned, "Brother Jiang Xia? Why are you here?"...and this kid with glasses who appears and disappears mysteriously.

Jiang Xia pulled the fake Conan through the crowd and came to the relatively less crowded elevator.

He looked around and his eyes fell on the elevator: "I heard there was a shooting here?"

"Yeah." Inspector Megure sighed when he mentioned this, "I don't know where these guys got the guns from. They all disregard the law... Sooner or later, I will ask my colleagues to steal their gun purchasing channels!"

Jiang Xia nodded in agreement and joined the police officer in condemning those lawless thugs who were shooting at random with guns.

However, regardless of whether the criminals' hideouts can be raided in the future, the current case still needs to be solved.

Officer Takagi was waiting anxiously on the side. When he saw his superior and Jiang Xia finished their greetings, he breathed a sigh of relief and brought the clue over.

"The deceased is Taiji Tatsumi, 58 years old, and the president of a gaming company." He quietly gestured to Jiang Xia at the three people at the other end of the corridor, "Those three were the first to discover the body. According to them, they forgot something at the company and wanted to take the elevator back to get it, but when they opened the elevator, they found a body lying inside."

Inspector Megure looked suspicious: "Three people forgot to bring things at the same time?"

Officer Takagi: "Today is the 20th anniversary of the establishment of their company, so the deceased president booked this place and planned to hold an anniversary reception. The three people who first discovered the body were responsible for preparing the bouquets to be used at the scene, but they forgot to bring the flowers after get off work, so they had to go back and get them now."

Jiang Xia heard something: "Is their company very close to here?"

Officer Takagi nodded. "This company is in this building. They rented 13 floors from the 24th to the 36th floor. The VIP elevator at the crime scene has actually become a special elevator for their company. It is basically not open to the public unless it is really busy."

"I asked the members of this company, and they found out that their president suddenly fell ill, so he did not attend the memorial reception tonight. Instead, he planned to go to the office downstairs to handle important matters and then go home to rest."

Officer Takagi sighed sympathetically, "His clothes were very messy, as if he had been robbed - I guess it was because none of the employees were at the company tonight, and a thief sneaked in to break into the house, but he ran into the president who suddenly came back, so he panicked and beat him to death."

In the crowd, an ordinary young man silently lowered the brim of his hat.

Kuroba Kaito: “…” Nonsense, how could a thief be so cruel? This is obviously a murder case, don’t put the blame on the thief for everything!

Having said that, with such a big thing happening down there, I don’t know whether the sniper on the rooftop has left.

The wind was strong and the noise was loud on the rooftop. If that person was careless and didn't hear the noise, maybe we could still catch him if we went up now?

Thinking of this, Kuroba Kaito's eyes moved and fell on Jiang Xia.

"I didn't expect this detective to be here too. If I had known this, I should have come to him directly. His words are more effective than the president of a gaming company..."

Kidd thought of what happened in the elevator shaft just now, sighed silently, and his thoughts were a little scattered: "It would be even better if I could disguise myself as Jiang Xia, but this guy is very popular with monsters for some reason. What if I pretend to be him and get discovered by a group of monsters and caught as dried human meat strips? Things will be troublesome..."

Kuroba Kaito was curious about what the monster's lair looked like, and at the same time he got goosebumps because of the brutal and bloody scene.

After a moment, he shook his head vigorously to get rid of the strange thoughts in his mind: I will think about these things later. The key now is the two armed gangsters upstairs and downstairs. Especially the dangerous guy with a sniper rifle on the rooftop, I must tell Jiang Xia about this as soon as possible.

Kuroba Kaito: “…” But Jiang Xia wasn’t looking at his phone, and there were policemen surrounding him, and every policeman was listening to the detective very seriously… How could he get through?

The Phantom Thief stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.

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In front of the elevator.

As a police inspector who has been dealing with murder cases for many years, Inspector Megure did not notice that an internationally wanted criminal was sneaking up on him. His attention was all focused on the murder case in front of him.

Jiang Xia's eyes accidentally glanced at him and found that the police captain seemed to be thinking. He was a little surprised: "What did you find?"

Inspector Megure stared at the bloody corpse in the elevator and scratched his head. "I always feel like I've experienced something very similar, but I can't remember it for the moment... That's right! It should have been a long time ago. At that time, I was a rookie who had just joined the police. A strange young man sneaked into the scene and muttered a lot of things next to me... Hiss, what did he say?"

Officer Gao Mu saw his superior looking at him and said with embarrassment: "This... I'm not sure. Calculating the time, when you first became a police officer, I was still in elementary school."

Since his subordinates were of no use, Inspector Megure looked at his most reliable younger brother as usual.

Jiang Xia was stared at by him and blinked slowly: "..." I don't know either.

Miwako Sato, who was passing by, heard the conversation and was speechless: "Why are you looking at him? He wasn't even born at that time." Get to work quickly and stop making trouble and exploiting your baby brother across time and space.

"Oh, okay." Inspector Megure sighed regretfully, "I just think these two cases are a bit similar. Maybe what I said back then can serve as a reference now..."

(End of this chapter)