Chapter 62 It's Hard to Silence Someone

Conan followed behind and observed for a while, but he couldn't tell whether Jiang Xia was still asleep or sleepwalking.

However, it doesn't matter, since you can wake them up anyway - the widely circulated saying that "being woken up from sleepwalking will make you crazy" is actually a rumor. On the contrary, if you let the sleepwalker wander around, it is more likely to cause greater harm.

Of course, there are methods to awaken people.

Try to avoid "shaking vigorously" and other operations, because physical contact under blurred consciousness can easily be judged as "attack" by the sleepwalker, which may lead to a counterattack.

Forget about others, counterattacks can also be suppressed.

But Jiang Xia...

Conan thought of those criminal suspects with bruised faces and noses, who looked like they had seen their relatives when they saw the police, and silently withdrew their outstretched hands.

He cautiously stepped back a few steps and started making noise next to Jiang Xia.

Making a sharp and abrupt noise is the safest way to wake someone up.

…

Jiang Xia bravely walked towards his room despite the piercing noise.

He felt that Takahashi Ryoichi was almost far away, so he tapped Conan on the head with a finger to silence the source of the noise that was howling for no apparent reason.

Then he turned around and went back to Mao Lilan's room.

…

Such a commotion happened late at night.

The other people in the villa were also awakened and gathered in Mao Lilan's room.

Takahashi Ryoichi had also changed his clothes and blended into the crowd.

He caught a glimpse of Jiang Xia approaching from the corner of his eye, and touched his thick hair with lingering fear, secretly thanking God that Jiang Xia didn't hit him on the forehead, but on the side of the head, so the bruise would not be visible.

…

Upon learning that a dangerous person had sneaked into the villa, everyone lost their sleepiness.

Some people went to the balcony to check, trying to find any trace of the bandaged man, while others whispered about his origins, but no conclusion could be reached.

In the living room.

Conan looked at everyone in the room, then approached Jiang Xia and whispered:

"It's raining outside. If the bandaged man had climbed onto the balcony and then sneaked into our room, he would have left mud footprints. But in fact, the room is very clean, with only a few rain marks..."

Conan didn't say the rest of the sentence, but he believed Jiang Xia must understand what he meant.

——The bandaged man who attacked Mao Lilan was not an intruder from outside, but a member of this villa.

…

The enemy within is the most terrifying and hard to guard against.

Of course, Conan thought, Jiang Xia must be eliminated as a suspect first.

Putting aside other things, the fact that Jiang Xia and the bandaged man appeared at the same time just now is enough to prove his innocence - it is impossible for Jiang Xia to have the ability to clone himself.

Jiang Xia said perfunctorily: "Yeah."

He glanced at Conan and felt that ever since the KTV incident, Conan always treated him with an attitude of "You must know that I am Kudo Shinichi!"

Jiang Xia: “…” Why do you have to take off your vest?

…

Just as he was thinking about it, Suzuki Ayako next to him suddenly realized something.

She hesitated and asked, "Why don't I see Chikako?"

The others were stunned, looked at each other for a moment, and then ran to Ikeda Chikako's room to see where she was.

I pushed the door open and found the room empty.

There were no signs of fighting, such as blood. A set of used pajamas was thrown on the bed, and the luggage was also there - it seemed that Ikeda Chikako changed her clothes by herself and left peacefully.

…

The long-haired handsome guy looked at this scene and suddenly had an association: "Could the bandaged man be Chikako? She is usually weird. I heard that many novelists have quirks. Maybe she has gone crazy and turned into a bandaged killer..."

Conan interrupted his logical thinking: "The Bandaged Man's body is much stronger than Sister Chikako."

Conan raised his hand and gestured: "When I stopped him, I hugged his waist and it felt about this thick."

Few people take seriously what children say.

Of course, no one paid any attention to the speculation that Ikeda Chikako = Bandage Man.

The only thing they all agreed on was that if someone went missing on a rainy night, we couldn’t just ignore it.

Got to find her.

…

A few minutes later.

A group of people took flashlights and umbrellas, went into the woods, and searched for Chikako Ikeda separately.

Jiang Xia is in a group with Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko.

On the one hand, it will help him get more familiar with them, and on the other hand, it can also effectively prevent Takahashi Ryoichi from coming over and chopping her with an axe after seeing Mouri Ran.

…

Takahashi Ryoichi did have similar thoughts, and he was anxious to silence the witness.

However, when they separated, he saw Jiang Xia approaching Mao Lilan, and immediately stopped thinking.

He felt a little scared - the pillow Jiang Xia had thrown at him might have given him a concussion. Even now, his head still hurts from time to time...

In the end, Takahashi went to visit his old classmates.

…

The forest at night is very dark, and visibility is almost limited to the range of the flashlight.

Takahashi Ryoichi was panting and deliberately ran very slowly, gradually falling behind his classmates.

After successfully getting alone, he turned around and went straight to the place where he had an appointment with Chikako Ikeda.

He picked up the axe that he had thrown outside the house earlier and found Chikako Ikeda waiting in the woods in the distance. Without saying a word, he chopped off her head with the axe. Then he chopped her into several pieces.

Dismemberment is not just for venting anger.

This is an important part of Takahashi's creation of an alibi.

Takahashi Ryoichi threw the body parts in all directions. Then he opened his shirt, took out the stuffing that was stuffed in front of his stomach, made room, and wrapped Ikeda Chikako's head and hid it inside.

In this way, from the outside, he still looks like Takahashi with a beer belly. No one would have thought that his "big belly" is actually a human head.

(End of this chapter)