Chapter 1132 1140 [This detective must be dead]
After Detective Noda dug up the person, he was satisfied and started talking about business.
"You are here to ask about Nanchuan, right?" He glanced at the date and calculated the days casually. "In fact, that guy hasn't answered the phone for two or three days. A while ago, I heard him say that he was busy with a big case. I guess he doesn't have time to contact us."
"No contact for two or three days?" Mao Lilan was stunned. "Didn't you call the police?"
"Haha, for ordinary people, being out of touch for a few days might be scary, but for us private investigators, it's commonplace."
Detective Noda waved his hand, looking quite proud. "In order to get the intelligence the client needs, we can do anything, including tracking, lurking, and even going undercover. During this period, in order to prevent the identity of the detective from being exposed, we sometimes do not communicate with the outside world. Not to mention two or three days, some have disappeared for a year or so. For example, the person who received you today, he disappeared for two years. At that time, we were planning to find his family to apply for a death certificate, but he suddenly appeared again."
Jiang Xia: “…” You can’t judge a book by its cover. That man looks like an ordinary bald uncle, but he actually has such a story… I’ll have to ask for his business card when I go to the Beihu Detective Agency later.
Forget it, since I'm here, I might as well take them all - Detective Noda is right, colleagues should communicate more and share cases.
“……” Seeing that they were going off topic while talking, Subaru Okiya couldn’t help but burn a stick of incense for that “Mr. Kusunoki” in his heart.
It might indeed be quite common for detectives to disappear for two or three days.
But now, with the addition of uzou, things might not be that simple...
…
The Beihu Detective Agency was not far from the cafe, and the few of them quickly entered the house.
Jiang Xia walked around and came back, remembering the important matter: "By the way, have two people who look like high school students come to see you? One of them is a high school detective from Osaka, um... the one who always blends in with the background of the picture."
Detectives generally have good memories.
Detective Noda quickly understood who Jiang Xia was referring to: "You mean the detective with an Osaka accent. They came here at noon, also looking for Kusakawa. I told them Kusakawa was not there, so they asked me for Kusakawa's address and then left."
As he spoke, he had already neatly written the address on a note and handed it to Jiang Xia.
——There is Hatoso 202 at Haido-cho 4-chome.
…
4-chome is not far from here.
Jiang Xia pulled up the map and quickly arrived at the destination with a few others.
Youjiuzhuang is a two-story apartment building with an old style. It has no unit door and can be reached by following the outdoor stairs on the side.
"202... This is the room, right?"
Jiang Xia stopped at the door of one of the houses.
There was a note on the door with ugly handwriting on it:
[I will be back before noon. Please leave the package with the landlord.]
Jiang Xia pressed the doorbell. No one came to open the door until the doorbell stopped ringing.
Subaru Okiya looked at the thin door and sniffed the air around him quietly, trying to distinguish the smell of a corpse.
"It's already past noon, right? Was he delayed by something?" Mao Lilan couldn't help but feel a little worried, but soon she thought optimistically, "Maybe when He Ye and the others came, Mr. Kusukawa just returned home, and then the three of them went out to discuss something, so he didn't have time to peel off the note - let's go to a nearby cafe and maybe we can find them there."
Jiang Xia glanced at the corner of the door: "It is also possible that Mr. Kusukawa did not come back at all, and Hattori and the others followed the traces to look for him, and then disappeared together." He pointed to his feet.
Conan was shorter and quickly noticed the tape on the corner of the door.
This piece of tape is posted in the inconspicuous lower right corner, with one end connected to the door frame and the other end attached to the door. If someone breaks in when the owner is away, it will be torn off, leaving a trace of "the door has been opened".
At this point, one end of the tape has already fallen off, and...
"There's a lot of dust on the tape." Conan also began to feel uneasy. "Combined with what Mr. Noda said just now, Mr. Kusukawa probably never came back after he left. Since Hattori has been here, it means he may have found some clues and followed them..."
Halfway through his speech, Conan suddenly remembered that there was Subaru Okiya standing next to him. He was startled and hurriedly patched up his thoughts, revealing a child's innocent smile: "——Brother Jiang Xia must be thinking this way!"
"Yeah." Jiang Xia looked at the tightly closed door, then looked at Conan, and said meaningfully, "It would be nice if we could go in and take a look. There might be important clues hidden inside."
Conan met his gaze and understood immediately:
There are some things that are inappropriate for high school students to do, but elementary school students can become lawless criminals - for example, elementary school students mischievously break into other people's homes, forcing law-abiding high school students to follow in and catch the person.
Conan: "..." Well, from this aspect alone, becoming smaller is not without its advantages... Although he had done many things like breaking into houses and picking locks when he was Kudo Shinichi, now at least he doesn't have to worry about being sent to the police station.
He raised his hand to grasp the door handle and twisted it tentatively, while his other hand reached into his pocket to search for the wire.
Before he could even get out the tools to pry the door open, it was opened directly.
Conan: "...The door is not locked?"
...I've been out for so long, and they didn't even lock the door. I feel like the atmosphere of the incident is getting stronger and stronger.
Just as I was thinking about it, Jiang Xia suddenly poked me on the back.
Conan came to his senses, pushed the door open like a naughty child, and ran into the house. Jiang Xia and Mao Li Ran hurriedly followed him in.
Subaru Okiya, who witnessed everything: "..." The detective is really unethical in handling cases, not even sparing children. But this is for saving people and justice after all. Compared with those detectives who just sneak in and pick the lock, Jiang Xia is already very good...
Subaru Okiya: "..." Speaking of which, Conan is really different from other children. His reaction is so fast that he doesn't even look like a child. Could it be that he has been with Jiang Xia for too long and has been infected with the aura of a genius?
...Or something similar to what they just did, they have done it many times?
As he thought about it, he waited cautiously at the door.
I didn't hear Ran Mao's screams, nor did I smell the stench of a corpse.
Okiya Subaru finally calmed himself down and walked into the house cautiously with some doubts.
…
The house was surprisingly clean, with no signs of fighting or rummaging, and it didn't look like it had been broken into.
Subaru Okiya looked around and found that the three people who had entered earlier were now gathered in front of the desk, looking down at the pencil scratches on the table.
"Someone used a pencil to scribble on a note here, but accidentally went beyond the mark and drew on the table." Jiang Xia picked up the notepad on the table and compared it with the mark on the table. The sizes were exactly the same.
(End of this chapter)
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