Chapter 11561164 [Jiang Xia who confuses right and wrong]
Maori Detective Agency.
Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanhe were hung up for no apparent reason. They looked at the receiver, and after a moment, Mao Lilan suddenly reacted and looked at the ornaments on the table:
"Could this Guan Yu statue be the mark left by the arsonist?"
When Yuanshan Heye heard her soft voice, as if she was afraid of disturbing something, she got goosebumps all over her body.
She said stiffly: "I, I always feel like there seems to be some rustling noises at the door. Could it be that the devil has come to my door..."
If a real criminal were placed right in front of them, they might not be afraid.
However, this mysterious method of "first placing a terrible thing in the target's home, and then floating in like the god of death", coupled with the terrible aura of having just killed someone, made their hearts beat violently.
The two of them stood up and made the same decision: "Let's get out of here first!"
They ran to the door, hurriedly put on their shoes, opened the door, and suddenly saw a terrifying figure outside the door.
——A man with a middle-parted watermelon-like haircut, old-fashioned round-rimmed glasses, and a slightly plump body... This was the man who gave them the "Chima" key chains on the bus, and he had unexpectedly run to their doorstep without them knowing when!
"ah--!!"
The two high school girls let out a terrified and helpless scream, and instinctively kicked out at the same time, with the tips of their shoes bringing up a sharp gust of wind, heading straight for the face of the "arsonist".
Just when it was about to hit him, the owner of the antique shop suddenly fell to the side, as if someone was pulling him away.
The two girls' attacks missed and they quickly retracted their feet.
They looked to the side warily, and were suddenly stunned - the antique shop owner was not alone, there was another person standing next to him.
"...Jiang Xia?"
Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha had already prepared for a fierce battle.
I didn't expect that when I looked closely, I found that the person who came was actually one of our own.
They first breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, and then a series of questions popped up in their minds:
"Have you finished investigating the case? Where are Conan and Heiji? ...Do you know the person next to you?"
"They haven't finished the investigation yet. They are currently interviewing the suspect." Jiang Xia turned around and glanced at the frightened Xuan Tian Longde next to him:
"When I came back, I happened to meet Mr. Xuantian nearby. He said he was looking for two high school girls. It was a very important matter. The people he described sounded a lot like you, so I followed him to see what was going on."
As he said that, he turned to look at Xuantian Longde: "What do you want?"
"Well, it's like this." Genda Ryuunori came back to his senses and saw Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha, and suddenly burst into tears, "Please return the key chain I gave you this afternoon! Otherwise, there will be a fire here. Uncle, I, I will definitely burn this place down..."
"..." Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha were frightened again, but this time it was for a different reason - they had never expected that after the arsonist came to their door, it would turn out like this. They could only hurriedly say, "Wait a moment."
Then he quickly ran back to the table and took the Guan Yu keychain.
Xuantian Longde took it with fear and put it away carefully.
Almost at the same time, Mao Lilan subconsciously took out her mobile phone and pressed 110 - when encountering a criminal or a case, one should call the police first, and her fingers moved instinctively.
However, before she pressed the dial button, a hand suddenly reached out from the side and interrupted her action.
Jiang Xia stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, I don't think he looks like a murderer."
Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha: "...Hmm?"
No, doesn’t it?
They looked at Genda Ryuki's face again. Although they shouldn't judge people by appearance, based on their experience since childhood, Genda Ryuki's appearance, coupled with his excited and panting expression, looked like the word "evil" was written on his face.
"..." However, if you think about it carefully, the detective's judgment should be more accurate than theirs. What's more, the detective is Jiang Xia, who has done some investigations into serial arson cases.
Mao Lilan deleted the number she had just entered and put down the phone.
Yuanshan Heye couldn't help but become curious and asked Jiang Xia: "It wasn't him? But the Red Hare keychain he distributed, wouldn't it just match the 'Red Horse' logo left at the arson scene?"
Xuantian Longde was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses after a moment, shook his head and confessed with tears in his eyes: "It's really me! I actually always had symptoms of sleepwalking when I was a child, and I had it again recently. It must have been at that time..."
Seeing him waving his tear-stained hands excitedly, Jiang Xia couldn't help but step back a little: "...If I say it's not you, then it's not you."
Mao Lilan and Yuanshan Kazuha also followed suit: "Yes, yes, why do you insist on taking the blame for yourself? Since you were sleepwalking, you probably don't remember what happened during that time, so how can you say that you committed a crime?"
"???" Xuantian Longde couldn't understand the train of thought of these young people. He repeated it several times, but no one was willing to listen to his words. He was a little angry for a while:
"You, you... Was it you who committed the crime or me? Who else could it be except me? The first arson case took place right next door to my house. The owner of the house was a good friend of my father and a frequent customer of my store.
"When he came to visit, I gave him the Guan Yu keychain. Not long after, his house caught fire late at night. The police found the iconic 'red horse' in his house, which was the gift I gave him.
"I didn't think much of it at first. I just thought my neighbor was very unlucky and that the horse's base was of high quality and very burn-resistant. But when I saw the report the next day, I realized that the homeowner had no idea where the 'red horse' came from! The police therefore speculated that it was a token left by the arsonist, using the arsonist's jargon 'red horse' to provoke the police... Do you know what this means?"
What he said sounded a little weird and scary.
But Mao Lilan and Yuanshan Kazuha had completely believed Jiang Xia's words at this time, and thought that the arsonist was someone else, so they thought rationally: "...Does it mean that your neighbor is old and his memory is not very good? - Since he is the same age as your father, he should be quite old."
"That's not the reason!" Xuantian Longde shook his head in grief and indignation. Before Jiang Xia showed up, he really hadn't thought that turning himself in would be so difficult:
"I must have been hallucinating - I secretly put the red horse in his house, but I didn't remember it. Then I had a sleepwalking attack and I couldn't help but follow the key chain and ran to his house and set it on fire.
"It was the same case not long ago in Haido-cho 4-chome. Mrs. Morokaku scolded me so harshly that I was actually very angry... I must have pretended to endure it, but in fact I couldn't control myself and turned back, put down the key chain, and burned down her house."
(End of this chapter)
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