Chapter 1296 1304 [Seems to be a loss]
After half a bridge and a few words, when he caught up with the black shadow, it had already rushed into the relatively prosperous food street next door, blended into the crowd, and disappeared.
Jiang Xia stopped and scanned the street, his eyes gradually falling on the various snack shops.
He strolled along the street for a while and was not very keen on finding someone: the mysterious man who was scared away just now had no murderous aura and no shikigami hanging on his legs, which made it difficult to arouse interest in chasing him.
He then looked for it meaningfully, and then returned to the bridge without finding anything.
…
As I approached, I saw that a large group of people had gathered on the bridge at some point.
Those people were surrounding the place where the fire man jumped into the river earlier. When they noticed Jiang Xia approaching, someone asked vigilantly, "Who's there?!"
At the same time, several flashlights came over.
Jiang Xia raised his hand to block the light and walked over. He saw that the detectives and police officers who were in the castle tower had all moved here.
Inspector Otaki heaved a sigh of relief when he saw it was him. He seemed to have heard from a few girls that "Jiang Xia was chasing a suspicious figure" and looked behind Jiang Xia: "Did that person run away?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "He sneaked into the pedestrian street over there. There are too many people, so it's hard to tell."
Inspector Otaki hummed, looking like he was thinking, but actually he didn't care much about it - he just heard Toyama and Ye describe the scene. It sounded like a suicide, and the person Jiang Xia chased was probably just a passerby who was scared by the fire man.
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But even if it was suicide, the body could not be left in the river.
The police, who worked overtime, quickly rescued the people inside.
A group of people gathered around to check, and then were stunned to find that this was actually an acquaintance.
Suzuki Sonoko blurted out: "Isn't this the 'Ningning' from the tour group?!"
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, she accidentally caught a glimpse of Ning Ning's sinister expression. At that time, she thought that this woman smiled so sinisterly, maybe she was the mastermind behind the scenes, or an accomplice of the murderer...
And he died so suddenly?
Just as I was feeling somewhat puzzled, a man came walking along the bridge.
——Ginjiro Toyama seemed to have dealt with the scene over there and rushed over with the police officers from the forensic department.
After listening to what happened just now, especially the scene on the bridge where he "lit himself up and jumped into the river", he obviously felt that the black figure who set himself on fire and then jumped into the river was very contradictory, so he confirmed with Jiang Xia: "Is that so?"
Jiang Xia seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment, he nodded hesitantly: "Maybe."
"Possibly?" Toyama Ginjiro felt more and more that there was something else going on.
Just as he was about to ask Jiang Xia to elaborate, the police officer next to him briefly examined the body and said in surprise:
"The deceased was not burned or drowned. It seems that she died from a fatal wound on the back of her head. She was hit hard on the back of her head and the wound was still fresh. It is possible that when she fell, the back of her head hit the stone bridge pier and then fell into the water."
"So this is also suicide?" Inspector Otaki nodded thoughtfully.
After ordering, he suddenly remembered that Toyama Ginjiro was standing next to him, and quickly changed the subject: "Uh, I mean, suspected suicide?"
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While the police were examining the body and the scene, the two detectives also took a quick look around.
Then they looked at each other and walked to Jiang Xia's side.
The scene described by the three girls was incredible - how could Ningning, who was full of treasures an hour ago, suddenly commit suicide in such a weird way as "setting herself on fire"? Even if it was suicide, why did she jump into the river after committing suicide?
Rather than accepting this contradictory action, Conan and Hattori Heiji felt that the murderer was someone else.
So they couldn't help but think: the three girls were not very brave, maybe they were frightened and didn't see the situation clearly.
But Jiang Xia is different - this man's insight is like a built-in microscope, and he might be able to find some very useful clues.
Just when he was about to knock out some clues, Jiang Xia saw them approaching, but he came back to his senses and asked naturally, "How is the investigation of the case of the fire and falling from the building going? You are not worried about that at all, you must have found an important clue."
Hattori Heiji: "..."
Before he could get the clue he wanted, Jiang Xia started asking questions first.
But on second thought, they had already roughly solved the method of the previous case, but they had not yet found the murderer. After enjoying the process of solving the mystery, there was no point in keeping the clues, so they might as well use them to exchange for new clues.
So Hattori Heiji said cheerfully: "We found a dry battery with burn marks in the bushes near the castle tower."
"Oh, I see." Jiang Xia nodded.
There was no trace of surprise on his face, as if he had already known the method of the case and just needed evidence to confirm it.
Hattori Heiji looked at his expression and couldn't help but jump: Could it be that this guy had already cracked the method just now, but just couldn't figure out who the murderer was, so he simply gave up the case and went to dinner with a few girls? ?
"..." Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji, whose stomach was growling with hunger, recalled his actions just now and couldn't help but ponder over his life: Why on earth did he run out to look for physical evidence in the cold wind and rain while Jiang Xia and He Ye were sitting in the restaurant and eating comfortably!
If he had known that he would not be able to crack the case before Jiang Xia, he would have marked out a range for Inspector Otaki and his team to search for...
Conan saw his companion's slightly distorted expression, raised his elbow and pushed his knee, reminding Hattori Heiji not to forget the important matter - there was a new case at the moment, and it seemed that Jiang Xia still didn't know who the murderer was, so they still had a chance to deduce.
"What about you?" Conan has been with Jiang Xia for many years. When faced with an answer machine that could accidentally spoil the answer, his mentality is obviously not comparable to that of Hattori Heiji who is far away in Osaka.
With the simple mentality of solving a case at a time, he quickly immersed himself in this new case: "Did you find anything just now?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "The scene at that time was indeed the same as what Yuanzi and the others said. But I don't think the deceased committed suicide. When she jumped into the river..." He paused for a moment, as if looking for the right words, "It felt very inconsistent. And at that time, there was another person at the bridge entrance."
"Is that the one you lost?" Conan and Hattori Heiji also heard about the scene at that time. This new mystery made them fall into deep thought. "Jumping from the bridge, at that angle, it is almost impossible to hit the bridge pier. The deceased should have been dead before jumping into the river... How did the murderer make the corpse make the movements of lighting fire and struggling, and then successfully fall into the river from such a distance?"
(End of this chapter)
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