Chapter 1306 1307 [Midnight Shadow]
When Conan heard this, he suddenly remembered the dry batteries that he and Hattori Heiji had picked up near the castle tower just now, and he said "Ah!" guiltily: They forgot to tell the police about this.
He originally wanted to make amends, but hesitated for a moment, and was worried that if he said this, Hattori Heiji would be kicked again immediately: after all, Hattori Heiji was still sitting on the ground, and his father was right next to him, so this position looked very convenient no matter how you looked at it.
"..." So Conan was silent for a moment and decided to wait until the father and son were a little further apart before quietly handing the battery to the easy-to-talk Inspector Otaki.
Hattori Heizo didn't think so much. He didn't even seem to listen carefully to what Inspector Otaki said. He just looked at him after the other party finished speaking and responded with an ambiguous word.
Then he stood up and waved his hand without question: "Since it's suicide, two or three people should be left here. What's the matter with a group of people gathered here? The police are not idle enough to waste so many manpower to investigate such a small case - Yuanshan, let's go."
Two senior police officers stood up from beside the body and left one after the other.
Hearing his words, someone in the crowd smiled coldly and cursed angrily in his heart: Stupid policeman.
…
Hattori Heizo walked away with a large number of his subordinates.
There were actually only two or three policemen left here to clean up the mess.
Hattori Heiji seemed to have not yet come to his senses. He sat on the ground with his eyes lowered, thinking about something silently.
Jiang Xia observed for a moment, then walked over and poked him: "Are you okay?"
"..." Hattori Heiji came back to his senses, turned half a circle silently, and turned his back to him, not wanting to see this "other people's detective".
Inspector Otaki hasn't left yet either.
He pulled Hattori Heiji up, patted the mud off his body, and comforted him: "The chief is not targeting you. It's just that two deaths have occurred in succession so close to the police headquarters, and they were all so high-profile, it's like a deliberate mockery of the police, he must be in a bad mood. And..."
After hesitating for a moment, he thought of something and lowered his voice:
"And this matter is not as simple as it seems. It may involve some dangerous people. The Minister must be worried about your safety. I remember that 13 years ago, after the charred body was found in the moat, several serial robberies and murders occurred.
“Minister Yuanshan and his people seem to think that these serial robberies and murders are related to the charred corpse incident.
"And now, 13 years later, the charred corpse has reappeared. The Minister must have thought that the robbery and murder gang would reappear. That case was very brutal. There were five consecutive cases, with a total of seven deaths. Each scene was more horrific than the last. Until now, the murderer has not been brought to justice."
Jiang Xia came over to listen in without knowing when. Hearing this, he nodded slightly, with a gleam of determination in his eyes: "Too cruel, this kind of person must be brought to justice. I will definitely catch him."
Inspector Otaki was a little touched, but he immediately dissuaded him: "To be able to commit five crimes in a short period of time, kill seven people, and clean up the mess without leaving any traces, it is very likely that they are a small organized armed group. This is too dangerous for unarmed high school students like you."
After hearing this, Suzuki Sonoko understood a little. She looked at Hattori Heiji and said, "It seems that your father is also concerned about you."
When Hattori Heiji heard this, his ears twitched slightly and he snorted.
Although he still looked unconvinced, he stood up again. Detective Osaka clenched his fists and said, "Then I really have to thank him. Unfortunately, the more he tells me not to do it, the more I want to do it. I must find the real murderer in front of him!"
Having said that, he returned to the body with great energy.
Before he reached out to lift the cloth, he felt a dull pain on his face.
Hattori Heiji couldn't help but pause slightly and looked back reflexively.
Finding that Hattori Heizo had indeed walked far away and would not come back to punch him again, he withdrew his gaze as if nothing had happened and pulled the cloth off the body.
When he was checking the body just now, although he was beaten by his father as soon as he lifted the cloth, as a detective, one cannot survive without lightning eyesight - at that time, Hattori Heiji still quickly caught a glimpse of something unusual.
Now, without Hattori Heizo, he could examine the corpse leisurely, and his thoughts were confirmed.
——There were several strange marks on the deceased’s clothes on his chest.
Jiang Xia took a closer look and said, "This looks like blood staining the clothes and then being washed away by the river water."
"..." Inspector Otaki didn't expect that if he walked just two steps slower, he would be caught up in the detective's mystery-solving time again.
But now that he is the police officer in charge of these two cases, he can't pretend not to hear it.
He could only try to think and follow Jiang Xia's rhythm: "So when the deceased jumped into the river and was hit on the back of the head by the bridge pier, the blood splashed on his clothes?" He thought about the scene at that time and couldn't help but be confused: In what posture does a person have to fall so that the blood at the back can splash to the front before falling into the river?
The more Jiang Xia looked at him, the more he felt that he looked like Inspector Megure. He couldn't help but feel a little more intimate with him, and said patiently: "She didn't hit the bridge pier after falling down, but when she was beaten to death, the blood on her head splashed on the criminal. The criminal didn't notice this, and held the deceased horizontally, perhaps intending to throw her into the river, and in the process, the blood stains stained the deceased's body again."
"You also think she was dead before she jumped into the river?" Hattori Heiji looked at Jiang Xia, "So the 'person' you saw on the bridge at that time was indeed a corpse, right?"
"...Corpse?" Toyama Kazuha, Maori Ran and Suzuki Sonoko looked at each other and suddenly became uncertain. They remembered that in the night, there was a corpse standing on the bridge, waiting for them to arrive, and then it immediately set itself on fire and jumped into the river. They shuddered with fear.
Jiang Xia remained firm and shook his head: "No, that person's actions can only be done by a living person, although it looked... a bit performative at the time."
"Living people?" Hattori Heiji still didn't believe it, "You must have seen it wrongly, I heard from Gong... Conan that you are a little nearsighted. At night, your eyesight must be bad."
Several ghosts clung to Jiang Xia, looking up at him with some confusion, then looking at Jiang Xia again: How come they didn't know that their psychic master was nearsighted? Every time they tried to do something secretly, no matter how far away they were, Jiang Xia would always see them at a glance.
Jiang Xia also paused, remembering the excuse he had used before when pretending to be stupid.
He had no intention of talking more about this topic, but he still tactfully insisted on his own judgment: "I've gotten used to looking at you these past few days. My night vision is actually pretty good."
(End of this chapter)
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