Chapter 15811589 [The Source of All Evil - Uzo]
Jiang Xia offered some brief prayers for his classmates' heads.
Then, while he was eating the dessert, he suddenly realized that Conan, the young detective who was actively solving the case, seemed to be busy competing with "that adult". Then, it seemed that he would have to work hard to push the progress bar.
Although he was full, he was in no hurry to go back, and the police might need some time, so Jiang Xia slowly tasted the food in front of him.
After Leisure finished eating, he wiped his hands and said, "Let's go back to the scene. Sheriff Anna and the others should have found some clues."
Before leaving, Jiang Xia did not forget to bring Xiao Songjun along: "You go too." This would save him from having to make another trip to find witnesses after finding out the truth.
Xiao Songjun hesitated: "But I have to go to work in the afternoon."
"Why go to work? Get down to business first!" Although Suzuki Sonoko didn't know why Jiang Xia insisted on bringing this naive guy along, the detective had his own reasons for doing his job.
She patted Xiao Songjun and whispered deeply: "This is a crisis concerning life and death. Believe me, if you can solve this successfully, your luck will definitely improve. Haven't you always believed that the gods are fair and will not only give you bad luck? - Now the gods appear!"
“Ding ding ding—” She quickly spread her arms and gestured to the side proudly, “The new god of the detective world, all the deceased people who have used it say it’s good!”
Jiang Xia was pointed at by her and smiled modestly: The first half of the sentence is a bit exaggerated, but the second half is quite practical.
"..." Huiyuan Ai silently raised her hands to cover her face: Today's female high school students are really getting more and more immature. And is there something wrong with this slogan? It's as if it's saying that you will become a dead person after using it...
But it turns out that chuunibyou is a method that suits some chuunibyou.
Xiao Songjun was obviously convinced and scratched his head: "Well, okay, then I will take a leave this afternoon. In fact, I still don't think anyone will kill me. Maybe it's just an accident..."
After a pause, he suddenly felt strange: "Huh? How do you know that I believe that God is fair?"
Suzuki Sonoko thought of the lovely clerk and chuckled twice, "Well, I'll tell you after I solve the case."
…
With the help of a clever high school girl, Jiang Xia successfully abducted the witness and returned to the crime scene with Xiao Songjun.
Sheriff Anna is on the phone.
Jiang Xia didn't disturb her. He walked quietly to her side and waited until she finished the call before asking, "Any new clues?"
“?!” Sheriff Anna was startled by this elusive detective and patted her chest. “You really know how to pick the time - I did get some new information.”
She pointed to what she had written down when she answered the phone just now: "The man who fell from the building said that he had just gone into a familiar store to drink. When he was drunk, a man suddenly came up to him and sat down. He took advantage of his drunken mumblings to chat with him.
"The man who fell from the building said that few people wanted to talk to him, whether in school or at work, but the man was very friendly and the two hit it off. After drinking for a while, the man said that this store was not interesting and wanted to take him to another one, so he followed him.
"After leaving the store, he felt sleepy as the wind blew. He couldn't remember what happened next. When he woke up, he was in the hospital. Fortunately, he at least remembered which store he had drunk the first drink in."
Sheriff Anna sighed, obviously unable to understand the behavior of these drunks. "The man who fell from the building even forgot the appearance of the man he was chatting with, and said he was embarrassed to look strangers in the face. We finally got the information from the store owner - the store owner said that the man who took him away had messy hair like hay, and his clothes were wrinkled. He might be a homeless person who recently got a small amount of money."
Seeing that her train of thought was going astray again, Jiang Xia immediately pulled her back calmly: "The hair can be a wig, and the clothes can be disguises. We need some characteristics that are more difficult to change - is the person tall, strong, and has an Asian appearance?"
"Indeed!" Sheriff Anna looked through the information carefully. "How did you know?"
As soon as she finished speaking, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she felt that she saw hope of getting off work: "Do you know who the suspicious man who talked to the person who fell from the building is?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "I have some ideas."
Sheriff Anna hesitated for a moment. "But as far as I know, when we took the information we got from the store manager and went to confirm with the man who fell from the building, he didn't remember much else, but he was very sure that he didn't know the person who spoke to him. That person didn't seem to have any motive to kill him."
"You can't just rely on 'knowing someone' to infer the motive for murder." Jiang Xia thought of the cases that happened in Beihua Town. "Sometimes just looking at someone a little longer can be the reason for being killed by that person."
Conan nodded in agreement, and added silently in his mind: Even if the murderer didn't even look at the stranger, he might suddenly have the urge to kill him because of some existence.
“…”
Sheriff Anna looked at Jiang Xia, then at the calm child, her eyes twitching slightly: What on earth did these children experience in Tokyo...
"However, if it was their first meeting, then the murderer's purpose in throwing the man down the building to hit Mr. Komatsu might not be to kill two birds with one stone."
Jiang Xia said with a heavy face: "We overestimated the murderer's humanity. Now it seems that the murderer's target from beginning to end was only Mr. Komatsu. As for the unlucky passerby who was thrown off the building, unfortunately, he was probably just a tool used by the murderer to kill people.
"In other words, whether the person who fell from the building knew Mr. Komatsu or the murderer is actually irrelevant. In the eyes of the murderer, this drunken living person is no different from the knives, ropes, and poisons in other murders. The death of the person who fell from the building is just a normal consequence of the use of tools."
Conan felt cold all over when he heard these words. It seemed that everything was about to be revealed, but he knew in his heart that the "cold-blooded murderer" in this case was just the tip of the iceberg.
In fact, the murderer is not just one person. There is probably a huge shadow behind him - "that adult" is secretly controlling the murderer's behavior in some incredible way.
Although the "truth" of this case has been uncovered, there may be one, two... or even dozens or hundreds of cases in unknown places that were all affected by the same guy.
The police and detectives can easily solve these cases, but they may never know that these cold-blooded murderers who use passers-by as killing tools are actually just toys in the hands of another person.
(End of this chapter)
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