Chapter 1777 1784 [Making Many Enemies]
Then the middle-aged man left with brisk steps, chasing after Sato Miwako and President Ishimoto.
Conan looked at his back and couldn't help but said to Jiang Xia, "Don't they think that the hacker's death was too coincidental? I think the murderer was targeting the congressman, and there must be more than one murderer. The hacker must have an accomplice - it was the accomplice hiding behind the scenes who planned the assassination of the congressman, and then killed the hacker in order to close the case and clear himself of all charges."
The bodyguard job seemed to be over. Jiang Xia was a little disappointed.
But there was no point in staying in this empty place, so he had to take Conan with him and leave. He also comforted the motivated detective: "Evidence, we need to find evidence."
Conan was still lost in thought when suddenly his feet left the ground and he came back to his senses.
He remembered the secretary's way of calling him "little kid" and immediately protested like a high school student: "I'll walk on my own!"
While struggling, the two of them turned a corner and almost collided with someone.
Jiang Xia was "almost" hit, but Conan actually had half of his body hit, and was knocked into the air and spun half a circle.
He adjusted his glasses in a daze, glanced back at the man who was walking without looking at the road like them, and suddenly froze: this man was dark-skinned, tall, with a low ponytail tied behind his head - this was the unknown man who had secretly met with President Ishimoto's female secretary in the game room next to the banquet hall after the incident!
"It's the guy from the game room last night." Conan reminded Jiang Xia quietly, and suddenly realized something, "Did he go to President Ishimoto's office?!"
Jiang Xia nodded silently, turned around and followed without him saying anything.
The two detectives followed carefully, and the person being followed was indeed difficult to detect.
As they expected, the braid stopped at the door of President Ishimoto's office.
He carefully turned his head and looked both ways, but saw no one, so he quickly went into the room and began to search the office.
Jiang Xia came out from the corner where he was hiding, and took Conan with him, quietly looking inside through the air vent.
Not long after, Little Braid found a palm-sized square box from the closet. He chuckled, put the box in his pocket, and turned to go out.
Before he went out, Jiang Xia hid again.
Watching the black-skinned man with pigtails striding away from the corridor, Jiang Xia fell into deep thought: If I record the scene just now and send it to the police, I wonder if I can squeeze out some murderous intent... Alas, there are many detectives in Tokyo, and there are people rummaging around at crime scenes every day, so the police may not mind that much.
Conan saw him thinking and knew that Jiang Xia must have guessed something, so he confidently stretched out his hand and high-fived him: "It seems that we have thought of the same thing - this troublesome case is only missing a piece of the puzzle!"
Jiang Xia came back to his senses: "Yeah." That's right, all he had to do was pull the Shikigami hanging on the killer's leg off.
The two looked at each other and went to the abandoned building with great enthusiasm. This was the scene where the hacker fell to his death.
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"The security is so tight." Conan jumped out of the taxi and looked stealthily at the building in front of him and the police stationed nearby.
He began to habitually think about which angle he should sneak in from, but before he could think it through, Jiang Xia had already passed by him normally.
Then Conan saw the high school detective whispering a few words to the policeman at the cordon. Soon, the policeman happily welcomed Jiang Xia in, his face filled with the joy of "soon he won't have to stand guard anymore".
Conan: "..." Damn, the adult world is so beautiful. If I were still the same Kudo Shinichi...
"Are we leaving?" Jiang Xia suddenly stopped and looked back at him.
"I'm coming." Conan wiped his face sadly and trotted to catch up. After all, if the distance between him and Jiang Xia was too long, he would not be able to go to the crime scene with him.
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After climbing up a few flights of stairs, they soon arrived at the place where the hacker fell to his death.
There were marking lines on the cement floor, and the white lines symbolized death. Thinking about the corpses that had just been taken away from here, it seemed as if the surrounding temperature had dropped a few degrees in an instant.
However, one of the two detectives enjoyed the eerie atmosphere as if ghosts might haunt him at any moment, while the other just felt that the building facing away from the sun was quite cool.
They searched around the body and then walked up a little further. Conan rolled up his sleeves and searched the dusty corners diligently.
After turning over a box, Conan turned around and found Jiang Xia staring at a hole in the corner.
The hole was on the ground in the corner of the wall, and was extremely inconspicuous amidst the gray debris and dust.
But Conan seemed to have a premonition.
He ran over quickly, looked inside, his eyes lit up, and he planned to reach into the hole to dig something out.
Jiang Xia looked at the hole that had been filled with dust and mud for who knows how many years, and remembered that he would have to ride in the same car with Conan later, so he stopped the car.
He said seriously, "Let the police collect this evidence. It's a big case like this, and the police will find it troublesome if we leave any traces behind."
"Okay." Conan sighed for his detective friend's awareness.
This is indeed a normal practice, but not being able to solve the puzzle himself still makes him feel uncomfortable. It's like seeing a red flashing light in the game but having to resist clicking it. Conan can only lie on the edge of the hole and watch helplessly.
Jiang Xia was wary of him reaching out his hand while calling Inspector Megure.
"Brother Jiang Xia." Inspector Megure's voice did not sound as pleasant as before.
So Jiang Xia asked casually: "What's wrong?"
Inspector Megure sighed and complained: "I thought the case had been closed, but who knew that the forensic department had made a new discovery - they said that another type of footprint was detected at the place where Shiro Hiraoka, the 'piranha', died.
"We compared it with the homeless man who found the body, and it wasn't left by him, so we suspect the hacker actually has an accomplice. The hacker might have been killed by his accomplice.
"Hey, President Ishimoto said he didn't offend anyone. The group of people who tried to assassinate him yesterday were fine, but even the shooters were a team of two! Now we are ordered to find the hacker's accomplices within two days. Two days, those people above are really brave to ask..."
"So that's how it is." Jiang Xia comforted the police captain who thought he would be off work soon but was forced to come back to work overtime. "It's okay, two days is enough. That's how you solve a case. We are very close to the truth."
(End of this chapter)
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