Chapter 18601868 [You are Uzo! ]
Miwako Sato: "Because it involves a murder case in a locked room, we went to the front desk to confirm afterwards - the front desk is staffed 24 hours a day, and the spare keys are kept in a locked cabinet and are strictly kept. They are registered when they are lent out. According to the records, no one has borrowed the assistant's room key since the night the assistant died, that is, since the locked room was formed."
"No, I remember someone borrowed it." Jiang Xia said, "And he borrowed the assistant's room key in broad daylight in front of everyone."
Blonde secretary: "...Who is so arrogant?"
The lobby manager who came to join in the fun vaguely thought of something and his expression changed slightly.
The next moment, Jiang Xia's words confirmed his guess: "As detectives or police officers, or even ordinary enthusiastic passers-by, when we know that there may be murder or a body in a room, one thing we will definitely do is to open the door and eliminate the danger inside.
"In other words, when we discovered that the assistant was the target of 'Funeral Silver Coin' and wanted to enter her room, 'Funeral Silver Coin' volunteered to help us borrow the spare key of the room from the front desk. The time between getting the key from the front desk and running back to the door of the secret room was the only time we could avoid the front desk and get the key back."
"The person who went to borrow the key..." Mao Lilan recalled the scene at that time and was stunned, "It was Miss Naoko?! But she, wasn't she the first murder target of 'Funeral Silver Coin'!?"
Suzuki Sonoko stared at the shadow beside the bed, thinking that she didn't need to use her brain to solve the problem. "This is easy! Jiang Xia has already fished him out. Just lift the bed curtain and take a look."
“…”
Maybe he found that there was nowhere to hide in the ward.
There was a moment of silence, and before they could take any action, the bed curtain was lifted, and a dark figure walked out from the shadows and stood in the light - it was indeed the senior executive of Putuo Fashion Design Company, Torimaru Naoko.
A group of people looked at her, either in expectation or in shock.
Only one person's content was relatively rich, both shocking and expected.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." This guy who looks like Uzo is actually a woman? !
Wait, Mr. Ireland seemed to have said that when he was in London, he met a man who was very likely Uzo. According to the description, Uzo's appearance was curly hair, black clothes, sunglasses, and a young man... He didn't match the woman in front of him at all.
...But think about it the other way around, when Mr. Ireland faced Uzo he turned into that horrible look, so isn't it perfectly normal that his description is inaccurate?
Maybe that was just Uzo's way of misleading him.
Hashimoto Maya: “…” From this angle, thinking about it the other way around: Usa is a young woman with straight hair, a suit, and brown glasses, which seems to make sense.
But before that, first of all, is Naoko Torimaru Usa or not?
Hashimoto Maya fell into deep thought.
Then I felt that no matter which way I explained it, it made sense: Uzo's script was flawless, and if Jiang Xia, the detective who had already noticed Uzo's traces, had not intervened, then things would have turned into the "behind-the-scenes mastermind" Jiro Izuka reaping the fruits of his own labor, and no one else would have objected to the case. This case would indeed be a case that could be closed seamlessly - it might even be regarded as a story with an interesting technique, and become a regular topic of conversation after dinner.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." But now, with Jiang Xia's involvement, the situation has become a showdown between two geniuses. Everyone has a time to slack off, so why can't Wu Zuo fall into the gutter and fall into Jiang Xia's hands? He swears to defend the right of every cadre to fall!
In addition, although Usa is a cadre, he must have many subordinates, but it is better to correct the mistake of "Izuka Jiro is not dead" personally than to let his subordinates finish the mess. So it is also possible that Usa's real body appeared here...
After this analysis, Hashimoto Maya doesn't know whether Naoko Torimaru is Usa.
But there was one thing he knew.
——He really hoped that the person Jiang Xia hooked was Wu Zo, and he sincerely hoped that Wu Zo would be caught.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Unconsciously, the pressure brought to him by this cadre has exceeded the pressure of being held accountable by the organization...
…
The messy information in Maya Hashimoto's mind did not affect the progress of the case.
Under his strange gaze of "yes", "no", "yes", "no", Naoko Torimaru left the bedside and looked up at Jiang Xia.
There were a bunch of detective police and onlookers blocking the door, but Torimaru Naoko didn't show much panic. She raised her hand to tuck the loose hair behind her ears, and said in surprise: "What are you all doing gathering at the door? Aren't you here to visit Mr. Inozuka's condition like me? Why don't you come in?"
"?" the blonde secretary said angrily, "Stop pretending, you murderer! You're not here to visit a patient, you're here to kill someone - the power cord you pulled out is still hanging on the ground!"
"Oh, that." Torimaru Naoko even asked for evidence in a more elegant way than other murderers: "Mr. Inozuka on the bed suddenly turned into a puppet model. I was startled and accidentally pulled the string off when I hurriedly stepped back."
"It was just an accident. You won't arrest anyone for this, will you?" Torimaru Naoko said, "As for the locked room technique you just mentioned... there were people in that room and they had the key. Maybe one of them locked the door."
Hashimoto Maya came back to her senses and glanced at her quietly: "..." Hmm? This weird tone is a bit like Uzo.
He followed his heart and threw a weight on the scale of "It's Uzo" in his heart.
Then he retreated silently behind Jiang Xia, deciding to leave the situation to the magical detective.
But before Jiang Xia, the strange little boy with glasses spoke again. Conan said, "But I remember that on the first night, I saw Sister Naoko in the corridor. When you returned to your room, you were different from others. You didn't do the "inserting the key to unlock the door" action at all, because your room key had already been handed over to the front desk at that time, right?"
Naoko Torimaru was unmoved: "Reasoning without evidence is just storytelling. No matter from which angle you look at it, I have only one identity, the victim of this serial murder case - I was almost poisoned to death."
Jiang Xia shook his head: "As long as you knew that the cup was poisoned, you would have countless ways to avoid drinking it. The incident of 'almost being poisoned' was just a little trick you used to help yourself get rid of suspicion."
(End of this chapter)
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