Chapter 1970 1978 [Talent and Skills]
Conan tried to piece together the clues in his mind.
Before he could come up with anything, he suddenly heard the surprised voice of the young policeman downstairs: "Is this blood? This is blood!"
Jiang Xia walked around to the balcony and looked downstairs. That was where the crime had just happened. It was usually pitch black, but now it was brightly lit by the street lights.
A white line was drawn on the ground to mark the spot where the body had been lying, and two or three meters away, Officer Takagi and the young police officer huddled together, looking at something on the wall.
"Let's go down and take a look."
Jiang Xia turned around and went out. As soon as he opened the door, he saw a familiar face. Hashimoto Maya was standing outside, still hesitating whether to go in.
Conan was startled and pinched his throat: "Big brother, are you following us?"
Hashimoto Maya: “?!!” How can you use such a sneaky word like “stalking” to tarnish someone’s innocence!
Oh, what a sinister colleague! Now they have begun to fight among themselves.
But he was still a child after all, so it was normal for him to lose his temper. Little did he know that the more anxious he was, the more likely he would arouse Jiang Xia's suspicion.
While mentally hitting the kid on the head, Hashimoto Maya showed an innocent smile of an ordinary citizen and said to Jiang Xia: "I saw you go out, so I wanted to come over to see if I could help. But this is someone else's house, and I can't just go in..."
As he said this, he glanced at Conan, trying to draw Jiang Xia's attention to Conan with an unintentional little gesture, and remind him that this child broke into the house at such a young age, and it was obvious that he was the product of an outlaw, completely different from law-abiding citizens like himself.
Conan: “……?”
Was it an illusion? Why did he seem to smell the scent of tea?
…
The three of them went downstairs while talking.
Although the area was surrounded by a cordon, with Jiang Xia there, they were able to sneak in easily by just scanning their faces.
When Officer Takagi heard the footsteps, he was worried that someone had trespassed here to watch the fun, but when he turned around, he saw that the person was actually Jiang Xia.
He was immediately surprised, and without waiting to be asked, he happily volunteered: "We just found some blood on the wall, which is probably the victim's blood."
It was too late and he wanted to get off work.
Jiang Xia: "What a coincidence! We also found blood on the broken window on the fourth floor. It should be the blood of the same person."
Officer Gao Mu was stunned for a moment: "Fourth floor?"
There were bloodstains on the wall at the scene, which was barely understandable: perhaps the murderer had read too many comics, and after hitting the person, he casually swung the weapon, splashing the blood onto the wall.
...But what about the blood on the 4th floor? It's so high, it takes a lot of strength to throw it up there.
A figure gradually emerged in his mind: the burly man at the dinner party.
However, at this moment, Jiang Xia stared at the blood on the wall for a few seconds, and suddenly pointed to the rooftop: "There should be blood on the railing there as well, can you find someone to go up and take a look?"
“?!”
Officer Takagi had no doubts and immediately assigned two people to go to the rooftop to collect evidence, and another two to go to the room on the 4th floor.
Hashimoto Maya's heart skipped a beat. Officer Takagi had been running around before, and didn't know where Jiang Xia was, but he had always been by Jiang Xia's side - Jiang Xia had never been there. The light on the rooftop was so dim that he couldn't see the railings on the rooftop from such a distance.
…How did he know there was blood there?
"What a stupid question I thought of." Hashimoto Maya slapped herself on the forehead and answered herself loudly in her heart, "How else could he know? - Jiang Xia is a detective! He must have deduced it, is there any need to ask? Otherwise, it couldn't have been arranged by him, hahahaha."
Conan, who was observing secretly: "..."
What's up with this mixed-race guy pretending to be a foreigner? His mental state doesn't seem very optimistic.
Having said that, this rapid switching between sadness and joy seems to be more and more like Mr. Okiya when he was in London.
…
Jiang Xia went downstairs to chase the child who was running around late at night, and took a walk around and brought back enough clues.
When we returned to the dinner room on the 5th floor, we saw that the police investigation had come to an end. Inspector Megure hesitated for a long time over the suspects in front of him, and then an idea suddenly occurred to him: "How about this, everyone follow me to the police station to give a statement."
By keeping the suspicious person busy first, they can prevent the murderer from destroying the evidence, and then they will have time to investigate slowly!
"Everyone? But we have classes tomorrow. If we go to the police station at this hour, what time will we be back?"
The college students didn't seem to be very cooperative.
While trying to comfort him, Inspector Megure quietly looked towards the door, and was surprised to find that Brother Jiang Xia, who had disappeared halfway, had returned.
And brings wonderful good news.
"I think I know who the murderer is."
Memu Police Department: "!"
Once the detective is willing to talk, the case will be solved quickly. Jiang Xia did not keep the suspense. He turned around and saw that the four suspects were standing side by side in a row. So he raised his hand and pointed to one of them like playing cards: "The murderer should be the owner of the house."
The owner of the house was startled and suddenly looked over with murderous intent.
Hashimoto Maya saw his excitement and glanced at him. He judged that this man had no weapon, so he consciously stood next to Jiang Xia, intending to act as a bodyguard when the murderer rushed over excitedly, actively improving the trust of this detective.
Unfortunately, perhaps because there were too many policemen in the house, the owner did not give him a chance to show off and only shouted, "Don't spit blood on me!"
Jiang Xia skillfully skipped the steps of arguing with the suspect and looked out the window: "When I went out just now, I found that the window of the apartment directly below was broken, and the window fragments, the wall near the deceased, and the rooftop handrail of the building directly above, three seemingly unrelated places, 'coincidentally' all stained with the deceased's blood.
"This is proof that the murder weapon had been moved at these three points - the murderer did not need to go downstairs. He only needed to stand on the fifth floor to inflict a bloody blow on the victim's head from a distance.
"Before the crime, the murderer arranged a drinking party that would start at 7pm tonight, but deliberately did not invite Kusaka Masaru. He also put a note in his locker, using the deceased's name to invite him out, and told him to meet downstairs on the opposite side of the building after 10pm tonight.
"Before everyone came to the appointment, the murderer tied two pieces of fishing line to a stone and used a slingshot to slingshot the stone to the roof of the opposite building. Then he rushed to the opposite building and tied the two pieces of hanging line together to make a noose that was difficult to see with the naked eye.
"Then night fell and the drinking party began. At around nine o'clock, the murderer used the pre-recorded voice of Mr. Kusaka to forge a phone call. After answering the phone, he pretended to be Mr. Kusaka and told the deceased to wait downstairs on the opposite side of the building.
"After the deceased came downstairs, the homeowner left the living room on the pretext of having to report something, went into the house next door, and began his remote assassination operation."
(End of this chapter)
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