Chapter 1989 1997 [Shirley's Good Deeds Every Day]
Inspector Megure watched Jiang Xia flipping through the camera and his face turned red: I finally had a flash of inspiration, but it turned out to be the wrong one.
But the murderer still needs to be found. Since it's not a male college student, then...
Inspector Megure suddenly saw a photo in the camera, his eyes lit up, and he looked at the old curator: "This photo shows you leaving the house, what were you doing when you left your seat?"
The old curator took a closer look and then remembered, "Oh, I was going outside to check the air conditioning. The cold wind today seems to be stronger than usual, and I was afraid that the audience would get cold, so I wanted to check it."
Feeling the suspicion from the police, he took the initiative to walk to the door he had exited before and pointed it out to everyone: "Look, if you go out from this door, the door at the left end is the air conditioning control room."
Indeed, it seems a bit difficult to go around from here and assassinate the killer.
Jiang Xia looked at the two people who were first ruled out by Inspector Megure and said, "Did you see the body in the projection room? Can you take us to the projection room to have a look?"
The projectionist nodded, led them out the door and around to a staircase, then opened the door and said, "Just go up from here."
The group followed him upstairs and when they reached the corner of the stairs, they saw a small window on the wall.
When Jiang Xia reached the corner, he stopped and looked at the building opposite. Opposite was a shopping mall, and opposite here seemed to be a coffee shop. Some customers were leisurely drinking tea inside.
The moment Jiang Xia looked over, he seemed to see a figure passing by quickly in his peripheral vision. When his sight focused on the table by the window of the coffee shop, he saw a cup of coffee on the table, and the stool was hastily pulled away, but there was no figure beside the table.
Jiang Xia: “…”
He looked at the table, then at the thickly piled curtains in the corner, and muttered to the ghosts in his heart: "It is human nature to slack off. I thought Hashimoto Maya would be a diligent and good subordinate, but I didn't expect that he would hide no slower than others at the critical moment."
But there is one thing that is worth praising - being so close, this distance will not hinder the ghosts' murderous aura at all. And they can pick people up at any time.
Maybe he stood at the corner for too long. Huiyuan Ai passed by, stopped in confusion, and tugged at his clothes: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Xia turned around and continued walking towards the screening room with her: "Nothing, I just seemed to see a friend."
As he spoke, his gaze paused briefly on Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya.
Not far ahead.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was in the detective team, trying to use his wisdom to analyze what the suspicious man in black had to do with this case. Unfortunately, he couldn't figure out the problem after thinking for a long time.
At this moment, he suddenly felt his hair stand on end, and shuddered, feeling that he was being stared at by something dangerous. He looked around vigilantly, but did not find anything unusual.
"Is it an illusion? But I always have a premonition of crisis." Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya kept muttering in his heart, "Don't be careless, you have to trust a man's intuition! Maybe the man in black is really suspicious, and he is secretly watching me in a corner, waiting for an opportunity to kill me, an innocent child who has seen too much..."
The more I thought about him, the more scared I became.
After hesitating for a moment, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya walked a few steps slower as if nothing had happened, gradually leaving the group of elementary school students and rubbing against Jiang Xia's legs.
——Although this detective looks dangerous, Brother Jiang Xia must prefer beating up bad adults who want to silence them rather than beating up naughty kids who can't help being beaten.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya thought quickly: "Sure enough, the closer I get to Brother Jiang Xia, the stronger the sense of crisis becomes - this must be because the man in black hiding in the dark realized that as long as I stand next to Brother Jiang Xia, he won't be able to successfully silence me, so he is angry about it!"
Although he was scared, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya still gained a little sense of security.
This way he would have time to think about other things: "Should I talk about the man in black? But he seemed to have left before the victim died, so he shouldn't be the murderer in this case. If I tell you now, will you think I'm showing off or making trouble?"
"No, I have to find more clues first, and then put the clues together with the matter of the man in black - as long as it can provide some help to the case, even if the matter of the man in black is invalid information, I am still helping, and no one can say that I am a bad kid!"
Next to her, Haibara Ai, who was walking on the other side of Jiang Xia, noticed the movement. She bent down slightly, looked over Jiang Xia's legs, and glanced at Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya.
Then she stood up again and her mood began to improve: her efforts were indeed effective - look, the smartest Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya had realized that Jiang Xia was actually an adult worthy of trust, and no longer avoided him like the plague.
If this continues, Jiang Xia should be able to realize his wish soon and become friends with these three timid children.
Next to him, Jiang Xia was also looking at Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya.
——If I remember correctly, when Mitsuhiko went to the bathroom, he seemed to run into Hashimoto Maya.
Why didn't he tell me such an important thing? Could it be that the child has a bad memory and forgot everything?
…
Everyone had their own thoughts, and finally they walked up the stairs and arrived at a small lounge.
The projectionist and the saleswoman were unaware of the twists and turns in the minds of the detective and the elementary school student, and were still concentrating on introducing the police: "This is our employee lounge."
After saying that, the projectionist walked to the opposite side and opened another door on the wall: "The projection room is here."
This cinema is relatively old and not very large. Jiang Xia walked to the door, looked inside, and saw two projectors placed side by side.
"Two?" There weren't many murders in the cinema, and Inspector Megure didn't come backstage often. "I thought there was only one machine in a theater."
The projectionist smiled and said, "Two machines will be more convenient. This way, while one machine is showing, the other machine can reel in the tape. Otherwise, it might not be in time for the next show."
He took two steps forward, walked to the front of the machine, and pointed to a few small openings on the wall: "This is the projection window. This one is for me. From here, I can see whether the movie is playing normally. The one in front of the machine next to it is the projection window - the man was hung in front of this window. I was shocked when I saw it."
Jiang Xia moved closer to the window and took a look. All the small windows were completely sealed, and there were no signs of prying.
The saleswoman said, "When that shadow appeared, Mr. Gu Qiao was playing a movie in this room, and I came in to bring him his lunch box and tea. A few minutes before that, I was in the lounge outside making tea for him, and I never left at all - this alibi is sufficient, right? I've said it before, today's incident must have been that annoying guy's suicide."
(End of this chapter)
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