Chapter 2097 2105 [Police Promotion Machine]
"Because it is a room that can only be reached by entering two doors, it is called the 'combination door'."
Mrs. Xun introduced Jiang Xia, then reached out and knocked on the door, calling out, "Mr. Akanuma..."
“Aa ...
Suddenly, a heart-wrenching scream of pain came from the iron gate, and a man shouted in fear: "'Cursed Warrior', it's the Cursed Warrior...Ah!!"
Jiang Xia: “…”
He pushed the door, but the heavy iron door was locked.
The person inside screamed miserably as if he was being torn apart. Mrs. Xun was terrified until Jiang Xia looked at her. Then she came to her senses: "The spare key... the key... is here!"
She turned around, ran out of the revolving door with Jiang Xia, hurriedly took the key hanging on the wall, and went back to open the door.
In less than a minute, when I came back, there was no movement inside the iron gate.
Jiang Xia opened the locked door. The room was pitch dark and the only thing he could smell was a strong smell of blood.
The flashlight shone into the room, bringing a little light, and vaguely a person could be seen sitting against the wall.
Jiang Xia moved his wrist and shone the flashlight over there. The circle of light reflected a dark figure - a headless man in black sitting cross-legged there, with fresh flesh and blood showing at the broken neck.
“…”
"ah--!!"
The woman's miserable scream tore through the night and echoed along the corridor.
Curacao in the distance sat up suddenly, then banged his head against the partition in the closet, covered his head and lay down silently.
After a moment, she got up again as if nothing had happened and listened carefully.
…
The incident occurred late at night in the early hours of the morning.
It was not until dawn that the police finally trudged through the mountain roads and arrived at the small village.
A police inspector with a pointed face and monkey cheeks got out of the car. When he saw Jiang Xia, his eyes lit up: "Hey, Jiang Xia! You're here too."
Conan looked at him in shock: "..." Why did this useless policeman come? By the way, is this guy so close to Jiang Xia? Why is he so enthusiastic as if he saw a cash cow?
Yamamura Cao did not notice the disgust from the elementary school student, and ran over enthusiastically to find Jiang Xia and put his arm around her - although the cases surrounding this Tokyo detective were a bit scary, the last time he met him, he was promoted to deputy inspector not long after returning. The last time he met him, he was happily promoted to inspector again.
He felt that he was getting closer and closer to those heroic detectives in TV dramas. As for the little shock he had received along the way, it was all in the past and nothing to be afraid of.
Shancuncao: “…” Unfortunately, the promotion has been a bit too fast recently, and there is no hope of further advancement for the time being.
He looked at Jiang Xia regretfully and tried to make an appointment to skip a grade next time: "Come to Gunma Prefecture more often in the future! Our county is beautiful and I guarantee you will be satisfied."
After a pause, he remembered something, and leaned closer to Jiang Xia, lowering his voice and said stealthily: "By the way, remember not to bring your cruel black boss."
Jiang Xia was stunned.
If Inspector Yamamura hadn’t said it, he would have almost forgotten: Yes, where is Toru Amuro?
You said you would follow them to look for clues about Uzo, but now you give up?
Haha, a slacker with no principles.
Jiang Xia: “…” However, I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Matsuda Jinpei said that he seemed to have felt a vague scent of coffee in the woods, but it was too far away to be sure.
He glanced at the woods, then looked away thoughtfully.
…
The victims this time were a local prominent family, and it was a very brutal beheading case, so Shancun Cao brought a lot of people with him.
It wasn't long before the forensic work was completed.
Shancuncao cleared his throat and flipped through the records in a serious manner: "The deceased is the man who called himself 'Akanuma'. His identity has not been confirmed yet - but the only people who know that he stayed here last night should be your family. As long as we check their alibis one by one, the matter will be very simple."
Suzuki Sonoko nodded as she listened, but halfway through she felt something was wrong, as if that would make her a suspect as well. She objected, "How can it be simple? It was late at night and everyone was sleeping in their rooms. If we continue investigating like this, it would be strange for someone to have an alibi."
Hashimoto Maya looked at her quietly: "..." Hmm? Don't want to be checked for an alibi? Did this woman do something secretly last night?
Just as he was thinking, Conan next to him also said: "Compared to the alibi, another thing is more worthy of attention - Uncle Yamamura, didn't you notice that this is a closed room murder case."
Shancuncao's hand holding the notebook froze, and he gradually felt something was wrong: "Murder in a closed room?"
Jiang Xia nodded and said, "Yesterday I received a call from Mr. Akanuma, who told me that if I wanted to know about the 'Cursed Samurai', I should go to see him late at night with Mrs. Xun.
"Mrs. Xun and I went to the 'Pinmen' as agreed, which was the guest room where Mr. Akanuma was staying. As soon as we arrived, we heard a scream from inside.
"The iron door was locked at the time, so Mrs. Xun and I had to go get the key and open the door. But when we opened the locked door, there was no murderer inside, only a headless dead person."
Shancuncao scratched his head: "What kind of secret room is this? The murderer must have killed someone and locked the door when you went to get the key, and took the opportunity to run away."
Mrs. Xun's face turned pale. "The key was hanging in the corridor, very close to the room. But we didn't see the murderer passing by. It seemed as if it disappeared out of thin air."
"Disappeared out of thin air?!" Yamamura Cao's face suddenly turned paler than hers, "Could it be, could it be the work of a monster?"
Hashimoto Maya: “…” How did this guy become a police inspector? It would be better if I could be one.
Fortunately, regardless of whether the case can be solved or not, a good police officer is one who knows how to use detectives.
Shancuncao looked at Jiang Xia tremblingly: "Mr. Jiang Xia, what do you think?"
Inspector Megure appeared in Curacao's mind: "..." What, you received unified training before joining the company? Even the lines for asking for help are almost the same.
Jiang Xia thought for a moment and looked at Mrs. Xun: "Is there a spare key to that room?"
Mrs. Xun shook her head: "We only have one key for each house. And they are all hand-cast and cannot be reproduced."
Everyone was silent. Since the key was in the hands of Jiang Xia and Mrs. Xun at that time, the murderer naturally could not have locked the door.
"Maybe the murderer didn't leave through the door, but through the window." Yamamura Cao remembered something, "When I went to the scene just now, I saw that there was a window in that room."
…
But windows were soon ruled out as well.
The room where the crime was committed had a cliff outside the window and a gurgling river below.
"And this window is like a prison, with three iron bars. An adult can't even stick his head out."
While Yamamura Cao was talking about the results of his subordinates' investigation, he shook the railing like a prisoner in a very dramatic way.
The next moment, with a click, the iron rod in the middle was removed.
Shancun Cao: “?”
(End of this chapter)
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