Chapter 2158-2169 [FBI murder case]
The air cushion carrying the person hit Judy from behind. Judy stumbled and fell into the water. The air cushion then flipped over, and the person and everything on it fell into the water.
"Oh, Sorry!" Judy thought it was some impatient tourist, so she jumped up and turned around.
The next moment, her pupils suddenly shrank - the surrounding water was quickly dyed red by a large amount of blood. At the same time, a slippery body floated along the water and hit her.
Judy's heart skipped a beat. She grabbed the person's arm and pulled her out of the water. She saw that it was the fashionable woman she had just seen at the door. Qian Jiliangling's face was pale and the flesh on the side of her neck was turned outward. She had turned from a proud living person into a corpse.
When the tourists around heard the noise and turned around, they saw two women soaked in a pool of blood, one of them had her limbs limp and was obviously dead.
Tourist: “…”
Tourist: “Ah——!!!”
Judy's hand slipped and the body fell into the water, face down in the water, floating forward along with the blood.
And at the place where the air cushion had just fallen, a folding knife sank into the water and landed on the bottom of the pool with a click.
In the distance, Akai Shuichi was observing this side with a sniper scope: "..."
…The targeting was so obvious that the man actually took action.
…
“A-choo!”
Conan sneezed and silently wrapped himself tightly in the bath towel: It's strange, it's summer, but I don't know why I feel a little cold.
A body with its throat cut was found in the water, and all the tourists crawled to the shore. Jiang Xia went over to take a look, and was soon called up by the water park staff.
Not long after, Inspector Megure arrived with his team.
When he looked up and saw Judy, he blurted out, "Why are you here again?"
Judy: "..." Shouldn't you say this to Jiang Xia and his classmates?
But soon, she realized that there was a deeper meaning behind Inspector Megure's words.
The police went to question the witnesses and when they came back, Inspector Megure's face became serious. He looked at Judy with a little scrutiny from a police officer: "Can you describe the situation at the time of the incident in more detail?"
Judy sighed inwardly, but could only act like a cooperative citizen and repeat what she had said several times:
"I was playing volleyball in the water at the time, with my back to the tunnel, so I didn't see what was behind me. Not long after the water flow was restored, something suddenly hit me from behind and knocked me into the water. After I stood firm and looked back, I found that the person who hit me was a tourist drifting on an air cushion. Her air cushion flipped over during the collision, and she sank into the water, and then..."
Inspector Megure: "And then her throat was slit to death?"
Judy nodded, suddenly feeling something was wrong.
Sure enough, Inspector Megure looked at her with more suspicion: "The police found the murder weapon - a folding knife - submerged in the water at the place where you collided. And according to the testimony of eyewitnesses, there was nothing unusual when the deceased was floating towards you on the air cushion.
"That is to say, the victim died on the spot after his throat was cut. When the blood gushed out, there was no one else within a five-meter radius of you. The water here is clear and shallow, so there is no possibility of a third person diving over to commit the crime..."
Judy: “…” The bad feeling grew.
Inspector Megure: "Also, I heard that you and the deceased had a conflict at the entrance of the water park. So combined with the current situation, the most reasonable speculation at present is that after you collided with each other, while both of you were sinking in the water, you cut her throat with a knife, wiped the fingerprints on the folding knife, and threw the knife to the bottom of the water."
Judy was calm at first, but when she thought of the Tokyo police's ability to handle cases, her heart began to beat faster: "...Well, although it does look like that, the murderer is not actually me."
Inspector Megure sighed. Every murderer would say this: "Could it be me?"
Judy: “…”
Jiang Xia waited and waited, but seeing that Judy never showed any murderous intent, he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
If we delay any longer, it will be too late. Thinking about it, this FBI agent seems to be a bit of a troublemaker. Even if the deal is not successful, there is still righteousness. He had no choice but to ask: "Where are the three people who were with the deceased now?"
When Inspector Megure heard him speak, he immediately left Judy and turned around: "They are in the staff lounge next door."
Jiang Xia: "These three people also had conflicts with the deceased."
Judy gave him a look that hinted at gratitude.
Inspector Megure thought for a moment and said, "Although they all have very clear alibis at the time, since you said so, let's go ask them about the situation first!"
…
Inspector Megure obtained a simple schematic diagram of the park, which showed the general structure of this water jungle.
Jiang Xia casually drew a cross on it to mark the location of the crime, and then began to question like a serious detective.
The first person to be asked was the girl with short hair: "Where was I at the time of the incident? Let me see, um... I think it was around this location."
She pointed at the picture and said, "Except Xiao Ling, the three of us were here to work today. I was sitting on the platform as a lifeguard."
The young man with glasses also took a closer look and said, "I was here, in this rest area. I was helping tourists arrange their parasols when I heard screams coming from the waterside..."
He thought of the blood, sighed with regret, and shook his head.
The dark-skinned young man also lowered his head to look for his position and soon found it: "I'm here. I was moving things and passed by when I saw a pool of blood in the water. Alas, how could he die so suddenly."
There were quite a few guests at the water park today, and the three people's statements could be corroborated. And each of them was more than ten meters away from the collision site at the time, so even a gibbon could not reach out and cut the throat.
Jiang Xia took a notebook and went through the process: "When was the last time you saw the deceased?"
Officer Gao Mu was about to take note when he suddenly realized that his job had been taken away: "..."
...Jiang Xia is really hardworking.
The three college students were all intimidated by the detective's businesslike manner and recalled seriously: "Before, Xiao Ling suddenly said that she felt dizzy, and then she went back to the lounge alone. Since then, we have been busy with our own things and have not seen her. She is very irritable every time she is not feeling well, so we don't want to run into her trap and worry about being angry with her, so we didn't take the initiative to look for her. Who knew that she actually went rafting alone and was caught in the water... Alas."
Judy always felt like these people were hinting at something: "Well, I repeat, I did not slit her throat."
When the three college students heard her voice, they turned their heads and glared at her.
However, the "anger" in it was more or less a performance element: whether Qian Jiliangling was dead or alive was not so important, what was important was that if this foreign woman was the real murderer, the three of them would be safe!
(End of this chapter)
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