Chapter 2165 2176 [Suspicious Person]
Officer Takagi was prepared and took out his notebook: "The specific cause of death needs to be determined after an autopsy, but judging from the general condition of the body, he should have died between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m., and the cause of death should be drowning."
There was a small amount of bleeding in the ears of the deceased, and a lot of mushroom-like foam accumulated around the nose and mouth. This kind of respiratory mucus is stirred into small white bubbles by intense breathing and often lasts for a long time. It is a common feature of drowning while alive. The presence of this thing at least shows that the deceased was not thrown into the water after death.
Mao Lilan didn't expect that the diving star who made her finally unable to resist asking for his autograph one afternoon would die miserably in the water that night.
She touched the out-of-print signature on her little notebook, and sighed, feeling the impermanence of life: "A diver should be very good at swimming, how could he suddenly drown?"
Judy: “…” Maybe it was because someone had murdered him.
But we can't be too preconceived - what if, what if this is really just an isolated case.
Conan discovered something and squatted down to point it out: "There's something strange on his forehead, like he got hit - look, there seems to be blood."
"Bumped his head and drowned?"
The two pieces of information combined in his mind, Inspector Megure looked up at the diving platform above his head and suddenly realized: "So that's it! It seems that he accidentally hit his head hard on the diving platform while practicing diving, then lost control of his limbs, fell dizzy into the water, and drowned."
President Saeki and her pretty boy were also there.
President Saeki sighed when he heard this: "The time of death was between eight and nine in the evening... That was exactly when we had our celebration party. Saijo was not a very sociable player, so we didn't care when we found out that he didn't go to the party. If we had known that he was training alone at the time..."
She shook her head and sighed, feeling very sorry.
The pretty boy Naruse Kei consoled her professionally, "Everyone knows how dangerous diving training is. And I remember that in the afternoon, he almost crashed into the stage. He dared to practice alone even though he had done it before. It was Saijo who was too arrogant. Don't blame others."
The athlete who switched from diving to swimming also said: "Nishijo looks carefree, but he actually takes the results of the competition very seriously. There is a diving competition on the opening day, which is tomorrow. He must have been too anxious to come to practice - we have a rule that you can't practice alone, so this is indeed his own responsibility."
Judy looked at these three people: "..." Recently, she has been catching up on various murder cases around Jiangxia, and gradually summed up some of the preferences of "that person".
It would have been fine if the three colleagues of the deceased hadn't spoken, but now that they started to speak one after another, Judy had a bad feeling in her mind: You'd better stop talking. The more you talk, the more it sounds like someone is behind this.
At this moment, Miwako Sato trotted in: "Inspector, I found a witness at the time of the crime. The deceased was indeed diving alone at the time."
"Witness? Did you really find one?" Inspector Megure was stunned: Although he hoped that what happened today was just an unfortunate diving accident, he actually had a hunch in his heart that things were not that simple.
...Is the result really that simple?
...If he had known earlier, he would not have asked Jiang Xia to come back, making his detective brother make a wasted trip.
Sato Miwako obviously felt the same way. She nodded and rigorously recounted the process of finding the witness:
"The witness was an old painter who lived in the apartment opposite. He lived alone and his balcony faced the wall of the diving pool. The diving pool here was made of a curved glass curtain wall, which was beautiful both day and night, so the old man often used it as a theme for his paintings.
"He was revising a painting just now, and suddenly he noticed a lot of police cars gathered here, so he came over to ask about it. I asked him about the situation, and he said he saw someone diving alone just now."
Jiang Xia listened and asked, "Is the painting he drew tonight also based on this diving hall?"
"Well, I think so." Sato Miwako didn't expect this. She slapped her forehead and said, "I'll go ask him again."
She ran away again.
Inspector Megure looked at his subordinates who were being ordered around in circles: "..."
...Forget it. Anyway, whether Jiang Xia commands his subordinates or Jiang Xia tells him about things first and then he takes charge, the final result will be the same, and there will be no middleman to waste time talking to.
It’s a profit, it’s a profit.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the first-grade kid brought by Jiang Xia stopped the forensic police officer. Conan looked at the evidence bag in the police officer's hand and said, "Uncle, is this the earplug of the deceased?"
The police officer glanced at Jiang Xia behind him and nodded: "It was just taken out of the deceased's ear. It's still fresh."
Inside the evidence bag was a pair of orange earplugs with blood still clinging to the inside.
Judy, who was also looking over here curiously: "..." Indeed, it is indeed new.
Conan didn't notice her gaze. He stroked his chin and whispered to Jiang Xia, "I remember when I gave him the photo before, he was using a pair of blue earplugs."
Inspector Megure still held on to a little hope that this was an accident. He tried to think: "It's normal for people who soak in the swimming pool every day to have a few more sets of earplugs!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "But the deceased didn't seem to wear a swimming cap when he practiced diving during the day."
Inspector Megure: "Maybe he suddenly wanted to wear it at night?"
Judy came back to her senses and shook her head. Unlike a certain cautious mixed-race assistant, Judy still stubbornly held on to the idea of "beating Jiang Xia in any field" and couldn't help but interject a few words:
"Compared with other competitive sports, diving is more about viewing. If everyone wears a swimming cap, it won't be so beautiful. In addition, wearing a swimming cap when swimming can reduce the resistance in the water and speed up the swimming speed, but there is no such requirement in diving.
"In the most extreme cases, some divers are not even very good at swimming. They just need to know how to flop to the shore after falling into the water. In addition, if the impact is too great, the swimming cap is likely to be pulled off. In the end, the person will have to go back into the water to retrieve the cap after coming out. It is better not to wear it."
Inspector Megure wiped the sweat from his forehead: "..." Stop talking, the more you talk, the more it seems like there's something fishy going on. Anyway, isn't this foreigner's Japanese bad? How come he's so eloquent when talking about the case? - Suspicious, a little suspicious!
He came close to Jiang Xia and said, "Brother Jiang Xia, look at this..."
Jiang Xia: "It should be murder."
Memu Police Department: "?!"
When the deceased's three colleagues and superior heard this, they were shocked.
Even the detective said so, it seems...
The three of them looked at each other, and like a showdown between western cowboys, invisible smoke filled the air and a fierce battle was about to break out.
(End of this chapter)
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