Chapter 2231 2242 [Wild Uzo]
Akashi Hiroto said, "It's unrealistic for someone to play tennis in the rain, but I've been living in the woods for a long time, and it's really lonely. Anyway, curry is cooked in a plate or a pot, so I just heated up some more, hoping that someone would come. I didn't expect that I would really wait for a destined customer."
"Hmm..." Officer Shancun believed it a little and turned to look at the man in sunglasses next to him - this man just looked at him a few times and said several things related to him, and they were all correct. His reasoning was as accurate as fortune-telling, which was really admirable.
So this time, Shancuncao, the fence-sitter, did not act rashly, but cautiously asked the new partner next to him: "Is there any other evidence?"
Jiang Xia pushed up his sunglasses again. They were a bit heavy on his nose. "Excessive curry does not count as evidence, but it contradicts Mr. Akashi's testimony. He said that the deceased had seen a dentist three days ago and had a tooth extracted. But if there really is such a patient in the family, they usually wouldn't cook spicy curry as food. This kind of diet would irritate the wound. And you seem to have found new evidence just now?"
Inspector Yamamura nodded repeatedly and pointed at Conan: "Just now this kid was rummaging around at the scene and accidentally found a newly fallen tooth in the curry. According to our comparison, it fell out of the deceased's mouth."
Judy's ears twitched: "..." How could she dig out the things buried in the curry and rice?
Moreover, Conan and "Dr. Shinide" had just gone upstairs for a short time when they discovered this clue, which shows that they almost went straight to the deceased's curry rice... Haha, it must be the secret guidance of "Dr. Shinide". Let alone high school students, this organization even did not let go of first-year students.
Judy continued to keep a little mental notebook.
Next to him, the tennis coach was sweating even more profusely. He had already heard from the test of the man in sunglasses that the man was not an easy person to deal with, but he didn't expect that his flaws would be caught one after another.
Fortunately, I have a quick mind...
The tennis coach immediately changed his words: "I must have remembered it wrongly. Maybe my dad told me he wanted to have his tooth pulled when he came back from the dentist, but I remembered it as he had his tooth pulled out."
Yamamura Cao sighed, "So that's how it is, but how could you cook the beef in the curry so hard? In addition to the tooth that was broken, the other large teeth on the same side of the deceased were also loose - maybe it was because of the broken tooth that he collapsed and committed suicide."
How did it become suicide again... Jiang Xia pretended not to hear him and continued: "The deceased's teeth were not knocked out by the curry, but by something else - the hemp rope that strangled him to death.
"After going upstairs, the murderer easily subdued the short-statured victim and put a noose around his neck. He then lifted the victim slightly higher and put a hanging rope around the front of the victim, letting the victim bite the rope.
“The deceased must bite the rope tightly and use the force of his bite to stop his body from falling. Otherwise, if he lets go, the noose around his neck will tighten immediately, taking his life.
"One of his big teeth broke off when he was biting the rope and fell into the curry on the table.
"At the same time, the action of biting the rope stopped him from calling for help. Even if he wanted to speak, he could only make whimpering sounds and could not form a complete sentence."
When Judy heard this, her heart skipped a beat and she immediately remembered the strange "whimpering" she heard when she first went upstairs.
At that time, she was surprised that the old man was not dead, and she was relieved. Then she thought that the upstairs was just a weird old man with a broken mind, and she went back downstairs without thinking about it. But who knew... there was indeed no dead person in the house, but there was a person who was becoming a dead person!
Even though she had come into contact with countless corpses, the clear sight of the death process happening around her still made Judy break out in a cold sweat.
Officer Shancun thought of something and scratched his head, "But... the hemp rope was very rough. If that was true, there should be a lot of hemp rope fragments in the deceased's mouth, but in fact his mouth was quite clean."
Jiang Xia looked at the police officer who was in charge of collecting evidence and asked, "Is there anything like a handkerchief next to the deceased?"
"Yes! There are many traces of dried saliva on the handkerchief, and it's wrinkled..." Shancuncao was halfway through answering when suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, "You mean, the murderer used this handkerchief to pad the outside of the hemp rope, and the deceased was in direct contact with the handkerchief, so there was no hemp rope fragments in his mouth?"
He quietly changed it to honorifics.
A good detective can not only bring enjoyment to viewers by solving cases smoothly, but also significantly reduce the police's overtime hours.
Although Jiang Xia is undoubtedly such a detective, he usually stays in Tokyo and has few opportunities to deal with the Gunma Prefectural Police... In comparison, this wild detective who appeared out of nowhere may not be the case!
Yamamura So rubbed his hands and prayed secretly that this was a local detective, and that he would be able to help the police in Gunma Prefecture more like Jiang Xia helped the Tokyo police.
Yamamura Cao: "..." Well, the only problem is that Gunma Prefecture doesn't have many murders, at least not as many as Tokyo. It would be a pity if we finally managed to lure someone over, but the detective got bored and left after staying for a while.
...Oh, never mind, I'll just take it as it comes and solve the case at hand first.
Inspector Yamamura came to his senses and quickly raised another question: "There is another question - if your deduction is correct, why didn't the deceased use his hands to pull the rope above his head to support his body? Even if he is old and has little strength, at least he can hold on for a few seconds and shout for help, which is better than holding on with his teeth all the time."
"Also..." He pointed at Judy and said frankly in the latter's vicious eyes, "Because this lady is very suspicious, I remember her testimony very clearly."
"She went upstairs twice. The first time she went upstairs, the light in the deceased's room was on and there were sounds of someone alive sobbing in the room."
"And when she went upstairs the second time, the lights in the room were already turned off. In the interval between these two times, all of them were in the living room, and no one left. The only person who could have gone to the crime scene to turn off the lights..."
Inspector Yamamura looked at the wild detective and expressed what he wanted to say with his eyes: Only you, who came out of nowhere, have the chance to turn off the lights.
The target he was staring at laughed, and then as if he could see through his thoughts, he said slowly: "Besides me, there is actually another candidate to turn off the lights - the deceased himself."
(End of this chapter)
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