Chapter 2658-2670 [The Real Murderer]
After a moment, Hashimoto Maya hesitated and said, "There is no elevator switch hidden outside the window, and there is no seam on the ceiling. The body should not have been transported from this room to the second floor during the power outage, so the murderer is probably not Mr. Iida."
As he was talking, Officer Gao Mu suddenly trotted over to the window and said, "Jiang Xia, look there! When we searched that flower bed just now, we found that some branches were broken and there were some strange marks around them, as if they were left to cover up footprints."
"Where is it? Let me take a look." Inspector Megure squeezed to the window, he looked out and suddenly discovered something, "This...isn't this right below the study just now? Could it be that the murderer really jumped out of this window and escaped?"
This discovery made Inspector Megure both happy and worried: he was worried that it would be as difficult to find the murderer as finding a needle in a haystack after he ran away. But he was happy because...
"Brother Hashimoto, you are right!"
Inspector Megure patted the shoulder of his new brother, his face full of satisfaction: He is indeed a talent that Jiang Xia values, and he shows signs of success so soon - if he continues to grow like this, won't he have another brother he can rely on in the future?
Moreover, unlike other fledgling detectives, Hashimoto Maya has brother Jiang Xia behind him. If he can't solve the problem, then he can call brother Jiang Xia over...
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard Jiang Xia sigh.
Memu Police Department: "!"
Hashimoto Maya: “?!”
——Although it was just a fake boss attached to the mission, for some reason, when she suddenly heard this voice, Hashimoto Maya still shuddered instinctively, as if she had really disappointed her boss.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Wait, I'm too into the role. To put it another way, even if you really regard Jiang Xia as the boss of the detective agency, you don't have to be afraid - this kind and sensible detective is completely different from that adult.
"Uzo must have left a scar on my heart, causing me to have a shadow on the word 'boss' from then on."
While comforting herself in her heart, Hashimoto Maya adjusted her mentality and took the initiative to communicate with Jiang Xia: "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"
"That's true to some extent." Jiang Xia said tactfully, "This is part of the whole reasoning, because what you said is exactly the 'truth' that the murderer wants us to know."
Inspector Megure understood, and his eyes lit up: "In other words, the murderer did not escape through the window at all, but was someone else?!"
Jiang Xia nodded.
Outside the window, Officers Takagi and Chiba, who were eavesdropping on the case while standing on tiptoe, looked at each other with joy in their eyes: if the case was handled by an internal staff, there would be no need to look for someone outside like looking for a needle in a haystack!
Just as I was thinking about it, the light suddenly dimmed.
The two looked up in confusion and saw Jiang Xia leaning against the window, looking down at them.
"That's great." Jiang Xia nodded slightly at them and said smoothly, "Come and help me."
…
After a few minutes, Jiang Xia looked at his watch and said to the others, "It's almost time to go upstairs."
Inspector Megure went upstairs expectantly, but halfway up the stairs, he suddenly remembered something: "Oh, I remember Masakage's wife said that five years ago someone came to the house and cursed Mr. Masakage... Could it be that he was not the one who committed the crime this time?"
Jiang Xia looked at Mrs. Zhengying and asked casually as if chatting: "Does the person you are talking about have any quirks?"
"Quirk?" Mrs. Zhengying turned her head away, avoiding his gaze. "This... this happened five years ago. I can't remember it clearly."
"Think about it carefully. Does he have the habit of adjusting his sunglasses?" Jiang Xia raised one hand and pushed the non-existent glasses frame on his nose with his little finger. "Like this."
"Ah, yes!" Mrs. Zhengying said quickly, "He has this kind of..."
Mrs. Zhengying: “…”
She suddenly thought of something and kept silent.
Hashimoto Maya looked left and right, and soon, his eyes were fixed on Iida Riki - pushing up his sunglasses with his pinky finger... Isn't that this guy's habit! He wanted to say it when he first saw it, but he didn't say it out loud because he was worried about offending people. Could it be that the guy who cursed five years ago was actually...
This obvious little movement was noticed not only by Hashimoto Maya, but also by others.
Suzuki Sonoko was surprised. She looked Iida Riki up and down and said, "I can't believe you looked like you missed this place so much, but you disguised yourself and came back to curse your mentor five years ago."
Iida Riki: "I, I'm not, I didn't!"
Jiang Xia: "Just now in those photo albums, I saw a group photo of Mr. Iida and the other two 10 years ago. In the photo, Mr. Iida was wearing a baseball cap, a beard, and dark-colored glasses..."
"Just look at the group photo." Conan took out a photo from his arms and held it up for everyone to see. "How about it, does it look familiar? - That's right, the 'suspicious person who came here 5 years ago' described by Mrs. Masakage is exactly the same as Mr. Iida when he was young."
Hashimoto Maya: "?" When did you take the photo? This is theft! ... It's a pity that Conan is only 7 years old now, and the law cannot punish him for the time being.
"Hmm? Wait, if this kid continues like this and it becomes a habit, then sooner or later... he will be taken to the police station for this illegal behavior!" Thinking of this, Hashimoto Maya felt happy in her heart, feeling a sense of pleasure that she hadn't done anything yet and the terrifying opponent had disappeared on his own.
There is a problem though.
"First of all..." Hashimoto Maya withered again, "If I want to see such a gratifying scene, I have to find a way to live until this kid reaches adulthood."
When a passive-aggressor secretly curses his future colleagues in his heart.
Next to them, people were looking at the photo.
"It's exactly the same, but..." As expected, someone noticed something was wrong. Mao Lilan asked in confusion, "But isn't Mrs. Masakage very familiar with Mr. Iida? Why didn't she recognize him five years ago?"
Jiang Xia: "Because there was no such person five years ago. When people make up lies, in order to make their words seem true, they often instinctively look for similar materials from reality. Mr. Iida five years ago was the template of the 'suspicious person' that Mrs. Masakage found in a hurry."
Iida Riki couldn't help but push his sunglasses with his pinky finger: "Master's Wife, this is how I look in your eyes..."
The crowd was stunned. After a while, they finally came to their senses: "So... Mrs. Zhengying is lying on purpose?!"
Inspector Megure looked at this honest middle-aged woman and could not hide his surprise: "You can't judge a person by appearance... Could you be the murderer this time?"
(End of this chapter)
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