Chapter 2914 2926 [Lost Guns × 4]
"Alright, alright." The old farmer patted the falconer on the shoulder and consoled him. "My wife has said so. Don't bring it up again. She is the saddest person when the store manager passed away."
As he spoke, the old farmer remembered something and said with regret: "But I never thought that our cafe would end up like this."
"It won't end!" The store manager's wife sat up straight and interrupted him, "My husband has put so much effort into this store. If he knew that we would close the store after he left... he would die with regrets!"
She clenched her fists, her eyes full of determination: "I can learn to hunt, and then the three of us can continue to run the store!"
The old farmer and the falconer looked at her in surprise, and after a long moment, they both nodded heavily.
…
"This scene looks quite inspiring." Conan muttered to Jiang Xia as he quietly left the scene and started looking for clues elsewhere.
After a while, they went around to the front yard and found that the falconer had left the store manager's wife and sat in the open trunk of a car.
The eagle landed on the shelf next to him. The falconer stared at it for a while, then bent down and took out a box.
He scooped a piece of ointment from the box and slowly held it towards the eagle.
"Wait!" A voice came from the side. Three high school girls had wandered in here at some point. Seeing this scene and thinking about the shop assistants' previous speculation, Suzuki Sonoko suddenly became suspicious, "You are not going to poison this eagle, are you?"
"Ah?" The falconer was stunned for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he almost jumped up, "How could I do such a thing! - I chose this line of work because I like eagles. How could I do that to my beloved child!"
Jiang Xia walked over and asked: "Is this ointment on your hand?"
The falconer glanced at him and stopped arguing with the high school girls. The clerk, who was dressed like a wild man, explained sullenly, "Its leg is injured. I'm applying medicine to it."
"Your leg is injured?" Conan sensed something was wrong and trotted over. "Why is it injured? What kind of injury is it?"
The falconer was stunned. He didn't expect the child to care so much about his eagle. He replied with some emotion: "I don't know how it was injured. Fortunately, the injury is not serious... But the injury on the foot is very fatal to the eagle. It must be treated as soon as possible."
Conan asked: "According to your experience, under what circumstances would an eagle usually injure its ankle?"
"That's hard to say," the falconer sighed. "Avoiding crows, scratching fishing lines, hitting electric wires...all kinds of situations could lead to this result. That's why I said that eagles are actually very fragile creatures. We shouldn't be afraid of them like we treat birds of prey."
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When the falconer complains about the difficulties faced by the eagle.
In the woods on the other side.
Hattori Heiji had just been walking with Toyama Kazuha and the others for a while when he was suddenly attracted by a reflection in the woods.
Remembering what Conan mentioned before, he approached cautiously, and then saw a thick wooden barrel in the woods, with a rope and a circle of steel wire tied to it.
The steel wire had broken and was hanging loosely on the ground, with the other side extending far away. The rope was connected to a wooden sign, and there was a wooden board outside the wooden sign.
The palm-sized wooden sign had been split into two halves, with a half-charred hole in the break, which looked like it had been broken by a bullet.
"This..." Hattori Heiji was at a loss for a moment, scratched his head, and had a vague guess.
He walked closer and was about to observe it in detail, but suddenly he found some traces of turned over soil in the distance.
Hattori Heiji: "...?"
Although these traces may seem a bit redundant, any abnormality at the crime scene is worthy of the detective's attention.
He did not miss those traces, but walked carefully to the edge of the cliff and began to observe.
"This rock was stepped on by someone, no wonder it brought up so much dirt... The soil is still fresh. Was there someone here just now?"
And it looked like the man had rolled down the mountain.
Hattori Heiji frowned and looked down carefully. However, no matter how hard he looked, he could not see any figure on the slope below, only two wide tire tracks.
"These traces are too strange. It's as if a person was walking on the edge of a cliff and was pushed down the mountain by some force. After he rolled halfway up the mountain, a car with good driving skills slid beside him and took him away..."
Based on the various clues, Hattori Heiji imagined what had just happened, and then couldn't help shaking his head: "This is too exaggerated, it's like shooting some intense action movie, I must be overthinking it."
While muttering to himself, he took out his cell phone, dialed Inspector Otaki, and asked him to bring some people over to check it out.
While waiting for the police to arrive, Hattori Heiji continued to ponder the strange traces here. Suddenly, his eyes fell on another place.
"Hmm? Why is there a drag mark here?" Hattori Heiji found something wrong. He observed carefully for a moment, followed the clues all the way forward, and finally came under a tree.
He took two steps back and looked carefully at the tree, and Hattori Heiji's pupils suddenly shrank.
——There is actually a sniper rifle hidden in this seemingly ordinary tree!
…
Jiang Xia followed Conan around the house and suddenly noticed that there seemed to be some movement from the police side.
He strolled over with his classmates...and suddenly saw a sniper rifle lying on the ground, being studied by a group of policemen.
Jiang Xia: “……?”
Conan has been under his nose the whole time, who did it this time?
Without thinking, an answer comes naturally.
Jiang Xia turned his head silently and saw Hattori Heiji who was actively describing the scene where the gun was found to Inspector Otaki.
A Tokyo detective fell silent for a moment.
After a moment, Jiang Xia shifted his gaze away from the sniper rifle: Forget it, this gun was shot by a shotgun and has some flaws, and he didn't really want it anyway.
Compared to this...
When Hattori Heiji turned his eyes away from the shotgun and concentrated on studying the iron barrel and steel wire on the other side, Jiang Xia suddenly said: "I think I know who the murderer is."
Inspector Otaki was surprised: "Who is it?"
Hattori Heiji: “?” Wait, aren’t we still in the evidence collection stage? Who allowed you to jump directly to solving the case!
Conan, who was caught in the crossfire: "..."
…
It wasn't long before all three shop assistants were gathered together.
Amid the bewildered expressions of the three men, Jiang Xia took two steps and stopped in front of one of them: "The death of the shop owner was not an accident, but a murder - you are the murderer who killed him."
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Thanks to the big guys for the [monthly tickets] (σ≧▽≦)σ.
There should be a monthly ticket extra on the 1st (extra activities are usually held in January, May, and October every year)
(End of this chapter)
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