Chapter 2953 2965 [Earthbound Spirit Bourbon]
In the woods next to the public toilet.
Feeling the vibration in his pocket, Toru Amuro bent down and jumped down from the treetop. He brushed the dust off his hands, took out his cell phone and checked his email.
Seeing the message sent by Jiang Xia, a police officer who failed to find a gun sighed silently and replied: [Wait another 5 minutes.]
Then he put his phone back in his pocket and looked up at the quiet woods.
——He had searched everywhere, even in the bushes and treetops. Now all he had to do was dig three feet into the ground. But reason told him that Calvados could not possibly have shot a hole with one shot and then let the splashing soil bury the gun.
"Where did the gun go?" Amuro Toru sighed, and, seizing the last moment, he reluctantly wandered around the land again, like a resentful earthbound spirit. "Could it be that someone took Calvados' gun away in the short two minutes I was away?"
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On the other side of the street.
After Jiang Xia finished listening to the robbers' story, he looked at his phone which had just received a new message. Then he looked at Officer Gao Mu and said slowly, "Tell me what happened, and the testimonies of the witnesses."
Officer Gao Mu: "..." This sentence is so familiar. The person on the phone seemed to have said it when he pretended to be Jiang Xia. This person really knows Jiang Xia. No wonder I was caught by him...
While he was thinking about all sorts of things, he honestly flipped through his notes and told Jiang Xia the information written on them. He also told him what happened next after the mysterious man heard it: "He asked me to go find the owner of the coffee shop. I was about to go over there, and when I looked up, I saw you coming."
"I see." Jiang Xia thought for a moment, "I remember the owner of the coffee shop saw a 1.7-meter-tall robber wearing all black when he was putting up a billboard outside the shop... So let's go to the coffee shop first as he said."
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The owner of the cafe seemed to have a heart for making police dramas. When he saw Officer Gao Mu come in, his eyes lit up: "How is it? Did you catch the robber? The clues I provided were very useful!"
Officer Takagi gave an awkward smile: "Not yet, but it should be soon." As he said that, he quietly looked at Jiang Xia, somewhat curious why the key to solving the case lies in this small-time boss.
Jiang Xia stood at the door and did not close it after he pushed it open. He looked at the owner of the coffee shop and pointed outside the door: "If we want to catch the robber, we need your help."
The boss was startled, as if he had misunderstood something. He immediately became timid. He whispered, "Well, I'm a brainiac. I can't catch the robbers myself. My wife will be worried."
Jiang Xia shook his head: "No need to catch him, just go out and stand for a while."
"Stand for a while? Okay then..." The owner of the cafe walked out the door, not knowing what was going on, and stood in the sun. "Is that so?"
Officer Gao Mu quickly followed him out and walked around to the cafe owner. He was suddenly stunned: "Why are your glasses black?"
"Ah? That's what you're talking about." The boss pushed up the glasses on his nose that were getting darker and darker, and said proudly, "These are the photochromic glasses that are popular recently. When exposed to a certain level of ultraviolet light, they will automatically turn into sunglasses. How about that? Very interesting, right?"
Officer Gao Mu's mouth twitched: "You saw the robber outside, which means that at that time, your glasses were actually a pair of sunglasses..."
The owner of the cafe was startled, then realized belatedly that looking through colored lenses does affect the perception of color. In other words, the robber was probably not wearing black clothes, but some other dark-colored clothes.
"..." He suddenly felt guilty, cleared his throat and emphasized, "Let's not talk about the color of his clothes, at least I can be sure that his height is around 1.7 meters - because I am 1.7 meters tall, and when we stand up, we are almost the same height, there is no way I can be wrong about this!"
However, Officer Takagi had already lost his trust in this seemingly reliable adult. He sighed, "But two female junior high school students who saw the suspect said that he was a whole head taller than the crowd and must be over 1.8 meters tall."
Jiang Xia interrupted, "I remember you said that the two girls were buying clothes in a clothing store when they saw the robbers through the window - let's go to that store and take a look."
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The two said goodbye to the coffee shop owner, walked a short distance forward, and arrived at the door of the clothing store.
There is a subway exit on the right side of the store and a bus stop on the left side.
Jiang Xia looked around and asked Officer Gao Mu: "When the robbers passed by here, there should have been a lot of people exiting the subway station and heading to the bus station. The road here is very narrow, and a large number of people are moving in the same direction, but the robbers want to go upstream - if it were you at this time, what would you do?"
Officer Takagi was standing on the street listening to Jiang Xia's words, and an image of a large group of numb people getting off the subway and rushing to catch the bus seemed to emerge in his mind.
At this time, if you want to pass them quickly...
Officer Takagi put himself in the other's shoes and suddenly remembered how Jiang Xia was strolling on the street walking on the curb just now.
An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he jumped up as well. "In order to avoid the group of people, the robber jumped onto the curbstone, and then stepped on it to run across this section of the road! - No wonder the two girls thought he was a head taller than the crowd. He was wearing a helmet, and he was stepping on the curbstone, so he had an extra height. If you remove these... the robber's height described by the cafe owner is actually correct!"
"1.7 meters tall. Wait, if it's 1.7 meters tall..."
Officer Takagi suddenly remembered something: the old man who was knocked down by the robber at the beginning seemed to say that the robber was a woman in blue clothes.
But later, I heard the testimony from a junior high school student that "the robber was 1.8 meters tall", so I subconsciously felt that the robber was a man.
But now, with the height reduced, there are also women who are 1.7 meters tall... So is the robber a man or a woman?
"Come to think of it, I remember that the suspect who played in the band liked to dress up as a woman when he was singing. If I looked closely, I saw that he was indeed wearing a pair of red earrings on his ears... Could it be that the old man mistook his gender because of the eye-catching earrings?"
"No, the robber was wearing a helmet when the old man was knocked down, so his ears should not be visible. And if the robber knocked his helmet crooked and his face was seen... well, his face looked like a 24k pure man, and the old man would not have provided such testimony."
"Oh, so is the robber a man or a woman?"
Officer Takagi thought of Sato Miwako who was on a blind date in the distance, and cast an anxious look at Jiang Xia.
(End of this chapter)
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