Chapter 2961 2973 [Defects]
Soon, a group of people arrived at the place and each rushed to the murder scene they were responsible for.
"Second-hand furniture... looks quite new." Officer Takagi looked at the sofa lying on the ground that no one dared to move and sighed, "Saving resources and reducing costs should be a win-win situation. Who on earth is so unethical as to stuff a body into the sofa?"
Officer Chiba, who had just escorted the robber, also came here. He nodded when he heard this: "Second-hand items are cheap, but they do have risks - after all, the buyer doesn't know who its previous owner was. In a situation like today, there's really nothing we can do."
Suzuki Sonoko nodded in agreement: "My sister also likes to buy some second-hand villas, but she always gets into trouble and she won't listen..."
Officer Takagi: "Yeah, I too..." Huh? Wait, what are you looking for? A villa?
He turned around in shock and looked at the three students who appeared out of nowhere in surprise: "Why are you here?"
Suzuki Sonoko casually flicked her hair and said, "Of course I'm here to help you. Tell me, what's going on?"
Officer Takagi: "..."Are you really here to help? Why do I feel like you are here to cause trouble?
...But never mind, just think of it as Jiang Xia’s own pendant.
The busy policeman shook his head and quickly adjusted his mindset. He asked around and then came back to report to Jiang Xia: "The deceased is the old man on the ground. According to the eyewitnesses, two movers from a second-hand furniture store, they were moving a sofa out of the truck at the time."
He gestured to describe the situation at the time: "I lost my concentration during the process and the sofa fell down, and then a body rolled out from the space under the sofa cushions. At present, it seems that the cause of death was a blunt force trauma to the back of the head, and the time of death was between two and three o'clock this afternoon."
Jiang Xia listened to his words, thoughtful.
Just when Officer Gao Mu thought that the detective was going to take a closer look at the body, Jiang Xia pointed to the back of the truck and asked, "Are those the eyewitnesses this time?"
Officer Takagi followed his gaze and nodded.
Jiang Xia: "Why are there four people? Aren't there two people moving the furniture? Even if we include the driver, there should only be three."
The young police officer next to him heard it and quickly introduced: "The extra person is the enthusiastic Mr. Hashimoto. He was drinking coffee in the cafe across the street. When he found out there was a case here, he ran over to help maintain order."
As he was talking, he suddenly remembered something and said, "Mr. Hashimoto seems to be an employee of your detective agency. No wonder! No wonder he is so enthusiastic."
Conan: "?" The Nth suspicious person is actually here too? Moreover, when the case happened, he, an outsider, did not run away, but instead took the initiative to get involved...
It seems that this case is definitely not just an ordinary murder case, there must be other hidden stories behind it.
An elementary school student who was originally in a leisurely mood quietly entered a state of preparation for battle.
Next to him, Jiang Xia seemed to have no defense against Hashimoto Maya, and was actually a little surprised to meet someone he knew. He waved over there and said hello in a friendly manner: "Mr. Hashimoto."
Hashimoto Maya, who was hiding behind the other three people and using the truck and other witnesses to shield herself, said: "..."
He didn't know why, although his tasks and performance required more contact with Jiang Xia, every time he heard Jiang Xia calling his name, his heart instinctively skipped a beat and he wanted to run away.
"...Alas, maybe it's because I was burdened with the mission of harming Jiang Xia, but Jiang Xia always trusted me so much, so my conscience made me escape from reality."
A member of the organization pressed his aching conscience, adjusted his expression, and then walked towards Jiang Xia and the police like a normal detective assistant.
…
Jiang Xia took the iced tea happily, thinking of Hashimoto Maya's outstanding contribution when Miss Spider transported the pistol, and was very satisfied with this sensible subordinate.
He habitually took out his cigarette box, but before lighting the ghost mint as a reward, he belatedly remembered that Hashimoto Maya didn't seem to be a ghost and couldn't enjoy the murderous aura of multiple flavors.
“…”
The psychic then silently put the cigarette box back, and patted Hashimoto Maya's shoulder with a little sympathy.
Hashimoto Maya: “???”
His hair stood on end, and he felt like something was amiss. But before he could ask more, Jiang Xia had already walked towards Officer Gao Mu and said, "Since you're here to deliver furniture, this sofa must have been bought, right? Go check who its new owner is, and also send someone to the second-hand furniture store to ask where the sofa was bought from."
"Okay!" Officer Takagi ran off to collect clues.
It wasn't long before the new owner of the sofa was found.
This is a fashionable lady with long dyed hair and a tired face. When she heard that there was a body hidden in the sofa she ordered, she rushed back in disbelief and stared at the sofa on the ground in a daze: "Fortunately, it fell halfway and was not actually carried to my house..."
Officer Takagi interrupted her monologue and asked, "Is this sofa yours?"
"Of course not! It doesn't count if you haven't even entered my house!" The fashionable lady quickly denied:
"I ordered this this afternoon at a second-hand furniture store in Beika Town. Because I had something urgent to do, I rushed to take care of the work and asked the furniture store staff to help me deliver the sofa to my home first."
Officer Gao Mu wrote down what she said, then turned around and asked the two furniture store staff, "In other words, this lady was never alone with this sofa from beginning to end?"
The two looked at each other, feeling a little embarrassed. "We are only responsible for transportation, not sales. We don't know much about what happened before. We can only say that no one else has touched this sofa on the way from the warehouse to here. But then again, no wonder the sofa is so heavy. When I moved it, I thought it was a large piece of solid wood, but I didn't expect it to be a corpse... Alas."
Officer Gao Mu nodded, feeling that the buyer was not too suspicious, but he still had to ask: "Do you know this dead old man? Also, where were you between 2 and 3 pm?"
The long-haired woman had never seen a pig run, but she had eaten pork. She was shocked when she heard this: "What do you mean by that? Do you suspect that I killed her?"
Officer Gao Mu didn't expect that this seemingly gentle woman had such a bad temper. He waved his hand quickly: "Of course not!"
Jiang Xia looked at the flustered policeman and silently offered a helping hand. He spoke to the long-haired woman in the tone of a detective agency client, "This policeman asked this question just to prove that you didn't kill her."
(End of this chapter)
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