Chapter 3049 3061 [Tacit Understanding]
The two teachers started arguing. Jiang Xia pointed at the neck of the deceased and ended the unnecessary discussion. "He was strangled to death. There is a very obvious strangulation mark. As for what you said about him being as hard as a board, this should be caused by rigor mortis."
Ms. Nakamura was a health teacher at an elementary school and had some knowledge in this area. After she recovered from her shock, she calculated the time: "... In other words, Mr. Sugiyama died at least nine hours ago?"
"But he was ringing the doorbell just now." The dark-skinned male teacher recalled the life-threatening doorbell sound and got goosebumps. "If he had died a long time ago, how did his corpse ring the doorbell?"
The curly-haired man who opened the door just now shuddered: "Of course it's because his hard body pressed on the doorbell, so the doorbell kept ringing - but since Sugiyama has been dead for a long time, it must be that he didn't walk here by himself, but someone moved him to the door and pressed the doorbell!"
When Mr. Nakamura heard this conclusion, he was relieved: "Everyone was eating in the restaurant just now, and no one went to move the body. In other words, the murderer is not among us." - This way, at least he doesn't have to worry about being backstabbed by those around him.
Conan remembered something and asked Suzuki Sonoko who came over to check on the situation: "Did Dr. Shinde wake up just now?"
"No, he's still asleep." After answering, Suzuki Sonoko finally understood Conan's hidden meaning. She said speechlessly, "You don't suspect him of being the murderer, do you? Doctor Shinide is such a gentle person, he wouldn't do such a bad thing - just now the three of us were in the room, no one left!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "The murderer who killed this Yamasugi teacher should be the one who attacked Mr. Yonehara and Dr. Shinde just now."
A reporter who came to join in the fun suddenly noticed something. He pointed to the corpse's right hand, which was frozen pale. He said, "There is a 'ko' on the back of this person's hand."
"Huh?" Several teachers had been reluctant to look directly at the corpse, but when they heard this, they turned their gaze to the right hand of their dead colleague.
——Sure enough, just as the reporter said, a letter written in lipstick was lying there, as bright as blood, like some kind of ghostly curse.
"Three people were attacked and left three pseudonyms, namely 'mi', 'na' and 'ko'." The reporter suddenly smiled sinisterly, "put together it's... 'minako'."
"ah--!!"
The curly-haired man looked at the miserable corpse on the ground, suddenly let out a scream of extreme fear, and raised his hands to hug his head.
Suzuki Sonoko was startled by him and jumped to hide behind Jiang Xia, looking around nervously: "What's wrong? Did you find a dead body again?"
The others were also stunned for a moment. Teacher Nakamura looked at the face-loving male colleague in confusion and patted him comfortingly: "Are you okay?"
"Don't touch me!" Unexpectedly, the curly-haired man shook her hand away. Then he muttered something like "It's none of my business" and "It has nothing to do with me", rushed back to the corridor like crazy, and hid in his room.
“…”
The other teachers were confused by his reaction. After hesitating for a moment, they ran over and knocked on the door: "Teacher Shimoda, are you okay?"
"Don't bother me!" the curly-haired man yelled through the door, "Let me be alone!"
Unable to knock on the door, everyone had to go to the guest room where Dr. Shinde was resting and discuss together how to deal with this difficult situation.
"Someone died?" Mao Lilan got goose bumps after hearing what Jiang Xia said. She hugged her arms and said, "A corpse ringing the doorbell... It sounds too scary."
Beside him, the eyelids of the "new doctor" twitched, and the scene that he had imagined in his mind when the doorbell rang for the first time emerged in his mind.
Vermouth: “…” The scene that I imagined so casually actually appeared not long after... Could it be that Uzo can really read minds?
"No, there's no time to make major changes to the scene in such a short time. Rather, it's more like I guessed Uzo's script."
"I'm actually in sync with Wu Zuo. Is this a good thing or a bad thing..."
A Thousand-Faced Witch lay dead, leaning against the pillow, briefly lost in thought.
As they were chatting, suddenly, Suzuki Sonoko's cell phone rang - Mouri Ran was not there just now, and the body was already dead, so the rich girl, who was used to calling an ambulance, consciously took over the responsibility of calling the police.
Luckily the call went through, but unfortunately...
"The snowstorm is so big, can't you come over?"
Suzuki Sonoko was stunned, but looking at the raging snow outside, she could only sympathize: "Well, hurry up."
She hung up the phone and said to the others regretfully, "The police said they can't come now. They have to wait until tomorrow morning when the snow stops."
Teacher Yonehara looked grim: "So, we have to stay here with the murderer until dawn?"
Another female teacher broke down and started crying: "We were clearly here on vacation happily, why did this happen..."
The two high school girls looked at her sympathetically and consoled her: "Just be open-minded and you'll get used to it."
Teacher Nakamura was stunned at first, and then cried even louder.
A faint voice came from the door: "Now is not the time to cry."
Jiang Xia looked towards the door and found that the person who spoke was the reporter: "So what suggestions do you have?"
The reporter looked at him and chuckled: "You'd better pay more attention to the guy who's alone on the second floor. Based on my experience as a reporter, I'm afraid he will be the next one to be killed."
Vermouth couldn't help but glance at him quietly: "..." Is this really an ordinary reporter? It sounds more like he ran away from a passerby mutual aid association...
The reporter said nothing more and went back to his room.
The dark-skinned male teacher looked at his back and snorted, "He's just an alarmist. Don't pay attention to him. The windows on the second floor are closed and the door is locked. If the murderer wants to attack Shimoda, it will definitely make a lot of noise. We can't help but hear it."
Mao Lilan thought of the frozen corpse and was a little scared. But looking at the unconscious Dr. Aizawa, she gritted her teeth and clenched her fists: "If I hear someone banging on the door upstairs, I will rush up and catch the person and avenge Dr. Aizawa!"
Jiang Xia looked at her, then at the murderous aura that had obviously faded: "..."
Nearby, others did not notice the change in Dr. Shinichi, as they were discussing what to do next.
"Why don't we stay awake tonight?" Teacher Yonehara stood up and called Teacher Nakamura, "Let's go make some coffee. We'll be safe if we hold on until the police come."
(End of this chapter)
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