Chapter 3052 3064 [Before Death]
Conan shuddered and covered his collar: "Is this window leaking air?"
He pulled the window frame in confusion, and the window clicked open. Conan leaned over to look and suddenly found that there seemed to be something very thin floating in the wind diagonally below.
"What is this?" He turned around and ran downstairs, pushed the door open, and then picked up a thin kite string hanging on the railing at the place where he had just seen it.
When I took it off, I saw a broken rubber band at the end of the thread.
"!" Looking at this strange long line, various clues began to flash back in Conan's mind. It was a light bulb moment for Conan, and he suddenly understood how the stiff corpse came to knock on the door by itself.
"The first murder case has been solved, but where is the murder weapon that strangled Mr. Shimoda in the second case..."
The mini detective stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.
Jiang Xia stood on the second floor, watching the elementary school students running around. He quickly retracted his gaze and looked at the Snow Girl again: "Tell me, were you an elementary school student in your lifetime?"
"Hmm..." The Snow Girl recalled seriously and shook her head seriously: I don't remember.
Jiang Xia: “…”
He thought about it and no longer placed his hopes on this unreliable new ghost. He turned around and knocked on the reporter's door: "Do you have a photo of the deceased elementary school student?"
The reporter, holding a dying cigarette in his mouth, looked at him with some confusion: "Yes, yes, how come you know her?"
Jiang Xia said seriously: "It is necessary to solve the case."
The reporter said "Oh?" and laughed softly: "But compared to solving the case, I actually want to see how those seemingly righteous elementary school teachers tremble in fear under the shadow of a serial killer."
Doctor Shinde who was eavesdropping around the corner: "..." This guy actually gets along well with Uzo in some ways...
Jiang Xia glanced at the corner of the wall, as if he hadn't noticed anything, and turned back to the reporter and said, "When I say solving a case, I'm not just talking about today's case, but also the 'suicide' three years ago. You've been tracking this case for three years, don't you want to know the truth behind it?"
The reporter's expression changed slightly, obviously his thoughts were touched, and his nonchalant expression slightly softened.
Jiang Xia: "Besides, murders will not happen again. If you wait any longer, you will only wait for the second unsolved case."
"'Unsolved case'..." The reporter repeated the word, his expression becoming a little complicated, "The death of that child was really not a simple suicide?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "You should have a premonition in your heart, otherwise it is just an ordinary elementary school student suicide, how could it be worth you tracking it for three years."
“…”
The reporter was silent for a long time. After a while, he compromised and took out his phone and found the photo of Minako Mochizuki: "Here is the photo...but what does this have to do with today's case?"
Jiang Xia did not answer. He let the Snow Girl float to the side of the phone, compared them carefully as if finding the differences, and then sighed regretfully.
——It doesn’t look like it.
Although the Snow Woman has become what she is today, she must have been influenced by many legends, and her appearance before and after death will be different... but even so, humans and ghosts should have some similarities, instead of finding many common points like now.
"That's right." Jiang Xia muttered to himself, "Although today's case happened in the heavy snow, the death of Minako Mochizuki three years ago seemed to have nothing to do with the heavy snow."
The reporter waited with bated breath, and after a while he couldn't help asking, "What did you see?"
Jiang Xia came back to his senses and returned the phone to him: "I saw a lot."
The reporter looked at the ordinary photo in confusion: "..." Really? Why can't I see it?
After all, this isn’t a suicide photo, it’s just an ordinary ID photo…
"Is this the famous detective?" The reporter could only sigh inwardly after his research yielded no results. "No wonder he became famous so quickly and completely replaced Kudo Shinichi... He really has some real skills."
"Speaking of which, after this matter is over, why don't I go to Teitan Middle School to do a special interview on high school detectives? Two powerful detectives appeared in the same class one after the other. There may be some reason behind this coincidence, which is worth digging deeper..."
He was distracted for a moment, and when he looked at Jiang Xia again, there was a hint of anticipation in his eyes that he didn't even notice: "Are you going to start solving the case?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "Let's go to the living room. Everyone is gathered there, so it's convenient for us to talk."
…
In the living room.
With the arrival of the high school detective, the already solemn atmosphere became even more solemn.
"Do you know who the murderer is?" The male teacher was surprised and looked behind Jiang Xia anxiously:
"Then why didn't you capture him? Do you want me to go with you to capture him?... Well, it's not impossible, but what if the other party has a weapon?"
Mao Lilan thought of the brutal murderer and was a little scared, but she immediately stood up and said, "I'll go with you to catch him!"
"..." Jiang Xia pushed the enthusiastic classmate back and continued what he had not finished saying: "The various things that happened tonight can be roughly divided into three incidents.
“First, when Mr. Yonehara and Dr. Shinde were making the bed in the guest room, they were attacked by unknown persons and fell into a coma.
"The second thing was that Mr. Sugiyama, who had been dead for several hours, suddenly appeared at the door and rang the doorbell.
"In the end, Mr. Shimoda, who was hiding in the guest room on the second floor and had locked the doors and windows tightly, was strangled to death beside the bed."
"The murderer who committed these three crimes is not an outsider, but is hiding among us."
"?!" Several teachers stood there in a daze. After several seconds, Teacher Yonehara came back to his senses. "Let's not talk about the two cases before and after. I remember that when Teacher Sugiyama's body was moved to the door, we were all having dinner in the restaurant."
Teacher Nakamura thought of something and looked at the two high school girls: "If there was anyone who was not there at the time, it was only you two, plus the unconscious doctor Akai..."
Jiang Xia shook his head and looked at Conan who was running into the door excitedly, then pointed at the kite string in his hand and said, "As long as you use this bundle of long string and the rubber band at one end of the string, you don't need to stand outside the door to make the corpse ring the doorbell."
Conan had just figured out the whole case and was about to pretend to be reserved and come back to "communicate" with Jiang Xia: "?!"
...You know it again? When did you know it?!
Standing nearby, the reporter looked at the elementary school student's expression, as if he had been struck by lightning, and felt it was a bit strange, but couldn't interpret it for the moment.
But this didn't seem to be the focus at the moment. While he was recording the case, he looked at the long line in Conan's hand in confusion: "What does it mean?"
(End of this chapter)
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