Chapter 306: One Thousand Listeners, One Thousand Mist Tengu
After Tanaka Takahisa sneaked into Hamano Toshino's room and killed him, she quickly found a bow and arrow and a strong string.
She shot several arrows at distant trees, and then used crisscrossing lines to create a route for transporting corpses from the room on the third floor to the woods.
——She wanted to use this method to move Hamano Toshino's body to the snow. This way, there would be no footprints around the body, and it would look like it appeared out of thin air, which would be a beautiful murder magic.
The sail-like line was quickly set up, and Tanaka Takahisa hung Hamano Toshino's body on it, wiping the sweat from his forehead with relief.
She was about to push the body away with force, but at this moment, a nearly pure white bird suddenly flew down on the line, tilted its head to look at Tanaka Takahisa, and then looked at the body in front of her.
Tanaka Takahirae didn't know what kind of bird it was, but when they looked at each other, for some reason, a sense of crisis flashed through her mind.
Just as she was thinking about it, she saw the bird lower its head and begin to peck at her string in a muffled sound.
Tanaka Takahirae was startled for a moment, then suddenly raised her crossbow. However, before she shot the crossbow arrow, the solid line suddenly made a cracking sound - it was actually pecked off by a palm-sized bird in such a short time.
The strange bird flapped its wings and flew away quickly, but the body hanging on the rope had no such ability.
As Tanaka Takahisa watched, which was a little slow, it slipped out of control and fell straight down.
In the living room, a few people who met by chance in the busy life were chatting.
As a figure crashed into the snow against the wall with a bang, the people in the living room were startled. After looking at each other for a moment, they quickly ran towards the window where the sound came from.
…
Conan was startled by the loud noise and struggled to wake up.
He stared at the empty room in confusion for a while, then quickly remembered something and rushed downstairs.
In the lobby downstairs, a group of people gathered together, discussing what had just happened at a very fast pace.
Conan heard the ID "Escape King" with his ears, and he interrupted to ask as if to confirm: "Is the real name of the 'Escape King' you are talking about Nishiyama Mu?"
Jiang Xia looked at him from the table and nodded cooperatively.
Conan got the confirmed news, and his expression suddenly became solemn: "Just now, Nishiyama Wu was murdered in his own apartment! The murderer called himself 'Shadow Master' and left a declaration of 'This is the first' on the computer next to the body. When I wanted to come back to inform you, I found that the suspension bridge outside was destroyed..."
As he spoke, he felt that the audience's reactions were a bit strange.
What he just described was obviously the prelude to a serial murder case, and the murderer was likely hiding near this villa.
But the audience in front of him did not blurt out "What?!", nor did they look serious or unbelievable. Instead, there was a strange hesitation to speak.
"..." Conan stopped talking and looked at Jiang Xia subconsciously, "What's wrong?"
"We have found the murderer." The oldest one next to them, Araki Yoshizori, took over the conversation. He glanced at Tanaka Takahisa, who was sitting in the corner in seclusion, and said with mixed feelings, "Well... there was a little mistake in her murder method, and the body fell down, and we happened to see it."
Conan: “…”
Conan: “…”
Conan: “???”
Is there such a thing? ?
...The quality of murderers nowadays is becoming more and more worrying.
Come to think of it, why did he risk his life to jump off the cliff?
Conan also shut himself off for a while.
But soon, he realized another incongruous thing. Judging from Araki Yoshinori's answer just now and his gaze, the murderer was "her".
...The murderer who called herself the 'Shadow Mage' was actually a woman? !
Conan was very confused. He thought that the shadow wizard was probably the man who saved him and knocked him out. Otherwise, there was no way to explain why that man would suddenly attack an innocent child. And that man happened to be dressed in black, which fits the word "shadow" very well.
But now, the murderer is Tanaka Takahisa who was almost caught on the spot... Wait, so is she really the murderer? Araki Yoshi only said that there was a body falling from above, and no one saw Tanaka Takahisa killing people on the spot... But Jiang Xia is here, if Tanaka Takahisa is really innocent, he should be able to see it...
Conan was in a dilemma for a moment.
But no matter what, the people hiding in the woods are a hidden danger. What if things turn around? No matter what, it's too hasty to kill them halfway and then let the bodies fall. He couldn't imagine that someone would make such a crude plan...
Conan hesitated for a moment, then decided to speak out and provide Jiang Xia with more clues: "I just saw a man with golden eyes in the woods."
Jiang Xia expressed his surprise at this "extra person" and then asked for details.
When "Doi Takeshu" next to him heard this topic, he sat up a little straighter, unnaturally.
He had met Conan before on the Suzuki family's boat. At that time, Conan had shown a smile very similar to Jiang Xia, which scared him. So Kid went to check this strange child afterwards. Then he was surprised to find that this might be another famous detective - Kudo Shinichi shrunk.
Now it seems that Jiang Xia should also be aware of this matter.
If Jiang Xia believed Conan, realized something was wrong, and brought a bunch of police officers to search the mountain...
Kidd, who was caught between humans and monsters, pressed his temples and felt embarrassed.
Conan didn't notice the subtle entanglement of "Taku-shu Doi". Because when the other people heard that there was a stranger in the woods, their reaction was even greater than that of Taku-shu Doi.
Conan thought about it carefully, and then recounted the events in detail, starting from when he left the villa and heard the news on the radio in the car, including the fact that he flew over from the other side of the bridge, was caught by the Mist Tengu, and was knocked unconscious for no reason.
When the others heard this, although they were quite confused, they felt much more relieved than when they first heard the news that there was someone in the woods. The fact that he took the initiative to catch Conan before he hit the tree meant that he was at least a good person willing to lend a hand, perhaps a villager from the nearby mountains who happened to pass by.
Only Kidd, for some reason, had an image in his mind of a fragrant meatball rushing towards the hungry traveler.
...No wonder Mist Tengu would catch this child. For Mist Tengu, Conan's operation undoubtedly reduced the difficulty of "personally catching a human to satisfy hunger" to the level of "picking up a human who actively bumps into you".
To put it in a way that is easier for humans to understand, the former is like chasing your elders for red envelopes, while the latter is like your elders taking the initiative to put the red envelopes into your pocket... Who can resist that?
(End of this chapter)
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