Chapter 3096 3108 [Evolved Ghost]
After asking for the room number, Jiang Xia and Conan ran down the stairs.
On the way, Conan remembered something and looked up at the classmate next to him: "Why are you..." How come you are so normal, without the scary reaction of the previous AFK and stuck?
He didn't finish, but Jiang Xia understood.
The busy psychic fell silent for a moment: "..." Of course, it was because the ghosts were able to run around on their own, and the idle time was greatly shortened, so he didn't have to frequently find excuses to personally activate the puppets - if Xiaolan hadn't suddenly slapped the wall to block the way, he would have almost forgotten this excuse he had found.
But the good thing about mental state is that you can just make it up yourself.
Soon, the high school detective smiled cheerfully and said like a philosopher: "I still have a lot of things to do, and I don't have time to think about my past experiences all the time."
Conan nodded with relief: That's right! Being a detective is indeed a meaningful thing. The only drawback is that I am not very friendly to other detectives...
Recalling the days when he was just one step away from the truth but suddenly had the answer smeared in his face, the fake elementary school student touched the noise-isolating earmuffs in his pocket, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
Fortunately, he didn't have much time to think about it - soon, the two of them followed the address the landlady had just given and came to a room with a sign that read "Kiroudo Keihiko".
Jiang Xia knocked on the door: "Mr. Shiroto!"
The room was silent, no one responded.
Conan's heart skipped a beat and he blurted out, "Could he be dead too?"
——Could it be that Mr. Yamaguchi moved into this apartment not just to get close to Uncle Maori and Jiang Xia, but also to silence them?
While he was anxious, he subconsciously shook the door handle.
Unexpectedly, the door was not locked, and as he pulled it, it slid open with a creak.
A smell of alcohol wafted into my face, and at the same time, a man's groan was faintly heard from deep within the house.
"!" Conan rushed in, "Hold on, we are here to save you!"
Jiang Xia followed the running fake elementary school student and entered the house with good reasons.
The two of them walked through the long corridor and ran into the living room.
At first glance, it turned out that this was not the murder scene I had imagined - this was just an ordinary single man's room. On the long sofa, a young man was sleeping soundly, holding a bottle of wine, smacking his lips.
Conan looked at this guy who was unharmed and even snoring quietly: "..."
You're not hurt, why were you humming just now? What a waste of emotion!
But no matter what, it is good to be alive. He shook his head helplessly and could only rethink the relationship between these tenants and "Mr. Yamaguchi".
Also, before that...
He looked around the living room and muttered to Jiang Xia in surprise: "Why are there so many breeding boxes here?"
Jiang Xia walked to the wall and looked at the rhinoceros beetle crawling slowly in the box: "It seems to be a beetle lover."
As I was watching, the snoring in my ear suddenly stopped.
The young man on the sofa rubbed his eyes and sat up suddenly. He looked at the two strangers who appeared inexplicably in his living room with a look of shock: "Who are you? Why are you in my room!"
Conan came back to his senses and remembered the important matter: "Are you Brother Shiroto? - Brother Zhen upstairs is in trouble!"
Although he was more certain than Maori Kogoro that there was a dead body in the bathroom upstairs, in order to comfort the old landlady who had lost her grandson, he still felt that he should invite the landlord's acquaintance upstairs, which would be a little comfort.
Jiang Xia seemed to have the same idea, and was more direct than the elementary school student. He stepped forward to help the drunk man up and invited him, "Let's go."
“…”
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A few minutes later.
The three of them returned to Souda Makoto's room.
The drunk man seemed to sober up a little after a breeze in the corridor. He stood at the entrance and looked around, then walked into the corridor and trotted to the bathroom door with Jiang Xia and Conan.
Under the expectant gaze of the landlady, Keihiko Kido cautiously walked into the bathroom and checked on his friend's condition.
Soon, he let out a long sigh and shook his head just like Kogoro Mori just now.
"How could this happen..." The old lady covered her face and started crying.
In the corner next to it.
Calvados looked at the scene in front of him, trying to figure out if there was any danger and whether he could go back to his room to sleep.
At this moment, suddenly, his ears twitched and he looked out the window vigilantly - a buzzing sound of sirens was heard on the street outside.
The police are here!
His muscles tensed slightly, but quickly returned to normal - in theory, members of the organization should avoid the police as quickly as possible when they encounter them, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, he no longer has any prohibited items on him.
Sometimes, not having guns and ammunition can be a good thing.
An organizational cadre who has been dealing with the police recently rubbed his chin and experienced this inexplicable new life.
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"The deceased is Makoto Souda, 22 years old this year." Officer Takagi arrived quickly and told Jiang Xia the situation in a familiar manner - because the last time Jiang Xia helped him get the right to travel with Officer Sato on Valentine's Day... Although it inexplicably went from a sweet world of two to a packed trip with a large group, no matter what, rounding it off, it can be considered as celebrating Valentine's Day.
Seeing Jiang Xia again at this time, the grateful police officer couldn't help but feel closer to him and worked even harder: "He was a senior student at Shanghai South University. The cause of death was a severed brachial artery and excessive blood loss."
Looking at the young dead man in the bathroom, Officer Gao Mu sighed: "Judging from the stiffness of his jaw and neck, he has probably been dead for more than two hours."
Jiang Xia nodded: "In other words, around 6 to 7 o'clock in the evening?"
As he was talking, Maori Kogoro next to him scratched his head and said, "Why are you checking so carefully? Isn't this suicide?"
Officer Megure, who was also listening to the report, was startled and poked his head out of the bathroom: "Suicide?"
"Yes." Maori Kogoro walked to the living room and pointed to the miniature building in the middle of the living room to his former boss. "I just asked the landlady. This is the model of the 'underwater monument' that the deceased loved very much when he was alive."
"What does this have to do with suicide?" Inspector Megure got a headache when he saw this former subordinate. He turned to Jiang Xia, "Brother Jiang Xia, you should tell the story."
Jiang Xia walked to the monument in the water, bent down and looked at a mini artificial lake. In the lake, a uniquely shaped key was quietly lying.
(End of this chapter)
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