Chapter 3134 3146 [Battlefield]
The lawyer with squinting eyes thought of another incident. He sighed, "No matter how you look at it, Jiang Xia is probably going to be in trouble this time. If he accidentally killed someone when he refused, he could still defend himself by claiming manslaughter. But he used a telephone wire to strangle someone to death... No matter how you look at it, this is clearly murder."
"..." The corner of Hibiki's eyes twitched slightly. She wanted to say something, but she knew rationally that now was not the time to refute.
She could only take a deep breath calmly, control her expression, and then said with a worried look: "Yes, according to this situation, the sentence will probably not be too short."
"?!" Mao Lilan was shocked: What's going on? This is different from what we agreed. Didn't my mother just say that the murderer was someone else?
She was about to ask when Kisaki Eri caught a glimpse of her daughter's expression.
Before Mao Lilan could speak, the witty Queen of Law quickly moved on to the next topic. She looked at Lawyer Saku across from her and said, "Speaking of which, I have something to ask you about the criminal field. You are an expert in this field. Can I have a word with you for a moment?"
"Of course." Lawyer Saku was a little confused, "But in this field, your expertise is obviously not as good as mine..."
"Don't be so modest." Kisaragi simply pulled him and said, "Let's go."
…
The two men went out of the door. Lawyer Saku looked around and found that the police guarding the door had withdrawn at some point.
"Where are the people?" He looked up again and found that the police in the corridor had also disappeared. He couldn't help but asked in surprise, "The on-site investigation has been completed so quickly?"
Hibiki Eri nodded and said tiredly, "I tried my best, but unfortunately, all the evidence points to Jiang Xia. Now the police have withdrawn their personnel and started to confirm the child's schedule tonight with the witnesses."
Lawyer Saku: “I see…”
Hibiki Eri: "Besides this, there is another headache. You know, Ms. Usui took over the factory sewage case that had a big impact. The final trial is coming soon. If the people in the factory knew that she was gone, they would definitely call our law firm to ask for her. Oh, I really don't know how to deal with them then."
Lawyer Saku sighed, "This is indeed a problem. If we leave it alone, it will eventually affect our reputation. How about this? I happen to be free recently, so I will represent her in that case. How about that?"
Kisaki Eri glanced at him.
Lawyer Saku smiled and said, "However, this is not my area of expertise after all. I can only try my best to get both parties to reach a settlement."
Hibiki nodded, as if she was thinking whether this plan was feasible. Suddenly, her cell phone rang.
"Hmm?" She took out her cell phone, glanced at the screen, and her expression became serious. "I have to answer a call. You go to Ms. Usui's room and wait for me. There are several relevant documents in her suitcase. The police have just checked and confirmed that they have nothing to do with the case. We will help her pack them and take the things back later."
After quickly explaining a few things, she walked into a side alley and went to answer a phone call that seemed very important.
Lawyer Saku didn't think much about it and continued forward: "Usui's room... huh?"
There were rows of dark doors in front of him, and at first glance they looked exactly the same, making it difficult to distinguish them. But at this moment, he suddenly found a tray at the door of one of the houses, and on the tray were two servings of beef sauce fried rice.
"Tsk." He showed a look of disgust at the two plates of beef fried rice, then stopped beside them and opened the door.
Just as he was about to enter the room, Lawyer Saku was suddenly stunned - there was someone in the room.
A little boy wearing glasses stood in the entrance hall, looking up at him with a smile: "Uncle! It's you."
Lawyer Saku stopped at the door and looked around the room.
Finding no one else around, he looked down at the kid who had appeared out of nowhere and asked in confusion, "Conan? Why are you here alone?"
Conan: "The police officers have all gone back. By the way, uncle, what are you doing in this room?"
Lawyer Saku explained, "Lawyer Hime asked me to come. She seems to have something to ask me. Besides, we are going to help Ms. Usui pack her luggage together."
"Really?" Conan had already whispered with Kisaki Eri for a while in front of the suspicious "Lawyer Shirai", so he could confidently say some words that were inconsistent with the child's identity.
At this moment, he wore that creepy smile, looked at the male lawyer in front of him, and asked mysteriously: "Do you want to know why Aunt Yingli asked you to come here?"
"I don't know." Lawyer Saku looked at the well-behaved little boy and laughed. "Why, you know?"
Conan: "I know - she wants to talk to you about the knotted string and the iron ring that fell behind the door."
“?!”
These two things are the key to making a secret room. Now that someone else has pointed this out, Lawyer Saku's heart suddenly shrank, as if someone had grabbed his fist.
Conan looked at his changing expression and struck while the iron was hot. He said in an innocent childish voice what the other party least wanted to hear: "Auntie Eri just said that as long as you have those two things, you can lock the door and create a secret room even if someone is outside - this is really magical!"
"This..." Lawyer Saku has been in the industry for many years after all. Although he was shocked just now, facing a child, he took a deep breath and quickly recovered.
He straightened his expression and said with a smile, "This time, Lawyer Fei is wrong. When we found this place, I clearly saw the door chain hanging on the door. There was nothing wrong with it. This was a real secret room."
Conan shook his head: "As long as you cut a section of the iron ring in advance, connect the iron chain together with a thin wire from outside the door, and put the broken iron ring on the ground behind the door in advance, you can create the current situation."
What he said was rather vague. If Inspector Megure had listened to it, he would probably have kept making confused noises like "Hmm?" or "Oh?"
But as someone who had just used this method, Lawyer Saku understood Conan's meaning in an instant. His expression became stiff, and cold sweat poured down his back.
At this moment, another voice came from behind. It was unknown when Kisaki Eri finished the phone call and returned here.
She pushed her glasses, the worry on her face had long since disappeared, as if she had turned back into the powerful queen: "After making all those arrangements, the murderer deliberately proposed to break down the door, and with this violent collision, he completed the last step of the 'secret room'."
(End of this chapter)
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