Chapter 32 Why is the elevator overweight?
The library was dark at night and there was no sound of anyone.
Jiang Xia borrowed the ghost baby's night vision ability as usual.
After seeing the environment clearly, he identified the direction and walked straight towards the elevator.
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As far as Jiang Xia can remember, there was only one case that happened in the library.
——The curator was selling drugs and was discovered by one of his employees. He then killed the employee and hid the body on top of the elevator.
Originally, the body was hidden well.
Unexpectedly, this afternoon, Conan and several of his classmates came to the library to do homework.
Although Conan didn't know where the body was, he was keenly aware of the scent of the body.
In addition, he learned that an employee was missing. He felt even more that the missing employee might have died, and someone had hidden his body in the library.
So after the library got off work, a group of children secretly stayed in the library, trying to find the body of the employee.
At the same time, the director also discovered through the lights that there were people in the library who had not left.
So now, the curator is holding an iron rod, planning to grope in the dark to find those "rats" hiding in the museum and kill them.
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First floor lobby.
Jiang Xia quickly arrived in front of the elevator and looked up at the electronic screen above.
Judging from the numbers displayed above, the elevator is currently stopped on the third floor.
Jiang Xia raised his hand and pressed the button, arrogantly summoning the elevator down.
Although this would easily cause noise, unlike the children who were trying desperately to hide, Jiang Xia did not have the idea of "not alarming the curator".
On the contrary, he hoped that the curator would quickly notice the unusual movement, come to him on his own initiative, and bring the ghost and the shikigami over as well.
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As the elevator went down, Jiang Xia walked towards the stairs on the side.
When he reached the second floor, the elevator had already stopped at the first floor.
Jiang Xia walked to the elevator door, pried it open, and looked down.
At the top of the elevator, a dead body was lying on its back with its eyes open. There was a rope around the neck of the body, and a small pool of blood was spread under the back of the head. It looked like it was strangled first and then thrown into the elevator.
There was no shikigami clinging to the legs of the corpse.
"..." I don't know whether the ghost failed to be created or was created, but the ghost was clinging to the curator's legs.
Jiang Xia let go of his hand in disappointment, letting the elevator door close again.
It seems that I have to go find the curator and get his ghost back.
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Jiang Xia looked at the ceiling and listened to the subtle noises in the distance of the building.
He remembered that when the librarian was on his way home from get off work, the naughty kids from the Junior Detective League turned on the lights in the library, causing the librarian to realize that there were people in the library and he turned back with a gloomy face.
In other words, during this period of time, the curator should be playing a death game of hide-and-seek with the Junior Detective League, where "uncle will strangle you to death if you are caught."
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia took out his cell phone, glanced at the elevator that would block the signal, and turned to walk towards the stairwell.
He called Inspector Megure.
As a friendly policeman who likes to have younger brothers, Inspector Megure had already given Jiang Xia his private phone number.
Calling him is more convenient than calling the operator. You don’t need to leave basic information such as name, contact information, etc. You can directly start the call.
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Metropolitan Police Department.
Inspector Megure is working overtime again tonight.
He was looking for the library's missing employees.
At this time, when he picked up the phone and heard Jiang Xia say that he found a body in the library elevator, Inspector Megure immediately realized that Jiang Xia might be the target he was looking for.
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During the day, Inspector Megure led a team to search the library, but failed to find the body.
At this moment, he learned that the body was actually on the top of the elevator. When he thought about the fact that he had taken that elevator before... Inspector Megure silently got goosebumps all over his body.
"I'll be there right away." He hurried out of the office and called a few subordinates.
Suddenly he was a little confused again: "It's already this late, why are you in the library?... Forget it, let's talk about this later, you should leave as soon as possible! The murderer dared to hide the body in the elevator, which means he might be an insider of the library and is very familiar with the environment there. Moreover, because he feels guilty, he is likely to stay in the library after get off work. You..."
"ah--!!!"
Suddenly, a vague child's scream was heard in the background sound from Jiang Xia's side.
Inspector Megure heard it over the phone and was stunned: "What was that sound just now? There's a child in the library?!"
On the stairs, Jiang Xia paused slightly.
He raised his head and looked upward through the gap between the stairs: "Maybe."
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As he spoke, Jiang Xia slightly quickened his pace.
At the same time, he did not forget the problem of Inspector Megure, and casually patched up his own behavior:
"I misremembered the closing time of the library. I thought that when I returned the book, the library had already closed. But I saw that the lights in a room on the third floor suddenly turned on for a few seconds, and I could vaguely see the silhouette of a child on the French window. I was worried that a child had missed the closing time and was accidentally locked in, so I broke in to check the situation..."
Inspector Megure was almost dying of anxiety: "Stop talking! If the murderer is really in the museum, this will expose your location!"
"Yeah, okay." Jiang Xia lowered his voice and whispered into the receiver, "Then I'll go over and take a look first. You guys come quickly."
He hung up the phone.
"Wait..." Inspector Megure wanted to remind him to be careful and strategic... but Jiang Xia hung up too quickly.
If he called back at this time, the ringing sound would be dangerous. He could only put down the phone and anxiously called out to his subordinates: "Hurry up!"
The enthusiastic detective walked towards the cold-blooded murderer, who might be in danger!!
Oh, and by the way, there are those naughty kids who broke into the library.
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On the top floor of the library, a little earlier in time.
When Jiang Xia dialed Inspector Megure.
Conan wiped the dust off his hands and walked down from the machine room.
He walked to the elevator, pried the door open with force, and pressed the switch next to the elevator.
Afterwards, Conan turned around and said to the three first-year students with relief: "I found the body - when we took the elevator during the day, it showed overload because there was an 'invisible passenger' in the elevator."
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As they were talking, the elevator gradually moved upwards.
The corpse on the top of the elevator slowly appeared in Conan's flashlight circle.
The other three children's faces turned pale and they screamed in fear in unison.
Conan didn't realize that all this was too much for the three children.
He frowned: "Too cruel. This man must have been killed by the curator. We have to go quickly..."
The words "report the case" have not yet been uttered.
A ray of light suddenly rose from under his feet.
——After lifting the body, the elevator continued to move upward, gradually revealing the bright elevator car below.
There stood a man full of murderous intent.
The elevator door was wide open. As the elevator went up, Director Jinchuan's head appeared in front of the children, followed by his neck, his body... The director stood in the elevator car, holding a metal water pipe, and grinned with a sinister smile.
Conan's heart tightened and he turned around and quickly said a few words to the children.
Afterwards, when Director Tsukawa got off the elevator, Conan used reasoning such as "hiding drugs" and "murdering staff" to divert Director Tsukawa's attention.
The other three children took the opportunity to sneak into the elevator and pressed the button for the first floor.
The elevator began to slowly move downward.
When the elevator had gone down more than halfway and the elevator car overlapped with the current floor by less than half a meter, Conan slid under the curator's crotch and narrowly slipped into the elevator.
(End of this chapter)
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