Chapter 3376 3388 [Death Process]
Inspector Megure looked at the middle-aged man, somewhat shocked: "Are you saying that the deceased was cursed to death by you?"
"What do you mean by 'being scolded to death by me'?" the middle-aged office worker snorted. "I was just speaking the truth after drinking. Besides, my original intention was just to remind him to be careful, not to let him jump off the building. After saying that, I hung up the phone.
"When I got the next news, it was already news of his death... Humph, don't try to pin the blame on me. If you want to blame someone, blame him for not being able to handle it."
Inspector Megure was silent for a moment: "..." Indeed. If it was suicide for this reason, it would be difficult to convict the middle-aged man in front of him... So this time, it was actually suicide?
He really wanted to come to this conclusion, but then he looked at Jiang Xia next to him, then looked at Hattori Heiji and Conan, as well as the low-key teacher Judy, and Xiaolan who was hiding somewhere to call the police...
If even one of these people were to stay at the crime scene, things would be very difficult. But now that they're all together...
Inspector Megure scratched his hat and finally moved silently to Jiang Xia's side: "Brother Jiang Xia, what do you think?"
Jiang Xia pointed upstairs and said, "Let's go check out the crime scene on the 21st floor first. That's where the deceased fell, and it's likely that the cause of his fall is hidden there."
Inspector Megure nodded: "I just sent a few people up there, and they said there were no signs of a fight upstairs, and it looked perfectly normal... But since you said so, let's go up and take a look."
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21st floor, room 2103.
Officer Takagi and Officer Sato are currently searching here.
When they turned around and saw Jiang Xia coming up, they were not surprised. Officer Sato came over to explain the situation and pointed to the door:
“When we came up, the door was indeed locked. We successfully opened it with the key Ms. Shimoda gave us, and there was no sign that the door lock had been pried open.
"Also, we checked the balcony railings and found no signs of anyone having climbed over them. Strictly speaking, this is indeed a secret room."
Hattori Heiji and Conan exchanged a glance: "..." No traces on the balcony? Could this rule out Judy's suspicion?
...However, whether there are traces or not is not determined by what the police say.
The two of them looked around casually, found the balcony, and planned to sneak over to take a look.
Jiang Xia also listened to Officer Sato's words while identifying the direction. He soon looked at a room - judging from the location, that should be where the deceased was before falling from the building.
"Is this the deceased's bedroom?" Jiang Xia walked over, pushed open the door, and a cool breeze blew towards him.
It was a small room with a door leading to the balcony on one side and a bed against the wall on the other.
Beside the bed, the window was wide open, the curtains drooping outside, fluttering in the night wind. Several of the clasps on the top had broken, and they twisted and tumbled in the wind, looking at first like a resentful ghost.
Jiang Xia couldn't help but look at the curtains twice more.
Next to him, Officer Sato had already climbed onto the single bed, leaned out of the window and looked down.
"Yes, it must have fallen from here. This is the scene where you found the body." She gestured for Jiang Xia to come over and take a look. "The wind wasn't too strong just now, so the falling location wouldn't be much off."
Jiang Xia nodded: "In that case, it shouldn't be suicide."
Inspector Megure just heard that this is a locked room and was about to commit suicide.
Now, after hearing Jiang Xia's words, he was stunned and blurted out: "Why?"
Jiang Xia pointed to the top of the curtains and said, "The curtain rails have been bent, and two or three buckles have fallen off. This shows that the deceased pulled the curtains hard when he fell from the building.
"Although people who commit suicide by jumping from a building may regret it while falling, few regret it right after they jump. The fact that they were able to grab the curtains at the point of jumping suggests that the deceased may not have wanted to die at all."
"Murder." Judy just wanted to help Jiang Xia solve this case quickly so that she could deal with other situations that might arise along with it. She relied on her foreign background to cheer him up. "This must be the 'locked room murder' I often see in novels and movies!"
"Teacher Judy..." Inspector Megure looked at the foreign teacher who was watching the fun and didn't mind getting involved, and belatedly realized something, "It's so late, why are you with Jiang Xia and the others?"
"Oh! These enthusiastic kids came to visit me on their own initiative." Teacher Judy quietly tried to dispel any possible "pervert" label. She pointed next door and said, "I live in room 2104 over there. I was just about to take these kids out for dinner when, as soon as we left the building, someone fell from the upper floors."
At this point, Judy paused slightly: "..." Wait, so she hasn't eaten yet!
No wonder she had been feeling unwell just now. She had thought it was due to the stress of dealing with these sudden cases, but now it seemed that she was simply hungry.
Jiang Xia, who had just had a leisurely dinner, obviously couldn't empathize with the teacher.
The detective walked around the crime scene very professionally, then pointed to the window where the deceased fell and said, "There's a strange mark here. Did you take a picture of it?"
"Where?" The forensic officer trotted over. A closer look revealed a mark where the two windows overlapped! It looked like something had hit the window from outside.
He quickly picked up the camera and took a few more pictures of the mark: Of course they took pictures of the crash site just now, but they didn't take close-ups of this detail.
At this time, Officer Gao Mu took a stack of photos from the young police officer who came in. He lowered his head and looked through them for a moment, then ran to Jiang Xia: "The photos that Ms. Shimoda took downstairs have all been developed. There's nothing unusual about the others, but this one..."
He pulled out two of the photos and handed them to Jiang Xia side by side: "I took a picture of a figure."
"Because the distance was so far and the sky was dark, the photo wasn't very clear, so the technicians processed it a bit - this is the processed photo."
Jiang Xia took it and looked down.
Inspector Megure also came closer to take a look: "A man in red holding the curtain with one hand... Isn't this the scene where the deceased fell from the building!"
Judy also came over from the other side and discovered more: "Oh! His free left hand seems to be throwing something into the room."
"Where is it? Let me see!" Hattori Heiji and Conan couldn't squeeze in, so they had to go around to the front to look.
After taking a look, Hattori Heiji vaguely understood: "The thing in his left hand should be a mobile phone - he wanted to throw the phone into the house, but it was bounced off the window, so there was a strange impact mark on the outside of the window.
"Then the phone fell, and he had difficulty holding it up with one hand. After holding on for a few seconds, he fell down the building just like the phone and died on the spot."
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