Chapter 458: Huiyuan Ai's Domain (Anti-theft extra update) Ask for monthly votes°°
Jiang Xia found a pair of gloves and put them on, then walked to the "S"-shaped hook that fell from the sky, picked it up and took a look at it.
Almost at the same time, Haibara Ai also squatted down beside her.
When she stood up again, she had an "S"-shaped hook of the same style in her hand. In addition, there was a metal ring as thick as a finger on her hook.
"…It's a ring." Huiyuan Ai held it in her handkerchief, brought it close to her eyes, and examined it. "It says M to A on the inside. This should be a wedding ring given by someone whose name begins with M to someone whose name begins with A."
"Ring?" The other children were stunned.
Even if the wedding ring was of poor quality, it would not be treated as a fallen object and thrown away randomly. Now, since it was thrown down, there must be some compelling reason.
By the way, two "S" hooks and a ○ ring strung together can just spell out "SOS" - a typical distress signal.
Huihara Ai walked to Jiang Xia's side, stood on tiptoe, raised her hands, and put the wedding rings on the two hooks.
Then she looked at the vertical "SoS" and frowned slightly: "Could this be related to the person you are looking for?"
"It's possible." Jiang Xia looked up at the apartment next to him.
This apartment building has a total of nine floors, and there is a row of windows on the building facing this side.
But now, all the windows were closed and it was impossible to tell from which window the hook was thrown.
Jiang Xia's eyes swept from bottom to top, and paused for a moment on a certain floor. He vaguely felt that there was murderous intent inside.
It was a pity that when the hook landed, they were not standing in this direction, but on the other side of the intersection. There was no window over there. And when he looked up at the window just now, Conan had already observed it in advance. Otherwise, he could have used the excuse of seeing someone at the window and rushed over directly...
Fortunately, this is not a problem at all - just go into the apartment and take a look around, and when you reach the floor with the murderous aura, you can use the excuse that you feel something is wrong somewhere, knock on the door politely, and then pick up the murderous aura of the gangster in the house.
"It must be a woman who threw the ring."
Huiyuan Ai didn't know that Jiang Xia had already spotted the murderer. She carefully touched the metal ring held by Jiang Xia with her fingertips and speculated: "It doesn't feel cold, maybe it was just taken off my hand. And..."
She spread out the handkerchief that she had used to pad the ring and hook and showed it to Jiang Xia.
There was something like red paint on the white handkerchief. It was sticky but not blood.
Afraid that he wouldn't recognize her, Huiyuan Ai took the initiative to say:
"It's lipstick. Judging from the color, it's a limited edition new model released a few days ago. The person asking for help should have a good quality of life and a suitable kidnapping target. In addition, she may be overweight - this ring is a size 11, and most women usually wear sizes 7 to 9."
The three children listening in nodded and carefully wrote down the victim's features: "Fat rich auntie..."
Jiang Xia took one last look at the nine closed windows, then turned the corner and headed for the apartment door.
"Let's go upstairs and take a look first." Jiang Xia was mindful of his murderous intent, so he found a suitable excuse to go into the building:
"The hook was thrown out not long ago. When we looked up, the window was already closed... Considering that the kidnapped person's hands are inconvenient now, judging from the time difference, it is very likely that the kidnapper closed the window. And, if so, he may have witnessed the hostage's call for help."
Yoshida Ayumi's face turned pale, and she blurted out: "Then, is Aunt Fu dead now?! The kidnappers will kill the hostages who don't obey. This is how it's played in TV dramas!"
"..." Then when you were a hostage, you kept kicking and biting...
Jiang Xia glanced at her silently and comforted her casually:
"Now is not a good time to kill someone - for the kidnappers, the hostage has just delivered the information, and now is the time to easily arouse the suspicion of passers-by. If the kidnappers do nothing, curious passers-by may think that they are overreacting because they cannot find any clues and give up and leave.
"But if he were to be killed immediately, the noise caused by the victim's desperate struggle, the leakage of body fluids, the smell after death, and the difficulty of cleaning up when moving the body would make it more likely that he would be exposed.
"Also, even if we ignore reason and rely only on instinct, at this time, most people will not rashly make a major decision like 'killing', but will try to maintain the status quo until they feel the threat is resolved."
The three children secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, we had arrived at the gate of the apartment building.
This apartment has no doorman and is equipped with a one-way sensor automatic door.
Jiang Xia was lucky. When he arrived at the door, someone just came out and the door opened.
The aunt who was about to go shopping glanced at him while holding the shopping bag, then looked at the group of children behind Jiang Xia. She had no intention of stopping him from rubbing his door, but just nodded in a friendly manner and left slowly.
The glass automatic door is right opposite the mailbox.
After Jiang Xia entered the room, he turned around and looked at the mailbox through the transparent glass and saw a row of several names.
While he was looking at the mailbox, Conan quickly ran into the first floor, then ran back and told Jiang Xia: "From the position of the window, the ring was thrown out from room 5."
Jiang Xia nodded and looked at all the "×05" rooms in the mailbox.
To facilitate delivery, the name of the householder is usually affixed to the mailbox.
Combined with the lipstick that Haibara Ai just found and the "M to A" engraved on the inside of the ring, this ring should be a wedding ring given by a "man whose name starts with M" to his "wife whose name starts with A".
In other words, by finding all the names of couples that meet the conditions in "×05", you can guess which room the owner of the ring is in... Of course, if all the residents do not meet the conditions, it is also possible that someone has kidnapped a wife with an A in her name and taken her home.
In short, although there is a certain degree of randomness, there are no other clues at the moment, so the Junior Detective Team thinks it is better to follow the first line first.
"105 is 'Dazhu Nu', so that's ruled out. 205...ah, that should be it!"
Conan pointed at the name "Shima Masakazu/Shima Asuka" in small, crowded fonts on the mailbox, and was a little surprised.
I didn't expect to see progress so quickly.
Could it be that even if Jiang Xia didn't say anything, his "accelerate the progress of solving the case" physique would automatically activate? ... Hiss, speaking of which, sometimes Jiang Xia's luck is really good.
Conan's thoughts wandered for a second, and he couldn't help but think of Jiang Xia and Mao Li Ran, who were lucky enough to win everything.
Then he tried to focus on the matter again: "Let's go to 205 first. Asuka-sister might still be saved."
(End of this chapter)
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