Chapter 631 Victory in Sight
The two men swung iron bars desperately and chased them all the way.
However, the "detective who knew too much" who was right next to him was lucky enough to escape every time.
As Jiang Xia got closer to the gate, Ren Zhaojiro and his accomplices' hearts were in their throats.
Just when they were hardening their hearts and preparing to chase the man outside to silence him, Jiang Xia tripped and accidentally bumped into the half-open door.
The door slammed shut as he slammed it.
This is the only unlocked door that opens inwards.
Now, the famous detective's escape route was blocked by himself, and he finally stopped in confusion.
Lian Zhaojiro was delighted. He didn't expect that such a good thing would happen.
He shouted and swung the iron pipe vigorously. The iron pipe made a sound of wind and hit Jiang Xia's head heavily.
Then, with a dull thud, Jiang Xia raised his hand and grabbed it.
The iron rod that had just smashed a shallow hole in the wall, when it fell into Jiang Xia's hand, was like a plastic stick for a child to play with, and had no effect on him.
This completely different situation made the two pursuers startled at the same time. Although the weapon of the other accomplice was not caught, he was originally thin and timid. Now, holding the half of the iron pipe that had not yet been swung, he stopped in doubt.
The next second, the door suddenly clicked.
The two followed the noise and looked carefully, and found that for some reason, Jiang Xia suddenly locked the door.
"……?"
…
Jiang Xia took back the clay puppet that was cushioning his palm as if nothing had happened.
Then, feeling the two murderous auras that had been chasing him all the way, he turned back in a good mood.
Soon, Renchojiro and Sakoda Yu saw him reaching into his arms as if he wanted to take something, but he suddenly thought of something and gave up the action. Instead, he exerted force and pulled the iron rod out of Renchojiro's hand.
"..." Lian Zhaojiro's palms suddenly felt empty. He felt the friction pain of the stick being pulled away, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. Without time to think about it, he instinctively grabbed the iron stick of his accomplice and swung it again...
state--
"ah--!!"
Before he could swing down, Jiang Xia swept the iron rod in his hand across and hit him on the forearm.
The water pipe in Ren Zhaojiro's hand spun and flew out, falling with a clang. He was in a cold sweat from the severe pain in his forearm, and he held his arm in pain.
Before he could recover from the sharp pain, his collar suddenly tightened. Immediately afterwards, amid the screams of his cowardly accomplice next to him, Ren Zhaojiro's eyes blurred and he was thrown to the floor of the mansion.
"Before you do something that cannot be seen in public, you must close the door first." A calm voice came from above their heads. Their target of silencing sighed softly like a teacher who encountered a stupid student. "This is common sense."
"???"
…
Zhifeng University, next to Lovers Lake.
Hattori Heiji and a group of police officers followed the instructions in the script and searched for a while for the place that the "monster's nose" might refer to. In addition, they borrowed a fishing net from a janitor and fished along the rocks by the lake, trying their best to catch anything that might be left.
But apart from some innocent small fish and shrimps on the Internet, nothing else was found.
Hattori Heiji went to the bridge hole to take a look, and looked for a few rockery stones with special shapes, but still found nothing.
He scratched his hair in annoyance, reviewed the part of the script related to "Azhen" in his mind, and walked around the lake in circles.
As he walked, his steps gradually slowed down, and finally he stopped completely.
Yuanshan Heye, who was standing next to him, took a few steps forward and suddenly felt that there was someone missing beside him.
She turned around and looked at Hattori Heiji who suddenly stopped in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"I feel like..." Hattori Heiji looked at the lake and raised his hand to gesture, "It looks familiar."
"Look familiar?" Yuanshan Heye thought he was referring to the person on the bridge.
She squinted her eyes and saw that it was a beautiful female student. She frowned unhappily and said, "I don't know her!"
"No, I'm not saying the person looks familiar." Hattori Heiji spoke in fragments, relying on his intuition, "It's the lake from this angle... huh?!"
He suddenly remembered, slammed his fist on his palm, and said excitedly: "I understand, it's the western-style house where we filmed just now! There is a painting inside that depicts the lake from this angle."
In order to fit the style of the Western-style house, the painting's brushstrokes and colors are exaggerated. However, combined with the rockery, trees, and bridge, it can still be seen that its prototype is the Lovers' Lake from this angle.
"Also, the line of 'Azhen' in the script is 'There are monsters living here in the summer, but don't worry, powerful things also have weaknesses, and this monster's weakness is its nose' -
"From here, we can't see the bridge hole, nor any other part that looks like a nose. In addition, the season doesn't match. It's late autumn now, and the trees are withered and yellow, but the script says 'summer'. In other words, the clue is probably not referring to the lake itself, but to the mansion - the main color of the painting in the mansion is green, and it is the real clue!"
Hattori Heiji was reasoning at a rapid speed, and he was in a good mood because he had solved the puzzle.
For a high school detective, solving mysteries is certainly not a rare thing.
But when he met Jiang Xia, he successfully solved the puzzle by himself, instead of being poured a bucket of correct answer on the head by Jiang Xia when he was halfway through thinking and reasoning... He could brag about this to Kudo for a week.
"Let's go check out that Western-style building." Hattori Heiji quickly ran towards the building and said to Toyama Kazuha, "Go call the police."
Yuanshan Heye responded and instinctively took out his cell phone.
Then, she suddenly remembered that there were a bunch of policemen nearby. Her fingers froze as she pressed the two "1s".
Then he exited the call interface as if nothing had happened and trotted off to find the police who were salvaging evidence by the lake.
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Hattori Heiji was halfway through his run when he suddenly remembered that the door of the mansion was locked. When he left the haunted house just now, he saw the crew had finished filming. When the crew left with their equipment, the janitor locked the door.
So he turned around and went to find the janitor on the way to borrow the key to the mansion.
——In the mansion, there is a clue left by the deceased. If we find it, we should be able to solve this murder case and uncover the bigger case behind it.
However, borrowing the key did not go smoothly.
"The key has been borrowed."
The administrator took a sip of tea cheerfully and said, "Jiang Xia was here just now. By the way, you know Jiang Xia, the famous high school detective."
As he said this, he wanted to take out his treasured collection of case clippings and explain some basic facts to this high school student who looked a bit reckless.
However, on the way, the administrator suddenly remembered something. He stared at Hattori Heiji for a moment, and suddenly began to flip through the collection of clippings: "Hey, your color looks familiar, you can't be..."
He raised his head as he spoke, then paused.
——The high school detective from Osaka didn’t even listen to what he said and had already run away quickly.
(End of this chapter)
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