Chapter 648 What did you do at night? Please give me a monthly ticket o(〃'▽'〃)o
Mao Lilan asked in confusion: "Dad, what's wrong?"
Kogoro Mouri pointed at the door blankly.
Mao Lilan turned her head and saw a lively Jiang Xia standing in the corridor. Jiang Xia was not wearing the black clothes he usually liked to wear, but a sunny light-colored one. The style was exactly what Mao Lilan saw by chance when she went out shopping a while ago. She wanted to bring it back for Jiang Xia to try, but she felt that Jiang Xia would definitely not wear it.
"Haha, it's a dream. This outfit really suits him. High school students should dress more lively..." Mao Lilan muttered, her voice gradually becoming smaller.
Finally, with a thud, he lay down again.
Maori Kogoro was startled when he heard the noise, and turned around to find that his daughter, who had just woken up, had fainted again: "Lan!!"
Then he hurriedly continued to pinch the Ren Zhong point.
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At the door, Conan glanced at the unconscious Yamamura Cao.
As a high school detective who used to often mingle with the police, Conan has become accustomed to the police's usual failures. However, he did not expect that this deputy inspector in Gunma Prefecture would fail so badly... Such a person could actually lead the team. No wonder there are so many suicide sites in Gunma Prefecture.
He secretly complained in his heart, ignored this strange policeman, and ran to Mao Lilan to check the situation.
Feeling that there was no problem, Conan slipped to Jiang Xia's side with a low sense of presence and secretly pulled Jiang Xia away from Amuro Toru.
Then he pulled his sleeves, waited for Jiang Xia to squat down skillfully, and asked in a low voice: "Who is that person in the room? This is indeed your room, right? Where were you just now?"
...Think about what the first person who discovered it said just now. Since she came here with a clear purpose to "accidentally meet" Jiang Xia, it is unlikely that she went into the wrong room.
In other words, Room 207, where someone hanged himself, should indeed be Jiang Xia's room.
But just now, Jiang Xia appeared here as a spectator after the commotion...
"I haven't seen him."
Jiang Xia looked at Conan. He hadn't seen this neighbor who was prone to incidents for several days. Seeing him suddenly now, he had a sense of anticipation that he would encounter another case soon... The good impression that "Conan" and "cases" had always brought made Jiang Xia very patient with Kudo, who liked to ask a lot of questions.
After briefly answering the first question, Jiang Xia lowered his voice:
"As for the room, I was originally in Room 207, but... um..." He hesitated, as if he was struggling with whether to talk about something. In the end, he brushed the topic aside and continued, "But this room isn't suitable, so last night, I went to the boss's place."
"Not suitable?" Conan quickly grasped the suspicious point, "Then why not change the room? There are people on duty at the hotel at night, and now is the off-season for tourism, there should be many vacant rooms here."
"...Indeed, but this doesn't feel good." Jiang Xia thought about his identity as a worker and felt that until he found out who installed the camera, it would be better for him to keep everything confidential and let Amuro Toru, the leader, decide how much to reveal.
So he made up an excuse to deal with Conan's questioning and to make it easier to blame him: "It's late at night, the front desk staff should be very sleepy, it would be too disturbing."
Conan: “……?”
...Wouldn't it be more disturbing to go to my boss?
However, Jiang Xia subconsciously made this excuse... Could it be that the "sudden incident that made the room uninhabitable" was related to Amuro Toru, and was more suitable for Amuro Toru to handle? And that incident was directly or indirectly related to a murder case...
As he thought about it, Conan's eyes gradually became sharper.
But compared to Jiang Xia, he looked more at Toru Amuro standing aside.
——During this trip, Jiang Xia did not have a mobile phone and did not know the itinerary and destination. No matter how you look at it, the one who led this trip was Toru Amuro, the suspicious boss of the detective agency.
And Conan remembered that a few minutes ago, when they were downstairs, they met Toru Amuro who was going to the restaurant alone.
At that time, he asked Toru Amuro "Where is Jiang Xia?" Toru Amuro said "I don't know, maybe she's still in the room, or maybe in the restaurant," and then changed the subject - but in fact, now it seems that Jiang Xia had just come out of Toru Amuro's house, and Toru Amuro, the owner of the house, couldn't possibly be unaware of Jiang Xia's whereabouts... Why did Boss Amuro hide this? What conspiracy did he have?
Conan looked at the body of "Jiang Xia" that had been put down in the house, and felt as if a dark cloud full of mystery was hanging above his head, and a black hand was slowly reaching out from it, fiddling with it with a sinister smile.
...A stranger was suddenly killed by an unknown person in Jiang Xia's room. Jiang Xia, who was supposed to be in the room, left for other reasons. In addition, the most thought-provoking thing is that the deceased's figure is very similar to Jiang Xia, and even his face is somewhat similar. Such a person, wearing the black clothes that Jiang Xia often wears, appeared in the dim night.
...Speaking of this, he always felt that something was strange.
Conan came back to his senses and looked at Jiang Xia again: "Um, your clothes."
Jiang Xia: “Hmm?”
Conan asked: "Why have you only worn this kind of clothes all the time? Didn't you prefer black before?"
Jiang Xia was startled, as if he had gotten used to this outfit all along the way, and only noticed his abnormality now that he was being asked. He looked down at himself:
"I was in a hurry to leave and didn't have time to pack my luggage. The only outfit I was wearing was black. Later, in the Twilight Annex... a case in Tottori Prefecture, my car and luggage were blown up, so I had to buy something else to wear."
"I see." The more Conan listened, the more he felt something was wrong, so he confirmed, "Did you choose the clothes yourself?"
"No." Jiang Xia shook his head. "The schedule was too busy, so the boss ordered it directly from the store..."
Halfway through his words, he looked down at his clothes, then at the black clothes of the corpse. He seemed to have suddenly thought of something and fell silent.
At the same time, Jiang Xia secretly decided to remain silent until the matter was over.
If you lie, you will have to work hard to cover it up later. It is better to tell the truth and let the boss clean up the mess. The boss is not afraid of being caught and seems to be quite free recently...
Next to him, Toru Amuro suddenly sneezed.
Conan looked over vigilantly, his thoughts turning, and he soon thought of last night's storm.
...This boss looks quite healthy, why did he suddenly sneeze?
Could it be that he did something shameful last night and got caught in the rain? For example, he used some excuse to trick Jiang Xia out of Room 207, then sneaked into Room 207 at night, killed someone, and then went for a walk outside for some purpose, etc.
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Thank you for your monthly tickets (づど)
(End of this chapter)
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