Chapter 649 Are You a Ghost?
Thinking of this, Conan sighed.
He had just arrived at the hotel and was still lacking many clues to solve the current case.
Moreover, judging from Jiang Xia's hesitant answer just now, Jiang Xia was obviously hiding something.
...In short, although the full picture of the case is not clear at present, one thing is certain - Toru Amuro must be secretly plotting something.
Perhaps, after this entire journey, this is his final destination?
Did the person who looked like Jiang Xia discover something and therefore needed to be silenced, or did Toru Amuro kill the man in black because he was caught doing something last night? Or did he want to use the man in black's death to achieve some goal... Speaking of which, the murder happened in Jiang Xia's original room, and Jiang Xia refused to explain clearly. From a rational point of view, he is the most suspicious... Could Toru Amuro want to pack up Jiang Xia and send him to the police station?
Conan became secretly alert.
At this moment, there was a faint sound of rustling clothes coming from the side.
——Shancuncao, who had been frightened unconscious by Jiang Xia just now, has gradually woken up and sat up from the ground.
Shancun Cao, as a policeman who believed in all kinds of legends and ghosts from the bottom of his heart, was afraid of even corpses, let alone the "Jiang Xia" with a distorted face who should have been dead, who suddenly stood in front of him...
After waking up, Shancuncao touched the back of his head which was hurt when he fell.
Before he could come to his senses, his eyes suddenly fixed on Jiang Xia standing beside him.
Jiang Xia noticed the commotion here, turned his head and looked at Shancuncao, intending to ask meaningfully, "Are you okay?"
However, just as he opened his mouth, Shancuncao suddenly let out an "Ah!". Immediately afterwards, he used his hands and feet to move to the corner of the wall like a spider turned upside down, and took out his police ID from his pocket, pointing it at Jiang Xia like a spell: "You, you, you, you have a grudge, take it back, I'm just an ordinary policeman passing by! I didn't hurt you!"
“…”
Toru Amuro's eyes became complicated and he looked up and down at Yamamura So.
After a few seconds, he said in an unclear tone: "He is alive - the person who hanged himself is not Jiang Xia."
"……ah?"
Shancuncao looked around alertly and found that the other policemen and onlookers were alive and well, and had not been killed by the "ghost of Jiang Xia". He was stunned for a moment, then stood up silently and moved to the side of Jiang Xia.
Then, under Jiang Xia's puzzled gaze, he suddenly closed his eyes tightly and reached out to grab.
Jiang Xia: “…”
He remembered Shancuncao's heroic figure wriggling on the ground with his hands and feet, and instinctively moved away.
The confused police officer's dirty fingers passed by him a few millimeters away. Only then did Jiang Xia stand up again.
Shancuncao tried to touch anyone but didn't find anyone, and opened his eyes in shock.
When he found Jiang Xia still standing there, he was immediately scared out of his wits: "...I can't touch him, I can't touch him!! He is a ghost, don't let him fool you!"
"..." Jiang Xia was silent for a moment and glanced at Amuro Toru secretly.
When encountering such a colleague, he never knows when the boss's anger bar will be filled. If it is full, can he let out some murderous aura? He didn't sleep well last night and was woken up early this morning. He now wants some mellow coffee to refresh himself.
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw a person approaching from the corner of my eye.
Jiang Xia was startled and turned to look.
I saw that Mao Lilan had woken up at some point.
At this moment, she was coming over hesitantly, watching for a moment, then suddenly closed her eyes and grabbed Jiang Xia's arm.
“…”
A second later: "Isn't this possible?"
Mao Lilan was familiar with Jiang Xia after all. When she woke up just now, she heard what Amuro Toru said. She thought about it carefully and felt that the distorted corpse on the ground was indeed different from Jiang Xia. So she moved closer to try.
After confirming that her classmate was still alive, her emotions went through ups and downs. She was so moved that she wanted to cry. She squeezed the arm she was holding and said, "It's still warm. It's not a ghost after all!"
Toru Amuro: "..."
There are no ghosts in the world.
Is there something wrong with these two people next to you who firmly believe in ghosts?
...Forget about Mao Lilan, she is just a high school girl with a rich imagination and there is no way to control her.
But what's up with this policeman...
"It is indeed a person." Amuro Toru glanced at Yamamura Cao who was holding the police notebook as a talisman, and could not bear it any longer, so he explained, "Jiang Xia was not in room 207 last night, and we don't know what happened to the body in his room." Then, Amuro Toru looked at the innkeeper, "Is the deceased a guest here?"
"No impression." The hotel owner shook his head. Then he realized that he was face-blind, so he asked the staff who had been on duty at the front desk.
However, everyone shook their heads and had no impression of this fake Jiang Xia.
Taking the hotel registration book, he checked the guest rooms and asked each one.
After asking around, everyone discovered that the deceased seemed to have appeared out of nowhere and was not a guest here at all.
…
Jiang Xia has now picked up two large amounts of murderous aura, and is only waiting to pick up the shikigami on the legs of the divine treasure Nobita after solving the case, and then set off as soon as possible - according to experience, it is often difficult for two different murders to occur in the same place, so he has to move a little to have the hope of triggering new situations.
So, although I decided to keep a low profile as much as possible and leave the details to Conan to figure out.
But in order to speed up the progress, Jiang Xia took a walk around the crime scene while Shancuncao was not paying attention.
On the way, some criminal police noticed his actions, but did not stop him. Instead, they looked at Jiang Xia with quite friendly eyes.
——They have also heard of Jiang Xia's reputation. This Tokyo detective solves cases very quickly. Many times, asking Jiang Xia to solve a case is even easier than dealing with suicides or accidents. This way, you can achieve results without having to work overtime... I really hope that when Jiang Xia chooses a university, he will be admitted to Gunma, and then stay here permanently to solve difficult cases...
With the tacit approval and even expectation of a group of police officers.
Jiang Xia successfully checked in at all the noteworthy places.
Then he returned to the corridor, turned his head to look at the deceased, and then looked at Amuro Toru as if asking for his opinion.
Seeing that Amuro Toru nodded secretly, it indicated that this matter had nothing to do with the organization and there was no need to suspend the case.
Jiang Xia then turned to Shancun Cao under Conan's suspicious gaze:
"Although there is no evidence yet...but the deceased's appearance is somewhat similar to mine, and his clothes are all very new, as if they were just bought - maybe he was planning to impersonate me and steal the box from the innkeeper. But before he could do anything, I got here first, so he had to sneak into my room in the middle of the night and try to steal the suitcase, but during that time, he unfortunately encountered some things, and eventually ended up like this."
(End of this chapter)
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