Chapter 653: One Hundred Ways to Commit a Murder
Conan always felt that there were some very crucial coincidences hidden in this.
At present, combined with other factors, we can roughly sort out the cause and effect of this murder.
——Shenbao Daxiong, the insider of the hotel, learned that the hotel owner wanted to ask a detective to check the box, so for some reason, he became interested in the box and hired someone to disguise himself as Jiang Xia in order to steal the suitcase.
However, Toru Amuro "happened" to bring Jiang Xia here and took the suitcase away in advance.
That night, Shenbao Daxiong and the deceased entered Jiang Xia's room one after another and killed each other for the suitcase. Afterwards, Shenbao Daxiong took the deceased's mobile phone, which proved that the two were accomplices in order to avoid the leakage of communication records.
All in all, it looks like this is just a tragedy of evil people fighting each other.
But if you look closely, you can find that there are some crucial coincidences hidden in it.
...Why did Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru show up just when the innkeeper wanted to hire a detective?
...Why is there only a camera in Jiang Xia's room? Just now, Conan randomly went to several nearby rooms to check, but he didn't find any tampering in other people's rooms.
In addition, there is the changed style of Jiang Xia's clothes - when the fake "Jiang Xia" came, he should have worn a cap and a mask. It is normal for celebrities to use these things to cover their faces. In this case, if you are not familiar with them, it will be difficult to distinguish the real and fake Jiang Xia. People in the hotel are likely to think that the person in black is the real Jiang Xia.
After careful consideration, Conan discovered that when these factors were mixed together, they could lead to countless bad possibilities.
For example, the fake "Jiang Xia" arrived a little earlier, took the box, did the bad thing and then threw the blame on Jiang Xia;
Or maybe someone killed Jiang Xia and used the existence of a fake "Jiang Xia" to blur the time of Jiang Xia's death and create an alibi for themselves... Although Jiang Xia is not easy to subdue, if there is an insider who puts drugs in the food, that would be a different story.
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Of course, among the countless possible outcomes, the current situation is naturally included.
Compared with the previous ones, the current situation seems to have the highest probability of achieving the result when someone is manipulating behind the scenes.
So, if we only look at the present: Jiang Xia's travel route was decided by Amuro Toru, and his clothes were also ordered by Amuro Toru. After discovering the camera, it was most likely Amuro Toru who asked Jiang Xia not to make a sound, stay quietly in his room, and vacate room 207...
Conan stroked his chin, lost in thought.
Perhaps my train of thought had gone astray from the beginning. Boss Amuro's purpose was not to murder Jiang Xia, but to use Jiang Xia's reputation to appear here, and then use these conditions to cleverly kill the deceased and clear himself?
"..." Using various murders to achieve his real goal... If it is true, such means are really hard to guard against. And it is also extremely difficult to expose.
Finding physical evidence of the murder was already a troublesome enough process. And now, there was no evidence that Toru Amuro had violated any law or incited any crime, so everything was just speculation.
I really hope I'm just overthinking...
Conan sighed in his heart. On the one hand, he hoped that this was just a coincidence, but on the other hand, he had to prepare for the worst - Amuro Toru manipulated the murder to kill people, so as to avoid failure due to lack of preparation at the critical moment.
After all, when facing vicious criminals, opportunities are often fleeting.
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The other people present didn't think as much as Conan.
Although Toru Amuro also felt that the murder case was solved very quickly and by coincidence, this level of coincidence was no longer likely to arouse his vigilance.
Moreover, he himself played a leading role in these coincidences, and the choices made by "himself" were not likely to arouse suspicion. Few people would suddenly feel that the decisions they made independently were actually controlled by others.
...Of course, the most important thing is that Toru Amuro was not controlled in the first place, he was indeed acting completely according to his own will.
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Shancun Cao had just failed to deduce the murderer, and when he saw Jiang Xia again, he couldn't help feeling guilty.
At the same time, he slowly realized that this was a powerful detective, so he simply followed his police instinct and moved closer: "Speaking of which, what was in that box? It was worth them killing each other."
Although the fake Jiang Xia opened the box last night, he happened to have his back to the surveillance camera at that time, covering the inside of the box.
The truth is still unclear based on the surveillance video transmitted only by "passing eyes".
Jiang Xia turned to look at Shancun Cao. Although this confused policeman failed to successfully squeeze out the murderous intent of his boss and was not trying hard enough, he thought that Shancun Cao also seemed to have a physique that could summon cases, and he had encountered many serial murders.
So he spoke in a friendly and patient tone, "It's an old newspaper from September five years ago. It's the Kumamoto Sports News, and the title is 'Akagi Maru's First Victory'. You can go to the local library to look it up. They should have a copy there."
"Hurry up and contact the people over there to find a copy."
Upon hearing this, Shancun Cao turned around and sent one of his subordinates to look for him as if passing a message.
Then he realized belatedly and wondered: "Just one newspaper?"
"That's right." The innkeeper suddenly spoke when he heard this.
He was deeply impressed by Shancuncao's "unparalleled reasoning" just now, and didn't want to experience it again, so he interrupted hurriedly: "I was there at the time. After the box was handed over to Mr. Jiang Xia, it never left my sight until it was opened. There was indeed only an old newspaper in it, and it was not replaced."
...The hotel owner originally thought that this confused policeman would continue to argue.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Shancun Cao looked at him with condemnation: "Of course! How could a detective like Jiang Xia swap the things in your box! Come to think of it, you entrusted him to investigate, but he even stared at the box the whole time... Where is the trust between people?!"
"..." The innkeeper rolled up his sleeves unconsciously, "*&#￥％..."
Jiang Xia subconsciously glanced at him, and almost at the same time, two transparent shadows flashed past his eyes.
——The mermaid and Miss Spider rushed out at the same time, bouncing towards the innkeeper. When they came back, they brought with them a very faint, but real murderous aura.
This murderous aura, although in small quantity and completely irrelevant to satiety, looks like a wisp of misty gauze.
The two youkai ghosts plus Miyano Akemi gathered together and began to whisper and gesture at it, like a few fashion designers surrounding a piece of rare fabric.
Because there was too little murderous aura and there were too many people around at the moment, Jiang Xia couldn't reach out to push the ghosts away and save the murderous aura - from a normal person's perspective, the way it interacted with the air was really strange.
(End of this chapter)
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