Chapter 681 You Don’t Understand Death
Shancuncao glanced at the innocent old maple tree.
When he turned around again, he saw Jiang Xia on the opposite side with his head slightly lowered. He looked a little guilty, as if he really felt that it was not right for them to abandon Shancuncao.
Shancun Cao felt that he had a bigger problem: he shouldn't have said such excessive things, cursing people for bad luck or something like that. What if Jiang Xia really forgot about it at that time? It seems that when a detective is focused, he tends to ignore the movements around him, especially a high school student detective...
"At that time, we just heard some noise upstairs and were in a hurry to look for you, so we didn't notice where you were hiding." A voice from the side interrupted.
Amuro Toru didn't feel guilty at all. Regardless of whether he was Furuya Rei or Bourbon, he felt that this confused policeman lacked the ability to be beaten in life, and just giving him a scare was already very kind.
But now is certainly not the time to chat about those little things.
As they happened to meet, Amuro Toru simply asked about something that he was more concerned about: "Speaking of which, why are you here? Is there any result for the case in Toushin Forest?"
Hearing this question, Shancuncao snorted, and his momentum weakened a little.
...In that case, the criminal who killed the "fake Jiang Xia" died suddenly. Since there was a video of him killing someone, the case was closed. But they never found the "perverted mysterious man" the criminal mentioned. There was no news of the missing Jizo either.
It would probably take a long time to find these, and since the main part of the case has been solved, these details will inevitably be put aside. After all, Yamamura Cao is a mystery enthusiast and feels that the case was not handled satisfactorily, so he does not want to answer this question.
After being stared at by Amuro Toru for a while, the inspector suddenly thought of something.
He cleared his throat solemnly and stood up again: "No! I am the policeman, and now it's my turn to ask you! - What are you doing here in the middle of the night? You are not here to destroy the evidence... or do you know someone in the case?"
"I don't know him. I just met him once in the evening." Jiang Xia shook his head. "He said he was the assistant director of "Red Maple in Winter" and asked us to help pass a message to a guest who was staying at the Red Tree Hotel and wanted to visit a maple tree. We agreed to meet here."
"Oh? In that case, the most suspicious person should be that guest." Yamamura Cao actually followed the normal people's thinking. He turned to his police subordinates and waved his hand, "Go back to the hotel and look for him. Oh, and contact the crew to confirm the identity of the deceased - he didn't have a wallet with him, and his ID can't be found."
Toru Amuro looked at Yamamura So in surprise.
…Why do I feel a little smarter than before?
The legendary people don’t scare and grow?
…
Shancun Cao accidentally found important witnesses who came to his doorstep - detectives such as Jiang Xia.
However, when they arrived at the hotel and asked for details, they found out that Jiang Xia and his friends had only written a message in the guestbook, and had never directly met the mysterious guest who had an appointment with the deceased, nor did they know the guest's name.
The Red Tree Hotel, as the most famous and largest hotel in the area, accommodates nearly a hundred guests. Its scope is really huge.
"I remember the deceased's uncle said that the guests arrived in the morning."
Conan rubbed his forehead and remembered some details: "In other words, if we find the customers who came to the store during that time period, we should be able to narrow down the scope."
Yamamura Sou: “…I see.”
What he said made sense, but "Uncle of the Dead" was a strange name. It was even more frightening when it came out of an innocent child's mouth, especially since the child had clear eyes and an innocent look, as if he was used to such things...
Yamamura Cao forced himself to remain calm as he glanced at Conan, then looked at Jiang Xia and the other people who came with him, and found that no one seemed to care about this.
So I couldn't help but doubt myself... Could it be that he has too little experience?
Are all kids like this nowadays?
…
A few minutes later.
Yamamura Cao felt that although the people around the famous detective Jiang Xia were all weird, including the children.
However, the clues and ideas they provided are indeed very useful.
——"Morning" is not a common time to stay in a hotel. Most hotels will tidy up the rooms and clean the place at this time. If you want to check in, you usually have to pay the room fee of the previous day.
So after checking the roster of the Chishu Hotel, the police discovered that there were only three people staying there during this period.
The scope of suspects was narrowed down a lot, greatly reducing their workload.
In addition, there were two other guests who arrived a little later, not in the morning, but near noon.
However, their check-in was also before the normal business hours - the two of them only arrived more than 20 minutes earlier than the stipulated check-in time, but were unwilling to wait and decisively paid an extra day's room fee.
Two strange guests, named "Jiang Xia" and "Amuro Toru".
“…”
The Maori father and daughter didn't have any feelings about this, but they were a little surprised that Boss Amuro, who liked to work part-time, was actually a wealthy man with no shortage of money.
Vermouth, disguised as Suzuki Sonoko, glanced at the list and didn't notice anything wrong. She didn't care about the check-in time when staying at a hotel. She would just check in when she arrived and use the services she wanted. She would pay more if she wanted to, because she had more money anyway.
And Conan... Conan was still suspicious, but still had no evidence.
He wasn't even sure what he was suspecting. Maybe it was just some detective intuition that told him that Amuro Toru had a lot of secrets, was very wrong, and might be involved in something dangerous.
…
No matter how suspicious Toru Amuro and Jiang Xia were, the two detectives did not seem to have any intention of escaping, and both the police and their companions knew them well.
Therefore, in the eyes of everyone, the current focus of observation is still the three guests who arrived first as just found out.
Tatsuzo Watanuki was also among them.
This matter was very important to him, so he was very punctual in this regard. He said he would come in the morning, and he really came in the morning, so that after the unlucky assistant guide found the "maple tree with bones buried at the roots", he could rush to the scene and control the situation as soon as possible to prevent the corpse he hid five years ago from being exposed to the public.
At this time, he was singled out as a suspect in the murder of the assistant director.
But Watanuki Tatsuzo had seen a lot of things. He was not too nervous when the assistant leader's fresh body was found - there was no evidence left after all. As long as the body of the mud conference cadre he had hidden five years ago was not discovered, it would be fine.
After all, the police rely on evidence.
The Nican Association is not a serious organization, and even without hard evidence, they may still impose sanctions on him.
At this point, Watanuki Tatsuzo was actually thankful that the maple tree where the body was buried was hard to find - if something happened here, it wouldn't affect the other side. His younger brothers who had come early to help with the search could continue their search in peace.
(End of this chapter)
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