Chapter 69: The Battle of Wisdom and Courage
According to the unwritten rules of this world, whoever reasons must prove it.
The detectives that Inspector Megure had met in the past were all well-behaved and obedient.
However, this time, when he was adjusting the stopwatch and preparing to time Jiang Xia.
But Jiang Xia declined politely: "It's not necessary."
Inspector Megure paused and said, "Hmm?"
Jiang Xia glanced at the shikigami on the host's lap, then looked at the window and fast-forwarded expertly:
"The murderer didn't need to come to this room in person. He only needed to lure the deceased to stick his head out from a room upstairs, and then shoot downwards."
Jiang Xia pointed to the blood-spattered window and the bloodstains on the neatly broken upper window frame. "After firing the gun, throw the gun through the window. Once the body falls, the window will close. Then leave bullet marks in the room in advance, and it will create the illusion that the murderer was standing in the room and shooting."
…
The host stood aside, his face changing unpredictably. He suddenly felt goosebumps on his back and suspected that he had committed the crime. In fact, Jiang Xia was following behind him and witnessed everything.
Jiang Xia spoke a little too fast.
Some people understood those fancy processes, while others didn’t.
However, the next step is still clear.
Inspector Megure digested the information for a while, then called the officers from the Forensic Department and asked them to check the smoke reaction at the corresponding windows from this floor upwards.
Soon, obvious gunpowder residue was detected on the seventh floor.
——That’s where the real shooting took place.
It only takes four minutes to travel from the studio on the 9th floor to the warehouse on the 7th floor and back.
The host's "alibi" disappeared in an instant.
He wanted to continue arguing, but at this point... he didn't know what else to say.
It was as if Jiang Xia had stolen his murder script and laid it out in front of everyone... The host had never expected this situation.
…
The rest is even simpler.
Although the seventh floor is very close to the studio, 4 minutes is still not enough. If the host fired without covering himself, the smoke reaction would be detected on his body; and if he was disguised, it would be difficult to hide his protective gear in such a tight time. If we searched along the way, we could get strong evidence.
…
A few minutes later.
When the host was squatting in the corner, holding his head and growing mushrooms under the stare of a group of police officers, he felt hopeless.
Officer Takagi found the raincoat and gloves that the host was wearing when he fired the gun in the fire extinguisher on the 8th floor.
As long as these physical evidences are identified, the murderer can be identified.
However, judging from the host's reaction, the result should not be much suspense.
The case once again jumped to the finale with one click.
The police officers looked at Jiang Xia with a kind look. Although this guy always encountered murders, he solved the cases quickly. Who doesn't like to work shorter hours?
…
Inspector Megure put his hands behind his back comfortably, patted his back, and asked his subordinates to take the suspect and evidence back to the police station.
As for himself, he had to continue to deal with the matters that his old friend asked him to help investigate.
——He just received a call that the wife of the first-generation Kudo brother was missing.
Yukiko Kudo had only been missing for a few hours, and the only evidence of her disappearance was that "the phone call could not be reached", which was not enough to meet the standards for filing a case.
But Kudo Yusaku seems to take this matter very seriously.
So Inspector Megure plans to help him look for it privately.
…
However, before leaving the Nichimi TV building.
Inspector Megure accidentally glanced into the crowd and saw a familiar figure.
——The woman was wearing a sun hat and sunglasses, hiding her face. But after a closer look, Inspector Megure felt that she looked a lot like Kudo Yukiko.
“?!”
He ran over immediately.
However, there were many people crowded around to watch the excitement. When Inspector Megure ran over, the woman had disappeared.
Inspector Megure touched the back of his head in confusion.
Just at this moment, a phone call came in.
He glanced at the caller ID and picked up the phone: "Hello? Brother Kudo. Oh, I haven't made it yet. But I just saw someone who looks very much like your wife. Hmm? I'm at Nichimi TV now. There was a murder case here just now..."
Jiang Xia, who was passing by, stiffened slightly when he heard the call.
But he soon calmed down.
...He just said hello to the neighbor aunt when they passed by, and then told her about his itinerary for the day. He is not a human trafficker, so there is no need to feel guilty.
Jiang Xia spent a few seconds soothing his conscience and walked back to the backstage as if nothing had happened.
…
Yoko Kinoshita also has an evening show.
After cleaning up the mess here, she said goodbye to Jiang Xia and her idol with regret.
Kudo Yukiko went downstairs with Jiang Xia. Halfway down the stairs, she remembered something and suddenly felt empty in her heart.
When she arrived at the door of the TV station, Yukiko Kudo froze when she saw two people, one big and one small, standing outside, staring at her with resentment.
She smiled awkwardly and patted Jiang Xia: "You go back first."
Jiang Xia responded, nodded to the Kudo father and son, received a polite response, and then left.
…
Yukiko Kudo stood at the door of the TV station, looking at the father and son who had been looking for her all afternoon, and pressed the brim of her hat guiltily.
In fact, not long after the program started recording, she remembered that she seemed to have forgotten some "important things".
But by then, the show had already started. And she had promised to be a family and friends group for Jiang Xia, so if she just turned around and left, it would seem like she was going back on her word, which was not very kind...
So Yukiko, feeling guilty, suddenly had an idea and found a suitable excuse for herself.
——I heard from the doctor that as soon as the members of the Black Organization saw Shinichi, they hit him on the back of the head with a stick.
She and her husband couldn't be so cruel to their son, and he was so smart. If this continued, Shinichi would definitely find that these two "organization members" were not violent at all when facing the naughty children, and then he would doubt their true identities.
Once their son discovered their plan, their "kidnapping" naturally became a farce, and there was no way to make their son realize the danger of the organization.
Kudo Yukiko: “…” So, it’s better to go with the flow and change the route - suddenly disappear.
This was also an opportunity to let his son understand how dangerous his situation was. It just so happened that the father and son usually solved a lot of cases, and their imaginations were bigger than each other...
…
Outside the Nichimei TV building.
Faced with the two resentful Kudos, Yukiko Kudo gritted her teeth and came up with the excuse she had prepared in advance.
Kudo Yusaku kept saying “…” for a long time. Finally, he looked at his wife who was trying to get away with it, sighed, and decided to cooperate with her temporarily and then talk to her about the issue of losing contact without permission.
So Kudo Yusaku turned to Conan and said, "That's right. Have you ever thought that if you continue to stay here, once you are discovered by that organization, the lives of the people around you will be threatened - just like your mother today."
However, Conan was not convinced at all. He looked at Kudo Yukiko speechlessly: "You must have followed Jiang Xia first, and then remembered that I was still thrown in the house, so you made up this excuse... Anyway, leave me alone, I won't leave here!"
…………
Jiang Xia did not eavesdrop on the Kudo family's argument.
He returned home happily with his newly found shikigami.
After the live broadcast incident, Jiang Xia's reputation in the detective world became higher - because on that day, a genius photographer took the initiative to live broadcast the content of the case-solving.
Because the case-solving process was so smooth, some people suspected that this was a pre-written script or some kind of "overtime special."
However, with the news that the host was arrested and the producer was killed the next day, this speculation completely faded - the host and the producer were both celebrities, and it was not realistic for one to die and the other to be arrested for the show.
…
However, even though his reputation had grown, Jiang Xia still hadn't received any mysterious commissions from far away that promised to pick up a lot of souls if he kept the appointment.
He still lives his ordinary life of looking for cats and dogs and keeping an eye on his mistress.
"..." Jiang Xia once suspected that the commission was attracted to Mouri Kogoro by Conan.
However, he used Kinoshita Yoko as an excuse to go to Maori Kogoro's detective agency several times to secretly investigate, but found that Maori Kogoro had not received any decent commissions.
It seems that it’s not that the reputation is not enough, but the timing is not right…
(End of this chapter)
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