Chapter 778 The Dark Rules of the Detective World
At this point, Inoue Yoshiko raised her chin to the side, motioning Jiang Xia to look at her office and her busy colleagues:
"——As you can see, we are very busy at work and have to work overtime a lot. The little time we have at night is not enough for rest, and we have no time to care about other people's lives. The next day, when we saw that Sanae had not come to work, we slowly realized that something was wrong. We didn't expect that she had been missing until now..."
She sighed.
After Conan listened to the clues carefully, Inoue Yoshiko pinched his face again.
He came to his senses and realized belatedly that he seemed to have accidentally betrayed his body.
"……" However, since it is adults' love for children, it is a healthy emotion that is beneficial to social development, so just sell it.
Conan had no burden at all and started to act cute, while helping Jiang Xia to ask, "By the way, sister, was there anything unusual about Sanae's appearance that day? For example, was she very emotionally unstable, or had she cried or something like that."
Inoue Yoshiko often comes into contact with clients and is a smart person, so she vaguely understood what they meant.
"You mean to ask if Sanae could commit suicide or run away from home?" She looked at Jiang Xia. "I don't think so. The new variety of cosmos I bought online arrived the other day, and she asked for some seeds, saying she wanted to try planting them when she got home. People who want to commit suicide or run away don't have the time to do these things."
Huihara Ai was also gently pinched on the face. She raised her hand and touched her cheek with mixed feelings: I always felt that after Inoue Yoshiko took action against them, the whole person became much easier to talk to.
She looked at the mini version of Kudo Shinichi next to her and found that this former detective also seemed to be adapting well.
Huiyuan Ai: “…”
Now, when detectives ask people for information, they must, must...
She thought of the previous store manager Kojima and Jiang Xia's many customers. She couldn't help but tremble with her pupils and grabbed Jiang Xia's sleeves: What is going on in the world now? Detectives actually want to...
Jiang Xia: “……?”
He lowered his head and looked at Huibara Ai in confusion.
This fake kid has been acting weird today. Does he really dislike having his face pinched?
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia looked at Miyano Akemi, who had floated above Haibara Ai's head at some point and was skillfully rubbing her sister.
Miyano Akemi sensed her master's question, and she held her chin seriously and thought for a while.
Then she shook her head, indicating that she had no impression of it. After all, after her sister grew up, she rarely ran over to pinch her face. But she thought that she could give it a try next time she opened the puppet. The sister who showed resistance was unexpectedly very cute...
Haibara Ai felt a chill on her back, turned her head away, sneezed, and rubbed her nose with a confused look on her face.
Jiang Xia didn't start talking either, pretending that she didn't agree with Miyano Akemi's proposal. No, pretending that she didn't see Miyano Akemi...
Seeing that they were starting to lose focus, Subaru Okiya had no choice but to remove the background board status and try to give them a hint.
He looked at Inoue Yoshiko and started talking about the previous topic: "I like this kind of flower too. It's beautiful, has a beautiful flower language, and is easy to grow. It's a sunny and optimistic flower. Miss Koda doesn't look like someone who would commit suicide... Speaking of which, when I was playing baseball with the children today, I saw a cosmos on the construction site. I guess the seeds were blown in from somewhere and took root. With such tenacious vitality, I think on the bright side, maybe Miss Koda was on her way to Watanuki's house and suddenly wanted to see the outside world, so she left."
"!" Jiang Xia grasped the key point from Okiya Subaru's words and showed an expression of "I see" to be polite.
"!" Conan also obviously thought of something from Okiya Subaru's words, and blurted out, "No wonder when we were playing baseball, Watanuki Yoshiichi was always peeking at us from the rooftop, and he was even watching with a telescope!"
Subaru Okiya looked at him in surprise. This kid is quite smart, worthy of being Kudo Shinichi's distant cousin. After Kudo Shinichi's death, he has been following Jiang Xia... Detectives really need to be trained from a young age.
…
After obtaining one of the key clues, the group quickly returned to the excavation site of Yoshimi Watanuki's family.
Police are still digging up the yard.
There was no flat area in the yard at this time. Masao Koda stared at the last piece of grass to be dug with a tense expression.
Jiang Xia was about to cross the cordon when a man suddenly emerged from the alley next to him.
Chida Jinyi looked around for a while, then looked at Jiang Xia and asked quietly, "What happened? Did they really find a body in the yard?"
Jiang Xia was startled: "Who are you?"
Mochida looked at him and recognized him as a detective who often appeared in Tokyo. He guessed that Jiang Xia was probably here to help the police solve the case: "I am the witness that Mr. Koda found before."
Perhaps because he was suddenly involved in a murder and corpse burial case, Chikaichi Mochida was a little excited. He pointed to the alley behind him. This was the place that separated Watanuki's family from the empty field where they played baseball:
"Although I was drunk, my memory is pretty good! That night, when I was walking through here, I heard the sound of a shovel digging the ground. I lit a cigarette and looked to the right. Look, it was Mr. Watanuki's yard. So, there really was a body hidden in there, I thought I was right."
As he spoke, he walked into the alley, simulated the action of lighting a cigarette, and turned his head casually.
It was indeed heading towards the direction of Yoshikazu Watanuki's yard.
Subaru Okiya: “…” No wonder Masao Koda was so sure that the body was hidden in Yoshiichi Watanuki’s yard - when he was at his wits’ end, a witness suddenly showed up and insisted that on the night Koda Sanae disappeared, he heard Yoshiichi Watanuki digging in his yard... Of course, Masao Koda’s thoughts would be drawn to this direction.
Subaru Okiya looked at the actions of the enthusiastic passerby and was speechless for a moment: "But it seems that the body has not been dug out yet, and the remaining piece of land is unlikely to be dug out. Speaking of which, I remember that the wind was very strong that day, and all the documents I copied were blown away..." He pressed his mobile phone to check the weather conditions of that day.
After the page was refreshed, Okiya Subaru said, "As expected... there was a strong east wind that day. In this case, people's judgment of the location of the sound source would also be affected."
Mochida Kinichi waved his hand nonchalantly: "Ha, how could the sound be blown off? It's not the fire in the lighter..." He was suddenly stunned.
After a moment, the enthusiastic passerby slammed his fist on his palm: "Oh, I remember now! I was..."
He walked back into the alley, made a gesture to light a cigarette, and tried to recall something:
"I wanted to light a cigarette, but the wind was so strong that I couldn't light a fire. So I turned around and faced away from the wind. Then I heard some digging and looked to the right..."
(End of this chapter)
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