Chapter 2717 2729 [Open the book! ]
Jiang Xia seemed to attach great importance to the news brought by Hashimoto Maya, and said in a serious tone: "Then break the door open."
"I'll do it!" Mao Lilan had been ready for it. Hearing this, she stepped forward, turned around and kicked the door hard.
With a "bang", another soul was added to the number of souls who died at her feet.
Without paying any attention to the unfortunate door, everyone rushed into the room through it. When they looked up, they saw the screams of the two high school girls that were about to burst out in their throats, but they swallowed them back silently.
"Strange, why is there no one here?" Suzuki Sonoko carefully poked her head out from behind Jiang Xia, leaning on his shoulders and looking left and right. Finally, she stared at another door suspiciously, "It must be in the bathroom!"
Upon hearing this, Mao Lilan put away her frightened expression and rolled up her sleeves.
The hotel manager rolled in from the doorway and said, "Wait, don't kick it, the toilet door is not locked!"
Indeed, Jiang Xia stretched out his hand and pushed the door, which slid open very quickly. He looked inside and saw that it was also empty.
"Uh..." Suzuki Sonoko scratched her hairpin in embarrassment after making a mistake in her guess... But the beautiful detective assistant never gives up! She encouraged herself silently in her heart, and her eyes fell on the bed again, "It, it can't be under the bed."
Maya Hashimoto's gaze fell on the curtains next to the bed.
The rose-red curtains were blown by the breeze, like a slow red wave. This scene reminded him of the flowers scattered at the previous two crime scenes.
After hesitating for a moment, as everyone went to the bed, Maya Hashimoto followed and pulled open the curtains.
The next moment, he suddenly looked into the eyes of a pale face hanging in the air - on the branch opposite the window, a woman was hanging on it with a thick rope around her neck. She had a fresh rose pinned to her collar, and the petals were falling one by one, just like her dying life.
Hashimoto Maya: “…”
Just as he stood up from the bed, he accidentally glanced at Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan outside the window: "..."
"ah--!!"
…
The body was found, but there seemed to be a problem.
——Where is the prisoner?
“When the scream was heard in the room, there were passers-by in the corridor outside the door. I just asked, and they all said that they didn’t see anyone leave the room.”
Officer Gao Mu asked around and came back with a sigh: "The murderer didn't go through the door, so he could only leave through the window, but I just looked down - the dirt below the window is very flat, it doesn't look like anyone has left there. In other words... after committing the crime, the murderer actually disappeared from the room."
Everyone: “…”
At first glance, this conclusion is puzzling, but in fact...
"Since the 'Hell Puppet Master' can make a corpse disappear out of thin air on a high-speed train, it should be even easier for him to make himself disappear from a hotel room."
Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but speak out her true thoughts: "Appearing with a swipe, disappearing with a swipe, isn't this the basic skill of those magicians? What's so surprising about this?"
Conan rolled his eyes: "Magicians are also human beings. Their disappearance is not magic, but some kind of sleight of hand. What you should do now is not to sigh how normal this is, but to find out and expose his method of disappearance."
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Rolled up, and rolled up again. The daughter of the Suzuki family pretended to be silly and cute to deceive Jiang Xia's trust, but the insidious little kid with glasses noticed her purpose and deliberately interrupted her... This damn workplace really has no peace for a moment.
"In that case, don't blame me for joining in."
Of course, even if she wanted to argue, as a mature adult, Hashimoto Maya would not bother to engage in a childish bickering like two minors.
He recalled the strange noises he had heard outside the house before, and followed these clues to observe the house. Suddenly, he really found a clue.
He whispered to Jiang Xia: "Something is missing!"
Jiang Xia's sight also stopped in that direction. Hearing what Hashimoto Maya said, he looked at this fake younger brother who worked hard with appreciation, then nodded: "Let's go and take a look."
After walking around the corresponding room 115 downstairs, Jiang Xia turned around and said to Officer Sato, "I think I know who the murderer is."
Two policemen: “!!”
The police officers, who had been busy for two days, were filled with tears. They immediately understood what they should do: "I will contact the nearby police station and find those people from the magic troupe."
Finally...finally I've waited for this moment!
…
The police have always had extensive experience in handling matters like this.
Not long after, a group of people with different expressions were called into the hotel lounge one after another.
"Have you found the murderer?" The few remaining people were a little surprised. Among them, the "clown" raised his eyebrows exaggeratedly:
"Don't rush into it and say something like 'the murderer is among you' like you did last time - your random remark could cause us a lot of trouble."
"?" Suzuki Sonoko couldn't bear to hear it anymore, "Jiang Xia wouldn't fool anyone! He must have his reasons for saying that - by the way, what are you so anxious about? Could it be that you are the murderer and you are worried about being caught by Jiang Xia, so you are trying desperately to change the subject?"
"Ha." The "clown" was unmoved, "What you said is even more ridiculous than my performance."
Jiang Xia: "She's not wrong."
The Joker laughed loudly: "Little detective, you really like to frame others - when Xi Hai died just now, I was choosing food in the restaurant downstairs, and many people saw it. Could it be that you want to say that I let the puppet kill her for me?"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "I'm not talking about this time, but five years ago, when your pillar, Reiko Kinmiya, fell to her death in an accident."
“…” The “clown” Sakonji still maintained that exaggerated smile, but the muscles on his face twitched slightly.
Jiang Xia: "From what we can see now, Miss Jin Gong's death was not an accident, but a deliberate murder. She..."
"Nonsense!" The "clown" stood up and said excitedly, "What evidence do you have for saying that?"
Hashimoto Maya: “…” It’s been five years since the incident, and the evidence must have been destroyed by you evil disciples.
He really wanted to say it like this, but as an outlaw who had been in frequent contact with the lawyer's wife recently, he knew very well that he didn't need to dwell too much on something that was disadvantageous to him. He just needed to keep hitting the other party where it hurts.
Thinking of this, Hashimoto Maya imitated the detective and said righteously: "The murderer behind that 'accident' is you and your three dead colleagues - you coveted the magic notebook in the hands of the dead, right?"
(End of this chapter)
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