Chapter 3328 3340 [Another flat tire]
Officer Gao Mu glanced at the deceased lying in the middle of the road, sighed, and continued, "Judging from the bleeding, she must have suffered a severe blow to the head, which led to her death."
Inspector Megure came over and took a look at the report in his hand.
Although I always feel that there seems to be something wrong with this position, it doesn’t matter. What matters is to solve the case quickly, give justice to the deceased, and then get off work quickly.
Inspector Megure quickly put those details aside and asked thoughtfully, "So, the deceased fell from the mountain?"
"That should be the case." The forensic officer beside him nodded and said hesitantly, "But..."
Jiang Xia followed his gaze, glanced at the body lying on the ground, and said for him, "But the deceased had lost so much blood, and the place where she was lying was very clean. I'm afraid this is not the first scene of her death."
"Right, right!" The forensic officer was delighted to have someone accurately summarize it for him. "That's why I always feel a sense of dissonance."
"I see..." Inspector Megure started to feel a headache when he heard that there might be something hidden. He thought for a moment and asked, "When was the approximate time of death?"
Forensic police officer: "It should be between 5 and 6 in the evening."
"5 to 6 o'clock?" Dr. Agasa exclaimed in surprise.
Inspector Megure then saw this old acquaintance. He muttered, "You're here too," and asked, "What's wrong at this hour?"
Dr. Agasa checked his watch and asked in confusion, "We started climbing this path in the evening when it was dark, and we didn't meet anyone along the way. It was already past 6 o'clock. If Miss Taimei had fallen to her death on the mountain path before 6 o'clock, we should have seen her body as we were climbing the mountain, but we didn't."
The three children gathered around him, nodding like chicks pecking at rice, indicating that this was indeed the situation.
“…” Inspector Megure’s head suddenly felt even more painful.
At this moment, he belatedly remembered something and looked at Jiang Xia: "By the way, why are you guys wandering around this mountain path so late at night?"
"We're out camping." Jiang Xia, wearing the coat the college students had lent him, pointed at the enthusiastic young citizens. "Then we happened to meet these college students who were also out camping. Our car broke down, so we just took their RV up the mountain to watch the fireworks."
"The car broke down?" Inspector Megure was a little confused at first, but then he understood something and looked at Amuro Toru. "It's you. I remember your car always had flat tires. Haha, your car insurance is really not wasted at all."
"..." Amuro Toru kept smiling, but a vein on his forehead was quietly bulging.
Inspector Megure suddenly felt a chill on his back. He snapped out of his casual conversation, quickly cleared his throat, and looked at the three university students standing next to the RV. "Are you classmates of the deceased?"
The three college students nodded grimly.
Although they are older than Jiang Xia and the children of the Junior Detective League, their nervousness when facing the murder case and the police makes them look more like three real children.
After a moment of staring at each other, Huangmao stepped forward and said to the fat police officer who looked very oppressive to him:
"We were in an RV, going up the mountain to watch the fireworks, and when we passed by here... it was around 7 o'clock in the evening."
He glanced at the body on the ground, then quickly looked away: "Taimei wasn't here at the time. After we watched the fireworks, we returned the same way. When we passed by here on the way back...we saw Taimei lying here motionless. She looked dead."
Officer Sato was also busy leading a team. When she heard this, she passed by and asked suspiciously, "Are you sure the deceased wasn't on this road when you went up the mountain? Could it be that she was actually lying here, but you just didn't see her?"
"How is that possible!" Huangmao said anxiously, "Don't underestimate my driving skills. I drive very carefully, and my eyesight is also very good. If there really is someone lying on the road, I will definitely see it in such an empty road!"
Iigo Takuto nodded in agreement. "When we were going up the mountain, there was only a wooden railing on the road—a dull-colored thing. Reiji saw it. If Taimi had been lying in the middle of the road in her red suspenders, there's no way he wouldn't have seen it."
Tiantang Qinghua also said, "After we ran over the wooden stake, we got out of the car to check it out. It was indeed a wooden stake, not a real person. Everyone can testify to that."
Amuro Toru: “…” That’s true.
However, looking at the current corpse, thinking back, that piece of "wooden stake" that seemed to have fallen accidentally seems to be full of deep meaning.
This kind of annoying foreshadowing and coincidence... Could it be that he was arranged by some scriptwriter again?
Unlike him, who had personally experienced the entire process, the police officers nearby were completely confused: "What exactly are these wooden stakes you're talking about?"
Jiang Xia pointed upwards, signaling them to look up at the top of the mountain. "That small platform is our destination. It's surrounded by a wooden fence. A section of the fence fell from the top of the mountain and landed on this road."
Hearing this, the yellow-haired man next to him suddenly remembered something and looked grim. “I thought at the time that the fence had fallen down due to weathering and decay, and was blown down by the mountain wind, but now it seems…”
Fanhe Takuto thought the same thing and shuddered, "Now it seems that Taimei got ahead of us and rode her bike up the mountain. Then, because it was too dark, she didn't brake in time, so she crashed through the fence and fell down!"
The police were even more confused after hearing this: "Riding a bicycle up the mountain? Didn't you go up there together in the RV? What's going on?"
The college students became anxious and quickly surrounded him, talking about what had happened.
After hearing someone explain, Jiang Xia walked to the corpse and took a good look at it.
Conan also followed Jiang Xia closely, and used his power to break through the police's defense line and get close to the corpse.
He looked at it carefully, and his eyes suddenly fell on the belt of the corpse: this belt was decorated with a bunch of thin leather ropes, and at this moment, the end of one of the leather ropes was tied into a knot for some reason.
"Hmm?" Conan's eyes quickly fell on the knot. "Did it get tangled up accidentally during an event, or is it just a fashion trend? Or..."
All sorts of hypotheses flashed through his mind.
Just as he was thinking, a hand lifted him up from the ground. Jiang Xia pointed to the top of the mountain and said, "It's time to go up and take a look."
…
The policemen mean the same thing.
So soon, the group moved to a quiet platform above their heads where a cold wind was blowing.
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