Chapter 237: Supermodels Don’t Talk About Martial Arts
At this time, other people's mentality was not at ease.
"Whether it's the letter to take the wine or the crossbow installed in the wine cellar... it's hard to bypass Asahi Katsuyoshi if you want to arrange all of this." Inspector Megure frowned, feeling that things were getting more and more troublesome. "Whether the murderer teamed up with Asahi Katsuyoshi or he has completely controlled Mr. Asahi, this is not a good thing."
To be on the safe side, he suggested: "There are only two police officers right now, Bai Niao and I - let's leave here first, and when we get to the shore, we can bring a few more people back to search."
"Okay, I've been busy until now and haven't eaten yet." Jiang Xia looked at his watch, seemed to support this proposal, and was the first to leave the wine cellar.
Others followed out, intending to look for the cable car.
But when they reached the gate, they suddenly discovered that Jiang Xia seemed to have seen something inadvertently and was staring at the restaurant, so he stopped.
"What's wrong?" Mao Lilan looked in the direction he was looking, puzzled.
The next second, her pupils suddenly shrank and she let out a violent scream, "Ah--!!!"
——In the fish tank wall surrounding the hall, a corpse appeared at some point. Under the bright light in the tank, the face of the corpse was clearly visible, and he was flowing slowly along with the water.
"Mr. Xu, Xu?!"
Kogoro Mori was stunned and ran over.
Jiang Xia moved closer to the "fish tank" and looked up at the corpse. Suddenly, he raised his hand and pointed: "There seems to be something pinned to his collar. It should be... a playing card?"
…
A playing card indeed.
In the past, all the people who were attacked would have a poker card representing their number dropped next to them, and the one on Xu Shengyi was the same.
"He is...dead?"
Mao Lilan covered her mouth and trembled a little - there was no murder in the previous attacks, but now, a dead person suddenly appeared in front of them, and the death was so horrible.
The nature of the entire case suddenly changed completely.
"Leave immediately! We will seal off this place for a search." Inspector Megure suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, "We can't stay here any longer!"
However, it was obviously too late to start taking it seriously at this time.
"The door we came in through was locked..."
"I-My phone has no signal."
"Inspector, the phone line is gone."
"The escape passage can't be opened! Looking through the gap, it looks like it's been blocked with cement from the back!"
“…”
Unable to leave and unable to call for support.
Jiang Xia put down the phone in front of him that had no line, sighed, and comforted everyone: "Running around will only waste energy, let's find a place to rest first. Then we can discuss what to do next."
…
The underwater restaurant is very vast, and even though it is only on this floor, there are many rooms and passages.
"Maybe there are other exits hidden around." Inspector Megure raised his head and drank a glass of juice, and said unwillingly, "Xiaolan, Ms. Koyamauchi and Conan stay here to rest, and the others should go to the nearby area to look for clues to leave!"
Jiang Xia responded and stood up cooperatively.
At the same time, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Conan, who was trying to sneak into the adults' group, and handed him to Mao Lilan with an attitude of "This is for your own good!" as if he were an elder.
Then, facing Conan's resentful gaze, he found a direction that might be the exit and walked over tentatively.
After walking a distance, the light above my head suddenly went out and the surroundings fell into darkness.
——Someone turned off the power in the restaurant.
"..." Jiang Xia paused for a moment, looked around in the darkness, and skillfully pulled a lucky ghost from his shoulder, "Lend me your eyesight."
Ghosts can see well even in complete darkness.
Jiang Xia used his eyesight to blink, and his eyes, which had lost focus in the darkness, quickly regained focus.
"ah--!!!"
Just as I could see my surroundings clearly, a terrified scream of someone approaching death suddenly came from the corridor.
Jiang Xia paused for a moment, then turned around and ran quickly towards the restaurant he had just left.
When they were almost there, they suddenly heard several footsteps in the front - Kogoro Mori and Kohei Sawaki were also running towards them from different directions.
Maori Kogoro was holding a flashlight. When he shone it on Jiang Xia, his eyes lit up and he subconsciously asked this neighbor who always ran into crimes: "What happened?!"
"..." Jiang Xia stopped and pointed towards the restaurant silently, "Take a look over there."
What a good question! I almost thought this guy was trying to trick me into thinking he had night vision...
…
Inspector Megure happened to be near the switch. After the power outage, he ran to the switch immediately and turned it on again, lighting up the entire restaurant.
The group returned to the restaurant one after another, looking at the ground near the door and fell into silence.
There was another fresh corpse there.
——Nana Oyama was lying face down on the ground, her eyes wide open with anger and fear, a large pool of blood oozing from the back of her chest, and she was no longer breathing.
"After the power went out just now, Sister Oyama's nails suddenly glowed." Conan suddenly spoke up, breaking the silence. He was one of the three "weak people" who stayed in the restaurant just now, and he knew the situation of the supermodel when she was killed best:
"I was just about to remind her to calm down, but Sister Koyama rushed out in fear, and then I heard her scream, and then..."
He sighed and shook his head.
This doesn't seem like the calmness that a primary school student should have, but at this moment, everyone's minds are not here.
"Murakami Jō is actually hiding here, waiting for an opportunity to attack us?" Maori Kogoro's face was extremely ugly. In his opinion, Murakami Jō had a grudge against him, and the attack and murder were all to avenge him, and now, someone died because of it.
"Maybe it's not Murakami-jo."
Jiang Xia walked to the side of the corpse without knowing when. He stared at the wrinkles on the collar of the corpse, suddenly squatted down, and pulled the clothes down a little along the wrinkles.
The smooth back was exposed, Mao Lilan said "Huh!" and subconsciously raised her hands to cover her eyes. After a moment, she realized that Jiang Xia was just solving the case professionally, and immediately put her hands down silently and looked over with a serious face.
There was a purple handprint on the left back shoulder of Nana Koyama - it seemed that the murderer grabbed her from behind and stabbed her with a knife.
(End of this chapter)
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