Chapter 542: Take Jiang Xia under his wing

At that moment, Toru Amuro suddenly wanted to suspend the experiment, return to Tokyo immediately, and then find a laboratory to lock Jiang Xia up so that he would not run around.

But reason tells him that there is no direct evidence to prove that there is such a thing as "event constitution" in the world.

Even if there is, the holders of the event constitution are probably just relatively unlucky.

—Just like the peerless European emperor who always wins the first prize when buying lottery tickets. The first prize exists objectively, Ouhuang just has the characteristics to draw it. In fact, even if Ou Huang doesn't buy the lottery ticket, the first prize will still be there and will not disappear.

By analogy, even if Jiang Xia is illegally locked up because of "incident constitution". The cases have not decreased, they will still happen, but they will be encountered by other people again.

 Compared with this, it would be better to be encountered by Jiang Xia. At least Jiang Xia would not be frightened by corpses like innocent citizens. And Jiang Xia seems to like this way of showing self-worth...

Jiang Xia felt a vague chill.

 He brushed the snow off his thin shirt and walked into the study, which was slightly warmer than the balcony. He felt much more comfortable.

Others also followed subconsciously.

Detective Gunda glanced around and didn't see much worth noting in the dark, so he put on his gloves, found the switch in the dark, and turned on the light.

 As the room became brighter, the scary atmosphere dissipated slightly.

Jiang Xia walked around and used movement to generate heat while looking at the doors and windows in the room:

“The door is locked, and except for the floor-to-ceiling window through which we came in just now, all other windows are also locked.”

Amuro Toru came back to his senses, entered the study, and took a look at the door of the study.

This door is a soundproof door. The door is wrapped with rubber. There is no gap after it is closed. It is impossible to use the door gap to create a secret room.

Combined with the steep cliff outside and the untrodden snow on both sides of the balcony, this is undoubtedly a secret room murder case...the bad premonition has come true.

 Amidst the murmur of the wind, someone beeped and pressed the phone button several times.

Then Suzuki Sonoko's trembling alarm sounded: "Hello? Well, there was a murder in Dracula's villa..."

　　　…”

Several unfamiliar people looked at her in surprise: Unexpectedly, the little girl came to her senses quickly and actually started to call the police in an orderly manner. This is really not what one looks like...

 …

However, although Suzuki Sonoko instinctively called the police, the road was blocked by heavy snow and the police could not get through at all.

Suzuki Sonoko hung up the phone in disappointment, but she was not surprised at all. She was even vaguely used to it...

"There is no other way. Let's do our own autopsy first." Gunda Ikumi has not encountered as many murder cases as those high school detectives, but she has seen a lot of corpses. "Time is precious. If we wait until the snow melts and the road is clear, , by then, a lot of evidence will melt silently like snow."

As she spoke, she took out her cell phone and took a few photos of the cross and the body tied to it.

 Then he adjusted his gloves and looked closer.

“…Based on the timing of the deceased entering the study, his death time should be between 9 and 11 o’clock tonight.” Gunda Ikumi observed the thick wooden nail on the deceased’s heart, and then looked at the bleeding.

 After a brief expression of doubt, she began to look at other parts.

 Finally, Detective Gunda's gaze stopped at the back of the corpse's head: "Blunt force injury... It seems that he was first attacked from behind, then tied to a cross, and finally nailed into the heart with a wooden nail."

Jiang Xia has been observing Conan for a long time, and now he looks like a serious detective.

He saw a heavy wooden sculpture about the length of a forearm lying on the ground: "It is stained with blood. It may be the murder weapon used by the murderer when he attacked Mr. Tokura."

 “Where?” Gunda Ikumi turned around.

 Then she followed Jiang Xia's direction, took a closer look, and nodded: "The shape roughly matches, it should be it."

At the same time, she took a few more photos. Shuichi Hamura, who is engaged in vampire research, covered his mouth and seemed to be very disgusted with corpses and the smell of blood.

But soon, he discovered the problem and pointed to the wooden nails nailed to the body:

“…This seems to be a collection in Mr. Tokura’s collection room. It is said to be a prop used during the filming of “Bloody Feast”. I remember that he often showed off this to us.”

 When he said this, several other people immediately thought of this wooden nail.

In my impression, when they visited the collection room together, the wooden pegs were still well placed there.

In other words, after that, someone went to the collection room first, took away the wooden nails, and then found a way to enter the study room and killed Daisuke Tokura.

“…Go to the collection room and have a look. There may be traces of the murderer there.”

 Everyone has reached a consensus.

 …

 Same as the "secret room" study.

 The windows in the collection room are all firmly locked.

　　Opening the window, there is a vast expanse of white snow outside without any footprints - this case does not look like someone invaded from the outside, but more like someone in the villa committed an internal murder.

Jiang Xia walked to the window and saw a slender small piece of wood falling on the ground.

So he poked Toru Amuro next to him, pointed at the piece of wood, and reminded him: "Boss, take a picture."

Toru Amuro responded, took out his phone and clicked it.

 Then he was startled.

etc?

　　…Why are you doing it again?

“…” Forget it, Jiang Xia didn’t have a mobile phone with her, so she couldn’t take pictures. And it’s also about solving crimes.

　　Amuro Toru's stagnant movements quickly resumed.

After subconsciously taking one picture, he took several more close-up photos and distant views, and recorded in detail the specific appearance of the slender wood piece and the location where it fell - the Hucang house was very clean, and even dust was quite rare. , not to mention such an important place as the collection room.

 And wood chips of this shape are not as easy to fall off as hair or threads. Its existence at the site where the murder weapon is stored may have some inevitable significance.

　　Toru Amuro briefly forgot about the "incident constitution" that gave him a headache, and began to think about the case like a detective.

 …

 After checking the two key locations of the study and the collection room, everyone got together and began to try to find out the murderer hiding inside.

Gunda Ikumi thought of Jiang Xia's reputation for solving crimes quickly and glanced at him.

He saw Jiang Xia holding a teacup and emptying it quietly, as if she had no intention of speaking.

While she was confused, she could only immerse herself in her own thoughts:

 Judging from the current situation, before committing the murder, the murderer must first get the wooden nails from the collection room and then kill.

 Killing Daisuke Tokura, tying him to a cross, driving wooden nails into his heart, moving the projector to let the pale halo shine on the corpse... all of this takes time.

Within the time frame within which the murder could be carried out, there were only two people who had gone to the direction of the collection room.

 (End of this chapter)