Mao Lilan, Yuanshan and Ye were hung up inexplicably. They looked at the receiver. After a moment, Mao Lilan suddenly reacted and looked at the ornaments on the table:
"Could this Guan Yu statue be the marker left by the arsonist..."
Yuan Shan and Ye got goosebumps when they heard her soft breath, as if they were afraid of disturbing something.
She said stiffly: "I, I always feel that there seems to be some rustling noise at the door. Could it be that the devil came to the door..."
If a real criminal were put directly in front of them, they might not be afraid.
But this mysterious method of "first putting a terrible thing into the target's home, and then floating there like the god of death", coupled with the terrifying aura of someone who had just killed someone, made their hearts beat violently.
stand up.
The two stood up and made the same decision: "Get out of here first!"
They ran to the door, hurriedly put on their shoes, and opened the door. Suddenly, they saw a terrifying figure outside the door.
——The middle-parted watermelon head, the old-fashioned round-rimmed glasses, the slightly chubby body... This was the man who gave them the "Red Horse" keychain on the bus, and he ran up to them without knowing when.
Doorstep!
"ah--!!"
The two female high school students let out a scream of fear and helplessness, and at the same time they instinctively flew out with their feet. The toes of their shoes brought up a sharp gust of wind and went straight to the face of the "arsonist".
Just when he was about to hit the target, the owner of the antique shop suddenly fell to the side, as if he was forcefully pulled away by someone.
The two girls' attacks failed, and they quickly retracted their feet.
They looked to the side warily, and then suddenly they were stunned - the owner of the antique shop did not come alone, there was another person standing next to him.
"...Jiang Xia?"
Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye were already prepared for a fierce battle.
Unexpectedly, when I took a closer look at this moment, I saw that it was one of my own people.
They first breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, and then a series of question marks popped up in their minds:
"Have you finished the investigation? Where are Conan and Heiji?... Do you know the person next to you?"
"The investigation hasn't been completed yet. The two of them are interviewing the suspect." Jiang Xia turned around and glanced at Xuantian Lunde, who was in shock next to him:
"When I came back, I happened to meet Boss Xuantian nearby. He said that he was looking for two high school girls. It was a very important matter. The people he described sounded very similar to you, so I followed him to see what happened.
Something happened."
With that said, he turned to look at Xuantian Lunde: "What do you want?"
"Well, that's it." Xuantian Longde came back to his senses and suddenly burst into tears when he saw Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuye, "Please return the keychain I gave you this afternoon! Otherwise there will be a fire here.
Yes, uncle, I will definitely burn this place down..."
"..." Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye were frightened again, but this time it was for other reasons - they didn't expect that this would happen after the arsonist came to their door. They had to say in a hurry, "You
Wait a mininute."
Then he quickly ran back to the table and took Guan Yu's keychain.
Xuantian Longde took it fearfully and put it away carefully.
Almost at the same time, Mao Lilan subconsciously took out her mobile phone and pressed 110 - when encountering a prisoner or a crime, you should call the police first, and her fingers moved instinctively.
However, before pressing the dial button, a hand suddenly stretched out from beside her, interrupting her movement.
Jiang Xia stopped and said, "Wait a minute, I don't think he looks like the murderer."
Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuye: "...Huh?"
No, it doesn't look like it?
They took a closer look at Xuanta Lunde's face. Although they shouldn't judge people by their appearance, according to their experience from childhood to adulthood, Xuanta Lunde's appearance, coupled with his excited and gasping expression at this time, looked like ""
The two characters “Evil Man” were written on his face.
"..." However, if you think about it carefully, the detective's judgment should be more accurate than theirs, not to mention that the detective is Jiang Xia, who has done some investigation into serial arson.
Mao Lilan deleted the number she just entered and put down her phone.
Yuan Shan and Ye Ze couldn't help but become curious and asked Jiang Xia: "It's not him? But doesn't the red rabbit keychain he distributed just correspond to the 'red horse' logo left at the arson scene?"
Xuantian Longde was stunned for a moment, and after a moment he came to his senses. He shook his head with tears and confessed: "It's really me! In fact, I have always had symptoms of sleepwalking when I was a child, and it happened again recently. It must have been at that time..."
Jiang Xia saw him excitedly waving his tear-stained hands, and couldn't help but step back a little: "...I said it wouldn't be you if it wasn't you."
Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye also advised: "Yes, yes, why do you have to take the blame for yourself? - Since it was sleepwalking, you probably don't remember what happened during that time, so how can you say that you are a sleepwalker?"
Are you committing a crime?"
"??" Xuantian Lunde failed to understand the brain circuits of these young people. He repeated it back and forth several times, but no one was willing to listen to his words. He was a little angry for a moment:
"You, you... are you the one who did it or I? Who else could be the murderer besides me? - The place where the first arson occurred is right next door to my house. The owner of the house where the accident occurred is a good friend of my father, and he is also me.
A regular customer of the store.
"When he was visiting, I gave him the Guan Yu keychain. Not long after, his house suddenly caught fire late at night. The police found the iconic 'red horse' in his house, which I gave him.
of gifts.
"I didn't think much about it at first. I just thought my neighbor was very unlucky. I thought the horse's base was of high quality and very resistant to burning. But when I saw the report the next day, I discovered that the owner of the house had no idea where the 'red horse' came from.
Come on! The police therefore speculated that it was a token left by the arsonist, which was used to refer to the arsonist's jargon 'Red Horse', provoking the police... Do you know what this means!"
What he said sounded a bit weird and scary.
But Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye had completely believed Jiang Xia's words at this time, and felt that the arsonist was someone else, so they thought about it rationally: "...it means that your neighbor is old and has a bad memory?
——Since he is the same age as your father, he should be quite old."
"That's not the reason!" Xuantian Longde shook his head sadly. Before Jiang Xia appeared, he really never thought that surrendering would be so difficult:
"I must have hallucinated - I secretly put the red horse in his house, but didn't remember it. Then I suffered from sleepwalking. I couldn't help but follow the keychain, ran to his house and set fire to it.
"It was the same thing not long ago at Aipido Town 4-chome Yuko - I was scolded so much by Mrs. Morokaku, and I was actually very angry... I must have pretended to endure it, but actually turned back uncontrollably and put down the keychain.
