Jiang Xia turned around and found, as expected, that Conan had found the body very accurately in the exhibition hall.
He also turned on his flashlight.
The two girls standing nearby stood outside the exhibition hall and froze when they looked at the body that was suddenly illuminated by a flashlight.
A second later, two intertwined screams resounded through the corridor, and the high-pitched vibrato was more piercing than an alarm bell.
Mao Lilan and Lingmu Yuanzi were closely together, looking at Jiang Xia, thinking of the blood on his body, and said incoherently: "You, you, you..."
Jiang Xia: "I didn't kill him."
The two girls opposite covered their hearts and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time: "Oh, we also think..."
Before they could fully relax, Jiang Xia suddenly saw Jiang Xia looking at them and said thoughtfully: "Do you believe me when I say it?"
Mao Lilan: "..."
Suzuki Sonoko: "..."
This is really like the lines of a good guy dancing in reverse time.
Two pairs of frightened eyes looked at Jiang Xia again: "!"
"It's not me." Jiang Xia said again patiently.
…
However, this time, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko still looked horrified and a little suspicious.
Jiang Xia looked at them and felt that the reactions of these two classmates were quite interesting.
Sure enough, the more people are deceived, the more defensive they will be.
…
Jiang Xia had enough fun and softened his tone: "What I said just now, 'Do you believe me when I say it?', was actually just a simple question..."
Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko: "..."
The two innocent and kind-hearted female classmates saw Jiang Xia's "innocent" expression and couldn't help but reflect silently.
"..." Indeed. Looking back and thinking about it carefully, Jiang Xia's sentence just now, "You believe me when I say it?" - shouldn't it be understood as "You believe it when I say it? Trust me so much? It's touching"... or something like that.
expression!
Thinking of this, Suzuki Sonoko cleared her throat subtly, walked back to the original place, held Jiang Xia's hand, shook it vigorously, and said firmly:
"I was joking just now! Of course we believe you."
...Ah, this hand is really nice to touch.
And it was different from what she had thought before.
It's not cold.
It's actually quite warm when you hold it. It may be used as a hand warmer in winter.
…
At the entrance of the exhibition hall, Suzuki Sonoko was obsessed with shaking hands with Jiang Xia.
Conan walked back from the body.
He first reminded Mao Lilan to call the police, and then looked at Jiang Xia:
"We believe that you did not kill the person, but you are the first person who discovered the body after all. The police will give priority to suspecting you - first think carefully about today's itinerary. It is best to find an alibi, and on the way here.
, have you seen any suspicious persons?”
Conan didn't blindly believe in Jiang Xia's character.
It's just that the corpse in the exhibition hall died in a terrible state, with blood splattered everywhere.
In other words, if the person was killed by Jiang Xia, it would be impossible for Jiang Xia to be so clean.
In addition, Conan had seen Jiang Xia beating people before - hitting them with sticks one after another, like playing whack-a-mole in an arcade.
And like the one in the exhibition hall, imitating oil paintings and nailing people to the wall... it has a strong sense of ritual and is quite complicated.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like Jiang Xia’s style.
…
Therefore, Conan felt that the truth was probably that Jiang Xia passed by here, for some reason, walked into the exhibition hall to take a look, and then accidentally stepped on blood.
As for why Jiang Xia didn't turn on the lights, scream, or call the police...
...Maybe it has something to do with his personality.
Everyone's reaction when seeing a corpse is different.
Conan really couldn't imagine the scene of Jiang Xia running away while screaming.
"..." Thinking about it this way, it seems quite reasonable that Jiang Xia walked out of the exhibition hall calmly just now.
And theoretically speaking, Jiang Xia's condition is... unstable. In short, some abnormal actions are quite reasonable when it comes to him.
Conan: "..." Speaking of this, I don't know if Jiang Xia, who takes more than ten days of sick leave every month and misses more than ten days of school, actually goes to the psychotherapy department to see a doctor.
Thinking of this, Conan couldn't help but review the daily life he observed in Jiangxia: it seemed to be all about racing, beating people, and visiting exhibition halls...
Conan thought tiredly, the answer is probably no.
…
The exhibition hall is not far from the Metropolitan Police Department.
The high school students stood at the door of the Hell Exhibition Hall, waiting for the police. The four of them were scared, reasoning, and those who wanted to pick up ghosts wanted to pick up ghosts... It didn't take long for the police to arrive.
…
In the hell exhibition hall.
The headlights on the roof were turned on, and the room was instantly illuminated.
Officers from the Mumu Police Department and the Forensic Division entered the hall together to search for clues, and sent several subordinates to find witnesses to inquire about the situation.
Officer Sato took the order and walked out, glanced at the four people, and stopped at Jiang Xia's back.
According to her experience, the probability of the murderer appearing among the first people to discover the crime is not low.
And compared with the two high school girls who were pale and evasive, not daring to look at the corpse, and the elementary school student who was not as tall as Sato's legs, Jiang Xia's suspicion suddenly climbed straight up.
However, after getting closer, Jiang Xia turned around, and Officer Sato was startled when he saw his front.
...She just met this person in the office not long ago.
Although Miwako Sato is not a police officer in the forensics department, she has been exposed to so many murder cases and has some experience.
——She could tell roughly how long the body had been dead.
At this time, according to her rough judgment... Jiang Xia was sitting in their office reporting the crime when Boss Zhenzhong was killed.
"..." It seems that this time, the murderer is not among the first group of people who discovered the body?
…………
The police completed the inquiry quickly.
Unfortunately, the witnesses failed to provide many clues
But soon, the Mumu Police Department was surprised to find that there was a surveillance camera in the Hell Pavilion, facing the crime scene.
Mu Mu Police Department waved his hand happily: "Go and adjust the surveillance!"
…
five minutes later.
See the surveillance screen.
The police department couldn't be happier.
Surveillance did capture the murder.
But the murderer's face could not be photographed - the murderer wore a set of Western knight armor with an iron mask on his face, which completely covered his face.
…
When the police looked at the surveillance camera and sighed.
Next to him, Jiang Xia was fiddling with his mobile phone silently.
There is a video inside, which he secretly filmed just now.
——Just now, the Ochiai director of this exhibition hall squatted down and pretended to tie his shoelaces while everyone else was watching the surveillance.
During this period, the old man with the white beard used the action of "squatting down" to secretly replace the pen on the floor that was used by the boss of Manaka before his death with a good pen that could not write.
This is part of Director Ochiai's murder plan.
A few hours ago, he put on a knight's armor to hide his identity and deliberately killed people under the camera. In the process, the old curator did not kill Boss Manaka with one blow, but left some gaps for him - Boss Manaka also
Sure enough, when he was being attacked, he realized that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he touched a piece of paper on the table next to him, picked up the pen that was also there, and planned to secretly write down the name of the murderer.
However, that piece of paper was actually placed there by the old curator. Another employee's name had also been written on the piece of paper.
Moreover, the pen in Boss Zhenzhong’s hand was broken and he couldn’t write at all.
The lighting in the hell exhibition hall is dim, and it is difficult for the camera to distinguish such small differences.
Therefore, as long as afterwards, Director Ochiai promptly replaced the broken pen used by Manaka's boss with a normal writing pen.
Taken together, the whole thing becomes "before Boss Zhenzhong died, he took advantage of the murderer's unpreparedness and wrote the murderer's name on the note."
But in fact, that person's name is just an employee who was framed.
…
While the police were contemplating the surveillance.
Jiang Xia skipped all the reasoning steps and walked next to the old curator.
Director Ochiai was holding his hands behind his back, staring deeply at the oil painting on the wall - staring at the oil painting opposite the corpse, in which a knight killed a demon, but was spattered with dirty blood.
In the eyes of the museum director, the new boss Zhenzhong did not keep his word - it is said that he promised to continue to open the exhibition hall after buying it. Who knows, but now, he suddenly wants to demolish the exhibition hall and rebuild it
into a hotel.
Therefore, Director Ochiai did not regret the killing: he was punishing Manaka, the guy who had tarnished art.
Therefore, the curator felt that the bloody knight in the oil painting was very similar to his own situation.
——Handsome, tragic, sacrificing everything just to eliminate evil.
...that's what a real man should do.
Just as he was sighing with emotion, a faint sentence suddenly came from beside him:
"The knight of justice subdued the devil, but at the same time, he himself was infected with the blood of evil... Is that what you think?"
Director Ochiai: "!"
He was startled and turned his head sharply to look to his side.
I saw the young man who first discovered the body walked beside him at some point.
"..." Director Ochiai thought of Jiang Xia's words and felt that he meant something, and felt guilty for a few seconds.
After a while, he twirled his waist-length beard and forced himself to calm down.
——Maybe I’m overthinking it.
This perfect murder plan cannot be easily seen through.
The little kid in front of me was probably just talking about oil painting.
…
However, Director Ochiai just comforted himself.
The next second, Jiang Xia's topic completely deviated from the oil painting.
Jiang Xia suddenly whispered: "You should know that when signing a land sales contract, the seller can impose restrictions on the subsequent use of the land - for example, writing 'continue to operate the exhibition hall and may not use it for other purposes' into the contract.
"
Director Ochiai was startled.
Jiang Xia continued: "It's just that this kind of restriction will dissuade many buyers. In other words, once restrictions are added to the contract, it will become difficult to sell this land.
"——Now it seems that your former boss did not include the "restriction of land use" agreement into the contract.
"Promises that are not written into the contract cannot be trusted. Even a rookie who has just been on the job for a few months knows this, let alone your former boss..."
When Jiang Xia said this, he raised his eyes and looked at the curator, and hesitated: "Speaking of which, you are already old and have been in the workplace for decades. You are also a curator, so you must have signed the
Quite a few contracts - you've never thought about that, haven't you?"
Conan slipped to the side and listened silently for a long time: "..."
Although he didn't quite understand the cause... but judging from what Jiang Xia said, he seemed to suspect that the curator was the murderer.
……Why?
Also, how could Jiang Xia know so much about the exhibition hall?
Could it be that the lady at the ticket office told him?
