"..." The Megure Police Department didn't really trust Suzuki Sonoko's reasoning ability, but after taking a look at Jiang Xia next to him, he still asked the head of general affairs in a dignified manner, "Who in your company is better at mathematics?"
The Minister of General Affairs wiped the sweat from his forehead and was a little confused for a moment: "No, most of the employees employed by our company are liberal arts students."
"..."
Suzuki Sonoko turned around nonchalantly and touched her chin with a deep expression: "Very good, a wrong option has been eliminated. Then, I will start reasoning seriously."
Mao Lilan remembered another thing: "Speaking of X, didn't we just learn how to use 'X' in class - maybe the deceased also wanted to express this meaning?"
Judy and Suzuki Sonoko were stunned for a moment and laughed at the same time. They waved their hands repeatedly: "No, no, no, there is absolutely no such possibility."
"..." Her best friend, who was trembling with laughter, couldn't rely on her for a moment. Mao Lilan asked Jiang Xia for help with her eyes: What does this X mean?
Jiang Xia said nothing, but Officer Takagi enthusiastically joined the discussion of several girls: "Is the X you are talking about the thing that women often write at the end of letters?"
Judy snapped her fingers: "Yes."
Suzuki Sonoko looked suspicious: "You are an honest person, but you are quite playful behind the scenes."
"I didn't!" The happy Officer Takagi couldn't be happier. He quickly explained, "It's all a prank by my colleagues. I haven't done anything weird!"
Next to me, the Memu Police Department looked at this and that: "What on earth are you talking about?"
The three people said in unison: "Nothing!"
Memu Police Department: "...?"
Although there is no evidence, the middle-aged police officers always feel that they are being marginalized by young people.
Fortunately, there were other young people to soothe his fragile heart. Jiang Xia handed over a brown paper bag wrapped in an evidence bag: "Compared with what X means, let's take a look at this first."
"Huh?" Police Department Mu Mu followed his direction and looked carefully, and then he was shocked to find: On the left side of OXΔ, in the upper right corner of the brown paper bag, there was a faint vertical blood stain.
"This is?" Police Department Memu reacted and vaguely understood, "Could it be that there is actually another symbol here, but it was just too dark when the deceased wrote these four symbols, and he accidentally wrote the first symbol elsewhere.
As a result, there are only three symbols left on the brown paper bag?”
"Well..." the forensic police officer who was busy on the side heard this, "Actually, we also discovered it, but after searching around just now, we couldn't find any other bloody words on the ground."
Jiang Xia patted the elevator handrail on the side: "There's nothing on the ground, why not look here?"
Forensic police officer: "!"
…
The escalator that had stopped due to a sudden murder started running again.
But this time, there were several more police officers beside it. The busy police officers were carrying luminol reagents and simple awnings, and they were spraying liquid that could make blood visible on the turned-out pedal.
Although the pedals were cleaned when the elevator turned to the rear, with the help of technology, the police soon found a place with large blood stains.
They were refreshed, stopped the elevator, and began to search carefully for the first character written on the pedal.
On the other side, other colleagues were not idle either.
Officer Takagi ran around and brought back a few things: "In a rarely used bathroom on the fifth floor, we found a coat, hat and gloves that were discarded by the suspected prisoner. However... we failed to find the deceased.
The stolen investigation report."
Police officer Chiba trotted over from the other side: "We asked for the alibi of those 58 people. Because it happened to be a break when the murder occurred, many employees were taking a nap alone or eating out - during that time, there was a clear alibi.
Yes, there are only 27 people.”
The police department silently did a lot of addition and subtraction in their minds: that is to say, 31 people still need to be investigated...
"Mr. Jiang Xia!" Suddenly, a police officer from the forensics department on the side said excitedly, "I found the crooked letter in blood!"
…
On the elevator pedal, a "mouth" is quietly displayed.
Half of the vertical line on the rightmost side was missing. I took the brown paper bag and compared it. The missing part was just enough to make up for it - this was indeed another character left by the deceased during his lifetime.
Conan squeezed to the elevator and took a look. He murmured to Jiang Xia doubtfully: "Is this 'mouth' slightly larger than the three OXΔs?"
As he was speaking, a hand suddenly reached out from behind and lifted him away from the elevator.
The Mumu Police Department stared at the naughty child: "Don't destroy the scene! Speaking of which, there are bloodstains everywhere. Aren't you scared?"
Conan: "..." That's not what you said when you called me brother before!
Unfortunately, the struggle was ineffective. The weak primary school student was finally taken away by the Mu Mu Police Department and put aside.
After the middle-aged police officer left, Conan adjusted his collar, which was twisted askew, and planned to regroup and sneak back to the scene.
At this time, someone next to me laughed and said: "Kid, sometimes you really look like a detective when investigating cases - have you ever thought that those symbols may be trying to express some kind of meaning through their shapes?"
She glanced at Jiang Xia, who was looking over here, and said pointedly: "For example, the Pentagon, the National Defense Headquarters of the United States of America, is usually called the Pentagon because its building is a pentagon. In our United States, it is similar to the Pentagon.
There are many other things about law. For example, White House refers to the presidential palace, and the presidential office is called the Oval office. In addition, Bereau represents the office—the most representative example is the FBI.”
After a pause, she smiled and said: "You can use these as a reference for solving the case. How about it, are you confident that you can beat your brother Jiang Xia?"
Conan showed an awkward yet polite smile. At the same time, he intuitively grasped something: FBI?...Why mention FBI specifically?
Judy glanced at the slightly confused child, and quietly moved towards Jiang Xia again out of the corner of her eye.
Perhaps Akai Shuichi's successive setbacks have made James rely more heavily on other members - yesterday, when he asked his subordinates to disperse the investigation, James secretly entrusted her with a heavy responsibility, expressing his trust in her intuition and letting her take action.
Judy was flattered, and then began to shoulder the heavy burden and analyze the situation: Belmode has been incredibly honest recently, so there is no need to worry about it for the time being. So the focus of her work now...
"Uzo." Judy secretly recited the terrifying code name in her mind, "Based on my experience a while ago, that guy must have colluded with Belmod. Even if it is to successfully capture Belmod, we cannot let him go.
