The Young Detective Team was about to start taking notes.
A man followed the police officer and came to the office.
It was an old-looking man with a square face. He kept looking at the gold watch on his wrist, paying special attention to the time.
"Mr. Masao?" Officer Sato was slightly startled when he saw him, "Didn't your lady say that in the afternoon..."
"We did agree to come together." The store manager Masuo rushed to say, "But there is something to deal with at the bank today, so I made an appointment with my wife to meet directly at the police station - she hasn't arrived yet?"
"...Not yet." Sato Miwako was a little confused.
What she actually wanted to say just now was, "Didn't your lady say you would come over at 3pm?" - this was the time that Mrs. Masuo had made an appointment with them before.
But now, according to Mr. Masao, it seems that he and his wife have made an appointment to come together at 2 o'clock.
Although there were some contradictions between the two people's words, recalling Mrs. Masao's dazed look before, Officer Sato thought that maybe the frightened wife who had just been taken hostage had remembered it wrong. Or the couple had not had time to discuss it.
Officer Sato was about to remind the Masuo store manager to go find his wife and ask about the situation.
At this time, Masuo Gui had already consciously taken out his mobile phone: "I asked her if she went out."
As he spoke, he turned his cell phone on speakerphone and placed it on the table. Then he freed his hand, found a handkerchief, and wiped his face.
He moved very slowly. Before he finished wiping, he could already hear Mrs. Masuo's voice on the other side of the phone through the hands-free:
"Hello? Husband, what's going on?"
The store manager Masuo picked up the phone, and the corner of his mouth covered by the handkerchief slowly opened into a sinister smile, but quickly restrained it.
He made an excuse to let Sato say a few words to Mrs. Masuo, and then took the phone himself - in this way, when his wife was "assassinated" next, he would be at the police station and there would be a solid absence.
prove.
…
At two o'clock, Jiang Xia closed the door of the detective agency, picked up the cat, and prepared to go find the client "Shibata Kayo".
The address she sent is not too far from here. Let's set off now and turn the accelerator a few more times on the way, so that we can arrive at 2:10 as promised.
Although he didn't associate anything with the name "Shibata Kayo", this special connection made Jiang Xia always feel that there was a surprise waiting for him.
Therefore, it is best to follow the client’s wife’s request exactly - not one second earlier, not one second later, say ten past two, just ten past two. To avoid disturbing others with some of your own actions...
…
The Masuo family.
Kayo Masao continued riding her exercise bike while talking to her husband carefully on the phone.
Being wary of her husband and the gradually increasing pressure of the exercise bike, she did not notice the increasing resistance under her feet.
——Where Masao Kayo didn't pay attention, a fishing line was pre-connected to the axle of the wheel.
The other end of the fishing line extended behind her - there was a bookcase behind the exercise bike, and the fishing line was connected to the top of the tall bookcase.
As the exercise bike runs, the fishing line is rolled into the wheels, and the cabinet behind it is pulled and tilted.
Finally, the bookshelf lost its balance and suddenly fell over Kayo Masao on the exercise bike. A cold light flashed - a dagger was secretly placed on the top of the cabinet.
Masao Kayo heard strange noises behind him and turned around suddenly, just in time to see the bookcase pressing against him.
She let out a scream of terror, was stabbed deeply into her back by the dagger, fell to the ground, and gradually became silent.
Opposite the phone.
Everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department was startled by the sudden scream.
Conan stared at the phone that heard the scream, a flash of light appeared on his glasses, and his expression gradually changed from sleepy to serious.
Sato Miwako grabbed the mobile phone from the Masuo store manager: "Mrs. Masuo? What's wrong?"
The Masuo store manager also tried hard to suppress his happiness and shouted worriedly: "Kayo!!"
There was no response from the other party on the phone. Mrs. Changwei made no movement at all.
Everyone in the police station looked at each other, remembering the gangster whose face she had seen when he kidnapped Mrs. Masuo three days ago, and suspected that Masuo Kayo was being targeted.
…
Soon, a police car drove to Masuo's house.
In addition to the anxious Masuo store manager, there were two policemen in the car, Sato and Takagi, and...
A bespectacled elementary school student sneaked into the car unprepared.
…
2:09:01 PM.
Jiangxia took out his car keys and walked quickly from the nearest parking lot to the address "Shibata Kayo" left for him.
And knocked on the door at 2:10 on time.
After a minute, no one answered the door.
Jiang Xia was about to go to the other side of the road and wait. At this time, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a flash of white passing by.
Looking down, he saw a fresh shikigami fluttering out of the crack in the door.
Suddenly, he found a spiritual medium in front of him. Shikigami held the door frame briefly and froze for a moment, then moved to the side little by little, followed the wall and walked around Jiang Xia, and continued to wander into the distance.
Jiang Xia: "..."
The shikigami all ran out, and it seemed that some of them were gone.
Follow the procedures that a detective should have, try to confirm the scene, try to give first aid to the deceased, then call the police and start moving forward quickly.
Of course, it would be best if the murderer hasn't left yet, just hold down and knock...
The residents of this house seem to pay special attention to safety. There is a rare barbed wire fence on the wall that is difficult to stand on. It is difficult to climb directly.
But there is a tree outside the courtyard wall.
Jiang Xia stood on tiptoe and took a look at the surroundings, and then glanced at the word "Zengwei" on the door plate. After thinking for a moment, she turned and left the main entrance, preparing to go in from the side.
If "Shibata" is replaced by "Masuo", the name "Masuo Kayo" can make him think of something.
And if it was the case in his memory, then around 2 o'clock, Mrs. Masuo would have passed away.
There are surveillance cameras in Amuro Tohru's detective agency, and Jiang Xia also passed by one or two cameras on the way here. It seems that there is no time to commit the crime. Even if he enters the house now, he will only be a "worry will increase if he feels something abnormal."
He is an enthusiastic detective who came to check on the situation without Mrs. Tai's safety, but will not be regarded as a murderer because of this behavior that is common among high school detectives...
…
Not long after Jiang Xia's figure turned to the side.
A car screeched to a halt in front of Masao's house.
Officer Sato and others jumped out of the car and ran straight to the gate.
The store manager Masuo found the key, opened the door, and led people into the house.
Then he raised his finger and pointed to the living room and said to the two police officers: "I'll go over there and have a look. Could you please help me find the second floor."
Seeing that the two policemen's attention had successfully turned upstairs, Katsura Masuo dragged his bulky body towards where Mrs. Masuo was, preparing to lift up the fallen cabinet and hide the fishing line on the top of the bookshelf.
Thumbtack, disguise everything as a perfect home invasion and murder.
