For a moment, Toru Amuro suddenly wanted to suspend the experiment, return to Tokyo immediately, and then find a laboratory to lock Jiangxia up so that he would not run around.
...But his reason told him that there was no direct evidence to prove that there was 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 can always win the first prize when buying lottery tickets. The first prize exists objectively, and the European Emperor just has the characteristics to be able to draw it. In fact, even if the European Emperor does not buy a lottery ticket, the first prize
It's just there, it won't disappear.
... By analogy, even if Jiang Xia is illegally locked up because of "incident constitution", the number of cases will not decrease. It will still happen, but it will be encountered by other people again.
Compared to this, it would be better to be met by Jiang Xia. At least Jiang Xia will 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 in subconsciously.
Detective Gunda looked around and didn't see much of note 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 exercise to generate heat while looking at the doors and windows in the room:
"The door is locked. Except for the floor-to-ceiling window through which we came in just now, all other windows are also locked."
Amuro regained her composure, entered the study, and took a look at the study door.
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 commotion, 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: I didn't expect that this little girl came to her senses very 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 autopsies 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 roads are clear,
, by then, a lot of evidence will have melted silently like snow.”
As she said that, she took out her mobile 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." Ikumi Gunada observed the thick wooden nail on the deceased's heart, and then looked at the bleeding.
After briefly showing a puzzled expression, 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 attacked from behind first, 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 as short as an arm 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 by 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 and killed Daisuke Tokura.
"...Go to the collection room and take a look. There may be traces of the murderer there."
Everyone has reached this consensus.
…
Same as the "secret room" study.
The windows in the collection room were all firmly locked.
Opening the window, there was a vast expanse of white snow outside without any footprints - this case did not look like someone had invaded from the outside, but more like someone in the villa had committed an internal murder.
Jiang Xia walked to the window and saw a small, slender 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 this was also to solve the case.
Amuro Toru's stagnant movements quickly resumed.
After subconsciously taking one picture, he took several more close-up photos and distant views, and wrote down in detail the specific appearance of the slender wood piece and the location where it fell - the Hucang house was very clean, even the dust was quite clear.
It's 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 meaning.
Tohru 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 collection room, everyone gathered together and began to try to uncover the murderer hiding inside.
Gunda Ikumi thought of Jiang Xia's reputation for solving crimes quickly and glanced at him.
But he saw Jiang Xia holding a tea cup and calmly emptying her mouth. She seemed to have no intention of speaking.
While she was confused, she could only immerse herself in her own thoughts:
Judging from the current situation, the murderer must first get the wooden nails from the collection room before committing the murder.
Killing Daisuke Tokura, tying him to a cross, driving a wooden nail into his heart, moving the projector so that the pale halo shines on the body... all of this takes time.
Within the time frame within which the murder was feasible, there were only two people who had gone in the direction of the collection room.
