Chapter 54 The young detective gets off to a bad start
Cleaning ladies inside hotels generally rarely take on outside work. Firstly, it’s because the hotel can’t hire them to go out during working hours. Secondly, the work inside the hotel is very cumbersome and they don’t have the time and energy to take on outside work.<
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But this hotel doesn't seem to be performing very well. Just now Kuroki Jin noticed that even the front desk stood up lazily the moment they came in, as if they didn't want to receive guests at all.<
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So when faced with Kudo Shinichi's question, the cleaning lady nodded and said yes.
"That's great." Kudo Shinichi smiled. The childishness of a young man made him look harmless. "I have a friend who went abroad recently. His house was empty and he let me live in it. I can entrust him to it."
Can you help me clean it?"
Auntie nodded again.
Kudo Shinichi continued: "That place is not far from here. It can be reached in ten minutes on foot. Let me show you the address..." He pretended to be rummaging through the mail.
Kuroki Jin was standing a few steps behind Kudo Shinichi, which was exactly facing the cleaning aunt. He glanced at her whole body and made a rough guess.
"This is it." Kudo Shinichi showed the address he finally "found" to his aunt, but the aunt waved her hand, pointed to her eyes, nodded her mouth, and waved her hand again.
Kudo's expression suddenly froze.
"Shinjuku-ku 7-chome 12." Kuroki Jin took two steps forward and read out the address. He saw a look of surprise flash across the aunt's face, and then quickly covered it up, but said nothing and quickly pushed the cart away, leaving Kudo Shin alone.
No matter how I called you, I didn’t look back.
Kuroki looked at the direction where his aunt was walking away and said, "She should be mute and illiterate."
"But it also confirmed two things."
"Huh?"
Kudo Shinichi put away his mobile phone, walked into the room and motioned for Kuroki Jin to close the door, then raised a finger: "First, she knows some of what happened in that house."
Then he raised a second finger: "Second, someone came and warned her not to leak it."
"But she doesn't seem to be cooperative. How are you going to investigate?" Kuroki Ren was a little helpless, "Don't find such a clue in so many days."
Kudo Shinichi pouted, "How is that possible? Of course I am absolutely sure that she will tell us."
"Oh?"
Kudo Shinichi stood at the window and looked down. After a while, he laughed and said, "Let's go down."
Kuroki Jin followed with a smile.
In order not to alert the snake, they did not drive, but followed the cleaning aunt from a distance. Seeing her cautiousness and occasionally looking back to see if she had a tail, Kuroki Jin deduced: "She has the awareness to track this.
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"This is also a big doubt. She is just a cleaning lady, how could she have such awareness."
"In fact, everyone has the awareness of being tracked." Kuroki Ren said, "Sometimes when we are walking, we feel the sound of footsteps behind us, and we look back from time to time or speed up our steps. This is normal. But what I said about her
The tracking consciousness is the time when she looked back several times while walking this section of the road."
"Time?" Kudo Shinichi was confused.
"Hey." Kuroki Jin pulled Kudo Shinichi, who was about to follow, and waited for a few seconds before carefully sticking his head out, and then signaled to continue moving forward.
"She just looked back five times in total, all of them looking back at the corner with shelter." Kuroki Ren whispered, "This section of the road is an alley, with twists and turns, and there are relatively few buildings.
The distance between buildings will also be relatively far, which means that when there are buildings around her, our side is usually unshielded."
"Then..."
"This is just a superficial tracking technique. The secret will be revealed after three or two times." Kuroki Ren laughed.
"But you are just a store owner, why would you do such a thing?"
"I haven't been a store owner since I was born." Kuroki Jin paused for a few seconds before continuing, "Before I can save the money to open a store, my job requires me to be agile and alert."
Kudo Shinichi was a little surprised. He hesitated and said: "I always thought you were a rich second generation."
Kuroki Ren smiled lightly and didn't care too much when he mentioned this: "On the contrary, my parents passed away very early. I think I have raised myself up by myself over the years. Of course, I have very good seniors to guide me.
I also have close friends who help me.”
Kudo Shinichi didn't know what to do. Comparatively speaking, he was still in school and could be considered a rich second generation, although he couldn't compare with his classmate Suzuki Sonoko.
"We're here." Kuroki Jin motioned Kudo to look ahead. Sure enough, the cleaning lady stopped in front of a house, took out the key from her bag, and opened the door.
"This is where Kohei Kitajima stayed." Kudo Shinichi introduced, "After my inference, this should be the place where he and Officer Takagi stayed on the night when the casino was controlled by the police."
"So you went step by step and found this cleaner who has been cleaning this house."
Kudo nodded, "In addition, there is a delivery boy who delivered takeout here that night, and the owner of that takeout shop."
Kuroki and Kudo were lying at the door of the apartment, with the corner behind them. They could hide by just retreating. After waiting for a while, Kuroki Jin asked: "Are we waiting outside now?"
"Wait for her to come out." Kudo Shinichi said, "She will come back here because Kitajima Kohei has told her before. It is probably to pick up an item or to find something... In short, we just need to wait for her to come out.
That’s it.”
"What if she doesn't come out?"
"Huh?" Kudo Shinichi was stunned for a moment, and then said hesitantly: "No, I checked the entire apartment specifically, and there is nothing special."
Kuroki Ren glanced at his watch, "But ten minutes have passed."
"Maybe she is older and walks a little slower?"
Kuroki Renpi smiled but said, "I didn't notice how slow I was when I was walking down the street just now."
Kudo Shinichi was silent. The next moment he gritted his teeth, turned around and pushed open the door and walked inside. Kuroki Jin followed him leisurely and took a look at the appearance of the vestibule.
Kudo Shinichi pushed the door open and went in. The clear footprints on the ground told him that the cleaning lady had gone to the second floor, so he followed and listened at the door of the room on the right side of the second floor.
Kudo Shin turned his ear to listen to the sounds in the room. After a few seconds, he turned to Jin Kuroki and shook his head. Then he pressed the door handle and opened the door.
There was a man lying in the middle of the room, with his head facing the direction of the door, a short arrow stuck in his forehead, blood flowing all over the floor, and his eyes wide open.
Kudo Shinichi stepped forward to check for pulse, and shook his head with a heavy expression.
"Dead."
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