Mrs. Xun introduced Jiang Xia, then reached out and knocked on the door, calling: "Sir Akuma..."
“Uhhh——!!”
Suddenly, a heartbreaking cry of pain came from the iron gate, and a man shouted in horror: "'Curse Warrior', it's a cursed warrior...ah!!"
Jiang Xia: "..."
He pushed the door open, and the heavy iron door was locked.
The people inside screamed so miserably that they looked like they were being dismembered. Mrs. Xun was stunned. It wasn’t until Jiang Xia looked at her that she suddenly came back to her senses: “The spare key… the key… is over here!”
She turned around and ran out of the revolving door with Jiang Xia. She hurriedly got the key hanging on the wall and went back to open the door.
In less than a minute, when I came back, there was no movement inside the iron gate.
Jiang Xia opened the locked door. The room was dark, and she could only smell a strong smell of blood.
The flashlight shined into the room, bringing a hint of brightness, and a person could be vaguely seen sitting against the wall.
Jiang Xia moved her wrist and shined the flashlight, and the aperture reflected a dark figure - a headless man in black sitting cross-legged, with fresh flesh and blood exposed on the stubble on his neck.
"..."
"ah--!!"
The woman's pitiful scream tore through the night and echoed along the corridor.
Curacao in the distance sat up suddenly, then bumped his head against the partition in the closet, covered his head and lay down silently.
After a while, she got up again as if nothing had happened and listened carefully to the sound.
…
The incident occurred late at night and early in the morning.
It wasn't until dawn that the police trudged through the mountain road and arrived at this small village.
A sharp-tongued police officer stepped out of the car. When he saw Jiang Xia, his eyes lit up: "Hey, Jiang Xia! You're here too."
Conan looked at him in shock: "..." Why did it happen to be this useless policeman! Speaking of which, does this guy have such a good relationship with Jiang Xia? How could he be so enthusiastic as if he saw a cash cow?
Yamamura Soo didn't notice the dislike from the elementary school students, and enthusiastically ran over to ask Jiang Xia to hook up. Although the cases around this Tokyo detective were a bit scary, the last time I met him, he was promoted to the police department not long after returning.
, the last time I met him, he was happily promoted to the police department.
He felt that he was getting closer and closer to the heroic detectives in the TV series. As for the little scares he received on the way, they were all over anyway and there was nothing to be afraid of.
Yamamura Cao: "..." Unfortunately, the promotion has been a bit fast recently, and there is no hope of going further for the time being.
He looked at Jiang Xia regretfully and tried to make a reservation for the next grade skipping: "Come to Qunma County more often in the future! Our county has beautiful scenery and clear waters, and I guarantee your satisfaction."
After a pause, he remembered something, then he leaned closer to Jiang Xia, lowered his voice, and said furtively: "By the way, remember not to bring your cruel black-skinned boss with you."
Jiang Xia was startled.
Not mentioning the Yamamura Police Department, he almost forgot: Yes, where is Toru Amuro?
You promised to follow them to find clues about Uzo, but now you gave up?
Oh, what an unprincipled fisherman.
Jiang Xia: "..." However, I don't know if it was an illusion. Matsuda Jinpei said that he seemed to have felt the vague smell of coffee in the woods, but it was too far away to be sure.
He glanced at the woods and looked back thoughtfully.
…
What happened this time was a local prominent family, and it was a very brutal beheading case. Shan Cuncao brought a lot of people over.
It didn't take long for the forensic work to be completed.
Yamamura cleared his throat and flipped through the records in a decent manner: "The deceased was the gentleman who called himself 'Akanuma'. His identity has not yet been determined - but the only ones who know that he stayed here last night should be your family.
As long as you check the alibi one by one, things will be very simple."
Suzuki Sonoko nodded while listening, but she felt something was wrong in the middle of nodding. Wouldn't she also become a suspect? She objected: "It's so simple. It was late at night and everyone was sleeping in their own rooms - let's check this
, it’s strange for someone with an alibi.”
Maya Hashimoto looked at her quietly: "..." Hmm? Don't want to be checked for alibi? Did this woman secretly do something last night?
Just as he was thinking about it, Conan said next to him: "Compared with the alibi, there is another thing that deserves more attention - Uncle Yamamura, didn't you notice? This is a secret room murder case."
Shan Cuncao's hand holding the notebook stiffened, and he gradually felt something bad: "Secret room murder?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "Yesterday, I received a call from Mr. Akanuma. He said that if I wanted to know about the 'cursed warrior', I would go to him late at night with Mrs. Tatsumi.
"Mrs. Tatsumi and I went to the 'Pingmen' as promised, which is the guest room where Mr. Akanuma was. As soon as we arrived, we heard a scream from inside.
"The iron door was locked at the time, so Mrs. Xun and I had to get the key and come back to open the door. But when we opened the locked door, there was no murderer inside, only a dead man with no head."
Yamamura scratched his head: "What kind of secret room is this? When you went to get the key, the murderer locked the door after killing everyone and ran away."
Mrs. Xun's face turned pale: "The key was hanging in the corridor, very close to that room. But we didn't see the murderer passing by the whole time. He, it seemed like he disappeared out of thin air."
"Disappeared out of thin air?!" Yamamura Cao's face suddenly turned paler than hers, "Could it be that the monster did something good!"
Maya Hashimoto: "..." How did this person get into the police force? I might as well be the one to do it.
Fortunately, regardless of whether it can solve the case or not, if it can use detectives, it is a good police department.
Shan Cuncao looked at Jiang Xia tremblingly: "Mr. Jiang Xia, what do you think?"
The figure of the Mumu Police Department appeared in Curacao's mind: "..." What, you received unified training before joining the job? Even the lines for asking for help are similar.
Jiang Xia thought for a while and looked at Mrs. Xun: "Is there a spare key for that room?"
Mrs. Xun shook her head: "We only have one key to our house. And they are all hand-cast and cannot be reproduced."
Everyone was silent. Since the keys were in the hands of Jiang Xia and Mrs. Xun at that time, the murderer naturally couldn't lock the door.
"Maybe the murderer did not leave through the door, but through the window." Yamamura Cao remembered something, "When I went to the scene just now, I saw that there was a window in that room."
…
But windows were quickly ruled out as well.
Outside the window of the room where the crime was committed is a cliff, and below the cliff is a rushing river.
"And this window is like a prison, with three iron bars standing on it. Adults can't even stick their heads out."
While talking about the investigation results of his subordinates, Yamamura Cao shook the railing like a prisoner in a playful manner.
The next moment, there was a click, and the iron rod in the middle was taken off.