Jiang Xia turned around and found, as expected, that Conan had found the body very accurately and even used the flashlight on it.
Jiang Xia was silent for a moment, originally wanting to cover her ears.
But after thinking about it for a moment, I felt that the posture was too timid, so I stubbornly did not move.
The two girls next to me froze visibly.
A second later, two intertwined screams resounded through the corridor, and the high-pitched vibrato was more piercing than an alarm bell.
Mao Lilan and Lingmu Yuanzi came together again after crying, looked at Jiang Xia, and said incoherently: "You, you, you..."
Jiang Xia rubbed his ears and denied it neatly: "I didn't kill him."
The two people opposite covered their hearts and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time: "Oh, we also think..."
Before they could fully relax, Jiang Xia suddenly saw Jiang Xia looking at them and said thoughtfully: "Do you believe me when I say it?"
"..."
This is really like the lines of a good guy dancing in reverse time.
Two pairs of frightened eyes looked at Jiang Xia again: "!"
"It's not me." Jiang Xia said again patiently.
However, this time, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko still looked horrified and a little suspicious.
Jiang Xia looked at them and felt that the reactions of these two classmates were quite interesting.
Sure enough, the more people are deceived, the more defensive they will be.
However, considering that many future cases will be related to Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko.
Jiang Xia feels that these are two good partners for picking up ghosts.
Friendly relations should be maintained.
So he softened his tone and explained kindly: "What I just said was just a question..."
He didn't finish the rest of his sentence.
And his two classmates are obviously very good at completing it on their own.
At this time, facing Jiang Xia's hesitant gaze, they added words like "I didn't expect you would directly classify me as a villain and a murderer."
Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko: "..."
Indeed, they were the ones who made the first impression.
Now looking back and thinking about it carefully, even if Jiang Xia just walked out of the room with a corpse, even if he didn't panic at all when facing the corpse, even if he stepped on blood, his expression would still be calm...
But compared to the reaction, Jiang Xia's sentence just now, "You believe me when I say it?", shouldn't it be understood as "You believe it when I say it? Do you trust me so much? I'm so touched"... or something like that!
The two kind-hearted classmates gradually felt guilty.
Suzuki Sonoko cleared her throat in a subtle way, walked back to the original place, held Jiang Xia's hand in a serious manner, shook it vigorously, and said firmly:
"I was joking just now, of course we believe you!"
...Ah, this hand is really nice to touch.
And it was different from what she had thought before.
It's not cold.
It's actually quite warm when you hold it. It may be used as a hand warmer in winter.
Mao Lilan didn't know that her best friend had just been serious for a second, and then she began to secretly go off topic again.
She also walked closer and nodded heavily along with Suzuki Sonoko's words, pretending that she didn't think twice about Jiang Xia's question just now.
At this time, Conan also walked back from the exhibition hall.
He first reminded Mao Lilan to call the police, and then looked at Jiang Xia:
"Although we believe that you did not kill the person, it is impossible to hide the fact that you just walked out of this exhibition hall - you are the first person to discover the body, and the police may give you priority. Please think carefully about today's events.
Regarding the itinerary, it’s best to find an alibi and whether you saw any suspicious persons on the way here.”
Conan didn't blindly believe in Jiang Xia's character.
It's just that the corpse in the exhibition hall died in a terrible state, with blood splattered everywhere.
If the person was killed by Jiang Xia, it would be impossible for Jiang Xia to be so clean.
In addition, Conan had seen Jiang Xia beating people before - hitting them with sticks one after another, like playing whack-a-mole in an arcade.
And like the one in the exhibition hall, imitating oil paintings and nailing people to the wall... it has a strong sense of ritual and is quite complicated.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like Jiang Xia’s style.
Therefore, Conan felt that the truth was probably that Jiang Xia passed by here, for some reason, walked into the exhibition hall to take a look, and then accidentally stepped on blood.
As for why Jiang Xia didn’t turn on the lights, scream, or call the police...
We can only speculate that it has something to do with his personality.
Everyone's reaction when seeing a corpse is different.
Conan really couldn't imagine the scene of Jiang Xia running away while screaming.
Thinking about it this way, it seems quite reasonable that Jiang Xia walked out of the exhibition hall calmly just now.
And theoretically speaking, Jiangxia is a bit...
In short, some abnormal behaviors cannot be considered abnormal when it comes to him.
I just don’t know if Jiang Xia, who takes more than 20 days of sick leave a month, actually goes to see a doctor in the cardiology department.
Thinking of this, Conan reviewed the daily life he observed in Jiangxia.
It seems to be all about racing, beating people, and visiting exhibition halls... Conan thought tiredly, the answer is probably no.
…
The exhibition hall is not too far from the Metropolitan Police Department.
The four people stood at the door of the exhibition hall, scared, reasoning, trying to pick up ghosts... It didn't take long for the police to arrive.
In the hell exhibition hall, the headlights were turned on, and the room was instantly bright.
Officers from the Mumu Police Department and the Forensic Division entered the hall together to search for clues. They also sent several subordinates to find witnesses and inquire about the situation.
Officer Sato took the order and walked out. He glanced at the four people and stopped at Jiang Xia's back.
According to her experience, the probability of the murderer appearing among the first to discover the crime is very high.
And compared with the two high school girls who were pale and evasive, not daring to look at the corpse, and the elementary school student who was not as tall as Sato's legs, Jiang Xia's suspicion suddenly climbed straight up.
But after getting closer, Jiang Xia turned around, and Officer Sato was startled when he saw Jiang Xia's face.
...She just met this person in the office not long ago.
Although Sato is not a police officer in the forensics department, he has been involved in so many murder cases and has some experience.
She could roughly tell how long the body had been dead.
And based on her rough judgment...Jiang Xia was probably reporting the crime in their office when Zhenzhong's boss was upset.
Could it be that this time, the murderer was not among the first group of people to discover the body?
