The next day, Jiang Xia originally wanted to continue last night's plan - to go to the house of Marudenjiro, the unscrupulous creditor who secretly sold the collateral, to see the situation.
However, the office still had a few customers with reservations, so Jiang Xia could only go to work for another day.
In the afternoon, Jiang Xia returned the two new cats found by the delinquents to their owners, then closed the door and left the office.
He continued the unfinished plan from yesterday - following the address on the business card, he looked all the way there and saw a single-family house with a yard.
This is Marudenjiro's home.
The yard is quite big.
Although Marudenjiro is very rich, like most people in this world, he did not install surveillance cameras or hire security guards. Breaking in is as easy as taking a walk.
Jiang Xia first went around to a nearby hill and looked down at the layout of the yard.
After remembering the location, he put on his hat, mask, etc., climbed over the wall easily, and went straight to the warehouse on the side.
Jiang Xia did not use puppets.
The security force of Marudenjiro's family is really a puppet.
Although the puppet is very convenient, after using it, both Jiang Xia and Gui Fei will be very tired.
He seems to have a lot of ghost mint on his body, but it is very easy to absorb, especially now that he has to raise two ghosts, and the recovery of Miyano Akemi's new skills is linked to murderous aura, so he should save a little if he can.
Jiang Xia entered the warehouse, compared the photos of pottery given to him by the client, and successfully found the target on the shelf.
This is just a three-layer hollow structure of pottery. Jiang Xia opened it from the middle and threw in a black technology transmitter.
After the transmitter is fully charged, it can be used for nearly forty hours.
Once this pottery is sold or moved, Jiang Xia will immediately discover it.
Next, he only needs to come over every two days and change the transmitter, so that he can know the location of the porcelain at all times - by the way, he can check if anything happened to this family, and if something happens, he will pick it up.
…
A few days later, when the signal on the receiver began to be intermittent again, Jiang Xia came to Marudenjiro's house again, intending to replace the transmitter with a new one and take the original one back to charge.
He walked familiarly around to the lower part of the fence, lifted his hood over his head, put on a mask and gloves, and jumped up to claw at the wall.
As soon as I stuck my head out, I suddenly saw a man and a woman walking out of a side room.
Among them, the short-haired woman happened to glance this way and met Jiang Xia's eyes.
However, due to the obstruction of the hood, to be precise, this "looking at each other" was one-sided.
——Jiang Xia saw the eyes of the short-haired woman, Officer Sato.
And Sato...
She only saw a pair of silhouettes shrouded in shadow.
Sato was stunned for 0.5 seconds and shouted: "Who is there?!"
With that said, she rushed towards the courtyard wall.
As soon as policewoman Sato made a sound, several more people ran out of the room. Jiang Xia glanced around and saw a bunch of police officers.
Jiang Xia: "..."
It's like being late and climbing over the wall to enter the school. As soon as you climbed up the wall, you saw the principal holding a teachers' meeting at the bottom of the wall. This...
Jiang Xia was a little embarrassed, let go and fell down.
Through the wall, Officer Sato could be heard shouting "Stop!".
Jiang Xia thought for a while and stopped.
Illegal home invasion is indeed illegal. But in this world, this kind of behavior is rarely pursued, especially when the perpetrator is a detective.
In addition, strictly speaking, Jiang Xia has not entered the house today.
He just illegally dug into someone else's wall.
There is really no need to act like a perverted murderer and engage in a life-threatening passionate chase with the police.
However, Sato obviously did not expect that after he shouted "stop", the suspicious person really stopped running.
Jiang Xia stood at the base of the wall for two seconds, and suddenly felt a shadow falling above her head.
He raised his head and saw Sato climbing up the wall lightly, then without looking away, he crossed over Jiangxia like a hurdle and landed gracefully four or five meters away.
Immediately afterwards, without stopping for half a second, he rushed out along the street.
Jiang Xia raised his hand towards her and was about to call her to stop, but she had already disappeared.
Jiang Xia: "..."
He silently put down his hand.
At this time, a few small pieces of earth and stone particles fell next to it.
Jiang Xia was startled and raised his head again.
This time, he saw another subordinate of the Megure Police Department—Takagi Wataru.
Officer Takagi struggled to climb up the wall and was about to jump down.
However, when he lowered his head, he saw that the "suspicious person" whose face was covered was standing motionless at the base of the wall. He was stunned.
The two people stared at each other wordlessly for nearly half a minute.
Takagi hesitated and asked: "...What are you doing standing here?"
The "suspicious person" also replied hesitantly: "Didn't you ask me to 'stop'?"
Takagi: "Ah, this...thank you for your cooperation."
Jiang Xia: "It's okay, it should be."
Takagi: "..."
Although but... He actually wanted to ask why the suspicious person would pick up the walls of other people's homes.
However, the suspicious person did not run away anyway, and his attitude was quite good, so we can wait to discuss this.
The most urgent task is to call back Officer Sato who has rushed to who knows where...
Takagi sat on the wall, took out his cell phone, and dialed the number for his beloved Sato-senpai.
…
Five minutes later, in the courtyard of Marudenjiro's house.
In addition to the police, Jiang Xia also saw several acquaintances - Mao Lilan, Maori Kogoro, and Conan.
Marudenjiro of Jiangxia is Mouri Kogo's client. Today is the day when Mouri Kogoro took a photo of Mrs. Maru's lover and submitted the photo to him.
Jiang Xia took off his mask, and after Officer Sato confirmed that it was him, he immediately put the mask back on.
The reason why Sato reacted so radically just now is because a murder occurred in this family this afternoon.
——Marudenjiro was killed.
Of course, she hasn't told Jiang Xia this yet, and plans to keep it as a back-up for making excuses.
Although emotionally speaking, Officer Sato does not think Jiang Xia is the murderer.
But who makes Jiang Xia suspicious everywhere?
Sato held the pen and asked doubtfully: "Why are you covering your face?"
Jiang Xia pulled up the mask and pulled down the brim of his hat. Like a vampire burned by the sun, he said weakly: "Sunlight allergy."
Sato: "...?"
She originally thought Jiang Xia was bluffing her.
But thinking back for a moment, Sato suddenly discovered that every time she saw Jiang Xia, it was either at night, indoors, or indoors at night... In short, she had never seen Jiang Xia sunbathing.
Next to him, Conan had a pair of dead fish eyes and was very hesitant to speak.
He used to go to the doctor's house, and when he stood on the balcony on the second floor and looked at Miwa Town, he often saw Jiang Xia carrying a deck chair next door to bask in the sun.
But in the end, Conan swallowed the revelation.
According to his judgment, Jiang Xia should not be the murderer.
Conan knew very well that Kudo Shinichi was still alive and could not possess Jiang Xia and help him solve the case.
In other words, Jiang Xia's cases must have been solved by Jiang Xia himself. He is a very qualified high school detective.
In this case, if Jiang Xia really killed someone, he would not have made the basic mistake of "returning to the scene of the crime after killing the person to check the situation."
Moreover, when Conan was playing in the yard just now, he actually saw the suspect's feet from under the bushes.
That man was wearing very serious trousers and leather shoes. It was completely different from Jiang Xia's dress.
Conan then speculated that Jiang Xia's ability to climb over the wall might be because he received a commission - he heard that Jiang Xia was currently working part-time as a detective.
The perfunctory excuse of "sun allergy" is probably because Jiang Xia didn't know that people died here and didn't realize the seriousness of the matter.
If this continues, if someone accidentally commits perjury or becomes a suspect, it will be troublesome.
Conan took advantage of the fact that he was a child and reminded him in a long voice:
"I heard from Uncle Maoli that the murderer was afraid of being seen when he committed the murder, so he liked to hide his face - did you really not kill that bald uncle?"
Jiang Xia was startled at the right moment and looked at Officer Sato: "What happened?"
"..." Sato sighed, "It's nothing, it's just a murder case."
At this time, the Megure Police Department finally had enough of Mouri Kogoro's sudden reasoning.
He opened the sliding door with a big head, looked over here, and then waved his chubby hand towards Jiang Xia, implying expectation.
The Mumu Police Department also heard about Jiang Xia's climbing on the wall and knew he was suspicious.
But being suspicious is suspicious, and this does not conflict with listening to Jiang Xia's reasoning.
After all, solving a case is all about evidence. In the past, when detectives were reasoning, no one asked them to prove their innocence first.
There are even many major suspects who demonstrate their reasoning on the spot in order to prove their innocence.
Compared with them, at least Jiang Xia solved the case quickly and professionally...