Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 2508 2512 [Fans]

Since there are acquaintances present, it is customary to first contact them to understand the situation.

Jiang Xia looked at Professor Iwama and was about to speak, but he seemed to have noticed something and was a little surprised. Soon, he walked straight to Amuro Toru and said, "Mr. Amuro, what a coincidence, you are eating here too?"

Amuro Toru came back to his senses and responded.

"Is this the kid you want to introduce to me?" Professor Iwama turned to look at Jiang Xia and extended his hand in a friendly manner, "Hello! I'm Nobuo Iwama, just call me Iwama."

Vodka: “…” Suddenly running over to say hello at a time like this…Are you being professional, or do you want to subtly emphasize the friendship between you and Bourbon, so as to put pressure on “Boss Amuro’s employee” and make Jiang Xia be more polite to you when solving the case?
"You're wrong." Vodka gloated in his heart, "It's hard to say who is whose employee."

As expected, Jiang Xia seemed not to have received the signal from Professor Iwama. He shook hands with the old professor and then asked without further ado, "Can you tell me about how you came here to eat today?"

Beside him, Ireland watched this scene and nodded secretly.

"As expected of Jiang Xia, he sticks to justice without wavering." Ireland said with satisfaction, "Talents like this are the best to use. As long as I show him the evil deeds of Wu Zuo, he will naturally become a sharp blade in my hand to stab Wu Zuo... But in this process, I must be careful not to expose myself, otherwise my plan will be messed up."

When the Black Organization cadres were distracted.

Professor Iwama, who was standing by, saw that Toru Amuro had no intention of speaking, so he had to lower himself and cooperate. He explained, "We are here today to celebrate for Kaneda - he was recently successfully promoted to associate professor, and considering his age, this is already a very good achievement. It's just..."

He looked at the body on the table and turned his head away reluctantly: "I just didn't expect things to turn out like this."

Jiang Xia nodded thoughtfully.

Inspector Megure was listening nearby with a notebook in his hand. While taking notes, he quickly identified the next person to be questioned. Based on his many years of experience as a police officer, in addition to the deceased's acquaintances, the first person to discover the body is often also a strong suspect.

"Miss Anxi." He turned to the pale receptionist, "How did you realize something was wrong?"

The receptionist took out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes, still in shock: "Just now I saw Mr. Jintian enter this box, but after waiting for a while, I didn't receive any related orders... Because the equipment in our store is a little different from other places, I was worried that the guests would not be able to use it, so I wanted to come in and take a look, but who knew..."

She glanced at the body lying on the table, groaned, and raised her hands to cover her eyes.

"Speaking of this." Inspector Megure scratched his head in confusion. He turned to the two psychology teachers and said, "Since the deceased, Mr. Kaneda, came with you, why did he run to another private room alone during the dinner?"

Professor Iwama and Lecturer Arai looked at each other and shook their heads in confusion.

The receptionist remembered something, and whispered to Jiang Xia, "A Mr. Jintian did reserve this room yesterday. But when the three guests came in just now, I asked the deceased Mr. Jintian if he had made a reservation, but he denied it. You were there at the time, so you might have some impression of him."

Jiang Xia responded and agreed with her statement: "In other words, this Mr. Jintian had made a reservation yesterday and deliberately slipped into this private room during the dinner today, but he was unwilling to admit it in front of his colleagues."

"It sounds so sneaky..." Although Inspector Megure couldn't hear anything wrong, he felt that something was a little strange. After a moment's hesitation, he gave up thinking, "Anyway, as long as we find the person who made an appointment with the deceased to meet in this box, we should be able to solve the case...right?"

Jiang Xia nodded in response to his inquiring gaze.

Inspector Megure straightened his back immediately. He cleared his throat and asked the receptionist in a dignified voice, "Besides the deceased, who else has entered this box?"

The receptionist thought about it carefully and said firmly, "It was only the deceased himself. The room was empty before he went in, and after he went in, because this gentleman was a little strange, I paid extra attention to him. Until I came, no one else had entered this room."

"..." Inspector Megure was incredulous, "Not even one?"

...How could this happen! Normally, shouldn't there be three or four people who have been in there, and then the wise and powerful Jiang Xia would pick out the real culprit from among them?

Upon seeing this, Officer Gao Mu whispered to his superior, "Inspector, do you remember - Jiang Xia just said that judging from the direction the deceased fell, the murderer might have come in by water."

Inspector Megure: “!”

He really forgot.

Officer Gao Mu took the store diagram he had asked the clerk for after listening to Jiang Xia's reasoning and said, "Look, in the middle of this restaurant is an antique courtyard with a total of 8 private rooms surrounding it. The whole is a square, and outside is a whole circle of water - this man-made stream just happens to surround all the private rooms. As long as you follow the waterway, you can easily reach the No. 8 private room where the victim was killed from any private room."

"Yeah, not bad." Inspector Megure was slightly relieved. His unreliable subordinate seemed to be growing into a younger subordinate. He raised his head and glanced at the large number of onlookers around him. "Go ask the customers in the store if anyone passed by the waterway."

……

Although there were quite a few onlookers in the store, fortunately there were only seven private rooms excluding the deceased, so the questioning could be conducted in batches.

Unfortunately, however, Officer Takagi did not get the answer he wanted.

The person in Box 1 said: "This restaurant's water delivery is very interesting, so we have been paying attention to the stream outside the window. No one passed by from beginning to end."

Box 2: "Outside the window? Sorry, we didn't notice."

Box 3: "People in the water? That sounds scary... No, I've only seen boats in the water."

"..."

Officer Takagi returned looking haggard.

"Inspector Jiang... I'm sorry, I didn't get any information." He sighed and showed Jiang Xia the results of his inquiry. "Except for your three rooms, each of the other rooms has more than four guests. No one saw the boat passing by, and no one noticed anyone sneaking in."

He glanced at the man-made streams around him. "The water in this waterway is only half a meter deep and crystal clear. In addition, to make it easier for customers to pick up their food, the windows here are built very low, almost flush with the water surface. If someone dives by, they will be discovered immediately."

(End of this chapter)