Conan’s Corpse Picker

Chapter 46 Choose one out of three Ask for a monthly ticket (σ≧▽≦)σ.

Jiang Xia walked into the side room and looked at the murder scene.

It looked like there had been a vicious fight here - there were knife marks all over the walls and even on the ceiling. The surrounding things were also shattered.

Opposite the door, a corpse with a samurai sword in his hand was nailed to the wall with another long knife pierced through the chest.

The deceased was the head of the family here, Maruden Jiro.

...

A while ago, Maruden Jiro suspected that his wife was cheating, so he commissioned Mori Kogoro to investigate.

This afternoon, Kogoro Mori found out the result and came over to deal with the matter.

During the conversation between the two, other guests visited. Maruden Jiro left Mori Kogoro behind and went to the side room to receive the guest.

Then he became what he is now.

...

After calling the police, the police found three suspects.

One of them is Mrs. Maru's lover and family doctor.

The other two are people who have borrowed money from Maruden Jiro, one is a sculptor and the other is a kendo instructor.

Jiang Xia glanced around the room, and was attracted by the calf of the corpse.

——There is a fresh shikigami firmly grasped there.

"..." Solve the case and find the murderer, let him be punished accordingly, and the obsession with Shikigami will dissipate.

...and then the ghost can be abducted.

Thinking of the number of Shikigami will be +1 soon.

Jiang Xia looked at the "kendo instructor" among the three suspects, and sneakily fast-forwarded to solve the case: "You are the murderer."

"?!" When the Mumu Police Department heard Jiang Xia's conclusion, his heart skipped a beat.

——A few minutes ago, Mori Kogoro just said the same thing as Jiang Xia.

Because Kogoro Mori felt that there were so many traces of fighting in the room, and the person who could fight like this with the kendo master "Maruden Jiro" could only be another kendo master, "Suwa".

But soon, under the reminder of a certain first-grade child, the police discovered some strange details one after another, and believed that the murderer was not Suwa, but someone deliberately framed him.

Mu Mu Police Department: "..." Brother Jiang Xia, what happened today?

Mao Lilan leaned over and reminded Jiang Xia in a low voice:

"The deceased was holding the knife in the wrong position - usually the dominant hand should be in front, but he obviously held it backwards."

"That's right." Mori Kogoro said calmly:

"This kind of knife-holding posture and the marks of fighting seem to be deliberately arranged by laymen - not only the four walls of the room, but even the ceiling is covered with knife marks. Who would fight in such a place?

"So, the murderer must have killed Mr. Maru in a surprise attack, and then deliberately disguised the scene like this in order to blame the kendo instructor!"

"..." Conan glanced at Kogoro Mori quietly. This is obviously his line just now.

And when he said it just now, he was hit on the head by Maori Kogoro, but now, Uncle Maori actually took it for himself... tui! Double standard uncle.

Jiang Xia squatted down, pretending to check the corpse, and secretly reached out and tugged the shikigami on Maruden Jiro's leg, while casually saying, "Those are using our reverse thinking."

Shikigami was a little afraid of him, and slowly shrunk a circle.

But still stubbornly hugging the corpse, refusing to come down.

Jiang Xia had no choice but to let go of her hand regretfully.

He stood up and looked back at the messy room: "To be able to carve so many knife marks shows that the murderer had a lot of time to set up the scene. Even if he is not familiar with the way of swordsmanship, he can know how to hold the knife more smoothly with a little gesture. It’s hard to reverse.”

Conan was slightly taken aback, and quickly understood Jiang Xia's meaning: "You mean, the murderer arranged this to let us come to the conclusion that the scene was deliberately arranged like this by laymen, and then exclude the experts first?"

Among the three suspects, only one kendo instructor can be regarded as an "expert"... Is the murderer really Suwa?

but……

The Mumu police department touched his chin ponderingly, feeling that the reasoning was not rigorous enough:

"However, it is also possible that a layman knew that Mr. Suwa would come today, so he deliberately arranged the murder scene in an exaggerated way, so that when we saw these traces, we thought it was Mr. Suwa pretending to be a layman. But in fact, this is a layman's scene arranged by a layman because it is too layman's to be regarded as a layman's scene deliberately arranged by an expert."

Jiang Xia: "..." He barely understood what the Mumu Police Department was saying.

But if it goes on like this, it will only be endless.

So Jiang Xia silently turned to the beginning, pretending not to hear what he said, and continued to say her own:

"The deceased bled a lot. When the murderer posed for him, some of it would inevitably get on his body, hands, or the soles of his shoes. You can try to test it on Mr. Suwa. If not, look for discarded clothes along the way.

"Also, there is one more..."

Jiang Xia walked to the wall, where there was a standing cabinet composed of many drawers.

Compared with other places, the damage of the vertical cabinet is even worse, and the knife marks on it are dense and messy.

In addition, if you look carefully, you can find that there are actually two types of scratches on the cabinet:

One is very deep, as if carved out on purpose, and there is a weird break in the middle.

The other type is consistent with the knife marks in other places.

"The order of these drawers has been adjusted." Jiang Xia knocked on the door of the cabinet, and secretly pulled the progress bar of the case, "The deceased had engraved words here. After the murderer found out, he messed up the order of the drawers, and then The whole house had to be arranged as if it had been scratched by random knives.

As he spoke, his gaze traveled around the broken mark.

Then Jiang Xia put on gloves, took out several drawers, and rearranged them.

Soon, there was a clicking sound.

As the drawer returns to its original state, the knife marks on it are perfectly restored, and the broken marks are connected again, finally forming the two pseudonyms "すわ".

——Exactly the pronunciation of "Suwa".