"!" The three children did not dare to say anything. They quickly retracted their hands and moved closer and closer, squeezing into a ball skillfully. Perhaps they instinctively felt that the area where they would be beaten would become smaller.
Jiang Xia stared at them silently for a while, then looked away.
Of course, he didn't beat the child, after all, the child didn't have murderous intentions... Let's write down the account first, and he will take more cases from them in the future.
…
Next to him, Toyama Kazuha, who stepped on a human skull, gradually recovered from the shock. She had often seen corpses with Hattori Heiji before, and her resistance was stronger than ordinary people. Now she suddenly encountered a skeleton, and she subconsciously looked at Hattori Heiji.
...but couldn't find it.
...Oh, he is still concentrating on investigating the case in the Spider Mansion.
Yuan Shan and Ye's horrified eyes turned into half-moon eyes in an instant. For some reason, they had a lot of things in their hearts that they wanted to vomit, but they felt that the scene was not appropriate, so they swallowed it down silently.
Finally, her attention returned to the present.
Fortunately, there is a reliable detective nearby.
Yuan Shan and Ye turned to Jiang Xia and asked in a low voice: "What's going on with these bones?"
Jiang Xia borrowed the ghost's vision, and her vision was very clear even in the middle of the night.
He waved the flashlight in a meaningful way, and finally let the aperture stop somewhere, observing while saying:
"It should be human bones, with lime sprinkled next to them - lime absorbs water and releases heat, which can accelerate the decay of the corpse and shorten the time for the bones to turn into white bones."
In other words, the human traces are very heavy.
Rob asked subconsciously: "Homicide?"
"It's very possible." Jiang Xia was not interested in standing in the wilderness and analyzing these things. He wanted to see ghosts first.
So after observing for a while, he walked towards a flat stone with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters nearby: "There seems to be traces of moving here..."
As he spoke, he squatted down and pushed the stone away with all his strength.
I originally thought there would be scorpions, ants, centipedes and the like underneath.
However, it didn't happen... maybe it's because the seasons change irregularly, and it's hard for the fragile bugs to adapt.
This made Jiang Xia feel a lot more comfortable.
He first asked Rob to take a few photos, then found the gloves he carried with him and picked up the things that were pressed under the flat stone.
——A ring with a mottled appearance, and a flattened cigarette box. In addition, there were some scattered cigarettes beside it.
Jiang Xia opened the cigarette case and poured it into his hand.
Six cigarettes fell into his palm through his gloves, two of which were torn from the middle, four long and two short.
...a very typical death message.
I don’t know how the victims had a flash of inspiration and thought of this before they died...
Hui Yuan Ai squatted next to Jiang Xia holding a flashlight to help him illuminate.
Jiang Xia was slightly startled when she saw the ring in her hand - there were several letters engraved on the inside of the ring, ETSUKO to ASAO.
Etsuko to Asao
"This may be the ring that Miss Etsuko Nonomiya gave to her fiancé, Mr. Asao Kono." Haibara Ai whispered:
"Ms. Nonomiya was a guest in the hotel where we were. I heard that she came here with Mr. Kono a year ago. After the two had a big quarrel, Kono left the hotel alone and then disappeared.
"This year, there was no news from Mr. Kono, until last week, he suddenly sent out several invitations, inviting those who received them to come here to the hotel.
"Miss Nonomiya came here immediately after receiving the letter, but she couldn't wait for anyone..."
...and now, there is a white skeleton at the foot of the mountain, and next to the bones is Asao Kono's ring.
It seems that about a year ago, Nonomiya Etsuko and others were gone.
Hui Yuan Ai sighed inwardly and looked up at the starry sky for a while, feeling that he had encountered a sad story.
Then she turned to Jiang Xia and asked in a low voice: "Do you want to call the police?"
Normally, she would have made the emergency call skillfully.
But now, Jiang Xia is also there. And Haiyuan Ai always feels that Jiang Xia is sometimes not so innocent and not afraid of investigation... So she thinks that she should try to exercise restraint when calling the police and ask Jiang Xia's opinion first.
Jiang Xia nodded.
Then he hesitated and said: "But this place..."
Before they could finish speaking, Yuan Shan and Ye's disappointed voices came: "No signal."
Jiang Xia raised her head and glanced at her. She almost forgot that this person was also a professional in calling police, and her hand speed of pressing 110 was not slower than Mao Lilan's.
The mobile phone couldn't be used, so Haiyuan Ai quickly thought of another way: "I remember there was a landline phone in the hotel where we stayed."
But midway through her words, she stopped.
——In the hotel where she stayed, there were three people invited by "the invitation letter sent by Kono".
But Kono is dead now, so there must be someone else who sent the invitation.
And now, Kono's bones are scattered in front of this famous observation point... It seems that someone deliberately arranged it like this, just waiting for the body to be discovered.
If the news that "there is a dead person here" is brought back to the hotel step by step, no one knows whether it will fulfill the intention of the mastermind behind the scenes.
Haihara Ai hesitated for a moment and did not express these speculations - she had to maintain the image of a "six-year-old child" when there were strangers around.
Moreover, she just mentioned Kono's invitation letter to Jiang Xia. Needless to say, Jiang Xia must understand the hidden dangers in it.
So Haiyuan Ai jumped directly to the conclusion. She looked at Jiang Xia and said briefly: "Where are you from? If it's not far, why not go to your place and borrow a phone to call the police..."
Before he finished speaking, a figure walked out of the deep forest.
Then a strange male voice sounded, and the man asked hesitantly: "Call the police? What happened?"
Jiang Xia looked up and saw a middle-aged man with long cheeks and short curly hair. He was holding something like a heavy discus in his hand.
Dr. A Li seemed to know him: "Mr. Tiantu?"
As he said that, the doctor thought of the strange bones at his feet and couldn't help but become suspicious: "What are you doing here?"
Boss Tiantu is the owner of the hotel where Dr. Ali and his party are staying.
Concurrently engaged in telescope rental business.
He handed over the lead weight in his hand and said honestly: "I just remembered that the set of telescopes you borrowed is missing a pair of lead pendants. I forgot to put them back after using them last time."
After saying that, he seemed to still care about what Huihara Ai had just said. He glanced casually and quickly saw the skeleton on the ground.
The air was stagnant for a moment.
The next second, Boss Tiantu let out a scream, ran away, and rushed back to the hotel.
Jiang Xia looked at his back silently, feeling that his acting skills were a bit exaggerated.
but……
"Since we've been discovered, let's use the hotel phone to call the police." Jiang Xia said with helplessness on her face and a slight expectation in her heart.
Yuan Shan and Ye nodded, not daring to look at the skeleton on the ground, thinking "call the police".
Rob didn't expect to encounter another murder case. He didn't really want to deal with the police, but he was out now. If the police testified, the alibi at the Spider Mansion would look more solid. So it was very
Quickly nod in agreement.
…
A group of people were on their way to the hotel.
More than ten kilometers away, in the Spider Mansion.
Hattori Heiji was chatting with Takeda Ryuji.
At this time, Takeda Yuzo hurriedly opened the door: "Have you seen my eldest brother? He just said he was going to the studio to make puppets, but I searched all over the house and couldn't find him."
"What?!"
Even though an adult has just been missing for an hour or two, it's not a big problem.
But Hattori Heiji still had a bad feeling.
He followed the Takeda family to search, and suddenly thought of a place:
To be continued...