The store manager's wife who was directly watched by Jiang Xia: "?!"
She was stunned for several seconds before she came back to her senses and retorted in a panic: "Don't talk nonsense!"
The other two clerks also hurriedly said: "The boss and the boss have a good relationship. Did you make something wrong?"
Jiang Xia shook her head, like an emotionally unsensing reasoning machine, and continued: "The store manager did some tricks and disguised the murder as suicide. When the eagle entered the mountain to attack the 'bait', it suddenly changed its direction. This was not because it wanted to attack the store owner, but someone set up a fishing line in front of the bait."
"The reflection Conan saw before was the light brought by the eagle when it tripped onto the line."
The eagle trainer was stunned and thought of the scars on his baby's eagle's legs: "I just said, how could my eagle run to attack people for no reason!"
"..." The old farmer elbowed him.
"!" The hawk trainer came back to his senses and realized that if he admitted this... then the boss lady is really the murderer?
"This..." He looked at the innocent eagle, then at the innocent boss lady, and his mind was filled with mud.
Next to him, Otaki police department suddenly remembered something, and he confirmed to Jiang Xia: "Is the fishing line you mentioned that you were found next to the sniper rifle?"
"..." Jiang Xia didn't want to talk about this topic very much. He glanced at Hattori Heiji and nodded briefly.
Hattori Heiji was shocked: "…?" What did I do, what did I do?
Before he could ask, Jiang Xia had already continued naturally: "When the fishing line was discovered, it was wrapped around a heavy wooden barrel, which was a distance from the corpse and the bait. This was actually a specially designed by the murderer to prevent us from finding clues."
As he said that, he looked at his watch: "This afternoon, gunshots rang out twice in the forest, but in fact, the store manager was already dead as early as the first time the gunshots rang out."
"Wait." The Hawk Trainer came to his senses, "What are the two gunshots? Didn't it just one shot?"
Jiang Xia: "Do you still remember the popcorn experience activity here? This cafe has a clear activity time, and Mr. Ishima, who is responsible for making popcorn, is a very punctual person. I remember when making popcorn, he first looked at the watch and then knocked down the board with time.
"When the popcorn machine is started, there will be a bursting sound. The murderer is very clear about this, so after the store manager carried a hunting rifle into the mountain, she followed and found the person. When the popcorn was about to boil, she cheated the hunting rifle from the store manager and killed him by blocking the spot."
When Suzuki Yuanko heard this, she hit her palm with a bang and suddenly realized: "No wonder I could have instinctively heard the gunshot at that time. It turned out that someone really fired a gun!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "Even if there is a slight error in time because of the speed of the sound transmission, with the special terrain here, we will naturally think that it is an echo from the mountains.
"Anyway, the store manager's plan was very smooth, and no one noticed that she fired a shot in the woods.
"In order to confuse the store manager's real death time, she changed into the store manager's vest and hat, walked to the open space, and waved to the distance."
After he described this, everyone immediately remembered the scene at that time.
Ran Maori was stunned for two seconds, and his arms were filled with goose bumps, and he felt a sense of fear of saying hello to the dead.
Jiang Xia: "After creating the illusion that the store manager was still alive at that time, the store manager's wife crawled back to the woods, returned to the body, and returned the vest and hat to him.
"Then she took out the tools she had prepared in advance, placed the body on a tilted wooden board, and held it with a wooden barrel, which was connected to the wooden blocks that were easy to aim and a fishing line.
"The fishing line bypassed the trigger of the shotgun and crossed the eagle's bait. With these preparations, the store manager's wife trotted back to the cafe and started her own work as if nothing had happened.
"When the time is almost over, she came to the backyard and reminded the eagle trainers to perform a special show for us - that is, let the eagles fly into the mountains and pick up the lure hanging there."
"Mr. Hawksman did not doubt that he had let the eagle fly. The eagle rushed towards its target, but was tripped up before arriving. It pulled the fishing line and pulled the trigger of the shotgun."
When the eagle trainer heard this, his face turned pale: "You mean, my eagle..."
Jiang Xia looked at him and felt that the man was a little forgetful, or perhaps because of his concern, he was confused: "It did not shoot and kill people, after all, the store manager had already died. The direction of the second shot was actually the wood chips on the wooden barrel.
"The wood piece broke, the barrel lost its balance and rolled to the side. Its falls tugged the board with the body and bounced the manager's body out of the bushes.
“And from the perspective of our group of witnesses, we can only see a man falling out of the bush on the edge of the clearing, as if he had just fallen to the ground.
"As the barrel rolls away, other fishing lines, ropes, wood chips and other mechanisms with obvious artificial traces will be dragged into inconspicuous places.
"The hunting rifle was also pulled by the fishing line during this process and fell to the edge of the open space, just like someone abandoned the gun and fled in panic."
"I see!"
The police officer of Otaki suddenly realized that he felt that the mess in the mountains became smooth and smooth under Jiang Xia's combed.
While enjoying this comfortable feeling of solving cases, he remembered the only remaining question: "What's going on with that sniper rifle?"
Jiang Xia: "..."
There are so many questions, why don’t you call vodka to talk to you?
He cleared his throat and took on the topic again: "That looks like another case, we'll talk about it later."
"That's right." Otaki police officer realized half a beat that everything was not over yet. He obediently turned to the store manager's wife, "You have heard what Jiang Xia said. Do you have anything else to say?"
The store manager's wife reluctantly sorted out her thoughts, and she took a deep breath: "What evidence do you say are there? Why must it be me?"
The old farmer whispered: "When I was popping up popcorn, I was in the yard, and Chichai was playing with his eagle opposite us. We didn't go out. Isn't you the only one left?"
The store manager waved his hand violently: "What do you mean by me? Why can't someone else sneak up the mountain and shoot that dead ghost to death? - Besides, besides the three of us, isn't there another person in the store? If I ask me, the murderer must be that guy with a scammer's eyes!"
Hawksman and farmers: "!"
...So, there is really another person in the store.
The guest had a low presence. He didn't attend any activities every day and only appeared silently at the meal time, which almost forgot about this.
...Is it really him the murderer?
Chapter completed!