"It's already very hard to carry the body, let alone a corpse hidden in the sofa." With Jiangxia's encouraging gaze, Maya Hashimoto bit the bullet and estimated the weight of the body and the sofa, and then came to the conclusion like a serious detective assistant:
"The murderer probably didn't expect that the sofa he threw away would be taken away and sold for the second time. Normally, the sofa would be taken away by a garbage truck and disposed of. In this case, the murderer shouldn't deliberately throw the sofa away - I think he actually lives nearby, and may even be a resident in this building."
As they were talking, two middle-aged housewives walked out of the apartment building. They chatted while walking: "Mr. Deyong is so scary. When I went home this afternoon, I saw him laughing while opening the door. I almost thought it was the thief who broke into the air door to pick the lock."
Jiang Xia's ear tip moved and looked at them - the "Mr. Deyong" mentioned by the two was the neighbor of the buyer's lady.
Another housewife heard his friend's words and said in surprise: "He can actually laugh. I thought he was born with a wooden face."
Housewife No. 1 muttered: "It seems that something good happened to him. Could it be that he won the lottery?"
Housewife No. 2 waved her hand: "He is such a cautious person. He has to look down at the key three times when he goes out. He can't get involved in the lottery's pure luck."
Housewife No. 1: "Oh, I won't talk about him anymore, it's boring - compared to these, did the thief catch it? I always steal in our area. If he doesn't get caught, I'd like to install a few locks at home."
The two of them talked about various trivial topics and went to a nearby izakaya to drink.
Officer Takagi didn't care much about this little episode. He thought about Hashimoto Maya's words and understood something: "When it comes to residents, the buyer lady is also a resident here... Could it be that she dragged the sofa downstairs after killing people and wanted to drive over tow it away, but the sofa was pulled away by the clerk of the furniture store first, so she could only quickly rush to the furniture store and buy the sofa back?"
Conan scratched his head when he heard this: "The garbage station is a distance from the apartment building. If things are as you said, the sofa should have been picked up at the door of the apartment, not the garbage station ten meters away. In addition, why didn't she drive the car to the door in advance and wait?"
Officer Takagi was stunned: "That's right."
Conan looked at the man who was ignorant of his questions and shook his head and sighed. He turned to Jiang Xia and muttered: "The corpse hiding cases are usually murdered by acquaintances. In order to prevent the police from finding themselves by checking the deceased's interpersonal relationship, the murderer tried every means to make the corpse disappear - but in this case, the murderer usually hid the corpse deep into the mountains. Why was this corpse hidden in a sofa on the street?"
Jiang Xia: "I have to ask Mr. Deyong - the buyer neighbor who just provided us with clues."
Conan: “…?”
Wait, everyone is still reading the question, what are you doing?! Besides, shouldn’t we lay a prelude to the big things like announcing the murderer? Why are you just...!
After a pause, Conan tried to make himself think: "You mean, that Mr. Neighbor knows something?"
Jiang Xia looked at him in confusion, as if he felt that he was not as enlightened as before today: "I mean, that neighbor is the murderer."
“…”
A fake elementary school student's heart finally fell into trouble.
Next to him, the policeman's heart fell to the ground in another way - Officer Takagi did not hear what they were muttering before, but heard Jiang Xia's last words. He came over and his eyes lit up: "Murderer? You have found the murderer!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "It should be that after Mr. Deyong had a conflict with the deceased, he wanted to deal with the body, but it was too late. So he had to temporarily hide the deceased on the sofa and move it downstairs, intending to throw the body out early the next morning after the night shift.
"While this time, he went out to prepare some corpse throwing supplies, but after he came back, he found that the sofa placed in the garbage spot was missing.
"Before he had completely figured out what to do, the body was taken away by someone else. The somewhat confused murderer suddenly felt that there was a burden on his shoulders, so he was always happy when he returned home, and was seen by the two wives who had just gone downstairs.
"But he didn't expect that, not long after he was happy, the disappeared body was sent back downstairs. Therefore, when the police were looking for him, he had a sudden inspiration and compiled a piece of information following Officer Takagi's question, trying to throw all the murders on the lady who bought the sofa."
"Wait, wait." Conan pressed his temple, feeling the question marks in his mind one by one, and everything seemed to make no sense. In the past, even if Jiang Xia disclosed the answer in advance, he could connect everything in a flash, but this time...
Conan frowned, feeling that it was unreasonable everywhere: "Why did he have to throw the body outside instead of hiding it in his own home?"
Jiang Xia: "You heard the complaints from the two ladies just now - there are thieves in this area recently. If the murderer happened to be invaded by a thief at home when he went out to buy something and found the body, things would be troublesome. In comparison, if the body was placed outside, even if it was discovered, there was still room for quibbling."
Conan tried to think about it from the murderer's perspective and felt even more troubled: "But no matter how you think about it, the chance of being found in the house is lower than being left outside. - Take a step back and say that killing people is always more important than going to work. He can take a day off and concentrate on throwing the body."
Jiang Xia shook her head: "When the murderer just finished killing someone, his mentality often becomes fragile and sensitive, especially the novice who killed someone for the first time - I just asked the police officers from the police station who came to help, and they said that because there are always thieves in this area, they will drive police cars to patrol at 10 am and 3 pm every day at 10 am and 3 pm, and broadcast the radio to remind residents to pay attention to theft prevention.
"If the murderer had just finished killing someone and was at a loss, a police car suddenly passed through the window and kept playing news like "Shuguang Town has been robbing a lot recently, please be careful." Then the murderer's mind will naturally appear in his mind that the thief took advantage of the opportunity to find the body.
"Districted by this fear, he must not want the body to stay at home for a moment. So he immediately hid the body in the sofa, threw the sofa downstairs, ready to deal with it later."
Chapter completed!