"But..." The sister-in-law gritted her teeth, "But it was already very late when my husband went to the audio studio. Not long after that, the snow would have stopped. If he really went to the wing room later, the new snow would not have time to cover his footprints - so he must have been in the audio studio! After the murderer killed him, he forced him to put on armor and frame him!"
Policemen: "Well..." This sounds very reasonable...
Neither Damen nor his sister-in-law could convince each other. Seeing this, the old lady beside her shook her head helplessly:
"You are not right. This is really a curse of resentful souls - actually at midnight last night, I saw the warrior in armor walking step by step from the wing room towards the main house.
"That huge body and ghostly staggering look... I will never admit my mistake, that is General Xiuyou five hundred years ago!"
The policemen: "..." This sounds like... no, no, no, this is impossible - even if someone really passed by the yard at that time, it must be not some old unjust souls, but a murderer wearing armor disguised as unjust souls.
They were about to make a correction, but at this moment, Jiang Xia talked considerately as the old man said: "Is there a weapon in that wronged soul?"
The old lady recalled seriously: "At that time, he was facing my window, and I only remember that his left hand did not hold a knife. As for his right hand... maybe he didn't hold it, or maybe he took it, but it was blocked by his body and I couldn't see it."
Officer Sato didn't know why Jiang Xia asked about this, but he still recorded the details provided by the old lady in the notebook one by one.
She looked through the content she had already recorded before and said with a headache:
"The biggest problem now is that before we arrived at the scene, there were only a string of footprints in the yard, which extended from the wing room to the main house - that is, either the murderer had the ability to fly through the snow without leaving footprints, or the murderer had already ambushed in the wing room before the snow stopped.
"If it were the latter, everyone in the family would have absent. But on the other hand, I just looked around the house and there were no footprints in the yard that escaped from these two rooms to outside the yard... Could it be that the murderer was still hiding in a corner of the house?"
Just as he was about to go to the house with two colleagues to search, but before the action, Jiang Xia shook his head and cut off a large piece of workload for them: "This is actually very easy to explain - it just snowed last night, and the time for the crime was shortly after the snow stopped, and the snow was still very soft at this time.
"The murderer walked from the main house to the wing room normally. After the killing, he put on his armor and walked back step by step according to his footprints.
"That suit of armor is very heavy, and the boots of the armor are much larger than ordinary people's shoe sizes, so after putting on the armor, the second footprints left by the murderer can easily cover the traces of his coming, regardless of whether in terms of depth or width.
"This is why the old lady thinks the steps of her armor are as strange as a ghost - the murderer cannot walk at will, but must ensure that every step is aimed at her previous footprints."
Officer Sato followed Jiang Xia's words and recalled the scene of stepping on the snow in his mind, and immediately understood that the detective was right.
The complex problem that she thought about for a long time was solved smoothly.
"That..." Officer Takagi saw that Jiang Xia easily cracked a secret room in the snow, and couldn't help but raise his little hand. "Actually, I also have a question - did the second deceased commit suicide?"
If it was suicide, the matter would be simple: Needless to say, the second murder case, the murderer of the first murder case must be this eldest son, just like General Xiuyou, who was the legendary murderer first and then suicide.
Unfortunately, Jiang Xia clicked the reading machine and shook his head: "Do you still remember the locations of the murderous sword and the deceased after we opened the door of the audio-visual room?"
Officer Takagi: "!"
Of course he did not forget the impactful scene just now.
In my impression, the blood-stained sword fell not far behind the door, but the body was in a very close place.
...A person who intends to commit suicide by stabbing the throat seems to have no need and no strength to throw the knife so far. In other words, is this another suicide in a secret room?
Officer Shiragou realized something was wrong, and he looked at Jiang Xia: "Do you already know who the murderer is?"
Curacao held the teacup and looked up at him.
After a while, the organization cadre who wanted the colleague who was laid off from the pester was very regretfully withdrawn his gaze: "..." It seems that the "already" in this police concept is far from the actual "already"... Alas, I thought I could see the scene of Uzzo's overturn, but judging from the current situation, this so-called elite policeman seems to be no different from ordinary policemen.
Sure enough, Uzo, who was asked the key question, did not change at all. He just nodded like a confident detective: "I probably know, but it will take some time to verify the conjecture."
Officer Shiraki was curious, but he didn't ask too much: Although he occasionally had the urge to lie down like Takagi in his heart and answer equally, his beloved goddess is right next to him and he can't show his fear. While Jiang Xia didn't say anything, he quickly recalled the clues he had just seen and tried to connect them together.
Conan caught a glimpse of his expression, and after being stunned, he showed a smile that saw too much: I should have called Hattori and asked him to pray to the current Shiraki Police Officer...
Just as I was thinking, a sound of footsteps came from the corridor.
Two high school girls helped the maids from Damen's house to bring in the pretty sumptuous breakfast and placed it on the low dining table.
Suzuki Sonoko put down the tray and quickly mixed himself with a cup of wheat tea with the right temperature, and swallowed a large piece of toast in the tea.
Then she slapped her mouth boldly and said in a tone of resurrection: "I starve to death! Fortunately, there is a microwave in the kitchen, so there is no need to make a fire, and everything will be done in a few dings."
Jiang Xia nodded and looked around: "There are all people, so now we can start looking for the murderer."
Suzuki Yuanko: "?!"
How come the reasoning begins after the breakfast is hot? It seems that this is not how it is performed on TV - the beautiful detective assistant has not had time to play a key role!
However, her curiosity about this case quickly overwhelmed her career aspirations.
A female high school student who was absent from classes began to catch up with the progress: "Isn't the murderer the one who died in the audio studio?"
Jiang Xia nodded and added the missing ones to her in a few words: "The murderer first went to the wing room to kill the president of the gate, then put on his armor, stepped on the footprints of his arrival back to the main house, and went to the audio-visual room to kill another gentleman of the gate."
Chapter completed!