Fortunately - Yuanshan and Ye discovered that although they had the same experience as "the protagonist of the horror movie" this time, there were many people, with eight of them. This is twice the number of people who disappeared, so they feel very safe...

However, soon, this sense of security disappeared again.

Jiang Xia looked at Yuanshan and Ye: "You take the children here and let's go out and have a look."

Far Mountain and Ye: “…”

Stay in this cannibal hotel with a group of children?

She shivered and followed her instinctively and said dryly, "I, I want to go out with you to find someone, it is not safe for the children to stay here..."

"...that's fine." Jiang Xia didn't understand why the hotel was not safe, but it didn't matter where Yuanshan and Ye wanted to be. He walked outside the hotel, "There are a lot of missing people. Since that's the case, let's look for it separately."

...

Haibara Ai pointed Jiangxia in the direction where she saw Yuko Nonomiya.

Several people chased after the mountain road, but found nothing.

Haibara Ai remembered the speed of Nonomiya Eiko's movement just now, and felt that at this time, they should have caught up with each other, but now they didn't see anyone at all.

...Have you gone in the wrong direction?

As Haibara Ai walked, he adjusted the map inside his brain.

Just as she felt that it was right, her back collar suddenly sank - Jiang Xia carried her collar back.

Almost at the same time, a heavy figure fell to their eyes and slammed heavily on the ground with a loud bang.

The far mountain and Ye were shocked, shaking the flashlight, and saw a young man lying on the ground. The man's hair was thick and sharp, like an unruly sea urchin.

“…Mr. Nikawa?!”

It is the editor of that magazine.

Jiang Xia looked at the people on the ground, then looked upwards.

Erchuan Zhao fell from the cliff above his head. The top of the cliff is the famous star observation point.

This cliff is dozens of meters high. After it gets dark, it is difficult for normal people to see such a faraway place, and the ordinary flashlights they carry cannot be illuminated.

However, this had no effect on Jiang Xia. He borrowed the ghost's eyesight as soon as he went out, so he successfully saw the cliff top and a bright bald head looking down on the top - the editor-in-chief of the astronomical magazine was on it.

The editor-in-chief who had just thrown his subordinates down, although he was looking down the cliff at this time, he did not feel Jiang Xia's gaze, and only saw a few clusters of flashlights.

So he had no idea of ​​silence for the time being, but just stepped back silently and quickly took the shortcut to run back to the hotel.

Seeing that the editor-in-chief did not try to throw things down and smash people to silence them, Jiang Xia did not bring out the hidden hunting rifle and shoot it, and then he withdrew his gaze.

Then he squatted down, briefly explored Nikawa Sho's situation, and whispered: "The cervical spine is broken."

Haibara Ai pointed at the hedgehog head editor's tight hand: "He is holding a cigarette box."

Usually, this may not be too eye-catching.

But more than an hour ago, several people just received the message "Harao used the cigarette in the cigarette box to leave a message of death before he died, so the cigarette box in the hand of the Hedgehog Head Editor also became eye-catching - this is probably also a message of death.

Jiang Xia put on gloves again, took the cigarette box and poured it over.

The scene that was an hour ago reappeared, and a few cigarettes of long and short fell into his hands. However, this time, the message became five long and two short.

So how did these people come up with these troublesome puzzles at the moment of death... Jiang Xia looked at the smoke in her hand and fell into deep thought.

After pondering for a while, the detective badge in Haibara's pocket sizzled.

Soon, Dr. Agasa's voice came from it: "Over it! Look at it!"

Jiang Xia raised her head and saw a few beams of flashlights on the top of the cliff.

Dr. Agasa, Robert and several children found someone to find the mountain.

When they arrived, the editor-in-chief had already slipped away quietly. There was no one on the mountain, only an open folding mobile phone was placed on the ground.

The doctor picked up his phone and clicked it.

I saw a written suicide note inside.

...

"I sent out an invitation to bring everyone up in order to confess the crime I committed a year ago."

In the hotel lobby, Dr. Agasa, under the different gaze of a group of people, read the message on his phone: "That's right, I am the one who killed Matsuo Kono - Nikawa Hashi.

"The day when Mr. Kono was killed was like a nightmare - as both astronomy enthusiasts who refused to give in, we had a little argument on the cliff. Unfortunately, when we came back to our senses, he had been pushed off the cliff by me.

"Since then, I've always wanted to confess. But as time goes by, it's getting harder to tell the truth... In the end, my heart was overwhelmed with guilt and decided to turn the time back to this day a year ago, and apologize for death before the police arrived.

"I hope that my death like Kono can comfort the ghosts who refuse to sleep in the forest.

————Shiko Erchuan”

Jiang Xia walked to the hall and glanced at the cell phone that Dr. Agasa held in his hand, thinking that it was quite like that.

Just now, while Dr. Agasa was slowly reading his suicide note, he went to the room of three passengers and stayed briefly at each of his door for a short while, looking into the room, preparing for the spot before solving the case.

It doesn't matter what you see. The key is to see it, so that you can explain many sources of information - information you didn't see directly, and you can also use "famous detective's reasoning" to explain it based on this. This is the convenience of thinking...

Just now, when they returned to the hotel with their mobile phones with the "authorized letter" written on it,

The boss of Tiantu, Nonomiya Yuko, and the editor-in-chief, who were also missing before, have also returned to the hall.

Three people line up and choose one of the three perfectly.

Jiang Xia came out of the corridor and stopped in the corner of the hall, behind the three suspects.

As soon as I stood firm, I felt that I should be leaning against the wall and placing a "sense of everything" position commonly used by high school detectives, and sneered... But before I could hold my hands, a small head suddenly appeared next to me.

Haibara Ai came out of somewhere, and asked him with his eyes: How is it?

"I understand roughly." Jiang Xia finally had time to lean against the wall, and he whispered, "It's almost time for the police to come and deal with the aftermath."

"..." Haibara Ai couldn't help but look up at him.

...Jiang Xia's tone just now was obviously not like a cheerful and sunny high school detective, but very much like the group of members in the organization who often laughed at the police. These people usually say something in front of young peripheral members... No, this is not the point. The main reason is that Jiang Xia, as a member of the organization, suddenly appeared in the mouth of a "finding police aftermath" and always felt that something was wrong.

No, this is still not the point...

Haibara Ai pressed his forehead and was silent for a moment for this subtle sense of dislocation, and finally remembered what he should do now.

——From Jiang Xia’s words, he should have known who the murderer was.

only……

Haibara Ai's eyes swept over the people in the hall.

She was also at the scene of Erchuan's death just now, and knew that the young man with hedgehog head was holding a box of "death message" in his hand. So it was impossible for him to leave the suicide note - this was not suicide, and the murderer must have someone else.

At worst, there may be two murderers in this hall at the same time - a man who killed Kono a year ago and a man who just killed the editor of the Hedgehog head.

There are only three suspects here...

The probability of two-thirds is that Haibara Ai is suspicious now.

In addition, there are too many people who are not worth the military power of our side. If the situation is exposed, the scene will be too chaotic and the murderers or the murderers take advantage of the chaos to take hostages, Jiang Xia's situation will become very passive. Judging from the truck just now, Robert and Jiang Xia are not like companions, and Robert may not necessarily help. Dr. Agasa and the children don't have to expect. The female high school student with a ponytail is also as thin as a gust of wind to blow away... After careful calculation, it seems that Jiang Xia can fight here.

Ai Haibara looked at the very suspicious boss Tiantu and the bald editor-in-chief, and then looked at Robert, who was not familiar with Jiang Xia. Finally, he glanced at the group of children, Dr. Agasa, the old man, and the slender and weak Asahi Yaya, and whispered:

"Why pretend you don't know and wait until dawn to call the police?... Or I'll help you find some rope?"

——After the suspects fell asleep, they knocked on the door and broke in, and the night attack made the murderer numb and tied him up... This should also be a good solution.

She just happened to bring several tubes of anesthetics. Since she was verbally accepted by Miss Anonymous as an peripheral member of the Anonymous organization, Ai Haibara has always carried some of these things on her body. This gave her a subtle sense of peace of mind that was synchronized with the organization.

Jiang Xia did not accept this suggestion. He shook his head gently and said seriously: "It's still a long time before dawn. You can't look up to the criminal's psychological quality - if he is confused and thinks that this matter cannot be hidden from us, and leaving at night with his luggage, it will be very troublesome in the future."

Moreover, there is a case in the Spider Mansion. After the case is solved, he has to go to find gin and vodka as soon as possible to prevent the two busy men in black from thinking that he is slow to move, so he left him and ran to Yueying Island in advance...

Haibara Ai looked at Jiang Xia thoughtfully, feeling that he seemed to have an idea: "Do you have a way to call the police?"

As the words came out, she suddenly remembered the strange landline in the hotel.

——In the past, when encountering similar closures, the telephone line was often cut directly.

But this time, the entire telephone line disappeared.

This may mean...

"The telephone line was not destroyed, but was hidden...Is there a way for you to get it?"

Haibara Ai thought of finding the police soon, ending the case, returning to his room to have a good sleep, his eyes lit up slightly.

Jiang Xia was about to nod, but suddenly remembered something.

He looked down at the calm and calm, except for his appearance as a child, he looked like an elegant adult.

Suddenly I remembered the scene in the original world line where this fake child pretended to have a stomachache, rolled around the ground, and forced the person who was hiding the phone line to hand over the line.

...It's ashamed to say that he's a little curious.

Jiang Xia looked at Ai Haibara, pressed her conscience, looked at Ai Haibara, and pressed her conscience...

Haibara Ai was waiting to listen to the "How to find the phone line", but he didn't hear any movement for a long time.

She raised her head in confusion.
To be continued...