Rebirth from Conan

Chapter 25: Suspects Choose One from Three
"A car crashed into the sea!"

"Help save people!"

There were exclamations from tourists on the beach.

Seeing that the falling car was quickly sinking into the sea, Shuichi Akai threw down his hat without saying a word and jumped into the water.

"Wang!"

Yukiko held the dog leash in one hand and protected Xia He and Shinichi behind her with the other hand to avoid a stampede among the onlookers who came forward to join in the fun.

About five minutes later.

Akai Hide floated out of the sea carrying the middle-aged man without blushing or breathing hard. His relaxed look really surprised Xia He who was standing on the beach.

"What a strong physique..."

For a guy like Shuichi Akai's level, the three values ​​must be at least twice as high as those of an ordinary person, right?

After all, this is a world of science where anyone can kick a telephone pole in half. Putting aside Shuichi Akai, it is possible that Kyogoku's measurements may exceed 100.

"Can this person be saved?" Shinichi stepped forward and asked.

"He's dead." Akai Shuichi shook his head.

As soon as the words fell, all the onlookers subconsciously stepped back several steps.

"Dead..."

"It seems like he accidentally broke through the fence. Isn't this person really unlucky?"

"Could you please call the police?" Akai Shuichi turned his head and looked over.

However, since mobile phones were rare in the 1980s, and everyone was wearing swimsuits now, there was really no one at the scene who could call the police.

Seeing this, Akai Shuichi was about to ask Shinichi to go to a nearby store to find a landline, but Xia He suddenly raised his hand and said, "Leave it to me."

As he spoke, he began to press numbers on his watch.

"What is this?" Yukiko asked curiously.

"The communication watch, which Dr. Agasa just gave me a few days ago."

"Why don't I have it?" Hearing this, Shinichi immediately ran over from the corpse.

"For now, I've only made one. The doctor asked me to test its performance first. Once mass production begins, I'll definitely deliver it to your home as soon as possible."

Xia He gave Xin Yi a perfunctory response and then called the police.

At the same time, Akai Shuichi waved at Shinichi and said, "Hey, apprentice of Sherlock Holmes, can you help go to the counter over there that specializes in selling swimsuits and ask if there were any customers wearing casual clothes and getting soaked who went there to buy T-shirts, swimsuits, beach slippers, and the like after the car fell into the sea. I suspect there may have been another person in the car, but he must have escaped from the car and mixed in with the tourists the moment it fell into the sea."

"it is good!"

Shinichi, who was already somewhat excited because of the case he had encountered, immediately ran towards the store with great energy upon hearing this.

Soon, more than ten minutes later.

A large number of police officers arrived at the scene of the accident and began to survey the situation on the scene.

Another group of police officers entered the beach and asked Shuichi Akai, who was the first to jump into the water to rescue people, about the whole incident.

"So that's how it is. The car first crashed into the guardrail on the cliff, and then fell into the sea..." A middle-aged policeman wearing glasses crouched in front of the body. He first observed the condition of the body, then looked up at Akai Shuichi, "Then this man is the driver you salvaged from the sea?" Akai Shuichi nodded, "Yes."

"Excuse me, what is your identity?"

"My name is Akai Shuichi, an ordinary international student, currently studying at a university in the United States. Today I am here on vacation with my family."

The police recorded this information and asked, "Is the previous call to the police true? It said that there was another person in the car at the time of the accident."

Ok?
Upon hearing this, Akai Shuichi was stunned.

He seemed to remember that when he called the police just now, he didn't seem to tell Xia He about this.

How did this kid know that?
But when faced with the police's questions, he chose to answer honestly: "Indeed. Because when I was rescuing people on the seabed, I found that only the passenger window of the car was completely open, so I guessed that there was another person in the car at the time."

Generally speaking, which driver would open the window on the passenger side instead of his own?

"Moreover, the man was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, so when the vehicle ran out of the guardrail, his head directly hit the windshield, resulting in a fractured cervical vertebra and death."

Akai Shuichi put his hands in his pockets and continued his reasoning, "Then, after the car was completely submerged in the sea, the passengers tried to wake him up to no avail, so they guessed that the driver might have died, so they chose to escape alone..."

"If what you said is true, why did the passenger who was in the same car with the deceased blend into the tourists at the beach after escaping?" The policeman was still very puzzled. "After all, he was also a victim of the accident, so there should be no reason for him to hide, right?"

"That's because he had a reason to hide his identity."

Akai Shuichi looked at the middle-aged policeman confidently, "If I'm not mistaken, has a robbery just happened in the watch shop nearby?"

"How do you know?" the policeman asked in surprise.

"Because the bag the deceased was carrying was filled with a lot of expensive watches with tags."

"Then it's impossible that the wholesalers are delivering goods to the store?"

"In that case, to avoid damage, you should put the watch in a plastic bag or a box, right? Putting it in the bag casually like this makes it look more like someone just robbed someone and ran away."

Akai Shuichi spread his hands, "By the way, has no one seen what the two robbers look like?"

"No."

The police shook his head. "At the time of the incident, both criminals were wearing hats and masks, so we can only judge from the voice that one of the criminals was a man, and the other one... we are not even sure if it is a man or a woman."

As for whether the surveillance cameras on the road have captured the two people...

Not to mention that cameras were not yet popular in that era, even if they were available, it would most likely be impossible to capture anything.

When have you ever seen anyone solve a case in the scientific world by relying on surveillance?

"Big brother!"

Shinichi's voice suddenly came from nearby.

"I brought them here. These three people were the customers who went to the clothing store at the Sea House to buy things after the car fell into the sea."

After he finished speaking, the two men and one woman brought by Shinichi all showed expressions of impatience.

Xia He's eyes quickly swept across the faces of the three people.

He knew that the next step would be to enter the classic stage of selecting one of three suspects.

(End of this chapter)