Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 56 Why should I listen to you, a little brat?
On the rooftop, in addition to the two office security guards, there was also a regular customer of the izakaya, the bald, red-nosed old man who liked to order tamagoyaki, Mr. Fujimori.

"Is it Mr. Lin?" The old man asked in surprise when he saw Lin Xiuyi coming out of the security door. "Why are you here?"

"I was passing by here with my sister and saw someone jumping off a building, so I came up to take a look," Lin Xiuyi said, surveying the rooftop. "Where's Mr. Fujimori? Aren't you meeting someone today? Is that the person you're looking for?"

"...I've seen him, but he's not the person I'm looking for," the old man sighed. "Besides, he seems to have encountered some difficulties and actually chose to jump off the building."

"The person who jumped off the building is the person you are going to meet today, Mr. Fujimori?" Lin Xiuyi confirmed again.

"That's right," the old man nodded frankly.

Last night at the izakaya, when Mr. Fujimori talked about the person he was going to meet today, there was something wrong with his tone and expression.

Lin Xiuyi suspected at the time that the old man was looking for his enemies to take revenge.

But later, because of the interference of that little movie scout Takashima, he missed the opportunity to find out the truth.

Judging from what happened last night, the bald old man in front of him is most likely the real culprit who caused the young man to fall to his death.

"Where were you, Mr. Fujimori, when that man jumped off the building just now?" Lin Xiuyi asked immediately.

"What?" The old man frowned and asked unhappily, "Are you suspecting that I pushed that young man down the stairs?"

"That man really did jump off the building," said the bespectacled security guard nearby. "When we opened the security door leading to the rooftop, we saw him fall from the roof."

"Besides him, there was no one else on the rooftop at that time."

"This building is about thirty or forty meters away from the nearest building," another short, fat security guard said. "If that person was really pushed off the building by someone else, there's no way the murderer could have escaped from the rooftop."

"Mr. Fujimori, you haven't answered my question yet?" Lin Xiuyi ignored the two security guards and continued to ask.

"Lin-san, you're just a chef at the izakaya, and you're still a minor," Mr. Fujimori said unhappily. "I shouldn't be obligated to explain my situation to you, right?"

His words hit Lin Xiuyi's sore spot.

As the saying goes, without the right name, one cannot speak the truth. Without an official background or identity, Lin Xiuyi is indeed not qualified to ask about other people's private affairs.

Seeing the tense atmosphere, the bespectacled security guard quickly explained, "Actually, this old man came to the security room on the first floor and told us that someone was trying to jump from the rooftop, so he asked us to come up and take a look."

"The rooftop isn't patrolled, and there aren't any surveillance cameras here. If it weren't for this old man, we wouldn't have gotten up here so quickly," the short, fat security guard said, speaking up for the old man. "Although we were a step too slow and couldn't save the man who jumped, this old man is definitely a good man. Don't make false accusations, little brat!"

Seeing that the three people were looking at him with a common hatred, Lin Xiuyi said no more and walked to the edge of the rooftop.

Surrounding the rooftop is a protective platform that is less than knee-high.

Lin Xiuyi stood behind the protective platform and looked down, and quickly determined the location where the young man jumped from the building.

"Be careful, don't fall down!" The security guard with glasses kindly reminded.

The short and fat security guard sneered, "If you fall, don't falsely accuse us of pushing you!"

"Hey, why are you arguing with a kid?" the bespectacled security guard nudged his companion and whispered, "Kids are quick-tempered. If he gets so angry that he jumps off the building, both of us will lose our jobs."

After saying this, he saw Lin Xiuyi standing on the edge of the rooftop, looking around as if searching for something. The bespectacled security guard was worried that something might happen to him, so he hurried forward to pull him inside. "Don't stand too far outside. The rooftop is windy, and if there's a sudden gust of wind, it could easily blow you off."

"Strange, where's that floating line I saw downstairs? Did I see it wrong?"

Lin Xiuyi ignored the security guard with glasses and muttered to himself,

"Although this building is ten stories high, the weather was fine today, with no clouds in the sky. I could see it clearly..."

Thinking of this, Lin Xiuyi searched for the source of the thin line according to the direction of the thin line in his memory.

There is a large stainless steel water tank, which should be the water tank of the office building.

Lin Xiuyi walked around the water tank and soon found a mark of a thin line on the tank near the safety door.

The marks are very fresh and obviously left recently.

"After you went up to the rooftop just now, did anyone go near this water tank?" Lin Xiuyi whispered to the bespectacled security guard who was following him.

"Well..." The security guard with glasses thought carefully, "I'm sorry, I pushed open the security door just now and saw someone fall down, so I quickly ran to the edge of the rooftop and didn't pay attention to anything else."

Lin Xiuyi turned around and wanted to ask another short and fat security guard standing nearby, but suddenly found that Mr. Fujimori was missing!
"What about others?"

"Are you talking about that kind old man?" The short, fat security guard snorted. "We're not the police. How can we restrict someone's actions? He just went downstairs on his own. He should have left."

"You!" Lin Xiu's face turned ashen with anger.

The security guard with glasses was also a little annoyed: "No matter what, he's dead. The police will definitely come to question us soon. Why did you let him go?"

"It was just suicide," the short and fat security guard said nonchalantly. "The police won't pursue it too much, right?"

"Suicide?" Lin Xiuyi sneered, "Someone must have set a trap, causing that person to fall from the building!"

"If you hadn't opened the emergency door, he wouldn't have fallen!"

"What did you say?" The security guard with glasses was surprised. "But this..."

"You stay on the rooftop. Don't let anyone else come up except the police," Lin Xiuyi pulled the bespectacled security guard to the safe door. "Also, don't let anyone near the water tank!"

"Why should we listen to you?" The short and fat security guard was still a little indignant.

"Of course you didn't have to listen," Lin Xiuyi sneered. "Even though you two were tricked, it was you who opened the emergency door after all, and that's why that person fell to his death!"

"If the real murderer can't be caught, I don't know what the police will do to you, but that person's wronged spirit will definitely come after you to seek revenge!"

After scaring the two security guards and asking them to protect the scene on the rooftop, Lin Xiuyi went downstairs to chase Mr. Fujimori.

"Hey, do we really have to listen to a little kid?" The short and fat security guard curled his lips.

"It's better to be safe than sorry," the security guard with glasses glanced at his companion. "Whether what he said is true or not, someone has died after all. Let's just wait here for the police to come."

(End of this chapter)