Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

Chapter 178 Who is the Falling Person?

At this moment, the banquet is still going on normally.

Green Chat was holding a glass of wine and talking to several big men, and from time to time he looked at the time on his watch.

When the atmosphere at the banquet reached its climax, Green Chat suddenly put down his wine glass.

"Sorry, I have something to do and need to leave for a while."

Green Chat smiled and nodded goodbye to several guests, then prepared to leave.

At this moment, a strange cry suddenly came from the hall: "What is that?"

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a figure hanging precariously on a pole outside a window sill on the top floor of the villa.

It was already dark outside, and a figure was floating in the pitch-black night sky. It was impossible to see the face clearly, but someone soon recognized the person based on his clothes and figure.

"Mr. Dresser! That's Mr. Dresser!"

Everyone was shocked, and then their vision gradually returned to normal in the dark, and gradually more and more people recognized who each other was.

"Oh my God, it's really Mr. Dresser!"

"Someone come quickly! Go up and take a look!"

"That's not right. Isn't Mr. Dresser right here?"

"Eh? Yeah, who's that person up there?"

Everyone's eyes fell on Green Chat, who had not yet left the scene, with confusion on their faces.

Green Chat paused as he was leaving, then looked surprised.

What's going on? He hasn't left the scene yet!

How to plan ahead?

Just as the crowd was confused and terrified, a figure quietly returned to his seat and met the eyes of Vermouth on the sofa.

Baichuan Qiu adjusted his tie, his hair was a little messy, facing Vermouth's scrutinizing gaze, he just smiled, as if he knew nothing, with a calm face.

Anyway, Kudo Shinichi is still here, so Vermouth will definitely not say anything.

Baichuan Qiu is confident about this.

Vermouth narrowed her eyes, having a bad feeling in her heart.

Kudo Shinichi didn't notice the exchange of glances between the two, but instead leaned his head forward and tried to look in the direction of the noisy crowd: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"

Baichuan Qiu blinked: "I don't know."

Vermouth stood up first: "Let's go and take a look."

So the three of them also walked towards the window.

Before they had taken a few steps, the crowd exclaimed again, and then the three people saw a dark shadow falling from the upstairs and landing heavily in the flower bed outside.

"My God!"

"Someone fell from the building, call an ambulance!"

People screamed loudly, and the originally orderly banquet suddenly became chaotic.

Green Chat vaguely sensed that the situation was out of his control, but faced with this situation, he could only frown and loudly comfort the guests present: "Please calm down! We're already calling an ambulance. There are too many people here and it's too noisy. Please leave in an orderly manner!"

The old butler outside the hall was already hurriedly walking out with a group of people to check on the condition of the person who fell from the building.

At this moment, someone else exclaimed: "This person seems to be Lex!"

"what?"

Green Chat was stunned. He pushed through the crowd, strode to the window, and flipped out.

Although he was a short old man, his movements were extremely agile at this moment, and he performed the entire set of movements of climbing over the window smoothly.

The old butler had already led his men around to the flower bed from outside. When he saw the people in the flower bed clearly, the old butler widened his eyes in astonishment.

"who is it?"

Green Chat saw the old butler's expression and his heart skipped a beat. He quickly walked forward and saw Lex lying on the ground.

The other person was wearing Green Chat's clothes, which looked particularly ill-fitting. The whole clothes looked crowded and funny. From a distance, it was really impossible to tell who the other person was.

"Lex!"

Green Chat squatted down and held Lex's hand tightly.

Coincidentally, even after falling from such a height, Lex hadn't died immediately. Although he was now spitting blood and his limbs were twisted irregularly, his eyeballs were still moving and his mouth was opening and closing, as if he wanted to say something, but the blood had already rushed into his trachea, making it impossible for him to utter a single sound.

Lex could only try his best to shake Green Chat's hand back.

"Lex, hold on! The ambulance is coming!"

Green Chat looked at the pale-faced man and felt a pang of pain in his heart.

He had long regarded Lex as his own son, but he never expected that the first one to leave would be his most satisfied "son". How could Green Chat not feel extremely sad?

who is it!

Who did it?

Could it be that Gin and the others have arrived?

Is this Gin's warning to him?

Lex opened his eyes wide, trying to tell Green Chat some news with his last breath, but his pupils began to dilate, and the movement of opening his mouth slowly stopped. With the "hissing" sound of coughing up blood in his mouth, the man finally died completely.

Green Chat could clearly feel the hand he was holding drooping weakly.

This is completely different from the plan -

Green Chat's eyes went dark.

"father!"

"Father!"

Morgana and Kudo Shinichi rushed over one after another. Seeing the situation at the scene, they quickly supported Green Chat, who was in a state of great emotional volatility.

Kudo Shinichi pinched his thigh hard, and tears filled his eyes instantly: "Brother-in-law, he——"

"Ah! Lex!"

Morgana screamed, staring at Lex's body without blinking, and looked at Green Chat in shock: "Lex, dead?"

Green Chat closed his eyes and didn't answer Morgana's words, but his face was full of obvious grief.

"He's actually dead?"

Morgana murmured softly, her face showing indescribable complexity and confusion, as if all the love and hate in her heart had come to an end with Lex's death.

"Old housekeeper, take someone up there to check immediately!"

Green Chat calmed down and said through gritted teeth, "Who killed my son-in-law?"

"Yes!"

The old housekeeper hurriedly took people upstairs.

Green Chat stood up, his eyes lightly sweeping over Morganna and Ian beside him, and finally raised his head to look at the place where Lex fell, his voice cold and mixed with hatred: "No matter who it is, I will make him pay the price!"

After saying this, he turned around and returned to the banquet.

People automatically made way for him. No one dared to breathe and the air became a little stagnant.

While Green Chat was away, Kudo Shinichi whispered to Shirakawa Akane, "Mr. Shirakawa, what's going on?"

How could Lex die suddenly like this?

This doesn't look like a plan arranged by Green Chat and the others.

Bai Chuanqiu watched the body being carried away and shrugged innocently: "You ask me, who should I ask?"

Kudo Shinichi: “???”

But Mr. Shirakawa, weren't you away for a long time just now? What were you doing?

"Perhaps, the man committed suicide."

Baichuan Qiu said meaningfully.

Kudo Shinichi: "? Suicide?"

Lex committed suicide? How could that be possible?

Facing Kudo Shinichi's suspicious eyes, Shirakawa Qiu looked away and said calmly: "Let's go, Lex is dead, you have to follow Green Chat well."

Kudo Shinichi was pushed forward, feeling like a puppet, completely controlled, with no room for resistance.

——And Mr. Shirakawa is the one who controls everything.

But since he had already boarded the pirate ship, getting off would mean death, so Kudo Shinichi could only bite the bullet and keep up with Green Chat's pace.

Baichuan Qiu took one last look at the direction the corpse left, and turned away without any regrets.

That indifferent attitude is as if——

It was as if Lex's death had nothing to do with him.