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"Whenever she saw a handsome man coming up the mountain, she would seduce him with her singing voice, which was as loud as a blizzard."
Then say, 'Would you be willing to exchange something important of yours for this garment?'
"The foolish man was so captivated by her snow-white skin beneath her silver clothes that he agreed to her terms."
"Then, as the man put his clothes into his bundle, he asked, 'This sword is my most important possession. Is this what you want?'"
"At this moment, the Snow Woman would suddenly appear behind the man, embrace him with her naked body, and reply, 'I don't want that cold thing; what I desperately crave is your warm, bleeding heart.'"
"In the end, the man died at the hands of the Snow Woman."
"It is said that when the man's body was later discovered, there were no silver clothes in the bundle, only a pile of snow."
Chen Anxia's eyes narrowed slightly after hearing the legend.
If Jiro Mizukami committed suicide, then the explanation that it was deliberately staged to resemble the Yuki-onna (snow woman) legend is naturally valid.
But if Jiro Mizukami didn't commit suicide, then why was he carrying a bag full of snow? Was it for the sake of the scene being filmed?
No, if that were the case, the police would have known at the time and wouldn't have explained it as a copy of the setup.
This means that the police didn't know why Jiro Mizukami did this at the time, so they explained it using this most plausible possibility.
However, if Jiro Mizukami did not commit suicide, then this claim naturally falls apart.
So everything has come full circle, which is why Jiro Mizukami is carrying a bag full of snow.
Most importantly, why did Jiro Mizukami carry a bag full of snow down the mountain?
Even if Jiro Mizukami had a particular need for snow, he could have simply waited until he came down the mountain and filled his bag with snow at any place, without having to go through the trouble of transporting snow from the mountain to the bottom.
Furthermore, if Jiro Mizukami was murdered, the killer must have shot him with the gun pressed against his head, as only in this way would burn scars be left around the muzzle.
So how did the murderer end up on the cable car that was moving down the mountain? How did he end up next to Jiro Mizukami?
It should be noted that the police at the time had already confirmed that Jiro Mizukami had taken the cable car down the mountain alone.
As he pondered, Chen Anxia transformed all the known clues into data for constructing a scene model, repeatedly performing super-calculations in his mind for the most probable scene model.
Ultimately, Chen Anxia and Chao calculated a scenario model that seemed the most illogical, but which could connect all the clues and data.
However, some data is still missing, which means that the scene model deduced by Chen Anxia is missing the most crucial scene images.
Just then, Pianpin Lu Ren finally couldn't help but ask, "Did you discover something?"
Chen Anxia nodded slightly in response, "There are some speculations, but these speculations lack supporting data for them to be valid."
Upon hearing this, Pian Pinlu couldn't help but beam with joy, like a night watchman grasping at the dawn, and asked eagerly, "Could you tell me your speculation?"
Seeing this, Chen Anxia didn't beat around the bush and directly told Pian Pinlu about his reasoning, analysis, and speculation.
Upon hearing Chen Anxia's words, Pianpin Luren's face showed a look of realization, shock, and disbelief.
After Chen Anxia finished speaking, Pianpin Luren couldn't help but take a deep breath and mutter, "If that's really the case, how did the murderer do it?"
Amidst the muttering of Lu Ren, Chen Anxia, holding a close-up photo of a bag, walked directly towards a certain place.
Upon seeing this, Lu Ren instinctively asked, "Where are you going?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Anxia replied without turning her head, "Go and uncover the truth behind the mystery!"
Upon hearing Chen Anxia's words, Pianpin Luren suddenly came to his senses and followed without hesitation.
Pian Pinlu was more eager to know the truth about the mystery than Chen Anxia was.
At this moment, Lu Ren did not realize that he had already regarded Chen Anxia as his backbone, his only hope for solving the mystery, and had placed absolute trust in Chen Anxia.
When the people of Pianpinlu truly noticed, they couldn't help but exclaim, "Chen Anxia, this mysterious junior high school student, his personal charisma is just too strong, he's simply a born leader..."
Meanwhile, Suzuki Sonoko, who had obtained Chen Anxia's contact information, was somewhat elated as she met up with Kudo Shinichi and Mouri Ran.
As Sonoko Suzuki's best friend, Ran Mouri immediately noticed that something was wrong with Sonoko and couldn't help but ask, "Sonoko, what's wrong? Why are you smiling?"
Before Sonoko could even speak, Shinichi Kudo immediately retorted, "Don't you know her? She must have met a handsome guy again, that's why she's giving that creepy smile."
Seeing this, Sonoko Suzuki glared at Shinichi Kudo and said, "My smile is clearly that of a young girl in love, what do you mean by a creepy smile? That's awful!"
Upon hearing this, Ran Mouri couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Sonoko, did you really meet a handsome guy?"
Just as Ran Mouri finished speaking, a loud commotion erupted at the restaurant entrance.
People looked in the direction of the sound and discovered that a celebrity had arrived.
Ran Mouri obviously recognized the celebrity and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "It's actor Minowa Shohei! I didn't expect him to be here too!"
Minowa Shohei, being a star, naturally has a good foundation. In the past, Suzuki Sonoko would be extremely excited if she saw Minowa Shohei.
But this time, Sonoko Suzuki was unusually calm. She looked at Shohei Minowa and nodded slightly, saying, "He is quite handsome, but he is still a bit inferior to An Natsumi."
Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri, who were very familiar with Sonoko Suzuki, couldn't help but exchange a surprised glance, and suddenly became very interested in the 'Anxia' that Sonoko Suzuki had mentioned.
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Chapter 364 The Gradually Revealed Truth, Heiji Hattori's Curiosity! (Please Subscribe!)
Osaka, Yamagata Prefecture ski resort, bag specialty store.
"Boss, do you have this bag for sale?"
As Chen Anxia spoke, she handed the shopkeeper a close-up photo of the bag in her hand.
The bag shop owner didn't suspect anything and took the photo to look at it.
Upon seeing it, the bag shop owner was stunned and instinctively exclaimed, "How could it be this bag?"
Then, the bag shop owner said to Chen Anxia, "I'm sorry, we don't have this bag in our store right now."
As he spoke, the bag shop owner pointed to other bags in his shop and continued, "This bag is an older model from four years ago. We currently have some of our latest best-selling bags. Would you like to take a look?"
Chen Anxia did not answer this question, but continued to ask, "Boss, you have a very good memory. You can remember that this bag is an old model from four years ago."
Behind him, the Lu people secretly praised Chen Anxia's communication skills and felt that Chen Anxia had a maturity and ability that did not match his age.
Just now, if Chen Anxia had directly refused the boss, the boss might have lost interest in Chen Anxia and therefore wouldn't have wanted to answer Chen Anxia's questions.
However, since Chen Anxia neither agreed nor refused the boss, she is still seen as a potential customer in the boss's mind.
Any business owner would be eager to communicate with potential customers in order to convert them into actual customers.
As expected, the bag shop owner was happy to talk to Chen Anxia. After hearing Chen Anxia's question, he replied directly, "Because this bag was a best-selling model four years ago, I remember it very clearly."
"However, after that case happened, the sales of this bag plummeted, and in the end, no one was willing to buy it."
"So our store has removed this bag from the shelves since then."
Chen Anxia's expression remained unchanged upon hearing this, and she asked again, "Then, boss, do you still remember the size of this bag?"
"The bag in the photo is only big enough to barely fit a child. Is there a similar bag that can fit an adult?"
Chen Anxia's question startled the bag shop owner, who then looked at Chen Anxia with a strange expression, clearly not expecting her to ask such a bizarre question.
However, the bag shop owner had a deep impression of this bag, so he didn't hesitate at all and replied directly, "Yes, we have the largest size of this bag, which can easily fit an adult who is curled up."
Upon hearing this, Chen Anxia's eyes narrowed sharply.
Chen Anxia already knew how the murderer appeared out of nowhere next to Mizukami Jiro, who was supposed to be riding the cable car alone.
Immediately, Chen Anxia converted this information into data and added it to the scene model in his mind.
Then, in the scene model in his mind, Chen Anxia saw the scene of the murderer appearing on the cable car going down the mountain from God's perspective.
However, in the scene model, the killer's appearance is blurry, as if completely hidden in the darkness, with only a dark humanoid outline visible.
This is because the data is not yet complete.
Without hesitation, Chen Anxia left the bag shop and headed towards the cable car at the outdoor ski resort.
Seeing this, Lu Ren followed suit, leaving the bag shop owner looking completely bewildered.
Finally, the bag shop owner shook his head slightly and muttered, "What a pity, such a handsome guy, but he's got some brain problems..."
On the way to the ski resort cable car, Chen Anxia asked Pian Pinlu about the situation of the film crew that Mizukami Jiro was in back then.
Through the film crew, Chen Anxia learned that the crew that Mizukami Jiro was in back then came to this ski resort to shoot a horror movie related to the legend of the Yuki-onna (snow woman) here, called "The Monster of the Yuki-onna".
At the time, Jiro Mizukami was the stand-in for the male lead in the horror movie "The Snow Woman".
Upon learning this information, Chen Anxia's lips curled up slightly, feeling that she was getting closer and closer to the truth of the mystery.
In addition to filming the horror movie "The Snow Woman's Monster" back then, the crew returned to the ski resort the following year, three years ago, to film a romance movie called "The Snow Woman's Love".
It is worth noting that the legend of the Snow Woman referenced in the film "The Snow Woman's Love" is different from the legend of the Snow Woman referenced in "The Snow Woman's Monster".
To put it bluntly, another version of the Snow Woman legend is also circulating on this mountain.
The story takes place on a stormy snowy night. A man named Mokichi, on his way home down the mountain, encounters a very beautiful woman with long hair, dressed in silver.
After the woman found Mokichi, she looked at him with pleading eyes and said, "I twisted my ankle and can't walk a step. Could you please take me home?"
Mogi asked the woman where she lived, and she silently pointed down into the dark forest where the snow was blizzard and the mountain path was nowhere to be seen.
Upon seeing this, Mokichi readily agreed, saying, "Okay, I understand."
Then, Mogi asked the woman to sit in the cage on his back and headed straight into the deep mountains.
However, Mogi walked for a very long time, only to see the snow on the ground getting deeper and deeper, but he still couldn't see any houses.
Upon seeing this, Mokichi asked, "Am I on the right track?"
The woman simply nodded silently without answering.
The woman waited, waiting for the moment when Mokichi would be exhausted and abandon her.
That's right, she is actually a snow woman who specializes in luring men to remote, sparsely populated mountains, and then absorbing their souls when they are exhausted.
Not long after, Mogi slowed his pace. After a moment of silence, he called out in a weak voice, "Miss..."
As if she had been waiting for these words, the woman smiled and replied, "Yes, what is it?"
Mogi, panting, forced out a voice, "Are you cold?"
Mokichi's unexpected question left the woman speechless with confusion.
Meanwhile, Mogi, struggling to move his legs which were already numb from the cold, continued to ask, "It must be very uncomfortable staying in the cage, right?"
"Are you hungry?"