Crash!
After lifting the branches that blocked their view, Sakaki Makoto and the other two came to a slightly open area. The towering trees seemed to have disappeared, and the sky above their heads was blue, like a crop circle, with a slightly shabby wooden house standing in the middle of it.
“That cabin.”
After Conan confirmed the location of the bug, he closed his glasses:
"Takenaka Momoe is in the room."
"Isn't that the ranger's house?"
Kidd said with a strange look on his face:
"Could it be that Takenaka Momoe is a forest ranger?"
"Who knows..."
Holding the MK23 in his hand, Sakaki Makoto walked towards the cabin:
"You'll know when you go in and take a look."
According to the tracking signal, the three people had already gone deep into the jungle and there were no signs of people around. The sudden appearance of a small house would definitely make them alert.
Perhaps because it had just rained, the ground underfoot was a little muddy, mixed with leaves, and there were constant strange noises.
Crunch...
Crunch...
Stepping onto the wooden ladder, Sakaki Makoto came to the door of the wooden house. He suddenly stopped and looked around, frowning:
“No one has been here for a long time.”
The two corgis who followed closely also found something wrong. The half-open door of the wooden house was covered with dust and there were only a few footprints. Compared with the broken glass on the side and the ferns climbing up the eaves...
"An abandoned cabin?"
This thought arose in the minds of the three people at the same time, and none of them could figure out the purpose of Takenaka Momoe coming here.
Squeak...
Pushing open the wooden door, the smell of rotting wood accompanied by the scent of fern sap hit him in the face. The room was dark, and the air humidity of nearly 100% made Sakaki Makoto's hair stand on end, and the exposed backs of his hands were soon covered with a thin layer of water vapor.
The wooden house is not big, with only two rooms. The living room is right at the entrance, with a dirty black stone pot in the middle. The gaps between the ceiling and the floor are full of weeds.
The three of them originally planned to sneak into the room quietly so as not to alert Takenaka Momoe, but the floor under their feet refused!
Crunch...Crunch...
The precarious wooden floor was like a natural alarm, emitting screams of imminent collapse with every step.
Two steps...
Sakaki Makoto simply gave up pretending, he couldn't pretend anymore, and with the help of Conan's flashlight, he checked the room. There was no electricity in the wooden house, only a burnt white candle on the table in the corner. No matter how he looked at it...
It doesn't look like anyone lives here.
Entering the inner room, there was a single bed in the corner. The sheets were covered with mold and were wet and sagging. There was a big hole in the roof and water was leaking continuously.
"Wow, this room has a panoramic skylight!"
Kidd laughed:
“The people who live here are probably kappas…”
"Are you sure the bug is located here?"
Ignoring Kid's complaints, Sakaki Makoto looked at Conan.
"That's right..."
Conan opened his glasses again, and the center of their location completely overlapped with the red dot, and the distance between the two sides was no more than 3 meters.
but...
Forget about Takenaka Momoe, they didn’t even see a ghost!
The three of them looked at each other for a long time, nodded slightly, dispersed, and began to look for the mezzanine in the wooden house.
There is no doubt that the bug must be in this cabin, if not on the surface, then it can only be...
Boom boom!
Sakaki knocked on the floor in the corner and heard a hollow echo from below. He bit the MK23, and his fingers touched the slippery moss in the gap. With a little force...
Click!
He dug out a long wooden board, revealing a hole underneath that was large enough for an adult to enter.
"Found it?"
The two Corgis rushed forward and asked.
"Give me the flashlight."
Conan took his watch and handed it to Makoto Sakaki, shining the light downwards...
A large pale face suddenly appeared, and the owner was none other than Takenaka Momoe.
"Fuck!"
Kid and Conan shuddered with fear. They were used to seeing corpses, but the sudden appearance of a corpse still scared them:
“Dead?!”
"Dead."
Putting his fingers on Takenaka Momoe's cold and motionless neck, Sakaki Makoto said solemnly:
"There has been rigor mortis, and the person has been dead for some time."
"Brother Kid, lend a hand and pull her up. Conan, go call the police."
"good."
With Ran Mouri away, the burden of calling the police fell on Conan's shoulders. Makoto Sakaki and Kid dragged Takenaka Momoe up and laid her flat on the floor. A faint stench of corpse began to fill the room.
The body was lying in the mud under the wooden house, with obvious marks of blackmail around the neck. If Sakaki Makoto hadn't installed a bug in advance...
I'm afraid that until Takenaka Momoe turns into a pile of bones, no one will find the location of her body.
"Who is so cruel?"
Kidd said with a somewhat grim expression:
"Killing someone and hiding the body in the mountains is simply insane!"
"Is the murderer the same person who killed Naoki Seiichi?"
"Probably not."
Sakaki put on gloves and began to examine the body:
"Takenaka Momoe did not experience any obvious struggle before her death. Her toes were flat, there was bleeding behind her head from being hit by a blunt object, her lips were bruised, and there was a lot of water in her mouth and nose..."
At this point, Sakaki Cheng leaned over, smelled the corpse's mouth, and his eyes flashed:
“The smell of sulfur...”
"Purple lips are a sign of death from suffocation, right?"
Kidd was stunned for a moment:
"The stagnant water smells like sulfur. Could it be a hot spring?"
"Well, that's probably right."
"But if the criminal had strangled her to death, why did he immerse her in water? Isn't this a conflict of methods?"
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