Chapter 1290 1298 [Super Serial Killer]
The police officer was startled and looked in the direction he pointed. He found that there was indeed a lighter placed on the relatively flat roof, which matched the victim's "burning" death.
He took a few photos, picked up the lighter and put it into the evidence bag, then was slightly startled: "Strange..."
There was actually a fan-shaped dry mark under the lighter.
The eaves and ridges of the roof had been soaked by rain and were dark in color, but the fan-shaped area was dry and light in color, as if it had not been rained on.
Although it is normal to be dry because of the lighter, the lighter is a flat rectangular block and it seems that it cannot be blocked into a fan shape no matter what.
The detectives all had sharper eyesight than the others and saw it too.
And they soon understood the cause.
"It seems that before the lighter, there was a cylindrical object placed in the same position." Jiang Xia gestured, "First, a circular dry mark was left on the roof, and then the object was taken away. A corner of the lighter was placed on the circle to block the rain. The rest of the circle got wet and eventually became this strange fan shape."
"A cylindrical object? Could it be the bomb he used to commit suicide?"
A voice floated from behind.
Jiang Xia looked back and saw that the other four people in the tour group had sneaked in at some point. It seemed that the deceased had been to the castle tower before he disappeared at noon, and they were pointing out all the places the deceased had been to before his death.
The woman who played "Ningning" sighed and raised her hand to push up her glasses: "He has been looking forward to this trip, but I didn't expect that he was looking forward to this kind of thing."
The "lord" looked at the lighter brought up by the forensic police officer and recognized it: "This is indeed his thing."
The "Tokugawa Ieyasu" next to him twirled his beard:
"Then the situation is obvious. He put the bomb into some cylindrical object, then went upstairs and set it on fire... Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, he is so young, but he is so desperate."
Hattori Heiji's eyes jumped, and he felt that these guys were suspicious no matter how he looked at them: "The lid of the lighter was closed, and it was placed on a flat surface on the roof. If he really used the lighter to ignite the bomb, he definitely wouldn't have had the energy to put the lighter back on the roof properly."
"Okay, let's go down first." Inspector Otaki looked at the mess of people at the scene and felt a little overwhelmed. "Since there are doubts, let's investigate slowly. Don't be in a hurry."
…
When they returned downstairs, the police officers who stayed there had already cleared out the belongings that the body had carried with him.
Wallet, cigarettes, keys, cell phone, watch. These are all normal items.
But there were two items that were very strange.
——It turned out to be an ancient scroll and a gray fragment.
"They actually brought scrolls with them when they went out?" Suzuki Sonoko looked at them in amazement. "These people are so devoted to their performance. Are they using the scrolls as notebooks?"
Inspector Otaki picked up the scroll and unfolded it carefully, only to see that the exposed paper had been burnt into tatters. It was blank with nothing written on it. Only the word "dragon" in the upper left corner was the most conspicuous.
Inspector Otaki was confused: "'Dragon'? What does this mean?"
Next to them, the four people in the tour group heard this key word and their faces changed slightly. They turned their heads and looked over with sharp eyes, which seemed to be a bit greedy.
Jiang Xia pointed to the side and said, "This piece of broken pottery is also very strange. It doesn't look like something you would bring for a trip."
"Broken pottery pieces?" Conan suddenly remembered something, looked closer for a moment, and blurted out, "The charred bodies found in Osaka Castle before also had similar pieces on them. Could this be a serial murder case?!"
Jiang Xia was startled: "Serial murder case?"
Several other high school students were also stunned: "Burned corpse? Have you found other charred corpses here?"
Jiang Xia: “…”
...I failed to react in unison with everyone else. The fake detective silently noted this minor mistake and decided to improve it in the future.
However, although the client's demands were high, the other people did not think there was anything wrong with it - they were actually also very concerned about the keyword "serial murder case", but influenced by the freshly charred corpse just now, they were now more reactive to the "charred corpse".
Hattori Heiji even instinctively made a little inference before his brain had fully reacted: Perhaps Jiang Xia's mind was quick, so his focus jumped directly from the charred corpse to the serial murder case caused by it... Tsk, he is worthy of it.
Inspector Otaki was also a little surprised.
But he didn't seem surprised about the case, but rather surprised that Conan actually knew about it.
Conan came back to his senses, faced Inspector Otaki's questioning gaze, remembered his source of information, and smiled awkwardly: "Well, I sneaked into the yard to play last night, and heard the conversation between Uncle Hattori and Uncle Toyama. They said that the charred corpse found in the inner moat 13 years ago and the charred corpse found in the outer moat a while ago both had a piece of pottery fragment similar to this one on their bodies. I heard that the fragment found a while ago had the words 'eight hundred and forty-eight' on it."
"Eight hundred and forty-eight?" Suzuki Sonoko was startled and could not help but move closer to Jiang Xia. She hugged Mao Lilan's arm again to calm her nerves. "Could it be that the serial killer has killed more than eight hundred people, and now it's the eight hundred and forty-ninth?!"
Conan couldn't help but glance at her: "In a peaceful modern society, how is it possible to kill so many people without being discovered? You think too much."
After saying that, Conan noticed Jiang Xia was looking at him, and he was a little confused: "What's wrong?"
"…Nothing, I just think what you said makes sense. And there is only one fragment with numbers on it, which is really not like a murderer's count." Jiang Xia looked away and brought the topic back to the case, "So what is this fragment?"
Conan's attention was drawn to the case again.
He shook his head and sighed regretfully: "I don't know. I asked last night, but they didn't tell me."
Jiang Xia took a closer look at the pottery fragment: "There is something like gold powder on the inside. It looks like a handicraft of a certain age."
Next to them, Conan and Hattori Heiji were also racing against time to think about this case. There seemed to be a lot of doubts in this case: Why did the deceased leave the team and act alone? Why did a good person suddenly explode? What was the cylindrical object on the roof?
in addition……
Hattori Heiji touched his chin and asked in confusion: "Why did that person stare at Jiang Xia before he died?"
Conan corrected: "She was staring at the umbrella in Jiang Xia's hand." As he spoke, he tried to think, "By umbrella, does it mean 'rain'?"
Hattori Heiji took over his thoughts: "Speaking of rain, it's the 'Dragon Tiger Stone' in Osaka Castle."
(End of this chapter)
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