Chapter 2577-2589 [Gradually Becoming a Tool Man]
the next day.
Four Seasons Hospital.
Vodka spent an uneasy night in a strange place, but fortunately, nothing happened after the night.
When he woke up at dawn, the nurse brought him clothes for going out and said with a smile, "It's time to go out and relax. Have breakfast first, and then gather at the entrance of the inpatient department."
"……?"
Vodka wanted to say "No", but when he heard the noises of people from other wards leaving, he was silent for a moment and then changed his clothes silently.
——Familiar places make people feel at ease, so he instinctively wants to stay in the hospital, in this ward that he has just become familiar with.
But if you follow this normal psychology... you might fall into some insidious trap.
Thinking of this, Vodka took a deep breath and decided to go with the flow, be an ordinary patient, and keep up with those who went out.
…
Soon, the recuperating patients gathered at the hospital entrance.
Led by the nurses, they walked into the forest and breathed in the fresh air.
Suddenly, there was a faint sound of mechanical operation.
Vodka pricked up his ears and looked in the direction of the sound alertly. The other patients also noticed the movement and looked over there in confusion: "What's that sound?"
The patient who had been living here for a few days laughed and led them to that place. Soon, a small basin appeared in front of them, and several excavators were busy moving around in it.
"I asked the nurses before, and they said that the hospital has bought this land and plans to transform it into a convalescent facility." The patient pointed from a distance, "Look, they will dig a pool there and make it into an artificial hot spring."
"Oh!" The patients suddenly realized and looked over there expectantly, as if they had already enjoyed the water in the forest pond in advance.
Vodka also looked over and saw the excavator's large shovel fall and stick into the soil.
The huge steel machine flipped over and steadily scooped up a handful of soft soil, but for some reason, there was a light-colored mass in the dark soil.
The dirty light-colored hair was tangled and messy, and no matter how you looked at it, it looked like... a bunch of white hair buried in the soil.
Vodka: “……?”
A few dozen meters away.
The excavator operator sat in the car, staring blankly at the shovel in front of him through the window - with an ordinary shovel, in addition to mud, he actually dug up a strange corpse.
The corpse looked old, with white hair, and lay motionless mixed in the mud, with dried black blood at the corners of its mouth.
Excavator master: “…”
"ah--!!"
…
One hour later.
In the police station.
"We compared fingerprints and found that the deceased buried in the forest was indeed Takashi Komoto himself."
Officer Sato flipped through his notes with mixed feelings. "According to the autopsy results, his cause of death was brain damage caused by a severe blow to the head. In addition, he had multiple bruises and fractures on his body - all of these injuries should have been caused by falling from a height."
"Also, there's the time of his death." Officer Sato said with mixed feelings, "He died yesterday at noon."
"Yesterday at noon?" Inspector Megure immediately realized something was wrong. "Isn't that the time when he failed to attack Ms. Akiba and unfortunately fell off the cliff? But this is not right. Ms. Akiba was killed late last night. If Komoto died at noon... the one who killed Ms. Akiba couldn't have been the evil spirit transformed by Komoto Takashi."
With a thud, Fuyuki Ryuzaburo collapsed to the ground and muttered, "He, he turned into a ghost and came back for revenge..."
Jiang Xia couldn't help but glance at him: "..." He's really good at talking. Unfortunately, things didn't seem to develop in this wonderful direction.
Under the expectant gaze of the police, the science-loving detective thought for a moment and said, "The place where the body was found is quite a distance from the cliff where he fell. In addition, according to the descriptions of those enthusiastic people in the forest, the deceased was not lying on the ground at the time, but was buried deep in the soil. Taking all these into consideration, the situation should be obvious."
"That is to say..." Officer Takagi felt that he understood, "There must be a third person! After Komoto Takashi fell to his death, that person took him away and buried him, and then inherited his will and continued to carry out the revenge plan of this poor man.
"He killed Ms. Akiba in exactly the same way and deliberately left Komoto's belongings at the scene. Then he disguised himself as Komoto and made a threatening phone call to Mr. Fuyuki."
Inspector Megure nodded, sighed and thought: "That makes sense... But who is that third party? To avenge someone, even at the cost of killing someone, how much gratitude does it take to do that? Komoto has been in South America and only recently returned to Japan. Where does he get the connections to do something like this?"
"But anyway, this is a direction for investigation." Inspector Megure turned to Sato Miwako, "Go and re-examine Komoto Takashi's interpersonal relationships. Also, carefully check the recent entry list from South America to Tokyo. Perhaps Komoto's helper was brought over from South America."
He turned to Officer Takagi again: "You will be responsible for protecting Mr. Fuyuki - don't be negligent like last time."
Officer Gao Mu quickly responded: "Okay, I will definitely pay more attention!"
…
The police were responsible for the trivial matters. Jiang Xia sat in the Metropolitan Police Department, enjoying the air conditioning and looking through the case records, hoping to find the enthusiastic people who had discovered Takashi Komoto's body to talk to.
Unfortunately, I heard that they were a group of hospitalized patients and it was not convenient for them to go out, especially to go to places like the police station.
Jiang Xia had no choice but to give up calling anyone over and decided to take some time to go there in person.
But seeing that it was already noon, eating was more important than going out to the suburbs, so he went back home first and turned to Dr. Agasa's house next door.
Haibara Ai had already prepared the meal. She seemed to have not completely come out of the shadow of the bus accident. She was stirring the porridge in the pot listlessly.
There was a very energetic person next to him - Conan also came over to eat.
The purpose of this mini detective was obviously not just to eat for free. He quickly shoveled the rice into his mouth and looked at Jiang Xia with great interest: "Are you also following the recent serial murder case reported on TV?"
Jiang Xia nodded.
Conan: "I didn't expect that the murderer would come back to life and then die again. This is really strange... But I always feel that what those reporters said is too exaggerated. What is the real situation? Take me to the police station this afternoon."
Since the neighbors said so, the kind detective certainly couldn't refuse.
Jiang Xia: "No problem - some witnesses are too wary of the police and we can't get any information from them. If you are here, you can be of help."
(End of this chapter)
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