Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"Heiji, you are here!" Otaki Goro greeted Hattori Heiji, and introduced the situation after looking at the corpse, "Just over an hour ago, the Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters received a call to the police. When the personnel came to open the door, they found the victim lying in the hall, so they called the police. According to our investigation, the victim’s name was Xianguang, and it was speculated that the time of death was between 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning. It was not good in the first place, the murderer should have wet the floor first, then threw one end of the disconnected wire at the victim, and then plugged the electricity in front of the socket, which resulted in the death of the victim after being electrocuted... By the way, the victim is this family The owner of the art gallery, he usually lives in the back room."

Hattori Heiji was a little surprised, "Isn't he a monk?"

"No," Fumimaro Ayanokoji looked down at the corpse on the ground, and said unhurriedly, "Mr. Xianguang is not only the curator of this art gallery, but also a famous Buddhist painter in Kyoto. His works have been bought by many temples." However, including Jinshui Temple and Aobao Temple in the previous two incidents, those two temples strongly recommended his works, and the temple also collected a lot of them. This is the only one among the three victims that we have investigated so far. connect."

Hattori Heiji asked again, "Then there should be some at the scene of the discovery, right? A note with Michizane waka..."

"Of course, at this scene, we also found this," Otaki Goro said sternly, taking out a piece of paper in an evidence bag, "That's why we confirmed that it was a murder, and that it was related to the previous two cases. It's the same murderer!"

Mori Kogoro stepped forward to look at the waka on the paper, "I didn't bring the money and silk, and I hurried on the journey. The mountains are full of maples, and the power can be dedicated to the gods... It really is this sentence!"

Yue Shui Nanatsuki turned to look at Chi Feichi, and analyzed seriously, "It seems that the murderer sent the code to the Kyoto Prefectural Police, and the question he wanted us to answer was to give us the first question hidden in the code. If the four wakas are found, then, does the "death head" in the "death head Kyoto" mentioned by the murderer refer to the "four songs"? It means that there are four wakas in total, and he will also commit four crimes !"

Chi Feichi nodded, "Very likely."

"Heiji, what's going on here?" Otaki Goro asked suspiciously, "What code and four waka? Did you already know that the third waka left at the scene is this one?"

Fummaro Ayanokouji also cast a questioning look at a group of people.

"That's right," Hattori Heiji turned his head to look at Chi Feichi, "Brother Feichi has unlocked the code on the letter received by the Kyoto prefectural police..."

The sea of ​​??, the journey of the heart of no thought in nothing, to the place of red maple, such as the will of God.

"The sea of ​​??" is the old saying, that is, Lake Biwa located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

Lake Biwa, like Mount Fuji, is regarded as a symbol of Japan. It is adjacent to Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Nagoya and provides water supply for this area. It is also known as the "Lake of Life".

On Lake Biwa in the evening, a canoe is slowly ferrying across the water.

The painter wearing a white fisherman's hat is sitting on the boat, leaning against a large box, lowering his head and sketching carefully with a pen on the drawing board in front of him.

Before the sky completely darkened, the painter took out a rechargeable electric light in the appearance of a retro kerosene lamp from the boat, put it on the big box behind him, sat down again, and lowered his head to draw the painting in front of him.

On the edge of the water, the police immediately locked on to the little light floating on the water, boarded the boat one after another, without turning on the lights, slowly paddled forward with wooden oars, and quietly surrounded the place where the light was.

Ike Feichi, Koshimizu Nanatsuki, Hattori Heiji, Mori Kogoro, and Conan stayed on two wooden boats respectively. While the police on the boat were rowing lightly, the five of them were also quietly discussing arrest with Otaki Goro and Ayanokoji Fumimaro. Countermeasures.

"Finally caught up, but if that guy really wants to poison Lake Biwa, we have to be careful..." Mori Kogoro lowered his voice seriously, "No, it doesn't matter whether that guy really knows how to poison , since there is such a possibility, we must all be careful not to let him drop the things on the boat."

"Find two people to attract each other's attention, and the others will surround him from behind, and then quickly control him," Ayanokōji Fumimaro said softly, "This should be the simplest but effective method at present."

"Then let us attract his attention," Hattori Heiji applied for the battle on behalf of the detective team, and gave the reason in a low voice before being rejected, "Heye and Xiaolan met this guy in the morning, he When painting portraits for Heye and the others, maybe you will hear Heye say that we are detectives and came to investigate the serial murders in Kyoto. Officer Otaki, if you arrange two strange faces to talk to him, maybe you will Let him become vigilant and more concerned about the surroundings. If we go, although we have a famous detective here, but he has seen us in the morning, and when he sees us again, he should be more relaxed. After all, the unknown is the most frightening thing. "

"I also think it's more appropriate for us to go," Koshimizu Nanatsuki analyzed seriously, "The person who attracts his attention must bring him a certain sense of threat, let him focus on the front, and facilitate the people behind." People approach and control him, but if the sense of threat is too much, it may make him keep looking around and looking for routes, which is not conducive to the people behind approaching him, and the sense of threat may also stimulate him, making him immediately Throw poisonous things into Lake Biwa."

"In this case, everyone he has seen will show up," Chi Feichi reminded softly, "He knows that we will investigate together, and if only one or two people appear in front of him, he will definitely turn his head to confirm that others are coming. If not, he will also guard against other people sneaking up on him from behind. Only when we are all present can he focus on us with confidence and give the police a chance to approach him. Of course, Conan is not counted. We come to the lake It is normal to find a murderer without children, even if Conan is not around, he will not feel strange."

"But it's better for me to be there," Conan said seriously, "We all appear in front of him, so that we can cut off any possibility of him being suspicious."

Otaki Goro hesitated, "Is this too risky? We're not sure if he has any dangerous weapons..."

"Besides, the five of you went by boat, and you can completely control him by force based on the number of people. Will this put too much pressure on him?" Ayanokoji Fumimaro asked.

Chi Feichi had already considered it, and looked at the human silhouette on the opposite boat in the dark night, "So, it's a good choice to bring Conan, he saw that there are even children on our side, so he might guess that we came here in a hurry Yes, and children are usually treated as a hindrance, which can properly reduce the pressure we put on him.”

Conan nodded.

He knew that as long as Chi Feichi felt that the benefits of bringing him outweighed the disadvantages, he would consider bringing him.

This is the result of rational thinking, and sometimes it may appear indifferent and unreasonable, but it is undeniable that this is also the trust in his strength, and it can save some troubles of pulling back and forth.

"We need to plan the details of the operation again," Chi Feichi continued, "First of all, it is best to divide the people who attracted attention in the past on two boats. Hattori and I took Conan on one boat, and put the two most physically fit people on one boat. Good people are held by children. Teacher Maori and Yueshui are in the same boat. The teacher can still hold the paddle for rowing or sit on the boat all the time, which can reduce the pressure we will bring to him. Secondly, The two boats approached him from the same direction, stopping one after the other, trying to draw his sight and attention to the front left or the front right. Of course, the boats should not get too close to him, so as not to force him to take the poisonous poison directly. Stuff thrown overboard..."

Three minutes later, the two wooden boats circled far to the water in front of the light, and slowly approached the light source in the dark night.

The wooden boat carrying the light source floats on the lake, and the white-hat painter is still sitting on the boat, painting with a brush.

A vivid branch of realgar orchid was drawn, and the white hat painter looked down at the canvas and sneered darkly, "Hehehe...it's time to recite the last waka..."

"The sea of ​​??, the journey of the heart of no thoughts to nothing..." Hattori Heiji called out to attract the attention of the white-hat painter, and when the white-hat painter looked up, he continued to row forward with Chi Feichi, "Go to the red Where the maple is, it is like the will of the gods."

The two approaching ships were not equipped with lights, and the white-hat painter could only see the shadows of the two approaching ships, and raised his eyes to stare vigilantly, "Who? Who are you?"

A boat ahead arrived at a position where both sides could see the outline of the figure clearly, and stopped at the right time, so that the white-hat painter just tensed his nerves and did not make any dangerous moves.

"Kansai high school student detective, Hattori Heiji!" Hattori Heiji said.

Conan also reported his name, "Edogawa Conan!"

"And me," Mori Kogoro deliberately rowed the boat forward, and lined up with the boat in front of Ike Feichi, Hattori Heiji, and Conan, "Japan's number one detective, Mori Kogoro!"

"The part of reporting names is too strange," Chi Feichi said, "It's better to get to the point earlier."

Hattori Heiji deliberately complained, "But the uncle is too cunning, he took the opportunity to say that he is the number one detective..."

"Okay, okay, let's get to the point first," Koshimizu Nanatsuki also brushed his sense of presence aloud, so that the white-hat painter could match his figure with his voice, "Mr. The anonymous letter to the Kyoto Prefectural Police, the code above is hinting at that waka, right?"

"The 'dead head' written above is the 'dead head' in Kyoto..." Hattori Heiji deliberately raised his voice to help cover the police ship sneaking up behind the white hat painter, "in the words of someone on our side, It’s a far-fetched and boring homophonic game. It actually refers to “four songs”, pick out the aliases of the other three waka according to the numbers on each row of the code, for example, “5-0” is the first waka. One word..."

Chi Feichi who was dubbed "a certain person": "..."

Yes, that's what he said.

He just thinks this homophonic stalk is not creative and boring at all.