Conan’s Corpse Picker

The police officer was startled, and looked along his direction, and found that there was indeed a lighter resting on the relatively flat ridge of the roof, which could match the "burning" state of the deceased.

He took a few photos, picked up the lighter and put it into the evidence bag, and then was slightly startled: "Strange..."

Under the lighter, there was a fan-shaped dry mark.

The eaves and ridges have been soaked by rain and are darker in color, but the fan-shaped area is dry and light in color, as if it has not been rained on.

Although it is blocked by a lighter, it is normal for it to be dry, but the lighter is a flat rectangular parallelepiped, and it seems that it cannot be blocked into a fan shape no matter what.

Each of the detectives had better eyesight than the other, and they all saw it.

And they soon understood the cause.

"It seems that before the lighter, a nearly cylindrical object was left in the same position." Jiang Xia gestured, "First, a circular dry mark was left on the roof ridge, and then the object was taken away, and the lighter's One corner was placed on top of the circle to protect it from the rain. The rest of the circle got wet and ended up forming this weird fan shape."

"Cylindrical thing? Is it the bomb he used to commit suicide?"

A voice floated from behind.

Jiang Xia looked back and saw four other people from the tour group sneaking in unexpectedly. It seemed that the deceased had been to the castle tower before disappearing at noon, and they were identifying all the places the deceased had visited before his death.

The woman playing "Ning Ning" sighed and raised her hand to push up her glasses: "He has been looking forward to this trip, but he didn't expect that he was looking forward to this kind of thing."

The "Lord" looked at the lighter brought by the forensics department police officer and recognized it: "This is indeed his thing."

"Tokugawa Ieyasu" next to him twirled his beard:

"Then it's obvious that he put the bomb into something cylindrical, then came upstairs, lit it on fire and committed suicide... Tsk, tsk, tsk, he's so young, it's really hard to think about."

Hattori Heiji's eyes twitched, thinking that these guys looked suspicious: "The lid of the lighter was closed, and it was placed on the flat place of the roof. If he really used the lighter to ignite the bomb at that time, he would definitely not have the energy to put it back again. Put the lighter squarely back on the roof."

"Okay, let's go down first." The Otaki Police Department looked at the messy people at the scene and nodded a little. "Since we have doubts, let's investigate slowly. Don't be anxious."

…

When they returned downstairs, the police officers who stayed downstairs had already cleaned out the things the body had brought with it.

Wallet, cigarettes, keys, cell phone, watch. These are very normal items.

But there are two personal items that are very strange.

——It turned out to be an ancient scroll and a dusty fragment.

"You actually bring a scroll with you when you go out?" Suzuki Sonoko looked in amazement, "These people are too involved in their acting. Are they using the scroll as a notepad?"

The Otaki Police Department picked up the scroll and unfolded it carefully. They saw that the exposed paper had been burned to tatters. It was blank with nothing written on it. Only the word "dragon" in the upper left corner was the most conspicuous.

The Otaki Police Department was confused: "'Dragon'? What does this mean?"

Next to them, the four people in the tour group changed their expressions slightly when they heard this keyword. They suddenly turned their heads and looked over, their eyes sharp, and there seemed to be a bit of covetousness in them.

Jiang Xia pointed to the side: "This broken pottery piece is also very strange. It doesn't look like something you should bring with you when traveling."

"Broken pottery fragments?" Conan suddenly remembered something, looked closely for a moment, and blurted out, "The charred corpses found in Osaka Castle before also had similar fragments. Could this be a serial murder case?!"

Jiang Xia was startled: "Serial murder case?"

Several other high school students were also startled: "Burned corpses? Have other charred corpses been found here?"

Jiang Xia: "..."

...Failed to agree with everyone's reaction. 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 didn't think there was any problem - they were actually very concerned about the keyword "serial murder case", but affected by the fresh charred corpse just now, several people were now interested in "charred corpse". "The response is greater.

Even before his brain could fully react, Hattori Heiji instinctively made a little reasoning: Maybe Jiang Xia's mind was spinning quickly, so his focus jumped directly from the scorched corpse to the serial murder case it led to... Tsk, as expected of him.

The Otaki Police Department was also a little surprised.

But he didn't seem surprised by the case, but that Conan actually knew about it.

Conan came back to his senses, faced the questioning eyes of Otaki Police Department, remembered his source of information, and smiled awkwardly: "Well, last night I sneaked into the yard to play and heard the conversation between Uncle Hattori and Uncle Toyama - they It was said that 13 years ago, the charred corpses found in the inner moat and the charred corpses found in the outer moat a while ago were both carrying a pottery fragment similar to this. I heard that the fragment found a while ago had '800' on it. Forty-eight' words."

"Eight hundred and forty-eight?" Suzuki Sonoko was horrified. She couldn't help but move to Jiang Xia's side, and hugged Mao Lilan's arm to calm down her shock. "Could it be that that serial killer has killed more than eight hundred people?" , now it’s eight hundred and forty-nine?!”

Conan couldn't help but glance at her: "How can it be possible in a peaceful modern society to kill so many people without being discovered? You are thinking too much."

After speaking, Conan found Jiang Xia looking at him, and Conan 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. It really doesn't look like a murderer's count." Jiang Xia looked away and brought the topic back to the case, "So this piece What are fragments?”

Conan was indeed 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 him, Conan and Hattori Heiji were also racing against time to think. This case seems to be full of doubts: Why did the deceased leave the team and act alone? Why do good people suddenly explode? What is that cylindrical thing on the roof?

in addition……

Hattori Heiji touched his chin and asked doubtfully: "Why did that person stare at Jiang Xia before he died?"

Conan corrected: "He was staring at the umbrella in Jiang Xia's hand." As he said that, he tried to think more clearly, "Umbrella, does it mean 'raining'?"

Hattori Heiji caught up with his thoughts: "Speaking of rain, it's the 'Dragon Tiger Stone' in Osaka Castle."