Conan’s Corpse Picker

Jiang Xia: "..."

At this point, it seems too deliberate to continue harvesting.

He could only look at Hashimoto Maya with regret, and then glanced at the other three suspects: "The murderer who killed the stalker is indeed among us - but it is not Mr. Hashimoto, but someone else."

It's finally here! Inspector Megure was shocked as if he heard the horn of getting off work, but in the blur, he felt as if he had missed something.

After thinking for a moment, he slammed his palm and remembered: "Oh, the murder weapon! We searched here just now, but we couldn't find the murder weapon..." - In this case, even if the criminal is caught, if there is not enough strong physical evidence, I am afraid that he cannot be convicted.

Jiang Xia shook his head: "If we just search according to the feature of 'hard blunt weapon' like before, then no matter how many times we search, the result will be the same - in fact, the murder weapon used tonight has long been changed and hidden by the murderer."

"The murder weapon has changed its form?" Officer Gao Mu thought of the many detective novels he had been cramming recently, and a small light bulb was lit in his mind, "I understand!"

"The murder weapon is actually a huge ice cube, and if you want to preserve this kind of thing, you must carry a container that can keep it warm..." He looked at the old man fishing and pointed confidently like a detective, "In other words, the murderer is you, and you are the only one who brought a box that can keep it warm!"

The old man fishing was stunned: "...Ah??"

Jiang Xia opened his mouth and was about to speak, but suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Hashimoto Maya.

Hashimoto Maya: "..."

He didn't want to speak for the old man who had just participated in the siege, but...

Hashimoto Maya numbly took up his post: "No. Killing people with ice cubes will not leave no traces as written in novels - if the murder weapon is really it, then whether it is the wound of the deceased or the surrounding ground, there will be splashes of ice cubes and water marks after they are broken."

"But now, there are no similar water stains at the crime scene, and the blood of the deceased is also splashed in a natural state, which shows that the murderer did not wipe the ground after the crime... Although I don't know how he killed people, he certainly didn't use the so-called large ice cubes."

Officer Takagi: "..."

Jiang Xia took a sip of the juice that the front desk had just brought to moisten his not-so-dry throat, and said with relief: "The 'form change' I just mentioned does not mean that ice turns into water, but that the murderer puts a hard object into something that seems to be unable to be a murder weapon, and then..."

"I understand!" This time it was Inspector Megure who had a flash of inspiration, "It's the bottle of drink in the gym couple's box..."

Hmm? Wait, when Jiang Xia found the bottle of drink in the box, he seemed to have said it was not a murder weapon.

"..." Inspector Megure braked suddenly and cleared his throat to avoid being embarrassed like his subordinates. He changed the topic as if nothing had happened: "Brother Jiang Xia, please continue."

Jiang Xia nodded: "The murderer used very common items in daily life. That is, the coins in everyone's wallet and the socks they wear when going out - just collect 300 10-yen coins together, stuff them into the socks, and tie the bag tightly... the originally small coins can be transformed into a 1.5-kilogram copper ball."

"This weight of copper is enough to hit anyone and make them bleed. After the crime, just put these coins into the vending machine, and the murder weapon will naturally disappear."

Jiang Xia's eyes swept across the three suspects and finally fell on the only thin man who was not suspected by the police: "Mr. Honma, is that right?"

"?!" The thin man was startled. After a moment, he smiled with difficulty, "This... your reasoning is indeed very reasonable, but how can this be said to be me? Everyone has a pair of socks on their feet - such as this Mr. Hashimoto."

Hashimoto Maya: "..." You! ...Forget it, forget it, there's nothing to be angry about. Isn't this how life is under Lord Uzo? He's almost used to it.

Jiang Xia glanced at him disappointedly, turned around and said to the thin man: "Your idea of ​​hiding the murder weapon is very interesting, but unfortunately, you chose the wrong shoes today."

"Shoes?"

The onlookers were stunned and looked at the thin man's feet at the same time.

——This office animal is wearing a pair of blue and white canvas shoes today. At first glance, there is nothing wrong, but now looking closely, it can be found that the upper of his left foot seems to be slightly higher than the right foot, and the whole shoe is bulging, which is quite abnormal.

Jiang Xia: "When he first entered the KTV, Mr. Honma mistakenly entered our private room and was knocked down by Mr. Youyuan who was passing by. His shoes were still normal at that time.

"But now, his left foot is obviously "fatter" - this is because after the crime was completed and the coins were put into the vending machine, he put the thick socks used to wrap the coins on his left foot.

"In other words, Mr. Honma first used the excuse of going to the bathroom to enter the blind spot of the surveillance tonight. There, he took out the "copper hammer" he made, entered the deceased's private room and killed him.

"Then he came to the vending machine next to the bathroom, put the coins in the socks into the vending machine, and bought all the cigarettes. Then he put the empty socks on his feet, took the cigarettes, and returned to his private room as if nothing had happened. "

The receptionist was eating a fruit plate while listening to the reasoning with relish. As he listened, he suddenly felt something was wrong: "But my vending machine only sells single packs of cigarettes, but the cigarettes in this guest's box are a whole carton, this..."

Jiang Xia: "So before entering the store, Mr. Honma prepared an empty cigarette box in advance.

"After buying a single pack of cigarettes from the vending machine and returning to his box, he stuffed the cigarettes he just bought into the box one by one, pretending that it was a whole carton of cigarettes he brought with him, in order to avoid others associating too many single packs of cigarettes with the 'vending machine', which would lead to his method being exposed.

"When Mr. Honma used the 'copper hammer' to beat the deceased, although he put a piece of clothing under it, the 'copper hammer' would inevitably be stained with blood in the case of the deceased's head being broken and bleeding - just open the vending machine, check the coins inside, and then look at Mr. Honma's enlarged shoe, it is not difficult to find evidence."

Compared with some other cases, the two cases tonight can be said to have solid evidence.

Inspector Megure was relieved, but then he realized something: "'Prepared cigarette box'... Isn't this a murder in the heat of the moment, but a long-planned murder? - But why did Mr. Honma kill the stalker? Could it be that he, a grown man, was also stalked and harassed?"