Conan’s Corpse Picker

Inspector Megure sighed: "This criminal is lucky. If there hadn't been a power outage, he might have been caught on the spot by enthusiastic people."

Jiang Xia pointed to the body leaning against the escalator: "Our luck is not bad. At least the deceased tried to leave a death message, so we don't have to look for a needle in a haystack in this building."

The brown paper bag that the deceased was holding in his arms was empty. Inspector Megure stared at the three symbols "OXΔ" on it and scratched his head: "But what does this mean?"

Before he could figure out anything, a young police officer ran over: "Mr. Jiang Xia, the call record on the victim's mobile phone shows that half an hour ago, he had a call lasting 1 minute and 31 seconds - compared with the time of death, it should have been shortly before he was killed."

"Really." Jiang Xia took the mobile phone in the evidence bag and pressed the call back button very naturally, "Then let's see who he called this time."

As soon as the voice fell, a ring sounded, and a series of eye-catching ringtones rang out among the onlookers.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and a social animal with a high hairline immediately became the center of everyone's attention.

"?!" The social animal frantically took out his phone and hung up the phone instinctively.

The ringing sound disappeared, and he breathed a sigh of relief. However, the next moment, several shadows fell on him.

"..." The social animal raised his head stiffly and found that there were several strong men around him without knowing when.

Inspector Megure and several of his men surrounded him, and asked sternly: "Were you the one who was talking to the deceased half an hour ago?"

Officer: "..."

...

"Although I did call him, I definitely didn't kill him. You must believe me!"

Officer wiped the sweat off his forehead, hesitated for a moment, and chose to tell the truth: "Recently, my boss found out that someone in our company had embezzled public funds. Because I am the general affairs director of the company, this matter finally fell on my head. My boss ordered me to find that worm within a week.

"I really didn't know where to start, so I went to a detective agency that is said to be very good at this business - the deceased Nakajo Katsunori was the detective who helped me investigate this matter."

Jiang Xia: "Why did you meet in such a crowded and noisy shopping mall?"

The general affairs director sighed: "Because I have to work overtime today - our company is on the 8th to 11th floors of this building. I thought I would go back to the office as soon as I got the results of the investigation, but who knew... Alas. ”

Jiang Xia nodded: "The brown paper bag in the deceased's arms is empty, and the investigation report inside should have been snatched away by the murderer. Combined with the phone call you made before... The murderer this time is likely to be the one who embezzled public funds - he noticed the deceased's investigation of him, and because he didn't want to be exposed, he chose to snatch the information and kill to silence him. "

"I see." Inspector Megure asked the office worker opposite, "Who do you think the guy who embezzled public funds is?"

The General Affairs Director smiled bitterly and said, "If I knew, would I still spend a lot of money to hire a detective? But a few days ago, Nakajo gave me a list of suspects. At that time, he had just started the investigation and could only determine a rough range of suspects. "

As he said, he dug into his pocket and took out a piece of paper that he had looked at many times: "It's all here. "

Inspector Megure and Officer Takagi looked over and saw fifty or sixty names densely packed on the paper.

Two policemen: "..."

Judy raised her lips silently: "..."It turns out that it's not just the FBI, the Tokyo police are also suffering the same pain... Having said that, with a common enemy, both sides should obviously work together to eliminate Usa first, but in fact, the police have made things difficult for the FBI.

Thinking about the experiences of herself and her companions, Judy's mouth gradually stopped curling up.

Next to her, Officer Takagi's smile was also disappearing. He looked at the list that was so long that it made his scalp numb: "Inspector, this..."

"..."Inspector Megure patted his shoulder, "We policemen can't be afraid of difficulties-check! We must catch the outlaw who is considered to be the murderer! "

Officer Takagi: "..."

...

This kind of murder that happened in public must be handled urgently. In addition to Officer Takagi, other police officers were also busy for a while.

Fortunately, such busyness brought some gains. Not long after, new information was delivered to Jiang Xia: "We checked the three blood symbols on the brown paper bag. There were fingerprints of the deceased on the blood words - these symbols were indeed left by the deceased, not the murderer to confuse the public."

"In addition, according to the testimony of witnesses, the detailed time of death of the deceased was a few seconds before the power outage in the building - they said that they saw a man wrapped in a coat and wearing a black knitted hat stabbed the deceased with a knife, and then the surroundings fell into darkness. "

"Puff--!" Judy's tea sprayed out again: What man is wearing??

A head popped out from the edge of the table. Conan put his hands on the edge of the table and looked up at her: "Teacher Judy, what's wrong with you?"

"..."Judy smiled, "Nothing, I just think the timing of the power outage is too coincidental, just like someone turned on the lights to change the stage. "

The young police officer looked at the two deserters with dissatisfaction, cleared his throat and continued to report to Jiang Xia and Inspector Megure:

"The crime scene was right next to the escalator. The victim did not die on the spot after being stabbed. The two men fought for the brown paper bag.

"After the power outage, Mr. Nakajo fell to the ground leaning on the escalator. The murderer stepped forward and pulled out a stack of documents from a brown paper bag, and then fled upstairs."

Several people left the questioning place and returned to the escalator. Sure enough, as the young police officer said, a trail of blood stretched out and finally stopped at the entrance of the escalator.

"In other words, the deceased was actually the three symbols left under the escalator. He then sat down on the steps of the elevator, and as the elevator ran, his body was sent upstairs."

As he spoke, the Memu Police Department sighed: "This witness is too calm. If he shouted a few times, the murderer might be blocked here."

The young police officer said helplessly: "He said he thought it was a suspense mystery program hosted by the TV station."

Judy: "..." Do you have many such programs in Tokyo?

The Mumu Police Department no longer cared about the witness's thoughts: "Anyway, the top priority is to find the murderer among the 58 suspects... Tsk, what does OXΔ mean?"

Suzuki Sonoko has been thinking about it for a long time. When she heard him ask, she couldn't help but rush to answer: "Could it be some kind of mathematical symbol, 'X' means 'multiplication'?"

Judy laughed: "You mean, the deceased wanted to imply that our murderer was a mathematician?"