Corpse collector in Conan

the next day.

Sijichuan Hospital.

Vodka spent an uneasy night in a strange place, but fortunately the night passed without incident.

When he woke up at dawn, the little nurse brought him some clothes for going out, and said to him with a smile: "It's time to go out and relax. You have breakfast first, and then meet at the entrance of the inpatient department."

"...?"

Vodka wanted to say "I won't go", but after hearing the noise of other wards going out, he was silent for a moment and silently changed his clothes.

——Familiar places make people feel at ease, so he would instinctively want to stay in the hospital, in this newly familiar ward.

But if you follow this normal mentality... you may fall into some insidious traps.

Thinking of this, Vodaf took a deep breath and decided to follow the crowd, be an ordinary patient, and always keep pace with people who go out.

…

Not long after, the convalescent patients gathered at the entrance of the hospital.

Under the leadership of the nurses, they walked into the forest and breathed in the fresh air.

Suddenly, there was a vague sound of mechanical operation.

Vodka raised his ears and listened carefully as he listened. Other patients also noticed the movement and looked over there in confusion: "What's the sound?"

The patient who had been staying here for a few days laughed and led them there. Soon, a small basin appeared in front of us, and several excavators were busy going back and forth in it.

"I asked the nurses before, and they said that this land has been purchased by the hospital and is planned to be transformed into a sanatorium facility." The senior patient pointed out from a distance, "Look, a pool will be dug there to make an artificial hot spring."

"Oh!" The patients suddenly realized it 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 big shovel of the excavator falling and inserting it into the soil.

The huge steel machine turned over and steadily dug up a handful of soft soil, and among the handful of dark soil, there was a mass of light color for some reason.

The dirty light-colored hair is messy and tangled, looking horizontally and vertically it looks like... a ball of white hair buried in the soil.

Vodka: "...?"

Tens of meters away.

The excavator master was sitting in the car, staring blankly at the shovel in front of him through the car window - he shoveled it down, and besides the mud, he actually dug up a strange corpse.

The corpse looked old, with white hair, motionless and mixed with the soil, and there were dried and black blood at the corners of the mouth.

Excavator master: "..."

"ah--!!"

…

After one hour.

In the police station.

"We compared the fingerprints and found that the deceased buried in the forest was indeed Komoto Koushi himself."

Officer Sato flipped through his notes with mixed emotions: "Judging from the autopsy results, his cause of death was brain damage caused by a violent impact on the head. In addition, he had multiple bruises and fractures - all of these injuries should be Caused by falling from height.”

"In addition, there is also the time of his death." Officer Sato had a complicated mood. "He died at noon yesterday."

"Yesterday at noon?" Officer 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 wrong. Ms. Akiba was killed late last night. If Akiba was killed at noon He's dead... The one who killed Ms. Akiba couldn't be the evil spirit that Koushi Komoto turned into. "

With a "Gudong" sound, Fuyuki Ryuzaburo collapsed on the ground and murmured: "He, he turned into a ghost and came back for revenge..."

Jiang Xia couldn't help but glance at him: "..." He really knows how to talk. Unfortunately, things don't seem to be developing in such a wonderful direction.

Under the expectant gaze of the police, the scientific detective thought for a while 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 the enthusiastic people in the forest, the deceased was not lying down at that time. On the ground, but buried deep in the soil - judging from these things, the situation should be obvious. "

"That is to say..." Officer Takagi felt he understood, "There must be a third party! - After Komoto Koushi accidentally fell and died, that person took him away and buried him, and then inherited his will and continued to execute it. This unfortunate man's revenge plan.

"He used the exact same method to kill Ms. Akiba and deliberately left Komoto's belongings at the scene. Then he pretended to be Komoto himself and made a threatening phone call to Mr. Fuyuki."

Police Department Memu nodded, sighed and thought: "It makes sense...but who is the third party? To avenge others, even at the expense of killing people, how much kindness can be achieved? Jia Ben has been in South America until He just returned to China recently, where does he have the connections to do this kind of thing?”

"But anyway, this is a direction of investigation." Megure Police Department turned to Sato Miwako, "Go and reorganize Koushi Komoto's interpersonal relationships. In addition, carefully check the recent entry list from South America to Tokyo. Maybe Komoto This helper was brought over from South America.”

He turned to Officer Takagi again: "You are responsible for protecting Mr. Fuyuki - don't be negligent like last time."

Officer Takagi responded quickly: "Okay, I will pay extra attention!"

…

The police were busy with trivial matters. Jiang Xia was sitting in the Metropolitan Police Department, blowing on the air conditioner, looking through the case records, and wanted to talk to the enthusiastic people who discovered the body of Komoto Koushi.

Unfortunately, I heard that they were a group of hospitalized patients and it was not convenient for them to go out, especially to a place like the police station.

Jiang Xia had to give up calling people over and decided to take time to go there in person.

However, it was already noon, and eating was more important than going to the suburbs. So he went back home first and turned to Dr. Agasa's place next door.

Huihara Ai had already prepared the meal. She seemed to have not completely walked out of the shadow of the bus. At this time, she was stirring the porridge in the pot listlessly.

There was a person next to him who was very energetic - Conan also ran over to eat.

And the purpose of this mini detective was obviously not just to eat. He shoveled the rice into his mouth in a few seconds and looked at Jiang Xia with interest: "Are you also following the serial murder case reported on TV recently?"

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 those reporters are exaggerating. What is the real situation? Take me to the police station in the 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."