Detectives of Detective World

Although he looked confused, Yamamura Cao handed over the car keys and watched Karasawa leave with Conan.

As for the Suzuki sisters, Xiaolan and others, he also told the three of them to pay attention to their safety and not to leave Yamamura Cao and other criminals before he came back.

Of course, he also told Yamamura Cao that although this guy is unreliable, it is still possible to bring people and horses to act as bodyguards.

With Xiaolan present, and with so many criminal cases, there must be no problem with safety, so Tang Ze left with peace of mind.

After asking everyone to wait for news about the two of them in the hotel lobby, Karasawa took Conan all the way up the mountain on the grounds that his memory could help him find the road signs.

However, when they arrived near the maple forest, the two got out of the car and walked up the mountain with flashlights.

After all, the two of them came to find the marked maple tree, so naturally they couldn't drive up the mountain like a "flying horse", so they could only confirm it bit by bit.

But this is a troublesome project. After all, it is pitch dark on the mountain, and the only light source we can rely on is the flashlight in our hand.

Fortunately, Conan's memory is definitely excellent, and he quickly determined a familiar path after a quick trip.

"I remember walking along the road this way." Conan walked forward, while Karasawa followed behind him with tools, and the two soon came to a maple tree.

"This is it."

Conan shined the flashlight upwards and saw the red handkerchief tied to the branch. He quickly determined based on the location that this tree was the tree where Sonoko mistakenly thought the handkerchief floated up in the morning.

This is also the reason why Karasawa took Conan with him. After all, the other party climbed the tree and saw the location of the red handkerchief. No one could determine the location of the maple tree better than him.

"Get out of the way."

Holding the small shovel he borrowed from the hotel for gardening, Karasawa squatted down and dug under the tree with the shovel.

As soon as the shovel touched the ground, Tang Ze quickly realized something was wrong.

"It's very soft. It looks like it was dug up and then filled with soil." Tangze told Conan what he found.

"Sure enough, Mr. "AD" we saw in the morning dug the ground before meeting the murderer." Conan said with a solemn expression while lighting the light for Tang Ze.

Tangze didn't speak any more, but dug down bit by bit. Soon, under the illumination of the flashlight, a sad white streak appeared under the soil.

Karasawa put down the shovel and dug up the soil with his hands wearing white gloves, revealing what was buried in the soil.

The bones, the pale white head was covered with mud, and the dark eye holes were facing the two people outside the pit, seeming to be silently describing the misery of their lives.

"What should we do now?" Conan looked at Tangze and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"What about you? Have you already got an idea?" Tang Ze's nose twitched slightly, then he smiled calmly and said, "I just don't know if you and I are thinking of the same method."

"In this case, we have no other evidence, so this is the only way."

Conan and Karasawa looked at each other and took out their mobile phones at the same time.

"Come on." Tangze smiled and dialed Yuanzi's phone number: "It's more convenient for you to ask for me."

"Yes." Conan nodded and took the dialed phone number and began to explain the situation.

"Is it Conan? My brother-in-law wants you to ask me something?"

"Ah, you said that I thought my handkerchief fell where the maple tree was, right?

The distance of that tree appears in the woods near the rock in the final scene.

If you want to walk, it's about 10 minutes away. "

Sonoko answered Conan's question truthfully.

"I understand, thank you Sister Yuanzi."

Conan couldn't help but smile when he heard the other party say what he wanted to convey under his guidance: "Sister Yuanzi, do you really not think about the tree before?

I remember that there was a red handkerchief tied to that tree, and the overall numerical value looked pretty good. Maybe it had appeared in a movie or TV series. "

"You're stupid, the handkerchief tied to the tree must be a fan's work!"

After hearing Conan's words, Sonoko said angrily: "The only thing that appeared in the drama was the maple tree growing next to that rock.

If two or three of those trees appeared at a time, it would be confusing! "

"Haha... Haha too..."

Although he wanted to further induce Sonoko to tell the information to increase the temptation of "bait", but being looked down upon by the other party, he could only smile awkwardly, and then hung up the phone after a few perfunctory words.

"You brat, how dare you hang up on me!"

Yuanzi was still chattering sarcastically, but the phone suddenly rang with a busy signal. She closed the phone unhappily: "Let him look good next time!"

"Okay, well, maybe he went to help Tang Ze Criminal look for clues!" Xiaolan comforted the angry Yuanzi at the side.

She didn't know why, but she and Conan just didn't get along very well. She always felt unhappy with Conan, so she could only act as a palliative in the middle to appease her best friend.

"So, Tang Ze Criminal is probably close to finding clues?"

Yamamura Cao on the side naturally heard the content of the phone call just now, and his expression was a little excited: "It's really amazing, worthy of Karasawa Criminal!"

"Humph, isn't that natural!" Yuanzi said proudly: "Now that my brother-in-law has taken action, there is no suspense in the case!"

"What a pity, Tang Ze Criminal didn't take me with him!"

Speaking of this, Yamamura Cao looked pityful. This was a great opportunity to handle the case together with Karasawa Criminal. If we could really catch the murderer together, then returning to Gunma County would be the capital to show off to his colleagues.

But thinking of the tasks assigned by Karasawa, Yamamura Cao could only stay here and comfort himself:

‘This is also an important task. Since Tang Ze Criminal has confessed, it means that he trusts me. I can’t live up to Tang Ze Criminal’s trust! ’

But in fact, Karasawa just made careful arrangements out of habit, while Yamamura Cao was treated as a tool bodyguard by him. As long as he didn't cause trouble, he could wait for the case to end.

If he were to follow me, I don't know what kind of trouble he would cause given his character.

Everyone was patiently waiting for the news about Tang Ze's crime, but they did not notice that in the corridor leading from the hall to the room, there was a figure hiding in a dark corner, showing a ferocious smile.

In the dark night, Xiaolan and others were still waiting patiently in the lobby of the hotel, but they did not notice that one of the three people who had previously investigated had quietly left the hotel and headed towards the mountains.

In the dark forest, a dim light shone into the distance. The shadow searched all the way and finally found the maple tree with a red handkerchief hanging on the branch.

He placed the flashlight on the ground and dug under the tree with his hands.

The soil on the surface of the hole was very soft, and it was even just covered with a layer of maple leaves. The little black man didn't dig a few times, and a hole the size of a human head was revealed.

And in it, because the skull is lying there quietly.

Seeing this, the little black man showed a ferocious smile.

"Shouldn't you be more happy? After all, this is a reunion after a long time, right?"

Just after the little black man dug up the bones, Tang Ze's words suddenly came from the dark forest.

The little black man looked around in panic. The next moment, a light was projected from the maple tree, illuminating the figure of the other party, revealing his true appearance.

Watanuki Chenzo, standing next to the skeleton at this moment, is the kind-looking old man in the hotel!

And he is the murderer this time, and he is also the culprit of the bones under the maple tree!

"Although I don't know the identity of this skeleton, you killed him and buried him here, right?"

Tang Ze pointed to the red handkerchief on the branch and said: "You use this red handkerchief as a mark. If something happens, you can move the body immediately.

The reason why I chose red is to blend in with the maple leaves and not attract attention.

Because in the past, no one would come to this mountain except when the maples are red in autumn, but the fact that the handkerchief has become so popular is beyond your expectation, right?

The last classic scene of "Red Maple in Winter" was shot on this mountain.

After that, pilgrim fans began to pour in regardless of the season, and imitated the last scene in the middle, tying red handkerchiefs on the branches of the maple forest in an endless stream.

This unexpected scene also makes you unable to distinguish the marks you made, and naturally the body buried under the maple tree cannot be found.

You are afraid that your murder will be exposed at some point. In order to find the original maple tree, the staff of the TV series who deliberately dieted, that is, the man you killed today.

You then pay him to help you find the maple tree that inspired the screenwriter.

And he did find the maple tree as he wished, so you followed the message and went to the woods in the last scene to meet him.

You originally thought that as long as you paid him to tell you the location of the tree, you would have all your worries under your control.

But I'm afraid that after the other party collected the money, they didn't proceed in the direction you thought.

He discovered your secret before he met you.

Just like you now, he dug up the roots of the maple tree and found the pile of bones where you were buried.

I think what happens after that is a very common thing, whether in reality or in movies.

The other party uses the pile of bones as a handle and asks you to spend more money to seal the deal.

But blackmail is risky, especially blackmailing a murderer who has already killed someone.

So you decided to kill him without even asking where he was.

You were very decisive and smart, because at that time you no longer needed him to point out the position for you.

Because if he has discovered the place where you buried your bones, the soil under the maple tree will have obvious signs of digging and will appear relatively soft.

So you just need to focus on looking for people with relevant characteristics.

In this case, it is useless for you to keep the other party, and the other party threatens you with this, so you decisively kill him.

But what makes you miscalculate is that the place the other party took you to was not the place where the last scene was shot.

The tree you're looking for is about five hundred meters away from where the last scene was shot.

So after you killed the person, you didn't find a maple tree with loose soil nearby, and you were afraid that the murder would be discovered, so you hurriedly left the scene. "

Karasawa jumped down from the tree and looked down at Watanuki Tatsuzo who was kneeling in front of the pit: "How? There should be nothing wrong with my reasoning, right?"

"Hehehe... he is indeed the famous "Hell Chaser", that's absolutely right."

Facing the criminal Karasawa, Watanuki Chenzo smiled and there was indeed no panic on his face. Instead, he stood up and looked at Karasawa with interest and asked: "But if I hadn't come here, what were you going to do? Woolen cloth?"

"Well, that would naturally be a bit troublesome." Tangze smiled and said, "Because the note of the man you killed has already written the fact that you are the murderer."

"Eh? How is that possible?" Watanuki Tatsumi immediately objected after hearing this: "In that notebook, there are only blood stains on April 1st."

"Yes, on April 1st, people in the past would take out the cotton from their clothes and use them as summer clothes."

Conan, who was still on the tree, smiled and said, "That's why there are Chinese characters that say April 1st, but the pronunciation is the same as your "Mian Guan"."

"Judging from the place where the notebook fell, you should have noticed that the other person made a mark on the notebook after being stabbed. You stabbed the other person on the chest a second time and then ran away."

Karasawa looked at Watanuki Tatsuzo, who had an ugly expression, and mocked: "You snatched the notebook away, but you didn't know what April 1st meant, so you threw the notebook away while running away.

But this is also your stupidity. You actually threw the notebook near the crime scene. If you destroyed the notebook and didn't come here tonight, I really have no way to determine who the culprit is.

In other words, you are in a cocoon. "

"Ho... Then let me ask you, do you know why I left his body and fled the scene?"

A playful smile appeared on Watanuki Chenzo's face. That calmness made Conan frown secretly, but he still replied: "Of course no one will come to the mountain again at night, so you can handle the details and take advantage of the night." Bury the body, isn't it obvious?"

"Yeah, that's right, it's really something obvious..."

Wankuan Chensan said with a ferocious smile: "And it's with these people!!"

As Watanuki Chenzo's words fell, the sound of dense footsteps came to mind in the maple forest, and countless figures walked out from behind the maple trees, which instantly made Conan's expression change.

All kinds of men walked out with malicious smiles, and the only thing that remained unchanged was that each of them held weapons such as steel pipes or even samurai swords.