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Chapter 836 The mutilated corpse (4000)

"You found a job through the Internet?" Officer Memu frowned upon hearing this: "Tell me about the specific situation."

"I'm so unlucky that this happened to me."

Shimizu Shintaka lay on the quilt with an irritated look on his face and said, "I was surfing the Internet at the time and saw this message with pretty good conditions.

The job description is to come to this room at five o'clock and take the jewelry placed on the table to the park in front of the station.

This is the general content of the work, because the remuneration is very generous, and I was very happy that I got this commission.

Who knew that something like this would happen?”

"You kid, don't think you're going to be suspicious of just talking nonsense over there!"

After hearing what the other party said, Chiba took the initiative to put on a black face and looked at Shimizu Motaka and scolded: "You must have killed Miss Umeda because of money!"

"no!!"

Hearing Chiba scolding him almost as a prisoner, Shimizu Shintaka shouted back excitedly: "When I came to this room, the woman dressed as a clown was already dead!!
  I was very scared when I saw that scene. I was afraid that I would be suspected of being a murderer, so I ran away. "

Faced with Shimizu Shintaka's words, everyone was dubious, but Tang Ze believed 80% to 90% of what he said.

At first glance, the other party was the "scapegoat" created by the real murderer. It was also very abnormal that the other party did not leave the crime scene after taking the jewelry, but waited in a nearby park.

Tang Ze was basically certain that the other party was really hired by someone, and was not a fabricated excuse.

Unable to verify the authenticity of Shimizu's words, the case temporarily fell into a stalemate.

Although they did catch the most suspect criminal at present, when Karasawa pointed out that the other party did not leave, but stayed in the park in front of the station, which was an abnormal behavior, Chiba and others who had previously identified the other party as the criminal also Some cannot be determined.

After all, what Tangze said does make sense.

After an ordinary robber kills someone, he will definitely run far away with his property in order to avoid criminal searches.

After all, after something like this happens, criminals will investigate the surrounding area. If you stay nearby with stolen goods, the risk is too great.

But Shimizu Shintaka didn't escape at all. If the other party was really a robber and murderer, it would be a bit abnormal.

Of course, although the case situation has temporarily come to a standstill, the search of the room continues.

Everyone was holding their breath to find more clues, hoping to make a breakthrough in the case.

Tang Ze naturally also activated his super sense of smell, and when all kinds of messy smells entered his nasal cavity, Tang Ze suddenly opened his eyes.

He walked towards the kitchen and saw the iron pot sitting on the gas stove.

Without opening it to check, the previous smell had already told him that the pot was cooking beef stew.

But that's not the point.

Tangze touched the iron pot with his hand, and the heat he imagined did not reach his fingertips. Instead, a hint of coldness came from his fingers.

This pot of beef has already gone cold.

Just when he was exploring the smell in the room, he noticed the unusual smell of this pot of beef.

Perhaps someone with a super sense of smell might not be able to detect this, but Karasawa, who is proficient in cooking and often cooks at home, quickly noticed the subtle difference in the smell of this pot of beef.

He looked down at the gas stove under the iron pot and found the knob pointing in the direction of low heat.

"That's strange. The switch is obviously in the low-fire position, so logically it should still be lit."

Conan naturally noticed Karasawa's actions. He held the drawer and touched the iron pot and realized something was abnormal.

"If that's the case"

Karasawa put Conan down from the drawer, then squatted down and opened the cabinet under the gas stove, and then a look of understanding appeared on his face: "As expected."

"Eh? What are you talking about? What is this?"

After Conan heard what Karasawa said, he couldn't help but look at the cabinet. He found that in the cabinet below the gas stove, in addition to the pots and bowls, there was also a pillar and square instruments connected to the gas stove above.

"Anyone who cooks often knows that this is a seismic sensor for gas."

Tangze explained: "Neon is a country with many earthquakes after all. This thing is a device that can automatically turn off the flames when encountering an earthquake to avoid secondary dangers caused by gas leakage."

"I heard from the manager of this apartment that Ms. Umeda seems to be afraid of earthquakes. This device was installed at Ms. Umeda's own request. It will automatically turn off when the earthquake intensity reaches level three."

After hearing the conversation between the two, Miwako Sato came over and lifted the lid of the pot to look at the beef stew inside. She shook her head sadly: "It's all cold. I guess it was after the three o'clock earthquake that I forgot to relight it. Bar."

But after hearing what the other party said, Tangze and Conan on the side simultaneously denied this statement in their hearts.

Rather than saying that the other party has forgotten, the two of them are more likely to think that the other party has no way to rekindle the fire.

In other words, when the earthquake occurred at three o'clock, Miss Umeda had already been killed.

The prisoner did not expect that an earthquake would occur at three o'clock in the future, and Miss Umeda had just installed an earthquake sensor, which resulted in the current situation.

However, there is one biggest flaw in this guess, and that is the estimated time of death.

Aso Minoru judged that the corpse was between four-thirty and five o'clock. If Miss Umeda was injured at three o'clock, then when they arrived at five-thirty, the rigor mortis should have already begun.

Moreover, the heating is turned on in this room, so it stands to reason that stiffness should occur earlier.

But the corpse behaved completely differently.

If those three people really did it, it proves that even the body may have been tampered with!
  After a series of reasoning, this idea naturally emerged in their minds.

Of course, Conan was mostly guessing, but Karasawa was basically certain.

Of course, this does not affect their actions.

After Sato Miwako left, the two exchanged a few words briefly and then walked around the room in unison, looking for a suitable environment to delay rigor mortis.

As the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, Ms. Umeda can be said to be a wealthy person. The appliances in her home are very luxurious, and the refrigerator is large enough to fit an adult.

However, after opening the refrigerator, Conan ruled out this option because the refrigerator was filled with ingredients and bottles of wine and beverages, without any gaps at all.

Not only that, even the classification is very neat, and there is no sense that it was stuffed in hastily.

‘It doesn’t look like a refrigerator anymore. ’ ˆ ˆ Conan was talking when he suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing by. He turned around and found that it was Tang Ze who opened the balcony door.

"This is a suitable place..." Conan raised his head and felt the cold wind and said, "If the body is placed here, it should be able to slow down the stiffness..."

"More than that, I discovered a problem as soon as I walked to the living room." Tang Ze pointed to the curtains in the living room.

"Is it oil paint?" Conan wiped the curtains, and a flash of realization flashed on his face: "It seems that after killing the prisoner, he moved Miss Umeda's body from the kitchen to the balcony.

But what about the technique. The prisoner should have come here with two other people..."

"As for that, I found this on the balcony." Karasawa handed an evidence bag to Conan.

After Karasawa and Conan separated in the kitchen, they went to the balcony first. After all, in high-rise apartment cases, the "balcony" is also a place where many techniques need to be used.

But before he reached the place, his super sense of smell detected the smell of oil paint on the balcony curtains.

This directly led him to confirm that the body was stored on the balcony. After all, the smell of the oil paint was exactly the same as the oil paint used to apply makeup on Miss Umeda's face.

Tangze guessed that the contamination was probably on the curtains when the prisoner moved the body to the balcony.

Now that the place where the body was moved was found, it proved that this was the place where the other party's method was hung up. Tangze naturally went to the balcony to check the situation.

And what is stored in the evidence bag is the key evidence to unravel the method of the case!
  "Artificial hair!?"

When Conan saw the physical evidence in the evidence bag, his pupils shrank violently the next moment.

A flash of light flashed through his mind like thunder, connecting everything in an instant.

Conan raised his head, his bright eyes meeting a pair of equally sharp eyes above him.

The next moment, a smile appeared on the corners of their mouths at the same time.

it is more than words.

.......
  "Everything I say is true, you have to believe me, Mr. Criminal!!"

Under Chiba's escort, Shimizu Masataka walked toward the door. While the other party was forced to walk out, he shouted loudly at Officer Megure, trying to convince him of his innocence.

It's a pity that when nothing is found so far, this guy with serious suspicions will definitely not be let go.

"Well, Mr. Criminal, can we leave?"

After seeing Shimizu Masataka being taken away, Kijima Mi and Ishikawa from the room next to them also walked out one after another.

"Yeah, no problem." Hearing Kijima Mi's question, Officer Megure nodded without any intention of stopping him.

In his opinion, the three of them were completely without any suspicion.

"Sorry, the other two can leave, but Mr. Kijima, you should come back to the Metropolitan Police Department with us."

However, when Kijima and the other two were greeting each other and preparing to leave, Karasawa suddenly called out to each other.

"Eh? Brother Karasawa? This is..." Officer Megure was startled when he heard this, and subconsciously looked at Kijima Mika with a scrutinizing look on his face.

It’s no wonder that Officer Megure reacted like this. After all, he trusted Karasawa very much and knew that he was not the kind of person to talk nonsense casually.

This also means that Tangze has indeed found evidence that the other party has serious suspicions!

"Prisoner, what do you mean by this?" Kijima Miki, who stopped, turned back to look at Karasawa and said with a smile, "Is it possible that you suspect that I am a criminal?"

"Isn't this an obvious fact?" Tang Ze asked naturally, confirming what the other party said.

"If that's the case, then you have to provide evidence!" Kijima's face was as gloomy as ink, and his tone instantly became stiff.

"Mr. Ishikawa, I would like to ask when and where you met Mr. Kijima today?"

Faced with Kijima Mi's question, Karasawa completely ignored him. Instead, he looked at Ishikawa Jiro and asked.

After hearing the words of the two people, Ishikawa Jiro, who was a little confused, stopped thinking about it and just answered honestly: "We made an appointment to meet in front of the Rice Krispies Department Store before three o'clock."

"Wait, Mr. Criminal."

Hearing the tit-for-tat words between the two, Ishikawa quickly defended his friend: "Kijima has been with us all the time, how could he have time to kill people?"

"Yes, even if we separate, we can only go to the public phone." Yoko Nakamura also echoed: "But by that time, the editor-in-chief had been killed."

"Mr. Kijima, then I would like to ask you, where were you and what did you do before three o'clock?" Karasawa looked at Kijima and asked.

"Well..."

Hearing Karasawa's words, the gloom in Kijima's eyes flashed away, and then he smiled calmly and said, "I just did some chores."

"Is it a chore?" Tang Ze chuckled: "Is it a chore? Or is it a major matter of killing someone?"

"Why do you, a guy like you, start talking nonsense?" Kijima said in a bad tone: "Can criminals just frame people casually!?"

"And Detective Mori also saw the photo sent by Editor Umeda with us." Ishikawa also quickly defended his friend: "This can't be fake."

"I can prove this." Mouri Kogoro also said: "I did see the text message sent by Miss Umeda at that time."

"For text messages, as long as there are photos, it is enough to use her mobile phone to send text messages after killing Miss Umeda. It cannot be confirmed that it is the person." Karasawa shook his head and denied the proof.

"What about the medical examiner?" Nakamura Yoko looked at Karasawa and said, "Didn't the medical examiner already determine the time of death of Miss Umeda before? Are you trying to say that the medical examiner made a mistake in his judgment!?"

"Your question is a good one, but it misses one point."

Karasawa shook his head, looked at the ugly-faced Kijima and chuckled: "Couldn't it be that Mr. Kijima tampered with the corpse, delaying the rigor mortis time of the corpse, and causing Narumi-kun to misjudge the time of death of the corpse? .”

"Are you saying that the real time of Miss Umeda's death does not match what the body showed?" After hearing what Karasawa said, Officer Megure looked surprised.

"Yes, that's the truth."

Tang Ze sighed slightly: "After death, a person becomes a dead thing, and the changes on his body are not as difficult to change as those of a living person.

Before we got the call and came here, I think Miss Umeda's body was kept in a cold place to delay the onset of rigor mortis after Miss Umeda's death. "

But when Karasawa finished speaking, the next moment Kijima Mito seemed to have heard something funny and couldn't help but sneered.

(End of this chapter)