Conan: The Mechanic

When the police car was parked in the parking lot of the Metropolitan Police Department, Takagi, Chiba and the others who came out of the car saw a somewhat abrupt figure appearing here.

"What about the found finger?" Gregory reached out to Takagi. "Don't waste time, I need to start an inspection as soon as possible."

"?" Qianyu was a little stunned, because the Metropolitan Police Department's autopsy center has theoretically been moved to the Rice Flower Central Hospital where Gregory is located, how could he appear here?

"Don't be idle, kid, come with me." Gregory, who took the evidence bag from Takagi, glanced at Qianyu. "Takagi, take the little girl to wait here for a while, we have to go out later."

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"4.25*0.97, it looks like a man's ring finger." In an office where microscopes and other rudimentary equipment were hurriedly placed, Gregory held a vernier caliper and measured the size of his finger. "At this size, there is indeed a ring finger missing from a corpse in the inventory here that matches this size."

"There is a ring finger that is missing from a corpse?" Qianyu raised her eyebrows. "what do you mean?"

"Yeah," Gregory folded a sketch on the table into a paper airplane and flew it to Chiba. "See for yourself, there are five in total."

"Are all five missing a ring finger?" Chiba asked while unfolding the paper plane. "Is it not before the attack or was it cut off during the time of the killing?"

"The stubble is very fresh, and I don't believe that five ring fingers were cut off at the same time in the small Tokyo and Kanagawa prefecture. There is no intersection of people who were killed at the same time." Gregory replied. . "See the rest for yourself."

"Uh..." Chiyu fully unfolded the paper plane and saw the content of the sketch.

In the two days from July 2nd to 3rd, five corpses were found missing a ring finger, and the cause of death was stabbed with a dagger from the back with the right hand after being knocked out by a stun gun. The bodies were placed in different shapes after being assassinated. According to the results that have been investigated so far, there is no known relationship between these people. If there is, it must be quite secret, and it is almost impossible to detect - and the finger that Qianyu found is It was the missing finger that belonged to the first body found on the morning of July 2.

"This is almost incomprehensible..." Qianyu sighed. "Finding the next victim is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack..."

"But there is actually a little bit of relevance," Gregory spread a map on the table. "Look at where they were thrown."

"?" Qianyu walked to the table, looked at the map, and immediately found the suspicion. "Wait a minute, what is this?"

On the map, the locations where the three corpses in Tokyo and the two corpses in Kanagawa Prefecture were found show a standard cross, and the order of appearance of the corpses follows the stroke order—the first corpse in Hachioji City , then the second body in Machida City, followed by the third body in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The fourth body appears on the vertical bisector of where the first and third bodies were found, while the second body is almost equidistant from the three bodies. As for the fifth body...this body and the fourth body are exactly symmetrical about the second body, and the five bodies perfectly form a standard cross.

"It is foreseeable that if there is a sixth corpse, it will definitely continue to extend in the direction of the fourth and fifth corpses, considering the ratio of the cross - 3.5:3.5:5, the sixth corpse It should be on the extension line in this direction, probably in the territory of Odawara." Gregory put his fingers in the refrigerator next to him, and then waved the crutches in his hand. "Get ready, we'll go right away."

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"But if their bodies were placed in a cross, what did the murderer mean?" Sitting in the police car on the toll road in Odawara, Chiba looked at the information and muttered. "To express one's worship of Catholicism? Do you intend to use this incident to discredit Catholicism? Or do you want to use allusions to redeem the dead who the murderer thinks are sinking into sin? (In the Christian system, the cross represents God's love for the world. and redemption)”

"Maybe it's referring to something else," Haibara Ai sat beside her and looked up from some other documents. "After all, you have to consider that the cross became a symbol of those clergymen only later, and before that, the Roman Empire used the cross as a tool of sanction. By the way, the cross represented sun worship in early religions, whether it was Chaldea Both humans and Gauls regarded it as sacred. (The symbol of the ancient Babylonian sun **** was T. When the Chaldeans worshipped the sun god, the horizontal bar was sunk and turned into an asymmetrical cross; and The Gauls have carved crosses on gems, pots and coins since the Bronze Age)”

"Better not to be like that, then we'll be running for nothing. (The Gallic cross is a standard cross~www.readwn.com~ not the longer cross of the Catholic and Babylonian **** Tammuz, So the previous prediction about the location of the next dead person was wrong. said Gregory, who was sitting in the passenger seat. "And if you parse it from these less common directions, it may represent a lot of meanings. The cross entered the Catholic system when Constantine saw a cross in the sky during a war; in Judaism, the cross represents The tree of life, the horizontal and vertical two represent men and women. There are too many religions and cultures around the world that regard the cross as a very important thing.”

At this moment, Takagi suddenly slammed the steering wheel, causing the entire police car to suddenly turn to the right - this is a two-way road consisting of two lanes, and Takagi's behavior brought the entire police car into a retrograde state!

"!!!" Chiba, who was secured by the seat belt, reacted immediately, then looked at Takagi to confirm what happened, but found that Takagi was looking at the rearview mirror.

Before Chiba could turn around to see what was going on behind the car, everyone in the car saw a car drive past them on the left at an almost crazy speed.

The car is a red imported car (the reason why this inference can be made is because there is only one driver in the car, and the driver sits in the front left position of the car, only foreign imported cars will set the driver's seat here) as The male driver of the car appears to be in a state of panic.

Chiba noticed that although the red signal light indicating deceleration was already on at the rear of the car, the entire car showed no signs of slowing down, and continued to accelerate along the downhill road.

Undoubtedly, there was a problem with the car's brake system, which caused the brake pedal to fail to activate the brake system when the brake light system had been activated.