Conan: The Mechanic

"!!!" Chi Yu was taken aback, and hurriedly curled up and hid in the corner of the wall. This is a fairly safe hiding place for those who didn't immediately look to the left and right corners after going out. Considering that there is no light here, even if the other party really has this habit, it is difficult to notice himself in black in the dark.

The door opened, and a tall figure in heavy plate armor walked past Qianyu.

"!!!" Qianyu almost curled up in horror, looking at this terrifying opponent who didn't notice her.

The panic is not because of the fear of the plate armor that walks at night, but because the auxiliary unit has completed the left view mapping and estimated strength analysis of the entire plate armor, but Chiba does not have any real feasible combat plan at hand.

Although it is only a side drawing made in a situation where the optical conditions are not good, Chiba can still judge that the opponent is wearing heavy full-body plate armor in the last stage of the Middle Ages. Such plate armor is almost immune to the invisible umbrella can provide. All attacks—probably only the two eye openings were worth trying, but there wasn't even a chance to do so in this direction.

But wearing such heavy plate armor, you probably won't waste your time searching for those places where everyone is hiding, right? After all, walking with equipment weighing 30 to 50 kilograms is not an easy task.

Qianyu hid in the corner, listening to the sound of heavy footsteps gradually receding, and suddenly disappeared after the sound of a door slamming.

At this moment, Chiba's auxiliary unit captured the sound of burning from hell. "?"

Is something... ignited?

And the next moment, a mournful wailing sound resounded from behind the door. "what!!!"

Surprised, Chiyu hurriedly opened the door, and what appeared in front of him was—a sharp sword pierced through the neck was nailed to the wall, and it was burning hot...

Chiyu's gaze was fixed on the two demon horns above the burning humanoid's head.

This... should be just a human wearing a demon horn, right?

……

Five minutes later.

"I persuaded the security guard who was hiding in the duty room and dared not come out to send them back," Haibara Ai walked into the hell. "This thing... has it been burning since you texted me just now?"

"Yeah, that's why I asked you to come here," Chiyu turned her head and glanced at Haibara Ai with a rather complicated look. "Look at the corpse."

"Is there anything special?" Haibara Ai didn't realize the abnormality at first, but she was surprised when she really saw the corpse nailed to the wall. "This!"

On the head of the corpse, where almost all the human tissue had been burned, leaving only the bones, the roots of the pair of black horns seemed to grow naturally just above the forehead.

"That's..." Hai Yuanai's face was full of fear and panic. "A human corner?"

"Yes," Qianyu nodded. "If it was a decoration like a plastic corner, it would have melted by now..."

At this moment, the body tissue of the corpse in the neck has been completely destroyed, and the steel sword originally inserted in the neck muscle can no longer hold the corpse, causing the whole corpse to suddenly fall from the sword, It collapsed into a pile like a lump of mud.

The pair of demon horns at the top of the skull rotated half a circle in the air due to the collision with the steel sword, and then inserted into the remaining flesh in the abdomen, making the greasy sound of chopsticks stirring the meat filling.

"Yeah!" Haibara Ai already had obvious disgust.

"Tsk!" Qianyu just raised her eyebrows. "It seems that the appearance of the remains cannot be preserved, so let's find a way to put out the fire first?"

Saying so, he raised the carbon dioxide fire extinguisher that he had been keeping beside him just now.

……

An hour later.

"Why are you here?" Standing in the middle of the **** already illuminated by searchlights, Officer Shiratori looked at Chiba who was looking at the corpses rearranged by the police with a solemn expression. "Could it be that it was you who reported the case again?"

"Strictly speaking, it's Haiyuan, but in short, we're right..." Qianyu nodded, and then signaled Officer Shiratori to pay attention to the corpse. "This one was originally set on fire, but we put it out."

"It's good to put it out, maybe the forensics personnel can still—" Shiratori turned his attention to the corpse, and then was startled by the corpse. "This guy...hey, there should be some kind of refractory decoration on his head, right?"

"No, in my personal judgment..." The forensic officer shook his head. "At least to the touch and look, it should be a real bone."

"This person has horns?" Shiratori Ren Saburo showed a rather surprised expression. "Wait, can you confirm his identity? If it's someone with such a strange thing on his head~www.readwn.com~ I think it shouldn't be difficult..."

"There's nothing meaningful about him that survives, maybe all we can do is check the teeth and see if we can identify it with dental records or something, or at the hospital over Mr Gregory's side. Look in the system to see if there is anything about..."

As the forensic personnel said this, Shiratori, Chiba and the others turned their eyes to the direction he pointed.

It was the blackened short strips lined up.

"What part of the corpse is this, and why is it here?" Shiratori frowned.

"I'm not quite sure, but judging from the content of the elective courses I've studied before," the forensic officer's expression was wonderful. "I think it's like... like a tail."

"Tail?" Shiratori's expression changed immediately. "Like... a tail like a demon?"

"Uh, on this point," the forensic staff showed a rather hesitant expression, and finally said hesitantly. "Although there is really no evidence to deny such speculation, I think such speculation may not be in line with the position of a criminal police officer who should uphold materialism, so let's first... I mean, at least we don't think about it for now. This is a rather bizarre thing indeed, focusing on the cause of his death first. Based on the description, I think he was killed before the children entered - which would explain why they didn't hear the screams of being killed - - and then set his body on fire as they arrived nearby."

"Okay... Anyway, let's clean up the corpse first and take it back," Shiratori Ren Saburo's face was still a little pale. "The on-site evidence collection will be handed over to you. I may need to go... Ask the guards to see if there is any news that can be dug up."