Coroner Coroner

"Hey... stinky boy, can you stop now??"

"Don't run around the death scene, thinking you are some kind of detective?"

Ishikawa scolded Kudo Shinichi viciously like this.

But Kudo laughed softly instead:

"Your intuition is accurate."

"I am indeed a detective..."

"Shinichi Kudo from Tedan Middle School, have you heard of it?"

"Gong, Kudo Shinichi?"

Hearing this name, Ishikawa's face turned a little green.

Aoki, who had been bowing his head for a while, raised his head abruptly, his face extremely pale:

"You're that famous high school detective?"

"Well, that's right."

Kudo Shinichi nodded earnestly and smiled kindly.

Ishikawa and Aoki: "..."

The corners of their mouths twitched, speechless, and their expressions were wonderful.

Kudo Shinichi ignored them and turned his head to look at Lin Shinichi:

Lin Xinyi was still squatting beside the deceased, carefully observing the various scars on the surface of the corpse.

"Mr. Lin Xinyi."

Kudo Shinichi directly asked Lin Shinichi, who had just touched the corpse:

"How is the temperature of the dead body? Is it hot?"

"Oh?" Lin Xin raised his brows.

He knew that although the way to find the problem might be different, the big detective must have noticed something wrong.

Asking the temperature of the corpse is actually asking about the time of death.

If the deceased had just jumped off the building as they saw, and the corpse was still fresh, the surface of the corpse would definitely have residual warmth.

And if the deceased was thrown from the upstairs after death, and has been dead for more than a period of time, the heat from the surface of the corpse will quickly dissipate into the environment, and it will not feel warm to the touch.

But this is actually the basic impression most people have of corpse temperature.

The real situation tends to be different:

"The body of the deceased is still hot, and the surface of the corpse is still warm."

"But it's summer, it's not sunset yet, and the ambient temperature is relatively high."

Unlike the dawn when I first met Kudo, Tokyo is still relatively hot now:

"The higher the ambient temperature, the slower the corpse temperature drops."

"And when the body temperature drops to the same level as the ambient temperature, the temperature hardly drops any further."

"The current ambient temperature is not much lower than that of the human body, so if you only start from the residual heat of the corpse that you feel by touch, there is no way to accurately judge the time of death of the deceased."

And Kudo Shinichi quickly captured the overtones in his words:

"In other words, the deceased is not necessarily the one who just died?"

"That's understandable."

Lin Xin nodded and said, he was also going to tell his findings:

"Actually, I've..."

Before he could finish speaking, Kudo Shinichi interrupted him directly:

"I understand!"

I don't know what he understood.

He turned around and said confidently:

"Mr. Lin, the scene will be handed over to you for protection."

"I'll go to the department store next door first."

"Uh..." Lin Xinyi wanted to say something with a subtle expression.

But Kudo Shinichi hurriedly walked out as if he was in a race against someone.

"Wait!" Ishikawa's eyes flickered for a while, and he followed closely: "I, I'll go with you."

"You want to follow?"

Kudo Shinichi's tone was very meaningful.

"That's right..." Ishikawa said bravely, "I... I'm also very interested in famous detectives, and I want to see how you handle the case."

"Okay, you'll have no problem following along."

Kudo Shinichi shrugged, expressing that he had no opinion at all.

He continued to walk forward, and Ishikawa followed behind him with a stiff face.

"That... Shinichi, I'll go too!"

Looking at Ishikawa's strong and burly body, Mao Lilan also hurriedly followed.

She couldn't rest assured that the bully, who was suspected to be a murderer, would follow Xinyi's side.

In this way, led by Kudo Shinichi, the three left this quiet alley together.

And before getting out of the alley completely...

Kudo Shinichi suddenly stopped at the alley, turned around, and said to Lin Shinichi with bright eyes:

"Mr. Lin Xinyi."

"Although it's a bit bad to say that, this time... maybe it's our chance to compete again."

Lin Xinyi: "..."

He's not like competing with people in this kind of thing.

But Kudo Shinichi has been quietly immersed in the excitement of facing the challenge:

"Let's take this opportunity to compete."

"I use my investigative methods, you use yours, to see who can find the truth of this case first."

"That..." Lin Xinyi hesitated.

But the great detective Kudo has disappeared at the end of the alley without looking back:

"Wait, I'll investigate first."

Ishikawa and Maurilan followed, leaving only Lin Xinyi in the alley, Miyano Shiho who was watching the play quietly, and Aoki who was so nervous that he began to tremble.

"Well…"

"Forget it, he might as well investigate more."

Looking at Kudo's high-spirited back, Lin Xinyi's expression was a little subtle:

"But then again, what's the competition?"

"Such a simple case... just look at the corpse and break it?"

He muttered to himself, his tone very helpless.

Then, Lin Xinyi stood up from the corpse and said calmly:

"Aoki-san."

"Huh?" Suddenly being named, Aoki couldn't help but shudder.

He raised his head and saw Lin Xinyi staring at him with a sharp knife-like gaze:

"Is such a mentality still alive?"

"Stop pretending, come to me and confess your guilt."

Chapter 24 The Murderer's Trick

On the other side, Kudo Shin hurriedly walked into the department store next to him.

Ishikawa and Maurilan followed closely behind him, and under the leadership of Kudo, they soon came to the rooftop on the 6th floor.

There is nothing on the roof, just some construction waste piled up at random.

Kudo Shinichi walked to the pile of construction waste and squatted down, picked up a random brick, and put it in front of him to examine it carefully.

Seeing this scene, Ishikawa's breathing became a little short.

But Kudo Shinichi quickly stood up:

"Let's go, let's go downstairs and check the surveillance."

He had been to this mall with Xiaolan before and knew that surveillance was installed here.

At this moment, when I heard Kudo Shinichi was going to check the monitoring, Ishikawa's expression became relaxed:

"Yes, this mall is under surveillance."

"That way we can see if Uchida jumped off the building 'alone'."

He bit the word "one person" very hard, and it felt like there was no silver here.

"Yeah, just look at the surveillance."

Kudo Shinichi responded noncommittally, then took the lead and walked down the rooftop.

Soon, they returned to the first floor of the mall and came to the monitoring room.