Coroner Coroner

"First, note 'blunt trauma to the parietal bone.'"

"The parietal bone, that is, the Tianling cover, if there is damage in this place, it usually indicates that there is a height difference between the murderer and the deceased."

"The autopsy report stated that the victim, Mr. Nagao, was 1 meters tall."

"This kind of figure is considered tall in any country. If the murderer is taller than him, he must be an extremely rare little giant."

Lin Xinyi carefully analyzed the murderer's height, and deduced:

"So, if you don't consider the small probability that the murderer is over 2 meters tall, then..."

"It means that when the deceased was hit on the head, he should have maintained a lower posture than the murderer."

"Like 'sitting', or..."

"Kneeling?!" Hattori Heiji finally came to his senses.

Reminiscent of the autopsy report that Lin Xinyi had just repeated, he quickly thought:

"Mr. Nagao has slight subcutaneous bleeding in both knee joints..."

"It's actually a bruise from kneeling and the patella rubbing against the hard ground."

"Yes."

Lin Xinyi continued to guide the great detective to think:

"There was still slight skin peeling and severe subcutaneous hemorrhage on the forehead of the deceased."

"This shows that his forehead collided with some kind of hard object during his lifetime."

"The hard object must be flat and wide enough, otherwise, in the case of severe subcutaneous bleeding, it is impossible to only have such a slight peeling of the skin."

"And this hard object is probably..."

"floor?"

Hattori Heiji gave the answer.

It would be difficult to draw such a conclusion just by knowing that the deceased's forehead was bruised.

But if it is connected with the bruise on the knee, with Hattori Heiji's mind, it is easy to restore the scene:

"The deceased may have knelt on the ground, begging for mercy to the murderer."

"But the murderer didn't let him go just like that. Instead, he took this opportunity and slammed down on the top of his head."

"And after the dead were knocked down, they were even more powerless to resist."

"The murderer put a rope around his neck and strangled him to death."

"Yeah." Lin Xin nodded, and deliberately added:

"It's the same principle that we speculate that Ms. Nishiguchi died indoors..."

"The deceased once knelt and kowtowed on the ground before his death, but the trousers at the knees were not worn out, nor did they get much dust."

"This shows that the place where he knelt is most likely indoors, not outdoors."

The roads in Japan are so clean that you can walk in white socks. After all, it is a legend that only exists on the domestic Internet.

No matter which country you are in, there must be dust on the outdoor ground.

The dead man's knees would not have been so clean if he hadn't been kneeling on the indoor floor.

"Therefore, there is a high probability that Mr. Nagao died indoors."

"And during the whole process, Mr. Nagao didn't even resist—so he didn't have any resistance injuries or restraint injuries."

"Why is this?"

Lin Xinyi raised a question:

"Although he is relatively thin, he has a big head of 1 meters after all."

"In the face of a murderer who may not necessarily have the upper hand in terms of physical strength, why did he kneel and kowtow without even resisting?"

"..."

The air became somewhat silent.

Hattori Heiji's pupils shrank, and he came to a shocking conclusion:

"Mr. Nagao didn't resist, he got caught because the murderer had the 'power' that made him absolutely unable to resist."

"If this power isn't purely physical, it's more than likely..."

"gun--"

"The murderer may have a gun in his hand!"

The situation suddenly became more serious.

The murderer is likely to have a firearm, and the danger can be said to increase exponentially.

"I think the reason why Mr. Nagao knelt..."

"Probably not just being scared by a gun."

At this time, another childish voice sounded quietly.

The one who spoke was Conan, who was almost forgotten by Hattori Heiji.

He had already finished flipping through the thick stack of documents, and at the same time, he did not forget to pay attention to the conversation between Hayashi Shinichi and Hattori Heiji just now:

"After all, think about it, everyone..."

"If you were pointed at a gun, what posture should you use to beg for mercy?"

"Eh..." Hattori Heiji was slightly taken aback.

He looked at Conan's serious, focused, and confident expression, and pondered over what the brat said.

For some reason, Hattori Heiji felt a bit of a fellow student from this elementary school student in Tokyo:

"Use your imagination to reason..."

"Let me see, if I was pointed at a gun..."

"I would definitely raise my hands subconsciously to show that I am harmless and submissive."

"If I were a little more scared, I would have knelt down in front of the murderer with my hands raised like Mr. Nagao."

"and many more…"

Hattori Heiji suddenly realized something:

"Even if I kneel down, I won't kowtow like Mr. Nagao!"

"Because if you want to kowtow, your eyes won't be able to see the muzzle of the murderer."

"The feeling of being pointed at by a gun is very tense. If you can't see the muzzle of the murderer, you will have a fear of not knowing when you will be shot to death."

"I think most people would not dare to look away in that situation, right?"

"But Mr. Nagao chose to kowtow to beg for mercy after knelt down, and he kowtowed so hard, which means..."

"It means that he probably knows the murderer." Conan helped to give a conclusion.

He stroked his small chin, and analyzed in a manner:

"Kowtowing with all your strength to beg for mercy, even until your forehead is bruised, probably represents a kind of 'owee' mentality."

"Mr. Nagao not only knew the murderer, but he also did something wrong that caused the murderer to take revenge."

"That's why he knelt and kowtowed so hard, hoping to use this almost 'self-mutilation' method to get the murderer's forgiveness and forgiveness."

Conan uses empathy to boldly speculate on the psychological activities of the deceased.

And his analysis actually implies a very important clue:

"This is an 'acquaintance' crime."

"And not only Mr. Nagao knew the murderer."

"No.2 victim, Ms. Nishiguchi also knew the murderer."

Conan gave a serious conclusion:

"Brother Hattori also reasoned before:"

"Since she was killed at home after returning home from get off work at 12 o'clock in the evening."

"Then think about it, if it wasn't for an acquaintance who came to visit, how could a woman living alone at home open the door to a stranger in the middle of the night?"

"In the same way, if Mr. Nagao was also killed at home, and there were no signs of prying doors and windows in his home."

"Then Mr. Nagao probably opened the door for the murderer on his own initiative and invited the murderer in."

After some analysis, everyone realized that the murderer should have known both of the deceased.

Otherwise, they are less likely to offer to open the door for the murderer.

but…

"Our Osaka prefectural police have obviously investigated..."

"The two deceased, Mr. Nagao and Ms. Nishiguchi, their social relations have no intersection at all!"

Hattori Heiji said in a puzzled manner.

"That's not necessarily true."

Conan grinned triumphantly.

It had been a long time since he had been a serious detective.

Especially, in front of this "third-rate detective" who always secretly calls Xiaolan...

"Didn't the murderer nail the dead man's wallet to the dead man's heart with a knife?"

"The dagger pierced not only the wallets, but also the driver's licenses of the two deceased in the two wallets."

"Generally speaking, in order to avoid detection and make it more difficult for the police to solve the case, the murderer deliberately confiscated the documents of the deceased, making it difficult for the police to confirm the identity of the deceased."

"But in this case, the murderer left his driver's license in his wallet."

"And he also stabbed the position of the driver's photo on the two driver's licenses with a knife."