Conan's Corpse Picker

Yoshikawa Takezo suddenly showed a "really so" expression. He opened the door and entered the room, and looked at the three spectators next to him with a little show: "Look, I will say that he is at home."

Yoshikawa Takezo stepped into the entrance and walked inside calling Shibata's name.

Jiang Xia followed him in naturally.

Amuro Toru did not break into private houses very often, and also entered the door naturally.

Hattori Shizuka just hesitated, but there was no one beside him.

She looked at the wide open door, and remembered Shibata Shiro, who had made an appointment with her to wait at home today to give her the photo, but actually did not answer the phone or answer the doorbell. After thinking for a moment, she cautiously followed into the room. .

The breath of life in the house is quite strong.When passing by the living room, Jiang Xia saw that the TV in the living room was on, half-eaten meals were placed on the table, and there was also a copy of today's evening newspaper.

Jiang Xia withdrew her gaze, planning to look at the room in front again, stepping on the spot to collect clues, so that she can "reason" later.

At this moment, the door at the entrance was suddenly pushed open.

There was a shrill, trembling voice with a hint of fear at the door: "What are you doing?! Why did you break into someone's house without authorization? I'm going to call the police!"

Toru Amuro was startled, turned around, and saw a woman with short hair standing at the door, carrying a shopping bag.

Judging from the woman's tone of voice and age, she looked like Shiro Shibata's wife.Probably as soon as I got home, I suddenly saw a few more strangers and was frightened.

Amuro Toru is about to apologize for breaking into a private house.But when he opened his mouth, he looked at Hattori Shizuka, who was dressed in a kimono next to him, and Jiang Xia, who seemed to be apologizing for being caught breaking into someone's house, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

...It is not early morning or late at night, and Mrs. Shibata does not live alone.In this case, when you go home and suddenly see a few well-dressed strangers in the house, don’t most people guess that they are guests brought back by your husband.

But why did Mrs. Shibata react so violently?Their home has been burglarized before, leaving a psychological shadow?

He just wanted to politely ask about the situation, but at this moment, another scream came from the corridor in the opposite direction.

——This time, the one who yelled was the middle-aged man who opened the door and brought them in just now.

Yoshikawa Takezo's voice sounded very anxious: "Shibata?! What's wrong with you? Cheer up, Shibata!!"

It sounds like something is wrong with Shibata Shiro.

Toru Amuro and Shizuka Hattori turned their heads to look at the source of the sound vigilantly and suspiciously, when they suddenly saw a figure passing by - Jiang Xia quickly rushed over, as if wanting to provide support there immediately.

Hattori Shizuka also quickly walked towards the direction where the exclamation came from, and at the same time nodded secretly: This kid is very enthusiastic.

……

Half a minute later, everyone came to the study, including Mrs. Shibata, who was carrying a pile of shopping bags with a vigilant face.

Looking in from the door, Shiro Shiro can be seen lying on the ground, with the hair on the top of his head clumped together, as if soaked in blood.

Jiang Xia squatted on the ground, poked Shibata Shiro, who was already stiff, and withdrew his hand slightly: "It's hard to rescue."

That's a euphemism for someone dead.

Neighbor Yoshikawa Takezo looked at the dead body blankly, while Mrs. Shibata covered her mouth and began to sob sadly.

Coupled with Hattori Shizuka who looked dignified next to him.Another standard choice of three.

……

The police arrived quickly, and when there were too many people, the scene became chaotic.

Jiang Xia walked to the corpse and found that Shibata Shiro's right hand was slightly stretched forward, holding a rolled up photo in his hand.

——Just look at the photo again, and the hand of the corpse holding the photo, and the clues gathered can almost start to fast-forward.

As a detective who is used to cooperating happily with the police, Jiang Xia didn't go directly to wrench the corpse's hand, but hovered around the corpse for a short while, waiting for the witty police officer to notice it, and then came over to be a hard-working wrench tool.

Not long after, the police came, but it was a special policeman.

——Toru Amuro walked over while no one was paying attention. He took a few photos with a camera that he didn't know who gave him, then squatted down, took out the photo in the corpse's hand, and opened it to take a look.

In the photo is a girl with a single ponytail, sad eyebrows, and tears caressing the medal.

Her face is somewhat familiar. Combined with the photo taken by Shizuka Hattori from the Junior High School Kendo Club, the identity of the person in the photo is very clear—she is Shizuka Hattori nearly 30 years ago, and the deceased Shibata Shiro classmate.

Amuro took a deep look, then silently rolled up the photo as it was, and stuffed it back for the deceased.

Then he stood up, saw Jiang Xia who seemed equally surprised beside him, and said in a low voice, "Don't let the identity of the suspect affect your judgment."

Murder can happen to anyone at any time, anyone can be killed, and anyone can be the murderer, even the wives of senior officials are no exception...

However, after recovering from the excitement of eating melons, Toru Amuro always felt that something was wrong.

He was silent for a moment, and his eyes fell back to the corpse's hand holding the photo.

Chapter 314

Toru Amuro felt that, judging from the state of the corpse, Shibata Shiro seemed to have grasped something extremely hard before his death, and this did not match the creases on the photo.

At this time, Jiang Xia, who was watching him taking the photo, suddenly came over and said in a low voice, "Mr. Shibata seems to have some strange bloodstains on the palm of his hand."

Toru Amuro pondered for a moment, and took advantage of the police officer not paying attention, he pulled the corpse's hand away.

This time, compared to the photo, he looked at the palm of the corpse with a clear goal.

There was nothing in his hand except the photo, but there was a circle of fuzzy circular bloodstains on the palm of his hand, as if he had once held something bloody, and then the thing was taken away, and the traces remained.

The size and shape, much like a wedding ring.

As soon as the keyword "wedding ring" was mentioned, Toru Amuro immediately thought of Shizuka Hattori's ring finger wrapped in a Band-Aid, his expression changed slightly, and countless speculations about emotional disputes flashed in his mind.

Immediately afterwards, he discovered that there were traces of wearing a wedding ring all year round on the hands of the corpse.And now, the ring finger of the corpse is also empty, and the ring is gone.

Amuro stared at the finger, lost in thought.

……

In Amuro Toru's heart, when Hattori Shizuka's reputation plummeted all the way, Hattori Shizuka was secretly thinking about something.

She didn't go into the study, the first crime scene, but stood in the corridor in an orderly manner, only occasionally looking into the door.

Looking at it, he sighed.

Detectives love to destroy crime scenes so much.

Well, Jiang Xia may not be included in this "men" for the time being. In comparison, although Jiang Xia also entered the scene, he didn't move anything during the whole process, and just watched from the side.

It seems that what the husband said is not wrong, there are indeed some things worth learning from Jiang Xia... When I go back, I have to remind my son not to always make trouble for the police like other detectives.

Hattori Shizuka's laid-back comments didn't last long.

As the police began to check carefully, she soon found that her suspicion was rising sharply.

Needless to say, the photo of the dead man holding it in his hand, besides, neighbor Yoshikawa Takezo remembered another suspicious thing.

——Not long ago, Shibata Shiro, the deceased, received a phone call.At that time, while answering the phone, Shibata dug out a photo from a certain book, and said "I found it" to the person on the other side of the phone.Judging from today's events, it was Shizuka Hattori who had "severed contact with Shiro Shibata for nearly 30 years" who was talking to him at that time.

With such a high degree of suspiciousness, the Mumu police department felt that it was almost time to invite "Ms. Chibo" back to the police station for a talk after inquiring about the situation with the other two.

However, when he turned his head and met Hattori Shizuka's quiet eyes, he suddenly felt weak for some reason, with a sense of oppression that he was being stared at by the superior.

The Mumu Police Department hesitated for a moment, passed by Hattori Shizuka as if nothing had happened, and stopped next to Jiang Xia.

He cleared his throat and asked in a low voice, "What do you think?"

Jiang Xia thought about it meaningfully, and said in a low voice: "I think it's better to catch Mrs. Shibata."

Toru Amuro couldn't help but glanced over here, although he knew that Jiang Xia must have said this after reasoning, but listening to the conversation between the two, there was always a feeling of picking vegetables in the vegetable market.

"Mrs. Shibata?" The Mumu Police Department, who had copied the answer, was taken aback by the answer. Among the three suspects, only Mrs. Shibata had produced a relatively clear alibi. He subconsciously asked, "Why?"

Because she has a ghost on her leg...

Jiang Xia paused invisibly, and said seriously: "There may be something wrong with her alibi."

Originally, according to Jiang Xia's current strategy of keeping a low profile, lowering his popularity, and preventing some timid prisoners from coming to him for entrustment, he originally wanted to leave the reasoning to Toru Amuro.

However, after glancing at Hattori Jinghua from the corner of the eye, Jiang Xia changed her mind again.

He could almost guess the purpose of Hattori Shizuka's anonymous visit to him.

And if it's an inspection, he'd better project the positive image he deserves.Starting from reducing the surrounding forces, further reduce Hattori Heiji's strength and practical ability to hide from him.Although this Osaka detective has a bit of a bad temper, he can indeed attract a lot of serial murders...

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia sorted out her words: "I think Mrs. Shibata is trying to confuse the time of Mr. Shibata's death..."

Mrs. Shibata invited friends to go shopping in the afternoon.Then, before the appointed time, meals were brought to her husband—for a person who often gambles all night, the meal time is very erratic, and it can be adjusted forward or backward at will.

When Shiro Shibata was halfway through eating, Mrs. Shibata killed the man and went to a friend's appointment quickly.When she came back from the appointment, she just had to take the evening paper, which was usually delivered at five o'clock in the afternoon, into the house and put it on the dining table, pretending that it was brought by Shibata himself. The time moved to the time when she was shopping with her friends, and she took out an alibi for herself,

Originally, Mrs. Shibata's plan did not include Hattori Shizuka.

But in practice, something went wrong with the planned plan—after she returned home, she found that her husband was not lying in the spot where she had attacked him before, but crawled into the study tenaciously, and then died completely.During this process, Shibata Shiro took off the wedding ring and held it in his hand, trying to take it as a death message.

Mrs. Shibata discovered this, and hurriedly replaced the ring on the palm of Shiro Shibata with a photo.

Because at that time, the neighbor Yoshikawa Takezo called and left a message on the phone saying that he would come to see Shiro Shibata soon.So Mrs. Shibata decided to leave secretly first, and then come back when Yoshikawa Takezo came to the door, and asked Yoshikawa Takezo to be the first person to discover, so as to further reduce her suspicion.

It's just that she didn't expect that not only Yoshikawa Takezo, but also a few strangers came here.

……

Hattori Shizuka listened quietly, occasionally nodding her head to express her agreement.The newspaper reports about Jiang Xia's speed of solving the case were not exaggerated...

Just as he was thinking, there was a clear and crisp sound from the side.

Hattori Shizuka was startled, and looked intently, and saw Mrs. Shibata sneer, raised her hand and threw out a blood-stained wedding ring.It was the relic that was held in Shiro Shibata's hand just now, and then replaced with a photo.

Jiang Xia looked down at the bright color bouncing on the floor, and finally bumped into his shoe, for no reason he had the feeling that the boss threw the reward at his feet after clearing the level.

He stepped back a little, watched the police officers from the forensics department pick up the ring, and decided to go to the long-lost game hall in a few days, and discuss with the younger brothers who were addicted to picking cats recently, a new way to play that he came up with during this time.

Chapter 315 Self Sharks Are Forbidden Here

After handing over the evidence, Mrs. Shibata explained everything as expected, and took away the neighbor Takezo Yoshikawa by the way. Yoshikawa Takezo often gathers people at home for large-scale gambling, and Shiro Shiro Shibata is a frequent visitor to his house.Up to now, Shibata Shiro has lost all his savings and started to sell things in the seller.The unbearable Mrs. Shibata finally decided to kill her husband.

Unexpectedly, now, Ren was successfully killed, but her killing behavior was also exposed...

Thinking of the knife in the room, Shibata Kyoko clenched her fist silently, and said to the policeman who was going to take her to the police station, "I'll go and change first."

With that said, she pushed open the door of the room.

Just when her sad eyes fell on the knife by the wall, and she was about to close the door and pull it out to kill herself, a word suddenly came from behind her.

Jiang Xia's tone was hesitant, but he muttered without slowing down at all: "There seems to be a knife in that room, I saw it when I passed by just now."

"..."