Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

Chapter 624 Chapter 627, Police Officer Mumu: Digging and digging in the small yard

Sano sideways avoided Officer Megure's request for a hug, and responded indifferently.

"It's been a long time."

Police Officer Megure was not embarrassed, and approached Sano and began to explain the situation: "Brother Sano, whether this case is a homicide remains to be considered, but since you... Conan appeared here, I always feel that the possibility is quite high , let me tell you the specific situation first.”

Sano frowned, and looked at Conan, who had noticed him on the other side, and then also looked at this side: "Hey, you boy, Officer Mumu said you are the plague god."

The corners of Conan's and Officer Megure's mouths twitched at the same time.

"...Ahem, Brother Sano, let's get down to business first."

Officer Megure chose to ignore what Sano said just now, and continued to explain the business.

In fact, the situation was similar to what Sano had heard outside.

The only thing that is new may be the character setting and relationship behind it.

The missing person was a stockbroker.

The owner of this villa is an old man with a ruddy complexion.

The old man is rich, so he is a customer.

It is said that when the missing person appeared for the last time, that is, on the last day of work.

He once said that he would come to visit this old man.

Because of the failure of the missing person's decision-making, the old man's stock lost a lot of money.

So I said no more cooperation.

The missing person is trying to fight again.

It sounds normal to this point, nothing more than ordinary work communication.

But the next day, the missing person didn't go to work again, and he couldn't be contacted.

The company waited for a few days, but failed to wait for the individual, so they could only report to the police, and the police naturally contacted the family members, that is, the robbers came to make notes.

As the first suspect, the old man said that he had not seen the missing person, although he also allowed the police to search his home.

But nothing was found.

This is no way.

As of today, the missing person has been missing for more than a month.

Listen to all of Sano, without any nonsense.

He stepped forward and patted the old man's shoulder first, triggering a standard reaction.

This made Officer Mumu, Conan and the others startled.

"dig!"

Without further ado, Officer Mu Mu jumped into the pit with his shovel in hand, shouting slogans: "Even if we dig through this today, I have to find it!"

"Yes!"

And Sano stood on it, watching a group of people working in the pit, but unconsciously, the sound of "digging, digging, digging in the small yard" appeared in his mind... cough cough, no, After noticing that the old man was being touched by him and showing a little bit of confusion, he hasn't shown any panic until now... Something is not quite right.

Even if there is no such step, it is normal.

Or speaking from Sano's experience.

The corpse should not be buried in this yard, but it was not buried here.

Where can it be buried?

If there is no such equipment as a shovel, Sano may still think of the problem, such as "eating", "building in the wall" and other coquettish operations.

Ok……

Sano turned his gaze again to the anxious and eagerly looking man.

"You are the elder brother of the missing person?"

The man looked at Sano hesitantly. He was worried at first and didn't want to pay attention to outsiders at all, but considering the scene just now, he felt that the person in front of him might be not ordinary and could be useful, so he nodded.

"Yes."

"Where does your sister live in Tokyo?"

"She rents a small apartment."

"still there."

"At that time, because I was worried that I might need to find some important clues from there in the future, so I went to renew the lease when it was up, but I never touched the things inside, and everything remained the same."

"Well, that's good, let's go and have a look."

Sano's eyes made Conan, who was planning to come over to join in the fun, stop in his tracks: "Don't follow, just keep an eye on that old man here."

Conan smacked his lips, but didn't say much, and nodded in agreement.

Then Sano and the man came to an apartment together.

...It is said that it is an apartment, but it is actually a little bit more advanced than Sano's old den. The main reason is that the exterior decoration looks better.

"Wait for me outside."

Sano didn't let the man in, and went into the room by himself, looked around, switched the vest, made sure there was no problem, and summoned Xiao Hei with his backhand.

"Look for it."

"okay!"

Xiao Hei immediately began to pick and pull all over the room.

The focus of this incident is nothing more than the body, or where the missing person is. To put it bluntly, it is to find someone, and it just so happens.

Sano has an artifact specially used to find people.

"Found the boss!"

After a while, Xiao Hei, who had been under the quilt for a long time, shouted excitedly.

"Are you sure it's the owner here?"

Sano confirmed, and Xiao Hei nodded frantically: "There is no mistake, although there are other residual smells here, but the difference in intensity is too much, especially the heaviest smell, which obviously belongs to the A woman's scent, so I think that's the goal."

"Ah."

Sano nodded in agreement, bent down and patted Xiao Hei's head: "Yes, yes, I have grown a lot, I will go back tonight and give you an extra meal, two chicken legs."

"Hey, it's amazing, it's amazing, it's because you taught me well, boss."

The little black tail almost turned into a helicopter, showing the connotation of the word dogleg.

"Then let's start, lock and trace."

Sano pulled out the map, and after giving an order, the targets emerged one after another... That's right, one after another, not one.

More importantly, none of these positions are red.

Sano calmly distinguished where these locations were located.

Rivers, parks, sewers.

In addition, there is... Metropolitan Police Department?

The last location is right next to the villa that Sano left earlier... Well, it's not in the courtyard, which is expected.

If Sano remembers correctly, it seems to be inside the construction site he passed by.

"Dismember the corpse?"

After rubbing his fingers, Sano didn't hesitate, let Xiao Hei hide, then went out, dragged the man who was waiting outside the door, and went back to the villa again, and then dragged Police Officer Megure to the In the construction site next to it, point to the location of the target, indicating the road.

"Dig this."

"……what?"

Police officer Mumu, who was covered in mud, was holding a shovel, and it took him a while to recover.

"What do you mean brother Sano, he is here?"

"Ah."

Sano nodded, and glanced at the man again. He didn't want to say anything more, but considering that if Officer Megure continued to dig and dig, then some not-so-good things might be dug up later Come, I still looked at the old man who was obviously panicked after coming here, and said: "If you confess now, maybe there is still time."

All the eyes of the people present were focused on the old man.

The old man fell to his knees with a plop.

While admitting the crime, the old-fashioned confession began.

It turned out that the missing person did go to the deceased's house that night, and there was indeed some dispute between the two parties, but to that extent, it was not enough for him to violently commit murder, but the two of them were on the stairs at that time.

In the process of pushing and shoving, the missing person fell down.

Manslaughter is also murder. Of course, the old man didn't want to throw away his property and go to jail when he was old, so he thought carefully and buried the body.

"...So that's the way it is. I said why he was looking at our area with a telescope at that time. It turned out that he was looking to see if anyone found the body."

Conan looked at the big flower on the ground thoughtfully. Today's case started when he was playing baseball with the Plague God team, and accidentally hit the ball into the old man's yard, and then Running into a man who planned to sneak in secretly, which triggered a series of problems later.

Looking at it now, some details are all right.

The only problem may be Sano's speed of solving the case... This is too fast, why did he just go to the deceased's residence, and even know where the body was buried, how did the context develop?
Conan turned back to the old man and asked, "Then this flower, is it that you planted it to mark the place where you buried the corpse in order to prevent yourself from forgetting?"

"what?"

The old man was stunned: "What flower?"

"Mostly it was on the body of the deceased. It was opened after accidentally dropping it."

Sano interjected... After all, it is a construction site, except for the weeds all over the ground.

It is naturally unusual to have such a different flower blooming.

... If you don't rely on cheating, maybe this is the key to solving the case.

"Oh."

Conan felt like he had discovered the truth.

Perhaps it was Sano who saw this unusual cosmos at the construction site, and then found the seeds of the cosmos in the deceased's home.

Only then did the truth be discovered.

Reasonable, reasonable.

... This kid, why didn't he ask himself how he knew the body was buried here?

Sano, who had been prepared a long time ago and planned to silence Conan with the excuse of "commercial secrets", felt that Conan's curiosity today seemed to be less serious.

Sano didn't know what kind of that big flower on the ground was, but he did notice its abnormality, but it would be too unreasonable to say that the corpse was confirmed to be here just by relying on this abnormality Some... Forget it, don't ask, and save myself from wasting my saliva.

"Manslaughter, dismemberment, burial, I don't know if at your current age, you will not be able to get out of the prison until you die."

Hearing Sano's emotion, everyone present was stunned again.

"Wait, wait a minute, Brother Sano, what did you just say, dismembering the corpse?"

Police officer Mumu couldn't believe it.

Sano took a few steps forward, squatted down, and looked at the land next to the big flower.

"You should know, Officer Meguro, that the ground that has been dug and refilled is different from the ground that has not been dug around. Although this is a construction site, some ground will be treated from time to time. It won't be too big...otherwise he wouldn't choose to bury him here."

"In order to avoid being noticed by the workers here, he didn't dare to dig the hole too big, so he dug a small one. It's been a long time, and it's hard to see these abnormalities under the wind and rain, but With my observation ability, I can barely see this subtle difference."

Sano, who didn't intend to make any reasoning at first, but only wanted to force the old man to confess everything, couldn't hold back his analysis based on the clues in front of him.

...Could it be that detectives' bad habits are contagious?
And just when Sano finished his analysis and fell into deep thought, the old man on the other end was already pushed to the ground by a man and beat him violently: "What kind of a shit accident, what kind of shit doesn't want to go to jail, just because such a trivial matter doesn't even have a complete body of my sister Give me, why don't you bastard die!?"

The man shook his fist with red eyes.

The police officers Mumu next to him stopped him symbolically... Accidental death may be justified, but the body was dismembered to hide the body.

That is really unreasonable.

It's okay to be beaten a little more... The problem is that the old man is too old.

Police officer Mumu was worried that the young man would lose his mind, and that he would act indiscriminately, and if there were any accidents, it would really be worth the candle.

Not to mention that the old man is still useful.

"...where are the rest of the body?"

After the situation finally eased a bit, Officer Megure asked the old man.

...Since it is dismembered, it is naturally impossible for the corpse to be hidden in one place.

Officer Megure still has this experience.

Of course, it is also possible that this guy was buried separately in different places on the construction site.

But if this is the case, then Sano's statement of "worried about being noticed by the workers" seems a little untenable. After all, even if the area is reduced, if the quantity increases, the probability will also increase.

Furthermore, if there is, Sano should point it out separately.

But Sano didn't do that.

Police officer Megure has absolute 100% trust in Sano, to sum up.

Best to ask the old man directly.

And the old man who was beaten with a bruised nose and swollen face didn't hide anything anymore, and answered truthfully, but when he heard the place he mentioned, Conan was stunned, and then looked at Sano: "It turns out that we last time The severed hand that was dug up was...is it such a coincidence?"

"Ok?"

Sano frowned, and after a while, he recalled that incident.

... No wonder, no wonder there is one in the Metropolitan Police Department.

But beyond that, Sano frowned and asked, "When did that woman disappear, and when did we find that severed hand?"

"I've been missing for more than a month, and it's been less than a month since I found the broken hand. That's right."

Conan probably understood Sano's doubts and explained.

But these words directly stunned Sano.

... It's been less than a month since I found out about the severed hand? ? ?

impossible.

It's been so long, Sano's memory is not so bad.

"How long has it been since you became smaller?"

Sano asked Conan.

Conan blinked and recalled: "Probably, three or four months?"

Got it.

Sano just kept silent.

On the other hand, Conan narrowed his eyes suspiciously... Is this guy affected by his memory, so he can't remember the dates of these things clearly, or is it.

Perceptual impairment committed again?
No, the latter should not behave like this, so I can't remember clearly?
But this level seems to be getting more and more serious, right?

"correct."

Conan suddenly remembered something, raised his head, and asked uncomfortably.

"Why didn't I text you back when I texted you earlier?"

(End of this chapter)