Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 677 The Disappearing Weapon

"Brother Kido..."

Guangyan's expression was frightening, and he pulled Gao Cheng back in a trembling voice: "I saw... just now I heard a strange sound in the kitchen, I, I took a peek, and it turned out that this old woman was sharpening a knife with a blood-red handle. With a sharp kitchen knife and disheveled hair, it looks like a ghost!!"

"Huh?" The old man stretched his neck and looked back at Mitsuhiko, "What silly things are you talking about? You don't think I'm some kind of mountain demon mother-in-law, do you?"

Gao Cheng asked: "The old lady was in the kitchen just now?"

"It's true that I'm in the kitchen, but it's just that I can't sleep to see it..."

"Cheat, lie, I saw the old woman sharpening her knife with a frightening expression..."

Mitsuhiko didn't dare to face the old man face to face, and hid behind Gao Cheng in fright.

"That big sister might be..."

"Impossible, Guangyan," Gao Cheng shook his head and looked at the young lady's body, "Judging from the wound, the murderer attacked from behind, unless Miss Qian was squatting in the rain at that time, the murderer should be taller than Miss Qian... ...and the old woman's clothes and shoes are not wet..."

After a pause, Gao Cheng turned to the temperamental man who came back from washing his hands.

As the first person to find out, the temperamental man is the most suspected person. Everyone found the entrance because of the temperamental man's shout. It took a minute or two to spare, but at that time, no knife or other murder weapon was found in the temperamental man's hand. It was raining all the time at the time of the incident, but there were no footprints around, which means that it was impossible to take the murder weapon away.

The temperamental man was a little panicked by Gao Cheng: "What, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Gao Cheng shook his head and asked, "Mr. Lai Ren, why are you here?"

"Ah, this," the temperamental man explained, "I happened to go to the bathroom on the first floor, so I got there before everyone..."

About 50 minutes later, several police cars stopped in front of Tanaka's house through the heavy rain, and the policemen in raincoats rushed into the house. Not surprisingly, the leader of the team was indeed Yamamura Cao.

"Oh, Detective Kido, we met again so soon," Yamamura exclaimed in surprise, "Why didn't you tell me first when you came to Qunma County?"

"Let's handle the case quickly, Mountain Village Police Officer."

Gao Cheng's forehead twitched secretly.

The last thing I want to do in Gunma Prefecture is deal with this guy.

"Yeah, that's right," Yamamura took out the police account in a dignified manner, "So, can you please tell me the specific situation first?"

Gao Cheng has no plans to intervene for the time being. The suspicion in his heart is only suspicion after all, and the police need to investigate and find the murder weapon first.

He had already been to the bathroom just now, and he searched around roughly, but found nothing suspicious, so he couldn't be sure that the temperamental man had hidden the murder weapon.

Recalling the situation at the time of the incident in his mind, Gao Cheng went to the side to record it with a pen and paper.

Up to now, he doesn't have Conan's instant memory ability, but he can still catch a lot of clues about the crime scene, especially when the body is found.

At that time, there were only three kinds of footprints outside the house, the victim, Miss Qian, the temperamental man, and Conan, and there were only footprints leaving the entrance, and considering the time, the temperamental man had no chance to go back to the house to hide the murder weapon...

"That is to say," Yamamura Cao concluded after counting the confession, "around 4 o'clock this morning, I suddenly heard a woman's screams outside, and when everyone ran over, they saw that the woman's neck had been cut open with a sharp weapon. In the rain..."

"The victim's name is Daba Qian, 25 years old, the daughter of the president of the financial club... The first person who discovered it was this Mr. Andarai..."

Yamamura Cao tapped the account with a pen.

"Did you see any suspicious characters when you came over?"

The temperamental man nana said: "No, it was still dark at that time..."

"By the way, are you all from this family? What is your relationship with the victim..."

"No, no, Miss Qian is our client. We drove to the mountains to take a forest bath, but we got lost and came here to spend the night..."

"client?"

"That's right," the long-haired man Xiangyuan Fengya answered, "We're just a male waiter that Miss Xiaoqian knows..."

"Oh, the waiter..."

Shancuncao continued to record in the account, then turned to Gao Cheng who was leading a group of children, paused, and looked directly at the old woman.

"Then the old woman is Yamada who called the police..."

"It's Tanaka," the old man snorted, "My name is Tanaka Yihejiang!"

"Oh, that's right," Yamamura said with a laugh, "I have memorized the information of the caller... Then, Ms. Tanaka, are you the only one living here?"

"It used to be a big family with more than a dozen people, but since my grandson left 10 years ago, I'm the only one left."

"Is that so..."

Shancun was about to leave after recording the information, Yuantai and the others were speechless for a while.

"Is this guy reliable..."

"Yeah, they haven't asked us yet."

"This," Shancun said with a slight sweat, "it should be the same as before, and I happened to be involved in this case, right? Let me think about it, maybe I lost my way and borrowed a night or something?"

"The car had a flat tire on the way to camp," Ayumi said, "Just ask grandma to let us borrow one night."

"But a little earlier than those people..."

"So that's the way it is," Shancun grinned and smiled at Gao Cheng, "It's nothing surprising to see Detective Kido, our office said Detective Kido was possessed by something dirty... No, Detective Kido should be an emissary of hell who specializes in dealing with dirty things..."

Gao Cheng looked at the mountain village with black lines all over his head.

"Officer Mountain Village, have you found any clues?"

"Our people are still looking outside," Shancun coughed lightly. "According to what you said, it was raining heavily at the time of the incident, and footprints could already be left, but we have searched around the house and near the entrance, and it seems that there are no traces." No other traces, nor the murder weapon..."

Shancun said and looked at Gao Cheng begging for approval: "In my opinion, both the prisoner and the murder weapon should still be in this house, right, Detective Kido?"

"Wait, wait a minute," the long-haired man said in surprise, "Detective Kido...could be that famous Tokyo detective?"

"That's right!" Yamamura proudly said, "Don't look at Detective Chenghu who always encounters cases, but every case can be solved by him quickly, and the criminal will never escape..."

"Hey, hey," the long-haired man said with a stiff face facing the mountain village's scrutinizing gaze, "you're not doubting us, are you?"

"The current situation seems to be correct..."

"Mountain village police officer!" A police officer in a raincoat rushed back, "There is a car with a flat tire in the opposite forest, and everything on the roof fell out..."

"It's our car."

Gao Cheng asked for a raincoat, put on his shoes in a hurry, and rushed to the woods with the police.

The tarpaulin that was originally tied to the roof of the car leaked a hole, and a tent and tools wrapped in it also fell out. The policeman was checking a saw knife and machete, and put them away as evidence by the way.

Gao Cheng first checked the loose rope, and then looked at a hammer on the ground.

The rope shouldn't have come loose naturally. When he picked up the quilt, he had carefully checked that it was indeed fastened tightly, and it wasn't enough for a heavy rain.

But because he planned to cook curry, several kitchen knives were put together in his luggage bag, leaving only big things like saw knives and machetes, which did not match the wound on the neck of the victim, Miss Qian.

(End of this chapter)