The Split-Actress in Conan's World

“Huh…”

Dr. Agasa was sweating profusely. He took out a handkerchief embroidered with maple leaves from his pocket and wiped it with a look of despair: "It's so far..."

"We're almost there." Chiyoko searched in her backpack and handed him a bottle of mineral water that was no longer cold.

Hearing this, Dr. Agasa regained hope and looked up.

The expression froze on his face.

What to say?

It's more like a cliff than a hill.

The steep stone wall was almost at a right angle and was three or four meters high. At first glance, there was no place to stand.

"It's impossible to turn over..." Dr. Agasa gave up struggling and sat down on the stone.

"It's come to this, let's take a break first."

He felt at ease and started to play rotten.

Huihara Ai also felt a little hot and untied her scarf a little, "How about resting for about ten minutes?"

Dr. Agasa raised his hands and said happily: "I agree!"

"There's really nothing I can do about you." Yuan Tai sighed in a condescending manner, sat down with his bag, and began to rummage through the snacks he brought.

Mitsuhiko also ran to the side, moved a small stone, and came over to sit with everyone.

"By the way, don't you think that invitation is strange?" During the precious rest time, Conan still subconsciously kept his brain working.

However, the others were too lazy to pay attention to him. Some drank water, some wiped their sweat, and some ate snacks.

Even his two friends, Chiyoko and Haibara Ai, ignored him as if Conan didn't exist.

Conan waited for a while, understood the atmosphere at the moment, and couldn't help but squeeze out his signature dead fish eyes.

Finally I compromised and didn't continue talking.

"Stone, stone..." Ayumi looked around, trying to find a stone of the right size to serve as a seat.

"what!!"

Suddenly, she screamed, drawing everyone's attention.

"What's wrong?" Chiyoko stood up first and ran towards Ayumi.

After all, this is the wild countryside. Although it is winter and most snakes are hibernating, there may still be creatures like poisonous insects. Being bitten by one of them would be very serious.

Ayumi sat down on the ground, her face filled with fear as she kept moving backwards, trying to get away.

Not far in front of her was a white "stone".

"This is..." Chiyoko walked forward and after seeing it clearly, her expression became serious.

The others followed at this time.

"What's wrong?" Huibara Ai walked up to him.

"Ayumi must be scared." Chiyoko said.

Haibara Ai also looked in the direction of his finger. With her knowledge and eyesight, she naturally recognized it at a glance.

The "stone" on the ground is actually a human skull.

And that’s not all. If you look closely, you’ll notice a few other hints of white hidden among the overgrown green.

"Jawbone, upper arm bone, humerus..." Haibara Ai identified them one by one.

"You guys, don't come over here." Chiyoko stopped Mitsuhiko and Genta who wanted to come over to join in the fun out of curiosity.

Dr. Agasa picked up Ayumi from the ground and went to his bag to get some water to calm her down.

Conan also noticed the abnormality here and frowned: "Why are there human bones here... No."

He walked forward and pushed aside a patch of tall grass, and found a relatively complete torso skeleton there.

He reached out his hand and touched the skeleton, twisting it with his fingertips, and his expression became ugly.

"It should be left by someone who accidentally fell from there?" After calming Ayumi down, Dr. Agasa walked over and put forward his own guess.

However, the three fake children shook their heads almost at the same time.

"This is a murder... and the intention is extremely cruel!" Conan said with a serious look.

"There's lime on the bones."

As an expert in life sciences and pharmaceuticals, Haibara Ai recognized the lime and understood what had happened to the body.

"Lime reacts with water to release heat. If lime is sprinkled on the body and it comes into contact with rainwater, it will quickly speed up the decay of the body, turning it into bones in a very short time."

Chiyoko walked around and said, "There are no fibers left. Even if it rained hard, it wouldn't have washed away everything so cleanly. The murderer must have cleaned the victim's clothes before destroying the body."

Dr. Agasa finally realized the horror of this incident and the cruelty of the murderer. He couldn't help but shudder and asked again: "Whose body is this?"

Huihara Ai shook her head: "There are no clothes left, and the flesh and blood tissues are almost destroyed. We can only wait for the police to arrive and conduct tooth and DNA identification."

Although the three little ones were stopped and did not see it with their own eyes, they heard their discussion.

Ayumi guessed fearfully, "Maybe it's Mr. Kawano that they always mention?"

“How, how is it possible…” Yuan Tai got goose bumps and cold sweat began to appear on his head.

"Didn't that person just send invitations to those people?" Mitsuhiko also felt that it was unlikely.

However, Conan squatted down and lifted a stone not far from the arm bone through his handkerchief.

"No, this body might really be Mr. Kawano."

He fished out two things from under the stone.

"There's a crushed cigarette box and a ring with a lot of scratches hidden here."

The words engraved on the ring were "Etsuko to Maao", and it was a couple's ring with Miss Nonomiya.

“The reason why he invited those people but didn’t show up for so many days is probably because he died here.”

There was a blazing fire in his eyes.

"These are probably the last evidences that Mr. Kawano left behind with his injured limbs after he was pushed off the cliff by the murderer, before the murderer came down the mountain."

"That is 'death message'!"

"But it could also be something left behind by the murderer?" Mitsuhiko expressed a different opinion.

"A cruel murderer who would take great pains to dispose of the body and clothes would never leave such unnecessary things behind on purpose, right?"

Chiyoko also came over. He had just walked away a little and didn't find any clues worth paying attention to.

Conan nodded in approval: "If my guess is correct..."

"Can you lend me a handkerchief?" He suddenly turned to the three little ones and asked.

Ayumi handed him her pink handkerchief embroidered with a little rabbit and looked at him curiously, wanting to know what he wanted to do.

Conan spread his handkerchief flat on the ground, used Ayumi's handkerchief to block his fingerprints, picked up the cigarette box, and poured out the cigarettes inside.

Although they were all flattened, some had their mouthpieces broken off, while others were torn in half, which was obviously not a coincidence.

Four long and two short.

A total of six deliberately torn cigarettes lay quietly on the handkerchief.