Conan: I can hear the murderer's voice

For Lin Xuan, his identity as a blackmailer was self-evident.

But without evidence, the lawyer cannot be identified.

[It is still unclear whether the missing president is really dead. It is strange for a president to go to a neighboring town to investigate alone.]

At this time, Maori Kogoro suggested:

"I want to investigate the town where the president had the accident. Transporting the body over long distances has the risk of being discovered. The criminal probably hid President Fumaru in the town where the accident occurred."

Lin Xuan also had the idea of ​​going to investigate.

So the group took the Fumaru family's stretch limousine to the town where the president disappeared.

……

"The unlucky guy was hit by a truck here the day before yesterday!"

The old lady who witnessed the incident pointed to a spot not far ahead on the road and continued to describe the scene she saw:

"The driver jumped out of the car immediately and said he would drive the injured to the hospital."

The old lady said angrily:

"Who would have thought that the man was actually a liar! If I had known, I would have called the police immediately."

Unlike Mihua, other towns rarely have serious crimes, which made the old lady not specifically remember the license plate number of the truck.

We knew that the person who was hit was Daijiro Fumaru because his wallet, which contained identity documents, was dropped at the scene of the car accident.

The group then went to the construction site that the president was inspecting and to the hospital in the town to investigate.

Even Lin Xuan, who had the ability to read minds, was unable to find any valuable clues, and Conan was of course also confused.

While taking a break and eating at a roadside ramen restaurant, Lin Xuan prepared to test the lawyer directly and let the blackmailer provide clues himself.

But at this moment, the man at the next table kept sounding anxious.

[I didn’t expect that the person who was killed in the accident the day before yesterday was actually the president of a large company]

[I, I didn’t mean it, please don’t hate me]

The news that President Fumaru went missing after being hit by a car has spread locally.

Lin Xuan's eyes suddenly lit up.

[What a coincidence? This man is the driver of the accident? ]

He deliberately raised his voice and asked the lawyer:

"Once we find the getaway driver, how will the Fowan Company teach him a lesson?"

The lawyer immediately gnashed his teeth and said:

"Humph, that bastard can just wait to spend the rest of his life in jail!"

In fact, the getaway driver actually helped him a lot.

「Hmph, thanks to that idiot taking the blame, I can blackmail my wife without restraint.」

The lady said in a cold tone:

"Don't send him to jail. The Fowan family has some friends in the underworld. As long as..."

Soon the lady stopped talking midway, as she knew it was inappropriate to say this in front of the detective.

But the man at the next table was already frightened. He threw his half-eaten noodles on the table and ran out of the store in panic.

Conan looked puzzled.

But when he saw Lin Xuan following him out, he immediately guessed that the man must be someone related to the case!

"Are you the driver who hit the president the day before yesterday?"

Before Lin Xuan finished his words, the man ran forward with all his might.

But how could he be faster than the detective?

Lin Xuan caught up with the suspicious target in the blink of an eye and subdued the man with an over-the-shoulder throw.

Mao Li and others also realized what was happening and rushed out of the noodle shop.

The man, who was surrounded by the crowd and had a dislocated shoulder, had no power to escape, and his mental quality was already very poor.

The man's face was distorted by the pain in his arm, but he still knelt on the ground and began to confess:

"A cat suddenly jumped out and hit someone by accident."

"I did want to rush the old man to the hospital for emergency treatment, but he died halfway through the drive."

"I finally got this hard-earned job. If I kill someone, I'll be unemployed again. So, I, I..."

The man became more and more guilty as he spoke, and his voice became lower and lower.

Suzuki Jirokichi was furious:

"Then what about you threatening the Fumaru family with Daijiro's corpse?"

This left the driver at a loss:

"What threat?"

"How dare you quibble!"

The detective discovered the perfect scapegoat at this time, which made the lawyer extremely angry. He grabbed the driver's tie with one hand and was about to hit him in the face with the other hand to shut him up.

However, Lin Xuan patted the lawyer's shoulder gently, with a cunning smile on his face:

"Don't rush to use force, let him finish his words first."

The lawyer said angrily:

"He is the criminal who killed the president and wanted to use the president's body to blackmail my wife! How can you believe what he says?"

But this performance couldn't fool Lin Xuan:

"It's the detective's job to find out the truth, and your excitement will only hinder the investigation."

Conan also looked at the lawyer who was acting too hard with suspicion. The blackmailer realized his gaffe and let go of the driver.

When the driver who hit and killed the president learned that someone wanted to use the body to blackmail his wife, he quickly defended himself:

"It's not me! If my boss finds out that I killed someone with my car, I'll lose my job again."

"I hope the president is considered missing. How can I have the guts to use his body to blackmail his wife?"

He concluded:

"I found the dying old gentleman dead, so I moved him to an abandoned church and buried him in a hole in the front yard."

"Which church?"

The president's wife's eyes sparkled with joy, and her lips curled up with excitement:

"Take me there quickly!"

Even Maori noticed something unusual.

[There's something wrong with the client. She doesn't look like her husband just died.]

The lady lowered her head in embarrassment, and immediately changed her expression to one of grief:

"That's great. Now that we have found the body, I can finally rest in peace."

So the driver brought a group of people to the abandoned church on the north side of the town. The abandoned building had long been dilapidated, and weeds were growing wildly among the broken walls.

In the church's forecourt, there were indeed traces of freshly turned earth.

The man with the dislocated arm said to the president's wife in an apologetic voice:

"I buried the old gentleman here the evening before yesterday."

Mao Li, Jirokichi and the lawyer immediately took turns digging with shovels.

However, the large hole they dug in the ground was one meter deep, and its scope had long exceeded the range of the upper layer of soil that had been turned over.

But the body mentioned by the driver was nowhere to be found.

The lawyer found another opportunity to attack the scapegoat:

"You've already fallen into our hands, but you're still not honest? Where did you hide the body?"

The truck driver was so frightened that he knelt on the ground in a panic, thinking of the legends of evil spirits that he had heard since he was a child:

"No, that's impossible."

"I buried the body here myself two days ago."

Lin Xuan is a bystander and sees things more clearly.

[It was the lawyer who noticed this and moved the body, and even tried to use the truck driver to take the blame for himself]

The president's wife could not hide her disappointment at not being able to find her husband's body.

[Damn it! Damn it! What if the old man's brain rots? How can I get the money out? ]

After hearing the new clue, Lin Xuan decided to test the woman whose husband had just died. No matter whether she told the truth or not, she could not deceive the detective.

But at this moment, the lady's cell phone suddenly rang.

"Wha, what?"

The criminal called again using a voice changer. The strange voice of the blackmailer made the president's wife pale:

"Now you want 30 million to return my husband to me?"