Sano sideways avoided Officer Megure’s request for a hug and responded calmly.
“It’s been a long time since we last met.”
Officer Megure was not embarrassed, so he approached Sano and began to explain the situation: “Brother Sano, it remains to be considered whether this case is a homicide, but since you…Conan is here, I feel that the possibility is quite high. , let me tell you the specific situation first.”
Sano raised his eyebrows and looked at Conan who was paying attention to him and then looked at him: “Hey, you kid, Officer Megure said you are the god of plague.”
Conan and Officer Megure twitched their lips at the same time.
“…Ahem, brother Sano, let’s get down to business first.”
Officer Megure chose to ignore what Sano just said and continued to explain the business.
In fact, the situation was similar to what Sano heard outside.
The only thing new may be the character settings and relationships behind it.
The missing person is a stockbroker.
The owner of this villa is an old man who looks pretty rosy.
The old man is very rich, so he is the customer.
It is said that the missing person was last seen on his last day at work.
I once said that I would come to visit this old man.
Because the missing person’s decision-making failed, the old man’s stock lost a lot of money.
So they said they would no longer cooperate.
The missing person wants to fight for it again.
This sounds normal, it’s nothing more than an ordinary work exchange.
But the next day, the missing person did not go to work and could not be contacted.
The company waited for a few days and failed to find an individual, so it had no choice but to call the police. Naturally, the police contacted the family members, which meant that the robbers came to take notes.
As the first suspect, the old man stated that he had never seen the missing person, although he also allowed the police to search his home.
But nothing was found.
There’s nothing we can do about it.
As of today, the missing person has been missing for more than a month.
Listen to Sano in full, no nonsense.
He stepped forward and patted the old man on the shoulder, which elicited a standard reaction.
This made Officer Megure, Conan and others startled.
“dig!”
Without saying a word, Officer Memu picked up the shovel and jumped into the pit, shouting a slogan: “Even if I dig through this place today, I still have to find it!”
“yes!”
And Sano stood on top, watching a group of people working in the pit, but the sound of “digging, digging, digging in the small yard” appeared in his mind unconsciously… Ahem, no, It was because he noticed that the old man showed some confusion when he was touched by him, but he has not shown any panic yet… something is not 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 is not buried here.
Where can it be buried?
If there was no equipment like a shovel, Sano might still think of the problem as “eating it”, “building it in a wall”, etc.
Um……
Sano turned his attention again to the man with an anxious and expectant look on his face.
“Are you the missing person’s brother?”
The man looked at Sano hesitantly. He was originally worried and didn’t want to pay too much attention to outsiders, but considering the scene just now, he felt that the person in front of him might not be ordinary and could be useful, so he nodded.
“yes.”
“Where does your sister live in Tokyo?”
“She rented a small apartment.”
“still there.”
“At that time, because I was worried that I might need to find some important clues there in the future, so I went to renew the lease when it expired, but I never touched the things inside, and everything remained as it was.”
“Well, that’s good, let’s go and have a look.”
Sano’s look stopped Conan, who was planning to come over to join in the fun, and said, “Don’t follow me. Just keep an eye on the old man here.”
Conan smacked his lips, but said nothing more and nodded in agreement.
Then Sano and the man came to an apartment.
… Although it is said to be an apartment, it is actually only slightly more upscale than Sano’s old home. The main reason is that the exterior decoration looks better.
“Wait for me outside.”
Sano did not let the man in, but entered the room by himself, looked around, switched his vest, made sure there was no problem, and summoned Xiao Hei with his backhand.
“Look for it.”
“okay!”
Xiao Hei immediately started to pick up people all over the room.
The focus of this incident is nothing more than the corpse, or where the missing person is. To put it more bluntly, it is to find the person, and it just happens.
Sano has a special artifact used to find people.
“Found the boss!”
After a while, Xiao Hei, who had been hiding in bed for a while, shouted excitedly.
“Are you sure you are the owner here?”
Sano confirmed, and Xiao Hei nodded crazily: “You can’t be wrong. Although there are other residual smells here, the difference in thickness is too much, especially the heaviest smell, which is obviously still belonging to It smells like a woman, so I think that’s the goal.”
“Um.”
Sano nodded in agreement, bent down and touched Xiao Hei’s head: “Yes, yes, you have grown a lot. I will give you an extra meal tonight, two chicken drumsticks.”
“Hey, you’re so impressed, you’re so impressed. You taught me well, boss.”
The little black tail almost turned into a helicopter, fully displaying the connotation of the word “dogleg”.
“Then let’s start, lock and track.”
Sano pulled out the map and gave the order, and the target locations appeared one after another… yes, one after another, not one.
More importantly, none of these positions are red.
Sano looked calmly and identified the locations of these positions.
Rivers, parks, sewers.
Also… the Metropolitan Police Department?
The last location was right next to the villa that Sano left earlier… Well, it wasn’t in the yard, which was to be expected.
If Sano remembered correctly, it seemed to be at the construction site he passed by.
“Dismember the body?”
After rubbing his fingers, Sano did not hesitate and asked Xiao Hei to hide. Then he went out, grabbed the man who was waiting eagerly outside the door, and went back to the villa. Then without saying a word, he dragged Officer Megure back. In the construction site next to it, he pointed to the location of the target and said.
“Dig this.”
“……ah?”
Officer Memu, who was covered in mud, was holding a shovel, and it took him a while to come to his senses.
“What do you mean Brother Sano, is he here?”
“Um.”
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, he would probably dig out some not-so-good things later. After coming, he still looked at the old man who was obviously a little panicked after coming here, and said: “If I confess now, it may still be too late.”
The eyes of everyone present suddenly focused on the old man.
The old man fell to his knees with a plop.
While admitting the crime, he launched into a clichéd confession.
It turned out that the missing person did go to the deceased’s home that night, and the two parties did have some disputes, but it was not to the extent that he would commit murder. It was just that the two of them were on the stairs at that time.
During the pushing process, the missing person fell down.
Manslaughter is also murder. As an old man, of course he didn’t want to abandon his property and go to jail, so he used some caution to bury the body.
“…It turns out that this is the case. I was wondering why he was looking at our area with a telescope at that time. It turned out that he was looking to see if anyone had found the body.”
Conan looked at the big flower on the ground thoughtfully. The beginning of today’s case was when he led the Plague Team to play baseball here and accidentally hit the ball into the old man’s yard. Meeting a man who planned to sneak in secretly triggered a series of questions later.
Looking back now, some details are all right.
The only problem may be that Sano’s speed in solving the case 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, “Did you plant this flower to mark the place where the body was buried to prevent you from forgetting it?”
“ah?”
The old man was confused: “What kind of flower?”
“It was probably from the deceased. He accidentally dropped it and then opened it.”
Sano interjected… After all, it was a construction site, except for the weeds all over the ground.
It is certainly unusual to have such a different kind of flower blooming.
…If we don’t rely on plug-ins, maybe this is the key to solving the case.
“oh.”
Conan felt like he had discovered the truth.
Perhaps Sano 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 emerge.
It makes sense and makes sense.
…This kid, why didn’t he ask himself how he knew the body was buried here?
Sano, who had long been prepared to block Conan’s mouth on the grounds of “trade secrets”, felt that Conan’s curiosity was not as serious today.
Sano didn’t know what kind of big flower on the ground it was, but he did notice an abnormality in its existence. But it would be unreasonable to say that just relying on this abnormality, he was sure that the body was here. Some… Forget it, it’s better not to ask, so as to save yourself the waste of saliva.
“Manslaughter, dismemberment, and burial. I don’t know if at your current age, you will still be in jail until you die.”
Hearing Sano’s emotion, everyone present was stunned again.
“Wait, wait a minute, Brother Sano, what did you just say, cut into pieces?”
Officer Megure looked in disbelief.
Sano took a few steps forward, squatted down, and looked at the land next to the big flower.
“You should know, Officer Megure, that the ground that has been dug and refilled is different from the surrounding ground that has not been dug. Although this is a construction site, some ground will be treated from time to time, but it is also It won’t be too big…otherwise he wouldn’t have chosen to bury the person here.”
“In order to avoid being noticed by the workers here, he did not dare to dig the hole too big, so he dug a small one. It has been a long time, and the wind and rain have made it difficult to see these abnormalities, but With my powers of observation, I can barely detect this subtle difference.”
Sano, who didn’t plan to make any inferences and just wanted to force the old man to confess everything, couldn’t help but analyze 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 and beaten violently by the man: “What a bullshit accident, what a bullshit, I don’t want to go to jail, just because of such a trivial matter, I don’t even have a complete body of my sister.” Come on, why don’t you die, you bastard!?”
The man’s eyes were red and he was shaking his fists.
Police Officer Memu and the others next to him stopped him symbolically… Accidental death may be justified, but in order to hide the body, the body was cut into pieces.
That’s really unreasonable.
It doesn’t matter if he gets beaten more… The problem is that the old man is too old.
Officer Mumu was worried that the young man had lost his mind and would not act lightly or harshly. If something unexpected happened to him, it would really be a loss that outweighs the gain.
Not to mention that this old man is still useful.
“…Where are the other parts of the body?”
After the situation finally calmed down, Officer Megure asked the old man.
…Since the body was dismembered, it was naturally impossible to hide the body in one place.
Officer Mu Mu still has this bit of 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 “worry about being noticed by workers” seems to be a bit unfounded. After all, even if the area shrinks, if the volume increases, the probability will also increase.
Furthermore, if there was any, Sano would have pointed it out separately.
But Sano didn’t do that.
Officer Megure has absolute 100% trust in Sano, to sum up.
It’s best to ask the old man directly.
The old man who was beaten with a bruised nose and face did not hide anything anymore and answered truthfully. However, when he heard the place he mentioned, Conan was startled, and then looked at Sano: “It turns out that we were there last time. The severed hand I dug up was just… such a coincidence.”
“Um?”
Sano raised his eyebrows, and after a while, he remembered such a thing.
…No wonder, no wonder one of them is in the Metropolitan Police Department.
But outside of this, Sano frowned and asked, “When did that woman disappear, and when did we find the severed hand?”
“It’s been more than a month since he’s been missing, and it’s only been less than a month since he found his severed hand. That’s right.”
Conan probably understood Sano’s confusion and explained.
But these words directly confused Sano.
…It hasn’t even been a month since we dug up that severed hand? ? ?
impossible.
It’s been so long, but Sano’s memory hasn’t deteriorated to this extent.
“How long has it been since you became smaller today?”
Sano asked Conan.
Conan blinked and recalled, “Probably, three or four months ago, right?”
Got it.
Sano simply remained silent.
Conan, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes suspiciously… Is this guy affected by his memory, so he can’t remember the dates of these things? Or maybe.
Perception disorder occurs again?
No, the latter shouldn’t be acting like this, that means he 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 unhappily.
“Why didn’t you reply when I sent you a text message before?”
