As Takagi Wataru said, this small warehouse in the rock field is indeed abandoned. The shelves inside are empty and there is nothing.
"It seems that there is indeed nothing here..." Hattori Heiji said after looking up and down.
"Precisely because there is nothing, it may be suitable for hiding corpses." Behind him, Conan, who came with him, said.
"Kudo? What do you think?" Because there were only two of them in the warehouse at this time, Hattori Heiji directly called his name.
"There are still too few clues to make a judgment, but..." After hesitating, Conan continued: "I think that among the clues we currently have, there may be some places where the murderer misled..."
Based on his intuition as a detective, Conan was vaguely aware of this, but the information they had collected so far was too little, so he was still unable to determine where they had been misled.
This is not metaphysics. Conan has always believed that the so-called "intuition" or "sixth sense" is essentially a hint from the brain's subconscious to the person when the person's subconscious has noticed it but his or her thinking has not yet noticed it. .
To put it simply, he probably overlooked some inconspicuous details.
Of course, neither of them were half-hearted people. After arriving at the warehouse, even though it was completely empty, they still carefully investigated the inside of the warehouse.
"Kudo, come and see." Hattori Heiji squatted in front of the faucet in the corner of the warehouse, his eyes a little solemn.
This faucet is very special. There is blood under the cock. It is a very small blood stain. If Hattori Heiji hadn't bent down and took a look, it might not have been discovered.
Conan looked at the trace of blood and seemed to think of something. He suddenly stood up and ran to the shelf next to him, stretched out his hand and wiped it hard.
【There is dust. 】
Looking at the dust on his fingers, he quickly squatted down and rubbed hard on the floor tiles of the warehouse.
However, this time, there was no dust on his hands.
The floor tiles in this abandoned warehouse are much cleaner than the shelves.
"President Moriyama's body should have been parked in this warehouse." Coming to this conclusion immediately, Conan stood up and said.
In an abandoned warehouse that no one has entered or exited for a long time, there should be the same level of dust on the shelves and on the floor. It is impossible for there to be dust on the shelves but clean on the floor.
Combined with the trace of blood under the faucet cock, there is only one most likely reason.
After the murderer killed Hiromichi Moriyama yesterday, he temporarily hid his body in this small warehouse. After moving the body, he used the faucet in the warehouse to clean the blood stains on the floor. The blood stains on the faucet were that It was contaminated at that time.
"Hattori, let the police conduct a luminol reaction test on the floor here. Maybe they will find something."
"Um."
"Oh? High school detective, have you investigated anything?"
In the warehouse, another person suddenly walked in. This tall man was Harada Shotarou, the deputy director of the aquarium.
"Mr. Harada, what's wrong?" Hattori Heiji looked at him and asked.
"Haha, it's nothing. I just saw that you guys haven't come out of this warehouse for a long time, so I wanted to come over and have a look..."
Harada Xiangtaro smiled, and then looked at the empty warehouse, with a somewhat nostalgic look in his eyes.
"Speaking of which, do you know why this warehouse was abandoned?"
"Why?" Hattori Heiji asked curiously.
"The reason is not complicated, because, ah, a person was hanged here before." Harada Xiangtaro looked at the two of them and said quietly: "And the one who was hanged was the president... well, it should be said that he was the mistress. Bar?"
"ha?"
"That happened last year. The girl was also a keeper at the aquarium. After being seduced by the president and abandoned by the president, she hanged herself in this warehouse..."
Saying that, Harada Xiangtaro sighed sadly.
"Oh, such a pure and beautiful girl, it was so miserable to be destroyed and withered by the president... Ah, by the way, this girl seemed to have a good relationship with the little girl Kuramoto during her lifetime. If necessary, you guys You can ask."
Reika Kuramoto, the breeder who has the key to Iwaba's house, is one of the suspects suspected of being the murderer.
"Mr. Harada, do you have a bad relationship with President Moriyama?" Keenly aware of this, Conan asked directly.
"Haha, what a smart little guy..." Looking at Conan with a smile, Harada Xiangtaro said meaningfully: "Of course, and it's not just me. We who are suspected by the police, to put it mildly, and the society In fact, it is not good to have a relationship with him, and there are reasons to want to kill him..."
Although Conan wanted to ask for more information, Harada Xiangtaro obviously didn't want to say any more and turned around and left the warehouse directly.
[It seems that the suspect needs to be re-interrogated. 】
After him, Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at each other, and the two left the warehouse immediately.
Then, the two saw a scene that stunned them.
Suzuki Sonoko is assisting the police in solving the case.
"So, when we first saw President Moriyama's body, there was already a problem!"
Looking at the policemen looking at each other in disbelief, Suzuki Sonoko raised her hands above her head and twisted her waist, imitating the scene when she first saw the body of Hiromichi Moriyama in the sink, and said:
"Think about it carefully. When a normal corpse is thrown into the water, how can it be that the hands are stretched out and raised above the head? This is completely wrong, right?!"
"Sonoko, what do you mean?" Miwako Sato raised her hand and touched her chin. After Suzuki Sonoko said this, she vaguely seemed to realize something.
"It means that the reason why President Moriyama's body was arranged like 'Astro Boy' is actually because the murderer had this absolute necessity!"
As she said that, Lingmu Sonoko glanced at Qing Shuijing sitting in the corner behind her. After seeing Qing Shuijing gently nodding her encouragement, she, who was a little scared at first, suddenly summoned up endless courage.
She bypassed everyone and went straight to the closest place between the rock fields on the left and right sides. She pointed at this area and said:
"The murderer was at the rock field on the left where there is a warehouse. Because at that time, the stepping stone between the rock fields had been taken away by Ms. Reika Kuramoto who was off duty. Therefore, if the murderer wanted to leave, he had to make another one to provide for him. He had to walk to the pedal on the rock field on the right! And the stiffened body of President Moriyama was the pedal used by the murderer!"
"Wait, little girl."
At this moment, Mouri Kogoro suddenly interrupted her and said:
"I think the distance here is only 1.56 meters at most. As long as a normal adult can cross it easily, right?"
Mouri Kogoro said this, and in front of everyone, he personally jumped from the right rock field to the left rock field to prove the authenticity of his words.
"Your reasoning is not valid. The murderer is not a child. How could he have to use a pedal to walk from the left to the right...!"
Midway through his words, Mouri Kogoro stopped abruptly, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.
"Yes, uncle."
At this time, Suzuki Sonoko also showed an enigmatic smile on her face.
"The murderer is not a child. It is obvious that normal adults can jump over the distance. Why does he have to use pedals to return from the left rock field to the right rock field?"
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(End of chapter)
