"Now as long as we figure out what he used to light the fire, we can form a complete closed loop." Mouri Kogoro said confidently.
Officer Otaki was about to agree, but he heard Hattori's voice from behind, "We have found the thing!"
Everyone looked back and saw that Hattori was holding an umbrella in one hand and a bag in the other hand. The bag contained a small lighter, and Conan was beside him.
"Isn't this... Isn't this Mr. Kato's lighter?" The four people in the tour group were beside them. Katagiri Maho, perhaps because he wore glasses and had particularly good eyesight, recognized it at a glance.
The other three people took a closer look and agreed with her words.
Hearing this, Mouri Kogoro became more confident, "It can't be wrong, commit suicide, it must be suicide!"
Hoshino Sora raised his eyebrows. The uncle's classic must have appeared. In all likelihood, it was to attract others and let everyone collect more clues, and then he would solve it in one fell swoop.
Sure enough, as the uncle threw a brick, Hattori took the bait and retorted: "Not necessarily. When we found this lighter, its lid was closed. If it was a person who wanted to commit suicide, he would deliberately close the lid. ?Of course, you might say that it closed after falling to the ground, but if that was the case, it should have fallen below the roof, or simply fell to the ground here, not above the roof!"
"Also, I found something strange. Conan, show me the photos you took."
Conan responded obediently, took out his phone, pulled up the picture and handed it to him.
"Here, take a look." Hattori held the phone sideways, and then saw a raised stepped platform in the picture. There was a lighter placed on the platform. The lighter was wet all around and the color was darker.
Then Hattori slid the picture to the next one, and then the lighter disappeared, and a fan-shaped dry area appeared in its place, which was very obvious compared to the surrounding wet areas.
"This is..." Hoshino Sora gestured with his hands and said excitedly, "Isn't this the game I play with Lianhua and the others? In the mud, we use kettles, bricks, pebbles, tiles... to pass these It’s simple. You can just find something and print the pattern specified by the other party on some wet soil. Haha, Lianhua is a master in this field. I remember she printed such a fan shape with a kettle and bricks!"
"First, use the base of the kettle to mark a circle on the soil, then cover a quarter of the circle with bricks, and then smooth the excess edges with your hands, leaving only a quarter of the circle. This is the required fan shape. !”
Everyone listened to his talk in stunned silence, and then followed his ideas and tried to simulate it in their minds. Not to mention, they could really get a fan shape!
"Thank you for remembering what happened when you were a kid." Hattori smiled.
"What happened when I was a kid? It's only been less than two years." Hoshino Sora shook his head.
"Uh, Kong, you are still playing in the mud..." Hattori was shocked.
He Ye and others were also surprised, but Conan and Xiaolan were used to it and were not surprised.
"Let's play, why don't you play? Don't you find it interesting? Mud is a good thing. You can paint and fight in mud, and you can also be a beggar chicken. How fun it is!" Hoshino Sora was surprised by Hattori. The fuss.
Hattori: "..."
"Akong, it's really interesting to hear you say that, so you are playing with little Hinata and her friends, right?" Kazuye realized that there are children in the Hoshino family, and Akong is an older brother who dotes on his sister. .
"Well... Little Hinata and I play more wrestling, height lifting, video games, and virtual games. But Lianhua and the others live in the countryside and have natural scenery that is not available in the city, so they play more outdoor games. Of course, indoors We also play games, such as playing house and so on." Sora Hoshino explained.
Xiaolan was afraid that she and Ye would not understand each other, so she added: "Lianhua is a little younger than Hinata, and is in the first grade this year, the same as Conan. Lianhua's friends are older than her, some are in fifth grade, and some are in junior high school. "
"Wow, Akong, you are so caring. You can get along with children~" Heye said with admiration on his face. Playing with children is not an easy task. It may not be a problem in the short term, but it will definitely be unbearable in the long term. At least she didn't think she could do that for a long time.
"Hey, who wouldn't want to mingle with these cute little angels?" Hoshino Sora looked proud.
"..." Hattori was amazed, "Akong, I have to say, your entertainment life... is really rich!"
He really admired Kong's courage. At least, he couldn't play house now, he didn't want to play, and he didn't have the courage to play.
For some reason, looking at Kong, he suddenly felt like he was getting old.
"Ahem~" Mouri Kogoro's cough brought back the atmosphere that had been distorted by Hoshino Sora.
This kid Akong is poisonous, right? The murder scene is a serious analysis of the case. You can take everyone to the countryside. Officer Megure has always said that I am poisonous and will take everyone around the corner. Now I really want Officer Megure. Get a taste of Akong's toxicity.
"Well, back to the topic, after listening to Akong's words, everyone knows, right? Where does this fan shape come from? There must be an object with a prototype at that location in advance!" Hattori pointed to the fan-shaped area in the photo. , said with certainty.
"Then Heiji, what do you think this round thing is?" Officer Otaki asked immediately.
"It's hard to tell now, but it must have something to do with the scattered fragments." Hattori returned the phone to Conan, picked up the bag with the lighter, pointed to the fine fragments in the bag, and said.
"What is this?" Everyone came forward and observed carefully, but they couldn't see the reason.
At this time, a police officer reported to Officer Otaki: "Otaki Police Department, all the things on the deceased have been collected, and they are all here!"
I saw a piece of white cloth next to the deceased with a pile of relics on it.
Everyone immediately moved to watch.
"Wallet, watch, mobile phone, keys, cigarettes, unknown fragments... Huh? Is this a scroll?" Officer Otaki glanced at the burnt relics and was immediately attracted to one of the scrolls.
Among all the items, only scrolls are rare. After all, ordinary people are unlikely to carry such things when going out.
So, he opened the scroll, but unfortunately some of the scroll's eyes were burned. The sides were fine, but the middle was almost burned off. One word could barely be read clearly on the scroll, "Dragon... you can see a dragon... …What do you want to express?”
"What's also suspicious is this fragment. It seems to be porcelain..." Hattori said, pointing to the unknown fragment.
The fragments are irregular in shape, curved, neither thick nor thin, triangular, about thirty centimeters high, and it is difficult to determine what the complete form is.
