There were no witnesses to the arson. When someone discovered it, the fire was so fierce that it had burned the entire house. Fortunately, there was no one in the house and no one was killed in the fire. After the fire was extinguished, the police found a burnt horse, a red horse.
After questioning the victim's family members, they all said that it did not belong to their family. The police suspected that it was a red horse left behind by gangsters.
Next, in the second and third fires, a burnt red horse will be found. No one saw the criminals committing the crime.
Situ Xiu only knew so much information. From the information he found last night, he had several doubts.
Could the three victims know the criminals? Know when to set a fire without being caught.
besides......
"Woof woof..." came the barking of Kati dog.
Situ Xiu came to his senses and walked over quickly. Katigou shouted that he must have discovered something.
The remaining charred frames, one of which looks like a house, the surrounding walls are burnt black, the ground is mostly covered with burnt ashes, there is a broken piece of glass at the feet of the dog, with a metal tail. Feeling column.
Incandescent light bulb!
Situ Xiu doubtfully picked up the metal of the lamp head. There was only a small piece of glass on it, and there was a little black residue and something burnt on the glass.
"Woof woof..." Kati dog barked again.
tissue?
Situ Xiu saw some burnt paper towel-like ashes where Katigou pointed. When he touched it, only ashes remained.
"Master, I have a bold idea. Could that person's modus operandi be to tie a paper towel to a light bulb? The heat on the surface would burn the paper towel and start a fire," said the invisible Gengar.
"It's impossible. Even if the light bulb ignites the paper towel, it will take a while. Someone must find it in the meantime, and it is impossible for such a small fire to burn down the entire house," Guisi said.
The invisible Night Dark Demon is a little embarrassed. It has never learned such profound knowledge, which is a bit of a hindrance...
"Then if you add gasoline..." Gengar said.
"Add gasoline? Hehe, it's better to just set it on fire and burn it clean. It's necessary to go to the trouble of tying paper towels to the light bulb." Guisi chuckled.
The two elves discussed, and Situ Xiu thought about it for a while, and thought that what Gengar was talking about was very likely.
"Lemon's idea is correct. This method is very possible. Coke, the gangster's purpose should be to create an alibi. If it spontaneously ignites within 10 or 20 minutes, no one will suspect that it was the gangster."
After hearing this, Guisi was still dissatisfied: "But the paper towels don't ignite so fast. If something goes wrong..."
"How about tying a match, how fast is it?" Situ Xiu said after pondering for a moment.
The two elves calmed down.
Matches are highly flammable. If you tie a match to the surface of an incandescent bulb, the match will quickly ignite the paper towel, and if there is gasoline, the entire house will burn cleanly.
Next, without any discovery, Situ Xiu left the burned house with Kati Dog. The method of committing the crime was found to be very good. Regardless of whether the analysis was correct or not, there was at least one direction.
The criminal could have committed this arson even if he was not at the scene. The next step is to investigate the suspicious person. However, before that, it is necessary to confirm whether there are similar clues at the scenes of the second and third fires.
After coming out, Situ Xiu told Koizumi Hongzi his analysis and planned to go to the second fire scene.
"Wait a minute, I think there is a person who is very suspicious... It is the middle-aged man who called us just now. I asked him what happened here, and he hesitated and left in a panic. Guess where he went?" Koizumi Hongzi said.
"You don't mean to tell me that he lives next door." Situ Xiu looked at the big house next door to the house that burned.
"That's right! He lives in the house next door," Koizumi Hongzi said with a smile.
"..." Situ Xiu.
Damn it, just talking nonsense.
Thinking about it carefully, Situ Xiu didn't think that his neighbors would set fire to him. This would easily lead to suspicion. If he was a gangster, he would definitely go further away.
However, sometimes smart people will think in the opposite direction, and the more impossible it is, the more likely it is.
The two went to the middle-aged man's house together and rang the doorbell at the door, intending to learn about the fire incident.
The door opened, and the middle-aged man looked at Koizumi Hongzi and said, "You are the lady just now. What do you want?"
"I'm sorry to disturb you, I want to ask you about the burning down of the house next door." Koizumi Hongzi smiled slightly.
"Why are you asking about this?" The middle-aged man's eyes flickered slightly.
"My family lives in Fourth-chome. I heard that gangsters might go to Fourth-chome to commit crimes and set fires. I was a little worried, so I wanted to investigate the arson case," Koizumi Hongzi lied.
"..." Situ Xiu.
The middle-aged man couldn't help but change his face slightly after hearing this, and said, "Then you guys come in and sit down, and I will tell you about the arson case in detail."
"Really? That's great, but will it disturb you?" Koizumi Hongzi said.
"No, I'm the only one at home." The man shook his head.
Situ Xiu suddenly became so enthusiastic, and he was a little confused, but he didn't take it too seriously. With Kati Dog here, it's possible that this guy can still go to heaven.
The two entered the living room. The middle-aged man prepared some snacks and tea, and then began to talk about the fire in the house next door.
"Master, I just took a look in the house and found a small cushion with a bug inside. There is also a crystal ball placed on the cushion. It seems to be something for divination and blessing," the invisible Gengar said.
"Master, I found a bug in the vase and pottery at the door," Guisi said.
"..." Situ Xiu.
There were two bugs in different locations. Someone was monitoring the family, or the man suspected that a stranger had broken into the home and planned to use the bugs to eavesdrop on who broke into the home.
No, sneak into the house secretly, why not install a surveillance camera and record it? Using a bug is useless and you can’t see anyone.
Situ Xiu suspected that the man had been bugged for unknown reasons. After the man finished telling the story about the fire incident, he thought about it and asked, "Uncle, what do you do?"
"As for me, I opened an antique shop in Cupido Town."
The man smiled, took out two items and handed them to Koizumi Hongzi, and then said: "This is for you. This is the product introduction book and key chain in my store."
"Ah! This, this is not good, I can't have it." Koizumi Hongzi waved her hand and refused. How can anyone give a gift to someone for the first time they meet.
"This is not a valuable item, it is a gift from the store. Just accept it," the man said.
"Then, okay, thank you." Koizumi Hongzi reluctantly took two items, one was a key chain hanging on a small box, and the other was a small notebook.
Situ Xiu glanced at the two items and asked, "Uncle, have you encountered anything strange recently?"
"Something strange?" The man's face became strange, "I've been sleepwalking recently, I don't know if it counts."
"Did your family discover that you were sleepwalking?" Koizumi Hongzi said.
"No, I'm the only one at home. I saw some bad things when I woke up in the morning. I tidied them up the day before. After a night, they became very messy in the morning, so I suspect that I messed up because of my sleepwalking." The man sighed.
You can’t go wrong!
The bug may have been used to spy on others, or it may have been used to spy on this man.
Situ Xiu didn't know which one it was yet, but he was certain that someone had sneaked into the man's home without permission.
The incident of the arson case was similar to what the man described. Without getting any more useful information, Situ Xiu and Koizumi Hongzi left the man's house.
The second fire accident occurred at the Nakamura house in the residential area of Toriya Town 2-chome. The entire house was also burned to the ground, leaving behind a pile of pitch-black ruins.
Similarly, Situ Xiu, under the guidance of Kati Dog, discovered the fragments of the incandescent light bulb, and was able to determine the gangster's modus operandi, and then went to the scene of the third fire.
"Master, someone is following us. He is the man next door to the house that caught fire in Rishan Town," the invisible Gengar said.
Situ Xiu was stunned and raised his hand to check the time. It was past noon and it was time to go eat.
"Sister Hongzi, let's go have lunch first."
"OK".
The two went to a restaurant for lunch. A few dozen meters behind them, a middle-aged man followed quietly.
"Are you still following?" Situ Xiu said.
"Yes, Master," Gengar said.
Acting suspiciously,
Could the man be the arsonist?
Situ Xiu was a little suspicious, whether that guy had heard that their home was in the 4th-chome, so he followed them to explore the road and set it on fire when he had time.
No, there is no grievance or enmity, why would you do this?
Situ Xiu thought for a few seconds, then took out his cell phone and sent a message to Sato Miwako from the Metropolitan Police Department.
"Sister Miwako, I saw an arson incident on the news. Can you give me some information?"
He believed that the police must have information about the man next door to the fire case.
Metropolitan Police Department.
Miwako Sato was at work when her phone rang and she received a message. She opened it and looked at it. When she saw that the message was from Situ Xiu, she hesitated.
"This case is under the control of the Arsonist Search Section 1. However, I can go find out the information. It will take a while. I'm not sure if I can get it."
Situ Xiu: "Okay, please."
Miwako Sato: "You're welcome. I made a great contribution to the last case, and it was all thanks to you."
With Miwako Sato taking action, Situ Xiu was reassured that the information on the arson case would be 100% obtainable, because she was the police beauty of the Metropolitan Police Department and the goddess in the hearts of the male policemen.
ten minutes later.
Situ Xiu received information from Miwako Sato, information about the arson case and several pictures.
Some of the pictures are of red horses found at the fire scene, and there is also a picture of a middle-aged man named Takashi Genda who is the subject of police suspicion.
It's him!
Situ Xiu knew the man in the photo, the middle-aged man next door to the first fire incident.
Xuanda Takashi, all three fire incidents are suspected to be at the scene of the crime, and his behavior is suspicious.
The data also recorded that the three fire incidents were not related, no one died, and the time of the crime was not fixed. A Chima who was not a family member was found at the scene and was suspected to be left behind by gangsters.
The fire started so quickly because someone used gasoline to start it.
Judging from the sequence of fires 1, 2 and 3, the next crime spot may be the 4th or 4th-chome.
Situ Xiu was a little disappointed. The police did not find many clues, and the only useful clue was Xuantian Takashi.
Judging from tracking them, it might actually be possible to set fire to find a target.
"Sister Hongzi, the lies you told have set you on fire," Situ Xiu spat.
"What do you mean!" Koizumi Hongzi asked with a question mark on her forehead.
........
At the Maori Detective Agency, Xiaolan couldn't wait to hear from He Ye. She sent several messages without reply. Finally, she called and was prompted to turn off her phone.
"Is the battery out?" Xiaolan frowned.
Conan on the side heard this, yawned and said, "Why is the battery out? Sister Xiaolan, you are so strange today. Are you waiting for someone?"
"No" Xiaolan laughed dryly.
Conan had doubts in his eyes, and Xiaolan's reaction was obviously something wrong. She had been playing with her phone from morning until now, as if she was chatting with someone.
Could it be a garden?
Conan's eyelids twitched. He didn't want to meet Yuanzi. The bet he made last time has not yet been fulfilled.
On the other side, in a residential area in Kenbashi Town, in the attic of a house, Kazuha and Hattori Heiji were sitting back to back on the floor, with their hands handcuffed. There were four people around them, one of whom was lying on the ground not knowing whether to live or die. , the other three are one woman and two men.
"Osaka high school detective Hattori Heiji, please help decipher the code on this note."
The woman walked up to Hattori Heiji with a smile, raised her hand and took out a piece of paper with a series of numbers and English letters on it.
"There are 7 digits both vertically and horizontally, and the letters are also between different numbers. How do you want me to interpret them? I don't even know what happened." Hattori Heiji frowned.
"Huh, let me tell you briefly."
The woman snorted coldly, glanced at the man lying on the ground, and then said: "This guy came to me and told me that he had evidence that I guided people in the financial world to evade taxes. Stop if you don't want it to be made public. Don't you?" Do you think it’s ridiculous?”
"That means he has evidence that you helped others evade taxes," Hattori Heiji said with a smile.
"Hmph, he hid the tapes of evidence in the safe of Dongdu Bank and set a 7-digit password. Then they died, leaving only the code on the paper." The woman sneered.
"Is it gone? How can I explain this?" Hattori Heiji was speechless.
"Don't play tricks with me. I only give you one day, because this guy also saved a secret and mailed the code and my affairs to his detective agency."
The woman's face turned cold and she continued: "If you can't untie it before evening, I won't be able to get the contents of the safe, and neither you nor the girl next to you will survive tomorrow."
Hattori Heiji frowned, while Kazuha turned pale with fright.
"As for this guy..." The woman looked at Nan Chuan who fell to the ground and sneered: "He deserves to die. He actually comes to me so self-righteously and tells me that if you change your mind and stop helping people evade taxes, I will keep it secret. It's ridiculous. , In fact, he wanted to threaten me. This man likes gambling and wants to extort money from me."
"Gambling?" Hattori Heiji was stunned. He looked carefully at the numbers and letters on the note and already understood the meaning of the code.
He glanced at the two men holding guns next to him. He couldn't tell the secret code. If he unlocked the secret code, he would die.
"There are still a few hours left. Let's think about the code carefully before it gets dark. I'll go out first and you two can stay safe." The woman sneered and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute, there is someone who can definitely solve it. His name is Situ Xiu. He is a very smart man. At least, I think he is smarter than me."
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