After teasing the two of them.
Ye Gengyi once again focused his attention on the tiles on both sides of the roof.
Since the previous explosion did not cause damage to the building itself, judging from the traces on the scene, the glass and plastic fragments scattered at the feet should be the remains of explosives.
"Brother Gengyi, there is a lighter here, the lid is closed..." After Conan picked up the lighter, which was suspected to be a relic of the deceased, he made a new discovery: "Eh? There is a strange piece underneath it. water stains.”
Ye Geng looked away.
Sector-shaped, no... it should be circular.
Several items flashed through his mind.
Although the housing of the ignition device can be configured in all kinds of weird ways, if it is something that looks dangerous, normal people will not touch it easily.
"It must have been before it rained that someone placed something with a round base here," Conan muttered, "...what could it be?"
"Stop guessing and go back."
Seeing that the rain was getting heavier, Ye Gengyi lost interest in continuing to explore. After saying this, he ignored a certain detective who was still looking for clues. He directly picked up the detective and jumped back to the castle tower.
Conan held the lighter: "..."
I don’t know why, but I always feel like I’m being caught back into the cage before the performance is over...
...
Wait until the three of them return to the square.
There are more and more people gathering here to watch the excitement.
The flames on the charred corpse had been completely extinguished, leaving only a wisp of smoke rising slowly and swaying from side to side with the breeze that blew from time to time.
It was still Officer Otaki who came to the scene to deal with the emergency.
Mouri Kogoro was standing by, supplementing the explanation of what happened.
In fact, there is nothing to say in detail.
To sum it up, it goes like this: 'Boom', people are gone...
"It must have been suicide."
"But no matter what happens, you won't go directly to the roof of the castle tower and commit suicide, right?"
"We are not the roundworms in his stomach, how can we possibly know what he is thinking..."
"Perhaps he had already decided to commit suicide in a place that has a deep connection with Taige..."
The members of the tour group with different expressions were talking among themselves.
Kogoro Mori and Officer Otaki basically agreed with this inference.
The police later found a wallet, watch, mobile phone, keys, cigarettes, a pottery fragment and a burned scroll from the deceased's body.
"It seems that as long as we find out what he used to light the fire, the case can be closed..."
"It doesn't have to be suicide!"
Before Mouri Kogoro finished speaking, Hattori Heiji squeezed out of the crowd and interrupted: "We just went to the roof of the castle tower and found it there."
"Eh? This seems to be Kato's lighter..." blurted out the middle-aged woman wearing glasses in the tour group.
Hattori Heiji turned around and asked curiously: "Why are you so sure?"
"Well..." The middle-aged woman wearing glasses was startled and said, "Because Kato is the only one in the entire tour group who smokes, and I have seen him use this lighter several times before."
"Then your observation skills are really outstanding," Ye Geng said nonchalantly: "You can see so clearly in such a dark environment."
"I..." The middle-aged woman's expression froze and she looked at the people in the tour group with some evasive eyes.
oh? This kind of subconscious behavior is not like what he said in his self-introduction, that he met on the Internet.
Ye Gengyi did not continue to ask.
After all, if this woman and Yuhiro Koshiya are together, forcing the other party to do something now is not in line with what he ultimately wants to achieve.
Just then, Mouri Kogoro also sent an assist from the side and said:
"Oh, now that the ignition device has been found, I think... this Kato probably committed suicide. As for who the lighter is, we just need to check the fingerprints on it, right?"
"Well... As expected of Mr. Maoli." Ye Gengyi praised perfunctorily.
"Please! How can even Saraichi-nii be like this..." Hattori Heiji was shocked.
Can idiots still be contagious?
He subconsciously stayed away from Mouri Kogoro, and he did not forget to drag a certain dead fish eye to save his little reasoning partner from the hot water...
As for Conan...
Just handle your own tools.
Here, Officer Otaki is still more interested in the son of the head of the family. Seeing this, he couldn't help but ask: "Aping, since you said he did not commit suicide, do you have any basis for it?"
"Because when this lighter was found, its lid was closed," Hattori Heiji said: "How could a person who wanted to commit suicide light the fire and then deliberately close the lid?"
"Hmm..." Officer Otaki thought for a moment and then asked, "Are there any other clues?"
"Of course there is. Just where we found the lighter, there is a trace that has not been wet by the rain... I think there must have been some kind of device placed in that place before."
Hattori Heiji paused and said seriously: "A device that can make Mr. Kato bathe in fire and fall from the roof of Tsutenkaku!"
"Uh...so, what is that?" Officer Otaki was confused.
"I haven't investigated it clearly yet," Hattori Heiji spread his hands, "Anyway, judging from the traces, it at least has a round base."
It's round...
Officer Otaki scratched his head, and suddenly his eyes fell on the deceased's belongings, where there happened to be a scroll.
Feel free to expand it.
In the upper right corner of the incomplete page, there was a traditional Chinese character written:
【Dragon】
"what is this..."
Officer Otaki muttered.
At this time, the few members of the tour group who were around had solemn expressions on their faces.
Officer Otaki put the scroll aside casually, then picked up the ceramic shard and looked at it.
After all, among the deceased's relics, only these two seemed to be of some note.
At this time, Yuan Shan, Ye and Mao Lilan came over with newly bought umbrellas: "Is this fragment related to the case of the charred corpse found in the river 13 years ago?"
13 years ago?
Hattori Heiji was stunned, "Kazuha, how did you know about something that happened so long ago..."
Yuan Shan and Ye explained: "When I went back last night, my dad and your dad happened to mention this matter when they were chatting in the car, and they also said that the words '848' were written on the fragments, as if It’s the general’s treasure or something like that…”
"Treasure?" Hattori Heiji said with half-moon eyes, "You couldn't be more sleepy, right?"
"If you insist on thinking so, then there's nothing I can do about it!" Yuan Shan and Ye Banyue looked back.
"Let me see." Ye Gengyi took the ceramic shard from Officer Otaki, scratched it with his nails a few times, twirled the fallen powder and said, "It's gold..."
As one of the materials that is often used in scientific research practice projects, even if it has not been authenticated, he will not admit it is wrong.
"But based on these alone, I still can't tell that it is a precious treasure..." Conan stepped on his feet and tried to observe more information.
"Yes," Hattori Heiji scratched his head, "The only clues we know now are that there may be a connection between the deceased and the murder case 13 years ago..."
"Well... As for why Mr. Kato suddenly left the other members and ran to the roof of the castle tower..." Conan dragged his chin, "And the reason why he was covered in fire is currently unclear... .”
"The most critical and currently the biggest doubt is..."
Speaking of this, the two of them looked at someone together and said in unison: "Why did Mr. Kato point to the location of Brother Sarada before he died!"
