"Heiji, you are here!" Otaki Goro greeted Hattori Heiji, looked at the corpse and introduced the case, "Just over an hour ago, the Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters received an alarm call. The staff of this art museum When I came to open the door, I found the victim lying in the hall, so I called the police. According to our investigation, the victim's name was revealed, and it was estimated that the time of death was between two and three in the morning. The victim's heart was originally It’s not good. The murderer should have wet the floor first, then threw one end of the disconnected wire towards the victim, and then plugged it in in front of the socket. This caused the victim to be electrocuted and died... By the way, the victim was this art house. The owner of the hotel, he usually lives in the back room."
Hattori Heiji was a little surprised, "Isn't he a monk?"
"No," Fumimaro Ayanokouji looked down at the corpse on the ground and said calmly, "Mr. Akenko is not only the director of this art museum, but also a famous Buddhist painter in Kyoto. His works have been purchased by many temples. However, including Jinshui Temple and Aobao Temple in the first two incidents, those two temples strongly recommended his works, and the temples also collected many of his works. This is the only one among the three victims that we have investigated so far. connect."
Hattori Heiji asked again, "Then there should be something at the scene of the crime, right? A note with Michizane Waka written on it..."
"Of course, we also found this at this scene," Otaki Goro took out a piece of paper in the evidence bag and said seriously, "That's why we determined that this was a murder, and it was related to the previous two cases. The same murderer!"
Mouri Kogoro stepped forward and looked at the waka on the paper, "I didn't bring any money or silk, and I traveled in a hurry. The mountains are covered with maples, and I can offer my power to the gods... It is indeed this sentence!"
Koshizui Nanatsuki turned to look at Chi Feichi and analyzed with a serious face, "It seems that the secret code the murderer sent to the Kyoto Prefectural Police wants us to answer the question, which is to ask us to tell the third person hidden in the code. After finding the four Japanese songs, does the 'Death Shou' in 'Death Shou Kyoto' mentioned by the murderer refer to the 'Four Songs'? It means that there are four Waka poems in total, and he will also commit four crimes! "
Chi Feichi nodded, "It's very possible."
"Heiji, what on earth is going on?" Otaki Goro asked in confusion, "What secret code and four Japanese songs? Did you already know that the third Japanese song left at the scene was this one?"
Ayanokouji Fumimaro also cast questioning glances at a group of people.
"Yes," Hattori Heiji turned to look at Chi Feichi, "Brother Feichi has solved the secret code on the letter received by the Kyoto Prefectural Police..."
The sea, the mind without thoughts on the journey of nothingness, heading to the place of red maple, is like the will of God.
'Sea' is the old term for Lake Biwa located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Lake Biwa, like Mount Fuji, is regarded as a symbol of Japan. It is close to Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Nagoya and provides water supply to this area. It is also known as the 'Lake of Life'.
On Lake Biwa in the evening, a canoe was slowly ferrying across the water.
The painter wearing a white fisherman's hat was sitting on the boat, with his back leaning on a large box, his head lowered, and his pen carefully sketching on the drawing board in front of him.
Before the sky completely darkened, the painter took out a rechargeable lamp that looked like a retro kerosene lamp from the boat, placed it on the big box behind him, sat down again, lowered his head and painted the painting in front of him.
On the edge of the water, the police immediately focused on the light floating on the water, and boarded the boat one after another. Without turning on the lights, they slowly paddled forward with wooden oars and quietly surrounded the location of the light.
Ike Feichi, Koshimizu Nanatsuki, Hattori Heiji, Mori Kogoro and Conan were on two wooden boats respectively. When the police on the boat were rowing gently, the five people were also quietly discussing the arrest with Otaki Goro and Ayanokouji Fumimaro. Countermeasures.
"Finally we caught up, but if that guy really wants to poison Lake Biwa, we have to be careful..." Mouri Kogoro lowered his voice seriously, "No, no matter whether that guy really knows how to poison or not..." , since this is possible, we must be careful not to let him throw anything off the boat."
"Find two people to attract the other person's attention, and the others will surround him from behind, and then quickly control him," Ayanokouji Fumimaro said softly, "This should be the simplest but most effective method at the moment."
"Then it's up to us to attract his attention." Hattori Heiji applied to fight on behalf of the detective team. Before he was rejected, he whispered the reason, "He Ye and Xiaolan met this guy in the morning. He When I'm helping Kazuha and the others draw portraits, I might hear Kazuye mention that we are detectives and are here to investigate the serial murders in Kyoto. Officer Otaki, if you arrange for two unfamiliar faces to talk to him, maybe they will. Let him become more vigilant and more concerned about the neighborhood. If we go there, although we have a detective here, he has seen us in the morning and will be more relaxed when he sees us again. After all, the unknown is the most frightening. "
"I also think it would be more appropriate for us to go," Koshimizu Nanatsuki analyzed carefully. "The person who attracts his attention must give him a certain sense of threat, so that he can focus on the front, so that it can be convenient for those behind him. People approach and control him, but if the sense of threat is too high, it may cause him to constantly look around and look for routes, which is not conducive to people behind him approaching him. Excessive sense of threat may also stimulate him and make him immediately Throw poisonous things into Lake Biwa."
"In this case, all of us who have been seen by him will show up," Chi Feichi reminded softly, "He knows that we will go to investigate together. If only one or two people appear in front of him, he will definitely turn around to confirm that the others are coming. Whether he is there or not, he will also be on guard against others sneaking up on him from behind. Only when all of us are present can he safely focus on us and give the police a chance to approach him. Of course, Conan is not included. Let’s come to the lake. It’s normal to not bring children with you when you’re looking for a murderer, and he won’t be surprised even if Conan isn’t here.”
"But I'd better be there," Conan said sternly. "We can all appear in front of him to eliminate any possibility of him becoming suspicious."
Otaki Goro hesitated, "Isn't this too risky? We are not sure whether he has any dangerous weapons..."
"Furthermore, the five of you taking a boat there will be able to control him by force based on your numbers. Will this put too much pressure on him?" Ayanokouji Fumimaro asked.
Chi Feichi had already thought about it and looked at the human silhouette on the boat opposite in the dark night. "So, bringing Conan is a good choice. Seeing that there are even children here, he might guess that we came here in a hurry." , and children are usually regarded as a laggard, so we can appropriately reduce the pressure we put on them."
Conan nodded.
He knew that as long as Chi Feichi felt that the advantages of bringing him outweighed the disadvantages, he would consider bringing him along.
This is the result of rational thinking. Sometimes it may seem cold and unreasonable, but it is undeniable that it is also a trust in his strength and can save some trouble of pulling back and forth.
"We need to plan the details of the operation again," Chi Feichi continued. "First of all, it is best to divide the people who attracted attention in the past on two ships. Hattori and I took Conan on one ship, and put the two who seemed to be the most physically capable Good people use children to hold them. Teacher Maori and Yueshui are on a boat. The teacher can also hold the rowing oar or sit on the boat all the time. This can reduce the pressure we will bring to him. Secondly, The two boats approached him from the same direction, stopped one after the other, and tried to draw his sight and attention to the left or right front. Of course, the boats should not get too close to him, so as not to force him to directly take the poisonous water. Throw things overboard..."
Three minutes later, the two wooden boats came far to the water in front of the light, and slowly approached the light source in the dark night.
The wooden boat carrying the light source floats on the lake, and the white-hatted painter is still sitting on the boat, holding a pen and painting.
A lifelike realgar orchid branch was sketched. The white-hatted painter looked down at the canvas and sneered gloomily, "Hehehe... It's time to recite the last Japanese song..."
"The sea, the journey of a mind without thoughts..." Hattori Heiji said to attract the attention of the white hat painter. When the white hat painter looked up, he continued rowing forward with Chi Feichi, "Towards the red maple." place, such as divine will.”
The two approaching ships were not equipped with lights. The white hat artist could only see the shadows of the two approaching ships. He raised his eyes and stared at them warily, "Who? Who are you?"
A ship in front reached a position where both sides could clearly see the outline of the figure, and stopped at the right time. The white-hatted painter only tensed up his nerves and did not make any dangerous moves.
"Kansai high school detective, Hattori Heiji!" Hattori Heiji said.
Conan also reported his name, "Edogawa Conan!"
"And I," Mouri Kogoro deliberately rowed the boat forward, side by side with the boat in front of Ike Feichi, Hattori Heiji, and Conan, "Japan's number one detective, Moori Kogoro!"
"The part of giving names is too strange," Chi Feichi said, "It's better to get to the point earlier."
Hattori Heiji deliberately complained, "But uncle is too cunning. He actually took the opportunity to say that he is the number one detective..."
"Okay, okay, let's talk about the topic first," Koshimizu Nanatsuki also spoke out to brush up his presence, so that the white hat painter could match his figure with his voice, "Mr. Painter, what did you send before?" The anonymous letter to the Kyoto Prefectural Police, the code on it is hinting at that Japanese song, right?"
"The 'death head' written above is the 'death head' in Kyoto..." Hattori Heiji deliberately raised his voice to cover the police boat that sneaked behind the white hat artist, "In the words of someone here, It's a far-fetched and boring homophone game. In fact, it refers to the 'four'. The kana of the other three waka are picked out according to the numbers in each line of the code. For example, '5-0' is the number of the first waka. One sentence..."
Chi Feichi, who was named 'someone': "..."
Yes, he said that.
He just felt that this homophonic meme was not creative at all and was boring.
Ps: In Japanese, the common pronunciation of '四' is 'よん' (yon), but sometimes it is pronounced 'し' (shi) in spoken language, which is the same as 'し' (shi) for death.
(End of chapter)
