Conan: The Mechanic

Chiba and Haibara Ai came to the door of Dr. Agasa's house together - the tree was in the courtyard of Dr. Agasa's house.

"What?" Dr. A Li's stunned voice came from the walkie-talkie at the door. "You said you found something strange on my tree?"

"Yes," Qianyu nodded. "Can you let us in?"

"Okay!" After speaking, Dr. Li hung up the walkie-talkie, opened the door, and walked out. "What did you see in the tree?"

"Wait a minute," Qianyu confirmed through her memory which tree belonged to Dr. Akasa's house (unlike the Tachibana house, there were many trees in Dr. Akasa's house), and then walked quickly to the tree. "It should be this one..."

Saying that, Qianyu glanced at the distribution of the small bumps on the bark, and then used these bumps to climb up the tree trunk - the crow's nest is at a higher position in the tree, and the ladder from Dr. .

After more than a minute of climbing, Chiba finally found a path through the dense branches, and reached the top of the tree smoothly, and saw what he was looking for.

"It's here!" Qianyu approached the nest, and as expected, he saw the ring-covered finger that the crow had placed here before, and he immediately told Haibara Ai about it. "found it!"

Saying this, Chiba began to observe this finger—the finger is the ring finger of the left hand, it seems to have been separated from the body for a while, and all the blood inside has been drained away, except for the marks of being pecked by birds. No skin trauma.

As for the ring... Although Qianyu can't recognize the brand, since it is worn on the ring finger of her left hand, it is already obvious what kind of ring it is (this means engagement or marriage). The transparent gem on it proves that it is a diamond ring, and the price is quite high Philip. If he does act according to the traditional "three months' income to buy a wedding ring" concept, his family must be quite good.

"What did you see?" Dr. Li asked under the tree.

"Ah—" Only then did Qianyu realize what the first thing she should do now. "Okay, I'll take the things down right away, but can I trouble the doctor to call the police first?"

It is definitely not normal to find a finger with absolutely no signs of cremation in a crow's lair far from the crematorium in a country with a cremation system, after all, human fingers can only come from people, and people are unlikely to do it for nothing. If you lose a finger, it is even more impossible to be picked up by a crow into your nest for no reason.

……

"It's just this finger?" Officer Takagi looked at the bird's nest in front of him and said in surprise.

"We can't expect a crow to carry a complete corpse back to its nest, right?" Qianyu spread her hands. "Considering that the finger is still in good condition, perhaps the body also retains sufficient autopsy value."

"But the problem is that we haven't received a similar report of body discovery at all?" Takagi said after thinking about it. "Especially if there is a corpse with a missing finger like this, we will definitely investigate further. In other words—"

"Obviously someone doesn't want us to find this body?" Qianyu tilted her head. "I even doubt that the body still exists."

In theory, if there are enough resources, it is not difficult to make a living person disappear (after all, a dead person cannot swallow APTX-4869). And making the dead disappear is also not particularly difficult, and it doesn't require any particularly hard-to-get resources. The aftermath personnel of the organization were quite handy in dealing with these things.

"Put the corpse in pieces and put it into a pressure cooker, then pour potassium hydroxide and water into it, and soak it in super-high temperature boiling water at the highest pressure level for four hours. Maybe even a one-ton fat man can be crushed with a blender. If it turns into a small bag of residue, and pours it into the lake, no one can find evidence of this person's existence." Haibara Ai agreed.

"Uh..." Officer Takagi's expression when he looked at Haibara Ai became very exciting. "you……"

"I'm joking," Haiyuan Ai rolled her eyes. "Anyway, there should not be any famous scholar in the world who has put forward such an interesting theory in a famous journal. The probability of such a thing is obviously as small as time travel."

After Chiyu heard these words, she glanced at Haibara Ai.

At this moment, Officer Takagi's cell phone rang.

……

"We were called by Officer Muki again?" Sitting in the police car, Chiba asked Officer Takagi who was driving the car.

"Procedurally speaking, yes." Police officer Takagi who was driving the vehicle replied. "But from the initial proposal to bring you over, I suspect that this is not the case, because the tone of the police officer Mumu is completely different when he makes his own decision and when he implements someone else's decision. Today is the latter."

"Sounds a little disturbing..." Qianyu pouted, and then sent a text message to Haibara Ai.

[The method of disposing of the corpse you mentioned is not true, is it? 】

Qianyu mentioned Hiroki when she told Haihara Ai about the auxiliary unit~www.wuxiaspot.com~ so he knew very well that for Haibara Ai, time-travel was a 100% chance—in other words, That method also had a 100 percent chance of successfully disposing of the body—and such a claim would have fooled Officer Takagi when telling the truth.

[Of course it's true, adding potassium hydroxide to water and cooking it at 150 degrees for 4 hours can steam the human body into the most primitive state, which is extremely convenient to handle. Then you can do whatever you want with it, and if you're hungry, you can even wash the pre-cooked corpses and eat them. 】

"Uh..." After seeing the text message, Qianyu's brows twitched, and then she looked at Haibara Ai who had shifted her gaze from the phone screen to him.

Haibara Ai had a smile on her face, and then she smacked her lips, making an intoxicated expression that seemed to be reminiscent of a peerless delicacy. "~"

"His——" Even though she knew that Haibara Ai was completely acting, Chiba still felt a little chill behind her back. It was a sense of vigilance in the face of beings who had both good looks and dangerous demeanor.

"Ha~" Seeing Qianyu's reaction, the corners of Haibara Ai's mouth twitched slightly.

"..." Chiba used the auxiliary unit to calm herself down, and then sighed. "You are really getting more and more..."

"I used to be addicted to the world of materialism," Ai Haibara replied with a somewhat pleasant expression. "But now, after I've gone back to this normal world, I realize that I've overlooked the wonderful part of this world - that's human nature. Then I've discovered that something that's not objectively efficient, but makes people feel How useful is a subjectively pleasurable act."

The Metropolitan Police Department building was already visible from the front windows of the police car, and it was getting bigger and closer.