Conan: The Mechanic

However, even if Matsumoto Kiyotaka completed the deployment of Jinjiu's staff that night, and dispatched the personnel to these two areas in time, he still failed to track down the murderer-although the murderer's body was indeed thrown here. There are two areas, but there is a certain distance from the inferred location provided by Chiba, so the relatively lack of manpower in the organization has not been able to establish a sufficiently comprehensive monitoring here.

In Koya Park, about a kilometer from the office building of Atsugi Air Force Base, members of the organization who were just patrolling just in case found a body that had lost all vital signs although it still maintained a certain body temperature. . After checking, it was preliminarily determined that the corpse was completely consistent with Xintang in terms of core physical signs, and according to the investigation results reported to Matsumoto Kiyotaka, there was a seven-cake tile with a different coating than all the previous mahjong tiles. .

"Ah..." Matsumoto Kiyoshi sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose after receiving the news of Xintang's death and the results of the preliminary examination from Jinji's subordinates.

The body was found in Hikaru Park, near the Atsugi Air Force Base. This not only shows that Qianyu's inference is correct, the murderer did choose the place to throw the corpse according to the orientation of the Big Dipper and the North Star. But the bad thing is that this does not help them catch the murderer - the murderer does not strictly follow the specific location of the Big Dipper to throw the corpse, but will flexibly decide where to throw the corpse according to the actual situation. The destruction of the relative position also made it impossible for them to predict the specific location of the corpse in advance based on this.

But at least it's better than having no clue at all... If we really do everything we can to control Shiba Park with enough intensity, maybe we can really catch the murderer of the last case today. (The last words provided by Ryuzaki, tanabata, kyo, indicate that this case is likely to be related to Tanabata. Today is July 7th, Tanabata.)

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While cooking breakfast, Chiba saw the text message Matsumoto Kiyoshi replied to him and sighed: The police still failed to save the seventh victim, and now only the eighth victim is left until the murderer finally retreats. The person is alone.

"Tachibana," At this moment, Haibara Ai walked downstairs with a newspaper. "Do you remember 'tanabata, kyo'?"

"What's wrong?" Qianyu turned back, looking at Haibara Ai's expression a little curiously.

"I found some old newspaper clippings in the closet when I was looking for a **** just now," Haibara Ai handed Chiba an A4 piece of paper with newspaper news pieces on it. "Those clippings are in chronological order, so I looked for news about Tanabata, and then this was the Tanabata (Tanabata) newspaper in 1992, the day there was a fire in Kyoto (Kyoto) that killed two people . But that's not the point, the most important thing is—"

"What's the most important thing—" Chiba found out the part of the newspaper that Haibara Ai cared about in the report about the fire. "This?"

This news is accompanied by six pictures, one of which is a burning hotel with a "Hotel Vega" (Weaver Girl Hotel) sign; and the second picture is of seven people sitting together in various ways. The pose is covered with a blanket and drinking hot water; the third picture shows a young man who was trying to rush into the fire through the gate, but was stopped by firefighters; the fourth picture shows two bodies waiting to be transported to an ambulance; The fifth and sixth pictures are of the two deceased. According to the narrative, the deceased in the fifth photo was the litter who smoked in the escape passage on the fifth floor and caused the fire, making the escape stairs unusable, while the deceased in the sixth photo was found at the elevator entrance on the sixth floor of.

The photo with the most information is the second one, because there seems to be a lot of acquaintances in this photo-how do these seven people drinking hot water look like the seven people who have been killed in the mahjong tile case?

If the murderer's reason for killing is because these seven people appeared here on Tanabata, then the reason is...

Chiba turned her attention to the sixth black-and-white photo—it was a girl with a very bright smile. From the description, it seemed her name was Nanako Motokami, a resident of Mitaka City, Tokyo.

Her body was found at the elevator entrance on the sixth floor...

"The person in the third photo may really be driven by hatred, desperate, what do you think?" Haibara Ai looked at Qianyu and said.

"Yes," Qianyu nodded. "If that elevator can only take seven people, then maybe he really killed the **** Shuhei Jinno and the remaining six innocent people?"

Unlike several other deceased people, Jinno Shuhei's mahjong tile is a piece of cake. If this is alluding to the elevator, I am afraid that the purpose is to explain that Jinno Shuhei forcibly pulled Nanako Honkami out of the elevator at that time, and then he took the last place. a location.

"Those six people are not innocent," Haiyuan Ai shook his head. "People who condone evil~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are no different from demons."

If those six people really had a sense of justice, I'm afraid that Shuhei Jinno's attempt to forcibly pull Nanako Motomo down from the elevator would not succeed at all - it's a very simple matter for seven people to subdue one person.

"You can't say that either," Qian Yu sighed. "If I were Shuhei Jinno, I would have a very extreme solution. Although I will go to **** after I die, it will make me go to **** later. Because if I do that, they can only compromise. "

"What can I do?" Huihara asked sadly.

"If I were Jinno Shuhei, I would always wait outside the door to interfere with them," Chiba said with a hand spread. "After they all go in, I press the elevator button, so that the elevator can't close, and they can't get down. As long as they don't make room for me, then I won't let them down and let everyone die together. If you still want to live, you can only sacrifice one of the seven of them and put me in."

"Then they sacrificed the weakest deceased, Miss Nanako Motoka, didn't they?" A sad expression appeared on Haibara Ai's face.

"Yes," Qianyu nodded. "Sacrificing her has an advantage, because she is the weakest, so her ability to resist and fight is also the worst. With the size of an adult, I am afraid that three or two punches can knock her to the ground and lose her fighting ability. Don't worry about her copying what Shuhei Jinno did before."

Taking this into account, and then considering the anxious looking young man in the third photo, Chiba and Haibara Ai can draw an almost obvious conclusion.

The person in the third photo must have something to do with Nanako Mokami, and it was this relationship that made him extremely hate the seven people who stole Nanako Mokami's life.