Rebirth of Conan as a Detective

When it came to the Sunday evening when he was going to the cooking class, Gao Cheng wanted to go there together, but Haibara refused to agree, saying that he just wanted to learn French cuisine in peace.

"Do I look like a plague god?"

Gao Cheng was sitting alone in the neatly kept office by Hui Yuan, a little bored holding Manguno's dog's head to groom and scratch, and after a while he was watching Yoko Okino's CD video.

One person and one dog watched TV quietly. When it was almost nine o'clock, Gao Cheng couldn't hold on and gradually fell asleep on the sofa.

He had only completed one commission in the past two days, and he was exhausted for a little commission fee.

It was half past nine, and it was close to ten o'clock that Hui Yuan returned to the office under the moonlight.

Opening the office door, I immediately saw Gao Cheng and Manguno sleeping on the sofa, and the TV was still on, still playing Yoko Okino's program.

Huiyuan let out a helpless breath, helped Gao Cheng cover the blanket, and cleaned up the messy snacks on the coffee table before returning to the third floor.

...

At around ten o'clock in the evening, the streets along the Sakuragawa River were quite quiet, and the evening wind from the river was blowing. People who were tired all day closed the stores, doors and windows one after another to prepare for a rest.

In a house on the street, a man was sitting in a neat and tidy tatami room, kneeling in front of a bookshelf full of books, and a book was already set on the small table in front of him.

After turning over the pages of the book, adjusting the recording equipment, and confirming the time with the phone with the broken screen, he cleared his throat a little before officially reading the recording.

"Under the Wheel" by Hermann Hesse, there is no doubt that Hans Gibbenrath was a gifted child, just running with other children, you can see his unusual at a glance at..."

The man's breeze is like a melodious and quiet pastoral music, and it seems to be bathed in the warm sunlight. The man himself seems to enjoy it very much. There is no daily trouble in his heart, and he is extraordinarily peaceful.

This feeling was quickly broken, a loud motorcycle engine and hip-hop music sounded in the street outside, and a group of unhealthy romps.

"Let's party! Yoho!"

"The woman from last time was really strong!"

"Haha, is there someone who catches girls like you?"

The man stopped recording, sat silently for a while, closed his book, got up, turned off the light, took his mobile phone, and walked to the window with no expression on his face.

A few delinquents outside parked their cars by the river, making as much noise as they wanted, fireworks were set off during the yelling, and the clean roadside was full of messy graffiti.

A young man in red saw his companion urinating into the river, and deliberately shouted towards the residential area: "Hey! You are so noisy, are you harassing the neighbors?! Haha!"

"Neighbors! I'm so sorry!"

"Please forgive us! Haha!"

"I said," the young man in red pressed his cigarette butt on a statue to extinguish it, and sat down opposite his companion rather bored, "Next time, try on the roof of No. 3 Middle School. How about we force our way in?"

"nice!"

"Agreed! I fucked that girl over there!"

"Isn't it dangerous to be discovered?"

"It's okay, the guards are old men anyway, if you find them, fix them!"

...

In the early morning of the next day, Gao Cheng was lying carelessly on the sofa, and Hui Yuan yelled for a while without waking him up, so he had no choice but to make breakfast and go to school first.

"Don't do this, Miss Yoko, this is too casual..." Gao Cheng waved his hand and murmured after waking up with a wet feeling. When he opened his eyes, he saw the black nose of the big dog Manguno, and the Tongue licked by oneself.

"Manguno—!"

Jumping off the sofa, Gao Cheng rushed to the bathroom to clean up the drool on Manguno's face, while glaring fiercely at Manguno at his feet: "Don't lick me from now on!"

"Woohoo." Manguno ran away with his tail between his legs in a daze.

Gao Cheng managed to clean it up. It was already past eight o'clock and he was about to go upstairs for breakfast when he found a young woman in a smart suit at the door of the office.

"That," the woman looked a little embarrassed,

"I knocked on the door and found you sleeping... Is Miss Yoko the idol Yoko Okino?"

"Cough, sit down."

Gao Cheng tidied up the sofa and went to the tea room to pour a glass of water.

"Is there anything you can do with me?"

"Are you Detective Kido?" The woman's mind was full of the scene just now, and her face was even more embarrassed. "Actually, Officer Sato introduced me to you. She said that if there is a case that cannot be solved, she can come to you."

"Officer Sato?"

Gao Cheng immediately thought of the policewoman under Mu Mu, Takagi's crush, who met him once in the photographer's murder case during the Teidan University campus festival last time, but he didn't see each other very much afterwards.

"You are?" Gao Cheng looked at the woman hesitantly.

"Ah, my name is Utsumi Yui," the woman hurriedly introduced, "I'm currently in the Kaizuka North Police Station Search Division..."

Gao Cheng rubbed his brows.

Well, he doesn't need to think about commission fees for the police case.

"I'll have something to eat first, and then I'll take a look at the scene with you."

"Then I'll trouble you." Utsumi Yui heaved a sigh of relief, although he felt that Gao Cheng couldn't help, but he could only be a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

Near Sakuragawa Lane 3, 5-chome, Gao Cheng followed Utsumi Yui to the scene of the accident after eating a cold breakfast with half a piece of bread stuffed in his mouth.

"The case happened at around 22:20 last night. The deceased was burned to death named Ryosuke Yamashita, 19 years old. The reporter was also with him at the time. It is said that the whole head burned from the back of the head."

Utsumi Yui explained carefully: "The corpse was inspected last night. The victim was completely burnt from the neck to the head. The direct cause of death was burn shock, and even the skull was charred. Do you want to go and see it?"

"No."

"Is Detective Kido also afraid of corpses?"

"It's not a question of whether I'm afraid or not. I just had breakfast."

Gao Cheng set off the isolation yellow belt and walked to the bank of the river where the crime occurred. The concrete floor was covered with graffiti and cigarette butts. There was still a white mark of a human figure on the wooden platform in the middle, and the floor where the head was located had been scorched.

Neihai held the notebook and continued: "The other three people who were together were friends who graduated from the same middle school before, and they were sitting around the table facing the victim..."

"What's the cause of the fire?" Gao Cheng interrupted.

"I just can't find the cause of the fire. Although it is temporarily determined to be an accident caused by fireworks, but," Nei Hai looked at the cigarette butts and fireworks left at the scene, "Can these gopher fireworks burn the skull into charcoal? This time It’s unbelievable, it’s like the human body spontaneously combusts.”

"Spontaneous human combustion?"

Gao Cheng looked at the scene with a headache.

Has there ever been a case like this in Conan? It looks super troublesome...

A statue of a police officer by the river was covered with burnt black from cigarette butts, and the two breasts were also black, with a hole pierced on one side, and other places were in a mess. Apart from the graffiti on the trash cans and bulletin boards, there were cigarette burn marks. , appearing to be often devastated.

"How is it?" Nei Hai looked at Gao Cheng who was looking around and sighed softly, "Did you find anything? The reason for the fire..."

Gao Cheng squatted by the river and looked at it, shook his head and said, "I'm a detective, not a scientist, things like spontaneous combustion of the human body..."

At the Kido Detective Agency, Gao Cheng sat at the desk with his hair in his hands, a pile of borrowed information books in front of him, and the computer opened the search interface.

"Anthropology... Combustion... The Spontaneous Combustion of the Human Body... Methods of Burning the Human Body Without Contact..."

"Ah, what is the reason that causes the human body to spontaneously combust in such a cold day? Or by the river in the middle of the night..."

"I'm back." Huiyuan walked into the office, closed the door, put his schoolbag on the sofa, and quietly looked at Gao Cheng who was scratching his hair in pain, "So, what troublesome work is there?"

Gao Cheng was overwhelmed: "It's nothing, the police have a strange case... By the way, do you know the reason why the human body spontaneously combusts?"

"do not know."

Huiyuan answered quite simply, paused, and then said, "I can't go to that cooking class yesterday, I need to change to another one, the tuition fee is the same."

"Can't go in just one day?" Gao Cheng was stunned, "Can't you, teacher?"

"Teacher Uemori was killed last night." Huiyuan said flatly.

"Eh? So, I just said that I am not the God of Plague, and the case will still happen if I am not around..."

"The young miss didn't go yesterday due to business." Hui Yuan glanced at Gao Cheng, "The one from the detective agency next door went instead."