In the park, in the corner of the abandoned dark alley, frozen corpses were put into body bags.
Multiple corpses appeared one after another, but there was no solemnity or solemnity on everyone's faces. Looking at these corpses, some just sighed and mourned.
These people did not die from being killed by someone, but from the cold wave that just came yesterday.
Unlike the well-dressed young man found first, these people all have a common identity - homeless people.
They were homeless and did not have enough warm clothes. In the cold temperature last night, they could only gradually lose consciousness and sleep forever.
It may be hard to imagine, but this is indeed a problem in Neon.
These tramps were all people who went bankrupt in those years. Some of them may have been wealthy or sought after.
But after that night, they can only be homeless people who dare not appear in front of the world, and can only hide in the dark corners of society and linger on without a name.
Then in today's abnormal cold wave, they finally came to an end, and the days with no future in sight finally came to an end.
"Why..."
For these people, they don't know what to say. Neon actually has charities and voluntary groups dedicated to relieving them. If they had gone for help, they would certainly not have ended up like they did now.
But they were too scared, so they did not choose to seek help even if they encountered a cold wave that was rare in several years.
After Karasawa and the others returned to the Metropolitan Police Department, they also received detailed information on the number of deaths due to the cold wave from Officer Megure.
Except for the unlucky guy who was suspected of being drunk, the other seven people who froze to death were all homeless people in ragged clothes.
But no matter what their status was during life, everything will return to dust after death.
Even though we knew that there was a high probability that the eight people would freeze to death due to the cold wave, we could not violate the necessary procedures.
After all, so many people died all at once. Even if you know it is a fact, you still need to have enough evidence to support it. Otherwise, no one will be able to bear the responsibility if something goes wrong.
The fact that so many people froze to death at once really attracted the attention of the Metropolitan Police Department. The Metropolitan Police Department was also afraid that someone would commit a crime and take the opportunity to mix the corpses into it and pretend it was an accident.
Therefore, the eight frozen corpses were dissected almost simultaneously in the morning. Even due to lack of manpower, some of the corpses were transported to the Medical University for help by some professors who cooperated with their Metropolitan Police Department.
The purpose is to find out the truth as soon as possible. If they really all died from the cold wave, the Metropolitan Police Department will immediately notify the public, and if someone takes advantage of the troubled waters to commit a crime, they will never let it go!
Because autopsy also takes time, after receiving all the corpses and collecting evidence, Tangze and others returned to the office and waited for the autopsy report to appear.
"It's so cold..."
As soon as he returned to the office, Takagi immediately ran to the air conditioner and started to warm up. "It feels like I'm in a refrigerator today...how high is it?"
"It's about minus four or five degrees Celsius," Karasawa answered after searching today's temperature on his computer.
"So cold!?"
When Takagi heard this temperature, he shuddered involuntarily: "No wonder so many people freeze to death. It's this temperature even during the day and the sun is out. Wouldn't it be even colder at night?"
"yes."
Sato Miwako looked at Takagi angrily from the side and said: "I told you in advance that it would cool down, but you are still wearing such thin clothes."
"Hehe..." Takagi scratched his head in embarrassment: "When I thought about you coming to pick me up today, I panicked and forgot about it."
"You're glib!" Sato Miwako gave Takagi an annoyed look, but anyone could tell that the two were showing off their affection in public.
Of course, as an engaged person, he was not among the singles who were abused. On the contrary, Chiba who was standing beside him suffered hundreds of times the critical damage.
Fortunately, Shiratori followed Officer Megure and led another team out. There was a homeless man who froze to death because he was too far away, so none of them had come back yet. Otherwise, they would have gone dark after seeing this scene...
Naturally, everyone had a meal in the restaurant at noon, and soon after the group had filled their stomachs, Uncle Demi called and asked Tang Ze and others to come over and get the autopsy report.
The reason for this is because there must be something wrong with the first body they found and the bodies of other homeless people.
As for what's wrong...
"Nani!? You said your heart is frozen!!?"
After listening to Uncle Tome's report, Takagi and Miwako Sato couldn't help but scream, and even Karasawa couldn't help but frown.
"Is it actually so cold?" Takagi couldn't help but shudder, "Even the heart of the corpse is frozen?"
"Didn't this happen in other matters?" Tang Ze confirmed again.
"No."
Uncle Demi shook his head, "This is why I called you here. There is alcohol in the body of the deceased, and it can be determined that he drank alcohol before he died.
But part of his heart was frozen like jelly, which was not the case with other homeless people's hearts."
"I remember that if someone froze to death, the freezing would start from the outside of the body, and then gradually spread to the blood and internal organs, right?"
Tang Ze frowned and looked at Uncle Demi: "So, uncle, you think there is something wrong with this matter, commit suicide?"
It's normal for the other party to have such thoughts. After all, none of the seven homeless people who died in the accident had any abnormalities in their hearts. Only Tatsuo Shimoda, an office worker who died in a drunken accident, had signs of frozen heart.
It's suspicious no matter how you think about it.
Because cases occur frequently and most of the criminals are very cunning, the Metropolitan Police Department is actually very vigilant in murder cases.
When someone dies, they will subconsciously associate it with someone committing a crime instead of treating it as an accident.
It can be regarded as the "paranoia of persecution" that gradually develops because of the frequent crimes in this world.
In fact, only after staying in the film and television hall for a long time did Tang Ze realize that as a state machine, criminals are not as unbearable as they imagined.
Many complex cases can be solved by experienced criminals, but they are not as fast as those of Conan and Hattori Heiji.
A case that may take a few hours to Conan and the others takes several days to investigate, and the anime is basically from Conan's perspective. The case is solved as soon as the crime is committed, so it seems that the criminals
Very incompetent.
But if you compare the level of "the world's dearest son" with ordinary people, you are basically a scoundrel.
After all, geniuses are still a minority, ordinary talents account for the majority, and their quality is enough to be called excellent!
Incompetence is actually based on comparison.
If you compare a group with an individual, then of course the top individual ability will crush the group.
But can you say that an entire group is incompetent?
Are they of no use at all?
No, for an organization like the Metropolitan Police Department, it is natural to be happy to have talents like Karasawa as the icing on the cake.
But without it, it can still continue to operate and maintain social stability.
Because they rely on a large number of criminals, not just one individual.
As mentioned before, the Metropolitan Police Department in this world has undergone reforms.
Due to the frequent cases and the high IQ of criminals, the Metropolitan Police Department completed changes under the leadership of a group of people with lofty ideals.
Under such changes, the Metropolitan Police Department's sensitivity to crime has affected almost everyone.
This change depends on the attitude towards murder.
If it were the Neon Metropolitan Police Department in Karasawa's hometown in his previous life, I'm afraid this situation would not be investigated at all and would be treated as an accident.
But in this world, something amiss would be the reason for them to continue investigating.
And their efficiency is also very fast.
In the list of relics, the group soon discovered that there was no wallet among the items carried by the envoy.
This is very suspicious. You must know that wallets are now a must-have item for everyone, but they do not have as convenient functions as scanning QR codes to pay.
If a person does not bring a wallet and has no money on him, it can almost be said that it is difficult to move.
So this wallet is probably stolen.
"Could it have been stolen while the deceased was drunk?"
After hearing the conversation between the two, Sato Miwako couldn't help but ponder: "There were no signs of a fight at the scene, which means that Shimoda Tatsuo didn't even notice it when his wallet was taken away."
"Could it be that someone deliberately got Tatsuo Shimoda drunk, or saw Tatsuo Shimoda drunk, and then induced him to go to a remote construction site, stole his wallet and threw it there?"
After hearing what Miwako Sato said, Takagi came up with two guesses: "If he was drunk, both of these situations are possible.
Because he was drunk and had no judgment at all, which is why there were no signs of a fight around him.
The thief just wanted to steal a wallet, but he didn't expect that the cold wave hit yesterday, and the construction site was so remote that no one found Tatsuo Shimoda, causing him to freeze to death unknowingly in his sleep..."
"If that's the case, it would indeed become a murder case."
Tang Ze nodded and said, "Let's bring back the thief who stole the wallet first, and then we'll talk about the situation."
"learn."
Takagi and Miwako Sato responded and immediately took action.
But looking at the contents of the autopsy report, Tang Ze still frowned.
Even though he admitted that the reasoning that Officer Takagi said before was reasonable, he had a premonition.
If they don't solve the mystery of the frozen heart, then I'm afraid they won't find the answer they want.
The theft case belongs to the Third Investigation Division. Since they were tracking down the thief over the weekend, they naturally asked the Third Division for help.
As the saying goes, "Snakes have their own ways, and rats have their own ways." Compared with the murder cases of the first investigation department, the third investigation department may be richer in "people connections."
After all, if you are not a murderer, you basically can't get out. Many of those habitual thieves have been in and out, and it is inevitable that they will get to know each other over and over again.
Some serious cases even rely on them to provide clues for help.
Similarly, people in the third discipline also have an understanding of the usual scope of activities of these habitual thieves and even their stealing habits.
No, just three hours had passed, and Takagi called to say that the thief who stole Shimoda Tatsuo's wallet had been caught, and he was now in the interrogation room.
When Karasawa arrived at the interrogation room, he saw people from the third section interrogating prisoners inside the room, while Takagi and Takagi stood outside the interrogation room and looked at the situation inside the room through a transparent one-way mirror.
"Is she the culprit?" Tang Ze couldn't help but ask as he looked at the beautiful young girl sitting on the chair in the room.
"Well, that's right." Takagi nodded and said, "Ah, I was also shocked. I didn't expect that such a young girl is already a habitual thief..."
"I heard it started in high school." Miwako Sato looked at the woman in the room and shook her head: "Once you go astray, you can't change your ways..."
Naturally, the conversations of the people outside could not be heard in the interrogation room, but soon the sounds of conversations inside the room came out.
"The means are good enough. If you were a step too late, you would have even taken away the deposits in other people's bank cards."
The middle-aged criminal from Section 3 looked at the habitual thief in front of him with a cold face, showing no pity at all because of his beauty: "You got him drunk, right? This is your usual technique.
Seducing young men and making them think it is an affair, then offering to drink and get them drunk to talk to them, and then steal the drunk target!!"
I have to say that this trick is really effective. She is pretty enough, and as long as she knows how to flirt, drinking with a man can easily induce his dirty thoughts.
Then, after the unsuspecting man got drunk, he became her cash machine. If he was lucky, he could even figure out the bank password.
"I told you it wasn't me. I really didn't get him drunk this time." The beautiful female thief retorted with a depressed look on her face: "Isn't there a driver's license in the wallet? I just want to try the password."
"I'm warning you, knowing that he might freeze to death on the roadside and still letting it go is there is no difference between "indirect intentionality" and "intentional homicide."" The young criminal beside him slapped the table and cooperated.
The senior echoed and continued to press.
"Stop joking!!"
The female thief immediately became anxious after hearing what Young Situ said, and began to expose herself: "My target yesterday was not that guy, but another handsome boy!
I spent the night with him and when we were running away early in the morning, I saw him lying on the roadside. I just took his wallet and she was still alive at that time!"
‘It’s better to co-write and hunt for a beauty by the way.’
After hearing what the female thief said, Tang Ze complained in his heart, but his attention was attracted by the information she said afterward.
"Alive?"
Hearing that the other party did not hesitate to reveal yesterday's crime, the young criminal and the senior looked at each other and immediately asked: "Are you sure?"
"Of course, you don't think that a weak woman like me dares to steal things from corpses!"
The woman looked like she had been wronged and couldn't help but raise her voice: "That man was still sweating at that time! He must still be alive!!"
This chapter has been completed!