After some conversation and information integration, Tang Ze finally compiled all the information on the case in front of him.
First of all, the deceased Itagaki Locke was found in a large bag, and there were signs of heavy blows to the head of the body. Judging from the injuries, the head had been hit multiple times, which was also the direct cause of the other party's death.
This is consistent with the information witnessed by Mr. Zhu Gu’s son, Zhu Gu Qiao.
Some time ago, Mr. Hashiya drove his son to a festival and was stuck on a bridge. At that time, Hashiya, who was bored and looking outside the bridge, happened to see a man throwing a big bag into the river.
It was at that time that Locke Itagaki's head emerged from the bag and was seen by him.
Later, because he saw the photo of Itagaki Locke on the CD, Hashiya told his father that he saw Itagaki Locke being put in a bag and thrown off the bridge that night.
After that, Mr. Hashitani took his son to the Mori Detective Agency to seek a commission. Later, he happened to learn about Itagaki Locke from Sonoko and believed Takumi Hashitani's eyewitness testimony.
After the man threw his bag off the bridge, he took out a lot of things from the green coat he was wearing and threw them under the bridge. However, because they were covered by the other party, Zhu Guqiao didn't see what the other person threw down.
something.
Then the prisoner didn't know what he was looking for and kept groping around on his clothes.
"Brother Qiao, you said he was looking for something, but is there anything in his mouth?"
After listening to Zhuguqiao's description of the crime scene, Tang Ze asked.
"Ah, that sounds like it's true." Zhu Guqiao nodded repeatedly upon hearing this: "She must be lighting up a cigarette!"
"Then it's most likely a lighter."
Karasawa's conjecture also attracted everyone's approval. If there is anything that adult men hold most often in their mouths, it should be cigarettes.
"After that, what did that man do on the bridge?" Conan on the side asked: "Did he stay on the bridge after throwing things away?"
"No." Zhu Guqiao shook his head and said, "The man immediately got into the car parked next to him and didn't know where he went."
"Then do you still remember what that person looks like, or what the car looks like?" Moori Kogoro on the side asked.
"That car looks dark, just like the kind of cars you usually see on the road."
Zhu Guqiao replied honestly: "As for his appearance, I didn't see it. He was wearing a hat, and his coat was blocked by the collar of his coat, so..."
"Is that really the case..."
But just when Mouri Kogoro was disappointed, Hashiya Qiao suddenly seemed to remember something and said "ah" quickly: "I remembered, that person's injury seemed to have a pattern drawn on it."
"Pattern? You mean tattoo? What exactly does it look like?"
Tang Ze's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he quickly asked.
With specific tattoos, it is actually easy to identify the suspect, and it is estimated that it will eventually come down to the "choose one of the three classics" process.
Of course, more clues are needed. It depends on what clues are actually traced later.
After hearing what Karasawa said, Zhu Guqiao showed a look of disgust on his face, as if he hated the pattern he saw: "It's a disgusting-looking nail pattern."
"Disgusting nail pattern?"
Everyone was a little puzzled when they heard this and didn't understand what the other party was describing, but Zhu Guqiao suddenly said happily: "By the way, in the car next to our car, I saw a luminous hammer that big.
"
"Nails... glowing hammers... these are nothing..."
Mouri Kogoro looked at Hashiya next to him with an irritated look on his face and said, "By the way, you can't remember which bridge you walked on that night? Think about it again!"
"I'm so sorry... I was sleepy and tired because of the traffic jam that day, so I forgot the specific location."
Mr. Zhu Gu scratched his head in embarrassment and said: "I only remember walking on one of the three bridges..."
"What we are standing on now is the Acupido Chuo Bridge in the middle."
After looking around, Karasawa said: "On the right is the Abeido Bridge, and if you go to the left, you will see the Abeido Shinbashi Bridge. You can try to recall it and feel which bridge you are most likely to choose."
"Well... I actually tried to recall it when I came here, accompanied by Detective Mori." Mr. Zhu Gu said embarrassedly: "The result still didn't work..."
"Can we only start with other clues?" Mouri Kogoro sighed.
"Do you think the glowing hammer that Brother Qiao saw was a firework?"
Xiaolan guessed: "When some fireworks are fired up, don't they drag a long tail underneath?"
"In that case, it's more like a tadpole or a lollipop." Hondo Yingyu said: "Fireworks with a hammer pattern are still too weird."
"That's right..." Xiaolan muttered: "Is it possible that it was blocked by something, so it turned into that shape?"
"Wait a moment!"
While Xiaolan was still guessing, Zhu Guqiao denied: "I didn't see the fireworks at that time. Although I could hear the sound, the fireworks were completely invisible because of the cars around me."
"I remember that I seemed to be walking in the middle lane." Mr. Zhu Gu smiled faintly: "It should have been blocked by various cars on both sides at that time, so the fireworks should not have been visible..."
"Then all that's left is nail tattoos..."
Tangze thought for a while and then took out his phone and called Yuanzi.
"Moxi Moxi...brother-in-law?"
"Have you found Locke's murderer? Woohoo..."
As soon as the call was connected, Yuanzi's choked cries and a series of verbal bombardments came from the other side of the phone.
However, Tang Ze did not comfort her too much, but opened his mouth to divert the other party's attention: "Not yet, but we have already made a lot of discoveries, and I also wanted to ask you something when I called you. Maybe it's
Important clues to find the prisoner."
"What? Say it quickly!"
Sure enough, when Tang Ze said this, Sonoko immediately stopped crying. It was obvious that it was better to avenge an idol than to grieve for her, and she knew this very well.
"Nail pattern?"
After listening to Karasawa's description, Sonoko quickly said: "The symbol of Rock and his band is the nail snake!
It’s like a nail on the tongue.”
"Is that so?" Tang Zehuan then asked immediately: "Are there any fans who have that pattern tattooed on their bodies? Is there a designated tattoo location?"
"Yes, there are many..."
Sonoko wiped her tears and sniffed as she recalled: "I remember that there was a band merchandise store and a part-time tattoo service.
Anyone who is a fan of Rock and his band will definitely go back to that shop to get a tattoo.
I remember that the address seems to be near Aido Chuo Bridge."
"Yeah, I understand. I'll contact you again if necessary."
After hanging up the phone, Karasawa explained the news to Officer Megure. After a simple investigation and inquiry, the address of the band merchandise store mentioned by Sonoko had been found.
Tang Ze and others drove Zhu Gu and his son towards their destination, hoping that Zhu Guqiao could identify the pattern tattooed by the prisoner.
Looking at the tattoo designs on display in the shop, Zhu Guqiao shook his head and denied this. He bluntly said that what he saw was not the snake in front of him arranged in an S shape, with its head nailed to an N-shaped piece of wood by a big nail.
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"Are you sure that's not the pattern you saw?" Mouri Kogoro looked at the pattern in front of him and said, "It does look like a disgusting nail pattern."
"Boss, have you changed the patterns here?"
After Karasawa heard Zhu Guqiao's words, he looked at the wall with tattoo patterns on the wall inside the shop, looked at the shop owner next to him and said:
"I see that there are a few square grids on your wall that are lighter than the surrounding ones. It looks like they were pasted on something before, right?"
"Officer, you are right, we have indeed updated the pattern."
The boss nodded after hearing this and took out a square cloth with a new group pattern printed on it from under the counter: "This is our new pattern, but it won't be available until next week~"
"Ah, that's the pattern!"
When Zhu Guqiao saw the new pattern that the shop owner took out, he immediately shouted: "That person has this pattern on his hand!"
"Boss, do you know if anyone has this new tattoo?" Mouri Kogoro asked quickly after hearing this.
"Yes, a few very loyal fans asked us to let them tattoo the band's new logo first, no matter what."
As the boss spoke, he took out a photo album from the cabinet behind him, turned to the last page, and showed the photos of three customers with new tattoos to everyone.
After Tang Ze saw the three photos in front of him, he showed a true expression.
The old classic is to choose one of the three. No matter how troublesome the clues are in the early stage, you will definitely be able to filter out the limited range of three people later.
Tang Ze took a look and found that, as expected, all three of them had this pattern tattooed on their arms.
Although the tattoos were on different arms, Karasawa estimated that it was unlikely that Hashiya Takashi could remember whether the guy with the tattoo had the tattoo on his left hand or his right hand.
According to the boss's introduction, they also had a preliminary understanding of the situation of these three people.
First, there is Mr. Kiritani in the photo on the far right. He wears a gray peaked cap, and his mid-length hair and beard are dyed golden brown, which looks like the hair color of foreigners.
Judging from the photo, the arm he has the tattoo on should be his right forearm.
The second Mr. Anju is a crew-cut man wearing sunglasses. He looks like a Yakuza boss, especially with the snake-shaped tattoo on his right forearm.
As for the third person, Mr. Kannai, he also has a tattoo on his left arm and an Afro-like hairstyle. He looks like a middle-aged uncle without any sense of fashion.
"What a coincidence, do you think any of these three people look particularly familiar?" Mr. Zhu Gu asked broadly while holding his son.
"It was so dark at the time and he was still wearing a hat, so I couldn't tell." Zhu Guqiao shook his head and looked at his father and said, "But I saw the nail when the man was about to get in the car and leave.
"
"The car..."
After hearing what Takuya Hashira said, Mouri Kogoro looked at the three photos carefully and then asked: "Is the imported car that Mr. Anju in the middle relies on his own car?"
"Yes, he said it seems to have been open for ten years." The boss replied after hearing this.
"Is it this car?" Mouri Kogoro turned to look at Hatsutani Qiao: "This car is also black."
"I don't know!" Zhu Guqiao shook his head.
"What about the man wearing a hat on the right?" Mouri Kogoro continued to ask: "Is this what he looks like?"
"No, it's completely different." Zhu Guqiao still shook his head.
"By the way, why did you suddenly change the band's logo?" Conan on the side asked the boss a question that seemed to have nothing to do with the case when no one was asking him questions.
"In fact, this logo was designed by Rock, who left the band and made his own debut. I heard that many fans are urging the logo to be changed as soon as possible."
The store owner explained: "Perhaps in the eyes of fans, Rock, who abandoned the band to make his own debut, is a traitor, so they don't want the band to continue to use the logo he designed.
But no one expected that something like that would happen to Locke. I heard that Nail Snake will hold a memorial concert tonight.
Although he has had some unpleasant experiences, Locke is a good friend of the group leader after all..."
"Is it possible that one of the three was unhappy with Locke betraying the band, so one of them killed Locke?"
Xiaolan looked at the men in the three photos, and then she was suddenly stunned: "Huh? Isn't this Miss Okino Yoko?"
"Where is it?" Mouri Kogoro immediately became excited when he heard this, and then received a sharp "eye of death" from his daughter.
"That's not what I'm talking about."
Xiaolan pointed to Okino Yoko holding a teapot in the photo and explained: "The filter coffee I bought for you at home before has a chance to win a coffee pot in a lottery, and the prize is the one in Ms. Yoko's hand.
But I didn’t expect that Miss Okino Yoko would be the spokesperson.”
"But you haven't seen the advertisement, how would you know?" Mouri Kogoro asked strangely.
"Of course it's because of this, the coffee pot promotional truck." Xiaolan took out her mobile phone and called up a photo: "Because it was so cute, so I took a photo."
"Wait a moment!"
After Mouri Kogoro saw the truck pulling an oversized coffee pot in Xiaolan's mobile phone photo, he suddenly had an idea and said: "Since there is a promotional truck for coffee pots, there should be a hammer too..."
"No, no...it's not possible..."
Karasawa and Conan waved their hands after imagining the situation for a moment, but Kogoro Mouri was obviously aware of this unrealistic situation, and he no longer had any confidence in what he said.
After thanking the boss, Tang Ze and his party planned to leave.
Although no further clues could be found about the criminal, being able to identify the three suspects is already good progress.
Of course, before leaving, Tang Ze did not forget to take photos of the three of them with his mobile phone, just in case he needed to use the photos to find any clues later.
This chapter has been completed!