"Is this your father, the missing Mr. Kubo Haru?" Ayumi exclaimed.

"This should be Mr. Kubo." Tadao looked at the clothes on the corpse and sighed. "At least the clothes are exactly right..."

"Well..." Conan came to the corpse. After looking at it for a moment, he reached into a pocket on the windbreaker worn by the corpse and took out a small folder with a driver's license inside.

The name "Jiubao Chun" was written on it. Conan then silently showed the driver's license to

"Father..." Kubo Sayuki fell to her knees on the ground and burst into tears after seeing the driver's license displayed by Conan.

"..." Conan placed his driver's license on the ground in front of Shayuki, then turned around and began to examine the body of Kubo Haru.

Male, about 1.7o tall, with a normal build. There were multiple fractures all over the body, including an impact depression in the skull, which was a fresh fracture (a fresh fracture before death). The corpse showed a left hand touching the chest, which was obviously holding something before death.

or it could be...----???

Conan suddenly inserted his left hand completely into the gap between Jiubao Chun's bones, and to the surprise of everyone except Sage, he took out a bunch of small projectiles - if he had covered his chest with his hand before death, it would still be at the heart.

If so, it was probably a chest injury. Conan's first reaction was whether Kubo Haru died from a gunshot, but he didn't expect that it was a shotgun shell instead of a more common pistol bullet.

"This is..." Tadao Xiong was well informed and his pupils shrank slightly.

"Snapshot..." Conan poured the small projectile in his hand onto the ground and observed the projectile with the flashlight and the sunlight outside the window. "Judging from the blood stains on it, this shotgun is probably a direct anti-personnel weapon."

"You mean, my father died from a gunshot?" Hearing this, Kubo Sayuki stopped crying and looked at Conan in surprise. "Did he kill him?"

"Well..." Conan said solemnly. "More importantly..."

"If Mr. Kubo Haru died accidentally, even if he could close the door with the pull tab himself, what should he do to re-cover the shrine? In other words... someone would replace him after his death.

A shrine is built over the entrance of the cave."

"Hey," Tadao suddenly frowned. "Did you suddenly feel that Tanaka and Kimura living in the hotel are suspicious?"

"!!!" Both Conan and Kubo Sayuki's faces instantly turned extremely pale.

"Should we go back and take a look now?" Kubo Sayuki asked with a trembling voice. "The only ones in the hotel now may be Ryouzo, the injured Dr. Agasa and the two children..."

"Brother Tadao," Conan said with a frown. "Can you please lead the way? We need to return to the hotel as soon as possible to take a look!"

Conan doesn't trust Tadao, or it can be said that he doesn't trust him at all.

Speaking of shotguns, Tadao has a shotgun, which can obviously shoot shotguns... and he also knows this place... What's more, it was Tadao who raised suspicions about Kimura and Tanaka just now, which makes people feel that his purpose is not

simple.

Fortunately, this guy's gun was still in the car. As long as he walked at the front, where everyone could see him, he could maintain his ability to knock down Tadao with his tranquilizer gun.

In addition, you need to find Qianyu and the others after returning. Qianyu is also absolutely reliable in combat power when necessary...

Especially if Tadao is innocent and Kimura and Tanaka really have a problem...

"This is..." At this time, Tadao didn't know when he came to Conan and began to rummage through Kubo Haru's pocket. He suddenly put on a surprised expression and took out another pocket of Kubo Haru.

A small gold nugget.

"What is this?" by the confused Genta. "Can it be eaten?"

"This is..." Ayumi's expression was a little subtle.

"Oh!!!" Conan exclaimed with an expression like "I've seen a ghost".

"What is this?" Kubo Sayuki said blankly.

"Judging from the texture, the characters and the 'Matsumoto family', a well-known surname of goldsmiths, this is... this is..." Tadao almost beamed with joy. "The official gold of the Takeda family - Koshu Ichi

Two pieces of gold! It weighs 15 grams and has a purity of over 80%. It is the earliest gold in Japan!"

"Is this one tael of gold?" Mitsuhiko exclaimed. "Is this small ball worth one tael of gold, or 20,000 yen?"

"If it's 20,000 yen, the knowledgeable people all over the world will be crazy about it!" Tadao almost laughed out loud. "If you calculate the collection value, it's not difficult for the value of this kind of thing to rise to more than 500,000 yen."

"Hey, Conan-kun." Ayumi suddenly asked.

"Um?"

"If you find something without an owner, can your companion who found it together get half of it?" Ayumi asked softly.

"What do you mean?" Conan blinked, confused.

"When we were at the lake before, Qianyu and I found a sealed, somewhat shabby little bag," Ayumi said. "There was a badly faded black notebook and a small ball exactly like this one.

..”

"Is it the lake at the foot of the mountain where you went to travel?" Tadao suddenly asked. "Didn't you say before that you came here because of your spring outing to catch stag beetles?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Conan raised his eyebrows.

"As for that lake, its upper reaches are right outside the window..." Tadao said as he led Conan to the window.

A stream flows under the window.

When the Beetle broke down before, everyone got out of the car and walked. We also saw a creek on the road... I think these two creeks are the same one, and they are both the source of water supply for the lake...

The topic that had already gotten to the point was violently brought back on track by unexpected events.

"Bang!" A thunderous voice pierced everyone's eardrums.

"Gunshot!!!" Conan was horrified. "Let's go back to the hotel quickly!"

———————————— Return to the place where the gunfire occurred.

"Ah!" As a blood flower bloomed on his shoulder, Qianyu, who was running wildly, stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

Misstep... Qianyu couldn't help but regret his rashness.

Kimura did not catch himself, but Tanaka, who recovered from the critical damage, saw himself!

Without a traceless umbrella, facing a man who was in a state of rage after having his vitals hit, and who was also holding a shotgun, was a hellish task. In the end, he still couldn't escape Tanaka's aim.

Although he was only injured by a shrapnel, he was definitely hit by a gun.

"Ah!!!" Qianyu exclaimed again without being hit.

Because, while stumbling, Qianyu missed the mark.
Chapter completed!