"It's just that what I didn't expect was that not only did you recover from your cold, but your complexion also looked much better than before. It seems that you are much less stressed after this incident..."
Conan said to Haihara Ai as he walked.
After school that day, the Young Detective Team walked home as usual. A few of them walked in the rain, and the three little ones were playing in the puddles in front of them excitedly, while Conan and Haibara Ai followed them steadily.
Yuan Huaiyu still stays at school and works overtime because he needs to deal with some matters just after school started.
Conan could clearly see that Haihara Ai's mental state was much better than before when he was watched by secret eyes and frightened all day long.
"oops!"
Ayumi, who was walking at the front and was almost near her home, was about to say goodbye to her friends when she was suddenly knocked down by someone who suddenly rushed out of the alleyway in front of her.
Even the umbrella flew aside, and Ayumi sat down on the ground.
"it hurts……"
At this time, a young woman staggered out of the alleyway, her left arm still bleeding, and she shouted loudly with tears in her eyes:
"Murderous maniac! Come quickly! Catch him!"
Upon hearing this, the expressions of passers-by changed completely.
As if some strange switch had been turned on, Conan's whole body trembled as if he was electrocuted, and he ran forward.
"Ayumi, are you okay?"
he asked anxiously.
In just a few seconds, the murderer wearing a raincoat, cap and mask had already waved a bloody knife, forced several passers-by away, and ran away.
Ayumi stared in shock at the direction the man was leaving, breathing rapidly.
Someone quickly called the police about what happened here. It didn't take long for the police car to arrive at the scene and they split up. While taking the young woman who was attacked just now to the hospital, they also took the teenager who had direct contact with the gangster.
The detective team arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department.
The children soon met their old acquaintances, Officer Sato and Officer Chiba.
"Then...you didn't see that person's appearance clearly?"
Officer Sato asked Ayumi warmly.
"Well...it was raining at that time, and he was wearing a raincoat and a hat. I was so scared that I didn't dare to look at his face..."
Police officer Chiba on the side also said: "The victim whose arm was cut didn't seem to see the criminal's face..."
"Well... Judging from the method of committing the crime, it should be the same criminal as the first three cases, but the clothes are different..."
Sato Miwako thought about this series of panic-stricken cases. Although they were just attacks and no one died in the series of incidents, the Metropolitan Police Department still felt a huge pressure.
If this gangster is not caught, he might cause even more trouble!
"Anyway, let's go to the scene and take a look first. Maybe you will recall other things..." She squatted down and asked Ayumi with a smile.
"Okay!" Ayumi nodded vigorously.
…
"This is where I was knocked down by that murderer..."
After returning to the scene, Ayumi pointed out the place where she collided with the man.
"After he knocked me down, he took a step toward me first, which shocked me... I heard a clang, and he seemed to have picked up something!"
Officer Sato quickly asked: "Do you know what the prisoner picked up?"
"I don't know...but I guess it's something related to the number 5!"
5?
Everyone was a little confused.
"Because at that time, there was a mark like the number 5 on the palm of my left hand..."
Ayumi took the shorthand notebook handed over by Officer Sato and drew a symbol on it.
"It looks like the English letter S..." Mitsuhiko said smoothly.
"Anyway, let's start the investigation with this symbol... maybe it's the symbol on the amusement park's special token..."
Officer Sato was speaking when he was suddenly interrupted loudly by Ayumi in front of him.
Ayumi's eyes looked behind Officer Sato, where there was a crowd blocked by the police.
And the murderer who knocked her down not long ago was standing in the crowd!
"Ah! There!" Ayumi pointed in the direction she saw.
The gangsters in the crowd saw that the situation was not good and turned around and left.
Conan was the first to react and rushed forward.
"Hurry! Catch him!" Mitsuhiko and Genta were a little slower, following closely behind Conan, shouting and running forward.
However, the crowd watching the fun nearby was too dense. By the time the group passed through the crowd, the person just now had disappeared.
They only saw Officer Takagi, who was maintaining order on the street, looking towards them in surprise.
"Takagi! Did you see the man in the raincoat escaping?"
Officer Sato stepped forward and asked.
"Raincoat? But...many people are wearing raincoats...the rain has just stopped..." Officer Takagi shook his head.
On the other side, Conan and Mitsuhiko suddenly said to Genta in unison: "Genta, you have the mark of that murderer on your pants!"
I saw a dirty "S" shaped mark on the buttocks of Gentai's pants, which was exactly the same as Ayumi's drawing.
This means that Yuantai is very likely to have had contact with the murderer just now!
"Yantai, think about it quickly, who did you come into contact with just now?!"
"Have you seen the prisoner anywhere?"
Under Mitsuhiko and Ayumi's approaching questioning, Genta, who was stared at expectantly by everyone, was completely confused and entangled, and his mind was spinning at high speed.
At this moment, a female voice came from the side.
"Oh my, isn't this Anfini's car logo? Although it is a mirror image..."
The two police officers and the Junior Detective Team looked to the side and saw a beautiful woman with long blond hair wearing sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat standing aside and looking at the mark on Genta's butt.
"Eh?" Hui Yuan Ai saw the speaker and let out a soft sigh of surprise.
"Ah? Isn't this Zhi...Xiao Ai?"
The woman also quickly noticed the figure beside her who had just parted in the morning. She reached out and took off her glasses, revealing her eyes with a look of surprise.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Haiyuan, this sister is..." Conan turned his head and looked at Haiyuan Ai.
"Ah...she is a friend of Teacher Yuan. She came back from overseas not long ago."
Hui Yuan Ai said.
"ha?"
"Teacher Yuan's friend?!"
"Can't she be a girlfriend?"
The three little ones immediately forgot about other things, their gossip souls burning brightly.
After all, such a beautiful beauty is actually the otaku friend of Mr. Yuan...
"No, no!" Miyano Akemi glanced at Haibara Ai, and looked at the three children dumbfounded, "They're just friends."
She straightened up, looked at the two police officers Sato and Takagi, and gently stretched out her hand: "Hello, my name is Kawauchi Harumi, and I have been friends with Mr. Yuan Huaiyu for a long time. They should be the two people he mentioned.
A couple police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department, right?"
Sato and Takagi were a little confused for a moment, smiled awkwardly, and did not deny it.
Officer Sato stretched out his hand and shook hands with this "Kawauchi Harumi": "Ahem... Let's not talk about it for now... It turns out that he is Mr. Yuan's friend, hello, hello... Mr. Yuan has helped our police solve many crimes.
case."
While he was introducing himself, Conan immediately realized something and asked Haihara Ai beside him in a low voice: "Is she the friend you said before that you boarded the ghost ship for Teacher Yuan?"
Huihara Ai nodded, walked forward, and tugged at the hem of his sister's clothes: "...Sister Qingmei, what are you doing here?"
"I came to buy some daily necessities. When I saw so many people gathered here, I wanted to come and watch the excitement. I didn't expect to run into you... What happened?"
Officer Sato was quite friendly to his friends in Yuanhuaiyu. He briefly told the cause and effect, and finally patted his forehead in frustration:
"I never noticed it before... The road we just came here was full of mud, and I didn't wash the car. When we were surveying the scene, Yuantai sat on the hood of my car... It should be the mark left at that time.
"
"The mark that appeared on Ayumi's hand..." Conan grabbed Ayumi's hand and found a black stain on her cuff.
"This should be the symbol on the car key. At that time, Ayumi probably held down the key that the gangster dropped..."
He raised Bumi's wrist to show everyone: "Look at Bumi's cuffs. There are uneven marks on them. The key may have been stained with mud, so the cuffs were stained when the bad hand pressed it..."
"etc……"
At this time, he and Officer Sato seemed to realize something was wrong at the same time.
This black mark does not look like mud at all, but more like...
"Blood stains."
Miyano Akemi said in a deep voice.
"Then the reason why the prisoner returned to the scene just now..." Officer Takagi suddenly understood.
"Well... it's probably to confirm whether Ayumi has discovered Anfini's logo..."
Officer Sato looked solemnly as he recalled what happened when Ayumi painted the sign at the scene.
"When the prisoner saw my Anfini, he should have guessed that we would discover this soon..."
"Takagi, contact the Megure Police Department! Raise the cordon! All Anfini owners who want to leave this area must be investigated!"
She was one level higher than Takagi and said quickly to Officer Takagi.
"We also need to investigate all the people who own Anfini around here! Since the prisoner will take the risk to confirm whether his car type has been detected by the police... it is very likely that his car is parked in a nearby parking lot or garage!"
"Got it!" Takagi Shepa responded and ran away immediately.
Conan on the side added: "That person's car key must not be taken out! The prisoner's hands were covered with the blood of the victim at that time, and the key must have been stained with blood. The blood reaction will be detected, and the prisoner would definitely not dare to take it.
Come out and show it to the police!"
Not long after, everyone arrived at Mihua Police Station.
"What? Officer, are there really only three?"
Sato seemed a little disbelieving about this number.
"Yes... one was stopped during the inspection, and the other two were cars wandering around on the street. The three car owners are all residents of the surrounding area. They have no alibi and all the car keys are missing.
Handle, I've asked them to drive over to your side, you have to confirm who the prisoner is!"
The Memu Police Department on the other side of the phone said.
"The three suspects are already on the road." Officer Sato hung up the phone and said to the others.
"Whoa whoa!"
"The prisoner will never escape!"
Gentai and Mitsuhiko said confidently.
"Ayumi has heard the prisoner's cry..."
"If he sees Ayumi, he might be so frightened that he becomes insane!"
Mitsuhiko and Genta both looked at Ayumi.
"I object..." At this time, Haibara Ai and Kawauchi Harumi said in unison.
The two sisters looked at each other, smiled knowingly, and immediately began to explain.
"If you can successfully arrest the prisoner after facing those three people, that would be best, but if the prisoner is released without enough evidence in the end, he may hold a grudge against you and seek revenge from you at any time..."
Haihara Ai looked at Ayumi seriously.
"That's right, it's better not to expose yourself easily... Even if you have to identify, you should still use photos and recordings. In short, you don't need to have direct contact with the prisoner, which will increase your own risk in vain."
Kawauchi Harumi also squatted down and held Ayumi's somewhat cold hand.
"You're right, the risk of direct testimony is too great..." Conan also agreed with the two people's views.
After discussing it, two police officers, Takagi and Sato, went downstairs to pick up the three Anfini owners who were about to arrive. Miyano Akemi followed with her children and hid in Officer Sato's car.
Observation of car window with frosted glass.
Soon, three Anfini drove into the parking lot of the police station.
After directing the three cars to park, Officer Sato took a shorthand notebook and looked at the three cars with a solemn expression: "Please take turns to get out of the car, tell your name, occupation, and what you were doing at four o'clock this afternoon.
What happened!"
"Start with the one on the far left first!"
In Officer Sato's car, Miyano Akemi opened the window a crack, and then looked at the three cars parked opposite with the children.
"Is this the classic choice of three that Mr. Yuan often talks about..."
Miyano Akemi whispered with a strange look on her face.
"Sister Qingmei, what did you say?" Ayumi, who had sharp ears, looked over with big curious eyes.
"...Uh, it's nothing." Miyano Akemi waved her hand and said to them with a smile:
"I mean, if your teacher Yuan was here, he should have already identified who among the three is the serial killer..."
Before the children could speak, Miyano Akemi sighed and said:
"After all, even I...from such a distance, I can clearly smell the smell of blood on the car in the middle..."
"If my judgment is correct, the person we are looking for should be the owner of the car in the middle."
"What?" The young detective team gasped.
They suddenly remembered the incident in the library when they became familiar with Teacher Yuan. Teacher Yuan seemed to be able to tell that the body was hidden on the top of the elevator through the smell!
Could it be that this sister also has a strong sense of smell like Mr. Yuan?!