Chapter 87: Through the wallet, nailed into the heart
"ah!!!"
The exclamation penetrated everyone's eardrums.
In broad daylight, in full view of everyone, a man fell onto a police car and smashed the front cover of the police car completely out of shape.
A long, strong rope was tied around the dead man's waist, and a dagger was thrust straight through his shirt pocket and into his heart.
Scenes like this may only appear in movies, but at this moment, they were presented in front of everyone present.
The four doors of the police car opened almost at the same time, and Conan, Heiji, Mouri Kogoro and Sakata Yusuke rushed out of the car.
"What's going on with this man?" Kogoro said urgently.
"I don't know! Suddenly it fell on the hood!" Heiji opened his arms to stop the crowd who wanted to join in the fun and said.
"Teacher Yuan, did you see anything?" Conan turned his attention to Yuan Huaiyu who had not gotten in the car.
Yuan Huaiyu looked up at the roof of the building next to where the man fell: "Yes. There are people on the top of the building."
"!"
"Is there anyone up there?"
Conan and Heiji rushed up the stairs at the same time.
"Mr. Sakata! Please call the police!" Hattori Heiji shouted.
"Oh, okay!"
"Teacher Yuan, don't let others get close to the body!" Conan said loudly before going upstairs.
The two of them rushed to the top of the building as quickly as possible, opened the door to the rooftop, and saw an uncle looking down.
"Hmph! You're so brave! You actually stayed at the scene and didn't escape!"
"You can't escape."
The two of them stared at the uncle panting, and naturally regarded him as a prisoner.
"Is there anything else you want to say? As for the fact that you put the body in the police car..." Heiji approached the man step by step.
"Wait a minute! No, it's not me! I just..." The uncle waved his hands in panic.
…
The crowd gathered around the police car and the body on top of the police car, talking about it.
"What? Someone told him to go up to the roof?"
Mouri Kogoro asked suspiciously.
"Yes, this uncle said that someone called and told him that there was a strange man on the roof and asked him to go up and have a look."
Hattori Heiji pointed at the uncle and said.
"I am the owner of the tea shop on the second floor here." The uncle kept touching the back of his head to relieve his nervousness and fear.
"Why did the corpse fall?" Mouri Kogoro asked.
Yuan Huaiyu glanced at the rope around the body's waist and said: "The rope should be hung on the door of the rooftop. The uncle will let the body fall down as soon as he opens the door. What is the result of your investigation of the scene?"
He looked at Conan and Heiji.
"It is indeed as Mr. Yuan said, the body was hung with a rope outside the railing, and the other end of the rope was fixed with a door. As soon as the door was opened, the rope would be loosened," Heiji said.
"Yes, there is also a piece of plastic sheet on the rooftop. It is probably used to cover the body to prevent passers-by from discovering it."
Conan added.
Several people's eyes focused on the corpse again.
"It is speculated that he should have been dead for a whole day. In other words, this man was killed when he was called here at this time yesterday, and then was hanged on the rooftop by the murderer."
Heiji put his hands in his pockets and analyzed the case.
"But why did it fall on the police car?"
Sakata Yusuke looked to the side with a somewhat erratic look.
"It may be a coincidence, but if a corpse appears in the city, it will be reported, so it may be that it is deliberately wanted to show someone..."
Heiji continued: "The knife penetrated the wallet and stabbed into the chest. This has the same characteristics as the two previous murders..."
At this time, a middle-aged woman squeezed into the crowd and exclaimed when she saw the appearance of the deceased.
"ah--"
Then she turned around and ran away without hesitation. Heiji saw her movements from the corner of his eye and immediately looked over in alarm.
"Hey! Madam! Wait a minute!"
Although it is not known why this woman fled the scene of the crime in a panic, this abnormal behavior just shows that this woman may be an insider in the case.
Heiji quickly chased after her, trying to stop her.
But the woman's car was parked on the side of the road. She rushed to the car and opened the door. While adjusting the rearview mirror, she looked at Hattori Heiji who was chasing him with sweat on her face.
"Hey! Wait!"
The woman stepped on the accelerator, and the car flew out and quickly disappeared from his sight.
"Run away." He said regretfully to the little boy beside him.
Conan put his hands in his pockets and looked calmly at the car going away: "It doesn't matter, I've already memorized the license plate number."
"...Tell me first, what happened [the two previous murder cases]?"
Just as Conan was waiting for Heiji to give him an explanation, Yuan Huaiyu's voice suddenly sounded from behind, frightening Conan, who was immersed in the case, and said:
"Edogawa-kun is right. I also want to know what happened to the two murder cases Hattori you mentioned."
Conan finally realized that besides the two of them, there was another person he needed to observe.
[Damn it... we can’t just focus on the case like we usually do, otherwise we’ll be in trouble if some clues are discovered. 】
Conan was quite confident in Yuan Huaiyu's observation ability, so he could only be extra careful not to let him see anything.
"Alas..." Heiji looked around at the busy pedestrians and sighed, "Let's go back to the police station and talk about it."
…
Osaka Police Station Higashijiri Branch.
"Serial murder case?"
"The man who fell just now was the third murder case?"
Mouri Kogoro, who was once a detective, naturally knows what this means.
"Yes. All three of them had knives pierced through their wallets and stabbed into their chests. And without exception, they were all strangled to death and deliberately arranged to look like this by the murderer."
"Wallet?" Xiaolan frowned.
"Could it be a murder caused by a dispute over money?" He Ye put his chin in his hands and made a guess.
"Not quite."
Heiji denied this possibility.
"The first victim, Hidetoshi Nagao, was the owner of a convenience store, the second victim, Tayo Nishiguchi, was the proprietress of an izakaya, and the one who just fell, Kazuto Noyasu, was a taxi driver."
"They don't look like people who will be killed for money, not to mention that so far these three people have no connection."
"No connection at all?" Mouri Kogoro said in anger.
If there is no connection between the three people so far, it means that there is either a hidden connection that has not been discovered, or the murderer simply killed people on a whim and indiscriminately.
If it is the latter, the detection of the case will be very difficult.
"Yes, although my birthplace, school and work place are all in Osaka, they are very different and have no connection..."
Hattori Heiji introduced the situation of the case to several people with a headache.
"Heiji! Yes! We have found what the victims have in common!"
When everyone was at a loss what to do, an excited shout came from the side, but it was Yusuke Sakata who ran over waving a videotape.