"Yes! Take a look at this first!" Sakata Yusuke handed the thing in his hand to Heiji, "This is the video tape I just borrowed from the TV station."
Everyone gathered in front of the player and watched the news footage playing inside.
【Mr. Xiangji, please express your opinion!】
【Mr. Xiangji!】
The picture shows a chaotic crowd surrounding a limousine, and a secretary-looking person struggling to block media interviews.
"Isn't this the scene when Sotaro Goji, a member of the prefectural assembly, was suspected of corruption six years ago?" Heiji recognized it at a glance.
"Oh? Is it about passing the responsibility to the secretary and asking him to resign?" Mouri Kogoro also thought of this past incident, "The secretary's last name seems to be Nagao?"
"Nagao?" Mouri Kogoro suddenly remembered the name of the deceased just now.
"Yes, the one standing by the car to stop the media from interviewing was Hidetoshi Nagao, the first person to be killed." Hattori Heiji nodded.
"But hasn't this case been investigated a long time ago? Why are you showing it to me?" Hattori Heiji looked at Yusuke Sakata with confusion and dissatisfaction in his eyes.
Yusuke Sakata pointed to the vehicle in the picture: "No, what I want to show you is the driver."
"driver?"
Hattori Heiji looked along his finger and was shocked: "Isn't this the third Noyasu who was killed?"
Although it was a little blurry, everyone could tell at a glance that the driver was none other than Noyasu Kazuto who fell in front of them today.
"Four years ago, he seemed to have been the driver of the mayor." Yusuke Sakata stated his findings.
Hattori Heiji smiled confidently: "The former secretary and driver... Councilor Goji is probably related to this incident."
"That's it. The seniors in the police station have already gone to the local council member." Sakata Yusuke said.
"Okay!" Hattori Heiji tightened the zipper of his coat, "Mr. Sakata, let's go there and have a look. How about it?"
He looked at Maoli and his daughter: "Please He Ye and lead the way. Go sit at my house first."
Hattori Heiji's eyes looked at Yuan Huaiyu's eyes again: "Mr. Yuan, will you also come with us to have a look?"
Yuan Huaiyu readily accepted: "No problem. Just treat it as a visit to Osaka."
The three of them were about to turn around and leave when Kazuye suddenly remembered something and stopped him: "Heiji! Did you take your amulet with you properly?"
"Yes! Don't worry." Heiji opened the door, "See you later."
After the three people left, under Xiaolan's questioning, Heye secretly told her that the amulet contained fragments of the handcuffs.
"By the way, where is that kid?" Mouri Kogoro looked around for Conan.
"Huh?" "Did you go to the toilet?"
When the three of them discovered that Little Ghost Conan was missing, it was too late.
…
Because the previous police car was deformed by the corpse, the three of them got into another ordinary car.
Yusuke Sakata adjusted the rearview mirror and looked at Hattori Heiji in the passenger seat.
"Eh? Heiji, what's wrong with your stomach?"
Heiji's belly was bulging and looked a few times bigger than usual.
Yuan Huaiyu in the back seat said with a smile: "Edogawa, come out. I watched you hide in."
Hattori Heiji smiled awkwardly: "Okay, stop hiding, Mr. Genjia knows about it."
He unzipped his coat, and a huge head came out. He was panting, and it looked like he was suffocated.
Conan took a few breaths of fresh air, looked at Yuanhuaiyu quite sheepishly, and said weakly: "Teacher Yuan, I also want to go and have a look, so I asked Brother Heiji to take me out."
It's no wonder that he felt a little scared. The words Yuan Huaiyu said when he scolded him last time were still in his ears. Even if he had some doubts about his identity, the tension that a student feels when facing his teacher would not be weakened by this.
"Okay, okay, I knew you little guy would follow."
Yuan Huaiyu waved his hand.
"Follow me or your brother Heiji, or I will send you back immediately."
"no problem!"
Such words meant that Yuan Huaiyu acquiesced to him following him to investigate the case, and Conan almost subconsciously raised his hand as a guarantee.
Just don't send him back!
"But Mr. Mori and the others will be very worried, right?" Yusuke Sakata looked at the child and couldn't help but sweat in his heart.
"It's okay! Just give them a call later!"
With Heiji's help, Conan climbed into the back seat and sat obediently next to Yuan Huaiyu.
A few people set off, but since there were no police cars, the road seemed a bit congested.
"The congressman's office has to go through Midosuji."
Sakata Yusuke looked at Heiji.
"That's right! I've found the address and phone number of the suspicious woman you mentioned from the license plate number."
"Her name is Sumie Okazaki, she is thirty-nine years old and divorced last year."
"Currently, I seem to be living alone in the nearby Xidu Apartment. Do you want to go check it out first?"
Heiji felt that Sakata's proposal was quite reasonable: "Okay, maybe I can ask something."
"I'll call her to see if she's at home." Yusuke Sakata stopped on the side of the road, took out his cell phone, and dialed a number.
…
In a room in Xidu Apartment.
[At around 1 o'clock this afternoon, a body fell in Xinqiqiao. The deceased was 41-year-old Noyasu Kazuto...]
In the room, Sumie Okazaki was listening to the news on the TV, covering his face with his hands, huddled up in a ball, and was trembling.
[The Osaka Police Department is investigating its connection with the incident that occurred last week.]
"Forgive me...forgive me...forgive me..."
She begged with tears in her eyes.
But there was no one in the room except her.
"Bell—ring—"
The phone rang, like a life-threatening spell, which frightened her.
She moved to the phone with difficulty and used all her strength to pick up the receiver.
"Hey..." She prayed in her heart, it must not be the guy who killed the first three people!
"Is this Ms. Okazaki's home? I'm Sakata from Osaka Police Station Higashijiri Branch."
At this moment, this voice was like the sound of nature to Okazaki Sumie.
She immediately screamed and shouted: "Mr. Police! Come and protect me! If this continues, I will be killed!"
"I'll tell you everything that happened before! Come quickly!"
She begged the police officer on the other side of the phone.
The deaths of those three people had completely frightened her out of her mind. Especially after seeing the miserable death of Noyasu Kazuto and the knife nailed to his chest, she understood even more that she must also be the murderer.
goal!
If she doesn't take some action, she will definitely die!
After seeing today's crime scene, Okazaki Sumie no longer had any luck in his heart.