Koshimizu Nanatsuki arrived at the body almost at the same time as Conan. He used a flashlight to examine the body and said, "There is foam around the mouth and nose. He must have died from drowning."
After Conan squatted down, he took out a handkerchief and put it on his hand. He looked at the deceased's palm and suddenly missed Chi Feichi's gloves. Although Chi Feichi would most likely not give him the gloves, Chi Feichi came to check.
It was more convenient than using a handkerchief. "The palms of his hands and the soles of his feet were wrinkled. He must have been soaked in the water for at least an hour."
On the side, Megure Thirteen told Mori Kogoro how he found the body.
Jiro Toda usually likes to be alone in the basement, closing the soundproof door and listening to music.
According to the maid at home, Jiro Toda went to the basement to listen to music alone last night. In the morning, the maid found that he was not in the room and thought he had fallen asleep in the basement, so she planned to wake him up.
The maid didn't have the key to the basement. No matter how she shouted or knocked on the door, Toda Jiro didn't respond, so she called an ambulance.
The emergency team came with three teams. Since the door was locked from the inside, they had to let the rescue team come over and use a chainsaw to cut open the soundproof door...
Unexpectedly, as soon as the door was opened, water poured out of the room, and a member of the rescue team was swept away and hit hard against the wall. He was pulled away by the ambulance that had arrived earlier.
The police tried to investigate the cause of the water in the basement and found that the water was tap water. However, this place was originally a warehouse and no water pipes were laid when it was built. There were no public water pipes burst nearby. The walls and ceilings of the house were rebuilt into a soundproof room by Jiro Toda.
, the paint was repainted, and there were no cracks. In other words, the house was a secret room, and the source of the large amount of tap water that flooded the room was also a mystery.
In addition, if water poured into the room little by little, Todajiro would probably want to escape from here, but Todajiro showed no signs of trying to escape, which is also very suspicious.
Conan wondered if someone might have used a hose to drain water from the opening in the door, but when he shined a watch-type flashlight on it, he found that the door was made of thickened iron and had no openings.
"Mr. Mori, Officer Megure."
Nanatsuki Koshizui, who was squatting next to the body, shouted, padded his hands with a handkerchief, and carefully took out the envelope from the pocket of the deceased's suit. "There is an envelope in Mr. Toda's pocket, which is the same as the envelope of the threatening letter that Mr. Miura received."
Very much like..."
"What?!" Mouri Kogoro stepped forward through the water and watched Koshimizu Nanatsuki open the envelope.
Memu Thirteen also came forward, bending down to read the content on the letter paper that was pieced together with cut blocks, "What belongs to the witch belongs to the witch. If you want it, no matter where you are, you will be punished by the witch."
He was swallowed up by the water and drowned due to the curse... This is a threatening letter!"
"It's also a murder notice," Mouri Kogoro touched his chin, "Mr. Miura also received a similar threatening letter, but the last sentence was 'the heart will be ripped out alive'."
"Really?" Megure Shisan looked solemn, turned around and asked Miura Joji, who was standing aside and trembling, "Mr. Miura, can you let me see the letter you received?"
"Okay, okay," Miura Joji looked pale, took out the envelope from his coat pocket, handed it to Megure Thirteen, and murmured in a panic, "This must be done by the witch, and I will definitely be killed by the witch, too."
meeting!"
When Kogoro Mouri and Jūsan Megure were comforting Miura Joji, Conan was still squatting in front of the body. After watching Nanatsuki Koshimi shake out small black pieces from the envelope, he came forward and sniffed, frowning and whispering.
He said, "It still smells like rust..."
Haihara Ai also squatted aside and suggested, "You can take some back and let the doctor check it. He should be able to know what this is."
"Well..." Mao Lilan at the door also twitched her nose and wondered, "Although the smell is very light, do you smell a sweet floral fragrance?"
"I smelled it too," Mumu Shisan nodded quickly, "Actually, we are also very concerned about this faint smell floating in the air, but none of us know what it is. After thinking about it for a long time, we have no clue.
I'm worried, Xiaolan, do you know what this smell is?"
"I think it should be the smell of some kind of herbal medicine," Mao Lilan frowned and smelled the faint fragrance in the air, "but what the specific name is, I'm not sure..."
Conan frowned and thought about it.
He seemed to have smelled this smell somewhere, and it was mixed with other herbal smells.
In my memory, there is a slight herbal smell floating in the lighted cabin, a mixture of bitterness and slightly sweet floral fragrance. The two contradictory smells are wonderfully blended together...
Where did you smell it?
"Really..." Mumu Shisan felt a little regretful and warned, "If you remember it, tell me right away."
Conan retracted his thoughts and continued to check the floor with a watch-shaped flashlight. Suddenly, he found that there were small black rusts on the floor in more than one place, and reminded him loudly, "Officer Memu, there seems to be a lot of rust on the floor!"
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Herbal medicine shop.
The sun dispersed the mist that shrouded the sky.
Deep in the yard, under the elder tree, Chi Feichi was lying on a lounge chair with his eyes closed. He vaguely heard the noise in the pharmacy. He opened his eyes and looked at the mottled light spots in the leaves above his head, and then looked sideways towards the corridor of the pharmacy.
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Feichi, who was wrapped around Chi Feichi's neck, also moved. He suddenly straightened up and stared at the direction of the sound.
Wuming lay on Chi Feichi and took a nap. In a daze, he noticed the movement of Chi Feichi and Feichi, "Meow? Are there any guests?"
Chi Feichi heard a very familiar voice saying "so beautiful". He sat up, hugged Wuming, and walked along the path of the herbal garden towards the pharmacy.
As soon as he arrived in front of the herbal medicine shop, Fei Chi jumped out cheering, "Master, it's the doctor and the children!"
In front of the entrance hall leading to the medicine garden, Dr. Ari took Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko's children to stand in the corridor, admiring the herbs in the medicine garden.
"This place looks like a fairyland!" Ayumi praised with a smile.
Mitsuhiko closed his eyes and sniffed, "And there is the fragrance of herbs in the air. It smells really refreshing!"
"There are also eel-like plants..." Yuantai stared at an herb seriously, and suddenly found a black shadow jumping over, shaking the herb, and couldn't help but exclaimed, "Ah!"
"What's wrong? Genta..." Ayumi looked over and saw a snake on the ground holding up its upper body and spitting out snakes at them. She said in surprise, "Ah!"
Tsurumi Yezi was accompanying him with a smile, thinking that the children were frightened. He recognized that it was the snake Chi Feichi was carrying and hurriedly comforted him, "It's okay. Actually, this is..."
"Fei Chi?"
The three children happily came forward and squatted down around Fei Chi.
"It turns out it's really Feichi. I thought it was a snake that looked very similar..."
"Feichi, why are you here?"
Dr. Ali was a little surprised when he saw Feichi. He noticed someone approaching and looked up to see Chi Feichi walking along the path holding a white cat.
Chi Feichi swept his eyes across the group of people and looked at Tsurumi Yezi who was stunned, "Why did you pick up so many people and come back?"
"Brother Chi!"
The three children changed their targets again and surrounded Chi Feichi.
"Brother Chi, why are you here?" Guangyan asked in surprise.
Ayumi smiled and stretched out her hand to touch Wuming's back, "There's Wuming here too."
After Tsurumi Yezi came to his senses, he raised a bunch of bags in his hand and explained to Chi Feichi, "At the previous dinner, I heard Mr. Dashan mention that you like Chinese food. I saw that you seemed to be asleep just now, so I didn't
Excuse me, I will go to China Street to buy some food first and come back. You can eat it when you wake up. Then when I was about to come back, I saw the child named Yuantai fell to the ground and broke his knee. I wanted to bring him back.
I applied medicine, so I brought them all back..."
"It's Genta who ate too much," Mitsuhiko whispered, "I can't even see my feet when I walk, so of course I'll fall."
Dr. A Li scratched his head and laughed dryly, "It's just a matter of 'picking it up'... It's not too late. We can meet here, so you should be more enthusiastic!"
"It turns out you are acquaintances. What a coincidence." Tsurumi Zizi couldn't help but laugh, and handed the bag in his hand to Chi Feichi, "Since you're awake, please come to the living room to dine. I'll buy it for you.
I've got Chinese ramen and fried chicken nuggets, please help me entertain everyone, I'll go to the wooden house to prepare some medicine to bandage the child."
"Don't bother," Chi Feichi took the bag with one hand, reached out and took out a small medicine bottle from his pants pocket, and threw it to Tsurumi Yezi, "After cleaning the wound, use this to apply near the wound to reduce swelling and blood stasis.
But be careful not to apply it on the wound, and bandage it as soon as possible before eating together."
In the back, three children gathered together and whispered.
Mitsuhiko said with a speechless expression, "I feel like there is something missing, such as everyone happily reminiscing after meeting each other unexpectedly..."
Yuantai's half-moon eyes said, "Yes, isn't Brother Chi very happy to see us?"
Bumi looked up at the sky, trying to imagine how Chi Feichi looked surprised and reminisced with them with a smile, "I can't imagine it at all..."
"gone."
Chi Feichi said hello and walked into the living room carrying a bag.
Since Dr. Agasa and the three children are here, the Shinigami elementary school students must be here. If this is the beginning of the special episode, then at least one of them must die before it is over.
He couldn't say he was worried or had a headache, but he wasn't happy either.
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After a group of people arrived in the living room, Tsurumi Zizi helped Genta deal with the scratch on his knee.
Chi Feichi opened each bag and divided the food into two portions.
According to the rules, someone in the family had just passed away, so it was best for Tsurumi Yoko to eat vegetarian these days and eat enough for seven days. This would show more respect for the deceased, so apart from ramen, the box of vegetarian dishes should have been bought for him by Tsurumi Yoko.
During the meal, Dr. Ali chatted with Chi Feichi about the reason for coming.
"We were originally at Kinosaki Hot Spring, but Xiaolan said that since it's on vacation, we might as well go to Egamihara for sightseeing. Anyway, it didn't cost much for Mouri to invite us to the hot springs, and the budget was enough, but something happened midway
, everyone couldn’t relax well,” Dr. Ali said with a smile, “Speaking of that incident, it was really thrilling. Even Xiaolan was kidnapped, so as soon as she mentioned it, we thought about going to Jiang Shenyuan again.
It didn't take two days, but I didn't expect that she and Detective Yueshui were planning to come over to visit someone's grave."
Chi Feichi temporarily stopped using his chopsticks, raised his eyes and looked at Dr. A Li, "Sweeping the grave?"
Yueshui and Xiaolan shouldn't know anyone here, right?
"It seems to be related to some secret of St. John's wort," Ayumi recalled. "They seemed to have talked about it on the cruise ship that came here."
"But we were only looking at the scenery outside the window," Mitsuhiko said with an awkward smile, "so we didn't hear clearly."