"Okay, okay." The old farmer patted the falconer's shoulder hard and comforted, "My wife has said so, so don't mention it again - she is the most saddened when the store manager dies.
People."
As he said this, the old farmer thought of something and said regretfully: "But I never thought that our cafe would eventually end in this way."
"It won't end!" The store manager's wife sat up straight and interrupted him, "My husband has spent so much effort on this store. If he knew that we chose to close the store after he left...then he would definitely die in peace.
!”
She clenched her fists, her eyes full of strength: "I can learn to hunt, so that the three of us can continue to open the store!"
The old farmer and the falconer looked at her in surprise. For a long time, they nodded heavily.
…
"This scene looks quite inspiring." Conan muttered to Jiang Xia, then quietly left the scene and looked for clues elsewhere.
After a while, they walked around to the front yard and found that the falconer had left the store manager's wife and sat on the open trunk of a car.
The eagle stopped on the shelf next to him. The falconer stared at it blankly for a while, then lowered his head and rummaged through to find a box.
He dug out a piece of grease from the box and slowly stretched it towards the eagle.
"Wait a minute!" A voice came from the side. Three female high school students arrived here at some point. Seeing this scene and thinking about the previous speculations of the clerks, Suzuki Sonoko suddenly became suspicious, "You can't be...
Let’s poison this eagle.”
"Ah?" The falconer was stunned for a moment, and almost jumped up after regaining his senses, "How could I do such a thing! - I chose this profession just because I like eagles, how could I do this to myself?
My favorite child takes action!”
Jiang Xia walked over: "Is this ointment on your hand?"
The falconer glanced at him and stopped arguing with the female high school students. The clerk, who was dressed like a wild man, explained dullly: "Its leg is injured, and I'm giving it medicine."
"Is your leg injured?" Conan felt something was wrong acutely, so he trotted over, "Why is it injured? What kind of injury?"
The falcon tamer was startled. He didn't expect this child to care so much for his eagle. He replied with some emotion: "I don't know how it was injured, but fortunately it was not serious... but the injury on the foot is very harmful to the eagle."
It is said to be very fatal and must be dealt with as soon as possible."
Conan asked: "According to your experience, under what circumstances does an eagle usually hurt its ankle?"
"It's impossible to say for sure." The falconer sighed, "Avoiding crows, scratching fishing lines, hitting power lines... Various situations may lead to this result. That's why I say that eagles are actually very fragile.
It’s a creature that we shouldn’t fear in the same way we would a bird of prey.”
…
The falconer complained about the difficulty of the eagle.
In the woods on the other side.
Hattori Heiji had been following Toyama and Ye for a while when he was suddenly caught by a reflection in the woods.
Recalling what Conan mentioned before, he approached cautiously, and then saw a thick piece of wood placed in the forest, with ropes and a coil of steel wire tied to the barrel.
The steel wire has broken and hangs loosely to the ground. The other side extends far away, and the rope is connected to a wooden sign, and there is a wooden board beyond the wooden sign.
Among them, a palm-sized wooden sign had been split in half, and there was half a blackened hole in the broken part, which looked like it had been broken by a bullet.
"This..." Hattori Heiji was confused for a moment, scratched his head, and had some vague guess.
He came closer and was about to take a closer look when he suddenly discovered that there were some traces of dug-out soil in the distance.
Hattori Heiji: "...?"
Although these traces may feel a bit redundant, any anomaly at the crime scene deserves the attention of detectives.
He did not miss those traces, but carefully walked to the edge of the cliff and observed them.
"This stone has been stepped on. No wonder it brought up so much soil...The soil is still very fresh. Was there anyone here just now?"
And it looked like the man had rolled down the mountain.
Hattori Heiji frowned and carefully looked down. However, no matter how he looked, he couldn't see anyone on the slope below. He could only vaguely see two wide-open tire tracks.
"These traces are so strange, as if a person was walking on the edge of the cliff and was pushed down the mountain by some force. After he rolled halfway up the mountain, a very skilled car slid up to him and pushed him
Picked up..."
Based on various traces, Hattori Heiji thought about what happened just now, and then couldn't help but shook his head: "This is too exaggerated, it's like filming an intense action movie, I must be overthinking it.
"
While muttering, he took out his mobile phone and dialed the Otaki Police Department and asked him to bring someone here to check.
While waiting for the police to arrive, Hattori Heiji continued to figure out the strange traces here. Suddenly, his eyes fell on another place.
"Huh? There is a drag mark here." Hattori Heiji noticed something was wrong. He observed carefully for a moment, followed the clues, and finally came to a tree.
He took two steps back and looked carefully at the tree. Hattori Heiji's pupils shrank suddenly.
——This seemingly ordinary tree actually hides a sniper rifle!
Check out the correct version one by one!
…
Jiang Xia followed Conan around the room and suddenly noticed that there seemed to be movement from the police.
He strolled over with his classmates...and suddenly saw a sniper rifle lying on the ground, being studied by a group of policemen.
Jiang Xia: "...?"
Conan has always been under his nose, who did it this time?
Without thinking, an answer emerges naturally.
Jiang Xia turned around silently and saw Hattori Heiji who was actively describing the scene where the gun was found to the Otaki Police Department.
A Tokyo detective falls silent briefly.
After a moment, Jiang Xia looked away from the sniper rifle: Forget it, this gun was shot by a shotgun and had some flaws. He didn't really want it in the first place.
Compared to this...
When Hattori Heiji looked away from the shotgun and concentrated on studying the iron barrel and wire on the other side, Jiang Xia suddenly said: "I probably know who the murderer is."
The Otaki Police Department looked surprised: "Who is it?"
Hattori Heiji: "?" Wait, aren't we still in the stage of collecting evidence? Who can tell you to jump directly to solving the case!
Conan, who was inexplicably lying on the gun: "..."
…
Not long after, the three clerks were gathered together.
Amid the blank expressions of the three people, Jiang Xia took two steps and stopped in front of one of them: "The death of the shop owner was not an accident, but a murder - you are his murderer."
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