After seeing Tatsuo Ayaka disappear, Karasawa and others looked serious and claimed that the other party might be in danger. Everyone in the Torada family who had been dissatisfied with Karasawa before also became nervous.
Long Wei Jing even ran out anxiously with them, hoping to find his fiancée as soon as possible.
And Tangze had already determined the direction the other party was leaving based on the smell remaining in the air.
Fortunately, they were staying at Tatsuo's house, and when they arrived at Torada's house after breakfast together, Karasawa already knew each other's scent.
After all, as a woman, Tatsuo Ayaka has the habit of dressing up, so it is normal for her body to smell like cosmetics.
Today's weather was sunny and windless, and the smell did not dissipate very quickly. These factors created extremely favorable factors for Tangze's tracking.
"Miss Ayaka was taken away on horseback and went to the woods over there!"
After arriving at the outer courtyard corresponding to the restroom, Karasawa could smell the unique smell of horse sweat mixed with the smell of cosmetics on Ayaka Tatsuo's body.
Horses have a very strong secretion system, which is what we often call developed sweat glands. In addition, horses are animals that run as mounts, so they naturally sweat a lot.
In addition, horses do not bathe as often as humans, so over time they will develop a strange smell.
But it was precisely because of this strong and strange smell that it became Karasawa’s guide to finding Ryuubi Ayaka!
Of course, this is a bit uncomfortable for Tang Ze physically, but now he feels more and more that the other party is in danger, so naturally he doesn't care whether he feels comfortable or not.
As for what Tang Ze said, no one was surprised.
This is a village in Nagano Prefecture, surrounded by mountain roads or woods. When cars are inconvenient, wealthier families will raise horses as a means of transportation.
This is the case for the Tatsuo family and the Torata family, and even the criminals at the village's police station will ride on horseback.
If in other places, Tang Ze said that the other party was taken away on horseback, everyone would definitely be suspicious.
But in Nagano Prefecture, this is really a very normal thing.
"Let's spread out and look for it!"
Everyone knows about Tang Ze's "super sense of smell", so naturally they will not have any objection to Tang Ze's words.
Although the members of the Torada family and Ryuubikage didn't know how Karasawa made his judgment, looking at his determined look and the trust of the people around him, they couldn't doubt their judgment.
"Let's go find it on horseback!"
As locals, they naturally had their own advantages. After listening to the direction pointed by Tang Ze, they immediately went to the stable to lead the horses.
Tang Ze was so focused on saving people that he didn't even care about how they acted. With his super sense of smell, he found that the smell was not cut off at all along the way, which was almost a guide along the way.
Coupled with his strong physical fitness, he was very fast and soon left Hattori Heiji and others behind.
"call..."
After exhaling a breath, Tangze stopped again and took a deep breath. In an instant, various smells entered the brain from the nasal cavity, and various subtle smells were continuously analyzed by the brain running crazily.
After entering the woods, the smell suddenly became complicated, and Tangze had to spend more and more brain power to investigate and analyze it.
"there!"
Feeling the increasingly rich smell in the air, a flash of light flashed across Tang Ze's eyes, and he immediately turned left and rushed towards the left side of the jungle.
When he rounded a huge tree, the scene in front of him at the next moment made Tang Ze's expression change drastically.
On the towering branches of the huge tree in front of her, Tatsuo Ayaka was hung by a rope.
And there was no trace of struggle in his entire body.
Although Karasawa's heart sank when he saw the scene in front of him, his movements did not stop at all. Instead, his legs exploded and he rushed towards Ryuubi Ayaka.
The cold light flashed away, and the rope around Ryuubi Ayaka's neck had been cut off. Karasawa inserted the ceremonial dress on the ground and turned around to catch Ryuubi Ayaka.
"Over here! Come help!"
Karasawa yelled, and while he kept moving his hands to lay Ryuubi Ayaka flat, he checked and found that the other person still had a heartbeat.
Upon seeing this, Tang Ze immediately raised his lower jaw to make the respiratory tract unobstructed so that the other person could breathe in oxygen, and then began to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the other person.
"I'll give artificial respiration!"
After Karasawa finished doing this, Koshimizu Nanatsuki immediately ran over and cooperated with Karasawa in the first aid work.
Conan on the side had already dialed the emergency number, and Hattori Heiji ran to call other search and rescue personnel to come over.
"What happened!?"
At this moment, Yamato Gansuke walked over from the jungle on crutches. After seeing the scene in front of him, his face changed: "What's going on?"
"After Tatsuo Ayaka heard Ran and the others say they saw the shadow of the "defeated samurai" last night, she ran to the bathroom in fear."
Tangze quickly explained the current situation: "She was taken away from the bathroom afterwards, and then she became what she is now."
"Linghua! Linghua, what's wrong with you!"
Just then, Ryuuki Kage, who was riding a horse at the side, rushed over. Seeing this scene, he hurriedly dismounted and ran towards Ayaka.
"Don't get in the way." Tang Ze scolded: "Go and see if the ambulance has arrived. We are not familiar with the surrounding area. You go to the outside to pick up people, hurry up!"
"oh oh!"
Long Wei Jing was already in a state of confusion, but he quickly woke up after being scolded by Tang Ze, and quickly ran to the outside on horseback.
After that, Tatsuei Torada and others who were conducting the search also rushed over. Seeing this scene, there was inevitably another commotion.
Fortunately, Hattori Heiji and others had also experienced strong winds and waves. Faced with this situation, they quickly controlled the situation and calmed everyone down.
Soon the ambulance arrived. Karasawa, Hattori Heiji, and Mori Kogoro helped put Tatsuo Ayaka into the ambulance.
As for her husband, Ryuumi Jing, he naturally got into the ambulance and drove towards the hospital.
"What happened? Why are you all here?" Yamato Kansuke asked involuntarily after the ambulance left.
"We also want to ask you, why did you appear in the woods?" Mouri Kogoro said with a hint of sharpness in his smile: "Mr. Criminal, who acts very quickly?"
"I originally planned to go to Torada's house, but then I found a group of young people running out in a panic, so I followed them."
Yamato Gansuke patted his leg and said, "But because of the inconvenience of my legs and feet, my speed is a bit slow.
But luckier than you, I heard the criminal's cry, so I came earlier than you."
"But the prisoner came here on horseback, so you are still suspected even if you have limited legs and feet."
Mouri Kogoro said unceremoniously: "If you used the phone to call Miss Ayaka out of the bathroom, knocked her unconscious, and then used a horse to move Miss Ayaka here, pretending to commit suicide.
Later, because we arrived too soon, you were afraid that you would be discovered, so you let the horse go and pretended to be just here."
"He doesn't smell like a horse." Karasawa said to Yamato, "If he came here on horseback, he would definitely smell like a horse.
You may be able to hide it from others, but you can’t hide it from me.”
"Oh? You are indeed the legendary "smell detector". I have learned a lot today."
Yamato Gansuke raised his eyebrows after hearing Karasawa's words: "Did you find out so quickly that Miss Ayaka is also related to the prisoner's horse riding?"
"That's right." Karasawa nodded, not surprised that Yamato Kansuke said this.
Although they did not tell Yamato that the criminal who dared to help the prisoner was riding a horse, as a criminal with strong reasoning ability, it is normal to extract useful information from the previous words.
"Can you tell me what happened now?"
Yamato Gansuke said: "I saw that there are also centipede corpses here, which means that it is now completely confirmed that the previous two cases were serial murder cases!
We need to find the culprit quickly, otherwise there may be victims next."
"I don't know how Miss Ayaka is doing. If she can wake up, she will definitely know who the culprit is." Mouri Kogoro said with a slight regret.
"Now is not the time to talk about this. The criminal is still acting. We can't put all our hopes on Miss Ayaka."
While calmly observing the expressions of the people around him, Karasawa said to Yamato Gansuke: "I will leave it to you to arrange the security of Miss Ayaka."
"I know." Yamato Kansuke nodded, and then said: "Can you tell me what happened now?"
"Last night, last night we found a... shadow of an armored warrior outside the sliding door in the middle of the night..."
When Xiaolan said this, she seemed to recall what happened last night, and she didn't dare to say anything anymore. He Ye on the side said immediately:
"Then we talked about the samurai's helmet that looked like Subo Hosei, and Miss Ayaka seemed to be frightened."
"This is retribution..."
At this moment, an old voice suddenly sounded next to the two of them, causing the two of them to scream unconsciously.
"Ayaka offended Lord Takeda Shingen, that's why she died under the curse..." Ryuubi Moriyo said and pointed to the tree beside him: "That centipede corpse is the best evidence!"
"Centipede?" Mouri Kogoro said with confusion on his face: "But does this have anything to do with Shingen?"
"Don't you know? Lord Shingen has always called the messengers on the battlefield "The Centipede Crowd" and would also ask them to plant centipede flags on their backs." Longwei explained for Shi.
"So that's it!"
When Shigeji Torada heard this, he suddenly said: "I thought I had seen a centipede pattern somewhere before. It turned out that it was during the ceremony that I saw centipede flags on the bodies of those who were pretending to be messengers."
"Humph, you don't even know these basic common senses, what kind of treasure can you find all day long!"
Torada who was on the side heard his son's words and scolded him with a cold snort.
"Then the treasure you have been digging for, Mr. Manji, is Takeda Shingen's treasure..."
Tarei nodded and said: "Ever since the relevant books and maps were found in our warehouse, Shigeji became obsessed with it and went crazy trying to find the treasure.
Even the two people who died recently, Ayaka, and her husband Tatsuo Kage were all in the same group."
"But we are not doing it for our own selfishness!" Shigeji Torada couldn't help but said: "We want to find the treasure and use the money to build the village!"
"Huh, let's just forget about these beautiful words." Torada Naonobu snorted coldly, then turned and left: "Now that Ayaka has been found, when she wakes up, I want to see who dares to kill my son!!"
After everyone in Hutian left, Tang Ze and others also gathered together to discuss the follow-up matters.
"Let me ask you, I found that Miss Ayaka was not in the bathroom, and when I searched and rescued her, did you see anyone else?"
As soon as Karasawa spoke, the expressions of everyone present changed. Yamato Gansuke also said with a serious face: "You mean... the prisoner is a member of the Torada family?"
"At least there is a very high probability that there are even accomplices."
Karasawa calmly analyzed: "First of all, Miss Ayaka's incident is an unexpected incident, and it is impossible for the prisoner to know this in advance.
After all, we only found out in the morning that the two of them planned to go to Torada's house with us.
In other words, this basically eliminates the problem of pretending to be a samurai to scare people, and then using Xiaolan and the two of them to say it today to scare Miss Ayaka.
At the same time, Miss Ayaka's reaction after being frightened is also unpredictable, which basically eliminates the possibility that the prisoner planned today's murder plan in advance.
I am more inclined to think that the other party committed the murder on an impromptu basis after seeing Miss Ayaka running into the bathroom.
In this way, the criminals were targeted at those people who were present at Huda's house at the time. As for the Tatsumi family, they only learned the news after receiving the call, so they couldn't get there in such a short time."
"I remember that Mr. Akei was always present." Kazuha thought for a moment and said, "And Shigeji Torada, he is right next to us."
"We also saw the two of them when Tang Ze broke the door."
Xiaolan on the side nodded, confirming what He Ye said.
"Naotobu Torada was here before, but I didn't pay attention after the subsequent phone call." Mouri Kogoro said.
"He later talked to Uncle Longwei, so I remembered that he was there too." Conan said, "After Tang Ze broke into the criminal department, he was the one who said he was going to find someone on horseback."
"Tariei Torada seemed to be there at the beginning." Hattori Heiji touched his chin and muttered, "But after Karasawa broke the criminal door in the end, I didn't pay much attention."
"The scene was too chaotic, and not everyone was guarding the bathroom."
Koshizui Nanatsuki nodded and said: "After the person disappeared, everyone ran out in a hurry, and then looked for the person.
Everyone in the Torada family went to ride horses, so we didn’t pay much attention."
"In other words, Tatsuei Torada does not have a last-minute alibi?"
Tang Ze raised his eyebrows, already confirming the answer in his heart.
Tatsuei Torada should be the prisoner!
In fact, when Karasawa rescued Ryuubi Ayaka, she smelled a smell that was not her own from the other party's body.
In addition to the smell of horses, the remaining smell mixed in is the smell of Eita Torada!