The police brought several police dogs and searched the mountains for a long time, but they were never able to find Kiichiro Numabuchi and, of course, Shiraishi.
After learning from Kanaya's boss that a car was missing from the garage, and finding the same muddy footprints in the garage as on the hotel's side entrance corridor, they all understood that Numabuchi Kiichiro might have driven away in his car.
But that doesn't stop the search, after all there is an innocent citizen in the woods.
The search lasted until noon, and the body of Hidetoshi Nagao was also found in the nature park.
Because of the same characteristic of "wallet in the heart", the police immediately reported the case to their colleagues on the mountain.
It's just together, and it can barely be considered a coincidence.
But now, two people have appeared who died in exactly the same way. Moreover, the fingerprints extracted from the knife can also match those of Kiichiro Numabuchi.
Coupled with the fact that Numabuchi Kiichiro had a history of serial murder, the police attached great importance to this matter and believed that this was also a serial murder case and that there might be other victims later.
The police left a few people to continue searching for Shiraishi who strayed into the deep forest, while others expanded the scope to search for the lost vehicle.
Boss Jin Gu wandered on the edge of life and death, and now he no longer felt in the mood to continue holding events.
Moreover, since the goal of showing off the collection of books has been achieved this time, it is a good time to disband the event and do it next time.
He did not continue the reasoning process after dinner, but treated the guests to a meal and stayed one night. The next day, he sent everyone away with a set of Sherlock Holmes gifts.
The members who participated in the activity left very dissatisfied. Some arranged for a car by themselves, and some took a police car back.
Hattori Heiji, Conan and Mao Lilan got into Yusuke Sakata's car.
On the one hand, it was because Sakata Yusuke had chosen a good parking location, and on the other hand, it was also because Hattori Heiji looked familiar to Sakata Yusuke.
In Sakata Yusuke's previous plan, he wanted to use Hattori Heiji, a detective who was a bit impulsive and had some background, to get closer to his last target - a high-ranking congressman.
For this reason, Sakata Yusuke often created opportunities to come into contact with Hattori Heiji.
Mao Lilan actually wanted to stay and continue looking for someone.
But Conan felt that Shiraishi was not a wild survival expert, so he shouldn't be able to run too far.
Since the police couldn't find him after searching so hard today, it means that Shiraishi may have met other people on the road after getting rid of Numagachi Kiichiro, and drove back to the city, or he may have strayed into a mountain dwelling.
Rather than stay on the mountain and compete with police dogs to find people, it is better to borrow Hattori Heiji's relationship and go down the mountain to check the vehicles passing by on the winding road and what households are within a dozen kilometers.
When Conan was analyzing this to Maori Ran, Hattori Heiji silently stared at him in the rearview mirror.
This child is indeed very strange. Whether it is his IQ or his calmness, he doesn't look like a child at all.
I heard that he has a good relationship with Kudo Shinichi. If he secretly hides a bug on his body, or puts his phone on speakerphone and accepts remote guidance from Kudo Shinichi...
That's not right, Conan didn't have headphones in his ears, and he didn't pause at all when he spoke, and he didn't look like he was memorizing things by rote.
How could a primary school student memorize such a long line so well after just one listen?
...There is something fishy. There is definitely something fishy.
Hattori Heiji decided to intensify his observation efforts.
His intuition told him that if he wanted to find Kudo Shinichi to decide the outcome, the gushing child in front of him was definitely the key.
…
Neither Mao Lilan nor Conan had a good breakfast. When they arrived in the city, their stomachs made sounds of hunger.
Hattori Heiji heard it.
Thinking of the friendship between the two people who had solved cases together and who were the bait to lure out Kudo Shinichi, he made a friendly suggestion:
"It's a rare occasion for you to come to Osaka. Let me treat you to some of my signature delicacies. I happen to know a shop nearby, and the udon noodles there are particularly authentic."
What Hattori Hei wants to go to is not a big hotel, but a small noodle shop with a very ordinary appearance. He usually goes there every three to five and never gets tired of it.
When Sakata Yusuke heard this decision, he breathed a silent sigh of relief.
Although many unplanned things happened, fortunately, things are still going smoothly.
…
After eating at the noodle shop, Sakata Yusuke pretended to answer the phone and went out first.
He turned on the voice changer in the car and called the noodle shop owner, telling him that there was a strange person on the roof and asking him to go and take a look.
There's nothing to lose by taking a look.
The boss came to the top of the building without knowing anything, pressed the door handle, and the mechanism started. The body suddenly fell down and hit the hood of Sakata Yusuke's car with a thud.
——This position was also calculated by him in advance, so he didn’t have to worry about hitting other passers-by and making things worse.
When the noodle shop owner walked to the railing in confusion and looked down, Hattori Heiji and Conan, who saw someone falling from the building, had already rushed out.
At this time, a person's first reaction, besides hiding, is to look up and see where the body fell.
When the two of them looked up, they saw a backlit figure upstairs. This "gangster" actually dared to stay where he was.
They rushed forward immediately.
Mao Lilan ran out slowly, covered her eyes and glanced at the body in the car.
After seeing the wallet on the corpse's heart, her expression changed, she rolled up her sleeves and ran upstairs followed by the two detectives.
If the murderer happens to be upstairs, he might know where Shiraishi is now!
Yusuke Sakata in the car watched them go away, picked up the phone again, and pretended to contact the police station.
But in fact, he was calling his next target, Okaki Sumie.
Oka Qi Chengjiang divorced last year and currently lives alone in a nearby Xidu Apartment. This person's life track is very fixed, and she should be at home at this time.
Yusuke Sakata turned on his voice changer and called her to trick her into going nearby so that she could see the body of Noyasu Kazuto.
Okaki Chengjiang is usually quite gossipy and loves to watch the excitement.
After she left, Yusuke Sakata called her again and left a threatening message on the answering machine, such as "You will be next."
Okaki Chengjie, who was returning home after watching the fun, would tremble with fright when she heard this, and then obey the instructions of the "police" who came to her door to help her.
After completing a series of operations, Sakata Yusuke called the police station and told them that there was another victim.
Hattori Heiji and the others went upstairs to look around, but found nothing except cracking the method of regularly dropping the corpse.
There was no Kiichiro Numabuchi on the roof, there was only a boss who didn't know anything about it and only said that someone called him and asked him to come upstairs to check on the situation.
The three of them were very puzzled as to why Kiichiro Numabuchi used such a complicated method to kill people. They were even more puzzled as to how a fugitive who had just escaped not long ago and was hiding in the mountains every day could make anonymous phone calls with a voice changer.
This matter is full of doubts. No matter how you look at it, Numabuchi Kiichiro has at least one accomplice.
Speaking of his accomplices, Hattori Heiji suddenly thought of Shiraishi.