Chapter 262 This cat may be the messenger sent by the god of death
Finding cats in the neighborhood is not an easy task.
And even if it is found, it is still a mystery whether it can be caught.
Conan felt that continuing like this was not an option.
He asked Xiaoguang, who had lost the cat: "Does your cat have any habits or characteristics? For example, where it often goes."
"A place you often go to?" Xiaoguang chewed her fingers and thought for a while, but couldn't remember.
But there are other characteristics: "My cat's meowing is the same as that of other cats. It changes the tone of its voice, just like..."
"Gu——meow~"
"Yes! Just like this!" Xiaoguang was about to imitate, but suddenly a more similar sound came from beside him, which saved him a lot of trouble.
After saying that, several children stood face to face for a while, then suddenly reacted and looked around to see if they were lucky enough to bump into Xiaoguang's cat.
In the end, it was Ayumi Yoshida who found the source of the sound first.
She pointed through the low fence into the yard of the neighbor next to her: "On the windowsill! Oh, but the color..."
She looked at the black cat standing on the windowsill and looking in the window with confusion: "Did it get dirty after staying outside for too long?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the cat suddenly glanced at her.
Yoshida Ayumi covered her mouth and kept silent.
She didn't know why, but she felt that the cat's eyes looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before.
...Hmm, maybe in a nightmare?
Others didn't find anything wrong.
Xiaoguang’s classmate retorted: “Ahua loves to be clean, how could she be dyed this color after only one day!”
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya also shook his head: "There are many cats with similar meows. There is also such a strange cat near my house, but it is orange."
Kojima Motota showed a disappointed expression. He just thought that by breaking in and taking down the cat, he would be able to get the Superman card.
Conan remained silent.
He recognized it at a glance just now. It was the black cat's cat.
So he couldn't help but wander for a moment, feeling that something might happen to the house in front of him.
Now, after listening to the arguments of several children, Conan was also taken away.
Is this what the black cat’s cat calls?
...Although the cat never seemed to meow at him, Conan heard it meow at Mao Lilan.
I don’t know if it was a fake voice, but the strange noise was definitely not the Uncle Cat-like voice just now.
If the sound just now was the real sound of the black cat, then what Xiaolan heard might be...
Conan was thinking secretly when he suddenly saw the black cat ducking aside.
Immediately afterwards, a tabby cat jumped from the house onto the window sill.
It poked its head out of the window and looked at the black cat curiously, as if it wanted to get closer and say hello.
But the black cat disliked it for some reason. As soon as the tabby cat moved, the black cat suddenly slapped a paw with lightning speed, directly from the window sill to the ground.
"Ah!" Yoshida Ayumi took a step back in shock.
It’s not that the cats are afraid of fighting, but that after the tabby cat was photographed on the ground, its full appearance was revealed.
——Only its head is clean, and below the head, its body is covered in blood.
Xiaoguang thought the cat was injured, so she was afraid and anxious and waved to it: "Ahua!"
The confused tabby cat originally wanted to climb back to the window sill and have a few rounds of battle with the evil cat who suddenly hit the cat.
But it is different from other cats and is more affectionate.
Hearing Xiaoguang calling it, the tabby cat raised his head and glanced at the black cat on the window sill, and finally reluctantly walked towards the wall, passed through the gap in the fence, and ran to Xiaoguang's side.
Xiaoguang reached out to hug her with tears in her eyes.
But before he touched it, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out from beside him.
——Conan hugged the cat and looked over it several times, his face gradually turning ugly: "It's not injured, this isn't its blood!"
Looking up again and seeing the very calm black cat by the window, Conan faintly realized that his bad premonition seemed to have come true.
He let go of the tabby cat, climbed over the fence, moved the trash can in the yard and turned it upside down. He stepped on the bucket to the window and took a look inside.
——This happens to be the bathroom window.
In the bathroom, a tall man was kneeling beside the bathtub, his head buried in the bathtub. The water in the bathtub was bright red.
Conan watched for a few seconds and saw no air bubbles floating around the man's face. He estimated the amount of bleeding and knew that the man was probably dead.
He jumped out of the trash can amidst the screams of the other three children and ran straight to a nearby public phone box.
At this time, of course, one cannot expect a black cat to fall from the sky and call the police for them.
After all, there are too many cases in Tokyo. It is impossible for Shiraishi to successfully predict every case, and it is impossible for Black Cat to intervene in every case.
Although the cat appeared here, Conan always felt that the two people were letting the cat out for free. This can be seen from the fact that the cat sneaked into the Maori Detective Office every now and then to eat and drink with Mao Lilan.
...In other words, this case, or the cat just sensed something was wrong and found it while walking, has nothing to do with Shiraishi and Black Cat.
It's up to the kids to call the police themselves.
This house is built along the river, and there is a telephone booth just opposite.
After Conan made the call to the police, he jumped on the top of the phone booth. He carefully observed the surroundings of the house to prevent the murderer from escaping.
…
Baishi avoided the blood and jumped into the house.
As soon as he walked through the corridor and hid in the utility room opposite the bathroom, he heard a tall man click his tongue in annoyance at the entrance.
Then the man walked quickly to the bathroom and began to dispose of the body.
While he was busy, Shiraishi took the opportunity to wander around the living room.
Finding a camera on the shelf, Shiraishi jumped on it and pressed it open with his claws.
It slightly adjusted the angle so that the camera could capture the direction of the toilet, and then pushed a small ornament closer to slightly block the indicator light in the corner of the camera.
Previously, when he found this house according to the system prompts, jumped up on the window sill, and saw the body in the house, Shiraishi remembered which case it was.
This picture is really impressive.
——The deceased and the murderer this time were actually twins.
Among them, the elder brother Taro Tanaka was idle, and the only thing he accomplished in his life was to take advantage of his younger brother and threaten him to support himself.
Blackmailing others is inherently risky.
Not to mention that it happened in this world, not to mention, it happened to be just a few streets away from Conan's house.
...Anyway, after eating and drinking for a while, Taro Tanaka accidentally overturned his car and was knocked to death by his brother in his bathroom.
Tanaka Jiro originally wanted to dispose of the body slowly, but anyway, his brother was an otaku who nibbled his brother and had no social interactions.
Who would have thought that because of a few naughty kids who suddenly appeared, the original plan to hide the corpse would be over before it even started.
Tanaka Jiro had to find another way.
In the original work, he put the corpse into pajamas, put on a dark bath towel, and let the corpse sit on a stool in the room on the second floor.
When the police arrived, he put on the same clothes and pretended to be his brother. After giving people the impression of being grumpy, he then excused himself to rest and returned to the second floor.
Afterwards, he could change into formal clothes on the second floor, climb out from the river embankment in the backyard, and return home through the front entrance.
In this way, in the eyes of the police, both brothers are still alive and have spoken to them.