Conan: The Mechanic

Outside an alley that was immersed in darkness, with only the entrance barely lit by the lights of the shops next to it.

"Did you see the suspected arsonist here at the time?" Officer Sato looked at the alley in front of him and wrote and drew on the police manual. "See here and see a weirdo come out of it?"

"Yes," Ayumi nodded. "At that time, I used to buy a gashapon from the gashapon machine here, and then the uncle said something strange and walked out."

"Well, from this look, you can indeed think that the person you see is the arsonist. At least according to the path provided by the map, it should be possible to directly lead to the arson site, and it is also the best way to go there. shortcut path."

Just as they were discussing this, Officer Sato's cell phone suddenly rang - the call was from Officer Takagi.

"Takagi, do you have anything to do with me?" Officer Sato asked, raising his eyebrows. "Has the arsonist been found?"

"No," Officer Takagi said as he walked on the sidewalk in the dark. "Although the arsonist has not yet been found, but... I want to ask a few questions about a series of details about the case of your father, Sato Masayoshi Zheng and Chou Silang."

"Why are you asking this..." Officer Sato frowned, but then eased away. "Forget it, I'll try my best to tell you what you want to ask."

"Does your father have a very good relationship, and is engaged in some kind of hitting sports like baseball, hemisphere, tennis, golf, etc.?" Officer Takagi asked this question, which made Officer Sato stunned for the first time.

"I think there should be, right?" After thinking about it, Officer Sato nodded. "Not to mention, my father still has a group of friends who play baseball, but why are you asking this, do you think the arson case is related to this matter?"

"Yes," Officer Takagi confirmed Officer Sato's idea. "Think about it, no matter how obscure the known clues are to us, but in fact, Sato Justice Police finally found the murderer easily through the poor few pieces of evidence, which means otherwise It's that he has superhuman reasoning ability, or he has some information that we don't have - don't worry, I'm not saying that he may hide any evidence, I just think, is it possible for him to rely on some If you have some information, know who the prisoner is? If there is someone he can find, but others can't find the object of suspicion, I think there is a type of person who can't be avoided - that is his good friend. For other police officers, as long as these people are not included as suspects, it is difficult to think of them, but for him, it should be easier to think of the characteristics of his good friends, and he wants to confirm this. It's super easy at all."

"So, you suspect that the murderer may be among those who played baseball with my father?" Officer Sato immediately realized that Officer Takagi was right. "This range was immediately reduced a lot - but, how to continue? Even so, as far as I know, there are at least four people who meet this condition..."

"Do you remember the 'カンオ' written on your father's handbook that we saw earlier? It was impossible for me to think of what this was, but just now, maybe because today happened to be my luck Day, so my luck is on the line—ah!”

Just when Officer Takagi said this, Officer Sato suddenly heard a scream from the other end of the phone. "Takagi? Takagi, answer me?"

The expressions of Chiba and others who were waiting for Officer Takagi's answer also changed, and Chiba immediately hacked into the communication network and began to monitor the relevant data of the entire call. The location was... near Shinagawa Station, and there was hardly any meaningful news on the other side of the call...except for the sound of a hard object hitting the ground.

Did something fall to the ground? For example... is this the sound of Officer Takagi falling to the ground?

Just when Chiba was still trying to dig out the information, the phone was suddenly hung up—since Officer Takagi obviously wouldn't do this... Then who else could have turned off the phone?

"What's the matter with him?" Officer Sato frowned, and then called again, only to find that the phone had been switched off. "Shut down?"

"I feel like a malicious act, has he been attacked?" Qian Yu said with a sullen face. "If necessary, I think we can ask the nearby police officers to go to Shinagawa to have a look."

"Tell Shiratori first," Officer Sato immediately made a decision. "He should be the closest to Officer Takagi, and he should be the easiest to find."

"What, Takagi?" Officer Shiratori took a sip of water to solve the problem of choking because he swallowed the bread too hastily, and then answered quickly. "I don't know, we separated for dinner almost half an hour ago, and now I don't know where he is."

"Okay," Officer Sato sighed, and then ordered again - although this may seem strange~www.NovelMTL.com~ Because Sato Miwako's rank is actually lower than that of Officer Shiratori, but in fact the two Everyone knows that the order issued by the police officer Sato will definitely not object to the police officer Shiratori. "Listen to me, it seems that Officer Takagi was attacked by someone after calling me, and now I call it and it shows that it is turned off. So I hope you can help find it and see if you can find any clues."

After telling Officer Shiratori, Officer Sato hung up the phone.

"Generally speaking, would someone attack someone who was walking while talking on the phone?" Chiba suddenly said to Officer Sato at this time. "If I were the one who attacked him, I would probably... only attack someone who was on the phone and looked harmless for one reason - that's what I wanted to interrupt him. And if you consider him I'm revealing to you who the murderer of that case eighteen years ago was, maybe the person who attacked him was..."

"That shouldn't be possible, right?" Officer Sato immediately rejected the idea. "You should remember that I said that this case was 18 years ago, and the prosecution period is 15 years. Even if we find the murderer now, it's too late to file a lawsuit."

"That's the truth, but the question is are there other possibilities?" Chiba asked back. "Even an arsonist can't choose to take the initiative to attack the other party when he sees a man on the road talking on the phone and talking about it, and he doesn't seem to find his whereabouts. I can now think of a way to prosecute it for more than 15 years. For example, if a new crime is committed within a certain period of time in the previous case, the prosecution period should be calculated from the new crime, right? For example, for those serial crimes, if there is no such system If so, it should be impossible to trace back to the first cases, right?"