"Officer Chiba." Conan said cutely: "Can you drive me back to the doctor's house?"

Miaozi was walking alone on the quiet and deserted street. Suddenly, she stopped.

She pondered, "Eh...do I have Officer Sato's number in my phone?"

Miaozi opened her phone and swiped it downwards. After confirming that she had it, she breathed a sigh of relief. Inadvertently, she noticed Chiba's phone number.

She sighed helplessly, because I haven’t played with you since the class reunion.

Quietly, the mysterious man drove the car and secretly followed Miaozi all the way. He caught Miaozi standing in the gap of the road, stopped by the roadside and rolled down the window.

“Ding ding!” After two beeps, he stuck half of his head out and pulled up his mask: “Sorry, I just parked my car in the alley and left the trunk open.”

"It seems like a wild cat ran in and kept meowing. Could you help me look for it in the car? I'm allergic to cats and can't touch them."

"Okay...Okay."

The kind-hearted Miaozi accepted his request without hesitation.

In the car, Chiba, wearing headphones, was preparing to send Conan back to Dr. Agasa's house. He sat in the passenger seat and kept thinking about the meaning of the number 7155.

"By the way." Qianye broke the silence: "I heard from Yumi that you guys have learned a lot about traffic signs."

"Hmm, what's wrong?"

He shook his head and sighed, "But I didn't know this before. I didn't expect that our Japanese traffic signs were based on the British ones."

"Yeah." Conan rested his chin on his hand, looked out the window, and responded perfunctorily: "Most people don't know this."

"Officer Yumi also told us that everyone in the Ministry of Transportation knew about it. It was impossible for them not to know about it. She also said that this was common sense and everyone knew it."

"Is it true that we don't entertain you?"

"Wait!" Conan's eyes widened instantly, and a flash of lightning passed through his mind: "Britain... The neon traffic signs are based on the UK."

"I see! So that's what's going on!"

"Listen to me! Officer Chiba, now——"

"Sorry, Conan, I have to take a call." Chiba pressed the earphones lightly: "Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump."

"Hello?"

"Hey Hey hey?"

The knocking sound continued uninterruptedly. Suddenly, a male voice came: "Hey! What are you doing! Bang! "

The man in black kicked Miaozi to the side angrily, stepped on her forehead, and picked up the phone on the ground: "Damn bitch! You actually brought two phones with you!!"

He held a crossbow in his hand, with a cold smile on his face, staring at Miaozi lifelessly.

"Chiba!!!!"

After Takagi finished his questioning at the local police station, he immediately called Sato and said, "A woman committed suicide by jumping off the rooftop of an office building in Haido-cho 2-chome."

"The woman's name is Midorikawa Aiko. That office building is where she works. Her colleagues confirmed her identity as soon as the incident happened."

"She lived in Room 702 of that apartment building. Her shoes and cell phone were found at the scene. A suicide note was also found in her office desk, and then -"

"You...you know who the murderer is?" Chiba looked at Conan in shock.

He shuddered: "Are you talking about the murderer who killed Sister Zhuanghan and Sister Mazi?"

"Yeah." Conan crossed his arms. "The two female police officers detained three traffic violators a week before the incident. I think they are all suspects."

"Well, it is said that when the three of them were taken to the police station, they were very angry and furious."

"I know all of this, including the names of the three suspects. I also know what the first officer, the strong man, who was killed, was pointing at, and what the officer, the pockmarked woman, who was killed later, was looking at."

"They are all traffic signs prohibiting parking." Conan asked back: "Officer Chiba, do you know why prohibited signs use circles and slashes to represent them?"

"This...well, I don't know about this." Chiba was sweating coldly.

"In fact, that is the shape of the letters N and O combined, which is the English word NO. The no parking sign is represented by a blue background with NO on it."

"The romanization of the Japanese word for 野 is NO, so the murderer is Aono!"

"You mean... Qingjia NO is Qingye?"

Qianye analyzed calmly: "But, under normal circumstances, would you leave such a joke-like clue?"

Conan immediately refuted: "I thought the same as you at first, but after looking around the crime scene, the only clue was that sign."

"The key to leaving clues is to prevent the murderer from discovering them."

"Similarly, the clues left behind cannot be completely incomprehensible. The origin of traffic signs is not very clear to ordinary people, but the police of the Ministry of Transportation basically know it."

"They can easily find this, so it is a good clue. And the number 7155. You just said it was in Officer Ma Zi's phone."

"I left this number that I couldn't get through. These numbers should represent Article 71, Paragraph 5, Item 5 of the Road Traffic Law. I just searched it online."

"When a driver is operating a motor vehicle, he or she may not hold a mobile phone to make a call or check the screen of the mobile phone, so this should refer to when driving."

"The person named Qingye who is looking at the phone must be like this! No mistake!!"

"Just now! I received a call from Chief Inspector Chiba!" Manager Kuroda shouted to the police, "He said he has identified the suspect in the serial murders of female police officers."

Everyone looked forward with a determined look.

"That person is Kengo Aono. Everyone, listen up and deploy immediately."

"We must do our utmost to arrest the suspect! This man is the murderer who killed our two female police officers. We must arrest him at the cost of our police's prestige."

"Yes!!!"

Kuroda's lenses were reflecting light: "This sleeping Kogoro's brain trust is really amazing."

Shiratori said to the intercom: "Aono is not at home at the moment. Residents nearby said they haven't seen him in the past few days."

Another policeman's voice came over the intercom: "We have contacted Qingye's colleague. He said that shortly after noon, a woman came to ask where Qingye was."

"He told the man that Aono was either at his home or at his girlfriend's home."

"Yes, it was Officer Mazi-sister, no doubt about it! I showed him the photo and confirmed it."

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