Bandage fine tricks

On the way to the place where the accident happened, Hachi and Shinichi Kudo learned more details about the accident that Datehang encountered: that day, he and Takagi Tsubasa stayed up all night to perform surveillance work, and on the way back , when the two were talking, the notebook that Datehang used to take notes on weekdays dropped on the ground. It was raining heavily on Christmas Day, and he didn't see the road clearly, so he ran into Datehang.

And just as Takagi was nervously calling the ambulance and waiting for the doctor to arrive, seeing that Date Hang could not hold on any longer, a girl in an orange coat happened to run by in the rain, and ran over when she saw the situation here , holding Date's hand, I don't know what he did, without any sound and light effects, Takagi found that Date's breathing and heartbeat, which had started to weaken, gradually stabilized.

And at this moment, the ambulance from the hospital arrived, and Gao Mushe and the doctor carried Itahang to the ambulance, and when he turned around and wanted to thank the girl, he realized that the girl was in a hurry when she saw that nothing was wrong. And ran away again.

"The girl in the orange coat? Are there any other characteristics?" Xiao Ba asked.

"According to Police Officer Takagi, the girl was about 1 meters tall and petite. Because of the rain, she pulled up her hood, so she couldn't see what her face looked like. But when she squatted down and used When her own ability helped Itahang to heal the wound, Takagi saw the orange slightly curly long hair falling from the edge of her hood." Kudo Shinichi gestured and said, "He asked the Trace Section A colleague made a portrait, but since he couldn't think of any other features, there were no further leads."

Xiao Hachi took the portrait from Kudo Shinichi, opened it, and found that it was a profile, it was a petite girl, she couldn't see much of her body features, she was wearing an orange coat And a black skirt, high-top boots, and the pulled up orange hood covered most of the girl's face, only a rounded cheek and cherry pink lips could be vaguely seen, other than that What appears to be some kind of animal ear design on the hood of the coat looks particularly eye-catching.

"It's no different if the portrait is painted or not!" Xiao Ba couldn't help complaining.

"After all, it rained too much on Christmas Day! The vision was blurry, and the lights in the accident area were not particularly bright. The girl kept her hood on to keep out the rain, so she could see the color of her hair clearly. It’s already pretty good, Officer Takagi is still trying to remember the color of that girl’s eyes.”

During the conversation, the two had already arrived at the accident site, and there is a lot of traffic here on weekdays. Seeing the continuous flow of vehicles, Kudo Shinichi signaled himself to look for any nearby cameras that could capture the situation that night, Hachi Ask the shopkeeper who is most likely to have witnessed the accident.

It was already an hour later when the two met again.

"I asked here. Because of the heavy rain and the lack of light in the sky that night, everyone didn't get up, so there were not many witnesses." Kudo Shinichi said, pointing to a house on the side of the road, "The owner of a fish shop told me that if the people in this room opened the windows at that time, they might have seen the accident."

Xiao Ba looked over suspiciously. The doors and windows of this room were closed tightly, and the curtains were tightly drawn. It was impossible to see what was going on inside in broad daylight.

Due to the recent rainy and snowy weather, when encountering a sunny day like today, most people choose to open the windows to ventilate. Even if they don’t want to face the severe cold wind outside, they will choose to open the curtains to let the sunshine in.

It is quite rare that the doors and windows are closed like this, and even the curtains do not let a little light through.

"There should be some old residents who have lived here for decades, don't they know the situation of this family?"

"I know. It is said to be a family formed by the remarriage of parents, but the couple died in a car accident not long after the remarriage, leaving a pair of unrelated siblings to stay here. They haven't seen each other since then The two children went in and out, but from the occasional late night, it seems that someone can see them out to throw garbage, and the water and electricity grid fees are being paid normally, at least we can be sure that they are still alive." When Kudo Shinichi talked about this, he said: A little helpless, "If my reasoning is correct, these two brothers and sisters might be senior dead house... I want to hope that they just opened the curtains and looked out at that time, just in time to see the accident... Boss I don't think it's possible!"

"After all, I have to ask and see, what if?"

"I thought so too, but I just knocked on the door for about half an hour, and no one came out to answer."

"..."

There is no way out of non-violence and non-cooperation...

Kudo Shinichi found out some information and clues from his side and shared them with Hachi before he asked: "...That's the situation on my side. So, how is the situation on your side, Hachi?"

Xiao Ba sighed helplessly: "The proprietress said that the surveillance at her door happened to be broken a few days ago, and she was busy contacting the maintenance workers to fix it, and it was Christmas, and a batch of goods did not arrive in time. Delayed last Christmas sale, so she went to rush it herself."

That is to say, when the accident happened, the proprietress was not in the store, so this clue was naturally broken.

"What! This is a dead end..." Kudo Shinichi sighed helplessly, but he didn't feel much frustration.

This is the case with solving cases. Sometimes you can't find many useful clues after a lot of effort, and sometimes you can turn around inadvertently and you can see the clues you have been looking for for a long time coming to your door.

Some people attribute it to luck, some people attribute it to hard work, let Kudo Shinichi say, it’s the same anyway: even if a person with no luck sees the clue, he will ignore it: if you are careful enough and work hard, just be careful again After searching again and again, I can finally find it.

"In the end, the biggest clue is the portrait of Police Officer Takagi..." Xiaoba said as she unfolded the portrait again to look at it, this time she let out a huff.

"This jacket..." Xiao Ba hesitated for a moment.

"Huh? Hachi, did you find any clues?" Kudo Shinichi was looking at the headlights at the entrance of a store on the side of the road in a daze. When he heard Xiao Hachi's voice, he asked, wondering if he missed something. place.

"Here." Xiao Hachi turned the portrait over to face Shinichi Kudo, then pointed to the cut line on the hood near the edge of the neckline, and asked, "Can Officer Takagi still remember the letters here?"

"Hey?"

"If I'm not mistaken, the letters here should be the brand name of this jacket." Xiao Ba said, "As far as I know, there are really few people who sew the brand name on this kind of place... Hmm... If this is really the work of the store I think, maybe we can ask the salesperson of that store."

"Salesman?" Kudo Shinichi repeated in doubt.

There may be hundreds or even thousands of buyers for the same clothes. How long will it take to sift through one by one?

"That store is a niche brand of luxury goods. The shipment volume is quite small, and almost every customer is registered. Although this involves a customer's privacy issue, we will definitely be able to get their customer list , but if we just ask if this dress belongs to their brand, maybe we can still ask.”

Anyway, there are no other clues now, Kudo Shinichi agreed after thinking about it, but before leaving, he couldn't help but glance at the light at the entrance of the store.

"From the very beginning, you seem to be very concerned about the lights at the door of other people's houses. Did you find something?" Xiao Ba asked abruptly.

"I have a little idea, but there is no evidence to support my idea. Didn't you say you want to go to that store? Let's go and ask first." Kudo Shinichi said frankly.

The store was also in a nearby commercial street, not too far away, and the two quickly found the store and asked if there were similar coats for sale.

"Well, this... Our brand doesn't design this kind of animal coat?" The salesman said hesitantly after looking at the portrait for a long time.

"Isn't this coat of that style?" Kudo Shinichi asked, pointing to a red coat hanging on a shelf beside him.

At first glance, it looked almost identical to the coat that Officer Takagi had depicted.

only……

"Our hood design looks like this." The salesman said, pulling up the hood of the red coat and showing it to the two of them, "There is no design that looks like animal ears! Of course I admit it , other places are almost exactly the same as our clothes, so I didn’t dare to recognize it at first.”

"In addition, our coat only has two colors of red and black, no orange." Additional sales added.

Shinichi Kudo looked hesitantly at the coat on the portrait in his hand, and then at the coat that the seller took off from the shelf. Except for the two animal ears that were added to the hood on the portrait, there was nothing else. The places are generally the same.

It is easy to understand the difference in details, but Officer Takagi's memory is not good enough to fully recount all the details at that time.

And people have said that their windbreaker has neither a hood in the shape of animal ears nor an orange series, so...

Are they looking in the wrong direction?