Stay away from Conan

Chapter 136 Assisting in Investigation

"So, why does Mr. Akechi ask this?"

Kudo Shinichi asked somewhat curiously.

Gao Yuan thought for a moment, looked at Xiaolan apologetically, and informed Kudo Shinichi of what he had investigated.

Then as expected, Kudo Shinichi immediately called and asked Officer Megure about the specifics, and told the story that the murderer imitated Jack the Ripper to commit the crime. It was logical that Kudo Shinichi and Gao Yuan were invited to the Metropolitan Police Department to participate in the investigation.

As a result, the meal plan came to nothing again today.

When I arrived at the office of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Section 1, I saw that Officer Megure, Sato Miwako, Takagi Wataru and several other familiar police officers were waiting here. A large whiteboard in the office contained detailed information about the entire case.

"Oh, you guys are here so soon, Kudo-san, and Akechi-san."

When Officer Memu saw the two coming, he immediately came to welcome them.

"Yes, we came immediately after being invited by Officer Megure."

Kudo Shinichi said.

"That's good. This case has been bothering us for several months, and there has been no progress. You two agreed to cooperate in the investigation, which is really a big help."

Officer Megure said.

In this regard, Gao Yuan looked helpless - he must have been influenced by Kudo Shinichi, otherwise why didn't you invite him to participate in the investigation yesterday?

"Takagi, please explain the situation."

Officer Megure ordered, so Takagi Wataru walked to the whiteboard, introduced the information of the deceased in detail, and finally concluded:

"In short, all the deceased were women, wearing glasses, and most of them were around 25 years old. They were all killed by the murderer with one knife. There was no connection between their residence and work, not even the place where the bodies were found. ”

"If it weren't for Brother Kudo and Brother Akechi's discovery, we still don't know when the murderer committed the crime. He was imitating Jack the Ripper."

Officer Megure said.

"But if this is the case, the murder that occurred on November 8th should have been the murderer's last murder. Therefore, we can judge that the case that occurred last night was the crime of a copycat."

Miwako Sato said, "That means there are two different murderers."

"In that case, let me assist in the investigation of the copycat crime yesterday."

Gao Yuan suggested.

Officer Megure nodded at this, "Takagi, it's up to you to lead Detective Akechi to investigate last night's incident. It just so happens that there are still many doubts about last night's incident."

Therefore, Takagi Wataru took the order and took Gao Yuan out of the office of the First Search Section.

"So what's the problem?"

Gao Yuan said doubtfully after leaving the office door.

"This...how should I put it, there is something strange about it."

Takagi Shita seemed to have no idea what to say.

At this time, Gao Yuan, who had just reached the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department, suddenly saw a boy walking towards him - Jiang Hong.

Seeing Gao Yuan also appearing in the Metropolitan Police Department, Jiang Hong immediately greeted him.

"Detective Akechi, thank you so much for following Detective Shu. Because of your investigation, the truth about my father's death has finally been found out."

Jiang Hong thanked Gao Yuan in Chinese.

"Yeah, that's good."

Gao Yuan said, and the settlement panel appeared at the right time.

"The reasoning is over, let's start closing the case."

"Comprehensive evaluation of case closure: A"

"Logic: S"

"Knowledge: A"

"Observation: A"

"The settlement is completed, the overall score reaches A, and the reward is 40."

"Detective Rating: Assistant Detective"

"Bounty: 850"

Sure enough, the client did not allow himself to fully investigate the entire incident due to the confidentiality of the incident, so he still could not get an "S" rating.

After a few brief greetings with Jiang Hong, Gao Yuan and Gao Mushe went to the small park where the crime scene was last night.

Standing on the edge of the park, Takagi Wataru pointed to an apartment next to him.

"This is the Mitsui Apartment. It is less than 100 meters away from where the deceased lay. It would be a bit strange if the deceased answered that the place where he was attacked was near this apartment before he died."

Gao Mushe said, leading Gao Yuan to the door of the apartment, pointing to the surveillance camera at the door of the apartment.

"We have investigated the content of this surveillance and found that there was no footage of the deceased being attacked last night. We only saw the deceased walking out of the apartment at about 11 o'clock in the evening."

"I think it was after 11 o'clock in the evening when I found the deceased."

Gao Yuan thought about yesterday's experience and said, "The deceased came out of the apartment, which means she lived here, but she went out at 11 o'clock, and was attacked near the apartment after 11 o'clock, which means she just I was attacked not long after I left home. I shouldn’t have run to a deserted park. It would have been more reasonable to run to an inhabited apartment.”

After thinking about it, Gao Yuan felt something was wrong.

"Can you show me the content of the surveillance?"

Takagi Wataru nodded, walked into the apartment and found the manager of the apartment. As a police officer, he once again retrieved the surveillance from last night.

In the picture, Gao Yuan could indeed see that around 11 o'clock, the deceased went out with his bag on his back. He was wearing the same clothes as what he saw yesterday. After that, before the police arrived, he never took any pictures again. Picture of people.

"It's really strange."

Gao Yuan thought about it and said, in that situation, since the deceased was attacked shortly after leaving the apartment, there was no reason to run to the park to escape for his life.

"Yes. It's just a pity that there is only one camera nearby and no other image data, so we cannot determine the specific location where the deceased was attacked."

Takagi Wataru said helplessly, "Moreover, the deceased started running for his life immediately after being stabbed. At the beginning, the blood did not drip on the ground. It was only after arriving at the park that there were traces of blood, so it was impossible to use the blood to trace the location of the attack. ”

"By the way, is there any information about the deceased?"

Gao Yuan asked.

"We have also asked the manager of the apartment. The deceased's name is Reimi Miyamizu, and she works as an editor at a publishing house called 'Yubundo'. We have also contacted her boss, Ms. Kanae Mizushima. It is said that the deceased had died the day before yesterday. Resigned."

Takagi Wataru held the police manual and looked at the information recorded on it and said.

"'Yubundo'? Mizushima Kanae?"

After being stunned for a moment, Gao Yuan blurted out and asked.

"What's wrong? What's the problem?"

Takagi Sheta asked with some confusion.

"No, it's nothing."

Gao Yuan shook his head and said - he was just surprised by these two familiar names.

The "Yubundo" publishing house was the place I visited when I was investigating the "legendary killer Kondo"; and Mizushima Kanae's name was mentioned in a previous commission from Ninagawa Ayako.

"According to Ms. Mizushima Kanae, Miyamizu Reimi is an employee with a lot of personality."

Wataru Takagi continued, "She never seems to answer the phone, and all communications rely on text messages. And sometimes she forgets to do something when she is asked to do something at work. You must give the work to her face to face."

"Personality?"

Gao Yuan said helplessly, "Miss Mizushima Kanae, you are really polite. By the way, where does the deceased live? Can I go and see him?"

"Okay, it's on the sixth floor of this building."

As Takagi Wataru spoke, he took Gao Yuan to the room where the deceased Miyazumi Reimei lived.

Thanks for the tip from Lingfenmao