Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 279 Strange Corpse
On the street corner.

A white and green cleaning vehicle was parked on the side of the road, and a cleaning worker was leaning against the wall of the building next to him, too scared to make a sound.

There is a garbage disposal point in the next corner.

After hearing the screams, all the members of the Junior Detective Team rushed to the scene in the rain and immediately helped to call the police. At the same time, Conan searched the garbage truck to check the body and announced solemnly:

The people are gone.

After confirming that someone was dead, Hiroki showed an expression of "just as I expected", and at the same time received the affirmation of Haibara Ai and the admiring gaze of Teitan Sanbao.

Faced with this situation, Conan felt like he was having a heart attack - he discovered that when he was with Hiroki, the limelight would sometimes unconsciously drift to Hiroki.

Before the police arrived, Conan helped to protect the scene with an umbrella, and quietly pulled Hiroki aside:
"Hey, Hiroki, you don't have any special perception abilities, do you?"

"……what?"

Hiroki didn't quite understand what Big Brother Conan said, and a question mark popped up on his forehead.

"That's right, for example, the ability to sense if there are any criminals nearby, or the ability to sense malicious intent..." Conan whispered, not forgetting to glance at Huihara Ai, "Because someone said before that she could sense the presence of certain groups of people."

Being stared at, Huibara Ai turned her head expressionlessly.

I'm sorry, she heard it all... I feel really sorry for being so weird.

Hiroki's eyes were complicated: "I don't have this ability..."

If he had to say, he suspected that Conan had some strange attitude or something unclean - since he came into contact with the practice of "Qi", Hiroki was no longer a simple atheist.

He is now a seedling in the metaphysical field.

Conan blinked: "Then why do you always seem to be able to predict what's going to happen?"

It can't be all planned, right?
"…Conan."

"what?"

"I think you could be more confident in yourself."

Hiroki Sawada's expression was extremely complicated.

Does Conan really have no idea about the cases happening around him?
Conan: "...?"

What does Hiroki mean? And this look at his expression...why does it feel weird?
Conan waited for Inspector Megure to arrive in confusion.

The other person who came with Inspector Megure this time was not Takagi, but someone Conan was old familiar with - Jinpei Matsuda.

The moment he saw him, Conan felt something strange in his heart. He went to Megure Jusan's side and pulled his trouser legs:

"Hey, Officer Megure... Why is Officer Matsuda here?"

"Ah?" Officer Megure, who had just organized his subordinates to conduct an on-site investigation, lowered his head in a daze, not understanding what Conan meant, "Brother Matsuda... Although he is already a deputy inspector, it is normal for him to go out with the police..."

“…That’s not what I meant.”

Conan scratched his head awkwardly, "I heard from Officer Sato and the others that Officer Matsuda would not appear except for bombings..."

"Yeah, so I didn't want to come."

The slightly lazy voice made Conan pause.

Then Conan turned around and looked at the person walking slowly towards him, with an innocent look on his face, "Ah, Officer Matsuda..."

He felt like he was caught saying bad things about someone. Matsuda Jinpei came over from the cleaning car holding an umbrella.

This time he didn't wear sunglasses, nor did he hold a candy or cigarette in his mouth. "I didn't want to get involved in this case...but, who knows, it's so close to the scene of a case the night before."

"The case from the night before last?"

Conan's curiosity was aroused.

He did encounter a case the day before yesterday, and it was Inspector Megure who solved the case at that time, but the police have not yet found the address of the vicious man.

He stayed in the detective agency yesterday and didn't go anywhere else. Everything seemed peaceful.

"Or rather, there was an explosion at Haido-cho 1-chome, two blocks from here, early yesterday morning."

Jinpei Matsuda unbuttoned his collar, probably because he felt a little stuffy.

This news made Conan a little concerned. "So, were there any casualties?"

Matsuda Jinpei looked down at Conan, his eyes twinkling, "Ah... yes, there was a charred corpse at the center of the explosion, and there was also a passerby who was stabbed by the glass fragments splashed out by the explosion and died from excessive blood loss."

Conan's pupils contracted.

Explosion, charred corpse...

Could it be those people?

"I remember, Brother Matsuda, you said at that time..." Inspector Megure also interrupted at this time, his expression a little serious.

"The traces of the explosion are very similar to the explosion that happened in the previous company... and there is an obvious cut on the neck of the charred corpse. Judging from the state of death, he should not have died from the explosion." Matsuda Jinpei looked at the cleaning car, "Because there were no witnesses or suspects in that case, I heard there was a case nearby, so I came to see if there were any clues... But with such a heavy rain, even if there were any clues, they should have been washed away."

The body had been taken out of the cleaning vehicle, covered with a white towel, and was ready to be transported away - it seemed that the preliminary autopsy was almost complete.

However, Conan's attention was completely focused on the case that Matsuda Jinpei mentioned, and he didn't even move his eyes.

Explosions, people killed, traces destroyed...

No matter how you look at it, it’s the style of those guys!
And that company?
"Officer Matsuda, the company you mentioned before, is it the building of Tokiwa Corporation?"

"No...it was earlier, a company called Qinggang Pharmaceutical." Matsuda Jinpei answered while silently lowering his eyes.

When Mr. Ke heard this, his pupils shrank instantly.

It was indeed those people! People from that organization!
He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, but did not notice the slightly strange expression on Jinpei Matsuda's face.

At this time, the police officer who had finished the forensic work came over to report:
"Inspector Megure, Officer Matsuda, we have found several suspicious points..."

Matsuda Jinpei narrowed his eyes and said, "Tell me about it."

Conan also narrowed his eyes - even the police could find suspicious points this time?

It’s tricky!
"Yes! We have found no obvious external injuries on the body, but we found Yoshikawa lines and strangulation marks on the neck, so we can conclude that it was a homicide..."

"Also, judging from the rigor mortis and livor mortis, the deceased should have died within 20 to 24 hours, but no more than a day."

"In addition, the cleaning man who first discovered the deceased said that when he checked the carriage at the previous garbage disposal point, he did not find the deceased..."

After the coroner finished speaking, the forensic officer next to him said that no traces related to the deceased were found on or near the cleaning vehicle.

It is obvious that the cleaning truck was not the first scene - the victim must have been killed somewhere, and then the criminal used some means to send him to the cleaning truck that regularly collects garbage.

(End of this chapter)