My neighbor's name is Conan

Conan opened his eyes wide and opened his mouth so wide that he could stuff an egg in, looking at the woman lying on the ground in panic.

I saw that her eyes were also wide open, her mouth was open enough to stuff an egg directly, and there was an obvious strangulation mark on her neck - she looked like she was strangled to death.

But Conan was "well-informed" after all, so he calmed down quickly, went up and squatted down, reached out and touched the other party's neck, to determine whether the other party was dead or whether he still had a pulse to save him.

At this time, other members of the Detective Boys also came over, and Ayumi asked timidly, "Conan, what's wrong with sister Mika?"

When Conan heard Ayumi's question, he turned his head and said with a serious face: "She was killed? Someone strangled her to death."

"Ah!" Ayumi screamed for a moment, she couldn't accept this fact.

"How come..." Yuantai and Mitsuhiko were both dumbfounded.

Sayuri timidly said: "Hurry up and call the police."

"Okay!" Conan agreed, telling Haibara Ai to keep an eye on the scene, and Conan went to call the police.

Soon the Metropolitan Police Department received a call from Conan.

It was Conan's call to the police, not Mao Lilan's.

This aroused the great attention of Aoki Song, who personally led the team to the destination.

After entering the house, Qing Musong asked his police officers to conduct a procedural investigation, and some superficial information was obtained after a while.

"The victim was Mika Mitsui who lived in Room 301. She was 24 years old this year and was a beautician at the Green Beauty Salon in the Arch Bridge District of Mihua Town." Takagi Shepherd reported while holding a small notebook.

After Gao Mushe finished speaking, Aoki Song asked: "Have you asked the doorman of this apartment? Is there any monitoring? Did any strangers come here yesterday?"

"This apartment is not monitored, neither inside nor outside. According to the guard, he said that no one came to look for the victim yesterday and today, and no strangers came in and out. Only Sayuri and the others came to visit the victim." Gao Mushe replied.

Then he added: "However, after careful questioning, he didn't stay in the guard room yesterday and went to the toilet a few times. It is also possible that the murderer took the opportunity to slip out. Of course, it is also possible that the murderer is someone who lives here."

Qing Musong curled her lips when she heard this, the doorman of this kind of ordinary apartment building, when encountering such a big event, it is basically the same as not having it.

Then Aoki Song looked at the forensic criminal who had already inspected the corpse and asked, "How is the situation?"

"The police department, judging from the turbidity of her corneas, it was 10 to 13 hours before she died. The cause of death was suffocation. Only strangle marks were left on the front of the deceased's neck. It should be that someone strangled her neck with some kind of strip and was strangled to death." The criminal of the forensic department said.

"Have you found anything else?" Aoki Song asked again.

The criminal from the forensics department nodded, "Yes, there is a piece of blue debris caught in the nail of the middle finger of the corpse's right hand. The preliminary judgment should be plastic. However, further detailed analysis is needed to determine what the plastic debris is."

Aoki Song took the evidence bag and looked at it, then handed it to the other party, "Thank you for your hard work."

"I will analyze the ingredients as soon as possible." The forensics department criminal replied.

"En." Qing Musong nodded, after seeing that the forensics department had inspected the corpse, Qing Musong did the inspection again by himself, making sure that there were no new discoveries, and then began to check the scene.

There is a shopping bag from a convenience store on the coffee table. On the sofa is a set of clothes that were brought back from the laundry in a dust jacket. There is also a blue dress scattered on the floor, with a plastic dust bag next to it. It looks like the dress has just been taken out of the dust bag.

Aoki Song asked Ayumi Maruta who was waiting beside him, "According to the time and scene of the deceased's death, what do you think?"

Maruta Ayumi didn't expect Aoki Matsu to ask him such a question. After a moment of stunned, he thought that the "senior" Saito Kazuma who followed Aoki Matsu before was now handling the case alone, and instantly knew that Aoki Matsu was cultivating his ability to handle cases .

So after thinking about it carefully, Maruta Ayumi said: "The time of the victim's death was about nine o'clock to twelve o'clock last night, which happened to be the time when office workers came home from work. Look, the victim should have gone to the convenience store and laundry after get off work before returning.

The murderer is most likely someone the victim knew, and the relationship should not be a one-sided acquaintance, otherwise the clothes the victim retrieved from the laundry would not be placed in the living room, but in the bedroom.

It is unlikely to be a burglary. Generally, burglars will step on the spot in advance to determine the owner's work and rest time, and choose to steal when the owner is not in the house. It is impossible to stay in the room at that time. "

After hearing Ayumi Maruta's words, Aoki Matsu nodded in his heart, because Ayumi Maruta still has the basic ability of reasoning.

"That's right, I thought so too, then you are responsible for investigating the victim's interpersonal relationship." Qing Musong ordered.

"Yes!" Ayumi Maruta responded immediately.

Then Aoki Song looked at the criminal who searched the house and asked, "How is it? Have you found the murder weapon?"

"Police, we haven't found the murder weapon yet."

Qing Musong raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, was he taken away by the murderer?This is not impossible.

The murder weapon is an important part of handling a case.

Although it is clear that the deceased should have been strangled, what is strangled is also important.

Stretches of that width are somewhat uncommon.

It is wider than a wire and much narrower than a hemp rope.

A rope that can strangle people needs to be of some quality.

Qing Musong inspected the scene carefully, and found nothing in this regard, so it is very likely that the murderer took away the murder weapon.

but……

After seeing the unpacked blue dress on the ground, Qing Musong suddenly had a flash of inspiration—from the scene, the victim should have been killed by the murderer while unpacking the dust bag of the blue dress.

But Aoki Song found that something was missing.

what?

Drying rack!

After Aoki Song joined the Metropolitan Police Department, the Metropolitan Police Department received good treatment. The suits are all custom-made, and the fabrics are very good.

In order to prevent problems such as deformation, shrinkage, and fading of suits, Aoki Song's suits are sent directly to the laundry for dry cleaning.

Then take it back and hang it in the closet, and remove the plastic dust bag when you wear it.

This matter of removing the dust bag is usually done by Aoki Song himself, he is not so sophisticated that his mother should do this kind of thing.

It was also because of this that Aoki Song discovered this matter after searching the house.

Thinking of this, Qing Musong hurriedly went to check another piece of clothes that did not remove the dust bag. There was a drying rack inside this set of clothes, so that it was convenient to hang the clothes directly into the closet.

Under the supervision of Takagi Shepherd and others, Aoki Song dismantled the suit and took out the drying rack inside.

The drying rack is made of steel and covered with a blue plastic wrap.The width of the entire drying rack is also about the same as the strangle marks on the victim's neck.

In other words, the victim may have been strangled to death by the murderer holding a clothes hanger. Because of the struggle, blue plastic fragments remained in his fingernails.

Thinking of this, Aoki Song hurriedly told Gao Mushe: "Gao Mu, lead the people downstairs quickly, and guard all the nearby garbage bags. Without my order, don't let the cleaning vehicle take them away."

Seeing Aoki Song's serious expression, Gao Mushe immediately responded: "Yes!"

After ordering the criminals in the house to continue the search, and ordering Ayumi Maruta not to contact the victim's relatives and friends for the time being, Aoki Song also went downstairs to negotiate with the cleaning truck that came to collect the garbage. After learning that they were responsible for collecting the garbage in this area, Aoki Song asked them to assist in the investigation of the case.

How can I help?

Of course, all the garbage bags are inspected to see if there is a "murder weapon" in them.

The smell of this rubbish is indeed bad, but digging through trash in the criminal business is not the most disgusting thing. Digging through rotten corpses in the cesspit is the ceiling.

There are many people and strength, and Neon has implemented garbage sorting management very early. There are regulations on what type of garbage to throw out on what day. If you throw it wrong, you will be punished, so there is not as much garbage as expected, and it will be turned over in a short time. I'm done.

"The police department, nothing suspected to be a clothes hanger was found in these garbage bags." Takagi came to report.

Aoki Song frowned upon hearing this, it's impossible, when he just came down to explain, he told everyone his reasoning, Conan also heard it from the side, and didn't say that his reasoning was wrong.

Moreover, Aoki Song has carefully observed his expression, it is not the kind of expression that finds out that Aoki Song is wrong, deliberately does not point it out, and wants to solve the case first by himself, and slaps Aoki Song in the face.

This fully shows that my reasoning is not wrong, but why can't I find a drying rack now!

Could it be that he was taken home by the murderer?

It's possible, but...

If the murder weapon in this case was a clothes hanger, then the murderer should have killed the victim with passion, that is, he had no intention of killing the victim at first, but was suddenly stimulated by some unknown factor. Maybe his hands moved faster than his brain, and he killed the victim. By.

Since it was a murder of passion, that is to say, the murderer did not make any preparations in advance. The area of ​​the drying rack is not small, and ordinary bags and backpacks cannot fit in it. Taking a drying rack outside and walking outside will attract more attention.

Generally, a murderer who kills with passion will be very panicked after killing someone.In the rush, most of the thoughts are to leave the murder scene as soon as possible. Even if a person who is a little rational and returns to the basket, thinks of dealing with the "murder weapon", he must choose to throw away the "murder weapon" nearby.

And this case Aoki Song has no impression, which means that it is not a big case, it should be an ordinary daily case in "Detective Conan", and the difficulty should not be high.

In this case, the "murder weapon" was not found, which really surprised Aoki Song.

After thinking about it, Qing Musong ordered: "Search around, ask the sanitation workers to see if there is a blue drying rack hidden in a small corner nearby."

Since the reasoning is correct, it is possible that the search is in the wrong place.

It was so obvious that the garbage bags were placed at the door of the apartment, and once the police thought of this modus operandi, the garbage bags would definitely be the first objects to be searched.

It is possible that the murderer also took this into consideration, so instead of throwing the "murder weapon" inside, he hid it in another unobtrusive corner.

In fact, neon also has the behavior of littering, but these behaviors basically do not happen in popular tourist places.

In addition, Neon only sets up trash cans near stations, convenience stores, and vending machines, and there are no trash cans on the streets. From the outside, many people who don’t know the inside story will take it for granted that the quality of Neon people is High, everyone consciously does not throw garbage casually.

In fact, this is not the case. The phenomenon of littering also exists in Neon. After all, as long as you don't get caught, you won't be fined.

There are so few surveillance cameras in Neon Public, as long as you don’t throw them around frequently, unless you are waiting for a rabbit, you will basically not be caught if you throw them occasionally.

Sanitation workers are the only ones who can clean up garbage faster than cleaning vehicles. Before the office workers go to work, they will go to work early to clean the road.

"Go and ask the people around here, especially the homeless, if someone took the clothes rack in advance." Qing Musong ordered.

There are not many people picking up garbage in the garbage dump.

If you have time and energy, you can actually find a lot of good things from the garbage dump, wash them and use them again.

"Yes!" Gao Mushe and others responded, and when they were about to leave, Conan who was standing aside suddenly said: "Brother Aoki, I just saw that there are nets next to the garbage bags to prevent crows from messing up the garbage. Did the crow take the drying rack away?"

Aoki Song blinked "Crow!"

"What? You mean the crow?" Ayumi, Genta, and Sayuri were very surprised when they heard this.

Yuantai even asked stupidly: "You mean crows also eat clothes drying racks?"

Conan was very speechless when he heard the words, it is impossible to think with his toes!

"It's used as nesting material!" Conan explained speechlessly.

"It's very possible! It's said on TV that many crows in the city use clothes hangers or steel wires to build their nests!" Mitsuhiko agreed.

Hui Yuanai said at this time: "I remember that this period of time happens to be the season for crows to build their nests."

Aoki Song thought for a while, since this matter was proposed by Conan, and Haibara Ai also agreed, then according to Ke Xue, the possibility of this kind of thing happening is - [-]%!

"I see." Aoki Song said to Conan, then turned to Gao Mushe and the others and said: "When you are searching, remember to look at the crow's nest."

"Yes!" Gao Mushe and the others responded.

Most of the officers were then dispersed to find the drying racks.

There are many people and strength, and someone will be found soon.

Sure enough, it was found in a crow's nest on a utility pole.

When Aoki Song received this news, he only had one thought in his mind 【Sure enough...】

After contacting the power department, a criminal climbed up and took down the drying rack, and then Qing Musong sent someone to the forensics class to test the drying rack, especially whether there were fingerprints or other evidence on it.