Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

Tokyo, Special Investigation Department.

Nishizaki Zhouming received the news.

"Nagano Prefecture?" Nishizaki Zhouming sneered, "They're really quick. They've actually tracked down the director from back then."

The fact that Hasase Jin was able to "commit suicide" in the detention center was naturally inevitable that the people above him turned a blind eye. Otherwise, the tools of "suicide" and the scene of "suicide" alone would not be easy to deal with, otherwise they would have been investigated by the police long ago.

The director of this detention center is naturally the person who let the water go back then.

After this incident, he was very honored to "retire with honor" and return to his hometown in Nagano to start a peaceful retirement life.

Of course, it is not ruled out that he was running away to escape the clutches of the Nishizaki family who wanted to silence him.

Considering that this guy had good eyesight and ran away very quickly, the Nishizaki family turned a blind eye and let him leave.

But now...

"The life that should be taken must be taken away to feel at ease——"

The man leaned back and slowly lit a cigarette. Then he looked out the window. His voice was lost in the smoke, becoming hazy and indistinct.

"Unfortunately, it's still too late."

-

Nagano City, Matsushiro-cho 11-2-13.

It was a rather western-style house that looked quite old, with traces of time showing on the exterior of the building.

Zhu Fu Gaoming and Yamato Gansuke stood at the door and gently pressed the doorbell, but there was no response from inside.

The two looked at each other, pressed the doorbell again, and after confirming that there was no movement inside, they began to observe outside the house.

"Gao Ming, the window over there—"

Zhu Fu Gaoming looked in the direction of Yamato Gansuke's movements and saw that the window of the house over there was not closed tightly but was half-open.

Zhu Fu Gaoming narrowed his eyes and smelled something bad.

"Do you smell anything?" Zhu Fu Gaoming asked in a low voice.

Yamato Gansuke raised his head, trying to identify the smell in the air, and then his face changed slightly: "It seems to be——"

The two looked at each other and said, "What a corpse stench!"

……

"The deceased, Gota Ishikawa, was 71 years old and lived alone. He died two days ago. The cause of death is initially suspected to be a cerebral infarction."

Zhu Fugaoming stood at the crime scene with a serious expression, staring at the deceased without blinking, and listening carefully to the identification of the police officer next to him.

"It's been two days since he died, and no one has found him yet?" Yamato Gansuke murmured with a headache, "Where are the deceased's family members?"

The police officer said: "The deceased's family lives in other towns in Nagano City. They only come to visit the elderly on holidays. In addition, the elderly man is in good health, so the community only comes to visit every four days and rarely visits on other days."

Zhu Fu Gaoming calculated the time: "Based on this, he should have died shortly after the community members came to visit him."

The police officer nodded: "We have already contacted the community workers at the time, and they will be here soon."

Zhu Fu Gaoming didn't say anything else, just stood there and continued to observe the scene.

Yamato Gansuke walked up to Zhufu Gaoming and said, "This is too much of a coincidence."

The case originally involved Hase Jin, and now the important witness has died. It seems a bit strange no matter how you look at it.

Zhu Fu Gao Ming's tone was calm and firm: "This case is definitely a murder. And no matter who the murderer is, I will definitely take him to Tokyo."

Since we can’t take the dead with us, then take the murderer with us!

-

Tokyo, nightfall.

"Someone's dead?" Bai Chuanqiu lowered his eyes and casually adjusted the parts on the table. "They reacted really quickly. It seems that the incident with the Hase family has made them more vigilant."

He had already been dealing with the affairs of the geisha house while cleaning up the mess that happened that year.

Tsk, how cunning he is.

Zhu Fujingguang said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I don't think I can be of much help this time."

"How can I blame you for this?" Bai Chuanqiu sighed. "They must have made preparations long ago. As the ones holding back, we have to be more passive."

Zhu Fujingguang: "Then this case..."

"It doesn't matter. There must be other breakthrough points for what happened back then."

Baichuan Qiu stopped what he was doing and closed his eyes to think deeply.

The case from nine years ago has been suppressed until today, and there are indeed not many points that can be broken through. Moreover, the Nishizaki family had just been elected and was in the limelight at that time. Any traces that could be erased would have been dealt with long ago, and it would be impossible to wait until today.

Otherwise, the Hase family would not have made so little substantial progress for so long, until the arrival of the protagonists, they found a trace of doubt.

But now, there are too few people who can take the path of human testimony.

There are very few murderers, accomplices, and witnesses who can be found at present, and once the people are dealt with in advance by the Nishizaki family, the human evidence will be completely useless.

Besides, people move around and are mobile, so finding someone will take much longer...

Then look for evidence?

But the evidence is even scarcer...

Baichuan Qiu suddenly opened his eyes.

No, not necessarily.

The evidence that can be found now is indeed very scarce. The Nishizaki family must have destroyed everything that could be destroyed, so it is not their turn to look for it nine years later.

——What if it is evidence left behind nine years ago?

Shirakawa Qiu's mind suddenly flashed through Hase Yuta's words——

"Shirakawa Masanao, one of the key individuals responsible for the Windru case nine years ago."

"If he was still alive at the time, perhaps this case would have been reversed."

"What a pity, he died too early..."

What if... what if Shirakawa Masanao had the crucial evidence in his hands back then?

In this way, everything that happens later can be connected together.

The death of Shirakawa's parents, all the tragedies... all stemmed from that piece of evidence?

Baichuan Qiu boldly speculated that the situation was very likely to be like this -

Shirakawa Masanao was the person in charge of the Windru case at the time. He was investigating the case and found some suspicious points.

It happened that at this time, Hase Jin "committed suicide out of fear of punishment" in the detention center. Shirakawa Masanao conducted a detailed investigation into the suicide case with a skeptical attitude, and then discovered a horrible truth - Hase Jin did not commit suicide, but was murdered!

In other words, the Windru case that shocked the whole country was most likely a scam from beginning to end!

Not only did Shirakawa Masanao find out the truth, he even got a key piece of evidence.

But at this time, the fact that he had evidence was also known to the Nishizaki family.

So, they took advantage of the original owner who was far away in the United States and lured the Shirakawa couple onto the flight of death, burying all the unspeakable secrets in the sky.

At this point, the Shirakawa couple died, the original owner was blamed, and the Nishizaki family successfully concealed their existence and came to power in glory.

Baichuan Qiu sneered.

——What a good show.