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After searching the front room, Conan opened the back door and squatted beside the warehouse at the back, looking at the dust on the ground, thinking: "There must have been a lot of things here before, but they were all moved away, and they were just moved recently. Since Mr. Sakura is a member of the Genji Hotaru, then his antique art gallery must be used to sell the antiques they stole. It seems that they have conducted large-scale transactions recently."
Conan spoke very clearly and Chu Ming did not say anything. After all, what Conan said was not wrong, it was almost the same. The only difference was that this was a no-cost transaction. The organization did not pay and Sakura Masao did not know about it.
After a while, Chu Ming saw that they had almost finished searching everywhere, so he urged the two to leave quickly and wipe off their fingerprints and footprints so as not to interfere with the police's judgment and avoid having the three of them arrested because of this.
The three of them cleaned up the scene in an orderly manner. Chu Ming had done this kind of thing many times when he was still on the periphery, so it was easy for him. But looking at Conan and Hattori... they are too skilled!!!
"Are you really just detectives? You're not a skilled killer under some secret identity... Your movements are quite skillful. You must have cleaned up so many crime scenes to develop these skills..."
On the way back, Chu Ming tried to hold it in again and again, but found that he still couldn't hold it in, so he revealed his doubts.
Hattori waved his hand and said, "What? I learned this from following Uncle Otaki. Sometimes they need to clean up their own traces when they explore a crime scene. Over time, I learned this naturally."
Okay, that's a good reason.
Chu Ming continued to ask Conan: "What about you? Did you learn it from your father?"
Conan nodded: "My dad used to write detective novels. In order to make them more realistic, he took me to Hawaii to learn."
OK, magical Hawaii, that’s an even better reason.
"What about you?!" Conan and Hattori asked in unison.
"As for me, I learned it from my fighting coach." Chu Ming skillfully made up half-true and half-false excuses, with a complaining look on his face, "You also know that I am a rich second-generation. When my parents were still alive, they were afraid that I would be kidnapped, so they found a fighting coach for me. Later, even after my parents passed away, they did not stop teaching. My coach is an international mercenary who retired from the battlefield. He can teach me a little bit about everything, not to mention how to deal with the scene. He even taught me how to destroy the body..."
"No wonder Chu Ming's moves are sometimes lethal. If Chu Ming hadn't deliberately deflected his blows, some people would have died the moment they met him." Hattori pressed his hat, "So the person who taught you taught you lethal moves."
Hattori had practiced kendo, so he could still tell whether a move was a killing move or not. At first, he thought Chu Ming's moves were a bit murderous, but fortunately, Chu Ming seemed to know his limits, and he usually just knocked people out. In addition, he showed all kinds of decent behavior, and Conan trusted him very much, so Conan finally felt at ease and interacted with Chu Ming.
Chu Ming could tell that Hattori misunderstood him, but he didn't explain. He never hit people deliberately, and no one died because of his science. In front of the protagonists, no matter how hard he hit, it didn't matter. At most, people would be knocked unconscious or foam at the mouth, but they wouldn't be killed.
Xiaolan had the strength to bend a telephone pole with one punch, and she punched people dozens of times in a row, but she never killed anyone. This is the controlling power of the world's will.
When they returned to the teahouse and heard the results of Conan and Hattori's investigation, Kogoro Mouri's mouth twitched instantly.
"...Then the next one to be killed won't be me who was left out in the middle!"
Chu Ming looked at Maori Kogoro with a sharp gaze, who shared the same views as the hero, but instantly thought of his famous Maori elimination method and silently withdrew his gaze.
Forget it, I had the same train of thought as Kogoro Mouri. I might have been driven crazy by Gin's information recently.
——(*^▽^*)——
By the time everyone had expressed their opinions and finished chatting, it was already past nine o'clock.
Kogoro Mori also rented a car, so they split up and went back to the hotel separately.
Just as Chu Ming was driving towards the booked hotel, he saw from the rearview mirror a motorcycle chasing him closely from behind. The motorcycle was even using a coin to hold the handlebars to control the speed, leaving both hands free to draw the bow and draw the arrow.
Chu Ming quickly swerved to avoid the arrow, slammed on the brakes and stopped by the roadside. He looked at the murderer, who was wearing a mask as usual, and was unable to slow down in time because of the coin stuck in his car, and could only whiz past their car. He couldn't help but reveal a mocking smile.
Hattori, who was sitting in the back, was very anxious, wishing he was the one driving: "Brother Chu Ming has left, you should chase him!!!"
Chu Ming was calm: "Don't worry, this murderer has come to you again and again, he must have some plan for you. If we don't do anything, he will definitely come again. On the contrary, if we keep chasing him, it will be easy for us to fall into his trap."
Sure enough, before Chu Ming could drive away, the motorcycle that had just whizzed past rushed over again from the opposite side. This time, the bow and arrow in his hand was not aimed at people, but at the tires of the car.
What kind of unethical murderer is this? ! He just likes to target his tires? ? ?
Chu Ming seized the opportunity, dodged the arrow, and like a dragon, used the back of his motorcycle to push the man off. As a result, the masked man took out his familiar knife again the moment he fell off the motorcycle, and dealt a heavy blow to Chu Ming's tire, then turned around and ran into the woods next to him.
Seeing that the murderer was about to leave, Hattori opened the car door and chased after him.
When He Ye saw Hattori running away, he became worried and ran after him.
It happened very quickly, in the blink of an eye, Chu Ming was left alone, staring at the empty car with a punctured tire, speechless for a long while.
After a long while, Chu Ming finally found his voice: "Damn, another broken tire?"
Have I really been spending too much time with Maori Kogoro recently? Not only am I getting closer to him in my reasoning, but I am also about to inherit his title of vehicle killer? ?
Chapter 391 The body is too weak
Chu Ming had no intention of chasing after anyone. He squatted beside the punctured tire, lost in thought.
He has always wanted to take advantage of Conan's halo as the god of death, but until today, he has not succeeded. Now when he goes out alone, he still doesn't encounter any cases.
But now, he seems to have inherited the aura of Maori Kogoro as a vehicle killer? ?
Who wants this halo? !
The car that Kogoro Maori damaged was a rented car, but the cars he damaged were all organized cars, so rounding it off, it was his car!!!
How is this possible? ?
At present, most of the members of Genji Hotaru have been killed, and he has already found out the murderer during the day, who is Nishijo Taiga.
This Nishijo Ohkawa is a bad guy, he can't be dealt with. He just punctured his tire once and smashed his motorcycle once! He actually attacked his poor tire twice!
Chu Ming stood up and called the person in charge of dispatching the car in Kyoto again. He then parked the car on the side of the road and headed towards Hattori.
When Chu Ming arrived, he saw Hattori, with blood flowing from his forehead, tearing open his collar, revealing his collarbone and a large area of his chest, inviting Nishijo Taiga to stab him in the heart.
???
Chu Ming paused. Did Hattori have a brain problem? Which murderer could resist such temptation?
Sure enough, Nishijo Taiga was stunned for half a second, his eyes full of expression that he had never heard of such a request before, and then, as Hattori wished, he pulled out a knife from his arms that was particularly familiar to Chu Ming.
Hattori cautiously took a half step back, as if deliberately exposing a flaw, and stepped into a puddle, causing Saijo Taiga to stab him with a knife...
——Well, it’s not that he exposed his flaws, he just stepped into the water. After all, Nishijo Taiga cut his abdomen directly with a knife, knocking down the props of his first love.
Seeing Saijo Taiga bending down as if to pick it up, Hattori gritted his teeth, ignored his own injuries, kicked Saijo Taiga away, and put the thing in his arms: "This is not something you can touch."
"Yeah, that's the thing of my first love~" Chu Ming slowly walked out from behind the tree. As the shadow of the tree gradually disappeared, Chu Ming's face became clearer and clearer, and his style instantly reached its peak.
Chu Ming raised his toes, kicked up Hattori's bamboo sword that had just been knocked away, held it in his hand, and hooked his finger at Saijo Taiga with one hand: "Come on, let's have a fight."
Nishijo Taiga, who was extremely confident in his skills, rushed over with a knife in hand. Chu Ming had never practiced Japanese kendo, but he had learned Chinese swordsmanship.
Chu Ming held the narrow bamboo sword in one hand. He turned his head to avoid Xijo Taiga's chops and cuts, and then used the tip of the sword to hit Xijo Taiga's wrist. He moved his body as lightly as a swallow. After a while, Xijo Taiga had been chopped and stabbed several times by Chu Ming. He was in so much pain that he couldn't hold the sword in his hand and was knocked away.
He didn't expect Chu Ming's fighting power to be so high, and he immediately wanted to retreat.
Chu Ming didn't plan to catch the man this time. He also wanted to take the opportunity to see what Hattori, played by Kudo Shinichi, looked like. So when Nishijo Taikawa wanted to run away and the people fighting with him deliberately cooperated, Nishijo Taikawa successfully dropped a smoke bomb and evacuated smoothly, which even he himself found incredible.
Chu Ming originally wanted to chase after him a few steps to show his respect, but when he heard He Ye calling out to Hattori in a crying voice, he immediately retracted his steps and turned around to squat beside Hattori.
At this time, Hattori had already fainted. There was no change in his facial expression, but the color of his lips had faded. Chu Mingren helped him up and checked him. He found that the wound on his waist was not small, and the blood had soaked the surrounding clothes.
Chu Ming directly tore a piece of cloth from Hattori's clothes and bandaged his wound to stop the bleeding. Then he helped Hattori up and said, "Let's go to the hospital."
He Ye went to the other side to support him, pursed her lips, and looked like she was about to cry: "Brother Chu Ming, your car is broken down, why don't I call 120."
Chu Ming was sharp-eyed. Seeing that his car had been replaced on the side of the road, he shook his head and said, "It's okay. I've called someone to replace it. Hurry up and send Hattori to the hospital. He has lost a lot of blood, and the place where he was stabbed was his waist. We should go and see him right away."
……
In the ward, He Ye was making phone calls one after another. After all, Hattori was injured and unconscious in the hospital, so this major event had to be reported to the parents.
When the Osaka representative, Officer Otaki, arrived at the ward, the special police officers Shiratori Jinsaburo and Ayanokouji had just arrived. The murderer did not have time to take the knife away. After Chu Ming knocked it down, he was in a hurry to escape and had no time to pick up the knife.
So after investigating the scene, the police took the knife back for testing. At that time, there were some brown blood stains on the seams of the knife handle. The police planned to investigate the source of the blood.
However, the police only came to conduct routine inquiries. Since Chu Ming and He Ye were also at the scene, they did not wait for Hattori to wake up and left directly after questioning.
After all, Hattori's injury was not serious, but it looked horrible. The clothes around his waist were stained red, but in fact it was just a cut along his waist, and no stitches were needed.
So why did Hattori faint when his injuries were not serious?
Is it because it's too empty?
Chapter 392 First love?
Xiaolan, Ye and others were chatting with the police outside, while Chu Ming and Conan stayed in the ward watching Hattori.
"Don't pretend to be asleep. I just saw your eyelids twitching." Chu Ming sat on the chair beside the bed and shouted to Hattori unhappily, "Don't worry, Kazuha and the others are out. It's just Conan and I here. Don't be afraid of losing face in front of Kazuha."
Upon hearing this, Conan also looked at Hattori, and saw Hattori's eyelashes moving slightly on the hospital bed. Then he squinted his eyes to confirm that there were only Conan and Chu Ming in the ward, and then he opened his eyes with relief.
Facing the teasing looks from Chu Ming and Conan, his face turned red and he couldn't help but defend himself, "I didn't mean it. I was just pretending to be asleep just now because I was afraid that He Ye would hug me and cry again after seeing me wake up! Otherwise, I wouldn't have closed my eyes..."
He didn't care whether Chu Ming and the others believed him or not. He threw back the quilt, put on his clothes quickly, and changed the subject: "Let's go. The murderer went out last night. Now we can ask the suspects for their alibis and see if we can rule out a few people."
"But your injury..." Conan was a little worried, "Why don't you just lie down, and Brother Chu Ming and I will check it out."
How could Hattori agree to let his two good friends investigate a case outside while he lies bored in bed waiting?
"No, I've confronted the murderer before, maybe I can figure out something! Come on, are they still at the door?"
Chu Ming shook his head: "No, they are probably sending Officer Shiratori and the others out. If you want to leave, then go now, or they will be back soon."
Conan tugged at Chu Ming's clothes anxiously: "Brother Chu Ming, this won't work. Hattori is still injured! What if he faints again on the way? Can't the two of us go?"
"Can you persuade him?" Chu Ming asked back, "Hatsunobi will never agree. It's better for the two of us to follow him. If anything happens, we can send him back to the hospital in time. Besides, if it were you, you probably wouldn't be able to stay in bed. You are all the king of curlers."
Conan was silent, it seemed to be true.
In the end, the three of them avoided Xiaolan and the others and quietly slipped away through the side door of the hospital.
Chu Ming drove the third car he had bought and took the two of them to Sanno Temple. Several clients had entrusted Maori Kogoro to find the Buddha statue. At present, there was no news about the whereabouts of the Buddha statue, so everyone would still meet at Sanno Temple during the day, so that Chu Ming and his companions wouldn't have to run around everywhere.
On the way, Hattori took out the cloth bag containing the keepsake of his first love from his pocket, and thought: "That masked man... wanted to pick up my cloth bag the moment it fell. Why?"
Conan took the bag and opened it, and looked at the crystal beads inside again. Suddenly he thought of something, and nudged Hattori with a wicked smile: "You said, that old man in the mask, could it be your first love~"
Hattori widened his eyes and glared at Conan: "What kind of weird guess is this? You know it's impossible!"
Chu Ming teased him while driving: "How is it impossible? Otherwise, why would he be so excited to see this? Emmm - but it is also possible that your first love is the old man's daughter, and he found out that his daughter's personal belongings were kept by a rascal. As an old father, he was so angry that he came to find you~"
Conan chuckled, thinking it made sense, and gave a thumbs-up.
Hattori, on the other hand, refused to accept the offer. His face showed you were talking nonsense, and he retorted without any confidence, "That's not the case. However, I think this crystal bead may have some other use. When I was looking for my first love in a magazine, the photo I took was of me holding the crystal bead. I guess the murderer came looking for me after seeing the photo..."
The louder he spoke, the more he thought he might have found the truth.
"So, this isn't actually the item that brought you and your first love together~" Chu Ming gloated, "No wonder your first love hasn't come to see you until today, it turns out you got the wrong token. But when the Medicine Buddha statue in Shanneng Temple was lost, you also picked it up in Shanneng Temple, and now someone is chasing you, it seems that the crystal bead you picked up is related to the Medicine Buddha statue."
Hattori and Conan also began to slowly talk about their own reasoning...
……
When they arrived at Sannoji Temple, the three of them were discussing alibis with several suspects when Chiga Ling came to visit.