Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 1735 Chapter 1735 [Why are you still not leaving]

  The first two orders still need time, but the last request to investigate the identity of the deceased is progressing unexpectedly fast.

  A female reporter squeezed her head into the front row, trying to take pictures of the scene. But before pressing the shutter, she saw the person lying on the ground clearly, and couldn't help but screamed: "Kaga Claw?!"

  Suddenly saw the dead body of an acquaintance, she was surprised, and suddenly found that after her voice fell, several people turned their heads and looked at her in unison.

  The female reporter faced the sharp eyes of the police and detectives: "..."

  …

"Kaga Zuohiro is my colleague. He is quite famous in our industry, and he has uncovered a lot of scandals about big figures, but... oh, but because of that incident a year ago, he has been criticized a lot, and gradually I'm not so active anymore, but my temper is growing day by day."

  The female reporter sighed.

  Jiang Xia quickly extracted the key words: "What happened a year ago?"

   "That's it..." The female reporter is very cooperative, after all, it means that she can get first-hand information about the case, and things related to acquaintances are always interesting.

  She took out her mobile phone and searched, and quickly found a report about her company, clicked on it, and showed it to Jiang Xia: "This is it."

  Jiang Xia glanced down and found that the news was released a year ago:

  [The president of Shanjiao passed away, and the business giants have no leader!

  One of the largest companies in Japan, the president of Yamakado Works, Yamakado Yusan, died of bile duct cancer a few days ago at the age of 76.

  Because the suicide note left by President Shanjiao could not be found, the family members were busy fighting for the inheritance, and disputes continued.

  …]

   "Failed to find suicide note?"

  It is rare for a president these days not to prepare a will in advance, otherwise, if one day the person disappears, the family will be separated and the company will suffer.

   What's more, when the president of Shanjiao in the news passed away, he was already considered an advanced age, and it was even more impossible for him to let go of him regardless. So "failed to find" must not be because there is no such thing, but that the suicide note was lost for some reason.

   Looking further down, sure enough, this report also speculates that someone stole the suicide note. It discusses at length the whereabouts of the suicide note, speculating about who in the family stole it.

   All kinds of guesses, Jiang Xia passed them with a glance. Sliding all the way to the end, he saw that there were two introduction columns at the bottom of the page, with photos hanging in them—it seemed that these two were the authors of this report.

  The female reporter looked at the screen in front of him, raised her hand and pointed to him: "This is the deceased."

  Jiang Xia's eyes fell on the other side: "The one next to it looks familiar."

  The female reporter was a little embarrassed: "Did you recognize it? Cough, this is actually the person who quarreled with the deceased in the store yesterday. I was there at the time, and the two of them co-authored this report."

  Yoko Kinoshita has also been listening quietly by the side.

  Hearing this, she thought of the two people who were arguing fiercely in the coffee shop when the broadcast started, and she couldn't help being a little surprised: "I thought they had a bad relationship, but I didn't expect them to cooperate."

  "They actually have similar tempers, so the relationship between the two people was really good at that time."

  The female reporter didn't seem to like these two people very much. She looked around and found that her colleagues were blocked from the cordon and couldn't take pictures here, so she finished the following in a low voice:

“They got the benefit of the story, and then they kept fanning the flames of the will—not only appearing on various shows, discussing it in depth on the show, but also putting out sequels in newspapers and magazines. During that time, There are discussions about the whereabouts of the suicide note and the relationship with President Shanjiao's family everywhere, the plot twists and turns, it is as thrilling as a novel."

"In the eyes of the citizens, this may be just ordinary entertainment, but the problem is that the members of President Shanjiao's family inevitably saw their reports. So the people of Shanjiao's family followed them and guessed wildly. The relationship between the two became more and more tense, and in the end, a murder case was actually caused by it!

   "After the incident, the public opinion turned, the two of them were slammed, and the sales of the magazine continued to decline. Since then, their relationship has gone from bad to worse."

  Jiang Xia: "..." The murder case a year ago, no one will blame me this time.

   But it's a pity. If he could choose, he would prefer to move this case to a year later...

   Miwako Sato saw Jiang Xia lost in thought, waited for a while, and couldn't help asking: "Have you got an idea?"

  For this kidnapping case, she has been busy for two or three days, and now she really wants to sleep well...

  Jiang Xia came back to his senses: "A year ago about the will, there must be something hidden behind it. In addition to the relationship between the two of them... I think it is necessary to start from here, first invite that colleague to come over and ask about the situation."

  ...Although you can go back to the police station and ask again, but to be honest, Jiang Xia actually wants to stay by the river for a little longer.

  There is no other reason, the temptation of the two groups of murderous factories in the river behind them is too great. If it weren't for the fear that the boss would die in the river at a young age, he would have taken the police to block the river for eternity.

  …

   Not long after, the Mumu police department got a little more detailed information.

   "Kagazuhiro, 38 years old, is a professional journalist. His death time should be from yesterday afternoon to evening. More details need to wait for the results of the autopsy. At present, this person is likely to have died of cyanide poisoning."

   As he spoke, Mumu police department looked down at the deceased. The deceased held a thermos cup in his hand, and the coffee in it spilled all over the floor.

  The cup was held in his hand very naturally, and there was no trace of being forcibly stuffed into it. So Mu Mu's heart moved, and he couldn't help thinking: Could it be that he committed suicide?

   After a while, he shook his head vigorously, firmly erasing this preconceived notion: such a big Jiang Xia was still standing beside him. When this detective is present, no one commits suicide.

  Just thinking about it, Jiang Xia looked at the coffee cup thoughtfully: "It looks like suicide?"

  Memu Police Department: "?"

  Conan: "?" Why did you suddenly grab the police line?

  Recalling the explosion that just happened, and Jiang Xia who just performed an extreme escape in the warehouse, Conan felt that everything seemed to be understandable.

  He called out skillfully: "Oh, how strange! There seems to be half a footprint here."

   "?!" Mu Mu Police Department was stunned, and followed his pointing to look carefully, "It really is!"

  —There is a lot of coffee in the cup, and the liquid flows into a long puddle on the ground. In one of the inconspicuous corners, the coffee seems to have been stepped on, leaving some traces of the soles.

   This is obviously a very important clue. Ingestion of toxic cyanide can quickly incapacitate a person. And the presence of this footprint here means that someone came after the deceased fell to the ground.

  (end of this chapter)