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Chapter 170 Decomposed Corpse (22)

Since Akikawa Sosuke is an important "witness" in this poisoning case, he needs to stay in Hakone for another day and wait until he finishes his statement at the police station before he can return to Tokyo.

Yesterday and the day before yesterday, Akikawa Sosuke chose to take a bath in the room in order to avoid the Death God Elementary School Student.

And today, Akikawa Sosuke got up before five o'clock on purpose, preparing to take a hot spring bath when there were not many people around.

Unexpectedly, I met the Elementary School Student of Death again.

Conan stood there in a daze, staring at Akikawa Sousuke for a few seconds.

Although Conan didn't think that Akikawa Sosuke's misfortune had anything to do with him.

But obviously Akikawa Sosuke doesn't think so.

Through what Akikawa Sorasuke said yesterday, Conan also realized that this artist disliked him very much.

In Akikawa Sosuke's eyes, he was probably the culprit that caused him bad luck.

At this time, the two met again in the empty locker room. Conan felt so embarrassed that he couldn't help but want to dig his toes into the ground.

"Good morning, Akikawa brother~"

Conan greeted Akikawa Sosuke in a coquettish voice with his childish voice.

Then he saw Akikawa Sosuke showing an extremely sunny smile and replying to him with a "Good morning".

Although it is a bit exaggerated.

But Conan always felt that when Akikawa Sosuke greeted him, it seemed as if the back of his head was glowing.

"Why didn't this guy become an idol?"

'This smile just now, coupled with his face, is likely to instantly make many female viewers' hearts beat faster.'

Conan couldn't help but complain in his mind.

However, at this moment, when he saw Akikawa Sosuke showing him the same cheerful smile as the popular high school student Kotani Sae showed to her female classmates on the stage, he felt a chill all over his body.

After quickly taking off his clothes, Conan ran to the hot spring area with a towel.

Even if it was just a second earlier, Conan just wanted to quickly escape from this awkward and suffocating environment.

Akikawa Sosuke smiled and watched Conan leave.

After Conan's figure disappeared, his expression returned to its usual slightly gloomy look.

Having met the Grim Reaper early in the morning, Akikawa Sosuke always felt that today was a bit unlucky.

Just when Akikawa Sosuke gave up taking a bath and was about to go back to his room,
Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps were heard coming from the direction where Conan had just left.

"Brother Qiuchuan!"

The next moment.

Following Conan's somewhat panicked shout, Akikawa Sorasuke saw Conan, naked, running back to the locker room.

"what happened?"

Akikawa Sosuke looked at Conan's poorly acted panic and immediately had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Come with me quickly!"

Conan said this, and quickly put on his yukata again. After tying the yukata belt around his waist, he pulled Akikawa Sosuke to the hot spring area.

As soon as he entered here, the familiar smell of rotten eggs wafted into Akikawa Sosuke's nostrils.

And amidst the smell of rotten eggs, Akikawa Sosuke also keenly detected an extremely unpleasant and pungent smell.

Akikawa Sosuke was no stranger to this.

This is because the body's internal bacteria begin to decompose the tissues after death, producing a foul odor.

The bad premonition in his heart came true again, and Akikawa Sorasuke felt even more speechless.

My beautiful day ended the moment I saw the Grim Reaper elementary school student.

Although Akikawa Sosuke had already identified that this was the smell of a corpse, he still covered his nose and showed an unbearable expression.

"What's that smell? Why is it so bad?"

"The smell comes from there!" Conan stretched out his hand and pointed towards a hot spring pool not far away.

I saw a black opaque bag floating on the surface of the hot spring, which looked suspicious no matter how I looked at it.

"The handsome detective from before is no longer with you, so you want me to open the bag and take a look?"

Akikawa Sosuke saw through Conan's thoughts at a glance.

He knew that as a detective with the destiny of being the protagonist in this world, Conan's ability to solve cases was unquestionable.

But after Conan became a child, he could no longer display his reasoning ability as he wished.

At this time, Dr. Agasa is not here.

The only adult left was myself.

With confusion and doubt on his face, Akikawa Sosuke walked over to the hot spring pool where bubbles were constantly bubbling up from the bottom of the pool.

Then he reached out and dragged the black bag over and put it on the shore.

Before opening the bag, Akikawa Sosuke already had a guess about what was in the bag.

Corpse odor usually begins to emanate within 12 to 24 hours after death.

Because the temperature in the hot spring area is relatively hot, the speed of corpse transformation will also be faster.

In other words, the bag in front of him should contain a body that has been dead for at least 8 hours.

But it is impossible to fit the body of an adult in such a bag.

So the bag either contains the body of a child,

Or, it could be a "partial" body of an adult.

Akikawa Sosuke reached out and untied the bag, and then Akikawa Sosuke's second guess came true.

Inside the bag, Akikawa Sosuke saw the separated upper arm and forearm, and the right leg separated into the thigh and calf.

As for why Akikawa Sosuke could tell at a glance that it was the right leg, but couldn't tell whether it was the left arm or the right arm.

That's because the calf inside the bag was connected to the right foot, but the forearm was cut off at the wrist.

And Akikawa Sosuke couldn't directly touch the body to confirm the radius and ulna, so naturally he couldn't tell whether the arm was the left or right arm.

"what--!"

Akikawa Sosuke screamed, threw the bag away, and stepped back more than ten meters.

After observing the inside of the bag, Conan also showed an extremely horrified expression.

He really ran in the direction where Akikawa Sosuke left, like a frightened child.

'An arm plus a leg accounts for about 21%-24% of a person's body weight. A rough estimate is that the bag just now should be less than 15 kilograms.'

"According to the time of death of the deceased, the methane and hydrogen sulfide gases produced by the decomposition of the corpse should not be enough to make the bag float. The only way is that the murderer sealed too much air into the bag when filling it, causing the bag to not sink to the bottom of the pool."

"So, there should be some remains of the body at the bottom of the pool?"

'Also, the murderer must have been in a very urgent state of mind when he disposed of the body, as he simply sealed the bag in a hurry and discarded it.'

"But if that's the case, why would the murderer waste time dismembering the body? What is he worried about?"

Akikawa Sosuke supported himself against the wall with one hand and covered his bulging mouth with the other, making as if he was about to vomit.

The appearance of the corpse aroused some curiosity in Akikawa Sosuke's heart.

But what he cared more about at this moment was the psychological state displayed by the murderer when he dumped the body.

'When Qiuchuan threw the bag away just now, the livor mortis on the body did not move, which means that the livor mortis has been fixed.'

'Combined with the stench of corpse, the deceased has been dead for more than ten hours.'

'The body was decomposed at the ulnar joint, femoral tibia joint, and radiocarpal joint, all of which are "movable joints" responsible for flexion and extension.'

"What was the murderer's real purpose? Excluding the strange habit, could it be that the murderer was trying to cover up something by dismembering the body?"

Conan stared at the black bag from afar behind his round-frame glasses. While thinking in his mind, he did not forget to show a look of horror on his little face.

(End of this chapter)