Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 152: Ghost Back
"Then let's split up and look for them...all the snow men...no, all the cold storage trucks!" Hattori said immediately.

"No! Hattori, you come with me." Otaki said hurriedly at this time.

Unlike the previous search for clues, now it is very likely that they will have to face the murderer directly. How could Otaki let Hattori act on his own?

Although Kendo's kendo attainments are not low, and if he has a stick, Otaki may not be his opponent, but he is only a high school student after all!
"But..." Hattori was still not convinced.

But at this time, Bai Shi also said: "Well, you two can come with me."

This is not a question of strength or not. As a police officer, it is impossible for me to let an ordinary citizen find a possible murderer on his own!

"Okay, Hattori, and we only have two cars... Shiraishi, you drive the car, and Hattori and I will ride the electric bikes." Otaki said, handing over the car keys.

Hattori stopped talking when he saw this - indeed, no matter how he looked at it, Shiraishi couldn't ride an electric bike!

"Let's go to Yukio's branch first, then we'll go to Kobe, and you guys go to Osaka..." Shiraishi said, and he briefly divided the work with Otaki.

The address of the branch of [Xue Nan Cold Chain] is not far away, and there are several cold storage trucks parked outside the door. However, this is just a stopover point and there is no cold storage itself. They go to various cold storages to pick up the goods and then send them to the destination.

If the driver stops at Arima, he can rest in the lounge here.

"Eh? Who are you?"

"Police! Check your past registrations... Have any of the cars parked here been to Dongdu within the past two days?" Otaki immediately showed his "police officer ID" and said.

"You're not... um... There's no bus here that goes to Touto. I'll look for the record for you." The clerk was just thinking, "Isn't this your ID from the 'Osaka Prefectural Police'?" when he saw Shiraishi getting off the bus, so...

I honestly found the records of the company's cold chain vehicles passing by here!
"Go and take a look at the cars parked here to see if there are any suspicious ones." Shiraishi said to Otaki and others as he took the records.

Bai Shi took the notebook and glanced at each page, then wrote down all the records of the cold storage trucks that had parked here in the past three days.

Otaki made a quick inspection and found that the cold storage truck here had never been to Dongdu before, and there was nothing suspicious in the cold storage truck.

So the two of them did as they had agreed before. Shiraishi went south in the direction of Kobe, while Otaki went east in the direction of Osaka.

At this point in the investigation, if there is enough time, solving the case will not be a problem.

But now "Xiaohua's" life is still under threat, Shiraishi is very anxious. Misumi and Ayako are also looking out of the window to the left and right, fearing that they have missed something.

Along the way, Shiraishi checked another "Snowman" cold storage truck, but found nothing, until...

squeak--

Shiraishi suddenly braked and stopped by the roadside. This place was sparsely populated and was already in the countryside. Ayako and Misumi hadn't noticed anything yet.

"What's wrong?" Sancheng asked hurriedly when he saw this.

"That car... I have to take a look at it!" Bai Shi said, looking at a truck parked next to a pond.

"Eh? That car...is it an ordinary truck, right?" Sancheng followed his gaze and was stunned.

Indeed, the car body of this car looks gray, just like an ordinary van, but...

"Let's go down and take a look." Bai Shi insisted.

Seeing this, Misumi and Ayako followed, and when they got closer...

"Ah! This is..." Sancheng suddenly discovered that the outside of the carriage was painted!
Moreover, the paint looks like it is no more than a day old, and you can even smell it if you get close.

Although it was just a passing car, in Shiraishi's opinion, the whole car was shining, and he could smell a scent through the car window...

Then Shiraishi looked at the painted license plate and confirmed, "It's 'Snowman's' car! And this car is in the records. It went to Dongdu on Wednesday!"

Immediately, Bai Shi opened the cold storage compartment directly - the cold storage compartment was very large, even Bai Shi could stand upright.

The car's refrigerator was still on, making a rumbling sound.

Sancheng also brought sampling tools and crawled in.

Regardless of whether there are any clues inside now, Sancheng will take samples for testing. If someone has really been imprisoned here, he will definitely find something.

Bai Shi then walked directly into the cold box and searched everywhere.

"Sancheng, here!" Bai Shi discovered at a glance that there were traces of friction from suspected thin ropes on the steel frame.

Considering the marks on the corpse's wrists, it is very likely that he was tied here.

Apart from this, Bai Shi did not find anything else, nor did he see the other "little flower".

"what!"

At this moment, Ayako behind suddenly screamed!
Bai Shi also turned his head and looked over, only to see...

The carriage door is closed!

The murderer must be nearby. When he found Ayako crawling in, he rushed over and locked the door...

Although Bai Shi had good hearing and eyesight, the refrigeration machine was still running and the entire cold storage compartment was very noisy. Without good hearing, Bai Shi could not distinguish the subtle footsteps coming from outside from the loud noise.

However, when the car door creaked, Shiraishi still heard it, and turned around even faster than Ayako's exclamation.

Bai Shi immediately turned back upon hearing the sound...

boom--

Just as Bai Shi's fist landed on the carriage door, it was locked from the outside!
The murderer was also startled at this time. He saw Bai Shi rushing forward through the crack of the door, and felt a strong sense of oppression. After hearing the heavy banging, he was so scared that he fell to the ground. Seeing that the door was locked, he quickly got up and looked at the pond next to him. A cruel look appeared on his face...

Bang - Bang -

At this time, Bai Shi threw two straight punches at the cold storage door, and it felt like the entire cold storage compartment was shaking...

If it was just an ordinary compartment door, it would most likely have been deformed and smashed by now, but this is a cold storage compartment, so it is extra thick for the purpose of heat preservation!

"Oh no... Xiao Hei, there is no signal!" Ayako said panickedly after looking at her cell phone.

Ah sneeze——

Mitsusumi sneezed at this time. It was already very cold when he came in. After closing the door, the temperature in the cold storage compartment quickly returned to minus eighteen degrees Celsius. At the same time, it became pitch black, with only Ayako and Mitsusumi's mobile phones providing dim light.

Seeing this, Shiraishi's face darkened. He took off his shirt first and handed it to Ayako - because it was casual wear, there was only a vest underneath.

"It's okay! I'm not cold..." Ayako thought Shiraishi was afraid that she would get cold, so she said quickly.

But Bai Shi said, "Hold it for me first."

Ayako took it with some doubt, and then saw Shiraishi half-crouched down, with his upper body slightly leaning forward, posing a "lower chest weighted arm flexion and extension" posture...

Shiraishi's muscles are already muscular...even exaggerated, and after he deliberately strikes a bodybuilding pose, they become even more obviously inflated!
Shila-

I saw that the white vest on Bai Shi's body seemed particularly slim-fitting at first, but then it was torn apart under the weight!
The bandage that was originally used to apply medicine for the burn also broke with a "click"...

At the same time, under the dim light of the mobile phone, one could slightly see Bai Shi's body surface, which seemed to be trembling very slightly, and...

Waves of heat radiated from Bai Shi in the surroundings!
Silvering!

Although Shiraishi had regressed after reaching Level 11 of [Physique], his ability to control his body was greatly improved.

Now in the cold state, Shiraishi first deliberately allowed his body temperature to drop, causing a surge in adrenaline, and then he "shivered" violently to make his body generate heat quickly.

For a moment, because of Shiraishi's fever, not only was there smoke in the dim light of the mobile phone, but even the coldness of Ayako and Misumi was dispelled a little. The broken bandages were completely blown away, and the ice layer around the refrigerator in the car made a "crackling" sound due to the invasion of heat.

beep--

At this moment, Sancheng and Ayako felt their feet sway slightly, and Sancheng immediately reacted and said, "Director Shiraishi! The car seems to have been started... Oh no, there should be a pond in front of the car!"

That's right, the criminal was desperate at this time and wanted to sink the car directly to buy as much time as possible to escape.

Bai Shi was not panicked at this time...

what!
Bang, bang, bang—

After Bai Shi exhaled and spoke, he began to punch the cold storage compartment door in front of him continuously!
At this time, Shiraishi's body also became active in this "heat dissipation"...

Both the speed and strength of the punch are three times stronger!

Under the illumination of the mobile phone, Sancheng and Ayako could vaguely see Shiraishi's back, surrounded by mist, with burn scars still visible...

Although there were no malignant bulges, there were obvious red marks left. Compared with Bai Shi's muscles, under the mist... it looked like a hideous "ghost face"!
The "ghost face" was like a wild laugh as Bai Shi exerted his strength...

……

Outside the car, the murderer in the driver's seat rolled over after driving the car into the pond.

Then I hurriedly tried to escape...

However, when I heard the loud crashing noises, I couldn't help but look back.

The next moment, the front of the car was seen entering the water and tilting downwards, with most of the car compartment also entering the water...

But at this moment, amid a sound of metal fatigue that made one's teeth ache, the door of the cold storage vehicle actually deformed, revealing a crack in the door, and a large hand stained with blood stretched out...

"what!"

The murderer screamed and tried to escape using his hands and feet. Then Bai Shi, like a ferocious beast, opened the deformed door of the carriage. However, after walking out, he did not immediately chase the murderer. Instead, he grabbed the edge of the carriage with both hands...

Suddenly, the speed of the truck sliding into the pond slowed down, and after pulling Bai Shi back half a step, it stopped.

In order to exert force, Bai Shi had already taken off his shoes and socks. At this time, his feet were firmly gripping the ground. Then he took one step at a time and dragged the half-submerged truck back!
At this time, the murderer had already ridden on the electric bike nearby. The next moment, the murderer only heard the sound of breaking wind behind him, and quickly turned the ignition switch to the bottom...

(End of this chapter)