Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 360 The considerate murderer

After the meeting at the Beika Police Station, Kuroki and Kanzaki came to the path behind Beika Park before it got dark - the location where the surveillance camera caught the murderer following them.

"Really, why didn't you let me say it at that time?" Kanzaki rolled his eyes at Kuroki.

"It may be difficult to find something that small, so let's tell everyone after we find it." Hei Mu said as a matter of course.

That's right, in the surveillance footage, Kanzaki saw something seemed to have fallen from the murderer's pocket - in the footage before restoration, it might have just been a flash of pixels, which didn't count at all. Even after restoration, the footage wasn't clear enough to see what had fallen.

However, based on Kanzaki's experience, it should not be the flickering pixels, but something small that really fell from the murderer.

So the two of them searched the surrounding area carefully...

Because it was getting dark soon, Kanzaki couldn't help but complain to Kuroki: "I should have asked the patrolman to help."

"Ryuichi, I have to criticize you for this. You have only been a police officer for a short time, but you have already developed the bad habit of ordering patrol officers to do chores? Don't patrol officers have the job of patrolling?" Kuroki said righteously.

Kanzaki:……

Kanzaki also knew that he was just talking big. Not to mention assisting the criminal police in collecting evidence, which was originally one of the duties of the patrol police. Moreover, it was Kuroki who usually ordered the patrol police to do this and that the most!

But at this time, Kanzaki didn't bother to refute, and just continued searching with the flashlight until it was completely dark...

"Thank goodness it's dark... this should be it?" Kuroki discovered something at this time.

Upon hearing this, Kanzaki came over immediately and saw that Kuroki was holding a small red round bead in his white-gloved hand. Because there was fluorescent material on it, it was easier to see under the flashlight than in the daytime.

The beads are only slightly larger than mung beans. If it weren't for the fluorescent material on them, it would be hard to spot...

"Red...it's possible." Kanzaki nodded thoughtfully.

In the blurry surveillance, the colors of small objects may be distorted, but Kanzaki recalled the surveillance situation at the time and felt that it was very likely a small red object fell.

"By the way...is this a BB bullet? No...a BB bullet is smaller than this, right?" Kanzaki speculated as he looked at the little thing.

Kuroki said knowingly, "It's BB bullets, but the size is beyond the legal standard. If it can fire these, it is already a controlled firearm. Only some illegal players who walk on the edge of the law will have them."

Kanzaki suddenly understood what he said, and immediately looked at Kuroki and asked in confusion: "I see...how do you know so much?"

"These are common sense required for being a police officer!" Kuroki said confidently.

"Anyway... come to think of it, this kind of illegal BB bullet shouldn't be common, right?" Kanzaki asked tentatively.

"That's right, especially since it's painted with fluorescent paint, it should be some special model... Let's go and find a place to ask." Kuroki also understood what Kanzaki wanted to ask.

Knowing what this is is not the most important thing. What is more important is "knowing where to get it"!
Kuroki just knew...

Not long after, Kuroki brought Kanzaki to a remote little bar in Kamurocho.

When he parked the car on the side of the road and walked into the alley, Kanzaki should have frowned - there were many spirited young men and women in the alley...

In other places, they might be mistaken for "members of a violent organization", but in Kamurocho, everyone knows that these street urchins are not considered members of a violent organization.

After all, "Kamurocho" is the "most developed" place for the underworld in Eastern Metropolis, so naturally the underworld classes here are becoming more and more distinct. As residents of Kamurocho, basically everyone has the ability to distinguish between gangsters and street urchins with the naked eye, and can even roughly tell what level the other person is in the underworld by looking at their temperament.

"Hey, a young guy is coming? Hehehe..." A Shamatte girl with lip studs and face studs like Pain on the roadside was pretending to smile strangely and provoking Kanzaki.

"You..." Kanzaki was about to go up and argue, but was stopped by Kuroki.

"Okay, these people are not in the group's turn to be taught, so we can only give them a life safety class. It would be a burden if we catch them back. We have other important things to do." Kuroki said directly.

Indeed, a group of little brats, the team will not care...

After hearing what Kuroki said and seeing that the two men were dressed in suits, the street urchins turned their heads and pretended not to see anything.

Kuroki took Kanzaki to a bar deep inside. As soon as he entered the bar, Kanzaki was shocked to see that almost everyone inside was holding a gun. Fortunately...

After careful examination, Kanzaki realized that some of them were obviously toy guns!

After learning this, Kanzaki also realized that those that didn't look like toy guns were just made to be more realistic.

"Hello, rare guest. Is Detective Kuroki still interested in these things?" The bartender took the initiative to greet him when he saw Kuroki.

Kuroki: ...

Kanzaki looked at Kuroki calmly.

"Hey! Stop laughing." Kuroki said with a serious face, took out the evidence bag containing red BB bullets, flicked it with his hand, and then slammed it on the counter.

Seeing this, several simulation gun players around quietly moved away.

The bartender also picked it up with a serious face, checked it again and again, and then nodded and said: "It's the new model I sell here... Where did you find it?"

"Murder scene!" Kuroki looked as if this was the murder weapon.

"Ah? How could it be..." the bartender was surprised, and then he said suspiciously: "This shouldn't be a murder..."

"Give me the sales record." Kuroki said immediately.

The bartender had no choice but to turn around and take out a stack of small notebooks. After flipping through them, he pointed a page to Hei Mu and said, "Fortunately, not many Red Lightnings were sold. Only three or four regular customers bought them."

……

After coming out of the bar, Kanzaki asked calmly, "You still have such a childish side? Why don't you keep playing with guns? Will the director and I recommend you to participate in the shooting competition next year?"

"Shut up..." Kuroki rolled his eyes.

That's right, when Kuroki was a teenager, he not only liked guns, he even secretly played with not-so-legal toy guns. However, after he was able to touch real guns and even had shooting training tasks, Kuroki was unwilling to touch guns anymore - firstly, he was not as naive as before, and secondly, he was too busy. When practicing shooting became a task, he was unwilling to touch it anymore.

Afterwards, Kuroki might have felt unsatisfied, so he said confidently: "It's usually children who lack fatherly love who like to play with guns. Go back and ask Kanzaki Kenzo!"

Kanzaki Ryuichi's adoptive father, Kanzaki Kenzo, is Kuroki's biological father.

Of course, Kanzaki didn't know that he was his adoptive father, and he thought that his father had really abandoned Kuroki and his son, so he didn't dare to say anything more at this time.

……

The next morning, when Shiraishi arrived at the police station, he found Yuto was also in the Criminal Division.

"What's wrong with you? Don't you know that minors can't work night shifts?" Bai Shi scolded in dissatisfaction.

"Don't worry, Director. I didn't count Yuto's working hours." Kuroki said quickly. If Kunikida was here, his shoes would have flown over...

But Zongfang is different!

Zongfang hasn't come to work yet...

Yuto yawned and said, "Brother Kuroki, don't forget what you promised me... Director, I'm going to school."

Yuto thinks that Kuroki is much better than some of the freeloaders...

Kuroki also praised Yuto at this time: "Director, this case has made great progress!"

Yamada and Shima were there too, and they came over as well. Shima couldn't help but be a little surprised. This case was very sensitive, and it would be fine for the director to attend the investigation meeting in person, but he actually asked about it in person?
even……

Judging from Kuroki's natural reporting attitude, this definitely happened more than once or twice.

Kuroki didn't notice his surprise and continued, "Last night, Kanzaki saw on the surveillance camera that the murderer seemed to have dropped something, and then we went to the scene and picked up this..." As he spoke, he took out the red BB bullet first.

"This is an illegal BB bullet. It is much larger than ordinary BB bullets. Guns that can fire it are basically prohibited for civilians to possess without a license." Kuroki explained first.

"Huh? Was this dropped by the murderer? There were no signs of gun use at the scene?" Yamada wondered.

"Although it is a prohibited item, its lethality is not that great. If you really want to kill someone, of course there is no better way than with a knife." Kuroki continued to explain: "And later, we found a few buyers of this BB bullet through the sales channel. Last night, we asked Yuto to check their online information..."

Bai Shi understood what this meant.

Their network information X was checked overnight.

I unpacked them all overnight√.

"Among them, there is a person named Ayabe Yutaka. Not only does he have the right body shape, but... he has also posted this kind of video on a forum on a foreign server." Kuroki said, showing it to Director Shiraishi on his notebook.

I saw a young man with a sly look on his face recording a selfie video in a cramped rental house...

"I'm going to kill a few police officers to vent my anger! This society abandoned me first. What's wrong with taking revenge on the police and the country? Don't you agree?"

Not only did he keep complaining, but he also shouted every word out loud and thrust his face in front of the camera, looking like an instigator.

"It looks like... he does need treatment, but that alone doesn't prove anything, right?" Yamada said with a pout.

This is annoying, but... there are too many of them.

And most of them are just "big talkers".

"No, just cursing at police officers doesn't count as evidence, and this guy cursed a lot of people...but there's another video like this." Kuroki said as he played another clip.

This time I am scolding the civil servants...

The problem is not what he cursed, but...

“Hmm? This outfit… is the same as the one in the surveillance video!” Yamada recognized it immediately.

"Is it... just a revenge against society by killing police officers indiscriminately?" Huitani frowned.

Shiraishi didn't think so, and looked at Shima who obviously thought so, and took the initiative to say: "Detective Shima, what do you think?"

After the meeting last night, Shiraishi asked him to stay alone to talk, but it was just to "pay attention" to him and he didn't say much about sensitive things. The most important thing was to encourage him to "work hard" and promised that "if he performs outstandingly, he will be recommended back to the main office" and so on.

Hearing the chief's question, several detectives looked over. Shima was not shy and said, "I have a question... If it was an indiscriminate attack on police officers, Detective Takahashi was wearing plain clothes at the time, and he was in Beika Town, which was not his jurisdiction. How did this Ayabe Yutaka know that he was a police officer? Even we had to check fingerprints to know that the deceased was a police officer... He couldn't have followed him all the way from Tsukishima, right?"

After hearing what Shima said, Kuroki and the others realized that it did not make sense.

but……

Shiraishi nodded and said, "Then please ask him to come to the police station first! Do you know his address?"

The murderer may not be him, but the clothes and BB bullets may not be coincidences. The person captured by the surveillance camera should be him if nothing unexpected happens!
"Yes, Yuto has locked down his Internet address, and we are about to send police." Kuroki said quickly.

"Well, send a few more people." Shiraishi looked at Yamada and Shima.

Obviously Bai Shi was afraid that there might be danger over there.

……

Soon, Kuroki, Kanzaki, Yamada, and Shima all arrived at the dilapidated apartment building they had located.

The building in front of me doesn’t even look like an apartment. It looks more like a semi-abandoned building with water and electricity secretly connected.

"Let's go up. Yamada, Shima, you guys block the way down below." Kuroki volunteered.

"Okay." Yamada and Shima nodded.

Not long after, the window on the fourth floor that was previously locked was opened. Just when Yamada and Shima were on guard, Kuroki stuck his head out, looked down, and couldn't help but reveal a helpless look.

"Yamada." Kuroki called him and then pointed downwards.

There was a low wall downstairs, so they couldn't see anything at first. But after hearing Kuroki's gesture, Yamada and Shima climbed over the wall, and what they saw was...

In the narrow gap between the low wall and the outer wall of the building, a young man fell to the ground, his blood had drained out and there was a faint odor!

Yamada stepped forward to identify him and shouted to Kuroki, "Come down, it's Ayabe Yutaka."

Ayabe Yutaka fell to his death, but Kuroki and Kanzaki came down with two large bags of evidence...

It not only includes the ghost face mask, sunglasses, outerwear seen in the surveillance video... but also Takahashi's police ID, mobile phone, and wallet. It can be said that everything is available.

At the place where Ayabe fell to his death, a serrated dagger with a "suspected murder weapon" was soon found.

"Let's report to Toriya Station first. Their boss has a good relationship with our boss and will cooperate with us." Yamada said.

Since this is not Beika Town, although they can conduct an investigation on the spot, it is not appropriate for them to take the body away without permission!

Fortunately, the people from Toriya Police Station were very cooperative. Not only did they help seal off the scene, but their opinions were also the main focus during the on-site investigation. Shiraishi didn't even have to ask the National Police Agency to delegate power.

However, when Shiraishi saw the evidence in the police station, he burst into laughter...

"The murderer is really thoughtful. He even thought of how to help us close the case!"

(End of this chapter)