Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 38 Evidence Collection and Reasoning

"The trial will begin tomorrow... I will follow up the progress of the case personally now! Give me all the photos of the on-site investigation." Shiraishi said after taking a deep breath.

Before this, Shiraishi had only asked them to report, which was only considered as supervision, not personal follow-up - Shiraishi had not intended to follow up personally. After all, if Shiraishi had to do this kind of frontline case personally, then he, as the "director", would be too busy.

From the perspective of responsibilities, what the "Director" has to do is to put the right people in the positions of criminal police, and even if it is a major case, he only supervises it.

And from the perspective of a "scientific point-adding system", Bai Shi also needs to train these subordinates - before this, even if Bai Shi found clues, he tried not to reveal them directly, waiting for them to discover them on their own.

However, there were less than 24 hours left before the trial, so Bai Shi was no longer hiding it...

"Eh? Yes!" Akasaka was stunned for a moment, then immediately agreed.

If someone from any other gold watch group came down to be the director and had to follow up on the cases personally, the detectives would be very worried - this would definitely be a debuff for the Criminal Investigation Division!

But Bai Shi is different...

Not only was he quite "famous" before becoming the director, but Shiraishi also demonstrated his ability through practical actions.

Akasaka, Aoki and others cannot judge whether Shiraishi is a good director, but... they have to admit that if Shiraishi were a criminal policeman, he would definitely be better than themselves. More importantly, everyone has witnessed Shiraishi's behavior in the past few days. Not only is he capable, but he has also been protecting everyone from the wind and rain, preventing the pressure from "above" from affecting the front line, and trying his best to create a good case-handling environment. Naturally, he has won everyone's respect and support.

Of course, Akasaka had no opinion at this time about Shiraishi personally following up on the case, and even admired him very much, but... he didn't think that there would be any groundbreaking new discoveries at this time!
"Director, everything is here." Akasaka immediately came over with a file bag.

Shirai moved his lips at this time, but didn't say anything. Shiraishi didn't accept his resignation letter these days, which made him... feel very tormented!

Originally, he could still convince himself that everything he did was for the sake of solving the case and justice, but now...

Everything pointed to him being the one holding back.

Of course, Shirai felt sorry, but now he also didn't think that these photos could reveal anything that the police officers at the scene at the time didn't notice...

But Bai Shi is very confident!

You should know that Shiraishi's [Evidence Search] is also at Level 7, and with [Insight] at Level 10, it is at Level 7 (+2).

All those before were just trial runs!

As for now...

Shiraishi used the whiteboard in the observation room and asked Yamada and Makio to stick the photos directly on it.

Looking at the whiteboard full of photos, Bai Shi frowned - he really couldn't see any additional clues.

after all……

Just photos!

However...Bai Shi used 10000 points of the 3000 points rewarded for the previous S-level achievement and used them on [Searching for Evidence]!

Suddenly, Shiraishi's [Evidence Search] became Lv8, and the actual effect was Lv8 (+2).

In other words, it is equivalent to the limit of human beings' [evidence search]!
Although it has been proven before that Lv10 is not impossible to break through, but...

Shiraishi understood that the actual effect of any ability would become "magical" when it reached Lv10.

When [Physique], [Fighting], and [Combat] reach Level 10, you will be able to fight one hundred enemies at once. And now [Evidence Collection] has reached Level 10...

Shiraishi looked at the photo on the whiteboard in front of him and felt the space around him distorted. In an instant, Shiraishi "found" himself in a small one-room apartment. At the door leading from the foyer to the kitchen, a male corpse lay on the ground with a kitchen knife stuck in his heart!

There were signs of fighting all around, and when you walked to the kitchen, you could see signs of all kinds of conflicts.

At the same time, it is disturbing that...

There are cracks in some places on the surrounding walls and ground. Outside the cracks is the darkness like the boundless universe, especially the ceiling, which is mostly this unknown darkness!
Bai Shi suddenly understood that he had pieced together a "scene" in his own spiritual world based on the photos taken on the scene.

However, some places that were not photographed and could not be used as indirect evidence were completely dark. After all, no matter how strong the evidence search was, it was impossible to create unknown information out of thin air!
However, even if the angles of the photos are different, they have already been imagined in my mind, so they are three-dimensional scenes.

At the same time, four Shirasites wearing "dispatch uniforms" walked out of Shiraishi's "body" - the dispatch uniform is the dark blue uniform worn by police officers when conducting inspections and on-site investigations.

"The murder weapon was a willow-leaf sushi knife. The blade was 22.2 centimeters long and penetrated the meat about 19 centimeters. The handle was 11.1 centimeters. It was a hand-sharpened custom knife. It was confirmed to be the same set as the kitchen knife. The front end was curled and the blade was chipped. It could have hit the ribs after being stabbed, or it could have been from daily wear and tear."

"There were signs of cooking in the kitchen, but no ingredients were found, and there were no fingerprints on the other three kitchen knives."

"Judging from the appearance of the body and the amount of blood loss, it is speculated that the person was killed by a single blow. There are no other obvious injuries. An autopsy is needed to find out the details."

"There are signs of a fight in the entrance hall. There is a small bump on the floor. It is a recent sign. Most of the blood is around the body. There are also a few blood spots at the bump!"

……

The four "Dispatched Service Shiras" started checking everywhere.

All kinds of useful, useless... and even originally ignored information were extracted at this time.

The last four "Dispatched Service Shiraishi" stopped their actions at the same time, looked towards Shiraishi in the middle, and said in unison: "So, do you know what happened?"

Bai Shi didn't say anything, but...

I used another 3000 points and added them to [Reasoning]!

The original reasoning level of 7 was upgraded to level 8.

Shiraishi's [Reasoning] was originally only enhanced by [Spirit] and [Memory], reaching Lv7 (+1). Even if it was increased to Lv8, it should only be Lv8 (+1).

However, when Bai Shi was in this strange spiritual space, he discovered that his [Reasoning] had reached Lv7 (+2). After consuming another 3000 points, it reached Lv8 (+2)!
Immediately, the four "dispatched uniform Shiraishi" disappeared, and all the "recently appeared" traces around them also disappeared, including the blood on the corpse, which was also "sucked" back into the wound...

The victim, Station Master Hayashida, who was lying down, also stood up and returned the kitchen knife to the kitchen, muttering, "Oh, it's really hard work... Officer, can you do it?"

Bai Shi ignored him and just sat on the small sofa beside him. Bai Shi in this state was most clear that what was in front of him was actually his "reasoning process" and not some unscientific thing like a "ghost".

At this moment, the clock on the wall reached two o'clock...

Ding-dong-

The doorbell rang, Lin Tian got up and opened the door, smiling slyly, "Dear, come back..."

"Huh? Why is it you?" After seeing who was coming at the door, Lin Tian said with an unhappy look on his face.

Standing at the door, Tsubokura, who was wearing a black suit, a hat, and gloves, asked sinisterly, "Stationmaster, aren't you going to let me in?"

Lin Tian:......

"Officer, do I look like an idiot? Would I let him in like this?" Lin Tian turned his head and rolled his eyes at Shiraishi who was sitting on the small sofa.

Bai Shi waved his hand lightly, and time immediately went back.

It's two o'clock again...

Ding-dong-

The doorbell rings...

"Honey, you're back... huh? Why is it you?"

Hayashida reopened the door, but at this time, Tsubokura at the door took off his hat and gloves, these suspicious items, and smiled ingratiatingly: "Stationmaster, um... I want to apologize to you for what happened the day before yesterday..."

(End of this chapter)