Conan: Start with three choices, but sequence potion

Chapter 187 War between East and West
Hattori Heiji thought back to the face he had just seen. Although he looked a little old, he was obviously not over 30 years old, and he had a unique temperament.
That is a kind of "indifference" in playing with the world.

"But I still think that Ye Caisan died a long time ago. The current situation is probably that a member of the robber gang back then is using his name to do something weird." Conan thinks it is unlikely that Ye Caisan is still alive.

However, a completely different idea popped up in Hattori Heiji's mind.

如果
Ye Caisan is indeed dead, but he suddenly "came back to life" recently. What will happen?
With his genius desire for challenge, would he become interested after hearing about the existence of the famous detective of this era, and then plan a sophisticated and cunning plan again after many years as a challenge to the new era?

Hattori Heiji did not forget that he came to this ship not because of any advertisement, but because someone anonymously sent him a paper email with 10 old Japanese yen in it, asking him to come to this ship to meet and discuss in detail.

"." The more he thought about it, the more Hattori Heiji felt something was wrong.

Soon the shipping company staff arrived at the scene and put out the fire.

Everyone also saw clearly what was in the box.

It was a charred corpse that had turned pitch black.

The skin had been carbonized into brittle pieces, with no trace of the original flesh and blood left. The slightest movement caused the debris to scatter, and it had completely stuck to the bottom of the box, making it difficult to separate.

Disgustingly bloody.

"Could this be Mr. Kanie?" Ebina Minoru pointed at the corpse's arm curled up in front of his head. "I remember he had a gold watch like this on his hand."

Samezaki Shimaji reached into the box and fumbled around for a while, and found a small piece of cloth fiber that had not yet been completely burned to ashes; "This does look like a fragment of Mr. Kanie's clothing."

"How could this happen?" Mao Lilan covered her mouth. It was hard for her to accept that someone she had dinner with not long ago was burned to death.

"How ridiculous." Isogai Nagisa crossed her arms and said something confusing.

"Ridiculous?" Kogoro Mori turned around and looked at the woman who was still making sarcastic remarks at this time, with an unfriendly expression.

"You can look at the corpse yourself." She pointed at the box nonchalantly. "The upper body is standing up, with arms bent and raised above his head, as if he wanted us to see his watch."

"That's heat stiffness." Hattori Heiji spoke up.

"When people are extremely hot, they will have the illusion of being 'cold', so they will curl up into a ball to protect themselves. In the process of being burned to death in this posture, the muscles and fat of the human body will shrink and melt due to the high temperature, which will pull the joints to form this posture."

"This is the most common way that bodies that are burned die."

"I see." Isogai Nagisa nodded.

"And there's another thing that's concerning." Hattori Heiji walked over and pointed at the corpse's hand, "His watch strap is untied."

Although it was somewhat melted by the fire, the quality of this gold watch is obviously still good. The basic shape is still there and some details can be seen.

"It must have been bounced off by the explosion." Kogoro Mouri squatted down and took out an unformed can from the box. It was a small gasoline can and the source of the explosion.

"It is indeed possible." Samezaki Shimaji also agreed with this guess, "After all, the plastic sheet on the box was also blown away and disappeared."

He and Maori Kogoro had come to the stern before when they were looking for Ye Caisan on the ship. At that time, there was a plastic sheet with "Emergency Escape Ladder" written on it hanging on the box.

"By the way, who is this young man?" Samezaki Shimaharu looked at Hattori Heiji.

"His name is Hattori Heiji, and he's the son of the chief of the Osaka Police Station." Kogoro Mori introduced casually.

"So he's Heizo's son. No wonder he knows so much."

"You know the director?" Kogoro Mouri was surprised.

"Well, we often fight in the kendo field." Samezaki Shimaji said with a smile, "Although I am no match for him at all."

Hattori Heiji's ears twitched.

Does this guy know his dad?

He knew his old-fashioned father well. He would not deal with others unless they were someone he could see clearly, even in a place like the kendo field. So it seemed that there should be no problem with this Officer Samezaki.

"What?" Conan yelled, attracting everyone's attention. "Is that melted silicone on this guy's face?"

He pointed at the corpse's face.

"It really is"

Maori Kogoro noticed this when he heard this, "If he had plastic surgery, could Mr. Kanie be one of the robbers back then?"

Conan guided the uncle to obtain key information, and then began to advance the progress skillfully: "If this is the case, then Mr. Terukichi Kameda, who is acquainted with him, should be one of them."

"As for the last robber."

Hattori Heiji calmly looked at Kujirai Sadao, whose face had been very ugly since a while ago, and whispered in Conan's ear: "It should be only him, right?"

When sharing information with Conan, he heard Conan specifically mention a suspicious point, that is, the mysterious "11th person" Ye Caisan. Except for this Kujirai Sadao who mentioned that he had met him on the ship, no one else had seen him with their own eyes.

Plus the mysterious man I just met
There are really a lot of secrets on this ship.

Everyone returned to the restaurant.

"I have asked the crew on board, they all work in teams of two, and each of them has an alibi when the explosion occurred."

Maori Kogoro pushed open the door and came in, reporting his findings to everyone, "We all rushed to the deck together and heard the explosion afterwards, so the people on the deck didn't have time to commit the crime."

"In other words, the only suspects are Ye Caisan, who has not shown up yet, and the two people who were not on the deck at the time."

"Hey, hey." Hattori Heiji squeezed out dead fish eyes and was a little speechless, "You don't want to make Anhe brother and Miyano-san suspects as well, do you? The two of them should have been in the room the whole time, and they can definitely testify against each other."

"I'm just stating this point." Maori Kogoro naturally didn't mean that. "After ruling out Anhe and the doctor lady, there is only one suspect left."

"That's Ye Caisan!!"

"." Hattori Heiji was left speechless by this "nonsense" reasoning.

Actually, there was nothing wrong with it. It was just that it was not the old man Ye Caisan that they knew, but a mysterious man who was not known where on the ship at this moment. He looked less than 30 years old and was suspected to be the "resurrected Ye Caisan." "That." Conan raised his hand silently, "Did everyone forget Mr. Kameda?"

There was a brief silence.

"Oh, yes, there is such a person!" Kogoro Mouri suddenly realized.

During dinner, Terukichi Kameda said he was not feeling well so he went back to his room early. Plus, he was alone and the only person he knew was Kanie Kokuhisa, so it was difficult for anyone to notice his presence.

If Conan hadn't reminded us, everyone would have really forgotten about him.

"Let's go find him together." Samezaki Shimaji suggested, "Looking at this, it's hard to say that he is not a suspect."

Everyone left the restaurant.

Sadao Kujirai followed the team from a distance, and where no one could see, he quietly smiled a look of success.

No one knew that Kameda Terukichi had been lured out and shot dead by him, and then burned to death in the box. Everyone thought it was Kanie Kakuhisa.

Under this premise, as long as there is a little bit of acting and self-torture later on, and then leading everyone to discover Kanie Shikui's body, everyone will naturally think that Kanie Shikui killed Kameda Terukichi and faked his own death.

From this, everything can be pushed onto Kanie Korehisa, and if he commits suicide out of fear of punishment, everything will be perfect.

The so-called famous detective is just like this, hahahaha.
Ye Caisan, the ability to plan and organize that you are so proud of is not exclusive to geniuses. I, Kujirai Sadao, can also manipulate everyone in the palm of my hand!

I want you to know that your so-called principle of not killing is nothing but a shackle you put on yourself! I, Kujirai Sadao, am the true criminal genius!
As a detective, it is natural to leave the team and act alone whenever you have the chance, so that you can find more secret clues.

So Conan and Hattori Heiji skillfully seized the opportunity and slipped away.

After searching in each direction, the two met at the charred corpse at the stern of the ship.

"Hey, did you find anything?" Hattori Heiji asked Conan.

"I found this in the machine room downstairs." Conan took out a handkerchief wrapped with something, which contained an empty bullet shell. "There was blood on the ground, and I also found a letter."

"very good."

Hattori Heiji was very satisfied with his harvest and shared the results of his hunting: "I found this ball of paper in the trash can at the door of the men's restroom, and there are also some interesting confessions asked from the crew members."

Conan also recognized the strength of this little friend, and he is worthy of being the "Western Club" that is temporarily half a place behind him!
Hattori Heiji didn't know what he was thinking, otherwise he would have put the case aside and argued with him about who was in front between the so-called "East Kudo and West Hattori".

The two first read the letter that Conan found in the computer room.

On it was written the standard font for printing paper, with the words "I'm waiting for you in the computer room" and the signature was Dai Furukawa.

They looked at the body again and found a bullet hole near the temple that was not obvious due to shrinkage and bonding caused by high temperature.

"It seems that the deceased was called to the machine room and killed, and then put into the box." Conan concluded, and then asked Hattori Heiji, "Where is the paper ball you found?"

"Same, both are printed." Hattori Heiji handed it to Conan, "This should be the evidence that Kujirai Sadao was called out."

"How do you know it's Kujirai Sadao?"

"I asked the crew, and some said they saw him at the stern, shouting 'I'm coming' or something like that." Hattori Heiji said eyewitnesses are also a very important source of clues.

"But unfortunately, the crew didn't see any other suspicious people, and the person who called him out didn't seem to have any intention of keeping the appointment."

After the clues are shared, it is of course time to check the answers.

"I actually already have a rough idea of who the criminal is." Hattori Heiji stood up confidently.

"Ah, me too."

"Then let's check the answers!" Hattori Heiji bared his big white teeth, "First of all, the '11th person' is obviously a trap designed by the criminal."

"Yes, it is to divert other people's attention and leave room for him to commit the crime." Conan nodded, "In this way, the possible murderer can be locked in two people."

Hattori Heiji looked at the charred corpse and said, "After confirming that the body had long been shot, the heat stiffness of the body was very suspicious. The deceased did not form this posture by himself, but was put into the box in a squatting position with his hands raised after death. There is only one person who would do this."

There is no mistake. It can make the criminals so scared, and still linger around when everyone is outside, so there is plenty of time to commit the crime.
The murderer is the resurrected Ye Caisan!!
Because he had participated in the murder of Ye Caisan, the deceased squatted down and begged for mercy without hesitation!

Conan obviously didn't receive his signal and continued to deduce: "And the reason why the body was disguised like this is to make us misunderstand and divert the trouble!"

"What are you talking about?" The two people's thoughts didn't match, and Hattori Heiji was dumbfounded, "Isn't this already very clear?"

"That's what you are talking about. This is the murderer's second trap." Conan was also surprised to find that his friend's answer did not match his. He felt that Hattori Heiji had fallen into the murderer's trap, and he tried to persuade him earnestly.

In fact, neither Conan nor Hattori Heiji were deceived by Kujirai Sadao's conspiracy, and did not regard the missing Kanie Korehisa as the murderer.

The reason for this disagreement is that Hattori Heiji saw the suspicious "Resurrected Ye Saizo".

Conan does not know the existence of such an "outsider", so naturally he can only pin the suspicion on Sadao Kujirai.

"Haha." Hattori Heiji's eyes sharpened, "How interesting, we haven't had a disagreement for a long time."

"Indeed, except for the first time we met." Conan also became excited.

"Then let's have a showdown after such a long time!" Hattori Heiji ignited his desire to win, and the idea that he had when he first met Kudo Shinichi once again rose from the bottom of his heart, "Let's see who is right."

The duel between famous high school detectives from the East and the West is rebroadcast!!

Although the ending is obvious.

"By the way." Hattori Heiji wrapped the watch in a handkerchief and handed it to Conan, "Let's restore this thing."

"Hey, hey, I'm not that powerful." Conan curled his lips as he looked at the watch that had been melted and deformed, and its mechanical structure was almost destroyed.

"I'm asking you to return the item to its original owner, not to repair it." Hattori Heiji rolled his eyes and ran away quickly, afraid of falling behind Conan.

(End of this chapter)