Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 238: The spirited little sister really likes to go crazy all the time...

"What do you mean missing? Nagashima Ryuko just ran away from home," Teacher Kitamura frowned, a hint of displeasure on his face. "The police have already confirmed this matter, so don't worry about it."

"What? Did the police find her?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously.

"No, but they say the police found a letter to her mother at home, saying she was going to run away," Teacher Kitamura waved his hand impatiently and said, "Hurry up and leave. This is not a place for students from other schools."

Lin Xiuyi nodded slightly and walked out of the classroom with Orikasa Midori and the yellow-haired girl.

Meiyue curled her lips, a hint of pride on her face. "Some people just swore that something had happened to Nagashima Ryuko, but I didn't expect them to be proven wrong so soon. What I said before turned out to be true. She ran away from home!"

Lin Xiuyi paused for a moment, as if pondering something. After a moment, he asked, "Does your school have an incinerator? How often do you burn garbage?"

Orikasa Midori tilted her head slightly, a hint of doubt flashing in her eyes, but she still answered, "Yes, it's right by the back door of the school. They burn it about once a week. Oh, and today should be the day for burning garbage."

"Take me over to have a look," Lin Xiuyi said.

"Hey, what are you doing there?" The yellow-haired girl crossed her arms and stamped her feet impatiently. "You're not still trying to investigate, are you? The teacher has already said that the police have confirmed that Nagashima Ryuko ran away from home."

Lin Xiu glanced at her expressionlessly and said, "If the police were really that capable, there wouldn't be so many people disappearing in Japan every year."

"But, Senior," Orikasa Midori asked in confusion, "Why are we going to the incinerator?"

Lin Xiuyi explained: "After Nagashima Ruko's things were taken away, in order to avoid attracting attention, the other party probably did not take them out of the school, but destroyed them on the spot."

Orikasa Midori's eyes lit up: "Senior, are you saying that the other party threw the things into the incinerator?"

"It's just a possibility." Lin Xiu nodded.

Led by Midori Orikasa, the three of them came to the back door of Sakuragaoka Junior High School.

The incinerator placed here was burning fiercely, the flames licking the furnace walls, and a pungent smell filled the air.

Several students were covering their noses, frowning, and struggling to stuff garbage in.

Orikasa Midori quickly asked them to stop and asked if they had seen any books or anything like that for third grade students.

"There's so much trash, how do we know if there's anything you mentioned in there?" the student on duty rolled his eyes impatiently. "What on earth are you doing? We're still waiting for you to finish dealing with the trash before we can go home!"

"I'll help you burn this garbage," Orikasa Midori promised.

"Are you serious?" The three students were immediately surprised when they heard this. They didn't insist anymore and turned around and left happily.

The yellow-haired girl looked at the pile of garbage, frowned, and looked troubled: "Big sister, do you really want to rummage through the garbage?"

Seeing that Lin Xiuyi had rolled up his sleeves and started rummaging through the garbage, Orikasa Midori hesitated for a moment, but nodded and wanted to go forward to help.

Although the yellow-haired girl looked reluctant, she stopped Orikasa Midori as she saw her limping, muttering, "Forget it, forget it. You have an injury on your foot. Let me do it."

Then she frowned, pinched her nose, walked forward reluctantly, and started working with Lin Xiuyi.

The two men rummaged through the foul-smelling garbage and soon turned over all the garbage outside the incinerator, but they did not find anything related to Nagashima Ryuko.

Lin Xiuyi's eyes couldn't help but look at the burning incinerator.

"Hey, even if there really is something in there, it would have been burned to ashes long ago." The yellow-haired girl said impatiently.

Lin Xiuyi ignored her, reached out and picked up the iron hook beside him, and used force to hook out the unburned garbage under the incinerator.

At this moment, a piece of broken bone suddenly fell out from the furnace, scaring the two girls so much that their faces turned pale and they screamed at the same time.

"This, such a thick bone, it can't be human?" The yellow-haired girl asked tremblingly, and her body couldn't help but shrink back slightly.

"Could it be that Nagashima Ryuko was killed and thrown into the incinerator?" Orikasa Midori's imagination was also full of horror, his eyes full of fear, "She was cremated a long time ago?"

"What are you thinking?" Lin Xiuyi tapped the bone stick with an iron hook in annoyance. "This is obviously a pig bone. There are knife marks on it from when the meat was cut. It must have been thrown away by your school cafeteria when making soup."

Most of the garbage in the incinerator has been burned, and the rest has been charred and turned black, making it impossible to distinguish.

Although they did not find any useful clues, according to the agreement with the monitor just now, Lin Xiuyi and the yellow-haired girl could only frown, suppress their nausea, and throw the remaining garbage into the incinerator, watching them being swallowed by the flames bit by bit.

The yellow-haired girl couldn't help but complain, "There's no such thing as a detective rummaging through garbage. I've been working so hard for so long in vain..."

As she was about to bend down to pick up the pork bone that had just fallen, she didn't expect that at this moment, a yellow-brown puppy suddenly jumped out from the bushes next to her, barking, picked up the pork bone on the ground, and ran towards the back door.

The yellow-haired girl, not knowing whether she was frightened or just didn't want to burn the garbage anymore, deliberately made an excuse to run away, cursing loudly while chasing after the puppy: "Where did this stupid dog come from? You scared me to death!"

"That looks like a wild dog, Meiyue, stop chasing it!" Orikasa Midori was worried that the yellow-haired girl would be bitten by the dog, so he hurriedly limped after it.

Lin Xiu didn't want to pay any attention to it, but when he saw that Orikasa Midori was walking with difficulty and looked anxious, he could only shake his head helplessly, picked her up, and chased after the yellow-haired girl.

The two men chased out of the back door of the school. After a few steps, they saw the yellow-haired girl standing in front of them, holding a wooden stick in her hand and cursing at an iron gate.

Lin Xiuyi walked over holding Orikasa Midori, and saw a construction site in front of the yellow-haired girl.

It was already time to get off work, and the gate of the construction site was closed with a large iron lock. Some heavy construction materials were piled next to the gate, and bursts of dogs barking could be faintly heard coming from inside the construction site.

"Damn stinky dog, don't think I can't do anything to you just because you run in there!" After the yellow-haired girl said that, she stepped on the construction materials piled up next to her, used her hands and feet, and climbed directly into the construction site.

"Meiyue!" Orikasa Midori couldn't call out to anyone, so she could only look up at Lin Xiuyi with a look of help in her eyes, "Senior..."

"Okay, I'll go find her." Lin Xiuyi put the girl at the door, and then followed the yellow-haired girl's route, carefully stepping on the construction materials at the door and climbing in.

This construction site should be where a small apartment is being built. The environment inside is a bit messy, and the ground is covered with dirt and gravel.

The foundation of the apartment has been dug and the cement pouring is in progress.

When Lin Xiuyi walked in, he saw the yellow-haired girl waving a wooden stick and yelling at the puppy that had just taken the bone. The puppy ignored her and continued to bark at a concrete pillar in front of it, its tail wagging non-stop.

"Damn it, I've chased you all the way here, and you dare to ignore me!" said the yellow-haired girl, raising the wooden stick in her hand to hit the puppy.

The spirit girl really likes to go crazy all the time...

Lin Xiuyi was speechless for a moment. He quickly stepped forward and grabbed the stick. "This dog may not be big, but if you really make it angry, it will bite you twice, and you'll know how powerful it is!"

"Tsk, I learned kendo from Big Sister Orikasa," the yellow-haired girl folded her arms across her chest and snorted disdainfully, "Let alone one stray dog, even if there were ten, I could still defeat them."

"What Xiaolu teaches you is kendo, not the dog-beating stick technique." Lin Xiuyi threw away the wooden stick and was about to pull the yellow-haired girl away, but suddenly realized something was wrong.

The tan puppy ignored the two men and continued barking at the concrete pillar with its ears erect.

Lin Xiuyi was puzzled and walked to the side of the concrete pillar to check it out. When his eyes saw somewhere below the concrete pillar, he was suddenly stunned.

There's a small bump there that looks a lot like the heel of a shoe.

"What are you looking at?" The yellow-haired girl came over curiously.

"Can I borrow your skirt?" Lin Xiuyi said, then squatted down, pinched the girl's unusually long skirt, and wiped the bulge under the concrete pillar hard.

"You bastard, this is my skirt, not a rag..." The yellow-haired girl was afraid that he would use force and pull her skirt off, so she could only hold the skirt tightly and curse angrily.

Lin Xiuyi ignored her and wiped it hard for a while. The raised area turned red. He touched it with his hand and it felt like leather. A trace of solemnity immediately appeared on his face.

When the yellow-haired girl saw him stop, she picked up the hem of her skirt and slapped it distressedly, saying angrily, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"We may have found Nagashima Ruko." Lin Xiuyi said in a deep voice.

"What did you say? We found Nagashima Ruko?" The yellow-haired girl looked up and around. Besides the two of them, who else was there at the construction site at that hour? "Where's she?"

"It's in here." Lin Xiuyi patted the concrete pillar in front of him.

"What did you say?" The yellow-haired girl's mouth twitched, and she subconsciously took two steps back. "Are you sure? How did Nagashima Ryuko end up inside a concrete pillar?"

"I'd seen her once before," Lin Xiuyi recalled. "She went to the female psychic in the underground passage for divination, and she was wearing a pair of red leather shoes."

"Isn't that a bit too arbitrary to just rely on this?" The yellow-haired girl swallowed her saliva. "Maybe someone's shoe fell off and was accidentally sealed in the cement by the construction workers..."

"That dog kept barking at the concrete pillar," Lin Xiuyi said, looking at the puppy. "A dog's sense of smell is more sensitive than a human's. It must have smelled something."

"Could it be the stench of a rotting corpse..." The yellow-haired girl shuddered and quickly took a few steps back.

"Whether my guess is right or not, let's call the police first," Lin Xiuyi sighed, "I hope my guess is wrong."

……

Half an hour later, the police arrived after receiving the call.

The sky was gradually getting dark, and the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the earth, giving the entire construction site a strange color.

Officer Sato once again confirmed with Hayashi Shuichi whether there was really a body in the concrete pillar.

"I'm just guessing," Lin Xiuyi frowned, "but a girl from nearby Sakuragaoka Junior High School just disappeared last week. When I saw her before, she was wearing red leather shoes..."

"In this case, it would be safer to check it out." Officer Sato nodded and asked Officer Megure to find an impact drill and start destroying the concrete pillar.

As soon as the work started, the construction site manager who received the news rushed over in a hurry.

When he saw the police actually dismantling the concrete pillars, he rushed forward to stop them: "What are you doing! Our construction site is legal and compliant!"

"Sorry, we now suspect there's a body trapped in this concrete pillar..."

Before Officer Sato finished speaking, the person in charge's face flushed red and he shouted angrily,

"This is a construction site, not a funeral home. Where did the body come from? Even if you police officers are looking for trouble, at least come up with a plausible excuse..."

Before he could finish his words, a large piece of cement fell from the pillar and a disgusting stench suddenly spread out.

"Sato-senpai, there is indeed something in the pillar," Officer Megure covered his mouth and nose, leaning in to carefully identify the object exposed from the pillar, "It should be a rotting corpse."

"How, how is this possible..." The person in charge of the construction site turned pale, his legs gave out and he fell to the ground, "How could there really be a body?"

……

Although it has been confirmed that there is indeed a corpse in the cement pillar, it will not be possible to peel off the cement and identify the corpse in a short period of time.

Lin Xiuyi said goodbye to Officer Sato and went back to the izakaya to prepare for the evening business.

He was riding a bicycle with Orikasa Midori, and the yellow-haired girl was also riding behind them, with the tan puppy chasing after them.

As the hero who discovered the corpse, seeing that it could only gnaw on the pork bones pitifully, Orikasa Midori went to the nearby store and bought some sausages as a reward for it.

After that, the dog kept following Orikasa Midori, wagging its tail non-stop and refusing to leave.

The yellow-haired girl was still unhappy about the puppy scaring her before, but no matter how she drove it away, the puppy refused to leave.

"Okay, stop chasing it." Orikasa Midori looked at the puppy chasing after the bicycle with gentle eyes. "This little guy is so smart. I'll take it back to the flower shop and take care of it. I think Mom will agree."

"What good is a dog that discovers a corpse like this?" The yellow-haired girl curled her lips in disdain. "It's too unlucky."

"This isn't bad luck," Orikasa Midori shook her head seriously. "Regardless of whether the person in that concrete pillar is Nagashima Ryuko or not, without this little guy, the body wouldn't have been discovered so quickly. It actually did a great thing for the deceased..."

(End of this chapter)