Detective Conan: I, with my magical powers, am going to destroy the world!

Chapter 613 Hot Springs and Venison

"It's nothing, just a phone call," Chi Chufeng put away his phone and looked at Misumi. "Dr. Misumi, could you come with me?"

"Eh?"

"Let's go and see Yulu Hot Spring in person."

Aru Onsen Resort, also known as Shika Town, is where Akatsuka Kaze drives with Misumi Mikoto and Ai Haibara to investigate.

Walking along the country lanes between the fields, one can rarely feel a sense of leisure. They don't seem to be here for an investigation, but rather like a family on vacation.

“The water here is fine,” Misumi said, using a simple test strip to check the water quality in the roadside hot spring pool. “It’s very close. Lord Akashi, why did you insist on calling me here?”

"Leave professional matters to professionals. Doesn't Dr. Misumi want to know the truth? But speaking of which, is venison really sold here?"

Chi Chufeng looked around and then said, "Let's go look for it at the store that sells rice balls first."

"shop?"

"Based on your test results, Sanmao probably didn't eat at a restaurant, but bought ready-made rice balls."

Akatsuka took Misumi and Ai to investigate the nearby shops and supermarkets one by one.

There are many shops in the Aru Onsen area, but venison is only available in restaurants.

“Since there’s no venison for sale,” Chi Chufeng frowned after understanding the situation, “it’s possible that venison has been added to other foods, like venison rice balls?”

"As for venison rice balls," the shop assistant recalled, "they sell them at Iseya; they're a local specialty—venison curry-flavored rice balls."

"Venom curry rice balls?" Chi Chufeng raised an eyebrow.

The gastric juice composition analysis confirmed the presence of curry.

"Excuse me, where is Iseya?"

"Keep walking straight ahead from here, it's right at the intersection."

"Thanks."

"Lord Akatsuki," Misumi asked with some concern as she followed Akatsuki to the Iseya, "has the mystery of Miko's death message been solved?"

"If it were to save another girl, the first thing they would ask for would be their location."

As Chi Chufeng gazed at the peaceful and idyllic rural scenery, his mind was filled with the crumpled paper soaked in stomach acid and the hastily written words on it.

"I was locked in a cold and dark place, constantly losing body temperature, and at the last moment I found paper and pen. Given the circumstances at the time, writing must have been very difficult. I could only write while rubbing my hands, so I had to use the fewest words possible to write the key information, the first sentence being 'Snowman'."

"How is it?" Misumi looked at Akatsuka with concern.

"The murderer might be male, in which case 'Snow' could be Sanmao's perception of the murderer, or the refrigerated truck. Or it could be the murderer's online nickname."

Chi Chufeng and Xiao Ai exchanged a glance, and he slowly stated the possibilities that he and Xiao Ai had discussed.

"If Sanmao really bought venison curry rice balls at Iseya, the murderer's place of imprisonment and his own address should be in this area. When I came here, I contacted Inspector Megure and notified the nearby Chozuka-cho Police Station."

"There are indeed venison curry-flavored rice balls in the area."

After finding the shopkeeper, Akasa Kaze, at Iseya, she quickly found her target: a unique deer hot spring specialty of Iseya, which is not sold anywhere else.

There were also potato salad sandwiches and cucumber lettuce. Almost perfectly matched.

"The portion was about twice the size of Sanmao's stomach."

Misumi, holding the rice ball, found the ingredient list at the back and stared blankly at Akatsuka. "Sanmao shared it with someone else. There really was a girl too?!"

"Yes, definitely."

Chi Chufeng took out the photos of Sanmao and Matsukura Hana to ask the landlady for confirmation, but got no results. There were too many customers coming and going, and the landlady had a hard time remembering the two girls.

"But if it's a cold storage facility, it's about two kilometers ahead of Riyun Cold Storage," the woman said curiously. "Why are you looking for a cold storage facility?"

"I just wanted to find something."

After leaving Iseya, Misumi couldn't wait to go to Nihon-Oun Freezing, so Akatsuka had to make a special trip there again.

As before, he didn't believe the crime scene was the freight company's cold storage, but he still wanted to confirm it just to be safe.

The locomotive traveled on a fairly wide country road, with a few houses scattered among the surrounding fields and hills.

Just as he had guessed, only in situations where neighbors are far apart is it convenient to imprison someone.

The murderer probably also owned a refrigerated truck.

Chi Chufeng slowly sorted out the events leading up to and following the case in his mind, and began to envision the characters.

By luring two girls with suicidal tendencies to this rural area through the internet, the perpetrator needed a woman with a similar situation.

Therefore, it is more likely that "Snow" is a nickname.

The death message read "Snow Man's Land." There were still some missing characters after it. Looking back now, it's most likely that it was "Home Land."

In other words, the two girls were imprisoned in the murderer's house, and Sanmao was left alone to freeze to death, swallowing the letter pleading for help before she died.

The body was then taken by the murderer to the Sato family's charcoal burning suicide site and disguised as a suicide together.

I wonder if the point of doing this is to pursue the so-called perfect crime.

If it is land, the other girl should be safe for now.

Unfortunately, Officer Mori's investigation into the website administrator has yielded no results yet, making it difficult to find the culprit online. Locating the exact location in the countryside remains a significant challenge.

However, judging from the last meal Sanmao ate when she bought land in Iseya, the place of imprisonment was located far from the Iseya land.

Chapter 614 Stop overthinking

"Buzz." Chi Chufeng suddenly stopped the car at the intersection and looked at a warehouse-like wooden house on the other side of the field path. A refrigerated truck with a snowflake logo was parked in front of the house.

"What's wrong?" Misumi asked, puzzled.

"It's a snowmobile."

Chi Chufeng paused for a moment, then turned along the path and drove towards the cottage.

"The murderer may have used the nickname 'Snow' to disguise himself as a woman and contact Sanmao, which is why the message was written as 'Snow Man'."

"Snow?"

Misumi tidied her wind-blown hair, grabbed Ai, and hurriedly followed Akatsuki out of the car and into the truck.

The exterior of the carriage was decorated with snowflake patterns, a word for snow, and a special sign that read "minus 20 degrees Celsius." Misumi's eyes were immediately drawn to it.

"It really is. It's a cold storage room, and there aren't many people around."

Misumi licked her dry lips and looked towards the dripping water pipe in front of the house, which was covered in salt crystals and had a sign that read "Hot Spring".

I could vaguely see two girls happily washing their faces in front of a water pipe.

"Is this really the place?" Misumi looked at Akatsuka, carefully collected the salt crystals from the water pipe, and then opened the truck's cargo door with trembling fingers.

"Xiao Sanmao was in a place like this."

“The dead will never return,” Chi Chufeng said, his hands clasped as he looked around the area.

"But we still have a chance to save another person. Isn't that what Sanmao desperately wanted to convey to us?"

"What happened to Xiao Sanmao? Xiao Sanmao."

"Boom! Boom!"

Onuma's family, 5-chome, Choizuka Town.

Satoru Onuma looked with disgust at the woman locked in the inner room who was screaming after the tape over her mouth had been worn off.

He walked over and punched the woman several times until she stopped making noise before getting up again.

Just as he was about to drag the woman away, the doorbell rang suddenly.

It was just an ordinary doorbell ring, but for some reason it made his body tense up.

He involuntarily swallowed and looked towards the entrance.

The plan should have gone smoothly. Although the news mentioned the famous Onmyoji, it seemed impossible to find him with just a corpse.

He also deleted all the information online and even stayed home obediently for several days.

Onmyoji Akaso-sama

Impossible, how could anyone possibly find such a place?

However, Onuma Satoru's face was stiff, his lips were dry, and he reached for the doorknob, picking up an iron bar with one hand and hiding it behind his back.

If they really come knocking on your door, and you're alone, you can try to appease them first, and then try to find out what they're thinking and resolve the issue gradually.

Killing one person is killing, and killing several people is also killing.

"Crack!"

The door opened, but suddenly someone blocked the gap, and a police ID appeared in Satoru Onuma's sight.

"Is it Mr. Onuma?"

The next day, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Examiner's Office, Misumi, after finishing his autopsy work, happened to run into the old director coming to the autopsy team's office.

"The Nishimushashino Police Station has handed over Satoru Onuma to the prosecutor's office," the old director said to everyone after seeing Misumi nod.

"Although he refused to speak, the police already have a lot of evidence. According to the administrator of that suicide website, Onuma Satoru disguised himself as a woman online and used the name 'Koyuki' to find young girls who were contemplating suicide on social networking sites and talk to them, just as Lord Akatsuki guessed."