The Black Detective of the Detective Conan World

He wiped away a bead of cold sweat.

Chapter 37 The Gray Trench Coat That Killed Serial Murderers

No one had any objections to Kogoro Mouri's reasoning.

After all, many people witnessed a gray trench coat, its head hidden and tail exposed, escaping from the piano room.

Even Conan had no doubts.

He saw it too.

But who exactly is that person?

After all, everyone was in the religious ceremony venue just now, and no one had time to take off their gray trench coats and sneak in.

Could it be the work of an outsider?

That's impossible to check now.

Kogoro was clearly aware of the problem, so he turned to the current village chief, the bald, fat man Tatsuji Kuroiwa, and asked him to help organize the villagers to investigate the situation of outsiders.

The fat village chief glanced sideways at Kogoro and the others, thinking to himself that of all the outsiders who arrived on the island today, you guys were the most suspicious.

However, he couldn't say such things carelessly. After all, the famous detective had an excellent reputation among the police. If he said a few bad things about himself, he might be treated as a suspect.

The main problem is that he himself isn't clean, so what if something is found out...

He could only keep a straight face and order his secretary to cooperate with the famous detective and help investigate the outsiders who came to the island.

However, these investigations are destined to find nothing.

Meanwhile, unemployed vagrant Ken Nishimoto stopped the bald, fat village chief, Tatsuji Kuroiwa, and they argued in hushed tones when no one was around.

Ken Nishimoto: "This must have been arranged by that guy Keiji Aso. He sent someone to get revenge on us! It's a curse! This is a curse he cast from hell!"

Black Rock Village Chief: "Nonsense! Don't talk nonsense! That guy died twelve years ago. Why didn't you take revenge back then? This must be someone else's doing, hiring assassins to kill us!"

Kenjiro Nishimoto: "But two years ago, Village Chief Kameyama died, and today Hideo Kawashima also died, both in this piano room... Twelve years ago, the four of us killed Keiji Aso's family..."

Village Chief Black Rock: "Hmph! I think you're the one behind all this, aren't you? To monopolize this river? I never imagined you were the most ruthless among us!"

Ken Nishimoto: "No, no, I didn't! Ah, as long as we find that gray trench coat..."

Black Rock Village Chief: "Shut up. I'll investigate this matter myself. It's none of your business. Get out of here."

Ken Nishimoto: "You... then be careful. The detective who came this time, I heard, is a famous detective from Tokyo. Don't let him find out that you're messing around with me."

Village Chief Kuroi: "Get out of here! I don't need you to teach me! What famous detective? It's all just talk! Hmph, Kawashima Hideo got killed, and this piece of trash detective still can't find the killer? A complete waste!"

The two parted on bad terms.

Naoto Hayashi: ...

He recalled the plot of the case.

The so-called "suicide case" twelve years ago was actually a case where four drug dealers, not wanting to continue helping them, staged an arson suicide.

Unfortunately, Keiji Aso's act of playing the piano in the fire before his death caused a strong psychological impact on these people, making them suspicious and paranoid for many years.

While Kogoro and Conan were searching for clues at the crime scene, Naoto Hayashi quietly approached the body and collected the deceased's soul.

At this moment, the local police from Moonshadow Island arrived. He was an old policeman in his sixties with failing eyesight. When he arrived at the scene, he was completely bewildered and had no idea what to do.

Left with no other option, they eventually contacted Tokyo and asked them to send police officers over.

However, it's over 100 kilometers away, so we won't arrive until tomorrow.

The group had no choice but to spend the night on the island.

At night.

The people mobilized by Chief Black Rock are still searching the island. After all, such a large gray trench coat can't just disappear into thin air; it must still be hidden somewhere on the island.

In reality, the female assassin, Maya Tachibana, hid in the bushes on a small hillside to avoid being captured.

The night was unbearable. She gritted her teeth and sent messages to two other peripheral members of the organization, hoping they could help her, but for some reason, no one replied.

In the end, Tachibana Maya could only hide in the bushes for the entire night.

The next morning, the police arrived, and surprisingly, Inspector Megure was leading the team.

Unfortunately, Tsukikage Island is under the jurisdiction of Tokyo Metropolitan Government, so the task naturally fell to Inspector Megure.

When Inspector Megure, looking exhausted, saw Kogoro Mouri, he didn't know what to say and just gave him a deadpan look.

Seriously, Mori, you've gone this far, how come you still run into a case? Did you have something unclean on you?

The unclean thing next to me sneezed.

Conan rubbed his nose. Could it be that he had caught a cold?

Lin Zhiren was still sleepy. He was a bit of a light sleeper, and although the air quality on Moon Shadow Island was good, it got light very early, which made it impossible for him to stay in bed. He was still not fully awake.

As for the direction of the case, he didn't care much.

Those drug dealers are definitely dead. Now that there's a female assassin, I wonder if things will get a little more complicated.

Let it be. As long as he has a soul and merit to collect, that's fine.

Following standard procedure, although the man in the gray trench coat was a prime suspect, the police still needed to investigate and question all those who appeared at the crime scene.

There were so many people attending the memorial service that the inquiries continued from morning until evening.

Just then, the bald, fat village chief, Kuroiwa Tatsuji, suddenly received a text message, and his expression changed slightly.

He looked around and, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, immediately replied to the message and quietly slipped away from the first floor to the broadcasting room on the second floor.

It's a quiet, soundproof place, and usually no one goes there, making it perfect for a private conversation.

The message he just received was from a high-ranking official sent by his own organization. The official wanted to ask him some questions and asked him to find a secluded place.

So the village chief of Black Rock arranged to meet the other party in the broadcasting room on the second floor.

However, he felt a little uneasy before going upstairs.

A high-ranking cadre sent by the organization?

That must be a complete stranger from out of town.

Yesterday, the capitalist Hideo Kawashima was murdered, and the killer was a gray trench coat, seemingly an outsider... Could there be a connection between the two...?

Could it be that the organization thinks their secret network is about to be exposed, so they sent people to silence them all?!

How despicable!

The village chief of Black Rock looked grim, but he was powerless to resist.

Putting aside how much leverage the organization had over him, the organization's terrifying power alone was something he simply couldn't contend with.

If you don't resist, you can still save your family's lives; but if you do resist, your whole family will probably be wiped out!

But he didn't want to be killed by a shark without any explanation... He wanted to at least cause some trouble for the organization!

So he gritted his teeth slightly, took out a business card from his pocket, and wrote a few words on the back.

[The one who killed me was in a gray trench coat]

To make his argument more convincing, he even bit his finger and left a bloody fingerprint on it.

Then mix this business card with the other business cards and put it in your business card holder.

Then, with a tragic and heroic spirit, he entered the broadcasting room on the second floor.

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He had been secretly watching the Black Rock Village Chief, and originally planned to make an anonymous call to lure him out to kill him, but the man showed up on his own.

This is a golden opportunity.

So Lou Jie entered the broadcasting room.

"Huh? What are you doing here..." The Black Rock Village Chief was on edge when he saw the young man enter. He immediately said impatiently, "What are you doing here? Go back and wait for the police to question you."

Lou Danyan went up to the door, then pulled out a knife and stabbed the village chief of Heiyan to death!

The village chief of Black Rock chuckled twice, his eyes widening in disbelief as he stared at the beautiful female doctor before him.

So she was an organization leader?!

How awful...

The village chief of Black Rock Village is dead.

The crime scene was set up.

He first dipped his brush in the blood flowing from the corpse and drew a musical score on the ground.

Hidden within is the message of his death: the resentment of karmic fire is dispelled here.

The code to the sheet music is not difficult to crack; it simply involves mapping the piano keys to the English letters one by one and then hiding the corresponding information in the sheet music using pinyin.

The mystery shouldn't be too difficult for that famous detective from Tokyo; he'll surely be able to solve it quickly.

Then he took out a cassette tape that he had prepared beforehand, which contained the second movement of the piano piece "Moonlight Sonata".

The tape has been processed; one side is completely blank, and the other side starts with more than five minutes of blank space before the sound begins.

In this way, he only needs to put the tape into the player in the broadcasting room, start playing it from the blank side, and then automatically flip it over when it reaches the end, which can achieve the effect of confusing the time of death.

After setting everything up, [Name] left.

All of this was observed by the little bee hiding in the corner.

Lin Zhiren stroked his chin, a thought swirling in his mind: if he fast-forwarded the tape, would it ruin the killer's plan and get him caught on the spot?

No, no, that's not good. There's still a drug dealer who hasn't been killed. Losing a soul won't do.

Suddenly, the door to the broadcasting room clicked open again, and a figure in a gray trench coat slipped in.

It was none other than the female assassin, Tachibana Maya.

She had actually already infiltrated the vicinity of the community center.

However, the police presence here was too strong, so she didn't really want to get close.

But judging from yesterday's murders, it seems that the outer members of these organizations have offended someone and are being hunted down. She was afraid that if she arrived any later, all of them would be dead.

So we can only take a small risk.

Using her agility, she scaled the outer wall of the community center to the second floor, opened a window, and slipped into the broadcasting room.

Then I saw the corpse inside.

Tachibana Maya:......

She was completely stunned.

What happened? Why did another one die?

Moreover, the strong smell of blood in the room indicated that the person had only been dead for a short time.

Who did it?

After a slight hesitation, Tachibana Maya decided to search the body to see if she could find any clues.

She was wearing rubber gloves, so she didn't have to worry about leaving fingerprints and could search the body at will.

They quickly searched the body but found nothing suspicious. However, they found the sheet music drawn in blood on the ground.

Tachibana Maya was somewhat speechless.

There's a password hidden inside? You're probably trying to make things difficult for me, the assassin!

Despicable.

She stretched out her foot and stomped hard on the sheet music twice. Then she saw a red button glowing on the control panel in the broadcasting room, and something inside seemed to be making noise.

Maya Tachibana glanced at it; it seemed to be playing a tape? But why was there no sound? A blank tape? Or was the machine broken?

She casually pressed the pause button, took out the cassette tape, and examined it closely, discovering it was a piano piece cassette tape titled "Moonlight".

She didn't pay much attention, casually stuffed it back in, and then pressed play again.

However, when she put it back, she accidentally flipped it over.

The moment I pressed play, the music started playing instantly!