I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

"I'm not saying the painting isn't expressive, but I don't have much of an artistic sense, so I probably wouldn't understand this profound image."

Flying Dragon Warrior: ?

I'm still a novice and lack experience.

They have no taste.

He then put away the scroll in his hand and handed a few photos to Chen En.

There's nothing abstract in these photos.

The features of the gemstone shown in the photo are quite obvious. If you look for this gemstone, it shouldn't be too difficult to find it, as long as it has been seen before.

Chen En carefully put the photos away before speaking.

"In that case, I shall take my leave now."

"This is my contact information. Please feel free to contact me anytime if you need any help."

After leaving a business card, Chen En hurriedly left.

Watching the young man's retreating figure, Flying Dragon Warrior couldn't help but sigh again.

He opened the scroll beside him and admired the ukiyo-e style gemstones once more, marveling at them. He felt he could look at them again and again without getting tired of them. Then he sighed, thinking that young people these days really have no artistic talent.

If you let him identify the gemstones based on this painting, he'll definitely recognize them at a glance.

After leaving Feilongshi's house, Chen En immediately tapped his earphones with his fingers and said.

"Noah's Ark, please contact Akako Koizumi for me."

"I need her to do some divination for me... Yes, it's the images of these photos I'm sending now. I want her to help me find the whereabouts of that gem based on these images."

While it's true that using technology to find a needle in a haystack isn't entirely impossible.

But indeed, the divination methods of the mystical side are more cost-effective.

After getting Noah's Ark's help, he also contacted Hattori Heiji, intending to use Hattori Heiji's connections to find Hattori Heizo and then investigate the professional thief gangs that had been operating in the Osaka Police Headquarters for years.

Heizo Hattori is not the same as Superintendent General Hakuba of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

This guy is truly capable and shrewd; he doesn't need to rely on Superintendent Hakuba's son to solve cases, so he can use the Virtuous Correction Palm on Hattori Heiji.

If it really is a professional thief gang that was active in the Osaka area, Hattori Heizo would definitely have information about it.

However, the voice coming from Hattori Heiji surprised Chen En.

"...Chen En? We can talk about it later. There's been a vicious murder on my end!"

Chen En: ?

Huh? So fast?

I think I've only been gone for a few hours.

Has Hattori Heiji's luck really gotten this bad?

Chapter 1171 The Serial Murders of the Waves

Just as Heiji Hattori said on the phone.

Heinous murders did indeed occur around him.

Moreover, the manner of the body's death was quite unique; it fell from the rooftop and landed directly on the car, causing the car alarm to sound and the screams of the surrounding women to rise and fall.

So much so that Chen En's voice was barely audible on the other end of the phone.

Hattori Heiji looked at the corpse that had crashed onto the top of the car with a somewhat serious expression.

While everyone else avoided the scene, he took out his phone and talked to Chen En as he approached the body. After a quick glance, he immediately realized that the condition of the body was very similar to the previous murders.

Because the corpse's face looked obviously unnatural.

It doesn't look like he fell to his death from a high place, but rather like he was strangled by someone, as there are obvious ligature marks on his neck.

Furthermore, there was a sharp knife near the victim's chest. The knife pierced through the wallet and went straight through the heart, indicating a direct hit to the heart. However, this was not the direct cause of death; it was merely a mark left by the perpetrator.

According to Heiji Hattori, this appears to be the third time someone has used this symbolic method to commit a crime.

It has to be said that this murderer is truly lawless.

Don't they know that the brave Police Chief Hattori Heizo is protecting them in Osaka Prefecture?

Cases like this, where the perpetrators leave behind distinctive methods after committing murders, are incredibly shocking even on a global scale. Logically, the father should have focused most of the police resources on investigating this case.

Strange, why hasn't the case been solved while he was in Tokyo?

Has Dad finally gotten too old and useless?

Hattori Heiji silently praised Hattori Heizo in his heart.

And Chen En's voice came through the phone again.

"Has a horrific murder occurred in your neighborhood?"

What were the deceased's conditions like?

Upon hearing this, Hattori Heiji recounted what he had seen.

"If nothing unexpected happens, it should be a serial murder case."

"During my trip to Tokyo, I heard about two vicious murders in Osaka Prefecture that were committed using the same method and leaving the same marks."

"The victims all had the same mark: a knife piercing their hearts, along with their wallets."

"Moreover, all the victims died from strangulation."

"As far as I know, the Osaka Police Headquarters hasn't found anything in common among these victims yet... but I think that since the killer used this method to commit serial murders, there must be some connection between them."

As Hattori Heiji spoke, he straightened his hat and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Even the Jack the Ripper serial murders have connections."

"I don't believe that anyone would be so bored as to randomly kill people, and use the same method of killing."

This is Osaka Prefecture, not Beika Town.

Such a remarkable person might appear in Beika Town, but it's highly unlikely that such a person would appear in Osaka Prefecture.

Upon hearing this description, Chen En on the other end of the phone fell silent for a moment.

As mentioned many times before, Chen En only remembers the famous stories and some of the theatrical versions of Detective Conan, and he is not very clear about the other later and lesser-known plots.

According to Hattori Heiji's description, this seems to be related to a famous work that he knows.

This seems to be part of the plot of the serial murder case involving Naniwa?

Chen En tapped his fingers lightly on the case of his phone, while the plot of this famous novel flashed through his mind.

The perpetrator of the Naniwa serial murder case is a detective from the Osaka Police Headquarters.

His name is Sakata Yusuke.

The reason he used this method to commit serial killings was that the people he killed had inadvertently killed Sakata Yusuke's father, Inaba, who was known as a devilish instructor at a driving school, twenty years ago.

The motivation was that the driving instructor was too harsh on them.

Therefore, the six of them teamed up to lure this devilish coach out, get him drunk, and then leak all the brake fluid from the car, causing the brakes to fail, which ultimately led to Coach Inaba's death in a car accident.

The statute of limitations for murder is fifteen years.

However, these people killed his father twenty years ago, so the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution has expired, and it is no longer possible to hold them accountable for the murder.

That's why Yusuke Sakata chose to take revenge on the person who killed his father in this way.

Heiji Hattori is now facing the third murder in a series of killings. There is one more murder in the series before the serial killings will come to an end.

In accordance with Chen En's consistent belief, he maintained a non-interventionist attitude toward such events.

If some people cannot be punished through legal means, then it is necessary to resort to vigilante justice.

He neither approves nor disapproves, so he won't help the police catch such criminals, but he also won't help such criminals escape... unless the criminal's revenge affects others.

For example, a criminal might choose to kill innocent people in order to seek revenge.

Then Chen En would stop the criminal before he could make a move and bring him to justice.

Therefore, Chen En only spoke in a low voice.

"I see."

"Next, you'll be going to the Osaka Police Headquarters to give statements and conduct related investigations, right?"

"I will also be going to the Osaka Police Headquarters next, and we will meet there."

After saying this, Chen En ended the call.

Heiji Hattori, on the other end of the phone, sensed something was amiss.

He and Chen En had collaborated more than once or twice, so he was quite familiar with Chen En's temperament. Such a person would not stand idly by even if he encountered a heinous murder in another place.

But now Chen En isn't even at the scene, clearly indicating he doesn't intend to get involved in the investigation, which is very strange.

Heiji Hattori, the famous detective from Kansai, almost instantly connected it to a previous incident.

That's right, it's the mermaid murder case that happened on the American island.

At the time, Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama were investigating whether the mastermind behind a heinous murder was Kimie Shimabukuro on an American island. As a result, Kazuha Toyama accidentally slipped on the edge of a cliff.

In order to save Toyama Kazuha, he had to reach out and grab her, leaving most of his body hanging over the edge of the cliff.

If Chen En hadn't discovered them and helped them, they probably would have fallen into the river and never returned.

Chen En clearly maintained a non-interference stance during that incident.

Kimie Shimabukuro's crime appears to be a revenge attack.

The person who was killed was one of the people who burned her mother to death with her.

Could it be that the perpetrator of this series of murders was also seeking revenge for his own family, which is why Chen En chose to stand by and do nothing?

Hattori Heiji's mind raced, and he quickly guessed that the answer was pretty much correct.