Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 1024

"What! Didn't find it?"

Hearing the report of the police officer who went to investigate first came back, Otaki Goro couldn't help but feel strange, and then thought a little bit puzzled:
"Could it be that Sakata lied? Or are there other abandoned wooden houses near here that might hide people?"

"No, I don't think Officer Sakata should have lied."

But at this time, just as Otaki Goro guessed like this, Conan on the side suddenly said with such certainty.

"Little brother, what did you say?"

Unexpectedly, Otaki Goro couldn't help being surprised and puzzled when he heard the kid Conan say that.

"That's right, I don't think Sakata was lying when he said that Kiichiro Numabuchi was imprisoned here..."

At the same time, even Hattori Heiji said so.

Regarding this, seeing that Otaki Goro was still confused, Gao Yuan also added:
"Officer Otaki, look here, there is a trash can hidden in the grass."

Hearing Gao Yuan's words, Otaki Goro looked at Gao Yuan's gesture——

At this moment, on the dense grass that Conan pushed aside with his feet, there was a small trash can that seemed to have burned something inside.

In this regard, Conan squatted down, picked up the trash can, and took out some papers that had not been completely incinerated to show Otaki Goro, and saw that these were the remaining convenience store receipts from the incineration. From the above, we can see the time when the receipt was issued——

"Look, here are the receipts from the convenience store five days ago and three days ago..."

As he said that, Conan took out another piece of paper that was not a receipt, it looked like it should be a wrapping paper pasted on a fresh-keeping wrapping film, and continued:
"And the expiry date on the wrapping paper of this lunch box is today..."

"This……"

Looking at these garbage cans buried in the grass without being burned, Otaki Goro seemed to understand.

So, just when Conan wanted to explain further, Hattori Heiji explained:
"No matter how you think about it, no one will come here to eat the boxed lunches from the convenience store every day, and it is impossible for the wanted gangster to go to the convenience store to buy things in person..."

"So based on these, it should be concluded that there were people in this abandoned wooden house, and there were other people who were helping him buy boxed lunches from the convenience store for him to eat."

In this regard, Gao Yuan stepped forward and said with some affirmation.

However, at the same time Gao Yuan said this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but cast a glance at Conan who found the trash can——

Originally, all the clues and the development of the incident were obviously the same as the original work, how did it come to this last step...

Some dignified, Gao Yuan couldn't help feeling very helpless.

As for this, he noticed Gao Yuan looking at him, thinking that his behavior might be too flamboyant just now, so he pulled the corner of Hattori Heiji's clothes and said jokingly:

"Brother Heiji discovered these first..."

"I see……"

Hearing the explanations given by Gao Yuan and others successively, Otaki Goro finally understood what was going on——

"That is to say, Sakata didn't lie, he did lock the marsh inside here, and he came here regularly to deliver food to him..."

Saying that, Otaki Goro's expression became serious:
"But now, he's not inside..."

According to the current clues, it can be concluded that Numabuchi Kiichiro is really locked in this wooden house as Sakata Yusuke said, but now, there is no one in the wooden house. What is it...

"In short, since Koichiro Numabuchi has not been found in the wooden house, let's go in and have a look first!"

At this moment, Gao Yuan suggested so seriously about the unexpected change at the moment.

In this regard, Otaki Goro nodded. Since a dangerous person like Numabuchi Kiichiro is not in the wooden house, it is considered safe to go in and investigate. At least if possible, it would be good to find some clues.

So, Otaki Goro took Takato and Hattori Heiji towards this abandoned wooden house, and Conan followed silently——

After entering this abandoned wooden house, looking at the ladder leading to the ceiling set up by the police officers who just came here, Gao Yuan's eyes first looked at the window sill beside him. On this window sill, there were a few traces of dried mud footprints, recalling the mud on his feet when he entered the hut from the grass outside...

Then, Gao Yuan naturally looked aside at the somewhat clean beam——

"So that's how it is, put your foot on the window sill, and use this beam..."

And at this moment, Hattori Heiji also noticed Gao Yuan's point of attention, and couldn't help but say in surprise, and then saw him bear the brunt of it, stepping on the window sill with one hand, holding the beam with the other hand, climbing up from another direction without relying on the ladder set up by the police just now, and found the entrance corresponding to the upper ceiling that can be opened, and then climbed up directly——

"Hey! Heiji! Wait!"

Because the location where Hattori Heiji will climb up to the ceiling is not the place where the police used the ladder to forcibly go up just now, thinking that it might be the place where Sakata Yusuke detained Kiichiro Numabuchi, so the police officers may not have found this place just now, so there is a high probability that it has not been searched. Regarding this, Otaki Goro couldn't help shouting worriedly:

"We're coming up right now!"

I was afraid that if Koichiro Numabuchi was really still on the top, then Hattori Heiji who went forward alone would be in danger, so after Hattori Heiji boarded it, Otaki Goro hurried forward, grabbed ahead of Takato and Conan, and climbed up likewise—

"No, Kiichiro Numabuchi is not here..."

However, before Otaki Goro climbed to the ceiling, Hattori Heiji sent a response, which made Otaki Goro heaved a sigh of relief, but then, Hattori Heiji's words shocked everyone:
"No, it should be said that he was originally here, but he escaped!"

"what?"

Hearing this, Gao Yuan was taken aback. After Otaki Goro climbed up to the ceiling, he also grabbed the position. He climbed up to the window sills and beams first, and after not fully climbing up to the ceiling, he only poked his upper body into the position between the ceiling and the roof, and saw the point that Hattori Heiji and Otaki Goro were focusing on at the moment—

There is a beam leading to the ceiling, and beside the beam, a broken iron chain has fallen, and there are still some traces on the beam.

In this regard, Hattori Heiji looked at the clues in front of him and couldn't help but analyze:
"Look at the traces on this wooden beam, not only the traces of being tied by iron chains, but also here... It seems that there is a metal object, which has been rubbed repeatedly here, and the broken iron chain left here...

"I think Sakata should have handcuffed Sakata Yusuke here before, but because the beam was too thick, the other end of the handcuffs couldn't be handcuffed directly to the beam, so he tied the other end of the handcuffs to the beam with an iron chain to prevent Numabuchi Kiichiro from escaping...

"But obviously, the other end of the handcuffs is only tied with an iron chain, and the iron chain is still too thin. Although there are many loops, as long as you have enough time and patience, it is too easy to break the iron chain!"

Speaking of this, Hattori Heiji seemed to grit his teeth, feeling naive about how Sakata Yusuke just trapped Numabuchi Kiichiro in this way——

"But since there are iron chains of this length, why don't you just tie the chains to Marsh so that he can't move?"

In this regard, looking at the situation in front of him, Otaki Goro was puzzled.

"If you tie him with iron chains, how can he eat and drink water?"

Glancing at the many empty lunch boxes on the ceiling, Hattori Heiji explained:
"It's impossible for Sakata to be here looking at the marsh all the time. In order to ensure that he won't die, he has to be able to eat and drink by himself, so he only cuffed one hand with handcuffs and fixed the other end to the beam...

"But no matter what, just control one hand, no matter how good the position of the other handcuff is, if you have time, there are really many ways to break the handcuff..."

"So the current situation is that Numabuchi Kiichiro has escaped from here!"

Listening to Hattori Heiji's words, based on the situation in front of him, Gao Yuan looked serious, and couldn't help but say this...

(End of this chapter)