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Chapter 1568 The Seal of the Chasing Wood Bird

After hearing Zhufu's wise words, Yamato Gansuke stared at each other and activated his death gaze.

But as an old friend for many years, how could Zhu Fu Gaoming be afraid and continue to show off his face.

"But no matter how similar it is, I still hope that you won't be like Yamamoto Kansuke, who was upset because the battle plan failed, and ultimately led to a reckless death on the battlefield."

Zhu Fu Gaoming touched his chin and said jokingly: "Well, you are not the sensitive and delicate type who will feel guilty, regretful and unable to think about things because of failure."

"What did you say!"

Yamato Gansuke was furious when he heard Morofu's clever output, and when they were about to start a quarrel, Uehara Yui on the side quickly spoke up to stop the two of them.

"It's almost time now. Let's finally go to see the Chikuma River and end this tour."

Uehara Yui quickly looked at Karasawa and others, obviously hoping that they could divert their attention and avoid further bickering.

"That's troublesome." Ayako smiled and thanked her.

After hearing their conversation, the two people who were still bickering stopped, and everyone arrived at Matsushiro Bridge.

The iconic building of this bridge is a square with the "V" removed from the upper part, which is also very similar to Bie's gesture.

After everyone took a group photo at the landmark, they went up to the bridge to enjoy the beautiful view of the Chikuma River.

"Wow~ It's such a beautiful scenery, and the river is also so clear and beautiful."

Standing on the bridge, looking around at the mountains and rivers below and the clear river below, he sighed: "I can't believe that such a beautiful place has had a war before."

"Speaking of it, there seems to be a poem that describes the river during that battle." Uehara Yui looked up and recalled after hearing Xiaolan's words.

Zhufu Gaoming on the side cleared his throat when he heard the words: "The bones of the heroes are piled up like mountains and rivers of blood. The scars of the years are vividly reflected in Chichuan."

At this moment, there seemed to be the sound of heavy objects falling in the distance, which startled the crows on the bridge to spread their wings and fly high.

"Ying Chichuan?"

Xiaolan glanced at the movement in the sky, and after listening to the ancient poem blessing Zhu Fu Gaoming, she couldn't help but ask: "Excuse me, what does that mean?"

"Although it is not certain whether it is a branch of the Senkuma River, it is said that the Battle of Kawanakajima was a heroic battle in which more than 8000 people died."

Zhufu Gaoming said: "The blood of the soldiers who died in the battle will dye the river red for three days and three nights as it passes through the shrine. This is the legend of Mr. Chiiji."

"It's just poetry to commemorate and comfort the heroic spirits." Tang Ze said after hearing this.

"That's right, and it is said that after that battle, people called the river Akagawa and the shrine Akagawa Shrine." Zhuofushi said wisely.

"That's too exaggerated. Besides, how could Hechuan be dyed red for three days and three days?"

As Yamato Gansuke spoke, he looked down at the clear rapids below. The next moment his expression changed drastically: "Blood!!"

Tang Zeben was standing next to him. Hearing his words, he quickly looked down and found a black shadow slowly emerging from the river: "Is that... a human head!?"

"Ms. Uehara, please notify the forensic personnel to come over!"

Karasawa shouted and immediately took Yamato Gansuke's crutches: "Borrow it!"

Moving towards the crutch, Karasawa ran directly towards the bottom of the river. Seeing this, Zhufu Gaoming supported Yamato Kansuke and fell behind Karasawa and Conan.

Tangze jumped directly from the escalator under the bridge to the riverside. Without any pause, Tangze ran directly in the direction of the head.

The blood on the head gradually became scarce, and whether it was due to luck or the direction of the wind, the head that originally emerged from the middle of the river slowly moved closer to Tang Ze.

Seeing this, Karasawa quickly used Yamato Kansuke's crutch to stop the head, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Tangze Criminal, is that really a human head?" Conan followed closely and looked at Tangze and asked.

"It's a human head." Tang Ze nodded solemnly.

"Feed Yamato"

Zhu Fu and Gaoming followed closely. Looking at the head placed on the ground by Tang Ze, their expressions changed: "That head."

"Nagano Prefecture Search Section 1, Takeda Team Leader, Takeda Shigeru Criminal!" Yamato Gansuke said solemnly.

After Yamato Gansuke's words fell, both Karasawa and Conan were shocked, because dismembering the body was bad enough. If the identity of the deceased was still a local criminal, the matter would be even more serious.

"The key thing is that there are only heads in the river, but no bodies."

Conan said solemnly: "When we were on the wall just now, we saw blood flowing out of the head, which means that the prisoner must have just thrown the head of Team Leader Takeda into the river."

"There's a burning smell down the road."

Tang Ze got up and went to the road next to the river. He found a large area of ​​burned black road and a body lying on it: "The body was severely burned and even partially shattered."

"It seems that there is no way to put the head and body together like Yamamoto Kansuke did." Zhufu Gaoming came over and looked at the corpse and said.

This murder case was of great importance. After Karasawa figured out the situation at the scene, he first comforted Ayako and Xiaolan and asked them to wait nearby, and then waited for the local county police to come for support.

Soon the police car arrived, and it was the three criminals they had encountered before.

"Is this Team Leader Takeda?" Sanzhi Mamoru looked at the unsightly burned corpse on the ground with a shocked look on his face: "Who was it and why?"

"Judging from the state of this body, it has been burned for nearly half a day." Tangze said after inspecting the body.

"This is strange." Yamato Gansuke heard this and said, "I remember that the head floated over when I was looking down at the river from the bridge."

"Could it be because the prisoner was hanging on the railing of the bridge before?" Conan said and pointed to the bridge above: "There is something white and rope-like growing on the pillar over there."

"If that's the case, then the method is clear."

Karasawa looked at the bridge and said: "The murderer put the head and fake plasma in a plastic bag, and then made a mechanism that will break the rope if the heavy object falls for a long time.

If you wait like this for a long time, the head will fall into the river, and stones may be added to prevent the bag from getting caught on the head. "

"It seems that we vaguely heard the sound of "pop" at that time." Conan echoed: "There were a lot of crows flying on the bridge at that time."

As for the fake plasma, it was discovered during preliminary inspection after Karasawa retrieved the head.

The reason why the murderer used fake plasma was because the real blood had long since coagulated and would not cause the scene of dyeing the river red at all.

"But why do you deliberately use fake plasma?" Kano Akici, wearing glasses, heard this and said, "What's the meaning of doing this?"

"Perhaps it's to make it easier for others to discover."

Yamato Gansuke heard this and said: "I happened to look down from the bridge, so I discovered it.

But without blood, it would just look like ordinary garbage floating in the river.

After all, no one would get too close to the river. They would only look at it from a distance. The lack of blood could easily be seen as something else. ” ˆ ˆ “That, that.”

At this moment, the forensics officer from Nagano Prefecture suddenly said: "I just checked the head of the corpse and found some unnatural blood stains on the forehead.

I checked with luminol reagent and found suspicious traces. "

[X]

When everyone looked at Takeda Shigeru's head again, the head had been preliminarily cleaned by forensic personnel, and in the middle of his forehead, there was such a pattern printed on it.

"Is this the English letter "X"?" the forensic examiner asked.

"No, it's not just an "X". It's slightly curved and has a pointed tip." Tangze said.

"It's a bit like an animal's footprints." Yamato Gansuke nodded in agreement, and then said with a deep expression, "But what is it?"

"Chasing the wood bird."

At this moment, a rough and hoarse male voice sounded, "Due to its own habits, the wood chasing bird must stay firmly on the tree.

So its paws are in the shape of an "X", don't you know? "

When Conan heard this, he looked over and saw that the man's expression changed instantly.

The man in front of him had a gray beard and short hair. His right face and right eye were severely burned. He wore gray-rimmed glasses with a black lens in the right eye.

The tall and burly figure paired with the ferocious face makes him look very oppressive.

What made Conan's expression change drastically was that the other party's appearance and characteristics completely matched those of Rum!

After seeing this man's image, Tang Ze immediately recognized the other person's identity even though it was his first time meeting him.

Kuroda Hei, the man who was suspected of being Rum's number one suspect as soon as he appeared on the scene.

Even though it was later revealed that he was the second director of intelligence affiliated with the Security Planning Section and was Toru Amuro's boss, he still could not be completely cleared of suspicion.

Even when Rum appeared later, he was still suspected by many people to be Black's man.

Even though the two of them could even be considered colleagues, Karasawa still kept a respectful distance from Kuroda Hei.

There is no use in mainly contacting the other party. What Tang Ze needs are people who can act on the front line. For high-level camp officials like him who sit in the rear, there is no need for contact.

Kuroda Biewei approached the body, inspected it, and said: "The body was badly damaged. The murderer must have a deep hatred for Takeda.

It's just not clear whether the burned body is really Takeda's body. "

"There's no problem with this, Section Chief Kuroda."

The forensic examiner on the side heard this and replied: "We barely found the big toe of the right foot in the burned toe part.

I think there should be a way to do DNA comparison. "

"Really? Let's make a comparison immediately." Hearing this, Kuroda Heiwei stood up and looked at Saegashira and the other three: "Speaking of which, shouldn't the Takeda team bring a search warrant today to raid the hideout of wanted robbers? ?"

"The main reason is that we haven't been able to contact the team leader since morning."

After hearing this, Kano Akiji explained: "And we agreed to meet at Hachiman Shrine, but he did not show up."

"In the end, we had no choice but to break into the wanted robber's home, but the other party seemed to be aware of it and missed the target." Sanzhi said.

"After that, the three of us divided into three groups and were looking for Team Leader Takeda." Shinsuke Akiyama said in a low tone: "Then we received a call from Yamato not long after, saying that the body of Team Leader Takeda was found."

"Could it be that the team leader made contact with the target we wanted to arrest earlier?" Saegisa couldn't help but guess.

"The result was that he was killed"

Before Kano Akiji finished speaking, Yamato Gansuke on the side interrupted directly: "Others may be like this, but only Takeda dad will never do that kind of thing.

Dad is the kind of person who would not react at all to arrest a suspect even if he is asked to kill someone. "

Speaking of this, Zhufu Gaoming looked at Zhutian's forehead: "In comparison, one thing that makes me more concerned is that the prisoner left a woodpecker footprint on his forehead.

I think in order to figure everything out, we must first figure out what this trace represents. "

"Don't you just want to make a cross, so you use the claws of the wood-chasing bird as a symbol?" Yamato Kansuke heard this: "And it looks very much like a mark with the meaning of killing. .”

"Your reasoning is still as rough as ever." Zhufu Gaoming was speechless when he heard Yamato's words.

"Let me ask you if you have any clues about the connection between Takeda and the woodpecker?" Kuroda Biewei asked.

"No." Akiyama Shinsuke shook his head.

"Nothing special," Kano Akiji echoed.

"Wood chasing bird meeting."

At this moment, Yui Uehara suddenly said a name, which shocked the Nagano Prefectural police present.

"When I married into the Torada family, my late husband once mentioned this matter."

Uehara Yui said: "He said that there is a group called "The Wood Bird Club" within the Nagano Prefectural Police."

"I've never heard of it. What kind of group is that?" Kuroda Bingwei asked after hearing this.

"this."

Hearing this, Uehara Yui said: "After he found out that I had done criminal justice, he never mentioned it.

What is certain is that judging by his tone, they are not a decent group. "

"Is that so?"

Hearing this, Kuroda Biewei nodded and immediately said: "Since the prisoner burned the body of Team Leader Takeda under this bridge, there may be people around who witnessed the scene of fire or smoke.

Sanzhi, Qiu Shan, Lu Ye, you three go and ask around!
  Yamato, Morofushi and Uehara, you are responsible for investigating the cases handled by Team Leader Takeda and identifying those who have a grudge against him and are in a position to seek revenge! "

"No problem!" Yamato dared to help and said.

"Don't take it lightly." Kuroda Bei warned: "If the woodpecker's footprints, like Yamato said, are a kill mark.

The murderer might take this as a starting point and plan to continue attacking us criminally! "

Speaking of this, Kuroda Hei looked at Karasawa and said: "In addition, I also heard Uehara say that as the first discoverer, he was the one who reasonably stopped the head.

I would also like to trouble you to go with Uehara and the others for the time being. "

(End of this chapter)