Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Chapter 71 Hattori was misled again and Maori knew everything

Maori was thinking silently on the side - leaving aside the previous two incidents, the death of Noan Heren this time gave him a very strange feeling.

The murderer killed Ye Anheren yesterday, but inexplicably hung the body on the roof and designed a noose trap. The owner of the coffee shop in the building received a call and went upstairs. The moment the rooftop door opened, the body automatically loosened and fell onto the police car.

Why did the murderer do this? What was his purpose?

Simply provoking the police?

This doesn't make any sense, as it's just a coincidence that the police car would be parked there...

"Hattori, there were no witnesses the first two times,"

Mao Li couldn't help but wonder, "Why do you think the murderer set up so many things here at Noan and Toto?"

"I think... he wants the media to report it,"

Hattori explained, "Maybe he doesn't want the police to suppress him anymore."

As soon as Hattori finished speaking——

"Brother Heiji!"

Detective Sakata came over happily with a videotape in his hand, "We found it! We found the common point among the victims!"

"really?"

"Yes, take a look at this first. I just borrowed it from the TV station."

Detective Sakata put the tape into the video recorder and played the video. "It took a lot of effort to find this."

Hattori watched the video and wondered, "Isn't this what happened six years ago when Sotaro Goji, a member of the county council, was suspected of corruption? At that time, he pushed the responsibility onto Secretary-General Oe Hidetoshi and asked Nagao to resign... But even if you found out about this, what can you do? It's been so many years..."

Sakata smiled and said, "It's the driver you want you to look at, take a closer look."

"Ok?"

Mao Li also moved to the side, looking over the long tail surrounded by reporters, at the fat driver who was like a catfish at the back.

"Isn't this the third Noyasu and the one who was killed?"

"Yes, he was the driver of the township councillor four years ago."

"So, this case might have something to do with the township councillor."

“So the seniors in our bureau have now gone to the township councillors.”

Sakata had excitement on his face.

"But," Mao Li couldn't help but frown, "Isn't this person famous for hating the police? I think it would be useless to meet him."

"That's true, but we have to try."

"Anyway, you guys should go to my house now,"

Hattori adjusted the brim of his hat, and prepared to leave with Detective Sakata in high spirits, "Kazuha knows the way."

"I'll go take a look too."

Maori spoke up.

"I think you should stay with He Ye and the others, uncle."

Hattori waved his hand and smiled as he turned his gaze towards everyone. "Aren't you guys here to relax? Leave the case in Osaka to me. See you later."

……

In an ordinary apartment in Osaka, an old lady was alone in her room, scratching her face in fear, her body shaking.

"A body fell in Shinsaibashi at around 41pm this afternoon. According to the investigation, the deceased is Kazuto Noyasu, years old..."

The only light in the room with closed curtains was from the television, and the sound of news reports pierced deeply into the old lady's heart.

"The Osaka police believe that this case is very likely related to the case a week ago and are conducting an in-depth investigation..."

"Beep, beep, beep!" The old lady's face was covered in sweat. At this moment, the phone next to her suddenly rang, making her body stiffen.

She turned to the phone with difficulty; the incessant ringing sounded like the sound of death.

The old lady answered the phone tremblingly: "Hello..."

"Excuse me, is this Ms. Okazaki's home?" A young man's voice came from the other end of the phone, "I'm Sakata from the Tojiri Branch of the Osaka Prefectural Police..."

"Mr. Police!" The old lady grabbed the receiver and shouted, "Come and save me! I will be killed if I continue like this! I can tell you what happened in the past! Please come here quickly!"

Sakata, who was on the phone, was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "Ms. Okazaki, calm down first, I'll be there right away, lock the door and don't let anyone in!"

……

At Xidu Apartment, after Maori parked the car, he immediately took Haibara to the public toilet downstairs.

He asked for directions in advance and planned to go to the village councilor, but on the way he learned that Hattori followed Officer Sakata and changed his mind halfway to meet a woman named Okazaki Sumie, and Conan also followed them shamelessly.

Okazaki Sumie had appeared at the scene of the Noyasu Kazuto incident. Because she fled in a hurry, she was listed as a suspicious person and investigated. However, an accident happened just after her address was found.

"The victim is Ms. Okazaki Sumie, 39 years old this year," Sakata reported in front of a female corpse, "She was strangled to death by a strip around her neck, and after killing her, the murderer stabbed her in the chest with a knife through her wallet..."

"Click, click!" After taking photos of the scene and collecting evidence, several police officers quickly left the scene with the body, leaving behind a lot of doubts.

The body was discovered by an uncle who was cleaning the toilet, and before that Hattori and Conan had just found Okazaki Sumie's apartment.

Maori asked Conan about the situation. Before the incident, Sakata happened to talk to Okazaki Sumie on the phone. They originally planned to meet immediately, but the car just missed the Saito Apartment. Because of the one-way street, Hattori and Conan had to get out of the car and run back to the apartment.

The incident happened in such a short period of time. When the two arrived, Okazaki Sumie was not at home and the door was not even locked. Then the body was found in the public toilet downstairs.

"You let her stay at home, right?" Mori walked into the Okazaki family's house, looked at the entrance in confusion, and asked Hattori, "How could she be killed outside? The door was not even locked..."

"I do not know either,"

Hattori frowned, "And speaking of which, aren't you supposed to be with Kazuha and the others?"

"Didn't this little brat come here with you?"

Maori turned to Conan who was standing beside him, "And someone was waiting to pick them up over there, so I came over."

"Officer Sakata,"

At this time, a police officer reported, "There is a suspicious phone message in the victim's room."

"message?"

"Beep! Come to Shinsaibashi right now, I'll let you meet your old friend... 1:08 pm..."

"Beep! Did you see that? It's your turn next... 1:10 pm..."

"The voice was processed with a voice changer," Sakata said seriously after listening to the message, "It must be the murderer calling! The time was exactly when Noyasu and his body fell..."

Maori listened to the message and silently wrote it down in the notebook of the Young Detective League that he had snatched from Conan.

Not to mention the first two murders, there wasn't even a witness. But the third time, they deliberately made a noise and let the fourth victim watch.

It's so abnormal.

Moreover, the two messages were left two minutes apart, deliberately letting the deceased see the second message when he returned to his apartment... Why did they go to such great lengths to threaten the deceased? Why not just kill him directly?

The deceased was scared and not only locked himself in the room, but also asked Officer Sakata for help. Didn't this make it more difficult for the murderer to commit the crime?

The most bizarre thing is that the deceased was killed in a public toilet outside.

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal - there must be a reason behind all this, but now Maori has no idea how they are related.

Mao Li reviewed the entire incident again in his notebook, trying to sort out all the details as much as possible.

Then--

"Wallet," Mao Li suddenly asked in a deep voice while tapping the tip of his pen, "All four times, the murderer stabbed the wallet into the chest with a knife after killing someone... Is there any special meaning behind this?"

"I don't think so, right?" Detective Sakata said in surprise. "These people don't have any connections, and they don't have any financial disputes with others... I think it's better to go meet that councillor, maybe we can find something."

"To see the township chief?"

"Yes," Sakata turned to Hattori and said, "Brother Heiji, didn't you say you were going to meet Councillor Goji?"

Hattori no longer had any interest in Goji: "That congressman didn't seem to have anything to do with the second murder of Nishiguchi or Okazaki this time. There's no point in meeting him now, right?"

"That's right," Sakata nodded and said worriedly, "This makes the case even more difficult. The four people have nothing to do with each other, except that they were killed in the same way... By the way, speaking of wallets, their driver's licenses happened to be in them. Could this be related?"

"Driver's license?" Hattori's eyes lit up. "If it has nothing to do with money, then maybe it has something to do with the driver's license and the car!"

……

Kadoma Driving Supervision Office.

After Maori followed Hattori and others to leave the Saito Apartment, he immediately rushed here to investigate and found the person in charge to obtain the information of the four victims.

"None of the four have a criminal record..."

Hattori said disappointedly, "I thought it had something to do with the car, but it turns out I was going in the wrong direction."

Sakata also sighed beside him: "And the four of them took their driver's license tests in different years and places."

"I found it!"

Conan held the information and said in a childish tone, "It seems that only Miss Okazaki took the driver's license test in Hyogo instead of Osaka!"

"Oh, this, little brother, the driving training school there is very cheap and very famous. Many people used to go there."

The person in charge explained.

"Is there a phone number there?"

"Yes, I have."

In the lobby of the inspection office, Sakata called Hyogo to investigate the situation, while Mori and Haibara stood alone on the side.

"Don't you find it strange, uncle?"

Huiyuan still wore a mask and said to the thoughtful Maori, "This case doesn't seem that simple. You'd better be careful..."

"Don't worry, caution is written all over my dictionary."

Mao Li replied, but his eyes turned to Officer Sakata who was on the phone with confusion.

He hadn't figured out the case yet, but for some reason, his detective intuition told him that the murderer's next target would be the township councillor.

"What? Okazaki Sumie and Nishiguchi Tayo stayed in the same room when they attended the driving training class?"

Officer Sakata, who was on the phone, suddenly lost his voice, "Is this true?!"

"Any results?" Hattori approached Sakata in surprise, and Conan didn't bother to hide his identity in front of Hattori and surrounded him.

"That's right, the relationship between the four victims has finally been found!" Sakata said solemnly, "Except for Okazaki and Nishiguchi, everyone else also participated in the joint driving training class 20 years ago... The first victim was Nagao Hideto, the second was Noyasu Kazuto... and the city council member Goji..."

"Are they also related to the township councillor?"

Mao Li's heart moved when he heard this. The information from this investigation was so important. It was a breakthrough. It would directly reduce the difficulty of finding the murderer by several levels.

Especially with the emergence of the key figure of the township councillor...

"That's not all," Sakata said in shock, holding his phone tightly, sweat on his face, "There was also a very special person with them at the time, that was Numabuchi... Numabuchi Kiichiro!"

"Numabuchi Kiichiro?! Isn't he the wanted criminal who escaped back to Osaka two weeks ago?"

Hattori was also shocked and felt that he had grasped the key clue to the case.

Sakata nodded. "Someone in our area said they saw someone suspicious who looked like Numabuchi. I also participated in the search and arrest operation..."

"It was just before the first case happened!" Hattori snatched the phone and shouted to the other end of the line, "Do you have any photos from that time? If so, fax them over immediately!"

The waiting time was not long, and there was still some surprise on Hattori's face, but more of it was excitement.

He is not afraid of complicated cases, but he is afraid of no breakthrough. He has solved this serial murder case...

"It looks like the truth will soon be revealed, Detective," Huibara said lightly beside Maori, "It seems that there is no room for you to play..."