Conan's Unscientific Detective

Corresponding to the victim Isshiki Toranosaka.

"Curse! It must be a curse!"

As soon as Fujino returned to the crime scene, he saw Tokita Jusan shouting crazily, "It must be their curse! All six people on that day will be killed!"

"The six people that day, a curse?"

Fujino looked at Tokita Jusan who muttered to himself madly and then left. He couldn't help but narrow his eyes and felt a little confused.

As it stands now, all the victims are related to their own mummies.

It's just that Tokita Jusan's words about "that day" and "them" made Fujino a little confused...

Could it be that these mummies have some direct connection with these museum owners?

If this is the case, then it conflicts with what Uncle Kazemachi said has been passed down from ancient times.

Before Fujino could figure it out.

Soon, another body was found.

It was the third son of Kusanagi from Ivy House.

The cause of death is exactly the same as Isshiki Torao's.

All of them had their hearts pierced and their legs chopped off.

The only difference is that the leg that was chopped off was her left leg.

On the curtain beside it, it was written in blood: "The blood of the seventh corpse's revenge has not yet dried up."

Fujino found the secret room as usual and checked the mummy.

As expected, the mummy had lost its left leg.

However, Fujino keenly discovered something about this mummy.

Those are the teeth of this mummy, which show signs of having been treated with modern medical dental equipment.

From the traces, Fujino could tell that these bodies must have been there in the last few decades, rather than being passed down from ancient times...

"In recent decades?"

Fujino stared at the corpse lying peacefully in the sarcophagus.

His mind immediately recalled the pastor and his family who died in a church fire 27 years ago...

Judging from the bones of the corpse, it is indeed a female corpse.

She is worthy of being a pastor's daughter.

But why did they leave the body of the pastor's daughter in their mansion?

Thinking of this, Fujino became more confused.

But he could feel that he was getting closer and closer to the secret of this village.

At the same time, the identity of the murderer is also directly related to this series of secrets.

…………

After briefly discussing the case with the police, Fujino did not mention the traces found on the mummy.

Instead, he returned to the Tokita family, intending to find Tokita Jusan to ask about the curse.

But the other person was not at home, so Fujino searched the village and finally found Tokita Jusan.

But I found that the other party's behavior was a bit suspicious...

Fujino followed him, through a nearby forest and a winding steep forest path, over a fence with a sign saying "No Entry", waded through a swamp, and came to an endless "grassland".

It’s just that the shapes of these grasses are strange, different from normal plants, and it is obvious that they have been carefully cultivated.

"Curse, it's all because of this damn marijuana!"

Shi Tian Shisan knelt on the ground, pounding his hands hard on the ground: "If it weren't for these damn 'golden apples', Ruoye wouldn't have..."

'Golden Apple?'

Fujino was stunned when he heard this, and then he suddenly realized.

The so-called golden apple, judging from what Tokita Jusan just said, should be marijuana.

Immediately, he walked up and greeted, "Mr. Tokita."

"Nani?!"

Tokita Jusan turned his head in surprise, "Who on earth are you..."

"One hundred years ago, a group of priests came to this village in search of golden apples. They found the golden apples and planted them here..."

Fujino looked around and said, "If I'm not mistaken, those golden apples should be marijuana, right?"

"For a marijuana operation of this scale, everyone in your village should be involved, right?"

Tokita Jusan looked at Fujino with a gloomy expression and said nothing.

"Growing marijuana is easy to explain. It's obvious."

Fujino walked forward slowly and said in a deep voice: "What I really care about are the seven bodies. After all, from the condition of the three bodies I saw, they were not the guardian gods of the village at all, but were burned to death in the fire in recent decades."

"It so happened that twenty-seven years ago, the pastor's family in the middle of this village died in a fire... All the body parts of the seven bodies were cut off, and the body parts lost by the victims who were killed one after another this time were exactly the same as those of the bodies in my family."

After a pause, Fujino looked at Tokita Shisan: "Mr. Tokita, you just mentioned curses and revenge. This should be related to the death of the priest's family, right?"

A drop of cold sweat appeared on Tokita Jusan's forehead, but he still didn't speak.

Fujino had expected that the other party would keep his mouth shut about something like this.

So Fujino decided to play the emotional card, looked at Tokita Jusan and said, "Mr. Tokita, you should also want to catch the murderer of Wakaba, right?"

"Ruo...Ruo Ye..."

Tokita Jusan was stunned when he heard this, "Are you sure you can find the murderer who killed Ruoye?"

"I am sure."

Fujino nodded: "As long as you tell me what's going on with these corpses and the marijuana."

"In that case... well, I'll tell you everything now."

Tokita Jusan hesitated for a moment, thinking that since his only daughter was dead now, he would have no descendants anyway, so he made up his mind and withdrew from the whole thing.

One hundred years ago, missionaries who came to this village from abroad found wild cannabis and cultivated it together with their followers, the six families living in the foreign house, and the pastor of the church to profit from it.

After the missionaries left, the seven families in the village reached an agreement to secretly cultivate marijuana without letting other people in the village know and to make money secretly.

But twenty-seven years ago, the pastor's descendants suddenly did not want to continue growing marijuana.

The pastor and his wife adopted seven young orphans, and it was because of those children that the pastor came up with the idea of ​​stopping growing marijuana.

But this obviously created a conflict of interest with the other six major families in the village.

After several rounds of negotiations, the pastor and others failed to reach a common agreement. Finally, the negotiations broke down and the pastor decided to call the police.

Then, the six curators in the village ruthlessly shot and killed the pastor and his wife who were planning to burn the marijuana field.

Afterwards, they forced seven pastors' children into the church and set it on fire, burning them all to death.

But in the ruins of the church afterwards, the bodies of those girls were missing parts, as if they were cut off by the claws of the devil...

After that, each of the six hall owners took a corpse back to his own hall and hid it in a secret room.

After hearing the whole story, Fujino's face suddenly turned gloomy.

Nine people were killed in a row, including seven underage children.

After death, the body was taken back to his home...

These people are such beasts.

But after taking a deep breath and calming down, Fujino still grasped the key point of the matter: "These bodies were already like this when you found them. Didn't you cut them open?"

"No...we didn't do that..."

Tokita Jusan's face was slightly painful, and his forehead was already soaked with sweat. "We took these bodies back to restrain each other, so that no one would have the intention to withdraw or call the police again... because this is our evidence of crime."

"I already know……"

Fujino nodded, and the clues in his mind gradually connected: "If my guess is correct, then there are actually only six of these seven bodies."

"Only six?!"

Tokita Jusan's eyes widened.

"Yes."

Fujino explained: "If we cut off a part of each body, we will have a seventh body... The one who killed Ruoye might actually be the girl who survived that year. She set up a serial killing trap to avenge you..."

After determining the motive for the murder, the two men had just returned to the village when they heard that another body had been found.

The one who died this time was Dou Wuzi...

Kabuto was hidden inside the armor at the entrance of the Armor House.

At this time, her left shoulder was removed and her head was separated from her body.

On the back of the armor, it was written in blood: "The seventh corpse, this is the second person, the blood has not yet been shed enough!"

According to the identification by the police who stayed behind, the time of death of Douguzi was almost the same as that of Wakaba.

In other words, Kabuto was killed at the same time as Wakaba was killed.

Fujino sneaks into the secret room of the Armor House.

"no the same?"

Fujino looked at the corpse in the coffin in front of him and stood there in a daze.

The body lying in the coffin was missing the lower half of the body, while Dou Wuzi was missing the left shoulder.

This time, the rules were completely disrupted.

From Wakaba, the first person to be killed, to Torao and Kusanagi, the three of them lost parts corresponding to their own bodies.

But this time, something was unusual.

However, Fujino sensed a clue in the abnormality.

"So that's it..."

Fujino took a deep breath, looked at the corpse in front of him, and lowered his head: "Did you kill yourself?"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 303 Revenge of Years Ago

Since the suspect Dou Wuzi is dead, the case has to be investigated again.

That night, at the church in Liujiao Village.

At Fujino's request, the police brought the six surviving owners of the six mansions, Tokida Jusan, Kabuto Reiji, Kazasai Jun'ya, Gota Ran, as well as Wakaba's fiancé Renjo Hisahiko and Odagiri Susumu to the scene.

"Fujino-kun!"

Criminal Division Director Kouga Shinobu walked in from outside the church: "As you said, we have sealed off the church."

"Thank you."

Fujino turned around wearing a fishing hat and looked around at the people sitting in the church: "Everyone, I think some of you are already very clear about the purpose of this serial murder case. Whether it is the murderer's killing method or the motive for the murder, you should be very clear, and the murderer is among you."

"Fujino, what exactly do you mean?"

Uncle Kazematsu looked at Fujino in confusion.

"That is to say, how can we possibly know the motive for the murder..."

And Wu Talan looked confused.

"About a hundred years ago, a group of missionaries came to this remote village and found the so-called golden apples. The so-called golden apples were actually marijuana planted in the forest next to this village!"

Fujino took out a handful of marijuana from his pocket and showed it to everyone, saying, "The six families in the village followed the missionaries and cultivated wild marijuana. They made a lot of money by selling marijuana over the past hundred years. In other words, this village was built with the money from selling marijuana."

“This is indeed marijuana…”

Minister Koga walked up to Fujino and exclaimed in surprise.