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Perhaps the person who took the photo didn't pay attention at all, and Gao Yuan, who originally wanted to find new clues among the limited clues, still noticed some clues in the photo that were not easy to find -

This is obviously a selfie of the deceased. He held the camera in front of himself and took the photo towards himself.

Directly behind the photo, Gao Yuan saw a seaside cliff higher than where the woman was standing, and there seemed to be a black spot outside the cliff.

After enlarging this black spot as much as possible, the picture——

It seems to be a falling figure!

--"this……"

Looking at Gao Yuan's enlarged photo, Henggou Shenwu on the side also noticed this detail in the photo and said with some surprise:

"Did someone fall into the sea?\

,"Observing the scene captured in the photo, I found that it should be a higher seaside cliff.

In this way, if the scene in the photo really shows someone falling from the cliff, then naturally they can only fall into the sea.

"Can you tell from the photo when this was taken?"

Somewhat unexpectedly, Henggou Shenwu asked hurriedly.

"This is very simple."

Gao Yuan answered affirmatively, and then very skillfully, he called up the detailed information of this digital photo, which contained the specific time when the photo was taken——

"This was taken yesterday...the night before yesterday."

After looking at the time displayed on the computer, it was past twelve o'clock in the morning, so Gao Yuan mentioned this time the day before yesterday, which was the day before he and others came to Izu.

Later, Gao Yuan also checked other photos in the same way and found that the photos that were copied into the computer from an external device at the same time were all taken during the night before yesterday. From this, it can be judged that the photo The photo that seems to show someone falling off a cliff into the sea was probably taken at that time.

Since some of the photos clearly show scenes at the fireworks display, by analogy, the photo should have been taken at the fireworks display, but——

"Were there a fireworks display here the day before yesterday? Why does it look different from today's fireworks display?"

Frowning slightly, Takato came to Izu yesterday, so he could only ask local people about what happened the day before yesterday.

In this regard, after listening to Gao Yuan's inquiry and looking at the clues that appeared in front of him, Henggou couldn't help but say:

"Indeed, there was a fireworks show held some distance away from here the night before yesterday, but the scale was not as grand as the one that just ended."

"Really……"

Hearing this, Gao Yuan nodded slightly, and then said:

"Although I'm not sure whether this photo has anything to do with the murder of Ms. Orimoto, if someone really fell into the sea during the fireworks display the night before yesterday, I'm afraid the police will still have to track it down... not to mention now, these photos It should have been copied from a digital camera to the computer, but now the camera cannot be found..."

With that said, Gao Yuan thoughtfully continued to pull out the suspicious photo, enlarged the picture, and moved the focus to the top of the cliff——

Although the picture is very blurry, if you look as hard as possible, you always feel that there seems to be a figure on the edge of the cliff.

"Hey...this can't be..."

Similarly, after realizing Gao Yuan's intention to do this, Henggou Zhenwu also seemed to feel that from the photo, there seemed to be a human figure on the cliff, but it could not be restored due to the pixels. , so it is impossible to make an accurate judgment.

"I can't be sure. After all, these are just a few pixels. I can't be sure what this is..."

Gao Yuan frowned and said:

"But if there is really someone at that location, then the figure who fell into the sea, I'm afraid..."

"He was pushed into the sea!"

His brows were deeply furrowed, and Henggou felt that he was getting more and more headache——

The case of Tokio Ehara falling from a building has reached a deadlock, and the identity of the woman who died at the fireworks display has just been confirmed, but it seems to be involved in an incident that happened the day before yesterday. This is really...

"Go and contact the police station near the fireworks display venue the day before yesterday and see if there have been any reports of someone falling into the sea since the night before yesterday!"

In desperation, Henggou could only ask his police officers to try to investigate first and see if there would be any relevant case reports——

Of course, if someone really fell into the sea and died, it is more likely that the body was swept away by the sea and never found again...

However, before the ordered police officer could start contacting him, Sengo Yokomori received a call from the Shizuoka Prefecture Police Headquarters——

"What! A male body was found on the beach... Based on the fingerprint comparison of the body, it was confirmed that the deceased was a policeman!"

After receiving the call, Henggou Senwu's face changed greatly and he was surprised, and then he looked at the suspicious photo that Gao Yuan pulled out on his computer——

"Just now, the nearby police station reported an incident to the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters. About an hour ago, a fisherman who went fishing reported that the body of an unknown adult male was recovered from the sea."

Putting down the phone, Henggou Shenwu said to Gao Yuan with a serious face:

"After receiving the report, the local police station conducted a preliminary inspection of the body and basically determined that the deceased was drowned, and the time of death was about a day. After that, the police extracted the fingerprints of the body and entered them into the database for comparison. Yes, I wanted to see if I could confirm the identity of the unknown man's body, but the result was that it matched the fingerprint of a registered police officer. So the local police station reported the matter to the police. headquarters, and I just got this news from the headquarters.”

Having said that, looking at the photo, the people present were almost able to completely connect the two things -

Bodies floating in the sea, death by drowning, death time of about a day...

All this information can be matched with this photo, so it’s not a coincidence no matter how you look at it.

And more importantly, the identity of the deceased...

Registered police...

"Which police station are you from?"

Hearing this, Gao Yuan frowned slightly, feeling a little strange——

If a local policeman drowned in the sea, then no matter what, the policemen in the same area should more or less recognize him. There is no reason to say that it is the body of an "unknown man."

Therefore, Gao Yuan asked this question.

And Henggou Zhenwu immediately replied:

"It's the detective from Chiba Prefecture. It seems that he may be here for tourism. But so far, I haven't confirmed it with the local government."

"Chiba Prefecture?"

Gao Yuan was slightly startled when he heard this place name——

Chiba Prefecture is located on the northeastern shore of Tokyo Bay. Although it is an important city under the Tokyo metropolitan area, it seems that there are few incidents related to that area in the original Conan works, so Takayuan cannot remember the police in charge of Chiba Prefecture. Anyone.

But if I have to say it, when it comes to the Chiba Prefectural Police, in my impression, there seems to be such a character in an incident——

Moreover, this incident is the one from the original "Sonoko's Summer Danger Story"!

In the incident in the original work, there was a middle-aged man in civilian clothes following Conan and others. Moreover, because of the long hair on his arms, this man was mistaken by Xiaolan for the suspicious person who attacked Sonoko in the hotel. .

But later, after Xiaolan and Conan managed to subdue the man who was following them, Conan learned from the man that he was a detective from Chiba Prefecture, and that his purpose of following Xiaolan and others was actually I suspect that the man who struck up a conversation with Sonoko is the serial murderer of brown-haired women!

Izu, the brown-haired female deceased, Chiba Prefecture detective...

There are more and more elements. Is this really a coincidence?

Frowning slightly, Gao Yuan's expression became very solemn, and he said to Henggou Zhenshu:

"Can you contact the Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters immediately and ask them if they know why the policeman who drowned in Izu came to Izu at this time?"

In response, Hengo Sango also nodded silently with a serious expression, knowing the seriousness of the matter, so Hengo Sango immediately contacted the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters, hoping that Ma could contact the Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters.

Soon, Henggou Sengo received a reply and got the phone number of the Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters.

Although it was already early in the morning, the call to Chiba Prefecture was answered immediately.

After briefly explaining the situation, Henggou Zhenshu quickly asked what Gao Yuan wanted him to ask just now, and got the answer——

That policeman came to Izu to track down a suspect in a certain incident——

"Starting a few years ago, three women were brutally murdered in Chiba Prefecture by stabbing their abdomens multiple times with a sharp weapon. Without exception, these three female victims all had brown hair. During the course of the investigation, we noticed a possible suspect who committed the three homicides, and during the course of our investigation, we discovered that he had also committed the crime of car theft.

“However, after our careful investigation, although the car theft incident has been revealed, we have never found evidence that the man committed the murder, so we can only temporarily arrest him for the car theft case.

“But he was not detained for long. After he was released from prison, he left Chiba Prefecture and disappeared.

"Recently, because I heard that a similar murder of a brown-haired woman had occurred in Izu, and the incident occurred after that person was released from prison, that's why the police officer thought of coming here to investigate. , I didn’t expect such a thing to happen..."

Henggou Sanwu turned on the speakerphone of the phone, allowing Gao Yuan to hear the police officer's reply to the inquiry from Chiba County.

After hearing this familiar incident, Gao Yuan couldn't help but asked:

"So, what was the name of the suspect you targeted at that time!"

Hearing this, the police officer on the other end of the phone paused for a moment, and then said as if thinking:

"Let me think about it...oh, the name is-Michiwaki Masahiko!"

"What!"

As soon as these words came out, Henggou, who originally had a solemn look on his face, suddenly shouted in surprise. He really didn't expect that this name would actually appear here.

Gao Yuan suddenly showed a look of understanding and couldn't help but say:

"Do you have a photo of that person? Can you send it to me?"

"Of course. Once we find the file on the original incident, we will fax it to your police headquarters immediately!"

The police officer over there replied seriously.

As a result, the phone call was quickly hung up in the final polite conversation between Henggou and the other party——

At this point, Henggou Zhenwu couldn't help but be surprised when faced with the clues that appeared in front of him. He was a little at a loss for a while, but Gao Yuan immediately said:

"The policeman who fell into the sea and drowned the day before yesterday, and the deceased who was killed at the fireworks display yesterday... This is definitely not a coincidence!"

"So, that Michowaki Masahiko..."

Henggou Shenwu frowned, thinking about what to do.

"Because of the existence of this photo, although it is impossible to distinguish the physical characteristics of the person who fell into the sea from the photo, it at least illustrates a possibility——"

Gao Yuan continued:

"Perhaps, because he realized that he was being followed by the police who had once investigated him, in order to get rid of him, Masahiko Michowaki chose to push him into the sea and drown him, hoping to create the illusion of an accident.

"But by chance, during the murder, someone happened to be taking pictures in his direction, and the flash of the camera made him discover this. So he was worried that the photos would reveal the process of his murder, so Michowaki Masahiko found this person. a photographer, and then found a way to kill her and take away the belongings of the deceased. This led to this incident at the fireworks display——

“And it just so happened that the photographer was a woman with brown hair, so he used the murderous method he always used to kill women with brown hair to commit this incident.

“After that, maybe he didn’t find the camera on the deceased, so he used the key to enter the hotel room rented by the deceased, took the camera, and accidentally left the key at the scene, so the current situation was solved. "

In this way, Gao Yuan roughly analyzed the context of the matter.

After hearing this analysis, Henggou nodded silently, feeling that it made sense——

After all, because of the existence of this suspicious photo, the two incidents were immediately connected...

"Hey! Wait a minute!"

But at this time, when he looked at the photo carefully again, Henggou Zhenwu seemed to realize something and couldn't help but ask:

"If you look at the angle from which this photo was taken, the deceased was some distance away from the cliff. Since the photo cannot clearly capture the scene on the cliff, even so, the murderer was caught by the flash when he committed the crime. Now, the murderer can’t see clearly who took the photo, so how can he find it on the deceased?”

"Because of the camera!"

Seriously, Gao Yuan explained:

"At the fireworks display, few people would bring cameras, right? Although I don't know why the deceased was carrying a camera at the time, there must be very few people with cameras at the fireworks display. Therefore, as long as the murderer finds the camera he was carrying at the time, Just the camera guy!”

——With that said, although Gao Yuan felt that there were still many omissions in details in this analysis, at least the incident finally became somewhat clearer.

However, it is still unclear whether the case of Ehara Tokio's falling from the building will be related to the incident...