The famous criminal in the world of Conan

Chapter 504 Happy New Year everyone

"Ah, it's Miwako, it's been a long time."

In fact, Officer Yuminaga and Sato Miwako know each other. Or, in other words, Sato Miwako, a second-generation police officer whose father died early and who is determined to enter the police system, knows most of the middle-level old men in the Metropolitan Police Department.

"Dad Gongzhang, do you remember me? I'm Maori."

While Officer Yuminaga was speaking, Kogoro Mori came over with a smile.

"Oh, Mauli, of course I remember."

Officer Yuminagi glanced at Maori Kogoro, took a puff of his cigarette, and nodded.

"When you were here before, you caused me a lot of trouble."

"But why are you here? I remember that fire scenes are not your job as detectives."

Officer Gong Chang's words were calm yet humorous, a bit like a frivolous middle-aged man joking.

Maori Kogoro was about to explain to Officer Yuminaga why they were here, when Hattori Heiji came up with a curious look on his face and interrupted.

"'When you were here before'? Uncle Maori, weren't you in the murder department? How did you end up in the fire department?"

"Ah, before I went to the violent criminals, I spent some time with the fire criminals."

Kogoro Mori explained to Hattori Heiji.

Officer Yuminaga glanced at Hattori Heiji again.

"Maori, who is this kid? Is he your assistant?"

"Well, you could say that."

Kogoro Maori was slightly stunned and nodded.

"Okay, no more gossip,"

After Officer Gong Chang exchanged greetings with everyone, he turned to Bai Masong and said,

"Officer Baima, we are going to go in and collect some evidence. Do you want to come with us?"

"can."

Bai Ma Song nodded.

Afterwards, Bai Masong and Officer Gong Chang walked into the fire scene which was still being extinguished.

As for the trio of old, middle-aged and young people including Kogoro Mori, they were isolated outside by the two of them.

At the same time, Bai Masong also asked Sato Miwako to call the people from the three departments to come here.

Because the fire had not been completely extinguished, we did not let them come over immediately in order to avoid any problems.

Now the fire is almost out, and we can gather people.

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After Bai Masong and Officer Gongchang came in, they went straight to the house on the right side of the Morokaku family.

After all, the little boy said that his house was on the right side of Zhujiao's house, and he saw the shadow of the red horse, so he naturally went straight to the room on the right.

The two walked along the corridor in the courtyard and passed the room on the right.

Finally, in the innermost room on the right, a statue of a red horse was found.

"Well, it's just as expected."

Officer Gong Chang took out another cigarette, lit it for himself, took a deep puff,

"This red horse looks exactly the same as the one that appeared in the previous three cases."

"In that case, we can basically rule out copycat crimes?"

Bai Masong narrowed his eyes and took over the words of Officer Gong Chang.

"Well, now it seems that this is the case."

Officer Gongchang nodded.

The identical red horse statues are sufficient to prove that the murderer in these cases is the same person.

After all, the fact that there was a red horse statue at the fire scene had been reported in the newspapers for many days.

However, the newspaper only published the news about the red horse statue and did not give a detailed description of the appearance and form of the red horse.

Therefore, seeing this completely identical red horse statue basically proves that the murderer is the same person.

"It's quite satisfying to provoke the police in this way,"

Officer Gong Chang sighed,

"But now that someone has died, it's not fun anymore."

Bai Masong listened to what Officer Gong Chang said and did not comment on his point of view.

Now, it is still unclear whether it was arson that resulted in loss of life or whether the fire was set intentionally for the purpose of killing people.

While thinking this, Bai Masong took another look at the ground nearby.

"Officer Gongchang,"

Bai Masong said in a deep voice,

"There are some footprints on the ground in the courtyard next to this room."

"Oh?"

Officer Gong Chang also followed Bai Masong's gaze and looked over.

I saw that there were indeed some footprints not far away from where the three of them were standing.

Moreover, these footprints are still very new and look like they were left today.

Because it rained today, the footprints were preserved quite well.

"Ha, very good!"

Officer Gongchang grinned with a cigarette between his lips.

"It seems that the murderer's luck is not very good. We caught the clue."

Bai Masong nodded. Although he didn't think these footprints could reveal anything, they were still putting out the fire inside, so it was a good thing to be able to find some clues from the outside.

Soon after, the fire inside was put out, and Officer Bai Masong and Officer Gong Chang also entered the small room where the fire broke out to continue their investigation.

"It looks like the fire started next to the window of this room."

“The red horse statue is also placed here.”

"I found some traces of lamp oil here. The murderer might have come in from outside, poured in the lamp oil, and then set it on fire."

"..."

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After a while, Bai Masong and Officer Gong Chang walked out of the room where the fire had been completely extinguished.

Outside the Morokaku family's house, the three members of Maori Kogoro were still waiting. Next to Sato Miwako appeared the figures of Shiratori Jinsaburo and Takagi Wataru. It seemed that the police officers from the three departments had also arrived.

Seeing Bai Masong and the other man coming out, Sato Miwako immediately went to greet them.

"Officer White Horse, have you found anything?"

"A few, but not much."

Bai Masong had a calm expression and spoke lightly.

Officer Gong Chang shrugged.

"To put it simply, we found some traces of the murderer, confirmed the nature of the case, and the starting point of the fire, but nothing else."

"Ah."

Bai Masong nodded slightly, agreeing with Officer Gong Chang's words.

In this regard, Sato Miwako was not too depressed, but asked Bai Masong what traces of the murderer they had found.

Officer Gong Chang grinned, took a deep puff of his cigarette, and exhaled a lot of smoke.

"We found a lot of footprints in the courtyard outside the room where the fire started. I think these footprints are likely left by the murderer."

"According to this speculation, the murderer may have walked from the courtyard outside to the side of this room, and then..."

Officer Yuminaga talked incessantly to Sato Miwako about his and Hakubamatsu's discoveries, as well as his analysis and opinions on them.