This Osaka Trip Has Fallen Through Again / Shiho Miyano Used Insight

The next moment, with a heavy object hitting the ground and the sound of glass shattering, a man's body slammed heavily onto the hood of the police car!

The sudden fall caused screams from passersby to erupt in what was once a quiet street!

Before Shizuka Sakaki could even see anything clearly, Jiang Hang blocked her view with his body. Only after Jiang Hang confirmed that there was no danger and let her go did she stare wide-eyed at the extremely tragic scene before her.

An obese middle-aged man, with a long rope tied around his waist and a small knife stuck in his chest, stared menacingly at the person in front of him.

With just one glance, Jiang Hang could tell that the man had already stopped breathing. The murderer must have killed him beforehand and then deliberately pushed him off the roof after his body began to stiffen!

Jiang Hang looked up again and could clearly see a middle-aged man standing on the rooftop, looking at them with a surprised expression.

Was that the murderer?

Jiang Hang was taken aback. Although he felt something was amiss, he still told Heiji Hattori to stay and guard the exit downstairs.

Then, without hesitation, he extended the grappling hook in his left hand and hooked it onto the railing of the rooftop. Amidst the gasps of the passersby, he leaped onto the rooftop from which the deceased had fallen with astonishing speed in just a few seconds.

Jiang Hang moved so fast that even the middle-aged man on the rooftop didn't have time to react.

Only when Jiang Hang walked up to him did he look at Jiang Hang with a look of horror, as if he could not believe what he had just seen.

Seeing the other party's timid and submissive appearance, Jiang Hang couldn't help but frown.

Is this man the murderer?

Would a real murderer appear so openly in front of others after committing a crime?

Even after seeing his "rising from the ground" maneuver, shouldn't the murderer have just tried to escape?

If all the criminals were really this "frank," then there wouldn't be any "Little Black" in the Conan movies.

Sure enough, as soon as Jiang Hang raised his voice slightly, the trembling man confessed everything he knew.

According to the man, he is the owner of the tea shop downstairs in this building and also the landlord of the building. He just received a call asking him to go to the rooftop to take a look.

Although he didn't know what was wrong upstairs, as the landlord, he still went up to the roof to check after receiving the call.

As soon as he reached the rooftop and tried to open the door, he felt a force on the other side of the door pull it open.

Then he heard a loud thud from downstairs, like something heavy hitting a car, so he ran to the edge of the roof to see what was going on.

He just wanted to go and watch the fun, but he ended up getting completely absorbed in it.

Chapter 378: Chapter 374: This trip to Osaka has fallen through again.

After hearing the landlord's explanation, Jiang Hang naturally didn't immediately believe what he said.

He scanned the rooftop again with his Eagle Eye, but unfortunately, there were no useful clues left behind.

Then he stood on the rooftop and gestured to Heiji Hattori downstairs to come up.

The two of them briefly discussed their findings and, by combining them, temporarily ruled out the landlord as a suspect.

Heiji Hattori had just carefully examined the victim's body downstairs.

Judging from the stiffness of the body and the smell emanating from it, the murderer must have killed the victim a day earlier, then hung his body from the edge of the building's railing and tied a rope to the doorknob on the rooftop.

After the landlord received a mysterious phone call, he went up to the rooftop and turned the doorknob, causing the rope to slip and the body to fall onto the police car.

It's a very simple mechanism; the only variable is who will open the door.

Of course, this makes it even harder to investigate the killer's identity.

A night had passed since the deceased died.

It would be strange to find any clues on such an open-air rooftop.

The only direction the investigation could take was that mysterious phone call to the landlord who told him to go to the rooftop.

The murderer wasn't discovered when he killed the person. Even if he hid the body on the rooftop, it probably wouldn't be discovered for two or three days as long as no one goes there.

Why did he have to make a special phone call at this time to expose the body to the public?

Standing on the railing of the rooftop, Jiang Hang looked down at the police car that had been smashed beyond recognition.

Given the position of the body, it could have hit the police car from below. Could it be that the murderer deliberately wanted to provoke the police and did this?

But there's another problem. This police car was lent to them by Officer Sakata. They only came to this Okonomiyaki restaurant because Heiji Hattori mentioned after eating takoyaki that they could try authentic Okonomiyaki in Osaka. Since the Okonomiyaki restaurant that Heiji Hattori mentioned was too far away, Officer Sakata suggested that they try this Okonomiyaki restaurant, which wasn't too far from the takoyaki restaurant.

It was this coincidence that led to the police car appearing in this location at this time.

If it weren't for Officer Sakata's last-minute suggestion, the murderer probably wouldn't have been able to wait a week or two to have a police car parked right under the body.

It's impossible that all of this was a conspiracy deliberately orchestrated by Officer Sakata.

Trusting the Japan police, Jiang Hang pursed his lips slightly and dismissed the thought.

Based on the current situation, it is estimated that the murderer happened to see the police car parked in front of the Okonomiyaki shop, and then had the idea of provoking the police, and called the landlord of the building.

"I've already had Sakata notify the police to come and cordon off the scene. Since we can't find any useful clues here, let's go down first. You probably haven't examined the body carefully yet, right? Maybe you can find some new clues on him." Although he always said he wanted to compete with Jiang Hang and Shinichi Kudo, when it came to a case, Heiji Hattori was quite rational.

In less important situations, a little competition of detective skills is fine, but now they are facing a life-or-death murder case, so naturally the sooner they can catch the murderer, the better.

Jiang Hang nodded, and then had the landlord follow them downstairs.

Although the landlord's suspicion had been largely ruled out by him and Heiji Hattori, the necessary procedures still had to be followed, and the source of the mysterious phone call was something the police needed to investigate.

As Jiang Hang walked downstairs, he looked at the girls who had been the victims of a sudden murder.

With this unexpected event, the planned trip to Osaka naturally had to be canceled again.

Shizuka Sakaki and Koharu Yoshino have been working as assistants for several months and have seen many crime scenes. They have developed some patience for these kinds of things and, after a brief period of adjustment, they have now adjusted and are investigating the victim's body with Officer Sakata.

Kazuha Toyama's father is a policeman, and she is also a childhood friend who grew up with Heiji Hattori, the Heiji Hattori. Her reaction at this moment seems to be relatively normal.

And the Miyano Sisters are even more so.

They both grew up in the Black Organization and had seen a lot of backstabbing and treachery. To be honest, the number of people who had indirectly died at their hands was not small.

Such as Miyano Akemi's accomplices when she robbed the bank, and the test subjects who were used as test subjects because of the APTX4869 developed by Miyano Shiho.

Therefore, the two sisters were calmer at this moment, but Miyano Akemi, as the older sister, still had some reluctance on her face and turned her back, unwilling to see the corpse any longer.

Miyano Shiho glanced at Jiang Hang with a rather subtle look in her eyes.

Jiang Hang seemed to understand the meaning in her eyes: I knew that going out with you would easily lead to accidents. We came to Kyoto once, and now we've come to Osaka. Why are you doing this again?

Jiang Hang could only smile wryly and shrug at her, indicating that he was powerless to help. He figured Conan must have shared half of his death aura with him.

In comparison, this was the first time that Imai Midori, a college student, had ever witnessed such a scene.

Previously, she had only imagined the crime scene based on the descriptions of Jiang Hang and Shizuka Sakaki. At most, she had seen some artificially created injuries on the set of a tokusatsu film. She had never actually seen a corpse fall from the sky in front of her.

Therefore, among the six girls present, Imai Midori had the strongest reaction, and it seemed that she had been vomiting for quite some time.

Looking at Imai Midori's appearance, Jiang Hang couldn't help but think of himself and Shizuka Sakaki when he first entered this industry.

He gradually got used to being tricked by the system countless times while learning those messy skills in the system space, while Shizuka Sakaki and the others gradually adjusted and adapted through case after case.

Seeing such a horrific crime scene at such close range, even with Meditation Method, it wouldn't be easy to get a good night's sleep.

With that thought to himself, Jiang Hang walked over to Officer Sakata and scanned every detail of the body with Eagle Eye for a year, while asking about the examination results.

Officer Sakata recounted his findings in detail.

"The murder weapon used to kill the victim was likely a rope. The suspect first strangled the person with the rope, then used this knife to pierce through the wallet and stab the victim in the chest..." At this point, Officer Sakata glanced hesitantly at Jiang Hang Heiji Hattori, seemingly unsure whether to reveal more detailed information.

Heiji Hattori nodded directly to Yusuke Sakata: "Now that Jiang Hang is involved in this case, let's just tell him everything."

After receiving Heiji Hattori's approval, Yusuke Sakata then revealed the secrets of the case to Jiang Hang.

"A serial murder case?" Upon hearing this familiar term, Jiang Hang couldn't help but frown.

What a coincidence!

Having just solved the internal serial murder case of Genji Fireflies in Kyoto, he is now on vacation in Osaka when a new serial murder case occurs.

Why does it feel like things are even more chaotic and stressful in the Kansai region than in Tokyo?

Jiang Hang wiped his forehead. He had sensed something was wrong when he heard about the murder case from Heiji Hattori this morning.

However, he suppressed his curiosity and, in order to avoid getting into trouble, never asked Heiji Hattori what was going on.

Only a few hours have passed, and it has actually come true.

Including this case, this is the third murder case with the same manner of death in Osaka recently.

The killer would always use a knife to pierce the victim's wallet before stabbing them in the chest to kill them.

Because the police did not specify the exact cause of death when they reported the case, the Osaka Police Headquarters classified the second case with similar modus operandi as a serial murder case after the police discovered it.

The reason why Officer Sakata was several hours late this morning was because an emergency meeting was held this morning to deal with this serial murder case.

Unexpectedly, while the Osaka police were still investigating the connection between the victims of the previous two murder cases, a third case with the same modus operandi appeared not long after.

"Stab the wallet?" Upon hearing the killer's unique method of murder, Jiang Hang pondered for a moment. If he were to simply follow the clue of the wallet, he could only think that the victim owed the killer a large sum of money, which was why the killer would use such an obvious object as a mark.

However, the Japan police are not stupid. If these victims had any financial dealings with the same person, the Japan police would probably be waiting at their doorsteps to arrest them on the spot, instead of holding an emergency meeting early this morning to discuss the case.

There's no way to tell anything from the method of the crime, and the victim's body was very clean.

With the basic criminal investigation skills that Jiang Hang learned from the system, he could roughly analyze the murderer's physique from the corpse's resistance and the angle of the wound when it pierced the victim's chest.

Unfortunately, the murderer's physique was nothing special; he was between 1.7 and 1.8 meters tall, not particularly muscular, but likely an adult male who regularly exercised.

Most importantly, he had a good understanding of criminal investigation, and after killing someone, he was able to deliberately remove many of the traces left on the victim's body, which greatly increased the workload of the police.

"He's an experienced criminal, so the key to this case is still the connection between these victims and the source of that mysterious phone call?"

Jiang Hang analyzed this in a low voice, but the former required investigating the people and things these people had come into contact with before their deaths, while the latter was much more difficult, something that could be done with just an anonymous phone card.

Even taking into account the fact that the perpetrator wanted to provoke the police, at most we can only conclude that the perpetrator was probably not far from the crime scene at the time of the incident and could clearly see where the police cars were parked.

Verifying all these aspects is not a task that one person can easily accomplish.

As the police, who had received the emergency call, gradually arrived at the scene and cordoned it off, Jiang Hang shrugged at the girls standing nearby.

Previously, they rode in police cars for tourism; now, they have to go to the police station to give statements.

"So, our Osaka trip is over again? You, the great detective, are going to follow Hattori Heiji to find the truth of the case Heiji Hattori?" As they got into the police car, Miyano Shiho said to Jiang Hang with a hint of sarcasm.

Jiang Hang scratched his head, looking slightly embarrassed. "I will assist the Osaka police in solving this case as soon as possible, and then we can make up for the time we spent on this case."

"What if new cases come up later? Are we just going to keep investigating them like this?" Miyano Shiho gave Jiang Hang a speechless look.

Jiang Hang wanted to explain a few more words, but Heiji Hattori suddenly seemed to have noticed something among the onlookers and ran after him into the crowd.

"Hey, ma'am, wait a minute!"

As Heiji Hattori shouted this, Jiang Hang looked in the direction Heiji Hattori was chasing and saw a middle-aged father and daughter, around forty years old, fleeing the crime scene in a panic. They even got into their car before Heiji Hattori could catch up with them, stepped on the gas, and left Heiji Hattori behind.

Because Heiji Hattori acted so suddenly, even the police officers hadn't had time to react.

By the time they realized something was wrong with the woman, it was too late to give chase; she and her car had already disappeared around the corner.

It wasn't until Heiji Hattori returned, looking somewhat helpless, that Jiang Hang asked him, "Is there something wrong with that woman?"

Heiji Hattori hesitated and shook his head. "I can't quite put my finger on it, but I sensed that she seemed particularly afraid when she looked at the corpse."

He pointed to the crowd of onlookers around him. Some of them were gossiping, some, like Imai Midori, felt physically uncomfortable after seeing the corpse and quickly left, and there were even some who were standing on tiptoe just to get a glimpse of the dead body.

But fear is a dominant emotion on a woman's face unless the deceased is related to her or she knows the cause of death.

Hearing this, Jiang Hang frowned. According to the usual pattern of this kind of mystery, the person who reacted like this at the crime scene would most likely become the next person targeted by the murderer and killed.

"However, I've already noted down the woman's license plate number. As long as she's driving her own car, we'll be able to find out her identity quickly. Anyway, let's go to the Higashishiri Precinct and wait for further news."

Chapter 379: Chapter 375: Miyano Shiho used her ability to see through things.

At the Higashishiri Precinct, after Jiang Hang and his team, who were involved in the serial murder case, briefly explained the incident to the Osaka police, the Osaka police, with the approval of their superiors, released more detailed information about the case to Jiang Hang.

The time and place of death of the three victims, the eyewitness report left by the first person to discover the bodies, and the seemingly unrelated identity information of the three deceased.

The first victim was the convenience store manager, the second victim was the owner of an izakaya (Japanese pub), and the third victim, who was smashed on the police car, was a taxi driver.

Their residences, main activity areas, and recent phone call records did not overlap with those of the other two individuals.

Based on the current police investigation, the killer seems to be the kind of psychopath who randomly targets people in deserted areas.

However, the woman Heiji Hattori scene who looked terrified and hurriedly drove away might be a breakthrough.

If we can find that woman's whereabouts, we might be able to learn the secrets of this serial murder case from her.

The license plate number provided by Heiji Hattori to investigate the woman's identity. It's estimated that they will find out her identity information soon.