"Jiang Xia?" Sato Miwako turned around. Recognizing the person behind her, she froze slightly.
Then she realized something and focused intently on the footage Jiang Xia had paused.
In the corner of the screen, an inconspicuous light truck was quietly emerging from the tunnel and merging into traffic.
Officer Sato's gaze swept over it before slowly settling on the vehicle—at first glance, it looked very different from that brightly colored Delivery Van, but on closer inspection, their shapes seemed not all that different.
"No, it's not that they're similar—they're exactly the same!" Sato Miwako slammed a hand on the desk and sprang to her feet. "No wonder that guy was a kidnapper but chose such a conspicuous vehicle. He'd planned this all along!"
"How dare he toy with us like this." Sato Miwako rolled up her sleeves and snorted. "I'll have Yumi investigate this light truck right away, and then I'll—"
"Inspector, this is bad!" Just as she spoke, an officer rushed into the room and cut her off. "We found a fresh male corpse on the riverbank grounds by the Teimuzu River. He was strangled—the corpse... the corpse has a mole on the tip of his nose, and his hairstyle and clothing are exactly like the kidnapper Conan described earlier!"
Inspector Megure: "?!"
Murder Cases came one after another. The exhausted Inspector Megure was only surprised for a moment upon hearing the news, then silently accepted reality.
The group hurried to the Teimuzu River, where they found a plain light truck on the grass by the riverbank, identical to the one in the surveillance footage.
In the driver's seat, a man dressed like a petty thug was slumped over the steering wheel. His eyes were wide open and he had stopped breathing. He had clearly been dead for